skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No affiliation at all but we started using this product a little while back and the team have been a real pleasure to deal with. When you raise bugs or ask about features, they listen and get things solved. They seem like a great team.

(This is a totally unsolicited comment)
Winter sports is fucking up the ecosystem of the Alps anyway. This is made worse by artificial snow which ensures that more ground is covered by more snow for a longer season.

https://youtu.be/K9MaGf-Su9I
Still no mention of hardware-accelerated video on Linux. Can't consider Firefox until this is implemented, but it works on Chromium in multiple distros. Seems like Chromium folks are more apt to actually prioritize Linux over Mozilla.
Well at least drones will be an improvement. I hope.
Seems to me that it just shows that for that restaurant, they chose to over-prioritize app orders over on site customers.
> "If you didn't see it with your own two eyes, you can't believe it"

Given what we know of human memory and visual processing, you'd be a damned fool to trust your own eyes any better.
it's available in every platform as google lens app.
> “The consumer believes that a discount has been his right, not a privilege”

It seems disingenuous to frame this "rebellion" as a moral issue. It isn't. It's a business issue. Business owners are free to evaluate their partnerships and pricing strategy on the basis of what is going to best benefit their revenue/profits. And consumers are free to evaluate potential restaurants/apps on the basis of many factors including price. Trying to argue that someone is acting immorally by wanting a discount, is nothing more than crying wolf.

> "Another sore point is customer data. Neither Zomato nor Swiggy shares customers’ names and phone numbers with the restaurant that fills the order, citing privacy concerns. Restaurant owners said that left them with no way to market directly or build long-term relationships with their best customers."

Thank God for that. The last thing I want when I order food online, is for every single restaurant I order from to start spamming my phone/email. This fact alone has lifted Zomato a few notches in my eyes.
Are many users on HDDs these days? Weird that it would take this long, although I guess it's niche enough that you'd want to save those 20 ms for something used by a tiny fraction of users.
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I've found myself using 32-bit "array indexes" to half my "pointer-sizes" for some code I'm writing (for fun). When doing linked data-structures (linked lists, trees, etc. etc.), a huge amount of the data ends up being a pointer.

Consider a typical binary-tree with a 64-bit integer as its value. You use 24-bytes per node (value, left child, right child) if you use 64-bit pointers, but only use 16-bytes per node if you use 32-bit pointers (or array indexes).

Now, a 32-bit pointer can have at most 4billion nodes across the whole tree. But 4billion is more than usable for many programs.

EDIT: Consider that 4billion nodes of size 16 bytes (where each node is the value + left child + right child struct discussed earlier) will take up 64GB of RAM.

EDIT2: And half the time, my brain gets short-circuited and I end up recreating some terrible form of segmented memory before having to slap myself for thinking up such a horrible idea. In any case, a surprising amount of memory is used up as pointers in almost all the code I write. If you care about fitting as much data into L1 cache (64kB on modern machines), you will absolutely want to minimize your data usage.
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I don't think encouraging a keto diet as the de facto "healthy diet" is responsible. Is it un-healthy? Maybe not. There's not enough research to say that conclusively. It's certainly not the standard though.

I have been training hard for about a year now, trying to get my body into as ideal shape as I can get it. During that time, I've experimented with a wide range of diets, including keto. I was on keto for about 4 months. I was decently well fat adapted by the end of it, but I did not feel healthy. I was also not making progress in my training. I plateaued for for months.

I switched to a "high carb" plant based diet and I haven't looked back since. My performance has skyrocketed, my fitness is building at a mind boggling pace, I sleep better, my skin is clearer, and I just feel healthier.
> With the deprecation of Adobe Flash Player, there is no longer a need to identify users on 32-bit version of the Firefox browser on 64-bit version operating systems[, ]reducing user agent fingerprinting factors.

Good. User agents already contain too much.

That's actually the first time I've ever seen a browser actively removing stuff from the User Agent.
do you appear as an iOS user to actual iOS users? I can't tell from the website
"Calculated Bets" by Steven Skiena is a pretty good read if you're interested in this stuff.
if Vegas becomes like this, then Phoenix is in big trouble.
I really wish there was a modern book on implementing a useful Forth for x86 or Raspberry PI out of C. Not just a pamphlet either, but a thick book covering how to choose between all the different threading options...etc.
It's true that I could make choices that would reduce my driving further. I could Uber, or take local buses. I could even ask my wife to drive me around, and she'd probably do it, bless her heart.

But Uber is way more expensive, local buses would add hours to my commute every single day, and I'm not nearly selfish enough to make my wife drive me to and from work every day.

Oh, and bicycling is far, far too dangerous here. Otherwise, I'd totally pick that option.
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Too many delivery trucks up and down my street every day, mainly from amazon, is the reason I canceled prime, and order much less frequently from amazon.
I cannot overstate how annoying, this has become and absolute epidemic!
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1. The release candidate of this update has been available for recent devices from most major vendors for quite a while now.

