skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect that given Facebook's history with patents it has probably been in the works a long time to make this change.
I mean they've completely underinvested in technology and new experiences. The in-store experience and the website feel like they haven't changed in 20 years. Maybe that is part of the Costco charm, but the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" attitude is going to haunt them if they don't change.

Lots of headwinds in the next decade or so: younger consumers aren't driving as much (i.e. to big box stores with giant parking lots in the middle of suburbia), they are moving from suburban to urban centers, they're having fewer kids, buying anything online including perishables has become easy, etc etc.
I don't think the threat of Amazon becoming abusive

The idea of regulating on a hypothetical is insane to me. If Amazon becomes abusive, the US Government will still be able to take them. Let's not start prosecuting pre-crime because Bezos is super rich.
And there's something wrong with laws that make tampering with the equipment a serious crime??? Protest, fine, but don't mess with the equipment, especially since the people messing with it are unlikely to know how to do it safely.
I ran into a claim some years back that the original republican notion of freedom that the US system was based on was "freedom from coercion". With coercion defined as the threat of physical, economic, or other harm.

Thus the point of the government was to protect the citizens from coercion by being an entity that could step in on the side of the lesser party.
> and they are put on the same level here.

Yeah, but this is just a web site. Odds are it won't be around in 5 years, much less 500, so I'm not sure that recency is a problem... this is all just a snapshot of our current time. Which makes you quite correct that it focuses too much on monetary success... but again... it matches the problems of our time.
The way we have been increasing life expectancy is incremental improvements to treatments of diseases. Trying to fix symptoms of aging one by one ends up expensive: We find better treatment which not only extends life span but paves the way for diseases that are harder/more expensive to treat.

The research I am excited about is to fight the aging process itself, which is the root cause of many costly/rough health problems old people have to live through. So if we find a novel way to extend life span and maybe in turn put a limit to the biological age, it would bring down the costs due to less cancer, dementia, etc.

So I’m really excited about the research in life extension. Although even if it works, it won't be easy to apply it 'correctly'.
My eyesight was perfect for 10+ years after Lasik as well. In the last two years...had to return to glasses :-(
> IMO, FreeBSD and variants still don't cut it at this time for desktop.

Sadly, I agree. My experience running FreeBSD on a laptop has been terrible. I do have one ancient laptop running OpenBSD that works perfectly. But due to the smaller number of developers and less enthusiastic support by hardware companies, hardware support is far behind Linux.

On the server, this is less of an issue, because there is less hardware to support, and virtualization, it becomes even easier.
Zephyrus – the forecast in hindsight
Not really. Hydrocarbons are much easier to store and handle. Cars may not need it so much, but as a jet fuel, kerosene is much easier than hydrogen.
> Apple with phones

Apple uses their phone/hardware profits to upend other businesses. What Apple is doing to Spotify is the most recent example. Apple runs their iTunes/Music on a break-even basis. Apple has the dominant smartwatch market share. Apple runs adverts pushing Apple Watch+Apple Music combo. Apple privileges their Music app on the smartwatch and doesn't provide the needed APIs for Spotify to compete on that platform. Apple Music marketshare is growing and might catch up to Spotify soon.
It's one thing to protest knowing you could be arrested. It's quite another to know that you could be killed by a giant machine, and its operator could be "protected" from the consequences of that negligence. Of course that is to be expected in USA, since drivers are constantly so protected, unless they are poor.
How GraphQL Solves the Problem of Sprawling Architecture for the Enterprise
The more complex (advanced) a society becomes, the more specialized its individual members have to become so the longer it takes to produce a unit for a specific function (basic education of people now takes 18 years of their life). With the exponential increase in scientific output (http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/POS/turchFigs/IMG.FIG14.1.GIF) it becomes ever harder for an individual to keep up with multiple fields (in fact, I suspect that as soon as a field becomes _too_ big it automatically branches into new fields because of this).

It would have been possible to read every book in existence on mathematics in a lifetime in the 17th century, but not in the 21st century.
> The bad: package management

> Roughly 20 years ago, this was one of the things that pulled me to Debian.

yep. synaptic was the thing that drew me from FreeBSD to Ubuntu 5.04. It was so clearly the Right Thing. I wanted to go back and say GUYS HAVE YOU SEEN THIS

that and that on FreeBSD, I kept finding myself running Linux binaries under compat, rather than native binaries, because they were actually more stable. sigh.
Amazon is a creature of Wall St. Unlike any other public company, they seem to be able to somehow make investors think about the long term and not care about surprises.

If Walmart tried and failed the Amazon did with Amazon Fresh, the stock would be savaged, for example.

