skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could really see something like France's "tickets restos" / meal voucher system benefitting everyone. Fitting for smaller companies who want to provide a perk w/out an on-site cafeteria, puts some money into the local economy, a little tax relief for employees who are normally buying food for lunch...
http://archive.today/XirsP - Link for those who don't pay for WSJ.
What makes these people think this is a good idea?
You could drive diagonally across town. What if I work in SOMA and want to have lunch in Park Merced?
Yes, it's a program that is at high risk of overexpansion like many others.

It would be constantly attacked for not providing "healthy" options like fresh fruit, organic flour, more variety and whatnot.

I just wish we could do stuff like this. Same with housing, provide budget accommodations in low cost areas and you'll be accused of creating ghettos and modern day internment camps. So we spend much more to subsidize housing in the highest cost, most desirable regions, leaving far too many without anything.
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It isn't for printing though. The parent site looks way better in print preview.
Keyboards are not a detail (2013)
Russian embassy trolls US launch industry after new rocket engine sale
Nim is great. To me it feels like typed python that is fast.

It also runs everywhere. I use its C mode on the server, its js mode on the website, and even its c++ mode to interface with c++ libraries such as steamworks which are hard to interface with.

Nim is also pretty cool by offering templates and macros. Which allow you to make some awesome DSLs that make your code short and sweet. Just don't go too crazy!

I used to really hate typing in C or Java because it felt so boring. I stayed away from typed languages for a long time, but nim has won me back. Types have saved me many times now!

Its also super fast, I mostly programmed in JS/Python and I never knew how fast computers can be.
And for all that, you get an 11 year old partial dump?

The ROI doesn't seem that high.
Additionally, if you do the wait for a byte, you've done 90% of the wait for 63 adjacent bytes. Software becomes memory bound when it peeks at 4 bytes here, 4 bytes there in zillions of unpredictable cache lines. So, instead of waiting 41 cycles to process 64 bytes, it waits 300 cycles to process 4.

It helps to think of the * and -> operators in C++ as "int cache64BytesAndLoad4FromCache(int *p);" That's when you start to really feel "int x = a->b->c->d; a = a->next;" deep in your gut.
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These people want workers to spend more time in line and less time with their family.
Not necessarily supporting this motion, but it would cause no one to drive to lunch. There are dozens of good options within a block or two of most tech companies in the city. It would probably cause an uptick in Uber Eats, Grubhub, Eat24 orders though.
The real issue is that the "true" confidence levels in the social sciences are nowhere near that. We can hack together models and fit them to make an argument look compelling, but most of the stuff we "know" to be objectively true is descriptive, not prescriptive.

I think any good social scientist regarding UBI will tell you that we honestly don't have any fucking clue what would happen because the differences between Namibia, Finland, etc are so vast and we have so little data. These studies are important parts of building up that dataset, but to make policy considerations (or even something like an assumption in social science) is much, much more likely to provide a "wrong" or "bad" choice, than after we've got better data.

If you really were to dig into any given study, you can in many cases find a lot of assumptions which we have to accept to even attempt a study.

We all tend to be pretty bad at measuring truth levels, that's why the criticism is necessary.
Can vouch that the FOSSA team is the real deal with a great hacker culture!

(not on the team, just love the people and product)
I'm of two minds on this.

1) There's no obligation for anybody to integrate with the community around them and forcing them to is absurd, especially with the bigger problems San Francisco faces

2) I fucking hate the people that get free food in SF because they think they're better than me and I would absolutely love to see them suffer in the most petty ways possible. I think this hits the optimal level of annoying.
Or click the “web” link below the title
Matrix/Riot and Wire.com (from ex-Skype team), who are working with IETF to standardize an open protocol for E2E encrypted messaging. We need to get back to open protocols.
True, but Mountain View implemented the same ban for Facebook.
Hahaha, the small town capitalists are fighting the international monopolists and the workers everywhere lose.
Remember when WhatsApp required a subscription? One of the first changes made by Facebook after purchasing WhatsApp was to make it available for free. And now they're complaining they can't milk it enough? Oh dear.

