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> 1) Ghost kitchens that only serve via delivery apps. You can save on rent by setting it up in an area with no foot-traffic. You can also get economies of scale.

You can't. This is the kind of a mistake that all first time entrepreneurs make. Delivery costs too much money. Logistics of getting your labor force to your kitchen is a nightmare.

> 2) Restaurants with dedicated entrances for delivery drivers. Baar Baar in NYC has a separate place where delivery workers can wait. In other restaurants, they have to wait in the limited dining area. One hopes that the workers still get to use restrooms & get some water, etc.

This was tried in NYC during first dot com. Remember purple shirts? They had a competitor with green shirts. That's the unproductive spaces. Rent hikes wiped those out.

Edit: Blind downvotes are laughable. Go walk into your local pizza place and talk to the owners. They will tell you why they are slowly dropping off all the apps. They are giving equivalent of a 20-30% discount in fees for the area they already deliver in.

Ghost kitchens are mostly scams. The ones that aren't are ran out of commissary commercial kitchens that cost an arm and a leg. The "ghost kitchens" are mostly not really legal, sometimes ran out of a house, marketing same stuff under different names. Most of the restaurant overhead for small places does not come from the rent of the floor space. It comes from the rent of the kitchen and compliance with the health codes. And, unlike say taxi commissions, health departments take no crap, which is why the ghost restaurants disappear rather quickly.

It is the "no one did it before" idea of people who have never ran restaurants. It always flops. If it did not, Union Sq Hospitality would have been doing it for years.
No, the A knot has the down-the-cable runs overlapping the around-the-cable loops. Which means if one of the down-the-cable runs lets go, it loses tension on the next. In B, since the around-the-cable loops are overlapping the down-the-cable, if tension is lost at one end there is less tension lost at the next step. The friction in A when the end is loose is much less than the friction in B, due to the entry point in B being under pressure of the loop around the cable.
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> Those point to wildly undervalued and wildly overvalued estimates of the fair market value of the developers' work.

Hrm. I would say that it indicates that there are two different types of market. There is the market for free, ethical extensions. This market is full of products that have no value, either being freely given away by their author, or having insufficient reach or utility to garner commercial success. Then there is the black market for remote access to millions of end user machines. This market is likely illegal, but plausible deniability allows unethical devs to sell access to end users on this market.

It should not surprise anyone that it's tough to get compensated when you don't charge anything for the product you sell. Despite the name "Chrome Web Store," I could not find any for-sale extensions on the featured page. It seems like it's not in the culture to pay for extensions, possible because most of them are low-effort and have little marginal utility.

The only people who are making money ethically on the Chrome Web Store are folks who are selling a service to which their extension is a portal. And I don't really see how it will ever be otherwise.
SQL Island is a very nice text adventure game that you play by typing SQL queries.

http://wwwlgis.informatik.uni-kl.de/extra/game/
Along similar lines, https://pro.globalforestwatch.org/ tracks suppliers causing deforestation via maps created from data collected by satellites operated by NASA. Transparency in these areas should give the market the inputs it needs to correct itself and stop buying from unethical companies.

Report:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/07/31/746192595/do...

Discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20589037
Hell, we cant predict what the US will be like 10 years in the future.

Data getting deleted is a good thing.
Yeah, but they are more precisely a function of environment. Diet, stress even sunlight affect hormone levels in a given individual.
Hmm, did they actually file the fingerprints? I did the same thing, but I specifically remember keeping the actual fingerprints (we used ink).
This looks like it needs a "Show HN" tag. A founder knew to show up and a contributing developer posted it (twice)
> it doesn't refer to an atmega328p

You're right, it refers to an ide. That definition is restrictive, it would imply that Arduino is not capable of running anything itself (you need a board for that). Or that I can run anything provided you can compile it from arduino ide(you can run gcc).

I'm sorry but whatever the official description is, for many people including me, runs on an arduino means runs on an at mega with a bootloader and maybe on some kind of specific board with funny connectors.

If you mean runs on a cortexM4 with 8megs of flash, say it I'm sure many people will understand. And doing AI (inference) on such boards has been done and demonstrated a few years ago and is still cool.

You know what ? I could play super Mario Wii u on a cortex m4 .. of course it was tongue in cheek as I was playing a video of the game on a cortex m4 plugged into a VGA screen. But technically I was right, my point being you can be right, and misleading.
Ask HN: What wiki/intranet do you use at your company?
At my new company we're looking to adopt an internal wiki/intranet and I was wondering what do you guys use where you work?

