skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I were to guess: Wal-Mart has a very bad reputation for sucking the wealth out of a community; money spent at a locally-owned store is more likely to circulate in the community, while with Wal-Mart the money's spent once and no one but the Waltons ever sees it again.

Amazon might be a little bit like that: a fountain of wealth for Seattle (and check out real estate prices there if you think that's an exaggeration), but pumping that wealth out of all the rest of the globe.

But I see a weakness in this argument: Wal-Mart mostly displaced existing chain stores, which had similar wealth-pump effects -- and which had much higher prices than Wal-Mart, partially because they wanted higher prices but mostly because they didn't have Wal-Mart's hyper-efficient supply chain. And the old corner groceries and general stores had supply chains that were even worse than the previous generation of chain stores, and therefore even higher prices and even smaller variety...

So: you hear the wealth-pump argument, wealth pumps do sometimes exist, and I'm pretty sure the previous poster was accusing Amazon and Wal-Mart of both being wealth pumps; but I'm not entirely sure that that's what's going on with either business. If it is going on, of course, it's a problem. (Have there been any studies on Wal-Mart's effect on areas where it opens?)
If you set a precedent of taking back pay from executives convicted of bribery and other crimes, you won't be as competitive when hiring other criminals in the future. That's essentially United's argument here. Gotta stay attractive to future, potential criminals, after all.
Please don't quote by indenting. It's unreadable on mobile.
I really struggle to design things in a design app. If I have to design something with Bootstrap I just browse for a bit of inspiration on Dribbble then start coding.

I'd love to be able to design things in PS or Sketch but I find it takes 5x as long as it'd take me to make something by hand.
> They strictly kept any sort of code or logic out of XAML, annoyingly so to the point where you are writing converter classes to negate an expression

For what it's worth, WPF does provide sufficient flexibility that it's possible to add support for expression-driven converters using markup extensions and an MSBuild task for compile-time codegen. Have a look at this:

https://github.com/Microsoft/PTVS/blob/ebfc4ca8bab234d453f15...

It can also be used completely inline, i.e.:

<TextBlock Text="{Binding Name, Converter={ext:Lambda 'x => x.ToUpper()'}"/>

This is the codegen step that extracts those lambdas from XAML and processes them:

https://github.com/Microsoft/PTVS/blob/6bf34d3611d34e94eddb6...

and this is the helper classes that are used in its output:

https://github.com/Microsoft/PTVS/tree/6bf34d3611d34e94eddb6...

Note that it's language-agnostic; or rather, it uses the same language for expressions that the project itself does (so long as that language has a CodeDOM provider).
Yeah that can probably help. Another thing that helps is keyword arguments, so you avoid the verbose builder pattern that's idiomatic in Java.

I was going to say that I don't use closures in Python all that much, and Python has some issues with closures (e.g. nonlocal is ugly, and it wasn't even there until Python 3).

But after watching a recent PyCon talk [1], I realized that the "bound method" feature of Python is a useful special case of a closure. And he makes the good point that the code is shorter than JavaScript which requires an explicit anonymous function or bind().

[1] https://us.pycon.org/2017/schedule/presentation/768/
This is all common place in Go, we just don't use the terms that you have associated with heavy weight frameworks. DI is simply assembling all the pieces of your application in one single place instead of breaking it up arbitrarily in dozens of different constructors. The first is easier to read and test than the second.

Factories are just functions or objects that can create new instances of a thing of the number or configuration of that thing can't be known at compile time.
I've yet to see anyone mention storing UUIDs in a BINARY(16) column. Use exactly 128 bits to store 128 bits. We'd still have the random sort problem though.
On being smart
I was honestly hoping this would be about communications within the openai organization itself.
For small deployments, this kind of thing means One Less Thing To Understand. I like and use Ansible, but there is a mild learning curve and the occasional gotcha.

Given you generally have to know what you're trying to achieve in shell anyway, the shell versions are simpler, if less robust. For example,

sudo apt update && sudo apt install nginx

is easier than

become: True
tasks:
- name: install nginx for great justice
apt:
name: nginx
update_cache: yes
state: latest

There are also some edge cases where shell is better than ansible; some parameters are missing from some modules, meaning shell is more flexible; or if you want to read a command's STDOUT, it's a pain in Ansible.
Apple unveils Business Chat, brings customer service and shopping into iMessage
Implementing a K-like language targeting Malfunction
so it is the scripting language used by ansible, chef, puppet that imposes the required "discipline"?

methinks each of these must in fact call the shell to get things done or least system(3).

if they are calling execve then i would be more interested.

i would also be interested in ansible, chef, puppet if i knew the scripting languages they are written in or wanted to learn them. but other languages interest me more.

as a hobbyist, what i would like to see is a hosting provider that will boot fs images (including bootloader) that user builds on users own computer. i.e., provider gives exact specs of machine and network details. user builds and sends fs image to provider and provider boots from it on some bare metal in a datacenter.

no "host" or "guest". no virtual server. no provider software. if something software-related does not work, it is user's responsibility because it is all user's software. user can send an updated fs image.

anyone know if this exists? the service wanted is barebones: a computer in a datacenter that has an internet connection and someone to boot it from user fs image. cost not an issue.
Holy shit, this. If I could get a contractor or a remodeling project like I would an Uber, with a reputation and history system, I'd choose it in a heartbeat, even at a premium. I wonder how they deal with people bypassing the system to avoid their fees (e.g. AirBnb).
"If it was an ex-admin he might have deleted all the backups also."

