skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As others mention, I also have the trust that I can pick anything and it will have decent quality, even on certain items that are cheaper on different stores, it's simpler to get them at costco because I know I can return them very easily if I need to (even without purchase ticket or without box).

Besides that, I like what I have heard from employees, they are very happy, the salary is far higher for the same role than on different stores, and I have heard that jobs are costco are very useful for students because they help you to find an schedule that doesn't conflict with your school.

While people claim that costco has cheaper prices that other stores, that's not 100% true on Mexico, I can get several items for a smaller price (most of them aren't that cheaper) but costco gives me confidence on the details I posted above.

I would love to see more stores following its good practices.
Another example: https://dev.to/
For me, happiness at work consists of three things:

1) The people I work for and with are kind and respectful

2) I am able to do the job well (and don't mind doing it)

3) It pays enough for me to live without struggling financially

Basically, any job that meets the above 3 is one I'll try to keep as long as possible. Not very exciting, but all I ask for from my professional life.
It's a dark pattern. You can get around it, but it's not easy for normal people to do.
Maybe filter out repeats of anything with an exit code other than 0 or 130, but still log the command itself? Sometimes I will run a command a few times since I know we've either hit an API limit, or I'm testing incremental changes.
Linux will always have unstable drivers (with a few exceptions where companies throw money at it) until linux kernel developers acknowledge that a stable driver ABI results in stable drivers.
Understanding Amazon’s income tax bill
The quality of courses varies wildly. Some courses were created by profs that have since moved on and are run by TAs who don't care. Those also happen to be the easier courses.

Some classes are very poorly run. However, you can avoid those courses. There are reviews of all courses on https://omscentral.com/courses

I took Machine Learning for Trading (basically intro to ML) and enjoyed it tremendously even though the prof has since moved on.

I also took High perf Computer Architecture - basically graduate computer architecture - and enjoyed it immensely even though the professor was not active. We had a great TA, exams were insanely hard but gr8 test of knowledge, and I learned a ton from classmates. One classmate was an actual hardware engineer on PowerPC. I learned so much from him.

Most classes have active Slack channels w/ active discussions at all hours. Those channels alone are worth joining the OMSCS IMO.
> To receive rewards from Redneck Rewards personal checking account, participants must: Make 10 Redneck Bank VISA debit card transactions per monthly statement cycle. Please refer to #9 below.

Heh...that's quite a bit, considering the opportunity cost of each debit swipe is 2% cash back from credit.
I hope they run Red Hat on the back end.

For those who never installed Red Hat in the late '90s and so probably have no idea what I'm talking about, see this [1].

[1] https://imgur.com/gallery/yX5uw
> For example, say your app has a dark mode. All your rendered components must know what theme is on, so they can render the UI in the right color.

Wait, what? Hell no. This is literally the core use case for CSS classes. And while there are cases where CSS classes can cause problems, this isn't one of them. This is a case where CSS classes shine.

This is like an article on how to use fire to solve problems, and instead of choosing an example like staying warm or cooking food, the author leads with an example like disposing of tires by burning them in the rainforest. It's just an unambiguously bad idea.

There were a bunch of places where I wasn't familiar with the tools he's using and am curious, but I'm certainly suspicious of anything he suggests after the "use global state to reinvent CSS classes via JS" suggestion.
Looks super cool. Does it remove the need for manual gradient checkpointing?

Also curious if there are expected to be memory / speed improvements if you're using it on a single GPU or if most gains come from improved parallelism across devices.
Yep that's the gist. I've also seen some small events using the computer background as the static logo; they can prepare the next deck while freezing the logo up on he screen.
I'm not sure why students etc. need specifically .com domains.
Kind of a user interface flavor of the Memphis Milano style that was popular in the 80s (including with 80s Apple).
Inflation is 2.3%.
You can 100% return food. I've returned fruit before that was spoiled and some Kirkland brand k-cups which were the worst thing I've ever bought from there.
Not sure I understand your question, but NixOS does have option to test things "nixos-rebuild test" (to test without saving it permanently, so reboot should restore it) or "nixos-rebuild build-vm" (which builds a vm image with the config)
I think it's pretty clear that many people do care about it very much. Imposing travel restrictions, cancelling flights to major trading partners, etc, has a very significant cost and isn't taken lightly. I've heard many people say things along the lines of "it's just the economy, our health is more important" lately, but peoples' livelihoods literally depend on the economy.

Say for example that your family operates a tiny tourism-related business in South East Asia. A prolonged shutdown of travel between China and your country could literally drive you into poverty, given how dependent some countries in the region have become on inbound tourism from China. Given your extremely remote chances of catching the virus, the risk of losing your entire family income is a much more significant risk to your health.

