skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a fast (10 kph) moving sidewalk in the Paris metro station "Montparnasse" for 12 years or so. It never worked out. You can't easily step on it; for years they had to have employees helping people stepping on the fast lane without falling down. And the thing broke down all the time, it was barely available half the time.
Finally they replaced it with a good old fashioned 4 kph moving sidewalk.

Faster isn't always better. Moving faster is overrated.
I appreciated the suggestion given elsewhere for the title "Amazon gives jobs to local homeless population"
> Yeah, why don't they just get a job paying twice as much where they don't have to sleep in a tent? Silly peasants. And how is a Google software engineering making six figures, sleeping in a van in 68 degree California, any different from a minimum wage worker sleeping in a tent in a field in the middle-of-winter Scotland?

If the circumstances are so dire that the worker has no other choices for employment, the alternative is no employment at all. That's the baseline comparison point for whatever job Amazon is providing and the worker always has that option as well.

Amazon is not a charity, it's a for-profit company, and arguably by building the warehouse and providing jobs it's doing more long term good than a charity would by handing out sandwiches.

Comments like yours bring to mind the phrase "No good deed goes unpunished". Would they be better off with no jobs at all?
Packets are physical objects. You can theoretically trace light back to a source source by measuring its amplitude at various points.

All the government has to do is "own" the physical components involved in wireless transmission, and prohibit people from using their own tools. Does anyone doubt they are capable of pulling this kind of shit if they had enough money and the right scare? I mean isn't North Korea already doing this?
the cost involved was not in legal costs

Time spent preparing (four years, preparing for three different court cases in the three different circuits)

high paying job offers that fell through because of the uncertainty involved

Living under constant stress for four years straight

I wouldn't even dare to put a number on this
You must be new here. The titles are supposed to be vague and clickbaity. Don't ask me why; that's just how things are here on HN.
The Physics of Swimming: Total Immersion Swimming
See? Problem solved. Now he gets to go home and everything is better.
It's called a Segway.
Yeah, but if you are dealing only with a subset of the English Language in the U.S., and your API endpoint that you are scraping wants to serve to all peoples in all locales in all situations, you are fucked if you want to use Python3 and its csv module.

You genuinely are better off using Python 2.7.x and its naive approach to text.
If your priority is being 100% blob-free, not being completely open to chip makers, take a look at IBM POWER. There's even a workstation project: https://www.crowdsupply.com/raptor-computing-systems/talos-s...
Alright, duly noted. Still coming to terms with what HN considers "civil" (the way it's described in the rules definitely doesn't help, and is actually harmful to understanding what HN considers "civil", IMO)
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The original has a hell of a linkbait title (at least when it comes to audiences with ardor for internet fora) so we changed it in accordance with the HN guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't like this article because it seems like a purely emotional appeal.

To be sure, there's a lot of people who have said that Amazon is a shitty place to work: not just in entry level jobs, but even as a well-educated 6 figure software engineer. I would not choose to work for Amazon unless I was desperate, period. It seems too corporate and too micromanaged a place to work and the few good things about working there that I've heard like small teams don't outweigh all of the negatives.

That being said, Amazon isn't a government entity that is responsible for your housing and they have no right to tell you where to sleep at night.

Look at this section of the article in particular.

> One worker, who did not wish to be named, was reluctant to speak to The Courier but did describe the firm as a “poor employer” and criticised working practices at the Fife site. He added that he had opted to stay in a tent as it was easier and cheaper than commuting from his home in Perth, although his camping equipment had disappeared by Friday afternoon.

This is a guy took the best job that was available to him (even though it's far away from his house) who is doing this by choice for a period of time as he believes that this decision benefits him the most. I don't see anything wrong with this. I feel bad for him if his stuff got stolen because of the extra media attention there: the reporter was probably intending to do something nice for them and it might end up backfiring.

But really, what can Amazon do about this? For that one example, that's a guy that already has a home but chooses not use it out of convenience. If they offered seasonal workers some extra resources and facilities (say use of the parking lot to sleep in safer at night) to make their lives easier, they'd instantly be accused of exploiting workers and there would be images of tent cities on the news every night trying to make them look bad.
I ran every single day from August 27 - November 27.

First month 3 miles every day, then 5, then 7, then mix 5/7, then 10 everyday for over 10 days.

