skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
* distribution network
* store stock
* employees
* high end real estate

Sounds like a great deal for Amazon
The 500 character limit is actually quite liberating after using Twitter.
Most likely they'll keep it. Amazon has acquired brands in the past and kept their name. Twitch is a good example.
Treating them above market or not, Amazon acquired the company for billions and not because Whole Foods was doing badly.
No one has given more disposable income to poor people than Wal-Mart and Amazon. It just hasn't come in the form of wages.
> In general the Idris type inference is not nearly as good as Haskells. I don't mean this in the "dependent type inference is undecidable" sense, but instead just generally.

Do you know if this is just because Idris is a much less mature language than Haskell, or its it something fundamental about the design?
https://www.cambus.net/decoding-youtube-http-error-500-messa...
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Not quite the size, but on the same order of magnitude when adjusted for inflation: Enron.
Pretty sure the "hash" is just some encoded debugging data and logs.
How many employees at WF are pastry chefs and how many are in stocking, orders, cleaning, and manning the register?
This is the default Atom theme.
I'm not saying that renting is worthless, but it's worth noting that Whole Foods rents their property. Amazon is buying a network, not earth and bricks.
YouTube briefly went down for some people
I mean in general, sure. If correlation does not imply causation then really, what does??
I had the same results with 8.0.
It's not just per store, it should also include all the logistics infrastructure -- warehouses, truck fleet, etc.
Some of those anti-tobacco (I'm blanking on the name) commercials targeted at teens/kids use this approach. I forget the actual line, but they mention something about how smokers make less money .. anyone have a link?
It says right in this article (and in others that have been published recently) that they were under pressure from investors.
I dont know if you intended an /s to follow this but brick and mortar stores as a concept aren't going anywhere.
Small stores, mostly own labels and fewer employees. They buy only packages that don't need unpacking, saving a lot of time getting products on the shelf. Employees work all positions in the store so that shelves are filled when it's less busy and everyone is at the checkout when needed. That way no employee is idle, saving salaries.

In the UK they also profit from their European footprint. If you go somewhere else in Europe, you'll find that most products (nearly everything except for some food items) are the same as in the UK. They can buy in much bigger amounts than even Sainsbury's or Tesco as they operate in most European countries.
I don't really think this is much of an excuse. Fast collision-resistant hashes and password hashes are very basic crypto concepts. If you don't know that difference, it would be hard to pass even the most introductory course on cryptography. If you've literally no education on crypto except what you heard someone at work say once, you shouldn't feel qualified to correct crypto articles on Hacker News.

Ignorance isn't the problem. The problem is ignorance combined with confidence.
That's not just limited to America. I travel a lot, a few years ago, say 15 or so it would be pretty rare to see young people smoke and now somehow it is 'cool' again. I've had the unfortunate experience of delivering a couple of friends to an early grave courtesy of lung cancer, the one thing that seemed to unite them was that they wished they had never started smoking and that once they did they had the strength to quit. The youngest of those was mid 40's. It's an intelligence test of sorts with a very high price if you fail.
This is not a bad point really. But taking that perspective, binary logic has existed since all forms of classification, ie. any form of recognition whatsoever, which all babies achieve innately (what is pain/hunger/warm/wet, who is mum, is that a voice I hear, etc.) In short, all structured thought requires binary logic, because otherwise classification wouldn't work, and thus neither communication, memory, etc.

Full disclosure: I had a revelatory acid trip on this subject when a research mathematician first explained to me set theory as essentially a derivative matrix resulting from a boolean test.... the world as we perceive it is merely sets! This explains children learning! Mind. Blown.

Bonus anecdote: If you like admiring early human achievements that have been unfairly obscured from popular history, check out the Polynesian crab claw sails. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_claw_sail#Performance
Thats some good perspective - to think that slack is worth more than WF is nuts. I ove both, but I can't imagine how slack is worth 2B more than WF... pretty amazing.
Not all ebooks are small. Especially when they're in PDF. I have some that are upwards of 20-30 mb.
Place an order by noon for groceries plus anything you want from Amazon. Amazon fills up truck(s) at whatehouse and drops off at local Whole Foods. Stop by on your way home from work and they bring your items to your car.

You get free same day delivery. Amazon just greatly saved on last mile delivery costs.

That's the value of those nodes without having to store all the inventory.
As someone who got as far as diffeq in college math, and is working his way through fast.ai right now, the impression I get is of a field that's at the start of formalization. It's like they've got the basic operations like addition and subtraction, but multiplication is still on the horizon. Or like the early days of calculus when some mathematicians called it black magic.
Sure, but even assuming Moore's Law, algorithms like SHA-2 and SHA-3 are not likely to broken within our lifetimes, if ever. For the set of hashing algorithms that are quantum-safe, you literally gain nothing in practice by making them arbitrarily stronger - they're already so strong that any increase in security margin is a negligible improvement slighter than a rounding error in computational time. But these improvements can come with a performance cost. There's generally no upside and only a downside for choosing to increase the strength beyond what's required for the sake of future proofing.
I'd say we do it quite well, just not in in higher brain parts. We find it hard to integrate 'intuition' with the later 'reasoning' parts, instead, it just biases the logic.
I use emacs, but exclusively for orgmode. I thought about mutt years ago, and realized I get and receive too much mail with rich content for that to work.

