skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without knowing you to me it seems that maybe your biggest obstacle is letting go of the idea that money/salary equals a measure of personal or professional development. If what you want to do is switch industries and learn new stuff, you should do exactly that and be ok with whatever salary comes with that change. If for some reason your family requires you to be making a very high salary that situation needs to be adjusted to be way more reasonable anyways. Overall I think that maybe you are feeling trapped by a high salary in a not so positive employment situation - I personally wouldn't qualify that as being rich. Perhaps think about using whatever assets you have amassed to change your situation while scaling down your financial obligations so you can take any job that looks exciting.
As far as I've seen, every chain bookstore has tried this, and most have subsequently gone belly up. It's a little like RadioShack going into cellphones. Maybe you can keep your head above water for a minute, but there's an existential risk in pivoting away from your raison d'etre.
Contextual functions maybe? For orthagonal, it's often used to mean "unrelated". Immutable could be "fixed", "constant" or any number of other more pedestrian terms.
> I currently have it bumped up quite a bit for Chinese

It really annoys me when websites/apps keep the same font size for Chinese that they use for English. 8pt Chinese is awful to read.
You don’t understand that quote. It’s saying 70% of the time when people think reinforcement learning is the solution it’s not. Not saying that 30% of all problems are solvable by reinforcement learning. Sometimes I can’t tell if people here you included are intentionally misreading things to further their agenda.
Would you call a car mechanic elitist for talking about carburetors and alternators?
Institutional knowledge and loyalty. Your entire staff can’t be flex workers if you expect customers to be treated properly (see: Apple retail for how it’s done well).

Even still, see how Amazon’s flex/contractors handle deliveries (ie atrociously, as there is no incentive to care) vs UPS (a union shop).

You have to align incentives. Your employees’ success is your success. Otherwise, close up shop and go home. You’ve already lost.
It does not totally invalidate the benefits you mentioned but from what I've heard there are mature commercial services that map consumer IPs to meatspace IDs (name, phone number, address, household income, credit score, etc). The ad industry is both a consumer and a producer of these databases for obvious reasons. Highly likely that multiple levels of law enforcement have access to them as well.
It says the person shut it off and claimed it was an Antminer s5, not that the FCC verified what was causing the interference. Was there some additional 3rd party confirmation of what it actually was?
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Is this a fact or something you just assume?
Java without generics used to compile pretty fast.

When you add generics, lifetimes, and type inference, the amount of work the compiler does grows significantly. It allows to check much more interesting invariants, leading to the "if it compiles, it runs correctly" effect.
Personally I would consider being even more strict on medical device testing. My mother who had a stroke about a decade ago was using a device designed to test the PT/INR levels of her blood. The stroke had made her body less capable of properly balancing her blood, so she has to constantly test her levels to ensure she doesn't suffer from either fatal bleeding or internal clotting.

The device she was using had to be recalled after years of use because it could report a low value, causing her to over-balance her medication into dangerous levels. Not only that, but they chose not to inform my mother after the recall and made no efforts to fix the issue.

Needless to say I was not pleased.
I doubt they will, they haven't complained to/about steamspy.
I think your point about offering what your competitors are not is spot on: a hub that facilitates community and study, events with widely known authors and public figures, and so forth. Portland's Powells book store in the Pearl District nails this, with multiple stories of books that seemingly never end and centered right in the middle of the hustle and bustle of the city. I hope B&N replicates this because I would hate to see them go and it's why any book I buy is only from one of these chains.
I don't feel like that's a great analogy. "Fuel cell" vs "gas tank" is closer. There's not a simple one or two word commonly used equivalent for carburetor. I'm not opposed to specific terms when there aren't simpler alternatives. "Exponential", for example, doesn't bother me. Orthagonal, though is irritating. Why not just say "unrelated" or "not correlated", etc.
This looks super useful, when are you planning on releasing a mobile app?

Need to be able to obsessively check the price when I’m out and about
By the way, I saw it on the top games chart on the site, but "Terraria" is a really fun game. Runs on Mac and Linux, too.

https://terraria.org/

It's like a 2D platform version of minecraft.
I hear that that's true of other things in medical practice as well. For eg: are surgical procedures validated by any kind of controlled clinical trails?
It's all about what definition of liberal you are subscribing to.
It's User snooping. Telemetry. Spyware.

"Oh look, everyone else is doing it"

Dark patterns make them join the dark side.
Sure, but why does curling need to separate men and women?

Seriously, of all things, this one eludes me completely.
For clustering MySQL, take a look at Vitess. It was developed at YouTube and recently adopted into CNCF:

https://www.cncf.io/blog/2018/02/05/cncf-host-vitess/

(Disclosure: I'm executive director of CNCF.)
Amazon's primary customer has shifted to the 3rd-party seller, i.e., it's not profit off water coolers that allows low prices.

