skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Article is about food produce stores, not typical grocery stores that small town have. I think food produce stores are relatively safe still, Amazon Fresh lacks choice, no free delivery and have higher prices. They have to deal with fundamental problem of everything must go before it expires and that prevents offering long tail choice.

However small town grocery stores which sell everything from toothpaste to cereals are in big trouble, I have watched 2 of them getting closed because of lack of customers. A big issue is also lack of smart software that can guide inventory decisions. They usually have ton of things that doesn’t fly off the shelves while customers getting disappointed with not finding things. You would expect these stores to have optimization software that identifies losers and replaces it with better options but they don’t. I would see them consistently run out of some product every Wednesday and not getting it replenished for rest of the week. I would think their software would detect this and get that item more but that would never happen!

They can probably still stay alive if they had smarter software.
For at least a couple of decades beforehand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card#IBM_80-column_pun...
I would guess that the evolutionary advantage of black skin was not primarily camouflage. Tool-using humans of any colour can do that with mud and grass.

My bet is on UV tolerance. Black people have lower rates of skin cancer in the US compared to whites. https://www.jaad.org/article/S0190-9622(05)02730-1/fulltext (Mortality is higher in blacks, but that's because it's diagnosed at later more severe stages.) The effect would have been far bigger when foraging and hunting all day every day under the equatorial sun.
People tried to use all kinds of methods to stop all kinds of Robert Moses projects, but he was always there faster than them or literally breaking through ignoring them.

Now I don't want to romanticize the scumbag, but the lesson to me is that there's a balance. Anything you do that's controversial to some audience will absolutely have opponents. You need to have the backbone and wherewithal to power through.
Evaluation of a Julia web server for 10k concurrent connections
The algorithm should have average figures specific to all relevant factors: age, sex, race, nationality, immigration status, not a one-fits all approach. But it's a horrible idea in the first place.
This is the reason there are 4-5 tether competitors. All who have more reliable management & better audit controls.
Depends on who inputs to the system - a few years ago I overheard a UK amazon worker discussing with a mate how a lot of the supervisory posts had been captured by a particular group and they played favourites.

Similar to the problem Ford had at Dagenham which was BAME workers excluded from some higher paying jobs.
I think the original idea was to build the CV segment first as a fait accompli, not really Newsom's idea.
And yeah, as the most technically demanding parts (as well as benefitting the most people immediately) the bookends should've been built first.
See the whole debate several years ago with "technicals" vs "politicals" on the web.
You'd think that, but some legacy systems might not have it, I don't want to name and shame, but a lot of our code is on an IBM Series i (used to be called as400?) and the source control for it is basically manually adding a comment with the ticket number next to any changes - unsurprisingly they're a bit coy about the technologies used in interviews and target people fresh out of uni who don't know any better, my recruiter told me it was a Java role lol
> I'm also a fan of a variation on the author's approach: have your better/different language get a foothold on a working GNU/Linux system, alongside traditional apps, in a system the user could use as their daily driver, and incrementally replace all of userland.

That's incidentally what Emacs is to many of its users (myself included).
I am aware that some detail will be lost. However with h265 encoding I've tested about a year ago I could shrink it by 40% without any noticible loss. If AV1 can get me above 50%, the >2TB saving is worth it I think. It'll be a lot easier to handle backups.
Simple, Fast and Safe Manual Memory Management (2017) [pdf]
And the best is when the cowards send an SMS instead of just saying it face to face..
Because there's more metrics to programming than LOC and if a company treats it like the only metric then they deserve to go under. Working in a warehouse does not have multiple dimensions to it. You are paid to pick up things, put them in boxes and then pick up more things. That's it. It's easy to measure.

For comparison sake, I know someone who runs a company sorting refuse. Each person in the warehouse needs to sort through 500kg of refuse every day. That's it. Literally nothing else matters. It's not a complex job, so the metric is not complex either.
Thank you very much for your explanation! That's exactly what I was asking for.
in isolation, no, but the problem I've seen is that literal dozens of preprocessing steps for a javascript project, and these add significant cost over time.

