skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a ridiculous comparison where you're cherry picking data. You're comparing something that is loaded with fat to something that is mostly water (the salad bit). Compare the slice of pizza to a can of beans from Walmart (https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Black-Beans-15-25-oz/...), 385 calories for 50 cents, and its pretty easily beat costwise and healthwise.
That was the big thing that Yahoo used to offer -- easy store setup. They did it by buying Viaweb, which was founded by some guy named Paul Graham...
I disagree that something with those properties is a blockchain. It's simply a distributed append-only ledger.

The exact same functionality could be accomplished with a git repository they each pull/rebase/push between themselves... or with any of a number of append-only databases with WALs and synchronous replication, where each of them runs a replica.
PR mostly nullifies Gerrymandering.
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From Apple's statement: "Lithium-ion batteries become less capable of supplying peak current demands when in cold conditions, have a low battery charge, or as they age over time, which can result in the device unexpectedly shutting down to protect its electronic components."

Apple seems to be saying that throttling might occur even if the battery is perfectly fine. This points to a fundamental design flaw across many different models and generations, which is the main conclusion of this article. One could even argue that Apple is using a "cheat device" that produces different performance during benchmarks vs. actual real-world use. Sound familiar? This is exactly what VW did. Is it illegal? We will find out as the lawsuits proceed.
Unmentioned in the article is that UPS is largely unionized, unlike FedEx. This makes flexible arrangements like this extra unusual.

Maybe allowances for exceptional circumstances are baked into the contract?
My new favorite form of argument.

“Do the math yourself. QED.”
They can't say "pay us or we will report you to the police," because that is textbook extortion.

Would it still be extortion if they said "pay us the exact value of the goods you tried to steal"?
Provide cover for the executives to do things that may not be liked by employees be that because employees suggested ( but were not convincing enough) those changes early on and the leadership wants to save face, be that because the existing processes used do not work for the next stage of the company but cannot be changed due to how those changes would affect existing business lines or be that because the employees aren't really qualified to perform those changes.

The most important part to realize is that a consultant is a vendor and as such certain policies that the company has may not apply.
Spontaneous parthenogenesis?
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It’s a shame you’re getting downvoted, since you’re right about the content. The list of “truths” isn’t anything more than a feature list. I got to #4 before coming to the comments, where I found the top three comments were all well-written positive reviews of the product. The whole submission screams of a well-executed marketing play.
Exactly, people in the US have taken this to the extreme.

Just because everybody's been stuffing themselves with over processed bread, donuts and fries and have gotten obese doesn't imply that carbs are evil point blank and you must never eat them. That's just insane.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the atlantic and in the rest of the world, people in France eat their baguette everyday, Italians eat pizza and pasta all the time, most of the Asian continent lives on white rice every meal, etc..., and these are among the thinnest populations you will find.

How this argument is never considered is beyond me.
No, it hasn't harmed my career growth. My career hasn't been that long yet, though. Whether it harms yours depends on what you're optimizing for. It also depends on other career prospects where you want to live.

<my experience as a remote software developer>

I've only worked for one company full-time after graduating and transferred to 100% remote after moving out of state for my spouse's work. In the span of time that I worked remotely, I became something equivalent to a maintainer ("core reviewer") on a decent-sized open source project, got promoted to a senior dev at a fairly large company, and helped launch an internal analytics service. I also have a network of former coworkers and open-source contributors that will help me find another remote job if I need one. My skill set is well-rounded, and I enjoy my job.

In terms of what I've given up, my salary is lower than what it would have been had I worked in a major hub like the SF Bay Area or Seattle. I probably pair program less than I would have otherwise. My soft skills have slightly weakened, but that may just be this profession. Outside of work, I've also had to work really hard to maintain a social life and stay mostly healthy. An extroverted spouse helps a lot. It's very easy to slip into not leaving the house or not exercising, and I've seen quite a few people develop both mental and physical health problems from the lifestyle. It's not for everyone.

However, costs of living where I am are much lower, so I feel very lucky. About 6 weeks time off next year is great, too. I've been fortunate enough to avoid the health problems I described earlier.

</my experience>

In any case, if you want to optimize for:

- Salary, regardless of cost of living
- Larger professional network
- Management track

then working in person in a tech hub is probably better.

