skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> dismissive of those who find it hard to read

I've seen it multiple times - it's only the initial reaction, it doesn't usually take too long for anyone to adjust to the syntax. I have never met anyone who used a Lisp for several months and still hates it and finds it unreadable. I wouldn't count anecdotal encounters of people online, claiming for it to be mostly true.

I have seen people using one Lisp e.g., Clojure and having difficulty quickly parsing a different Lisp dialect, e.g., EmacsLisp, but that's not "Lisp being unreadable," it's just unfamiliarity with specific language idioms.

I had also seen people who learned Clojure before any other languages and then tried learning a non-lispy language (java, python, etc.) and surprisingly claimed it to be harder to read (initially).

> that dismissiveness counts against Lisp adoption

I agree, but how do you fix this problem? You can't remove parens and keep it homoiconic. Tools like Parinfer do help, but they don't address the problem: Lisp doesn't look "sexy" for those who are unfamiliar with it. I kept ignoring Lisp for many years, simply because I didn't know better. I wish there were people who'd keep telling me that parentheses are not a problem, they are a solution.
> The internet is now a necessary feature of everyone’s personal and professional life

You clearly don't know a very diverse group of people. Not everyone works in an office sitting behind a MacBook Pro. A lot of people still make things with their hands.
Well, someone attempting that will have a long row to hoe to get the thing working with the needs of networks with different performance standards, useragents with different screen structures, and users with different accessibility requirements.

Browsers are large and complicated software packages for a reason. Best of luck to whoever tries to compete with it in a browser in a browser.
Taiwan as well.
I guess my questions would be

1. "what exactly do these founders believe they are starting up?"

2. "if they aren't trying to create a sustainable business, how could they recruit employees with a clear conscience?"
I agree. This is nothing novel and a fairly standard way of solving the equation.
> Eventually somebody is going to ship a product that's nothing more than a browser implemented in WASM that runs inside your browser

Sounds like a slippery slope to me. What makes you think users will be satisfied with load times for something like that, which also probably will have a frustrating-to-use interface?
We have that too in USA of course, but self checkout is not at all helpful to either issue. In my experience, it takes longer than a cashier for anything more than a few items. Amazon was supposedly working on a grab and go type system, though I haven't followed it.

As for the other issue of theft, most places with self-checkout do have a few staffers, but no real security, and are taught to not bother people who are stealing. This leads to food deserts which is quite sad. I'd rather have automated payments, with real security at the door that makes sure that you pay. And no, not like Costco/Sams digging through your stuff, more an automated system or at most flashing your phone at them.
Seems to me that many of the comments are failing to compare this model to the common alternative, which is a public facing restaurant. The failure rate of those is at least ~60%, so is this "cloud" model likely to be worse than that? I doubt it.

As a model, I think the customer here is not so much a food buyer but a restaurant starter and that is a bottomless well. This concept is a natural outgrowth of the current trend in quasi-legal "instagram restaurants" . It also meshes well with the fickle appetites and food trends of modern day. A cronut kitchen can sell out for 6 months and then fade into a ramen burger for another 6 months, all from the same physical kitchen.

I think that it is more sustainable than the food-truck -> sit-down-restaurant strategy that hasn't worked for more than a handful of entrepreneurs. American's love to eat a cornucopia of tastes and dishes but we absolutely hate to pay more than a nickel for it. The underlying cost structure of the cloud kitchen is more amenable to that sentiment.
"When goods don’t cross borders, Soldiers will." -unknown (often credited to Frederic Bastiat)

Here's what Otto Mallery said though:

"If soldiers are not to cross international boundaries, goods must do so. Unless the Shackles can be dropped from trade, bombs will be dropped from the sky."

https://fee.org/resources/if-goods-dont-cross-borders/
About a month ago we were discussing this and a few of us came to the conclusion that an eventually-required CORS header for cross-origin GETs would be a good thing. CDNs and SSO services could start sending this header so they can stay in business when the browsers turn off all cross-origin requests by default.

