skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of business strategy these days tend to forget that their labor are often their customers in a somewhat symbiotic relationship. This was part of the realization Henry Ford had when developing Ford motors and during the heydays of labor rights.

Cut your labor and you strangle your customer base. Now we're seeing a tendency of businesses focusing on more wealthy clients, luxury goods, etc. Some modern mall strategies are gearing at primarily targeting luxury stores vs appealing to the masses because the mass labor force purses are growing ever tighter (mainly because they're emptying).

Seems like a natural progression as the "wealth trickle" progresses more and more to a drought and pools up at the top in guarded reservoirs away from the majority: the labor force.

It's one thing to automate away tasks people don't want to do and replace those tasks with tasks people do want to do (and get paid for). It's an entirely different story when you eliminate work and provide no alternatives, displacing large segments of the population, then simply accumulate the labor cost savings for your business and chief investors while stagnating growth.

Most counter arguments to this trend point at historic technological shifts where new industry popped up to supply alternative means of living for the labor force. This makes an assumption that the change is the same and ignores the trends, hand waving it away in ambiguous complexity and proposing we play the experiment out. Most wanting to play the experiment out have little to lose and much to gain. The other side have a lot to lose and relatively little to gain.

We're seeing a lot more of businesses pooling cash and asset reserves and not reinvesting them back into society and people are starting to get a bit cranky about it.
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There's loads of reasons not to! Monks who are trying to exercise their patience skills would find it very useful for example. Those who stress test input devices for peripherals companies will surely be a fan of the much increased need to click to read a thread as well.
I've created a few projects with Dash in the past and it's amazing how quick it is to get something interactive up in about 20 minutes. It definitely has a narrow set of use cases, but I had that Rails ah-ha moment for the first time in a while where 80% of what I was trying to do worked out of the box with no configuration. Compare this with creating a Flask backend server and React frontend with webpacker, etc.
I didn't hear any alarmist outcries coming form, say, the WHO. Just that precautions and countermeasures need to be taken. For me that's good enough.

Argably, you will always find one to go on TV an tell the opposite story. Fear sells, and even experts are doing fnny things to get their 15 minutes of fame. Maybe my biggest critique I have, that scientists seem to be less aliged regarding messaging than they are for climate change.
The W.H.O. director said 4 days ago "Covid-19 does not transmit as efficiently as influenza" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22488862). So, I'm also confused and unsure how to rectify this.
Self checkout works ok until:

1. A customer born before 1968 or so shows up

2. The scale's state machine gets corrupted ("UNEXPECTED ITEM IN BAGGING AREA")

Both of which end up needing more retail labor than a traditional checkout line.
The length limitation makes proper discussions hard. I can't even discuss the Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz a German law on labeling meat, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinderkennzeichnungs-_und_Ri...) in a tweet. Little space for more than a troll bit or a link.
You're completely right.

> Sen. Elizabeth Warren, whose incisive and relentless questioning led to the resignations of not one but two Wells Fargo CEOs in connection with the scam, was not impressed with the announcement.

> Warren has been fighting Wells Fargo’s misdeeds for more than a decade

> Last month, banking regulators reported that John Stumpf—Sloan’s predecessor, whose nose Warren bloodied so effectively back in 2016

> A picture captioned "Sen. Elizabeth Warren questions Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf"

> After Sen. Elizabeth Warren mopped the floor with onetime Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf

> Sen. Warren demanded answers from the bank

> Warren’s popularity grew in no small part because of the effectiveness and vim with which she socked it to Sloan in October 2017
That isn't a contradiction - the advantages of a REPL are greater for Clojure than for Lisp.
I don't use Twitter, but I've talked about this with friends that do, about why they used Twitter. Their feedback was that they've had good conversations with people through there, and have followers who are clearly getting benefit from their messages.

Unfortunately, this positive side of Twitter is not the one we all hear about all the time. We hear about the noisy, angry, spiteful side.

It would be nice if we could have one without the other, but these problems are common to most of human history, not just digital forums.
I'm surprised many people here mention lines at the self-checkout. I shop in a fairly busy Walmart and I never had to stand in line, even on Saturdays and Sundays. They have like 15 of those counters on each side.
I agree I bought some of the early dips to later discover that it wasn't even closer to the bottom. So I chilled out and just paused on any further investment until the situation gets clear. I think US specifically has not seen yet the spread of the coronavirus, but it will come and things will get worse.
At my neighborhood 7-11, there are often 5-10 people waiting in line with one clerk at checkout. One person buying lottery tickets brings things to a complete halt.
The article is diplomatic, but not ambiguous. For instance:

> Cooling issues: can enough cooling air be forced inside the rotors?

