skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Makes sense. But there is also the unknown of traffic to get to the airport which could vary as much as an hour. But, I guess that can be partially alleviated if I just drove to the park and ride and took the train. But even that could vary a lot as far as I live from the nearest train station.

Also, if you’re waiting at the airport for an additional hour, is that time wasted? If you were working at home during that hour or doing something for leisure, couldn’t you do the same at the airport?
Yes the software for even intermodal is pretty simple. The complexity comes from the human idiosyncrasies, including those of the customers. The transportation departments of some of the larger shippers can be very demanding, and a total shit show at the smaller ones.

Amazon has the power to make them adapt.
Pretty sure inkscape can do this?
I'd wager a simpler explanation: People in SF especially are increasingly purchasing every-day items online.

This means retail shops need to capitalize on discovery and unique items. Especially items that are unique enough that people can't just snap a pic and order/price-compare it online.
I also used to work at message control. The architecture to support all of the legacy and new technology for email was very hard. Also architecting a system to ensure that it would never go down completely was a large challenge.

You also have to understand how providers deal with email to make sure delivery is never affected. We had to ensure 100% delivery and never fail.
Yep, that's the real reason. Introduced first in France and not by Aldi.
HEB is the GOAT of grocery stores!
States and cities can build a wall and introduce a visa system? I don't understand how any problem that would require effective border control to solve at a local level (because otherwise it turns into a global problem) can be considered a textbook state problem?

I'd say this is a textbook border-controlling-entity-level problem...
I certainly agree, what gets lost in the discussion is that people who have no permanent address are a population not a type. That population has many different types of people among it (as does any population). One need only volunteer at a food bank or a shelter to see how widely variable these types are.

The discussion for helping different types need different solutions. We need substance abuse clinics and counselling for the folks whose addictions have resulted in them becoming non-functional. We need housing assistance for the under employed who are working but cannot afford to both feed themselves (and often their families) and pay rent for a place to live. We need mental health services for people who are suffering with mental health issues, both genetic and non-genetic (for example someone who is diagnosed schizophrenic needs a different support system than someone suffering from PTSD or TBI. We need to create meaningful and functional communities for people whose challenges or disabilities make it impossible to participate in the existing communities.

There isn't "one" fix that we can apply because there isn't "one" type of person associated with the label "homeless."

What I have observed, is that people who are opposed to any state assistance of any kind to anyone (and there are people across the political spectrum in this group) will argue against any fix by holding it up against the type of homeless person for which it provides no benefit. They will argue against drug rehab using people who need housing assistance. They will argue against mental health services using people who need drug rehab. They will argue again housing assistance using people who need mental health services. It is sadly easier to get people to say 'no' because the solution is not generalized than it is to get people to agree to move forward because at least it helps someone.
As a German, I frequently enjoy tourists being unable to cope with the speed of Aldi cashiers. They have the possibility to begin scanning the products of the next customer while you are still paying, which adds additional stress if you are not used to it. If it takes you longer than one second to answer the mantra-like "Bar oder Karte?" ("cash or credit card?"), the cashier will stay friendly, but get visibly annoyed, because if you quickly say "Bar", she will actually begin to count out the change she expects you to receive while you haven't even opened your wallet yet (for example, if it costs 17.95, she will expect you to pay with a 20 and count out 2.05)

I think Aldi is the best supermarket in the world, but it certainly is an acquired taste :)
I wonder if Stripe could help with publishing the hardcover.

The other books from Stripe press are really high quality: https://press.stripe.com/.

Though this may be a bit outside of what they normally publish.
I see, even in your case it's still a walled access to the MDs. I find that at least mildly upsetting, regardless.
Indeed, and I'm surprised it wouldn't be. When I was a graduate student we got tuition waivers but beyond that it was a salary for being a teaching or research assistant. TAs were definitely considered employees, because they were also union-represented.
So nobody told me about this but when my first was born his head was a cone. Like it was really really squished and tall. I was positive he was severely deformed and with all the courage I could muster, calmly asked, "first time dad question. What can you tell me about the shape of his head?" The nurse chuckled and assured me it was normal and would get round in hours.

Tl;Dr: yes they can get very squished.
Getting re-re-re-established undoubtedly seems daunting. You've explored remote/contracting?
The units aren't "waaay too small", it's the humans that are big.

Realistically, we might also have shorthands for a convenient order of magnitude for each of the units

http://www.ihst.ru/personal/tomilin/papers/tomil.pdf

but these types of decisions should probably be left for whenever people can economically measure the constants with enough precision to be serious about switching.
There are similar problems with uploading to publishers in ePub format. The last time I was bashing my head against ebook publishing, about a couple of years ago, many (most? all?) of the sites were validating ePub uploads using an old version of the ePub suite which rejected some ebooks which were valid per the up-to-date validator. Which version they were using was ofc not documented, and you were lucky to even get to see an error message. And of course tech support was largely unhelpful. (Especially kobo.com 's.) The people working on the ePub spec seemed to be largely unbothered by the fragmentation/noncompliance and hideous experience for those authoring and uploading in the format, too.

