skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another thing: I'm guessing they don't have paid staff to bag groceries for customers like many US stores, but what they may have that's common in Europe but unknown in the US: the boat-tiller-like divider in the conveyor belt space past the cashier.

Customer A's things get rung up and continue to side A. When done with customer A, the cashier shoves the divider across so the belt now takes customer B's stuff to side B while customer A continues to put their stuff in their bag or their cart.

My DuckDuck-Fu is failing me to find a picture of this.
Not just Japan, Canada has it too. I immigrated from a South Asian country to Canada and even though it was a long and tiring process, it makes me appreciate this country more because it ensures the clean background, hard working and skilled ones get to come in. It took me 7 years to get my PR after University and another 2 years for citizenship.
https://forum.dlang.org/thread/tsfgbmakzcrxwqreheiq@forum.dl...

Can you clarify, what am I misunderstanding here? In couple of places online I've found that you can't depend on dtor being called.
Reminds me of someone going around college campuses asking whether or not we should ban Dihydrogen Oxide.
Perhaps they don't care. They want to cash out and abandon ship like all good managers/CEOs/founders do.
Not since Black Widow. It’s only been custom hardware interconnects since 2008 or so.
Conversely, it’s also like the police offering you a can of soda as they question you and then later swabbing the empty van for DNA evidence. Totally legal if a bit sneaky.
Tobacco is inherently bad for you.

Facebook can be depending on how you use it.
Same exact problem here. I get unbelievable amounts of emails intended for other people who share my name, including once a scanned copy of a passport. There's a special place in hell for services that not only don't validate email, but also require you to login to unsubscribe.
only defense, interstate commerce, international relations, and the like are national problems.

the state is the canonical unit for a problem like homelessness, and each state is free to delegate to local jurisdictions or to coordinate with other states on solutions.

by the way, san francisco has about 8000 homeless folks, and LA has ~55,000 (~40% of the 130,000 homeless in the state). if we wanted to build new housing for all of these folks, we'd need about $50B (state budget is about $200B/year). LA, for instance, spent $0.6B on homelessness last year, or about 3% of what is needed just in LA.

we either continuously pay for homelessness indirectly (and ineffectively), through police, crime, social services, drugs, non-profits, governmental programs, emergency services, etc. or actually tackle the problem directly by raising and allocating that $50B.

(obviously talking about first-order effects here. this is not an in-depth policy paper.)
Here in Sweden stores have started to switch to self scan without scales. Cheaper to buy, uses less space and no nuisance for the customers.

Or even better the stores that do self scan with a hand held scanner, just walk around continously bagging in your cart, put the barcode scanner in the holder when you exit and pay with NFC.
The main reason I have always heard mentioned why they have a deposit is that shopping carts are really expensive and they don't want people to take them home, have teens do silly things with them etc.

Maybe that's not so much a problem in the US, where I imagine supermarkets may not be in the city center but mostly reachable by car and thus less foot traffic to take the carts?

But maybe the deposit here in Europe is just silly? I do know many supermarkets lock their carts up for 1st of May for example and anyway, one euro or one of those plastic discs is not hard to come by, so it is not much of a detriment.
No, they did used to have serial ports, especially if PS printers (since you could then use the postscript interpreter interactively).
Facebook bans Israeli company it says aims to disrupt elections
I'm pretty sure that a Quake black book is in the works.
EDIT: disregard, misread.
Magnetic, electronic wheel clamps are becoming more common in the US, but yes, they are relatively new to metro areas, promulgating in the last decade.
Same thing happens here, except there is always a loyalty card special on some items. If you want, say, a 12-pack of Vanilla Coke Zero, well, you have to buy three of them at once to avoid being reamed at the register. But you had better get there right after it's restocked, because it's always "Buy 2, get 1 free" or worse, "Buy 2, get 2 free," and they never stock more than three or four cartons at a time.

