skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember leaving a CVS at one time. Seeing all the posters and health products. Then seeing an employee unlock the case for cigarettes. Really felt like a mixed message.

When I first heard the news I worried it would kill CVS. Tobacco companies at the time had famous tech company margins. It would really hurt them to do so. Still do it seems: Phillips Morris operating margin is 38%.

I am really glad it worked out for them. I hate it when other people can smoke because I can smell it downwind. I can smell it on other people. I could barely smell it on one guy who said he washed his hands and arms in the bathroom sink afterwards to avoid others smelling it.
I like to look at things from Buddhist point if view. Calfile "buys" you the saved 50 bucks (3 hours of work for most people?) x the number if people use it, especially if you understand the implications and your intent is clear. Of course, a practical Buddhist never "spends" the earned opportunities, but reinvests them to get even more opportunities, until the impact is measured in trillions of years. But that's philosophy. On the practical side, if I were you, I'd do two things: (1) open source this on behalf of the gov - it's important to get the "official" status; (2) advertise this over official channels: send them a green letter from ca.gov/irs that say there is such a tool. The software doesn't need to be perfect: the website that manages toll fees in my state is in stone age, yet it's official and it's better to have this site than not.
Fleecing ignorant people is not harmless.

I'd presume a substantial correlation between ignorance and poverty, the last thing these people need is wasted money on ineffective treatment.
Expanding my mind, once more, with functional programming
It’s easy to put a nominal value on Amazon Prime Video. Amazon sells it separately for $6.99 a month. Whether it’s worth that is an exercise for the reader.
Parsec: New Platform-Agnostic API for Secure Systems
I’m a mammal, Greg. Can you milk me?
Seems like being able to not see the holes in your own ideas, believing your own ideas are infallible i.e. narcissism as mentioned below, are very valuable traits in a founder, at least in certain phases. To this day, I still don't get why WeWork is a thing, but it just shows me that the whole system can be hacked given enough levels of self-delusion. And often times not for the better. I mean, people mentioned in religious writings are just like us, all the same, except their headspace is somewhere far different than the average man, and their responses to external stimuli end up being completely different or uninfluenced. A bit of reality distortion field, if you will. There is certainly a phase in the beginning of founding a company where few people will believe in your idea except yourself. And sometimes maybe those beliefs need to be a bit irrational as a defense until they gain traction in reality.

Projecting a little bit here, but, I personally am the opposite, always seeing holes in everything about what I think, what I know, shooting myself down all too quickly, such that a lot of my interactions with other people seem to end up with them sympathizing for my lack of confidence but glad to see me being honest. Sometimes, I'd wish to just be a bit more of the opposite.
The original course videos are on youtube too! I found them a bit easier to watch than reading the book:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J_xL4IGhJA&list=PLE18841CAB...
It’s estimated that 62% of households in the US have Prime subscriptions.

https://www.geekwire.com/2019/new-survey-estimates-amazon-pr...
This is where meaningful reviews/awards would be required.

There is too much dreck to wade through to find that genre-bending gem.
If you've ever tried to measure cycle-accurate timings for algorithms, you might've noticed that even relatively simple and short instruction streams have variance.

Whether tsc clock and timer clock are linked or not is completely irrelevant, since the timer clock is only used to 1) credit entropy 2) possibly introduce additional jitter. The value of TSC when the timer interrupt runs is not used as entropy at all so even if that were 100% predictable, it doesn't matter.

It only matters that you do have jitter (between calls to schedule() and random_get_entropy()), and I have a hard time imagining a modern system with a high-res TSC where calling schedule() with active timers in a loop (with branches) would not have any jitter at all. You probably have way more entropy than one bit per jiffy; I think the counter is very conservative.

Notice that while entropy is credited only once per tick, actual TSC values are mixed into the entropy pool on every iteration of the loop that calls schedule().
TIL I suck at blackjack
> They don't all need to go in one spot. You can spread them around

Depends on how quickly you want to die when someone hits your car.
It does not assume anything except algebra (and I think some minor calculus concepts are mentioned in passing, as using higher-order functions to estimate derivatives or some such, but not at all required).

However, it is designed to be used in an introductory university course led by experienced instructors. Without support, even a highly motivated high school group would have a hard time with the material and pace. So I would say it all depends on the high schoolers, and especially on the support available.
It's a bit like pointer semantics and pass-by-reference semantics. There's a good reason we don't pass everything by value. And there's cause for concern about invalid dereferencing. Truth is, our mental models are full of unknowns.
On the other hand, I loved The Murderbot Diaries from Tor.
Great to see people putting effort into making Clojure(Script) more accessible! As much as I like the language and the community, it historically wasn't a very beginner friendly place in my opinion. Not that people weren't friendly towards beginners but just a lack of resources targeted at beginners.
Yes. That's a pretty big cloud of processes!

