skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd argue that for a fast food chicken sandwich (especially the "spicy deluxe" variant), theirs is pretty good, but these are matters of taste.

If I go to a CFA, I can count on the food being a certain, consistent quality. I have eaten a lot of CFA over the years, and I've had a low-quality piece of chicken (e.g. tough, full of gristle, etc.) maybe once. Compare this with "chicken" served at milkshake and burger fast food joints, which is mostly made from parts and not whole meat. I've gotten violently ill from KFC before and have since desisted from buying their food, and my local Popeyes has such bad service that no one goes - I think DoorDash is singlehandedly keeping them in business. Even Bojangles in the South or Hardee's/Carl's Jr. have given me real clunkers of sandwiches and chicken before. Chick-fil-A is consistently good quality in comparison. When I'm done with a meal at CFA, I never feel like I'm going to spend the next few hours wondering I need to begin praying to the porcelain gods.

The other killer feature is the service and efficiency. I don't hesitate to get in a long CFA line, because I know it will clear soon. This is another aspect of consistency that is just underrated. If I get in a long line at, say, McDonald's, it may clear one 5 mins or 30. With CFA, I know it'll very likely be done in 10 mins.

The third really big differentiating factor for me is that when you get something you expect to be fresh from CFA, it is consistently fresh. I have not experienced wilting lettuce, "gelling" tomatoes or carrots that have been left too long at CFA. At any other fast food joint, that is a regular experience, even the ones that are too posh to have a drive-thru. Their fresh fruit is the same thing - consistently high quality and tasty. Same goes for lemonade and iced tea (theirs really is the best in the business; and for those not from the South, you can always ask for diet or unsweetened versions of fresh drinks). My son actually gets upset at me when I accidentally get him a side of waffle fries from CFA rather than the fruit cup, since the quality is so good.

The last part is that they seem to really treat their employees well. CFA tends to start their employees at higher wages than almost any other fast food chain, and they give them extensive training in how to operate the store and treat customers. I've heard employees - both Christian and not - say that having a guaranteed day off once a week is wonderful. The restaurants are clean and the workers seem to take pride in doing good work. It's just a good atmosphere. It seems like the kind of job that gives low-skill people the actual skills they need to be productive citizens and employees when they're looking for something beyond food service.

If I were to put it all in statistical terms, along almost any measure dimension, CFA has an above-average mean and extremely low variance. Other fast food places have optimized certain dimensions like this as well: McDonald's for example has extremely consistent - and mediocre - quality and a very consistent low price point. None of them match the breadth of consistency as well as CFA does.
A great read, thanks!

I use ripgrep and xsv daily at work - thank you Andrew aka burntsushi for sharing your code!
So I guess you don't buy into "just learn to code"?
Not understanding it myself, what I would like for it to imply is that quantum computers are more capable than previously believed. I don't suppose it does mean that?
Why Most Payments Innovation Fails: Unpacking the Reasons
A consummate professional.
The data somewhat contradicts your second point that it "virtually all" happened in China - while it is true China is the main success story.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/total-population-living-i...

India has also seen a large reduction in poverty over the years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_India#/media/File:I...

Subsaharan Africa, however, is showing a rising level of poverty.
But what happens if the people who you took the wealth from stop creating new wealth? If I am a rich person and I know my money is going to be stolen, then why bother accumulating more of it? I'm better off just going on perpetual vacation or moving all my money into cryptocurrencies or something.
Paywalled.

They had something similar at TechCrunch Disrupt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di3fPj0pUbQ
The problem that I've ran into with the lack of cyclic imports is that I like to arrange the contents of packages logically. However sometimes in order to do this it would result in a circular dependency between two packages. So rather then getting a logical arrangement we have to refactor it into an artificial package to resolve this depenancy.
Eventually you need to cheat (or more accurately in the case of Haskell you need an impure runtime system that can interpret all of your pure code) to interface with the outside world, but not in the scenario the parent comment has laid out so far.

Persistent data structures (structural sharing) is not cheating. Persistent data structures are immutable just as if updates to the data structure had been implemented by wholesale copying of a data structure rather than just updating the part that needs updating.
Pretty sure the same guy that tries to purchase and guess your password locked your account.

It seems to be relatively easy to lock someone’s account since they don’t check.
Related: https://bitrebels.com/social/how-to-someones-facebook-shut-d...
“Corpse Walker” by Liao Yiwu is a colorful (and most likely exaggerated) corollary text.
No idea if this is actually a new idea but it's definitely new to me and I love seeing it. What a cool concept, likely to be a few applications in industry beyond spiderbots.
While I highly appreciate the contribution Burnt Sushi made, I've personally gone through a not so great experience contributing to one of Burnt Sushi's repositories.

