skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, IMHO it's because people immediately ratchet their expectations up to the highest level of of pay they can earn. If you use up all your market power on pay, you don't have much left for other conditions.

I get paid 60% of what I made at my last job because there were certain things I wanted to be different in my work environment. Too many people optimize only for pay and then complain that nothing else works the way they want it to. Cut some salary off of your top line and you'll find that the leverage that gives you in other areas is pretty huge, particularly at companies that aren't bogged down in bureaucracy. If your salary is too low to comfortably trade off against, then you're obviously not one of the examples of people with market power.

Now don't get me wrong: most of these things are positive-sum, and ideally they wouldn't trade off against pay because they might increase productivity. But that doesn't have much to do with being a seller's market.
Whole foods has a lot of very niche specialty food. That is what they are probably scaling back on.

For example there's a small organic food store near my house that no longer sells cocoa butter because it's very expensive and rarely purchased. And it's more common now, but I used to have to go to Whole Foods foods for things like almond flour, coconut flour, dairy-free products, and gluten-free products. (I used to date someone with digestive issues.) It was nice to be able to buy them somewhere instead of having to special order it online. But I can't imagine they sell nearly as much of those foods.
Uniquely imbalanced is not a very good description with such small sample size of fields, but to be clear I was not the one to first bringing in non-stem fields. When you compared CS to law you was first to move the goal post.

Among the professions in general, you said, the difference is supposed to be stark. This is false since there is no general difference between the average profession and CS. Second thing is that we're stuck in the 1960. This is also false since all professions has on average a worse gender segregation in 2018 than in 1960, which includes the STEM fields. The third would be the conclusion that toxic culture causing segregated work environment is a tech-specific problem. Every report (including government issued ones) that I have read describe similar problems in profession with similar or greater gender imbalance than CS. The service industry especially has many horror stories being printed in news with rather regular intervals.
> It makes even more sense if you comparison shop. With Amazon, you can pick the _exact right item_, whereas a big box store like Walmart or Target will only stock a few options at best, 0 at worst. I was looking for a specific light bulb at Home Depot the other day. Didn't find it. Went to Lowe's. Didn't find it. Ordered the exact item from Amazon while walking out of Lowe's. I only went to stores for the time convenience (I obviously needed it urgently), but they failed for lack of stock. That's what Amazon offers to me -- instant availability of a huge range of items, and ridiculously fast shipping on the smallest of those items.

Why didn't you go to lowes.com or walmart.com? This isn't an apples to apples comparison.
Assignable return values: +1

Concise AND expressions (eg "case UP, DOWN -> 1;"): +1

Using keyword 'break' instead of 'return': -1
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Typically, the company will get involved when they know who is importing or exporting the product and they will notify CBP so the shipment can be seized.

We don't know if they were involved, but it's possible Rimowa knew who the exporter was (from seeing the fakes online and ordering one themselves) and CBP then seized the package when it was imported. The article says, "Reed never received the suitcase" which indicates that the shipment could have been seized upon entry (because they were tipped off by Rimowa to look for packages from that exporter). Now they knew who the importer was (Reed) and they added his name to a database of illegal importers.

Since it was just one suitcase, it probably wasn't worthwhile going after him, but now his name was in the database (likely because they think it will help them catch more illegal imports). The tricky problem arises because there is likely no distinction in the database between one guy who didn't know he was ordering one counterfeit product for himself versus someone who imports container after container of counterfeits for resale. CBP enforces the law by seizing the product and it's up to the company to sue the importer. It's clearly a broken system with nasty ramifications for the people who got scammed.
I don't doubt it happens but I've never had a problem.
Love the domain. But the page isnt loading.
The apk is a paltry 18 MB. Hardly enough space to think about on most phones.
I've been doing the laptop and easy-chair thing for years. Posture isn't bad, pressure is somewhat easily distributed. It's great as long as you have a chair that supports the head/neck.
>All those things have a very long shelf life; there's no need to maintain tight stock control.

Holding inventory has an economic cost, even if the inventory has infinite shelf life — the money that bought or manufactured the inventory could be used elsewhere.
Server was at 3% battery when I loaded it... maybe it died?
Could you please start commenting civilly, substantively, and on topic, like we've asked many times? We ban accounts that continue to break the guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You’re right. I should have used the term null set.
I have - they pressed the light to call a supervisor (whilst they continued scanning my items) who found me the item, like finding a replacement for a damaged item, and returned before I'd finished packing the bags. Delay was <1 minute.
Loaded just fine for me. You using a JS blocker or something maybe?
Yes, there are many non-union acting roles available. You aren't going to get rich from them.
Not everyone gets there in one step. A lot of people have the problem described by the parent because they don't have these insights yet.
That’s the crux of the problem. If you speak selfishly without looking at the big picture, you can’t make a rational decision at scale.
> but that's only because no one actually cares about these architectures.

