skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that the idea of prioritizing work that is adding significant value is not so new, to be fair. Professors would go on sabbaticals to finish their book for instance.
The ills Aldi combats are work that costs the money, like stockers and baggers.

But making customers do the work, Aldi can make more profit and/or customers can save money by doing their own elbow grease
Sadly, a lot of old-school proxies (squid, privoxy) are stymied by SSL/TLS connections.

I think we're due for the idea that a proxy can be designated as a trusted intermediary, most especially if it's run on a personal basis. I'm sure this presents security issues, but it also avoids some.
In my experience: yes, yes, yes.
The United States. https://www.yahoo.com/news/21-year-old-sues-parents-for-coll...
so what's the story? how do they compete?
Most of the IKEAs I have been to in Germany don't do this. They have a couple of poorly payed workers who do nothing else all day than collect carts from the parking space.
That seems like quite a stretch to rationalize why a private entity making decisions about its internal processes is actually government mandated overreach.
That's a great way of putting it.
They also read emails to index them for search.
call and ask if they have a rare produce item in stock like Rhubarb or something..
Yes. But that still doesn't support there are more. The depth and breadth of this canvasing could have improved (note: as it should). It's also possible the homeless are more willing to be seen and counted. That is, the stigma has softened.
Nonsense. Epyc's memory latency is only slightly behind Intel's, and every test other than MySQL shows neck & neck IPC across dozens of real-world programs that definitely don't fit in L1.

POV-Ray doesn't fit in L1 and Epyc 7601 trivially bests the Xeon 8176, and does so while using a ton less power. Similarly NAMD, even with AVX & compiled with Intel's ICC, runs waaaay faster on Epyc 7601 than it does on Xeon 8176.

Maybe your workload is exclusively MySQL or looks a lot like it. If so, sure, go buy Intel. But there's a ton of cases where there is no where close to such a gap, including large cloud workloads. You keep taking a single benchmark result and massively over-extrapolating it to mean the entire cloud hosting world. That's not how this works.
there is some anec-data that very repetitive diet, as long as it actually covers all your nutritional needs, is actually better for you, health-wise.

Some guess it has to do with immune system activation, GI biome optimized for digestion of these repetitive specific foods you eat, etc.

I often wonder if benefits of keto actually come not only from ketones themselves, but also from the fact that keto diets are often very limited, and often to often (relatively) hypoallergenic foods.
Figma is still very much geared towards Mac designers, though. Sure, it works on Windows, but it's very frustrating to use it with a scroll-wheel mouse and a full-size keyboard. Most dropdowns have no scroll bar, if there is a scrollbar it's only 4px wide. They expect you to have a touchpad with inertia scrolling to do anything. The numpad also does nothing, since Macbooks no longer have them (so CTRL-NUM0 CTRL-NUM1 - extremely shortcuts to reset zoom/fit to page - do nothing; you have to use the number keys above the characters).
The article critical piece of the old scheme is tar before computers, no one had a use for tracking whether the correct price was actually charged. And thanks to inflation, the range of possible prices was smaller.
Interesting anecdote about FastMail, I was previously C++ dev lead at a company with a large (1~2 mloc) legacy code base. Most of the C++ code was layers of mess but there was also a very well engineered core. One name consistently appeared in comments on these well engineered sections. Out of curiosity one day I decided to search LinkedIn and see if I could find the guy behind this shining light of engineering competence. Turns out he went on to found (/cofound -- not particularly sure of the details) Fastmail.

I find it very satisfying that a good engineer went on to succeed and would definitely trust the engineering competence of Fastmail.
Why don’t I deserve a penthouse apartment in the centre of Dublin for €200 a month?

Because suppliers want money and demanders are willing to provide it to get what they want.
I wish there was not so much mindless boosterism.

At no point was there ever a rational expectation of cost-effective nuke power generation, despite all the transparent "too cheap to meter" lies spread at the beginning. The original and remaining purpose was to provide an industrial base for weapons production processes.

Money for tokamak fusion research has a similar purpose: a jobs program for high-neutron-flux physicists, to maintain a pool available for weapons work. There is no plausible expectation of ever getting practical power generation from tokamaks.
The tools look really good: https://ltse.com/tools
I took 140 flights last year. I made a larger number than that of online purchases. Adding / tracking all that stuff manually is a pure waste of time.
I was leaving plenty of room on the high end. In much of the USA, people would not be shocked by a young person who exhibited these behaviors, unless you mapped it out for them (then it starts to sink in). I guess there's some poor choice of words here. What was meant is "not abnormal or troubling" to much of the population.

> 40 beers/week is still very, very far from typical.