How does an emacs window, even with mu4e, represent emails with meaningful formatting, inline graphics, etc? I'm guessing by launching an external viewer, but even that would slow me down quite a bit.
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Meta: I appreciate how WP interprets a network failure to load assets as an ad blocker. Makes for a great user experience.
IIRC the definition of unskilled labor is one requiring less than a year of training.
It looks like you still need Calibre GUI to add books- this is read-only interface.

I was hoping that this could replace my Google Drive folder with various papers on interesting topics I'd like to read.
People care about the USA so much because it has massive amounts of pressure that it exerts on everyone else. Point in case: the Iraq War.
okay, so its fine to treat unskilled labor and temp workers poorly?

Gotcha.
Aldi/Lidl will make sure that happens. They already buy directly from producers around the world (they are the biggest wine retailer in Germany and quite big in some other European countries) so they'll just use the same producers for their US business.

From experience Aldi is quite good when it comes to wine in the middle price segment. Often 20-30% cheaper than comparable wines in other stores.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_trading_pa...

Nation, maybe, but EU does more overall.
Actually I didn't care to install Linux ;) I used vagrant and installed Ubuntu on top of it.. used putty to ssh into the VM and for all Linux things. Browser for all internet things. Solved my use case :) a browser and a terminal for dev!
Wouldn't that trigger copyright defender algorithms and cause your Dropbox account to be suspended?
I used to COPS on my nas. I would add books using calibre, stored on the nas, and served up via COPS. Many apps (I used FBReader) have OPDS capabilities. This is a sort of online catalog which your reader can browse, search, and download books from. I almost never used the online reading feature, but did utilize the catalog concept quite a bit, especially when switching devices. I had a rooted Nook that had both FBReader and Kindle reader installed, giving me a sort of "best of three worlds" reader. I did have to "page sync" manually. I would do this by memorizing a sentence or phrase on one device and then search for it on the other device.

https://github.com/seblucas/cops
https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/OPDS
Yep. I grew up in a grocery store, and the chain eventually merged with Fred Meyer and then was bought by Kroger. Kroger allows every subsidiary to operate relatively independently. I wish we had more Kroger stores in the Bay Area actually, they are much better than Safeway.
Would require an insane amount of political lobbying to get rid of the legally obligated three tier system. Maybe Amazon has the $$ to do that?
I know it's only a cure for the symptom, but there's the OverloadedStrings extension
Pulping involves heavy use of chemicals and then treatment of the waste water. It's not obvious which process is more environmentally benign and along what dimensions.
Prohibition makes things edgier and cooler, it only makes people want to do it more. Pretty sure there are places that legalized drugs and usage rates went down.
You mean like Alcoa, IBM, Standard Oil, the Pennsylvania Railroad, American Tobacco, AT&T, Sears, General Motors, Ford, Kodak, Pan-Am, US Steel, etc?

I'd suggest studying US economic history, as there isn't a single example of a juggernaut corporation that sustained said dominance very long-term (either due to competition / changing technology or government anti-trust actions).
I was under the impression this was just not possible and not how entanglement worked.
Kroger has some weak points: Only US, expensive store concept, many products. ALDI and Lidl are famous for their highly efficient lean store concept.

Amazon will capture the premium/delivery segment. ALDI and Lidl will capture the discount segment.

Kroger is right in between, a very, very tough position to hold.
Meh. Ancient babylonians used a base-16 number system. Does it really matter what number system they used?
And what's worse is those wrench-turning techs have a different mindset from the test-tube shuffling techs they replace. So when they come in, they're more likely to get exposed to something nasty.
Both the US and Russia are well known in interfering with foreign governments. Hell even America has their own foreign propaganda service "Voice of America" radio.

Also I have no problem with communism, I have problems with corruption and government over-reach/attempts to influence populations.

I'm not new to this. I've worked with people who flood social networks with bullshit to sway public opinion.

Always be skeptical, of both sides. And at this point I don't trust either the NSA or the Russian equivalents.
Fruit from Prime Now is of variable quality. Thus far, for example, I've seen two suppliers of Granny Smith apples, one of which produces large, flavorful specimens, and the other of which does not. Better any apples than none at all, but it hasn't really encouraged me to investigate their grocery delivery options in more detail.
Out of curiosity, how does your DB on Dropbox get corrupted if not by having more than one instance of Calibre open?

