skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20654625
Did you end up trying all three? Was the experience essentially the same?
And that assumes that a restaurant business that's geared to delivery and pickup exclusively/primarily is possible. Which AFAIK is mostly limited to pizza and Chinese in most places--where delivery is mostly a solved problem.
Why do you need the GitHub API for this? Can't you just clone the repository and log all the commit authors?
The Bw-Tree
Next time someone tells you, "Well even the poorest of us today eats better than a king in the middle ages" think about this quality "inflation". What is the current cost today of putting high quality, wild meat on the table along with seasonally ripe and fresh fruit? What about high quality beer with no use of malt substitutes?

There are a number of measures, availability being one, where our modern food production system shines but on a quality measure it really falls flat against many times throughout history. The caveat there is obviously "history" is gigantic and runs the gamut from poor slaves eating gruel and starving to a patrician in Rome during its height or to a hunter gatherer in a food rich environment.

All that to say, I don't think this comparison is so simple, it is incredibly nuanced.
Communism, mate, that's communism come true.
This thread is full of people who have invested in UBER and want to justify their sexism, unprofitability and hubris in order to gain profit at the expense of everything.
This article says that 'mathematically' it could have happened before but leaves it at that. Does anyone know what kind of math? And the prerequisite knowledge I might need to know (subjects, bonus points for good textbooks). I myself have a pretty firm knowledge of undergrad and some grad level physics. But I find myself recently interested in (big time/spacial scale) cosmology and also quantum phys, but I don't really know where to begin.
I used to manage address data in a insurance company in Tokyo. We had about 20% of all Japanese addresses in the database.

It was a challenging job.

Parsing the new addresses, normalising them and matching them to existing addresses was a major effort.

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism publishes electronic data about historical addresses as huge address changes have been done over time with the creation of new cities and metropolitan areas. That all has to be factored in when trying to normalise a pre change address.

Rural addresses get weird. Sometimes we had to try and find anomalies on a map to check that they were possible addresses.

In the end, the biggest help to find mistakes in the data is to send a postcard to that address. If it gets returned then investigate the reason.
This is a short summary and discussion of the original publication here

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/the-bw-...
GitHub provides an option to use a special noreply address when creating your commits: https://help.github.com/en/articles/setting-your-commit-emai.... From the command line, well, I think it's not that difficult to see that your email address is going to be attached to it because it's right in the output of git log.
It's an interesting concept, but the "frog in the pan" fable has no scientific merit. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog#Experiments_and_a...
Problem is Google's never deprecated a logistics network before. We really have no idea how the company would try and operate in that area. They've certainly been careful not to deprecate services in Cloud. But yes, you're right about customer service. Google Play/YouTube springs to mind on the developer/creator side.
I don't think he needed to go there - to "network effects" - when "because VC and founders want to cash out while they can" was cause enough even back in April.

At this point with the economy's decline obvious and hastening I think it's a safe bet there'll be a dearth of unprofitable IPOs at least through 2021.
EdgeNet: Semantic Scene Completion from RGB-D Images
Uber eats doesn't even operate in outer suburbs, Menulog/eatnow does
It's a joke, punning on the headline and cryogenic freezing
Prey is fantastic. Such a hidden gem.

It’s one of those games that I’m really looking forward to play again the next day. Those are few and far between these days.
Other than fleecing retail investors (which is of course a wholly plausible reason), I seriously didn't understand why Uber didn't take the opportunity provided by kicking Kalanick out to revamp pricing as needed to be profitable.

If you have to do it sooner rather than later anyway, why not do it sooner? They knew (or should have known) that self-driving wasn't going to be there for decades. Why not bring prices to sustainable levels and let the chips fall where they would?

The cynic suspects it's because various people could continue to milk the cow for a while.
It honestly doesn't strike me as a service for any place other than metropolitan areas.

In nyc it's usually someone traveling 2mi or less on a motorbike/bicycle. The food comes quickly and relatively cheaply.

