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> The US has foresight to ensure military supply lines aren't dependent on China

I have to surprise you. A surprising amount of US defence hardware is double digit Chinese BOM.
They were reporting what the CDC told them.
“A plea from a local restaurant owner is asking customers to stop using food delivery apps and instead order directly from the restaurant.” ... “ it is an effort to avoid "25-30% commission rates" they're currently paying.”

I don’t blame him. People should be supporting local businesses, and siphoning off 30% isn’t a good way to do that.
eBay thinks so: https://www.ebayinc.com/stories/news/we-are-actively-removin...
I opened the pdf, did ctrl+F for 'github', got zero results. Have you reproduced their "decent results"?
According to anecdata from a friend of mine at 3M, they are running manufacturing 24 hours / day and are expanding. Apparently one of the problems was that when China was infected, 3M depleted a lot of their existing mask stock selling to the Chinese. When the virus came to the US, existing stocks were already somewhat depleted.
What about price ceilings and purchase limits? You'd have to actually think about the purchase limits for different entities but it sounds doable.
I wish they would use more words in menus instead of icons. I built this wonderful capacity to read quickly, I scan a list pretty quickly, some interpretation is necessary, but some icons are really obscure/vague.

And if I have to click more than once to find a scroll bar because it was so small I missed, then the gui is doing it wrong.
Watch Zoox’s autonomous car drive around San Francisco for an hour
The level of care and organization in this photo feels equivalent to what I would expect for a ground robot prototype out of a startup. Can any aerospace engineer comment on what they see? Does their setup inspire confidence?
To apply you have to make certain representations that you need the money as a result of COVID-related disruptions and will use it only for certain purposes, and one is at least theoretically criminally liable for filing a false statement if that's not the case. Also, you only get the loan balance forgiven if it goes to payroll (must be at least 75% of the total), rents, and utilities.
Then the website must be breaking on my side, even though I cannot see any error (neither in Safari, nor in Chrome), only a couple of warnings. This is good for GP to fix the issue, I guess.
Jay Inslee accuses Trump of stoking violence and 'fomenting domestic rebellion'
Oh dear! I'll have to update that page. Thanks for pointing out that error.

Most chat happens in github issues and on IRC (#gleam-lang on freenode).
They could just stop allowing new .io registrations until we begin colonizing Jupiter.
I leave it in standard configuration, but fill in Summary.md by adding new content to the top. That way when I open it I see the most recent notes first.

I have a shell script that opens vscode and starts mdbook. For my journal the script also checks to see if there's an entry for today. If there isn't, it will add one to the top of Summary.md, which then creates a new file for me to write in for that day. In the meantime mdbook has opened up the book for me to look at that side.

When I open the book I see what I wrote more recently and can also go back to documents from the past.
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To add yet another data point as the many other commenters have already done: I work at UPS in a distribution hub. Today, Friday April 17th, we're doing parcel volume of around 215,000. On a typical Friday this time of year we do around about 120,000 parcels. My hub is hiring more workers, extending shifts, and asking more workers to work double-shifts. Volume has increased so much at some hubs that the volume is being re-routed through other hubs to help deal with it. Why else would Amazon be hiring 175,000 people in a month? We're experience peak season volume in April.

Online sales are absolutely up.
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Top 100,000 domains by age as determined by current owner? That's finite and maybe weighted to seniority of concern?
I used Xubuntu for a number of years and it's a great lightweight environment overall. The main problems that I experienced with it are that it's handling of hot-plugging multiple displays (especially in between sleep states) has always been poor and crashy.

And I like the cohesiveness and integration of GNOME, although I had to do a hell of a lot of customization to mold it into something I could tolerate.
New Reddit is so so bad, I feel like I'm in a hallucinogenic nightmare when I accidentally click into it. Kudos that they kept the sane old option for people who want to use the website.
Vox not allowing comments is certainly reinforcing their bubble. If you're in the political field, you better be ready for the political disagreements and the criticism.

However, I suspect Vox disabled the comment section not because it's hard to manage but because it breaks their narrative and it shows the volume of dissent.
Uhh, wouldn't it be a lot easier for the restaurant owner to simply not partner with Grub/UberEats/Caviar/etc. Delivery cos can't charge a commission to the restaurant if you don't have an agreement with them.

