skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in a major metropolitan area that has fought tooth and nail to keep Walmart out. Within 10 miles of my house (which encompasses pretty much the entire metro area) there is only 1 neighborhood Walmart that is smaller than many convenience stores. I've never actually traveled to visit it. Even before Amazon made the 1 day announcement, we were usually getting Amazon packages in less than 2 days since there is a huge Amazon warehouse in the metro area. The closest Walmart superstore is about 2-3 hours away from the city in rural areas. It would seem that if they are using the superstores to support 1 day shipping to the city, it will be hard for them to compete with Amazon.
Do you like programming? If you can say yes continue. You probably struggle with similar problems we all have. It's not particularly your fault.
Walulis, a German Youtube channel (imagine a German John Oliver for social media with a pretty solid Hitler joke per video ratio and high quality content) had a video about this. Apparently Bill Gates is a majority stakeholder in one of the companies make billions matching companies with productions. Sometimes years before the production takes place. Another example is Stranger Things and some cereal brand.
Year and a half ago[0] it was 230 hours. Are there more commercials in tv nowadays?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15990559
The trouble with patches is that you can't get engineers to reliably declare whenever they copy or move code and where it came from. This is part of why svn merging was such a trainwreck, undeclared copies and moves (which look like delete+insert) almost always conflicted.
The problem are many places solar is less effective, for instance the northern mostly cloud covered states.

Also, places such as Illinois have used primarily nuclear for power for decades without any incidents:

https://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=IL#tabs-4
It would be nice if people focused on the actual death rate as they are very low.
This seems like another case of the left being shortsighted like when the left cheers as bigtech purges conservatives never imagining that left voices can and will be next if they ever became a threat. In this case, they seem only focused on climate change, but they should consider that there may be other scientific facts that go counter to left narratives. I seem to remember James Damore's scandalous post riddled with citations of scientific studies. I'm sure he would agree science must be defended...
Rage 2 is a fun game that makes me feel like garbage
Really? We love our VCR. How else are you going to watch beauty and the beast without suffering through human again?
Reading the two links, you are advocating for _negotiating_ a shorter workweek AND a salary cut, no?
Also, I see zero justification for why this particular array of emoji: is this a particularly angry-making vuln? Particularly carnivorous? It's not even particularly unambiguous, a requirement, I would have thought, for "proper ontological agreement".

Anchor - Spiderweb - Personal Computer would have been a more meaningful name, from a cursory glance.
If you don't like it, just send it back in the included return envelope and pay nothing. Just like the scams of the 80's!
Debian stable and Gnome. Geany as text editor and I use sshfs to access remotely the servers.
Nuclear fission is neutron + uranium = fission products and energy. This process is literally carbon-free. Solar PV is photons + semiconductors = electric current. This is directly carbon-free. Wind is wind + blades = mechanical motion. This is directly carbon-free. Coal, natural gas, oil, and biomass are Carbon + heat in the presence of oxygen is CO2 + energy. These are not carbon-free. This is the purpose of the term carbon-free.

Now, literally everything has non-zero carbon lifecycle costs as long as we are using carbon-derived energy in our infrastructure. It is impossible to be fully carbon-free with coal, natural gas, oil even if all your infrastructure is electric. With solar, nuclear, wind, etc., you can get to a truly carbon-free lifecycle if you work hard to electrify or otherwise clean up your trucks.

Meanwhile, today, nuclear lifecycle is the most carbon-free overall, tied with wind.

The term carbon-free is used colloquially to mean anything that doesn't directly make carbon alongside energy. It is right and proper to point out lifecycle carbon costs too, and again nuclear is tied for lowest lifecycle.

Nuclear is the most carbon-free thing we have. You bet it is advertising. It's truthful advertising of the positive characteristics of nuclear energy. People have a right to know how carbon free various energy sources are.
Quote fragment that can be interpreted as opposite of what you intended:

> I think it's a little far to suggest that any rank and file ENGINEER would have compromised ethics just from choosing to work there. Facebook uses cutting edge tech and pays really well,

I give people benefit of the doubt, recognize that sometimes we have to compromise, etc., but let's not hand out ethical freebies in advance.
Thanks for sharing your unique perspective. With the recent advent of VUI (voice user interface e.g. Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant) and the fact it will eventually pass the uncanny valley given sufficient iterations/user feedback/time, do you see this as the start of a paradigm shift from an era of error prone, unusable gesture-based computing devices to seamlessly intuitive natural voice-driven experiences?
I'd imagine minimum wage has something to do with it. Plastic is cheap, labor is not. Most west coast states are over $11/hr. Of course that is not a lot of money, but it is when you're paying that labor to recycle pennies worth of plastic. It's not economical because the plastic has to be (mostly) clean of contaminants in order to recycle it without lowering quality too much. So there's also a lot of water involved. Diminishing returns.
Same, I'm completely spoiled by ublock origin, Netflix, and Spotify Premium. Last time I killed my phone, I drove around in silence rather than listening to the radio and when Mozilla broke the extensions in Firefox a couple of weeks ago, I almost stopped using the internet altogether for a couple of days.
You joke, but with the recent update they do have similar design aesthetics. If you're already a happy Walmart physical store customer that's perfectly OK, "familiar" is a good thing, even if it's not as attractive as you'd like.

