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On one side, I feel bad for those who will lose their jobs. But as a customer who goes to Walmart once in a while, I prefer not to see greeters at the door. I never understood this concept anyway - why do I need to be greeted when I am going shopping? Many business places don't do it, what is special about Walmart?
Fresh shellfish is delicious and doesn't require anything. I'm going to speculate that you didn't grow up near the ocean. I catch and cook (or in the case of clams, don't even cook) my own, and it's at its most delicious with nothing added.
>He did no such thing. You are probably referencing a series of tweets where Elon was openly contemplating what would be required to buy back Tesla shares. The settlement with SEC clearly stated that no fault was found and no guilt admitted.

Yes, that's the "slap-on-the-wrist settlement" for Musk's
securities fraud the parent was referring to.

>Why people get so excited about Musk spewing numbers over Twitter is beyond me

Because he is the head of a publicly traded company and spewing those numbers can violate the law.

>The crowd was eager to hang Elon over “funding secured” despite the entire deal being dependent on shareholder agreement.

Yes, that's precisely why his statement was fraud. He said he had funding secured when he didn't. He did this to manipulate the market.

Outside of the Musk cult, these are the laws people in Musk's position need to follow. If anything evidences SEC corruption it's Musk getting that sweetheart settlement for behavior that would land us average Joes in jail.
> tech giants from China and Russia don't have employees protesting military aid just because 'the technology is scary and can do harm'.

Citation needed? How do you know this? And if they don't have that, it seems like they might not have that due to totalitarian rule and a fear of the population to speak opinions. That's not a society we should emulate.

> I also highly doubt the US 'setting an example' will change any of their minds.

Why not? I think that it would. Demonstrating the economic impact of focusing these developments on useful, productive concerns would leave them in the dust. Seems like they would like to keep up? I don't follow your logic.

> If none of the United States tech giants sign with the Government, it's very likely that the US's technology used for an upcoming world war will be inferior to that of the US's enemies.

Again, I disagree and view it as the opposite. Also, if we are so bent on preparing for this future war - without conversation or allowing any kind of other ideas at all - it seems like the war will be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Well, in a democracy we all are, that’s kind of the idea for better or worse.
Plastic straw ban? Cigarette butts are the single greatest source of ocean trash
Is this an analogy? Can you explain it in literal terms?
Your logic is that two wrongs make a right.

We have to stop this arms race.
> 2. Increase your vocabulary. Try wordthink.com daily.

My gut feeling is that having a bigger vocabulary doesn't necessarily help; your audience must also know the words in order for communication to happen.

What is the reasoning behind this suggestion?
as a former sociology major, I'm pretty sure the judicial system still spends much of its time on cases w/ less merit than this
Stock, in principle, is an investment in an enterprise that creates wealth. Like building cars or growing wheat.

Buying and selling houses merely moves wealth around (typically from younger generations to older). It creates nothing, incentivizes nothing and looses more and more to mortgage holders. It can indeed make people rich but only to the degree someone else gets poorer.

The trend is for an ever growing number of single family homes to become rentals owned by investors. As prices rise further and further above middle class ability to afford, this trend will increase. You can make far more money buying a house and renting it than buying it and sitting in it. So in the long term owner-residents are never going to be able to compete for homes with large investor in an unregulated market.
I'm guessing they are trying to reduce the employee count by combining various responsibilities.

Goes to show what I know about the day to day in the life of a wal-mart employee, but I figured those duties were kind of already combined/shared responsibilities of the 'floor staff'-except for maybe the kids who spend most of their days fetching and herding carts (which my time in grocery retail was reserved for A) the newbies for "training" or B) the troublemakers/someone being 'disciplined' by a manager).

Interesting.
I am surprised by the number of people here as well as on Twitter confusing between "annualized" and "annual". If I make 1% trading a stock in one day then the annualized return is (1.01^365 - 1) * 100 = 3,678% but that's not the annual return!

In case of Tesla, I think the annualized target production of 500K cars was calculated over 3 quarters (please feel free to correct me).
There is no such thing as "objectively wrong". Please do elaborate on this. We as a tribe/culture/country/etc can come to an agreement amongst ourselves about what "wrong" is, but that is all.
During my early Apple days, I worked in a lab with around 30 Macs engaged in automated restart testing. BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG
When people engage I always try and challenge my assumptions and learn from y’all, that’s part of why I come here in particular. Here’s what I’ll do, I’ll add your book to my reading list and I’ll follow up one day when I get through it. I can’t guarantee you’ll change my mind but I’m sure I’ll get a lot out of it!
Exactly. I haul 12x24' Barn Sheds on a custom trailer, 14' tall at the peak off the ground. The aging Triton V10 let me pull these monsters at 65 mph into the wind! Its hard to find a used V10 that the owner wants to sell.

