skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people don't freeze bread and I think most people have probably experienced not finishing a carton of milk fast enough or having bread go moldy on them.

Really the trick to bulk buying (besides liberal use of your freezer) is only bulk-buying things you actually use a lot of. I'll buy tomatoes at Costco because I'll eat them but I don't eat nearly enough apples for buying a massive thing of apples to make sense.
Yeah... the leading quote screamed “loss leader” at me, and the whole article that ensues tries to dispel that notion; in my mind it fails, because I’m left with the feeling that they’re doing their best to minimize the loss they make on unit economics but still provide a subsidy from their overall operations.
I've actually been using it for the past month or two and it's been pretty solid. My particular use case is that I'm using GitLab pages and can use the Web IDE as a poor man's CMS tool. Edit/preview the markdown and upload images, then commit and have the CI pipeline pick it up and deploy. I can see myself editing config files, READMEs or possibly markup. Real coding would likely end up frustrating as hell.

Ironically, GitLab pages ended up not working very well for me. It was nigh impossible to add a cert to a custom domain. I ended rewriting the CI pipeline to push to Firebase.
What products are "inherently more efficient and cost-effective" in China?
No one is entitled to anything, that is the point. Business owners and employees agree to a mutually beneficial arrangement. But business owners arent entitled to anything except adherence to the agreement. If the employee can get a better deal someplace else, they will. The agreement is between the parties and no one else.

External forces like starvation are not "threats of violence".

What you seem to be suggesting is that government setting of prices would improve things. This has been shown time and again to not work because only the parties involved can correctly evaluate the value.

Raising minimum wage slightly only has slight negative effects. If raising minimum wage really had no negative consequences you could raise minimum wage to $100 and it would be wonderful.

Where government has shown itself to be effective is being a third party that enforces the agreements made between parties, setting the limits of those agreements (e.g. no voluntary slavery), and making sure that the rules are consistent enough that people can make business decisions and rely on the outcomes.

The government just ruled that labor cannot collectively sue in a class action for wage violations. This is an incredibly bad decision, in that people should be able to group together and pool their bargaining as long as they are doing it freely.
Kind of we started optimizing for points and started to be smart about it. Because that what people above wanted. What happened we started communicating to PO more often, like: you want more points burned take this story out, close this and create an improvement.

Of course that was not childish silly sneaking and turned out we have as a team a lot better partnership with business. We deliver what is needed and can be finished.

I understand not everyone has luck to end up in such environment but it confirms there is no silver bullet. Only having right people is real silver bullet.
I think you might be right. Cars, computers, TVs seem to be big imports. But America does not produce all of it's own rare earth metals so manufacturing some products without also increasing raw material production could be an issue - if our goal is to decrease reliance on other countries.
They are kinda codependent. But if you're not creative then all the boredom in the world might not save that.

A sidebar question: What are video games' and technology's destruction of boredom doing to the future of creativity?
This has happened to me with Google Maps, too. The destination was up a hill and over a ridge on a side street.

"You have arrived!".
I haven't been to one in quite a while but my impression is that there is lots of added sugar in all the sauces they use, in addition to a lot of fried food.
So I know people who work as devs at banks- they live in big houses, work reasonable hours, have families and kids and hobbies like restoring cars or fishing. How is that more soul-grinding than working 10 hour days at some SV unicorn for imaginary equity with an hour commute to a one bedroom apartment?
One day, I can toss out all my expensive hardware and do my job with a hi-res Chromebook and steady wifi.
Because the hackers have that same list of 500,000,000 passwords so when they steal your password hashes and want to brute force your passwords, they can start with the 500 million most common passwords instead of having trying random strings (there are 208 billion random 8 letter lowercase strings)
This new Android malware delivers banking trojan, keylogger and ransomware
Sweet. Will they get a hard roll once a week too?