Which is a pity, because aside from this and some other bugs and pitfalls EPUB 2.0 has some attractive features and is nice to work with for anyone who doesn't mind bashing out a good old directory tree of HTML docs by hand.
> A tracking pixel doesn't have the physical intrusion bit

It does trigger a request on the user's computer, which is a personal effect, after effectively smuggling code onto it. Definitely a grey area.
The alternative, which was current when I was growing up in Germany, was to just have no such mechanism at all. People would just behave.

This thing was introduced in France, because the French customers had another attitude to it and that got extrapolated by the huge French hipermarché concept.
Why should "sticker" be as outrageous as it is currently?
They must have just recently been added. They weren’t there a few weeks ago. Thanks for the tip!
> I still don't get it. What demographic are we talking about here? Who goes to a bar 2-5 times a week?

Plenty of people. I don't understand what you're so confused by. 5x per week @ 5-8 is the high end, and I'm not talking about actual cups. They aren't ordering 5 separate beers, everything is 16-24 ounces.

> And here you are talking about 5-8 beers on a single evening, which definitely qualifies as "getting drunk"

There's a lot of people that wouldn't count 5 beers as "getting drunk", especially if spaced out. Buzzed sure, but not approaching drunk.

> Maybe US beer is less strong than German beer, but that's not really my experience here in San Francisco.

In this day and age, it's much stronger, and I'm accounting for that.

> At a sustained rate, I think even amongst university students in drink-happy countries that qualifies as alcoholic.

I think you'd be wrong, university was mental. People would drink that much before they even went out. I'm not the first person to point out the normalized drinking culture. Most people don't map out their drinking and fully consider the health implications. They tend to underestimate and report.

There was a (UK) film about this called Drinkers like me. The guy said he didn't think he had a drinking problem, his friends would laugh at the idea, but he was clocking over 100 units per week (note that 1 unit != 1 drink). As long as you're "social", not obsessed, or fixating on it, people think nothing of it.
Not quite, in the book it's clear that by "Deep Work" Newport is specifically referring to difficult tasks which create significant value. The book includes several heuristics for identifying this sort of work. It's true that the arrival of electronics has made "Shallow Work" easier to fall into, but by no means would going to work somewhere without a computer or a phone mean you are doing "Deep Work."
the quarter trick is everywhere in Europe.
> This doesn't impact or interact with other emails so no sources could be compromised via a tracking pixel

Journo forwards email to source for comment. Source triggers tracking pixel. Source is compromised.
Why the repost? This article is from last year.
This is about illegal misuse of personal information in an online data system by government agencies, for the purpose of harm to the person's whose information is illegally used, enabled by lack of adequate administrative controls. This is exactly EFF’s core mission, not an ancillary issue.

Now, you may disagree with EFF’s core mission being zealously pursued in this case because of your view on an ancillary issue at play here, but that's not EFF engaging in ancillary issues, it's EFF declining to compromise their core mission the way you'd prefer because of your view of an ancillary issue. And, yes, people with your views on the ancillary issue may withhold support for EFF because of it. But that's what being dedicated to the core mission costs.
Yes, but I mean not weighing things at all.

All fruit/vegetables/meat are sold by the item or in fixed price bags and packages.
The definition of a supercomputer has changed over the years, but currently what defines a supercomputer is its interconnect. Most of them have InfiniBand or similar with <1us node-to-node latency. It's necessary for the type of workloads typically run on supercomputers, e.g. scientific applications. The fastest you can get on EC2 right now is ~15us, and that requires specialized hardware and software.
Ask HN: Things to keep in mind when building a database from scratch?
I would like to attempt to build a custom database application, and would like to know some common pitfalls, gotchas, and overall pro tips for building one of these from scratch (independent of they "type" of database)
Well, the obvious generalization is that Amazon makes many lives better.
Are they... referring to a... Splunk logging agent? I doubt it, but maybe the JPEG packed a binary appended to the end of the image file?

Either way, if such were the case, this payload would need to rely on the presence of, and thus exploit, some sort of vulnerability in whichever host cached it. Not impossible, but not exactly a trivial maneuver.

If they had suspects in mind, and had an awareness of OS version and patch level, it might be within the realm of possibility to land a working payload.

Furthermore, if they were targeting Navy personel, there might even be a level of control to selectively enable a backdoor that permits a more advanced outcome than would ordinarily be possible in the wild against random individuals around the world.

Maybe the plan was to hit internal personnel with a specialized payload that only affects Navy assets...
That's not what happened, and you should reflect on what made you think such an absurd claim is true.

