skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't think preexisting grudges against the USA are necessary for thinking the USA has really dropped the ball here. Home to some of the most advanced medical research, self-appointed world protector, vast financial resources.

Sure.

> the effects could have been mitigated had earlier (2003+, 2012+) research not been abandoned -- noting that it was abandoned not because anyone in the field didn't think it would be useful one day (experts were sure we'd have more of these types of viruses, with pandemic risks) but because it wasn't financially attractive to for-profit pharma.

I don't think it's just profit motive that caused those lines of research to be dropped. SARS was effectively eradicated and MERS was mostly contained. Sure there was a pandemic risk, but there were also pandemic risks with influenza and ebola, both of which saw lots of research and active countermeasures. Meanwhile, HIV/AIDS was spreading to the tune of over a million cases per year. If you're a rational, altruistic person trying to make a decision about where to focus investment in antiviral research at this point in time, you had a lot of reasons to invest in HIV, a lot of reasons to invest in influenza, and maybe only a few long-shot reasons to invest in Ebola or coronaviruses. At its peak HIV was an immediate death sentence that over a million people on Earth got every year. I think it would have been a hard sell at the time to try and divert funds away from addressing that problem just in case there was a sequel to SARS that couldn't be stopped the same way SARS was.
Something's up. In Germany in a normal city I can get a döner the same size as the one in the photo for €3 ($3.50?). It's not sourdough nor high quality protein but that can't explain the $7.50 difference.

Edit: as the commenter below reminded me, it's actually more like €4-5 but my point stands.
Almost reminded me the picture from the early Middle Ages when whole population of the Roman city now fit in a market square...
Probably because content outside of news websites is a lot more worth a read.
Yup, especially with structural typing as in Typescript when you don't have aliases to your all your type constraints, having identifier:{complex:mess, of:{nested:stuff}} is easier than other way around.
The cars are smaller than in the US but they are getting bigger. For example, the VW Golf is 0.6m longer between the first model and the last one.
If we want convenience and scale, we need more cafeteria style restaurants. Everything is cooked in bulk, you walk in and choose visually what you want. This is very popular in post Soviet countries.

There doesn’t need to be a compromise on quality and taste either. Maybe presentation only. Won’t be able to get an instagram shot out of the cafeteria portion.

Analogous to that are food markets in South East Asian countries. Each stall just does one thing. You walk thru the market and just grab what you want. It’s like micro services of food.
Sure can, sonny Jim! And if you sign up to my newsletter and pay the minimal cost for my free ebook you too can know all the secrets to sales.
Your post says remote but then when I open EF I see the standard cohorts(though growing!).

1. Do you expect the upcoming cohorts to be remote?

2. As far as I understand, in EF people meet and play around with ideas for a few months. The idea and team qualifies for the seed and then they eventually do a demo day. Which part of this is remote?
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I don’t think you understand what raw input means. It doesn’t mean telling the OS you don’t want it to mess with your input, it means bypassing the userland OS input framework entirely and grabbing the input at a lower level preventing the default OS stack from even processing those input events.

A well-designed game would do that, anyway. I wouldn’t be surprised if the counter strike port for macOS doesn’t qualify as such.
License terms explicitly forbid using any of the SDK on non-Apple hardware, so many companies will not be comfortable with ignoring that.
FWIW this particular type of eel supposedly has excellent eyesight (if I have the right eel).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteroconger
>Let’s aim for 19%

I love the cojones in this post. The argument isn't "pay more so we can pay our staff more, so we can buy better ingredients, so our restaurants can be cleaner." No, it's literally "pay more so we have a bigger profit margin and as a side effect we might not go under when the next economic collapse happens."

The author literally wants society to agree to a massive price-fixing scheme where instead of them competing with other restaurants we all just agree to sacrifice some other part of our budgets so we can afford to pay more for the same dining experience we're getting now.