Looking at Amazon's financials, they make more profit off of selling advertising (lightning deals, search ads & "related" sponsored listings) than margin off sales.

It really shows when you look at the lightning deals and find product after product with artificially inflated reviews. Amazon has zero interest in fixing this because customers are its product not its customers.

Hard to see how a traditional retailer can begin to compete with this.
The faraday cage hat crowd arrives
I immediately thought about that episode as well. We need to prepare for the future of fake news on steroids when this gets even better. It's really scary.
Why I don't use my real photo when messaging with customers on my website
The app would likely be more expensive to develop and maintain than hiring a few seasonal part-timers per store (2000 people at, let's face it, minimum wage for a month is about $4M that immediately converts to sales numbers just by being conscious enough to operate a register - that's cheaper than ~10 software devs in America (at least two of which are specialists - iOS/Android devs), a manager, an office, their equipment and their benefits packages that takes a year to 18-months to produce anything at all). Maybe outsourcing it would be cheaper... but even then, your conversion rate is going to be lower than just hiring a damned cashier.

And apparently B&N was against even spending for that, even during heavy sales periods. If I were a shareholder before I wouldn't be after reading this news - I'd be going and buying Amazon stock. And a lot of this explains why Amazon has been crushing Wal-Mart - people are just done with going to stores and waiting in lines, looking around at empty cashier stations in frustration when they can point, click, and have something on their doorstep the next day with less effort.
At the end of the article the author makes it very clear what she thinks is happening: they are deliberately scuttling the company and attempting to wring it dry in the process.
Don't believe it's wrong to say you are a very niche customer. Their selection of Hemingway isn't much better, but that's because they've got limited floor space.

Not sure how they could solve your specific issue unless they had much bigger locations.
I've heard from friends that https://calibre-ebook.com is the "go to" solution for this kind of thing
It will surely be yet another education on why "DRM is defective by design".

Any of the free (consumer first) content loaded will continue to work.
I was speaking more about the concept of art from a philosophical point of view. I don’t see how a machine can “check” if a work of art is beautiful, a necessarily subjective and human process. Certainly given detailed enough criteria an algorithm might be able to predict whether a viewer might be likely to think a work of art is beautiful, but the criteria themselves are implicitly or explicitly derived from humans — computers have no inherent sense of beauty.

The whole idea of using the terms “correct” and “check” with things like art seems flawed out of the gate.
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That, or, as the author makes clear at the end, the execs do not care about saving the company and just want to make as much as they can for themselves before it all falls apart.
> embedded field [...] companies should be [...] compelled to release their embedded keys and source code

awesome! my botnet malware that exploits and roots your smart meter or set top box can now install new firmware with a permanent backdoor and nothing will complain because all the malware binaries are signed - by the manufacturer's key, no less - so they must be secure, right?
You can compile rust to it.
> Graphing lede,lead shows that 'lead' has always been in the lead with respect to usage.

Because 'lead' has many other meanings and sees more usage in entirely different contexts.
> every time I see a team transitioning from Mongo to something else, they transition to a relational database

They are repeating the discoveries that people made in the 1970s about storing data in flat files vs. relational models.

Know history or be doomed to repeat it and all that.
Comparing the level of customer care at a bookstore with that of an Apple store is pretty unfair. Apple makes hundreds or thousands of margin dollars per customer; a bookstore is probably closer to $10.
If this was a consumer product, sure. Tractors aren't consumer products and come with manuals for a reason.

You can't both try and chase the premium for a professional product, while locking down the professionals using it.
Yes, it can. The case and point is that you need to control where those moments of imprecision happen, and using fixed point a fixed point (often integer/long) representation is absolutely worth the effort because it's not much effort at all and you DEFINITELY care about when your money calculations involved rounding.
I'm pretty sure the answer is yes, as your app would be considered "a covered work":

A "covered work" means either the unmodified Program [Anki's library] or a work based on the Program [your app].

By comparison, if the library were licensed under the LGPL you would only be responsible for distributing copies of the library if you modfied them. Your own work would be unaffected.
Don't you know? It adds to the flavor. NYC pizza is the best because of the delectable italian sweet-palm-sweat mixed with copious amounts of soot-smog-smoked flavor. You just can't get that kind of cuisine where the air is clarified. I mean, who likes clarified anyways? Clarified butter? Please!! Your ingredients have to marinate, what better way than mixing with the NYC's gastronomous gas molecules?
And here I was thinking that Apple charged too much for memory. Ouch that’s some steep prices. I wouldn’t mind hearing from real customers how it compared to x86 server costs for them.
> We "cured" hard physical labor and traditional life patterns with lots of walking and standing. How's that working out for us ?

