skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of the issue is that restaurants don't always sign up for Grubhub. When you place an order with a food delivery service, there may not be a special infrastructure or agreement set up -- the food delivery service may just call the restaurant and pretend to be a customer[0]. People assume that there's a strong relationship here, like selling a product in Walmart. Very often, there's not.

I'm not in the food service industry, maybe it's just expected that you monitor all of these things and manually request your restaurant to be removed every time a new one launches. But it's not crazy to me that someone could get fed up and say, "no, I don't need to pay attention to every VC backed startup that scrapes my website and starts advertising with my menu on top of my own business on Google. I just want to let customers know that a direct relationship with me is cheaper than a relationship with a middleperson."

Is offering a discount to someone having a go at them? If I was ordering through Grubhub, and I could save even just $5 by ordering directly, I'd want to know the option existed. I might not take advantage of it if it was a tiny amount of money. But I'd like to be informed; choices are nice.

[0]: https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/01/13/park-ridge-restauran...
Ask HN: How do you use your RPi?
With the doubling of the RAM in RPi4 [0] with not much increase in the pricing, I am getting quite keen to get one, but I wouldn't know what to do with it.

So what are you using your RPi for these days?

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22434208
My apologies! I misread the file and thought it was the TeX output from the WEB. You are completely correct, that's the WEB file.
> Section 230 gives special protection on the assumption that platforms aren't involved in selecting what users post

as has been pointed out in other comments[1], this isn't true, and is also irrelevant to PagerU's first amendment argument, which definitely was the heart of their claim.

[1] e.g. root at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22434592
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Where I live, the death rate of Influenza is a recurring topic every season. After that it's not interesting because we know the disease very well. For all we know, it cannot be stopped by measures less bad than the flu itself. Thus eradication has not been attempted and is not even being discussed because there are easier targets.

On the other hand, we know very little about Cov2. Its spread and its projected death rate are interesting to me and many other people. We're also currently trying to contain Cov2 by drastic actions. That too generates a lot of headlines. It seems we're failing because heavier measures are unacceptable. Cue more headlines. It may just become another flu strain we'll understand well and discuss shortly every year when it comes around again.
Another option: I saw a program about a factory in China that takes waste fruit and veg. They mash it up and feed it to billions of cockroaches. The cockroach excrement is used as fertiliser and the cockroaches are fed to chickens.

It's very low tech. The greatest expense seemed to be a team of people picking plastic rubbish out of the incoming waste.
mark my words: this will get to the supreme court, and youtube will lose. sites like youtube, facebook, twitter ultimately need to be recognized as some kind of semi-public forum. once they are, the rules change.
It's easy to hate on the elderly, until you become old yourself.
If everyone in the world were suddenly infected today and the onset would be, say, five days, the world would be in a mayhem in a week. The current fatality rate in countries such as Japan that doesn't have overloaded medical system, may seem low, but:
1) it's low because the system isn't overloaded. When overloaded, it starts to rise as the patients with heavy symptoms just die.
2) at a stage of a epidemic, it affects infra, which has feedback loop effects.
3) (for the sake of an argument) two percent of humanity is still 156 million people. A death sentence for 156 million people? That's harsh.
As with most accessibility problems... Checking my User Agent won't tell you how I'm interacting with the site.

How do you detect I'm using NVDA? It'll still look like Firefox. Or Chrome if I'm bypassing a broken UA detection.

Nowhere will you see NVDA, even though it is the problem.
And that then depends on the price per area of storage that you pay.

I've always wondered who buys old Pentium 3s for thousands of dollars on eBay, but yeah... it can make sense, especially if that computer runs a factory machine or something, and just needs a quick replacement part.

EDIT: ...otherwise wildly overpriced items on eBay are because trader has run out of stock, wants to keep the same product page, but doesn't want anybody to buy in the meantime. They do this, because items have rankings for which appears first.
Food is cheaper than at any other time in history. Make food expensive again and watch the wastage plummet. How to make food expensive?

- Stop subsidising farmers to over-produce

- End intensive farming of animals

- Ban imports from any country that refuses to do the same

In the process, you’d go a long way towards solving a whole bunch of environmental issues. The meat you’d produce would admittedly have a bigger carbon (and land) footprint, but the cost would make people eat less of it. Animal welfare would be massively improved.