I personally think a major issue is he may have over-stretched in terms of the repos he sought to create and support as a maintainer. He has 140 public repos many of them significant. As his interests, shifted I have experienced that the pace of reviewing and responding to comments and pull requests became really slow and ultimately led to frustration among contributors as well.

Might have been better to clearly prioritize and state which repositories he planned to support and which not and possibly either hand over ownership or mark the repo he didn't intend to support as orphaned.
No. It would make $468 new zero. Plus none of the billionaires have any cash. You can't split their company imaginary market cap.
> Playback on other websites has been disabled by the video owner.

Seems like a misconfiguration for Lex to embed his videos in his site then disable embedding.
Hi! Thanks for taking the time to respond and correct my outdated info. Unfortunately, It seems your info is also outdated: I just installed 0.10.2 for Mac and it's by default using (600,900) for the low and high watermarks and routing type is set to dht rather than dhtclient.

Since I've got you here, I'd be happy to give a little feedback: The constellation of websites for the protocol labs projects, their different visual styles, their different states of decay/maintenance, the interlinking back and forth with source files in github, and the undocumented status of all these projects really lend to a maze-like and poor learning/browsing experience. If it were my project, I would dump all the different sites and consolidate under one web presence. I never know if what I'm reading is current, or planned and not done, or old and out of date, or just bugged. As an example, there are even broken links on the readme at https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs. The number of TODOs or unresponsive links in README files in the various github repos (under the various github organizations) adds to the frustration of trying to learn your work. As an example, take the readme at https://github.com/ipfs/go-hamt-ipld : It's been recently worked on, and yet the entire table of contents are broken links and the examples section is literally just "//TODO". I think y'all should consolidate efforts, kill or privatize the projects that are unusable by the outside world, and in general start developing things to a more complete state before adding new stuff.

I've tried several times now to incorporate IPFS into my developer toolbelt and have aborted my attempt each time due to this or that rough edge that you don't learn about unless you spend time trolling through the github issues. It seems like each time I've come back y'all have added more unfinished stuff (congrats on the filecoin testnet!) and the rough edges still remain. As an example, I just added a 7 gigabyte file (an xcode disk image) through the desktop client: It peaked at around 15gb of ram during the process and the client offered _zero_ visual feedback while it was working. In fact, while the client says my repo is the correct size, the xcode image I added doesn't actually show up in the file browser. It's all very painful to work with. ipfs, ipld and libp2p hit the right notes in their promotional material to entice someone who wants to help the decentralized web grow, and I would love for these projects to be what they aspire and claim to be, but it all just seems to fall apart rather quickly when you actually start to use them for something beyond your tutorials.
Video can be costly, especially in countries where data is still expensive. It can be a barrier to allowing more diverse communities to also contribute unfortunately.
Just use a different card. There are services for the banned.

Besides get use to the horror of not ever using Uber when they close up shop or raise prices which is coming soon and would have come sooner if they could bankrupt lyft.
True, it's not really a workable idea. My point is that text communication encourages jackassery, and many people don't think about that until they consider just how ridiculous or obnoxious their words sound when spoken aloud to somebody's face.
I don't want to rain on the parade of everyone here recommending you to train and lift weights, but I want to give just another piece of anecdata as someone who has very low self-esteem.

It hasn't done it for me. I enjoy the benefits of being stronger and like training and do it regularly now, but it actually hasn't made that much of an impact on my actual self-esteem and how I choose to see things or how I live. Am I just not ripped enough yet or are there still other issues (finances for example) that I need to cover? My post is just to say that physical training isn't a silver bullet, so it's good to take some more time to think deeply about what is causing your low self-esteem. But hey, it's better to have low self-esteem and huge muscles than low self-esteem with no muscles I guess. :)
Is this the same mechanism as the immersion blender trick? (https://youtu.be/TrZyuCh9df0?t=424)
Sails was not in a good way when I used it...
Is that really a fair framing?

200 yrs ago I'd guess most people had to do back breaking labor most of the time just scrape by enough to eat. Hans Rosling has that video that claims washing machines as one of the best inventions ever because it relieved women of being forced to watch clothes for 6-8 hours a day. Saying the people didn't used to need money means almost nothing. Food and shelter were not free. They required labor.

I think I prefer the current world where I need money to the previous world where maybe I didn't but my actual lifestyle was horrible.