2. You DON'T want this update right now anyway. At this point it is just a tech demo for Pixel people and far from stable. 6 to 9 months from now it will be good enough as a daily driver.
It's just bloody obnoxious. I've always used crappy keyboards for work and they're all fine - my work isn't affected and I don't get RSI.
It seems the drones are simply spraying insecticide, rather than anything more sophisticated such as plucking the caterpillars off the plants or shooting them with high pressure water jets. The advantage of drones over human pilots spraying insecticide appear to be that they are easier to get on site and can fly at night, allowing them to use lower strength insecticide.
React Hooks and RxJS or How React Is Meant to Be
Good! You can continue ignoring the NIMBYs then! You can both spite them and focus on the actual problem.
Things that fly, almost by definition, are inherently less energy efficient than things that roll on the ground.
What are you calling "Android OS" in this context? My understanding is that a lot of APIs that used to be shipped with AOSP and be updated with each new Android version are now shipped in the Play store to avoid the mess that is Android fragmentation.
This is really quite cynical, particularly about sound amplifier. It should be very useful to the millions of people who are hearing impaired, but haven't gotten a hearing aid yet. (Most people tend to put this off for a while.)

There's some irony that some folks might have gotten hearing loss from headphones in the first place, but it sounds like a useful feature.
I really want a keyboard that is:

1) Backlit (soo addicted to this)
2) Quiet
3) Has media keys (volume/mute/play/pause/etc, and ideally calculator)

There's not a ton of options out there. My Corsair K55 is good but flawed (stupid useless "programmable" macro keys that can't be rebound, wonky electronics don't let the computer boot properly the first time, doesn't actually store the config onboard). It's not all that quiet, either.

I'd pay more for a better one, but I can't tell if they meet my needs since the descriptions are rarely aiming for what I'm looking for.
Grubhub charges restaurants for phone orders based on some claimed artificial intelligence determining that an order was placed on the phone call + the average price of the last 6 internet orders. A reporter easily found examples where reviewing calls where they decided to charge came up with false positives.

"I reviewed some of the recordings for Ghost Truck Kitchen and found multiple false positives, where Grubhub charged the restaurant between $7.80 and $7.92 per call for informational phone calls that did not result in an order."

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjwebw/yelp-is-sneakily-r...
No way, dark mode is great. Combine it with an internet browser that has a night mode (Samsung's fork of Chrome) and the phones are significantly more pleasant to use at night.
Amazon does have a feature where you can pick a day of the week to get all your packages. I don't believe people really use it though, because what's the incentive to wait longer?
I think it's interesting that a lot of people are complaining about SO and saying how other systems would be more effective, yet nobody is trying to create a better SO.

Maybe it's actually just a much harder problem than people realize.
Then many more business are equally bad. ETF on your phone contract? Why? Because number portability. Lots of other businesses have implemented something similar. WAG has investment to protect on each customer it acquires. Just adding the thought of additional cost might reduce customer churn. Contractor or not, why is it not thought of as theft if a service provider contacts the customer directly? It seems to me that Wag is providing all the services you describe. In return for that investment they are trying to discourage customers from thinking they can save a buck and contractors from thinking they can build their own businesses on Wags dime.
> Man, in my extended family SMS text group, this comes up once every couple weeks. One of us will note they aren't getting a random message, or someone will send a video and the quality will be crap, and the iPhone users will all mention how if we all had iPhones, this wouldn't be a problem.

IMO a reasonable compromise is WhatsApp. Rich features like iMessage's but portable and lots of people already use it.

I have never had a Facebook account and I've always been wary of them. I think it's fair to be concerned about privacy w/WhatsApp but I'm torn because it's a very practical solution.
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It's ac that has transmission line losses, not dc. DC just has resistive losses, which are the same for ac (rms) and dc, but bigger for low-voltage systems. DC is safer, in most ways, at the same voltage as ac (rms).

So the issue isn't that running your house on dc is less efficient; it's that running your house on 12 volts is less efficient.
The goto's did get my nerves bristling a bit on first sight - but it's the right tool for the job (or at least gets the job done), so I was OK with it. I guess other languages may have better/cleaner ways to achieve it.