One of the very neat things about rsync.net is that your account is on a ZFS platform and you have snapshots enabled by default and the snapshots are totally immutable.

Which means that if you back up your VPS (or your VPS company) to an rsync.net account and someone owns you and owns your rsync.net credentials, the worst they can do is delete the very latest backup ... the snapshots cannot be altered.

Just saying.
yeah I was surprised by this as well when I first started using AWS and GCP
Works fine for me.

But holy shit, $4k a year for the privilege of downloading a few specs? This is even more ludicrous than the USB or Bluetooth messes.
Why are they raising money? Looks like a pretty simple site. What are they burning the money on?
Thanks for sharing! These resources - especially the explorer guide are interesting. There's even astronaut profiles within the side if you dig around in the nav.
Yeah, this is a huge benefit, especially in a language like Go where concurrency is cheap and common.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanethiol

And if you want to buy some: http://www.zacon.ca/stench-gas.asp
Six files that are also a valid PHP
In government, C-level people make less than $200k, usually a lot less, yet seem to be able to competently lead organizations consisting of tens of thousands of people. One commissioner of a multi-billion dollar agency that I knew drove a late 90s Accord a few years ago.

They are also subject to invasive and strict ethics and disclosure rules revolving door policies.

CEOs mint money because of social connections, not value to the business. The board members who implicitly endorse graft should themselves be subject to criminal sanction.
Every time I've seen them discussed, I see brought up that they're not especially reliable.

Denying transport to someone who's got a history of doing anti-social things behind the wheel seems reasonable. But making them required for all vehicles (if I'm understanding your intention correctly) seems likely to have undesirable results.
It is possible to hate both and that's why I take Lyft.
Minimally in comparison to taxis - and some regulations are obeyed. A good example is the airport agreements in Chicago.
Houzz is interesting because all the photos are of homes with limitless budgets. So you have to set your expectations of your remodel, or just enjoy dreaming big if that's your cup of tea. They're all gorgeous though and they do an amazing job of classifying them. A+ Filters!

Still, I find their professional market section to be a extremely frustrating and they will need to figure out how to scale that down market if they want to continue growing. None of interior designers or "architect/contractors" listed on there would get back to me unless I promised to spent at least $50k on a project with them. Then once I finally found a couple "interested," they were flakey and never got back to me.

I must have exhausted the list on their platform before I moved over to Yelp. Right away I found all the help I needed and everyone was so courteous and followed through. Such a world of difference from the 2 platforms. I do think Yelp's open review platform keeps businesses way more honest and it shows. Any project I start now and I'm asked where I learned about the business, I mention Yelp :).
“make it difficult for United to recruit and retain top talent, particularly at the senior management level.”

Has United recruited top talent up to this point?
She also wrote some quite accessible books: https://www.amazon.com/SPQR-History-Ancient-Mary-Beard-ebook...
They have enough traffic to earn around 150 million dollars a year just from Adsense. Their valuation make a lot of sense.
Or legal aliens, like tourists. Or foreigners, who aren't even in the country. Or really anyone else who doesn't work in the country, and doesn't have to report taxes.

Ironically, many illegal immigrants actually do report taxes. In which case they use ITIN, which is compatible to SSN format-wise (###-##-####)... but it is not unique over time.
Heh, that could be said about ANY bubble. You're entirely victim blaming here. Keep in mind that many, many, many of the people who become taxi drivers are from other countries and often speak little to no english. Many do it because of a simple lack of options in their complex scenarios.

Paired with taxi companies taking advantage of people in these situations, you're completely minimizing a complex problem. You should be focusing your aggression to them, NOT the drivers.
USDCHF Remains Vulnerable but with Caution
Everything2 is still around?!?! Awesome.
>you [as] the hiring manager are entitled to nothing

You mean in any kind of practical or legal sense or in your personal opinion?

I see this happen all the time and am not aware of any thing barring this in the U.S.

Think about the two extremes. If a startup of a few people run a background check there is no HR dept so the CEO/hiring manager is seeing it.

On the other hand if the hiring manager is the CEO at an F500 company trying to hire a handpicked rockstar exec and a background check pops there no way that person will be rejected only on the word of HR without understanding what the issue is and the context around it.

