skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sears used to be that, back in the day (not recently - say, maybe pre-2000). "Quality at a decent price" was their motto, and they did pretty well at it. You could by clothes, tools, appliances, and none of it would fall apart on you. They also had, perhaps not white-label brands, but their own brands. Craftsman tools were pretty solid.

There might be an opening for someone to do that again. There's a cost to going to 17 places for 17 things. Even if you're online shopping and getting free delivery on everything, there's still a cost in terms of time and aggravation. It might be worth something if some business solved that.

Unfortunately, I don't see anybody who would do so. Amazon would have to control quality of everything they sell (or start a premium brand that was actually premium). Sears has been irrelevant for a couple of decades, and soon will be history. Costco seems to me to have the best chance of pulling this off - their quality is reasonable-to-good on most things we've tried there, but there's a lot we haven't tried. Still, they seem to have the best handle on consistent quality out of any of the current contenders.
I must write in a completely unnatural way, then. My hand is always completely below the current line of text. Which hand is writing simply cannot affect whether my hand touches just-written ink.

Edit: Just wrote some test lines, forward and backward. My whole hand is multiple lines down in the notebook. Writing in a way so as to get my pen-hand on the same line I'm writing feels incredibly weird to me. I think it just goes to show that whatever you get used to feels natural.
That CPI seems low for the App Store, which is awesome for you. Did you do any Apple Search optimization or just took the suggested keywords in Basic Search Ads? I ask because I'm running some basic Search Ads with my own voice app right now.
Lister - the namesake of the (unrelated) Listerine.
The thing about store brands like No Name (Loblaw), Compliments (Sobeys), Great Value (Walmart) etc is that they get free access to shelf space, enjoy higher margins from the store and lower requirements for marketing by simply being the cheapest product available and competing exclusively on price. Brandless still needed to deal with those issues.
I read the parent comment as mostly positive. The average tenure of the s team sits at 16 years. That's a long time to be working in one place. So the negative press about working there is maybe a bit sensationalist
> Our policy for evolving the API over time is that new functionality can be added, while removing or changing existing functionality can only be done if the benefits exceed the (often significant) costs to users and only after giving clear deprecation warnings to those users for at least one year. In general, we encourage changes that improve clarity in the API of the library but strongly discourage breaking backward compatibility, given our position near the base of the scientific Python computing stack.

This is one of the nuggets out of it. I have been using Python with scipy and more extensively with it's sci-kit library since 2014. Started with it by solving discrete traveling sales man problem for solution of sitting arrangements and was astonished with its ease of use of matrix algebra with these libraries and got hooked to it. It helped me to do scientific computing and create a user friendly user interface on web to help end-user to just focus on siting arrangement and conference Organization. Can solve it with Matlab or GNU octave, but couldn’t have developed easily the whole system with user interface in them.

If Swift wanted to be used in scientific computing it needs to follow the similar policy of managing its scientific stack.

Julia is good for scientific computing, but it’s UI and web development libraries are isn’t that powerful. So will see how it develops.

I constantly see on HN criticism of Python and something rewritten in Rust as something revolutionary or ground breaking that it will change the whole world. Earlier this fad was with go language. Probably in time to come Rust will be used for some core library development which brings substantial benefits like scipy, not something rewritten as wrapper around C library with unsafe code which can be done with Python much better.
NRL (Naval Research Lab)
Yeah it would be great to see some numbers from anyone who might have them. I'd put money on SPAs being slower, inside the bell curve than, than the average traditional page load app.
Sure!

I wrote an article about front-end optimization here: https://blog.pagecheck.app/2020/01/22/5-optimizations-to-mak...

I'm building a front-end site monitoring tool here: https://pagecheck.app
I didn't mean that the necessary high level tools exist today. It may very well be that computerized formal proof systems are at the stage where programming was when only assembly existed. It was very tedious to express what you wanted. I think the analogy is quite close:in both cases you're trying to express an idea very precisely, for an uncompromisingly literal-minded computer.

I was formulating a vision with ergonomic tooling, helpful language constructs that haven't been invented yet, etc.
With former employees from Kinja and Altaba?
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Some members of Oakland PD, who were removed years ago, being bad does not mean that Oakland does not deserve the rule of law now.

You're part of the problem. I moved away from the Bay Area to get away from people like you.
My FAVORITE of all time is the Pentel Energel 0.7mm gel pen.

Super low friction, no blotching, high contrast readable ink.
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Do you mean to say the future should be constrained by the past?

I get the whole principal of least surprise, but not at the expense of progress.
And even that investment has been disputed - by Elon himself - as per the zip2 wiki page.
...Which then goes and excludes the demographic of people for whom "believable world" means "exciting and new".

