skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lobby your city to build bike lines instead of banning scooters. They help everyone, from the disabled, to cyclists, to scooters, to everyone else because of less traffic and cleaner air.
It is new normal, just lock your doors if you want some privacy:

- Safari is ahead of the pack with its ITP 2.

- ad blocker extension is a must

- private browsing windows gets rid you of tracking cookies (incognito in Chrome, but Chrome is made by an Ad company .. :)

- VPN hides your IP
It's called CIDR notation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classless_Inter-Domain_Routing
You're assuming offenders anticipate the bad things they do drunk and thus can be deterred.
What is O(1000) satellites?
Disagree. The technology is out there, if its not amazon, its going to be someone else.
Best Buy and Sam's Club do. Though the Best Buy guy really seems to be more of a theft deterrent person since he's dressed in vaguely cop-like clothes, and doesn't check receipts. Seems to be more there to be ready to tackle you if the theft alarm goes off as you walk out the door.
This was becoming true before 2010, but no longer holds - server and chip efficiency has improved quite a bit (correlating with the stop in chip frequency increases), and datacenter PUEs have improved sufficiently to take more of the edge off. Power is still a big cost, but it's not 40%.
> Relative to what?

Relative to not having the ability to reproduce at all in the future, or at an unknown diminished capacity. I'm not sure where your fearmongering is coming from, the science is proven that banking male reproductive tissue is safe for the donor and effective for bringing a fetus to term in the future when paired with a healthy egg.

Ten years ago studies were done on young adults with cancer banking semen for future fertility use [1], and the success rate was 30% with IUI and 50% with IVF. Those odds are even better today with improved clinical cryopreservation methods (vitrification has shown success rates upwards of 90-98%).

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17647219
I was not mocking the idea, but giving an example where a reasonable quota led to bad outcomes. While I’m against outcome quotas, I’m firmly against discrimination (including mocking) of people based on who they are.
Regulatory capture of facial recognition technology might be a successful tactic - it certainly worked in Oracle's favor with government certified databases.
Sites totally broken on mobile: links don’t work, and the buy-banner eats up 70% of the page

But scrolling works nicely, and the cover is pretty, and from my little viewport to the ToC, the content might be interesting too
According to my friend who was a SVP at Costco, this is, in fact, a primary reason. It's to mark the receipt so it cannot be used again.
So you are here to tell us that employees don't actually care as much as reported about the ethics implications of their work, and that leadership didn't actually meaningfully address the topic.

... is that meant to be a comment in defence of the company?
The eruption of Mount Stackoverflow has perfectly preserved these poor, Perl-scripting souls.
Many substance-abuse disorders are not treated as special-accommodation-worthy (in courts often or by HR departments by policy) in the the US. Alcoholism is one such example (Alcohol Abuse Disorder is not a qualifier for disability status without additional presenting symptoms, or exceptional luck during disability determination).

That reality, and the reality of addiction, presents a few problems for the hypothetical employee here:

- Attending work events that do have alcohol may cause them to endure a great deal of hardship (talk to a recently-abstinent alcoholic if you doubt this).

- Addiction has no conclusive test or diagnosis--AAD and other indicators are often not present in people who enter rehab, or in people whose substance abuse is identified as a primary motivator for criminal behavior by courts. This means that "getting trashed and acting like an ass", for "real addicts" (whatever that means, which is a troublesome qualifier to add in and of itself) is difficult to prove to be the fault of the company providing alcohol, and for non-addicts is a convenient out (if provided to the former group).

- "Actually required to go to an event" is another troublesome category. Many events aren't "required" . . . unless you want to get promoted/not eventually get fired in favor of someone who attended. I don't propose some legal solution to this (everything I can think of would effectively be thought-policing), but it's an important ambiguity to acknowledge.