Because of this, it's important to be balanced in thought and decisions, and not just panic because of what could happen. Where there is evidence to support restrictions, keep them in place. Where there is not, remove them.

Outside of China this issue still remains far less serious than many other health-related risks. The "we need to do something" (anything!) mindset is actively harmful.
I think my comment is being misinterpreted to be reasons why I don't think costco will succeed... I was just commenting the reasons I personally don't shop at Costco, as a counter to the glowing review in the article. There are reasons not mentioned in the article as to why it isn't for everyone.
I agree with this. The power really lies with Browser holders. The browser is the most used app in the world.

If browser folks + name registry folks like namecheap, godaddy, cloudflare etc got together to another .com resolution method and gave ICANN and Verizon a middle finger, this could really work.

Right now, as is, ICANN is a corrupt and profit at any cost motivated org. This will most surely not turn out well for the internet.
While I recognize that this is (probably) a real bank, very high on my list of things that I definitely do not want from a banking website is "make me feel like you're not serious".
Innovations Changing the Future of Food
I agree with you, mostly, but I really think Nix is one of those rare abstractions that is easily worth it: it has the potential to simultaneously solve and unify a bunch of different issues: reproducable builds, package management (system & language), container creation, system config, and so on. One language across all those domains is great, and the ability to rollback an entire system is amazing. Also: the ability to add your own software, GitHub tarballs, and piles as PHP as first-class citizens (you can cleanly remove them!) isn't emphasized enough.

You can keep your wget, build script, db config, and nginx config all in the same file!

I think if you weighed the complexity of Nix, and NixOS in particular, against the tools it replaces (or anyway, could potentially replace) it's a no-brainer. I'm a convert.
This comment confuses me. It makes it sound like some authoritative figure came in and said, "Nix shall not support OS X because Apple is evil." But to my eye, this is not at all borne out by the thread.

There's one or two early comments which float the idea that Apple/Catalina's problematic technical change "may force us to drop support for macOS...". That prompted lots of -1's, and then there's a gigantic thread where people are trying to figure out how to adapt, and that's an on-going/non-trivial process.

Did I miss something? Is there actually a policy decision buried mid-thread that's hard to see?

In your comment, I pick up some fear/vulnerability. There's no reassuring voice to say, "macOS Catalina support will be fixed yesterday!" I share that sense of fear/vulnerability, but I think it's a natural trade-off when you sign up for free/open/transparent/community-driven software. For better and worse, you get to watch how the sausage is made in real-time.
I actually tried guix several times, and for my trouble I got my tmux sessions (and random processes on my box) killed on a box with 32 GB of ram. #guix on freenode was confused. I intend to wait until guix is a bit more stable on Ubuntu.
In context, I would expect "performance" to refer to how quickly a scene can be rendered, and another buzzword, "scalable", to refer to the size and complexity of scenes that can be drawn. "Beautiful" probably means "lots of detail and snazzy effects."

Actually, the article says "scalable across platforms", which is confusing to me. Maybe they mean scalable to different screen sizes?
A better example than Costco would be WinCo, which is employee-owned. It doesn't have the same Paradox of Choice exploitation of one item like a Soviet supermarket, it has several choices. And bulk bins. And they don't accept any credit cards to save on processing fees, whereas Costco was AmEx only and now has Visa only.

More generally, workers take care of something as if it were their own when they have an equity stake in it because it is (partly) their own. Just being treated well isn't enough of an incentive to go the extra mile when they have no connection to the profits, only laid-off when the business declines. It seems foolish to be content to accept benefits that most every other industrialized country on the planet already guarantees as a basic right. I think an uncomfortable truth is Americans don't know how bad they have it, and shouldn't sit back while corporate investors amass trillions on their backs, no matter how well or badly they are treated. They are being cheated only because of their failure to get organized and push-back together in some fashion and failure to demand UBI by taxing corporate profits made off automation, longer hours and productivity increases. At some point, if reasonable assistance isn't offered to those who's survival seems threatened (marginal propensity consume is 1.0) and have nothing left to lose, there will be more mass shootings, homeless encampments will expand, more internal migration, less average purchasing power, and more people flamewar-ing in Youtube comments.
Pop art? It reminds me a bit of Warhol's stuff.
Guix is technically interesting, but as a fsf endorsed distro it makes running common hardware a challenge. Are there linux-antilibre packages out there for guix?
Is This the Year of the Chiplet?
If you can take a few minutes to read through https://redux.js.org/style-guide/style-guide#use-plain-javas... , and specifically the "Detailed Explanation" section there, I talked through all the perceived and actual perf benefits that you see with Immutable.js.

In short, most of the benefits people _think_ they get from Immutable.js are just properties of immutable updates in general, and there's actually some pitfalls of using it. The only real unique benefit is faster copies of _very_ large objects.

