skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have to make sure I'm not getting something unexpected like uncured or unsmoked bacon

I take that as a signal that "This store isn't for you--you shouldn't be shopping here." And it's probably correct.

I go to Whole Paycheck for very specific things, but the people who do general shopping at Whole Foods are in some very specific demographics, themselves.
Each store makes a tradeoff in selection vs quality control. In terms of random object quality I would say it’s Amazon < Walmart < Costco. And things reverse when you look at selection.

I am flat out never going to consume anything ordered from Amazon ever. However, if I want something random like a sleeping pig statue, and I don’t really care if it’s toxic, it’s a reasonable option.
Would Wishbone be appropriate?
There will be winners and losers from climate change.

Likely a lot more losers than winners.

But denying that there will be winners too is as misguided as denying climate change in the first place.

In this case winners are tied to places, so yes moving will be often the only sensible option.

Is Siberia the perfect place to move to? We'll find out (or rather our descendants will) But they're unlikely to be the losers at least
The short term goal is very simple.

* Withdraw the bill, not a temporary suspension.
* Withdraw the characterisation of last Wed protest as a riot.
Feynman’s Breakthrough, Disregard Others (2017)
In theory yes, but in reality he faces no opposition and so will always be "re-elected".
It's interesting that 40% of the US consists of farmland (according do some google searching). But farm output is only 1% of GDP. I think this is the major disconnect. You need a fair amount of that farmland for producing food (maybe all of it). So if you distributed the people across the farmland and had them farming, then you lose 99% of your GDP. With telecommunications and remote working, people could distribute and still work reasonably well, but you still need the land for farming, so you need to give up the idea of suburban utopia.

Somewhat interesting to consider as I live in a walkup apartment building surrounded by farms, doing remote software development for a living... But even I long for a home with a proper garden... High density housing isn't really that great unless you also have the convenience of city living.
I found a sister this way. We both happened to move to the West coast; about two hours drive apart. 10/10 would do again
Remember what happened the last time a bunch of states wanted to claim independence?
Yet another alarmist article stretching to find a relationship with our man-made climate change.

It is sowing doubt instead. Press (especially the far-left Guardian) should think twice publishing this. There are much better indicators such as bleaching of corals and global satellite measurements.
Is anyone else worried about this race to the bottom? What the price our earth is paying for these services? And our communities? We talk about getting a fair go, yet actively idolise big-tech which is obliterating the low income jobs and widing the class divide with marketing tactics.

The only thing i hear people talking about in this thread is _their_ bottom line. Not a single person considering the social and evironmental implications of their choices?

Seems like tech is creating a bigger disconnect between reality and everyday lives. The corner shop run by a local family has morphed into some sick youtube family dream where toddlers unwrap consumables and hundreds of thousands of people become envious, pickup their phone, click some buttons, and are soon greated by a person at the door delivering them a token that makes them feel more apart of society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Society_of_the_Spectacle
People are free to use any video sharing website they want, or even set up their own, but it is significantly more difficult to change your country.
Yes, states cannot leave the union once they are admitted. There is no mechanism in place in the Constitution or via a law for a state to leave/become independent.
Interesting, thanks.

FWIW, in the actual case I was first thinking of, the potential customer did make contact. It wasn't a lack of up-front price specifically that killed that deal, though as things turned out, maybe it was a bad omen. The ultimate cause of the failed deal was the decision-makers becoming frustrated, because after making contact, the sales people just seemed to want ever more information out of them without giving a straight answer on pricing and other basic contractual details.
Scene from the Wire relating to lie detector machines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN7pkFNEg5c
I don't think CSS is outdated, it was just never that suited for the purpose people are using it for.

It still remains a fantastic way to style a document. The cascading nature of CSS works great in that context. But styling UI components is something quite different.
CSS that affects a components internal layout should be with the component.

CSS that affects the components appearance (colours, type etc should be with the document).

Of course, communication across teams will affect how successful this is. I’ve seen it go both ways.