- Even if a humane HR/management department exists to whom the hypothetical employee could disclose their condition as a disability, and even if that department lobbied the employee's managers/colleagues to prevent addiction from being a disadvantage to their career, that would still likely result in either a breach of that employee's privacy or eventual prejudice seeping in (e.g. via turnover inside HR) regardless. Not good.

- If those recourses fail, and the employee ends up before the courts pleading wrongful-termination or equivalent based on their addiction, the (at least state) US court system and arbitration organizations are notoriously inconsistent and prejudiced against claims of addiction as any sort of mitigating or complicating circumstance. A company interested in preserving the autonomy, promotability, and dignity of addicted employees would likely view the courts as something the employee in question should be kept away from for their own benefit.

There are many other considerations.

Now, many of those apply to any uncommon disability condition, and it could be argued that below a certain point a very few employees' accommodations should not ruin the fun for everyone else. Even if you buy that argument, the incidence of addiction/substance-abuse related serious lifestyle trouble—principally at work or in romantic relationships—for very large numbers of people in the US is well documented.

Perhaps it would be better to simply forbid the creation of such situations on the company dime.
>I feel bad for people in your situation, but I feel like increased scrutiny is sort of a necessary evil.

Or we dont torture people just because you dont like the possibility, that people could use drugs recreationally. What you describe can easily be avoided with a mandatory explanation by your doctor of the consequences of opioid consumption.

I do disagree with OP, I am hard pressed to see this as well meaning concerns. On the contrary, from my point of view thats pretty close to simply being cruel and to use the term -

Evil. Plain and simply.

It might be a more socially acceptable explanation then centuries of "pain medication is evil, because it interferes with gods will for you to suffer" but it remains the same arrogant disregard for your fellow men.

This might sound overly aggressive to you, but I think it is absolutely necessary to call it out for what it is.

You are willing to let people suffer. You are ok with your decision meaning literal torture fro them. Because you are disconnected from the horrible effect your decision would have. We life in a democracy, careless public outcry leads to real life effects.

Its pretty damn easy to voice your displeasure of being confronted with addicts if you are not the one suffering. And this careless disregard for human life has real life consequences for people whose life are already horrible.

And it is the same shit every few decades. People who are willing to accept "the necessary evil" because they are not the victims.

The world hasnt recovered from the last moral crusade against opioids and the same shit is starting again.

https://www.aljazeera.com/video/africa/2014/04/uganda-legali...

If only everyone needing pain meds had a baseball size tumor to proof that they are "legitimate patients"
> spousal hires

Happened to a prof in my university just this year. Had offers from top universities & labs for tenure in CS, but stayed in our rural college town because of his SO.
It is a mirror. Of usenet.
Perhaps, but it wouldn’t be useful for companies since even google’s 20k population wouldn’t be big enough to clear out all of the confounding variables.
The comment is not really addressing the topic at hand, just how the article here makes bigger claims than it actually has data to prove.
That was my guess without even looking. Forum software did not exist in the early 90s.
From the title I was guessing "Experts Exchange." Does anyone remember that?
Depends what you mean by "compatible." We preserve binary compatibility on 32-bit x86 with BeOS, indeed. But it hasn't stopped us from re-arranging parts of the GUI, or adding new APIs, or experimenting with the kernel, or ... etc.
> actually there to spot cashier errors, not shoplifting

The Costco's I've been to, when I had a membership, they don't spend enough time on the receipt to possibly catch errors. They just glance at your purchases and the receipt, then tick off the receipt. Even at that level of checking, a line up can form during a busy time.

I suspect they are just marking the receipt so you can't go back with that receipt in your pocket and then steal the same item(s).

There is a time stamp, of course, but a pen mark is faster to grok.

They might be able to spot double scans at a glance (since exact repeats on a receipt are visually distinct) and check that the customer has two of that item, that's about it.
Sure. But I don't think anybody is talking about immediate firings without warning here.