I'm not saying it's not helpful, just that it's not a silver bullet in and of itself the way some folks think it is, and that you can get similar benefits without the overhead of its API.
> Is this your whole point? That your definition of OOP, FP and design is different from my definition but you understand what I'm talking about? Or is there another point you're trying to make?

Let C1 be the following claim: "function composition is better behaved than object composition and procedure composition".

Let C2 be the following claim: "the most important part of FP is function composition".

I'm saying that you've provided arguments for C1 (that I mostly agree with). So let's say that I agree with C1. However, you haven't shown why C1 => C2, and I disagree with C2.

So to answer your question, I understand your rationale for C1 (and I agree with it), but I don't understand your rationale for C2, or for why C1 => C2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYSyWUsxyc8
After WWII, there were two superpowers splitting the world between them: the first world was the NATO West, and the second world was the Soviet East. Countries who were unaligned, or not considered sufficiently important, made up the so-called third world. If these terms ever meant anything, they don't anymore, and they certainly have nothing (directly) to do with washing machines!
> Is it just that it feels unfair to you for someone to be profiting like this?

There are other reasons, but I'm a bit confused why this isn't something you find objectionable.

In theory, a free market should incentivize people to create value. But here's a case where people are literally removing value which was previously available, and getting paid to do it: if there ever was a perverse incentive, this is it.

From reading your comments, it seems like you think that anything that "freedom" = "anything the free market does". This is pretty fundamentally misguided, because if you don't have any rules to prevent people from amassing too much power, you just end up with rules set forth by whoever you've let take power. If you refuse to make rules, you're simply accepting the rules made by someone who doesn't refuse to make rules.
I do, but you would mistake it for a pen.

Mechanical pencils are a Thing. Pentel makes good ones.
Apart from keeping the pedals against your feet when jumping, holding the seat also allows for pulling down to put more torque on the pedals, like standing and pulling on the handlebars of a bike for when you need more force on the pedals than your weight.
I heard a podcast on the economist that made an impact on me with regards to this very question https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2019/11/15/what-is-the-se... ... it said that after your basic financial needs are met (wrt to salary) the important things in getting satisfaction at work are

Workers need to have

1. A sense of Agency (power and control)

2. Sense of Collegiality/solidarity/respect and knowledge that they will not be undermined (care and closeness)

3. Know that when they are told "you're in charge" it really means that, and there isn't a hidden message behind it (respect and recognition)
I don't mean to slight you or the effort you've put into this if you're an author or maintainer, but that's a terrible rationale. Given this choice, your tool doesn't fit well with other software, and from a systems perspective, it feels slightly egotistical.

In the future, file systems will be immutable and only a few sanctioned volumes will be writable (if any). It'd be better if systems like this abstracted away the notion of the file system and operating system altogether. Everything should be virtual and that is how hermeticity and reproducibility should be achieved.

That said, I admire the work you're doing and can't really point fingers as I'm not a contributor.
I bounced off it two or three years ago after trying to get it running a basic GUI desktop environment by following a guide (IIRC an official one of some sort? It seemed legit, certainly) and after an hour or so of installing and faffing about was nowhere near having it working or even feeling like I might, after another hour, get there. Nothing seemed to work right or do what it was supposed to, troubleshooting was hard, and learning some new (and, at least initially, quite unpleasant) language just to configure this one package manager... ugh, no.

For reference I ran Gentoo on an IBM Thinkpad as my main computer for a few years in the oughts, among a bunch of other Linux work, so I, by necessity, at least kind of know what I'm doing with desktop Linux installation and config, from a fairly low level on up. At least that knowledge has proven highly transferable and, over and over again, relevant and useful. I didn't get the impression I was learning anything from NixOS other than how to make NixOS work, and I wasn't even making much headway at that.
Yeah, I have a stylesheet for layout and then one for each color scheme. Changing the scheme is literally changing the class attribute of the body tag.

Maintaining state isn’t that much harder.
Midnight shift in the factory was fun..

Day shift was supposed to be a promotion. But there was so much Union politics.
The effort involved in using nix becomes a lot less if you make templates and have IDE support.
Why do we still consider the "perfect domain" valuable? Most users will search on Google for the company rather than typing the address (even for companies that probably do have a .com, like their bank) so why is it something we still care about?
Yes, Scheme is a bit verbose for my taste.
I had a Handspring Visor. They were pretty trendy in 1999-2000. My friend had the Ricochet cellular modem and we were jealous he could get email on it. But there were apps similar to Yelp with databases of restaurant reviews. It would sync in the cradle, attached to your PC, to get the latest data over the Internet. Imagine an iPod touch with no radios.
Try the first four videos here:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPxbbTqCLbGHPxZpw4xj_...
Not directly related to web front end but having extensive developer experience I tend to shy big frameworks (with a couple of exceptions) . Instead I am using set of battle proven libraries that change depending on needs.

