skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed that in all cases Doordash damages the restaurant, but in your first case, and in my example, Doordash is damaged even more (the restaurant will have to eat the loss in the short-term, but they have a VC-backed company they can sue for order-and-run+damages, perhaps in a class-action, if they don't get paid). After a platform-driven screw-up or two, it is hard to see a customer using Doordash ever again.

Your second example, however, damages primarily the restaurant, as the customer has attempted to disintermediate Doordash, but is doing so with incorrect information. The restaurant's best defense here may be communication, informing the buyer of the price, and correcting misconceptions, at the time of ordering.

As quipped eloquently in another thread here, "Move fast and break other people's things" may work in the short term, but lawsuits and grumpy attorneys-general seem like they could catch up to a bad actor pretty quickly when there is real money on the line.
People urgently fleeing climate crisis cannot be sent home, UN rules
> The Function of the Ears is to Direct the Eyes to Sound Sources

I wonder if using eye tracking plus audio spatialization could help improving reading skills.
Huh? Are pennies sourced from China?
A "meeting of the minds" is generally a required element of a contract, and there obviously isn't one with respect to the price, even if that's because of the interference itself. Nothing is simple in litigation.
Nissan EVs Will Share Platform with Infiniti, Renault, Mitsubishi
I think it’s something like group solipsism. Nothing can be trusted except what “I” decide. Which is only helpful in so far as maybe we can address this internet backed societal problem with rhetoric similar to how we would address solipsism.
Will wait he drop this one for a new "Endo". Omg, nodejs just works, keep improvements.
They're pimps.
But if that's happening then aren't these delivery services hemorrhaging money? Is the problem that they have enough VC money to burn while unknowingly making enough mistakes to hurt everyone else?

In a sane world this problem wouldn't be possible - no rational actors should be ordering and then not paying for enough food to seriously hurt a business because there isn't anything to gain from such behavior.
> One can create new languages fit for the purpose of a given class of problems and thus reducing size of codebase 10 to 100 fold (or even million times in case of modern multi million LOC software projects).

I find that a bit hard to believe. Here's a 100 million line codebase; I seriously doubt that you can express it in 100 lines in any language. Lisp may be good, but it isn't that good.
Why Programmer-Specified Aliasing Is a Bad Idea (2004) [pdf]
I'm in Toronto too :p It got one of my shows on there, eek
$0.10 is a tricky choice (in the US) because it's not compatible with the next denomination up ($0.25). If anything like this ever happens, we could round either to the nearest $0.05 or the nearest $0.25, but not easily in-between.
If these companies are doing this at scale, there may be a possibility of class-action lawsuits, or small-claims court cases with added damages. Willfully misrepresenting someone else's pricing surely falls afoul of the law somehow.
Because their reputation is what suffers.

Customers think the restaurant is partnered with DoorDash or whoever because why wouldn't they. All the restaurant's IP (menu, photos, logos) was stolen from their website and used without permission.

The customer then thinks "this restaurant is trying to rip me off! They have one price on the website and then ask for more after I've placed my order." Cue the Twitter outrage, complaint calls, bad mouthing to friends, etc...

DoorDash is controlling the narrative because they're the interface the customer has with the restaurant.
They've already made the food. Their immediate choice is to get less money than the advertised price (small loss), or get no money (large loss). Given that the latter choice may take much repeating to cause the delivery service to stop their behavior, it's not too surprising that many would choose the former.
Ruling in HiQ vs. Linkedin Protects Scraping of Public Data
I don't think that is fair. Understanding your partners business model is a key part of dd for collaboration. If the partner is being cagey about it, there is probably a reason, and it probably isn't a good sign.
on-prem still is, in a lot of the space. But it's changing.
Came here to recommend that book. It’s one of the best books I have read in years, and I’m not even that big of a classical music fan. Understanding the influences on him, including the Bavarian Illuminati, makes his music even more impressive.
I think entertainment is a lesser issue to the real problem which is car centric urban design. We all live so far apart that it is very time consuming, expensive and tedious to meet other people. Rather than just stepping outside and walking/cycling to someone you have to own a car, spend 30 minutes driving and then 30 minutes back. Or you could just play a video game with them over the internet in the few minutes it takes to set up.
Yeah, sure you are, just keep saying that when The Globalists come for Sinclair or whoever for doing nothing but printing one offensive truth. You don't actually think that, you just fooled yourself because you considered Gawker your enemy.