Many desires exist within us. Desires motivate us to act. Our will is the harmonization of those many desires into intended actions.

The individual self is an illusion. We are the confluence of infinite influence. There is no single I. Weird but true. Identity and personhood is a useful social construct, but it doesn't make any sense when considered.
CVS (and others) have sold homeopathic asthma rescue inhalers for quite a while. They appeared on the shelves immediately after Primatine Mist became unavailable. This is infuriating because asthma rescue inhalers are one of those "do not fuck with" things and a chain of multiple morons thought it would be okay to sell aerosolized water in place of actual medication.

I get a little wound up on a number of topics, but this is one where, if I had the opportunity, I'd gleefully kick square in the goolies every single person involved in putting that product on the shelf. And I'd buy a pair of steel-toed boots first.
Yes it was discouraged previously. It became an implementation detail in 3.6 but is wasn't guaranteed. But now it is guaranteed in version 3.7:

> Changed in version 3.7: Dictionary order is guaranteed to be insertion order. This behavior was an implementation detail of CPython from 3.6. [0]

[0] https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/stdtypes.html#typesmappi...
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The HIV scare was strongest by the time the older millennials were born. I am not sure that it is on the top of anyone's mind right now.

Since I entered the dating market I have observed that women prefer men being taller, at least comparable smartness and earning a bit more than them. The couples around for which this isn't true are probably < 10% of all.
No Overview Available: A Survey of Apple Developer Documentation
Yet another post on HN about a company that needs to be broken up because they are big in some made up market. Now are we going to define a monopoly as the “Pop Culture” market.

Would you also like the government to “build a market” so that everyone can have all the software they want and have the government decide what a fair amount for software is?
Because it’s not. It tries to make biological truth out of an analogy.
Options are coming for niche low volume high margin conversions. These kits will probably cost as much as a new economy car. There is no way that gas to electric conversion will be available at commodity-like prices needed to make it an economical choice.
I totally agree. It's like theses quiz used by Cambridge Analytica to know who celebrity are you.

Why not use a more privacy friendy system? Like just use your email or generate a uniq link to share with your friends.
I agree with this analysis. Netflix-created content is hit-or-miss, and generally miss IMO. I honestly keep the subscription alive today for the same reason I started it in the first place, all those years ago - to have on-demand access to old Star Trek TV shows (TNG-ENT). If they drop those shows, I'll drop them.
> Landfills are safe and clean and plentiful.

I’m sure they can be. Here in New Zealand we made loads in river estuaries, on rivers and coasts. They break in disastrous ways. We are wrecking the place.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/environment/114750318/erosion-continue...
Most of my career has been with big banks, i would say BW ships software the same as they do.

SCRUM meetings, regular releases, change management.

The big difference is that people in BW work more as a collective and there is a lot less politics. This is what allows them to "get things done".

"Blustering" doesnt work well, you will get called out for it pretty quickly.
Disney controls 100% of Hulu now and can own the entire stake by 2024 when their deal with Comcast comes up for decision.

Disney is already doing a bundle for ESPN+, Hulu, Disney+. The Hulu is the lower priced ad one, but still, they’re already mostly there with an ultimate streaming bundle.
What if we tried more power?

https://what-if.xkcd.com/13/
Adafruit IO has a very customer-friendly model where you own your data and the client libraries are open source. https://io.adafruit.com/ Not all of the server features are open source, but there is an API-compatible version here that should let you self-host if you want. https://github.com/adafruit/adafruit-io-node
I probably would. I'm the kind who looks at the probabilities. I imagine by the time they've fixed this the plane will be pretty safe.

Just ripping out the MCAS and telling the pilots to push the nose down manually at high angles of attack would probably do it for me.
Bitcoin is an outlier. Once in a century kind of thing in that it was available in plain sight to the masses then boomed.

Trying to find the next bitcoin like thing will probably be frustrating.

You are looking for things that other people laugh at or dismiss but in your mind will win.

Something like Elm programming language (or its paradigm at least) But you don’t get rich but getting Elm early like Bitcoin :)
It already does work that way. There are countless zwave and zigbee products out there from companies who don't want data centers. And there are lots others that are Alexa compatible.
That doesn't jive with the submitted article in the Washington Post:

"Research has consistently shown that ACT and SAT scores are strongly linked to family income, mother’s education level and race. The College Board and ACT Inc., which owns the ACT, say their tests are predictive of college success, but (as with many education issues) there is also research showing otherwise."

There are studies that have shown rigor of high school course work is the strongest predictor of college success:
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Study-Says-Rigor-of/8973

I think we can all agree that allowing two private companies to be the gate keepers of higher education is a terrible idea.
Soda pop was often sold in drug stores from soda fountains. The drink started off as medicine it was put in a form that was pleasant to consume sweet carbonated water.