I don't know that it's as far as you think. I based much of my comment on a documentary from the UK that matches my observations. The guy found when he actually counted correctly he was over 100 units (~30-50 beers), yet no one considered him an alcoholic. I've noticed similar trends if you look at "social drinkers" and do accurate counting.

100% agree about the risk factors being reasonable. You're more likely to be the victim and perpetrator of crime, or be injured.
"Browsing by date" is pretty much Brewster Kahle's ideal, and is what the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine approximates, thanks in large part to WARC storage.

I'd also like to see a distinction between the idea of web servers, which are really publishers, and where archives are kept. Ideally not all in one single store, a/k/a the Internet Archive, but replicated fairly widely.
“Mostly correct” is also “somewhat incorrect”.

Also, I think there are probably sufficiently small decreases in expected profit ithat many large companies would tolerate.

And even aside from that, there is the possibility of a choice between options which does not have any large-enough-to-predict-or-evaluate-its-direction impact on the bottom line, and in these cases, the decision will likely be made in accordance with how some people working there prefer.
- Empty window stoplight controls (breaks HIG).

- I been waiting over two minutes for it to open a blank document created in the web version...three minutes still blank.

- Had to close and re-open. Still takes a few seconds to load a blank document.

- System wide spellchecker doesn't work.

- System wide dictionary doesn't work.

- Uses CPU time when it should be idle.

- One object on screen and it is already using more memory that any other process on my machines (and that includes Discord).

- It spawned 8 processes!

- Copying an object and pasting into another application doesn't work.

- Doesn't respect copy/paste with style and "Paste and Match Style."

- Doesn't support standard macOS accessibility.

I can probably go on, but honestly I'm not impressed and I'm bored.
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We have a place called WincCo here that has a divider. The cashier sends your groceries down one side and when they are done ringing your stuff up they slide the divider over and send the next persons stuff down the other side while you bag yours.

https://i.imgur.com/K6A78XA.jpg
Contrast this with a niche firearms book from the host of Forgotten Weapons which is nearing $500k sales at a considerably higher price point.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/headstamp/chassepot-to-...

I wonder how many people would prefer to pay more for his books if they were collector's quality. Kickstarter might be a good way to figure this out.
Japanese and Korean conglomerates' stocks are usually discounted compared to their parts: their P/B is less than one. This is traditionally seen as a inefficiency tax on their underlying value due to their inability to communicate and mobilize internal structures in an efficient manner.

Amazon has achieved what many other conglomerates have failed to do: effectively mobilize and monetize every part of their business. This is something that is nothing short of a miracle are is a testament to their organizational structure and managers, most of Jeff Bezos.

One would be hard-pressed to find a large diverse company that is as efficient and well run as Amazon.
Why we acquired a SaaS learning platform and how we set it up for success
They have the expertise, not the fabs. They know how to build and interconnect CPU's and memory to a huge scale that others are struggling with.
Played around with it in the sandbox and immediately disliked its insistence on putting every item in a sufficiently-long array on its own line. For example, something like:

foo = [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 ]

Black formats it to something more like:

foo = [
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13,
14,
15,
16,
17,
18,
19,
20,
21,
22,
23,
24,
25,
26,
27,
28,
29,
30
]

That's, in my not-so-humble opinion, absolutely atrocious. Compare with how Emacs formats if it I press M-q (with python-mode and EditorConfig):

foo = [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18,
19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 ]

More readable (again, IMO) and way more compact.

The default line length of 88 also seems weird, but at least that's readily configurable to my preferred 80.
Among the handy tools that can be used to save and access present, at-risk, and/or rotted data, are bookmarklets.

I've recently added two to my browser, "open in Wayback Machine" and "Save in Wayback Machine". Respectively:

javascript:void(window.open('https://web.archive.org/web/*/'+location.href));

javascript:void(window.open('https://web.archive.org/save/'+location.href));

This makes opportunistic archival and reference easy. There are also Wayback Machine / Internet Archive browser extensions.

(These are from the Internet Archive, not my work.)

For bulk archival, lists of URLs can be submitted to the IA's save address:

https://web.archive.org/save/<URL>

(Used in the bookmarklet above as well.)

This can be automated with a simple shell script using any console or script-based HTTP agent, such as curl, wget, lynx, etc.
I've definitely had songs be deleted and then come back to the service under a different "identity", so that my playlist still contains the old deleted song and the replacement version of the same track on the same release of the same album is playable in the service but is not on my playlist.
Safeway's use of data is comically bad.

Since 2010 or so, I've been signed up for their Just4U special discounts, based on what they know about my shopping habits, as a California dad. Recently they offered me a bonus coupon for Pampers diapers.

Not a match! Our kids have been out of diapers since the days when BlackBerry was the coolest phone in town. Maybe longer. I'm not impulse-buying diapers for anyone else's kids.

