skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an endless cycle. The Man keeps you down, so you throw together resources and collaborate to have a crowdfunded solution. It becomes successful, grows, hires some employees to maintain things, keeps growing, and becomes The Man.
It's one thing to editorialize a title (though that's still wrong), but in this case the article says the exact opposite of the title. And, if the idea is that paying workers more is better for business, the fact that the lower profits are directly due to the higher wages is an argument against paying more.
Not at all. Costco is a place that leaps to my mind.

Also all the large tech players have done this to a large degree compared to non-tech who hire IT folks.
Farmers. In 1850, >70% of people in the U.S. were farmers. Today <2% are. (Source: http://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/20/us/farm-population-lowest-...)
What are other new investments? They might be blowing more money on that, not increased wages
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Trotsky's entryism was pretty specific, I don't think particularly related to your beefs. His argument was that forming small far-left workers' parties didn't make sense if there already existed large mass workers' parties, and instead communists should work within those, even if they were more moderate than you'd like, rather than forming new parties, which would be ideologically pure but not contain the actual masses of the working class who would have to form the basis of any workers' government. In most Western European countries, the majority of the working class supported various kinds of Labour and Social Democratic parties, so that's what he advocated joining.
Don't do unaligned memory access, whatever your cpu flags say.

I don't think this is good advice. Do you have an example of poor performance of unaligned memory access on a processor that supports AVX?

I think the better advice is:

1) Prefer aligned access if possible, favoring writes over reads.

2) A single unaligned access per cycle usually does not cause a slowdown.

3) Accesses that cross 64B cachelines essentially act as two accesses, thus may add a cycle.

4) You can only sustain multiple accesses per cycle if you avoid crossing cachelines.

5) Writes that cross 4KB pages have a 100+ cycle penalty on pre-Skylake Intel (down to 5 cycles on Skylake).
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Check for a local CSA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community-supported_agricultur...
Warped Turkish cityscapes made with a quadcopter
> The work of psychology researchers influences our LAWS. They influence how I can live my life. It's a very personal thing.

While I agree with the above sentiment:

> If your work cannot withstand criticism, it's worthless. Get out of science, Susan T. Fiske, you give it a bad name.

I think the tone is very much incorrect. While researchers should be responsible for bad science, you may it sound like it was necessarily done with malicious intent - I think this attitude is unproductive for everyone involved.
Mercedes Self-Driving Cars Would Kill Pedestrians to Save the Driver
OP here. I was playing around with Docker Swarm and wanted to build a reusable template for batch processing jobs that let me just resize a scaleset (a VM "pool" in Azure, if you will) to add more workers, and this is the result.

Should be immediately useful for many people (I have half a mind to set up a Blender render cluster using this)
What do you expect them to do? They pay the minimum hourly wage or more, they don't have a responsibility to do any more.

Frankly, if they unilaterally decided to pay more it would harm more poor people than it would help since all kinds of poor people shop at Walmart (and would have to bear the resulting higher prices) and rich people don't.

Edit: added 'unilaterally'
"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."
-- Max Planck
Add the article on Big O notation to that meta-post please!

Maybe it's the influx of new people to the site that upvote these articles?
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>Even his dog, a chihuahua-shih-tzu-papillon-Pekingese mix named Sachi, is on the diet.

Canines are obligate carnivores. That's arguably animal abuse.

> “Even when you’re filtering water, you’re taking out one chemical and putting in another …[especially] the filtered water where chlorine and fluoride and all those other happy things are added to it" ...

aaand off goes the Woo-alarm.

> As a raw-food vegan, he aims to survive only on fruits and vegetables. (Along with a Taco Bell burrito here and there..)

woo-enthusiast _and_ hypocrite. Great! I'll totally listen to you, bro.

> “I began this process of self-education at an an early age,”

Ah, yes. The unearned certainty of the autodidact. Always a good place to start.
What you say is true, however I think despite there being levels of salaries/pay that are excessive for some employees and studies that indicate that there are better motivators than salary/pay, from what I'd read, Walmart had not been paying employees adequately or giving them adequate training, so anyone who dismissed what they did as "wrong" I think is misinterpreting arguments for high pay as "paying employees more is always right" vs. "in some cases, employers could be providing a better customer experience and encouraging sales and growth longer-term by paying their employees more."

Also, please read:

http://www.keithrull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/net...

While it's not always applicable, paying more for the best is not a bad idea in dev and IT. Just be sure that you can survive up to 100% of the top people on your dev and IT teams getting replaced by ensuring you have good design, good code, good management, good training, and good documentation.
Read my blog post about self-driving cars: http://fullstack.info/autonomous-cars-letter-future-self/
The headline is false. Far down in the article, find this nuggest:

"The profit landscape is less sunny. Operating income for Walmart’s United States stores was down 6 percent in the most recent quarter, reflecting higher labor costs and other new investments."

