skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am honestly quite surprised that Amazon warehouses haven't experienced a wave of workplace shootings. They're really a recipe for how to construct a place primed for them. During the 1990s there were several high-profile workplace shootings at US postal offices. Originally everyone presumed it was just isolated incidents, mentally ill people, etc. But in the years that followed, once people had calmed down and the situation could actually be analyzed, the truth was quite different.

The shootings had a cause. Those post offices had paired human beings with automated machines and slowly increased their expectation of performance of the humans to match the machines. They cut breaks, they expected humans to keep up with the machines (the machines would sort mail, for example, and kick out things its OCR scanners couldn't recognize for a human to deal with), and they made it clear that the humans weren't valuable employees... they were an annoying inefficiency in the system that hadn't been optimized away yet.

That puts people under immense pressure. And while some people might be able to handle immense pressure, it is fundamentally incorrect to expect large groups of people to handle it. Large groups will have people who will crack. This is as certain as gravity, and those who seek to ignore it just as ludicrous.
As a matter of fact, you are now expanding on exactly the point I was making (or part of it anyway) -- in some places, of which Zimbabwe is an example, agricultural problems are caused by political issues. Normally it is a good place to grow stuff. The same just is not the case in, say, Sahel, and attempts to grow enough food using old methods and old crops just lead to deforestation, drought and generally more problems.

And while you personally may not mind GMO use, there are a lot of people, some of whom can negatively affect those countries, who, out of sheer ignorance as far as we can say at this time, very much do object to GMO use regardless of labeling.
>>The USA will be more and more seen as an unreliably business partner

By who? ZTE already admitted they screwed up. USA can essentially blackball any company in the world, just ask Deripaska, and EUis likely to follow if USA sanctions aren't enough.
That reminds me of an infamous episode from my hometown's history: the surprise 'Welcome' sign installed by the county's Art Commission. It was widely panned and ended up being taken down after two months. Looking back at it now, the sign was indeed somewhat tacky, but the perception that the county had done this without seeking local input is what really drove the vitriol.

[0]: https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Saying-Goodbye-to-Castro...
[1]: https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2011/07/22/castro-valley-canoe-...
ETH Dapps Are Finally Gaining Momentum
Well governments do subsidise research quite a lot (NIH et al).

Putting caps on prices without doing something about research costs is just going to kill research. All the big pharma companies are laying off scientist every week because even with uncapped prices the returns are so low that it is not worth spending the money to develop new drugs.

A more productive approach might be to look into why drug development has become so expensive. It is certainly not because pharma companies have suddenly become greedier.
Web apps got "first rate" treatment with the original iPhone. Remember how that worked out?
What if you work at the airport?
> If the workers don't like it they can work elsewhere

Note that the submitted article is from the UK, where the workers might not be able to work elsewhere, and where they may have had some element of compulsion through the current benefit system to apply for and take jobs at Amazon.
And for some reason one can only buy two sizes of socks. For shoe sizes 6-12 (regular) and 12-16 (large). A sock that fits 6 through 12 shoes sizes? Capitalism failure.
All of those things make getting/holding a job harder.

None of them make it impossible.

I never claimed life is fair, but does unfairness really justify criminality?

Also, as the underlying discussion is "why might honest people need to steal food?", it's not very reasonable to include felony convictions as the first item on your list.
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Python String Objects Implementation
Perhaps that's the rub? Had those same well-educated, high earning folks pursued procreation instead of education and careers in their formative years, the infertility later in life wouldn't be a concern (and likely more of a blessing).
In my pretty untrained opinion, it feels like something that outputs vector images might well be trained using reinforcement learning, since it seems like the problem can be well modeled with a policy: "given what I want to produce and what I've produced so far, the next vector object I want to draw is x"
If politicians are denied chance to get silently wealthy on their positions, we will have different kind of politicians: not relatively benign fat cats who are after nothing but money, but ideologically explosive 'great leaders' who want to change the world in the name of their 'great' ideas (there won't be much reason to go into politics otherwise, if you can't make much cash there). Do you really want any of them?

Corruptioners are the best kinds of politicians you may have.
There are ways to make Xcode 9.3 run on macOS Sierra, but I wouldn't recommend using them if you can avoid it.
> Amazon is about convenience and variety first, followed closely by price. If you want to drive to Costco and buy the bulk-version of the few choices they have then yes they will be much cheaper.

I feel like that's pretty revisionist. For a very long time, shopping at Amazon was about price first, variety a close second, and convenience a very distant third. I doubt so many people would have developed a habit of shopping there so much if the advantages were truly "convenience and variety" first.