As in, tell me something I don't know - I'll be able to believe [in] that much more effectively than a revamp of some old dead thing I've been staring at boredly for the past X amount of time.
And no demo?
I'm not sure he is comparing Case Fatality Rate with Influenza mortality rate. I thought 1-2% was a reasonable estimate of the % of people who catch coronavirus who'll die. The CFR seems higher.
The article itself discusses inferring Amazon's priorities from changes to their s-team, including doubling the number of AWS s-team members.

I'm not sure I'm allowed to disclose which events/meetings their s-team regularly attends. I will say that I did have several opportunities to interact with them directly in meetings, and indirectly via goals setting and annual planning exercises.

Peter Desantis is a long time AWS guy, and was present at many of those same meetings/exercises. Peter, and other s-team members, talk about what it means to be AWS. That they've chosen to make him an s-team leader says to me that they like the culture the s-team is cultivating, and want to continue to grow it.
Has anyone had success (or failure) in the real world with enforcing preconditions, postconditions and invariants? Has this caught bugs faster, reduced side effects and helped ensure overall correctness? Or has it lead to more overhead and longer development time without much to show for all the effort?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_by_contract

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_invariant
Honestly, they should embrace it. Change the Yap logo to the outline of the island. Turn an abysmal oversight into a piece of marketing lore.
5 second page load is fine. This endless tuning is a great analytical puzzle, but implementing a new feature trumps these complex micro-optimizations that the consumer less and less about, with mobile having already become the common case access (mobile access is already going to be slow from network anyway). It's rare that you get a complaint. Once it's loaded and you have cached as much as possible, you're fine for returning customers which matter more to appease.
This one just requires a lump of germanium and a pin or small wire.
A word of warning, I've frequently found Costco meats are far more expensive than at my local grocer, often on the order of 50-100% on sale items.

The design of the stores is also horrific, designed to make you maximize browsing time. Availability of products is piss poor too - one week you might find something you love, the next week you can't get it at all. I cancelled my membership after the first year because the main product I bought it for was no longer readily available.

Don't waste your money. Check your local flyers and cancel the expensive yearly memebership, it's just another way for big businesses to scam you.
I'm probably looking in the wrong place but this was the only statement I could find on California's annual homeless budget in the linked article... "California's homeless and housing crises are linked, and the budget will spend $2.4 billion addressing those concerns."

This is roughly 1% of the annual operating budget.

Not much as $60k/person would cover just 40,000 people. Homeless advocacy/Non-profits would take a large percentage of this for administration so the per person dollar spend is far lower.
Every time I walk into my local Costco I whisper to myself "Welcome to Costco, I love you."
Why do they require /nix to be writable? It seems like the cache path should be user configurable.

This reminds me of GOROOT/GOPATH and other complexities that arise when systems care too much about paths.
Did I come off as hating Amazon? I'm thankful for my time there. I learned buckets. I specifically called out several things about Amazon I really liked.

I'm at a different place in my life and the things I commented on are fair criticisms. (Critiquing something is not the same as hating something. I have plenty of media I critique that I also enjoy.)
Glad to hear we weren't the last of the library kids
I have no issues with Fortran. But Dimension doesn't translate easily to C arrays, or other languages that don't have matrix support.
I listened to the Joe Rogan episode on victorian medicine and it made a weird sort of sense: Why wash your hands after being in the morgue if you were just going to get them dirty again with surgery?

EDIT: Joe Rogan Episode #1272 - Lindsey Fitzharris
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Your argument and examples make logical sense to me, but I'm deeply skeptical of the practical effects.

I grew up in a religious conservative family, so I'm steeped in the conservative tradition that government welfare programs displace the social welfare functions of church and family. It's common for robotic conservatives (obviously not talking about you now) to take this straight into New World Order conspiracy land, where liberals are actively trying to destroy the church and family so they can have more power. Or something. This comes up over and over again in my circles.

On the one hand, I see the logic in the non-conspiratorial flavor of that theory, and I think your examples are plausible. However I've never seen evidence that it actually happens to any significant degree.

It seems like every conservative politician and pundit in America is required to publicly pine for the good old days when families and churches kept poor people fed, clothed, sheltered and healthied-up. But they won't tell us when or where these good old days existed. I'm unaware of any time in modern history when church/family has provided the measure of social welfare and insurance that we now expect from the state. Not even close.