I'll bite -- terribly. Many of the millennial generation and younger are actively starting to revolt against these sedentary lifestyles. It's why fitness and fitness culture is so marketable these days, much more than I remember. I think the studies that came out showing the millennial were the first generation since the industrial revolution to have a decreased life expectancy versus the prior generation was a real wakeup call.
Anything with mains power can set your house on fire.
I definitely think this is part of the story. Most people need to upgrade their systems to support VR, but it is becoming prohibitively expensive to get a decent card.
It uses CompactPCI internally? How delightfully antiquated.
What's sad about Barnes and Noble is that the book industry never saw the ebook and online buying coming. So they kept the price of books high, pressured by big name authors who were use to the big royalty checks, and they can't move away. Imagine if B&N could compete on price with Amazon, and the booksellers had to take what the market is willing to pay.
there is the doctrine of an 'attractive nuisance' [0] though, which gives precedent for making owners liable for damages caused to third parties by some dangerous object they did not sufficiently prevent access to... that easily hackable by the user marketing checkbox, combined with a sharp and pointy heavy agricultural spinning tool of death might count?

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attractive_nuisance_doctrine
Using IMU as alternative to GPS is a great complement. In fact, we are using it too but the problem is that the system needs to be corrected often which was highlighted in the article too.
If management is assuring you repeatedly that there will be no layoffs, it's a good sign that layoffs are coming.

If management is assuring you repeatedly that specific people will not be laid off, it's a good sign that those people will be laid off.

At least this is what always seems to happen, IME.
There are also also many use cases where you don't want to "store" something at all, just compute the value (eg: a shopping cart that is not yet a purchase), and you don't want to to either 1. duplicate implementations or 2. wait for a network request to your database to complete.
It sounded to me like he was selling CDs with each refurbished computer. If that is in fact the case, since each computer already comes with a license for Windows, there would be no real theft or piracy.
A better comparison would be Starbucks considering the margins. Not everyone needs to have Apple margins to compensate their retail employees above minimum wage (considering the $14 million dollars Barnes and Noble executives have siphoned off already).
This only stops people who don't know how to "right click"
Yes, I suppose I'll try my naive TLA+ approach of modeling what I can as I document various parts of the system and see where it gets me. P looks like an interesting experiment to dabble in.
Is it so unrealistic? When I wanted a copy of _Beowulf_ in 2003 or so, what I did was I wandered into my local Borders and found it, and compared 5 or 6 different books; I ultimately settled on Heaney's translation which I liked the bits I read the most of, and then picked the volume with the most additional historical essays providing context. And _Beowulf_ is surely less read than Homer.
> makes them less innovative and stagnant places to live. You need to be able to breath, not be stifled.

I accept the critique about cost of living, especially the Bay Area for those with families, but this statement lacks a coherent line of reasoning, and seems like a compound non-sequitir. The vast majority of innovations in recent times have emerged from cities.
Richer click and copy url doesn’t even work on google search results anymore. You just get the google analytics redirection crap. Bleargh.
I wish it was true but come on, Linux may be good for many uses but simple things like decent font rendering still aren't up to par with Windows or Mac so forget desktop Linux for the masses.
> I could tell you horror story about pg not have an official replication system until 2011 when pg 9.0 landed.

I could tell you a horror story that happened to me just few weeks ago, where MariaDB just corrupted data out of nowhere due to a bug[1]. This happened multiple times and costed us multiple hours of work (including service being down) each time it happened until we realized the issue wasn't hardware but a software bug.

If you ask me, I take PostgreSQL approach of not having a broken replication before 2011 than MySQLs still corrupting data.
Data usually is the most valuable asset a company has.

[1] https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-10977
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I presume this was only messin' with the folks next door or something? Could a device like this impact t-mobile in a meaningful way? If it was just one or two customers, t-mobile managed to get the FCC to actually go find this thing??
that's a real freaky Santa gif
This is the flip-side of creative destruction. Amazon and ecommerce in general have given us a world where brick and mortar retail often just can't compete. 99% of these layoffs and restructurings, etc. are just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. The writer of this article seems to think that the executives are just trying to milk the company all the way down, but it's not even clear to me there's a better option. You can't lose money indefinitely, you can't compete in the sector you grew huge in (because it's rapidly dying), and so what's the end game here? Yes, they could handle this better, and maybe they overpay their executives (although what experienced executive would even want this job unless the pay was awesome?), but this is just quibbling. Whether it happened now or happened in six months or two years, this is inevitable.

Now, it's definitely sad when people lose their jobs, but that's kind of the devil's bargain we've made with capitalism.