Amazon's prices have gotten much less competitive the last several years, which has disrupted the value proposition that caused many people to choose it.
You should have said something like "note that the Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office, albeit less known to the general public, also lives in the building", which is technically true.
Coupon collector's problem
Having watched new gas lines go into my neighborhood last summer, with non-trenching, small-scale directional drilling/boring, I can only imagine at the tangled mess some places may be or be becoming.

Here, the gas company (contractor of same, really) put in detection wires so that the location of the new, plastic pipes can be sensed. However, the contractor ran them in the most convenient fashion for them, meaning often on angles from a single starting point, and also rather close to the surface in places. Their are minimum depths they are supposed to maintain at various positions from the main to the meter. I'm not sure they always did so. Some homeowners who landscape or garden more aggressively, may be in for a surprise.
Airport transit investments are, sadly, incredibly hard to justify. Since airports tend to be located in far-flung, less-populated parts of cities (or entirely outside of cities), it faces the deadly combination of being expensive to build (greater length/mileage of line) and having low ridership (relative to the rest of the transit system).

It's a highly salient point of failure for visitors, and generally is bad PR. But besides looking bad, it's not clear that investing in single-seat-to-terminal trains to the airports are actually the best use of very limited dollars.

The JFK AirTrain for example has a ridership of ~11,000 per day. There's an argument to be made that those riders have greater economic impact than average, but ultimately that ridership resembles some of the more far-flung residential neighborhood subway stations (see: Graham St L, Bergen St F, 145th St 1 in Harlem, etc).

Compare that with parts of the system that are in dire need of maintenance/renovation with much greater ridership (see: Herald Square - 125,000 riders a day, Union Square - 106,000 riders a day, Times Sq - 202,000 riders a day).

In a world where costs are under control and funding abundant, I am all in on airport links, but right now? Right now I'm not convinced this is where money should be going, as much as it sucks for someone who flies a lot like me.
If it takes off, you could do a free 5 minute intro feed + a paid 1 hr detailed feed (which might be enough to satisfy the HN craving while commuting/doing chores/etc.).

I'd recommend trying out assigning numbers to the stories (eg. 1 of 10) as they are introduced to give more separation between stories / comments. Or maybe one voice does the story summary and the other the comments. Without paying close attention it seems to all blend together.
I'm glad you found the course beneficial.

Regarding...

> "I'm sorry that you left on day 6."

..., just to clarify, I previously stated ...

"I stayed the full 10 days but the course didn't get any better by the end."

It was the GP who stayed for 6 days.

Regarding...

> "If you can't do Metta, then you will benefit from finding out why you can't do it."

I have no problem in accessing feelings of compassion, I just don't want to be forced to do it. In my opinion, obligation can take the joy out of anything, and forced love doesn't make any sense. As soon as we seek to control love we kill it. It's far better to be remove the barriers that hold you back from experiencing it, and just let it happen naturally (again, just in my opinion).

The main issue I had with the course was that Goenka was steering the experience towards a certain set of interpretations of the experience. What I wanted was to be taught the technique and then be left alone to find what it uncovered. In my opinion, meditation is a personal experience, and I did not think it helped to frame the experience in the way Goenka did, especially as the people going through the retreat are likely to be in a vulnerable position (isolated, limited human interaction, limited time to adapt to new experiences). For me, attending the course was a mistake, one that I only grew from as I overcame the damage it caused through finding other teachers that I could connect with, but that being said, if you found the course beneficial I'm glad for you, I'm not trying to diminish your experience. I hope you can continue to find personal insight through meditation.
> If Apple's review board feels the app is trash, it will be rejected as such

Apple is not as strict here as you're supposing. While Apple's review guidelines do say that they reserve the right to reject apps during the review process if they're ugly or don't work well, in reality this is almost never the case.
No, I'm not. You're projecting your overly simple-minded model of the economy and the world onto me.
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Damn.

512MB wasn't even enough for my WinXP box because the softeware apart from the OS became more demanding with time.
Slack Notification with CloudWatch Alarms and Lambda
I wonder if this is why Blizzard has refused to port Overwatch to the Mac; even though there are more graphically-intensive games available for macOS, and all other games by Blizzard themselves, but why are they holding back on Overwatch? Is it maybe because they can't implement their "anti-cheating" [spyware] as easily?
Thanks for the info, do you know if they allow people to come in on their own? I don't really want to try to get my doctor to refer me.
It's interesting in that he was right about when Moore's law would end. Maybe off by a couple years, but pretty dead on.
'Tunguska'-Size Asteroid Makes Surprise Flyby of Earth
Looks like Balaji (Earn CEO) is joining Coinbase as the CTO. So this is potentially a straight acqui-hire.
People are really, really good at assuming that their experience of just about anything is a representative sample. And because their experiences are subjectively pretty important to them (naturally) they must be objectively important and relevant in the grand scheme of things as well.
Their employers should pay them more or buy them tickets. They've been pushing, instead, for a subsidy [1]. But at the end of the day, that's still using lower-income New Yorkers' wages to subsidize a system which principally (though not exclusively) benefits higher-income New Yorkers.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/12/nyregion/train-to-jfk-sco...
The Alfa is still the fastest thing below the waves thanks to lead cooled fast reactors. They solve the coolant loss issues.
Say Porsche implemented something in the cars firmware that did just that. Porsche in the car market, like Apple in the smart phone market, isn't even remotely close to monopoly, so regulation would be extremely heavy handed and unwarranted.