According to the census bureau in the last ten years spending at restaurants has grown twice as fast as ALL other retail spending. Fast-casual dining is experiencing a 9% yearly growth rate. There are too many people in the market. So the question is, where is this cut in the number of restaurants to create a 19% margin going to come from?
After they are done releasing new coloring books :)
Too large shouldn't be a problem.

Every large space can be trimmed down to a small space. If there are too many vacant shops in an area, and there would be a market for smaller shops, I would assume that tenants add walls and rent out the smaller space. Even if that walled-off space is unused, tenants would make more money than not renting out at all.
It’s not very relevant to a story about eels, but the problem media has with primary sources, is that you can’t spin primary sources. They would rather have you read their editorial account of the primary source, rather than provide it to you, where there’s a greater risk of you making up for own mind about what to think of it.
As it's something you have to do, why not at least try to make it enjoyable? I don't get it.
Was Elon’s Tesla Twitter meltdown illegal? An investigation
Trillions of RMB, maybe
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> Awk '{ print $2 }' does LWSP gobbling

That's like answering "why use Haskell?" with "Because its monads are monoids in the category of endofunctors"
Did you try to calculate how many coronavirus related deaths would be if there wasn't a lockdown?
That doesn’t prevent abuse. We see how these programs live on forever in government.

FISA courts are extended every time the vote comes up, and like or hate Trump, it was abused as a political tool instead of a law enforcement tool.

Patriot Act was meant to sunset, now it’s a forever law that will be rubber stamped every time. We know data surveillance laws are being abused in their application right now, and then we add in mass physical surveillance and requiring them to extend it is some protection?

Ha!
That's assuming the zoning allows the space to be subdivided.
If you just use awk for `{ print $2 }` then I would still prefer `tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f2`, since both are part of coreutils and with `awk` you would add a additional dependency to your script.
That's a good observation about landlords. Often if you find a local "ethnic" restaurant that's been there forever and is run by a family (typically Chinese/Indian/Thai/etc) they own the building or at least the space for their restaurant. That means they can stay in business basically infinitely (well, until now) without worrying about rent increases. But this is a different model than most trendy restaurants where the owners are not interesting in buying a property outright - those are seen as an investment not as a steady income for a family.
New York City is free for residential.

Business trash pickup must be contracted for with a private company. The Mafia used to run a lot of it, but the NY Times claims that's no longer true. Here's an article on the currently screwed up state of commercial trash in NYC: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/29/opinion/nyc-sanitation.ht...
Maybe you could try writing an opinionated blog post about it yourself, or an enthusiastic review of it, quoting the best bits, and submit that to HN. I've come across a lot of great stuff online from someone else writing enthusiastically about it. It does sound like you're qualified, and passionate!
> Sadly it's nowhere near as elegant for string literals.

What do you mean? For string literals you just do

let foo= "bar";

and that's it.

BTW, in Rust you can omit most variable type annotations since the compiler is able to infer them. You have to give type annotations to functions though.
I still find ada language more advanced than current ones
The picture/texture quality is mind-blowingly amazing.

Imagine if video games had textures this high-definition!! They'd look so insanely good. And it's not like our present-day technology/GPUs can't handle it. It's probably more that video game makers don't want to spend a huge amount of money on artists and graphics people to create ultra-high-definition textures...
The robot restaurant is something completely different then restaurant for date or familly dinner.

The robot restaurant is for lunch during work - you care about price and speed and nutrition. That is it. Self service checkout is fine. SittIng close to other people does not matter.

For date, meetups with friends, celebration or filly dinner I want calmer, more intimate place.
Unity does sort of do it, but even then, the result is not the same as compiling on OSX - in particular, I've noticed differences in the shaders emitted, around HDR/bloom.
Show HN: Rendering One Million Datapoints with D3 and WebGL
> i.e., each restaurant runs their own ordering service/api that talks on an open protocol

> which effectively makes ordering and delivery more commoditized.

It would be great, but I'm not holding my breath for this to happen anytime soon, though maybe restaurants will be more amenable to something like this now because of the current investor/debt funded platforms.
I have not so far heard any compelling arguments for using other than tetrahedral or hexahedral meshes in finite element computations. I know that there is a lot of research going on but the motivation is not clear to me.

