skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right now, what we have are the first generation of delivery restaurants which is basically "restaurants, only it's delivery". We won't start seeing the real revolution until we start seeing formats built natively around the assumptions of delivery. The second generation of "delivery, only it happens to be restaurants" format is going to look radically different from what we have today.

For example, right now, restaurants are naturally incentivized to disperse around the city to take advantage of foot traffic. But this turns logistics into a N x M challenge which is expensive. Delivery restaurants are instead incentivized to cluster together because 1 x M logistics is so much more efficient.

Once they cluster, further efficiencies can be unlocked. For example, right now, if there are 10 Asian restaurants in a block, each of them offers steamed rice and each of them owns a rice cooker. If you exist in a cluster and all your orders come from delivery, it no longer makes sense for you to be a "jack of all trades" restaurant, you can just have one restaurant make the 3 - 4 types of rice required for all Asian cuisines and it gets added on as a side for your order. Similar with like, mashed potatoes for Western restaurants, just have one restaurant focus on making the best damn mashed potatoes possible with all sorts of customized mixins and all the other restaurants don't have to deal with mashed potatoes. Prior to delivery restaurants, a "rice and mashed potatoes restaurant" would be totally non-viable. But with the disaggregating effects of delivery, it's now a possibility.

Probably the closest analogy I can think of is the Singaporean Hawker centers. Each stall is only responsible for making 2 - 3 things and they make the best damn version of that thing possible. America, for whatever reason, has never managed to produce truly decent food courts so it's a totally different paradigm.

On top of that, clustered delivery allows for the sharing of a lot of common infrastructure (HVAC, refrigeration, suppliers, dishwashing services, cleaning services, etc.) in a way that makes the entire enterprise more plug and play. Think AWS instead of dedicated servers. Rather than each kitchen having to hire a cleaning crew or worrying about what happens if the walk in is on the fritz, dedicated teams who specialize in each respective task can deploy it as a service scalably across the entire set of restaurants. Instead of incurring $X00,000 in startup costs, you can instead just lease at $X,000 a month and scale up your spend as you scale up your revenue.

All of this requires delivery as a format to get over certain scale humps so that efficiencies can start to be unlocked. But once they do (as they're currently reaching in Asia), we're going to start seeing much more interesting, innovative business models that take delivery as a premise and innovate from there.
Once again I’d appreciate any great 101 resources people have found explaining blockchain, cryptocurrencies and other related topics. I will look at adding more content to the 101 page. I know very little about the topic and just chose this as a random topic for news scraping. I am very much learning :)
Mosaic's birthday: 25 years of the modern web
I recently read a study based in experiments which said that contrary to the idea that psychedelics make the world unfiltered and open up the brain to more information, what they actually do is the reverse. Psychedelics reduce information, reduce sensory input, and as a consequence the brain fills in the gaps via hallucinations.
Steve Yegge's writing, whether on technology or business (or both), is always delightful to read.

If he can start to write more now that he's no longer at Google, then I'm happy not just for him and his new job, but also for the rest of us, who can (hopefully) hear his voice much more often.
History and Development of PMO Tools. What Are Trends for the Future?
Instant results as you type from both Node.js and browser APIs
Strictly speaking though, the rides aren't what is being subsidised by VC money, that is, the company aren't losing more money with each additional booking. The rates are pretty competitive with existing taxi business, and their entrance to a market hasn't exactly brought down ride prices.

