skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough. Being able to swing by a store and pickup a pre picked order at a specific time probably has value for some. So likely does not having to drag kids around a store.
One of these days I'd like to write my own plugins. VS Code plugins (last I looked) aren't permitted to have a UI. Microsoft has neatly defined what kinds of plugins you may want to write (language support plugins and some others) and you can't go outside those lines.

I like how this protects VS Code performance, but if/when I decide to write my plugins I want the flexibility to augment the editor's UI.

Also, I think it's easier to write/tweak themes in Atom.
Why would they buy Whole Foods as opposed to Grubhub/Seamless. Seems like a better fit...
> Maybe, but the fact that they were just acquired by a company notorious for abusing its low-level employees shows the limitations of this model (as did the pressure they began to face from investors to tighten up on that front when they started to become less profitable).

...or monomania of "the [stock] market," and the myopia of those who look to it to determine what "works."
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Gosh I wish this existed for Python.
I've never heard of plex except in eve online context, but people have been sharing calibre content server links for many years
Thanks to your comment I am now daydreaming of a neutrino radio, with a design inspired from a Fusor!
Something I noticed when I lived in non-assimilated[1] working class neighborhoods is that education just isn't that important. A lot of my neighbors graduated high school and started working for the family ASAP either in some sort of family business or a service job. Families stick together for generations so there's always someone to take care of the house and kids.

For most people I talked to, the idea of sending their son or daughter to college (even a local one) was a risk and rarely considered. If all they want is their kid to graduate high school, they're not going to have the same approach to education as the $100k family with the opposite thought (they HAVE to go to college).

[1] I made up this phrase to mean immigrant families who have been in the US for a few generations but have not assimilated to American middle class culture.
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There are five follow-up studies in the Wikipedia section you cite [1]:

A 1998 study "showed that 'preschool children who delayed gratification longer in the self-imposed delay paradigm, were described more than 10 years later by their parents as adolescents who were significantly more competent.'" A 1990 study "showed that the ability to delay gratification also correlated with higher SAT scores." A 2006 study used a cookie instead of a marshmallow. "A 2011 brain imaging study of a sample from the original Stanford participants when they reached mid-life showed key differences between those with high delay times and those with low delay times in two areas: the prefrontal cortex (more active in high delayers) and the ventral striatum (an area linked to addictions) when they were trying to control their responses to alluring temptations."

You only quote the 2012 study (N=28). It's a small study, though it raises an interesting point around the direction of the relationship. It doesn't undermine that there are individual and group factors at play with inequality. Any explanation grandly defaulting to one is dishonest.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experimen...
> Raising the cost of tobacco has over half the effect of getting people to quit or never start. Also very important is banning smoking in public places and hard-hitting, scary, advertisements spending about $1 to $2 per capita. Clinical interventions such as doctors speaking with patients about quitting, providing nicotine replacement therapy, and telephone counseling support are also important. But most of the gains are from the public policy initiatives.

Statistically, empirically, which of those things actually work? I've heard time and time again that scary ads don't seem to do a damn thing, while raising prices actually seems to have an overly large impact.
The apple dev documentation has a nice overview of some of the concerns that need to be taken into account for this to work:

https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Co...

It's probably one of the better approaches - but it's still not clear if it (alone) allows a developer that speaks only English to develop a text indexing or editing system that works well across English, Japanese, Arabic, Hangul and Dutch for example.
Radiation is hard on electronics. Presumably some chemicals are too but it would seem easier to block a chemical contacting a part than it is to keep radiation out.
I have hard time believing that more that 1% of a 10k employees company use Mutt.
Seems fairly obvious to me why VS Code would be popular with web devs like myself. It has a built in JS debugger and lots of web-related stuff works out of the box (TypeScript, JSX etc). Also the fact it is built in JS means it's easy to extend in JS, so the plugin community is already very healthy. The Vim mode is pretty damn good too (first editor to tempt me away from Vim since I learnt Vim).

I don't think there's any astroturfing/fishiness at all. If anything the opposite, they've had to overcome the negative association with MS, and to some small degree Electron. They seem to have done that by 'making a good thing', that everyone who tries is somewhat impressed with.

You mention Visual Studio and IntelliJ. Two obvious downsides with those - former is only on Windows, the other is relatively expensive. I tried IntelliJ Webstorm once, seemed good but I never really got a good enough feel for it before my trial ran out, so never tried again shrug.
I am mostly ok with it with vscode because it is very responsive, leaner than a full IDE but still offers a lot of IDE like features for a wide variety of languages.

