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Incentives are certainly skewed currently with write offs for losses etc not necessarily encouraging prevention of food waste.

For the in store products, I think automation could eventually be the key but obviously we're sometime away from a full automated kitchen. Once that happens we should be able to savage a good bit. Thinking more about stuff that wouldn't be savageable .. freezing might not be the best option as you'd be required to keep it frozen during shipment. So investing in dehydration or freeze drying would be key,... dehydration probably is cheaper over freeze drying.

Changing the write off rules would be useful. Not taxing products made in store would be a possible incentive temporarily at least. If we were able to save a lot of stuff from going into the trash and instead going into feed.. maybe we could get cheaper animal products..but I sense that's probably more complicated than it seems.

Idk.. just ideas.
Thanks for the correction and a link to [1] which gives actual information on the tests. This is great news.
I like using SpaceSniffer on Windows: http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/

It has the best UI by far of all the tools I've tried in this space. Unfortunately not open source.
This makes no sense in lots of applications. Today computers have hardware acceleration for moving chunks of data. Big chucks of data, unpack things byte by byte makes not sense on things that have to be efficient. It is like 20.000 times more efficient to do things with blocks.

If you move text around you probably don't care about efficiency and can do it. If you care about efficiency and price(using cheap components) it is a very bad solution.

We use in all our serial-deserial a very fine grained controlled C library and it has been working flawlessly for years. This library is interfaced with C++, java, objC, swift,clojure, rust...
"Some guy"

Moritz is one of the most esteemed partners at the most prestigious VC firm in the world. He's a multi-billionaire with immense power. He's not "some guy."

"has an opinion"

He wrote an op-ed in the most widely read international business journal. This isn't an opinion, it's a rallying cry.
>the constant drumbeat of people against nationalization is for people to be "smart" consumers of healthcare

No it isn't. The people who are against nationalization believe a free market would be better, but that excessive government regulation, deeply entrenched administrative/bureaucratic bloat (middlemen) as well as unfair competition with insurance co ponzi style business models prevents an accessible free market for health care from happening. They see corruption and cronyism maintaining the status quo and see through the obvious false choice where the only available options is bankruptcy or socialism.

The people against nationalization do not think that health care should cost as much as it does, and do not believe socializing the effects of a bloated, broken and corrupt system will do anything but make it worse.

They are also likely to be the same people who would have to pay for it, as if they aren't already, and they are smart enough to see that the ever increasing welfare state (not to mention forced acceptance of mass immigration) will eventually eat them alive. Why would anybody accept much less desire to live in such a parasitic environment?
Yes, but at the OS level, not the browser level.
It's happening again.., hangouts too !
Can you truly offshore the hell out of software developers? That was the big fear of the late '90s and '00s, but despite the rise of software salaries (and the knock on effects on the business expenses in Silicon Valley), that didn't seem to come to pass.
Yeah i use it all the time and is one of the programs that makes me question my use of GUIs for anything beyond media players and web browsing.
Who are these "so many developers" you've referenced a dozen times? You've been spending too much time on internet forums listening to rants of the vocal minority. Truth is that most developers are happy and don't need a drastic change, and this can hardly be said about any other profession.
> Its amazing that none of the replies (so far) have pointed out something in the very article that spawned this thread, the status of women and minorities.

It's not that surprising; Hacker News comments tend not to sympathize with victims of harassment, sexism, or racism when stories about those topics come up. So it's not surprising that it doesn't become the focus of the thread here, since it's not the lede in the story.

> f you read the article it goes on to note that was because of sexual harrassment and his attitude toward gay men. These are bread and butter union issues.

In theory, yes. In practice, it depends on the workplace. If the workplace is mostly men who don't really have a problem with harassment of women, the union won't either, and women aren't going to have a great time there. That's sadly pretty common in blue-collar unions[0].

[0] eg: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/19/us/ford-chica...
Some of both. I'd imagine those that cared enough, and felt confident enough in finding another job left, whereas those who weren't in such a position shut up about it.
Similar tool for Gnome, with a funky radial graph instead of a treemap: https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/DiskUsageAnalyzer
I mean, in a sense yes, but also his "rational" explanation is that he doesn't think employers should do X, he thinks employers should just behave as the market demands which clearly cannot include doing X, so I'm pushing back on whether that's actually a rational decision.
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Photo rings true for East Dallas Whole Foods. I've stopped going, even though it's a mile away. Central Market forever!
Oh I agree. My opinion is massively different for smaller unions, but all humongous national unions have all become the power/greed and awfulness they were created to fight. Corruption at the core.
For some reason the article didn't mention the cost of malpractice insurance. I wonder why? My cousin, a doctor in Pennsylvania, said at one point, the insurance was getting so expensive, it was driving obstetricians from the state.
I heard this called the "Gell-Mann Paradox."
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I was consuming the feed in question via an API provided by the vendor and didn't have direct knowledge of the wire protocol, but based on how it was described to me during the sales process it was probably either FAST or a proprietary protocol with a similar design.
People disagree about open offices. Some people disagree about the option to work from home or hire remote.