I personally wouldn't say the design aesthetic for either is "attractive", but they're pretty clean and functional, and that is worth a lot. Walmart.com transactions are now a bit easier than Amazon, before you factor in the tremendous amount of effort the latter requires to avoid counterfeits. Walmart.com search is a lot better once you get the right terms, and turn off 3rd parties which they make trivial.
That's true. Probably why the teaching has such a knowledge gap.
Didn't they lay off all the landline people and dial-up internet people years ago?

I remember the massive layoffs in our town in the early 2000's, the old AT&T HQ was vacant for years
Counter-intuitively, one of the less bad places for an NPP might actually be Pripyat. Making the CEZ even more irradiated is better than creating another.
I'm using Matrex on some embedded devices, it performs plenty well enough for the task. The (micro) benchmarks for Matrex are intriguing. They appear to show Matrex being faster than NumPY for common matrix tasks. It's not improbable considering BEAM in general appears faster than CPython and erlang nif FFI is simpler than CPYTHON'S which may translate to quicker FFI calls. Of course that's mostly speculative, but at least Elixir/Erlang can be on par with Python in matrix maths.
But can I build my own client?
Whenever Walmart is mentioned I like to use the rise of Dollar General to illustrate my complete lack of confidence in anything the company attempts. How on earth did Walmart see the rise of Dollar General and not think: hey we could do that, or hey we should buy them, or hey Amazon has slow rural deliveries let's innovate there. They simply gave it a half-effort attempt and then gave up the small town / discount markets (which contained many loyal existing customers), blinded by their efforts to become Amazon and attract customers who don't care about Walmart brand. Dollar General's stock has doubled over the past 5 years and has a market cap of $30 billion, I have difficulty believing anything Walmart can do in efforts to become Amazon will add value equivalent to acquiring or cloning Dollar General around 2009. The thing that really kills me is that when Dollar General started gaining momentum during recession in 2009, Walmart was still nearly three times as large as Amazon and could have used Dollar General strategies to put Amazon on the defensive in some markets, but for some reason they didn't and have been struggling to figure things out ever since. I don't even have a horse in the race, and probably dislike Walmart when I really think about it, but every time I see a Dollar General I start thinking about this and end up getting frustrated that a company could so fundamentally lose it's way, striving for something it will never have.
After subscribing to YouTube Premium, I had a similar revelation. Now if only we could have a google ad-free subscription which would turn off all google search and display network ads, our lives would be so much better! What if we could have cities outlaw advertising on billboards and instead collect a small tax to make up for the lost revenue, how much would our quality of life increase? That makes me wonder, if we could ever get to such an utopia, what avenues would advertisers have left to sell products to us?
Thrangrycat, a Cisco router secure boot flaw with an Emoji Name
Things you need to know about the WhatsApp zero-click spyware attack
Two of my least favorite products had a baby... Can Atlassian be the God parents and Amazon the registry?
This! My dad likes to put the news on during the day when we visit and this type of thing happens all the time.
It's nice to see that they've discovered a profitable way to make people retarded without resorting to ads.
Confused what the robustness of the passport has to do with this. I wasn't suggesting the physical flexibility of a passport makes it harder to carry it around or something. People generally just don't carry around passports for domestic travel in their own countries... people already have other IDs, this increases the chance you'll lose your passport, etc. for zero benefit.
Classic book on tree crops for permaculture: Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture https://www.amazon.com/Tree-Crops-Permanent-Agriculture-Frie...
The overview page, https://cpu.fail/ , is on Hacker News as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19911715 .

( This comment was merged from a duplicate discussion. )
Hmm, but for a one-two person freelancing gig, how complex of a site can you realistically build though? How much time do you spend on marketing & sales vs actual development?
Using older Creative Cloud apps? Adobe warns you might get sued
Sounds like the TV version of what happened to most news sites, with ads everywhere.
Nuclear plants do not "blow up", at least not the ones that are built after Chernobyl. Please stop spreading FUD.
Looking at it from a Dutch perspective this seems true: I doubt they could ever successfully use the Fox brand outside of the US due to Fox News.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...
Show HN: Simulating a Rail Network on a Globe
> Who are these parents

They are two people, each of whom works at a job (Which is necessary for most families), who don't live with their retired parents (Who would watch, and play with grandkids for free), and can't afford a nanny. (Or, as rich engineers call them, an aupair.)