You as a developer could apply pressure by not supporting iOS. You said yourself in another response your app is very niche and has no competition, if you supported Android only your customer's would also have the opportunity to vote with their dollars and switch to Android.

Inconvenient browser selection on one platform is a problem the market can fix, the government isn't needed.
Is Bitcoin really a bubble?
>All the big pharma companies are laying off scientist every week because even with uncapped prices the returns are so low that it is not worth spending the money to develop new drugs.

You paint such a sad, desperate picture, but based on their numbers, it sounds like they are doing it to save a buck. Look at those profit margins. 10-43 percent on billions of investment. I should be so lucky.

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-28212223

Did you know the US government isn't allowed to negotiate drug prices for medicare and medicaid? They (we) just pay whatever the companies want to charge.
Attitude and being inflexible.

I'm probably guilty of both O:-)
I think that it's intuitive for people working with large datasets/numerical data, and not otherwise. You can cheerfully write loops in Python for most problems, except the set of problems solved by Numpy.

Mind you, I cut my teeth on R, so needing to use loops in other languages confused the hell out of me at first.
If you work in a latino painting or landscaping crew, tough guy stuff like this is expected and socially enforced. Or say Alaskan fishermen. It's one of tradeoffs you make for an uber-bule-collar job. But these jobs also have benefits that others don't have: when you leave the job site, you don't have to think about the job (like teachers do) and your skills and experience don't lose relevance (like IT) and you don't have to suffer fools (like service staff). But yeah - the notable tradeoff for these jobs is you get valued (and devalued) by your physical productivity and reliability.
Great point, I was about to say the same.

Looks like it does lose cents and can't be used in production.

from the source:

divide(a, b) {
return a / b

},
I have had absolutely no problems with package delivery.

The one thing I returned was a breeze.
Your optimization ideas are a vertical scrollbar, which hides them off of the screen to maintain tile size. I would attempt to allude to the fact there are more pieces of hidden data if possible, or ideally refactor the design paradigm completely, hiding data is usually a pattern worth avoiding, especially when it's so valuable as yours. Well done on the aesthetic overall quite well done!
Those product pages aren't really self evident as to which is better, I actually prefer Amazon's also, it seems to have more details about the item in addition of course to the 1000s of reviews.
This is changing in the software world.

Software gives "labor" more scalability and leverage than ever before.
Either we make life on Earth sustainable before that or we won't have enough time to develop the technology to settle on Mars anyway, so thinking of Mars as a backup Earth does not seem like a particularly good idea.
May be that's a consequence of poor society I'm living in, but if I learned any lesson about life, it's that most people won't pay a penny if they can get away with it. You won't make a profitable business believing that some people will recognize the need to pay, because they won't.
Some try - here in NZ the foam used by emergency crews at airports has been found to be toxic (ages ago) but kept being used, poisoning large areas. The issue came to light for some people as their farm animals started suffering a range of strange ailments and dying.

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/350886/firefighting-...
Well the auto industry did fight the subway which is why despite overwhelming support it took so long.

Detroit did have an extensive trolley system. I found out that when the trolley's were secretly purchased and discontinued by GM in 1956 that 25% of Detroit families didn't have a car. The majority switched over to the bus lines which were expanded. Course the buses were made by GM ;<).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...
> NYC should stop building subways with tunnel boring

Plenty of other cities worldwide use tunnel boring and get far better cost per mile than in the states. That's not the issue.
This is the state average.

Typically the western part of the state (west of the 100th Meridian) is dry as a bone and in constant drought, while the eastern side is flush with water. Along the 100th we get both extremes.

This summarizes it pretty much perfectly: http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor...
I think that's sort of a mis-characterization of Metta (not accusing you of ill intent, to be clear), but I'm not sure how it's taught by Goenka, maybe it was demonstrated poorly.

In my experience, it has been to try to wish good things towards all beings (the cessation of suffering that is essential to Buddhist philsophy), from those that are easy to love (family friends, etc) all the way out to those that are the most difficult to wish good things for (those that wrong you, prisoners, generally those we view as "less"), and its intent is not like a prayer, where you're trying to ask a deity to make it happen.