I know that big companies like Facebook have built their own solutions but curious to see what other companies use. For example, I recently came across Stripe's Home (https://stripe.com/blog/stripe-home), which seems to be their own internal version of a wiki/intranet.

Curious to hear about what solutions you've considered and/or what you like/dislike about what your company currently uses(:

Edit: Some people apparently just use Notion and/or nothing and just share docs with each other. Also curious to know if this is your experience
> You're basing your argument on cherrypicking one single pharmaceutical company that is doing exceptionally well recently because it had the second best selling drug of 2018

Well, the discussion was about the atrocious cost of HIV medication, and Gilead is the company that holds the patent on Truvada. You didn't provide a link, but http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/datafile/... suggests it's actually lower in 2019 at 10.94%.

From the linked Excel sheet there, there are 28 industries with higher net margins, and 65 with lower net margins. They're still doing just fine :).
It's to rub it in for Huawei.
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You are totally wrong in both your assumptions about what I said:

1st) PrEP solely protects against HIV. It doesn't protect against any other kind of STDs whatsoever. What is your solution here really?

2nd) Has it was clearly stated, I claimed it was your personal responsibility if you contracted STDs for not using protection "when you should". In case it's not clear, example of situations where you should use condoms: When you pick up someone for a one night stand in a bar for instance. Yet you decided to construct a strawmen of marital infidelity to go on with your point.
The Web Store Payments API is trash. I waded through the out-of-date, sparse documentation and examples, trawled stack overflow and 'Chromium Extensions' Google Group. Spent weeks of my life trying to find work arounds to various issues. Thinking of setting up a github repo with documentation about all the issues and workarounds. Shame on Google that they leave this online.

In the end, I couldn't get something satisfactory working, and went with Paddle for payments. Cost per transaction is quite high in our case ($0.75 on a $5 monthly subscription) but it was fairly painless to set up, and they handle VAT/sales tax. Would love to find a way to offer $3/month subscriptions without handling tax ourselves.
You may also enjoy https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA/Incident_Dashboard , which all the CAs responding to such incidents need to be aware of, and which shows that there is a rather large amount of proportionality, based on an appropriate degree of transparency and communication.
app stores are toxic wastelands. there's on the order of 1000 useful legitimate apps yet the app store is packed with 2,000,000 (ie 99.9% spyware)
I agree and here is a different perspective from history,. Venezuela had 4th highest GDP per capita in 1950. It's incredible how bad they managed since then. Source http://money.visualcapitalist.com/richer-poorer-venezuela-ec...
I can't want until you need a non-technical hire. Even if that means taking out the trash or answering phones. I just want to help DuckDuckGo succeed.
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To me this is like arguing that something like high frequency trading is ok because it doesn’t generate c02. The reality is that hundreds of millions in wasted human capital, particularly the best mathematical minds on the planet, is extremely costly. That much human capital, if allocated correctly, could likely do a lot to offset climate change, for example, among many other positive things.
For me, I figure 2-3 day trips made over a weekend cost me only 1 vacation day, so annually I get 2-3x as many days on trips for the same number of vacation days.

Of course, then you exclusively contend with weekend crowds. I dream one day the work week is culturally decoupled from M-F, and people's "weekend" is any two days of the week. It would mean less crowds for everyone and more regular business for tourist towns. K-12 school schedule is probably the chief impediment.
Charge an increasing amount for the API and subsidize our taxes with it?
He's homeschooled. He loves Minecraft and Kerbal.

But I think what did it the most is that the adults in his life are all self-employed and a bit stuck on their phones/laptops/tablets. I'm thinking this may end up skipping a generation.
If it were me, I would put each service on it's own wifi device/network and switch between networks based on my own whims. In a perfect world, it might be perfectly automated. But spending a minute to switch networks is a tradeoff I'd be willing in exchange for having the machine do what I want.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/53499/how-to-merge-multiple-...
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I tend to see more and more air-con hoses popping out of windows open enough to accomodate them whilst out and about during summers in the UK. Units get cheaper, demand increases. So I'd say yes.

For me, a two litter bottle of water, frozen and stood in a bowl in my bedroom with the window and door closed. Does wonders as draws out the water with condensation upon the bottle - lowering the humidity. Also cools the air.

