skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you read the article or just the headline?

The headline may be considered sensational but article was pretty informative:

"combined grocery sales of Dollar General and Dollar Tree outstripping Whole Foods by more than $10 billion" [$24 Billion combined total sales]

"There are nearly 30,000 dollar stores nationwide, more than Starbucks and Walmart combined, "

"Dollar General is opening four stores a day, a rate the company is expected to maintain through 2019"

Let me add some personal perspective...

I live in a rural area where they've built four of these "dollar stores" within ten miles of me in the past 3 years. The closest is now only two miles away.

The nearest "grocery store" is about 8 miles, and the next is about 10 miles. The closest Wal-Mart is about 15 miles.

My wife came home tonight and told me "the Dollar General was packed with people tonight".

I read the linked article today and also about "Kroger-owned grocery store begins fully driverless deliveries".

Made me ponder how these two things coming together could change life for people who live in rural areas.

Excuse me.
There is this thing called physical dependence. Your body physically becomes addicted. Physically. And besides if that’s your explanation everyone has mental issues
>will you keep using their products regardless of the unseen costs you rack up?

Honest answer: my purchasing/social network data is worth extremely little to me, so I don't care who has it. And I don't have a problem with advertising; I prefer to allocate responsibility to individuals for their own decisions, so if somebody is influenced by an advertisement, if anybody is to be faulted then it's themselves, not the advertisement/advertiser.
I use mdx-deck: https://github.com/jxnblk/mdx-deck

Guess this approach depends on whether you want to "code" your slides or not. As someone who's never gotten along with Powerpoint et al, this approach agrees with me very well.
Yes, just put in a quick fix and release it before taking the time to test it properly, what could go wrong?
Before we answer that, how about naming some companies that existed 500 years ago and are still around today?
Because Dropbox is a file storage service, not a file distribution system. The typical use case is that an uploaded large file will be downloaded a single time by someone else, at different times when computers are online.

This requires an intermediary system with very high availability and performance, which in P2P can only be implemented by duplicating data on a dozen or so systems.

Since files must be private and there is no commonality like in BitTorrent, it follows that running a P2P Dropbox would consume 5-10 times the storage and bandwidth of it's centralized counterpart for the same useful service.
I have been putting off a Google interview for a whole year now.

I have real experience building Cluster Filesystems, Distributed Caches, TCP/IP Control plane software and low latency Ad platform for more than a decade.

Sounds good on paper, but I can guarantee I cannot solve most of these puzzles without actually solving them beforehand. Why? Because I do not have cycles or time to solve these on my own. I have a system to build, Engineers to help and a product to ship. Family obligations do not help.

Seriously, Is this normal?
What does this tell me? I should not appear for Google interview and waste their and my time.

Some of the replies here suggest that Googlers just push protobufs? Damn, that is one hell of an interview to push protobufs around :(.

Glad, atleast they are upfront about puzzles, so that's good.
I'm not sure if I followed this comment as a response to mine. Can I infer from it that the answer is "very, very few"?
Isn't this by design?
I'm not an expert on IPFS, but the things I personally don't like about it is the lack of anonymity (although I think it is possible to run it over Tor), and also it seems to only be useful as a store of static files.

I don't think it's possible to do a dynamic site, eg something that needs to read from/modify a database, using IPFS.

Not sure what project is better however. Dat looks pretty cool but also doesn't have anonymity.
That’s fair, and for ICE vehicles there are a number of things to check/maintain. Here, they couldn’t tell me what exactly they were going to be doing, other than “checking the battery”. Obviously there’s no oil changes or the like.
Agreed, I'm not sure how you reconcile advocating open soft/hardware with not pushing it along as people try to make it viable.
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It's really sad, honestly. I think we need to vote for politicians that will fund our police forces appropriately, but also hold them accountable for actually doing their jobs. This means that when auto theft goes unchecked in SF, the police department doesn't just get a free pass to not arrest and prosecute thieves.

I'm sorry, but the US is still the wealthiest country in the world, and the only reason why car theft is so rampant in SF is the police and DA complete inability to prosecute against it.
Ah sorry, that's true. I take my statement back. Also, yikes, that's even more leverage for Google.
I can't think of any concrete red-line that Facebook could cross. I've never been a techno-utopian, and the Snowden leaks were the catalyst that drove me to learn programming.

I recall being in my early teens, when I went to create my (first) Facebook account. I mentioned it to my dad. He explicitly told me that whatever I did on Facebook would go to their servers, that whatever reached their servers was theirs, and that they would do whatever they wanted with that data regardless of whether you agreed to it or not. The whole reason I gave up and made an account was because my friends had already given the app their contact list, and the service already had my phone number.