Fuel efficiency? Try 6 mpg when towing. Of course, the customer pays the gas - ha.

To see a pic of one of those barns on a trailer, look at the FAQ page on my site: ksshedbuilder.com
The viewers of Fox News find it valuable as well I'm sure. That something's users find it valuable says little on its own imo.

This is a separate point, but what exactly does Twitter do to provide a direct connection to the masses that the rest of the internet doesn't? The only difference is that Twitter, through some combination of marketing, first mover advantage, addictiveness to the right audience, whatever, happened to what the developed world chose as its social media platform of choice for current events.

That's orthogonal to its actual appropriateness for being such a platform and to its utility to global/national society as a whole.
> bars are pretty much for getting plastered

They might actually be the least efficient retail or service venue for achieving that purpose.
The free popcorn is one thing I love about Ace Hardware and, to a lesser extent, Home Depot. Walmart, on the other hand, feels way worse, yet they probably spend about the same on those greeters as Ace spends on the popcorn.

Now, Ace Hardware isn't the poster child of success like Walmart is, but it's famous for that popcorn, just like Walmart is famous for its creepy greeters. And losing the creepy greeters is actually kind of sad in an odd way.

I wish we could go back to the time when most people shopped at smaller stores where the registers were run by the owners and they cared about their customers enough to remember them. It's sad that Walmart will most likely be defeated by another large company with even less human interaction, but I guess that's the price of progress...
Also, the emergency generators should have been put on platforms so they wouldn't flood. Critical machinery should have been located far enough away from the reactor so they could be worked on without fear of radiation.

Etc.
It always amazes me how otherwise environmentally friendly people are so willing to discard butts on the ground.
This doesn't explain the more severe measles epidemics in low-Internet-usage countries like Vietnam.

Measles doesn't spontaneously appear within a community; it's brought in from the outside.
I'm sorry, but this is a very naive perspective. And completely chronocentric. The "arms race" started when the first hominid learnt how to throw a rock at his fellow species. Do you really think we are simply going to "end" this arms race?

I don't mean to be snarky, but with the inevitable colonization of space, do you really expect people to just be super awesome peaceful and loving? And not have an arms race?
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My guess is that your subtitles don't have a "fixed drift". Unfortunately, this project only works for constant drift at the moment -- dynamic subtitle drift is a harder problem but absolutely worth thinking more about for future work.
As you go back in time every generation had some practically insurmountable and very clear enemy and 'evil' to overcome. I think this is fairly self evident if we look back before the 20th century. But going beyond that in the 1920s you had the rebuilding and reconstruction following WW1 followed shortly thereafter by the great depression. The 1940s goes without saying - WW2. In the 1960s you had the civil rights movement when people had clear and well defined purposes in getting rid of literally racist laws which had one rule if you had this skin color, and another if you had this skin color - and there was this little problem of a constant fear of nuclear annihilation due to the cold war. The 1980s are where things start to calm down. You had the end of the cold war as well as the fall of the Berlin Wall, but life started becoming pretty fair and pretty safe.

By the 2000s? We certainly don't live in anything like a utopia, but we also live in what is undoubtedly the safest time ever. And while there are still many issues in society, they're becoming ever more difficult to pinpoint in terms of precise solutions. And I think it's safe to say that there will never be a time without issues in societies. People are different and often don't get along. Stick billions of them on a planet and even in systems we could describe as utopia, we'd find a way to not get along.

So the point of this is that I think many people want to find an issue or an enemy to fight against. Augmented reality for military use is hardly controversial and something every single nation around the world will be applying to military purposes. But when you need to find an enemy, any enemy, just to give your life some sort of meaning -- tech that will be applied to help soldiers perform more effectively in combat, which does include killing the enemy, makes a soft target. Whether it's really a logical or reasonable thing to protest against is secondary to the issue that it's something to protest against.
Ask HN: How to cope with job hunting and depression?
I've got 9 years of experience in tech, mostly as an engineer in high profile startups and some big companies.

I'm increasingly finding it harder to get any interest from employers, it seems like they all have better, younger, candidates.

Every new rejection brings me deeper into depression, to the point where I'm about to be homeless and I don't see a way out anymore without ending my life.

And at the same time, I realise my attitude to interviews has become worse: I'm more nervous, less excited, less happy... because I know it's not likely to lead anywhere.