There are a lot of other "daily rituals" I have added in the past 6-9 months including vitamin supplements daily (fish oil, B (12 or energy complex); C; D). But what triggered the daily running was my discovery of raw, green vegetable juice and followed thereafter by daily eating of daily salad(s). Basically I attributed the ability to do the daily running with the daily juicing. I never felt so good so I just tried short runs everyday to start and kept adding miles, by the time I was doing 10 mile bridge runs back to back to back and not experiencing and aches/pains/soreness even I was curious how far I could take it (maybe train for my first ultra).

The only reason I stopped running daily was because of a stye that got badly infected, and I took about 10 days off. I am back running everyday so wish me luck.
The moving walkway pictured in the article is the same one, and it worked two years ago. It was a rush to glide past even the regular moving walkways. A futuristic treat after a long flight and grouchy border guards.
Works great on Android phone with Chrome browser.
Perhaps, in the "win whatever you do" case, the item is originally placed somewhere, and the good advice really does relate to that place—so there's a way to win "authentically." And then, if the child never searches that place, then the item is moved—to a place unrelated to the clues—so that they will find it.

The advice was "good advice" in the sense of "if you had followed the advice, you would have found the item before the taking-pity-on-you time limit." But it's not "good advice" in the sense of it having any relation to where the item was ultimately found—and therefore it can't be inferred to have been good advice just from the evidence the child has at that point.

On the other hand, if the game is played iteratively (like an iterated Prisoner's Dilemma), it would eventually become clear (presuming the child managed to find the item by themselves some of the time) that there is this "taking-pity-on-you time limit", and that some of the advice has a correlation to where the item is before that time limit. The child would likely intuit the "taking-pity-on-you" moment as the true loss condition of the game, and become upset when it happened, just as if they had been told they lost.
That was an interesting read thank you.
Coding ability wise, elite coders are usually already well above the average professional senior programmer level while still in their teens (emphasis on coding ability wise).

But,

- They are a tiny fraction of the collective. Pretty much everyone else sucks at programming.

- Coding is like working out. Even if you are not elite, you can improve a lot if you persevere. All the way through your entire career, no matter how long.

- It is not all about coding skills. Maybe for those 40k LOC one-man app guys it is, but that's not even the most common scenario anymore. You can compensate with other skills such as being inspirational, having good insights, ability to QA a product/design and identify its weak spots and potential on the early stages, ability to break down a problem into smaller ones and prioritize your tasks, ability to evaluate, understand and communicate with team mates and clients (social skills with coding skills is always a winning combination)... The list goes on and on. Even though it's not all related to programming, it is stuff you'll eventually have to deal with as a professional programmer, specially in the startup world.

Code is reusable. You don't have to be a genius coder to put together a slick and successful app. Even for the most innovative software, the code of every part is most likely already there, written by experts in a clean, efficient, robust and well-documented module you can use free of charge, even commercially. So go on and use it. (I know it's actually not that easy, but mostly piles of crap until you find something useful and learn to use it properly. You get better at that too).
I'm not sure I understand the complaint here.

Is it really that this job is too easy to get?
> But really, what can Amazon do about this?

They could pay their workers a living wage and not treat them like dogs.
Trams anyone?
I had the same problem (I'm not color blind). First game, I was light green. When dark green player started attacking me, I thought my army squares where on steroids (or something similar). It wasn't clear it was a different player killing my army.
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So, we're currently talking at cross purposes, and I'm not convinced that I'm really adding much to this discussion by furthering it. However, to clear up any confusion between us, if your point is that Scotland favours a more heavily regulated labour market then you are both correct and in agreement with me.

My point was simply that this is an illiberal position. Liberal only means "economically statist" in America. Everywhere else in the world it still means classically liberal - i.e. in favour of free markets.

Again, I don't think I'm making this discussion any better by pointing this out, so I'm going to leave it there.
Given all the handwringing on HN in the last month about fake/biased news, it's ironic to see so many comments latching onto this story with "well duh, we always knew Amazon was a terrible employer, and here's more proof!"

I'm not going to try to defend Amazon - it certainly has many employment issues both in the FCs and at HQ. But this story specifically is virtually content-free. Most of it's content is to be found in the first sentence: "At least three tents have been spotted in woodland beside the online retail giant’s base just off the M90 in Dunfermline in recent days" and then later it emerges that they managed to find one occupied tent whose occupant was using the tent to avoid commuting from his home. The rest of the article strings together innuendo and rehashes talking points to try to build the desired narrative and mental picture of a tent city full of freezing, starving Amazon FC workers.

A truthful headline would have been "An Amazon worker sleeps in a tent near Dunfermline site to avoid long commute", but then that would neither have sparked the same moral outrage nor garnered the same number of clicks.
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Wow I thought you were being a jerk, but after looking at the pics I'd judge some of what you said as plausible.

