skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-doordash-rest...

https://support.google.com/business/thread/1857758?hl=en
INB4 Short sellers...
Nah you’d never see it coming and have no prior for believing in it, so not scary. What is scary: a super intelligence alien race enveloping all matter into Dyson swarms. You’d see stars shifting into uniform infrared emissions in an expanding sphere at nearly the speed of light. Suddenly the stars go dim... and then it reaches you.
Just gonna throw this out there (as a longtime insomniac): perhaps that’s your brains way of telling you that it needs to mull over whatever’s going on in your life. I’ve found that my insomnia is worst when I have so much going on that I’m not getting enough quiet time to process it all.
With a standard connector one can have standardised power bricks too, which may eventually lead to no need for power bricks at all.
Microsoft’s Plan to Go Carbon Negative Raises Bar for Tech Rivals
Away luggage hires defamation law firm in response to critical Verge article
> “These orders don’t pay for our expenses or our time. We actually lose money when we take those orders. If I pick up an order that is 10 miles away and deliver it 6 miles I’m traveling 16 miles for a $3 order — so I have lost money. I’m in the negative when I account for gas, wear and tear, and other expenses. Not to mention my time.”

This begs an obvious question: why are people choosing to do this if it pays $0/hr? It’s voluntary. Can they find something better to do with their time?
I keep wonderring if people should just accept what we are now: don't know basic logics, be vulnerable to biased opinions disguised as facts, tend to do the easy things instead of right thing, or don't even have a value about right and wrong.

Almost everyone in the US can drive, but driving is a learnt skill. Reading is not a skill worth mentioning now, but not so long ago it's a privilege only a few could enjoy.

Does the development of network and social media requires new skills and education?
It’s very, very, very unlikely that we’ll find a magic bullet solution at this stage. Removing co2 from the atmosphere requires some external energy source, for one thing.
Well I don’t think it is one or the other. Fuel reduction is important, but it doesn’t seem sufficient. My understanding is that controlled burning had been done close to the prescribed cap.
This sounds to me like someone saying "I have a pebble in my shoe so I hop everywhere on one foot" when they should probably just take the pebble out of their shoe.

Have you tried avoiding screens for a couple of hours before bed, and reading books instead? I had the same problem - found it difficult to get to sleep - and I have experienced MUCH better sleep since moving my last hour or two before sleep to some light reading.
The actual code behind this is short and straightforward: https://github.com/ColinEspinas/darken/blob/master/src/index.... For myself, I think it gets the balance of complexity wrong: it focuses on shifting various things into JavaScript, rather than doing it all in CSS using the (prefers-color-scheme) media query, and rewriting media queries to achieve manual switching.

As a demonstration of the alternative approach I advocate, see what I came up with for my own website: https://chrismorgan.info/blog/dark-theme-implementation/. This uses native CSS techniques, working completely without JavaScript, merely using JavaScript to allow the user to manually switch, retaining that preference for future page loads and optimising page loading just about as far as is possible when doing it client-side to minimise the probability of a flash of inverted content if you manually switched to the opposite of what (prefers-color-scheme) would have chosen.

The main thing that my approach doesn’t do that this thing does is dispatching an event, so that other JavaScript could conveniently be notified of a theme change. This is fairly deliberate on my part (I deliberately do all theme switching with CSS, and have no JavaScript that needs to change anything for dark mode), but could readily be added to what I wrote if desired.

With my approach (for which I will also clarify that the JavaScript is deliberately written for compactness, not some theoretical notion of maintainability or extensibility), the example:

<button id="dm-toggle">Toggle darkmode</button>
<script>
const darkmode = new darken({
toggle: "#dm-toggle",
variables: {
"--primary-color": ["#ffffff", "#000000"],
"--secondary-color": ["#000000", "#ffffff"],
}
});
</script>

… would be written more like this:

<script>
// (Add the button to the document in JS,
// since it’ll only work if this JS runs anyway.)
</script>
<style>
body {
--primary-color: #ffffff;
--secondary-color: #000000;
}
</style>
<style media="screen and (prefers-color-scheme: dark)">
body {
--primary-color: #000000;
--secondary-color: #ffffff;
}
</style>

(Two style blocks because my thing doesn’t deal with `@media … { … }` inline in CSS, because I don’t need it. You could make it do it if you really wanted to.)

I find this approach much more manageable, and it allows adding custom CSS rules for dark mode (which I definitely use), rather than just setting CSS custom properties.
Some management-type probably told the end users it will make their life easier and they are going to want you to include new features from day one. Do not do this. It will kill you.

