skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow - this is big news IF TRUE.

Shipt has something like 100k shoppers, the fact that they are going on strike is HUGE - it's so hard to organize a group of 100,000.

One thing that I think is better about shipt vs uber etc. YOU get to pick which orders to take I think. Rush hour traffic across down for a $10 order? Forget it.

Here's an account from a shipt shopper:

"After 4 orders (remember, this is about 4 to five hours of work), I have made a total of $110.55. If you do the math, that’s averaging out to be $27.63 per order.
Now, you also have to take into consideration gas and wear and tear on your car, but I think I may have driven a total of 50 miles between these four orders. And if you don’t want to deliver to a place far away, you don’t have to. You get to pick which orders you want to accept."

Has Shipt announced any fallback planes when their 100K shoppers walk? Will be interesting to see how they handle this - it may be the largest strike by any workgroup in a long time!

My only worry is sometimes the headlines turn out to be basically total lies. Hopefully that is not the case here. ie, they write a headline saying shipt shoppers are striking, but it turns out to be actually 0.5% of shipt shoppers.
A goodwill repair is a repair on a car which is still in the warranty period, but the broken part is not covered by the warranty. - so there is nothing charged to the customer.

There is also a "goodwill" on the P&L of a company, which has nothing to to with warranties.

Some people claim now that Tesla is booking the costs of the these reapairs into the "goodwill" category on the P&L, because both have the same name.

It is about an as misleading claim as it sounds.
>Based on this story with Aaron and experiences in the 1990s with hacker friends, my opinion of federal prosecutors is very low.

And that's a high profile white hacker. Wait till you hear the experiences with them of poor/black/latino folk...
People say the same thing about Trump. I say when you’re a billionaire and have millions of followers it’s important that you self-filter and choose your words carefully. Quite literally people may die if you don’t.
...presuming, also, tooling maturity and ready availability of experienced, competent staff are not.

If you proceed anyway, be sure candidates crossed over from C++ because, underneath the syntax fluff, they will need to understand resource management and performance cost of architectural choices. Finally, if Rust doesn't work out quite as well as hoped, they can pivot to mature tooling without loss of momentum.
Linkedin/Facebook/Email login establish that it is the same "person" coming back. They don't guarantee the identity of the person as in official name or address or date of birth.
Wholly agree on the first part, HN is a great place for good discussions and insights.

For me the discussions about Corona has been the most controversial, as we simply don’t have a good understanding of it yet.
It tends to lead to not very constructive discussions.
> Chinese government acknowledges outsourcing to countries with cheaper labor as a threat

I wish the US had seen this with equal clarity 30 years ago.

Step 2 is to steadily increase prices once they have a manufacturing monopoly, and impose tariffs on imports.
That's great for lawyers, it's part of their job description. Lawyers are not about morals and truth, they're about defending their client, guilty or not.

It's bad for prosecutors, though...
Ultimately moving data is the prime power consumer in a data center, so unless you are somehow drastically reducing the amount of data movement, you are not going to get drastic energy savings. This remains true even inside systems and CPUs, fast and wide buses and caches require lots of power, the main power cost in wide SIMD (AVX-512 vs. AVX2) isn't the computation itself, it's getting the data to and from the ALUs.
> Swartz was threatened with up to 35 years and then more charges were added bringing the potential up to 50 years

This never happened.
Intel has been behind before, and eventually the surges ahead. I honestly think that is going to happen yet again. For the next 5 years Apple's silicon might be the top, but in 10 years? I'm not so sure.
It is not dumb. It is about setting an example.

We cannot fix everything everywhere, but we can move the needle. Maybe a youth living near one of those 10 rivers, reading about Canada doing it, will become a member of parliament or a minister and will do something about it. Or not. Maybe here in Canada out of necessity we come up with smart solutions to replaces single use plastics that can be copied all over the world. Or not.

But what we can do, we shall, and as a Canadian, I am fully behind this decision.
To some degree, yes. However, I've found there is often a chicken/egg problem of needing experience in the role to be hired for it.