PS - read ‘should’ as ‘makes my life easier’
I have a feeling that if Google supported MusicBrainz more we could get an open LyricsBrainz.
Connecting Touch and Vision via Cross-Modal Prediction
In mine they replaced the friendly greeters with stone faced security guards. The self checkouts also remind you that they're watching your every move with a dialog you must accept before paying.
It cannot: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_Union. Texas in fact voted to secede during the civil war, in a public referendum where secession got 75% of the vote. (Or course, it should be noted that the 30% of the population that was enslaved could not vote.) After Texas was defeated in the civil war, it was governed by a governor appointed by the union president for five years until it was readmitted to the United States.
Thanks, this is really interesting. I'll have a read through :).
The reference frequency is interconnection wide. To bring a three phase ac generator online the terminal voltage, phase rotation, frequency, and phase angle must be within some tolerance.
"What about DRM?" is not a valid response to discussion of GPL v3 issues.
I agree. Also if the primary use case is Creative Cloud, couldn’t you do the heavy lifting on the desktop PC and use the laptop he already has for portability?
Multigrid Neural Memory
Baloo ist basically Spotlight and probably more but dare you are not that typical happy smile buisness user - have a few kernel source tree's laying around in your /home and you'll likely are getting friends with Baloo sooner (spinning rust) or later (ssd) because that beast manages to saturate even SSD IOPs and while doing so hands out segfaults on every other file.

You can switch to disable content-indexing and just search for filenames (80% rule) but it's hidden in systemsettings or you even need to go to balooctl - also index corruption is a thing...

That beeing said, if you are a brave KDE user and don't mind the hassle it might even work 80% of the time - in theory it's great idea but it never worked reliable for me - if you are a bored dev there is probably lot's of low hanging fruit there - seccomb, some simple heuristic to not overload on IOPs, there are probably more efficient db structures than LevelDB and so on...

It's step forward from nepomuk? that did the full rdf semenatic web stuff and fed a relational database and killed your hdd-based desktop reliable in the early 2000ies but it's still a nasty surprise when using KDE.

It's still a cool idea but it needs some love and contributors to work reliable on all kinds of nasty setups.
They had massive physical damage from a powerful hurricane, their grid didn't just fail. Transmission lines and substations had to be repaired.

That is ignoring issues like Whitefish Energy among other things. Very different situation.

edit: yes, we know that nothing anywhere near comparable to hurricane Maria hit them.
No one person is the "arbiter" of what hackers should think. That's ridiculous. But cultural norms exist. The hacker subculture (which also exists) has norms that trend towards making decisions based on merit and skill, while also emphasizing freedom. I don't think it is controversial to associate these attributes with hackers. And it is not controversial to say that these attributes are incompatible with the rule of an absolute monarch, who by definition rules unilaterally no matter the merit of his/her actions.

What really bothers me is this implication that increased participation always means a better website. I mean come on. This person is proposing a monarchy! What year is this, 1650? It is great to have a diversity of opinions, but no one is obligated to sit on the sidelines and say nothing when someone else gives a hot take straight out of Leviathan. Everyone is free to express their opinion on this site, but we are all free to call out B.S. when we see B.S.
Neat job. I've always wanted to poke my head into ConEd's system and see the whole thing from behind the scenes.

Years back I remember ConEd was replacing two or three very large transformers down the street of a large venu I was working an event. Turns out we worked the same event the next year and amazing the same day ConEd again had the second transformer scheduled to moved into place. What an operation. Huge trailer from Bay Crane along with one of their giant hydraulic cranes. Was told the transformer weighed in at 240,000 pounds.
This is a legit concern. But I think it's rooted in processes that don't make work-sample challenges determinative, and for which candidates can only lose and never win from taking them. A firm that standardizes its whole process on work-sample challenges can't deploy them abusively and still recruit successfully.

Meanwhile, if you commit to relying on challenges, you have a pretty major incentive to put time in to help candidates through them (if everyone bombs out of them, you don't hire anyone; if you're not rigorous, you're hiring randomly and you know it). We'll spend $100 and several hours for blind candidates (or at least: for every candidate we'll actually let into our hiring process) because we need the process to work, and to actually highlight good fits, in order to staff the company.

As always, a qualification process run haphazardly won't work and will alienate people.

