skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly, another question mentioned in the article - "Should schools in America teach the creation theory of Catholic priest Georges Lemaitre as part of their science curriculum?" - yielded similar results :-)
No, I don't think that's the case. I think if you optimize out a CO2-grid using realistic assumptions about where the costs of renewables, storage, and nuclear will be in ten years, it will optimize out to 0% nuclear. There may still be reactors operating at that time, but they will be lame ducks with their construction costs already sunk.
People leave there carts in the lots and workers collect them
With blocking, you could ask someone who knows you both to at least plead for your reinstatement.

With capital punishment, no amount of pleading by friends will help.

With blocking, you still have access to the entire rest of the world, other than the one person who blocked you. (Yes, if it's Google/Amazon, that's a big and massively inconvenient someone, but still).

With capital punishment, you have no access to anything you ever had or ever would have had in your life.

Those are massive differences.

At the very least, although there maybe a superficial sameness, it is a horribly broken analogy.
Oh, I agree 100%.

I just get tired of bad faith racism interpretations.
Executives and management consultants love them. Of course these people usually have nice offices of their own, making open-plan truly enterprise. (I define a thing as enterprise if its customers are different from, and usually higher on the org chart than, its actual users.)

Factors involved in why these offices are preferred include:

1) Low cost. Yes, yes, I know, productivity loss from battery-farmed knowledge workers as compared to free-range knowledge workers is arguably much greater. But that's not quantifiable. An accountant can point to cost savings of open-plan offices as a number in a spreadsheet and show how it directly impacts the bottom line.

2) Adaptability. It's much easier to move people around and reconfigure office space for different uses if you do not commit to building walls (even cubicle walls). This is especially true if an org is being "right-sized", but is also true of e.g., startups. An actual office may be prohibitive given the pittance in A-round funding you got, but if you can cram your guys into a corner of WeWork you can make the numbers work.

3) Increased workforce visibility. This means a couple of things: a) open plan is a cheap, easy-to-implement panopticon, allowing management to keep tabs on you at all times -- every time you go to the loo, everyone in the office will see you leave and come back. b) Visibility means availability -- specifically, availability to be interrupted at any time for any reason. Do not underestimate the importance of visibility. Microsoft had a company culture that strongly favored giving offices to individual programmers, until in the 90s the management consultant Jim McCarthy said "Beware of a guy in a room, and I mean that literally." He thought developers should NOT have private space of their own as it made them less accountable.
There is not a simple answer to this, because it depends on your attitude to risk.

> Nothing beats being debt free.

Depending on your risk appetite, being debt free can come more quickly by investing than by paying off debt.

Your suggestion would mean nobody saves for retirement while they have a mortgage, for example. Fine if you are happy with very little risk, but for many that would be a bad option (waiting until you are 50 to start paying into a pension).
This is absolutely insane. It would be cool to see a service where users could pledge cash for a book printing, then the number of pledges by the time of release determines the actual price and quality.
What purpose does this distinction serve? It's not obvious that it's better to set them apart. Homelessness is a spectrum of states people can move between. This distinction makes it easier for people to only care about the "good" homeless and forget about the rest.
How does it fare W.R.T. Carpenter? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpenter_v._United_States
This is a cynical and wrong viewpoint. Companies are made up of people, and people don't always act in the absolute for-profit interests of the companies. Further, companies can, and do, sometimes take actions that aren't directly profit oriented. And the trope about shareholder liability making it illegal for a company to not act in a directly profitable way is wrong.
AI and the Future of Work (2018)
Curious, how large is the startup?
Carts are free at Aldi too. You just put a coin in to release a cart, and when you return your cart, you get your coin back.
Right. I just think it's hilarious that the facade of "authenticity" is the new kitsch.
> As it stands, they're not engaging in anti-competitive activity.

Try telling that to diapers.com

> Simply being better at something than your competition isn't anti-competitive.

Couldn't agree more on this part.
It should still be at the discretion of the reader of what is correct and valid. In schools we are given the opportunity to learn how to critically think, vet sources, and how to seek out expert authorities on a matter (whether people practice these skills after their essay writing days are done is another can of worms). There is a lot of out of date material in libraries, for instance, but there is value in archives. Plus, who is going to copy a niche forum thread and repost it elsewhere? Most people just paste a link when they share information on the web, not clumsily copying and pasting full content. I bet whoever originally wrote that guide over a decade ago has no idea that it's rotted and useless. That information is gone unless someone knowledgeable spends their time crafting another guide, repeating the work that another already did a decade ago.

There is value in archiving things beyond just relying on the small % of things that get actively reposted elsewhere. A good local caching solution of everything you've viewed on the web would be extremely useful for your personal reference, especially when sites frequently close and links die.