[1] To repeat: what Gawker did was awful. But silencing the whole organization for one sin is not what you want.
>> conflict is the most engaging kind of engagement

> do I go places to look for people to fight with? Emphatically no. Do you? Probably not.

People seem to love information that ridicules and hates on "the other side" (e.g. in politics). They like seeing the other side being put down, and the feeling of superiority they can get from that.
Check in on them and see how they’re doing, or just offer an ear if they want to talk. If they’re anything like My husband and me they don’t have many people to talk to about it - and many won’t bring it up because they feel awkward or uncomfortable. Knowing someone is there, aware, and thinking about them can make the difference.
I think it's fascinating how disconnected we are from death in modern times.

The average life span in the 1700s was 35 years old.

1 out of 100 MOTHERS died during childbirth centuries ago.

You could get an infection and be dead in a week because there were no antibiotics.

Spanish flu killed 10 percent of the worlds population, the black plagues death rate was far far higher than that.

Cholera, red fever, polio, there were so many and such variety of different ways to die.

Death was a constant specter and I imagine life was considered a little cheaper? I don't know.

I don't know if people had constant endless PTSD back then or if PTSD is our natural state, or if PTSD is contextual, and nowdays we live in extremely pro mental health times.

Either way its testament to how amazing modern medicine has become and how valuable everyones lives are nowdays.
Technical lore doesnt have emotion behind it. People's ego wants it to be fed oh so pretty. Fortunately kind or mean would have 0 effect on someone that is not egotistical. Ive noticed how the US citizens have become soft lotus language eaters. What happened to calling a retard a retard?
smh ... sigh
> 1. reading from left to right

This seems a strange quibble when it is an arbitrary convention that doesn't really matter in the slightest. It's just the natural extension of the usual mathematical function composition f(g(x)) to include dyadic functions and thus do away with function/operator precedence. It doesn't make things any easier or harder if you were to prefer generalizing ((x)g)f instead so that the language could be read left to right, it's just a different convention.

> 2. use of phonetic alphabet instead of hyeroglyphs.

The purpose of the symbols in APL is that they are meant to be a "tool for thought" [0]. But I'm a mathematician so I was already trained to this way of thinking. Using more verbose languages becomes an exercise in tedium, they make programming feel like trying to chop down a tree with a herring. The "hieroglyphs" are a large part of what make APL feel like wielding a lightsaber by comparison.

[0] http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~jzhu/csc326/readings/iverson.pd...
I would agree that this is the health _system_ sentiment, but not healthcare overall.

I work with hundreds of vendors and digital health organizations that deliver life critical software applications to health systems - and we host everything on AWS. Independent 3rd party HIPAA assessments + a HITRUST (not self assessed) certification goes a long way with hospitals now.
Plus the reputational damage from dissatisfied customers who think it is the restaurant that is dishonest or incompetent.
If the service has entered into a contract to deliver the order for $TooLow, and the courier pays $Correct to the restaurant, then the service has to take the ($Correct - $TooLow) loss.
This started in the same iOS beta that introduced full PDF screenshots of views that extend beyond the screen.
C has restrict

also, gcc and llvm can infer restrict much of the time if you don't manually use it

and I fail to see how having explicit control over struct layout is ever a bad thing
Boeing seeks $10B in loans as 737 Max crisis continues
yeah, as someone who had a partial education, I totally get the value of a degree, so whenever someone says "higher education is useless" I read it as "However successful I am now, I wasn't the kind of person who would succeed in school then"
ACM costs vs. arxiv.org costs
>>Ask HN: why does HN allow moans disguised as questions?