Like most everyone else said, it’s very important that you adapt the business processes to the software. That’s your first goal. Your second is to go-live with something that is embarrassingly bare-bones.

Once you’re live you should start to hold meetings about what to enhance but don’t make any big changes yet. Give your users some minor cosmetic changes or very low hanging fruit while the system proves itself.

Once you’ve been live a quarter or two—ideally the end of a fiscal year—then you can go to town making substantive changes.
We’ve been building houses for millennia and construction is still notorious for not going according to plan. One-off projects are just hard to get to go as planned.
People don't realize it is a net negative and just think about the $3 they'll be getting
Most areas became desert after deforestation, many times due to earlier civilizations of humanity, many speculate that these were often largely influential in the falls of empires.
A good example would be Iraq, when it was still Babylon there were a lot of trees, forests, and marshes there. The deforestation around the mountains eventually caused droughts, which turned it to desert and contributed to the fall of an empire.
There is evidence of this with nearly every fallen civilization that wasn't directly caused by war, but even then often the wars happened due to scarcity caused by similar events in neighboring nations.
Central forces don't guarantee that the universe is made of fractals. Nothing, for instance, orbits an electron within an atom (excluding spin-orbit coupling and other such quantum nonsense).
At which point the US can nationalize the fab on US soil. That makes a compelling argument for forcing fab creation here.
So we should study things so we don't get embarrassed? Moving on are you embarrassed because you don't know how to swordfight or any other outdated skills?
YAR!
We already have cheap internet where people live via fiber optics. Last mile market failures are solveable.
Don't worry, He'll let all of us (and our civilization) "die" first, provided we don't somehow escape it.
Microsoft MFA not at work:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/18/microsoft_azure_mfa...

I work for an IAM consultancy and SI and we always recommend SAASPASS for MFA, which supports over 14 different types of MFA methods that are configurable by the admin and more MFA integrations than anyone else out there. In there are more MFA integrations for legacy Microsoft products even than Microsoft supports.
How many constants are required by the standard model to make the math work? Doesn't that admit something is unsolved? I think it's probably accurate to say we don't know much about subatomic physics and because of the scale/measurability problem might not ever. The same is true of the expansiveness of the universe.
These jobs basically allow you to take a line of credit out against depreciation on your vehicle. Sure you lost money, but you get cash today.
It's fascinating that the pay is dismal and yet there are too many drivers.

I'm guessing partly because few understand their expenses and net pay.

And some really do value the ability to work whenever.
And the Betelgeuse deathwatch!
Agreed as to your finale, most people have a pop culture understanding of physiology, but remain vehemently opposed to certain ideas largely accepted by alternative health communities. (And the functions, for those of you still unclear, are many including balancing the blood pH and removing actual toxins from the body.)
However, regarding fasting, one of the most recent studies (<1month, dec19) around is pretty compelling.(0) Though the breakdown is 6/18 vice 8/16 and it seems they do advocate for a weekly fast of 5/2 days (eat/fast). How's that for a weekend?

0. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra1905136
Would rails even be a particularly expensive part of such a project in any case?
> Not so with functional.

Sure you can, if you have an editor and REPL worth their salt. Select af(param)and evaluate it. There's what you're calling "a". Select bf(af(param) and evaluate it. There's what you're calling "b". How one carries out "select and evaluate" varies depending on the language, REPL, and editor in use, but there's almost always (always, in my experience) an easy way to do it.

Bonus: if it's a pure functional language (no side-effects) you can do it as many times as you like without messing anything up, and you didn't have to invent any otherwise-useless variables.
If we had such a "very good" understanding they wouldn't be spending billions to build the Electron-Ion collider at Brookhaven. Here's a good article about it, that's much more balanced than the QCD slanted wikipedia article:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/07/scientists-endorse-b...

I especially like this bit about qcd:

> The mess is so complex that even basic properties of the proton remain unexplained. For example, its three quarks account for less than 5% of its mass, the rest arising somehow from energy of the virtual quarks and gluons.
Here's what you're doing:

grizzles: I don't understand what's going on in a proton.

Physicist: actually, we know about it very well.

grizzles: I don't understand what you're saying, and don't care to find out, so I'm just going to disagree with you and say you have no experimental evidence.