Do they want the free advertising on networks but then disintermediate those same platforms in an effort to work directly with the customers who may have never found them in the first place? I'm all about supporting local businesses but me deleting GrubHub isn't going to stop other people from ordering on it from their restaurant.
By virtue of being a former Soviet satellite, .yu was second-world, not third-world.
Agree. Many of the restaurants around here only deliver through those apps.
They did raise $200 million from NBCU in 2015. Now probably wouldn't be a great time to try to raise money given that their revenue streams (ads, events, etc.) are under extreme pressure.
Partially I agree, partially for power users, partially for casual users. Sometimes this even overlaps. But a lot of designs nowadays are radically different which I’d say is just as much a problem for more casual users.
They are trying to reduce sales of non-essential products by X% without raising prices; my suggestion is to raise prices until sales naturally reduce by X%. Since in both instances sales are reduced to the same number but in my scenario prices are higher, my scenario leads to increased profits versus their current approach.

Granted I didn't phrase it particularly well.
Thanks for taking a look. I'm glad you like them.

Yea, I was suspicious of how these would do so late in the ski season and that was before a global pandemic happened.

The plan was never to just sell ski maps, so we're thinking expanding the product line is the next move. Hopefully this line does well once colder weather returns.
Institutional IQ or leadership or anything else like that does you no good when your country no longer has the manufacturing infrastructure to make PPE anymore and the countries which can would rather use it to protect their own citizens, and it's mostly the anti-populists which seem to be doubling down on denying that simple fact.
>their own immediate wants.

No, I just realize you can't stop living life and hiding from the world because you're scared of dying, certainly not at the behest of authority.

It's not so much about myself, it's more as I watch businesses shut down, people lose their jobs and treat eachother with hostility and fear. People are being forced to give up their source of income because of fear.

Income == food, shelter and water. These are at the very base of our hierarchy of needs. We are being forced to give these up in the name of public safety. How long do you expect people to go without the source of their very basic necessities of life over fear of a disease?
This is a thieves paradox problem, if every other restaurant is on GrubHub, are you going to go out of your way to order from the one that isn't?

Edit: The solution would be transparency in delivery fees, Amazon has made it pretty clear that "free shipping" will always win though.
I once used DoorDash's "order for pickup" option, not wanting to pay the delivery fees for something that was close by. Got asked very strongly by the restaurant at pick up to not do that again and instead just give them a call due to the crazy fees they need to pay for that. I haven't used that "order for pickup" option since.
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Based on the data quoted here, it would take a very large amount of browsing after the initial load to cancel out the difference, which is often a difference of 50-100 times the SourceHut data.

Having used BitBucket since 2013, I've seen their performance ebb over the years. The most recent redesign made the biggest difference. I left some comments in their beta period noting that the performance was painful in areas, and it did improve some by the time it hit release, but was still noticeably slower than it had been before the redesign.

I would be interested in some sort of analysis of performance differences across web frameworks. Looking at BitBucket's code in the dev tools, they're using React + Redux currently. BackboneJS's web site lists BitBucket as using Backbone, so I would deduce the old, less slow design was the one that used Backbone. I've worked on both a snappy Backbone SPA and a lethargic AngularJS SPA, as well as in-between sites with Angular and React. But the business domains differ, so I don't have as apples-to-apples of a comparison as BitBucket's switch from Backbone to React would provide.

It would be an interesting experiment to get several teams of developers with similar levels of experience in different frameworks - Angular, React, Backbone, Vue, JQuery, all implementing sites to the same business specifications, and compare the relative performance (in both features delivered and page responsiveness) a year or two in. Practical to perform that experiment, probably not, but I'd certainly read the results.
Or just put different menu price on the delivery apps. Increase the price to whatever commission they charge.
Does it have to cost 25%? What are restaurant owners getting from that app-store like markup? Is it merely access to an hungry market? Can someone simply come in, make a simple app, and compete on price?
Nice tool!
By DNF and KNF do you mean disjunctive and conjuctive normal form?
I'm resigned to losing internet points any time I open my mouth about bitcoin. I'm neither a cheerleader nor an opponent, so approximately nobody involved likes what I say about it.

We probably disagree on other things bitcoin-related, but right here I think it is only about how we're defining 'success'. I agree that it is an existence-proof for decentralized currency, and am not trying to downplay the significance of that.
You forgot falling space debris
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I wish we had a delivery app where all restaurants on the platform are partners in ownership, and they cannot deny other restaurants from becoming partners.
Is this appropriate for HN? This seems like a purely political story, probably not the right place for it.
You want me to be fastidious in my representation of his tweets, but you're okay citing this guy who is literally arguing literally just about headlines of articles. He's not linking to the articles and talking about them - he's literally taking headlines and even then he's misrepresenting them.

