skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is getting downvotes despite being 100% accurate.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-07-11/at-sears-...

> Lampert runs Sears like a hedge fund portfolio, with dozens of autonomous businesses competing for his attention and money. An outspoken advocate of free-market economics and fan of the novelist Ayn Rand, he created the model because he expected the invisible hand of the market to drive better results. If the company’s leaders were told to act selfishly, he argued, they would run their divisions in a rational manner, boosting overall performance.

> Instead, the divisions turned against each other—and Sears and Kmart, the overarching brands, suffered. Interviews with more than 40 former executives, many of whom sat at the highest levels of the company, paint a picture of a business that’s ravaged by infighting as its divisions battle over fewer resources.

> Under the new model, Lampert evaluated the different divisions—and calculated executives’ bonuses—using a metric called business operating profit, or BOP. As some employees had feared, individual business units started to focus solely on their own profitability and stopped caring about the welfare of the company as a whole. According to several former executives, the apparel division cut back on labor to save money, knowing that floor salesmen in other departments would inevitably pick up the slack. Turf wars sprang up over store displays. No one was willing to make sacrifices in pricing to boost store traffic.
Of course. Most of the current API focuses on data extraction because that was my area of work when I started the project but I think creation is the more common problem so its good to hear as many use cases as possible.
The mmwave range is only one of the 5G ranges. 5G will also use the same ranges as 3G and 4G.

In the mmwave range transmitters will not have to transmit higher power levels. First because the use-case for this range is when there is NO obstacles to go through (it does not really work otherwise...), in short distance situations, and then also because beam forming will always be used.

> especially when the benefits of 5G to the consumer are so dubious

Benefits are not limited to browsing speed on your smartphone.

5G is designed to be able to handle massive number of connected devices (e.g. IoT), very low latency (e.g. self-driving cars, industrial control), and very high reliability (industrial control, etc)
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The US accounted for significant portions of the USSRs vehicle fleet as well as provisioning. The USSR fought Germany, but the US defeated Germany. It wasn't fair; war never is.
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Unfortunately, FreeBSD uses different ZFS then Linux. Yes, it's crazy, but currently I think it is not guaranteed to be able to mount ZFS between these systems. Fortunately, FreeBSD is supposed to base their ZFS on Linux version in future.
Ah, good idea! I had figured the odds of it being indexed were unlikely but it's there from 2011. Seeing older YouTube is always nostalgic.
Being negative is easier than being positive. It is far easier for most people to simply believe that the "other" party is evil. Until we can find a way to teach people how to reason about hard topics, we'll have a divided nation, which makes it easy for awful people to come into power.
No you can't, your brain needs downtime. Stop trying to shame rest.
My Volvo S60 is getting 20 years in 3 month. Many premium cars from the 1990s are getting to the 30 year mark, which will mean they are getting a historic car badge. Most of them still work. Only some with failed sealings need replacements.
That and risk taking was muted because they were scared to take a big hit. Typical HBS MBA-itis not risking enough in R&D and new markets, too comfortable counting the money in the current market while the road heads towards a cliff.

Sears knew a major change was happening and did not become a top player in that change, it was inevitable.

Amazon will never get lazy like that, Amazon is a pure R&D machine.
Does anybody actually have sudo access on a system that they don't also have 100% control over?

I feel like linux as a true multi-user system, especially to the level of having sudo access, is such a minority use case that I would never actually trust it in production.
it’s not clear because your thinking in the windows / linux world where you need to run the uninstalled or remove the package respectively. if you think about it, if you want to delete something what do you do? so i disagree, it makes perfect sense.
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It reads like a Rand story if someone tried that economic philosophy in real life. Which, it seems, he did. To this effect.
Goroutines can share memory without copying.
Onsite Backup (Synology device) <---> PC (active copy) <---> Offsite Backup (Backblaze)

It's all automatic because if backups aren't automatic there is a lot of risk.
I've taken the route of a "build your own MBA", seeking out various industry certifications to validate my learning. I flirted with an MBA program for years, but none offered the flexibility I was seeking in terms of honing a skillset around what I'm going for in my career.
The main reason that even most bookworms don't read 200 books a year, is most of them need to spend time one some manner of work in order to live.
You clearly have no idea what is being taught in Top 20 MBA programs. Many MBA programs are graduating people that get both heavy technical training in their program (stats, data engineering, coding, etc) as well as learning how to properly manage individuals with technical skills.
Paywalled story, not free to read.
50,000 is one of the (several) generally accepted minimum lengths for a novel. That must be where the number came from, but agreed—even in my most voracious stack-of-books-a-week years, I wouldn’t hit 200 books a year. This was before social media existed.
Do you mean the loupe magnifier? I wouldn’t consider it an emoji.
I'll definitely check it out, then. Thanks for the pointer!
And even if you stretch it half-way and it was sort of deliberate but not intended to be as bad, you still should think "oh fuck" and stop, help, report (yourself) in that order.
All the Dev machines where I work have been 16GB for years, I wouldn't be surprised if we jumped to 32GB in the next hardware refresh.
IDEA: Can organizations like YC and other VCs fund such activities? Series would have a nicely printed version and a pdf version free to read online. All nicely typeset. Can start with a series on “Forgotten Sci-fi” classics, e.g. Tiptree’s stories, A Voyage to Arcturus, etc.

