skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To your first statement, is this even true of Amazon?

In the US, Amazon Prime has something like 80% penetration into households making >= $100k/year. This move into Whole Foods reaffirms this focus on high-income households, where convenience is often as large a factor as costs.

My hunch is that Amazon has been a massive positive in aggregate, but poor households have been negatively impacted by Amazon, taking into account loss of jobs, lowering of wages, and some positive lower costs for goods.
Amazon might buy Silicon Valley darling Slack for $9B
We prefer the term space alien.
I wonder if some improvements to Calibre would be a good project for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14552615
We could have, but the money was not there for cqr navs, it was there for icbms.
Wow all cash? Amazon's cash pile will be pretty small relatively speaking after this. Less than $10B.
You know the race for global trade dominance is heating up and playing out regionally when the same company tries to buy Slack and Whole Foods in the same week. While one is familiar with conglomerates holding a diverse array of businesses, it's fascinating and slightly unnerving (in terms of market power increasingly concentrated in fewer hands) to see it in motion.
In Haskell, such a function can definitely blow up.

> :t read
read :: Read a => String -> a
> read "10" :: Int
10
> read "x" :: Int
*** Exception: Prelude.read: no parse

Haskell functions are pure, but not necessarily total.
why not using stylish (pure CSS, but the few icons you can blob in)?
So, nothing happens in your world to drive older people into poverty though no fault of their own? It all has to be because of what they did? No financial crises, stock market crashes, stolen pensions, healthcare related bankruptcies, etc?
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You've got your Aldis mixed up. Aldi Nord owns Trader Joe's (not the other way around). Aldi stores in the US are Aldi Süd. The two are separate companies, Aldi Nord serves the North of Germany and Aldi Süd the South. Their international expansions are separate as well. Here's a handy map (Aldi Nord in blue): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/Aldi_wor...

The line dividing Germany into Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd territory — https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/Aldi_equ... — is called the "Aldi equator". We sometimes jokingly call it Germany's most important dividing line post-reunification :)

tl;dr Aldi and Trader Joe's are (theoretically) in competition, and neither owns the other. The other Aldi owns Trader Joe's.
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everything is great... in moderation. That last bit is what everyone fucks up (including myself in the past).
E.G. Composition + OOP is way better than "just" OOP.
maybe only in USA? in Netherlands there were no issues in the last hour
Please provide any evidence that unregulated markets are not centralizing. Any market with economies of scale will naturally tend to fewer players, just like political systems that favor large parties (like the US system) will favor fewer parties.
Is youtube.com Down?

It's just you. youtube.com is up.

https://isup.pro/youtube.com
There's still a lot that people seem to love in Atom that VSC doesn't (yet?) offer. The issue/request list[1] offers a good glimpse of what's left.

[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3...
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In 10 years, Whole Foods will not have retail locations, and its distribution network will have shifted to 100% online orders ;)

and, i should add, kroger and supervalu and etc will be struggling dinosaurs like sears
Stackoverflow usage. Highly paid tabistas don't need it.
with software, you profit more if you do it right because you need less overhead
Walmart has ~4500 (US) stores already. Aldi is expanding rapidly but has far fewer than that.

The two Aldi locations I drive past are both located less than a mile from the nearest Walmart locations (I expect they do a fair amount of piggybacking).

The purchase doesn't make a huge amount of sense to me. I guess the most sensible thing is that they see the stores being located by the best populations to start out doing food deliveries for (affluent, so they can charge higher prices while they figure out how to do it).

Walmart has a pickup service. They keep experimenting with rapid delivery but people don't really want to pay much for it.
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I think this seriously discounts how "personal" these devices are for people. It would be like loaning a toothbrush to someone who already has one of their own and expecting it to be returned.

At best, perhaps a loaned portable WiFi device that provided a walled-garden branded for the particular Hotel's services would be more likely to be accepted.
There is no Whole Foods in West Virginia.
I know you were generalizing but thought I would mention a counter-case.
As time goes on, you have more giants standing on the shoulders of other giants, and so on. Our feeble wetware is going to look pretty inferior to the digital cognitive systems of the next millennium, so we would do well to stay humble :)
You may be mistaking cause and effect. Many poor people have grown up with such a dire outlook that instant gratification is all that's essentially worthwhile.

but it is only a result of their mistakes in younger age

This is just uncharitable Ayn Rand style sophistry. Environment and simple luck has a fantastically large multiplier on one's odds of being poor or not.
... but what is pressing the space bar if not instructing the editor to insert a space for you?
I use Chime in CDO ;)

Chime is definitely better than Lync, but I stand by my statement that it's not very good at text. It's missing basic UI features like threading or merged comments, profile pictures/icons, not to mention more advanced integrations.

