skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Asking customers to wash plates for your business sounds like a food safety violation waiting to happen. I'd skip that part.

Also be sure to either make the reusable utensils/plates very visually unappealing or factor their cost into the delivery; if you provide them as any sort of loss-leader you may find yourself as much a provider of inexpensive tableware as you are a provider of food.
Batching small payments is not the hard part of creating a payment system that can support the entire Web. Harder parts include problems like UX (e.g. balancing the need to make a system people will want to use against the danger of users unknowingly running up a huge bill), getting buy-in from websites (why should they use your service in particular?), and just convincing people to sign up for yet another godforsaken account on the Internet.
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No, limited range is the most common and expected range for YUV videos. Many players don't look or respect the container metadata such as nclx in MP4 or the bitstream VUI flags and assume limited range.
Those are both great ideas.

We can certainly suggest to YC companies that they adopt side-project-friendly legal in their terms of agreement. Whether they choose to do so is entirely up to them, but it's worth bringing to their attention.

On international remote: for our Work at a Startup onboarding, we do ask your location and whether you're looking for remote roles. But I think you're right that we can go further by trying to help founders lower the bar to working with overseas engineers -- standard legal is a good starting point.

Thanks for these ideas, and I'll post with updates as I have them/if I get blocked, as maybe others here have experience in doing so successfully & smoothly.
I regularly go to a gas station that I know has better windshield washing fluid and squeegees, even though it's a bit more expensive than the other nearby option.
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> I would accept the argument of a college educated individual if they actively discouraged their children from attending university.

I was pushed into higher education. I'll try to accept or even encourage if my kids prefer vocational education. It's easy for me who live in Norway to say because

- many ordinary jobs now pay extremely well if you put some effort into it.

- moving from carpenter or electrician to engineer etc is way simpler than the other way around && real world experience seems to actually be appreciated if/when you later decide to take higher education.

And yes, I have a bachelor degree and I while it was more interested than I expected I think the vast majority of what I know comes from colleagues as well as reading the Internet.
If the author hasn't reached out, @zx2c4 will probably see this post. He's pretty active on wireguard-related HN posts.
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There were enough of Soviet troops to invade Japanese puppet Manchukuo, and they were planning on going to Hokkaido. [1]

Japan was plenty concerned, especially remembering the last time they met USSR military. [2]

In fact, memories of that smashing were arguably the reason Japan turned east to Pearl Harbour, rather than west to Soviet Union. [3]

[1] https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/red-army-i...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles_of_Khalkhin_Gol

[3] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13102802-nomonhan-1939
At this point, I think Nintendo just wants all our data.
It is disappointing to observe you argue so strongly from a position of deep and profound ignorance on this topic. have you no doubt?

Recommended reading: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-animal/
Imagine letting the nose fully roll over and having to time the ejection at max inertia... or you are doing a Dr. Strangeglove meets True Lies. So delightful.
Link to original source please, in text, from a reputable source (copy of a report). An interview of a senile official as a part of a dubiuous documentary is not a solid source, sadly. Also, argument to authority does not make the claim valid
Taxation is theft. Hence, private sector solutions.
I've recently read somewhere that market penetration of food delivery in the US is c. 3%, compared to c. 4% in UK (due to takeaway culture?) and c. 11% in China.

Trying to find actual source, but this was from a recent analyst report...
Next on The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer - "a Hot Pocket wrapper gave my child autism"
Gemux is the good enough multiplexer (for Go)
If a cable is picked up with another cable on it, the latter one just slides to the side?
> Citizens decide where to spend their money

That's the problem, to a large extent we don't because of the pervasive manipulation the advertising industry does to us, the industries reason for existence is literally undermine our free will.
If there's big negative externalities to advertising, wouldn't you ideally tax it and use the funds for initiatives to improve subjective well-being?
I would move the requirements.txt and pip install to after the user creation seeing as you'll invalidate that cache if your requirements change.

Best part is that was brought up as an issue in the article only to do the same thing in an example
True. But age is used as a good proxy for determining authority.
Me too pretty much, "currently hemorrhaging money due to children expenses, and going back to only drinking tap water sort of feels bad in ways that are hard to describe."

In my case, it will soon be 12 kids, and I hadn't personally purchased bottled water for normal home use.

The water situation is weird. I could never bring myself to buy bottled water, since it feels wasteful, but I got used to it being provided at work. This got me viewing the tap water as contaminated, but not having any alternate water at home. I end up dehydrated. I also drink lots of juice and milk, which isn't saving any money but it somehow feels less wasteful.
Maybe this is a reason why this person doesn't use Go? That'd be good enough reason to care, I'd reckon.
What about seatbelts?
At least in the United States, organized religion is officially supposed to be apolitical, at least if the church is organized as a 501(c)-3. So if you're asking whether the church can influence social policy, the answer is obviously yes, but officially it is meant to be "no." And in any case, donations are not really connected to that process.