As for the 1981 quote, what's special about 1981. If we pick 1941? 1881?. I have no clue about poor countries but my first guess as to why poor places have stayed poor would not be "because the top 2000 rich people in the world"
These classes often encourage you to collaborate - with others in the class, and also with outside resources. That is: they would encourage you to go read the paper, so long as you cited it as a source and provided a proof in your own words you had reconstructed from memory. The idea is to encourage engagement in the community and teach people to build off of existing results, a skill often overlooked in undergrad where that would have been considered cheating.
Maybe it's a bit off to describe it as "unknown", since it's a strong contender for the most-printed and most-distributed book in history.
billionaires are an unelected ruling class.
Choosing your customers is not censorship.

They didn't block anything or censor anyone. They simply kicked a customer off their services. That customer was free to host their own traffic or find another CDN willing to serve them.
I made this account only to answer you, since I have few insights that might help you.

Following noncoml's advice on bodybuilding, there is a truth in that direction: you need a challenges and victories to get out of your state.

Most enlightening reads on that subject are:

David Goggins - Can't hurt me
Jocko Willink - Discipline equals freedom field manual

The center point of your problem lies in a fact that you are measuring your self in comparison to others, while the problem is within you - therefore, you need to challenge yourself in many ways and overcome those challenges in order to set yourself straight.

Warning - this is a journey not a shortcut.
So everybody gets two shares of APPL, what is that after taxes?
>whatever CDN they use

They don't use one AFAIK. They have mirrors, but the way stuff works is that their main server is still the bottleneck. This has been raised before (https://forum.f-droid.org/t/why-is-fdroid-down-all-the-time/... and a few other threads on the forum) without a satisfactory resolution. As an outsider, to me it appears that f-droid's user base is mostly European, and it works well enough for people in Europe.
Stop expecting that of him. He wrote the code, and open sourced it. He doesn't owe it to you or anyone to say that he doesn't care about it anymore, though doing so would be a nicety. It's open source. If you feel he isn't maintaining something, fork it and own it. Or pay him to.
While it is perhaps useful to think of tail-call elimination as changing a recursive function into a while loop is a useful first approximation (and is how it is implemented in e.g. Scala), this is not really an accurate picture of tail-call elimination in general. Indeed it breaks down when considering mutually recursive functions.

Tail-call elimination is simply the observation that in a tail position you do not keep a reference to the parent function around after you've called the child function.

If function calls happen on the heap instead of the stack for example, then tail-call elimination is done simply as a matter of course by the garbage collector.
I'm always amazed at how few people have read The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes.

It covers the physics, politics, motivation, cultural implications, and so much more. It's one of those books where being extremely long is a feature because it's unbelievably interesting. I highly recommend it.
It looks like they’re two separate functions merged under a condition. Any 2 functions can generate a “fly straight, dammit” graph. What’s the point of this?
Also isn't most of that $8.7 trillion simply invested in the productive assets that allow for the creation of that $80 trillion...
That libertarian capitalist bullshit. People create things for free all the time. The purpose of creation is for the use of those creations. The purpose of government is to administer the common desires for the common good of the society they administer.
This is a really good article.

One thing that I found surprising was that the author considered comments along the lines of "Just chiming in to say that I would also really like this feature." to be rude. I would have thought it was helpful feedback; more people indicating the value of a feature seems helpful in assessing whether it's worth doing (if it's not obvious for other reasons).
> But what happens if the people who you took the wealth from stop creating new wealth?

Did Jeff Bezos create 100 billions of dollars in new wealth by himself? If Bezos was gone, would no one be able to create an other online marketplace and cloud services. No, and the fact is there are already multiple other competitors, that can't compete because Amazon obtained such amazing capital resources simply from being the first in the race.
Yes. Roads and infrastructure should belong to the people.
This sense of entitlement is specifically addressed in the post.
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This should have been solved ages ago but it isn't. What is the problem with allowing repositories with specific licenses or label to be transferered to contributors after certain length of inactivity?

The one contributing the most gets notified to accept or deny the request.
Do they need warranties? Doesn't Amazon have a return anything, anytime policy? I thought I read stories about people just buying stuff, using it, and returning it years later after it's worn out for a refund or replacement. I think I heard this in one of the many Amazon returns mystery box videos on YouTube.
English is full of words and phrases that mean something different from their literal meaning. Another classic example is "I could care less."

Steven Pinker wrote about this in detail in The Language Instinct.

https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2007/01/i-could-care-less...

When someone says "I literally could care less", everyone listening knows what they mean. There is no confusion and no need to worry about whether they are literally correct.

This is just part of the fun and wonder of the English language.
Immersing yourself in nature benefits your health
Also increased font size. That Amazon mockup is very dishonest.
Yes exactly. People act like this wealth is held in cash accounts in Switzerland or something (and even if it were, it would be reinvested by those banks).
> I know it is open source and I should not complain.