This. Optimizing performance on BE is a waste of everyone's time and resources.
If store sales > shelf capacity, you have to intraday restock.
> Why didn’t you just do ___ here? as opposed to "i think xxx is a better approach because"

This is such a good and deep point - being forced to defend your decisions is one thing - using a form such as "the whole
world knows not to do this why don't you" is another.

i would argue that there is value in developing a longer for review comments - it's probably viable in fact - such that the comment is non judgemental.
They used to, before GPS. Now the gas station employee is likely to be just as clueless without a phone giving directions.
I think the key is to make sure that developers and other employees understand the tradeoffs. This applies not just to Slack, but also to email, Github, cloud storage tools, and even browser extensions.

Apart from easy setup and good ux, these tools provide ideal integration points for third party plugins that can do all kinds of amazing things for productivity, sales, business processes, code intelligence, etc. etc.

In my view, this is all well and good, and we shouldn't be looking to axe these benefits by demanding self-hosting or end-to-end encryption for everything.

Instead, people need to understand what they are and aren't appropriate for. If your browser has 20 extensions installed with access to every page's data... that's cool--I'm sure they all do useful things, but would you sign in to your bank's website with 20 strangers looking over your shoulder?

Same deal with Gmail, Slack, and Github. They all have their place, but they were not designed to store e.g. application secrets securely--especially if you're also using third party integrations (which, why wouldn't you?--it's a big part of the value they offer). None of this is a problem if you just draw the line in the right place.

Quick plug: this issue is exactly why I started EnvKey[1], a 1Password-like service that keeps application secrets securely in sync across development and server environments so that developers aren't tempted to share them over third party channels in plain text. If your secrets management strategy involves exposure to any third party, you should probably re-evaluate what you're doing. EnvKey offers a very quick, hosted, end-to-end encrypted approach to getting you on the right track.

1 - https://www.envkey.com
I read somewhere that the Spanish flu was basically what ended the first World War. Not sure if I believe it. In school, I had this history teacher who made a point of telling us - repeatedly - that major historical events can rarely, if ever, be traced to a single cause. But it might have played a significant role.

Also, I had no idea at all that it had spread globally. And a lot more people died from it than I had thought.

What would happen if such a disease came along today? Are we just lucky that it has not happened, yet?
I read and so far all arguments for little endian I see are because the CPUs adopted it so it is more efficient to keep data the same way.

What are the other benefits of little endian, because in terms of readability big endian makes most sense.

I could understand that having things in reverse could be somehow more efficient, but why do it reverse in groups of 8 bits instead having all bits reversed?
That looks really interesting. Thanks for pointing it out. Are you involved with this project?
A popular strategy is for the midwife to claim to be just a birth coach. They will not admit to actually helping to ease the baby out, whether they do or not. They claim to show up, maybe give suggestions, and then perhaps do some limited care afterward. Often these midwives require the family to take care of filing for the birth certificate.

It's like how the slightly older profession often claims to be just an escort service.
I've actually had hákarl and whale in Iceland. They are both horrible.

Mind you, I've eaten all types of foods from 3 star Michelin restaurants to kangaroo meat on a stick, but those two really stuck out to me as terrible.

First, I had no intention of eating the fermented shark. My wife wanted to try it and we found a person at a deli attached to this big weird flea market that was SO HAPPY to give tourists a free sample. It was as terrible as described and smells STRONGLY of urine. You can pretend like this writer that it is a "very strong cheese" or whatever, but it really just gross. To give context, the aftertaste was so bad that we went back to our rental car and I chewed and swallowed the paper wrapper from a piece of gum to try and get rid of it. The taste was just straight bad.

The whale, to me, was much worse. The only way I can describe it is to say it tastes like crying. As soon as I took a bite I felt like I had made a terrible mistake. My wife spit hers out (she ate the hákarl no problem).

We had the whale at a fancy restaurant. This writer compared it to tuna which I strongly disagree with. It sort of had the texture of tuna, but it didn't taste like fish at all. They paired it with raw onions and some vinaigrette because it was a strong flavor. I guess it felt mostly like I was eating human? or alien? It was just instantly weird, and I wasn't really too conflicted about eating whale before tasting it but was immediately regretful after trying it.

That being said, this article makes the food culture of Iceland sound insane. There is a ton of delicious shit there, especially the lamb (not hearts, just frigging lamb). Wayyy better than any lamb I've ever had. It was served like a nice steak and had great flavor. And everywhere we went they had the best damn lobster soup. Get the lobster soup, it's awesome.

And you would think they would have no vegetables, but we were there in March and they had great fresh salads everywhere. Why? Because they have a ton of greenhouses warmed from the free geothermal energy.