I know that a percentage of WhatsApp users would stop using the app if they started requiring a payment again –because apparently paying $1 per year for using an application on your $999 phone is outrageous, but I wonder why can't they just make it an option again as an alternative to ads.
OpenWrt 18.06.0 – First Stable Release
Yup! It has a few feature differences though. https://producthunt.com/posts/makerlog
Nice article. Would you recommend this MOOC? https://www.coursera.org/specializations/mathematics-machine...
It doesn't focus on probability or statistics though. If not, is there any other MOOC you would suggest?
For what reason was a decade old backup kept online for? That is insane. If they have hygine that poor I'm really worried about what other problems they have.
Per usual, HR can't even read and comprehend the information in front of them. The website literally says new grad.
Legislation unfortunately involves legislators, people who really like the money those wealthy people give them. As long as we have legalized bribery I don't see it happening.
I haven't used Django to render HTML in at least 3 years.
How much will it cost? It needs to be much cheaper than SMS. SMS adds up fast.
The tech companies had no problem taking the tax breaks. Twitter pitched the benefits to SF as revitalizing an area of the city. Twitter, et. al. didn't deliver on their end of the deal.

I see this as a renegotiation of the deal when one party (SF) has realized that they are getting shafted.

Twitter, Uber, etc can always leave if they have a problem.

Everyone else that works in SF has to pay for their lunch on lower salaries. If the lunch cost is so unreasonable - bring a microwaveable meal or leftovers from last night.

I really don't get why anyone is acting like this is so horrible.
Meanwhile, in the real world, UBI is too expensive and unsustainable. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/01/ontarios-new-c...
I also work at Asana and am one of the architects for that tech stack. Happy to answer any questions!
Hope you can get away with taking 3 hours for lunch
Strictly speaking not human, he is an alien. ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_Superman#Pre-Crisis

"In 1938, DC Comics published Superman's debut in Action Comics #1, Siegel and Shuster were required to cut the story down to thirteen pages, and so the origin story was reduced to a single page. The story described a scientist on an unnamed doomed planet placing his infant son into a hastily designed spaceship and launching it toward Earth. When the spaceship lands, a passing motorist finds it and turns the child over to a local orphanage"

"The first issue of Superman, published in 1939, also featured the origin story. Max Gaines had written to Siegel and Shuster and asked them to expand the origin sequence to two pages, and to include four pages that detailed how Clark Kent became a journalist as well as a full page feature that expanded on the scientific explanation for Superman's powers. In this issue, the passing motorists are revealed to be the Kents, who leave him at the local orphan asylum but later return to adopt him. "

etc.

I guess you are talking of the circa 1995 series:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_Superman#Superman:_T...

first episode was titled "The Last Son of Krypton", not "Yet another baby from Kansas".
What are some good alternative sites to Amazon?
Kotlin 1.2.60 is out
Only the restaurant owners that believe they have earned business by simply opening shop in the area.

Hopefully companies find a workaround or people start packing though.
Service Discovery for Modern Distributed Applications
> Open drug use is still common on the streets around Twitter’s headquarters.

This should be the first priority. If I can't get food from a cafeteria and this is the environment surrounding my office, then I'm just packing my lunch, which defeats the purpose of the ordinance.
So, two things:

1. This proposal is for all new offices, which as usual, creates an amazing unfair advantage to established companies. The old companies will have an old office that can offer the perk of free lunch, whereas new companies cannot.

2. I have yet to go into some random restaurant and not have to wait an absurd amount of time in line. This city constantly feels like it does not have nearly enough restaurant or activity capacity, everything is just constantly crowded, all the time. So now I guess we will exacerbate that artificially? Lunch times will take 1.5x as long without any actual enjoyment from the extra time since it will just be spent waiting around in line for (probably) unhealthy food.
I'd love it if tech workers, as a protest, would use Uber Eats or Grubhub or Doordash to start buying food from national chain restaurants and having them delivered to the office en masse.

"OK, sure, we're buying our own food, but we're sending cars all over the roads at peak lunch hour, we're only buying food from large corporations that are headquartered out of state, and we're paying paying other tech companies to deliver. Local restaurants won't get a dime."
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Modified “stingray” like systems can do this transparently too. Scary but exciting tech.
Reddit still doesn't require an email, the signup form is just a well executed dark pattern - you can hit next and skip providing an email.
Almost everybody I know has at least 2 messaging apps installed on their phone.

