skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a good point that may offset to some extent. From the glimpses I've had of grocery store stocking - especially when it comes to produce - I think Costco is still more packaging-per-volume for the things I buy. Costco also still has an additional third layer of boxing for most items between the sellable packaging and the pallet. For example the boxes of tomatoes I mentioned are additionally housed in a 6-unit box and it's those boxes that are stacked on the pallets. I supposed the final outcome depends on what one buys - processed/frozen food probably has a better packaging efficiency at Costco.
This is in fact a trend in European city centers. It is wonderful and amazing.

Areas where before closing for traffic it didn’t make sense to drive anyway because walking is literally faster due to narrow streets, too many cars, etc. I don’t understand why people choose to drive there unless someone explicitly tells them they can’t.
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The argument is that "freedom of choice" is a slippery concept, when you have massified advertisement, which targets people basest neurological triggers to make them more likely to drink soda/drink beer/stuff their face with hamburgers/buy weight loss products/vote for candidate X.
> it doesn't scale past ~10,000 tracks, they've put more thought into it,

Spotify also says supporting more than 10000 tracks in "My Library" isn't necessary, so the people who hit that limit aren't helped by Spotify either
Chrome does something like this, you can learn more about it here: https://codereview.chromium.org/6286072/
With the tools they include in the car and how hard it is to get to the spare tire (in some models), I would be hard pressed to get the wheel off (especially if some shop decided it would be a good idea to really overtorque the lug nuts with an impact wrench).

In fact, the last shop that worked on my car did exactly that and I had to buy a breaker bar and stand on it in order to loosen the lug bolts on my car before I retorqued them to the correct value.
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You may be seeing it in a lot of profiles here. It s because they offer an easy way to verify your HN profile cryptographically
The comments on the MIT approach versus the New Jersey style is interesting considering that by '89 MIT's X Window System was a major contributor to the success of Unix Workstations and the X Windows "Principles" seem a lot like Unix'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System#Principles and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better
Well, I have spent the last year and a half "retooling" to be a pure developer. I was a manager for twenty-five years, and did not code full-time.

I love coding. I'm a really good manager, but I don't love it.

Since I need to hang a coding shingle, I need to have a serious portfolio. These types of projects give me that.
Instead of an outright ban, I'd love to see price-prohibitive congestion pricing and street-parking pricing (prohibitive in the sense that it wouldn't make financial sense to drive a car as the primary mode of transport, not that if someone needed to occasionally use a car they couldn't) within Manhattan, with the aforementioned provisions carved out for those who demonstrate a need for a car.

That way, for any of those stubborn and wealthy enough who refuse to use public transit, we can direct all funds generated to improving public transit -- not just reliability and frequency, but also line expansions and remodeling the deteriorating stations and upgrading train/bus interiors to create a first-class transit experience for the rest of us and to finally prioritize public transit correctly in the US.

Singapore already operates a similar (but stricter and broader) scheme: https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/31/asia/singapore-cars/index.htm....
Some of this is that the file/folder abstraction is inadequate for organizing large amounts of data.
Very few cities were. Cities for the most part were designed around horse drawn carriages and tons of foot traffic.
have you forgotten the context of this thread ? Sugar water! One of the most advertised products of all time is sugar water. A useless product that makes people sick.
But I’m not sure this is a widely held preference. Seems to be a vocal minority trying to impose their will on others.
Well it may be the case that they accidentally have a proxy for race already in their data (the "this ethnicity prefers red cars" hypothetical in the article above.) So race may already in practice be factored in despite nobody intending for that to be the case (assuming nobody anticipated that a particular metric is a racial proxy.) That does not necessarily mean it's being unfair to that race though. It could, hypothetically, mean that it's actually being fair to that race, advantaging them in a system/society that would otherwise disadvantage them.
Having also used both, terraform is a significant improvement over CloudFormation. As a DevOps engineer working on AWS, I push very hard against CloudFormation.

Both languages suffer when you try to do some advanced things, but CloudFormation falls apart way earlier.

One example, triggering a lambda from an S3 upload event is a prime use case for both services. However CloudFormation fails to do that because the S3 bucket takes time to be created. You need to either deploy twice, expecting the first to fail or trigger a lambda in CFN to setup the notification. Seriously you need python code uploaded in a zip file to handle this? Both are hacks for a classic example.

1. https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=167470
2. https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/cloud...
Servos will easily triple the cost of the printer.
GDPR grants you control of your data, including the right to have it removed. And if you have tools built in to comply with such requests, then you absolutely can remove the "irrevocable" clause from your TOS.
I am not saying fruit juice sugar is better. I am saying this kind of information on packaging is useless (because it's at the back of packaging) and I want to know if the "Peach Cola" has anything to do with peach. In Japan/Taiwan it is written that there is 0% of peach. Once you experience this you will love it. Especially when you speak ZERO japanese or taiwanese
Just about anyone who has breathed London air in the last 30 years sees how it is progress. Dirty, smelly and unhealthy that creates a coating on clothes, furniture and windows. That's probably not ideal for lungs.