Is there any hope? I can't afford any kind of therapy or get help anymore. My parents are dead, my friends don't understand or just tell me to keep trying.
I haven't found a business bank that I like.

I'm on SVB right now, and the mobile app + website show different balances, and neither reflects money that Stripe shows as having just been deposited that day. Call me old-school, but I think their #1 job is to keep track of my balance correctly.

I just switched accountants, and the new one recommends Bank of America. I might take a look at them.
I tried my hand at editing it, but was definitely lost at the question that it's not that hard to understand geometrically what the idea is, but how it relates to physics means doing a lot more work. So hard to strike the balance. Why would one care about a rectangular matrix all of whose maximal minors are positive.
Best+Mattress+New+Number+One
I got rid of my 2006 MacBook pro Core 2 Duo in late 2012 because Apple was dropping support for it in future MacOS versions. I kept my replacement longer with much less issues.
Something I consider off-putting about Go is that you need a Google account to contribute.

https://golang.org/doc/contribute.html

> A contribution to Go is made through a Google account [...].
Google accounts can either be Gmail e-mail accounts, G Suite organization accounts, or accounts associated with an external e-mail address. [...]

Does anybody else feel the same way?
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He means that why take small steps (such as eliminating greeters) and instead do every cost saving strategy possible much like Pepsi Co is doing now [1]

1: https://gizmodo.com/pepsico-is-relentless-automating-its-wor...
"In 2005, Walmart faced outcry over a leaked internal memo that proposed cutting soaring health costs by, among other things, requiring that all jobs include some physical activity."

I wonder to what degree the high cost of healthcare effected their decision to replace greeters with "customer hosts". Is this Walmart reorganizing for a better customer experience, is this Walmart cutting costs to help fight Amazon, or is this Walmart cutting costs to boost executive bonuses?
The broad market is in equilibrium. SV doesn't define the broad market, nor does Flint MI or Gary IN.
I experienced this in college when I worked as a cashier at a grocery store. One particular "song" comprised entirely of whale noises. I probably heard it 15 times a day and it was always the target of employee aggression. For some reason the manager just refused to put on something else.
Either you're in the war business or you aren't. It's a genuine choice.
Fmt will print maps out in sorted order? I guess that will confuse many newcomers even more
Hi drankula3, definitely agree. You make good points that we study things that are based on reality using science when we ask "what is truth?"

I still wonder if there might be constructs or frameworks 'out there' more advanced than "asking questions". When looking at evolution, I wonder if bacteria, plants, or animals have that frame of reference of "truth" and "asking questions". To me, it looks like "truth" and "asking questions" are things humans have constructed.

I wonder if "asking questions" is just a part of species evolution and I'm curious by the thought that there might be more powerful frameworks 'out there'.
It's Jim Carrey, you just added one data point to the experiment ;)
Related: Walmart Labs[1] is supposedly doing some cool dev work and is hiring. (I'm unaffiliated but know people who've worked there)

[1]https://www.walmartlabs.com/
Show HN: I built an app to solve my Texting problem
Hi All,

Backstory: I'm a real estate agent from Brooklyn, and I spend a good chunk of my day texting new clients, initially some standard messages like my contact info, document requirements to rent an apartment, link to fill out an online form, etc. To cut down on repetitive typing, I used to save this stuff in the Notes app so that I could copy instead of typing every time I have to send one of these standard text messages to a new client.

The App: I ended up working with a friend of mine who's in tech to build an iOS app called "TapText" to solve my issue. The app lets me save a text message and send it with a single tap right from the Messages app. The app went live in the last week of December. 1,600+ downloads from 55+ countries so far.

One unique feature of the app is that when user sends a tiny image such as a company logo, the app automatically pads it with extra white space to eliminate the appearance of the image being cropped with rounded corners.

> App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1444515096?pt=119...

> Website: https://www.taptextapp.com

I think people in sales professions who rely on texting may find this app particularly useful. I hope you guys can check it out and let me know your thoughts. Thanks!

Remy
I'm not sure how the scroll broke, but since it is controlled by a float it probably goes to "Infinity" or "NaN" with scroll event properties that are different than what I am expecting now. I am now checking for this and resetting to 0. I wonder if I could ask you to try again and see if you can still break it?
that's not really how references work
Downvotes. Really guys. I’m just saying, it’s impressive that they were that accurate with the primitive models they had way back in 1983.
Definitely. And in in the last two weeks, the worlds largest bee that was thought to be extinct was found again in Indonesia. Particularly good news given the global decline of many bee species. [1]

And a type of tortoise thought to be extinct was seen for the first time in 106 years. [2]

1.https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2019/02/21/Worlds-biggest-b...

