skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is almost written with two completely different tones. One is that GrubHub is offering delivery for restaurants that don't have an official delivery service. The other is that GrubHub is issuing deliveries from fake versions of restaurants or presenting restaurants as if they have an agreement with GrubHub.

I don't see why it's supposed to be illegal to pay someone to pick something up for you. Be it a bottle of Tylenol from CVS or some to go food from the local restaraunt. If the person goes there and finds out the restaraunt doesn't have takeout it's irrelevant to that.

It's obviously wrong to pose as/support fake versions of businesses or present yourself as contracted by them for delivery when you're not. Unfortunately the article has neither the wording nor information to make it clear which is actually going on. I suspect both to some degree though.
Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact theories
Certainly true, but the regulations VW violated went into force in 2009. We're not talking about the smog era.
Amazon's sort just flat out doesn't work, I don't understand it, it's obviously not incompetence (and anyone can call a std lib `sort` fn on a given field anyway) so I don't understand why it's an option, why it pretends that sorting by price is something that you can do.

It's not just that it doesn't include shipping (for those which have a fee, which tends to be the cheap tack, presumably to try to catch you out) - even including shipping the order just seems all over the place. I can only assume it's paid-for rankings etc. with no indication of that to the user, but it's a crap site. As a business/seller/provider of goods it's great, and gets too much of my money, but the site really is crap.
How can you not check out a movie called "The VelociPastor"?
Hey there, was super fun playing with you earlier. Thanks a lot for the feedback -- will definitely address / fix some of your issues!
Until reading your post, I did not realize I have not read a thread on Kobe yesterday on HN. What I stumbled upon was the 'Why helicopters crash all the time' which seems.. tone-deaf. I was surprised on how many different people from different backgrounds posted about Kobe on my timelines yesterday. It's obvious what you say is true: there are a lot of us here that see him as influential and want to discuss his legacy.

I am not a long time fan of the NBA or Kobe himself. I got interested in the league recently due to Kawhi's dagger on the 76ers that made the rounds on Twitter. I followed last years finals, and watched a lot of highlights on YouTube. I recently just realized how big Kobe was and how his mentality and legacy is revered throughout the league. It's weird seeing old highlight clips and realizing MJ, Pippen, Bird, even Magic is still here while Kobe is gone.

He is a recent inspiration for me yet I felt the loss too. Please don't feel alone on feeling that on HN.
Watch Outer Limits, Galaxy Being episode!!!
Oregon has a law that if you have 5 or more vehicles behind you, you must let them pass. It's more for the highways, not the freeway, but I haven't seen it enforced in many, many years
You could buy a TV worth several thousand dollars and they'll still show you advertisements. Also in Samsung's case they'll take screenshots of what you're watching to find out what you like. There's always money in the advertising revenue stream.
Nuclear is very affordable when a standard design is chosen and built multiple times in serial as proven by Korea and France.

> EROI of renewables is fine and continuing to improve.

That it gets worse as a function of the amount of energy storage fraction is simple to understand. I'd be shocked to read about other studies that suggest EROI with increasing energy storage is actually improving. Can you provide such a reference to your statement?

This peer-reviewed journal article linked above has the following abstract:

Abstract: A novel methodology is developed to dynamically assess the energy and material investments required over time to achieve the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources in the electricity sector. The obtained results indicate that a fast transition achieving a 100% renewable electric system globally by 2060 consistent with the Green Growth narrative could decrease the EROI of the energy system from current ~12:1 to ~3:1 by the mid-century, stabilizing thereafter at ~5:1. These EROI levels are well below the thresholds identified in the literature required to sustain industrial complex societies. Moreover, this transition could drive a substantial re-materialization of the economy, exacerbating risk availability in the future for some minerals. Hence, the results obtained put into question the consistence and viability of the Green Growth narrative.
Keywords: Energy return on energy investment; Transition to renewable energies; Energy trap; Green growth; Integrated assessment modelling

