skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The fact is that the monetary union has brought closer political integration and will continue to do so because, again, that's the only way.

there's another alternative: the entire thing self-destructs

which seems more likely at this point than full fiscal and political union
In addition to whatever Amazon pays Kohls for being a returns agent, when a customer returns an Amazon item to Kohls and gets their refund, that customer now has an extra chunk of cash in their pocket while at Kohls. I wonder how many extra sales Kohls will make by bringing in extra money-ladened customers with this arrangement.
Technical Debt or MVP – Pick One
Based on their talk today and Andrew previous talk where he shows explicitly tools that do just that download data constantly is exactly what they do. https://vimeo.com/274274744

I mean saying a phone can upload videos to youtube but a can can't to tesla is a weird ledge to stand on. Even their windshield wipers work based on sending video data to tesla to be learned on.
It’s the default choice, yes. However, If you’re using Ubuntu you could also install it through apt, though you’ll get an older version.
Open research. The most academic of labs or research groups used to be places where professors could follow their interests - it's hard to imagine that nearly as many scientists today would have freedoms to pursue interesting math or phenomena like Feynman or Shannon had in their day. It feels like accountism (or maybe some would say neoliberalism) has infected everything.
How to better design AI – from ideation to user perception and acceptance
One of my biggest concerns about the Rust project is that their governance is getting more and more complicated. Every language so far that I like was orchestrated by a BDFL, and the ones that aren't so well-designed (C++, Java) also happen to be elaborately governed. How can the Rust project be sure that it isn't going to smother itself with working groups to decide the color of the bikeshed that committee members park their bikes in on the way to meet about the code of conduct?
Hypothetically, if watching other people chew affected my mental health, would it be a justifiable to ban chewing in public?
Verified? It was a he said, she said situation according to the New York Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/technology/google-sexual-...

Regardless, if you are harassed, sue. If you don't like your company, quit. Causing a huge media uproar accomplishes nothing other than showing that you can't behave professionally.

The case we're talking about now is a great point. The two troublemakers aren't doing as well in their careers as they would like so what do they do? Go to sympathetic media companies looking for outrage bait and blame their lack of career progress and shifting roles on "retaliation".

I would not want to work with people like this and if I was their manager I would let them go.
This is culture-specific! I know a couple of cultures where it's polite to offer (without actual intention of following through), and the expectation is that the person being asked also declines - out of politeness. Think of it as the equivalent of the American "How are you?" scripted exchange.
Sadly it seems to be more of the same. They intend to present themselves as journalists while acting as activists. No matter what side of what aisle you come down on you should be dismayed by what this appears to be.
I had a very pleasant experience with "Parking Enforcement" in a commercial district outside of Pittsburgh recently. I had either forgot to put money in the meter or it ran out. Got back to my car to find a ticket. The fine was only a dollar and I think it was voluntary. On the ticket was printed a note explaining that the business community really values people coming to visit and so doesn't want to annoy those people with high parking rates or ticket fines. It was the most pleasant parking ticket experience I could imagine.
How to Let Go of Pain and Suffering
I sometimes enjoy charred flavor on things, but Neapolitan style is always way too soggy for me. Even more so in Naples itself. If it weren't for the historical aspect I'd say it's not even pizza.
Not a Problem in this case, the era is always a single character, a newly formed ligature of two kanjis.

The code point was already reserved in unicode 11.0, so you could even just the unicode code point.
What I learned by making 30 games in Unity
> It does seem like "macros 2.0" might have fallen through the cracks? As far as I know they were never finished and I haven't heard much about their progress.

People are working on it, it's just that its pure development work, nothing worthy of being announced yet.
They issue a takedown for a 34 year old game, ported to a system that's 37 years old. That takes a while to digest. I have noticed that every now and then, youtubers complain about Nintendo being real dicks regarding let's plays or even just using trailer footage in videos, which I can't really understand since it's basically free publicity. But OK, at least those cases are probably related to recent games, so it might make someone at Nintendo think they will lose money because people will watch let's plays instead of buying the game.

But this one is just ridiculous. What are they trying to accomplish? Stop this one dude who's most recent video game system is a C64 from playing super Mario bros for free?
This is just a personal anecdote, but after taking Ecstasy/MDMA once around 9 months ago i realised how bad the alcoholic "high" is. Since then i have been drinking way less. Often only one or two beers, then i'm done. I guess what im trying to say is to reflect over who you become and how alcohol affects your personality, temperament and motoric skills when drinking alcohol excessively. Knowing i will become bad at speech, get bad motorics, and start focusing more and more on sex, and will start behaving like a cave-man towards women and men alike makes me think of alcohol in a totally separate light than before.
>If you can't, the state will decide where it goes.