But it is hard to believe that ANY of us disagree about IP contracts or extended options execution windows.

Are you a professional developer? Which of these issues do you think are non-issues?
It does make piracy impossible, though. The ultimate user-hostility for the ultimate bad-actor-hostility. It's like the infinite limit of DRM.
Very little of what I buy online is available near me.
My wife ended up w/ an unplanned C section to deliver our daughter in 2013 in Dayton, Ohio. Both mom and daughter had reasons for two extra days in the hospital. The bill to my wife's insurance company was just under $60,000 for her portion. My daughter's portion was out-of-pocket (because she was on my insurance) and was around $12,000 after the hospital's "cash discount".

A lot of factors contributed to our decision not to have any more children, but the cost of maternity care, birth, and follow-up medical care figured-in prominently. My wife was leaving her job after the birth and everyone was going on my insurance (self-employed, have bought my own insurance since 2004). Had the costs been less I'm not sure we would have opted to have any more, but it would have changed the calculus.
>> It suggests because a Linux distribution and a rump kernel can both be made small enough to fit in RAM, they are therefore similar. That does not sound right.

It's a good question. Given a unikernel and an extremely trim Linux kernel plus application code only, what's the practical difference? Does it matter at any real level if there's 4.5 megabytes of Linux kernel in there?
> We decided that having the community determine which sources are broadly trusted would be most objective

If the goal is to determine what people trust, sure. [0]

If the goal is to determine what is trustworthy, no.

You can't really fight fake news with the first, since obviously a successful propaganda outlet will be trusted.

[0] Well, if user accounts mapped 1:1 to people, which Facebook liked to pretend they do but, well, they don't, in part as a mechanism to game FB algorithms, and this just adds another incentive to that.
That is a bit naive. There are other ways to fund drug research, such as government grants.
There's clearly only a large finite number of possible uses for a sock - I'd say if you can enumerate ones that others wouldn't even conceive then you're being more creative. What would you call someone who can think of ways to use something that no-one/few others can?

Unfurl the sock and make a "blind man trail" as a party game. Burn the [cotton] sock and use as char-cloth. Cut up the sock and use as fuel in a tiny model steam-engine.

The judgement comes in with craft, or engineering IMO and isn't a facet of creativity per se. Like, burning the sock will create little heat and lots of fumes, etc.; the idea needed creativity. What we mustn't assume is that creation (of goods, craft items, products, whatever) requires _only_ creativity.
But that's exactly the problem the article describes: That the moment something goes wrong the stores don't have any reserves anymore, because the system is too strictly set on reducing costs and spoilage, seemingly with a total disregard to consumer satisfaction and overall profit. Add to that crazy-sounding control schemes - which maybe is kinda normal in a country like the US without real employee protection laws, but is unthinkable in less free market capitalist societies.

Not sure why you defend your employer here. If the problem is real - which I'm in no position to judge - it would be in his best interest to notice it.
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i've always wondered who actually answers "no" to that question.

If i've made it to the checkout, i've made the decision that i've found everything i'm going to purchase today. even if it wasn't everything i originally came for. If i needed help finding something, i would have asked for help before i got to the checkout.

I'm not going to stand in line at the checkout only to not actually check out, and hold up the line behind me while the cashier helps me find something.
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My wife was a political reporter in DC, covering the Hill, the Pentagon and White House at various times. One time we were watching CNN and they mentioned a briefing at the Pentagon and she noted she was in the same one. Halfway through the coverage, she jumped up and said "that's not what they said!" I was confused.. she went back to her bag and handed me her notebook which contradicted their coverage.

It's not unique to any particular medium, news source, or person. Many, many people have an agenda and/or ignorance and portray things accordingly.. not always malicious but incomplete at best, wrong at worst.
Someone in the LA Times / union thread referred to journalists as "knowledge workers". With Gell-Mann Amnesia in mind, I thought, "Well, that's being generous".
Sometimes I do, for specialty items. I think we were just giving the stores the benefit of the doubt because of the hurricanes and blizzards(I'm in the Boston area).
Job markets can be seller's markets only temporary, until large employers and investors realize this. At which point they can take away any power people had via secret anti-competitive agreements, artificial barriers for changing jobs, lobbying and investing into more supply, etc.