We notice, and hate it every time we visit the relatives down there. "Start breathing crap" kicks in around Hendon.
It's one and only useful feature compared to ES/TS is the syntax. Once you get used to it, which doesn't take long, you start to experience that in comparison to say ES6, you:

- Write/edit code faster
- Read/understand code easier

People say this is subjective, but my experience with other developers has shown otherwise. I once asked a team of developers to "just go along with CoffeeScript for 2 weeks" instead of arguing its syntactic decisions (they were developers who had only used C-style syntax languages in the past like Java/C++/JavaScript). All of them ended up loving CoffeeScript and staying with it for years.

Mind you, TypeScript was a very different language back then. Once it started adding features like disjoint unions and the tooling matured, I made the switch.
New York wasn't.
There’s no credit card needed.

Until a few years ago, Costco didn't even take credit cards. They had an in-store ATM if you needed cash.
Busses and delivery trucks are the most noisy and polluting! That doesn’t seem like the panacea you suggest.
Maybe ~10 years ago, a friend bought Peter Reinhart's BBA and I got his "Whole Grain Breads" book. We baked lots, swapped recipes and experiences. I can strongly recommend both books; obviously the Whole Grain one is better if that's your cup of tea, etc.

Regarding what TFA mentions of "gluten intolerance" - I think it's hard from a biochemistry perspective, based purely on what concentrations we're talking about, to support the hypothesis that the vital wheat gluten is a culprit. My personal theory is that it's a combination of fermentability of what you eat (which is obviously lower in "proper" bread) and mechanical properties that causes problems for people who are "gluten intolerant" but not celiac. (Just to clarify, by putting "gluten intolerant" into scare quotes, I don't mean to say it's not a real thing. Just that I personally don't think gluten is the actual bad guy.)
How can liquid organelles in cells coexist without merging?
I love love love Costco. Just an anecdote, but I reinforced my love for Costco yesterday in fact. Back in February, I bought new flooring for my entire house at Costco. Since I was doing my entire house, I over purchased to ensure that I wouldn’t run out. I work full time so it took my a long time to finish installing the flooring, about 8 months. Yesterday I returned all the packages of flooring I didn’t use to Costco. The person working at the return counter didn’t even bat an eye at the fact I’d bought the flooring so long ago, she just handed me a wad of cash back. Absolutely great return policy. It would have been impossible to do something like that at Lowes or Home Depot, both of those stores give you a hard time after 90 days. I try to do all of my shopping at Costco and this is why. They just treat customers so, so well.
A couple possibilities I can think of:

* the list may be prohibitively large

* it exposes to the bad actors exactly which of their scams is detected, so they can simply refine their methods until their sites don’t make “the list”
As of now? ASVS v4: https://www.owasp.org/images/d/d4/OWASP_Application_Security...

At least for software security, this is probably the best single reference you'll find to get from level 1 to 2 (assuming zero is your origin), regardless of ptacek's largely unfalsifiable objections. Absent from these comments are any other software-security-specific recommendations -- though if you're looking for something more holistic rather than just being siloed to software security specifically, you may consider following NIST CSF to start and then exploring mitigating common patterns exposed in the ATT&CK framework.

If you're looking more for guidance on what other companies are doing for securing development pipelines, probably BSIMM. Bear in mind it's the product of a consulting firm, and all it does is tell you the things others do, not necessarily what's actually effective (descriptive v. prescriptive). The result is that it may be tuned to steer consulting traffic their way. Full disclosure: I've consumed that consulting service at two firms thus far.
a technically well-versed audience like this HN crowd is not really the customer base for computer equipment from Costco. In keeping with their product offering approach, Costco is catering to the people too busy and/or don't find it fun to evaluate computer equipments. What their customers know is that what Costco offers is good enough and pretty good value. The liberal return policy helps ease customer concerns about making equipments work. Looks to me like Costco is doing it pretty much right.
I certainly do not believe anybody should be compelled to assume a correlation is a causation. However I also do not think one should preemptively rule out the possibility of causation. Without examining the nitty gritty details of any particular situation, we can't know which is the case. We certainly cannot assume one and rule out the other, which I fear is what you assumed I was doing.
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I depends on the car model, but I find that it's quicker to do some maintenance yourself rather than scheduling an appointment, waiting or using their shuttle service, and getting the car back.