Presumably to the state I suppose.
You should read about the guy who sells onions.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19728132
Who is "we" in this context?
Ask HN: What is the impact of Bitcoin mining on climate change.?
Because "cleanup" can be non-trivial. Maintaining scripts inside unit files is a pain in the ass.
std::string_view is supposed to be idiomatic C++, though.
> I got along quite well with the 3rd farmer I met, so we decided to partner & give this a shot.

Just curious, how were the first two farmers you met?
I believe it is that you could replace the sealed envelope that your ballot comes in. Once the envelopes are opened, they are separated from the ballots inside them.
Except it does actually support keyloggers while breaking the concept of global keybindings. It's like the worst of both worlds.
> So, no, it wasn't rejected by "the population" (a term that it was always be inaccurate[1]). It was rejected by a minority. And the treaty being one that requires unanimous approval, failed because of that.

Uhm sorry no. Read the links. It was rejected by the majority of the voters both in France and the Netherlands.

What happened afterwards in France was to change it slightly and make it pass by parliamentary vote instead.

About the accuracy of the term "the population", I simply mean it "by the local rules for a nation wide referendum".
> Honestly paying for parking is an insult in the first place.

Why should a city make available public land for private storage for free?
> He probably could have sold them in plastic bags on eBay

Well, there's a massive middle ground between plastic bags on eBay and placing a $10,000 order for boxes. I didn't mean to imply they couldn't eventually place a $10k order, but often you can order in smaller (but still large) quantities to check the quality. Or just use Uline for a while until you've gotten samples from enough locations to confirm a provider can service your needs.

We don't have the details of this part, so a lot of things could have gone into the decision to place a bit order which made it what appeared to be the correct choice at the time. I just thought it sounded a bit risky given the little information we have.
I agree. It's called Linear Algebra for a reason. :) That said, I still like the presentation given in this article.
This is a really good advice. I have started going on walks with my friends as well instead of going to a pub. Inspires ideas and you get way clearer thoughts.
I try to stay away from burnt foods as I am already at an increased risk for cancers. That burnt crust has elevated levels of Acrylamide.
> I was truly the last general to experience what true boredom was like as a kid

Old guy chiming in. Every generation feels like this. Socrates lamented that becoming literate would "create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories." In the 16th century, Swiss scientist, Conrad Gessner, warned that the overabundance of information caused by the printing press was "confusing and harmful". In 1940s, radio had caused children to develop "the habit of dividing attention between the humdrum preparation of their school assignments and the compelling excitement of the loudspeaker." In my time, similar concerns were raised about cable TV and the walkman.
Wouldn't they just cheat with some of the common methods and train some AI with the packet dumps to spot it?
I'm not sure you would end up with a good or accurate impression of any language where the extent of your Interaction with it were "I had to debug it once".
Intel’s new laptop processors hit the 5GHz mark
With the recent improvements in China's waste management, and the concomitant crackdown on "recycling" imports, my local recycling services here in the midwest have advised people not to recycle such black plastic, regardless of the recycling number on the plastic.

In a way it's a shame, in a way it's an annoyance, but realistically it seems possible only a fraction of that black plastic was ever truly being recycled anyway.
The language itself is still designed primarily by the language team, which is not many people. If anything, the team is large because we see Rust as more than just the language. The language you like that’s designed by the BDFL doesn’t generally have the BDFL make all decisions about the package manager, or the website, or the documentation, or the conferences. It’s just not humanly possible.

We have the core team to provide overall oversight over all of these teams to ensure things are coherent.
"Burning coal or natural gas releases carbon dioxide which directly leads to global warming.."

Nonsense. Despite the few more ppm of CO2 in the air since the 1930s, it's gotten much cooler since then on average. The 1930s were so hot that vast regions of the continental US were rendered practically uninhabitable.
Ask HN: Should you feel guilty for hacking annoying systems of control?
Systems designed to make you lose.
Should you feel guilty for "not being honest" and hacking your way through?
I'm talking about all kinds of forms and other such bureaucratic annoyances.

They aren't made to make your life easier but to make the life of the system easier. Why should we care whether we break something if it makes our lives easier?
Should we. Do You?

