skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is that companies like Walmart operate internally just like Soviet Union. The USSR was also constrained by a global capitalist market system and traded extensively with other countries, including the U.S.

Further, Walmart has an enormous influence, and often outright economical control over many of its suppliers, to the point that it can make or break them. It's notorious for playing hardball in their negotiations with suppliers.

Even further, there's such a thing as Walmart's brands, which place even further control over white label suppliers, and sometimes take over production on their own: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Walmart_brands

Even further, Walmart owns its trucking fleet and employs truck drivers directly.
Very much this. The flow for me goes:

1) I don't understand that. Let me ask StackOverflow.

2) I'm having trouble phrasing my question properly. What do you call $X? Googling ensues

3) Oh nevermind, I get it now <closes tab>
Found a good summary of imbalance cash-out prices:
https://www.elexon.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Imbalanc...

The basics seems simple enough - the system was long (too much supply) during this period above and beyond what is contractually ordered between generators and electricity suppliers (eg, to consumers).

Having a negative price would seem to make sense if your goal is to keep consumption balanced with generation on an open market.
Planck units are what you get if you set the gravitational constant, the Coulomb constant, the speed of light, Boltzmann's constant, and the reduced Planck constant all to 1, resulting in the elimination of constants in equations like Newton's law of gravitation. The argument was that using such units eliminated anthropic bias.

Well, the immediate problem with such arguments is that it's not clear that those values are the right ones to set to 1. The original discussion started before Einstein developed general relativity, where 4piG crops up more than G itself. Likewise, it arguably makes more sense to set permittivity of free space, not Coulomb's constant, to 1, which eliminates the constants in Maxwell's equations. On the other hand, using the charge of ⅓ that of an electron would mean every particle (so far as we know) has integer charge. Planck charge (under any of the values mentioned above) is not any comfortable multiple of that charge.

Effectively, arguing that Planck units hold any physical significance amounts to modern-day numerology for the most part, just as much as when some physicists tried to argue numerological principles for the fine structure constant being exactly 1/137.
"You're certainly increasing your risk of a wide range of disease, including a number of cancers, by drinking this much."

Perhaps. Neither the op nor I were discussing that.

He specifically mentioned "ruin(ing) your liver". I believed that to be inaccurate. Wikipedia ensued.
I did App Academy in New York two-three years ago (10-week bootcamp). I'm now a front-end dev and work from home making about 80k per year. I believe most of my cohort are in the same situation (App Academy appears to be above average for boot camps from what I've heard about other boot camps, but not by much). Although most of my cohort probably stayed working in New York or moved to SF and so make more money but don't get the luxury of working from home.

The boot camp served its purpose in preparing me for the job. Namely, serving as a commitment device to force myself to study the initial couple hundred of hours one needs to be able to do entry level programming from scratch. Plus having them provide a curriculum and teachers was nice too, I guess, but secondary to the commitment factor. Having graduated from that was also probably not a detriment to have on my resume and I keep it on there since I have no other programming related education.

I suspect my experience is not unusual-- that the boot camp's value is in being a catalyst that unlocks someone's ability to be a programmer and teach themself most of the skills they need, rather than in being an information-imparting institution.
Negative LMP prices happen all the time in the US in regions with heavy wind. This isn't unusual.
It's like Google Home, without the enormous company full of brilliant software engineers behind it?
There are no new good places for hydroelectricity that everyone can agree on. Pumped hydro storage is best married to existing damns.
The oversupply of electricity is not the cause of "detracing" solar and wind. It's its undersupply on a winless overcast evening.

What we need is cheap (per GJ stored) longer-term electricity storage.
That's really impressive, but I'm a little surprised LLVM didn't optimize that inner loop to a popcnt instruction.
I had the pleasure of chatting with Spencer the other day, great guy. We're still very opposite in database tradeoffs that we believe in, but it joys me that at least both ends of the spectrum are covered in the OSS community. As I've expressed before, I don't think Master-Slave globally strongly consistent databases are the direction the future is headed, but at least if I'm wrong ;) we'll have Spencer & Co(ckroach) to save the day for Open Source (hearing his vision and emphasis on OSS was very refreshing and affirming too, especially after the last year of database announcements/failures/crippleware).

So they have definitely won my heart over, although I'll still make critiques where appropriate. This particular article was very well done, thoughtful, and insightful. So thank you! Being Postgres wire compatible is a daunting task though, one that to me seems unnecessary (we're implementing SQL on top of our decentralized graph database, but not at the wire level). But it once again showcases our polar opposite views. Obviously, their extra effort will result in remarkably better SQL compatibility, performance, and experience. So they are the hands up winner, but I'm curious to see the extent of full SQL use (versus approximations) in the industry over the next decade.