But if you're asking whether churches do good directly, then the answer is obviously yes. The question is one of degrees. I believe that most church income is spent on church matters (salaries for ministers, staff, rent, evangelism, programs, etc.), and a relatively small amount of it goes to actual charity -- although this belief is a supposition of mine, so I am open to being corrected. In light of this belief, no, I don't think churches in practice can effect systemic changes in the well-being of non-employees. Certainly not nearly to the extent that the government has that capability.
I think the more accurate way to describe it is "(Soviet) propaganda meets (Western media) sensationalism."

Not that we don't do propaganda, but I don't think it was government orchestrated and political in this case.
How is Docker different from a virtual machine?
The trip time for airlines should include at least 2hr for transit + security line for departures and perhaps 30m-1hr for rental pickup on arrival.
The talk by Art Williams kinda shreds the the colleges to pieces. Not sure whether I agree with it, but it's nicely delivered.
This is a powerful example but for some reason it never dives into what happens when the 3rd stand appears :D
Yes, if you like communism then it is feasable to give away nuclear energy "for free". In the free market nuclear does not have a chance.

The military has specilized needs and is mainly interested in nuclear wheapons. Using the infrastucture to generate power is more or less a free "waste product" of maintaining that infrastructure.
I have heard this argument so many times, it almost seems like this has been drilled into American minds post fact to rationalize the only nuclear attack in human history. I can never take this argument seriously. There was no way there would have been more deaths unless the bombs were dropped. Imagine someone suggesting dropping a bomb in a dense city as an argument for “saving lives”. It seems absurd. Nobody knows how the exactly the war would have played out. So there was no guaranteed outcome. So, the bomb was dropped at best based on some probability.
> What I'd also like to know is why a cluster of gas stations ends up with different prices.

Same reason there are different buy/sell positions on the stock market. People have all kinds of different strategies and portfolios and the price at any given time represents a snapshot of these fluctuating values. Not everyone buys gas for the same price at the same time, not everyone is shooting for the same margin, some may use gas as a loss leader to encourage purchase of overpriced goods in the accompanying store, etc.
The real value has to increase, not just inflation. If the number goes up doesn't mean anything if everything goes up in equal amounts
Releasing these balloons is littering. It's exactly the same as throwing the empty balloon into someones garden or into a river. Get people to perceive it as littering and most will stop releasing balloons, or will no longer perceive it as cool or pretty. Make it seem gross. Shame any events that do this on instagram - that's probably a good start.

Then maybe we can get started on cigarette butts, the one thing that is bizarrely socially acceptable to litter anywhere - even in places with a strong social stigma for other littering.
Also there are some Android apps that ask you to click ads after a certain usage. Even though I have reported the app no action was taken.
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Oh, I definitely agree. I just don't think anyone else is on board with me. There should be UN forces that help steward our earth from dipshit despots.
Except straws make up less than a percent of ocean plastic, while almost half is fishing gear. Fishing is destroying the ocean for that and several other reasons. Even if we're wildly successful and completely outlaw straws and a dozen other things, the impact of the real problems is going to outweigh all of the former victories.
It's impossible for some other reason.

Namely, await isn't a matter of just inserting some compiler-defined behavior at a specific point. It requires rewriting the control flow of the surrounding function. The await! macro did this by invoking a magical unstable keyword `yield`, but even that still has to be done within the current function (e.g. the implementation of await! must be a macro, not a function).
Violation in the US, maybe not in China.
That's covered under the whole "erasing the notion of blocking on an operation".

And besides, conceptually that's no different than yielding back to the OS thread scheduler.
Ha ha, yes. Seen them many times when in Mumbai. They are an "institution". IIM Ahmedabad and Harvard Business School have done case studies on them. They are supposed to be very organized and rarely make a mistake in delivery. There's even a Bollywood about them, The Lunchbox:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lunchbox
I'd wager that nobody would complain if Google donated Go to an open organization such as CNCF [1]. The CNCF is a good fit because it already hosts the world's most prominent Go projects, including Kubernetes and Prometheus.

While Google is certainly a big bish in that pond, there are plenty of other big fish to balance them out, including Cisco, Red Hat/CoreOS, Github, IBM, Intel and Docker.

Or invent a new organization. Call it "the Go Foundation". Make sure it's independent and has the bylaws and administrative structure to prove it. It's worked out pretty well for Python [2].