In the suburbs someone drives a car 10-20mi round trip for what is usually a chain restaurant. No aspect of this makes sense to me economically.
> What in particular have you found success with that helps?

* I bought two bathroom mats from Krogers, wrapped them around the arms of my office chair, and duct-taped them in place. Looks like hell, feels soft and cushy.

* I bought a bunch of those practice tennis balls (the wimpy kind that don't bounce worth a damn) and have one at home, one at work for squeezing when I take a break or watch TV.

* I wear one of those Ace bandage thingies around my right forearm.

* I have one of those ergonomic keyboards from Microsoft.
Huge improvement.

* THE MOST HELPFUL: I do curls and range-of-motion exercises with 10-lb dumbbells when watching TV. Nothing dramatic, a few sets of 30-40 curls plus rotating my wrists, and then some leaning-over pushups against the couch. You wouldn't believe how much better I started feeling.
World’s worst video card? [video]
Easy monitoring (free, open source) without Nagios
>2. Better Service, almost everyone I know has stopped using Uber due to service issues, most people seem to like Lyft better

My experience with Lyft was cars in generally worse condition and fewer PoC drivers and the dumb fist thing. I stopped using Lyft a long time ago so I'm sure that's changed. Uber has been rock solid for me and has only gotten better. UberEats has especially improved a lot in the past year.

EDIT: The PR controversies pretty much disappeared along with Travis and along with Uber's hyper-growth. I question that avoiding the "PR controversies" was the right move, sometimes.
I've brought over at least 10 people to telegram but only one uses it regularly. The main reason is notifications don't deliver.

I'm not sure if telegram app developers suck or if IOS, Android and battery saver apps are in collusion with Whatsapp.
As a consumer I rather like it when I know how much filler is added in my products

1. I want to be able to compare w other brands
2. I don’t want any filler at all!

If chocolate goes up in price, I’ll pay more to get the real stuff, or buy less of it. I most certainly won’t buy a bar of food wax with chocolate solids, or whatever Hershey is
This is handled the same way 24/7 availability is handled. The company employs some multiple of the employees it needs to handle regular demand during the day. Some of these employees happen to like working at night. Others like working during the day. All are required to put in some number of hours per week in order to qualify for the perks that come with full time employment.

When a spike in demand occurs, a page goes out to all employees who currently aren’t on the road requesting that all those who can do so safely proceed immediately to an area that has unfilled demand.
I have the “ultimate hacking keyboard” and one of the thumb modules they have planned is a track point.
Isn’t it actually easier to recognize something new? Anything that still excites me must be fairly great.
The slower Gulf Stream is raising sea levels and causing a hotter Florida
Not composition.

I’ll do the math. But I do want wt%
Black Hat Talk About ‘Time AI’ Causes Uproar, Is Deleted by Conference
Even in the suburbs there are non-chain restaurants and they are usually much closer than 10 miles. There is no particular reason food delivery would not be successful there.

(and I can confirm, it works great, we do it all the time)
It's nice that you've made this high effort post to dispute all the "haters" but I'm still confused as to how I can order food for a 5% markup, while some driver gets paid for 45+ minutes of his time, gas and car maintenance to deliver it to me. Something doesn't add up here, and your uppity attitude just makes me think you're heavily invested.
They've been doing this for years.

Back when I first created a GitHub profile, I started getting emails to an email that I don't usually give out. This eventually led me to GitHub after some mentioned seeing my profile which led to me improving my Git knowledge and finding out how they did it.
Just adding another data point, my Kinesis Advantage only lasted 6 months before it started experiencing phantom key strokes.

Sending it in to get repaired would have costed almost as much as getting a new keyboard since I don’t live in the US.

I replaced it with a Microsoft Sculpt that has lasted for years now.
I think it’s a cool tech demo. And that part is honestly impressive. But I find it a pain to play. You are constantly watching your back in 360 degrees on multiple planets at the same time.
I called out “Brooklyn car services” specifically because I still see such operations around town. I’m assuming they survive because there’s a group of users who are beyond the reach of new technology.