Somewhere in the middle of those extremes companies may have policies to address the situation, but I don't see how any blanket statement can be made here.
That man took out a loan for a medallion, with the idea that he should be able to sell it once he retires. The medallion is now worthless. If Chicago cares about the cabbies, individual owners should be paid dollar for dollar the value of those medallions, even if no one else will buy them in the future.

(Does Chicago buy back the medallions, or do you have to have to sell them to someone else? Is the 300,000 the market value he paid to someone else, or is that what the city charges?)

The US government bailed out the banks in 2008, and all those people at the top got to keep their millions while so many people lost their homes (mostly due to fraud). These people watched their industry change while being locked into a sinking ship .. unable to do anything about it. These people need a bailout.
In this case, the guy was party to a felony and was paid nearly $30M to go away.
Organize your digital books in your own world
The people who need a loan, will not be the people affected by AmazonBasics. AmazonBasics will only copy extremely well selling products. If you need a loan you do not have an extremely well selling product.
That's exactly it.

And furthermore, objects in real world also have identities, which are distinct from their attributes. You aren't you because you have a certain name and date of birth, or a certain SSN. You're you because you're you. And we all intuitively know and understand this concept of identity. So any software that deals with real world entities has to reflect that concept, which is exactly what synthetic primary keys do.

And it might not be purely relational; but if purely relational model cannot handle this, then it's simply not a particularly useful model for most practical scenarios.

BTW, a pedantic argument could be made here that, ultimately, identity of physical objects is also data - you just need to go low-level enough (ultimately, the identity of any entity is its wavefunction) to see that. Of course, that ignores the practical aspects.
Modernism -- i.e., the Bauhaus, the International Style, and Le Corbusier -- was always about big, cheap, and ugly. The Amsterdam School was Expressionist, not Modernist; and nothing's more anti-Modernist than a pretty painting on a wall, even if it's in a visually arresting 1930s style.

But that said, the Amsterdam School and the WPA work were beautiful, and I'd never heard of them before. Thank you for mentioning them! I'll be sure to look into both in a lot more detail.
There are two parts to the problem. The first is that many languages (like Java) require a bit more boilerplate than others (like JSON) to express a composition of objects. The other problem is that complex applications have a very large number of compositions, so the overall pain is the product of the number of compositions and the boilerplate per composition. The number of compositions is a necessary evil--a framework won't fix it, but a framework can fix the per composition cost by moving the compositions into a cleaner language. Go solves this problem without a framework simply by having convenient syntax for composition.
Saved my neck in soccer a couple times. Someone's leg comes out in front of me and I can either cause them a bad injury (I'm not small and I move fast) or go over it and land safely. Also makes for some fancy ball recovery moves.
That's very helpful. I was having trouble parsing "better at X than anyone better at Y" and vice versa; this is a perfect example.
Same compound that is added to propane
What is the "true" value of a taxi medallion, in a regulatory context where the government is setting the supply?

You can compute the present value of the total profit you can expect to earn (average fares less expenses including the medallion) and if it's less than what the medallion costs, the medallion is overpriced.
That's pretty obviously unethical. He did something that damaged the company to personally benefit a public official.

If you're a CEO of a public company and cannot sniff that out, you're screwed.

The example you gave is not at all analogous. The FAA or its predecessor was regulating airlines in the public interest. Towards that objective, they allocated routes with high and low profitability.
> If Chicago cares about the cabbies

That's the thing though, they don't. And why would they? These cabbies made a bet that the medallion would not lose value until they sold it, and they lost that bet. How is this different from any other small-time business going bankrupt?
Came here just to reiterate this. Google Cloud Load balancers don't need warming, manual creation of support tickets, etc.

Also, networking on GCP is vastly superior to AWS. The VPC is setup with sane defaults and VM instances can communicate privately to other VM instances in any zone or region without needing complicated constructs such as VPN's or NAT instances.

Lastly, Google Cloud is generally cheaper (sustained use-discounts), higher performance, and takes all the lessons learned from AWS and applies them.

The one knock I have on GCP is billing. It is incredibly obtuse. Even the monthly billing invoices I still have a hard time digesting (especially if you have multiple projects under a single billing account).
If Uber and Lyft cause the downfall of the taxicab industry, it would probably hurt some people without access to technology or in less serviced areas. But, somehow I think taxi services would rebound if Uber or Lyft started abusing their monopolies.
That is exactly the mentality SJWs hope for when they unjustly attack a person, that a company will just roll over out of fear for misguided public retaliation. Remember the NASA guy that got a ton of shit because he wore a Hawaiian shirt that his wife made during a live launch? Overzealous feminists hoped NASA would just roll over and get rid of the poor guy. It's almost maffia like.. 'thats a nice life you built there.. it'd be a shame if something happened to it..'
An ARM CPU is just a core. SoCs probably do have this, pretty often. I know the Raspberry Pi's got a separate processor core running closed-source Broadcom software, and which has access to the system's memory.
Just reading about that article triggered an olfactory memory of the related compound 2-mercaptoethanol (or beta-mercaptoethanol as it was labeled in the lab). Used to reduce disulfide links in proteins (edit: see more correct response below) so that they would unravel a bit and separate by size more as they travel through the western blot matrix.