The air filter and cabin filter replacement come to mind (and, at least in my Honda Odyssey, can both be replaced in about 10 minutes give or take).
I pointed that there should be other information in the front. Consider "Peach Cola" which is sold in Japan. It has 0 sugar but also 0% of peach. I prefer to see fruit juice amount especially when I don't understand Japanese but I can see picture of peach and percentage of peach inside.
On a per-unit basis, sure. There are way more cars than buses or delivery trucks though.
If the community was not happy with it from some reason would you also say that they only think about themselves? or is it going just one way when it is not aligned with your ideas of what is good or not good for the world? Maybe they think it is both good for them specifically and for the world because gas is much cleaner than coal?
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Idiot apologist.

What a despicable morally bankrupt thing to say
files are an abstraction and reference to objects in memory. The only problem I see is storage life cycle without cache in volatile plus redundant non-volatile memory. Same problem for blocks and segments, no?
That E2E encryption sure must be easy when you just handwave away key distribution. At least that's still not as bad as when FileVault discarded the user's password hint and instead used the plaintext password itself as the hint.
> These are the same people that predicted there would be worldwide famines in the 1980s and that oil and mineral prices would skyrocket by 2000. Their only predictive track record is of entirely wrong predictions. There is no reason to believe them this time.

In what way are these "the same people"? Members of the IPCC previously made predictions about mineral prices?
Wonderful feature also used by Trello https://trello.com/b/rq2mYJNn/public-trello-boards.json
This is a better strategy than trying to put bike lanes on every street. Drivers don't pay attention enough. Risk of getting doored or having some car turn right without checking their blindspot/mirrors is too high.
That doesn’t work for the visually impaired, for those with epilepsy, for the extremely short of stature, for persons without hands, for those who are aged or living with progressive impairments who shouldn’t drive but for whom a $10k-$50k power chair is not an appropriate solution.

Not to mention those who could not afford them even if they wanted them. I won’t even touch social issues related to hierarchies of disability.

You know what works for everyone though? Dropping the pretender that everyone “needs” personal transport and embracing accessible transit and the infrastructure that requires and offers.
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With about 40K of compute - yes
Do you think a decentralized database of unsafe URLs could exist?
I love it! Forums were my first experiences on the internet and I'm thrilled to be able to share that passion with others now.
wow, dude. what do you have against african unity? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyT_bYUUG6o
Another point is that paying upfront for something means you have to use it.

I remember when I joined a real cult. It cost $5k just to join, and another $5k to advance a level. So when you are down $20k and someone asks you to move to the Brazilian rainforest to live in a mud hut...well, you can't really say no. Remember: you can fly to Brazil, just don't enter the cave.
Japanese have only the nutriction stats. I was talking about this (look at 1% of peach):
https://www.japantrendshop.com/img/cocacola/coca-cola-peach-...
Be very careful buying things you ingest on Amazon. The risk is high of fake products from otherwise trustworthy brands or "fake" brands of some guy ordering something to be packaged at a dodgy Chinese manufacturer with little or no QA or basic verification.
It's an "ad" in as much as anything. Not to mention it sells job advertisement space. It brings goodwill to the brand. A core tennant of advertising.

Such a weak minded assertion as "ban all advertising" without considering how that impacts freedom of speech is unbelievable.
Downvoters who think that might be too much data don't know about Bloom filters.
No, not 99%.

Why? Because a huge fraction, no doubt a huge majority, of the Hacker News audience concentrates on software.

In more detail, a lot of the audience uses laptop computers, WiFi hubs, smartphones, etc. and never sees an integrated circuit, not even in its plastic box on a circuit board.

I plugged together my most recent computer so saw the motherboard with its many integrated circuit packages, handled the integrated circuit of the processor, an AMD FX-8350, installed several adapter cards with their visible integrated circuit packages, etc. but still could not be sure about the meaning of "IC" in the title. Besides, making an integrated circuit at home is a rare and strange, also possibly interesting, thing.

Again, computing needs to work really hard to avoid use of undefined jargon.

Again, literally, even for the Hacker News audience,

Homemade Ice Cream

is more likely than

Homemade Integrated Circuits

Again, once again, over again, yet again, one more time, the biggest bottleneck, a real ball and chain, on progress in computing is bad technical writing, and undefined jargon is one of the worst parts. Again, ..., in essentially all the more important technical writing it is 101 level rock solidly standard always, no question, to expand acronyms.

Right, there are some exceptions -- HTTP, HTML, URL, but the full list is short, and IC is not on it. Neither are JS, ASIC, CSS, ACL, OO, JSON, RSA, LDAP, CMIS/P, SMTP, SNMP, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, and some hundreds more.

There used to be CICS, IMS, MVS, VTAM, ISAM, VNET, SNA, IPL, RACF, CP67/CMS, VM, DB2, etc. which was priesthood jargon for some years but gone now.

This is just a rock solid technical writing lesson 101. Accept it or not as you wish.