I’m sure there are taxi services that offer conveniences similar to Uber, but none have enough name recognition for me to name even a single one off the top of my head. It’s possible that they need marketing help. It’s also possible that they aren’t looking to grow beyond whatever niche they serve now.
Not sure if this is sarcastic or not...

EVE is from 2003. DotA is too. Magic Online was from 2002. RTS goes well back into the 90s, simulators back to the 70s, etc etc. I'll give you Battle Royale and I don't even know what Rocket League is but most of these are not recent at all.
Ask HN: Are Ghosts Real?
I always find myself to be curious about other peoples’ spiritual beliefs. For insstance I consider myself to be a person “of science”, but at the same time if I wake up in the middle of night I find myself to be afraid of ghosties.

What do you all believe in?
GrapheneOS is an open source privacy and security focused mobile OS
I am dyslexic
Had a similar issue.

Then I went zerocarb and it faded fairly quickly.
Yes, the poor could solve all of their problem if only they had the good sense to be rich.
> You don't see these college students go after someone with actual power

What a bizarre claim.

Protesting their own college administration, and getting arrested for it: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/05/08/arrests-...

Hunger strike, football team strike, and many other protests resulting in university president resignation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%E2%80%9316_University_of_...

Protesting the CIA director, who I hope counts as someone "with actual power" - https://upennstatesman.org/2016/04/01/violent-protests-end-t...

I imagine almost every college in the country has had protests against the president: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/11/0...

Arrested protesting at their state government: https://www.concordmonitor.com/UNH-students-protesting-votin...

Arrested protesting ICE: https://middleburycampus.com/45615/news/two-midd-students-ar...

Yale students arrested protesting their administration: https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/Yale-students-arrest...

Arrested protesting Israel occupation: https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/15-jewish-college-students-a...

You can find many more examples with ~5 minutes of research.
I guess you're entitled to your opinions too!
Suppose there are two profitable companies. One returns profits to investors with a regular dividend. The other spends a similar amount of money on share buybacks.

Fundamentally, they are both good companies to buy for similar reasons. Unless something changes to make the company unprofitable, both could continue doing this indefinitely.

They both make the stock price harder to interpret, but for different reasons. In theory the price of a stock that pays a good dividend should be a sawtooth curve - it drops when the dividend happens. Chartists have it hard. What else is new?

The low-information investor probably shouldn't be watching the price at all. They should either buy an index fund or be doing buy-and-hold. So this doesn't affect them.
People on Twitter don’t know how git works, it seems.
The article gives a couple possible “firsts” for escape rooms, on of which is specifically described as an attempt to bring _Crimson Room_ into real space. Maybe you were just looking for a reference to _Saw_?
How about the so-called "free media" whose only mission seems to be creating anxiety and outrage for advertising revenue?
All those drivers would just start the next day driving for Lyft etc. Most drivers already drive for multiple platforms, so it would be a mostly seamless switch. Just losing one platform in the gig economy doesn't remove either the customer demand or the drivers.
I was thinking along these lines. Wish i had time but good that you have made considerable progress.

My motivation was different though. I wanted to break barrier to code, make cleaner/efficient/consistent code, automated tests ingestion and for the ability to port code to other languages from metadata. If you could focus also on those lines too - it would be useful for the general community too.
You can do this from the browser.

View any commit of the user on GitHub and add ".patch" to the end of the URL. Done.
> So, anytime, in 20 minutes, 7 of effort and 13 waiting, get a pizza faster, better, and cheaper than frozen, carryout, or delivery.

I don't know where you live, but in Manhattan your version will be cheaper, but it will definitely not be better and most likely will be no faster.

Neither your stove nor your oven can match a commercial pizza oven.
The Flawed History of Graphical User Interfaces – Featured Stories – Medium
As an engineer who did this for US addresses for about 6 years, my hat goes off to you. salute
That is nice of you to provide such a well-written answer, and a human response at the end.