Unfortunately (from my perspective) that'll do nothing to stop third party ad tracking but you can't have everything, I suppose.
Well the numbers changed at the 2016 shareholder meeting https://www.visualcapitalist.com/9-slides-put-new-tesla-giga... to align with the model 3 projections.

In 2018 the numbers changed to 100GWh, but it wasn't clear if it was only for cars or all. And now nobody knows. But the point is that the outrage came with the 150Gwh quote from 2016.
Pretty sure that the author knows about XML and XSD - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Bray#XML .

As an Invited Expert at the World Wide Web Consortium between 1996 and 1999, Bray co-edited the XML and XML namespace specifications.
Hi! I'm one of the authors on the paper. We'd be happy to answer any questions. Ask us anything!
Lemon Balm, chamomile, and Valerian root I've done as nerve tonics.

Echinacea/Goldenseal is my go to for a brewing sinus infection. Typically as a tincture in hot water. I do 3 droppers per big ads coffee cup worth of water, 3 times a day minimum once an infection is in full swing. If I catch it early, two droplets in some hot drink at least 3 times a day for a week or until symptoms stop usually does the trick.

I ended up resorting to it originally because every doc I went to refused to prescribe anti-biotics, and the infection had gotten to the point I could barely swallow, and a case of bronchitis and the asthma issued that come with it were about two or three days out.

Cinnamon is an okay anti-fungal in some cases. Usually use it on plants.

I can't tell you if it's all placebo effect or not, (except for the Echinacea/goldenseal) but the rest have all generally behaved as described in most herbal formularies as you find them in places like Tractor Supply. I've also got a copy of Gerard's Herbal (modern reprint of an old herbal guide from Elizabethan times I recall) for cross referencing with modern literature just to help with figuring out what is modern meme, what is unconfirmed academically, but was important enough to a several hundred odd year ago bloke to commit to paper and duplicate (effort to duplicate gives some level of credibility in my calculus), and what gets updated or preserved knowledgewise between back then and now.

I also experimented only with stuff I grew myself for the most part, and would only buy supplements after I'd determined the plant itself would do anything.

Plants, in short, are awesome. Not a substitute for a good doctor, but can go a damn sight further than a bad or no doctor.
Really? So, for instance, a woman in the US cannot specify that she wants a female gynecologist?
Yes, of course. But I think people usually consider romance to be more important than friendships. I don't know if it's because of evolutionary reasons, or cultural reasons; just that it happens that way. Of course, my knowledge is mostly limited to men's opinions and it's also possible women have a different perspective on this. Which leads to the following:

> The amount of women in stable heterosexual relationship is the same as amount of males in heterosexual relationship.

Yes, you're completely right. However (in the culture I'm in) men usually take action to ask out/talk to women. This asymmetry theoretically leads to men getting rejected until they're not, and women meeting unworthy men until they don't. So each gender has an entirely different perspective on the same dating market. Personally speaking, it is hard for me to fully understand my female friends' difficulties with dating (or friendships) because I've only experienced it as a male, so many things they have difficulty with are things I take for granted (this usually goes the other way too).

Unless there's a huge cultural shift, men and women will keep having completely orthogonal experiences and until then, empathy remains the biggest asset for us to treat each other with.
you can't pass input to those
Most often I did have cold or some respiratory inflamations.

I am used to curing myself with large ammount of herbal tea. Ginger. Mint. Chamomile. Thyme. Sometimes I suspect it really is more about heating up with hot liquid (and then swetting it off in a mild fever) than actual enefits of those specific herbs.

Recently I become a fan of cleaning my nasal cavity with salt water. Seems to help with runny nose a lot.
Correction: his complications happened Because he was at the hospital.