They let a week go by and then offered me a special deal on Depends, the old-people's diapers. Not in my current need list either.

Another week goes by, and they come up with a third idea. This time it's a discount coupon for Kotex sanitary napkins.

Hello? They've got about nine years of regular shopping data on me. If they still make multi-decade errors in identifying my age -- and can't get my gender right -- their data department hasn't even made it into the abacus era.
For HPC-type applications you're probably not running code from multiple trust domains on one CPU, in which case you might not need the mitigations at all
Building Production Machine Learning Systems
What we need to do is turn the procedures on their head--you can demand the insurance company find you an appointment with <any specialty>, they have say 30 days (to the appointment, not to respond). If they don't come up with one you can go out of network and pay no more than you would in network. Exception: If you're in a smaller place and there's only one such doc in town you're expected to go to the bigger city instead. (So you can't have one specialist setting up in an area without any such and charging an arm and a leg.) It's not the insurance company's fault if there are no providers, it is their fault if there are no in-network providers.
> I mean has anyone ever actually read the documentation of the GATK? It is famously dreadful.

Reference for "famously"?
Can concur.

I urge any technical or product manager to dig into this mess of an industry, it defies everything.

The way the markets are set up, the inherent localization, lack of standards.

In 2019 tons of 1-3 day short hauls are negotiated over the phone, trucker to shipper, and neither of them may have exact understanding of market rates, especially given variables like the ability for the trucker to return with a partial load.

And of course the unbelievable lack of tech.

It is truly mystifying.

That said, it may very well be that Amazon can conquer it, possibly by imposing regular standards for all sorts of things and efficient clearing market, a common tech platform etc. etc. etc..

But I'm far more confident that Amazon will conquer 1 day delivery than actually fix trucking.

All of this may be moot by the time autonomous truckers arrive, and I suggest they might hit before cabs as it's possible 'just driving 2000km on a highway no-stop' might be easier than navigating Manhattan. Autonomous trucking may come with a whole new set of systems and procedures which will probably be more advanced.

When I did some research with a friend into this industry, we visited some brokers and dealers I swear I was in a Vince Vaughan comedy.
My local camp is great: no drug use, good structures, waste disposal and a portapotty provided by the city. And because there are always people around, we have less crime otherwise.

The problem comes when there aren't better options for people: neighborhoods break down and rather than get to know the people of their community, the haves come to see their neighbors, many of whom were here before the haves moved in and jacked up rents, as somehow less than human. When someone's very existence is seen as a threat, yeah, you'll end up opposing the effective policy solutions and instead look to ineffective punitive solutions that further destroy the basic bonds of society.

You can always move to Walnut Creak. San Francisco has always been thus (or worse), and the expectation that it's going to transform into your shiny polished city of glass and steel is a remarkably clear description of the entitlement behind gentrification. This was their city: you are the interloper here.
Funny thing, I've recently read about a terminal system that allowed choosing between green and orange as the display colors, IIRC in runtime. Forgot now what it was, though—possibly even Bloomberg terminal (those mostly don't seem to be limited in colors, but apparently use plenty of orange text in some places).

At the time I had no idea where these two choices came from, though of course I've seen lots of green in the movies. Come to think of it, in life I'm more familiar with the idea of black-and-white displays, having used such a TV with my NES and having heard of a web designer using a b&w monitor.

Upd: from pictures, it seems Bloomberg had phosphor displays in either green or orange in the 80s (CRT, I hope), so the current orange may be a big nod to those times.
Maybe I don't understand what you are saying, but I safe webpages all the time. Safari the creates a .webarchive file with everything in it. Isn't that what you want?
If I have learned one thing in a lifetime, it's that freshness depends on each shop. There is no consistency even for a chain of supermarkets in the same city. It's like each one has its own supply chain.
Seems like a lot of work just to satisfy some arbitrary aesthetic sensitivity.

Especially when working in teams, I couldn't care less about the style itself. As long as it's consistent, super easy to adhere (`black .`) and fairly readable, I'm happy.
Ok, but what about consumers?

If everyone else sucks so much that they can't provide a better service, then why is it a bad thing for them to fail?

The best thing for consumers is to have quality products for low prices.
It was really easy to tell dreams apart from reality until the compilers started working.
Hopefully this can pave the way for deep learning and data analysis for Scala/Java. It's really frustrating having to use a subpar and inexpressive language like Python because of the huge data science network effect.

Or if Julia could get more libraries (it's maybe 25% there, which isn't bad), that would be pretty great as well.
You may have a point; workers could start living instant deposit to instant deposit instead of paycheck to paycheck. But I don’t think this is as likely.