That said, it's been a few years since I looked at these,so maybe it's time to reevaluate and maybe pursue a certification of some sort.
why would you own a tesla if you didn't leave near a tesla service center?

anticipating the reasonable response to this question -- i'm guessing if you own a tesla and you don't live near a service center you know what you're getting yourself into.

reno only recently got theirs, for instance, and they're just a few miles down the road from the gigafactory. but reno was full of tesla's even before the service center opened.

EDIT, cause downvoting:
my point is, i wouldn't lease a toyota, with its free/included oil changes, if i didn't live near enough to the toyota dealership to show up every 10K miles easily. i may, however, buy an older used toyota if i was happy enough going to jiffy lube (or similar). applying same criteria to tesla and proximity to their repair locations.
I'm no cheerleader for Intel but if Intel really wanted to they could release competitive ARM offerings. They've got enough money they could just buy an existing ARM developer and then produce those chips in their fabs.

They've managed to change direction in the past. They were all-in on Itanium and NetBurst until the Opteron showed up. They then kicked both to the curb and went all-in on the Pentium-M/Core microarchitecture.

Intel would be foolish to ignore the ARM market if for no other reason than the server market has started to change their focus on ops/watt rather than just ops/dollar. A 64 core ARM uses less power than a 64 thread Xeon with comparable performance.

That means the lifetime cost of that ARM chip will be much lower than the Xeon since it'll cost less to power and cool it (and the datacenter). Lower power requirements can also change the calculus of datacenter siting.

I don't see Intel getting to ARM ops/watt levels with their x86 designs. The Lakefield designs are promising but the "big.LITTLE" core configuration is more useful in mobile applications than servers.

Intel losing out to ARM designs is really Intel's choice at this point.
Assuming you're talking about the US, you're slightly mistaken. The police just use the phrase in the colloquial sense, as a way of asking if you'd co-operate with a prosecution. The actual report gets written up then goes to the DA's office. The DA's office ultimately makes the call. Your cooperation is a big factor, but it won't force their decision. A private citizen doesn't have the authority to force the DA to bring charges if the DA decides it's not worthwhile.
If curious see also

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16051337

2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16032643
I love looking at old menus. The New York Public Library actually has a collection of 17,000 scans of them, organized by decade, going back to the 1850's: http://menus.nypl.org/menus

And all of the offerings broken down into dishes, also by decade: http://menus.nypl.org/dishes/decade/all

It even has things like airline menus from the 1980's,

TAP: http://menus.nypl.org/menu_pages/53824/explore

The Menu of Air France's Concorde: http://menus.nypl.org/menu_pages/44451

(If you like this sort of thing I try to maintain a list of high quality art collections and archival finds, here: https://simonsarris.com/art-collections Please let me know if you know of any great resources that should be on the list that I don't have.)
Who's still making them in the US? I know Seagate and Western Digital's factories are in Thailand and China.
.NET Core: Still a Microsoft platform despite more than five years open source
With 'modern C++' you can make APIs way nicer than the Java-like API going on here. Lambdas really help, along with RAII which has already been around. I have an API going where the following syntax creates a div with a 'toolbar' class and a toggle button with the 'edit' class and updates the DOM (C++ running in WASM, using IncrementalDOM for the DOM access):

ui.div()("toolbar")([&]() {
ui.button()("edit")("selected", editing)("click", [&](emscripten::val target) {
editing = !editing;
});
});

This works by having `.div()` etc. return an `Elem` type whose constructor opens an HTML element and destructor closes it, with various overloads of `operator()` letting you set attributes, bind events or add child elements.

Here's a video of some results with C++ and CSS: https://twitter.com/snikhilesh/status/1279913032471031809

I should do a writeup about this soon...
"I, Pencil" by Leonard Read is very relevant to this thought

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Pencil
Apple has yet to show any silicon that scales significantly above laptop CPUs, which is not trivial. Their achievement as a from-scratch, independent vendor is surely impressive, but let's keep in mind that all performance comparisons between the architectures so far are based on a single benchmark.
it does not say that at all, instead, perhaps we could allow some people, you know those that are willing to take the risk, to live their lives they way they want it

every single person that gets through the disease (and that is over 99.5% of them) is now immune and fully functional member of the society

we need to stop treating the disease as "dead" end, where one is you are either uninfected or "dead".