Physicist: we actually have terabytes of evidence describing the different quarks and gluons within protons and neutrons.

grizzles: I don't care, and I'd rather live in Anaximander's land of indefinites and superstition.
You could ask the same about white collar workers voluntarily spending 2hrs a day commuting to get to and from work everyday
> Xerox’s infamous decision to abandon the hardware computing industry in 1971

A minor correction: Xerox shut down its XDS computer division and sold it off to Honeywell in 1975, not 1971.
Clearly to take advantage of hiding how tipping works in order to pay less.
Some people are focused on sports and want their kid to be bigger than their classmates. So you either opt out of school if the birthdays work, delay kindergarten if it isn’t mandatory, or send the kid to a private kindergarten and have them repeat.

It’s a big advantage, especially around 11 or 12, and get kids on more competitive teams earlier.

I coach little league, and we see it all of the time. It’s a compliance issue as kids get a little older and start playing tournaments.
Aren’t minimum wage raises responsible for this? If restaurants are forced to pay $15 an hour minimum, how can it be profitable without them being more productive?
> And of course they aren’t getting paid any more to do maybe 3-4x the work they did before these apps got popular.

Restaurants have always adjusted staffing based on order volume; so while the restaurant may have 3× the order flow, the work per employee probably hasn't increased that much.
> It doesn’t write for you.

Modern ones kind of do - for example, gmail's spell checker now comes with predictive input.
But we already have that. The power brick almost always has a USB connector on it nowadays (even with Apple), and it didn't require setting up a perpetual committee of bureaucrats to feed at the public trough.
I thought most 'real' telescope exposures were over minutes to hours?
I hope this is a joke, but if not please look into the cost and timeliness of subway maintenance costs by unionized workforce’s dealing with things like switching and signaling equipment - your claim is that this is drastically more efficient than some car mechanics?

And if your number is low - you are not counting deferred maintenance which is huge in these systems
They can be dynamic, with pixels.

One such technology is the optical vortex coronograph. Several types exist.
$40/barrel break even is still way more than most conventional oil fields. It's killed off say, tar sands and some of the more expensive off shore/arctic plays (say, like some pre-salt fields). The other thing about shale is that it tends to be short cycle (most of the production in a few years), rather than long cycle payoffs. That might be more attractive to majors avoiding risks.
If you're familiar with the market and the dogma at the time, the idea was that securitization used mathematical techniques to actually reduce risk, and these were being sold as such. What's wrong was after this bubble popped, the taxpayer was on the hook for the socialized bailout, while the temporary profits were privatized. As such, while people like Fink may not have seen this through from start to finish, their ignorance or unwillingness to blow the whistle on something as destructive as this calls into question--in my opinion--their competence or earnestness in indicting others to effectively do what he should have done.
Create it synthetically by shorting the things in which you do not want to invest.
Another big factor was that the contact-fused shells did not explode, because they felt no "contact" with the super lightweight construction of the Swordfish.

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Aw, c'mon. New Zealand is beautiful.
The neurons in the Creatures video games come to mind.

In Creatures Evolution Engine games such as Creatures 3, each neuron and dendrite is a fully functional register machine.

https://creatures.wiki/Brain#SVRules
We know very little about our universe. We can't even define the Hubble constant. Dark matter theory is a joke imo.

These nerds don't even understand refraction. Space isn't empty.

If space isn't empty you will never be able to account for the path photons actually travel.

Gas causes refraction, how could you be sure the photos that hit the lens in your telescope actually traveled in a straight line.

I know this will get down voted to hell. IDC.
Just a pet peeve, I hope I don't tell my kids it's "adults stuff" and leave it at that. I think kids can sometimes surprise you at how much they can understand. Explain it as simply as you can, and if they don't get it try again. If they still don't get it, well maybe it's too advanced for them, or maybe you can't explain it in a simple enough way.

I know I was eternally annoyed at how much adults underestimated me growing up.
If you're into this stuff and ever in the Seattle area I recommend visiting the Naval Undersea Museum in Keyport. They have a good collection of torpedoes on display, including a Japanese Kaiten manned torpedo.

http://www.navalunderseamuseum.org
Looks fun! It's a shame that it's not open source, but I'm not in the owner's shoes, so there's that.
Except Dreamworks did Antz specifically because they found out Pixar was going to do A Bugs Life, and they were taking every opportunity they had to stick it to Disney.
Stripe Atlas had a security incident a month ago that exposed sensitive data such as address and social security numbers. That could be called “business as usual” if not for the way they decided to address it - by offering one year of Experian identity protection. Talking about insulting intelligence. That changed my view about Stripe as a company.
I know you.
There have been many cases of delivery app companies doing things like taking out ads in the company name with a phone number and website that looks like the restaurant but is actually the app company. So they feed off people organically searching and getting deliberately redirected.
After bike commuting for 10 years and now working from home, I ask that question all the time.