People don't realize this. They use these cases as examples why home births are dangerous, yet ignore the fact that the hospital environment and interventions are the cause of most complications.
That shouldn't stop you. Comprehensive travel insurance can be had for short and long trips for $50 - $150. Prices for US travel insurance are around the same as insurance for visiting other developed countries such as Japan or Switzerland. All the terms are clearly spelled out.

https://www.lonelyplanet.com/travel-insurance
You can use a knowledge graph for query expansion. For example, if the query is "Dan Dan Noodles", you can expand that to "Asain Noodles", "Chinese", "Tan Tan Noodles" to achieve higher Recall in your results.
Didn't even notice and I'm on a very low budget phone. The content was interesting though.

Im not sure I am persuaded that "moving to Africa" is a worthy point to lean so hard on. Maybe focus on him being a part-time CEO.
I don't have evidence. I've updated my first comment to qualify that.

I think what distinguishes this situation from most others is that it is generally rational to follow your conscience. It makes sense to me to follow my conscience and not steal from BestBuy because there are people at the door who may catch me, there are security tags on products, and there are probably cameras. If all of those things disappeared, it is not so rational for me to not steal. In those cases, every time I listen to my conscience, it is with reluctance. In time, I may steal, or I may alter my behavior to not be put in that situation (I'll shop somewhere with those checks). Again, this is a thought exercise, so it may be different in practice.
fwiw i don't see it either
What do you think will take their place? Do you think something will replace DNS?
Source on your knowledge of OP’s child’s birth?
IIRC the argument in Albion's Seed (which is an earlier and more academic book which overlaps this one) is that many things we think of as particular to african americans are aspects of the surrounding culture that were dropped later by the upper class. It's been a while but the examples I remember are included many foods (and styles of preparation -- deep frying was only for the rich, fat to spare) and accents. But a few centuries later the rich kids started getting sent to university, and stopped speaking like that.
The current opaque way that ride matching is done where drivers cannot know the destination before accepting a ride, creates an environment where providers (drivers) are increasingly using gaming techniques to get around this restriction, to the detriment of customers. An example of this is something that commonly happens at airports, where a driver will accept a ride and then wait around for customer to cancel if the trip isn't to the driver's liking.

Similarly, on Amazon marketplace the problems with counterfeit goods etc... are well documented, where a marketplace of sellers is gaming the system at the detriment of consumers.

I can see the same type of gaming systems potentially happening here if there is opacity in the market information for both suppliers and customers. For example a kitchen could replace organic ingredients for non-organic ones and consumers wouldn't know the difference. Or if an order is accepted and turns out it is too large or too small they would delay fulfillment forcing a consumer to restart the process.

As with all of the gig-economy work and poorly regulated markets generally, it has some consistent patterns where incentives for low prices drive a race to the bottom and I don't think that's something I'd want from my food.

It might be worth noting that CloudKitchens is Travis Kalanick's new startup. So I would expect that the vision he brought to cab/rideshare is the same here, but in the food market, using UberEats as first point of proof that it can be successful already.

[1]https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/01/the-next-big-bet-for-forme...
> I think people will be surprised to see how worn down the conscience can get when you keep invoking it for insignificant situations.

At least in the US, there are so many opportunities to steal. In so many stores, it's so easy to just walk out with merchandise. So many private properties have items that aren't bolted down.

(Someone could steal about $1000 of firewood from my backyard, for example, plus the nice racks.)

Somehow, I don't think your prediction will come true.
I can very much relate to the learning traits that you described.