[1] https://www.cncf.io/

[2] https://www.python.org/psf-landing/
As an aside, the "Oath family" is not in my opinion GDPR compliant. Burying opt-out at least 4 pages down (I don't know, I never found the actual opt-out page) in obscurantist language is a dark pattern.
This is something I appreciate. Car dealerships are an eyesore, so it's nice when they group together somewhere.
It may not be a huge impact, but it's one of the easiest things to solve. It's just pointlessly messy and doesn't need to be a thing.
Looks like the central environment ministry is doing its job discovering and cracking down on these offenders.

Good.
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The DOM is a completely separate unrelated specification. https://dom.spec.whatwg.org
It's certainly not atypical.

AOSP for another example.
You're right, and with that said I think you have some pretty interesting thoughts on this.
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I’m about to start learning css/web stuff and have been overwhelmed with the mass amount of tutorials out there. How is this one, as objectively speaking as possible? I’d only be interested in the book, so what makes this worth $20?

(My background is in physics, and I’m currently programming mostly functional stuff with C++ and Python, if it matters.)
I thought it was obvious to everyone that this is littering, but I forgot how stupid people are.
No one says the business can't wash the plates themselves as well.
Yes, but there seems to be a failure to recognize that you're transferring the cost of setup onto your users, often (almost always) without their knowledge, and definitely not any kind of meaningful consent.

Personally I'm of the opinion that if you charged a user for your app, and then require that data be provided to an arbitrary third party, then that user should be allowed to get a refund for your product. Similarly if you ship an update that invades a user's privacy then they should be entitled to a refund - you just rob them of functionality (the ability to use your app).
Have two boxes. The courier delivers one and picks up the other.
But can it create Penrose tilings?
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Is cardboard that is dirtied with food oils actually recyclable? I thought this is not the case.
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Pick-up on last drop-off. Like glass milk bottles.
Reminds me when I bought my second car. I wanted to test drive 2 different cars at a couple dealerships. I called ahead to the first one and asked if the model I wanted was available. They said yes, and asked what I wanted to pay for it. I totally low-balled them because I didn't care at this point. When I got there they gave me the price I offered. Never test drove the second car...
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Government regulation is a quick substitute for economic incentive. Mandate that delivery services have to charge $$ per box or utensil, and you'll see the counts drop pretty quick. Same happens in grocery stores in several states in the US.
I use all kinds of defined data structures in my JavaScript applications. Defining such as an interface is one TypeScripts biggest wins. W3C also owns XML and XML Schema which are all about defining data structures on the client side.
Two self-driving startups team up to build a different kind of Lidar
I feel the opposite way: it's insane that Stockfish, running on CPUs and crude handmade heuristics, is able to keep up at all.
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Quick reminder that leap seconds smear is also required for Java 8+.
It is obvious that at least Eastern European jews, as oppose to Sephardi (and North African and near eastern Jews, who are genetically more identifiable as ethnic Jews) are a very mixed bunch indeed, if can even be considered “Jewish” in any meaningful way other than culturally.

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms3543#results
Well, to start, corn is highly subsidized. This means corn syrup is cheaper than it should be, making soda and most processed foods cheaper than healthier options.
How often do gas stations franchise and expand locations within a similar region?
The video is like it came from some alternate reality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0CT8zrw6lw
Angular for example. They even hire non Google contributors to work more closely with them and have contributors programs to include the community
Usually being hyped by people that apparently don't know the history of bytecode formats since the early 60's.
I would think diet
The trouble with a lot of UK "bakeries", unless they are not part of a chain, is they don't actually make anything. They just oven finish part-baked factory crap, or bake factory dough. So all it gets you is different branding on the plastic bag to go with the mass-produced taste.

A proper family bakery where bread is just the 4 basic ingredients or sourdough etc, and the pastries and cakes taste home-made can be really hard to find now.
> is that magnets also attract each other.

Electrons attract atomic nuclei (which is the part of the atom that fuses), normally they are too far away to matter, but if you replace them with muons (which are basically heavy electrons) then you can actually help the atoms come close enough because the muon attracts both.

Since the muon is heavier it orbits closer to the nucleus of the atom, which helps it cancel out the repelling force.

It's too bad muons cost too much energy to be useful this way, or we'd already have commercialized fusion.
Feedback: Improve the syntax? Why not just make it look like code?
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The PNaCL and Apple's variants are architecture independent.
My default-config Streisand server was compromised according to Vultr. Just a heads up because VPNs can’t really afford this.
I think I'm misunderstanding your point.

If you send a message to someone, or open a website, then necessarily you interact with a directory service (a telephone company, the message client's directory, DNS, etc).