SROs and workhouses... what a vision for the future. It’s a shame that we’ve given back all of the advances of the 20th century.
I was thinking about exactly this kind of experiment. Given an input of gameplay recordings, train a model to predict the next framebuffer from the previous frame and keypress input. Would the model have to be excessively complex to avoid rapid divergence into feedback patterns resembling a Winamp visualizer? Probably, but it should be entertaining enough to watch and interact with anyway.
If you are looking for a self-host solution, you can still use the [GPL version of Cloud9 v2](https://github.com/exsilium/cloud9). All contributions to the project are warmly welcome.
Lots of content at ribbonfarm is very, very good ... highly recommended ...

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/11/05/ancient-rivers-of-mone...

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/03/02/fools-and-their-money-...

The Return of the Barbarian

Can Hydras eat unknown unknowns for lunch

The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial
Not sure if you are being sarcastic or not. I definitely see HNs pro-at all costs-SV bias but I think it's a website dedicated to tech news and not income maximization? Oh and I can't smell any of y'all so that isn't really an issue.
How is that "importing"?
For business travelers in Chicago the last mile problem from the middle of the loop is at worst a 10 minute walk.
4 Stark Job Numbers Related to Trump Admin's Trade Policy
The buns are declining in quality... you have to ask for the free toppings now (like onions and sourkraut which were always kept in the condiments counter until a year or two ago). They are now kept in carefully measured tiny plastic containers completely void from view. And the quality of the "meat" inside has dropped off a cliff in recent years.

I don't enjoy them at all anymore, where as I used to go into Costco sometimes just to get their hotdogs.

It's not the same $1.50 hotdog when they change literally everything about it.
Yeah, you can't tell the difference. You can even microwave them for 30 seconds instead of slowly defrosting and if you're toasting you can't really tell the difference.
> i'm a touch quicker with the red knob

I would expect a longtime Lenovo user to know that "the red knob" is not the official unofficial name for that object. :-)
Two factor only prevents someone logging into your current account; it doesn't prevent someone from reusing your password on a different system.

I'm talking about two completely different attacks. One is password reuse, one is not. 2FA does not protect against password reuse, because not every system in the world offers 2FA.
It should be noted that Chicago doesn't exactly have a good track record on negotiating the details on these types of contracts.

https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-to-pay-20-million-to-...
If CostCo didn't exist do you think their eating habits would improve?
I think they meant to say no visual interface.

If something cannot be interfaced with, then it is non existant
I used to upgrade my laptops and desktops, but these days, the hardware is mostly fast enough that for home use, I haven't seen the need. I just buy them maxed out, use for 5-10 years, and replace. By that time, monitors have gotten better, ports have changed, or there's some other compelling reason to upgrade.
> Phones (both to charge and occasionally to sync)

iCloud, and a wall-wart is probably going to charge faster, also wireless charging

> headphones

Bluetooth

> 2FA authenticators

TouchID

> cameras

iCloud Photo Stream

> gamepads

Bluetooth (or a custom wireless protocol)

> printers

WiFi, also printers are very uncommon these days outside of the office
Landlords don't care about personal choices. They want tenants who can still afford to pay rent even if they have an unexpected major expense one month.

In practice some prospective tenants simply falsify their incomes. I'm not condoning this but all it takes is Photoshop and a ladder printer.
Right, but so does Atom. Atom is a text editor, not an IDE.
For web pages, folders on my bookmark bar in chrome. A few major ones as links on the bar, the rest in folders. E.g. "services" for links to swagger files, "stack" for Jenkins, docker, admin UI's. "Topics" for folders of related areas.
You're telling me that it pulls maps without tell Apple where it is? If it tells Apple where it is, then the location history exists, almost certainly at least for fraud / security uses.
PSA for anyone playing around with that haveibeenpwned file: the text list is 30 GB after un7zipping but every line is padded with many trailing spaces (up to 61 chars I think, making all lines equal in length) and the line endings are the Windows ones (\r\n, instead of just a \n). With trailing spaces and \rs stripped the file is 'just' 21 GB and fits onto a RAM disk on a 32 GB machine with no swapping.