People don’t value things that are cheap. This is one of those issues where no politician can admit the real cause, so they have to resort to posturing.
Congrats and Thanks Let's Encrypt crew! Using your services for awhile now.
Woah what, you're not kidding:

https://www.novochem.net/.env

Laravel should not even render this .env file by default, way too many results.

Laravel has no github issues, so I don't know how to let the author know. https://github.com/laravel/laravel Someone ping him on twitter
USB on all Raspberry Pi below 4 is capped at 480 mbit/sec due to it being USB2. Pi 4 has USB3, but it can interfere with 2.4 GHz signals.
This article is super-confusing. You have been able to buy 4G Pi4's for a while. What the article is reporting is actually a price decrease in the smaller capacity 2G variant.
Umbrellas frequently get stolen via the self-justification of "I need it, I'll just borrow it" followed by laziness about returning.
Glad to see support for uBlock Origin landing, finally. Although to be honest, I've been using FF Preview for about a month now, and I haven't observed any ads to speak of. The tracking blockers may be enough on their own.
People going about their lives just like you and me, surrounded by other people, mostly.

They may be terrorists, but that does not make their daily lives much different to ours.
Or the people who will lose their job because of the economic impact of an unnecessary panic.
Not to go too off topic and political but could you see any republicans going up in direct contrast to Trump saying : 'all is under control' ?

I certainly cant. And as shameful and sad as it sounds, until people start dying.. I don't see much movement on this.
I'm actually a bit puzzled by this. This is RT-PCR based, so why can't off the shelf lab supplies be used? Oligo synthesis commonly has next day turnaround at this point, so primers can't be the issue... Is this purely a regulatory bottleneck?

Edit: It's purely a regulatory bottleneck, they've published a protocol along with the primers and probes. (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/lab/rt-pcr-panel-p...) FFS how are we this incompetent.
In addition to the CDC, the National Security Council position addressing global pandemic preparation and response was cut. Not to mention the whole of the national policy and especially the national security and foreign relations apparatus being the subject of multiple rounds of political, vanity-driven purges that have driven out expertise in favor of toadying.
What do your kids like to do? Any chance you could integrate a computer with it? My daughter loves to cook and dance and I haven’t found a way to integrate that with computers but she’s happy so I haven’t pressed it.
I debated bursting your bubble on this, because I would like to get back into the bubble - but in case others find this and aren't aware: https://twitter.com/hashtag/JeNeSuisPasUnVirus
This has absolutely nothing to do with shitty validation rules. It has to do with what you're outputting it as.

If you're outputting it to HTML, commas are fine. If you're outputting it to CSV, commas are bad. And your validation rules suck if you don't allow commas in any text field because it might be output to CSV someday.
Sounds good. Does lastpass work on this version of Firefox? Lastpass is a really popular password manager, but last I checked it didn't work on Firefox on Android (Lastpass works fine on Firefox on desktop).
There's a bureaucratic 'Catch-22' in each regulatory agency's rules for allowing emergency testing, & apparently no one willing to exercise the authority to break the logjam. See for example the unwound details in this thread (which is reporting roughly the same things as Dr. Gottlieb, just without the diplomatic mollycoddling of his former agency):

https://twitter.com/random_eddie/status/1232075474966368256
I first took a look at Tailwind CSS a year ago and liked it. However, when I started using its flexbox classes I noticed it was missing one for align-content: space-between (or space-evenly, I can't recall precisely). Thankfully it looks as though those utility classes have since been added [0], however, at the time it made me hesitant to adopt Tailwind because it made me wonder how many other basic property-value pairs were not yet implemented as classes. Maybe that's a stupid reason to have given up on it, but it's just how I felt at that point in time. Do you feel Tailwind has mostly improved with since you started using it?

[0] https://tailwindcss.com/docs/align-content
One of my main concerns is food prepared or handled by people who might be sick.

I can wash my hands and certain food, but other food that I eat (like a sandwich, bread, all sorts of prepared food) can't be washed by me before I eat it.

If someone sick coughed on their hands and then made that food for me, I'm screwed.
Given the 2-3 week transmissible incubation period where the infected show no symptoms, it doesn't seem like there's short enough feedback loop for the lethality to be tempered through natural selection within the initial period of the outbreak (which we're just beginning).
That's actually a really valid point. I got interrupted by work. I'll see what I can do.
> it is possible to enable experimental support for WebGL2 in the current version of Safari. I presume this is something they are cooking up for the next release of MacOS.