If your manager keeps telling you, you have to do X, for a month and you simply refuse to do it, they'd be quite right to fire you.
Based on [1], also full support for s390x (IBM mainframes), as well as support for SPARC, WebAssembly, and asm.js as targets only (you can't run rustc itself on them, but can cross-compile to them). RISC-V support was recently merged into master (not sure why it's not on that page). AVR and m68k (seriously) both have actively developed ports which are living in forks until they're ready to be merged.

Anyway, most of the work of porting Rust to new platforms is not in rustc itself, but rather porting LLVM to target that platform. This is bad in a way and good in a way. It's true that LLVM doesn't have as extensive a list of supported targets as GCC. However, for people developing new architectures and OSes, LLVM is often the go-to choice as the first compiler to port. For example, WebAssembly, eBPF, and AMDGPU are all supported in upstream LLVM at present, but not in GCC. On the other hand, RISC-V got GCC support first – but lowRISC also actively developed an LLVM backend, which is now upstream. [2]

Of course, C benefits from having multiple implementations; even on platforms that only LLVM has a backend for, you can just use LLVM's C compiler (Clang), whereas there's (currently) no Rust compiler with a GCC backend. I'd love to see that change in the future. Still, I'd say Rust target support is already pretty strong when it comes to the (embedded) platforms most people are doing new development for, and rapidly getting stronger.

[1] https://forge.rust-lang.org/platform-support.html

[2] https://www.lowrisc.org/llvm/status/
> Terrorism is a side effect of this rise in islamism, like the red brigades, RAF, etc were to communism.

And what allowed Islamism to rise and prosper like that over these past decades?

The power vacuum created by the removal of Saddam in an illegal invasion? The resulting unleashed sectarian violence?

You can't just switch around cause and effect like that and call it a day. To quote from the 2001 article:

> Moderate Muslim opinion could also easily be swayed against America, predicted Ghayasuddin Siddiqui, head of the Muslim Parliament in Britain, an umbrella group for Muslim organizations. "If they end up killing innocent civilians it will be very unfair," Dr. Siddiqui said. "The problems will arise if people see that justice has not been done."

Now, nearly 2 decades later, we have relentless and ML driven drone warfare [0], torture scandals [1], a US president who is not only condoning it but actively advocating for it. The blatant injustice is done out in the open to see for everybody [2], justified in haphazard "They do not have rights" ways to a point where a US president just declares a "Muslim ban", followed up with pointless legal shenanigans how "it totally isn't a Muslim ban, but a Muslim country ban!", like that's in any way better.

How can you look at all that and deny it contributed to the rise of Islamist sentiments? Don't you think it's kind of telling that you have to summon the good ol "they caught the communism" bug to still justify these US actions?

Is it really that difficult to take a step back and admit: "We've fucked up, we've been going about this the wrong way from the very beginning"? Is doubling down on this oppressive and destructive path really the only way forward from here?

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/the-n...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisone...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp
Speaking only for myself, I've found looking for to fluctuate between quite easy and quite hard. Anytime I've really struggled to find a new job, whether I already had a job or not, it was usually because there was some factor beyond my control that I could not work around. In those hard times, I think I would have landed new employment more quickly by focusing more on making myself more marketable so I could stand out in a sea of applicants without enough to go around. Sometimes rushing to fight the wrong fight is simply not gonna work.
> LEVEL-DB is not implemented in Go. Its implemented in CPP

There is more than one implementation of LevelDB. This one (https://github.com/syndtr/goleveldb), in Go, is used in major projects such as https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum.
Ancient DNA yields unexpected insights about peoples of Central, South America
It's borrowed from comp sci, but you can read O(x) as "on the order of x", so maybe 900, maybe 1200, but somewhere around there.
Love the idea of starting with “what will the user be doing?” and prioritizing based on that question.
It shouldn't be that surprising given the family separation fiasco.
Chinatown Vegas' Niu Gu Debuts Special Late Night “8 Dishes Menu” – IssueWire
Telling Amazon to lead by example is about as fair as telling Warren Buffet to "just pay more taxes then" when he complains that rich people don't pay enough taxes. It doesn't work when only one player does it. That's why Amazon should lobby, and that's why Buffet spends his time lobbying while simultaneously employing accountants to reduce his tax bill.
Just listened to the podcast, really good listen which explains the basics really well. Highly recommend.