I think most of the VC money are used on the "war" to gain dominance. Tech, marketing, lobbying, and such.
They have quite a lot of different glues. http://uk.gorillaglue.com/products

Which one did you use?
Yep, it might not be exactly how it works in the current Linux kernel but the underlying principles are solid.
Yes, that is exactly my point. People are pushing for a "federalization" of the EU, when really we have institutions that do the bulk of what a federal state would do already and could put the ones we still need in place without making significant changes to the current framework.
I remember there was an advertisement on TV where an actor would say "okay google, what is X?", and the phones nearby would search for that phrase. With this, any advertisement could be made to activate nearby phones to search for any phrase or do anything really, without the ad itself containing any google-related phrases.
Can anyone shed some light on how some blog posts of his are done (coded, styled, built)? (For example, https://paulstamatiou.com/photos/new-zealand/ and https://paulstamatiou.com/photos/new-zealand/auckland/. They're simply marvelous!)
When people say "dark side of the moon" they are almost exclusively speaking about the side that faces away from Earth.
> I wanted to place the more active drive that I would install the OS on there, and leave the less active Lightroom scratch drive in the standalone M.2 slot.

> I couldn't quickly ascertain how each slot was identified in the UEFI and I didn't want to mistake installing Windows on the wrong drive. To solve this I only installed the SSD under the heatsink first and would install the other one after I had Windows up and running.

I've found this to be the best way to install Windows whatever the circumstance as it will often install the bootloader on whatever the BIOS says is attached to slot 0 and then the rest of the operating system to the disk you specified.

By only having one disk installed you save the hassle of sorting it out later.
Managing State in a React-Navigation App with Redux
Maybe https://www.mapiful.com/ works by you? Disclaimer: never actually used it, but it looks nice.
Yet Another Commenting Server - how many of those do we really need?
More like picking special tires that can run on the shitty road. The roads are the hardware itself and their vendors (I would assume).
Great article. I have almost the exact same components and I'll definetly get use of the overclocking segment when I get around to it.

Why did you go with a water cooler?
Your description is apt. Bitballoon seems limited by the fact that it requires an index.html page. I want to provide a way to temporarily host a wider range of content in further iterations. Think autoindexing, download as zip, display as gallery etc. As for noscript, good point, I completely forgot about that.
Using a neural network to colour archive footage
Bringing DNS Security and Privacy to the End User
Apple reportedly may release a 6.1-inch iPhone without 3D Touch
I think you misunderstand. The statement "when running unrelated processes in userspace" probably means, when running multiple threads under the same process id. Threads are "lightweight processes" in linux parlance (e.g. linux treats each "thread" as process, and then deals with the fact that some of them share memory). What they are saying is that this instruction is - for example - for a browser (a userspace process) to clear the branch prediction cache after running untrusted javascript on another thread.
Are you willing to wait half a decade for the fix?
I regularly drive past a very small air salvage facility at Kemble airfield [1]. The road runs right past the airfield and multiple large jets are lined up in various states of dismemberment. Its very distracting and fascinating when you're driving across fairly barren English countryside, pop out of the trees and there in front of you are a dozen huge aircraft sitting on the tarmac.

I don't think you can easily go on site here, but easy to park up in the layby and watch from afar.

[1] http://airsalvage.co.uk/
Actually, there are large Uber/Lyft driver groups on Facebook and probably elsewhere (9000 members for Bay Area alone), where information on deals and threats spreads like wildfire. It is not formal, but there seems to be some social capital acquired by members helping each-other out. In that kind of environment, the connections don't get deep, but breadth can't be beat (especially if you contribute valuable stuff to the group).

What's more interesting is that the the available Gig Economy workforce has aggregated so well that Social Groups can become the new Unions, and mass actions can trigger swiftly. Uber is valued highly due to switching costs, but one can start a competitor and let most of the company's drivers know in a day.
In this context:

Tractable problem = generalization from previous knowledge.

Intractable problem = not enough previous knowledge.
Candide Thovex: Ski the World
Make the internet American again? Trump pick opened the door
I can see that making sense. Still see the retpoline reducing the forks in the road, forcing the "proper route".
True that! As not only airbnbers wanna use this neat app...
I don't keep track of connections to be honest, but I know that I see a fair amount of incoming requests every minute. It goes in waves.