That's a perfect oxymoron.

But, to answer your question, learning more about this subject is exactly why I posted the question here, and it wasn't moaning. I have nothing personally against people that publish or read stuff on Medium, or Medium as a company. I'm truly curious about why people use it.

I learned quite a bit from the responses in fact. Several people wrote about why they still use it, several others offered alternatives to Medium. Others pointed out their own experiences publishing on Medium and several why they stopped. Most the responses were very informative and insightful.
What would be examples of the retained BSD flavored behaviors?
Does Dino plan to have any gui or even electron like functionality?

Google Chrome keeps changing which affects Electron. I already had one tutorial that went out of date because of these changes.

It would be nice to use a different base, especially something that is built upon Rust's security and correctness guarantees.
Not yet, but the slippery slope turned out to not be a fallacy after all.
Systems Without Goals Is a Path to Mediocrity
Remember the context here. Yes, commercially-owned AGPL projects that require CLAs are not especially easy to contribute to. FOSS projects can be more or less easy to contribute to for lots of reasons, and most of those reasons aren't "seedy". I'd argue that in most cases, the CLA case isn't "seedy" either: the commercial sponsor funds most of the work; the project isn't an elaborate scheme to get free dev cycles from the community, but rather trades access to code (and the potential for a hostile fork) for greater adoption. That seems like a trade that Kuhn should welcome.
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> I wonder if these food delivery and ride sharing companies are even sustainable. Then reports they use VC money to subsidize things.

>They're not, they're all following Thiel's 0 to 1 model and aiming for a monopoly.

Not only trying to gain a monopoly via massive market manipulation, i.e., bonfire of VC capital to sustain dumping of underpriced product for years, but also skimming & scamming as a business model for those years

The last decade is making a real mockery of the Vc investing model to create value --many big ones are just trying to strip-mine the economy. Sure taxis/limos needed a better app-based UI, and perhaps delivery apps are more convenient, but this is not providing a new better service, it is simply trying to steal from the restaurant's profits
Houses are nicer than they used to be. Cars, too. We are living longer, and are more active into old age. Smart phones provide communications, information, and entertainment we could only dream of 15 years ago.

People in general are more prosperous than we used to be. Maybe not in some aspects, but most certainly overall.
Yeah that’s a tough question to answer. My answer to “how’s it going?” Or “are you excited?” has to be carefully curated and edited based on who I’m talking to. I’ve gotten better at just saying “we’ve had a couple losses so it’s hard to get excited yet.” But as far as how I wish people would have responded to me instead - I’m coming up blank. I think coming at your response with the understanding that it’s not a straight line for many people, and having compassion when you respond, is enough.
The strategy in the GC for determining the stack top for hunting GC roots will not work on all architectures.

On aaarch-64, the address of a local dummy variable may be above a register save area in the stack frame, and thus the scan will miss some GC roots.

In TXR Lisp, I used to use a hacked constant on aarch64: STACK_TOP_EXTRA_WORDS. It wasn't large enough to straddle the area, and so operation on aarch64 was unreliable.

http://www.kylheku.com/cgit/txr/commit/?id=3aa731546c4691fac...

A good stack-top-getting trick occurred to me: call alloca for a small amount of memory and use that address. It has to be below everything; alloca cannot start allocating above some register save area in the frame, because then it would collide with it; alloca has not know the real stack top and work from there.