No, they have had the same level of support (it fails almost a quarter of the conformance tests, lacks a majority of the new APIs entirely, and doesn't even reliably take in GLSL ES 3.0 shaders without crashing even more than the GLES 2.0 implementation) for four years, without further activity. It is not conformant in the TP, and I don't think they plan to ever make it conformant or actually release it.

They have the resources and the expertise in house to make this a thing, they could literally just use ANGLE, but they choose not to.
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I'm compelled to link the Bed Goes Up song! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4HuUmwWesA
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Why would other countries have enough resources for testing while the US does not?
I found a few here https://digifloat.io/get-free-illustrations-images/
I tried Hasura in the past and unfortunately found it unsuitable for our auth requirements. There is no way currently to hook into their authorization system, you get extremely basic RBAC and if that isn't good enough for you too bad.

For example we currently are required to talk to some external auth services (depends on the customer) and fetch the users permissions based on that, (e.g. user can READ notes, and WRITE notes but not delete NOTES). At the time we had an extremely simple express middleware that handled this.

Also the entire idea that i need another GraphQL or rest server to do any sort of custom validation/custom actions made me do a double take and more or less killed any interest to me.

We ended up using NestJS with their GraphQL tooling and objection.js and never looked back. Ironically the adoption of the GraphQL version of our API compared to Rest is almost 0.
Same for car accidents, cancers, wars, why should we care right ? it's only an extremely small handful of people who are affected.
Our Uptime calculation is based on the percentage of successful requests we serve through our web, API, and Git client interfaces.

So when a customer finds a broken service it is in their financial best interest to repeatedly hammer the broken service and drive down the uptime calculation to trigger their rebate.

Just an observation, not a suggestion. I’d fire any customer I found doing this.
Unicode RTL override can be dangerous in filenames (in the sense of confusing humans, not computers). It is necessary to preserve in content management systems dealing with bidi content.

Of course you can try to have different validations on your model, but then you need to make sure to know all output domains on the model level instead of doing it when handing over to the view.
Will it matter ? There will just be a barrage of BS about how the numbers are fake news, and how the media is being dramatic.

We've seen this all before and it's become so predictable.
One problem I suspect we'll see is that the sick people most exposed to others won't take sick days, because they don't get paid sick leave.

There are a lot of hourly workers in the service economy that don't get sick time, and they still need to pay their bills. I'm not personally worried about the people in my office since I can avoid close contact. I'm worried about the people stocking shelves at grocery stores and pharmacies, working checkout counters and the like.
There are emerging CRISPR-based diagnostic tools, but they are still very experimental and novel. I wouldn’t be surprised if a rollout took almost as long as a vaccine.

https://mammoth.bio/2020/02/15/white-paper-a-protocol-for-ra...
As an aside, good reads is the slowest site I use on a regular basis. It's genuinely shocking how there are 5 to 6 second page load times. I'm not sure what their stack is but I'm always blown away by how any continues to use this. It feels like a competitor could beat them by just being faster.
The worst thing that could happen is a concern taking them over with select malicious intent.
In most of the US, you can safely leave most things without watching them without much risk of theft.

I mean, if you leave something that's a strong temptation (like a big pile of cash) it'll eventually disappear.

Yeah, if you go in to one of the inner cities, your stuff will get stolen, but otherwise, generally nah.
string theory doesn't have experiments. that's my point
Aren't the main benefits of the mask the fact that you don't touch your face as much with potentially infected hands, and any sudden coughs or sneezes from the wearer are contained in the mask for others' benefit?
great list

I'd edit the 1.5 feet to 1.5 meters

I'm also going to start refusing to handle objects handled by multiple people, such as the signature stylus in credit card checkout terminals.

door handles are also a problem

mandatory retrofit of every public door with automatic opener or at least push bar (use elbow or hip) would also help.
There's a thousand things society could do (have done) to systemically reduce R0 of most everything contagious...
You should really read more materials on international reporting standards before making uninformed claims like “if the China CDC is counting covid-19 cases the way they count flu cases...” These are completely different things and your “contribution” to the discussion unfortunately only adds noise to already widespread misinformation and obscures real concerns.

Edit: And to be absolutely clear, being suspicious of the accuracy of the data is one thing and I have no objection to that; saying the stats are off because “they are counting covid-19 cases the way they count flu cases” only shows you’re uninformed about the topic.
Thanks! I'll take a look on it. Any resources you could point me about the packing and tweaks necessary for getting an existent react app into Cordova?
But that's not a thing for 15 years or more? PDO was added around 2005, and even before that anyone in their right mind used mysqli extension for prepared statements. Since 2012 you can't even use the mysql extension without getting a depreciation warning.