I highly recommend checking out Iceland, just a 5 hour flight from Seattle or the East Coast.
Anecdotally, I have experienced the same phenomenon at several major grocery chains in Canada. City gets hit with a winter storm and Safeway, SuperStore, & Walmart all had empty produce & bread sections. I've also seen it in certain stores during summer months in the run up to a long weekend. Not saying the new supply chain software can't be the cause, but there does seem to be other reasonable explanations.
The outrage is less, but you can still catch flak for little slips like referring to an unknown party as "he" or "she" instead of "they." (A perfectly cromulent third-person-singular pronoun with plenty of history, IMO, but some people dislike it, too.)

But I'm thinking more of things like "creating a gender drop down box for a tool where demographic info was desired." Or do we just drop the idea of even having a meaningful response to such a question? Sometimes it's relevant, though, especially in medical industries.
I 100% agree! Every app of theirs show the same stuff. I can't tell yet if theyre copying Netflix on their initial landing page on a consistent basis, but I feel like they've let some aspect of discovery escape them.

Overall, I do love their library, but they could evangelize it in such a better way.
How does the ambulance know where my insurer wants me to go? For that matter, why is it the responsibility of EMT's to, whilist driving at high speed through traffic and attempting to keep my organs in my torso, go through my insurance info and figure out which hospital I should go to and potentially risk both my and their safety with a longer trip, to respect the wishes of a corporation which barely knows I exist?

How about instead, we just fix people? And figure out the rest of the BS later?
> Byte-by-byte parsing is a valid way to do parsing but not the only way. Byte-by-byte parsers tend to be slow and -- arguably, more importantly -- overly complex and rigid. It is, for example, usually very hard to do "random access" with a byte-by-byte parser, because allowing out-of-order parsing tends to blow the code complexity through the roof.

I have to agree here by experiences past. If the format in question has a chance of being performance sensitive, don't use FSM-based encodings [1]. It is inordinately difficult to optimize parsing these encodings even if you only have to handle tiny subsets, and it still won't be fast. A format like msgpack which prides itself on being very fast may be fast compared to JSON and other ways to express essentially arbitrary structures, but is DEAD SLOW compared to any direct encoding (be it a dedicated encoding you developed in literally a few hours or something like capnproto).

[1] Obviously, considering an encoding more complex than FSM means that you're an idiot and your application will almost certainly have security vulnerabilities related to the format in the future.
Disagreement with a proposed belief/behavior system is equated with "hate", and hate-filled "whatever"-phobes are Nazis. My grandmother remains unconvinced that "whatever" is good. Hence she is "hate" filled, and a Nazi. QED.
Still doesn't make sense because little endian keeps things reverse in bit groups. It doesn't make sense no matter if you read left-right, right-left, top to bottom or bottom to top.
> Finland has 'baby boxes'

Interestingly, Scotland now has 'baby boxes' too [0] - but not the rest of the UK, it is an initiative by the devolved Scottish government only it seems.

0. https://www.mygov.scot/baby-box/
Interesting, lets look at a link from the article:

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Results—In 2010, the U.S. infant mortality rate was 6.1 infant deaths per 1,000 live births, and the United States ranked 26th in infant mortality among Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Devel­ opment countries. After excluding births at less than 24 weeks of gestation to ensure international comparability, the U.S. infant mortality rate was 4.2, still higher than for most European countries and about twice the rates for Finland, Sweden, and Denmark. U.S. infant mortality rates for very preterm infants (24–31 weeks of gestation) compared favorably with most European rates. However, the U.S. mortality rate for infants at 32–36 weeks was second-highest, and the rate for infants at 37 weeks of gestation or more was highest, among the countries studied. About 39% of the United States’ higher infant mortality rate when compared with that of Sweden was due to a higher percentage of preterm births, while 47% was due to a higher infant mortality rate at 37 weeks of gestation or more. If the United States could reduce these two factors to Sweden’s levels, the U.S. infant mortality rate would fall by 43%, with nearly 7,300 infant deaths averted annually.
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How much does treating babies with low-birth weight add to the average cost?
> Apple was right about this.

I hate it when Apple is right. And I hate that their golden numerical prison has genuine advantages over the alternatives.

Assuming users cannot be fixed, what can? Users sideload apps from the web, right? Can't there be an easy way to distinguish trustworthy communications from potentially dangerous ones? Would such a way be systematically worked around by ever cleverer phishers?
host file?
But by that logic, Germany makes zero sense.
Why you should start with a zero-level design
We Put the Entire Internet on the Blockchain–and You Can Too
I use GitBook and GitHub.

I have a repository with many markdown files (https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/knowledge) and I render it all with GitBook here (https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz).
> as if this were something a website could reasonably detect.