I'm asking because I use Dropbox to store my Keepass DB, and so far (2+ years) I haven't had any problems.
I'm from there :-) Just curious how this made the HN front page?
The smoking cessation class teacher they referenced in the article really made me cringe. She seems like a very positive person, but her ideas about how to quit smoking just seem so very misdirected. I wonder if she has smoked in the past and quit herself?
I just reacted to your claim about standards of evidence, both of the examples I quoted are things I would really be ashamed to publish myself regardless of any political leanings. It seems that when there is an agenda to advance, all reason and skepticism go out the window.

But sure, Facebook fake news farms are worse.
Hi, sorry for the delay, had to pop into a meeting. I tried to make a very scaled down example of what I mean. It's hard to imagine a real-world scenario from this but assume that according to the architecture we need to separate concerns this way.

The point is that in some cases you want to be able to pass a more general interface while getting some Type-checking and convenience of generics.

In this case we want to hold on to PopProtocolSender and perhaps use it as a variable somewhere. When we use it we need to acccess it's specific IPopProtocol Protocol Property. But we also want to be able to treat it as a general IProtocolSender that has a IProtocol Property, so it can be sent to other classes that takes that interface.

These kinds of situations mainly arise when you have a more complicated architecture. If there's a better way to have your cake and eat it too I'd be glad to know it :)

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

public interface IProtocol
{
}

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

public interface IProtocolSender
{
IProtocol Protocol
{
get;
}
}

public class PopProtocol : IPopProtocol
{
public void SomeUniqueMetod()
{
}
}

public class Program
{
public void DoStuff()
{
var sender = new PopProtocolSender ();
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 : IProtocolSender
{
protected readonly IProtocol _protocol;

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

public IProtocol Protool => _protocol;
}

public class PopProtocolSender : ProtocolSender<IPopProtocol>
{
public PopProtocolSender() : base(new PopProtocol)
{
}
}

public class ProtocolSender<T> : ProtocolSender where T : IProtocol
{
public ProtocolSender(T protocol) : base(protocol)
{
}

public new T Protocol => (T)_protocol;
}
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you can't really buy employees. They can choose to quit right after.
A Spiral Model of Software Development and  Enhancement [pdf]
Interesting stories can provide a useful framework for inspiration, setting goals, or looking at what "rule sets" are in play.

If it's intended to be a "simulate (a substantial part of) everything" game, the above stories suggest game elements such as different depths of snow, non-hostile wild animal interactions, animal pathing behavior in snow, tracks, and animal habits/routines.

Dwarf Fortress has for a long time used short stories to describe interesting interactions that the developers like, and then tried to add features to the game until similar events can just happen naturally.
I don't believe in encryption as a tool that can give any real asymmetry to an individual or conspiracy against the State. I get that you do believe it can.

Another point is -- all governments monitor communications and we don't call them tyrannical. Take the Germans. They're notorious. But people consider the Germany government quite liberal.

Restricting communications does not have to be a tool of "cruel, unreasonable, oppressive or arbitrary use of power or control." It can be deliberate, reasoned and helpful. China restricts their communications and they enjoy a lot of civil harmony, and a huge amount of national pride.

The media in the US practice a form of "information restriction and control" by tightly directing the narratives, and editorial perspective ( and sometimes even the facts ) that people are consuming. That's been the case for a long time. No one's calling it a tyranny, even tho plenty of Americans distrust authority.

I think your model of tyranny and your belief in crypto are unrealistic.

The reason I don't believe in crypto is because I consider everything as "security theatre." IMHO, every single cryptosystem that exists has already been broken. The pretense that it hasn't is just a charade.

Note: I believe in the strong version of the above statement. That RSA / EC / AES / DES and so on are broken. But the weak version, that protocols, physical monitoring, side channel attacks, and other vectors make every practical cryptosystem broken is kind of born out by the events of the last few years.

Whether you believe in the strong or the weak version of that statement the net result is the same, no? I think so, anyway.
They also just bought a liquor license in like every U.S. state and high-income city.
It is a cultural problem. I think the "younger" users don't use e-mail as much as they do other forms of "Internet" e.g. Facebook for authentication. Otherwise, I'm loathe to give out my e-mail address because of spamming and data-collection.
Also, prohibition does not remove addiction. But I'm sure there's something they can add to our drinking water to change that...
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Those are different examples. There are still countless competitors in each of their businesses, no reason for the government to act.
Why not seek glory in what you want to seek glory in and stop judging others based on what they want to seek glory in?
> they're both poor text editors with bad interfaces