> Cooling issues, again. The primary cooling path for more traditional motors is usually conduction through the stator yoke, to the frame, to either air or coolant fluid. For the HET, this path seems almost completely missing.

> [four lines later] Assuming the cooling performance remains unchanged, the reduced winding losses could then be cashed in by increasing the current density, and thus torque, torque-per-mass, and bringing losses back to the original level.

This may read as if there are good ideas here, but make no mistake- the implication is that these problems are nigh-unworkable. The possibilities of minor increases are locked behind immense problems.

There is a parallel with combustion engines here. The ideal combustion cylinder is spherical: it ensures more even burning and minimizes the area heat from escape from a given volume. You could make an engine with spherical combustors instead of cylindrical and reap that improvement. That's basically what toroidal motors try to do- use more surface area per unit of rotor volume (although due to the nature of air gaps[not discussed in the article], it's not obvious that this is actually beneficial). In both cases, you're cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Cue the typical "it'll be fine, technology will create more jobs that we just can't predict yet" response that is no longer relevant.
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Apple knows this... just doesn't have in-house SoC designers.

But they acquire this company:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.A._Semi
and team start developing ARM processors.
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What's your workflow that you need those, but can't get a Windows PC?
Milk bottles and water bottles, yogurt etc. This is insane.
Didn't the SARS vaccine also cause the host to die when reinfected?
In your original comment, the statement "But you may as well" misses the entire point of the quote from the article. You only "may as well" if the only point of that quote is privacy related, but it is not. The benefit of not providing an account or downloading an app is that it provides less friction for the shopper, so you shouldn't "may as well" do it just because of an unrelated privacy side-note.
You can unfollow people or smash their devices with an axe[1], or anything in between. It's up to your imagination.

[1]: https://www.orneryboy.com/comic?sort=29
it probably is not available to random folks on Hacker News. I doubt this sort of information is being widely disseminated, with centralized collection, due to the rapidly evolving nature of the epidemic, and, as mentioned, the PII issues.
What is a realistic typical mild/moderate case? You get a fever for one week similar to the flu? Or is it a longer fever? I haven’t been able to find this information. Do you just isolate yourself and manage it with Ibuprofen and Gatorade? And then wait a week or two before going back to work?
How accurate is the show Mr. Robot?
It is literally a supply and demand thing. You happen to have experienced high-supply/low-demand. Why are you surprised people mention low-supply/high-demand scenarios?

In fact, just follow the logic down that road. Consider highly-volatile demand purchase scenarios. A company might over-spend on self-checkout stations to cover high-demand scenarios that go unused on more typical days. A more efficient approach is to avoid requiring additional stations to cover changes in demand. Just create a single system (walk out purchasing) that handles all scenarios and be done with it.
You're focusing on my not knowing the syntax and specific of the languages. It's still just giving names to things that did not have a name. Whether the name is a variable name, a function name, a type name, doesn't matter.

It's still a fancy, obscure jargonish way of saying "name things".
Is it really spying if you are entering the store with full knowledge that your every move is being watched by a system in order to automatically track your selections?

If anything it's full disclosure high level surveillance. I imagine big-box retailers such as Wal-Mart already have sophisticated surveillance systems that attach your card info to visual surveillance systems for Loss Prevention. I've heard of people who were repeat shoplifters at Wal-Mart that eventually got caught; and when they did, Wal-Mart had essentially a running tab of all the things they had ever shoplifted and slammed them with a grand theft charge despite the fact the time they got caught they were only attempting to shoplift a $5 bottle of shampoo or something.

I'm not denying the privacy disaster you're worried about, but honestly I think we're already too far gone down this road to be able to do anything about it.
"incentivized" is a weak way to put it. Many employees tried to report the problems, and some were even blacklisted from the industry for doing so while others were threatened with blacklist.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/10/07/497084491/epis...
Commentary: https://www.mdedge.com/psychiatry/article/24216/depression/d...

Paper: https://mdedge-files-live.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/files/s...
>But this is real-life shopping, not online. Online shopping is 100% optional. Real-life shopping is not.

What? Is someone holding a gun to your head and forcing you to go shopping? I don't understand this statement. "Real-life shopping" is just as optional as online shopping is. Hell, "real-life shopping" is more optional in this regard because you can always pay with cash and escape the aforementioned privacy concerns. You can't do that online.
> Yes, if you don't trust the retailer with your privacy, you shouldn't use their store

Easy to say, hard to do. It's pretty hard to live without having to enter a retail establishment. Particularly one that sells you your food.
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Apologies for the unrelated comment, but is “noughties” a common term for the 2000-2009 decade?