This has bit me because I was playing with that file and to save space and fit it onto a RAM disk (to save time) I've converted it to binary and then when converting it back it had a different hash despite being 'exactly the same', only later I've realized it's using Windows line endings and trailing spaces padding (and that I didn't even have to bother with binary, since 21 GB comfortably fits in a RAM disk on a machine with 32 GB RAM while 30 GB didn't with browser, Windows, etc. running).

Troy said it's a quirk of the export, might be fixed in next version of the file but doesn't matter for the compressed 7z size (which is true, I've checked personally with 7z going at it for hours and it really did compress those line endings and spaces down to nothing).

Edit: Also see my other comment about how very overly eager at rejecting passwords this filter might be (unless I've made an error in my reasoning that someone has since pointed out): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17323068
this is 100% not true. Local governments are controlled by old people who are fighting change. Landlords would love to increase the density of properties to make more money from a single property.
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https://www.hussmanfunds.com/comment/mc180604/

This was recently posted on HN and gives a good overview of indicators to look at though it's pretty blatantly alarmist.
Of course, the standout thing about cryptocoin by comparison is that there's no real useful work resulting from all the absurd amounts of electricity being used to mine it.
People respond more or less rationally to their incentives. Who knew?
> The reason they're the only viable place to purchase these items is because they're so cheap. Making them more expensive gives space for non-Chinese competitors to enter into business.

Is there any reason to believe that these new competitors will take IP more seriously?

I understood one of the main reasons that China were a cheap manufacturing powerhouse is because they were happy to copy anything and everything. Won't this just blacklist one particular country, and give a boost to the next biggest country that's willing to disregard international IP?

I don't see how this solves the problem at all. If I were another country that didn't take copyright seriously, I'd be laughing all the way to the bank right now. You mean I can get this big (points to China) before the U.S. decides to take action -- and that only if they have the most conservative president in the past several decades? Sign us up!
Step 1: create what is called in the US a foreign trade zone (internationally Free Trade Zone)

Step 2: get VC to give you funding at ridiculous valuation

Step 3: market yourself as “tech” start up, that is hacking the (new) law, and disrupting globally industry (of course said start up isn’t actually doing anything new that the manufacturing industry hasn’t always done)

Sources: I was involved in one for an e-bike manufacturer (set up right next door to a craft brewery)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign-trade_zones_of_the_U...

https://www.cbp.gov/border-security/ports-entry/cargo-securi...
Interesting re their return policy, could you expand on that?
So I just had to Google this.

According to https://newsroom.inter.ikea.com/news/ikea-develops-a-veggie-...

"The hot dog at IKEA has a long history: In 1981, and true to his vision for IKEA to be affordable for the many, Ingvar Kamprad set the price of the IKEA hot dog at 5 Swedish Krona – which was half price compared to competitors in Sweden at that that time. It was the beginning of the success story of the IKEA hot dog that today is served at IKEA all over the world."

So, Ikea Sweden introduced a hot dog priced at 5 SEK in 1981. (The USD was super cheap at that time; my best guess is that this corresponded to like $0.90.)

According to Costco themselves, their hot dog enterprise started in 1984:

http://www.costcoconnection.com/connection/200903/?u1=texter...

Myself: I don't think IKEA in Sweden were even on the radar for these Costco people in San Diego in 1984. I don't think they "copied" this concept.

But it's safe to say that IKEA did not got this idea from Costco.

Interestingly, the price for a hot dog at IKEA in Sweden is still 5 SEK, 37 years later.
How does that dodge the tariffs? (Legally)

Let's say I'm Apple. I make MacPro's in Ft. Worth, Texas. The parts come from China.

I now have to pay 25% more on those parts.

However, since I'm Apple, I have manufactures making iPhones in China.

So rationally, my best bet is to shut down my US based plant in Texas and move MacPro manufacturing to one of my factories in China.

That way I legally dodge the tariffs since the finished MacPros are NOT taxed.