I love using it for meetings... but text functionality is still lagging behind Slack, or even Mattermost (also used within Amzn)
They contain a lot of colour images and diagrams. Books on biology and art. Granted other topics including fiction are usually in the ballpark of a few megabytes.
The Handmaid’s Tale has changed the game for Hulu
Leibniz recognized the concept of binary in the hexagrams of the I Ching and even published a paper on it. http://www.historyofinformation.com/expanded.php?id=454
I did read the article/watch the video and it still is crap though. I agree that we shouldn't make dissemination of knowledge contingent on holding degrees or having accomplishments in that area, but I still have never really seen a good article on AI by someone outside of the field itself.
And what would Whole Foods do if things were turning bad? IMO the exact same thing.
Yup. Looks like they just came back online.
I was seeing that same thing. The headline was "500 Internal Server Error" but the response code was actually 200.
The money they spend on cigarettes might be considerable but not enough to take them out of poverty.
If you try to use generics too hard you make crazy shit. I'm working on a system that has a Something<T, Y> but the Y inherits from the T and its all just a mad mess that makes no sense at face value. I guess someone thought it was a good idea at some point but the end result is just confusing as hell.
Then you realise its just sitting upon 5 really simple Sql tables and you realise its really convoluted.

Its all about stepping back and going: "am I trying too hard?".
Like that last 10% of making the code base 100% elegant is what ruins it.
It should be noted that amazon employees also "get paid pretty darn well with some crazy good benefits" and the whole IT at amazon is union free.

I feel like this is a great fit, with whole foods being a progressive company in US grocery space.
it's funny to complain about absolute program size on the disk...
Things have changed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_policies_of_Americ...
In fact it's pretty common for urban schools to spend significantly more than tony suburbs and have far worse outcomes. Student achievement depends a lot on home life and spending more on schools may help some but doesn't fundamentally change that fact.
Nah, no sarcasm intended. There will still be brick and mortar stores in the future, but it will not be the main method of shopping- online will be.

This is especially the case for food. It is not getting cheaper to run a brick and mortar operation with many moving parts. That is why Amazon is winning :)

Only art galeries with high margin unique sales and low overhead costs will be surviving 10 years from now
Liquor is heavily regulated on a state by state basis. The distributor relationship is often required by law.
You're missing the joke. "Don't anthropomorphize abstractions; _they hate that_." He's saying not to anthropomorphize abstractions, then doing so himself in the same sentence. ;-)
HN isn't just for tech. From the guidelines:

Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
That's already more or less the attitude that prevails among those of moderate to high socioeconomic standing. Making it official doesn't seem likely to change anything, especially in light of the fact that you don't really find a lot of cases in which people from different situations mix like that - it's pretty difficult for social opprobrium to exert much pressure upon people who never actually experience firsthand because they're never around those who would express it, or vice versa.

Quite aside from which, as I mentioned before, this is already pretty much the attitude, and the natural response to contempt is resentment. I've gotten any number of sidelong looks and smartassed comments from people who seem to find it a trespass upon their persons that I happen to be smoking within their eyeshot, and I can't say it has made me any more inclined to quit than the perceptible effects of maintaining the habit already do.
Plenty of them exist. Just go to where no government exists, like any war zone, and see the beautiful ruthless efficiency of the unregulated market at work.
The article is completely "fake news" as it is not about Universities in Germany. It is about apprenticeship. Apprenticeship is a widely accepted path to professional education here and works as described in the article. Your salary is also not as high as mentioned - normally around 500-800 Euros/month.
Besides universities and apprenticeship, there are "dual studies" where you are partly working for (usually big) enterprises and partly studying for a university degree. But only a few students are doing this, most either do apprenticeship (which includes interesting professions like programmer or system administrator) or university studies.
Of course they can, but an extremely profitable well-oiled small company rarely gets acquired. You need to have way more employees than necessary and running at a loss.

Slack runs a chat app and has 870 employees. It's beyond absurd.
They don't offer bank accounts yet. Only then Mr Robot could come and change the world by hacking them /s
Tor doesn't put DRM on any of it's titles. For an example, look up Cory Doctorow's book Walkaway. At the bottom of the book description it says:

> At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Unfortunately, they don't always tell you. If you look up Little Brother (another of Doctorow's books), it doesn't say anything about DRM even though the book doesn't have DRM.
I do with Dropbox too, along with a portable version of Calibre. For syncing to my andoid phone, I use [Calibre Companion](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.multipie.c...).
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Computer Science and Engineering are not the sort of technical degrees one gets from a community college. Certainly not out of high school either.
notepad++ has horrible project workspace navigation. Any trivial UI that requires horizontal scrollbar is just not ready for prime time. go back to the drawing board
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There might not be "good guys vs bad guys" but there is certainly a "better vs worse" and it's quite plain to see which side of the Iron Curtain, even after its fall, fared better overall, culturally, intellectually, and economically.