Vscode is comparatively young but it might already have the broadest support for things like semantic completion/go to source/step debugging and being written in electron might have played a part in that.
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Credit accounts + gift card balances is almost the same thing.
In any income bracket short of outright billionaires (at least up to top 0.01% of population), majority of income is salaries. Not return on capital in any form. So, it can't possibly be inherited (of course your daddy paying for good college and providing you with good upbringing and mindset still counts, but you don't need to be very rich for that).
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>CVD uses tons of silane, which is not only toxic but explosive

Silane is even more delightful than that- a toxic irritant that turns to sand on contact with water. So silane gas that touches your eyes or gets into your lungs will deposit on your mucous membranes as fine glass. Blindness is a likely outcome of sufficient exposure, and if there is a really huge amount you can suffocate on blood and glass shards.
Definitely. A mostly paid-off house and two retirement plans = millionaire family at say 55 years old.

In a country of 300 million people, 8 million households are are millionaire households.
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I'm thinking that the grocery store would be the distribution center. I don't know what their transportation lanes look like but most produce just goes from the field to the grocery store. If you're already storing it there, why put it in a distro center when these stores are in the same locations.

Instacart brings a userbase. Heck, maybe Amazon just buys Instacart as well.

Not sure if amazon's FCs are currently equipped to store produce and milk and other things like that. Just seems like they can take advantage of existing supply chains and synergies if they embrace Instacart.
How about this? Go on your vacation, don't work at all, and if things don't melt down, you can relax a little bit!
Probably best to look at Zappos, Woot and other past acquisitions.
Please consider people who don't have perfect vision.

Grey text on a grey background is just not high contrast enough to be accessible.
Due to the intense competition in Germany, companies such as ALDI and Lidl are far more efficient than grocery stores in other countries, particularly the UK and US. Walmart tried to enter the German market years ago and was sent packing shortly after. The reason why the German stores are expanding is because there is very little profit to be made in Germany, whereas in other countries margins are much higher in supermarkets.
I don't think this is completely true. I was with AWS for 3 years as SW engineer and was working around 12 hours until I decided to switch. AWS has pretty messed up softwar services with lot of technical debt. Rather than fixing these, AWS relies on oncall (pager duty) to mitigate production issues. My team use to get 200 pages a week.
Well, there are many levels and types of mental illness and in some cases, people aren't even aware that they have it. What I know is that there is more that we can be doing today to help those who have mental illness, both in terms of diagnosing those who don't know they have it and treatment (both therapy and pharmacologic) for those that are diagnosed.
One of the things that surprised me in Germany was the extremely high smoking rate. Apparently the adult smoking rate is between 40-45%. My experience was that it is by no means limited to poor people either. It was really surprising to me to see a country which presents itself as a modern, progressive force in the world having cigarette vending machines on almost every street in the country.

To contrast, I was recently in South Africa at a wedding full of people of all ages (all white, though). We noted that out of 100+ guests only 2 were smokers. A recent study shows that the overall rate in both whites and blacks is about 15%, while in coloureds it is 40%. It's interesting because it shows more of a race divide rather than class divide.
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This is another step in how an online book store slowly becomes the Umbrella Corporation.
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I work at company where we don't do any of this. Which leads to more iteration and wasting time.

I'm trying to introduce writing specifications as a start, but I'm worried my knowledge is quite dated. I learned it in school but never really applied it in the real world.

Each project is of course different:
The projects I work on are web applications and rest apis that depend on multiple services. Current web app I'm working involves 10 different systems.

I was wondering how you approach writing these kinds of documents? Or how you in general keep an overview of your project?
It's not rare for college students to spend their first or even second year of college with an undecided major while they find what they're interested in. It happened to me (and I still managed to graduate on time).

In fact, that's what a lot of people like about college and it's why you see college described as a "place to experiment".

> their actual capabilities and weaknesses have also become clearer and more stable

Also not so sure about this. I've met MANY people who went in 99% sure of college major A but after a few classes and an internship they found out they suck at it/hate it.
It isn't uncommon to mistake 'new' with 'better'.

But, just as it is a mistake to blindly cling to the old and comfortable, neophilia is a trap in itself. And it is a bit amusing to watch, for instance, new crops of editors repeat the same mistakes old ones got through in whatever GUI drag is trendy is this week.

For your Mac OS comparison to make any sense, you'd have to point to something comparable to lacking memory protection. So... what would that be? I have a sneaking suspicion you mean GUI integration with whatever OS you use, but I'd like to be clear.
I just got back to the States from Germany. I was struck by how common smoking seems to be there, but I was glad that it was strictly an outside activity.

I smoked when I was younger, but I started as a teenager. (Intelligence test failed.)