Of course, no way is it conclusive, so I don't see how it justifies how the support played out.
Taking the trash out - If you own a house and can make improvements, an in-home trash compactor will generate about 3,000 pounds of force to compact your trash. If you do rent, try finding a trash can that is large and stable enough for one to step into. Use a step stool and add a plywood disk platform cut out to less than the inside diameter to stomp on the trash to compact it. Much of the trash we throw out can be compacted, even with just a simple stomp. Also, if you have a yard, you can potentially compost raw food scraps.
For those with no idea about the geography of this part of the world: it's about a 30 minute drive down the motorway, and from memory congestion only gets particularly bad further south on it at rush hour, so even at rush hour it won't be that much longer.

Of course, the big difference with the programmer under the desk is the programmer is unlikely to be earning minimum wage. Anyone 25 and over, working 60 hours a week at minimum wage, is earning £432/week. If we assume they're working those hours or on vacation all year, their take home pay is £355/week. If we assume fuel costs of ~£4.50 each way, then if they're working five days a week that's ~13% of their income, or if six days ~15%.
It might not increase quality initially, but it would make a difference in the long run. I know many bright people who don't consider teaching because they can have a much more comfortable life, both financially and bureaucratically, in other fields.

I also know many people who leave teaching early in their careers because of the relatively low pay and frustrating bureaucracy. I've been a teacher for 20 years. It was deeply frustrating early in my career to meet teachers who were near the end of their careers, did a terrible job, and got paid almost twice what I made.

This issue also varies widely throughout the country. I teach in Alaska, and pay here is decent. But there are parts of the country where I'd take a $20k+ cut in salary, without a corresponding cost of living change.
Workers living at the factory working for a low wage sounds like something from 200 years ago, a bit like a lite version of slavery. I think we should try to make peoples lives better in the future, not worse.
I used SELinux commercially in 2000 on an embedded surveillance platform project. I've never used it since, because it's such a hassle to deal with. Special snowflake systems are just so rarely the right thing to do.

I do believe this type of approach will become easier as CI/CD becomes the norm, but that's gonna be awhile yet.

IMHO to date you will often get more value for time invested out of alternate strategies like thinning down a kernel and userspace, running a server diskless with frequent reboots, adding a second server for failover, using a grsec kernel, or running a decently maintained and tuned IDS/firewall combo.
"Neo Nazi changes their mind" doesn't exactly make news headlines, so you would be unlikely to find out. IMHO, this asymmetry is what RTBF helps to balance.
He created the account just for that comment
Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth has a lot of useful resources for parents and others wondering about the needs of smart kids and what can be done for them.

http://cty.jhu.edu/

They helped us with my daughter.
If you are earning £7.35 an hour, assuming 37.5 hours a week, that is £1,076.11 per month after taxes. Zoopla has quite a few properties to rent in Dumfirmline for under £500 per month [0] - it isn't SF prices.

I'd take a guess and say that the people doing this are seasonal workers who live further away. It's not worth relocating for a few months, and commuting for 2 hours per day isn't nice (from Edinburgh during rush hour it could easily take over an hour to get to Amazon's warehouse), so this is their choice.

[0] http://www.zoopla.co.uk/to-rent/property/dunfermline/?price_...
Someone over in the SA Fatal and Friends thread did a review that was posted here: http://projects.inklesspen.com/fatal-and-friends/binarydoubt...
The process was accidental:

1) I started by focusing on counting (obviously). Then counting to larger numbers and backwards.

2) During timeouts (when he had a tantrum etc.) I often made him count backwards or forwards instead of setting a timer. This actually isn't as cruel as it sounds, it refocused him and he calmed down earlier. And then counting by twos seemed to work.

2.5) The "endless" series of iPad apps were amazing (endless reader etc.). Their math one made numbers, counting and addition seem like fun.

3) Kumon books were awesome and put him on a good path.

4) When he got older I got him "prime climb". It's an amazing board game because it makes huge chunks of math come together.

5) As far as what age to start goes, I think the kid tells you that in his/her own way. You find out that you skipped over stuff that seemed obvious. For example, my kid knew primes and multiplication before understanding which of two numbers is greater.