While this is good for China, and a net zero for Apple, it kind of sucks for the poor American workers in Texas who are now out of a job.
Microsoft added a native SSH client (and server) recently. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/12/microsoft-quietly-sn...
Someone who thinks that Typescript affects startup time doesn't really seem to understand the point of Typescript.
2FA "only" prevents someone from logging into my account?

What do you mean "only"? That's the whole point!
While it may not have been a serious question, vim key bindings (or emacs or whatever) are important to many people. You spend so much of your time in your editor/ide and become expert in it. Learning to work in another one is painful before you're properly productive again.
Most of the rendering code would be a pretty direct port—I don't think I'm using anything from OpenGL that isn't supported by WebGL. That said, it is a desktop Java application and it would be non-trivial to port it to javascript. And that said, it probably would've been best to do it in javascript in the first place, but I did basically no web dev when I started, so... shrug
Why is that credit? Good interview questions don't have a right or wrong answer, they have a right or wrong process of coming up with an answer. Especially for a question like "Pick a metric," almost any relevant metric is defensible and has tradeoffs, and the question should be about how the interviewee analyzes engineering tradeoffs, gathers requirements, defends their initial proposal, and is open to counterarguments.

(If there's a correct answer, you can just give them a quiz. If there's a Googleable correct answer, you can just employ them and give them Google.)
But still, such figures as reported were inflated by large margins (something on the order of 25 to 100 percent) on both the Allied and Axis sides.
It's also pretty irrelevant today. I'm sure out messenger pigeon technology has also dropped off
> I think issues left open > 12 months is antithetical to the idea of lean/agile and could be a sign of suboptimal project management.

Totally depends on the nature of the project, its policies and users.

Any popular FOSS project that allows anyone to post a bug, and doesn't just close unattended bug reports (which is bad imho), is likely to end up with some (usually minor) bugs open over 12 or more months.
This. The authors point is analogous to "we shouldn't do the census because everything is a result of human activity, and humans are really smart". Well... people study psychology and others study economics. As computational and modeling power goes up we have the newfound ability to blend the micro and macro further. But historically this wasn't the case.
I can't tell if you're trolling here or you geniunely don't realize that the foundation of Elixir is older than PHP.
I dont get how this business would work. How is the startup that I'm buying parts from avoiding the tariff themselves?

Your point to me would seem to argue that forcing companies to dig holes is good because it will create a bunch of new hole digging startups.
It sounds like you were just lying in the first place about it being made in America.
No doubt, but I find that true of many laptops. Dell had the webcam mounted on the bottom of the monitor, so friends/family got to stare up my nose. Others aren't reliable. Some are made with flimsy feeling plastics. Plus, there's the whole Windows 10 problem (I dislike it, I hate that it spams me with ads, don't trust Microsoft - not that I implicitly trust Apple, I just distrust them less than MS).
>you’re going to have to explain why business owners are entitled to the surplus value created by their workers’ labor

My workers didn't put their names on the loans necessary to start the business. My workers are free to walk away from the business if someone else gives them a better pay rate, or if they just decide they don't want to do the job anymore. They don't get stuck holding the bag if someone's sick or has a personal emergency.

I want to pay the folks working for me well and appropriately, but if the whole thing blows up in our faces, the worst they have to deal with is finding a new job, where an owner has to find a way to pay off any outstanding loans and whatnot. Obviously it's not right to fleece your workers and pocket giant gobs of cash, but at the same time they did not take the risk in opening the business and thus the owners should get more. If they want the extra surplus value of their labor, then I would encourage them to start their own business.
Awesome! Been working on it for months (though I realize it looks as though a back-end engineer built it. which I suppose is true!) Feel free to ping me with questions/bugs/suggestions!
I stand corrected! Previous articles I had seen had only discussed the prototype and one kilowatt design, but both this and the Wikipedia article show heavier designs for Mars missions.
This is easy - because of limited liability.