Most people suffer no ill effects and would rather get through the disease. I am like that, and for what is worth

I believe I already had the disease, yet I am not allowed to live my life as I want it.

What about 10% of the population that is estimated to have been already exposed? Where are their rights? On what basis does the rest of the population limit our rights when we are not a risk?
We literally had this with OpenID. If I remember correctly, it pre-dated Facebook and the flurry of "Login with XXX" type authentications. But the corporations like their walled gardens too much and OpenID fell out of favor.
A few commentators have noted that it’s unfortunate we renamed microcomputers “personal computers” because clearly smartphones are much more personal.
That's quite a good list, and I'd seen it, but I disagree with the idea HN provides better lists (I think the above is unrepresentative) - they are often skewed towards tech and business which is fine but rather limited in scope.
This problem of such a mad job description arises because of the disconnect between the hiring manager and the recruiters/sourcers (often aided by extremely broken tech).

Hiring Manager: I need a person with 10+ years of exp

Sourcer/recruiter: Ok, what skillz?

Hiring Manager: Cloud, Dev, Ops, SysAdmin - 10 years

Sourcer/recruiter: mhmm, what else?

Hiring Manager: Oh, also, someone with good k8s experience will be great!

Sourcer/recruiter: so, that's like, how many years?

Hiring Manager: one or two on top of the ones I said before

Sourcer/recruiter: Got it!

This "12+ years with k8s" "15 yrs with React" "10 years with Powershell 5" situation is because of such disconnect. Having worked in that industry sector has made me so aware of how broken hiring is, it is such a dark and gloomy present and future - aided by more tools that get put by people who do not really want to solve the problem but just make it someone else's.
Probably just by looking at them.
Briton still holds colonies to this date. As a citizen of former colony[India] its laughable when you say slavery was abolished in 1833 because people in my country were treated no better till our independence.

Edited.
Intel is very bad for the semiconductor industry. The more they are dethrowned the better.
Zstandard also has experimental support for seekable (and thus parallel) decompression, but it isn't included in distributed binaries. See: https://github.com/facebook/zstd/issues/395
The guy interviewed here (Matt Mullenweg) has a good podcast with Sam Harris from right after the lockdowns started occurring. One of the biggest takeaways and something that my team is doing now is to use a shared document that everyone can edit in real-time during meetings. Basically anything that people think is relevant gets recorded. It's been really helpful for developing test case plans. The whole podcast is fascinating though - iirc it's 2.5 hours about how to do remote work.
Well because you want a Tesla and you assume it will be as reliable as other modern cars. I own a Mazda and the nearest Mazda dealer is about 170 miles away. I’ve only had to go there once for airbag recall (I change my own oil).
I understand that gradually the thinking is moving to it being more of a whole body issue than just a lung issue - and the NICE guidelines have just been updated I to refer to the longer term impacts - though so far they don't seem the same as polio, or as common. https://www.news-medical.net/amp/news/20200712/First-extensi...

My wife had covid, and now nearly 4 months later is still ill. 3 people recently on her online group have been able to get EKGs (not ecg) and all have shown scarring of the heart. What this means for them remains to be seen, as does if this is at all common - this could be chance or we could see more people with longer term issues coming out of this. Gut feel, I'd guess that we might see as many serious long term effects as we see deaths - but there is a long way to go before we can prove or disprove that - I really hope I am wrong.
>Paper/jute bags

not sure about "jute bags" (whatever that is), but paper bags have worse climate impact than plastic bags.

>and multi-use plastics have been in circulation for quite some time now.