I’m inclined to think workers who would have turned to payday lenders in the past to pay for groceries or a cell service bill might instead wait until after their next work day to initiate an instant deposit. It’s easier to do so in an app than it is to visit a payday lender, after all.
> Wary = Fearful or nervous about, having trepidation.

'Leery' also means that, which is where I think the confusion comes from.
Tight margins and Apple don't belong in the same sentence
Why such name? Can I say it loud in office premises?
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I'm not quite sure what's "brutal" about Aldi's practices. They are thrifty. But that's different.
That's a different discussion and it's hard to untangle and weigh all of the effects. But it's worth noting that the % of people working multiple jobs has actually decreased with the rise of Amazon.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2018/4-point-9-percent-of-worke...

That's not to say it's casual. Maybe it would've decreased more sans Amazon. Who knows.

Anyway, the point was simply that it's not only/mostly engineers who derive value from their existence. It includes every Amazon customer who saves time & money - especially those who have too little of both.
I think a 'user-centric' angle is one of the good ways to think about this but presenting one possible set of user priorities as some sort of high-minded moral imperative and a different one as 'questionable ideology' does not do your argument any favours.

There's a long-running subculture in MacOS (and once Nextstep and now iOS) software development that I'll call 'app craftsmanship'. At its best it produces high-quality, slick apps that usefully leverage the platform's strengths and build dedicated (and typically paying) user bases. So when someone puts out a new Mac or iOS and makes a fuss about how it's fully native and supports the Face Bar™, they're signaling to potential users 'Hey! I'm about to do some App Craftsmanship here, people' and hoping deciated users will flock to them, credit cards in hand. They're not selling to the people who are going to be irritated the app doesn't run on Ubuntu Maimed Mastodon. And that's not a moral failing, it's just market targeting.
Reminds me of how I got to Panera Bread to get blueberry bagels, but they are always sold out..
I've worked with many day labourers who get paid daily, their money is gone before they get home. I also worked a job where I got paid weekly instead of bi-weekly or monthly, it was almost impossible to save money. I don't know why, but I find it much easier managing money being paid every two weeks than in durations shorter than that.
Yeah that's a pretty dumb argument. I'm talking about education which preferrably would not be subject to supply and demand forces as much as other markets.
I like to sit on them float in an upright position, like being in a chair. You can hold a beer in one hand maneuver around with the other.
Please, no. A million times: No.

Either all desktop epub readers suck or the format itself is bad, but as an end user, I've never felt pleased with any epub ever. I've tried many readers, configurations, etc (I've even thought about making my own epub reader program that doesn't suck, but I haven't had any time.)

Epubs always look wrong: the formatting is all over the place, fonts look off, I don't even know what font I'm supposed to use. Calibre allows me to use CSS for styling, but I've never managed to do what I need.

I've spent many hours trying to like epub, trying to tweak Calibre so that it doesn't look like complete crap (e.g. setting good margins), but to no avail.

PDFs almost always look fine. I don't have to think about fonts, margins, etc. it just works.
This is probably the best bet. It follows that they had an axe to grind, a message to send, and something to lose if they ignored their situation and did nothing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAIMR

Sounds like nasty business with some truly ruthless characters, seriously motivated to interfere in the politics of other countries.
> I haven't seen the number pad used extensively at any other grocer.

The thing I do see at HEB is they'll scan the same item n times when they see I have n of the same thing, so they do effect roughly the same efficiency. They might not as intelligently differentiate the packaging, though.
Psychiatry, Racism, and the Birth of ‘Sesame Street’
I think there is actually oxygen in space. maybe not as much as on Earth, but it's still there

https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/msa/rimg/article-abstract/6...
Why not take the food stamps you are entitled to? I bet you none of the people here who bought homes are forgoing their mortgage interest deductions and just fasting and meditating instead. And you'll probably qualify for the EITC too.

Those programs are there for a reason, and there is no nobility in starving yourself to avoid some paperwork.
Good point:
* Monday mornings (outbound), for most people with relatively fixed sleeping habits, going an hour earlier to the airport (say, depart home 5am instead of 6 am for 7am flight, or equivalent) is an hour's sleep lost which cannot be substituted at the airport, and reduces your effectiveness for the day.

* On return legs, in principle you can substitute airport time for work time, but in my experience it's never one to one exchange.

Re traffic: I agree with you in principle; but I find traffic is unpredictable for changing destinations. For repeatable fixed-circumstances situations, less so - i.e. On Monday morning, at 6am, from home to airport, on same route, traffic is actually fairly predictable over time.
As the owner of a CNC machine shop in Madison, IL, I can tell you it has nothing to do with such wishy washy nostalgia. The steel mills have reopened and are running at capacity. Hard work for an honest dollar is dignity that transcends skin color. The renaissance of modern American manufacturing is beautiful. Trump will win because he promised dignity and delivered.