Every time someone talks about how grocery stores are these highly-optimized retail juggernauts that know everything about what they're selling, how much to order, where to place it on the shelf, and so on, I just wish I could take them on a tour of my local stores and ask them to explain various seemingly-nonsensical practices. IMHO, there is a lot of room for efficiency improvements in the retail grocery business.
They’re fabless.
It's a cynical and mostly correct viewpoint. Companies that don't make their workers act in their profit interests exist, but they aren't successful. Microsoft is not among them.

When the market works, at least. So it's actually quite possible that Microsoft is being nice and "inefficient" here.
Let me know when you find out what the price for the missing street view is;)
OK thanks for the info.
That was my thought as well. The attacker may have been probing the server for that particular bug (and probably many others) once or twice a day and so detected it almost immediately.
I didn't realize that Texas is part of the West Coast.
> -they have barcode on 5 or 6 sides of their products, and they're typically huge! They nearly never need to orient a product to scan it. Their scan speed is far faster than any other supermarket I've been at.

On a historical note (I am old enough to have shopped before bar codes existed):

Generally stores had little price tags attached to every single item. Which was labour intensive twice: First someone has to attach the tag to each item and at the checkout it needs to be found somewhere on the product, read and the price to be entered into the cash register.

With only 1000 products (back then, IIRC) and no weekly offers at all it took only 2-3 days for a new cashier to learn all prices by heart and easy for the store to skip the stickers altogether and just mark the price at the shelf. Typing prices without having to search for a tiny little sticker somewhere on the product was super fast and efficient compared to the competitors. Cashiers just dropped the product into the cart with one hand and typed with the other.

Aldi introduced bar code scanners several years after the "full assortment" competition. At some point probably the better inventory book-keeping started to outweigh the costs.

(Edit: clarified that Aldi had no price stickers at all)
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Woo. I wrote the original implementation for that 14 years ago. I discovered local labels when we tried to write some code that used the had multiple yields in the same line. Due to how the switch based implementation worked, this wasn't possible, so I looked for other solutions.
The Story Tony Robbins Doesn't Want You to Read
Couldn't you offer an integration API that's compatible with Slack?

Maybe not in the US, where APIs are under copyright, but outside it could work...
Sorry, no, Figma way better
https://www.figma.com
Seems they were a little ahead of their time. Now no one cares about binaries that ship on multiple distros because that was fixed with containerisation / snappy / flatpak / docker. But now people actually care about arm and want their docker to work there.

And no one really cares about the CD image size either. :)
I find it hard to shop at Aldi because of the almost brutal aesthetic. No signage, no colors, no nice lighting, just industrial meta shelves on an industrial floor with bare fluorescent lights overhead and everything jammed together. It gives me a headache just thinking about it.

I will however still occasionally run in because although they run out quick almost every day, when they have grass-fed meat and some organic veggies, they are about twice as cheap as any other retailer around here has them for.
Ranking of the top US women startup founders and entrepreneurs (2018)
Calling is handy to ask what price an item is and whether it's in stock, or order something prepared by the deli or bakery that you want on a certain date/time.
it's ridiculous it's given this much attention when there's far more nefarious activity and problems caused by big tech that are to date totally under the radar outside of a few researchers and journalists, and they go far beyond privacy violations (controlling global narratives/elections for one, facilitating the indoctrination of populations by optimizing for user engagement).
I mean in answer to 1: The original origin isn't super relevant as they are named arabic numerals in all common vernacular.

2. it's more an evidence of ignorance, coupled with a automatic response to also things that sound foreign that results in not looking up what they're voting on. Which is exhibited in the other poll on Lemaitre.

Finally: I would argue it's an random poll on the internet, which are horrifyingly inaccurate in general, andI suspect [without having any actual studies to support it] attract both the people with more extreme/bias feelings, and trolls.
Leveraging a huge amount of organic demand from yourself makes a lot of businesses feasible, that aren't otherwise.