A YouTube channel Loft Pursuits has a video part of which explains soda pop. The video is about the NY Egg Cream but it starts off with the history of carbonated water and soda pop.

In New York city in the early 1800s St. Patrick's cathedral was being constructed. Someone figured out the marble dust from the construction when mixed with acid created a cheap supply of carbon dioxide. Carbonated water was rare and expensive back then so this was a great opportunity. Candy stores in the area made syrups and sold it by mixing it was the carbonated water.

https://youtu.be/YMGiOumwljY?t=209
I worked at a CVS in high school, and tobacco products were definitely a huge percentage (30%-ish) of transactions back then. But at the time, my CVS was also the only easily accessible destination for people in town without cars to buy those products. And it was a college town too, so there were plenty of those folks.

I do think that getting rid of tobacco products helps the brand image though. It always took longer to get customers through a line when you had to find their particular brand out of 30. It's also true that many of the customers buying tobacco were noticeably lower-class, so I could imagine this change making middle class and higher people more into CVS (sort of like the Target vs Walmart divide).
Yes, what you think you know about the "radical honesty" culture is absolutly true. Prior to printing his book, it was mandatory reading for ALL BW employees. At some point Ray decided to release the principles to the public, but they had been available for employees long before that.

I miss the culture, and that is the honest truth. While it has some difficulties at times, it is far ahead of anywhere else i have worked (4 major banks). It clearly is not for everyone, but if you are the type who likes transparency, it is for you.

Software/tech stack - They are mostly a windows shop... not sure that answers your question, but i dont want to get into it in detail.
It covers unification in a first term class, plus functional, OO, and machine models of computation. I’ve used SICP as a student, and comparing it to HtDP, CTM, or some ad box stuff as an instructor—there’s no contest. Each of the others is excellent in its own way; none is as ambitious in its intent nor goes so far in satisfying it.
"BBCM" is present in the target system dropdown for project settings; don't know how much actual support is there, though.
> I don't think anyone is subconsciously imagining

I think it's trivial to argue that there's a lot of occasions where someone mislaid frustration with, for example, a whole nation (or religion or ethnicity, etc. etc.), because of an act that was perpetrated by a subset of that group. So the idea that synecdoches are problematic can't be discarded so easily.

I liked your point about figurative speech in dystopian fiction. China's banned Winnie the Pooh recently (synecdoche!), because there was a meme going around comparing Winnie the Pooh with Xi Jinping; so you don't even need to turn to dystopian fiction for dystopian examples of this. However, these anecdotes, in a way, also support the point that language precision and figurative language are potent vehicles for discourse, similarly to how humor can be used to sneak in "offensive" speech (as much as I dislike the term), shrugging off criticism with "it's just a joke".
It's not how much money the patent inventor makes, but how much is creditable, in total, to the invention.

Figuring out how to allocate that amongst contributing inventions is ... an "interesting" problem.

As examples, take what Vaclav Smil notes as the inventions powering the world: Otto cycle, Diesel, and Turbine engines. Of the three inventors, Diesel died a suicide and near if not bankrupt (or at least insolvent), Parsons (turbine) did well, Otto AFAIU made workman's or salaryman's wages, but nothing terribly impressive.

The typewriter (you're likely using something inspired at least in part by it), Turing machine, Unix, and synthetic insulin are all inventions which have returned vastly more in net social benefit than their inventors ever saw, for various reasons.

The elevator made possible an entire class of structures. Safety brakes on railroad carriages likewise, as did Bessemer and subsequent steel (wrought-iron rail was used previously, but would split easily).

The net social return of modern medicine is, by many accounts, singularly unimpressive. Pharmceuticals in particular may return large revenues and profits, but deliver little by way of additional lifespan, reduced mortality, or more complex measures such as QALYs (quality-adjusted life-years). See Robert J. Gordon's The Rise and Fall of American Growth, which discusses this at length, or the work of Victor Fuchs, health economist.

Some devices (or substances, availed via processes) are absolutely essential to various modern activities. Others could be fairly readily substituted at relatively low additional cost. The models for accounting for this appear ... poor at best.
It requires significant math not available to most high schoolers or indeed most adults. Using it with adults with non-CS degrees, we ran into big problems with the symbolic algebra system that motivates the early chapters.
Laptops hidden in cars stolen due to always-on bluetooth
The time it wastes for consumers to deal with fraud (even if they get the money back) should be taken into account too.
Cutesie cartoons don't make it easier.
Those types of devices exist... they are just not very popular because not many people can or want to run those cloud services.
How can you have access to all content while keeping it affordable? Cable was “everything” but it wasn’t affordable. Movie and TV Content is expensive to produce, can’t have it all for $10/month.
Fair enough. But if plastic can be recycled more efficiently the price should go up on used plastic, so in theory some people won't just walk past it on the ground.