My only guess after asking around is people think they "have to". People put their head down and forget to think about the bigger picture. Maybe working for DoorDash is the same type of thing?
no it appears they are working way more.

Anytime I go to a place that does heavy app delivery I remark to myself how much more frenetic all the workers seem now. I mean it was only in last 3 years this has become as widespread as it is now. It’s actually a bit depressing.
If you live in a Chinese-speaking country then, yes, it's a bad thing.

There are plenty of situations in which you still have to write; at the post office, applying for things, hospitals, places like that. Maybe not every day, I'll grant you that, but you are going to hit barriers when required to write your address or apply for a driving license or similar.

You don't want to be the guy painstakingly copying characters stroke by stroke off his phone while a line grows behind you.

I live in Japan and often regret that my writing is so far behind my reading comprehension. Like, it doesn't need to be AS good, but it would be better if it were close.
Increased revenue is usually a problem you (a business) want to have. If that revenue isn't trickling down to the workers, well, that is pretty much America in a nutshell.
That's enough of a reason for me to never use DoorDash again.
How does one go about measuring their methylation?
Uh, this is all nice and such I suppose, but how do I install it? The README file in the git repository refers to an INSTALL file, which doesn't seem to exist as well as to a ./configure script which doesn't either.
While I doubt that "Las Vegas tunnel is mostly under parking lots with no obstructions" is even close to represent reality

I've been to the site. I've seen the machines and the pit. I have no doubt about what I've seen.
Very interesting thanks. I'm looking for a balance in great UX and features with a minimalist approach to the code needed in the client. Trying to stay with vanilla javascript with little dependencies might be hard thougg. So many frameworks and old habits. Maybe wasm will change that.
Here is the actual geometry at the equator, ignoring axial tilt (the blue/black circle is Earth, the red/black circle is a satellite at 500km, and the radial lines are hours): https://www.desmos.com/calculator/3br1snafmj

Starlink satellites directly overhead are in sunlight for about 1.5 hours after sunset, and the same before sunrise. Including observing on an angle, you probably lose 4 hours per night out of 12. With 300km satellites, you probably lose 3 hours. I think the situation will be worse away from the equator in summer.
Agree.

It's hard to explain, but the white background feels like, psychologically "freeing" - if that makes any sense. It feels like everything is "open" and "fresh".

Dark mode feels like being in a cave.
In addition to what the other commenters mentioned, if you’re importing data, you can refresh the affected materialized views after the data import is complete.
English spelling has plenty of rules. It's just inconsistent and full of exceptions because English has its roots in many different languages and unfortunately inherits rules from all of them as well as having a bunch of its own.
> Tunnel boring is a complex, multi-faceted civil engineering discipline with a large number of well-funded firms that are aggressively competing and innovating. In this space Elon is utterly insignificant.

20 years ago you could have said much the same thing about Elon Musk and rocketry.
Elsewhere in the article:

"The only reason I do it at all is because the few orders where customers tip high enough to make it worth it keep me going on some of them." - Lee, DoorDash worker in Hendersonville, TN

Also of course they may have not done the math yet, or they may be doing this to try and fill in the gaps between their other two shitty minimum-wage jobs that never give them enough hours to be an actual full-time employee with benefits.
Boy, you live long enough and you hear it all. Talk about the least scientific evidence and undermining true climate change discourse. Look, the last year I lived in metro-NY (2017-2018), it started snowing around Thanksgiving and the storms just kept rolling in until late-March. Snow was piled almost a high as I am tall on either side of the driveway. Is that kind of weather getting rare? Maybe in some regions, but I'm not seeing it.

Last year, the Rockies had the best snow year in 25 years. Some mountain resorts had skiing into late-May, early June. So far this year, it has been a very snowy early season.

I have no doubt the oceans are warming and temps are rising, but using the 'remember-when' gauge of scientific deduction is no way to judge our climate. As a very smart man once said: "...remember when is the lowest form of conversation."
View Backed Models are a super power. If you’re a working Rails dev and you’ve never used them before, you really owe it to yourself to check them out. IMO, they should be baked into Rails itself. They’re that useful.
> People reading horoscopes in a magazine wouldn't typically actually follow the advice therein.

How do you know? See also, by the way, Japanese people’s beliefs about blood types:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_type_personality_theory#...