For software developers seller's market is long gone.
I'm curious to know more about your HDL, as I'm also working on an HDL of my own.
My "Miss Manners" etiquette book from the 1960s says you should call people by the names they wish to be called. So it's not "modern", it's timeless. She directly addresses the social issues of the day, such as gay couples or couples living in sin; it's clear what she would recommend today.
I can somewhat forgive C for picking a syntax that turned out to be a bad idea. (Even if possibly some prior programming language made a better choice.) Java, on the other hand, copied that syntax knowing exactly how many bugs this would result in, for the questionable benefit that Java superficially looks a little bit more like C.
I like how everyone forgets about this particular issue when talking about healthcare
I'll just throw in here that faking contracts and certificates has been a huge business in the last ~1200 years or so in Europe. Many cities who claimed to have been founded a thousand years ago (or whatever) had to cede those claims since the historical papers were faked (usually hundreds of years ago).
A new "Law of UX" should be coined: "Visual design is not UX."
yeah but is most of twitter really using that?
ML and Lisp are both more modern than Java. Java was archaic, at least partially as an attempt to win over C++ users.
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16184284
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"Consistent with our commitment to transparency, we are emailing notifications to 677,775 people in the United States who followed one of these accounts or retweeted or liked a Tweet from these accounts during the election period. "

That's an interesting move...
I cannot disagree more. I see absolutely nothing in software engineering that is antithetical to unions. Much of what you claim could also be applied to acting, or to professional athletes, who do have unions.
My job is just to backport the fixes into an olde kernel version, but I'm not pissed off :p
I don't believe in secrets not leaking. The more parties you tell a secret, the sooner it will leak. And if it had gotten leaked, I'd be in a worse situation than right now.
That's only because you were interested in IT, either as a career or as a hobby. Most people aren't.
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I have to disagree with your “No no no”. It all depends on requirements.

When you’re on a PC, and working with files that you can reasonably expect will be exchanged (like doc, xls or pdf) — then your “No no no” heuristic is absolutely correct. As you pointed out, differences between compilers and between e.g. x86/amd64 are very likely to render these formats incompatible.

But when you’re working with files that only your software will access, unpacking it byte by byte will slow down IO by a huge factor compared to both mmap, and read/write of large blocks (the latter will likely translate to DMA i.e. the CPU will be free to do something else). When that’s the case (like for most videogames, even for PC ones), you don’t want to pay that performance penalty, you want to get that data in the memory ASAP.
> Maybe it's possible that the people actually doing the work know better about how to run a successful media company than the Troncs do?

Why don't they start their own media company then rather than resort to short-term value extraction tactics which will likely drive said "cathedral of journalism" into the ground?
Actually unemployed. I have several actor friends (I live in NYC) who spend roughly half the year auditioning -- if they're lucky. On paper the jobs pay pretty well because they pay union rates but that's because they subsidize large stints of unemployment.
Our insurance had excellent coverage, but I remember being excited when I payed a bill for my wife, and thought that we were good, since we hit the $3,000 max out of pocket per person. And then bills started arriving in my Son's name.. So another $3k..
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That list doesn't include states, which are pretty wealthy. And I'd say you should include states as much as churches in the comparison, because the Catholic Church, at least, is historically much more akin to a state or empire than to a business. (I think your argument could apply to the more recently formed churches.)

As for your video link, that's about televangelism, which is extremely recent. Even Tetzel wasn't really in it for his own personal profit.
ARM is a UK company isn't it? Also, minor electronic manufacturers like STM are still around in europe, I think. No big foundries but it seems there is enough competition to survive a shut off of a single partner, unlike the GPS case.
I've gone for months and years long periods of avoiding the news, including sites like this, and live has always been qualitatively better during those periods.

I'm not convinced I understand what purpose being informed of global politics or local dramas serves, other than maybe having something to talk about with friends and colleagues.
Here's another Flannery bit from yesterday: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/01/18/stifle/. Frivolous, but amusing. She was a great letter writer.
I should have listed the urban development in Oklahoma City happening. It is just small 3k people urban district near downtown.
https://www.wheelerdistrict.com

But it is basically a town built by a rich family right next to the river and five minutes from downtown OKC and the rest of the metro.
Honestly, if you're doing it in an 1800sqft studio custom built for exactly that process, it's not that hard. I spent a weekend doing it in what was essentially a 50sqft bathroom and it was pretty straight forward, once you get the hang of it.
They used to do it in tents in the middle of the desert on giant, heavy plates of glass (16in X 20 in), so this is a piece of cake in comparison.

