skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> investors step in and ruin small businesses

Food delivery platforms will get centralized. If not by investors, By Amazon. By someone.

Why ? Because consumers want that. It's more convenient. And probably network effects apply here.

With food delivery centralized, Dark, big centralized kitchens will win over restaurants(for most popular meals). They're just cheaper. It's just specialization and higher volume.

Long term, making delivered food isn't a good place for a small business. And that'll happen with subsidies or without.

BTW: in the future, in most industries, a small business will only survive by making rare and unique things.
It's important to keep in mind that the reason we use vector clocks in the first place is because timestamps also can return the incorrect order of events because of time drift, delivery times, etc.
Its an audio transcript of the interview. You can listen to it on the podcast which is probably better (but it seems I cant - hn hug of death maybe)
Is their intention to set a precedent with a sympathetic court?

I know a lot of other actions around the country are pushing the limits, hoping to get a favorable ruling and establish precedent (see: case vs. ACA being unconstitutional).
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About 50 years ago, Time Magazine ran an article on somebody's list of the 100 leading intellectuals in America. I remember almost no names from the list, but do remember a definition from an official at Harvard, a dean perhaps: An intellectual is a scholar who is living beyond his scholarly means.

Honestly, public intellectual has always been an odd calling. Who would you define it? One who writes serious, scholarly books, yet also articles in the popular or semi-popular press? The difficulty might then be in judging whose serious books are serious.
How many people walk by the shop every day? An exercise in computer vision
Yes, Ethereum is an outlier in the sense its ICO wasn't a complete scam.
I thought that would be the case. I tried it in French and I understood the app much better.

Though one other thing, it didn't seem that clear how to add words to flashcards. I later figured out that it automatically adds them when you click translate, but might be better to have an option to add them or not? Or at least a little notification saying "flashcard added".
Basically blame isn't a zero-sum game. Trying to do "blame calculus", figuring out ways to make the numbers add up to 100%, is folly. Two people or more people can be fully to blame at the same time.
thats not distinct from funding models that you respect, don't you find that at least weird?
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only ever remember it being big with young kids/teens as a sort of alternative/escape from mainstream messenging apps before they jumped to other things like IG etc
Probably wouldn't happen -- it would require one class to rub elbows with another.
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yeah the term is older than gaming, but I brought it up in reference to DoTA.
>scam ICO

No need to be redundant.
The Germans have this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codetermination_in_Germany
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Agreed. Android and iOS for that matter are definitely deep into problematic duopoly territory.
You should have seen it when it was just AT&T.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System
As someone who has quit a software engineering job, partially over ethical objection to how my software was being used, I really appreciate this thread and this topic. Even if your role is just “3rd engineer grunt from the left” you share the ethical blame and consequences with the other actors in the entire system.
But thick, deep wings are not exactly known as the very definition of aerodynamic efficiency either. Are we sure that a sleek long tube added to a well-designed wing can be beaten by a wing that is full of compromise to accommodate seating?
Optics put a lot of design constrains on telescopes that mean they'll always be large items, when you're trying to look really far away at really dim objects you just need a lot of surface area to collect as much light as possible and the size of the object you can resolve is directly linked to the size of the aperture of the telescope you're using.

Synthetic apertures using interferometry may solve that eventually but we're not there yet it looks like for really high resolution images.
>On planes, belts are to prevent you getting thrown in to the ceiling during turbulence.

e.g. Billy Mays
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> If they have to give it back, will they have to take on even more funding from a VC

That seems remarkably optimistic. The two likely options here seem to be dissolution with heavy fines for all involved, or something even more serious than that.
You can only get one big deal if you have choice. If the only CC provider was Mastercard then no deal would be had for Google.

It's quite possible that Fiber succeeded in accomplishing it's primary goal of stimulating broadband investment by incumbent providers.
That's $2000 and $3800 in today's dollars
Chase is adding back a binding arbitration provision effective August 10, 2019
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Nice. That machine looks pretty easy to DIY with an arbor press and a temperature controlled melter for the plastic.
Apple's Audacity
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At $10 a gallon there would likely be civil war.
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Apple has made several moves toward tivoization of the desktop line to bring it in line with the mobile devices.

You can't have a walled garden where all apps must be signed by Apple to run if the GPLv3 program says you must be able to replace it if you so desire. Once Apple finishes locking down the desktop against unapproved uses, GPLv3 can't be on it. It is why GPLv3 is already very very banned on their mobile devices' Apps.
Kik is Canadian technically no?
> In order to make the molds, you must also buy a CNC machine.