How much would such a thing cost?
I used the word "inertia" to refer to the various inertia-related things that are used in mechanics. For example, the mass tensor that appears in curvilinear coordinate systems. This class of inertia-related things are usually given a name involving the word mass, and they are not usually Lorentz invariant.
Scientists Discover Hidden Information in 140-Year-Old Physics Concept
In our family we call it the museum shuffle.

You need to get your legs swinging nicely to be efficient
I follow national (and international to some extent) trends as my employer has many rural customers. What happens in any given location isn't a trend.
Obviously the original poster is someone who thinks everything in their life should be free except for the "things" they themselves produce, which should be charged to people at a premium of course.
> How many drives can you fit into a laptop?

Why?

One more addition to other replies: ZFS needs access to disks for self-healing (bit-rot detection and repair). It means that in the past if we wanted encryption, same date needed to be encrypted twice (one for every mirror).

Now with encryption in ZFS, date is encrypted before creating redundancy. We can even do a scrub without encryption key.
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"where their skills were not producing anything"

If this is the case why do so many companies seek going public?
I'm not sure if mirroring typos in the linked article is the intention, but of course it should be 'probabilistic', not 'probabalistic', even though the linked article has it the latter way.
Thank you friend, this is exactly the kind of podcast that's missing from my list.
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Funny that UIUC's online iMBA on Coursera is exploding. I've read they went from >100 to >2500 students in 4 years. That could have some effect on the market?
...so he's claiming people conducting statistical analysis for IQ tests don't account for people dying or suffering traumatic brain injury?
The laws of physics can't be violated. The human definition of "the laws of physics" is what has been violated, and this will continue for as long as human's exist and evolve our understanding of reality.
In every land there’s the law and there’s the law’s law.
Newer standards like LTE are incredibly more bandwidth efficient. This means that any phone that's still using the old standards uses up the bandwith that multiple newer phones could use. As free bandwith is extremely rare, at least in urban areas, network operators are pushing towards new standards. This phenomenon is real. E.g. in Germany the provider Deutsche Telekom has put a clause into their TOS that allows them to turn off 3G from 2020 onward (idk about their US daughter company T-Mobile USA). Yes, this means you as a citizen have to buy a new phone that supports 5G/LTE. But it's driven mainly by customer demands for bandwidth, not by evil phone makers that conspire with network operators.
> just ignore the will of about half of the population in that very region

The half didn't give their opinion, they didn't ignore it, in fact they tried to do everything they could to get their position even though Spain did everything they could to not let anyone give it.
The elite programs have higher bars to entry so they generally are selecting people who seem to have potential (already smart, already personable, promising early career). Most of these people would end up being successful anyways, but the MBA from an elite program is seen as a way of accelerating that. A lot of the things you mention are people skills that a MBA isn't really going to change.
How we hit our $30k ARR milestone
Instead of raising StopIteration you could also just return from the function. You could also make it a bit shorter if you swap the if branches.

def f_iter(many, args):
while True:
m = f(many, args)
if not m:
return
yield m
It's also possible that older Tesla vehicles do not have modern flash memory.
Those hierarchical tags are actually automatically applied by PhotoStructure based on metadata your phone or camera stores. If you add keywords, like "first step" to a photo (by using the Windows file information dialog, for example), PhotoStructure would add "Keywords/first step" to that asset.

Most keywords I've seen in the wild are just a word or words, much like a hashtag, separated by comma or semicolon. There are hierarchical metadata fields, but they seem to be used only by professional media services, not consumer applications.
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I think there are even some tools to do this directly in GRUB, at least for btrfs. We can have automatically created list of available snapshots.
yep-- The economic ethics and models espoused by business schools focus on an economic system where companies are expected to maximise short-term gains regardless of consequences.

A focus on profit over everything else. It's a matter of law as well-- heads of companies are legally compelled to prioritize shareholder value.
Whether those things are wrong is a good question for the debating society.

What they are is illegal.
Do I get welfare (24%)? No
Do I use health (20%)? No
Do I earn pensions (13%)? No
Does UK give me public education (12%)? No
Did I need any public borrowing (6%)? No

And neither I intend on leveraging these services despite living in UK.