Worst case, they lean less on their own brokerage. Best case, they excel and can begin billing everyone else for providing the service. Win/win.
You seem to have missed my point. Gender is important to team balance only if we assume that someone's gender defines how they can contribute to a team. This assumption is lazy gender stereotyping. It is the very same assumption that hurts women's careers because people assume that women's contributions will be limited by their gender.

If you want someone who can contribute to a team in a certain way, then hire for that.
> 50% cheaper

Hmm, more like 25% cheaper, imo. But I guess it depends what you need to buy and if you go after sales/specials and what not. Aldi does have great prices, for sure.

I still love HEB though. Their bakery section is amazing (especially the fresh warm tortillas), their produce and meat is excellent, and the prices are still pretty good. HEB also has prices online with specific aisle locations for many products (was helpful when looking for frozen yuca/cassava a bit ago).
2019... and we still measure wealth in terms of car size.
I have not, but

site:rest

gives several hits[0]

[0]: https://www.startpage.com/do/search?query=site%3Arest
PDF is a lossy format, slightly better than an image, it can be really hard to extract legible data from it.
I didn’t connect the dots to bigotry. I thought this was one of those “see how uneducated people are” kind of things.
Google AI Apps Aim to Improve the Lives of People with Disabilities
Wow double digit growth. Meanwhile AB50 is stalled. This is probably the worst part of the BA which is otherwise wonderful. Its utter helplessness in confronting it's housing problem.
Which early adopter program for UBI illustrated laziness? I'm actually opposed to UBI because I think everything is relative and it's really just upping the baseline, but from everything I've read it hasn't produced laziness in practice.
This isn't a slightly difficult problem, this is a fundamentally impossible problem. A qualitative thing cannot be quantified.

If we could quantify adversity we could calculate the percentage out of all human suffering that occurred during the Trail of Tears or determine the single most resilient living person.

I'm not saying we should consider adversity in college admissions. I'm saying we shouldn't quantify human emotions and experiences.
The largest-value commonly-available coin in the US, is worth about 1/4 of a Euro. I kind of miss the 1,2,5 distributions of euro cash.
They stuck to it for a long time and the argument was indeed speed and to some extend ergonomics (the cashier doesn't need to lift up items). There is a system to it (100-199 is liquor, 400-499 dairy etc.), so it's fairly easy to memorise it.
> being not around when people are talking means not being part of that conversation.

Persistent chat is one of the biggest values of Slack or Discord or Mattermost, and one of the big reasons I'll take it over IRC any day.

Persistent chat that you can join and read the backlog of is incredibly valuable. It becomes an asynchronous communication medium, rather than a synchronous one. And it's much richer and lower-friction than email.
Post-Walmart/2008 America is living paycheck to paycheck. It's harder to vilify those who undercut competitors if that means people get to eat this week.
I hate those things so much. Amazon almost solely uses them and it's not even a conversation - just a sequence of "tell me about a time when you failed" with every word of response typed into their laptops.

I had a phone interview yesterday which I presumed would be all about what I've done and how I could do the job. The hiring manager was ex-Amazon (surprise!) so it was a litany of "tell me about"s instead.

In the Amazon case, at least one can look at the Bezos Commandments ("The Leadership Principles"(tm)) and mock up answers in advance - twice to take care of double asks. It's hard to predict by comparison what some random is going to use.
Considering how Crysis’ biggest issue on modern hardware is that it doesn’t scale to multi-core, I doubt cramming it onto many more cores would help it, even if it ran
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Whoops, parallel port not serial. Looking at pictures, this must have been a 4L.
Probably because pipenv is the worst Python package manager ever.
> I don't believe this is evidence of bigotry. If a similar survey were to be taken in say Saudi Arabia, asking if American Numerals need to be taught in madrasass, it'd likely have a similar response.

What do you think bigotry is if not being opposed to something for reasons other than its own merit? The unbigoted answer if you don't know what Arabic Numerals means is the third option, "I don't know/No opinion".
> unknown in the US

Commonly seen in the US in fact, such as in WinCo stores [0].