Your reasoning seems quite obvious now with hindsight after having given it some thought; and yet, even still I have such a strong inclination that ".........." is a special number? Why? I guess it really is entirely my cognitive bias, because I can't find a reason for it.

But I should have known better as I've--probably obviously being a user here--encounteted binary more than just a few times. And even still, it never occurred to me that 10 in binary is just ".." And then 100 in binary is 1 order of magnitude of "..," 4. And 1,000 is just two orders of magntiude, 8. But still, intuitively this does not seem as natural as 10, and I guess that is completely cognitive bias.

Am I retarded to not have realized this? Maybe, but I actually was so curious about this that I tried to quiz some colleagues by asking what 1000 and 1001 is in binary and only one person got it right immediately, probably by understanding orders of magnitude and not by rote memorization. All the others got it by counting in binary, and one final person was annoyed and questioned why I was asking about binary (oops, sometimes being inquisitive is not socially acceptable). By the way, I work with app developers, most of whom do not have backgrounds in computer science, same as myself.
No, at least not when my story was "re-upped", as they term it. The only indication that a story was rescued is observing the timestamp on the homepage vs. the timestamp on its comments page.
This is precisely why we have capitalism
Am i? Have i? I only think that was a pointless article....she's surprised the tiger bit her after she poked it with a stick?

Why are you so worked up about the english grammar?
>What is the current cost today of putting high quality, wild meat on the table along with seasonally ripe and fresh fruit? What about high quality beer with no use of malt substitutes?

Still easily within reach of anyone but the poor. Sounds like pretty standard yuppie organic restaurant material.
Getting Bangalored
To be fair I said 10-20 mi round trip

While I don't doubt your positive experience, it would be atypical for a suburb to have significant independent restaurants within 5mi of any given point, at least in most of the United States.
Ok so there is a backstory behind each piece of bad news. Still, tons of bad news is still a ton of bad news. Most successful businesses should have a string of good news. Especially after being in business for a decade.
Emacs programmer here, any chance it would be available there?
Toilet paper should be measured by volume, not length.

Both width and thickness of the sheets can vary. For both, larger is better. All three measurements interact together when forming a wad of paper. All three contribute to the size of the wad.
0 carb is the thing!
many places don't care to exclude pets at all. they don't care. many places might decide its not worth caring about if its a real service animal or not. they don't care. the only places that care are the places that would want to actively exclude non service animals.
A typical suggestion is to check "The Theoretical Minimum" series (books and lectures). That would also inform you on what to read if you want to delve deeper in a particular subfield.
Actually that IS a very profitable business, that is if you can charge people way more than most people are willing to pay.
I'm not worried. We have the savings to cover the debt, problem is I have a hard time touching it, since I work in Back office finance IT. I have access to the entirety of the firms positions and trades. Id like to cash out, because earning 3-4% interest, while paying out 20% interest on around 50k in debt makes far less sense than paying no interesting and paying into a matching 401k...

To be honest, this has probably been my single biggest stressor since getting married, and my wife's apparent mental block that finances are tight (when they shouldn't be) and she keeps buying non essential items.

A lot of this is self inflicted, then complicated with medical issues on shitty insurance. I mean, the year before I got married, I was debt free, even after been unemployed for 6 months (and I didnt file for benefits, stupidly).

We spent too much on our rings, but not on the wedding (we did a JOP wedding and a nice dinner afterward with just my wife, 2 step kids and myself). But, we had to move out of my 1 bed + den apartment into a 3 bed, 3.5 bath townhouse. More than doubled rent, but was necessary.

I mean, I make good money, but on my salary, we're struggling, living paycheck to paycheck, in large part of debt I assumed from marriage and medical issues. Kicker is I have the savings to cover it, but cannot get to due to compliance issues.
Devils advocate: they could keep charging a 5% total markup to the customer but once they're dominant they can start making deals with restaurants under the guise of "if it weren't for us, you'd never get this order to begin with" to get a percentage of the regular meal cost? Seems kinda shitty from a moral standpoint but I agree that the current up charge isn't sustainable.
"Ubest"
Density also matters, or you could cheat and sell a roll of paper "fluff".