In short - normal 21st century people.

(And if they are single parents, this equation becomes even more screwed up. The problem with being a single parent, is that you have to live with whatever life decisions lead you up to that point, for the next 18 years.)
At least I thought that you could opt out of the remote management at least on some models. This is what this seems to indicate as well:
https://community.linksys.com/t5/Wireless-Routers/EA8300-can...
When remote admin is disabled the info leak does not occur as far as I can tell. Not sure if anyone can confirm that as well.
It's more like writing a Python framework, which dynamically produces Ruby code which is executed, then the results are returned back to Python. Sub out Python and Ruby for any other pair of languages. At some point, your generator framework must be at least as complex as the underlying language in order to produce the same functionality.

ORMs seems fine for SQL, because on the surface, SQL appears to be a simple language. But that image falls apart the minute you try and use some (relatively) esoteric, but important language feature.
They probably did, but before it was made free implies that somebody paid for it. If those people no longer pay for it and the state picks up the bill, the state needs to spend more money. Unless the employees of the transportation providers no work for less money, of course.
I pulled all-nighters in grade school to maximize my media intake (in this case browsing message boards) while still getting homework done.

Guessing kids these days do the same to stay on top of snap, insta, tiktok, reddit, etc.
> solve real business problems

Any examples you'd like to share?
Academia is political too. Inherently relations between people are by definition political.

The point is to raise the role of epistemology in decision making where it is possible. That's all.
Typically this ends up involving a salary cut, yes.

However: the point is to negotiate. And if you're negotiating you can also negotiate other things at the same time. Including your pay.

For my book on negotiating a shorter workweek (https://codewithoutrules.com/3dayweekend) I interviewed multiple people, and I've also heard from readers who successfully negotiated shorter workweeks, and a common theme was that they also negotiated a higher salary while they were at it. Or switched to higher paying jobs, etc.. So even with 20% reduction in pay, they still did OK.

If you're already a great negotiator you might be at top of your expected salary range—but then if you're a programmer at the top of your salary range you're probably in good shape financially to reduce your pay a little.
The story of Iraq has only one moral:

Making a mess means cleaning it up, but geopolitical realities dictate that the mess is made of lives, and cleaning it up means slaughter, psychological ruin and walking, talking deformities staring back you for decades on end.

The people who plan these wars do no time. And a generation later, their children plan more wars with less caution.
What does it mean to be "digitally penetrated"? I'm not familiar with that.
I would say most small engineering teams have that risk
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CoinTracker (YC W18) Is Hiring Early Engineers in San Francisco
It’s terrifying that kids watch so much TV that they could save hundreds of hours a year by not watching commercials.
Wow that was interesting, thanks for sharing! The question I was asking regarding how long it takes etc. was for the airport -- I thought they verify your ID otherwise somehow? By asking you questions or something? Do they really merely pat you down and look at your luggage without verifying who you are?
I completely agree. And, I have sincere respect for your efforts. I hope your actions motivate more to do the same.

I’m not blind to the issues. I am just happy that I was born into a country like the USA. I could have had much, much worse luck. And, even with all the blemishes and the frustration of slow processes, I stay motivated to keep this government going as it was designed. And, in my opinion, it’s actually a better country than a few hundred years ago. That gives me hope.
Brain Game – Memory Grid
> Computer makers Apple and Microsoft and browser makers Google and Mozilla are releasing patches today.

Computer makers? Wouldn't that be OS makers? They are patching their OS to prevent leaking...
It's called product placement [1].

There are rules restricting it in the UK, which must complicate broadcasting some American TV shows.

There are also companies using software to replace the branded product according to different markets — so they can rebrand that cereal box for the rerun if necessary.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_placement
Wow, I did not know about Matrex and was looking for something that would give me the best of both worlds... very cool
I can attempt to answer this. (Disclosure: Used to work at Walmart, though as an engineer not an ops person).

Most of the stores are optimized for in store shopping. What this means in practice is that the actual back rooms where the products are stored are relatively tiny (on the order of less than 10-15% the floor space of a typical Supercenter). The whole operation is designed so that the trucks can be unloaded as quickly and efficiently as possible, and most of the stuff can be stocked straight on the shelves where it is available for purchase. Inventory held in back rooms are minimal, and all the items in the entire store turn around extremely quickly.

Contrast this with an e-commerce warehouse, which has to deal with a large 'long-tail' of demand. People are used to having a huge range of choice available, and they expect same or next day shipping on whatever they order. Now instead of having say 20 boxes each of 8 different kinds of toilet paper now you need maybe 10 boxes of 100 different kinds, and they all have to be organized such that they're easily accessible to the packing crew. To make an efficient warehouse, you simply need a different layout and assortment of products than is available in your average store. At the same time, the stores continue to generate the vast majority of revenue for your business so you can't mess up their operations too much.