It's more like Anapana/Vipassana in that it is a self-work- trying to find more compassion, trying to cultivate that towards all beings and overcome the difficulty and roadblocks that keep us from doing so. I have found Metta at times to be more profound than the rest of the practices, or at least unique. It's maybe the one practice that has made me question my stance on eating meat and has helped re-align my thoughts regarding treating "the least of these" with compassion instead of retribution, negligence, etc.

I think it can be useful without any woo-woo aspects, and I've seen it taught in practical terms multiple times.
The Unseen Costs of Presenteeism
Yeah, I wasn't interested in downloading the file really. I have a different tool I use for that. Was more just curious about how private the "private" songs really were, when shared in an embed.
Boeing 787's Range Capped by FAA Following Latest Rolls Glitch
> Each time that a popular AntiVirus software begins to detect one of my utilities as Virus or Trojan, my email is flooded with messages from worried people that think my Web site is infected with Viruses. Some of them even blame me that I spread Viruses through my Web site.

I wonder if there is a defamation/libel type of lawsuit here. Anti virus vendors are making false accusations.
There already is. They pay more on an hourly basis for temporary workers. The body shop gets their cut first. Body shop charges $17/hr, pays $13/hr
Better idea: ditch subways and bring back elevated lines. Works just fine in Chicago.
> Moreover, something deeper is going on as even boring in NYC costs more than in other countries.

Corruption. Rampant, unabashed corruption. That's what's going on. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...
Another good one (though a bit dated now) is Great Plains by Ian Frazier.

https://www.amazon.com/Great-Plains-Ian-Frazier/dp/031227850...
Zuckerberg explains the internet to Congress [video]
Out of curiosity, does it matter how someone wants to share a link in order to be able to share it?

Presumably, a person’s mode of sharing should have zero impact on having a link to share.
We've banned this account for repeatedly violating the site guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
That sounds like a king justifying the divine right of kings... The effect of mobility is offset by there being more workers than owners. These outcomes are not inevitable.
Commuter rail ought to optimize for seating and ride comfort on long journeys with infrequent stops. Subways ought to optimize for capacity and efficiency on short, mostly standing-room trips within densely populated areas. Unification with subway rolling stock would be awful for commuter rail riders’ comfort and willingness to use the system. Unification with commuter rail rolling stock would be awful for subway crowding.
I think we should be on spaceships out of this solar system personally. Let's infect the rest of the Universe with people!
While this isn't a direct problem with Amazon vs Walmart site design, I'm more likely to use Amazon due to the amount of reviews.

Walmart can do one thing right, while Amazon has the majority of it right for me. It's going to take a lot to sway me away from Amazon.
> It would not be much of a universe if it wasn't home to the people you love.

-- Stephen Hawking

vs.

> I think we might depend on the resource constraints and conflict to give our lives meaning.
> Disable remote maintenace / web access

By this do you mean a public remote address/login or the generic 192.168.0.X login page when on the serving network?
This is an incredibly well spun tale of reducing cost and restructuring a revenue producing, albeit a super cash burning, business into a more efficient one.

This post is a glorified PR humblebrag, and the truth of the matter is that if they really did complete a turn-around, it would be stand alone business worthy of the incredible cash infusion that the VC community injected in to it. Ultimately it's likely a loss (perhaps a very large one) on the books for the investors involved, and pieces like this are just lipstick on the pig.
The problems with Facebook are inherent in its design, but that can change
Yes and no because the article is also about the future possibilities of getting kids with desired traits (as you can generate those much better when you have a truly unlimited potential of egg cells). And there was for example recently a court case that (deaf) parents in Germany won so that thier (also deaf) child wont get a hearing implant.
This is one of the reasons I feel good about contributing to open source. It boosts the prospects of at least some workers, while at the same time offering great value for employers, for industry, and for society at large.
Are small sellers on ebay selling at a loss too?
Not being able to get 100% of the small edge cases the first time on complex algorithms problems.

--every large tech company
Cut and cover also doesn't work as well when you have hundreds of mapped and unmapped utility lines and pipes only a few feet below the surface.
I don't think this meets specification. "it never has been and never will be economically viable" scans as handwavy, and I've yet to see anyone calling for "ditch diggers" (job automated out of existence by heavy equipment several decades ago, btw) a wage equivalent to what an MD makes. Your assertion, in essence, appears to be that people get paid low wages because low wage jobs exist. That does nothing to explain why a job sufficiently important to require a human being to perform is low-paying and so far nobody has advanced an explanation that takes into account historic levels of corporate profits and income inequality while wages have been basically stagnant since the 70s.
> You're excluding people and organizations who want to maintain a single codebase.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but some organization's internal engineering goals should not become our UX nightmares.
Kind of retro site with a @yahoo.com email. Very weird for an advanced IT guy. "searchmyfiles" is awesome, by the way.