Since we need to scan registers, we use alloca for the size of the register file (e.g. setjmp jmp_buf), and put that there: kill two birds with one stone.

http://www.kylheku.com/cgit/txr/commit/?id=7d5f0b7e3613f8e8b...
He probably retired and that was the end of it. A law firm near where I worked had an elderly lady who worked as an elevator operator up until a couple of years ago. Once she retired, the elevator was set to modern operation. They could have switched over long ago but kept her as the elevator operator, likely because she had been there so long and in the big scheme of things it didn't cost much. Might have been the same with the Westin St. Francis who long ago no longer really needed a coin cleaner but he was part of their connection to their past and didn't cost very much to keep around. Once he was gone though, there was little reason to get a replacement.
It's a basic rule in psychotherapy to not get into who has it worse. GP comment is right. Reason has diminishing returns in emotional matters.
A good test of jargon is whether a full translation of it makes the written work too laborious to read. These terms do not have brief, complete definitions in English.

If that is accepted, the question becomes whether the audience understands the jargon. Ribbonfarm readers do or are willing to learn what they might mean.
I've read it was at max drag.
> What were they looking for? A non-compete from Google?

Good faith. Google has for years selected for raw bureaucratic ambition and a cloistered view of technical talent. That set of cultural defects is coming home to roost.
Here's another unpopular opinion: Not much of the value of a DSL is in the syntax.

That is, I'm trying to write a program to do X. In, say, C++, I create data structures and functions as building blocks to write the higher-level functionality of the program. That's my "DSL" - just classes (structures and functions).

In Lisp, I can go further. In creating a DSL, I can not only create function (and, through functions, data structures), but I can also create syntax. This may let me write less code, and may make the code I write clearer.

My assertion is that, while that's nice, most of the DSL is actually the functions and data structures. The syntax is sugar - say, maybe 10% of the benefit, but not more.
Frontier, ISP in 29 states, plans to file for bankruptcy
There are certainly a number of factors, but the prevalence and addictiveness of entertainment technology is without a doubt a major factor.

Plenty of hikikomori in the safe, walkable Tokyo. What's keeping them inside?
Intel Using AI to Help Save Antarctica’s Penguins
>As to the employees vs. users dynamic, the error here is that employees are not ultimately the control agents. Managers and investors are, and they seek, increasingly, short-term direct profit with little concern to either overall social welfare or long-term impacts. So that's a very red herring and misleading analysis.

This is precisely why I used the snake eating its own tail as a metaphor here. I believe that it's reaching the point where the managers ARE actually employees stuck in the same trap - or at least a large percentage of them are. (I'm with you that there is a class of investor that is still immune, you can picture this as the head of the snake)

I've been in management, it's fairly clear that user data allows you opportunities and a competitive edge. I am also very, very aware that my data is included in that pool. I don't like it, but when asked to make a decision that keeps my product profitable, I'm going to try to use any user data I can.

If I don't, I'm replaceable. If I'm not replaced, I don't have a company to manage in 5 years, because it wasn't competitive.

Add on top that market consolidation is at (frankly scary) record levels, and I'd argue that the number of humans who actually have any real agency and control over how an organization behaves are dwindling precipitously.

So already I've been swallowed.
Google seems to indicate that femtolisp is used for some portion of Julia's implementation, and didn't evolve into Julia itself?
so is typescript the default with Deno? yes I know js is subset of ts, but still I would like Deno default to JS instead of TS.

I never get the point of TS, as long as JS ES2023(or whatever) got some typing in place, I will stick with JS for good.
I'm left wondering about the iteration example that is also quoted in the home page:

https://github.com/orangeduck/Cello/blob/master/examples/ite...

Okay, so the vector is garbage-collectable once the function terminates ... but it has references to stack-allocated integers i0, i1 and i2. That leaves me wondering: won't the GC walk these and trample on stack memory that has been deallocated/reused.

(Maybe those integer values have a tag right in the val pointer that gets the GC to avoid dereferencing them.)
There have been compilers that did this optimization.

179.art, one of the SPEC2000 benchmarks, has some poorly laid out structs. Sun Microsystems was the first company to introduce targeted optimizations for this benchmark.

GCC also had an optimization pass[0] for this. It may have been removed.

[0] https://www.research.ibm.com/haifa/dept/_svt/papers/golovane...
Talent shortage is a myth. Companies place themselves in the worst locations which are the least accessible places in the US (extremely high rent and commute distance) and then wonder why they only get a modest number of applicants.