Do you not record your users' GPS, connection point, roundtrip delay, microphone, and camera at all times?

Because I stepped into a restaurant the other day and my brand new Android phone asked me to take a picture of the specific booth I had sat down in (by number and floor plan) for Google. Get with the modern analytics stack bro.
Are you sure it won't interfere with required system connections? Like updates etc, all this boring stuff Mac users tied to?
Sure, or buy half and half and use your personal centrifuge to separate it
You mean concise OR expressions, right?
I feel this is what is wrong with software today, this app could have been much less than 1MB.
It's foolish to count driving to the train station in CT. Any time the traffic is minimal into NYC, the parking at train stations is also empty. Really everything you cited is fairly naive for getting into and out of the city. Parking is ~$40 a trip unless you can get a street spot (which can be really hard to count on in most neighborhoods).

The optimal path is to drive to a train station close to NYC that has frequent service, park and take the train for the last bit. I used to use the Greenwich train station and it worked well. The same is true from New Jersey, you can park at Metropark or get dropped off in Seacaucus.

Source: I lived in CT for 3 years, lived in Manhattan for the last 5 years, bought a car and keep it in Manhattan for the last 6 months.
I'm up to my ears in work. That's why I'm willing to pay. Please, be my guest. Build it, take my money.
When I dropped my 6S+ iPhone (battery!) off at the Apple store, they informed me they were going to keep it overnight. Having recently moved to the city, I had a very unsettling feeling of not really understanding how I was going to get home ... or, how I was going to get back to the Apple store the next day!

I spent a fair bit of time fumbling around side streets before making the various necessary highway connections, and in the end decided I knew where I was more than I'd expected. The next day I was able to "read" the terrain to make the necessary turns to ultimately end up at the Apple store. I felt like I'd passed some kind of exam.

Maybe folks don't remember the old map books with indexed pages that you could buy at any gas station? None to be found any more. That's ok with me.
Serious question: What do you picture the long-term extrapolation of ignoring events around you looks like? Are you so independent of other people's actions that you can't imagine any events that would impact you in a way that you'd want to try to have a voice in, or at least be informed about? Isn't that how people end up in dead end jobs where 15 years later the industry has moved on and they no longer have skills companies are looking for?
You also don't (at any kind of scale) go around willy-nilly applying updates, even microcode updates. Ideally there's a graduated rollout of any update (in dev, then to testing, then to limited production, and then after a reasonable period, to full production), and that can take time and resources.

This process would be helped immensely if the sources of the updates (whether Intel, Microsoft, Google, or whoever) did more rigorous testing themselves, but in the modern age of "churn, baby, churn", they don't, and as a result, organizations that are uptime-sensitive have gotten reluctant to apply updates in a timely manner.

And to head off the inevitable calls of "bullshit", Intel just released a microcode update that caused some Linux distributions to fail to boot entirely and caused some Windows-based systems to reboot spontaneously.
you only need to pay every 3-5 years aaaaand only if you want to upgrade, aaaaaaand you can keep using your last updated version, aaaand only 50% of the full price
This is why I assume most political coverage, especially that from partisans of either party, is mostly nonsense. To get the real story you have to find and read primary sources. Any "news" sites that don't give those I assume are lying, at best, until I have sources to corroborate what they said. The "news" these days is mostly made up of opinion pieces and it spends entirely too much time looking to troll us with cheap outrage articles as clickbait.

Random independent coverage from bloggers, e.g. Popehat, tends to be much better informed than people rushing to incite us on a deadline. This goes double for anything the least bit technical, like law.

Sadly, there just aren't enough sources like that to actually dig into most stories.
Empty shelves are a way bigger problem in retail grocery than spoilage. If you lose a box of cauliflower, OK, it costs money, but if you lose an entire customer, even just for a few months, that's a loss of revenue in the thousands of dollars. And you will lose that customer. "The audience ams a fickles mistress, Toki." And nobody goes to the "super" market to feel like Soviet Russia or the apocalypse.

Ahh but wait, now multiply that dollar figure by 50 customers who tried to buy cauliflower that day. Add 50 more for every subsequent day during which you're still out of cauliflower. Assume they each used to spend $1,000 a month with you, but now they all stay mad at you for 5 months each. After four days you're literally out a million dollars. Though you won't realize that loss until the end of the five months.

If you're out of tunafish too, you don't just lose lovers of cauliflower and tuna, you lose everybody who loves cauliflower, everybody who loves tuna, and everybody who loves both. Unfortunately for you as the grocery store that can't keep the shelves stocked, it's an OR, not an AND, and there is definitely a type of network effect at work.

The costs you incur by having inventory around, and having some of it go bad, are like insurance payments, to avoid the costs you would incur by the much worse problem of losing customers.