skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know it's a non-answer, but it depends very much on what your use case is. Any global system where every node stores every transaction for all eternity will be limited in capacity. If that is a problem depends on what your use case is.

Most cryptocurrencies work like that, especially since they were all more or less inspired by Bitcoin. The capacity to which Ethereum and Bitcoin can scale can differ by a constant factor at most. (Where the latter is likely at an advantage, due to smaller transaction sizes and simpler scripts.)

Scaling Bitcoin to a global payment network for everyone's daily transactions is probably not realistic. But it could very well act as the clearing backend for such a system. (See, for example, Lightning Network.)
Sadly for a lot of people, the short term win of being able to use the extra couple dollars to feed the family causes them to act 'irrationally' and ignore the longer term consequences.
Then they're free to not do it. How is this an issue?
Questions I haven't seen answered yet:

* Employee gets a destination with no parking available, who gets dinged for non-delivery?

* Employee gets a destination with no parking available, but is told to double-park by local manager. Gets ticketed. Who gets dinged?

* Does this constitute a non-CDL delivery service, or courier service? Will Wal-Mart handle licensing and insurance coverage of personal employee vehicles?

* What exactly constitutes "on their way"? A block out of their way? Several kilometers out of their way?

* What guarantees are in place that the definition of "on their way" isn't expanded without due consideration in the future?

* Is the compensation piece work, or based upon time? If piece work as implied by the 10-package maximum, and an unforeseen traffic stoppage takes up employee's time, does employee have flexibility to bail on delivery and do some shopping while waiting for stoppage to clear? If there is no such flexibility, I can practically count upon the absence of "surge compensation".

* Do recipients have the option to view a picture of employee and vehicle, with map showing location as delivery draws near, ensuring security and privacy?

* Employee slips on stairs while walking down them after completing last delivery on way to their car, breaks a leg. Is this covered by worker's compensation, or is employee on their own?

* Employee is assaulted by dog/perp while making delivery. Who pays?

This is a laudable effort, I like the general idea, but this is all but guaranteed open to worker abuses in the future as management "optimizes" it, in a "pray I don't alter it further"-fashioned deal. I don't expect Wal-Mart stocker staff for example, to think of these and many other contingencies when signing up, for which they will almost certainly be hung out to dry if their number comes up.
As a professional delivery worker and an employee of the everyone-hates retailer i have this view:

This is an experiment. Only. Lore has said that 75% of delivery cost is labor related.

Wal-Mart is insane about not working off the clock. They won't force associates to do this.

From the delivery aspect:

When we get a new delivery person they suck for months. There are so many variables that make failure probable: unmarked addresses; multiple units; obstacles (including dogs); access; daylight; wrong address labels; "who gives a sh#t" attitude ("i just cant return with my delivery"); scanning failures

Plus. Ups fedex and usps are trusted with access-walking on peoples properties without question.

Imo lore is good at pushing things and this test will be called off.
That's a really great source. Though they do note that Google's market power isn't all that durable (because they don't charge, and competitors exist), they obviously conclude that they have unlawfully obtained monopolistic status.
I've spent plenty of time in my career building stupid things. While I'd prefer to build non-stupid things, as long as I'm getting paid well for it, I will happily build your stupid thing. If you get hung up on needing more control over what you're building, you actually have a few other options:

1. Take on a hobby in your free time.

2. Work for a different company, where developers have more of a stake and help define the product (there are few but they exist).

3. Moving into a "product management" role where you're defining features and requirements, etc.

4. Put your ass on the line and gamble on starting your own company.
Walmart is paying it's people their hourly wages(let's say $14/hr in Texas), and lets them deliver up to 10 packages. With the right route. If 10 packages take an hour, it's $1.4 per package. It may take less.

It leaves $1.6 for handling, and shipping to store(large trucks, very cheap). Seems possible.

BTW: Are there any distance limits for the Amazon offer?
> You don't think you're jumping the gun here, maybe? Do you even know what the compensation will be?

Walmart is known for high wages.
Vs scamazon? I replace you with drones while delivering b-stock, repackaged, used-as-new and fake products while treating vendors horribly.
>" I've personally built two container runtimes in other languages do to the namespace clumsiness."