Manually controlled machines also exist.
What is the best inbox alternative as Google has stopped its 'Inbox by Gmail'?
HOAs Are Popular Where Prejudice Is Strong and Government Is Weak
You're right, I'm mistaken - I didn't realize even 100% dark chocolate is half fat by weight.
Agreed. I wish there was better antitrust controls across the economy. Unfortunately the way the U.S. government enforces antitrust measures is incredibly pick and choosey. Therefore there's an opportunity cost to focusing on certain companies.
If we take climate change activists at their word, the answer is a resounding YES. There is a full-blown crisis brewing, one that can only be resolved with massive social changes ("if everyone does a little, we’ll achieve only a little" [1]). The NYT should be pushing much more draconian measures.

[1] https://www.withouthotair.com/c1/page_3.shtml
The shmublic investors don’t have access to seed/series-A deals.

I personally feel that rando cryptocurrency vs Uber post IPO has similar alpha, but obviously quite different beta.
No.

Leading a completely utilitarian life based only on the metric of estimating the emissions produced by your actions (and then, only first-order effects) is not only completely infeasible, but is also not a solution to global warming.
There's some discussion of how this ties into Mozilla's mission at https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/06/04/the-web-the-world-n...
Yep, Boeing has talked about a Blended-Wing-Body airliner but it turns out passengers don't want to ride in the middle of such a monster.

The flying-V solves that.
I like it. I like how I can click words or phrases in the article and it translates them directly. The video section es muy bueno también. Gracias por tu ayuda!
They did have them manufactured, and they shipped some of them. http://www.dcsolardistribution.com/products/mobile-generator... It's a trailer with solar panels.
Isn't food the underpinning of most cultural traditions? It seems to me like society (as defined by generations of civilization) has already determined that food has value for it's experience and community aspects. Maybe it's more than just an "HN class of people" thing and you could examine your own perspective?

[1] The cultural significance of food and eating - https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...

[2] How Food Shaped Humanity - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/how-food-shaped-...

[3] Understanding Culture: Food as a Means of Communication - https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
Whiteboard and then a design doc [1] on Google Docs.

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This comment is a great insight into the state of modern thinking on ethics. In this thinking, ethics are determined by economic result. I guarantee you that almost any Facebook employee could walk away with the clothes on their back and find a great school in Wisconsin for their children while they pay cash for a modest home. They could work for any of a hundred employers there that would benefit from their skills.

There are schools and jobs waiting in Georgia and Texas and Wyoming. They aren't Valley jobs. But they offer comfortable lives.

I appreciate the honesty of the parent post. It's all about the money and lifestyle. The part that makes me blink is that they think this somehow alters the ethics in a positive way.
that was an answer to "when did France become so conservative?"
So what the speed, this doesn't seem like it can fly as fast, which naturally reduces fuel needs.
The actual Feynman notes are now available for free, online
That has ceased to be a serious consideration for American antitrust enforcement for decades. That almost literally describes every company in the S&P 500.
So I want to understand this concept better.

What if Zuckerberg declares a new mandate for Facebook; something legal but manifestly harmful to the company. Say he decides, "let's shut down ALL advertising and sell ALL of our work computers for a penny and make everyone take turns doing their job on a single PDP-8 located in Siberia." Is there any recourse for all the investors/stockholders other than scrambling to sell ASAP?

Or put another way, is Zuckerberg legally allowed to run the company into the ground if he felt like it?
Obviously there is more market concentration in telecom than say in frozen yogurt. But telecoms face competition (from DSL, cellular, and satellite) in almost every market. Comcast, for example, has 47% broadband market share even in its own footprint: https://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/news/2019/04/24/wha.... They also face competition across local markets. Verizon followed Google Fiber to the $70-80 for gigabit price point, even though it competed in no markets with Google.
AUR package for easy install on Arch: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-national-park/
There's literally an article on the front page talking about how Apple is really a privacy as a service company based on all of their marketing talking points about privacy.
That would only work if every browser implemented it but for the average user, choosing between a blank-slate approach where they have to parse through terminology they don't understand, and an alternative offering "sensible" defaults, I suspect most users would just pick the easier latter option.
68% of ‘independent investors’. Would the vote have been less than 50% under an ordinary structure as well? I can’t tell if Zuckerburg would still have been fine under ‘normal’ circumstances.
Student engineers create bionic hands for a boy burned in a horrendous crash
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The recent argument against traveling is a proxy war. Heating, cooling, electricity and driving are the things that make up 75% of the emissions, plus about 20% for industrial production. All of the points I listed can be replaced by sustainable alternatives TODAY (ok, maybe not all people in one year, but the products are available) without us having to reduce out comfort in a major way. We could travel 5 times more than now when we switched away from technology mostly invented about 120 years ago and still have a better environment.
We're talking at different levels. You keep repeating obvious facts everyone already knows as if they're novel, and I keep pointing about that all those facts clearly imply that Apple wants to make money off of you through abusive lock-in practices.