Iñigo Capellán-Pérez, Carlos de Castro, Luis Javier Miguel González,
Dynamic Energy Return on Energy Investment (EROI) and material requirements in scenarios of global transition to renewable energies,
Energy Strategy Reviews,
Volume 26, 2019, 100399, ISSN 2211-467X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esr.2019.100399.(http://www.scienc...
Just like OP is jumping to the conclusion that the lead is an idiot when he probably has very zero idea of what his lead actually does or what a lead developer does.
These articles are lovely. I didn’t realize until this moment how much I needed graphic design criticism in my life.
This is hardly surprising. Most websites are not constantly maintained. They're still pulling from the CDN everytime there is a request.
The solution is to have proper technical assesment of critical infrastructure/ equipment, both source code and hardware.

UK security services inspected Huawei course, and found it messy, but otherwise unremarkable. This should be standard procedure and we should be good at it.
Consumers can buy seafood at the grocery on, say, any given Thursday because they know the delivery truck makes periodic visits. And if they learn that schedule on a Tuesday they can wait it out two days until the phase wraps back around with fresh(ish) lobsters.

The phase reset on a cruise has the intended effect of re-supplying the fresh(ish) lobsters but with the unfortunate side-effect of dropping you off at the shore.
What about the push to talk feature on some work phones?
I was employed there during the acquisition. It was certainly expected and priced in. Management successfully managed to unload a hot potato while getting a nice carve out for themselves.
Agreed, what's weird to me is how high level languages like Python and JS adopted C's indexing. But I guess that's the huge C influence on the programming community. Most of us learn programming being taught zero-based indexing.
5+Myths+About+Facebook+Page+Likes:+Busted
I don't think he's missing the point so much as you're missing his, possibly intentionally.

The point is that the degree to which something is possible at scale has an impact on the practical applications of that thing, and therefore on the people subject to its application. Viz., earth moving machinery (and related engineering) has made possible things that would previously have required orders of magnitude more time and/or manpower, likely making them economically infeasible except in rare cases where money was no object.

He didn't say anything about property rights. That was you... for some reason.
I disagree. What is needed is focus, not "less".

Finding and buying computer parts is infinitely easier on Newegg than any B&M site, because that's what Newegg does. They have more computer parts than Amazon, not less, but they sort and filter and organize it much much better.

I think Amazon just doesn't care about people who are shopping for items with very exact specificationd in mind. It's an edge case for them. Most people go to Amazon when they want "a tv" or "a teapot".

Whenever I need something specific, I just look up "best X with Y feature review". Almost always I get an Amazon link to the type of thing I was looking for.
Our existing laws and ideas of privacy were build based on the limitations of the current tech. Yes you could take a photo of a random person in public but it wasn't very useful or harmful to do so. Now we have supercharged spyware tech we have the ability to cause a lot of harm without being in violation of any existing laws because such a thing simply wasn't possible previously.
Ya but at the price of general freedom.
What does 'home AI' even mean? Most people just want a video camera with a webserver on their doorbell.
Welfare for the Aged in Nigeria, a Sustenance for Declining Older and Aged Male
Show HN: I made an audio censorer with node
Only tangentially related, but New Jersey has a special case of this. It used to be all in on "jug-handles" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jughandle), where you would need to be in the rightmost lane in order to make a "left" turn. But they have also built intersections that have the standard left turn lane, on the left. You only know which one it is as you approach the intersection, then either need to get all the way to the left or right. Always a fun surprise!
Or with my iOS jailbreak :)
I disagree. Most new ideas implemented in the workplace come with generational learning curves, even when history has shown them to be good ideas. This is just a cyclical skills gap.

Few people running software projects have formal study that spans both management and software. Many have neither, in my experience. Sure, formal study is not a requirement for good performance, it sure helps to get everyone in an organization on the same page.
Like I said, hypothesis!