From day one I've treated online services like amoral, dangerous animals, and so far nothing these organizations have done has especially shocked me, though I have been impressed or surprised on occasion. My mantra is generally 'if I or the NSA could imagine it, private industry will attempt it'.

I still get a lot of value out of my Facebook account. Facebook pages are a gateway to niche interest groups, social trends, and the political fringes that would otherwise be inaccessible to outsiders. Seeing the ads Facebook puts in my feed helps me to calibrate my mental model of how I'm being observed, who's sharing data with who, and how online services perceive me (I typically use ad-block, and only occasionally close it to check my ads).

If I want to contact someone I've only met in passing, keep up with family and political bubbles, or do a bit of background investigation, Facebook's there for me.

Accessing the service requires a bit of a faustian bargain. But by the time I joined, the country had already made it on my behalf, so I opted to reap the benefits of that bargain rather than just being social collateral.

Facebook could scare me off the way Google Search did - by sanitizing its content feed to the degree Google's sanitized its search. But I'd still use Messenger, and any other useful service they come up with.

But otherwise it'd have to become obsolete in the same way as MySpace.
Not really. See the recent hub-bub about the Sentinelese and one Christian.

Or any American evangelism. You're empty inside.
That is just false. Nicotine has physical withdrawal symptoms that a user suffers regardless of their mental health. What makes it hard to quit is suffering the withdrawal symptoms. I think you’re conflating “mental health” with willpower and the ability to stoically suffer through illness.
How many one-off patches will be needed since the malicious website will just change something else as soon as the fix is deployed? And rinse and repeat.
On the mountains that the hyperloop would traverse? ok dudes
Reading the news it sounds like it's the city being a dick.
well if you're going into it to stop smoking then yes, but if you're a kid trying out a new toy then probably not, also as it's pretty much a gadget people switch devices, settings and liquids all the time, new is fun.
Most of what I've seen calls nicotine one of the most addictive drugs, but even if it's not that addictive it could still be causing these problems. Addictiveness describes how likely you are to develop a dependency after using some amount of times, and presumably these people are vaping many times before addicted.
Those were not malicious though, and the software would not intentionally break it next patch. But in this case it would.
> Another one I often hear is some variation of "present solutions
> not problems", often from developers and not just management.
> Except problems are easy to spot and solutions often require a
> substantial time investment to solve and present, time that won't
> be allocated unless problems are identified.

This is one of the most powerful insights imaginable.

From an employee's perspective, it's crucial to adopt the mentality of always striving to deliver solutions and not problems. Considered in a vacuum, yes, it's a valuable trait! Of course solutions are better than mere gripes!

But it's equally crucial to realize that the common refrain of "bring me solutions, not problems" is -- as you say -- often a profound way for management to (perhaps sometimes unintentionally) bully, stifle, and ignore engineers.

It works as an instrument of management's bullying because it preys upon the guilt we engineers feel when we present a problem without a solution.

I should have been better. I should have developed a solution as well. That's what we tell ourselves. But, as you say, this is not always feasible. A solution may take days, weeks, months, or years. And the importance of the problem is often positively correlated with the time and resources needed to develop the solution.
Current discussion on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18712382
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies#1500_...
That is very interesting, but it does sound like you’re measuring engagement (or, less charitably, the effectiveness of the self-organizing distributed boiler room of patio11 fame) rather than, say, assets and earnings.

I’d call the latter “fundamentals”, if only because I don’t see why engagement would provide a price floor at e.g. 1000 $/BTC rather than at 10k $/BTC or 100 $/BTC?
Needs way more images. Read both parts but I don't want to think of the setup in my mind, as I might be wrong.
Looking for vulny binary code in terms of jaccard similarity is interesting.
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> Global warming and energy production in general could be solved by fusion

Yes and no. I think you know the yes. The no is because the damage we've done has delayed effects. To solve it you need to do a ton of sequestration. But I also HIGHLY encourage funding of fusion and I think it is a necessary step forward that we can't ignore.
Sorry, that's what I meant by advocating it as a way for addicted smokers to reduce their nicotine intake. Through decreasing the quantity of Nicotine added into the vape mixture.

I agree, think Vaping for existing smokers is a great idea. Still gives them the psychological feeling of holding and breathing in vapor, but doesn't have the harsh chemicals to go along with it, aside from the Nicotine for which you control the dosage.
As a former smoker and current person above their ideal weight who goes to the gym and studies less than they ideally would all of those things are down to prioritises.

Nicotine is fantastic, like caffeine and alcohol, running or weightlifting. Sometimes you have other priorities and you give up something pleasant because it has bad consequences.