Even in hindsight I’m not sure how well it would have worked out for me studying CS back in the day, let alone doing it on my own. But now, with having practical experience of working as software developer, it’s much easier for me to go through books and learn about the theory, because I can relate that to what I have already applied in practice. This way around my mind seems to be able to digest the topics much more easily than going from theory to practice.
Do you use Common Crawl? It seems like a pretty big corpus, reasonably up-to-date and free. It seems like a good way to supplement the page data from the browser extension.
This is what early stage regulatory capture looks like. Now that some token bad actors have been called out, we can go back to ignoring the elephant in the room of the too-big-to-fail surveillance companies keeping databases that would make the staunchest Stasi agent blush.
A successful cloud kitchen will be operating many restaurants from a single location, ideally with enough demand to justify full-time deliveries from that single location. This cuts out the need for the gig worker. Instead of having to have people distributed around a city so that they can pick up food from location A and deliver it to location B, location A is now fixed and you can have a single driver, or drivers delivering from that specific cloud kitchen.
> proper UI toolkit like JavaFX

FTFA
Indeed. Some of these models are partially-applied functions - they're missing the part that actually makes them money. For instance:

> Network effects (can come in different forms such as direct, two-sided, data): Facebook — the value of the product increases as more people use it

Network effects keeps the users in, money is made by ads and surveillance.

> Crowdsourcing: YouTube — aggregate content/product from users individuals and distributes them at scale

Really, it's also a form of network effects (viewers go where most content is; creators go where most viewers are), and again, money is made by ads and surveillance.

Also, missing models:

- Regulatory arbitrage: Uber - conquering markets by breaking local laws faster than the regulators can react.

- Exploiting social capital: AirBnB - facilitating illegal or highly undesirable behavior at scale, not caring about the neighbors of service's users.

Also2:

> Open-source: Bitcoin

Bitcoin is not a company and does not have a business model. Also, "Open Source" is not a business model. "Donations" and "Paid support" are.
Packing with ice packs is a standard component of TTM, generally in conjunction with other therapies (chilled IV fluids, etc). It's also the easiest step to take in a prehospital setting, which is why we do (this is a thing I've done with maybe a dozen patients over the past few years). I'm not just making this stuff up, it's based on actual treatment protocols and algorithms.

We're talking about a naked, sedated patient (so they're already losing a lot of heat due to simple convection, and there's no heat being generated by skeletal muscle movements). The body's metabolism has slowed significantly, and it's producing anywhere near the normal level of "baseline" heat.
I'm having a hard time understanding your reply. I don't think anyone is talking about Github being abusive to employees.
Intel is bringing back a six-year-old Pentium chip
Practically every decent size market in the US has had self-checkout for many years. That's not a new phenomenon. There's still a staff member monitoring, but they are overseeing a dozen terminals and their job is about helping customers that run into some kind of snag, not catching shoplifters.

This newer idea seems to be small markets with no staff at all on site. Though it's not that new, we've had Avanti Markets at my workplace for a number of years now, and it's an honor system.
I never claimed you couldn't. I said that if you get your GPS location, iOS will send it to Apple, and there is nothing you can do to stop it.

"By enabling Location Services for your devices, you agree and consent to the transmission, collection, maintenance, processing, and use of your location data and location search queries by Apple and its partners and licensees to provide and improve location-based and road traffic-based products and services."

It will also send your location to Apple when no app is requesting your location:

"If Location Services is on, your iPhone will periodically send the geo-tagged locations of nearby Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers in an anonymous and encrypted form to Apple, to be used for augmenting this crowd-sourced database of Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower locations."

Unlike on Android, you cannot get your location without sending this data to Apple:

"To use features such as these, you must enable Location Services on your iPhone"

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207056
Similar question is that why does it matter how much JavaScript there is?
I am not doing any Sabbatical right now, but I am currently soul searching. I've been working as a fullstack dev for more about 5 years. I do have CS background, and think myself as quite a decent programmer. But in my day job, or I suspect in most day jobs out there, CRUD stuff, nothing is really interesting and it is really hard to make a leap in improvement in technical skills. Though of course, you improve bit by bit everyday just by code review, bug squashing, practicing best practices, do better tests, etc. But mostly these are the mundane tasks.

While you can argue that technical skills have diminishing returns, but I do really want to focus more on it at this point of my life.

I see it in HN, Reddit, everyday people make very cool projects and I wonder what it will take for me to reach that level?