Those don't really work if they're used for packaging, because the rely on the end-user to reuse it. If they don't they probably have worse environmental impact.
Yeah that's very odd. I use that feature a lot and have never had it choke. But I also don't use vsvim.
It probably will materialize. Reading between the lines, the DoD wants close to leading edge fabs on US soil where they can better (in their minds) verify the physical security of what's being manufactured, and is willing to pay absurd amounts of money to make that happen.
Luxury, High-End Tiny House After Leaving Ex Large Home
CRDTs work best for high-contention situations such as online text editing (think Google Docs) where the conflict resolution can be seen right away and addressed by the user.

For offline sync, where someone edits a text document for an hour and then syncs, you're right: You can end up with something unintended, since each participant is editing based on ("branching off") a snapshot. For example, if I deleted a whole paragraph, and you edited it, what should the end result be? But at least the end result will be consistent in the sense that all participants end up seeing the same thing, though semantically it may be wrong.

Note that CRDTs go beyond just text. CRDTs can be used to represent arbitrary data structures and operations on them: Array s (insert, delete, append, etc.), numbers(increment, decrement, etc.), dictionaries (insert, delete), etc. A great implementation of this is Automerge [1].

[1] https://github.com/automerge/automerge
Apple is competitive with Intel. Not ARM in a more general way. So I don't really see how Intel could magically produce a vastly better microarchitecture by retaking an ARM license... Especially since the microarchitecture is not completely independent from the ISA, and Intel is a specialist of x86, not ARM. So it would take a huge time to reach the same level.

And that would not fix their process either...

Plus to be competitive on perfs Apple is using some tricks (larger page size => huge impact on L1) that are maybe difficult to apply to Windows, given the Windows ARM ecosystem already exists (even if no very striving for now).

Also MS is attempting a somehow closed ARM hw ecosystem, so that's not a full replacement for x86.

To finish what to compare to is currently likely to be AMD, not Intel.

So I think x86 is here to stay, or at least that's not the Apple switch that is going to initiate a revolution.
Considering that the data breach was actually at a completely different company than the one this thread named leads me to believe that the reputation damage is not as significant as you suggest.
Are you still able to pay all your bills? What do you do? I'd love to do something like this but the opportunities seem to be few and far between
This looks exactly like something I’ve been looking for. Would you ever consider making it available for self hosting ala BitWarden for a license fee? I’d be more than happy to pay a BitWarden like price for if I get to self host this.
Some of my degenerate gambler friends will shuffle a deck, cut it, and the high card wins. At least it cuts to the chase.
Agreed re: the file.

For the system keychain, I think we're talking about different use cases, no? The system keychain should be used to store the master password, but using it to pre-store any password you intend to later store in another password manager feels a little silly.
The High Cost of Caring
And even if you didn't change your own oil, you wouldn't need to drive 170 miles to have someone do it for you.
But... that link clearly says it was not a lemon buyback! It's not illegal to voluntarily buy a car back and then resell it. Lemon laws are a very specific thing, that effectively force a manufacturer to buy the product back. If it wasn't invoked, then it doesn't apply.
> Albania is of course not the best examples of a "Western" country, but it is far more than, say, what ex-Soviet states were

I'm not sure if I'd fully agree with that characterization. Sure, the Balkans as a whole had bit their own thing going on (probably can thank Tito for that), but Albania was still ruled by iron-handed communist regime and at least based on surface reading seemed to be deeper in the (Stalinist/Communist) ideology than many others, including post-Stalin Soviet Union.

I think socialists being still relatively strong during 90s probably contributed in part to the crisis. Overall it's important to remember that the country was still on its first post-communist decade.

Found this contemporary reporting from 1997, while the language is maybe bit excessively colorful it still paints a picture how the country was perceived at the time: https://web.archive.org/web/20190412111815/https://www.balti...
Yeah this was hugely common in the UK, as you could fit 8 hours of Nicam digital stereo on a VHS tape at long play, for your license obligations. And as a bonus the security cameras as well if you need it. All using readily available consumer gear with built-in timer. It would wear out every year or so. Some stations used the same VHS trick as a play out system to cover overnights as well.