We’re in an era where we are slowly rebuilding the trusts of the 19th century. It’s all about personal relationships and deliberately incompetent regulatory enforcement.
You can't conflate using a special-purpose library with using a fundamental dependency like libc.

It's like claiming you "rewrote Quake in 2 lines" then posting a .bat file with the contents "echo Starting quake lol...\r\nquake.exe"
Yeah--the reality is there will be drivers trying to get through and there will be protesters trying to block the way. Sometimes a driver will see an opening and go for it and a protester will move to block the opening.

Too bad, you jumped in front of a moving car.
This article misses the real issue of "the Amazons" of today: The low-wage workers Amazon has built it's empire on (or, the "gig-economy" of others), and the massive scale, legal tax avoidance schemes only companies with global scale can play with.

If anything, companies of a certain revenue level should be taxed by (localized) revenue, not (globalized) gains. That alone would already go some way to put SMEs on a little more equal footing.

Addendum: In fact, we should tax all companies by a progressive revenue scale.
Actually one could go without that library and code would not be that much bigger. To me it seems it provides an easier way to open secure pages through TLS, but if all one needs is sockets communicating each other, then the usual network libraries are more than enough. Ages ago I've written C network code under Linux that compiled and run under Windows just by changing a couple lines. Not sure if that would be doable today though: at that time Microsoft was forced to include a POSIX compatibility layer, and Winsock itself was not that far from the classic UNIX implementation.
Okay so this isn't totally related, but there's something about the mélange between pirates and techies that just makes my heart sing. I get that this course is just supposed to be fun/a joke... but the cultural kinship between pirates and technologists is actually strangely similar. Maybe MIT isn't structured like a pirate ship, but startups most certainly are. Great read:

https://medium.com/@bagelboy/why-pirates-are-feared-5be709ae...
How about Privateering then? Fair enough if I can’t get a letter of marque, but I want booty and rum!
I think the simplest argument is that if people do not work their whole lives and they live longer, they would cost money instead of save money. They may however provide value to their kids in other ways.
Doge pronunciation: How do you pronounce the name of the shibe doge meme
When this discussion was initially ignited a while back, I had wondered whether I should seek the opinion of my girlfriend regarding this topic.

She is a brilliant software engineer who switched out of CS into another major, despite having top grades.

I finally caved and asked her to read the original memo.

Whilst she found the memo interesting, she mentioned this is the view of a single person and found it ridiculous that it caused such an outcry.

She is all for diversity in tech (and for all industries for that matter) and pointed out that the hypersensitivity nature of CS causes much harm than good.

While we are busy doing roundabout discussions regarding a memo, personal data of millions of people are being leaked, privacy and security of people are in jeopardy because we fail to make high quality software.

It truly sadden both of us that the brilliant minds in our Industry are focused on what should/should not be written in a personal memo, than actually pushing the boundaries of software.

When a thought provoking community such as HN calls for arms every time this topic comes up and turns into a battlefield, I do wonder whether we have already lost the fight for TRUE diversity.
The unexpected twist of the AMP Project
Bezos worked on Wall Street for 8 years before starting Amazon. Judging from the early employee stories, if any change happened it was Bezos mellowing after the first 5-10 years of Amazon.
It definitely slowed them down a lot. Things could be looking very different if there had been no action.
I'm pretty sure he was well compensated, but still - the success he had at Apple was not a consequence of his compensation.

And I don't think he was more expensive than the previous Apple CEO (Gil Amelio?) or any alternative they had at the time.
> Pirate certificate is for entertainment purposes only and does not give the recipient license to engage in piracy or any pirate activities.

Lol / Too bad.
Why does everything need to be turned into a Kindergarten these days?
The website for tracking these bills [1] seems pretty good though. It makes sense to track bills that might affect protests whether or not they're specifically about protests. (And whether or not you agree with them.)

Summarizing a complicated, controversial situation with a single number is always going to get into disputes about definitions. I'd say don't focus on the count() query.

[1] http://www.icnl.org/usprotestlawtracker/
Why archery?
Yea... that's was my sentiment as well. Build a React Native app from scratch and observe your tune changing.
It shouldn't really matter if I want to use it with some other application on Android or to test some routing libraries, the point is that it's not easy to get.
Technical review of Qtum
Who would have thought?! I smell fraud!!!
100% you should.

All of what you have just described isnt very hard in SQL.. coalescing on null, aggregating, etc.

GROUPING SETS() will give you your missing rows.
> Where are the calls about Walmart?

Everywhere you look. They have been criticized for decades about their business practices, the way they treat their employees, their usage of scale to crowd out small-town retail, then jack up prices once they are the only place left in town... all because they are big enough to make it work.