If you really wanted to fantasize you could seed your cached site data using bittorrent to maintain a common web archive with everyone on the internet, free from a reliance of one lumbering archival corporate entity that might disappear on the whim of a VC or shareholder, free from commercial profiteering practices, free from the ad men and anyone else who's job it is to pollute and dilute technology for profit, and firmly in the hands of the users of the internet.
Theres a coin activated mechanical lock on each cart, carts are stacked and chained together by these locks.

To get one, you insert a coin (or a plastic token - these are usually given away as freebies by many companies if not the stores themselves) and that unlocks the chain.

It's not about the money, no one earns anything from this. It's about putting something that you own (can be worthless, the emotion counts) in the cart which you can only possibly get back if you return the cart to any number of bays on the parking lot or next to the entrance.
I'm not surprised by the success, I am a bit by the praise for quality. I find Aldi has good quality....for the price, and their prices are pretty low....Aside from a handful of items I know are usually good at Aldi I find lots of items that the quality matches the low price.

I shop there for a few things but especially when I'm cooking I avoid Aldi and it seems like when I try something new it is pretty bleh. Pretzels that are basically dust with shape, etc.

I feel like the odd man out not being an Aldi fan but I suspect that has something to do with cooking.
I find it remarkable how positive the tone is of this article compared to how a decade or two ago US mainstream media was wailing about WalMart killing mom&pop shops and corner grocery stores. I wonder why that is? If anything once this chain expands it'll drive all the remaining small grocers out of business, since it's considerably cheaper than even walmart.
> With blocking, you could ask someone who knows you both to at least plead for your reinstatement.

Facebook, Twitter, etc have quite publicly permabanned people. I'm sorry but what recourse from that has been demonstrated so far?

You're bringing up a person-to-person case that I have _three times now_ stated that I am not talking about.
I wonder does that lead to a lot of waste?

Eg. the 30% of the box thats the flavour that no-one (at this shop) buys, goes off and is dumped, for every box.

Maybe the ratios are determined by their global sales, who knows.
You would think that it would be advantageous for each shop to tweak its own ratios.
Scales to weigh fruit/veg? No at leas not in Germany. The scales are built into the barcode scanner of the register. They only have scales so you can double check when you are shopping.
One term for this, I believe, is “structural editors.”
Because, no VGA, no PS/2, and too much RAM?
> They can glance down and count how many of each, scan one, then hit the number pad for the quantity. I haven't seen the number pad used extensively at any other grocer.

I spent a lot of time in Germany in the 90s. Aldi (and Lidl) hadn't switched to barcode scanners and the chashiers were still typing in product numbers by hand.

I was always super impressed with the speed with which they typed and it certainly felt faster than the cumbersome bar code scanners found in the UK at the time.
It's The New Yorker. They believe in "It's not the destination, it's the journey" as a writing style.
The "HP" that was widely considered a great place to work hasn't existed in a long time. They spun off their original field (test & measurement) as Agilent, who then spun it off as Keysight. The two companies that kept the "HP" in their name have pretty much nothing else in common with the once-great company.

The HP(E) that's buying Cray is not the same organization that gave us LEDs, atomic clocks, scientific calculators, inkjet and laser printers, and the RISC CPUs. That HP is gone.
There's a significant difference in liquidity though.

Savings, net worth and other similar things should always be worked out in context.
No, it's much simpler than you are probably imagining. The cart locks to the one in front using a short chain with a plug between a device attached to the handlebars of each cart. It comes out of the back of one and locks into the front of the other.

Put a coin(or any coin shaped object) in and a simple mechanic latch releases the chain, plug it back in and you get your coin back.
You would need to convince people to love their country more than they love advancing themselves and their bank accounts.
other replies mentioned that the cost of the slowdown is absorbed by the cloud provider; let's just pretend it's fully passed down to the user and only nitpick at the math behind the joke:

Imagine a slowdown (performance penalty) of 50%. It would double the time to complete a task, thus doubling the cost (expressed in cost increase that would be a 100% increase!).

Generic formula: 1÷(1−x)−1

For x = 25% ---> 1÷(1−0.25)−1 = 33% duration (cost) increase
In San Jose there are/were several on ramps to 280 and 101 lined with tents where people lived last time I was in the neighborhood. It's kind of mind-blowing the first time you see people living like that here.
In the shortest timescale? Military and Security robots.
I'm trying to understand those graphs. They mention those graphs are on a scale of 0 to 100 but shows effects of 1 and 2. Is that considered a mild effect?
Not to devolve the conversation into a partisan debate, but when you have the former speaker of the house telling a reporter that how people feel is as logically true as hard data, we have a problem. And it's not going away any time soon.

https://youtu.be/LrerNmwpzHY?t=59
It’s easy to preach empathy from a leafy suburb. I certainly used to. When you are actually inhaling piss, stepping over feces, and weaving through tents every time you go outside, the situation is a bit different. Much of HN lives in urban SF and moves around the city without a glass and steel cage. In that light, homelessness moves down Maslow’s hierarchy from a moral reasoning problem to a visceral disgust/fear, a threat to the safety and dignity of home.