I’m on the East Coast of the US, and though it makes sense, I haven’t seen it before.
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Generally, the first ship of any class suffers the most issues. Similar to the first version of any major OS/software release. I don't remember the per-ship costs off-hand but I'd be surprised if they were higher than the first.

Unfortunately the Navy doesn't have much choice in who builds their ships. They must be built in the US, and there are very few capable shipbuilders still left in this country. It's a terrible business to be in, so there's no incentive for companies to jump into the market because the margins are razor-thin. In fact, Northrop Grumman got out of the market a few years ago (http://investor.northropgrumman.com/news-releases/news-relea...).

(As an aside, cruise ships are still cookie-cutter compared to military ships.)

To borrow a quote from Churchill, "[the current ship procurement process] is the worst form of [procurement], except for all those others that have been tried."
I'm also referring to trusting amazon specifically. They're a competitor, and not one known for playing nice. I've heard that retailers are hesitant to even use AWS (I don't have a source for that and would love to hear otherwise if that's the case?) - because of competitive concerns- so will people want to work with amazon for something so core to their business?
I think if you can prove both parties knew of the change prior to signing it's by definition signed in good faith.
The tricky thing about my comparing with influenza is that "it's just the flu". Even if an influenza infection would spread with comparable ease on a cruise ship (and maybe it doesn't), I'm guessing it would not be investigated, reported or even remarked.
"ARM started as a branch of Acorn Computer in Cambridge, England, with the formation of a joint venture between Acorn, Apple and VLSI Technology. A team of twelve employees produced the design of the first ARM microprocessor between 1983 and 1985."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture
A real downside and the reason it never took off, is that you have to annotate all your Javascript code to really leverage the Closure compiler.

Google also doesn't really advertised the use of Closure, you have to go out of your way to find it in their developer website or google it to find it. It's really just an internal tool.

They break backwards compatibility in the Closure Library so much that projects that adopted Closure (like Clojurescript), are stuck with a library from 2017. The project is maintained only to serve Google.
Italy has basically suspended its citizens' civil liberties across huge swaths of the country. That does not seem like anything close to a proportional response, and I am very troubled by how okay everyone seems to be with the curtailing of civil liberties.

Remember, the 1st amendment guarantees the right of free association and assembly in the United States. Even though I'm voluntarily limiting my exposure to at-risk populations, I will not comply if someone tries to forbid me from moving around; that would set an awful precedent.
You will be ridiculed by your peers, not the government, because the reality of the holocaust is very well documented, and deniers are suspected of motivated reasoning. But jailed or killed? I highly doubt that. They aren't comparable in the slightest.
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I agree, at least generally. However, something I've learned is that privacy always has a cost. I wouldn't count on retailers to pay it when most of their customers won't notice or care, and I wouldn't count on governments to deliberately avoid reducing friction in their economies either.
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Twitter is awesome because it doesn't operate under the growth for growths sake mentality plaguing many other companies. It really is an incredible public utility provided you liberally mute/block/unfollow all the petty fighting and find good people.

Jack seems to understand that. I hope it doesn't devolve into a narrow reveneue maximizing ad-filled trashfire, but thats probably what the hedge fund will push for. I think it would be better off as a non-profit so they can get the paperclip maximizers off their back. Heres hoping Jack wins this one.
Bedrest and fluids is pretty much all one can do for a virus of this kind, I think hospice care is mostly about keeping the airways open or giving an IV if necessary.
Downvoted with no reasoning. Nice
There already are some: https://puri.sm/products/
Either made illegal or made to comply with government intervention to issue all citizens an identification that can be used universally for this purpose.
So are temperatures in the human respiratory system. It’s foolish to just assume warmer temperatures will stop it.
I think you might want to recalibrate your idea of how dangerous this virus is.
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Tesco in the UK has this in my local store. I don't live in a hotbed of innovation so I assume it's nationwide.

Edit: it's called 'Scan as You Shop' and is offered in about 500 stores.
Do you have a source for that? The thesis of this article is that it is a more powerful CPU, in terms of performance-per-watt, which is the same metric that spawned the PowerPC-to-Intel transition. The author pointed to specific ARM chips that exist today which "consume less power, about 210 watts, than a competing Xeon CPU needing as much as 400 wats, for about the same amount of computing".
But Amazon is a completely different beast - they've already shown they want to horizontally expand into the grocery market everywhere, so stores using their technology is just a stopgap on the journey to Amazon cutting into the profits of said stores via competition. When that happens, they better hope removing Amazon's system is as easy as it is to integrate it.
I think it's obvious most of what's said here is one's personal opinion. I mentioned 'many' prosumers.