Congrats guys, great article.
I wonder if there are benefits of non instructional self talk. e.g talking to yourself in the car about nothing in particular.
Not the person you asked, but I do have practice at this skill.

And it is a skill. I also have a highly-active internal thoughtstream, and it can cause me significant stress if I don't control it. In my case, it isn't a verbal dialogue, but rather the thoughts that swim around one level below. Busy nonetheless.

The only thing that works for me is to not fight it. If I attempt to resist the flow, it only amplifies the pressure, akin to pressing your thumb over the garden hose. Much of the stress of these thoughts comes not from the thoughts themselves, but the urge that feels like you must hold and analyze them all before moving on.

Rather, concentrate on letting it pass by, acknowledging it as it flows downstream, without reaching out to hold on. Visualizing yourself sitting calmly near a rapidly flowing creek. Imagine the strength of the flow slowing over time. Let go of the worry of the uncompleted thought- tell yourself that if it is truly worth considering, it will flow back around again in time. Smile to yourself as the thoughts wash through you, appreciating their fleeting nature. After a short amount of time, minutes at most, you will find the strength of the torrent ebbing. It will not cease, but the trickle that remains is much easier to cope with. Ten minutes of this, and you will find yourself mentally refreshed, and ready to get on with things.

This, of course, is not a cure-all, and if you expect it to work every time, you will be disappointed. But it does become easier with practice, and in my case, at least, it genuinely helps.
I graduated a python/django bootcamp in Aug 2014, became a Software Engineer right afterwards, and I'm now a Engineering Manager at a startup in San Francisco. I believe just under half of 21 are writing code in some developer type role. Definitely there were others there who were only looking to gain technical understanding for more Product/Marketing/PM type roles.

If you do your prep work and are ready to dedicate 100% to the bootcamp and all that it entails, you will certainly be successful and find the job you want. If you are not fully prepared for the commitment it takes, you will likely not fulfill your expectations.

You get out of it what you put into it.
This is a dupe of a post made about a week ago. The earlier post included a link to a MUCH better copy of the paper.

The better quality copy of the paper can be found here: https://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/irm/mcdermott.pdf
Good advice...yea I remember you saying you weren't using Forth anymore a year ago. What new language are you looking at?
Yeah but they showed new features in iMessage, the camera app and etc. all copycat ideas.

They could have built an AR feature into the camera app to show they are not just followers of all other companies who innovate they still are innovators. Further to showcase and get the masses excited about AR.
So who are they talking about? It sounds like a warning, and focuses on emulation style approaches. They compared to Transmeta.

Edit: Seems odd to use Transmeta as a comparison if they are talking about software os level emulation. Wasn't Transmeta's emulation all built into the chip, no os level support/software needed?
Apart from dragonwriter's point, that you're just duplicating the signaling that money currently does: You want to let some central authority watch every purchase I ever make, just so that they can try to plan the economy better? Um, hello? Privacy concerns, anyone?
I graduated from General Assembly in the summer of 2015. That is less than 3 years, but I can tell you that my outcome was very positive. I am now a full stack developer team lead in a quickly growing web application company, and I was certainly empowered by the training I received. Self study is great, but I was able to leverage the kick in the pants I received from my teachers.

As for my colleagues, I believe most are employed, but I will offer that you only get what you put into that kind of intensive training. It's only meaningful and effective if you really care. The folks who might have been enticed by a cool job in a growth sector don't do as well as those who code simply because it's a compulsive habit and joy.

I'll submit that there are myriad things you can't absorb in a brief program, that's life. If I was rich I would live to go to college again. But I would also say that I've met plenty of CS grads of traditional 4 year programs that don't have the same drive or problem solving skills as that I've seen come from bootcamp students.

Worth it, especially if you're a grown up with the passion to push yourself and the maturity to follow through.

Hype is all nonsense.
Is there any reason to think this will actually gain traction with a significant portion of the population? This seems like the kind of thing HN gushes over but the general population couldn't care less about.
Bitcoin mining will be super profitable then!
New York City subway has adopted this; next time you're waiting for your train, stand in the middle of the platform and you'll see a zebra-striped panel mounted on the wall. When the train arrives, the conductor in the middle of the train will open the window and point at it.
I live in NYC and didn't realize this isn't common elsewhere. Thanks!
I started using pass last week after a post on HN, loving it so far.
I'm speaking as someone who makes a living with technology, and I have a vested, material interest in keeping this status quo. I make a differentiation between knowledge and wisdom.

We can learn a lot from nature -- in the sense that we can learn a lot of knowledge. And you are right, we are nowhere near the peak. Maybe I am reading into your words too much, but it feels like there is a lot of enthusiasm you have for technology. That resonates with me.

However, I agree with the other guy -- it is hubris. How I get there has to do with wisdom not being normative. We might be able to gain a lot of knowledge, but we have not been gaining much wisdom.