For transient data, which only lasts for a few hours, I'm happy enough with redis - I avoid running database servers for things like this, though I've got a couple of sites that use sqlite as a back-end.
Great to see a response from Disqus here :)

The big problem most people have with Disqus are privacy and performance issues [0][1]. Of course, a fully free service at this scale often comes at such a price.

Hacking a load-comments-button myself was really easy, but I'm sure many more people would use it if you provided it out of the box.

[0] - https://notes.ayushsharma.in/2017/09/im-killing-disqus-comme...

[1] - http://donw.io/post/github-comments/
Hmm...lovely words, but how is he going to do that when the entire business model is predicated on behaving irresponsibly?
I agree with you point but have an interesting "but technically" exception: several states such as Colorado and Oklahoma regulate that beer sold in some places must be 4%.

Many brewers make 4% compliant beer, and while labelled the same, won't taste the same.
I think it's too reductionist to assume that evolutionary drives are "solved" because survival is assured. Reproduction with an (genetically/physically/socially) fit partner and strong prospects for your children aren't solved at all, because they're an arms race.

These also relate to the things that tend to make teenagers/young adults depressed.
I second this request.

I have read A Wizard of Earthsea recently — because of its status as an archetype of fantasy writing — but (perhaps not surprisingly considering its intended younger audience) it seemed to me a bit dry and descriptive in its prose. I gather that her more adult-oriented works are different?
At work we use the same account on some remote boxes to run trusted code. This works as we trust each other and follow the agreement not to mess with co-worker files unless previously agreed. Yet process isolation allows to kill run-away processes without affecting other processes or shells.
Linode connectivity issues in Europe
Do does the green thread model support multiple cores?

If not, then that’s a major thing that should be declared upfront.
I feel I've noticed an upswing in RSS recently, but I'm not sure if that's because I'm looking for it.

A lot of people I follow on Twitter (and myself) seemed to quit Twitter around November last year. Some of them went back to blogging instead, and some others went to micro.blog, both of which use RSS as the syndication method.

Feedly also added keyword mute filters to their RSS readers late last year, which I think might be helping adoption. (Lots of personal and news feeds become more tolerable when you add a few political keywords to the mute list.)

But that said, most of the people I follow via RSS only have double digit RSS subscribers. Those same people have/had 10x - 100x the followers on Twitter and Medium.
I doubt normal people even used RSS directly during its heyday. Even so, all sites that regularly publish content still seem to have RSS, and very useful it is too.
Governments are likely to go to war with DNS that can be encrypted - unencrypted DNS is a primary mechanism for them to spy on what people are doing.
This. I tried Chrome two or three times for several months a few years ago. Yes, it was fast but had issues with loading pages I usually used, e.g. I click on a link and shows me white page for some time, long enough to be annoying. On the other hand FF since pre 1.x versions is always about the same. I don't see big improvements in speed and I don't see big degradation too. The only problem I had is with Atlassian web pages that tend to memory leak when left open for days. At home where I never open them FF is very stable.
It did a good job of handling the details, even for a nitpicker like me. (Eg, careful to say that there were web browsers before Mosaic, including graphical ones).

I will nit-pick this part:

> Andreessen and Bina quickly realized they could make a mint from Mosaic. They took the Mosaic code. In October 1994, they turned it into the first successful commercial web browser: Netscape Navigator.

As I recall, NN is not based on the Mosaic code, though I believe Netscape did license the Mosaic code. Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser) :

> Netscape Navigator was later developed by Netscape (originally known as Mosaic Communications Corporation), which employed many of the original Mosaic authors; however, it intentionally shared no code with Mosaic.
Implementing change and instilling company culture as a CIO
People leave the environment, not just the manager, though the manager is a big piece of the puzzle.

I quit my last employer because the manager was an abusive bully with severe trust issues who would constantly threaten, abuse and demoralize people, but HR was also to blame since they did not lift a finger to address the issue even though this manager's behavior was widely known throughout the company for decades.