Also, I’ve noticed many companies are terrible at highering
ah yeah, I wasn't talking about severe cases. For severe cases medication is better than therapy.
>There's a great video floating around somewhere of someone debugging an Asteroids game while the game is running.

That would be this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2rD2YSTMV4&list=PL62E3E45E6...
> "Innovate or die"

You can say the same to Google Cloud.
From the guidelines:

‘ Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that." ‘
"Over 723,000 people, or one in eight Singaporeans, has this name from the Tan state of the Zhou dynasty."

Yeah, this is complete nonsense. The "Tan" surname is basically the hokkien/min-nan pronunciation of the chinese character 陈, which is basically pronounced Chen in mandarin and Chan in cantonese.

It has nothing to do with the surname 譚 which is pronounced Tan in mandarin.

Due to the presence of many chinese language groups in singapore (unlike hk which is predominantly cantonese or mainland china and taiwan which uses mandarin), transliterations of surnames can be tricky. The same surname 王 can be written in many ways in singapore (Ong, Heng, Wang, Wong, etc.)
At that point, the restaurant is left with 100% liability for the cost of the raw ingredients and of making the food. The courier can leave (wasting their own gas money), but the 3rd-party delivery service is entirely removed from the situation (they lose nothing by not paying, as the customer and their driver will almost definitely blame the restaurant).

It is currently being addressed in that way, but it is ruining the reputations of these local restaurants, and burning through their cash.
Have to say, this whole drama put me off Rust a bit, more so than I expected. Its the taint of proselyting extremism among the worshipers of 'security', I think. Like finding a worm at the bottom of your tin of peaches.
>They pick Azure because somewhere along the line the mid- and upper-level managers, including director-level IT people, have been made to believe that anything other than Windows is insecure and not suitable for HIPAA.

I'd argue it's less because of a belief that a non-Windows environment is inherently insecure and more that Microsoft very aggressively promotes their products as being compliant with regulations like HIPAA.

This isn't limited to PaaS. For example, I think that Teams will likely gain a foothold in healthcare environments over Slack because MS markets Teams as explicitly HIPAA compliant. (Slack explicitly is not).

Things like that buy them a lot of mindshare when it comes time to choose a PaaS provider.
> I don't know why people think getting a credential does nothing

Then actually pay attention to the arguments they're making instead of talking about how offended you are because it goes against your self-interest as a degree holder. It's not as if the people bashing modern education are some kind of elusive minority.

I've got a master's degree and I've always though our education system is stupid, and at least in the U.S. not unlike a giant pyramid scheme given the cost of tuition these days. Absolutely nothing you learn in a college education you can't learn yourself for free on the internet.
Fast pace insult flinging matches between famous people has better engagement rates than slow, well thought out debate. People can consume insults faster and it brings about more emotion.
You are correct, but I wasn’t counting miscarriages (“spontaneous abortions”) in with medical or surgical abortions.
There’s a similar treatment already, CAR-T. The “one size fits all” aspect here is that this receptor mechanism may possibly work with many common solid tumor types (*in mice), whereas CAR-T’s efficacy is limited with solid tumors, but can be dramatic with leukemias and lymphomas. There’s a related therapy for prostate cancer, Provenge (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sipuleucel-T), but it’s merely a life-extending treatment and not the cure that CAR-T can be.
She legally changed her last name to Turing, claimed she was his daughter despite being of no relation, and stole Turing's possessions thereby endangering his legacy. What sort of kindness and respect does this warrant? I don't think the comment violates HN standards, is civil enough and more importantly quite appropriate considering the crime.
I really don’t think this has anything to do with competition (if anything Google is competing with Amazon and Microsoft here, not Epic). The article muddies the waters somewhat, but all the quotes are telling a story that says (not untruthfully) they’re dropping it due to its outsized maintenance burden in relation to the proportion of their clients who use it.