Though I'm sure I'll get some form of aircon in the next few years.
So instead of making a choice between 2-5 candidates (major 2 plus a few independents/smaller parties), every voter has to rank up to 50 candidates (assuming ranked choice voting)? How do you expect voters to know the policy positions of that many candidates? They may as well be picking at random.

If not ranked choice voting, how would this even work?
Well it classifies Three Dog Night and Grand Funk Railroad as "Southern Rock" so it is certainly not perfect for other genre's either.
Goldman Sachs is spending $100M to shave milliseconds off stock trades
There is quite a difference between a steady stream of income, and some far off reward which you may or may not be able to achieve.

Nearly anyone can do the former, but only a few have the luxury to attempt the latter.
I'm guessing you could make bio-kerosene if you wanted to, though a lot of carbon goes into that too.
Just like breast cancer
‘Mosaic’ HIV vaccine to be tested in thousands of people across the world
I read that AC installation companies have been getting a lot of business in the past few weeks, and anecdotally I've heard from local businesses looking to install it as well. So I'd say yes, it'll definitely become more common.
Humanity is only the problem from the point of view of some humans, and perhaps other species.

The earth itself has no moral view on what should happen.
Can someone explain why proof-of-stake is not inherently monopolistic? It seems like a system where the more of a currency you possess, the more you can obtain, which is obviously unstable, right?
Oh, Genelecs are professional tools and an acquired taste for anything outside the studio.

I really hope no-one runs out and buys Genelecs for living room use based on this thread, without understanding what they're getting themselves into.
Honestly, more than anything it's just user preference.

There are some restaurants that are exclusive on certain platforms (UberEats for example is exclusive with McDonalds), so if you want that, there's only one game in town, but most people I know who use these platforms regularly (myself included) aren't using them for a specific restaurant. It's more like, "I want sushi! I wonder what is available on my platform of choice?"

Beyond they all have slightly different pricing models, but at the end of the day they all cost about the same.
An outside environment which shares ~50% of your genes, though.
The whole point of PoW is to be expensive. The security of the network is a derivative of the cost of running the nodes.
I found this mega helpful in terms of a building walk through. Can you point me to any other python walk through (not the tutorials, like ATBS) that build core things like this method-by-method and explain each method in plain language.
Fingerprinting kids is a regular thing in the US. I had it done when I was young, maybe 30 years ago. I believe it's used to help identify kidnapped (murdered?) children.

It was so long ago I don't know if they still do it or what's done with the fingerprints now.
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Because otherwise every voter would need to cast a vote on every single candidate for every single seat in the legislature. It's impossible to make informed choices with so many options.
That's my point. It's adding a story arc where there is none.

Unless there is evidence the two grave sites overlapped (in time) then the "theory" proposed is bad science. Again, it sets an unreasonable expectation. Science has enough problems right now. Using faux storylines isn't going to help.
It's a good time to do it as the arguments over widget sets and languages seem less important. Neither C or C++ seem in favour these days for desktop apps though maybe the next era can be Rust Vs Golang Vs ES2019
We don't need a field of study, just a new definition of the word.

Right now progress is More Jobs and More GDP. A lot of people wind up getting left out in the cold because progress jobs and GDP growth don't require helping everyone who needs it.

Maybe progress should mean ensuring every human is healthy, fed, housed, and has access to education and the global network.
I've been really wanting to auto store declarative pane layouts and default run commands for each project in a file and be able to recreate them programmatically to open / close a "project", like the Projects feature in Sublime.

For example, re-create a layout of multiple tabs with specific split panes for each project.

Previous attempts before this API were a struggle:

- You could almost do this with Saved Window Arrangements but not quite and there was no association to a project.

- You could also hack something with profiles if you're willing to make a profile for each project, but it still doesn't get you there.

- Bury Session is the closest which pretty much does what I want but it keeps all of the tabs running in the background. This can be a lot when you have 5-10+ tabs open each across multiple projects. No way to "sleep" a buried session that I could find.