I'm fine talking about his qualifications, but I think it's unfair for you to talk about his biotech start up without talking about the fact that we're talking about a guy that basically wants to gut FDA regulations - regulations that, if they were in place in China, would have prevented this outbreak. And of course the fact that he was called out on that bullshit by... Vox media!
I understand that 30% sounds like a lot, but this is a bit of "pie slicing" thinking, instead of "pie growing".

The 30% that Doordash/Uber Eats charge pays the cost of delivery and customer service. It's not free to provide food delivery.

The restaurants could attempt to provide the service themselves, but there's no real reason to think they can provide a better service at a lower cost than Doordash. If they could, then Doordash wouldn't exist.
You'd think it'd be easy, but GrubHub at one point was making sure that didn't happen: https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/28/19154220/grubhub-seamless...
Would you consider releasing the core frequency detection module? (I'm assuming it's in C++?) I'm also an iOS developer and it would be fun to play around with it.

Is the chromatic scale you align your visualizations to just or equal tempered?
> Because that's a natural mathematical model.

No it's not; it's a artifact of humans numbering items based on "total I have, including this one" rather than the more sensible but contrary to a implementation detail of human neuropsychology "number of items preceeding this one".

> "the n-th element" being at position n is handy and natural.

Yes, starting with the 0th element at position 0.
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150512-bird-grows-face-of-d...

Some are trying to do this with chickens
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Maybe you meant centuries, and not millennia? English, even it's oldest forms, hasn't been around for millennia. Anyway, as your own etymology link demonstrates, the word's first use in its present meaning, as an executive leader of a republic--especially of something the size and importance of a nation state--is first in the US Constitution. Prior to that it generally meant leaders of more modest organizations: "heads of religious houses, hospitals, colleges and universities."
Its pretty obvious this is worse than the flu. I don't think anyone is really disputing that at this point.
It drives me crazy that even though huge, wide computer screens are completely ubiquitous, there seems to be a whole generation of UX designers that only ever use (and therefore only ever develop) full-screen applications.

It's like they learned to compute on an iPad and then use the same mental model for every other device they encounter.
Maybe a good start, but I don't think it's too useful. Creepiness is not just security, it's both: privacy and security.

A while ago I got Tile, though it was a good idea. Returned the same day, because in order to add a device I needed to create an account. The device is in my hand, the phone is in my hand, Bluetooth is the protocol. I don't need a server to arbiter a pretty straight-forward interactions between them. There is absolutely no need to require account creation, until I request cloud dependent features. Should be functional offline without any data sent to server.

Same with GoPro, they app required you to signup before you can use it.

On the other hand, I can pair and update my Bose headphones without having an account. I can do it without an app by plugging in a cable. I don't need to bother about their cloud security or privacy policy, because they simply don't have PI they can loose or misuse. I only need to be concerned about security of Bluetooth and Updates delivery.

Because it is hard not to use various services and you can't possibly asses security and privacy policies easily, the first question is: What information it collects and does it really need it to function or merely for marketing et al? If it does need, then you need to worry about security and privacy.
Don't some of the apps mark up prices themselves and get the money from the customer?
Those are great but you still have to replace the filters quite often, right? Doesn’t solve the problem as the P100 filters are also sold out, and were in shortages back in January from what I saw.
It's great that you know more, but can you share what you know without putting others or their work down? Doing the latter really poisons the well here.

A much better pattern than "Nope, expected something interesting" is to first affirm something that the author got right or did well, and then build on that with suggestions for refinement, further development, learning. There's plenty of opportunity to show how much you know that way, plus you won't also come across as an internet jerk.

Keep in mind that project creators and authors are often reading these threads, and one nasty comment makes more of an impression than the rest of a thread put together. A single bee sting is more memorable than a field of butterflies. It's too bad that it doesn't work the other way around, but the pattern is super clear. Even the thread the other day with the C Committee guys, which was one of the best technical threads HN has ever hosted, made this impression on them: "Wow, I had no idea people were so mad about locales" (not a direct quote). I hadn't noticed, and when I found the comments they didn't even seem that mad.
> The 30% that Doordash/Uber Eats charge pays the cost of delivery and customer service. It's not free to provide food delivery.

Then what do the $X flat delivery + X% "to keep DoorDash running" fees pay for?