In the present day, I think the scale of the government's welfare and insurance functions is hopelessly beyond the capabilities of religious organizations. A 2004 book published by the Brookings Institute, Sacred Places, Civic Purposes, contains a well-put quote by John DiIulio, who briefly advised the GW Bush admin on this issue:

> But, make no mistake: while faith-based organizations can supplement and strengthen public social service programs, they can by no means substitute for government support. To dramatize the point, just consider that even if all 353,000 religious congregations in America doubled their annual budgets and devoted them entirely to the cause and even if the cost of government social welfare programs was magically cut by one-fifth, the congregations would barely cover a year’s worth of Washington’s spending on those programs and never even come close to covering total program costs.

EDIT:

I neglected your main point:

> liberals are insensitive to the fact that safety net social programs may displace support provided by charities and family.

I think that's true. I'd actually say most partisan liberals are reflexively hostile to the idea.
I think it's important to state with almost certainty the first chicken died without having baby chickens (or laying a chicken egg)

Theirs a fair chance it also just dies without breeding.

I'm not sure I see this discussed much?

It's not a clear way down, that's not how evolution works.
That's a pretty good quote.

I'm always amazed by how many places cut corners on employee benefits and pay and then spend endless effort dealing with turnover and the results of poor employees.
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I'm looking for new opportunities as work for my current clients is winding down. I have broad technical experience, pride in my work quality as a programmer, and willingness to fill needed positions in a productive and efficient team.
You don’t typically include the entire toolchain in a container with docker because of the size. You also want to construct things a bit carefully so you get proper build caching, but it’s doable.

Here is an example of this pattern with Go:

https://github.com/pusher/oauth2_proxy/blob/master/Dockerfil...
plumbing and sewers increased life expectancy more than any other improvement.

After that maybe the steam engine, electric generator, light bulb
I'd also highly recommend reading at least the first two parts of the Nix author's PhD thesis: https://grosskurth.ca/bib/2006/dolstra-thesis.pdf

It really clearly explores the problem space Nix dives into. I learnt a lot about why Nix needs to exist.
Agreed. And great link. The “your” seals it.
I find them to be comparable if not slightly better than other grocery store non-sale prices. Those places have good weekly deals, but their everyday prices are meh, and why visit multiple stores when you can get it all done at once?
Did they take this down? It just goes to my Facebook home page
DOT notation is simple, and works great for generating diagrams.
Equipment varies. Be sure to get a slot down the middle. Often there is a hidden slot, built into the foam but covered by stretchy fabric. Here is one without the fabric:

https://www.unicycle.com/kris-holm-fusion-one-saddle/
They are using a Docker multi-stage build in the very Dockerfile they showed..
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I think I still feel mostly positive about working at AWS. I'm glad I did it for six years, but I'm in a different place in my life. I value different things now. I'm not the young, work driven person I used to be. (Or at least not as much.)

Edit: That said, I don't think the negative media is sensationalist. I would absolutely believe that some people cried at their (door) desks. I would believe that people were verbally or emotionally abusive. Amazon operates in little pods, and if there's a bad leader organizing a set of pods, they can really turn the culture there toxic. I was lucky to have a fantastic set of leaders (shout outs to Builder Tools) who really supported their people. I've heard some first person accounts of orgs that were... not out of line with media accounts.
You do now that you have Amazon on your resume.
You frighten me a bit here. I looked at the article and have the ability to build a web site in a minimum locked env is great. Just try to taste it and it seemed not as he said. Wonder now.
I got the figure from his biography. Regardless, given the shoestring conditions the company operated on, it could hardly have been a lot of money.
The Palm Pilot was pretty brilliant. It was so cheap! And as a result I imagine it got a lot of people used to the idea of being able to do "mobile computing", and what kind of activities would work well in the form factor.

I can still remember the sound of my m100s clicks.
In NOKIA's case, they couldn't ship e.g. NOKIA Maps (now HERE) as default navigation, but instead use Google Maps; that would make their navigation investment pointless.
The magic of libraries was discovering a new section of the dewey decimal system, figuring out that other books you liked might be next to the book you looked up in the card catalog, and escaping to worlds you could never see if not for your imagination and the printed word. Now you just google it, find pictures, read everything about it on the wikis, look at a live cam or webcam of the place, use google earth to wander around, read about all the negative things about the hero you just discovered etc. It's not that the libraries aren't there - it's that the lack of other things made them magical.
For me I find the average quality of stuff they sell at Costco is higher than other places. A nice warm weather resistant jacket was $35 this winter, I would have gotten something similar for $80 at a mall. The food is all good. I can pick something randomly I haven't tried before and I know it will be quality food. Compare this something like Walmart or Amazon where trying something new is like russian roulette.
Right, but how does that relate to OP?
Skorch – A scikit-learn compatible neural network library that wraps PyTorch
Isn't Scipy on 1.4.1?
Will share a demo in about a week! Sorry
I get the average person and majority in general won’t do this. Just wondering. if you don’t give the app any permissions. And only open it once or twice the entire time. Does it have any real effect on your privacy?
Can't you just throw it in a container to explore and learn the ropes before pivoting your entire host?
Where did you get 400+ deaths per day in NYC? That sounds really high; I bet it’s well under half that.