I believe there are 'many' Java developers that use Macs but in the grand scheme of things I imagine it's a tiny sliver of the overall professional user base.

So, yeah, I don't believe Apple is committing suicide with any market move they make. They have the data, they have the marketing, they will do well.

But Macs don't seem like a good future developer workstation to me. Not anymore.
Back to the good old days of SoftPC, with a reliance on emulation.
How do people do error handling in K? Or is the data typically well-formed in real programs? Not bashing anything, I'm just genuinely curious.
I think there is a middle ground of many indie games I see on steam that are much larger then they should really be.

As a dev, one problem I saw often is UE4 is massive, well over a hundred meg for just the base engine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kas0tIxDvrg please watch this video by 3blue1brown, a math professor in the US, about the situation.
Not to add the the CSS confusion, but I guess this means flexbox is finally caniuseable. 98% coverage ain’t bad.
> Where are the comments?

While I can understand how that code can be intimidating to a programmer with a more “traditional” background… there are 26 (non-empty) lines of comments, and only 15 lines of code.
That's why he got less votes than his opponent.
Id checking can probably be done through the app. Most online bank accounts simply require a 30 second video call with a person showing their face and their passport and the account becomes 'verified'. You only ever have to do that once, so very cheap.

Restocking is already a cost stores have to do. Restocking is also something which isn't too time sensitive - you can do more restocking at night if needed. It's also possible to design the shop to require less restocking, by for example having deeper shelving units where products slide towards the front.

Helping people use the app won't be needed as soon as it becomes universal.

The only remaining cost becomes store security, but if everyone has an attached account which has been verified by a passport, even security might no longer be needed. Just bill people for the items they take, ban them if they don't pay the bill, and call the police and ban anyone who is violent.
The virus is dangerous, but so is a government with unlimited power. This is the complicated and contradictory world we live in...
The data was small but seemed to be worse for former smokers. That’s hard to judge though, because former smokers are likely to have quit due to health problems. I haven’t seen any useful stats on infection rates but I think that’s an interesting idea.
I tend to agree. But the criminals who opened the fake accounts were overworked low-level staffers with unrealistic sales quotas, so they're very sympathetic. I don't think I've seen anyone even suggest they should be prosecuted; the discussion has largely focused on their bosses and Wells Fargo as a company, who fired them when the fake accounts were discovered.
I was not commenting on the thing that the quote was intending to talk about. I was commenting on the privacy implications of what it actually said. From a privacy point of view, you may as well sign up for an account or install an app -- that's a problem for those of us who wouldn't sign up for an account or install an app due to security concerns.
I don't believe so? I started out using APL2; GNU APL seems distinct in ways that are noticeable. Certainly not in a bad way, but I think enough to cause confusion for any newcomer reading said books, tutorials and papers.
Since the car only goes forward, there's no reason to have any depth or visibility testing, things are just rendered in order (painter's algorithm).
Yes, I found this to be the best presentation among the several articles mentioned so far in this comment section.
My hat is off to the people who can handle this kind of thing; I myself cannot.
Don't know but look at places like Kaggle:

* https://www.kaggle.com/brendaso/2019-coronavirus-dataset-012...

* https://www.kaggle.com/kimjihoo/coronavirusdataset
And we should trust you instead of the epidemiologist because?
The problem seems to be more how crazy long some word in German are ;)
> Rinderkennzeichnungs- und Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz About this soundlisten (help·info) (RkReÜAÜG)

So you can.
In theory, we know the people who post on Facebook and assess their credibility personally. Unfortunately, it's difficult to assess information even from people we know personally when we only see written statements, many of which are copied from elsewhere.
Agreed; it's hard to execute trade in a society without abiding by the norms of the society regarding information exchange. I could also try walking into the 7-11 with a full face mask on (in my state at least, that's not illegal in general), but the owner and register operator really wouldn't appreciate me being that anti-social.

Privacy is a sliding scale and different people set the slider at different sensitivity levels.

And even if one's sensitivity level is high enough to cause personal problems, they're solvable. People that deeply concerned about their privacy have had proxy shoppers buy things on their behalf.
Have fun getting junior engineers interested in PHP, an objectively gross language. You'll get a stable system to begin with, but nobody younger than 45 who wants to touch it. It also has a large attack volume and curated security exploits that you buy into when you inevitably use plugins.

This article is about static HTML/CSS/JS. You can accomplish a good, modern CMS in halfway-decent languages using netlify and any static site generator framework you want without making your devs miserable.