Again, my suspicion is that most companies that do take-home problems are cargo-culting them, and not actually hiring based on their results. Rather, they're relying on the same interviews everyone else does, and using the challenge as a very elaborate form of FizzBuzz.
After the Arcticans can till their soil and grow crops, it won't be long until they are developing nuclear weapons.
Personally, I don't find them that interesting. AND, OR, NAND, and NOR are all non-linear. However, you can implement any logic function with XOR and AND, which is essentially modulo-2 addition and multiply. So the whole world of GF(2) algebra applies, and that is how error correction and encryption are analyzed. Goest thou, and study GF(2).
Imagine a world where low information sorts interpret a sampling of possible hi-res reconstructions from low-res security videos as ground truth. That to me is far scarier than the OpenAI and MIRI fear-mongering about GPT-2.
Hey Dennis! I'm super passionate about such projects and I think I can help out a bit. Is there an email where I can write to you?
> The TempleOS guy is a good reminder that being rational and being smart are on orthogonal dimensions.

I don't know if you can realistically derive an epistemic or instrumental orientation based on this short comment. That said, if the comment was referring to epistemic rationality, your point is taken.

Edit: given the broader context of Terry's apparent delusions about the world, you're probably right about this.
The mighty SQLite is well worth considering.
http://www.sqlitetutorial.net/sqlite-import-csv/
An Overview of Memristive Cryptography
My experience has been that the extremely minor performance benefits of functional CSS are not worth the extra time and energy you will spend on a multi-person team trying to mitigate duplicated class names and conflicting CSS functions.

You're welcome to disagree of course, I held a somewhat similar view to you until I tried BEM in a production setting.

And of course, different products call for differing methodologies. I haven't yet switched my personal blog over to BEM, for example.
indeed. we all live on yachts drinking champagne in bikinis while floating in the top-deck swimming pool on one of those flamingo floaty toys.

everyone is rich and it's like the entire 20th century of human liberation didn't happen. does sugar daddy approve of my makeup?
Okay! My girlfriend will email you tomorrow to try and set something up with an engineer at FB (she’s a recruiter).
I don't think he is asking for sympathy. I think he is just sharing his experience.
What development tooling do you use for Racket? I tried Dr. Racket and it felt pretty janky compared to SLIME for CL.
Turing complete mechanical processor via automated nonlinear system design
Thank you for your kind words, it really warms my heart.

Yes, recently there has been an abnormally high amount of news about China on HN and I find most of the comments questionable to say the least. I was so pissed and registered this account to post some comments that are also questionable, so I really should calm down and contribute something that actually helps.

Speaking of the Japanese culture, I must admit that I envy them for how well it is preserved and developed with time. I totally understand why you find it's beautiful and think it represents the good things in the Far East. Our problem is that the Japanese government treat us like they defeated us during WWII because now they are the ally of the allies, which makes us super upset.

Yes all our governments suck, but from our perspective, the US has actively caused much much more trouble around the world than China. And we are genuinely concerned about what's going to happen next because of mentality shown by words like [0] (sorry if the link is pay-walled).

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/05/04/because-c...
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Amazon has setup their business to compete against Walmart... that's the low-margin retail market. Low margin because they've both chosen low prices as their usp. Along with low margin comes all of the things we associate with both retailers: poor wages, poor working conditions, etc.

At no point was Costco a direct Walmart competitor.. when they were founded, their innovation was creating the first retail warehouse club.

Amazon and Walmart look so similar because they fully intend to compete with each other. Costco is just a different concept, and really an entirely different way to run a business than walmart and amazon. Considering both have exceeded Costco's revenues, it's very unlikely they would alter course to compete against the smaller Costco (although I also doubt they could make such a huge shift in strategy).
I always stuck BEM in the same category as other more dogmatic software approaches -- nice in theory, but not particularly practical for everyday development.