Not implying that it is an impossible problem to solve, simply a difficult one. I'm sure amazon will run into similar issues as they continue to integrate whole foods.
Top of the curve is closer to 16-20 hours a day. As in, if they didn't fall asleep, it'd literally be 24 hours. Lots of parents let their kids eat and sleep in front of the tv, and that's nothing new to this generation.
> They are black boxes, or at least dark gray boxes such that if they don't produce the expected answer, your hair will turn light-gray trying to figure them out.

I'd love to hear specifics about some of your personal experiences like this if you're willing to share.
Nuclear plants do not "blow up". This is FUD, pure and simple. People are unreasonably scared of nuclear energy, and we might lose a planet because of this.

For real data on how dangerous nuclear energy is, please look at https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-p...
This comes alongside:

* The overview page https://cpu.fail/ , on Hacker News as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19911715

* https://zombieloadattack.com/ , on Hacker News as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19911341 (The technical paper is hidden inside a collapsed part of the page and is at https://www.cyberus-technology.de/posts/2019-05-14-zombieloa... .)

* https://mdsattacks.com/ , on Hacker News at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19911277
Well, I won't argue what the main point is, I have no idea (I remember the book as being very meandering). But he definitely addressed how someone should get less hours at their job. As I recall:

1. Find an excuse to work from home. Sick, doctor's appointment, just say you wanna work from home, whatever.

2. On that day, get more work done than you've ever done before.

3. Do this consistently.

4. Request regular fridays off, point to your increased productivity.

5. Rinse and repeat until you're totally remote.

6. Reduce actual working hours, taking advantage of less distracting environment and more flexible hours to maintain productivity.

7. Automate wherever possible.
“Why is it I always get my best ideas while shaving?” – Albert Einstein
> Sadly a 50hr job board might be vastly more successful.

Among employers, maybe, but those misgivings you mentioned would apply to the employees on a 50-hr board: "there are also [companies which] simply want to [get more] work...not a super positive signal."
From what I understand, Iraq reached out to the U.S. for approval, through diplomatic channels, before going through with the mission. U.S. said they have no opinion, then doubled back to defend Kuwait from the "evil invaders."

https://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/23/world/confrontation-in-th...

>In the two weeks before Iraq's seizure of Kuwait, the Bush Administration on the advice of Arab leaders gave President Saddam Hussein little reason to fear a forceful American response if his troops invaded the country.

>The Administration's message to Baghdad, articulated in public statements in Washington by senior policy makers and delivered directly to Mr. Hussein by the United States Ambassador, April C. Glaspie, was this: The United States was concerned about Iraq's military buildup on its border with Kuwait, but did not intend to take sides in what it perceived as a no-win border dispute between Arab neighbors.

>In a meeting with Mr. Hussein in Baghdad on July 25, eight days before the invasion, Ms. Glaspie urged the Iraqi leader to settle his differences with Kuwait peacefully but added, ''We have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait,'' according to an Iraqi document described as a transcript of their conversation.
I often feel the interviewee role is backwards for senior level positions. It should be more like a college recruiting a star athlete.

My body of work is on the public internet, it's all about what you can offer me, not the other way around.
Similar thing here - the only time I now encounter video-ads-making-noise is at the cinema before a film, and it's becoming unpleasant enough there that I've largely stopped going to the cinema.

It's not (or not just) that they're getting worse, it's that once the familiarity wears off you can't help but see how psychologically damaging and hostile they are.
Not arguing just asking, but how has Pandora's box been opened with the discloser of Spectre and Meltdown? We've had security researchers discovering and reporting vulnerabilities since there were computers as far as I know?

I do agree that this won't end soon though. It appears to me that many of the methods CPU's use for better performance are fundamentally flawed in their security, and it's not like we can expect the millions of affected machines to be upgraded to mitigate this.
Strongly correlated quantum walks with a 12-qubit superconducting processor
> But in the US, plea bargaining essentially is our criminal justice system.

Plea bargaining in the US is, in my opinion, a corrupt practice.

> I'm curious why you think it allows for more corruption than the US system.

I didn't make that claim in the big picture, I was talking specifically about the the role of jurors in terms of evaluating the credibility of expert testimony.

My concern with the idea of "professional jurors" is that they represent an easy target for corruption in the form of coercion, bribery, etc. How can you ensure that a professional juror is actually impartial and fair? If jurors are always coming from the same pool of people, won't they develop relationships with prosecutors and the like that may influence their impartiality?
> child play outside by themselves is essentially illegal.

No it's not.
On a side note, having lived in a northern city famous for its bad weather (Dublin) I always wondered why instead of building with dark red bricks they don't coat the buildings with reflective material. And the sad part is that I bet it's not done because it's for the benefit of the neighbors on the opposite side of the street (though of course, it could be reciprocal).