Can you share any details on those other container runtimes?
You can say that about the UK Prime Minister and still get entry.
Going to be a lot of legwork to update that if any of those countries experience drastic regime change ;)
Has anyone ever done an analysis of what impact these kinds of breaches (like OneLogin for example) have on either end users or the company?

Ie, we often describe breaches as "really bad" but it would be good to quantify in terms of things like:

- Revenue Lost (Company)

- Reputation Lost (Company)

- Time Lost (Company + User)

- Increased Costs and Penalties (Company)

- Assets lost (Company + User)
I saw this Factorio test-video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivLFP2eApto) the other day. That's the only time I think I've ever seen an integration test suite for game content, rather than just for the engine.
Paying for blood, and the ethical issues around that, reminds me of pharmacies giving out gift cards and other discounts for flu shots. I recall CVS was giving out a $25 gift card to anyone who got a flu shot, and I imagined a lot of low income and poor people lining up for a shot they may not need, and in fact may be harmful, just to get money to buy food, etc.
Looks very cool, would love to play with a demo before dropping $30 though...
Waymo testing self-driving trucks
In the context of chemistry, conservation of mass is not at all obvious which is why it is a big deal that Lavoisier proved it to be the case. To determine that burning wood into ash (for instance) doesn't change the total mass of the system requires precise measurement and an intuitive leap on what constitute the boundaries of the system.

In mechanics there is historically no such law precisely because no-one would ever have thought that it wasn't obviously true.
For us who don't know better, could you explain why MD5 or SHA1 are ok in an HMAC context?
I disagree. For instance, if I'm writing something in C and I know that it is syntactically and semantically correct, I know that it will definitely compile.

Go hijacks control flow and makes it more difficult to reason about how your code will be compiled and executed. At least that is true in my personal experience.
I feel exactly the opposite. It feels like HN is very liberal. I'd bet money it's much more than the general population.
What a VC Thinks of Blue Apron's S-1
r/btc is calm and collected? Every single day I see a ridiculous tinfoil hat theory about how Segwit is just a plot by Blockstream (who they always mention is funded by BANKSTERS!!! and AXA!!!) to either stall scaling and destroy bitcoin OR (mutually incompatible) scale with lightning network which will somehow allow Blockstream to profit. Didn't have to look far to prove my point... front page when I looked for it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/6eul2q/only_61_days_to...
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These SSO providers like OneLogin and Okta are incredibly high value targets. State-level targets. I predict that SSO providers and security tools (whether on-prem or SaaS) will be targeted and breached more and more often. The SSO providers are the middle men for accessing everything so they literally have the keys to the kingdom. Security tools are given incredible amounts of access and permissions without question.

As a result of trying to be more secure a big enterprise has gone from maybe a couple single points of compromise to several. It's not as easy to do script kiddie-level attacks but the tradeoff is that a very smart and/or well funded attacker now has some very, very powerful targets.
They also just raised $30M+ with an ICO :)
>I'm not trying to be combative, but there are significant differences between public and private pensions that I don't think you're accounting for which stem from the legal

Then you agree that you need to address the parallel's I've drawn if you want to maintain that position?

> (e.g., there is no "competing" state trooper battalion operating at a better labor cost advantage).

Are you reading my comments? In both replies, I already explained how there are relevant ways in public pension funds experience this problem: workers can be scared into other countries, other jurisdictions, other jobs, and the underground economy, with the exact same effect on ability to meet obligations. If you believe this can't happen, you need to flesh it out a bit more.

"It's not like there's another company they can work for lol" is how GM etc got into this mess.

> Pension funds do not necessarily impose an obligation on the operating budget of a municipality. That's what it means to say it can go broke

I don't know any non-trivial sense in which "a massive class of people expected pension payments that will be cut off" doesn't count as the public's problem.

To everyone in the world looking at the this, the problem is that a) lots of people are expecting to receive pension money and b) lots government services need to be provided, and we can't afford to do both.

You're saying it's "not a problem" simply because "you can just reneg on a) while paying b)"? That's a non-standard conception of "not a problem".
Enhanced Visa Questioning Approved
Im in the 'wait and see' camp.. but you can say a program is voluntary, while in truth it's required to keep your job.

Just label all the people who refuse as not being team players. Dock them on their performance reviews for it. "Johnny over there wouldn't take a short detour on his way home, so we had to send someone out to deliver a package. If he's not willing to help out, maybe he should go work some place else."