I've also left a great manager in the past since the business was going nowhere. I've left a good manager and good team because I was very underpaid in another company.
I definitely use lots of apps that aren't rebuilt in the last decade which is pretty common in the enterprise (in house stuff).

But among the "new" and "widely used" apps on my desktop right now that don't scale well (i.e. bitmap scale) are e.g. Skype, McAffee, Cisco AnyConnect (it seems about 50% of the apps on my desktop are not properly DPI aware, but simply bitmap scaling).

That's not the bad part though, I can learn to live with a few blurry bitmap scaling apps (and the odd miniature one that doesn't scale at all for some reason), but the bigger problem is apps that partially scale so they become unusable. Here is a screenshot I just took, of JetBrains DotTrace (a profiler) at 2x scaling (At a laptop with 15" @ 4K): http://prntscr.com/i4tpmb
It not only looks terrible, but some things are actually unusable.

The bad thing about that kind of bug is that when an app is unusable, even if it's only one app of 100 that you use, you have no choice but to change scaling or resolution just to do that task which is a terrible interruption, especially for scaling that might require a logout to take effect.

Edit: I don't consider multi monitor with different DPI's a fringe feature, since the high DPI is very common on laptops so any setup with a laptop plus an external screen will often be using different scaling for the laptop screen and the external screen.
Try "The Birthday of the World". Bite-sized short stories that are utterly indelible. Will make you hungry for her longer works.
Should your company launch your own ICO?
For thos wondering why this is topical, the author (Ursula K Le Guin) died yesterday (and this made the front page of HN).
Exactly, because you don't want every future reader of the code to have the same question.

This is why I hate implicit assumptions. If I need some special knowledge or some special assumption that is no where in the immediate vicinity of the code, then maybe your approach to the problem is flawed. Sure it'll work but good luck to future coders working with it
What happens when word gets around that you shouldn't join a startup because even if it succeeds, your equity will just be stolen from you?

That word has already gotten around and is one of the main reasons for ageism in the industry - the only people who will work for startups are those who haven’t been burnt or wised up yet.
A good counter argument to Comments:

https://blog.codinghorror.com/coding-without-comments/
The fact that Germany ranks 4th in innovation makes this list not very meaningful to me. Germany is one of the most conservative and tech-averse countries I know, and they are struggling to get theirs businesses up to date.
Sounds like poor question asking. "Click any square with a bridge" would be better wording.
Exactly, just sounds like good review practices to me.
So, you made an exchange then.
> they get mistreated by the system as often as they get lifted up by it. In the end she makes the explicit point that this is just one possible way of organizing human societies among a nearly infinite set of possibilities

Well, the book is subtitled "An Ambiguous Utopia"
You have been directly managing over a hundred people? That just sounds like textbook bad heirarchy
Data Digest: How widely companies share data
Agreed, but it almost doesn’t matter: what matters is sending the signal that shenanigans will be punished by the market.

If devs do anything it should be learning to write software that doesn’t depend on speculative execution for performance
Someone did a stress test the other day. Nowhere near 7ktx/s and a lot of nodes started to crash. https://medium.com/@bnp117/stress-testing-the-raiblocks-netw...

Honestly it is scary to see how easy is to launch a DoS attack just by precomputing the PoW.

Edit: Here are some people saying their nodes went out of sync https://www.reddit.com/r/RaiBlocks/comments/7rzlid/minor_str...
Well, it's calibrated to a specific delta-E so the amount of variation is limited - in practice, unless you're in a room with controlled lighting and are doing professional work (neither of which seem to be the case) calibration doesn't really matter.

(I went with an LG 32UD99 w/ some similar criteria of decent content creation performance and some gaming - it was reasonably priced, performs well enough, and more importantly, the thin bezels and lack of logos is quite schmexy - will have a hard time going back to anything branded. The LG comes w/ Freesync but I have since swapped out my Vega 64 for a 1080Ti, and as you mentioned, HDR is pretty pointless atm on PCs so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. LG showed a slightly improved 32UK950 at CES.)