And while employee headcount from 2008 is mentioned, there is no mention of the number of employees who have been let go to allow for paying high wages to the remaining workers.

This article is yet another example of how the NY Times is a well-disguised propaganda arm of the Democratic Party.
We built a SQL query tool for the filesystem (macOS) last year, and will be launching for Windows in the next two weeks.

Finding files is pretty straight forward using the LIKE operator against text in the filename, path or file contents. And the set-based logic of SQL works very well for identifying sets of files to work with: we have an exec() command that lets you run commands on file paths returned in query results.

License terms are free for personal use and $5/month commercial.

http://etia.co.uk/
Out of curiosity, are they faster or slower than mechanized pinsetters?
Re-read my statements.You've missed the point.
I was a film projectionist at several theatres but moved on as everyone switched to digital. I know all the projection booths in my city are now run by managers from the first floor office.
I'm curious how much of it has to do with perception too. I avoid Walmart. I don't feel they treat their employees well, pay them well, or do anything well, fwiw. I much rather shop where i have the perception that the employees are happier.

So, just because Walmart is paying them better, does not inherently mean they are happier OR that i know they are being treated better. I had no clue, and thusly have not changed my shopping habits at all.
Jet.com
I wonder how big of a DDoS you can withstand (and remain operational) with Cloudflare Free/Pro.
"sounds ridiculous in a world where X" does not mean "sounds ridiculous only in a world where X". It doesn't imply that the thing wouldn't be ridiculous if X wasn't the case.
I do consulting for UX for faceted search, and the top of my shortlist for ideas/inspiration is still http://devart.withgoogle.com/ But for a search engine, I'm interested in how UI that works much like this example would play out: https://material.uplabs.com/posts/google-search-design-conce...
I would intuit that the proportion of labourers to the rest has been decreasing throughout human history. I think what has me most curious is how low can it go. Is it possible to have near 0% labourers?
Continue to do what you are doing, but start a blog on the side. Do this for 1-2 years so you can see if you have what it takes to e.g. build an audience, and also if it really is what you want to do full time. This is career not lifestyle advice, so whatever you decide, make sure you can get paid to do it.
Double post, please delete one.
> body snatchers

Were they actually stealing bodies? Was that something official or done in secret?
while increased wages were fine, Ford also attempted selling automobiles at a loss to the company in order to proliferate the number of Ford's on the road. Ford was sued by his shareholder's, Ford lost having been in breach of his duty to the shareholders.

Specifically, "the Michigan Supreme Court held that Henry Ford had to operate the Ford Motor Company in the interests of its shareholders, rather than in a charitable manner for the benefit of his employees or customers."
Wow, yeah that's a pretty compelling example. Thanks.
Higher wages means less jobs. So less people will be getting paid more. It will also mean less people will have more responsibility and longer hours.

Employees that have higher skills will get the higher-paying job and the ones with lower skills will have even less of a chance to get a job.
Yet we don't have 70% unemployment.
Even if you believe humans should sometimes kill each other (which is not a universally held opinion, but also not insane) you should see all loss of human life as, at best, a necessary cost. To not consider enemy casualties as a cost goes against this. To not consider civilian casualties on the other side as a cost is even worse. If killing foreign people is not considered something costly, then war becomes too easy a choice for the countries with the most powerful armies.
We already pay the cost of them paying less because we have to subsidize those employees via. government benefits. Why should the American people subsidize the profits of a corporation for years?

And do you see why I think this headline of all things is ironic?
The comparisons are nice, but it would have been nice to see a comparison with Flask + Nginx/Apache2 for example.
It is extremely misleading to compare the binding affinity of a partial mu opioid agonist with profoundly different molecular structure to the binding affinity of a full mu opioid agonist. Mitragynine is not 13x more potent than morphine in any effect observed in vivo. Preliminary research shows that the novel binding mechanism of mitragynine results in drastically different effects (supposedly by selective avoidance of beta arrestin activation). For instance, it does not cause respiratory depression to a significant extent in mammals.

Thyroid dysfunction and liver damage have never been demonstrated in a study, and anecdotal reports do not seem to suggest that they occur.

The deaths in Sweden were attributed to an isolated metabolite of tramadol that is sold as a research chemical and was mixed into powdered kratom leaf. There is no evidence that kratom contributed to those deaths.

I encourage you to read the "Talk" section of the Wikipedia page before repeating claims in the article without context.