In a corporate environment, too, you need to proxy many of these, and set an environmental variable in the shell for SASS to install properly. Over time, this adds significant cost, pain, and stress to the install process.
I've had this experience before enough times that it's no longer frightening but means I urgently need some Gatorade or I may start shaking and pouring sweat.

For me it's more like a moving shade that makes it impossible to see what's behind it rather than not being able to recognize it. Do you have some detail on what you think it's the brain shutting down rather than an effect on the eyes themselves?
Applying Security Awareness to the Cyber Kill Chain
Towards an Information Operations Kill Chain
We also don't have a definition of God. We should thread lightly as anything can make her angry.

Sorry for the sarcasm (I'm definitely not trying to be impolite) but it was honestly my best attempt to make my point.
Okay. So the project is $44 billion over budget, and the consulting contracts (not just the overages, but the entire contracts) add up to less than $2 billion. Where does the other $42 billion in overages come from?
Why? Samsung had phones that literally exploded, and last year was their best year ever.
Now, the USD is the most trustworthy fiat currency on the planet, but it's a little (ironic? don't know) interesting the USD in turn is also a scheme of sorts. Albeit with a very powerful guarantor. But as others have said here, the banks don't hold funds for all their accounts. If each Tether was backed not only by funds in a bank, but actual funds at the Fed, that would be a true 1:1 backing.

https://www.econlib.org/who-should-be-allowed-to-deposit-mon...
Why Sridhar Vembu Shunned VC Money for Zoho
I guess not then. The arrow icons after every link make it really hard (funky?) to read.
There are some parallels here to London's troubled Crossrail project. Politicians and civil servants took their eyes of the ball and turned project management almost completely over to the private sector. For years, everything was apparently going fine and the project was on time and on budget. Suddenly, just weeks before it was supposed to open in 2018, it was revealed to be years behind and potentially billions over budget.

https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/true-scale-of-crossr...

(And, for an even more crazy civil construction project failure, see Berlin Brandenberg Airport)
Godwin point incoming
What Is Phishing? How to Attack in Your System
To be honest, I'd have to be paid more to work within a government system than for a private employer to put up with governmental BS and lower job mobility.
http://archive.is/qHgaz
A severe economic downturn for nyc because of infrastructure weakness and a pop in the housing market speculative investment bubble is on its way
Rocket Complex Falcon Heavy Flight, Mars 2033 Not Happening
I don't think it's fair or relevant to talk about hypothetical marketing definitions of a blockchain here. You wouldn't be discussing the merits of a linked list by mentioning the creative descriptions marketers can come up for it.
Australia plans to kill 2M 'killer' cats
More interesting than the actual article are the comments that follow it, which appear to follow the same line that appears on Hacker News with respect to China based articles. They're incredibly polarized which speaks to an ongoing unease in the West with respect to China's growth. A certain large percentage being extremely vocal of their criticism of China, some being laudatory and very few striking a middle ground. Had the article been about Mumbai, Lagos or Karachi I'm doubtful such reactions would have been elicited.
How do you use anything on the web without adblock? :S
Hilariously, the folks who likely voted against the bond measure are the ones that are going to be stuck staring at this monument to big government failure.
The technology is bendable screens, that have been around in testing labs for years. LG released a folding tv last year.
The psychology of it is fucked. It is so impersonal. Are you even notified that you've been terminated or you show up and your badge doesn't work. No explanation provided, just algo129 determined poor metrics. Sucks to work there not knowing what the blackbox is watching or when your time will come.
Dan Ingalls wrote similarly in his Design Principles Behind Smalltalk [1], noting that "An operating system is a collection of things that don't fit into a language. There shouldn't be one."