Jargon is an insider thing, and everyone else gets irritated.
> and illuminates the "CHECK ENGINE" light. Of course, what that means is that you need to take the car in to the garage and have a Certified, Licensed Professional Mechanic attach a doohickey to the engine computer to tell him what the problem is

You can buy a OBD-II scanner for around $30 and get that information yourself without having to take it to a mechanic. That should for work for any car built since 1996.
Personally, this doesn't bother me too much. I use LinkedIn specifically because it is public. I'm an "open kimono" type of person. Not particularly interested in hiding stuff.

However, the general principle of "Data Scraping as a Business Model" bothers me. This is by no means the only company that does it (I suspect that MS does it with their access to LinkedIn).

There are far more egregious instances, and many of them have ways to get users to voluntarily cede information (can you think of a rather obvious example?).

LinkedIn is a sandwich board. It's meant to be a public showcase. If you want private, I suspect there are much more focused (and probably valuable) venues that cater to particular communities.
In all fairness a non-trivial number of vehicles don’t even have a spare tire these days much less a full-size one. And the stock jack even SUVs come with is often next to useless.

Having to swap out tires is pretty unusual in normal driving these days and it’s not like you carry spares of everything else that could break and strand you in a car. So I sort of understand it even if I don’t really like it.
Costco also has security personnel that work hard to prevent shoplifting - from people walking around, to the people by the exit who crosscheck the receipts with what they see in the cart.
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Bloom filters take care of the first. There will always be an arms race between attack and defense, so I'm not concerned about the second issue.
In my mind the web has always had ads although maybe for a brief period this wasn't true.

The real turnaround that happened around this time and I guess before is that the platforms started realising how valuable user data was and the relative value of "smart" data-driven advertising as compared to "dumb" content- based ads.

Now when I see that a platform has amassed x million users I'm very cynical about their motives for doing so.
Default configuration of Chrome sends whatever you type, while you are typing it, in the location bar to Google.

And Firefox can do that too, no idea what their default configuration is.
Are you defending the statement... "Ban all advertising"

?
How do you write a magstripe card? I thought you needed an expensive writer to do that?
I hate the overuse of the term community nowadays. All it is is an attempt to prod users into contributing more whilst the "community" will never even once consider contributing back to the user(s).

Live streamers are guilty of this. Its become a standard for Twitch broadcasters to call their viewer base a community in, what I guess is, a way to get viewers to think tipping the broadcaster is benefitting the "community" while only the broadcaster benefits.
Well, compared to profile guided optimization as mentioned by the other commenter earlier, that's really only the case if the profile of called methods vary greatly between runs.

The polymorphic inline caching from Self for example is guided by collecting simple stats. Tracing does the same. A JIT ensures those stats are always completely up to date, but nothing stops you from saving it and using it for an AOT compiler as well.

But often even that is overkill, as you can often statically deduce a lot about the types a method is likely to get called with by simply looking at the call sites, and most programs have very static call profiles.
Hmm sorry to hear that, can you maybe open the browser console and see if there are any errors?
Ask HN: How do you handle user notifications?
After building >10 web and mobile apps, I realize that I am spending too much time building the same User Notification System in my backend.

By User Notification System, I mean the logic that consists in sending transactional emails and push notifications to users.

It usually consists of (for email):
- writing the content of the notification (e.g. HTML/text)
- sending the notification (e.g. using a SMTP service such as Sendgrid)
- handling unsubscribes (e.g. at bottom of email)
- changing the content (often requested by the marketing team)

The same applies to push notifications, SMS, etc.

Is there a faster way to handle this? How do you handle it today?
They could easily do it the Reddit way and still provide a timestamp but keep the simplicity and relative time format. Just have it pop up the timestamp on mouse hover. That's still very simple and can be effectively done using just CSS.
Cult following is a good choice of words.

It's one of the few businesses where I feel like they get most things right. It's always a good experience going in there and walking out with a cart full of things. I'm happy to see them be successful.

I usually buy frozen meats and things that don't expire quickly in bulk and then they last for months. I reserve vegetables and fruits for a local grocery store since their quality is good and those things tend to go fast.

But at Costco sometimes you get lucky with clothes too. They were overstocked on Puma sneakers in my exact size. Each pair was $10 and they are exactly the style I like (low cut / not flashy) so I bought 2 pairs of them. I legit walk 3-5 miles a day with one of the pairs and over a year later of walking on concrete they are still fully in tact (no holes, good looking enough to wear them out to dinner, etc.). It's mind boggling. I've never had a pair of sneakers last this long while still looking presentable after that much usage. The 2nd pair I bought is still brand new.

Those sneakers alone cover the cost of like 2-3 years worth of membership fees.
My understanding is that Facebook uses similar clauses to disallow web scraping. Does that mean Facebook is fair game too?