Thanks for the link. Wasn't aware of this podcast before.
For fun, notice the Chinese IIS 404 page.

http://computer-programming-forum.com/foo

My guess is that someone just wants this to rank in search engines to any degree and then boost some SEO juice off it.

I tried using old Usenet archives for a content site before and couldn't overcome Google's dupe penalty despite my own value-adds.
Not addressing the topic at hand, preferring to discuss technical points is precisely the industry tend that concerns me.
The linked article bases this on three sources; one former employee answering on Quora, one more answering on the consumerist, and a third answering on a 45 comment reddit thread not specifically on Costco. Take it with a huge grain of salt.

I've actually worked at a Sam's Club and done checking briefly. I feel that this is the stated reason, but you're talking checking hundreds of receipts over a 4 + hour shift, often massive ones due to multiple flatbeds of groceries or goods; the idea its being used to check up on the cashiers is absurd to me. Many times, high-dollar items like meats you'd want to check are already in freezer bags, obscured from view.

I think its mostly to prevent high value items from leaving, or at least to alert management they are. I mean, anyone who his rung up a vending machine route guy and his 100 boxes of candy who kind of scoff at the retiree checkers doing that fine of an job.
I mean, yes, I guess "I don't know" is a fine answer. It's fine that you don't want to engage, but weird that you want to litigate what the question itself is. But, OK.
So to use serverless, you need to setup an extra non-serverless instance in front of your database?
How do you know if it’s a double scan or if someone actually bought two of something?

I’ve certainly seen cashiers see that you’re buying two of something and just skin one of them twice really fast and then put both of them in the bag.
It's an unnecessary misuse of the Big O notation used to establish bounds of functions. I think they just meant up to 1000 satellites
> He added that he thought it was the government’s responsibility to help specify regulations around the technology.

That's true but it doesn't absolve them of responsibility. They are choosing their actions willingly, and with full knowledge of the potential consequences.

This sort of behavior is inexcusable. It's just wrong.
As discussed 9 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18334256
According to @hyc in https://monero.stackexchange.com/questions/2606/are-the-lmdb..., "As of v0.10.0, yes the LMDB files are cross-compatible between 32 and 64bit architectures. They have always been cross-compatible between OSs. They are still byte-order dependent but almost everyone uses little-endian CPUs these days so it's not much of an issue."
> “Studies have shown that advanced paternal age is associated with negative health behaviours such as smoking and frequent alcohol consumption, obesity, chronic disease, mental illness, and sub-fertility,” she writes, adding that all are linked to health problems in newborns."

These are key details, and weren't mentioned until the end. In other words, age could be too general in that it's acting as a proxy for other known negatives.
I think that's usually due to laws / regulations on alcohol sales.
Until Blackberry bought it, it was open source. There were free downloads. Now it's proprietary. But there's a lot of info out there from the open source era. The manuals are available.

Here's the original QNX paper.[1]

[1] https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~voelker/cse221/papers/qnx-paper92.p...
How to disable simultaneous multithreading on Lenovo ThinkPads
Sorry. Didn't catch the context.
It's also interesting how の can be inserted as needed, a la 山手線 or 井上さん. Old Japanese works quite a bit differrently than the modern, productive sort.
An anecdote is not data. However yes - I’ve had a Costco receipt checker notice that I didn’t get a discount that I should’ve gotten, and insist that I go with them to correct the receipt and pay a few dollars less money.
Thank you for the detailed answer! That makes sense. Although I still find it strange... Now markets itself as preventing lock-in because it can deploy to any cloud, but to realistically use any database with it you have to lock yourself in to one of the cloud providers?
That seems to be a commom theme. Reading this, I feel guilty for not actually understanding how to compose a regular expression. I use a generator when one is necessary.

http://computer-programming-forum.com/39-ruby/b1f5cedd082572...
What's wrong is that I have the luxury of working at places that enjoy. I am not going to work at a place that I don't like.