[1] https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/smalltalk....
Is there a name for this type of pseudo-sponsored overly-positive “journalism”? Monocle Magazine seemed to pioneer it about a decade ago and sadly it seems to be one solution to the failing journalism business model.
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This document talks a lot about deficiencies of the unix way, yet fails to give any concrete examples of advantage of the proposed new way where everything runs in the same address space, uses object storage, and is allowing users to run (!) "only code that has been produced from the high-level notation of the language".

I agree that there are technical problems with interoperability of programs and partially this may be due to the unix way. But the article does not analyze this and it is not clear that such a radical change is a good way to solve those problems. Even if theoretically yes, there are practical things to consider, such as the insane amount of work needed to switch. Perhaps the author just likes Lisp and has a solution in need of a problem.
Posts can be intellectually stimulating yet not belong on this site. What's important about a submission to users is a lot more nuanced, and I absolutely see why it was flagged. A slightly baity title on the wrong topic generally causes a derailed comment section since the title primes how you interpret the article(and many uses don't read the article).

For example, consider a post about the political analysis of the changing voting habits of Congress. The post is great, it is filled with technical details and an explanation on the application of game theory on voting habits in Congress, yet it is titled "Racism in the American Political System along Party Lines." The title enough is alone to disqualify such a post here IMO as it would in itself cause a dumpster-fire of a comment section, or at least have a much higher likelihood of it.
Interesting article. But "London and New York, the world’s current leading cities, share Shanghai’s foundational geographic logic. Their safe harbours are easily accessible to the world’s trade, and their Thames and Hudson Rivers provided a ready route into a huge hinterland."

Does Thames really lead to a "huge hinterland". Does a small island like the UK even have a huge hinterland?

Also, the hudson doesn't lead to a "huge hinterland" either. The mississippi and missouri rivers does though.

I think it's a bit of a stretch to compare the yangtze river ( shanghai ) with the hudson or thames rivers.
Something that prints out the state after running each line of code? No, I don't think so, but I believe it wouldn't be too hard to rig up something similar with TracePoint - https://ruby-doc.org/core-2.2.0/TracePoint.html - which is a built in Ruby way to trace code execution.

For example, dump this into a file and run it:

TracePoint.trace(:line) do |tp|
STDERR.puts "Ran: #{File.readlines(tp.path)[tp.lineno - 1]}"
end

a = 10
b = 5
puts a
a += b
puts a
puts b

It'll print out each line of code as it runs it. You could then parse each line for identifiers and print them out, etc. It'd be a project, but it's doable.
I wanted to also mention Mezzano - really easy to play with using VirtualBox.

A bit off topic, but when I miss the environment of the Xerox 1108 Lisp Machine that I had from 1982 to about 1987, I find the closest thing today that offers a similar experience is Pharo Smalltalk.
So basically we should leave the research to be done in China?

If you get an important western institutions to decry this research as unethical it will just happen elsewhere. This research could be very beneficial and could lead to extending the time window within which someone can be revived without becoming a vegetable after their heart stops pumping blood around. It makes sense to allow the research to continue where we at least have some control over it, especially considering that we are a long ways off from creating conscious brains in jars (or other suitable containers) which is approximately where most people seem to draw the ethics line.
Health officials take a hard line on screen time for kids. Will parents comply?
uh oh an investigation! as meaningful as the Charter Spectrum one I imagine.

https://eu.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/politics/alba...

TLDR Scammed consumers twice, gets to keep doing what it was doing.

"Charter and the Department believe that this action is an important step forward" indeed
Managing the Narrative Arc
The genetic history of human skin colour is really amazing. All our ancestor had fair skin because of body hair (Chimps have fairish skin under all their body hair), we then became dark skinned as we lost most of our body hair, and then those of us who had ancestors that lived far from the equator became fair again.