There are photographic artists doing much more complex work, in much more difficult conditions. Check out the work of Chris McCaw and John Chiara, or the recent daguerreotype work of Binh Danh. Not criticizing anyone, just saying that the way they choose to do things is absolutely crucial to their art, and an essential part of it, not just a process that is currently cool.
Yes big organizations seem to suffer the most from human failings.
I've long suspected that a driver of the cost of medical care in America is the middle-people. Everyone who wants to take a cut, and tack on a fee, and increase profits. From the drug maker to the bandaid company. There was a really fascinating article here recently on doctors who only take cash, and I think it really hits to the idea that we're being taken for a ride from a lot of these companies, hospitals, insurers, etc.
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What's your argument here? Every assembly line worker in 70s Detroit was unionized.
>I know one where the laboring mother can open the door to her room, then step out on to a patio that is separated from the street only by some large bushes.

Oh man, I'm trying to picture walking by those bushes and hearing the screams behind them.

>There is no feeling that the place is ready to lock you in and call social workers over a bit of dark humor.

Not all hospitals, I guess. Ours has a really nice maternity ward and we got along well with the staff, and we had already met all of the doctors prior to delivery. Had one incident where they didn't want to admit us and sent us home for a few hours, but apart from that it was a positive experience.
I voted for a third party last year and I didn't even know that this case happened! Thanks for posting the link.

That said, is anti trust law and loose metaphors to markets the best they could do to attack the two party system? That, and if anti trust law were useful for anything the US corporate landscape would look very different.
Same, and I very politely told them to kick rocks.
I understand that you think this is relevant, but I don't think it adds anything to the conversation. Sure, sometimes fees are reasonable, and sometimes (even if you 'go to a hospital covered by insurance, [see] an obstetrician in [your] plan') you get completely fucked. That's the point here, it's really tough to know what you're "signing up for" and what the costs are, even when they SHOULD be fairly transparent.
As a former resident and frequent visitor to the US, I find it a disturbing trend that more and more government services are segregated into an unpleasant "basic" level of service and a "premium" level of services charging extra fees. This happens for airport screenings, for passport applications, for visas.

Subjectively, it feels to me like in most other countries I live or visit, if a government service is bad, the go to strategy is to try to improve it for everybody. In the US, the go to strategy is to create a separate line for "premium" customers so they get reasonable service instead of having to wait in line with hoi polloi.
My favorite local Chinese joint is like this though. Some items are home runs and some items are wild pitches into the backstop.
It wasn't the reporters that Tronc'd The Tribune Corporation; it was owners that did that. Why am I required to accept the premise that it's labor that's pathologically short-termist, and not management? I reject that premise.
@cloudflare I took the photo in your lede :)
Radical examples from the 1960s: If Bob and Nancy have been living together for a while, invite "Bob and Nancy", not "Bob and Guest"; and this classic:

Q: WHAT DO I SAY TO MY SON'S GAY FRIEND BOB'S LOVER AT MY SON'S WEDDING???

A: How do you do? My name's Judith.
Tether is on Omni layer. Its transactions are registered on the Bitcoin blockchain and I think that makes it traceable.

USD -> USDT and back is traceable using standard investigations of books and banking transcripts of entities dealing with Tether's managers.

Also, Tether is by now an internet-wide phenomenon. It's in the spotlight. And yet it keeps growing.
Where is the video of Twitter's engineers and head of security vomiting twitter's Orwellian/Stalinist data exploitation methods to an investigative journalist from project veritas.

Hacker News BLOCKED the link from being posted. The hacker news algorithm disallowed the link as "fake news". As if it is dangerous.

You call yourself "Hackers" and go along with this silent but deadly censorship. ...
Pathetic

If you immediately discount this because you've discounted the source is a strong indication you're programmed.
DoublePathetic
I mean Tor itself. It uses TLS to connect securely to the nodes.

The code includes a list of Directory Servers, along with the fingerprints of their certs[1], so those are pinned. Then the relays are fetched from a Directory Server, along with their own fingerprints. So those connections are also authenticated.

[1] https://oniongit.eu/dgoulet/tor/blob/42cee727fa281fff4e27f98...
I usually go to Whole Foods in Mountain View and I don't see shelves like that. In fact, I used to complain that some of their things like meat and dairy are not as fresh as I'd like. It has been better roughly since the time of the Amazon acquisition, which surprised me. Maybe it is because of this stock keeping system.

I had never noticed those freshness problems at the Cupertino Whole Foods store, which is one of the nicer ones I have been to.
One can be wrong about events that you witness yourself. We witness things through physical limitations and the biased lens of our own minds.

IMO the correct response is not to reject the source but to give it less weight, add other sources and realise you'll only ever get an approximation of the truth at best.
Our visual systems (flight simulators) lab had a small card cage from Meiko. It held a number of Transputer boards and was used for graphics/rendering algorithm development. I remember a flurry of activity to learn Occam, but interest waned as Transputer development fizzled out. I was an apprentice at the time and didn't get to play with the Meiko box. Other dev work was done on PCs, a VAX 11/750 and a MicroVAX - and I got to play with all those!