I admit that is a lot of supposition and pie-in-the-sky thinking though.
Anthropic Principle
The smell is only part of the problem for nom-smokers, if you spend any significant time around a person smokibg your clothes will get the smell of cigarettes embedded.
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It looks so much better than my Google books edition on Android (Moto g6).
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Disney is hit driven in that all their things are mostly either for entire families or four quadrant sort of mainstream hit-style media. Which is most of their historical content library.

Netflix actually has a lot of quality original shows. All modern as they are all from this decade.

People want hits though, so that isn’t helping Netflix enough.
That's probably true due to the size of his megaphone. Even if all his advice was great, his recommending a stock could quickly drive the price up to where it wasn't great anymore.
The Wikipedia article discusses the extensive similarities between the story and Aldus Huxley's Brave New World, another dystopian novel. Huxley claims not to have been familiar with We when he conceived of BNW.

Orwell himself made the claim that Huxley must've known of We, so yes, Orwell certainly knew the work. From TFA:

Orwell began Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) some eight months after he read We in a French translation and wrote a review of it.[28] Orwell is reported as "saying that he was taking it as the model for his next novel".
Yes. 61A at Berkeley was nominally based on SICP. Berkeley has since abandoned the book and the class is now taught in Python. MIT 6.01 has abandoned the book as well and recreated the course using Python as well. Scheme was wonderfully elegant but then we never used it again which was annoying. If the choice is between Scheme knowing I'd never use it again and Python then I'd take Python.

We never had any readings from SICP. It sat on the shelf like an unread bible. I went back to it much later but I didn't like its conception of computer science. I compare it directly to Knuth's Fundamental Algorithms and it just didn't inspire me at all whereas FA did. I'll grant that I can't imagine a freshman course using FA, mostly because assembly language is very much de-emphasized.

However, I'll second someone else's comment about the beauty of the typesetting of this edition. And I really liked Scheme. But neither 61A nor SICP are touchstones for me.
I think black market purchases fall pretty clearly under #2 above.
I imagine a whole ecosystem around the conversion process, with modular components designed to replace the functions not directly provided by the engine.

However airbags and similar systems may be too risky litigation-wise.
I think you are discovering that women, on average, have different expectations from a sexual relationship than men. In fact, it is not weird at all to find that men are much more interested in one night stands than women. Even women who are interested in casual sex tend to want their partner to be at least open to the idea of entering into a relationship. If anything in your bio hints that you are only interested in sex, you will pare your respondent pool down to exactly the type of women you discovered to be receptive: adventurous women interested in threesomes and those who want the safety of having a trusted third party along with their new bit of strange.
I’ve been using a couple of Logitech Circle 2 and have been pretty happy with them. The software comes with data storage plans and integrates with all the major home ecosystems (Amazon, Apple, Google).
Motor is the easy cheap part. Batteries is where its at.

> it’s essentially the same drivetrain used in their EV-converted classic Mini, so if it fits under a Mini’s hood, it should fit almost anywhere.

Author doesnt realize you can fit Honda B16B in the classic Mini https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ8RLM8eWRU&list=PLp0KnUFYB-...
This is an important issue.

I record all my guests in my home. But using my own system. I don't upload it anywhere insecurely or share it with any outsiders because that would be crazy.

Smart folks understand about these various platforms and know to not discuss sensitive issues anywhere within a quarter mile of technology, or with anyone carrying a phone or other device. It's just common sense.
Is a paywall work around available?
I'm about done with these blog posts that have the structure of

[intro]
[summary]
[long discursion about fundamental concepts or personal story]

There are relatives of this, from recipe blogs (the originators), to programming ("OK, before I tell you how to install Python, let me tell you why Python exists"), to, well, I guess pretty much everything. The transformation of howtos into whatis'es is related to the spammer's mentality that "if someone gets something from it, it's worth it."

It's aggravating, I wish there was a "Skip Intro" button like Netflix has for TV series.
They are popular for tax reasons - years ago I had a mate who was a sales rep for calor gas and their company cars had gas conversions.
Well, people are already thinking about 6G, so we may have to hold off for 7G.
Hopefully Netflix survives. They’ve created so many quality original shows or continued them in the past 5+ years. It’s nice to have that as a difference to the other major companies. From traditional media, HBO, FX, and AMC don’t make that many shows. Though their general quality is there with Netflix (Netflix having more miss and niche things since it has so much more new original content).
Entertainment is not really pop culture and is diverse enough these days, thanks to the internet, that you can easily not find a single tv show or a movie to talk about with someone.
Game halts on iPhone 6 safari in food eat.