As someone who has the ancestry of people who lived far from the equator and now lives in a country that is much closer to the equator I wish we hadn't lost our body hair.
One could not say that. The question is not about creating new styles or "forms" (??) of music. It is about creating compositions. I was only objecting to your use of AlphaGo as being based on "emotions" and being "creative". It is not generating explanatory knowledge, which is the kind of creativity we actually care about when we talk about AI. With current methods, you can only solve problems that have narrow optimization goals which are easily defined.
Here's the HN discussion of the extension: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19558661
Your book is wrong. You are wrong. Educate yourself.
Life becomes a lot easier if people like you
Forget the LOC example. Let's just say failing tests. Pick any single thing you think is critical to software development. Regardless of what it is, would it be acceptable to you to have an automated process simply fire someone for not hitting this metric?

I feel like at some point we have to draw the line. We're going to have to coexist with automation and eventually it will get to software development, too. Some parameters about what we consider to be reasonable and unreasonable to automate make a lot of sense to me.

I also feel like we get very classist as software developers and fall into the I-am-special trap frequently.
Funny enough I meant in the other direction— where I come from you’d be considered rich if you were retiring on $800k CAD, never mind USD.

I can assure you my father retired on much less and largely relies on national and union pensions.

Not to say it’s good to retire on less. He’d happily have more money put away but that wasn’t how life happened. It’s not how life happens for a lot of people.

Hence the “different world” remark.
Google Accused of Retaliating Against Staff in New Labor Case
A Schematic is far more than a simple ToC. It gives the complete "static" structure of a system. It should allow me to identify/map major modules/components on the PCB and make some sense of it before even i turn on the system and probe it to identify "runtime" behaviour.
Could be visiting from elsewhere or somehow not enrolled. Requiring immunization papers of anyone on campus would be very hard to do.
Nobody seems to be taking into consideration rising sea levels etc. It can't be the capital of the future if it's submerged, can it? Same for London and New York.
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Should the experience of everyone be degraded to help the subset of people that are especially susceptible to addiction?
Propoganda I believe.
Ask HN: Do you think that people at work like you and enjoy your presence?
Or is it purely by interest that they keep you around?
Does it matter to you?
How would you know/(figure it out) if it did/does?
Thankfully though, he didn't have the wherewithal to power through everything he wanted to do. I get your point. But the balance is going to vary a lot depending upon your priorities.
I don’t see anything wrong with this.

Most of the warehouse operations will get automated soon. So it’s better (from the laborers’ perspective) to keep manual labor as efficient/profitable as possible, otherwise they’ll make it attractive to automate all manual labor.

i.e., those who are considered good warehouse workers, are at risk of losing their jobs too to automation if the not-so-good workers are not fired.
>"immutable, distributed, cryptographically-verified database"

>Byzantine fault tolerance, public consensus, and mining

Why would I want ANY of these things associated with the system that manages my medical records?

I don't want them to be immutable, if there's an error I want it corrected. Clearly there should be security to control who (my provider) can update them, and perhaps turn on the database transaction log to track what updates were made by whom and when.

I don't want my medical records to be distributed for obvious reasons.

Encrypted, sure, but "cryptologically verified" seems to be overkill as there's little incentive for third parties to try and forge medical records.

Byzantine fault tolerance? Lol. My medical records get updated maybe once per year, by my provider, and no one has an incentive to insert false data.

Public consensus? See above.

Mining? Come on.

99.9% of the time when someone says we should use blockchain, they really just need a database, this is one of those cases.
Fun fact : a gorilla of the US companies is Amazon, which operates out of Luxembourg due to a sweetheart deal offered by the now-President of the EU Commission.

But... let the pot-shots fly. Bad Ireland.
In Wake of Nvidia-Mellanox: Xilinx to Acquire Solarflare
>Google CAPTCHAs have gone from asking the question "Are you human?" to "Which human are you?".