If you prefer:

- Lots of freedom / setting your own schedule (mostly)
- Extra time (0 commute, you can use that commute time to work more / improve your skills too)
- Living wherever you want

then working remotely is pretty nice. Like other people mentioned, it's also very important to find a company that does remote well.
... in Curacao.
It's possible for something to be a better choice for the planet and also less convenient for individuals though.
That's a downside of physical, not an advantage.
Since only the trustworthy bodies can join the party, they can do the job more efficiently by not using any of the trendy blockchain which may technically prevent the fraud but otherwise inefficient.

And since there are only banks can join the network, I doubt it can technically prevent the fraud among banks because unlike public cryptocurrencies, it does not give incentives to the banks to spend a lot of computational power to the network. So any banks allowed to join can put enough computation power than other banks combined and succeed the attack.
I think comparing his situation to lottery is reaching a lot; so no, I'll take a pass on interviewing those folks.

What I would do is interview tech employees who figured out how to take their ideas and build entire businesses out of them. Actually this is already provided somewhat in indiehackers.com. Unfortunately, it doesn't always provide useful guidance as much as highlight that right place/right time is still a big factor in success.
It's not that point I read from the parent. It's that they're prime candidates so it's unfortunate to waste that connection. Not that it in any way is hard to resist urges.
I cook stews in a rice cooker w/ slow cook setting, and I eat the stew right out of the cooker pan. Cheap, healthy, quick and one (nonstick) dish to deal with.
I'm a naturally lazy person and it took me a painful three decades to come to the conclusion that laziness is not a virtue. It's a handicap. I constantly hear "work smart, not hard." Why is it an either or? Why can't you do both?
What if you had the work ethic of Steve Jobs and you worked as smart as you possibly could? Imagine what you could achieve.
There could be a ton of reasons from covering one's behind to how things look on the books etc.
The bottom line is that blockchain token technology is not a fit for the problem of 3rd world banking and hyperinflation, it is stunningly out of touch to suggest that crpyo-tokens are having any significant impact on the ground in these places.
I think it runs just a bit too deep in the psyche for one to be able to escape it by moving to a different company.

It happens in many contexts even outside of business.

Perhaps you can escape it by making a product like a mobile app or SaaS.

It gives you a curtain to hide behind which consequently allows the judgement to be directed towards the product/service.
I doubt that these qualities are actually achieved. Generally I don't think there have been many (if any) languages where excessive verbosity built in to the language has proven to be a good idea. Think COBOL, Java...

It's worse if not only statements are longer, but you are actually forced to treat similar things in very different ways (like URL resource vs query string vs post parameters). It just increases code complexity without any clear benefit.
It's both an upside and a downside depending on perspective.

From a value perspective, it's an upside just ask the art-scene.
You don't even need to use triggers. You can just write a plain old CHECK constraint on the column storing the document and use a SQL expression with the built-in JSON/JSONB operators or a stored function to interrogate the document how ever you'd like, evaluating to a true value to accept the data or false to reject.
>You'd expect someone with low income to have trouble finding housing... that's a problem, but the situation makes sense. When someone struggles to find housing while making multiples of middle income, something is deeply fucked. That says a lot about how bad it is for everyone else.

I... disagree that upper middle income immigrants having a hard time says anything definitive about the situation of the local poor, at least in the bay area. There are lots of laws and rules made to benefit the poor long term residents at the expense of those upper-middle income newer immigrants.

My least-employed little brother works in a hardware store in San Francisco. He's got a beautiful rent-controlled apartment with an ocean view. Sure I have a lot more freedom than he does, in that I could get into a apartment around here, but... paying market rate for his apartment would be difficult even on my income. I mean, I could do it, but it would necessitate lifestyle changes.

California mostly charges you property tax based on what you paid originally for your house, which means that of the lower income people I know around here? more of them own or live with friends/family who own than rent.

I mean, I'm not saying that the poor don't have it hard... I am just pointing out that we have laws that help people who have been here for a long time, laws that seem to make things easier for the lower income, and laws that actively make life difficult for the new arrivals.
I wouldn't describe turning Infinity into One as having "quite a lot of value". I'd describe that as pointing a machine gun at value and spraying it with bullets.
Depends. Will your guests remember to bring them? (among other concerns)
Make much more money yes.