It’s one thing to be “against” mass incarceration and the criminalization of the poor, another to be okay with zero police response to your own assault/burglary. It’s one thing to be pro legalization, another to be okay with street dealers on your block. One thing to believe homeless people have a right to go where they please, another to stay committed when they decide to camp at your doorstep.

Maybe I am the only fake/uncommitted liberal but I get the sense that this kind of right-shifting after a few years in SF is not uncommon.
The handle of each cart has a lock and a small chain. Initially the carts are stacked inside each other, with the chain locked in the lock of the next cart. If you put a coin (or other round flat object like the handle of a key) into the lock you can remove the chain and use the cart. When you return the cart you insert the chain from another cart and get your coin back. It's a very simple and robust mechanism.
The only things I don't care for from Aldi are their canned sodas and some of their yogurts due to the sugar contents being somewhat higher than many typical name brands.

The rest is great!
I’m pretty sure Teams is here to stay. It’s growing. MS is investing a lot of resources and it’s improving rapidly.

But I think your point about MS getting rid of Skype for Business in favor of Teams is the most important one. Once that happens, which MS has stated publicly, Teams will become a necessary app for MS to support, since enterprises won’t tolerate MS not having s chat service in O365.
Those people aren't the customers, though.
I was struck with " They recognize that Slack is not suitable for meaningful conversations, so they automatically delete chat messages older than a few weeks to discourage relying on it for long-term archival." in your article.

It's something I feel quite strongly about: chat should not be archived. There should be no backscroll; being not around when people are talking means not being part of that conversation. Chat messages have no value beyond the moment. Any chat implementation that assigns importance to messages beyond the current conversation is wrong.

For the rest... It was like peeking into an alien world. I've been maintaining an open source application since 2004, and I've had various day jobs, but managed to build it out into my day job the past couple of years. I've never had the startup itch :-) Just let me build up my userbase, my income stream and my contributor team, and I'm happy.
TIL you can call American stores. Why do people do that?
That piece wasn’t doing proper due diligence. It used Yahoo whose value at the time was already known to be largely from Yahoo Japan and Alibaba.

For Facebook it was ignoring their other assets of FBM, IG, and depending on the date, Whatsapp.

Also domestic, European, other developed countries. and the rest of the world all have much different user values. Some places are barely monetized at all right now.
> more effective for that indication than placebo

I probably should have emphasized this portion of the statement. SSRI's definitely have lots of good studies on the indication of acute depression and MDD. However, many psychiatrists view SSRIs as a set-it-and-forget-it long-term solution to other chronic issues, which I find troubling.
> It neither fits the data nor does it hold any philosophical merit.

That sounds smart, but both assertions are wrong.
> if Zuck's approach to interact with the press and congress actually backfires

Since when Zuckerberg speaks, he always seems to be equivocating if not outright lying, and his historical responses when Facebook has been called out for being abusive in the past has always been lots of promises with no real changes, I suspect so.

> It'll be interesting to see how they modify things given Zuck's recent pivot towards focusing on privacy as a core feature.

That entire effort is Facebook's attempt to change the topic to something that is less threatening to them. The real issue is the privacy invasions from Facebook itself. Everything about their "pivot towards privacy" is premised on the privacy threat being actors external from Facebook.
Though 'would this interest you?' may not be the way to start, neither would 'how much would you be willing to pay?' either.

Consider that even for established products 'willingness to pay' may be zero until there's a sales process i.e. they trial it, they like it, they discover some things, then the sales person starts to do a 'close'.

The problem with the 'how much would you pay for it' kind of discovery is it misses the opportunity for the company to determine in a material way why it's valuable to them.

There's a similar problem in consumer land as well, you can't hardly establish price points by asking how much people will pay.

Also - price isn't really the big concern. It's not going to be a margin issue, it'll be a volume issue if anything. The price for such a service would probably be very low per-person, to the point of not being that important. Price is not the big point.

And since companies will pay for stuff they find valuable ...

The 'real' question you want answered is: 'will they find this thing useful' in one way or another, or better yet 'what problems near my product do they need solved' so the maker can add that functionality or even pivot a little bit.

I think it's possible to rationalize the process of getting to that point, unfortunately it often takes industry experience beforehand, and probably a longer dev curve up front with some willing pre-customers.
Yeah, I feel like SV would be much better off if there were more General Magics and fewer "sensible", but less risky startup.