For iMessage, apple's servers then route the message to the appropriate account, and their various documentation on this says they don't record anything more than necessary (I assume each account has a glorified mailbox in which the encrypted messages are stored - there is no part of iMessage that can be decrypted by someone other than the recipient, except the destination - in an ideal world the sender would be stripped once its in the mailbox).

If you load a webpage over https then no party in the middle knows what resources you pulled - alas they know the host because DNS queries aren't encrypted, and even if they were the IP addresses aren't, so with enough data it might be possible to infer destination for pages in hosting sites.

None of these include your location information - beyond IP based inferences.

The only people who have your location without explicitly asking is the carrier, and only because they can see you bouncing around towers
I have it committed locally, will push.
FTA: The Ontario Provincial Police say, “We can knock on someone’s door and say, ‘We’re so worried about you, can we come in and chat?’”

Yikes. I understand the positive spin is the police care about the wellbeing of at-risk people with these visits. But wouldn't it also be true that anything and everything the police observe and believe as a result of such a visit could also be used against the resident or others in the home?
Can wireguard be run in docker?
Sure, Stockfish is a very impressive piece of technology, and I'm not trying to take away from that.

The way I see it, and what stands out as really cool to me is that we seem to be living through a phase transition to the third major era of chess, based on what type of player was strongest:

500 AD - 1997 AD: Humans.

1997 AD - 2019 AD: "Classical" minmax computer chess engines.

2019 AD - ???: Reinforcement learning engines.

It's extremely exciting to witness.

Just like the invention of the car didn't make horse races obsolete, I wonder if we'll see high-level computer chess competition split into two categories, one where using pre-trained models is not allowed.
I guess the food-delivery industry could use some disruption. The plates would be cheap bento-boxes for easy stacking, possibly with some kind barcode for keeping track of them. The most benefit would come from groups of restaurants who work together to implement the same system and allow a more dynamic handling of the boxes.

Has anyone's grandparents used Schwan's?
This is correct. In fact, the following statement from the post is nonsense:

> For arcane reasons related to TV broadcast limitations, many video formats restrict the YUV color components to be in the 16..235 or 16..240 range instead of the full 0..255 range. Losing 14% of the already-barely-enough 8 bit dynamic range is bad enough, but it also often results in the black range starting at a quite visible grey value because most players don’t rescale the range. This is usually visible as ugly banding or blocking in dark scenes.

Of course players "rescale" the range. (It's not exactly rescaling, it's just that a value of 235 IS reference white in Rec. 709.) In fact, the thought if them not doing this is kind of crazy, as Rec. 709 (used in Blurays and elsewhere) as well as Rec. 601 explicitly use limited range YUV. Players that don't use limited range correctly would be out of spec and couldn't play a single Bluray disc correctly. So for the overwhelming majority of use cases, you want regular old yuv420p.

The author is picking up on something that actually happens, however. There are Blurays out there that have incorrectly converted YUV values. This happens when for example something is in limited range YUV, and then that data is passed to a converter that treats the data as full range YUV, and compresses it again to fit in limited range YUV. This "doubly compressed" data is embarrassingly common (maybe 5% or so of Blurays have this problem). If you get a Bluray like this, or any video with the same issue, the blacks will be bright grays and the whites will be dull (similar to how the author describes limited range YUV). The player on the end is reading the YUV values correctly, but the data has been doubly compressed so it only undoes one round of this.

The issue is well known in the pirate communities as an example. Reliable release groups always fix these broken Blurays in their encodes. This is usually described as "fixing levels" or something like that.
This is awesome! Haven't heard of this before.

It's definitely a great way to scale some of the challenges in recruiting for these startups.

A couple of ideas/suggestions:

- Clarify what is meant by "Visa Required". Is that an offer to sponsor/transfer or saying that you wont. I'm guessing the listings were scraped from AngelList, so it might have gotten lost in translation

- It would be great to open this up to non-engineering specific roles at those companies (perhaps in the future) -- It's getting hard to find good Designers, PMs, PMMs etc who are looking to work at these startups -- maybe not all roles but product specific ones.
I'm really hoping for a ban on tables next. https://imgur.com/a/JarB9mN
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In this vein, are there any company's currently selling viable compostable/biodegradable plastics? I know there is a big drive for straws, but packaging of fruit, vegetables (and food) is an important target as well.
I never had Ask Toolbar on my computer, why would you ask?

1 - I always read what I get proposed to install and disable what I don't care about.

2 - The JDK didn't had such "feature", only the consumer JRE
Oliver Stone is a professional conspiracy theorist.
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