Some of the startups that grow out of HN will be in new sectors that only add to the economy, but many will replace, supplant, cannibalize, and dominate companies and industries that aren't strategically or operationally capable of adapting. That means a LOT of people are going to lose their jobs in the process.

It sucks, but I'm not sure there's a better option. Maybe the best we can do is try and structure a society where getting laid off from a decent job isn't so damaging and scary on a personal level.
I think you have a rather odd idea of what open source means.

Community ownership and independent standards committees are not a requirement of open source. As long as forking is allowed, as a project owner, you're within your rights to veto any change. Consider Python ("Benevolent Dictator for Life") and Linux. Or for a smaller project, consider Elm.

It's not unusual for employees and volunteers to work together. Furthermore, the "volunteers" are often employees of a different company.
That doesn't seem to really validate the company's decision not to hire any seasonal workers.
I'm not sure what this is referring to. Generic types don't get monomorphized when exported in libraries, they get compiled to intermediate-language metadata that is then used by downstream consumers to monomorphize as needed. Furthermore I'm pretty sure Rust doesn't allow cyclic dependencies between crates, so if foo somehow depended on bar then bar couldn't depend on foo.
Long Abandoned Soviet Tech Might Help China Land on the Moon
Of all the criticisms one might make of Walmart, being slow to check people out I'd say would be about last on my list.
Not the one near me (in Phoenix, near Arizona State University). It's a major anchor in a shopping center, and is busy every time I'm ever in there.

The employees are also really helpful. This Christmas, I was trying to find some books as a christmas gift, and the staff made a bunch of suggestions based on books that they had actually personally read.

Sidenote: finding appropriate books for 8-14 year old girls is really freaking hard.
Hey, shit store: stop selling shit.
> Hard to see how a traditional retailer can begin to compete with this.

Probably an administration actually interested in antitrust regulation.
You can serve infinite pages like this without JS or weird text issues: fan-pages[dot]herokuapp[dot]com
JPMC always seemed quite progressive - for instance they embraced open source and open standards, with AMPQ and the Apache Qpid message broker which was part of their tech stack and I worked on for a while there, commiting the code I wrote at the bank to the ASF repository. this is very different from a decade or so ago, when any hint of open source was seen as a possible risk...!
How are "air drops" like BCH handled in CoinTracker for tax management purposes, given the IRS has yet to issue any guidance on how they should be taxed?
> I think you are referring to the 100MB RAM limit, but that’s not a hard limit, it’s more of a bad default. The `allowDiskUse` option lets MongoDB write intermediate results to the disk (which is exactly what SQL databases are doing).

While technically true, this isn't an apples-to-apples comparison. MongoDB's memory limit, as best I can tell --
and please correct me if I'm wrong -- is based on the contents of all documents and operations in the pipeline. Documents in MongoDB tend to be larger, so you can run into that limit faster than one might anticipate.

In Postgres, you have the equivalent of "work_mem". It defaults to 4MB, but most production installation will bump this up. Regardless, this limit is per operation (a join, a sort, etc), not per query. And often times the operation is against a specific fields, as opposed to the entirety of the record contents.

> I really don’t see a difference between what you can do with MongoDB and SQL. I can’t say much more without knowing specifically what impediments you have in mind, but I would certainly like to hear more. For example, why do you cite results caching and lack of real-time requirements?

This might be my own hangups or just us fighting our own specific problems, but I've never been happy with the latency I see come out of the aggregate pipelines we've created. I also don't like what they do to the server's memory.
I don't feel that you've really engaged the arguments of the post, particularly the failure to hire any seasonal employees for the holiday season and the "ship from store" change.
The floor space is anecdote, but I have yet to see a B&N that didn’t conform to that in the last few years. As for the cafe profits see articles like http://www.nrn.com/onsite/barnes-noble-expand-food-and-bever..., downscaled cafes already bring in 10% of all sales for the store, the profit margins on those must be much higher than books.
I don't give a shit and I read it as 30% of the time it works, so I guess i'm just a dumbass? :(
Not really sure.

The problem with bookstores is your inventory only ever increases. They probably made some cost calculation that carrying multiple translations of Homer translated to a few more sales a year. It's a hard business. I've wandered in there and found esoteric history, the kind that I was surprised they even carried. You add Homer #2, something like that gets axed.

Maybe they could stop selling the kind of books that are really big for a year and then nobody ever reads again, but it can't be easy.
> It sucks, but I'm not sure there's a better option. Maybe the best we can do is try and structure a society where getting laid off from a decent job isn't so damaging and scary on a personal level.

Maybe we need to acknowledge that we're moving towards having a society where "everyone has a job that earns them their living" is untenable, because there will be less work for humans to do than humans to do it, and we have to find a different kind of social contract to survive on.
You should read back on some of the older threads here on HN where AMP is heralded as the best thing Google has done in a long time.