Nailed it.
Yes, it's called PR.
Well at least after 10 years or so, a few miles of the 2nd ave line has been completed. I think everyone deserves a pat on the back don't you?
True, not to mention other ports like Liverpool, in England, that are more similar to NY

Though fluvial/maritime transport plays a part, it is not the whole story (also see Paris)
EA use a variant of this for their FIFA app and it was legitimately the most frustrating CAPTCHA I've ever tried to solve. They overlaid several objects at the same time in an attempt to make it harder and it took me 9 minutes to solve them all. Example: https://imgur.com/a/x8x4amL
Yes, RSI! :)

Though the ones who set "oh, you were at MIT" didn't know about this program.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190426112003/http://general-st...
Simplify Gmail to the Minimum
Nope. More like Europe's Delaware
What the Flat-Earther example can teach us about scepticism and science
wasn't this posted few days ago? or this a promotion for threadreader
Ok that's great - what does that mean? How do I make them make it an opt in?

I contacted ICO in the UK about a breach (amazon sending unsolicited marketing emails through the order update system) - ICO told me to talk to Amazon, who said "Oh we're sorry" and ignored me. Just because it's against the law, doesn't mean companies wo'nt do it.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19737070
The mysterious history of the MIT license
The Power of Saying Less
Isn't Shanghai sinking, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/05/from-lon...?

Or has that been solved?
Great write-up and I agree with many points. I don't think the 'Lisp language' is the key point here though, but the other OS properties like a single level store and composition methods richer than byte arrays.

Would be nice if the author referenced historical systems that overlap these ideas.

One is the Symbolics Genera system with 'data level integration' so apps shared rich data structures instead of uninterpreted bits. https://www.ifis.uni-luebeck.de/~moeller/symbolics-info/gene...

Another is Appolo Domain/OS which had a single level store: http://bitsavers.org/pdf/apollo/014962-A00_Domain_OS_Design_...
> I need to go have a cup of tea. Looking at that has really shaken me.

I have had my episode of panic attack and just looking at that picture made me feel some of those bad feelings again. Really weird.
Too much dirty money from all around the world are looking for a parking spot. Don't count on it.
This is a common platitude but contributes nothing to the discussion. In real life, you don't get a chance to "do over" whenever you wish. As they say, "time and tide wait for no one". You have to do the best with what you have got rather than wishful thinking.
The way you phrase this suggests an unawareness of the fact that one comes to aesthetic judgement through interpretive frames, which are formed through personal experience and knowledge, and therefore express your aesthetic interpretations as more factual than they are.

I recommend
Talk about a Painting: A Cognitive Developmental Analysis by Michael Parsons, can be found online easily.
Some are tied to paid services
My propaganda spidey-sense was tingling pretty quickly with this one.
The way I understand "hinterland" is "the geographical area where goods from the harbour can easily be transported to". This can be over water (river or canals), but also by train or truck.
Interesting as that may be, I'll raise you: discrimination is best measured as a deviation between a selected ratio and a population ratio. If you don't account for that, then silly things happen, like all heat maps turn into population maps, etc.
You don't think you get enough value out of Gitlab to justify the seat price?
Based on the fact it seems to power all (or majority) of your development process it seems like it would be worth it?
The next decade or so is going to be very interesting. Western democracies have now overly partisan political system where most of the effort is spent in just cancelling out each other. Whatever remains is typically taken away by lobbyist that only help to further inflate shareholder value, which large majority of population isn’t. On the other hand authoritarian governments are able to move swiftly and decisively on issues and infrastructure. For example, government simply can deny cars with odd numbered license plates to drive on Mondays to reduce traffic and pollution. They are obviously rampant with corruption and bad decisions like creating ghost towns but marginal leftover value that remains seem to be still big enough for actual public works than in highly polarized democracy. I am not favoring one over another but long term consequences of this marginal efficiency could be highly compounding.
Women podcasters face discrimination for their opinions and their voices
Bitfinex’s monetary issues could push Bitcoin below $1k
This is great, like TDD for ML!