But I'm a total sucker for ambitious hardware.
Then someone would have gotten paid to make it.
> serial

Laser printers with a serial port? Maybe Centronics?
Is it vastly undershooting compared to death? It seems like it is perfectly appropriate to say death from smoking is far far worse.
I'd maybe consider aptitudes and desires, it got a little muddled when I was trying to fit it in to a bullet-point list short enough to not irk mobile users. The lack of white-listed HTML / similar entities in formatting is a rather limiting factor for clearly conveying information.

Ideally some combination of testing / recommending potential raw talent, desired areas of work/interaction, and trainable job fields could be considered and find a good fit where someone could form a positive component of a larger and vibrant community. Also, ideally, automation owned by the masses (we the people, via the government) could handle the tedious and annoying tasks.
Get both and have fun!

It's a fun hobbyist computer, not a technical shootout.

There's a community of esp32 users who like making small devices do cool things.
Since the base rate of adolescent male suicide was higher to begin with, it would be technically and morbidly correct to say that social media has contributed to increased gender equality in this area.
UBiome founder presented herself as years younger than she was
Yep. The most notable thing about Aldi (and similar competitor Lidl) from a UK perspective is that they pay above average for comparable supermarket jobs and reduce staffing accordingly.

But I remember putting coins into slots for a trolley (and reclaiming them!) when I was young enough to be sitting in the child seat nearly 30 years ago, long before Aldi was a factor in the UK market. Is this really an innovative concept in the US? Are Americans going to be even more impressed when somebody over there invents the magnetic wheel clamps which discouraged taking trolleys back to our university campus? (even when comparatively poor we'd have happily sacrificed the coin...)
Nice idea. I installed tampermonkey and enjoy using it I guess this is similar
Perhaps it's worth considering that to many of us these figures are just astronomically high. We know things add up, and have already considered this. What we're struggling with is how a few classes can add up to $500 per week.
So the wipers are on due to rain but the "autopilot" is not so smart to know that it's raining? Why can people activate it if it knows that these are not the right conditions for it to work?
And a rather exorbitant power bill, assuming you had enough current in the first place.
Yes. I think all the cases where Monsanto sued, the farmers were doing something wrong. In most cases, this was keeping seeds to replant, or selling seeds from their harvests. This was in violation of their contracts.

> Do you think it is wrong to spray Roundup on thistle in your lawn to protect the grass?

Yes, because that will KILL YOUR GRASS. So you only do it if you're stupid or trying a little patent-violating experiment in natural selection.

The farmer who sprayed Roundup on his field to concentrate the trace of patented genes in the soybeans wasn't doing it for any legitimate purpose. Doing that on a field without the contamination would not have worked! He was trying to evade patent protection and get access to the patented genes for free. The courts properly decided he was in the wrong.

You seem to think that because contamination occurred, patent protection was lost regardless of what the farmer does. But this is not the case. The behavior of the farmer here matters.
If you speak about USA - they are already using the metric system, they just add their weird conversion on top of it to make things more confusing.
If you consider FOIA then it could be, for example:

- of the logs of the measurements of the test flights flown on the 737 MAX prototypes with the new engines but without the MCAS, if the test flights are flown to establish the flight envelope, especially of the correlation to the pilot's input and the plane's response.

- of the calculations or of the physical models of the said response to the pilots input, on the plane without the MCAS. Such parameters and models are indeed used e.g. in the flight simulators.

- Note that even if there were planed deliveries of hundreds of billions (!) worth of 737 MAX planes, up to recently only four (!) flight simulators for 737 MAX were delivered. I don't know if it's possible to even fly them without assuming MCAS "always working perfectly."

I'm not directly in that field to be able to give you a "local" jargon though. My view is a result of just reading those newspaper articles which provided enough engineering details (and a few forums) and I do remember seeing some complex enough related graphs for which I''m sure they couldn't be invented by a journalist, but surely not a "definitive plainly obvious proof". But there is indeed a lot still kept hidden from the public, and I'm sure there are more technical details that are significantly worse than we are ready to imagine.
Also because classical doesn't fit the CDDB style metadata format very well. The peformer and composer aren't the same person, and it's common to have many copies of the same piece, say a symphony performed by different orchestras at different dates. It just doesn't lend itself to a computer filesystem that well.
SI seconds (in UTC) lead to leap seconds. With UT1, "1/86400 of a day" seconds lead to a predictable and monotonic time scale.
It's important not to forget that this isn't about whether Slack is something a company should adopt. Any such risk you can attribute to using Slack will be multiplied a million-fold with a nascent service being developed by a single person or startup. All of these are reasons to continue using Slack instead of switching to Level.