Nah, you should complain. Open source is not an excuse for broken functionality.
>To the perpetual excuse that I don't have anything to fear, since I am not doing anything wrong

If I have access to your daily whereabouts, I have strong priors with which to predict a host otherwise private characteristics and/or affiliations. Frequenting gay bars? Likely homosexual. Church every Sunday and shooting range a few times a year? Good chance you might be a republican. Volunteering at planned Parenthood events? Not a bad bet that you're a liberal.

And these are just the obvious patterns - imagine how much you could predict with some basic statistical analysis, or modern ML. This is a very dangerous concentration of power and it's no surprise that people are willing to pay good money for it.
Came here to say this. Facebook is not the state. Facebook is not law enforcement. Facebook should not bother to pretend it is either of these things.

Although "facebook police" sounds like a great term to use in an ironic sense.
Because search quality drives ads.

There were search engines around but when Google came out with superior search results everyone switched and those search engines quickly vanished. There are search engines in direct competition with Google today. If Google does not provide the best service there's an extremely low switching cost. Bing, Baidu, DuckDuckGo et al would be happy to take your traffic.
I don't understand how the word 'clinical' is being used in this context. Wiktionary gives a few meanings for the word, the only one that seems potentially related being "Cool and emotionless."

But that doesn't really make sense here. The colors being used don't seem like 'warm' colors to me, and I don't see how these shades are meant to be more emotional than white. If anything, I associate these beige sorts of colors with reserved corporate blandness, which I'd call cool and emotionally distant by design. It's the color of office equipment.
The idea is that the repair vehicle needs to have it open in order to fix it, but IMO it’s some BS.
I think a nice balance would be an option pool set at 6% with a full ratchet provision. The option pool could be established in such a way that any employee gets points toward the pull based on a formula* and no employee would need to exercise their options until their is a liquidity event that buys out the pool.

Formula could be something like: # of days from when startup was founded to liquidity event, that gives the equity per day.

Then divy up the equity per day by the number of employees that worked that day.

In a hypothetical example where the company had 3 people for the first year, those days would be worth a lot, but if it took 10 years to get to a huge exit, the people that put that first year in would get about:

6%/10 years/3 = 0.2% equity which at a very large exit would be something significant, but would also be somewhat fair because they did help get the thing launched, which is hard. There could also be provisions which eliminate or vastly reduce the value of equity earned for part-time employees or employees with other jobs. Say a .1 multiplier. Now you guy that goes to facebook after 3 months but moonlights for another 9 months gets:

(.06(90/360))/10/3 + (.06(270/360))/10/3).1) = 0.065%

The other 4% of the pool could be normal executive payouts that you need to make later, and other bonus allocations.
That was a term Jobs’s staff used about him.
I hope this is considered a compiler bug.
Analysis of compensation, level, and experience details of 19k tech workers
I think people do, the idea of being stuck in a bad situation due to a heartless bureaucracy with no way out is something people obsess over, and are disturbed by it happening to even a single person. Have you ever seen "Brazil"? Read something by Kafka? Talked to a (US-style) libertarian or conservative, particularly about the early Soviet Union?
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Hospitals or "clinics" are often painted white. Clinical in this usage refers to reminiscent of a clinic.
This is an argument I could have every day with commenters on HN were I so inclined. Being polite, helpful, and correct is vastly more useful to the world than just being correct.
Parametric home insurance: get a payout for floods regardless of damage
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> I remember reading about Lee Felsenstein and Community Memory in Hackers:

You’re right, I misremembered; there’s nothing about Lee Felsenstein or Community Memory in The Network Revolution. The story about Doug Engelbart is definitely in there, though.
Dom skital'tsev, Aleksandr Mirer. Can’t find an english translation having been made. It’s a very nice Soviet sci-fi thing with a plot I have not really seen anything similar to.
I think the idea is that there would be an incentive for them to make the product last
How would writing f using combinators yield the ability to derive g?
Nice, I will try to run daptin with mssql and see what's the amount of effort required.
Honestly, the obnoxious lines at this location and others around the city are one of the reasons I really hate the chain. It's typical fast food garbage - lines spilling out into the street for that crap is just so stupid.
FYI: the SEC is investigating how mainland Chinese companies ever got listed on US exchanges as their accounting methods are not compatible with US requirements.

Figure 12 - 18 months before they're mostly delisted.
When these stories come up I always wonder "What proportion would be ok?" I don't think anyone is suggesting that everyone in the world has exactly the same amount of money so the conversation must shift to talk about what level of inequality is acceptable.