- I also tried implementing it via the previous AppleScript API and it turned out to be a lot harder than expected to open "2 tabs with 3x2 split panes each and run commands x, y, z, ... in them". Then I called the AppleScripts via Python so I could template them more easily. I got about halfway there.
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The exclusive deal between UberEats and McDonalds is no more https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/16/20696711/mcdonalds-doorda...
Land usually appreciates. Houses depreciate just like cars, unless you constantly do expensive maintenance.
They just changed that in response to the backlash of the article from the NYT.
So a rate cut and then govt sponsored inflation.. hmm... not sure what to think. We do need China to buy agricultural products though. I like the idea of reducing fentanyl too. China needs to regulate the precursors.
It's quite clear that "kill the earth" is figurative language. Being pedantic like this doesn't really add to the conversation.
Yep, hence why I made sure to get the data sticker in the photo for the really curious. Also why I do "spot" tying instead of running the string all the way down the bundle, since that uses more string.

It's certified for high temp areas around exhaust,etc and hence non waxed (wax helps hold a knot). I normally worked on stuff outside of the fuselage which is where the more common waxed string is used. But obviously around engine areas, only certain string was certified. We also had to use high temp sting inside the leading edges of the wings (which is where a majority of all the wire is) since the bleed air ducts run through there too and cause higher temps (though not sure how high)
> why monetary velocity is crucial for the health of an economic system

I sincerely doubt it takes a university education to understand that more money changing hands is a good sign of a healthy economy. They do still teach civics and economics in high school.

It also doesn't take a degree to know that giving money to someone, or in this case something, with no incentive to act right is a bad thing.
Good old MediaWiki, the software running wikipedia, works great. There will never be a concern about scalability (LOL), licensing, product discontinuation, or data import/export.
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Modern asic farms require a lot of up-front investment in developing hardware. All it takes is for one person to think he can hurdle the cliff and he can raise a lot of money to do it if the reward is there, not unlike the first group of people to raise funds to develop ASICS for Bitcoin (which were orders of magnitude faster than the hardware available at the time). We know Bitcoin can cope with a 100x more powerful asic coming online— can these systems cope with a 100x more powerful VDF?
You can but should you.
Ah, I didn't know that. I thought there were other LPs in the fund.
Not in my experience of peak hours, no, never. Certainly not within the CBD, where I'm based.

Outside of peak hours is an entirely different story.
I suspect that many European buildings have good passive thermal insulation, because of colder and longer winters than in most of the US. This must help get by with fewer active cooling devices.

Also, European side-opening windows make it much harder to install an AC unit than American slide-up windows; in many cases your only option is a split system.
+1 for "Starting FORTH". FORTH is very different from any other programming language (system), so creating a tutorial for it was especially challenging. Brodie did an amazing job of turning it into something clear. I don't think FORTH is a good match for many problems today, but I think the book would be a useful example of how to explain things clearly.
They have construction liens in the UK as well...
Cyble – Cybersecurity Startup Solving Cyber Issues in Supply Chain
Industry Challenge:

Recent research suggests a large organisation has over 4700 suppliers. Often the suppliers connect with their customers through systems, data via electronic means, connect their systems with their customer network for their business activities. In 2018, 59% of companies experienced supplier-caused or related data breach, yet only 16% say they effectively mitigate supplier cyber risks. Organisations that experience data breaches, even if external companies caused those data breaches, suffer significant reputational, financial, and regulatory consequences.

Sadly, the overall maturity of supplier cyber risk management programs is virtually unchanged in the face of an increasingly challenging external risk and regulatory environment. Public research suggests that enterprises of all types are still way behind on instituting the governance and technology to wrap their arms around supplier cyber risks. The current practices are manual, non-integrated and point-in-time view. In our opinion, the current practice is unsustainable and provides a skewed, if not completely accurate, about the supplier cyber risks.

The Launch:

Two Australian software engineers, with a combined experience of over 30 years (ex- PwC, ex-Google, ex-BHP, ex-Telstra, ex-ANZ Bank) in Cybersecurity and MBAs from London Business School and Columbia Business School decided to solve this problem and launched Cyble. Within two months of the launch of the company, they released the first beta at RISE Hong Kong conference- Asia’s largest tech conference. The team is currently working with pilot/beta customers.

Market Traction:

The founders were funded from the idea inception and currently closing the second round of seed investments from Singtel Innova8, NUS Enterprise and Engrowth Ventures.

Reach out to Cyble @ contact@cyble.com.au
I'm not sure I really understand that happening in this case, the contest seems to want people to create new hardware, so this wouldn't use Amazon infrastructure.

It is a partial subsidy to the winner. So they aren't really selling shovels they're paying people to develop better shovels.