Unlike carbon monoxide this compound had a very "this will kill you" smell to it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2-Mercaptoethanol
Which I find leads you to Python, then Julia, then bracket. /s
"Employees of the Union Oil Company of California reported first in 1938 that turkey vultures would gather at the site of any gas leak. After finding that this was caused by traces of ethanethiol in the gas it was decided to boost the amount of ethanethiol in the gas, to make detections of leaks easier"
My only complaint about org mode is that nobody seems to want to make caching work with noweb references even though it's an old issue.
The "performance hit" is the basis of most modern security [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_hardness_assumpt...
Jupyter now has output rate limitations (I pushed for them to add them), though I think they may be off by default. I also implemented something better (I think), which is an output buffer, for CoCalc's version of collaborative Jupyter notebooks. Instead of rate limiting, CoCalc saves only the last part of the output, discarding earlier output, and provides a link to get it.
No argument about murderbots, believe me!

My annoyance with Google's pearl-clutching has more to do with the fact that they treat the entire military need as 'bad', when in reality, 80%+ of .mil jobs aren't even combat-oriented, and the types of robots Boston Dynamics focuses on are clearly intended for pack mule functions or the like. Even if you wanted a strict no-weapon policy, there is a tremendous amount of work to be done in the armed forces.
I'm curious why this was posted on Medium instead of using it as an opportunity to show off one of your WordPress themes?
It also seems to rely on "unexpected functionality by buggy code". There were flaws in basic luxury functionality like JPEG parsing that allows anyone to overwrite certain pieces of memory regardless of it's signature or write protect bits. It was then used as a jumping pad to enter the ARC CPU and have total system control from there. Basically, unless you desolder the flash, it's a rootkit you can't get out.
Not that one; similar idea.
Then a dozen smaller companies will pop up with similar services and cheaper prices.

The genie is out of the bottle.
"Do you think $600/year is the difference between good employees and those that let men get beaten?"

Yes.

On a larger note, don't you think employee moral/"I actually give a chit about this job" would rise if the average Joe felt a part of a true team? Not a selfish team?

I can only think of one company who decided to buck the trend of giving the "resume genius, or I did something interesting ten years ago." huge sums of money, so I can't even offer an example.

I do feel, with the exception of a few happy companies, like Google, Apple, buyoldfurniturefromagayman.com(yea--I thought it was a parody, or I was really loosing it. I woke up to that commercial, and thought it was funny. I then saw it again while awake. I'm still not sure it's real, but wish them luck.); the average employee hates their employer.

And, giving the resume genius so much money only makes sence in a market like this one--a bull market, with investors with so much money they don't know where to dump it. I don't really know, but the disparity between pay is something I haven't habituated to yet. And it's easy to cherry pick the obvious failures--MM. We all know those initials.
Human and enabler are not mutually exclusive.
> nor it could ever be

Well, never say never... In a world of immutable objects, an object's identity (reference) can be derived from its content. Look, for example, at how objects are stored in Git.
> Do you see interposer style designs as linking up terabytes of DRAM?

I don't think we're going to see a terabyte of dram on an interposer for a while (4GB is about the max you can get commercially right now). I'm not sure what you're trying to get at though; even with logic in DRAM you have to go off chip to get to terabyte levels, so I don't see the advantage.

> All the chips you're talking about are pretty major dies, not really suitable for having many stacks of them in conventionally tightly spaced DIMM arrays to reach such RAM sizes.

The stacking happens in package (<1mm thick). Your DIMM array is going to have to be pretty damn tight for that to matter.

> Of course, 3d chip advances might throw all current assumptions out the window and change the layout of everything.

TSVs are 3D (or "2.5" depending on the configuration). You should have thrown out the assumptions back in 2014.
UUIDv4 is a 122 bit random number. Having another 6 random bits won't make them collide.

Also if there's UUIDs in your system colliding with a 128 bit random numbers then the rng is broken or your UUID generator would be great to crack encryption keys.
So won't you have the same problem?

Limited customer lock in?
It might be simple to take the amount that each note is ahead or behind where it would be quantized to and model that parameter exactly the same way that dynamics are modeled.
Why AES-GCM and ChaCha20-Poly1305 aren't bulletproof and what's being done
You may need to revisit reading comprehension, friend.
I know right? Sites like these used to be linked so often. Now that this is no longer the case, I've easily forgotten about these old sites.