It feels like DoorDash is double dipping if it's simply to pay for the delivery and customer service.
It doesn't seem that extraordinary if in this scenario Google became an appendage of the federal government, providing it complete and unfettered access to its systems, complied to any and all requests without question, there was never concern for overreach or public backlash, etc.
Speaking of things that make code needlessly difficult to verify, we really need to start insisting on correct (zero-based) indexing in academic algorithms.
Wells Fargo. I was early in their application process (just a simple 5q web form) like 10+ days ago. 3 days ago I submitted full application. All I've gotten are daily emails that report they are still processing the queue.
It's easy with hindsight to go through any news reporting on covid and point out the mistakes because the situation has been quickly evolving for the last few months. You're comparing what you know now to what was known at the time of each report. Most of the recommendations line up with what the CDC/FDA/WHO/US gov was saying at the time.
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The "Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" (FRY) existed until 2003, when it was renamed to "Serbia and Montenegro", which split into separate countries of "Serbia" and "Montenegro" in 2006. "Serbia and Montenegro" was still using the .yu ccTLD until 2006.
I'm guilty of many of these. The reason is screen real estate.
You want to have the most essential stuff on the screen, and not in hidden menus or popup windows.

And your app needs to adapt to many screen sizes, all from mobile, pad's, notebooks to desktop monitors.

Then it's much more efficient to use the keyboard rather then reaching for the mouse to click on icons you have no idea what they mean, or pulling on scrollbars.

Only problem is that if you design your app like Vim, you will have to put a lot of time into teaching users to use it properly.
"Reckless endangerment: A person commits the crime of reckless endangerment if the person recklessly engages in conduct which creates substantial jeopardy of severe corporeal trauma to another person."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangerment
It really depends on the quality of the media outlets being reduced.
Local credit union: funds appear in the account the next day.
.yu was retired in 2010. Still seeing some old outdoor ads with it here in Montenegro.
1. PW derived keys. Yes this is on V2 of the roadmap. It is definitely possible today, however a bunch of research our end is required to ensuring the security of private keys we hold (this includes an audit)

2. Logins across browsers. Securing private keys is definitely still part of V1, this is easy locally, just need to make it part of the UI. UI/UX is definitely our weak point
Why fees in first place? Why not 1$ per delivery ?
Why not both?

Countries manage their country-specific domains, and global entities manage the rest. The second part is exactly what is happening now. We just need to get the first in line.
The guy [1] who runs this project is super nice, about a year ago I was working on my own Rust based VM and he dropped in with a couple of helpful tips and ideas.

[1]: https://github.com/lpil
When the quarantine started, restaurants and small groceries in my city have opened WhatsApp/Telegram/instagram channels of communication. Almost all of the have asked frequent customers for word of mouth recommendations. As a customer, I'm more than pleased with the results so far.

Big stores have handled the quarantine in an apalling way, while the small shops have managed to keep a high quality customer service (I mean, pretty much what they already offered) and haven't even hinted at raising prices -- as the big stores have implied or done already.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_works_by_t...

You would think there is a loophole for classified documents, but it is not mentioned there. They may be a perverse incentive to contract out so it can be secret-ish.
Microscopically, I'm very sympathetic to restaurant owners - especially now that they have few other options; their businesses and livelihoods are roughly speaking held hostage. It's not hard to imagine delivery apps choosing big fees when the restaurants have nowhere else to go and the delivery apps have market power.

Nonetheless, the delivery apps do provide some value: convenient interfaces which let you compare which restaurants are open and delivery ETAs thereof, order tracking, payment security, and so forth. As a user, I'm willing to pay for those features. Are restaurateurs able to price discriminate between different delivery options? E.g. the dish is $10 if you order from us but $12 if you use Grubhub? Or do agreements with the delivery apps of the world prohibit that kind of thing?
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No respect for Tim Duncan.
I'm glad you like it!

And you're not alone, my last credit card bill was 1/4 my average. I'm hearing similar things from friends.

My business isn't obviously a bad one for a stay-at-home scenario, but our product certainly isn't a necessity either.
The delivery service is a totally separate expense from developers, AWS, marketing, etc
These food delivery companies are unnecessary middlemen, and generally leeches. Their revenue (note: not income, as they still lose money) comes at expense of restaurants. The economics simply do not work. Please stop using these apps and deal with the restaurants directly.
Don't misunderstand me - I think there is real potential in to make an impact in the area but there are systemic and cost issues to doing it well.

That said, the problems are harder than appears to your typical ML grad student, and structurally we aren't there with data. There is no reason currently to think self supervised with "get there" in the near term, but even if you've assumed infinite labeling resources the data sets are for the most part still too disjoint and unavailable. Some strides have been made in some areas recently, but a long way to go. The algorithms part isn't necessarily that interesting really, building up the supporting infrastructure is the real problem.
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