Can you share some stories with us
IANAL, but yeah maybe. Interesting.
me for example. My teachers in college did a real shit job at teaching this subject.
There is no reason that some of the interactive aspects that "AJAX" and the like enabled in the mid-00s couldn't have been done by extending the HTML/CSS standard, instead.
"Based on their most conservative appraisal, the team found that the cumulative emissions from bitcoin would be enough to push global warming beyond 2C in 22 years. If the average rate of technology uptake is used instead, this number is closer to 16 years." https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/bitcoin-climate-ch...
Absolutely. But I think that years of programming has resulted in sort of an internal/mental debugger :)
But the roads are nice. You can tell the minute you leave MA.
> Disciplined leisure is almost a contradiction in terms

Not at all. Meditation is an excellent example, but also volunteering and learning.
Well at least it's the best kind of lock-in.
Without hardware acceleration doesn't watching video in the browser pretty much destroy your battery life and use most of your cpu time?
The biggest problem with the newer generations is that you can not swap out the bumpers for something that can take even a light hit on a rock. In Colorado that makes most trails a no go as even the best driver is going to hit a rock.
It's still strictly better than a language with no borrow checker and no way to express ownership (other than comments), like C, or C++ itself before all the smart pointers.
best comment on HN this year so far.
Your post is full of falsehoods and factually incorrect statements. I find it so sad that HN has a regular group of climate change deniers.

> Nonsense

It is well-established through rigourous scientific studies over the last 100 years that there is indeed a relationship between greenhouse gas emissions (like CO2) and the average temperature of the Earth.

> it's gotten much cooler since then on average.

That is false.

> The 1930s were so hot that vast regions of the continental US were rendered practically uninhabitable.

That is also false, and conflates local climate change with global climate change. They are different issues, though related, and you cannot directly compare data from one to the other.
Write a simple operating system in x86 assembly language
Crying, a Mindful Practice – Science and Benefits
Set a limit before you go out. Alternate alcoholic drinks with other drinks. Chose smaller weaker drinks. Ask your friends and family for support with your new lower limits.

https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/alcohol-support/tips-on-cutting...
It's amazing tbh, this is how I return things now. There's no reason to go through the hassle of mailing crap anymore, I can just stop at Kohl's on the way home (and pick up some In-N-Out next door ;)), drop my stuff off, and continue on my way. The returns area is right at the front of the store and its super quick to drop off your stuff. Whoever came up with this idea should get a promotion.
Some pizza doughs are fermented as sourdough, which degrades gluten, but if you ferment a wheat dough long enough to become gluten free it will become too soupy to make pizzas. You need the gluten for it to hold together when you stretch it.
France tried a 75% tax on income over 1 million and it caused so many people and capital to flee that their economy stagnated and they actually lost tax revenue [0].

[0]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonhartley/2015/02/02/frances-7...
My business? Close to zero. But:

> If we grow so large that we hit the limits of whst AWS can handle, I think we will have enough investor money flowing in to be able to afford rearchitecting.

Apparently you think you're in danger of that happening, so what makes you think you can buy time with money?
There is a problem when people literally can't remain unoccupied for more than 30 seconds.
Cyberbullying in Digital Age: Perspective and Info Sharing Behavior on Twitter [pdf]
As others have said, if you're gonna be reaching that kind of timeout, the use case would come under this caveat I mentioned:

> assuming the task isn't hugely inappropriate

We have a couple of cases where reasonably small files (< 100MB but it'd work with larger) need to be downloaded from one place and placed in another, potentially with an ETag check to prevent redundant uploads/downloads. Lambda is perfect for that.
Show HN: Crypto Dynamic Portfolio Builder
Sorry, I didn't mean to put words in your mouth, particularly based on a mere four words. I was talking to people who I have heard argue "it's only the headers".

I appreciate your response. I am not clear on if that particular information is open source. A quick Google search does not seem to give a good (single) answer.
This makes a ton of sense for Amazon, but not as much for Kohls. Why would I want to make returns easier for one of my competitors? A key advantage brick-and-mortar stores have over online retailers is their local returns, so I'm not really understanding why Kohl's is giving that up.
"The logical solution would be for cities to switch to photographs and even automated cameras, which in the end will probably be more invasive of privacy than a chalk mark on your tires."

The logical solution is to chalkmark the asphalt next to the wheels. Line drawn perpendicular to center of each wheel ... "blue honda" written next to it.

Zero cost, problem solved.
It kind of depends on what your target is. If your target is absolutely zero emissions, you do have to turn off all the factories, regardless of cost. If you have a target with some emissions allowed, it makes sense to first reduce the emissions where the cost per unit reduced is least -- and ensure somehow that emissions don't just get moved outside of the measurement regime.
When you vote on a paper ballot, you are entitled to request a new sheet of paper if you've messed up a vote. In effect, this would allow you to take a picture of one ballot, toss it, and get another.

So, yes, it is quite different - an employer has no way to validate that an employee has voted a specific way. Any proof is not indicative of the final vote, unlike the proposed Blockchain solution.
If you're interested in this approach to linear algebra you should read Linear Algebra Done Right by Sheldon Axler.
In a great many cities, this right is actually restricted. City codes often prohibit parking unregistered/expired vehicles on private property if they're visible.
I believe it would be reasonable to assume that the combination of crepes and whatever else is sold would work out to be, generously, 15 Euro a customer. By all means feel free to disaggregate customer orders into crepes, tiramisu, and fancy coffee if you think it makes the math better.
I think I have a different view on this than most people here.