They're not poor editors. They're okay. And the interface is fine, I've actually grown to like Atom after having used it for a month. They are they're at least an order a magnitude bigger and slower than Sublime Text, yet pretty usable on a modern desktop computer. I've also used Sublime Text for three or four years on a daily basis.
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Yeah, I can relate. I probably cook 3 meal kits every 2 weeks when I'm doing them which is on/off, and I feel like it is a time commitment (especially cleanup). So, I could commit 30-45 minutes and get a Blue Apron level meal that's usually ~5/10 experience or commit 15 more minutes to get something really nice one that's ~9/10.
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Apparently, around $325 for 1500 stars: hxxp://githubstars.com/
Still in the lab, "the machine" switched to using DRAM until it gets cheap enough to scale. It's really mind-boggling how much we demand of new technologies, we've refined magnetic storage over many decades. These things at least a decade to go from laboratory ... proof-of-existence to commercially competitive product.
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Well, that sounds like it would work wonderfully if we had virtually infinite natural resources.
There's a lot more than real estate involved in this deal.
Hi. For starters, it would make more sense to be more specific which African country you are talking about. Your approach in Morocco would be totally different from let's say Kenya, where I am located. In Kenya, several schools have computer labs and they all run windows. Am yet to come across any other OS. For a fact, Linux has a better chance of working out too than MacOS. Any hardware is fine. Have in mind, this machines will be used by so many kids on a daily basis and therefore, durability is key. Good core i3 Dell desktops tend to be durable with good build quality. Heavy duty keyboards can be considered as well as old school wired mouse. 17 or 19 inch widescreen monitors will do. In regards to softwares, Microsoft is king here and therefore the office suite is perfect. You can also consider having a software that wipes everything from the computer at every reboot. What's the electricity situation in the location? Yeap! Frequent blackouts can be a setback. You can consider solar, with an inverter, for those times. In regards to charges, for outside members, billing can be done per minute...again, which country? Anyway, I hope that helps and good luck.
Now that they control the distribution, they should control the supply. Well functioning, scalable greenhouse solutions should definitely pique Bezo's interests. I'd love to be a head grower over a large operation like that.
I feel like you are ignoring the context I replied to, where the person quoted a tweet saying Amazon would use the stores for everything they do.
Not if you bought it for $20bn. Wholefoods is publicly owned and the price that Amazon pays is below their price a few years back. It's not about size, $13bn is a lot of money. But Wholefoods needed a strategy or buyer, otherwise they would've faced serious problems in a few years.
Was going to say the same thing. I recently worked on a piece that walks through the history of managed forests: http://blog.lumi.com/managed-forests
I think this might signal the walk in walk out payment paradigm of Amazon Go going national. If we could say goodbye to lines, I am all for it.
Your mouse knows when you are lying
Affectiva API, and there is your poker-face sensing AI...
I think crypto is a field where one needs an unfortunately low amount of confidence (relatively speaking) to come across this way, because it's complex enough that the default position is extreme ignorance. That's why I try to be a bit more charitable - I don't think people are trying to come across as authorities on the subject, they just haven't had enough exposure. It's an unknown unknown. Better crypto education would help.

I've been thinking for some time now about the state of cryptography education for non-experts, and what I've noticed over the years is we push a lot of digestible soundbites ("Don't use MD5, don't roll your own, use encrypt-then-mac", etc) without significant explanations. Sometimes there is an accessible explanation for these things that's appropriate for a message board comment, sometimes there isn't, and this advice is necessarily separated from a larger corpus of material due to the medium.

If telling developers what not to do over and over again in order to dissuade them from shooting themselves in the foot has made them more secure overall, this is a good thing. But I do think it comes at the cost of not encouraging real understanding of why not to do these things. You're right that they shouldn't take specific positions without that understanding, but I think it can be hard for them to know they don't have it due to the culture.
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Sure, frequently.

IBM, Sears (far more dominant in retail in its day than Amazon is today), General Motors (hi Toyota), US Steel (hi foreign steel), Pan-Am (hyper powerful at its peak), Alcoa (anti-trust + foreign competition), and a dozen others that were every bit as powerful as Amazon at their peak.

Oh and Walmart is slowly being replaced by Amazon. Walmart is/was the most dominant retailer in world history.
so when the poor eat the rich and middle classes at least the meat will be of higher quality?
The rich only outsource long term thinking. Humans are generally bad at long term thinking, no matter how much money they have.
Yeah I was able to beat that "Robot check" checkbox by Google using some fuzzy bezier curves and random mouse movements/scrolling to simulate a real user's behavior.

Unfortunately Google has some other metrics to detect bots (such as no cookies showing they've seen you before, etc), so it wasn't 100% reliable.
Sears, K-Mart, Circuit City, Radio Shack.

IIRC most of the companies in the S&P 500 didn't exist 30 years ago. I think the DJIA is mostly companies that are younger than I am. The US has an unusually dynamic economy. Bailing out companies is reserved for politically important ones (GM, Ford) or politically and financially important ones.