Target noticed she was pregnant before her father noticed.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...
Horseshit. Unless you're comparing different core counts that'd make MySQL the extreme outlier against hundreds of other tests that have shown again and again and again and again that Intel's IPC has been stagnant for years now with OK but minimal frequency improvements.
The difference is that I know that the credit card company or Amazon is collecting my information because I'm directly involving them in the transaction.

I thought I had all my Google privacy settings at "paranoid", but I did not know this was even occurring.
The Problem with Outlawing Distracted Walking
American grocery stores are so comically bad and poorly managed it's hard to imagine for a European until you move here. Trust me, it's a shitshow. The only one that works is Trader Joe's for completely different reasons and personally in my first couple years I was completely obsessed with it, now a little less.
Is Austria's Vice Chancellor for Sale?
Doesn't forwarding require going through the original provider? Can they still read the email? What if they shut down?
You are wrong about serverless and vendor lock-in
> "Given that the federal government weasels its way into things [anyway]... your argument doesn't hold much water with me."

that's such a non-sequitur. so is the gist that we just accept the federal government overstepping its bounds? that's sounds so defeatist. instead, let's put even more pressure on (all of) our representatives to contain the overstepping.

> "...magnet for homeless people from outside the area, which can easily overwhelm the services provided. How do you fix that?"

that's worth keeping in mind, but there's no compelling evidence that that's going to be a problem. an optimist might posit that it's just as likely that micro-economies develop that allow the former homeless to lift others out of homelessness without further intervention. it depends on how things are implemented of course. let's take a step forward and (continually) assess.
Glenn Greenwald would not. My politics and Glenn's are very different but one of the reasons I respect him is his steadfast commitment to principle especially when it applies to people you loathe. Read Glenn, disagree, sure, I do often. But read Glenn.
The coin thing is free too, it's just so people have to put the cart back to collect their coin (usually 1 or 2 euros). I wish we had it in the US, people are freaking idiots and leave carts all over the place in the parking lot.
I think we should bring back involuntary confinement. I have read on the history of this issue and no doubt a lot ugly stuff happened in the past. I think the solutions to these problems went too far in creating barriers to involuntary confinement. I have to believe that medicine and treatment in 2019 would be a lot as opposed to the 1950's.

We should get the mentally ill off the streets, on the proper meds and in stable housing. This should help the people that can respond to treatment a chance to get better and return to society. The people that don't respond to treatment will have to be confined for the rest of their lives.
I completely agree.

The democrats need to get their act together, and create a unified front if they want me to view them as anything more than a fragment who can't get anything done.
That's not even close to true, though I can understand why it might feel true.
People outside the US tend to not understand how unbelievably wealthy the country is. I’ve posted stats, you can check my history, but accounting for cost of living and taxes there are no states as poor as wealthy EU countries on average. If you ever find an Italian, talk to him about life in small towns. People are just tired of hearing about the USA because of our cultural domination, and because the media only plays bad news.
woo, construed as a rust criticism. Rust is perfect. My apologies... I recant utterly. :s
Buy 2 get 3 free, must get all 5, is the best I've seen.
And it's so stupid cheap you can't decline.
The longbox CD package format meant that retailers could use their existing LP storage bins to sell CDs as well during the transition period. The CD jewel case was visible above the shelves below it.

As retailers installed dedicated CD shelving systems, the longbox format was abandoned.
I bought iDraw (back before AutoCAD bought Indeeo). I bought Affinity Designer. I tried demos for everything else I could get my hands on. I even tried Inkscape.

They all have flashy demos and claim to be great Mac apps (well, except Inkscape). A couple weeks later, I end up regretting my purchase. They just aren't terribly Mac-like, and they have all sorts of little bugs that never seem to get fixed. Being a small company in a huge market, their support suffers. There's 10 little obvious things it's missing that you assume will get added real soon, but it turns out there's actually 1000 things it's missing, and they keep picking other little things. Hell, Affinity Designer is 5 years old and arrowheads are still on their to-do list.

After 20 years of futzing around with Mac graphics apps, Illustrator is still the best vector graphics app I've ever used, and the newcomers aren't even more Mac-like (which seems like it'd be a low bar). Adobe had a 30 year head start. No matter how swanky the new CoreImage APIs are, you're not going to catch Illustrator in a year or two. Their manual is an inch thick (or, it was 20 years ago) and extremely well-written. If you haven't read it, you don't know half of the little usability tricks that they've packed in there. I love to hate on Adobe as much as anyone, and it's definitely not a very Mac-like user experience, but when it comes to making graphics, Illustrator is an absolute beast.

The price of Amadine is a turnoff: $20 is simply nowhere near enough to support the depth of features that a vector graphics app needs. I can tell this is going to be severely underpowered.