Anyway nice build writeup, didn't spot anything too out of wack on the build-side and the inclusion of the CL timing chart was a nice thing since I've often seen people get confused/mess that up.

As a fellow long-time Mac user forced to migrate (mostly in Linux, but Windows for VR and LR) I liked the part of the writeup on environment/keyboard tweaks. One thing I didn't see was about privacy. Windows 10 is very invasive. I used O&O ShutUp10[1] to go through all that stuff but there are a lot of tools [2] and other considerations [3].

Besides WSL, I've still found Cygwin to be indispensable as there's still system-level stuff that doesn't work outside the WSL (interacting w/ PowerShell scripts and such).

[1] https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

[2] https://www.ghacks.net/2015/08/14/comparison-of-windows-10-p...

[3] https://senk9.wordpress.com/checklists/windows-10-privacy-ch...
I figure the lesson is that any time someone talks about the number of shares (and only the number), they are trying to cheat you.
There is feedback, the fact that the business is making more money means they made the right decision.
No, she warns about the creation of hierarchies even in a purely anarchist society.
> It uses tech as a way to strip mine a particular domain, often bypassing incumbents in the process.

The term strip mine is a loaded term. In the classical sense, it devastates the ecosystem while extracting resources that are impossible to replace.

In fact, Silicon Valley does not do that. People aren't going to stop needing transportation because Uber used up all the transportation, and it won't stop needing places to stay because AirBnB lets you rent out your apartment.

> SV is a colony of capital B business

What is a capital B business as opposed to a lower case b business?
Did he try talking to Uber or Lyft? What he described is fairly similar to the other ride sharing companies' realities.

As for Didi vs Uber, I think there were some 'government' realities that made it a bit more skewed compared to the rest of the world, much like many other non-chinese companies in China.
Are You Well-Versed with Java 9? I Don’t Think So?
> GNU/Windows

I LOL'ed.
Or he might take the Marissa Mayer approach and say hey, the other one is a harder challenge, and thus more interesting.
That's literally dropping all the scale benefits of mass transit, while adding the cons of being in close proximity with a sufficiently small number of proximal strangers to be uncomfortably intimate and not-lost-in-the-crowd/anonymous.

Its like a psychological formula for making most/many people uncomfortable.
Really enjoyed the airwaysmag.com article, thanks. The article was meticulously put together with obvious passion for the field and the people who work in it. Even the reading experience on mobile was pretty good which is unusual these days. I was surprised by one or two details, including the fact that some of these quintessential American airliners were actually manufactured in China, as long as 25 years ago.
They have higher income as the number of jobs available through apps is orders of magnitude higher than was available before they came along. Parcel Delivery, Shopping, Food delivery - all in addition to the increase in regular commuters due to the superior service.

They are all burning through cash of course, as each attempts to increase market share of drivers and reduce prices for users.
> She did her best to imagine a communist system that was nearly ideally designed and it still fails in so many ways.

It wasn't a communist system, but an anarchist one. And it didn't fail in so many ways, it's just that life in Anarres was tough. A barren moon with few natural resources. They even had bad harvests and people starved to death.
No you still misunderstand. The road in the analogy is the hardware itself. And the car is the OS. The OP's point was that we have to replace the hardware, because at some point you are hacking up your car to absurd degree just to be able to drive on the road of the hardware. It has nothing to do about forks in the road and the analogy to branching.

He could be arguing for anywhere from, we need to replace all our hardware now, to we need to start over with how we design chips.
I always liked John Varley's take on those topics — in some of his short stories in particular (collected in The Persistence of Vision, The Barbie Murders, and Blue Champagne, amongst others).
There's an actual kickstarter that got the same idea.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1708005089/pico-c-craft...

I haven't used the product but it looks like a great idea.
You do indeed have a great collection of images. Any prospects for being able to filter search results by Creative Commons permissions ala Flickr?:

https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/