0 - https://images.app.goo.gl/HN1mQyCw5fUbcnTr8
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Looks like a george foreman grill to me...
Because the intervention that would help people is different based on the forces driving their problems.
Over here it is very common to have a plastic or metal coin shaped objects attached to key rings for releasing the trolley without a coin, most of those devices can be pulled out immediately, without connecting the trolley back to the trolleys on queue.
I usually used Ethernet-connected ones, but I'd think RS232 serial at a doable bit rate was viable for most purposes.

Both HP-PCL and PostScript (I wrote code to generate both) can be sufficiently compact. (And you had the trusty built-in fonts, plus sometimes additional fonts in cartridges/cards, so fonts didn't necessarily have to be sent with the print job.)

What could be a problem for connection via RS232 is large images, or an unfortunate setup that rasterizes the whole page off-printer at high dots-per-inch.
Someone who did understand probably explained it IN lawyers terms to them; it may have been a tech-law focused lawyer they consulted on the ramifications, or the journalist covering navy laws in question.
The problem is: the normal assumption is just an assumption with a very interesting asymptotic property. That makes it good for computations.

However, Nature and more specifically economic events have little asymptotics in them (mainly isolated things like crises, earthquakes, crashes, accidents...).

I tend to agree with him on this.

He is not against science. He is mostly against economic modellers.
Correct. It’s a quick jump from one to the other. I suspect most people disregard that by saying “well I’d never sink that low if I were homeless.”
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Microsoft: “Happy Birthday WannaCry ”
So if I go to a grocery store, and buy only their private labels - would the products be great, as people here describe Aldi?
Oh, neat: https://www.migadu.com/en/drawbacks.html

Huge props to any service that has an honest list of reasons not to use them. I'm a little concerned that one of those things is "no SLA", though; yes, mail delivery is resilient, but if I can't access email all the time I'm gonna be grumpy.
The blog post and cloud provider's website both say the servers are bare metal.
I know it's unpopular to talk about limiting Amazon because America is a "free-market" but that's the argument of the dumbest kind, it's short-sighted. You can't compete with them unless you have an advantage they can't replicate, they have all the money and can buy any company they need, they can pay the best salaries for the same reason, they own a lot of relevant data in every industry, they can buy all the patents and license them to third-parties so they sue you, etc... I am an Amazon fan, but looking into the future, these companies will rule every aspect of our society.
The irony of Figma being better than all of those applications, while having been built with Electron, will not be lost on those who have used it.
In practice, people expect a response in a relatively timely way, it is after all chat, not email. It does seem a lot of companies treat it explicitly as ephemeral (and therefore requiring frequent checks). Even slack deletes old messages for free accounts, and the search is pretty poor IME. It is also full of chatter irrelevant to the topic at hand as far as I've seen in the slack groups I've participated in (though I have avoided it for work, so have not experienced it working well in a work environment).

I can imagine it is very useful for responding to a live incident for example, so perhaps people use it for that sort of thing. For a developer working on product though it seems crazy to me to have a chat window open for any significant part of a working day. People work differently though I guess and perhaps I just haven't seen it used well.
If Facebook is bad, then how bad are other forms of social media, like Instagram or Twitter? Or Hacker News? Or Mastodon?

I'm fine with tearing them down if they've committed actual criminal acts, but going after them for breaches of social norms seems a bit awkward. About the most anyone can say about that is it makes them feel icky.

It all seems a bit nanny-statist, to me.
On the latest thread on this, people who know better than me said the 5th Ammendment doesn't apply because she is not being charged with any crime, she is a witness on another case.
It's strange to see this hit the US only just now. Chains like these are huge in Europe. In Belgium, where I live, Aldi isn't very big. They're being outplayed by a bigger local player: Colruyt. Aldi stores are usually pretty small while Colruyt stores are pretty large. You can see the staff driving around carts inside of the store to put everything on the shelves. They also always have a huge refrigerator room instead of seperate refrigerators. It allows for them to drive into these rooms so everything is faster as well.