And yes, in 90s php's security sucked, but that was nothing php specific, it was just the sentiment of that time. Everyone did it, in all languages. I remember using tons of $dbh->do() in Perl's DBI back then, intentionally avoiding to prepare statements for a quick and dirty stuff (and most of the scripts back then were quick and dirty stuff). It's in a big part because we were used to building desktop apps and thinking in terms of security that applied for them like being careful about your pointers and input strings lengths and stack overflows and stuff. Web was still pretty new thing.
I looked at 3 of the source files and all start with an empty line. Example:

https://github.com/internalfx/pageflo/blob/master/system/ser...

Is there a reason for this?
This one is more up to date, https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy-languages
After reading some of these comments I needed a cleanse of sorts. I suspect I'm not the only one.

https://fs.blog/2014/05/hunter-s-thompson-to-hume-logan/
"3. Extension-ready

This update will initially include support for one of the most popular extensions..."

Having support for exactly one means you don't support the others. They also say "Additional extensions will be supported in subsequent releases", which implies they aren't supported initially. Also supported by someone's link to
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/02/11/faq-for-extension..., thanks for that.

It's phrased in a way that avoids saying outright what they are actually doing (dropping support), though.
> The test kit has not been FDA cleared or approved, however distribution and use of the test kits follows the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) February 4, 2020, issuance of an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA). The tests are being shipped through the International Reagent Resource (IRR), a CDC-established mechanism that distributes laboratory reagents domestically and globally.

> Is this purely a regulatory bottleneck?

That seems likely. It needs to be shipped through a particular resource, under particular constraints that lie outside the norm:

> The CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel was developed for qualified domestic public health laboratories to detect SARS-CoV-2. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) on February 4, 2020, to enable emergency use of the test kit in the United States. CDC has produced EUA and Research Use Only (RUO) test kits that are now available to order by domestic and international public health partners through IRR.
I wasn't aware that this claim was central to the suit, thanks for that. Many people here are not focusing on that claim. EDIT: Per other replies, it seems like that claim has a large amount of direct evidence against it.

I think it is interesting that in some long-term sense there is pressure for the government's regulatory reach to move farther up the network layer stack.

~50+ years ago it was clear that telephone lines were a
natural monopoly and required regulation. Over time this transferred to ISP's, over time this may transfer to "platform websites", which currently to me seems like a pretty dang vague category.

It would be very strange for an Elizabeth-Warren-esque tech regulatory crackdown to occur without guaranteeing certain freedoms of speech for users.
It seems to me that at least as big a problem in today's world is too much scepticism. Most of the time, the experts are correct. People question the science on climate change, the benefits of vaccination, whether the moon landings happened, whether the Earth is round, all based on the flimsiest of evidence.
Fair enough though I will add a small caveat - I have no problem if Amazon uses Rudder in their eCommerce stack (that would be awesome!!), just don't want to provide Rudder as a service in AWS marketplace.

Ignoring that, look at the other alternative. If we don't solve this, no-one will invest in us (given the challenges larger companies like Confluent, Mongo etc are facing from AWS). We can continue to develop this as a volunteer project but coming with a realistic alternative to Segment is a tall ask.

You know, what is the easier solution for us? Switch to an open-source license (AWS doesn't care about us anyway), grow with the community's help and once we become big switch to a different license. THAT IS cheating the community and the users. That's why we are upfront about it in spite of all the blowback. But OSI as a community needs to do something to help projects/companies like us.
>Kids staying at home with grandparents means far smaller groups of people though.

No, it means smaller groups of kids, but not for those seniors. They still go about their day, visiting with friends etc.
The machines and reagents are super common. The critical missing element is the primer, a short sequence of nucleotides telling the PCR (gene copier) what sequence to copy

Gene synthesis companies are probably ramping production of these primers now. It’s a logistics issue to send them to the labs, but tiny quantities are needed so the packages are gonna be small, with cold chain shipping I think.

We (molecular biologists) have a dearth of tools for affordable label-free testing, so you basically have to know what you’re looking for before you can look. Bad problem to have. this could be improved with sequencers from Illumina / Roche / Oxford Nanopore but need $$ for that
You're thinking of a Dyson swarm.