If you haven't heard complaints about Walmart, you haven't been listening.
It takes more energy to charge a battery than can be had back discharging it.

Does it make the battery in your mobile phone useless?
Certainly it feels like Google wants Blogger to die already. Same with the Google Groups.
Albania, Andorra, Armenia. Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Gibraltar, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Macedonia, The Isle of Man, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Norway, Russian Federation, San Marino, Serbia, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, and Vatican City State (Holy See).
From 2019, the UK will be part of this list.

Furthermore, "Europe" as an organisation could mean the European Union, The Council of Europe or even minor entities like the European Broadcasting Union depending on the context.
Somewhere in Eastern Africa, a real pirate chuckles at the idea of earning a computer hacking certificate.
Ketamine is legal for doctors to use on humans in most parts of the world, but most humans object to brain biopsies while alive, or injections directly into the brain while the instruments are monitoring what happens in the skull.

That's one reason that the method of action for plenty of approved treatments for mental health can be "???" - human clinical trials mostly check that it's not going to {kill you, make it worse} and works better than placebo, not "what's going on inside this live human brain", until we get better live monitoring non-invasive tooling for this sort of thing in humans.
In the first picture you can see the one guy reaching for a feather.

I think in the case of the US doing something against the wishes of a tribe of Native Americans, high minded arguments about legal authorities discard a little too much history.
Yes, they are pushing the agenda of not living in a fascist state controlled by a few oligarchs very hard, as you should be as well.
Yo ho ho, the curriculum is lacking pirate speak, yarrr.
Meh, Amazon does good things, many different good things, so we must stop them? If they start abusing their position we can have this discussion, but until then I'll enjoy the good they provide instead..

This seems more like jealousy they're doing so well. Screw that
Walmart has a narrow vertical? In many areas, Walmart is the main place people shop for everything, from groceries to clothes to electronics to tools to hobby equipment.

I would also not really consider search and ads narrow verticals. Those are broad industries that drive and direct large scale consumer behavior.
I've come to see depression partially as a semi-stable brain-state with reinforcing feedback. Some of that feedback may be chemical while some is psychological (thought or feeling). It may even persist once the major stimuli that got to that state have been removed. As such, any intervention that pops the patient out of that state could be permanent so long as the other things that led there don't happen again. Or if those things are still present, any intervention will be short lived.
I doubt most Chinese even know what Google is by this point and they certainly don't need it.
Great read! The bit about the time stuck out at me. With Internet access comes `ntp`, but without it... just how well tuned is the timekeeping circuit in cellphone chipsets, and how much did that even matter?
Cylinders only look like squares in orthographic projection, so my guess is that that's the intention.
> constantly so protected

huh? Can you cite some examples where drivers are protected where they wouldn't be if it was not for USA( or not poor).
This is similar to the long-running argument distinguishing “transpile” and “compile”. It’s a pointless disctintion in most contexts rife with technicalities and ad-hoc definitions. Irrespective of what you believe, I think you can see a substantial difference between say React Native and a Cordova app, right?
Before I clicked, I thought it would be a course about the warez scene.
They made massive capital investments that allowed Amazon to bypass carrier routing.

So they use government subsidy to deliver to expensive addresses (USPS), UPS to handle exceptions, (and to tie up capacity from competitors) and job out delivery to cut rate services whenever possible.

Few other retailers do that. A retailer like Willams Sonoma has one warehouse in northern Mississippi and one in Nevada, close to UPS/Fedex hubs. They probably get 3 day delivery for 50% of orders, but can not commit to anything.
"Seeing an opening and going for it" sounds an awful lot like driving too fast when there are people around.
This is actually a concern of mine as well.... that for the user, facebook’s act of removing the patents file could be worse than if the patents file was never even there to begin with. That removing the file doesn’t revert it to potentially implicit, but instead is seen as explicitly revoking. But I don’t think that’s how it should go, especially since they also switched over to MIT license in the process. But I’m also not a lawyer and probably have zero credibility writing about any of this.
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https://www.quora.com/Did-pirates-1600s-1700s-use-weapons-li...
'a fool and his money are soon parted' will always hold true no matter what you use for currency.
> After properly setting it up, do sporadic updates when necessary without worrying that the whole thing falls appart.

Do not get me wrong, I love that about FreeBSD as well.
But a good GNU/Linux distro can do that, too, say, Debian or CentOS.
All of the free Unix-like systems are light years ahead of Windows in terms of not spontaneously mutating and breaking things.