2. https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/tortoise-thought-extinct-dis...
My impression is they are eliminating greeeters. Ie, Amazon doesn't pay for greeters, people don't seem to mind if they are not greated when going to amazon or other stores, so to compete with these highly automated competitors they are reducing headcount where they can. The positions available to greaters, called hosts, have to handle more tasks (presumably to save them money on things like janitorial services etc). So I'm not sure that this isn't somewhat explainable by reasons other than trying to get rid of disabled greeters. And the hosts may reduce costs in other areas (janitorial, restocking? etc).
A greeter who is also available for other tasks generates far more value for Walmart than one who can only greet. Unless they can pay a disabled greeter an equivalent fraction, probably around 1/3 as much value as an average worker in an unskilled capacity, they're going to do everything they can to spend their personnel dollars on workers who aren't disabled.
You can now use plain GitHub PRs.
You could have made the same argument about slavery in the 19th century. And today, it's nearly universally accepted as wrong and almost completely eradicated.
A great guy from my hometown who has cerebral palsy is one of those losing their jobs. He has worked at the Marion, NC Walmart for almost 17 years. Almost every time I've visited the store, I've heard his voice saying "hey y'all" with the biggest smile on his face.

https://www.wyff4.com/article/thousands-petition-for-walmart...

The town has stepped up with petitions, calls, etc. He's offered to work for Walmart for free. I read that the local Lowe's has offered him a position.

Just wanted to share his story.
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> but manipulating individuals into giving away their privacy to the entire commercial space is fine and dandy.

It's only evil when China and Russia do it. Including military stuff.

I'm amused people think the Huawei 5g thing is getting so much push back by 5-eyes countries + Germany is about 'security' instead of unequal access to penetrate networks globally. Mobile networks are the backbone of the modern intelligence community - agencies who are entirely offensive-focused with the odd defensive help to giant companies on the friendslist (by that I mean "information sharing" list to help "detect malware").
It’s the quick keynote. Starts around 6:30. AWS spend down 15% even though traffic is 21x what it was a year ago.
Agree, this is one of example of bullshit job.
funny thing. i downgraded to an iphone se this past weekend to remedy the fatigue of carrying the large-in-comparison iPhone XS. It is not only perfectly functional for my daily needs, but it is also easier to use thanks to TouchID!
I mean, they can both be bad.
Same here, 2010 x220. I've been wanting to upgrade really bad, but all the equivalent still can only take 16 GB, so I'd gain some battery life and some CPU oompf which has never been an issue, but would still have the same memory limit.

Sure the x220 has a good keyboard compared to its replacements but the other thing it has is superior mechanical design: you NEVER have to prye apart plastic pieces. Want to change me more? It's one screw away. HD? One screw. Keyboard? 3 screws. Battery? Push 2 tabs, pull the battery pack.

Sure it's a bit thicker, but I don't understand when that's an issue ever, at least I can use it on trains, cars and even airplanes as long as they don't have those space-invader-reclining-seats.

Every new laptop I look at is just worse design, less upgradable (note: I only look at laptops with track points, the other ones are useless to me). What happened? Why have laptops gotten worse?
1) Who employed at my local Wal-Mart does this now?

Most people are expected to be able to do those things at Walmart.

2) Why do these job duties need a new title?

The article suggests that the new job title is designed as legal protection against a lawsuit from fired employees.
if this whole "we're cool now!" pr schtick is gonna work, i think they need to back it off a bit.

it's a little bit much....

can't they come up with a new and fresh identity to try and attract employees and developers rather than s/goog/us/? it seems a little... obvious? (and perhaps counterproductive?)
I mean, if you're OK with paying a thousand dollars for a 32 inch TV, sure we can do that.
Not if your usage patterns spike dramatically.

Once worked at a place that needed to do rapid crawls of websites on short notice and we saved a lot of money by moving from.dedocatrd instances to lamdas that we could scale out and down as needed.

How you use them is important.
If it helps, I had the exact same experience. Setup was possible but involved way too many decisions for the obvious use case.
I refuse to get gas at places that play advertisements at me. I’m already overpaying for gas, why be greedy?
Fuck inverted corporate totalitarianism, more duct tape.

In France, hundreds of speed cameras were destroyed. These gas pumps will be let go with a warning. They should count their blessings that these gas stations aren't nationalized.
You're right. Existing customers like me are unaffected though.
Add some AI, and oh what fun. If you insult the gas pump, it won't vend until you apologize to or bribe it.