And congrats on being a new father!
The issue he or she is referring to is that the underlying rows are fragmented within each fetched page (so you might need to fetch 40 pages for 40 index entries, even if they would all fit on one partitioned page). Fiddling with the index order isn't going to change that (the current index order is already optimal for that type of query). There's another solution, which is to expand the index to include any covered rows so you can use index-only scans and not hit the main rows at all, but that's trading away a large amount of index size, which you usually want to avoid unless you have no other choice.
One tent seen and two others reported. Is this fake news?
Google is right on this one, what French are effectively doing is European Imperialism 2.0. This is far far worse than whatever Russia or Chinese great firewall does. Worse if Google does implements this worldwide then its game over for internet as we know it. The next hot business would then be building platforms to allow governments to interfere with tech companies under false pretense of "privacy protection".
All orbits should 'eventually' decay as more matter comes in and perturbs the orbit. Stability is a matter of how quickly it decays, not if it decays.
While the claim of selection bias in JetBrains' survey may be argued, it is still a valid data source, which is what the gp was asking for.

Also, your anecdotal data is arguably biased as well.

My take is that many sources, including the ones linked to in the tweet's replies point to solid growth in Python 3 adoption. Python3 might not have overtaken Python 2 overall, but it's very far from being "dead".
An aside that's probably relevant here is how the welfare state here deals with the unemployed: if you refuse a job offer, you cease being eligible for any welfare. This can (and does at times) push people to accept jobs where their cost of commuting takes up almost their entire income and leaves them worse off than the relatively small amount they were getting as welfare.

In a sense, you can be pushed to accept a job at an infeasibly low wage because the alternative is having no income at all.
'Tis the internet! In this case, your experience is everyone else's when it's good, no one's when it's bad.
Only a small handful of observations (only one, last I heard, but I may be out of date), but lots and lots of analyses. And for every scientist that has their own model and does their own data processing, there's a chance that the model lines up with some arbitrary noise in the data.
Just because company towns didn't work once doesn't mean it can never work. How about a SpaceX Mars town? :)
In related news, Teleportation Could Make Airplanes Obsolete if only physicists can figure out how to transmit and re-assemble humans correctly.
The key here is "meaningful". I'm not sure about 145 talking to 115, but I can imagine that 115 talking to 85 would be downright painful. We would just not care about the same things.
I know it's a "bonus" but that swag Amazon store card strikes me as being quite familiar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip
The 4 hour days for truck loading may not be unusual. I worked for ups loading trucks many years ago after high school. Aside from a 15 minute break, we were lifting boxes non stop and it was very fast paced an grueling. They paid a lot more per hour than other jobs (you were only working 20 hrs a week) and after a few months I was in the best shape of my life. It was a pretty good job for a high school kid at the time.

The other stuff still sounds shady though, when I got the ups job I knew what I was getting into.
Make the Full Senate Intelligence Committee Torture Report a Federal Record
This article is about a walkway that moves slower at the ends, like a ski lift.
You can easily get a apartment share for minimum wage in that part of the country.
This kind of sentiment is exactly what's wrong with "disruptive" culture
Code of gratitude - Giving due credit to scientific software development
The Silicon Valley empathy vacuum strikes again.
My 2.5 year old did my dice rolling in Trivial Pursuit last night (1970s retro Australian edition). I just made a big thing of showing her the number on the die, reading it aloud, then moving the piece that many spaces while counting up. She is interested because she seems to see the social significance of the dice throw within the game environment, but not fully aware of the movement options/significance. That's OK. Using numbers at all is good at this age. I wonder at what cognitive level children interpret randomness, such as dice throws.
Users flagged it. They don't tell us why, so we don't know why. It may have been the title, so we changed it to the subtitle.
"Pulling out" of the EU means closing a few small offices (except for Dublin). It has no significant staff presence outside of Ireland in the EU once the UK leaves - the offices in France and Germany are really small.

If Google decides to start moving staff out of Dublin, the EU would lose its last leverage over it.

The EU could then do a China and attempt to force ISPs to block Google services at the network level. Given how much the web relies on Google servers, that would break the EU internet. The EU is struggling already, there's no way they're going to shoot themselves in the head economically like that.
They're a relatively small relatively local newspaper, with a total circulation of 45k. The fact they have /any/ video is mildly surprising.
Minimum wage in that part of the country could easily get an apartment share.
If Amazon isn't paying workers enough for them to get reasonable accommodation and participate in society, that employment is a net negative overall. We are all paying Amazon to mistreat its workers, be it in direct payment, health care or crime.

There is your intellectual appeal.
Parent means "liberal" in the JS Mill / Adam Smith (whose statue is in the middle of Edinburgh) sense, rather than whatever it means these days in the US context.
Where strikes are punished by turning off the air.