I recall one of the problems is the fire hazard of keeping 8 weeks or so of tapes.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23703367
If your kids are playing games like Ticket to Ride then I suspect they’re significantly older than the target audience for Candy Land. Candy Land is intended for kids 3+.
Truly? I do not. Of course there is an end; equity and the abolition of continuing systems of oppression.

I am honestly blown away that there exists in your mind some set of beliefs which, paired with what I've said, imply I suggest there is no end. Please, what are they?
"Be thankful with your broccoli because there are kids starving in Africa" generally doesn't work even on a fifth grader - I honestly didn't expect to see it on HN.

At this rate, I wonder when I'd see people saying "no worries" because it's not Black Death. Or has it already started?
I should count my blessings, but I like complaining better. - Beth Daranciang
I’d imagine so.
After weeks of protests, they were charged. I have no doubt if it weren't for the protests the officers would have had desk duty for a few months and put back out on the street.
absolutely not. types are the base for classes and multidispatch. you cannot just add classes without typechecks. Perl has types, just not in the new signatures, and they are unused. when I started with cperl I started with types, then signatures and then the object system. just modelled after perl6, because that was a proper plan, just poorly implemented. moose never was a proper plan, mouse was always the gold standard. unfortunately only with moose syntax, not perl6. Cor just seems to be another desperate attempt, this time with proper perl6 syntax but no chance of being implemented properly. Good OO systems for perl5 are spvm and cperl, which doesnt have multidispatch yet. But proper type optimizations.
http://perl11.org/cperl/#With-classes-types-compilable-compa...
Linux has supported ARM since the late 90s, actually.

edit, source: https://github.com/mpe/linux-fullhistory/commit/3c2a0eb7ba89... ("initial ARM support", Linux 2.1.80, 20.1.1998)
As far as I know, the first commits working on ARM support for Linux were in 1994, which is quite a lot more than a decade ago.

Debian has had an ARM port since 2000.
Fitbit Charge 4 gets ‘smart wake’ alarm and dynamic GPS with software update
They were all fired the very next day after the incident.
OpenID was replaced by OpenID Connect and SAML.

They mostly operate in federations, which is neither centralized nor decentralized.
> The problem is the same as it always has been: NRE (fixed costs) for new chips climbs ever higher and needs to be offset by even more volume to be acceptable to consumers.

While this is certainly true for bleeding edge nodes, hasn't the NRE become significantly lower for mature process chips? I would guess that EDA tools and a greater availability of IP blocks would drive down the real dollar cost of designing your own ASIC on a node 1-2 generations back.
It's not about the instruction set/architecture. It's about the process node.
How Certificate Transparency Works
> I can understand the reversal of charging for shopping bags to encourage bringing reusable bags: reusable bags are potentially a disease vector.

I don't understand the rationale of not letting me bag my own groceries in my own bag. I'm not asking them to touch it, anymore than I ask them to touch my fabric jacket. Nor am I aware of any evidence of covid transmission through proximity to textile bags. The ban seems utterly senseless. I bought my bag years ago at Trader Joes but they no longer let me use it, so I no longer shop at Trader Joes. There are other grocery stores nearby that are being less unreasonable.
When Whales Walked
Paper straws can be a choking hazard for some.
Those polluting countries are making stuff that the West consumes, so if we want to stop them polluting we just have to stop buying all this stuff that requires pollution to make. So it is absolutely within our gift to put an end to it.
Lets examine autopilot's 5 deaths compared to human drivers?

There are roughly 3 billion autopilot miles driven [1] and we'll take your 5 deaths as a given [0]. That's 1.7 deaths per billion miles.

Overall US deaths is around 15 per billion miles driven (in 2000, before Tesla) [2] ... around 8x worse than autopilot. Is autopilot saving lives?

Expecting zero mishaps is not reasonable because all software has bugs and bugs can be reduced with effort while compute power improves with time. Humans on the other hand will not likely improve.

0. citation needed?
1. https://electrek.co/2020/04/22/tesla-autopilot-data-3-billio...
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_safety_in_the_U...