The glycemic index is problematic for lots of reasons.
If by "a little bit of sweetener" you're referring to HFCS in packaged foods, I disagree. HFCS prevalence seems much much larger than that.

You're right on that sucrose (table sugar) is not much different than HFCS.

Fructose != starches. The body metabolizes the two differently (See below).

A bit of knowledge about fructose rumbling around my brain...

1) Fructose is metabolized differently than glucose. All fructose has to be metabolized by the liver and go through the portal vein. This is not the case for glucose or other non-fructose carbohydrates.

2) Metabolizing fructose via the liver, especially in excess leads to fatty liver. Think foie gras but in humans. Non-alocholic fatty liver disease is now a huge thing, happening even in children. In prior decades if you saw a fatty liver it was because the person was an alcoholic.

3) Fructose is unique in that it short-circuits your bodies methods of letting you know you are full and to stop eating.

Human bodies, metabolism, and our food supplies are all complex dynamic systems so, it's unlikely that one single thing can answer the obesity epidemic.

Nonetheless, if I had to pick one place to start, I'd begin at fructose and see what kind of web is woven around it.

Two places to check out if you're interested in some of what has informed my thinking.

1) Dr. Rick Johnson--seems to know more about fructose than anyone else
https://peterattiamd.com/rickjohnson/

2) Dr. Robert Lustig--sees himself as a public advocate so have to wade through some of that to get to his ideas:
http://sugarscience.ucsf.edu/robert-h.-lustig.html
https://robertlustig.com/
https://peterattiamd.com/roblustig/
Where International Communities Cluster
The best I can figure is that Amazon sort by price is using the lowest price from any new offer, even after you've narrowed to a specific seller. It might be some grades of used as well. It's also likely that the prices are periodically refreshed for the index, not live.

I don't have any real information though, other than a confirmation that it doesn't do what I want either.
As far as I can tell the core axiom of privacy activism is that it's a given that the trade is not worth it. It's why so much of the digital privacy movement is people who don't live in bad neighborhoods.
Snow White and the seven dwarves.

https://www.networkworld.com/article/2212166/snow-white-and-...
I assume they got a drive that wasn't meant for their region of the. When they tried to initiate an RMA with the manufacturer, it appears they wouldn't accept it.
Check out our reproducibility focused notebook Vizier (https://vizierdb.info). In Vizier, inter-cell communication happens through spark dataframes (and we're working on other datatypes too. This makes it possible for Vizier to track inter-cell dependencies and automatically reschedules execution of dependent cells. (It also makes Vizier a polyglot notebook :) )
Regions like for TV and movies. IE, they sold a drive in Asia and someone sold it to us. We do a warranty check and are told that we can't get a warranty for that drive because we're in the US.

It's worth doing a warranty check with the manufacturer as soon as you receive the drive if there's any possibility at all it might not be up and up, so that you have an opportunity to return the drive if you want to.

Even if the drive is legitimate, a vendor might sell you an OEM drive which means having to go through that vendor for warranty service instead of direct with the manufacturer. That might be too much of a hassle.
Simple set's counter for gym
During training at the gym, due to various distractions, I often forgot whether I'm taking the fourth or fifth set. I've also had conversations with someone or reading something while I was resting between sets, and it could take a while.I tried to find an application that would help me, but often they were either full of ads or disgusting on the interface or overloaded with functionality.So I find application which would count my sets in the exercise and how much time has passed since the last set.

Glad to introduce to you a minimalistic app for iPhone and Apple Watch - Fitness Sets Counter.- Tap the button after doing a set and app will count it and show timer that displays elapsed time since last repetition. Every minute it will also notify you to start next set appreciate your advice and suggestions!