What's to stop people start migrating to Signal/Telegram/Viber/Keybase/etc.. once WhatsApp starts displaying ads?
Mid market has come a long way from 10 years ago when it was a coin flip whether or not you'd be a crime victim going there.
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I guess it depends on your definition of crazy. Yes, it's expensive for a keyboard but for something you spend 8+ hours a day interacting with (and will last forever) it amortizes over time nicely.

Or...to put it another way... I think $2.5 per switch is a perfectly reasonable price for an industrial-grade component that is rated at 50 million cycles of durability.
While they might not work well with Applescript, Electron apps can be scripted with a tool like https://electronjs.org/spectron.
Does Twilio handle the end-to-end encryption on behalf of its users? If so, they can still be intercepted or modified at the API level.
Taxing these workers isn’t enough?! Now CA wants to mandate where they eat? Hard pass.
Again, the Mountain View ban is for a one particular location which has lot of restaurants in the complex. Search for The Village, Mountain View. There are a lot of things wrong with these bans but having to drive to restaurants in not one of them.

(no way in favor of the ban, I like my free lunch very much)
So if millions of people are choosing to spend thier money on Apple products, is it possible that thier opinions and priorities may be different than yours?

BTW, all you have to do is look st their quarterly results and see what their volume of iPhone and iPad sales were year over year to see that neither is “sucking wind”.
An additional related article, from today: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/SF-s-proposed-em...
You eat in SOMA, I guess. I'm not familiar with San Fransisco, but is it an area with no restaurants or cafeterias?
And when employees bring their lunch to work?

Will they ban bagged lunches?

This is defying logic.

I want to know what restaurants are paying off what politicians.

Watch the next ban be on home kitchens- ha!

The bigger issue politicians should be addressing is an adequate housing supply.

High rent depletes any surplus income that otherwise would be spent eating out at restaurants.
About 200m in the older ASC models.[1]
There's a tradeoff between field of view and range, depending on lens option. It's likely that a vehicle would have a pair of forward looking units, a narrow beam long range one and a wide beam short range unit.

Advanced Scientific Concepts has been making good flash LIDAR units for years, price point around $100K. Continental acquired ASC and their team, and is transitioning this from a handmade product made by PhDs in Santa Monica, CA into a volume product made like an German auto part.

I saw the original optical bench prototype back in 2003 when we were preparing for the original DARPA Grand Challenge. They aimed it out a garage door into a sunlit parking lot and took 3D images. But it wasn't portable back then, so we couldn't use it.

[1] http://www.advancedscientificconcepts.com/products/overview....
Isn't the title a bit misleading? It's not the end of employees, it's allowing other entities to specialize in the 'HR' side of things - staffing, payroll, etc, and then contracting with those entities. There are still 'employees' in that sense, they are just 'employees' of the contracting firm.
Next Headline: "SF Residents Frustrated with Traffic From Big Tech Lunch Outings"

Subsequent Headline: "San Francisco Officials Require Tech Companies to Use Postmates"

At some point, San Francisco needs to accept what it's allowed itself to become. I've no affinity for tech companies or Silicon Valley, but if it wasn't for the wealth tech companies, nobody would want to go to San Francisco and it'd be a wasteland. I've never seen more feces or smelled more piss in a single area in any other city. If tech moved out, we'd be hearing about complaints about how "if only big tech invested in poor SF neighborhoods."
Hey there - I lead Twilio's documentation team. There's nothing worse than frustrating docs, I'm sorry ours are coming up short for you.

I'd love to talk more about it and hear how we can serve you better. And it looks like you work with Django a lot? So do I - maybe I can help if you've got a specific project in mind.

My email is abaker@twilio.com - would love to talk more about all of this.
desalination exists. the key word in is cheap. It's an economic and energy problem, not a water resource problem. They get water from Colorado because its cheaper than desalination. Once it's not, they will get water from the ocean.

also, all water requires money / energy to process before we drink it or use it on crops. It's just a matter of much money / energy you use depending on the source.
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Can Technology Innovation Advance the Hippocratic Oath in the Digital Age?
At all the offices I've been to without cafeterias, most people end up just bringing lunch and eating at their desk on most days. The hassle and cost of going out for food isn't worth doing everyday, and it's hard to find healthy options other than salad. Because of this, the actual impact of this for local restaurants is probably ~20% of what the naive estimate would be.
Well the "Golden Goose" has been doing its best to kill San Francisco, so,