I love the discussion that it sparked here too. It's wonderful and educational to see so many smart people breaking down the problem space, discussing de/merits of this particular technique, presenting alternative approaches with analysis on memory use, performance..
You and me both! I've had some great recommendations!
Raytheon, Darpa complete design review for hypersonic weapon
I can't wait until it falsely identifies the dirt and I can't charge my phone any more.
China’s Largest Food Delivery Service Testing Indoor Robots
Amazon tries to encourage this by using a "delivery day" for all your weekly deliveries to come. They need to incentivize it a bit harder I think with free digital content. If I could rent a movie from prime (not something new but let's say original Matrix) in exchange for using the prime delivery day option then I probably would. Otherwise they are relying on people to realize that constant deliveries are a problem and then sacrifice existing conveniences they have for that problem.
There is now a branch of LLVM that supports XTensa. You can run Rust code on an ESP, but it’s awkward.
One thing I like on Pie, is after clearing a few notifications from an app that I don't care to see it automatically prompts me to stop showing them.
Depends on delivery density.

Apartment complex with loads of items delivered each day? Makes sense, though packaging is still environmental overhead. Lots of single family homes ordering individual items distributed across suburbia? Less efficient than customer driving to the store once a week to get everything they need.
Bar the main roads, there’s not a lot of traffic down residential streets in London.
Speaking of engineers and jobs, it's part of an engineer's job description to make compromises on cost.

I've never seen a mechanical keyboard that wasn't loud; let alone silent. (The thread topic is noise, not comfort or usability.)

That doesn't mean they don't exist. Maybe if I rubbed shoulders more with the high society, I might get access to some invitation-only showroom for exotic keyboards where $14K will get you a whisper-silent unit.

I do have one almost absolutely silent keyboard. It's quite awful to type on. Basically it's one of those flexible rubber keyboards for industrial environments, where there are spill and dust hazards. I use it at night, not to disturb anyone. I optimized for sound at the cost of comfort.
Anything I order on Amazon is super saver shipping. I don't waste my money on Prime, and packages come whenever they do. Sometimes it's nearly next day, sometimes it takes a week. Whenever it happens to be convenient and efficient for them to show up with it.
But seriously, where are all the good recruiters hiding?
Telegram is the best compromise imo
To me, three biggest things that led to reduced adaption of hadoop in-house
1. Cloud computing - hadoop was (and probably is) an expensive platform to manage in-house
2. Docker and Kubernetes
3. Relational databases and SQL will take to you 95% there
You make it sound like these unsolved, expensive, or insurmountable issues.

Literally all of these have cheap, trivial fixes that would reopen markets closed by the perverse subsidization we have now.

> People do not want their electric bill to jump ten (or more) folds

Power companies already offer budget billing to deal with the seasonal variation. It's trivial to extend this to some level of weather prediction. In fact there's already source variation taken into account. Even if the increased volatility causes the order of magnitude price changes, there is already a market for electric price smoothing through batteries and energy storage. Just look what Tesla did for this exact issue in Australia.

>Food prices would go up as rural living is directly impacted by carbon taxes.

I'm not sure how you're figuring this. If anything, food prices would decrease because we'd find more efficient local distribution techniques. Since rural areas is where the foo dis grown, that's where it would be the cheapest. In fact we not only already have more local distribution channels - we have federal infrastructure around it: https://www.ams.usda.gov/local-food-directories/farmersmarke.... Moreover, there's already a growing free market for this: https://fortune.com/2015/08/21/local-food-movement-business/.

> increased costs to personal transportation means a population that relies more on mass transit systems. That mean in order to keep people from moving to cities we need a significant investment into building out the railway system

I'm not following this argument. Increased reliance on mass transit would overall make everything cheaper, AVOIDing massive investments in both railroads and increased highway capacity.

I also don't follow your last point. Tariffs don't require treaties and are probably the best place to solve this in the beginning. As more nations enact their own carbon tariffs, we could begin to have a real discussion on international agreements.
My experience after using app is that if you really want to savour the taste, go to the restaurant. At least food is hot and properly served.

Ordering food on app is only for the times when I am tired and really don't want to go anywhere. In past 2-3 years, we got this habit of ordering everything on app for various small occasions and everytime we just didn't enjoy the food. Eventually we started again to go to restaurants and it was worth it.

One more thing, I noticed that restaurant ratings don't mean a thing. Even food from 4.5 rated restaurants taste horrible.

For most people, only 2 facors: laziness and discount are the driving factors to use app. Quality of food is distant third factor.
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This has been routine in films since at least Jurassic Park (1993).
> but it seems manipulative to try and make their pricing negotiations a social movement

One restaurant leaving the platform will likely be much worse for that restaurant, but many leaving the scheme will be worse for the platform. No one restaurant has much bargaining power to demand better terms, but many together may be able to bargain better.

It seems to me like this is exactly how they demand better terms and change the balance of power in the relationship.

One could say that the platform putting such strain on the restaurants is manipulative because they know that it's very difficult for any restaurant to say no. I think it's just how the market works and think it's great that the restaurants are managing to push back somewhat.
Dark mode is only great if absolutely every single website and app you use support it, and you are never shown bright images ever, because then your eyes explode. This is, it's useless.
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