Then I tried in a practical, everyday development setting and found out I was just wrong :)
In fact there is a software-based Enterprise version of HAProxy that is subscription based.
I Wrote This on a 30-Year-Old Computer

A former colleague wrote this on a 36-year-old computer earlier this year: http://wayne.lorentz.me/This_TRS-80/

The tl;dr version is that it has a better keyboard than any modern laptop, runs forever on AA batteries, and is a distraction-free zone.
Clearly they are playing catch-up -- Amazon is eating them alive through online ordering, and has a growth curve that is rightly extremely frightening for Walmart. Walmart is already operating by the skin of its teeth (a net margin pushing below 1%, while Amazon's has pushed past 4% and has been heading upwards) and Amazon threatens that more as people buy more and more of those "oh right" things through the online retailer.

Culturally, though, Walmart has absolutely no chance. I recently purchased my first online order through Walmart as they had a product no one else in the country had. It came busted and spilled out in the bag. I emailed just to make them aware that this happened and the hostile, "PROVE IT" type response I got was so incredible compared to Amazon's facilitation of the customer. Walmart culturally will never have a "oh you didn't like it that's fine just stuff it in a box here's a label and a we've issued a full refund" response to anything.
I've never loved CSS-in-JS, but I do love CSS modules, which allows you to use proper CSS, while solving the biggest flaw in CSS - its global nature.

We import shared styles for typography, color, and some layout basics, but each component gets its own CSS file.

Used to be a hardcore Sass lover, and CSS modules took a small amount of getting used to, but worth it in the long run.
It’s not magic. Some of us get the appeal of vintage machines, but it’s not magic that these systems work. I have a large room full of them that I use daily.

https://www.bytecellar.com/photo_pano.html

I’m glad that this article is out there, though.
Texas can vote to leave, but the United States has more and bigger guns, so they can’t actually leave.
I thought this would be about Brexit.

The Ruin of Britain 2.0
... That's my point? That they're equally copyrightable?
Technical interviews are disguised IQ tests. IQ tests are actually not allowed in the US based on a Supreme Court decision[1] that said they were discriminatory.

We know that cognitive ability has one of the strongest correlations with job performance.

So "technical interviews" that are heavy on algorithm puzzles are just a loophole to get around the IQ test issue. They aren't actually testing domain knowledge.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co.
> Despite all that I must finish by observing that regardless of our best efforts in the industry, hiring is still largely random. Well designed interview processes make it slightly better than random, which is why we do them.

This article is a defense of an asymmetric process that stresses out software developers and forces them to jump through hoops. Slightly better than random selection is a garbage pay-off for the nonsense I've experienced in technical interviews.
If you're on macOS, you can tap a link with three fingers to see a preview of the page without actually going there.

There's probably a Linux equivalent, too.
that's just an awful part of world history, what allowed that to flourish? total evil in men's hearts, this was only 200 years ago, not that long ago, this isnt something that happened 1000 years ago.

and even though the confederacy was based on slaves being unequal to whites, the civil war was not necessarily about slavery only, it was more of a split in government between a pro-agrarian society, which required large swaths of slaves, and states vs federal government. sure there were people strongly against slavery in the north like abraham lincoln and abolishinists, but i imagine a large majority in the north didnt really see that as the largest issue, it was more the south wanting to leave the united states and.form their own government.
CS 294 Lecture 9b – “The Revolution Will Not Be Supervised”
I'm actually surprised it's this advanced. This is the system that still uses glass insulators and cloth wire. The unions keep any technology advancements out to prevent displacing jobs
Nginx it's more general purpose, ex: can serve and cache static files.
I’m from china mainland, and I stand for these protesters. At least, I don’t want them lose the right of fighting for their rights. And btw, even such huge protest happening, there is no report, no discussion in China, even message left on SNS also get censored or vanished. Terrifying.

Edit: apologize for uncertain words, it needs add a time limitation. The first protest was happening at 9th June and all Chinese media chose keep silent. And now it cannot be covered. But attention, it still be defined as a riot.
I'm surprised there wasn't anything mentioned about the effects of predation. They absolutely know when the regular human hunting seasons are and adjust their local migration accordingly - they'll be in high mountainous areas one day, then down in privately owned and farmed bottom land during the season, and back up the the elevations when that is over. I'd be more interested to see the effects of the wolf packs on their migration, which from my anecdotal experience affects their location far more acutely than the environmental conditions.