It seems that there is a tendency to simply suggest that anyone who does drinks to excess sometimes is an alcoholic and therefore is a special case who cannot drink.

What I observe is that most (not only a special few) people who drink have times where they over-do it and it usually has significant negative consequences in those cases.

In my opinion people want to blame the individual because they love alcohol and don't want to admit that it could be a problem in itself.

I think there is a basic thing working against everyone who intends to moderate their alcohol consumption which is that alcohol reduces your ability to make good decisions. So on a bad day or circumstance with a reduced cognitive capacity, anyone can make a wrong decision about whether to have another drink.

So personally I think the answer is just to find other activities that are fun that don't require alcohol. Also this idea that anyone who runs into problems is an alcoholic is false and effectively stigmatizes people who decide to quit because it has the suggestion that they are an alcoholic and something is wrong with them.

If you sometimes run into problems with alcohol it's not you. It's the chemical. Don't let people try to blame you for it.

To me the answer for social lubrication is just to have some kind of structure for group activities, in other words a game. It works fine. You don't see kids walking around depressed because they couldn't go drinking with their buddies. Kids have activities and play games and have fun. There is nothing about being an adult that makes it so you can no longer have fun without alcohol.
That's discouraging to hear. Seems to be happening everywhere, my friends in Texas are similarly complaining about the influx of Californians.
That's just what I was thinking. We always have Kohl's Cash about to expire floating around our house. Now we've got a reason to spend it and time to do so.
Had no idea when I clicked on that link that I'd be contemplating buying a box of onions. I've never tried a Vidalia but now I'm intrigued.
I disagree with this viewpoint. At the end of the day wealth needs to be distributed to people in proportion with their ability to allocate it effectively towards the growth in the knowledge and capabilities of a society. In other words -- we want smart people that want to improve society to have lots of money.

Dynastic wealth needs to be paired with a code of ethics and training ... nothing inherently wrong with it.
Do you have a picture by chance? My stove has a microwave over top of it with a fan underneath. Come to think of it, I'm not even sure if vents outside or if it just recirculates. It doesn't seem to reduce the odors much at all.
Ah thanks, I don’t feel so bad now. I had no luck after moving to a steel because he grill broke our pizza stone.
Why should it be a compile error? The pointer may be null, but is not guaranteed to be.

If you mean that C++ should require a null check before dereferencing any pointer that is not guaranteed to be non-null, then that would break most existing C++ code out there, so it's a non-starter.
Good way to get more foot traffic in Kohls.
The point of going to a restaurant or coffee shop is the atmosphere / venue for socialization; you would not do it if too tight a timeline were imposed.
I've been reading through the Vulkan spec, which is in way similar in that OpenGL has been extended since its introduction in 1992 with more and more features to support new graphics capabilities as they evolved.

I've seen Vulkan called the successor to OpenGL, but reading the spec it seems more like the end game for raster graphics card programming. OpenGL 4.0 was released in 2010, and since then changes have been incremental. We more or less have figured out how to do raster graphics (ray tracing may be a different story), so it made sense to invest tens (hundreds?) of millions of dollars to develop the Vulkan spec, and then many millions more to implement it.

What other technologies are there were we are more or less at the end game? I know Qt5 widgets is considered feature complete for desktop apps.
How would you fix this kind of bias?
Internet Database of Periodic Tables: Teluric Helix (2008)
Providing the parking spaces, and the car lanes to drive on, are both massive investments in real estate, given over for your use to store and use your vehicle. The fees and taxes you mention aren't nearly enough to pay for those investments themselves - they are supplemented with funds from property and income taxes. It might not seem like it, but you are getting a very good bargain, especially compared to someone that doesn't own a car.
The numbers might line up a little more if there was a single brick and mortar and several carts throughout the city and assume the 1 million was gross not profit.
Also if you forget the whole startup "go big or go home", what also matters is whether the company left the people involved - the founders, the employees - richer than they were before, or did it ruin the founders. Because a business that lasted 5 years and closed because the market dried up, but in that time netted the founder more than a regular job would, is pretty successful in my books.
> FWIW, I was told that matrices are linear maps pretty early on in my education. Are there any college level linear algebra / matrix calculations courses that don't tell students about that?

I know they taught us about matrices in high school, but I don't recall them talking about any applications at all. I think the topic was pretty drained of context, just rote application of the rules for add/subtract/multiply/etc.
It brings people into their stores. If n% of people returning an Amazon package look around Kohl's while they are there, it's a win.
Because getting customers into a store is half the battle. The offchance they make a purchase, even that overpriced 2 dollar soda, is a win for Kohl's. It is all traffic and business they might not otherwise have.