Therefore I can continue using "They", "The parasites", "Useless welfare recipients"
Different strokes for different folks I guess.

Personally I love KDE (install Neon, mostly leave it alone, as it os perfect for me).

Other people will be happy with KDE because they can customize it to their hearts content. You can even make KDE look and work like MacOS if you want.

Other people (notably a number here on HN) will immediately start commenting about how there are too many options in KDE and how the developers should rather fix some jarring alignment issues that people like me cannot see.

Don't worry too much about us KDE users. You've already made my day better just by trying to fix one of the things that made me give up Mac after three years of trying.
thanks. I guess it's usually felt like 'quick sleep' but that's my layman's view from the easy chair. :)
o.O that's an eager and broad interpretation.
That yellow flame should tell you all you need to know about how complete the combustion is. It's yellow because there isn't enough oxygen in the mix, which is generating little particles of soot, which are glowing yellow. Not enough oxygen also means carbon monoxide.
I still have my parents’ riding Craftsman mower from over 20 years ago and it runs like a top, so maybe at some point they made good mowers. It has an engine with a spin on oil filter like a car and I attribute the engine longevity to that. My Mom has been through like three riding Craftsman mowers since then and each one seems more cheap and crappy than the last. The latest one is like a playskool mower with the dumbing down of the controls and big colorful plastic levers.
We have two 03 vehicles that are going strong. The electronics are simple enough that I expect them to keep going unless there's ever water intrusion :) It's a Honda and a BMW for what it's worth.
Do you support CFC restrictions, and if so, when do you regard the evidence as being strong enough to have warranted those restrictions and how has it lead to people being pulled out of poverty and into the middle class?

The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador is but one of many examples which show that poor people don't need to become middle class before wanting to protect the environment. And it's the rich Western companies like Texaco/Chevron which caused the pollution they are protesting against.
not anymore on Chrome. They patched it.
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> I haven't encountered many from the best programs and I always wonder if they require some REAL work experience where they had real responsibility first / etc.

This was the traditional MBA path for a long time. Start out in a technical field (e.g. engineering), go back for an MBA, move to a management position. A lot of the value of the MBA comes from sharing previous experiences w/ your peers. Having students go straight from undergrad to MBA dilutes that value significantly and it doesn't really do the student taking that path any justice. They'll likely come out and hit the workforce more entitled than they normally would be.

A lot of things mentioned in this discussion deal with leadership issues. MBA programs understand this and focus more on it but leadership is a difficult thing to teach. There is still some hard skills gained in an MBA program, essentially being able to jump into a business in a consulting role and be able to function across multiple departments to understand the business.
Yeah, I think the Microsoft messaging would naturally lead you to that conclusion, though generally they avoid saying it explicitly. I think in a year WPF and WinForms will probably work great under .NET Core, but I wouldn't use either for real work right now. My recommendation would be to use .NET Framework for GUI work right now, but do it in such a way that the upgrade path is easy. The way to do that is to create the project under .NET Core, and then hand edit the project file to change the <TargetFramework> element from "netcoreapp3.0" to "net472". That will give you the new project file format and make it easy to upgrade when they finish getting the bugs out. The other main thing you should do is to create any libraries as .NET Standard 2.0 libraries, which work with both .NET Framework and .NET Core.
Does a class of app exist that can chunk set of selected books, texts or subjects into small, self-contained units and feed them to the user in a daily twitter-like feed?
Is there a document anywhere that gives a short description of the language and a reason for looking into it?

The official site is most unwelcoming to a casual reader.
The article is saying the opposite: that diverting the blame like this is a big problem and that we need accountability.

See the last few paragraphs.
I've been quite happy using Nancy for the past several years. At the time we made the switch, it wasn't possible to use WebApi or MVC in a self-hosted OWIN web server, and our application had lifecycle constraints that made trying to run it out of IIS impractical.

But I've come to really like the way Nancy has explicit API routes, compared to the implicit conventional style, or slapping attributes all over everything. You can avoid a lot of the magical action-at-a-distance middleware behavior that seems to be increasingly common as well.
There are still very large project going on in the world. Libya's irrigation project (35th year and still going); various rail projects; International Space Station. I'm not so pessimistic.
As long as we search for stuff on the internet with text terms (i.e. Google) you've got to enhance the name of the language. If only something boring as DLang, please please do this.

I feel bouts of sympathy every time I think of D, and I'm not even a hard core fan or anything.

No need to change the logo or anything. Just sneak in something actually searchable (dlang, or whatever) in footers and headers of documentation etc. Then just stick to it and Google will do the rest for you.
Oh yes, the 60s, when racism was still written into law, the Vietnam War was raging, and the world was on the brink of nuclear apocalypse but hey, at least we went to the moon.
> I'm still looking forward to using assignment expressions for testing my re.match() objects.