(I really doubt the sign in with Apple button is going to be available in Android apps. If you create an account with the button, it becomes ever so harder to switch to Android. How convenient for Apple.)

I don't think continuing this discussion is helpful. Have a nice day.
Parts of that book are available online[1] for free. If not for that book I would never have understood how to apply Bayesian stats to problems that interested me.

[1] http://camdavidsonpilon.github.io/Probabilistic-Programming-...
+ have a lot of close friends. According to an 80 year Harvard study, the quality of close relationships was among the biggest factors in long term health.

“The surprising finding is that our relationships and how happy we are in our relationships has a powerful influence on our health,” said Robert Waldinger, director of the study, a psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. “Taking care of your body is important, but tending to your relationships is a form of self-care too. That, I think, is the revelation.”
> https://contributor.google.com/v/beta

If this is a serious effort it's incredibly disappointing.

> Publishers don't like it (I don't know why), and I think I recall consumers not wanting to pay enough.

Not wanting to pay enough for what? To even justify giving us a choice? Inexcusable.
Actually you wouldn't have to duct the whole house: humidity does not concentrate like heat does, but rather diffuses. So even if you only have a dehumidify one part of the house, the moisture level would level average out (over a given period of time).

Though this does depend slightly on air circulation, but a couple of tubes (e.g.) connecting floors would help balance things out.

Japanese companies produce many quality products that deal with indoor air quality:

* https://news.panasonic.com/global/topics/2017/53539.html

There are stand alone units as well:

* http://www.survivingnjapan.com/2012/08/a-guide-to-dehumidifi...

All that said, a proper building envelope is the first thing that needs to be done. Don't know enough JP codes and construction techniques to comment on that though.
I enjoyed the linked write-up, and also the "M&T vs dowel" and "M&T vs dowel revisited".

Have you ever used your joint-strength rig to determine the minimum M&T geometry or dowel configuration required to make the joint fail before the surrounding wood fails? It seems to me that if all the joints are stronger than necessary anyway, your tests were really testing the joint, plus the wood (which you tried to control), plus your own assumptions about the equivalency of different joinery techniques, rather than just the joints.

I'd also be interested to see a test of hybrid joints, such as a screw at the end of the joint under compression, and an M&T or dowel at the end of the joint that's under tension. A screw-head won't pull out through the wood, if it's mostly being pushed and sheared rather than pulled. I'm thinking a dowel at 45 degrees on the tension side, and then drive a perpendicular screw into the end grain through the compression side.

Your tests also suggest that, since the joints tended to fail along the glue line, dimpling the tenons, or adding ring-shaped grooves to the dowels--rather than the grooves parallel to the long axis or slightly helical that are typical in pre-cut dowels--would increase the joint strength. The interior surface of the mortise or dowel hole would have to be similarly roughened. Perhaps thread the dowel hole, as if for a larger bolt, and thread the dowel rod, as though for a smaller hole, and let the wood glue bite into both like the threads of a screw?

<< ###wood### << ###wood###
<< ########## << #/\#/\#/\#
~~~glue~~~ VS ~~~glue~~~
########## >> /#\/#\/#\/ >>
###wood### >> ###wood### >>
Hey thanks for commenting! I checked out pykka in a previous blog post about actor models: https://bytes.yingw787.com/posts/2019/02/02/concurrency_with...

I did a deep dive on thespian instead, I think it’s used at scale by GoDaddy. One of the issues I ran into with both libraries is that there’s not much of an OTP-like library built on top of them, which makes them difficult for production usage.
Yet collectively as a society we are paying more than $10/gallon. It's just that the costs aren't paid at the pump.
Look at profit margins though. Apple and Facebook are consistently 30%+ and Google is 20%+. Verizon, Comcast, and the rest of the telecoms are in the low to mid teens or worse. That's pretty close to the S&P 500 average margin.

So while it appears that wired telecom is a monopoly they don't make money like monopolies. Compare Google Fiber with Google Plus. Google had people literally begging them to put Fiber in but backed off because they couldn't make (enough) money. Plus was a hugely important project for them but they canceled it because they couldn't beat Facebook.

We've seen major tech companies take aim at the monopoly/duopoly product of a rival and they've all failed:

Microsoft poured billions into Bing, Maps and mobile for little market share

Google couldn't dent Facebook with Plus

Amazon and Facebook's phones fell flat
>Who even bought this stuff? Doesn't this throw up all the red flags of a scam ICO?

What’s amazing is they raise nearly $100M selling the token, spent $5M in legal fees and then began raising additional legal fees (over $5M to date) from the public to continue to fight the SEC and anticipation of future litigation with the SEC.

They raised $100M and can’t be bothered to use that for their own legal fees...And the public is apparently happy giving them millions more, it’s insanity.