There.. a required voluntary program. This is the natural language/playbook for every manager out there.
You guys posted like six ads in this thread. That's so not cool.
I see you don't work at Walmart. People there have more burning matters, like how to put food on the table.

And you can block location requests(and the like) for the app, after work, Either with Android 6-7 or Lineage's privacy guard.
When the alternative is starving, taking a worse deal is just what you have to do. And Walmart controls the workers hours, so that's a huge mess.

This can become abusive in a hurry. Suppose the net after gas is that delivering packages pays $5/hr. Walmart knows how many deliveries their workers take, how many they need, and what hours get scheduled. More packages need going out? Cut hours for folks not delivering, schedule the folks delivering for more days with short shifts or split shifts.
Interesting article. I used to market such a CIS system to utilities, and indeed we considered them to be the most conservative of all. Nevertheless, their needs are very similar to those of energy utilities, but we found out how much they like to hear that water is different...

Despite the points made in the article, I still believe they are a bit too conservative, despite the nature of their product. I think it's mainly the fact that privatisation has hardly happened in the water sector, and the fact that many of them are still run like government bureaucracies. Just interact with the customer service of a water utility monopolist vs that of an energy supplier in a free market. A huge difference!

But it would have been interesting to try the approach he notes... Thanks for sharing!
Borrowing on your home to invest is just a terrible idea. You may see higher returns on the aggregate in the market but doing so is a good way to lose your home. Too much risk and like you, I think the small spread (and it is very small) between your mortgage and market returns doesn't even cover the risk premium of the potential to lose your home.
If they are storing the password and pushing it to the connected service on the user's behalf, then they have to be able to decrypt it somehow [...]

But not necessarily all of them all the time. The decryption key could be derived from the master password of each user and only kept around while the user is logged in.
I can just imagine an employees quarterly performance review. "Mark you've done a great job this quarter, though I can't help but notice that you drive to work and aren't enrolled in our employee delivery program. It is important to me and to corporate that everyone who is willing and able participate to ensure our customers are satisfied. Don't you want our customers to be satisfied, Mark?"

First it will be optional, then it will be encouraged, and finally it will become coerced.
Not completely on topic but...what would happen if one of these new features came out and somebody found a security flaw in it? For example a buffer overflow that you could use to crash miners? If all the clients are running the same client software and crashing them all can have serious financial implications I can't help but feel it's only a matter of time unless I'm missing something about how miners work.
I suppose that is information bias, only information about the EU fining US companies reaches USA
Interesting; is there a reason it only appeared on the last line here? Was "Software Engineer- Web Frontend" the only noun-phrase that would imply a gender?
It doesn't work for Canada.
Here's a simple, progressive income tax:

1. IRS determines the median for personal income (total household income divided by household size), and publishes it no later than January 1.

2. Your taxable income is your household income minus the published median from #1 times the number of people in your household. If this is less than or equal to zero, pay no tax.

3. Those with positive taxable income pay x% of that amount as tax, with x set according to the requirements of the previous year's budget, but not to exceed a statutory limit of y%.

If you take the median income as a proxy for spending, this tax thus approximates a flat tax on the annual increase in household wealth.
"and a leaderboard"

This is not the idea you are looking for...

You have identified a well known area of interest... but you are not solving a problem. If a problem can't be solved with conversation with a trusted friend or relative then it's a slim chance an app and leaderboard are the right answer.
I linked to the GitHub. The project website is at http://ufoid.net/
Please - if you are going to stab at walmart, please, dont let scamazon amazon off the hook. Drones means less jobs. No employee stores mean less jobs. At least walmart employs people. Scamazon's well known to be brutal towards warehouse employees and while paying them bottom dollar they are pouring billions into eliminating those jobs. And for what? Rip off vendors and use monopolist loss-leadership pricing to break competition, create a monopoly and then let the dear-leader jeff use billions to play rocket-chess with Elon Musk in space. Its insane. Cure cancer. Figure out how to make fusion energy or cheap/free energy.
The whole "ponzi scheme" accusation is trotted out every time Bitcoin is brought up, and it's always by people completely unfamiliar with how Bitcoin actually functions. It's as much a "ponzie scheme" as much as any other limited-supply asset.
Besides some minor experiences start-up world is the third worldwide phenomenon that I participated in while it grew. It was really exciting, a lot of fun, a lot of stories to tell, a lot of experiences made. But there is no reason to be sad about that it's over. It will happen again. Another topic, but it will happen, and it will be just as good and for the same reasons.