Colruyt also got subsidiaries that have smaller stores for city centres like Okay which is just a tad smaller because it's in the city centres. Colruyt's own stores are often in smaller cities or around towns where there's plenty of room to build a store.

The reason Aldi is not very big in Belgium is because they're perceived as being lower quality. Perhaps it's because people don't want to change brands, but want to pay a lower price. They can get the same items/brands at Colruyt, but for a lower price. From personal experience I can also say that Aldi stores aren't as pleasant to shop in as Colruyt. This is because Aldi's aesthetics are pretty old. It feels like you're walking in some old store that's from the 90s or older. Colruyt and Okay stores feel more like you're walking into a warehouse.

Just my two cents. I just went shopping to Okay today and on other days I go to a Spar, which is also a Colruyt subsidiary, but a tad bti more upscale. Though not as upscale as Delhaize in Belgium. Delhaize is one of the more expensive ones, though you also get some more upscale items like freshly made juice, fresh sushi, fresh lobsters... compared to the others. They can be either owned independently or by the chain. The ones that are owned independently are imo better because they often have "home-made" food because they've got a bakery, kitchen, and butcher and it's of good quality. (I personally adore one of the Delhaize's bakeries at my parents' house.)

That's all. What a rant.
WinCo Foods in some of the western US states attempts to drive down costs with some similar tactics, although not to nearly the extent that it sounds like Aldi does. Plus WinCo is employee owned, which I think is kinda cool.

In the western US states, I only see Aldi locations in southern California currently. It will be interesting to see how they affect other competitors as they expand to more cities out here.
Social media networks are the cigarette companies of the mind. Like Altria (which owns Philip Morris etc.), they exploit an addiction, but it's a behavioral addiction, and therefore less visible.
At least at the Aldi I shop at, they don't even have that. The cashier is at the very end of the line; the next thing past them is a shopping cart, and scanned items get placed directly into it.

When you're done paying, you wheel that cart away, leave the one you had in its place, and go to a separate counter where you can bag or box your stuff.

If you had a basket, you throw the basket in the cart, the cashier drops stuff in there, and you take it with you. Which, they didn't mention this in the article, but that's also nice - it encourages customers to put their baskets back in the stack by the door. Which, again, saves everyone time. Employees don't have to stop what they're doing to collect baskets and move them to the door, and customers don't have to wander around the checkout aisles looking for baskets stashed under the conveyor when the stack by the door is empty because things are too busy for that to happen.
I once was woken up in the middle of the night by stomach cramps. The project I was working on for a financial customer was in crunch mode, so as I sat down on the crapper I started thinking if I was pooping from a balance or an off-balance account. A moment later I realized that was a dumb question: you can't keep the food you've eaten on your balance sheet! It took me a minute more or so to finally come to my senses.
Ask HN: Startup needs suggestion on business process automation
Hi, does anyone have experience with business process automation of tasks? Either open source or SaaS with an API. For example, at a certain trigger, I need to create a file or REST transaction, send an email, follow up on that, call someone. What software should I investigate to integrate to?
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19940869
These stories have turned into click baits.

The data in question here is nothing compared to what your credit card company, bank, Amazon or TurboTax has.

Unlike many folks here I find value in this and can't see it harming my privacy. In fact I think Gmail is still dumb compared to what Google or maybe a startup could potentially provide.

I'd love to be able to ask a query such as "show me the receipt for that red flower pot I bought last year" or "show me all my dentist appointments this year".
This was my reaction, too: "great, another thing for HP to ruin."
Can you please explain your last paragraph?
No, and radioactive decay doesn't account for the variances between the reference kilogram and it's sister kilograms we've observed.
Consider why that person has to work two jobs, and the contribution Amazon made towards that.

Low prices aren't free. Some of it came from efficiency, the rest comes from simply paying labor less.