There are other frames I can get into -- for example, Eisler's "Chalce and Blade", Mander's "In the Absence of the Sacred", Mazis's "Trickster, Magician, and Grieving Man". I think we very much have an arrogance which comes with technology, in our attitudes around it and what we want to do with it, and the many consequences around how we use and abuse technology.

For me, a fly is not just amazing because it shows how much knowledge we have yet to learn about a fly. To use the language of mystics: there is wisdom in _being_ the fly, one that is non-obvious.
These services could all still be provided for "free" and still follow open standards. Just like email is an open standard yet we all still use "free" Gmail.

The success of Facebook is that they offered these services in a very user friendly manner and for "free". The tragedy of Facebook is that their implementations are a proprietary walled garden, and now pretty much a monopoly.
My bet is it is apple and they are looking for ARM emulation of x86 on new Mac laptops slated for next year.

Oops, they are probably referring to Microsoft/Qualcomm's announced project here: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/249292-microsoft-decla...
The obvious answer is that the returns on global warming and solving crises is hard to quantify, and selling gadgets is easy(easier) to quantify.
Interesting. Certainly it was only a subset of customers who were complaining, and in the office it was a subset of Excel installations which could reproduce the problem. There's no doubt what the problem was and how to fix it. There is a doubt about exactly which Excel and Windows combinations are problematic, and how prevalent that combination is amongst New Zealand installations.
Not all, some models moved by morphological transforms, e.g. flapping wing textures by sinusoidal excitation. I presume it's that it's fairly quick to build a model, but extremely laborious to animate it. For a game that features "everything" I think I can let it slide. :-)
When you talk about Date objects, do you mean datetime? Because a Date with no time compenent has tons and tons of real world uses that a unix time stamp would be inappropriate for.
Ah, no I didn't mean using Redux with observables instead of Redux-Saga, but to drop Redux entirely and use observables.
Windows 10 on ARM (to be released later this year) includes x86 emulation to support 32-bit x86 desktop applications on ARM. I assume Intel is talking about Microsoft.

A couple of demos of Microsoft's x86 emulation. It seems to work well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_GlGglbu1U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSXUDKpkbx4
This is also super useful for learning a second language.

I once met a dude in China without much of a noticable accent. I asked him if he had lived abroad, to which he replied that he had never been outside the country. He just regular talked to himself in English in his head. I'm sure other factors contributed to his strong English, but I found this really interesting and started trying it with Chinese (which I was studying at the time). I discovered that talking to yourself as you go about your daily life really helps you identify really practical words that you don't know yet. Or even, very impractical words like "elbow" which can be embarrassing gaps in your vocab when you reach a certain level.
> Why not use another single sign on service?

Look. I'm not an idiot. I write open source. I love free and open web.

Google login works. We use use Gmail - it works. We use google classroom - it just works. Most websites offer Google Login - it just works.

When you have 30 students and you waste 2 minutes logging into a website -- that is 2 x 30 == 60 minutes of student learning lost. Little things like that add up.
I meant something that at least acknowledges the existence of arguments outside of Austrian school, let alone capitalist economics, and then analyzes merits of both/all.
Many people may have had negative experiences but I feel very few of those would post here, for a variety of reasons.
Aluminum smelters already do exactly that. They use power no matter what, of course, but are well-positioned to be able to absorb massive amounts of electricity when the cost structure makes it beneficial to do so.
That's what energy storage is.

Another concept is "dispatchable load". With fuel-driven generation, you have dispatchable power -- additinal generating capacity is brought online to meet anticipated demand.

With dispatchable load, some process which can be rapidly activated or deactivated with little loss in overall efficiency is utilised. Examples would be water pumping (simply for water storage, irrigation, or other uses, not pumped-hydro power storage), or aluminium smelting, or electrically-driven thermal or reduction processes.

An equivalent concept is "make hay while the sun shines". The Sun's power isn't dispatchable (though it's fairly predictable), and if you're doing something that relies on it, you're best advised to make use of it whilst you can.
It's getting there. Facebook is now a monopoly and is not improving their service in ways that benefit the users, they have no need to. They are only working to keep you locked in and to serve those who actually pay the bills, advertisers.
Good to know!

Working on a migration from a site that modified the WooCommerce core to a new ecommerce platform. Couldn't believe WooCommerce ever did that when I started.

Congrats on such a widely used platform though.
I think It is time to reinstate geocities.
I used Redux back in the days and async behavior felt rather clunky (action begin, action success, actionFailure) the other approaches felt like somehow getting rid of this clunky stuff.