The fact that this is the go-to example that everybody is using in justifying the introduction of the assignment expression convinces me that the real problem lies with the re module's API.

(To be clear: I will also be using assignment expressions for this case, but I don't think assignment expressions are really in line with the overall design of Python.)
You clearly have no idea about what I know or don't know about MBA programs or my overall experience or career.

I'm not saying that the skills taught are not useful, what I'm saying is that the concept of a generalized "business administration" course that somehow qualifies you to run any and all businesses is basically flawed.

Management is a skill or craft, not a profession. Harvard's model of case studies is a useful skill training technique, but anecdata doesn't make a science.
On a forum so enmeshed in tech and startup culture as this one, yours is a particularly hot take.
Cons: no Sun and the salaries seem to be capped at CHF 120-140K. Has that old school European mindset that managers and MBAs should be paid more than individual contributors, engineers.
Nope, working in Norway, I can confirm that the office gets very empty very quickly after 16:00, and more than once have I been reminded not to stay all day when I was still at my desk around 17:00.
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China’s disputed South China Sea map enters pop culture thanks to US companies
raku is a type of pottery firing, also from Japan.
If I can emulate MacOS workspace shortcuts on Windows, I would use it a lot more.

Muscle memory is sometimes a curse.
that's actually really interesting, I never thought of that. do you know if any languages have something like that?
Nothing fancy; basically what ravenstine said. If it's interesting, and I want to hold onto it, I youtube-dl it. Eventually it makes its way onto a USB backup drive.
I built this list whilst researching ideas for my new project, then thought it’d be cool to share it.

I’d love to hear any other favourite articles you have on best practices in this area - you can submit via a pull request or just me know!
I came here to recommend the Baumgartner channel. Seeing how this has already been taken care of, have my upvote :)
The article concludes that it pays H-1B employees fairly, but the data shows that the median H-1B engineer at IBM makes below the median salary for Software Engineers in the US. Clearly if IBM can't find enough US talent, it's because they aren't willing to pay the market rate.

H-1B is supposed to be for highly skilled employees. You don't pay highly skilled employees less than average.
That's only true where and when both sides are able to safely speak and be heard. Hence why it needs the qualifier "on the internet".

In meatspace, and even on many parts of the internet, that just isn't true.

If a newspapers advocates for the devil, that's the only side people will hear.
They will get the hammer eventually. But I'm fine with how it has gone so far. Regulation goes in a cycle - someone finds a way to dominate a market with questionable behavior, then regulators crack down. Then it happens again and again and again. They have done some shitty things. But Google has also functioned as the 21st century Bell Labs, complete with the communications monopoly and everything.
This seems like a good point; (speculating) especially if an MBA is viewed asa means to earn more in a declining economy. I don't know much about the programs and the expected increase in salary upon completion.
I'm an American expat in Switzerland working as an independent software developer and startup founder. I can agree with a lot of the points listed in the article, but they apply universally to almost all jobs (not just to software developers).

I would raise a few points it doesn't mention:

- Negatively, it is much harder to find meetups close to you that apply to you. Unless you're based in Zürich (the tech hub of the region), expect any meetups to be irregular and if you don't go to the next one, it might be the last one.

- Positively, I work from home. I have four providers I could get 1Gbps symmetrical, unmetered, business-class FTTH for less than 100,- CHF / month. It's hard to go wrong with that.

- Positively, the outdoor culture in much of the country really helps you get out of your chair and outdoors. The natural beauty doesn't hurt. :-)

Happy to answer any more questions if you have them—or I'm more than happy to connect if you're also in Switzerland!
The main reason I don't read 200 books a year is because I read good books frequently, instead of wasting my attention on low quality books and challenging myself on the number of books I read.
Which is interesting because Sears was closer to Amazon than Walmart was for a time.

I’m starting to see Walmart delivery trucks everywhere now so they must be doing something right.
> Why bother going through Tencent?

It's a way of reporting the use of a VPN.
> It's a matter of law as well

That is simply not true. It's merely cargo culting the Friedman doctrine. It has no basis in corporate law, and never has.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_doctrine
reading 200 books isn't hard, reading 200 books on technical subjects, math, science, etc and actually understanding everything is really difficult (at least initially).
Sears used to be just like Amazon, one day Amazon will be just like Sears.
One can sense the frustration dripping from the thread. This feels like pretty aggressive communication ("frankly, I don't care", etc.)... it could've been a misunderstanding about what "removal from testing" means... In particular since the packages remain available in unstable, the argument raised about users paying the price isn't really valid.