Technically owners aren't on the hook for losses, LLC structures and LLC-like structures (C-corps) limit the loss possible.

They are only risking what they put up - presuming they don't break the law - and nothing more.

Another system would penalize investors and owners of companies for all potentially likely damages downstream of their activities.

Before you argue the world is like this, let me just ask you why do superfund sites exist then? Because of limited liability.
If the USA goes up 25% and then China goes up 25%, then it will impact China's GDP far more than USA's. China's economy relies much more on trade with the USA than the other way around.
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Thank you for posting this -- it was a great walkthrough, and very clear. Cool stuff. :-)
Off topic, but I love that the state of mapping can be so absolutely horrendous, yet there are people who think we are just on the cusp of autonomous cars.
It's absolutely a text book loss leader. A loss leader doesn't need to be sold below cost, only below its minimum profit margin.

Leaving money on the table is effectively losing money.
I'm not very knowledgable about Frida Kahlo but I was a little nonplussed by the throwaway line about the film "Frida" and Harvey Weinstein. It seems like a guilt-by-association tactic. Its been a while since I saw it but my recollection is Julie Taymor's film doesn't seem to fall into trap that she claims of the other "fridolatry". It certainly doesn't portray her as a passive victim, but as an active creator of her life and art.
I should have clarified that 2,000 people an hour assumes ~100% single-occupant vehicles. This does tend to be the norm for highways, unless you're talking specifically about HOV lanes or dedicated bus lanes.
Seems to be at every single grocery store I have ever shopped in for the past at least 5 years.

Not every milk is UHT but every grocery store offers it.
It's important to be accurate.
Not to mention the whole no radiation shielding thing.
GitLab always had a simple editor that you can use to make commits from the web interface.

The Web IDE thing is something more sophisticated.
As far as bookmarks go, since I’ve recently moved almost everything to a self-hosted NextCloud instance, I also looked into managing bookmarks.

The bookmarks app available in NextCloud is suppose to sync across browsers (with extension for each browser), though I only use Firefox these days, and it can sync stuff across devices out of the box of course.

From what I’ve seen it was a little bit confusing, since it’s seem to ass it’s own prefix and the UI in NextCloud is not very interesting. Still, might worth you while checking.
> But if the objective is to reduce sugar consumption shouldn't there be a sugar packet tax now, as part of the soda tax?

I think the objective of soda taxes is to reduce childhood habituation to sugar, which is why they focus on a product heavily marketed to children.

> Butt for butt my local Starbucks isn't any different than BK, MD, etc.

Most of the sugar moving through Starbucks probably isn't sugar packets, anyway.
If your job can be automated it most probably will be, why that’s a good thing
Ok. One question that bothers me. Why repl.it and company permit internet access through their sandboxes? How is that not restricted? I can just annonymously run stuff and use them as a proxy. That is a big no-no in my book, but I must be missing something.
I've been on here for many years and a lot of the most interesting insights I've gleaned have come from people who do not prioritize income above other things in life, plus a lot of the really interesting people on here are not sweaty nerds.
I love the irony in this.
Making their grafana dashboard public is an interesting move.
You speak about Cloud9 as if it's not available anymore, and that may not have been your intention, but I'd like to make it clear: Cloud9 still exists, and you can still use it. It's just accessed through the AWS portal. If anything, it's even more of a value proposition today due to EC2 auto-shutdown saving money when you're not using it, and even more useful since it's running on your own VPS you can do whatever you want.

I'm not affiliated with them or Amazon in any way other than being a Cloud9/AWS customer. Just wanted to make sure everyone realized that AWS Cloud9 still works.

--edit: to clarify, you can still use Cloud9 through AWS... the old c9.io doesn't allow new signups and is in the process of shutting down, but the service is still available through Amazon.
Licenses are contracts, legally speaking.
I think your memory is accurate. When I've had WiFi turned off in the past I'll sometimes get a pop-up message on my iPhone suggesting turning WiFi to improve location accuracy.