I always bite my tongue when people say they like Windows because it "just works", because Windows just as often "just stops" working for no discernible reason. And troubleshooting on Windows is so much more difficult, that surprisingly often, the "solution" is to wipe the system and reinstall everything.
Not surprising, but the USA also had laws like this being enforced in the 90's.
It's an interesting course, I may do it. Check https://www.atlanticenergysolutions.com for the latest technology.
On BSD (including Mac OS X), you can also type ^t at dd, and it will print status information.

If that doesn't work, do stty status ^t first.

This is SIGINFO; it's been in BSD for a long time, but isn't in Linux and is relatively unknown nowadays. Quite a few BSD command line programs will respond to it.
I would totally latch onto something like this if it were available to me. Not that there is any point to it, but chasing little achievements is fun. I took Archery twice in college and sailing sounds like a lot of fun.
The FBI’s failure in Florida could cast a shadow on its Russia investigation
Online Education Leaves Too Many Students Behind
I'm curious what type of replication you use.
Honestly, small knowledgeable shops owned by enthusiasts for the merch are the ones with the least to worry about from Amazon. It's the Walmarts and the Best Buys where the staff is basically untrained in their products that Amazon beats.

I go to Amazon when I know what I want. I go to a store when I need staff to tell me what I want.

One day Amazon will finally learn to curate their products in some vaguely coherent sense of order instead of an infinite pile of semi-differentiated search results and then Best Buy is really screwed.
Show HN: Cargo – A minimal browser with almost no UI. Contributors wanted!
> It seems insane to me that people would want government to do healthcare.

Like many systems, the Canadian system is a single-payer system. Each province (read state) decides what procedures will/will not be covered (essentially "the policy"). A doctor submits claims and gets paid (roughly... some provinces have caps). Doctors do not call the gov't to get pre-approval/approval for any course of treatment. Your doctor decides you need an MRI... it's covered. Need that appendix out... it's covered. Need a blood test... it's covered. Need to pop a baby out... its covered.

Think of it as an insurance system that just works the vast majority of the time.

Note that there are treatments/procedures that aren't covered and you'd have to pay out of pocket for them (the only one I've ever been made aware of was a special drug/thingy that improved the odds of a spinal fusion working... $5K a pop and you'd likely need 2). There are even some less common blood tests that aren't covered (no clue what... just something I heard). So... it's not all sunshine and rainbows.

BUT... it's way way better than the US system.

Also... it keeps people out of court. No one gets sued to cover someone's medical expenses (you broke my kids arm). And it keeps malpractice costs down (no need for the malpractice insurance to cover future medical expenses).

In general it just makes Canadians nicer people :)
I've used jq and jp/JMESPATH quite a bit.

I love jq, and use it more often than JMESPATH. However, recently I've noticed that I arrive at "the solution" I need more quickly with JMESPATH.

In retrospect, JMESPATH's documentation and examples have been more useful for me than jq's (docs/examples).
I personally believe that world needs a "wikipedia" for maps, not another hard to understand tool or technology. Yes. Technology matters of course, but not everyone is an engineer or entrepreneur.
I can't edit my original comment anymore, but I'd like to clarify that I mistook the claim of the comment to which I was replying as "association doesn't imply Damore espoused a genetic predisposition between men and women with regard to engineering", which is something other commenters are making in this thread.

I'm not on the bandwagon of "guilt by association"; Damore's claims are ridiculous on their face.
Cool! Thanks! This is a thing I wish every program on every OS would support.
Freedom means having the choice not to buy and have health insurance? Cause who needs it? But you have mandatory car insurance in most states. However much time I spend in the USA, I just can't wrap around my head around these ”freedoms”. What I conclude, after having also lived in Germany, is that one really needs to live and experience this socialism to have a feeling how "free" that actually feels. Most US folks are boxed into their own idea of freedom from having basic necessities from a theoretical perspective knowing no other better way to live so much so that they would actively dismantle whatever protections they enjoy now.
>Finally, there’s one huge issue that FreeBSD finally fixed in 11.1. The kernel was not compiled with IPSEC in 10.x, and in 11.0 they compiled it with IPSEC but not IPSEC_NAT_T. It took until 11.1 for IPSec VPNs to finally be usable out of the box.

Thank you! I wouldn't have known about this without your comment. I need to revisit my VPN configuration, getting it to work on FreeNAS 10.1 was a huge hack.
Fully agree to all but (3). From personal experience (here in Spain), every year it is getting more difficult for me to not buy from them (yes, I "religiously" avoid giving companies I consider harming society a dime, if I can...)
For a hydrogen based infrastructure we need 3x as much electricity than for one which directly uses electricity via batteries. You cannot use hydrogen in cars already built - unless you want to sacrifice your rear passenger row for an add-on tank (H2-tanks are quite bulky). So it is new cars anyway. Making them directly electric is the way more efficient way.