Link to app:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fitness-sets-counter/id1495758075
Was this the device that Whistler used in the movie Sneakers? I guess that was more of a keyboard or monitor though...
LineageOS offers this through Privacy Guard. But it's been pushed deeper and deeper in the settings hierarchy, and will be removed next release due to maintenance burden.
Current renewable costs quoted are generally the cost when the sun is shining or the wind is blowing (which is about 30% and 45% on average in most places). The other times, we're burning fracked natural gas. This is highly warming fossil fuel from pipeline leaks (methane) and from combustion (CO2).

Nuclear proponents questioning the economic viability of civilian nuclear power is extremely well documented from 1945 to about 1965, after which it did well for about 4 years before falling into a wild ride of a comparison with coal (also increasing in price due to air pollution controls in the 1970s) and more recently with natural gas. At the moment, France's standardized nuclear fleet is about 20% cheaper than natural gas. Not too shabby. Certainly worth deploying to help, you know, save the planet. Some builds in the West have been bad. Many have been good. We understand today how to make them all good: pick a design and build a lot of them.

How do you feel about the Energy Return On Investment (EROI) of renewable energy systems as energy storage system fraction ramps up? This paper [1] says it drops from 12:1 down to 3:1 and then stabilizes at 5:1, well below what's often quoted as necessary to sustain industrialized civilization.

[1] Iñigo Capellán-Pérez, et. al, Dynamic Energy Return on Energy Investment (EROI) and material requirements in scenarios of global transition to renewable energies, Energy Strategy Reviews,
Volume 26, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esr.2019.100399.
Quite likely many people don't even want the webserver.
Zoom in. Jaw-dropping.

Can't imagine what Starlink will do to this...
Because when an engineer gets a big list of the alerts he or she must implement some aren't labeled "*illegal kickback scheme to get doctors to prescribe medically unnecessary medication for profit," it looks like any other requirement. Making things look legit to others outside of the scheme is important to successfully pulling off the scheme.

Even if an individual engineer suspected the opioid recommendation alerts were medically unnecessary, medically unnecessary tests and treatments are very common [1], so it wouldn't exactly stand out as "probaby an illegal kickback scheme."

[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/unnecessary-medical-care-...
I'm glad I'm not the only one for whom sort by price has never worked!

They also have tried to specifically promote their clothes and shoe-selling business within Amazon.com, but those have especially bad interface for figuring out price and all. For example, if there are 20 colours of jeans on the same page (e.g., it's considered the same item, just in different colour), do I really have to click to each one of them to find those that are the cheapest and/or are on sale?

And the sort never working by price is just ridiculous. I think it's been like that for years, really amazing that they've never fixed it. Never works even if you select Amazon.com as the only seller.
Professions like pilots, doctors and CPAs are bad examples because they have a certifying body that exists outside of the relationship between employee and employer. It's true they're not getting paid for that certification, but once they have it, it's valid and transferable between jobs.

Musicians and actors are better examples, as they do have auditions, but lots of actors and musicians get jobs based on their previous body of work, rather than an in-person audition.

I'm curious, can you name more professions that use what is essentially auditions for hiring, besides artist-types?
> The agency, created in 2004, advises the administration on privacy issues.

So the agency came into existence as a fig leaf for the Bush administration... Any reason to believe it's grown teeth since then?
another explanation on why he gets away with stuff is just that he's kobe (skilled and a top marketed player).

i know lebron isn't reading the handbooks, and he can walk from half-court on a break away fast break without getting a travel call. that's because he's lebron (can't dribble and is a top marketed player).
Most stuff (links, photos, docs, etc) I just email it to myself
> Oh, I think they recognise the damage to their brand.

Today, yes. Two years ago?
It’s easy to forget how much of top-level pro sports is a mental game. Kobe was incredibly gifted at the mental game of basketball, maybe the greatest of all time. There’s an oft-reposted GIF of Matt Barnes faking an inbounds pass right at Kobe’s face, and Kobe not even blinking.