Vaping is nicer and safer than smoking, which I would not recommend anyone start, for the wretched smell alone never mind the health effects. If I ever feel like nicotine again I’ll buy a vape again.
The zlib vulnerability was a huge wakeup call. Years ago I used to be in favor of statically linked, to limit dependency creep. Disk space is cheap so large binaries were never a concern.

My favorite approach was single repository compiling optimized binaries with the specific versions of the libs wanted (in case of weird regression) and pushing these static binaries to the rest of the network.

After the zlib debacle, no more: I only use that approach for very specific mission critical tools, where I do not trust ansible or even linux distributions.

The sqlite 0 day may have reignited the same fears in those too young to remember grepping various zlib signatures on binaries -not just yours (you central repository can easily push new version to your network) but the other tools you don't necessary control.
Also good:

Cockbox (Bitcoin and Monero) at https://cockbox.org/

HostSailor (cards, transfers, Bitcoin, etc) at https://hostsailor.com/

Pulse Servers
https://www.pulseservers.com/

Trilight Zone (cards, transfers, Bitcoin, etc) at https://www.trilightzone.org/

VPS.BG (PayPal, Bitcoin, etc) at https://www.vps.bg/en
Seems lots people with PhDs and lots experiences are pissed off because full time new grad leetcoders could beat them in Google coding interview
"Willpower" and the "ability to stoically suffer" through illness is a product of exactly mental health.
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I guess this sort of defeats the purpose of switching from Google search to Bing over privacy concerns.
There I many things I disagree about with Google, but statically linking binaries is a good practice if you know what you are doing and have a central repository where you handle your own versions of everything.

You can not always rely on linux distribution to not mess up with a lib, especially if it "obscure" with few users.
Sounds like a Tesla?
Positive comments about nicotine in the LessWrong community were a major reason why I started vaping. I found the addiction to be less serious than commonly claimed, but I also found the beneficial effects to be small. I couldn't say with confidence that it's better than caffeine, and caffeine is more socially acceptable. I don't suppose I'd be shadowbanned for telling people my experience of caffeine.
Hey. This is a pattern of argument that is explicitly forbidden by the site guidelines. Please stop asserting, overtly or implicitly, that people are making arguments because they're shills for this company or that.

Beyond that: I've read every 'DannyBee comment on HN for the past several years and I assure you he has far stronger opinions about register allocators and the LLVM development process and open source licensing than he does about people criticizing Google.

I think you owe him an apology.
Some people do but they’re even less of a concern because they’re vape nerds. They know perfectly well how much they’re consuming. It’s hard to avoid knowing it when you have to buy new cartridges or bottles of fluid when you run out.
What a conceited, naive thing to say. Try developing some compassion by talking to people whose experience directly contradicts this viewpoint.
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Totally agree. I don’t feel like I can pay for a phone right now but I’m already working on an app for it.

Also donating some time and money to postmarketOS and ubports(the community continuation of the ubuntu phone) because I really want any or all of these to be successful.
I do not understand the hate towards statically linked binaries. It has its place for mission critical tools.
ITER is controversial mostly because scientists don't agree that it is necessary. THOUGH almost everyone thinks it will show fusion is possible. But it is a research reactor. The controversy is that scientists think we can do it smaller and cheaper, much closer to what a power reactor would look like.

But also remember that scientists quarreling is different than how most people argue. It is over minutia.
creepy.
My friend Kyle lost his arms and legs when he was an infant. He's a competitive gamer and this is his experience/review of the latest Pokemon game.
Some of my best friends are witches ;)
You mean like water? You drink enough and you’ll definitely die.
Ministry of Supply will tailor this sweater to your body while you wait
The librem5 may as well be subtitled "The GNOME phone", I think it goes without saying that it will use systemd.
What on earth does that have to do with anything being discussed? Why do you think posting a random link contributes anything?
Looks like you want an option, but not as an extension.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/go-back-with-backs...
You can’t just alter skin color.

You also have to alter speech patterns and voices.

You also have to alter hair styles and facial features.

You also have to alter mannerisms and clothing styles.

There’s so much more than just skin color.
TMI-2 suffered a partial meltdown and came within hours of losing containment. Three Mile Island is on the Susquehanna River which flows into Chesapeake Bay.

Your call.
Lockheed didn't promise an exact stock value and directly manipulate a market. The difference is fine, but it is distinct.
Identifying impactful service system problems via log analysis
I think you are right, which makes me feel quite stupid. I think what tricked me is that I must have logged in to gandi at some point and then come back to look at my cart I'd made while logged off and it switched to AUD, which also uses $, so I thought it had changed without me doing anything.
I don't know when they did this, but Chrome also seems to remember form input when you back out, and re-fills the form if your reverse the backing out. That's a better solution than changing the shortcut because it works if you back out by other means, too, such as clicking the back button with the mouse or using the back gesture on a Magic Mouse.