But how much of that gap is left if you factor in things like health care, access to education and infrastructure?
This would be up to the discretion of the judge however the way you word it matters. Legally there is a difference between a threat and an implied threat. Saying "pay us or we report you" is extortion. Saying "pay us and we may in good faith drop this matter" is now vague enough to not be interpreted as extortion.
I grew up in California. It's a beautiful place. But I fail to understand the point of living or doing business there in 2017. High state taxes, high crime rates (that will only get higher as more people are driven to homelessness), impossible housing market, etc. I now live in Nevada. I can easily drive or fly to California for vacation if I want, housing is relatively reasonable, and there are no state taxes.

If you are doing consulting that can be done remotely, live in Nevada and fly to California when you need. Flights are cheap and plentiful. If you're running or starting a web-based business, then you can run that from pretty much anywhere, and you'd be insane to do it in California with such a punitive tax system. There's just no point to living in California these days.
I'm surprised the packages are put in with the route in mind
I hear ya. I just see that angle (education) as being a tangential issue.

If Walmart's purpose here is indeed to exploit people's ignorance rather than to give them a second chance, then I'm with you 100%. :)
I'm definitely not capable of doing what he does. Interacting with people is something I can do very, very well. But it costs me a huge amount of energy (introvert). And working with marketing/sales people takes more out of me than with any other segment of the population!

Regarding the Denny's -> Del Frisco's, that I could actually do well :). But that's because I have a special fondness for hospitality and providing people great experiences. I'd probably be foolish enough to open a restaurant someday, and I'd probably regret it later.
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Thanks for sharing a link to the presentation. Is is very good.
Regardless of their talent or authenticity or whatever, they were a hugely influential band and their lack of talent encouraged a lot of people to start their own, better bands.

I think authenticity is hugely over rated. Believe me, every band you’ve ever loved is a corporate creation or a sell out on some level.
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> None of these are realistic examples. Do you think Nintendo won't want a piece of that digital trading market? Or Amazon, for ebooks?

This sounds a lot like arguing in 1995 that people wouldn't buy stuff online because entrenched retail stores are where everyone does their shopping. Its so simple to buy stuff in a store why add the complexity of online shopping?

There are undoubtedly benefits for consumers when you have a decentralized marketplace/ architecture. As the technology matures it should become easier to build these kinds of architectures

Amazon has a to
For most enterprise software sales, who tend to deal in a few large customers rather than lots of small ones, almost all of this would be enormously counterproductive.
I'm sure there are. But I doubt there are as many, because of the inclination of marketing people to be willing to pay for outside help vs engineering that tends to enjoy problem solving so much that they only ask for help when things are really bad. Also it's a numbers game - there are more marketing departments than engineering departments (across all business sectors).
> Everyone also laughed when I in the 90'ies said you would one day be able to score girls from being good at playing computer games.

I legitimately can't tell if this is trolling or sarcastic.

Regardless, the fact that something else seemed ridiculous but ended up not being so has no bearing.

People can predict arbitrary things and will only remember the ones that turned out right; for every thing that seemed wrong but succeeded, there are a million things which seemed wrong and were wrong.

Just because there are examples of things succeeding in spite of predictions of failure doesn't mean predictions of failure are signs of success.
I don't think a majority of people who are poor are lacking access to basic cookware or some means to cook food. You can purchase a brand new Crock-Pot for $15.

I do think there's an under appreciation for how time-poor most people are (moreso the less money you have). Or how a lack of basic cooking skills or knowledge keep people buying fast food instead of buying and preparing fresh, healthier food at home. I've invested a whole lot of time choosing recipes and learning how to buy, prepare, and store food. A friend of mine complained that going to the grocery store cost him more money than eating out. Turns out, he was just buying frozen dinners. One of my recent favorite meals to make is dried black beans, rice, and a shredded rotisserie chicken. The chicken is optional, the source ingredients are dry, less than $1/lb, freeze well after preparing, and don't require any special tools or skills.