That "better" is worth defending against the encroachment of the "worse".
Amazon doesn't shoot you when you protest it.
Unless all 50 hours are compensated, 10 of them at 1.5-2x base pay, the person working them is getting ripped off.

Every one of my friends in engineering (actual engineering, e.g. civil, aerospace, etc.) positions get at least 1.5x for any hour over 40 they work in a week. In fact "unpaid overtime" is something I hadn't heard of for an engineering position prior to working in software. It's almost like workers in this industry are competing to see how much they can let themselves be exploited.
The decline of the middle class and the huge explosion of the riches of the rich class will ensure that rich and poor in 50 and 100 years look and live like different species...

Slum dwellers and "city trash" on one hand, and 150 year old clean shaven organic vegan genetically modified uberlords on the other.

Warlocks vs Elois all over again...
This code wouldn't compile, for starters.

But it could be `IValidator<object>`, in the worst case. That being said, why not make a `class ThingValidator<T> : IValidator<T> {}`, for all the lack of detail we have?

There aren't enough details here to demonstrate the weaknesses of generics.
The Kroger-based store where I live just botched a floor-plan change so badly I should hope that it was just a local screw-up. This particular grocery store went from okay to "penny-thriftstore" useless.
Or how about a mandatory message like "drinking may decrease libido" on every alcohol-related commercial?
Or, Amazon + Whole Foods can afford to run less profitably than Whole Foods alone... in WF's core in-store grocery business.

Because Amazon can better monetize WF: backing with Amazon's logistics chain, expanding grocery delivery, cross-marketing with customer's existing Amazon purchases, and using WF's real estate for warehousing stock closer to affluent customers for one hour deliveries.

I absolutely agree they'll be tempted to squeeze costs, but I think there's a viable financial option to run WF as-is and still accrue benefits to the greater-Amazon.
There is a notion that playing chess makes you... better chess player, and that's all.
8-10 years. Most (~80%) of the power needed in a paper mill is generated from the bark of the tree which is converted into fuel using several chemical mixtures. Overall, the paper industry is actually very sustainable.
Guardian, FT, etc. share their internet encryption keys with many
>Suddenly you'd be embarrassed of being seen smoking.

Or, you know, even more determined than ever to smoke.

Psychology is not that simple.

(Some english guy, don't remember who, described the same reaction when someone like Princess Diana was on TV telling people to "Say no to drugs").
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Interesting and perhaps a fair point. We'd have to understand what quality of life being 'middle class' in each society means, what well-educated means, and there will be more factors of course. If you hurt someone enough either directly or indirectly by killing family and friends' family members, that'll definitely start to outweigh the feelings of being in a safe environment - which doesn't simply come from being 'middle class' or well-educated. Safety is the basic need and if you have a world power killing 100,000s of your citizens, your future isn't going to feel safe; I could mention PTSD and the such, though I think that minimizes and simplifies it too much.
OP uses JavaScript to remove 'edge-design' class (which contains all changes) from the body.
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Read your own damn references [1] before postulating how the poor are poor because they have no self-control and not the other way around:

> A 2012 study at the University of Rochester (with a smaller N= 28) altered the experiment by dividing children into two groups: one group was given a broken promise before the marshmallow test was conducted (the unreliable tester group), and the second group had a fulfilled promise before their marshmallow test (the reliable tester group). The reliable tester group waited up to four times longer (12 min) than the unreliable tester group for the second marshmallow to appear. The authors argue that this calls into question the original interpretation of self-control as the critical factor in children's performance, since self-control should predict ability to wait, not strategic waiting when it makes sense. Prior to the Marshmallow Studies at Stanford, Walter Mischel had shown that the child's belief that the promised delayed rewards would actually be delivered is an important determinant of the choice to delay, but his later experiments did not take this factor into account or control for individual variation in beliefs about reliability when reporting correlations with life successes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experimen...
> I 'm not sure if they are talking about "dualstudium",

I agree with what you wrote but the OP is not about Dualstudium. The "dual educational" the article refers to, is about non-univerity tertiary education (Duale Ausbildung). The dual part is the fact that this happens in a company and a (usually state run) school. [1]

As an example: If you want to work as a plumber in Germany you have to get a certificate. The only way to get the certificate is to participate in the dual educational system.