Firefox does it to.

This has saved me many a time when I've accidentally done a back gesture on my Magic Mouse while composing an HN comment.
Hello Jason could you please give an estimated availability date for the Windows client and a valid link to the section of your repo/website where someone can follow the progress? I have searched extensively for any info on the schedule. road map, estimated availability for this and have had no luck finding any info about this very important client for Wireguard. I have been patiently waiting for this and holding off on other Windows VPNs but need something very soon. Thanks for your help.
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Mono 2.0 is ancient, nowadays the version is 5.16. That webpage is not worth looking at.
So, and now go back and read what I wrote until you understand it. There is no point to this whole thing (apart from creating clicks for the attention industry). It has no impact (again apart from creating clicks). There is no outcome that hinges on anything. They can claim whatever, whether they are right or wrong matters for absolutely nothing. The creation of attention and clicks is completely independent - it happens before the "forecast" event. Great business where outcomes don't matter.
I've only had a couple of experiences with dealer service centers but, like yours, they've been not good. I've come to the conclusion that dealer service standards are lower as they rely on a funnel of new car sales to provide customers. Our local independent service center is cheaper, more responsive and far more transparent about what needs doing to our cars.
I have to agree with this. The syntactic sugar that has been slowly amassing around JS has been mostly useless in the face of things like TypeScript and Babel reaching ubiquitous usage. It's better off just left to a transpilation target at this point, as everything will be WASM based once that's ready anyways.
Zuckerberg isn't a robot - he's entitled, overconfident, and underappreciative of the depth or complexity of the world beyond his experience or the impact of his actions upon it. Further, he shows no hesitation in imposing his will on others despite those shortcomings, and is entrenched in his perspective and tactics rather than open to learning. More briefly - he's a jerk.
This is the reassuring story every interviewer has to tell themselves to feel good about their decisions... and its the story every interview consultant tells the tech firm. But I tend to think its probably a just-so story, most of the time. All this work is done in the tech world to eliminate the subjectivity from interviews - this is how the subjectivity is re-introduced through the back door.
Unfortunately outside of linux distros static linking seems to be becoming more and more then new norm, especially if you include what is effectively "soft" static linking of bundling all dependencies, which suffer from the same problems. Rust is only suitable for static linking, .net core statically links and most .net projects will have all sorts of out of date dependencies, npm bundles huge dependency chains that may not be upgraded. Even in the linux distro world there is movement towards tools like docker where dependencies will often not be patched.

Even the idea of stable versions of libraries with security patches seems to be a dieing one.
Nicotine withdrawal symptoms aren't that extreme though (I've been there). And yes, more people than you imagine have mental issues, not necessarily of such character that they have high life-altering consequences. Humans are strong and small mental issues mostly go unnoticed because they aren't evident unless you're a careful observer.
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Why are the as restrained as they are right now though? A state without a functioning law enforcement that is out to effectively protect citizens and actually enforcing laws is missing the point of being a state at all.

Money: Reduce spending overseas by cutting down drastically on operations outside the nation's borders.

Education: Establish longer training, covering more in-depth the actual goals of law enforcement, effective strategies in community engagement, de-escalation tactics, psychology and the justice system.

Respect: Integrate law enforcement back into the communities they are supposed to serve. Reduce the barriers, demilitarize law enforcement from the look, equipment and the strategies employed all the way to the mindset of the law enforcement officials. Citizens (all humans in fact) should be viewed more like customers than like potential perpetrators.
I don't think many of the employees at various levels understand the "bad news" part of this. Therefore, they can't plan appropriately.

I don't think it is intentional but rather a function of most employees being in a weird corporate "filter bubble" with extra strong cool-aid being served on the daily.
>I think a development experience of put the code on the page and it runs is a lot better than configuring npm/gulp/grunt.

The problem is that this breaks down immediately for a million different reasons at any kind of scale with multiple developers, complex dependency graphs, and the need for automated testing. The tooling exists to solve real problems whether you've experienced them or not.
Yeah, I think nytimes is intentionally being misleading here. I don't doubt FB made some shady deals with the big tech companies, but it seems like they're conflating granting app permissions so that certain functions like sharing Spotify songs over Messenger work with granting access to all user data.
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well it’s BI so it’s a given that the headline is misleading or outright wrong
really creepy.
> As long as it eliminates enough false positives, they’ll keep up with it.

So Google is relying on a brute force approach to hiring?
Petitioning nobility to please do their damn job has not generally been a successful endeavor.
One of the big marks against BeOS in that fight was the lack of printer support. That sort of thing still mattered in 1996-1997.

I don’t know. A BeOS-based MacOS would’ve been ready for prime time years before Mac OS X was. And one suspects the Finder would have been usable. But there would be no iPhone.