Using observables instead of Redux doesn't even lead to these fixes.
You might be interested in its spiritual successor neocities, then

https://neocities.org/
'Cripple' is probably an exaggeration, I wasn't there (just got the angry phone call) but I believe it was a combination of two factors. First his machine not having a huge amount of breathing room with HD space. Second, the "magic" automated, slow file transfer made his machine unavailable for manual use. But at some point he started to point the finger at Dropbox, started plugging and unplugging the device (have you tried turning it on and off again?). This was a quite smart person who was not computer savvy. I think he was trying to manually transfer a few photos to his PC. I get it... something he used to be able to do for himself stopped working, and until he figured out what was going on, effectively locked up his machine.

If you take this in the context of what others have said about Dropbox's takeover of CPU, hopefully my use of 'cripple' makes sense...

I have rarely seen cases where "magic behaviors" that users don't understand work really well.
+1.

I used Crashplan for 3 years on a Synology NAS. It's a disaster. Every time there was a Synology upgrade, the CP headless server would stop working, and you'd need to reinstall, re-set the keys, etc.

After 10 ou 15 times doing this, I got rid of Crashplan entirely, migrated my backups to Amazon Drive, and never looked back.

Given the lack of decent options, seems the best choice will really be to pony up the $180 for 3TB that Amazon will start charging next year...
Say this is possible. Say this would even work (for some definition of "work"). I still have a nagging question: Is there any reason to suspect that this would work better than the current system? (Yes, I know, you can list all the problems produced by the current system. You can't list all the problems that would be produced by the proposed new system, though, because you haven't experienced them.)

I see comments saying that smartphones will provide the needed data to make this idea work well, but that doesn't do anything to answer the question "Will it be better?"
When I'm starting a piece, I typically bang out whatever comes to mind. I keep at that for a while, and then rearrange it, as a crude outline. Then I flesh it out. Often, first thing in the day, blocks just come out, as if someone is dictating to me. Sometimes, I wake up seeing printed text. Then I go back and rewrite, and shuffle as needed.

I've come to like Geany, because it's simple, but has spell check. I don't have much need for layout, beyond HTML.
Or you could say:

To me all Android products are a usability nightmare. I am forced to do simple things the way Google wants me to do them instead of the way I want to do them.

That line of reasoning just doesn't scale.

Like only learning to type on a Dvorak keyboard, doing things "your way" can have consequences. Rampant, arbitrary customisation of interfaces is, in my estimation, more often than not an exercise in painting yourself into a corner.
For sure, but only in the short term. History shows that there is a push and pull here and that on aggregate more information is being input to the market from all sides and available for price discrimination. Inefficiencies are great for enterprises to attempt to capture, and by doing so exposing the inefficiency.
>I have absolutely no clue what it would take to make that profitable

You need a large watershed with a wide range of useable head. It is an excellent system when the geography and hydrology allows for it.

Unfortunately, such areas are not common or evenly spread, and are not really possible to economically construct without a great deal of cooperation from the local geology.
Have you upgraded your Synology OS lately? For 3 years, every time I did it, the headless CP server would stop working.
How Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway makes most of its money
Why would they need to emulate x86 they can just compile for ARM.
Cool ! Thanks for the info, I have to check this out, looks interesting :)
I agree - this doesn't make sense. You can detect if you are spinning without looking at the outside world.

In an absolutely empty universe you can still tell if you are rotating.
Not to be pedantic, but…

>Launched on June 8, 1978, the 8086 powered the first IBM Personal Computer and literally changed the world.

It was the 8088 that powered the IBM PC. (Introduced on July 1, 1979, according to Wikipedia.) Very similar but with an 8-bit bus instead of the 8086’s 16-bit.
It certainly does when it's posted in the context of a romantic relationship!
Yeah, it probably is Apple.

I can't imagine Intel going to war against Microsoft, both sides have too much to lose if they start seriously fighting. It's not called the Wintel monopoly for nothing.

But if Apple were to stop buying Intel chips, and start using their own chips in their Macs, Intel could become very litigious.
That's still not a failing of CSV. If knowing whether a V is an IEEE754 double is critical to your application you shouldn't be using CSV. You wouldn't say nails are a mess because sometimes you need screws.
Facebook is my life
Reading the history of fixed width simd is agonizing, every generation trying to fix mistakes. You'd think they'd learn eventually.
There's been several reports of a partnership between microsoft and qualcomm to make an "always on" cheap laptop running a snapdragon 835. So just like a phone is always on, can receive message at any time, and ideally the battery lasts all day. Said project would emulate x86 on the arm to allow backward compatibility.

Chromebooks are having somewhat of the opposite battle. Intel's trying to emulate arm to run android apps on chromebooks. The reports I've seen is that intel's not competing so well. Many popular android apps run better on an arm chromebook than an intel chromebook.

In both cases I think the consumer wins, competition is good, and I'd consider a new chromebook just for the hardware and then I'd install some flavor of linux on it.