Once you are addicted, it operates directly on the brain's reward mechanism, much the same way I imagine opiates would. It seems as vital and necessary as breathing. (I am generalizing from my experience, not everyone is affected as strongly as I was.) I am so glad I quit, and now it is more or less completely out of my system.

On the nine hour flight into Frankfurt, the airline had the flight attendants try to sell duty free cigarettes to the passengers. They walked up and down the aisles offering cheap cartons. Of course you can't smoke on the plane. As a former smoker, that must be torture to people who respond to nicotine the way I did.

I really hope smoking doesn't become cool again here in the U.S. I have kids, and I suspect they have inherited at least some of the tendency toward risk taking I had in my younger years.
It's somewhat dated, but Galbraith's _The New Industrial State_ has a lot of interesting insight into the role of large corporations in economic planning. People sometimes criticize the book because the large corporations (GM, GE, etc.) the book talks about are less central to the economy now, but I don't think that contradicts the book's message at all.
If you can't get it easily for free, or it would take too much time, pay for it. This goes for everything.

I could easily have my girlfriend massage me, but I choose to get a professional. If my girlfriend is too busy for sex, I'm not going to bother her and/or beg.
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I buy things on amazon when I feel the price is good or better than I can get locally. Whole Foods doesn't fit that mold at all.... now maybe they provide different products but then Whole Foods isn't Whole Foods anymore.
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Whole Foods culture is a goner, but Whole Foods culture as of yesterday was already drastically different from WF culture as of a decade ago. Increased competition, the Great Recession and some self inflicted wounds have already hurt WF.
All completely true. But I can easily imagine a near future in which some populations receive screening and then further investigation if something is found. Of course, that creates additional burden on radiology, which is unfortunate, but hopefully all the breakthroughs in ML will make those resources less expensive.
The problem with 'conscientious capitalism' is that a competitor will take the idea and run with it, save for the 'conscientious' elements, and push out the original from the market.
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"Alec Baldwin spoke on David Letterman about his mother's refusal to leave upstate New York because there are no Wegmans stores in Los Angeles."

Ha, I think that's one of the most ringing endorsements of a business I've ever read.
How did that work out for the employees?
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I've started playing with building a drop-in replacement for msmtp that converts markdown to a multipart email, but honestly I never actually need to create these kinds of emails, so that little project is on the back-burner.
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I definitely agree that Delta will die.

Probably not before there's another launch provider with reusable rockets (Looking your way Blue Origin/New Glenn)
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This article co-authored by NYC's then Health Commissioner and Mayor Bloomberg (which I believe is a free download) provides the evidence of the various interventions along with footnotes.

http://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140-6736(07)60782-X/abstr...

> I've heard time and time again that scary ads don't seem to do a damn thing

Whenever the TV ads are run, a number of people call to quit. Dr. Frieden has given sworn testimony how cost effective the TV ads are.
I understand what you're getting at, but why not simply make both IProtocolSender and ProtocolSender generic. Here's a functioning example I based on yours that just compiled and ran in LinqPad without any issues:

public interface IPopProtocol : IProtocol
{
void SomeUniqueMethod();
}

public interface IProtocol
{
}

public interface IProtocolManager
{
void SendMessage(IProtocol protocol, string message);
}

public interface IProtocolSender<out T> where T : IProtocol
{
T Protocol
{
get;
}
}

public class PopProtocol : IPopProtocol
{
public void SomeUniqueMethod()
{
Console.WriteLine($"Hi, I'm {nameof(PopProtocol)}");
}
}

void Main()
{
var sender = new ProtocolSender<IPopProtocol>(new PopProtocol());
var manager = new ProtocolManager();
manager.SendMessage(sender.Protocol, "Testing");
sender.Protocol.SomeUniqueMethod();
}

public class ProtocolManager : IProtocolManager
{
public void SendMessage(IProtocol protocol, string message)
{
}
}

public class ProtocolSender<T> : IProtocolSender<T> where T : IProtocol
{
private T _protocol;
public T Protocol => _protocol;

public ProtocolSender(T protocol)
{
_protocol = protocol;
}
}

Not sure what the fuss is: you can use SendMessage as usual, and also have access to SomeUniqueMethod.

EDIT:

Also please note that the signature for the generic IProtocolSender uses the out keyword, making it covariant. This will allow you to cast IProtocolSender<IPopProtocol> to IProtocolSender<IProtocol> if you need to, or to pass an IProtocolSender<IPopProtocol> object to a method that expects an IProtocolSender<IProtocol>.
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Wegmans is also privately owned so there aren't "activist" shareholders that want hockey-stick growth.
There are some lovely comments about here about how the poor are stupid, they deserve it, etc. While discussing this, we should also consider that in situations where there is very little to lose (e.g. going to die soon anyhow, little chance of a successful life) risky behaviors make more strategic sense than if the subject had the promise of better opportunities.