While I think food insecurity is a huge concern for kids, the cost of food and the percentage of income being spent on food has halved over the last 50 years [1]. (I wish they showed what the lowest quintile was spending over time)

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/03/02/389578089/yo...
I think that was part of the point of the parent comment.
people seem to forget but Apple makes some of the most powerful iOS apps currently. iMovie, Keynote, Photos, Garagaband etc. And the experience between iOS and MacOS is extremely similar between them. Just more “expanded” on desktop. I wouldn’t be surprised if they share a lot of code between the different platforms too. If this helps more developers accomplish the same thing that Apple is doing with their own apps then I’m all for it!
That could explain why everywhere I go, I experience the same thing :).
+1 it does sound great :)
This is somewhat off-topic but I might as well ask this here: who are respected technical people who support Bitcoin Cash?
well from personal experience, Disney DVDs (used to) have adverts at the start trying to get you to watch every other Disney film every made, and they either blocked skipping or made it incredibly hard to skip to the start of the actual video.
Kind of a violation of the burden of proof.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof_(law)
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I’ve diacussed this with a buddy of mine a few years ago. For validation: he is a senior manager at FedEx in Ohio region, dealing with standard delivery (non-rush, overnight, or freight).

The issue with deliveries is more complex as there are several systems with different incentives involves (and managers who bonus is determined by different factors then simply efficient delivery).

1. Deliveries arrive via large container and are organized by postal code but not in any specific order.
Why? Because the plane/truck is packed for maximum haul not maximum efficiency of delivery.

2. When packages are sorted for their destination and packaged onto trucks, the incentive is to maximize haul, not maximize delivery efficiency.
Why? The worker is incentivized to clear the backlog not to organize for delivery method. There are size constraints. As someone commented further down, it’s like a game of Tetris.

3. The delivery person just has to deal with what’s given and has to complete three rounds (usually).

In a normal situation, my buddy used some “fun math” and an excel sheet to attempt to maximize deliveries. Theoretically, his system would save an average of $0.02 on each package (his calculation, have no clue how he came up with this number or can verify). He was given recognition and bonus as, supposedly, this was a huge feat. However, his system totally broke down during holidays/peak season; There was no way to organize packages in step one accuretly enought that translates to step 2 and 3.

I, as a novice, suggested something like: “why don’t they use robots to sort, scan, and organize packages?” He patiently explained that the cost to retrofit all delivery stations would be enormous. The delivery margin on standard packages are razor thin and would require too much time to recoup and that any advancements went to the “big boys” (freight and overnight) as they generate the most profit).

As such, any suggestion that this is an easy problem that can be solved by some math is obtuse. The system itself would have to be redesigned at a large scale and proven to work prior to testing as any error would cut profits that investors do not like.
(Reply as I can't edit my comment anymore).

I missed the bottom: Basic @ $90 = 2 GiB, Pro @ $120 = 3 GiB.

That price is high and I was specifically talking about !/$ so this unfortunately doesn't really change the landscape.
Ground beef, even at whole foods comes out to about 2 calories / penny. Getting it at a regular store would put it at 3 to 4 calories per penny. Rice is 3.2 beans even better.

You can mix all these things in endless ways with a little creativity.
It's already failed. It's gone from the currency of the future, to a store of a value, to just a pure speculative commodity. Nothing more or less. Use it to make money, and get out.
That's cool and all, but FWIW, you could just use OpenOffice today and have the immediate ability to write macros / extensions in any of:

Python

Java

Javascript

Beanshell

OpenOffice Basic

And the Java support also entails support for any language that compiles to JVM bytecode, so you can write macros in Clojure, Groovy, Scala, JRuby, Jython, etc. as well.

https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/Scri...

You can also write your own language providers, and there are OSS providers out there for things like R and others. And you can always program against the UDK directly using C++ if you want.

https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Uno

So basically... use OpenOffice and you can do your programming in

Python

R

Java

C++

Beanshell

Javascript

Groovy

Scala

Clojure

Basic

JRuby

etc., etc.
Sounds like the programs need to be tweaked a bit for state laws, but the giving the option of avoiding police action through education/restitution is a greater good in my opinion. Perhaps a court approved statement could be read to them which outlines the choice they have between the program or police report.
As it stands, block-chains do not scale. So it's hard to say if lack of adoption is due to lack of actual use cases, or inability to implement use-cases given state of the network. I think prediction markets may be one of the first real use-cases.
> Shoplifting suspects at stores that use Corrective Education are shown a video and given 72 hours to decide whether to enter the program. The video describes a six-to-eight-hour online course that promises to explain “why you make decisions that are harmful or illegal” and teach “life skills.”

6-to-8 gours sounds ridiculously long / excessive. "Life skills", really? I smell a scam here, some "educational company" partnered with them and sell them pay-per-participant exhorbitant fees for watching their "video course".