The effects of kratom are extremely mild, you vomit quickly if you take too much, the withdrawal symptoms are comparable to caffeine, and there has never been a death attributed to kratom alone.
> hose are probably the last 10 remaining.

Towers to watch for wildfires are still in use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_lookout_tower
Well, but you initially said that HyperCard "had to die", presumably because it was user-programmable. You seem to be implying that Apple had a conscious policy of opposing user programming.

That definitely was not the case at the time HyperCard was being developed. I know because I was there. I even worked on the HyperCard team for a while.

HyperCard's troubles had nothing to do with an Apple policy against user programmability, and everything to do with the fact that management couldn't figure out how to make it into a product that paid for itself.

If you want to argue that Apple has a policy against user programming now, well, maybe they do. I don't know. The last time I worked there was in the 1990s. But they didn't have any such policy when HyperCard was being shipped.
Expecting to see in the future:
Coders - men and women writing code that would work in a computer before the computers figured they'd be better off writing code by themselves. :D
I mean, they're not doing it for the American economy. They're experimenting to see how it affects their short and long term profits.

Why do i believe they're not helping the American economy? Because firstly, that is not what they legally holden to (ie, the stock holders). Secondly, and most importantly, Walmart is costing the country a lot by not paying their workers a living wage. So a job at walmart means another person on government social aid program(s).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12681257
How is talking to a person in front of you different from talking to someone via Skype/video-conference ?

Proximity matters.
Costco and Walmart aren't really comparable.

Costco stocks about 4000 usually larger, higher margin items in each of their stores.

Walmart stocks more than 100,000 items in their stores, many of them with very low margins.
>Also all the large tech players have done this to a large degree

Didn't all the big tech players recently get sued in a class action for colluding to stifle worker's wages specifically by agreeing not to poach each others employees?
Meanwhile, Walmart can increase profits by simply hiring fewer workers (or laying off more). Allegedly, in 2012, Walmart was spending $12MM per second of transaction time in cashier wages alone[1].

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/walmart-idUSL2E8E72FF20120307
>I look forward to the day when every software developer has half a clue about monitoring, logging, high availability, configuration management, orchestration/scheduling, performance tuning, build/deployment pipelines, data management/archiving, security and exploit mitigation, etc.

Just keep piling on job requirements until all developers need 20 years of college to get a junior position. Everyone seems to have written an "X things every developer must know" article.
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> They pay the minimum hourly wage or more, they don't have a responsibility to do any more.

They may actually have such a responsibility, they simply don't have an obligation.
The delivery method matters. It's not accurate to consider the dangers of kratom just by looking at the dangers of the active chemicals. One important difference is that when consuming the kratom leaf, you will get nauseous and throw up before you can overdose, assuming kratom is the only depressant you're taking.

You talk about chemicals being "stronger" than others, but what that means is that it requires lower doses to achieve the same effect, not that its inherently more dangerous. My understanding is that mitrogynine opioids cause less respiratory depression than comparable levels of morphine. I think that there is a pharmaceutical product derived from some mitrogynine opioid that's prescribed because of its relatively low risk of making users stop breathing.

I don't know what you mean by "serious drug", but why are you so keen to regulate something that doesn't have much evidence of causing damage? The purpose of regulation should not be to stop people from getting high. I'd prefer much less regulation of all drugs, but I can understand regulating for the sake of the collective good: to avoid public health crises, to limit the number of addicts who become burdens of the state. There isn't evidence that kratom is hurting the collective good though, so why limit people's freedom?
In my experience this problem could be alleviated if it were possible for a worker to work a 50-60 hour week at a single job without incurring additional expenses for their employer. The current regulations around that sort of thing make it so the people who want to avoid needing government assistance have to get two jobs and deal with potential scheduling conflicts between them. When I worked minimum wage jobs there were a lot of people who couldn't work out a situation where they could easily get a second job like this partly because they were dependent on slow public transportation. You'd likely have significantly less people on government assistance if they were free to work more
Good find. That is true that most of these jobs are gone now.
Heh. How long does apt-cache search take. Kidding, and I do recall that being a real problem for most things at one point. You'd go to FreshMeat and just hope that the highest rated one was good. But, re: apt, if it gets in the main repo, then I'm hard-pressed to think I'm smarter than all those people.

That said, for some classes of software, Drupal plugins and Minecraft mods come to mind, are all varying degrees of abysmal. Those take a lot longer to sort through.

Things like "evidence based scheduling" and your permutations around "velocity" and burndown charts seem to help, particularly over time, but I've found no magic bullet.
1. More comfortable than wearing headphones or earphones all day.