For a plumber that means to find an employer that is willing to give them a three and half year apprenticeship contract. The apprentice will work only three or four days, the other days they have to attend school. The exact details depend on the trade, some have a three work week, one school week schedule, but the general idea is that work and school education happen at the same time.

Not all trades follow this model but if they do it's mandatory.
Also the newly certified plumber is only allowed to do plumbing jobs.
To be allowed to install a heating system for example they have to make a
run trough the dual system again, now with the HVAC guild.
Just to install a new heating system you need at least a HVAC company,
a plumber, an electrician and a mason. The HVAC guy won't touch any pipes,
cables or bricks because he is not allowed to by law and discouraged by his guild. Same for the plumber, electrician and mason.

What the article misses to mention is that the system makes every task that falls in
a regulated area very expensive. As a consequence of this it also leads to a lot of illicit work.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_education_system
How long till somebody develops the UBER of groceries?
Your neighbour could do your shopping for you.
> I am pretty sure that only applies to certain federal agents - while under investigation, and on forms that are official submissions.

If digital currencies really take off (i.e. beyond just a niche group of speculators and early adopters), expect customs forms to include a question on it, then.

You already have to promise not to be a member of Al Qaeda on some immigration forms.
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> represent emails with meaningful formatting

For basic formatting (bold text, headings, lists, links, etc etc), Emacs can render using its built in web browser. The "richer" it is, the more screwy the formatting gets. Usually you can at least read the emails.

You can easily pipe an email to your web browser of choice. This works fine but isn't exactly what you want to be doing all the time.

For my work, I am mostly dealing with plain text and attachments. The rich stuff is usually the email I care less about anyway. I don't think I'd want to use mu4e if I was dealing with rich content often. You can do it but it definitely slows you down.
I have a few ideas but the hard time is picking which one gets my interest and time. I have a product that is almost done that gets some attention, I have another idea that is a blogging engine written in Elixir (no Phoenix, just Cowboy and Plug) that I plan to go the WP/Ghost/etc route by offering it for free but then charging for hosting.

Then I have other obligations that get in the way. I'm writing a book, doing contract work, working full time and managing a family.
The whole Atom / VS Code thing is fascinating to me. Don't most denizens of HN already use far superior editors? My day is spent in Visual Studio (the real one) and IntelliJ IDEA, both of which annihilate those other options. And both of them are freely available, the latter available on everything.

VS Code in particular seems to have a massive astroturfing campaign behind it. Every benign post that tangentially mentions it yields dozens of ridiculously adulatory posts. It is incredibly fishy.
The Polynesian people used binary numbers, but not only binary numbers. The article's title is correct. What's sensationalist about that?

Is it an important finding? I think so. It helps shed light on the scientific and technical originality of other cultures. It matters a lot to acknowledge that knowledge does not always flow from west to east or north to south. It helps to rid of the notion of there being 'advanced' and 'primitive' cultures.

Are the scientists from the "Department of Psychosocial Science" trying too hard to make that case? I don't think so. Some people like me thinks this is a newsworthy discovery. Apparently mathematicians would not agree but even so, should they dictate that I should be dismissive of this article as well? The way I see it, the article does not make outrageous or unfounded claims. I'm free to appreciate that numbers have a certain universality as an abstract concept or language that isolated people from different era and backgrounds naturally converge to.
Conglomerates are companies that hold unrelated businesses. Berkshire Hathaway is a conglomerate. Railroads and car insurance in the same company!

Standard oil and AT&T were not broken up because they were conglomerates. They were broken up because they were monopolies in single (or closely related) markets.
For me, the experience of founding a company is quite similar to giving myself bipolar depression. I tend to go from soaring heights to terrible lows almost daily. So yeah, I'd agree that starting something new is about managing feeling completely screwed all the time.

Managing is the key word here. First, you need to keep reminding yourself that this shit is hard and feeling totally screwed is part of it. It's why they pay you the theoretical by bucks. Second, you need to find somewhere to put the bad. Ever done any rock climbing, long distance running or serious weight training? If no, it's time to start. Find a healthy hobby.

While we're on the topic of managing, you've got to learn to delegate.

And finally, take the vacation and don't work at all!
What happens if you click that up to $10mil?

$1mil isn't what it used to be with housing rising as it has over the past couple decades.

(It doesn't actually reference the study, so I can't look at their data.)

I expect that "millionaire" now reflects the top tiers of middle class people without an accompanying increase in purchasing power -- they just inflated across a boundary and now suddenly there's a bunch of "millionaires", without that term meaning what it used to 40-50 years ago.
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If I had $20bn to buy it in the first place, or be in the position where I could even raise that kind of capital, I would already be successful (in my mind at least).