I've read about "Javascript fatigue". I have "Mac vector graphics app fatigue". Never again.
What you want is a fulfillment service. You have the printer print 1000 copies, then ship all of those copies to the fulfillment service's warehouse. Orders go through the fulfillment service's system and they ship directly to customers. They take a small cut from each purchase. This is standard practice, as far as I know.
I have my own domain, but doing your own email is too hard. Can I use my domain email address with fastmail? Is it just a matter of setting up mx records? Will I be able to send/receive mail like normal without getting blocked by the big players?
‘Fairbnb’ Wants to Be the Unproblematic Alternative to Airbnb
It does look like a bimodal distribution though it’s really 3 separate groupings smooshed into two peaks.

However, gap generally reserved for lower valleys ie band gap etc. So, while shorter the term is simply misleading.
This is clever, many of the benefits of epubs - organization,convenient sharing, filesize - without the conversion step.

The mobile compatiblity and well thought out defaults are appreciated as well. Thanks for sharing.
Not all TLDs allow that anyway.
Communities Are Fighting 5G, Permit by Permit
For certain occasions a court victory is its own reward
Or maybe we could inject them into the brain, and then could 'override basic autonomic function. Maybe we could use this on a recently dead body and it could do simple things, like amble around, maybe grab things, or bite.
A conservative activist’s quest to preserve all network news broadcasts (2018)
These are cooked numbers. How many died constructing nuke plants? How many mining, refining, processing, transporting fuel and fuel handling equipment? How many died of radioactive krypton gas poisoning after 3MI? (No, not zero.) Zirconium refining, alone, accounts for plenty of deaths.

The author clearly has access to far better information than defenders posting here.

Just the fact that all nuke plants in operation were designed to withstand much less severe weather and flooding events than are now expected, with no requirements or plans for improvement, justify shutdown.
My credit card company has done this too. They sent a letter (via snail mail) saying that my email address on file wasn't being read so they would rescind my online account unless I verify the email address.
Bet they run the Antivirus companies too! It's all a racket!
There are some legal limits on user tracking for government websites and the like: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/omb/memoranda_m03-22

Which they seem to have gotten in trouble for violating on occasion: https://www.cnet.com/news/government-web-sites-are-keeping-a...
As a kid, I loved playing Alleycat (1983). I had no idea he was 23 years old when he made it!
The only "innovation" with the trolleys is that USA used to be a wealthy enough country that it was OK to pay cart collectors. It's not a stupidity thing, it's a poverty thing.
Build. More. Shelters.

I live in New York and we have more homeless people per capita than San Francisco but we don't have the same kinds of problems. The very simple solution is to build shelters. The rate of homeless that are sheltered in NY is WAY higher and as a result we don't have the same kind of problems.

In SF 492/100k residents sleep on the street. In NYC the rate is 45/100k.

Source: https://medium.com/@josefow/new-york-decided-to-end-street-h...

(among others, these aren't controversial numbers)
I think America lived paycheck to paycheck well before WalMart. You could make the same argument for WalMart that you're making for Aldi here.
I think this will actually increase payday lending. If you have weekly-to-monthly pay periods, you get a paycheck approximately when rent is due so you can pay your rent. If you got paid daily after every shift, there’s nothing stopping you from blowing that money and failing to save up for rent, so you have to borrow your rent money at the end of the month.
>>but for those of us who don't trust the US federal government to do it right

Why do you not trust them to do it right? Both Medicare and VA Health Care are run pretty well and are extremely popular amongst their recipients.
Hopefully the Lambda School model largely does away with this problem.
You haven't been to the Aldi near me in the USA. They suck compared to other US supermarkets. BTW, Aldi in Ireland is unbelievable. I'm still not convinced it's the same company even though the names are the same.
Way to ruin the neoliberal globalist narrative. "Après nous, le déluge" is their modus operandi.
I prefer epubs because it it endlessly customizable and modifiable.

If I am unhappy with the styling of an epub I have, I just dive in and change it. It's nothing but html and css underneath. Don't like the image? Replace it.

When reading, I like adding my thoughts on the margins of a paper book. Want to add some annotation in an epub but has to look different than the original content? Easily done. I just create a copy of the epub, set-aside the original, and change the copy.

I never wanted to convert from epub to pdf since that would freeze the book's contents. I always find myself converting from pdf to epub.
I remember this indeed being a thing in the news at the start of the Snowden leaks press coverage. Journos saw Google etc. logos in the NSA slides and thought they were on board rather than being tapped.
I don’t understand how the soda display is supposed to pull in new shoppers.

Americans tend to drive to the grocery store in my experience. To me, this means most people committed to shopping at the store long before they got there and saw the soda display.
>>> They even tried to cut prices to below market cost

I highly doubt that. It's illegal to sell under cost in Europe.