Also, it wouldn't be as good if it would stagnate at some point. I am/was also part of communities that stagnated, some since long before I was born. It's not the same level of engagement, not the same glory, not the same amount of brave, smart people. So if HN stagnated on a smaller level it wouldn't have been as good either.

For me I really found the best approach is to take it like a surfer. There are good waves and bad waves, but each one will end. Ending wave just means it's time to get ready for the next.
What's a typical btc txn fee nowadays?
I hope it does. If we need to ruin the system to rebuild it then so be it. But it is colossally fucked up that we ask/pressure teenagers to give blood without compensation. It's fucked up that we don't tell them, "we're going to sell this for $1000, and use that money to help pay our CEO $10,000,000 this year."
It's OK, they're only asking because they already know!
Scaling out complex transactions in multi-tenant apps on Postgres
They could have used Electron or Qt and supported all platforms. Also, why not offer a trial version?
> Doctors can choose to moonlight and get paid extra, and I don't think anyone is complaining about that.

Doctors have that choice, and yet they don't do that. I wonder why?
> Sadly for a lot of people, the short term win of being able to use the extra couple dollars to feed the family causes them to act 'irrationally' and ignore the longer term consequences

Sort of like driving for Lyft or Uber?

The wear on vehicles alone adds up quickly into large maintenance bills... yet many people still drive for them on an amateur level, making long term profits questionable (buying new tires after 1-2 years instead of 3-4, for example).
Tidal influence can keep an object oriented along the local vertical and keep the same face towards the primary. See, for example, Phobos. Or most the moons in our solar system.

This is especially true if an orbiting object has attached to a tether. Gravity gradient stabilization can keep a tether aligned to the local vertical.
"Modern Compiler Implementation" isn't too bad, but it is a general purpose introductory compiler text rather than being dedicated to functional languages. It does briefly touch on subjects like closure conversion and type inference, but doesn't give working code.

Appel's other compiler book, "Compiling with Continuations", goes into more depth while falling short of being a complete tutorial on writing a compiler for ML.
In C, I could not find good libraries for basic stuff (dynamic string manipulation, variable-sized arrays, hash tables). I tried glib but it was much worse than C++'s STL.

It is entirely possible to write C-style programs in C++ (very few classes, globals all over the place) and so on, and at least for me, C-style software in C++ are much safer/easier to debug than C-style software in C .
Is here anything out there which

* connects to a database

* allows a database admin to write a query once (maybe for $50 a query) against your database

* allows the query to have variables and hints in the code

* visualizes the result set as various types of graphs

* for each variable, lets you set values and ranges and steps etc.

* runs the queries and generates reports

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WHY does it operate like that? Simply because there are no opening hours? It's 24/7?
One was a simplified runtime in c, similar to a stripped down version of systemd-nspawn. I can hopefully share the other one in a few weeks. I'm going through an open source approval process for it.
There's also the middle ground, where folks who happen to deliver things on their way home get more shifts (because otherwise, there aren't enough people to make the needed deliveries). They might be shorter shifts or split shifts, and wind up being an increase in underpaid hours.
I'm an external observer also (with little knowledge about the BTC internals);

to me it sounds like Segwit is trying to #1 fix a problem and #2 add new features.

Wouldn't it be a lot faster and less risky to first fix the problem (#1) and wait with implementing new features (#2) until all the problems are solved?
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Build your life around Walmart, friends!

It's more do it for the team, keeping people that already struggle from having time for other pursuits.

It's manipulative of their desire to be a little better off, when they could be already if Waltons took some of daddies money and paid them better in the first place.

Time is the most valuable asset a human has. And Walmart can manipulate the lesser haves to support their interests
It's sad reading people cheering their own exploitation. But I'd expect nothing less from HN.
Kubernetes vs. Openshift vs. Tectonic: Comparing Enterprise Options
Elsewhere in the thread, but the nuance is what it is used for. You can get paid if it ends up as plasma.
Handling and manipulating data in an obfuscated web environment (Electron) is not fun. Native will undoubtedly offer better memory handling and performance.
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