Also, many people fold rather than wad.
That seems to be a thus-far unsubstantiated Twitter rumor: https://heavy.com/news/2019/08/jeffrey-epstein-camera-malfun...
I had the same problem. I narrowed it down to moving my pinky to type things like (). Default keyboard layouts are awful for programming. You type a lot of symbols and they're on weak fingers that require weird hand movements.

Using a keyboard with a programmable firmware lets you move those keys elsewhere, and then you can type them with strong fingers. I use my left thumb to activate a layer that turns jkl; into ({}), which has helped a lot. (I also moved the shifted numbers down to qweruipo -> !@#$&*`~, and brackets to m, -> [].)

I also have keys for macros like := and !=.

Finally, backspace and common symbols like - and _ are on my pointer finger (ErgoDox EZ, so I get a few extra keys in the middle), and meta, space, and enter are on thumb keys.

It takes a bit of time to get used to, but I type faster than on a traditional keyboard now AND with less pain.

Would still like to completely kill the mouse from my life, however.
And it pollutes the environment with plastic trash and exhaust and CO2
Would the Tiananmen Square protesters have rather had guns, or not?

They were all cool with being ground up by armored vehicles and washed down storm drains?

Would the Jews of the Holocaust have rather had guns, or not?

By not having guns, you're not preventing a bloodbath - you're delaying it, and ensuring that you're on the losing side 100% of the time.
> We need this law in the US. I’m not one to push for new regulations, but I have seen this happen time and again with big companies (Nabisco, General Mills) that shrink their boxes and count on the customer not to notice.

Except for fast-food companies, which we've been told have slyly been increasing their portion sizes and making us fat.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17585324

Or maybe we could just stop being victims of the evil corporations and we take responsibility for our lives.
Not surprised to see the left slowly distancing itself from environmentalism (save climate hysteria), given the coming African population bomb:

http://theconversation.com/theres-a-strong-chance-that-one-t...

4.5 billion Africans by 2100 will mean ecological devastation the likes of which we've never seen, and traditional environmentalism will increasingly prove difficult to reconcile with anti-racism.
Has anyone been able to get C&C Generals to work on Win10?

My Win10 box doesn't seem to want to read my original discs (I've tried 2 drives, they both appear to hang).
Excepting that, is there anywhere to get working ISOs if you have CD keys? Didn't look available on Gog.
After watching the Tesla autonomy day video I'm bearish on Uber et al.

Source: https://youtu.be/Ucp0TTmvqOE
> Cat 6500

My first job was writing drivers for chips on that switch. My recent experience is with younger tech companies, so I'm sure recruiters get some false positives when they search for resumes with "ios."
The only way this works economically is if the driver can batch up deliveries. Pick up multiple orders at one restaurant or a cluster of restaurants, then deliver them all to a series of residences along a route.

I’ve always assumed that DoorDash et al try to do this.
Uber owns ~20 to ~30 percent of Grab, JFYI. They specifically exited the Uber brand from Singapore, and pushed Grab.
This site may help you: lesswrong.org
If you want innovative mind bending concepts read a book about Lisp. Paul Graham's "On Lisp" is great - and I've heard good things about "Let over Lambda".

Lisp is such and open mental playground when it comes to programming.

Vs the languages which consist of the exact same ideas with a slightly different syntax.
My experience is from bureau members and long time members I’m able to identify as professionals. I’m well aware of the population of undergrad and econ101 members that are fairly easy to identify as well.

If you know of any sources that are well known references that acknowledge the shortcomings of BLS methodologies I would be interested in reading up on them. I have not seen those kind of discussions frequently in publications.
Don’t know how it is with uber eats but most other delivery services bundle the meals so one driver can deliver to multiple addresses with one trip.