2. The fact that it's a human speaking makes particularly annoying sounds (eg. most music) impossible. There is also strong social pressure to not be annoying, because the person to blame is right there in the room.
Yep, there are at least a dozen "Community-supported agriculture" organizations in SF that will deliver veggies weekly. And in Boston. And in most major cities in the US and many smaller ones as well. You buy shares or a subscription (different places use different terms) and you get a portion of what the farm produces.
So the sites should drop the safety features because there exists a user who would not be personally inconvenienced by the theft of their credit card details?
In practicality the OP is right. You won't be on the same level as people with a PhD in a corporate or applied setting. The hardest parts are feature engineering, researching and statistical analysis (presenting research to team). It's hard to gain all those skills without years of experience researching in an academic setting.

As an undergrad, I was doing all those easy ML tutorials and took an undergrad level ML course. I thought I would be useful in actual practice, but knowing the whats/hows of neural nets/clustering/etc. is not enough. Feature engineering/math is the most difficult part. In a corporate setting, if it was a straight forward solution, you wouldn't be doing that work because the solution would be trivial and already implemented.

As an engineer with only a bachelors on a ML team full of PhDs there is a definite difference in skill. I've been reduced to a monkey (a content one) that works on the data pipeline. Learning to deal with real world ML problems would take me years of work that I am not sure I would be willing to do, especially when the pay increases per effort expended learning ML is much lower than with regular software/distributed systems/etc..

On the interest part, you're right that I would never have tried to learn ML if I had known the amount of work that is required to actually be good or if I tried learning the math first. That's the real world though. The useful ML engineers did learn the math. The efficient way to learn ML is to learn the math/statistics first.
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They lobby for EITC like proposals to be put in place so that they can offload part of their labor costs onto the tax payers.

No wonder EITC is so popular among the usual suspects.
Curious to see how this fares against something like uWSGI with aiohttp support (haven't tried either, but uWSGI brings so much more to the table than speed that I'd like to be able to make an informed choice).
It's sad that we even have jobs so below to poverty line, reliant on social aid programs to live. Someone working 40 hours a week should not be on government aid. Unfortunately for Walmart's terrible pay (and the terrible minimum wage in general), it's quite common.

My fiancee has been steadily employed by a different retail chain and was on Medicaid/etc because of the useless minimum wage pay.

Now we're double income (along with a moderate engineer pay), so she no longer needs that, thankfully.
Not quite. IPNS.

IPFS links are immutable, whereas IPNS links are a mutable pointer to an IPFS hash. They can be updated at will, making them ideal for changing content with a stable hash.
This is known as the "Efficiency wage" theory. Megan McArdle has written a number of posts about where it does and does not make sense. Her conclusion (and I agree) is that generally speaking, "WalMart worker"* isn't beholden to efficiency wages.

It's also worth mentioning that a side effect of efficiency wages is more unemployment. Paying more results in a better class of applicant, meaning that people who would normally use WalMart as the bottom rung of their career ladder are shut out.

*Yes, Costco can do it, but Costco also has a very different business model.
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This was highly illegal and frowned upon in polite society, but doctors needed the body parts to study anatomy and paid for them.

By chance I've recently read Dicken's "A Tale of Two Cities", which uses the banker's messenger secretly moonlighting as such a resurrectionist digging up bodies at night, as a plot device. Quite a fun read.
Scribes/Copiers are completely gone, too. Until printing was invented every copy of every book had to be done by hand, one by one. That's not a super recent change, but still not too far in History.
Rat catchers definitely still exist, they're employed by farming communities. Usually not a full time job.
Look's like I've said one of those "true if you think it's a good thing, crazy conspiracy if you thank it's a bad thing" facts. No one really denies the link between Jewish Americans, the various Jewish organizations that are active in politics (AIPAC, ADL etc) and US Foreign policy. But people strongly deny this in the context where people criticize foreign policy, and want to redirect discussion towards safe topics like the military industrial complex or oil.

Some will say the most American Jews are liberals and therefore wouldn't support neoconservatism. It's true that they are mostly liberals on domestic policy, but by judging candidates on a single issue (Israel) they end up implicitly helping neoconservative thinking, which places the most emphasis in the US-Israel relation.
Every heard of "human rights" ? They're not called "American rights" or "European rights", are they?
Computers will not write code by themselves. Someone else's code will be so Great that a lot of people will think it's intelligence by its own, but it will still be someone else's code.
That sounds like a list of the bugs from some commercial ECAD software I've used in the past.

Anyone remember PADS2000? Die die die!
If nothing else, the tests can filter against a willingness to do something without understanding why. In the context of an organization with many moving parts where there is a need for people to perform tasks outside their normal scope and daily routines, such filtering might have value.

To put it another way, refusal to take the test provides data too.

Good luck.
But maybe not any more - since they're now shown to be acting in an editorial capacity...