I watched him talk about his VC work some last year, and it’s clear that his intelligence and focus translated off the court as well. It’s truly tragic that we will never get to know what else Kobe Bryant could have done with that intelligence and focus.
At least [edit:] three of the 4TB drives I checked was categorized as "new" but was in fact reburbished ("with a new warranty"). One of them was pretty shady about hiding this fact.

[Life is too short and data is too dear to ever buy one of these refurb units]
That only works if you're ranging from 0 to n-1, though.

A popular way to partition an array at i and j is to do:

arr[0..<i], arr[i..<j], arr[j...-1]
Well actually very easy.

Sample for Apache:

https://www.codementor.io/@abhishake/minimal-apache-configur...
That's not without health risks. As a life-long skin problem bearer it's a thing that has messed me up more than once. The upper layers of your skin get de-greased like that and that in turn can cause all kinds of issues. Better get him to understand the possible consequences before there is actual damage from this.

Especially during winter the effects can be quite harsh.
If there was a checkbox that was ticked by default that meant people's data would stay private, then most people would not be unticking that box.

It's our job as techies to add that option, and make it easy.
Person Paper on Purity in Language
What is wrong with life? Many but let us appreciate how to use it more instead of seemingly criticise it.

The world is so much better with you alive. So is the founded tool of computational notebook. Not sure I read it covered R notebook which is really good to share info and analyst. Just wonder how to use it better.

Of course they can always improve on it. But I would promote more expansion - How about a lisp notebook, a clojure notebook, a js notebook and a forth notebook.

The real problem is can you have oo notebook ... it is more “serial” and graphic and data. But not for the “messy” class or trigger Based system. Hence if I may, the real problem is the scoping. It is so hard to visualise a live oo system. Unlike a live functional or even a stack based system.

It is not life that is the problem. Even useless life has its use, as long as it is alive. But if it is not reaching there an alternative may have to think about. Just like we cannot be there we send in our voyagers outside solar system.

Be long and prosper.
Yeah, "find it acceptable" is good verbiage.

There seems to be a lot of conflation on this subject between "expectation of privacy" in the practical sense and "expectation of privacy" in the legal sense. Like, you'd better fuckin believe I expect not to be followed by cops or secret agents everywhere I go. I expect it on the persistence forecast basis and because I understand that it's practically impossible to allocate manpower in that way, assuming they don't think I've done anything wrong in particular.

I also expect that the government, local and federal both, will try to erode my effective privacy in any and every way they can afford and get away with.

None of that has much to do with e.g. the fact that legally, if a cop peers in my window and sees bales of cocaine stacked on the floor of my living room, or whatever, he can come in and take them from me and arrest me.
China doesn't build things to last, and often builds things very very quickly without longevity in mind. So, I would actually argue the opposite. That Chinese expenditures will likely go up a lot, while US expenditures will be flat. This is for various reasons, but mostly because the US is transitioning toward a remote work model, where in China (at least currently and for the foreseeable future) can't do that because their economy is so reliant on physical human labor. US cargo routes are actually near the most efficient in the entire world, and in the end...that is what a lot of the "wear and tear" comes from.
How can a site this large get away with such a basic functionality not working as any of their users would want for such a long time? Did it ever work?

I think I've noticed it not working like 5 or 6 years ago when I was shopping for shoes, if not earlier than that. Keep in mind that even without Zappos, they're in the business of selling shoes, too, and have ran some crazy promotions around shoes, too.
Thanks! What are alternatives to computational notebooks (for the same tasks) and how do they compare?
Isn't that a bit totally though?
I've heard that old one: molex to sata lose all your data
Hydrogen is just about the worst gas to transport, though. (With the possible exception of helium) You'd get so much leakage from a hydrogen pipeline that it'd probably be easier to just synthesize methane and transport that instead...
There is an EconTalk episode from 2013 about this phenomenon:

“Munger on Sports, Norms, Rules, and the Code”

https://www.econtalk.org/munger-on-sports-norms-rules-and-th...