Anyway, I decided to buy the book "Engineering a Compiler" and set a goal to actually finish it. I guess that's my soul searching direction will go for now.
> Then they're not HTML, are they?

A square has four sides that are equal length. Does that make it not a rectangle?

> As other commenters have pointed out, nobody is using the constrained set of AMP as their main page

People don't use squares where they need oblong rectangles, but that doesn't mean squares are not rectangles.

> And specifically, Google controls which subset of HTML this is.

No, the technical steering committee of the AMP project at the OpenJS Foundation determines that. Most of the members of that committee do not work for Google.
$10M position in what is essentially the leaking sewer of the Internet? I thought he was smarter than that.
They made an LLC
It is not, and I think that is because it is generally rational to not murder or steal. I think irrationally following your conscience wears you down.
Someday There Might Not Be a Menswear Department
Stagnated what alternate reality? https://www.vox.com/2018/12/12/18134899/internet-broafband-f...

> U.S. internet speeds rose nearly 40 percent this year

https://nypost.com/2018/07/11/the-average-internet-speed-has...

> News was particularly good for the United States, which moved up from the 21st-fastest country in 2017 to the 20th-fastest country in 2018. That might not sound like much of an improvement, but it was achieved by increasing speeds from an average 20 Mbps to nearly 26 Mbps, a bigger increase than the average.

(In 2019, the US jumped from 20th to 15th in the M-lab data, ahead of Germany, France, the UK, and Italy.)

Over the decade or so Akamai published its results on broadband speeds (the last one being in 2017) the US moved from the 20s into the top 10.

The idea that US broadband is slow or stagnant is just totally false, to the point where you have to wonder where it comes from.
As far as I'm concerned, that comes squarely under the scope of "doable, but fiddly".
They use AWS for their backend https://hh.ru/vacancy/33189435
> I think that "ORM" is a bit of a misnomer for that.

Good point: I'm no longer doing object mapping in that case. :) Though I think the most complicated part of the process that the Django "ORM" does for you is build the query. Maybe it should be called Django query generator.
I prefer Sweet Meteor 'O Death 2020
I understand where you're coming from, but realistically no one's going to read an over 100 page document for the purpose of commenting to hacker news. By the time they'd finished it, the thread would be dead for a long time.
This does actually mean that eBPF is not Turing complete, in that it can't simulate a Turing machine.

With a fixed number iterations (which also means fixed amount of memory) it's really just a finite state automata.
Faux generosity: How Bill Gates bought his power and influence
the sewage must flow
Aww, come on - the green line can be really pretty. Go check out the Longwood stop and take a walk in the park along the tracks in the summer, it's almost surreal how beautifully the ironwork and old stone bridges and greenery mesh together.
I sometimes find myself being able to be more creative by imagining myself as someone more creative doing the work for me.
If you've lived through the last US economic crisis you might not be that riled up about one-sentence dismissals of modern economics.
WebAssembly is very widely supported, for systems that don't or won't have support one can use wasm2js from the binaryen project to convert .wasm to JavaScript.

https://github.com/WebAssembly/binaryen/blob/master/src/tool...
Hope he loses even more money, but yea Jack should do something about all the Nazis on Twitter. He's keeping them there to drive engagement numbers at the expense of having a society.
Found a Lost TV Version of “Wuthering Heights”
Arresting each thief costs taxpayers hundreds of dollars at least, and is unlikely to dissuade people from stealing as they don't have a lot of better options.
In a sense. But that's good, because do we really want Amazon to become as ubiquitous in brick and mortar as they are online? Glad to see other retailers trying to innovate to stay competitive.
If you are in the US:

https://wildlandsnetwork.org/
https://rewilding.org/

You can also contribute to local and regional land trusts:

https://www.landtrustalliance.org/

If you own land, you can will it to a conservation land trust. Encourage friends that own land to will it to a land trust.

Have less/no children. Donate to family planning organizations.