Here’s all I could find with cursory search: https://hypertextbook.com/facts/2005/TriciaMui.shtml
The people I knew that worked there(in IT) said it was an absolute nightmare with low pay and poor management.

That said, they aren't a tech company so...
Ah… You're right. My mistake.
The one time I met an Amazon games studio employee my response was, “Amazon has a games studio?”

He said it was a common response.
In Prophets of Science Fiction [1], the TV Series about SF authors, they portrayed Jules Verne as disillusioned and depressed in his later years. They said he burned all his correspondence and in despair wrote his last work, Paris in the Twentieth Century [2], a somewhat dystopian novel in which art is no longer valued.

It is such a contrast to his other novels I have to wonder how accurate this portrayal is, whether it was greatly exaggerated in some way. Can anyone comment on Verne's latter days?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophets_of_Science_Fiction
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_in_the_Twentieth_Century
There was a posts week or two ago from a person running a legit Tor service that was analyzing all of the attacks he received.

He said something seemed to be dos'ing the guard nodes, causing his service to automatically choose a new guard, in an attempt to get his service to connect to a guard node controlled by the adversary. He said in one case, they found his server's actual IP address and dos'd it.

Could that be what happened?
16" Pro has a physical ESC key. keyboard still sucks just as bad.
Aren’t a lot of “native” apps of web apps mostly wrappers? In the case, you can silo off the web app yourself into its own wrapper to firewall it?
What's kind of fascinating is that sport motorcycles have all reached a similar design too, except they were all influenced by a racing rule that said the fairings couldn't extend forward of the front axle. Before that, motorcyles were tending towards football-shaped.
What is a Roku channel? Is it like an app on your phone?
That only works if you actually empty the dishwasher. Sometimes the dishwasher turns into the cupboard, and it only gets emptied the rest of the way when the sink is full.
I'll definitely emphasize the "if" in "if Spotify can pay them more" - I don't know what share of podcasts, if any, could be monetized more effectively through a paid subscription platform like Spotify than through ads. ATP is about the last podcast I'd expect to be in that boat because their subscribers are such high-value advertising targets, so I don't think they're representative.
I thought the lack of capitalization made the article seem more down to earth and cozy- Kinda like if a friend sent me a long text. Don’t let the grammar nazis & pedantic condescension on HN deter you. I like the design.
I knew it wasn’t for me right away.

I’ve never had to search so hard to change the link negotiate settings on a nic before.

Maybe it comes more natural over time, but I’d be concerned about not remembering “the voodoo” to make things work when I came back from vacation.
This question echos fifteen years ago. Swap "iOS" for "Flash." People might have said, "Adobe isn't going out of business any time soon." And those people would have been right. Web development on the other hand is as much "a thing" today as it was back then.

Can you make money as an iOS developer? Sure. But the unit economics are not great. iOS apps are usually free. Paid apps usually $0.99. $1.99 is an expensive app. That's retail before Apple takes its cut. On the consulting/contractor/freelancer side, it's probably harder to find iOS clients than web clients. iOS is after the gold rush. Any stable company with deep pockets that wants an iOS app probably already has one.
Spoon - oatmeal. I do not usually eat lunch at the office.

Fork is second. Usually when someone brings something in.
Right? I look at Seattle and think "There should totally be a thriving tech coop scene here".

But I think it's because of risk -- leaving a FAANG to found a tech coop is a risk. Why give up $400k/year for a moonshot?
> If your work machine is the same as your personal use machine, those lines can get awfully hazy. Not good for mental wellbeing in the long run.

I find this to be true even with my phone! I have decided to get a cheap used Motorola smartphone to put slack + email + PagerDuty on and leave it in the desk unless I am oncall.
Jump straight to the wonderful images https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/sets/
you just described redux or mobx (aka the article)
Plus..and this is true in Hawaii but not positive about other libraries - when I was a kid there weren't homeless people spending all day sleeping in the library and occupying all the available seats. The main people in the libraries around us are homeless using the internet, homeless using the air conditioning, and homeless using the bathrooms. I'm not going to send my kid to hang out in the library for hours without supervision.
5 second page load is not fine. Having the page load in 5 seconds is an annoying experience that causes you to lose users -- Amazon lost 1% revenue for every 100ms in page load time: https://www.gigaspaces.com/blog/amazon-found-every-100ms-of-....