You are free to choose otherwise, but me and many other people have the ability of quiting and working in better work environments.
Announcing ML.NET 0.7 (Machine Learning .NET)
"Intersectionalist" isn't synonymous with "leftist" or whatever you're trying to say. It's hard for me to see how intersectionality is relevant to the subject of Amazon's work with ICE.
In Best Buy would be much easier to go pick something up and then try and walk out the front door.

At Costco you’d either have to go past the person checking your membership card (back through the entrance) or go through the cashier section without being caught and then get past the receipt tracker.
> trend that concerns me.

No one cares about what trends concern any one person.
I'm in a forever beef with Wikipedia on the cheesesteak page re: "vegetarian imitation cheesesteak" (which the Wikipedia editors do not believe exists) and "vegetarian* cheesesteak" (which I maintain, by definition, cannot exist). I'm both proud and ashamed to admit this has been going on for several years now.

*edit: spelling
Clearly they are reporting the findings, but what would interest me is exploring the benefits to children of older fathers and establishing at which point the competing forces balance.

The obvious factor is increased wealth - this tends to be backloaded, thus there is a benefit from greater available income to spend on a child, whether this is in the form of better nutrition, better education, greater parental availability (not universally going to increase with age, but the option is more easily there for a well off father vs a father just making ends meet)

Other factors may be less clear, less universal and probably not so widely agreed: things such as an older father potentially having a child with fewer siblings or being more settled (in a maturity sense).

And finally, it would be interesting to look at this in a two generation scale: what of children born to young fathers but where those fathers themselves had older fathers? Is the effect passed on or does it get reset?
Is there anything inherently unethical about facial recognition technology or does the concern lie in the potential for misuse and profiling by law enforcement?

AFAIK Rekognition just takes in a face and spits out an ID that you can use to identify an already known face. This doesn't seem inherently bad to me. Any misuse or profiling in this case is designed, managed, and implemented by law enforcement and the moral responsibility lies with those who create the policy, not a tool that they use to enforce it.
Well now that's the real problem, they don't. They will face no real consequences for this. In fact they will probably fight hard to ensure they can keep making money, no matter the problems, right up until the day their own math says they need to flip the script.
Also the "Powered by ybChaxun" link goes to a page that seems to be a listing of Chinese postal codes.
Same.

I learned TCL back when I was a full-time FPGA engineer (it's the standard scripting language for most FPGA toolchains for whatever reason), and I actually really liked it.

TCL is a weird little language, and has a lot of beauty in its own way. It's hyper-flexible almost like a Lisp, and looks like some kind of Bash/C hybrid. Or maybe Python with an "everything is a string" implementation.

I wish it was more popular industry-wide, because the interpreter is small and the language is feature rich. If I could convince anybody else at my company, we'd ship more TCL and less shell scripts in our products.
Ugh. It's so disappointing to see this comment from someone who clearly didn't read the article.

And you're misrepresenting Homeopathy--that's not the principle on which it operates.
Does anyone know if flowers and orchids we buy from nurseries/hardware stores treated with neonicotinoids?
Hopeful this goes better than WebSQL. WebSQL ran into standardization problems because they started with an existing implementation (SQLite) instead of a spec as their base implementation--meaning anyone making a greenfield implementation would need to implement all the quirks of SQLite to be compatible with other implementations. Sadly it died as a standard and we were stuck with either local storage or indexdb.
First off, I disagree. Any scientist should be aware of what they are building.

Second, they actively market to law enforcement.
Hah! :) I've been meaning to call out other misuses of "Disclaimer" vs. "Disclosure" before, but I usually don't because it's just tedious.