Also, the pleasures available to the impoverished are by definition fewer and smaller than the wealthy. Cigarettes should appear undesirable by those than can easily afford superior enjoyable experiences. A pack of cigarettes is one of the most luxurious pleasures available if all you have is $5.

The poor aren't stupid. They are just making the best of poor hand they were dealt.
Beats might be objectively worse than other headphones, but for a lot of people, they are still good enough. Your standards are clearly pretty high. Certainly higher than mine. I think you prioritize audio fidelity over aesthetics and that makes you different than most headphone buyers.

To use a car analogy: a Ferrari might be an amazing sports car, but I would still probably prefer a Mustang because it has better cup holders. The performance characteristics past a certain level just aren't all that important. Where that level is, varies.

BTW - I also use AudioTechnica M50 headphones daily. My kid has Beats Solo 2 (or is it 3) headphones. The Beats sound better, are more comfortable (the M50's are hot), and aren't as ugly. If my M50's broke today, I would probably pick up some Solos.
Males and females are not symmetrical. A female who never reproduces because she wants to be faithful to a mate who doesn't exist is giving up 100% of her reproduction. A female who stays faithful to a mate who does exist is giving up 0%, in terms of quantity -- one mate can provide all the children a female is capable of having.
Same here. I am a long time mutt user, but recently switched to gnus. Have you considered gnus instead of mu4e? Gnus is notoriously hard to set up, but I found it has some remarkable features.
In the US, software developers are exempted from the law requiring 1.5x pay for overtime. Not sure it matters if they're salaried instead of hourly to begin with though.
Remember that Netscape started out dominating this market.

Maybe the rewrite didn't cause the catastrophic loss of marketshare (I'm going to resist my urge to spend the morning researching this), but it's hard to see it as a great success in that context.
>These people are not particularly good at interpreting statistics.

Maybe that is a tad bit too harsh, but surely the use of "big difference" and of "significant" seems like not being justified by the actual data:

>On average, successful interviews had final interview code that was on average 2045 characters long, whereas unsuccessful ones were, on average, 1760 characters long. That’s a big difference! This finding is statistically significant and probably not very surprising.

An average of 1760 vs an average of 2045 indicates a general average-average of around 1900 lines, so that would be 1900+/- 7%, and anyway the difference in ranges is so little that anything could cause it.

To have more or less 200 characters, merely calling variables a, b, c, etc. vs. FirstUserChoice, DefaultArrayIndexingField, you know what I mean, would be enough.

Same goes for:

>On average, successful candidates’ code ran successfully (didn’t result in errors) 64% of the time, whereas unsuccessful candidates’ attempts to compile code ran successfully 60% of the time, and this difference was indeed significant.

As I see it 60% or 64% as an average are almost exactly the same number, and bear very little significance.
Maybe it is just me missing some sensibility ...
Well, how long is the sequence "a<Backspace>". It's two characters and one, two or zero letters?
It sounds like you are looking for a friend to code with. Try your local area.

Otherwise everyone has their own projects.

No one will read what you wrote above and think "Wow, he sounds like a good leader with a solid plan."

I could go on and on with suggestions.
Probably not. The compelling use cases for the first 20 years of GPS were all military with a few survey applications essentially riding free. The equipment used to be many, many pounds and tens of thousands of dollars. Almost every other industry besides had a "better" short term solution to location that met their needs at a fraction of the initial price of GPS.
One mechanism of preventing competition:

You develop a portfolio of goods. For example, every medical tool a hospital would ever need. Over time, you develop economies of scale.

Now you go to your client hospitals and say "hey, I'll give you a 10% discount if you sign this agreement to buy all your tools from us, and none from our competitors".

Now you have successfully locked out anyone who can't provide an equivalent entire range of products. Someone comes up with a better/cheaper scalpel? Nope, can't compete, because if they bought the scalpel, the prices of everything else they buy would rise.
fwiw, starslatecodex did a review of Red Plenty

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/24/book-review-red-plenty/

I'm sure reading the whole thing would be a useful exercise as well
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You can now deposit cash into your Amazon account via bank transfer (one-way transactions) for a 2% rewards benefit.

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If all of that stuff goes away from WF, it becomes any other supermarket. I think Amazon is smart enough to know that WF is fundamentally different from Amazon.com - the former is purposely niche, while the latter is purposely mass market.

I'd think Amazon would have bought another grocery chain if they fundamentally didn't want the WF business model. We'll see, though.
Note that while particles can be entangled, the special/useful thing is the postponement of further entanglement (with the rest of the world).
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