My reasons are:

I do not need to learn a monster
If framework goes down/becomes unpopular etc. etc. I could care less
Libraries are easily abstracted and replaceable.

Yes I/team do end up implementing our own framework but this framework is very tiny comparatively to you common monstrous frameworks and any sane person can get a grip in a day or less and it only has enough to accomplish a project.

Also it can be easily sliced/diced and needed accumulated bits and pieces can be used for next project.
Engines - replacement of muscle power. A steam engine isn't that hard to make (I built one in high school).

The Romans got pretty far without it, but it's hard to see them going further.
I should have worded that less ambiguously, I'm not talking about the disdain for the police department, which I agree in OPD's case is warranted (I've been around for long enough to remember the Rough Riders scandal), because they are as corrupt as the city council and mayor that they report to. I'm talking about disdain for enforcing the law; as in, making sure that perpetrators suffer the proscribed consequences for breaking the law, you see this both from vocal minority of citizens as well as the police themselves, enforcing the law is either too much trouble too expensive or racist or regressive or just not cool. Who knows, it means a lot of broken car windows and drug paraphenalia and muggings and burned up teenagers in underground night clubs.
By my limited understanding, Handshake does exactly this, with a Handshake-equivalent domain for any of the top ~100k .com holders for free.
Hmm. There is a lot of difference between a sales brochure site, and a business to business site / app, with things in between.

If you are running a marketing or sales oriented site, you want to minimize friction.

It sounds like you are doing more of a “captive user” app, similar to the government/healthcare oriented stuff I have been working on the last few years. In that case, you still want to tune things a bit, but you do have goals and criteria which might not match this article.

Make sure things which can be cached are. (And don’t sweat the size of static assets too much, the second visit is just an HTTP header swap)

Minimize the number of requests.

Schedule requests for supplemental data in a component or form to load after the primary data.

Minimize the size of dynamic data messages, though this can be hard when you work with devs who like very long names.

Accept the fact that many of your web clients may have round trip latency well over 200 milliseconds, as well as the occasional multi second delay or request loss, and plan to work around that without hanging.
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This ignores chroot
Guix does not have tools such as NixOps aimed at managing cloud servers (unless im mistaken), how do you manage servers with it?
Actually, there don't appear to be significant differences in bioavailability between the various forms of supplemental magnesium.

If taken on an empty stomach, the oxide and carbonate forms are less available because the Mg cation won't dissociate. However if they're taken with food, these chemicals dissolve in your gastric acid, and the magnesium will be absorbed the same as any other magnesium salt.

Physical packaging can greatly affect absorption; for example, extended release formulations often show very poor availability. But minimally packaged magnesium salts are all pretty much the same in terms of total uptake.

Here's a good summary:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5652077/ - "Intestinal Absorption and Factors Influencing Bioavailability of Magnesium-An Update-"
- /nix has been the (default) location for at least 15 years without problems, changing this now just because Apple messed with this would be very strange

- With Nix, every path in /nix/store has its own ./bin, ./share, ./lib, etc. As such, putting /nix anywhere but in / doesn't make much sense

- And honestly, it's just short, fresh and distinctly different. The path symbolizes that Nix isn't bound by the conventions of other distro's

And problems with changing this now:

- It would be a huge amount of effort, there's many places where this location is assumed, not only in code, but also by people

- Finding the workforce to actually do this change will be near impossible, as the only benefit is a slightly easier installation for the latest macOS version, which is not Nix's main platform
If they run out of people to infect the rate of new infections will go down. There are a lot of people in China though. Obviously the 6.4 days thing is rough estimate.
Wait, you actually use this bank?
Taking the subsidies out and examining the profitability of all the companies on the supply chain tends to add up to a loss. Given there isn't much labor involved, energy costs are a good candidate for the lack of profitability.

If the input energy costs more than the money the turbine makes, there's a good chance that the turbine doesn't make enough energy to produce itself.
> In the end, excessively clever people make me nervous, because they leave complex problems in their wake, which I'm not clever enough by half to solve.

I absolutely love this quote and very much feel the same. Often times I feel like the industry at large has a bit of a tricky problem, and then in fixing that problem they forget about a whole set of issues the thing they are trying to fix dealt with, so often times they've just traded one set of problems for another, just now with more complexity. Monolith vs. microservices is probably the best example of this: monoliths have a bunch of problems that make developing with large teams hard, but microservices add a whole host (e.g. transactional consistency, performance) of issues that are much more difficult to solve for most dev teams.
Yeah, humans making inefficient decisions. Preposterous.