Error estimates are dependent on the polynomial degree and the average cell size, and not the "amount of corners per cell" or anything like that.
Something like this

https://puri.sm/products/librem-key/
The same things that are preventing small restaurants also stand in the way of that sort of thing. If you could install a machine like a kiosk where people walk up to it, press buttons and insert money and out comes a hot sandwich made to order, people would be renting space to install them all over the place.

But the machine doesn't take up that much space. If the zoning requires you to rent 200 times that much space, the economics go away. So you still have to solve the original problem.
Me too! They could at least have said "pilot project. "
tr will handle the whitespace for you and is generally faster[0] (but awk is faster to type and reads better).

[0] https://datagubbe.se/cutvawk/
It did. About a decade afterwards, the first flu vaccines were invented, and the legacy of the "Spanish flu" frightened people for decades, leading to strong, proactive measures, albeit mostly against influenza viruses.
Sorry to not be clearer: when I talk about market making I meant for the restaurants to be put in touch with delivery people so they can negotiate that themselves, off app, rather than having Deliveroo involved in the process.

It’s not a very coherent idea other than the usual “crush the rent seekers! [Deliveroo]” I guess.
> Drinks for instance cost us more than at the grocery store

Isn't this what Costco and similar wholesale clubs are for?
What if linux is on apple hardware?
The original link gives 400 for me. This one seems to work: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/04/30/74-of-s...
Wow, this is amazing. My parents use to give me 2 or 3 capsules of cod liver oil daily growing up (since I was 4 or 5). I didn't know realize it had such a huge health benefit. The other daily supplement I took was liquid Feroglobin, an iron supplement.

I'm feeling thankful that they were so health-conscious.
It gave me scary results when I uploaded a few selfies that were black & white (grayscale)
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That actually proves my point. I'm not really good in learning certain facts by heart so if I see a < b < c it is going to take multiple seconds, likely followed by an internet search so add a couple of minutes to that, before I can be 100% sure what it does. I mean, I know what precedence is and I'd probably assume it would be (a < b) < c but that's not going to cut it.
Well, my personal experience with C++ developers is, that they are a bit ...naive and overly optimistic, when it comes to taking a look at the real world, with real deadlines. "I just write my own half assed string class" comes to mind... As if they are developing in a vacuum, with no competition out there. This really pisses me off.
Ah the benefits of selling an addictive substance in a market with a large base of addicts and a legal environment that largely shields you from liability for even the fairly direct consequences of your product (such as drunk driving after serving at places and times where the non-availability of alternatives guarentees that most of your patrons will be driving).
The idea that you can insure a stock portfolio against market events is bogus on its face, without any fancy math or logical argument. Do I need to even discuss it?
In my opinion you can't be a successful specialist without first being a decent generalist in at least the fields adjacent to yours.
SUGGESTING

I see seeking freelancer:work ratio is about 1:5, and that says something in these difficult times.

I have been a freelancer all my life (27M), and one thing I continue to improve is working on my own side projects. It is difficult to rely on a freelance income, and if I can suggest one thing to fellow freelancers, it's that you have to work diversify income sources. Not all projects bring you money, bit all of them make you learn new things.

Working on new projects help you learn new skills. For one project I worked on recently, I learned a lot about advanced regular expressions and floating point calculations with an arbitrary precision. For another, I ended up learning pretty much every subcommand of openssl.

These niche skills can set you far ahead to keep your existing clients. SQL, for example, is surprisingly not well understood.

Side quests are important.
I'm starting to think commercial landlords need some competition from local governments. They could create a privately-run charter corporation that rents out small amounts of space to local businesses. Not rent control, but reasonable terms (3-6 month leases, instead of 10-year leases).

There is too much NIMBYism and too many middlemen and archaic expectations in real estate for any mom and pop business to be viable.
5% per tx?! Remember, in Europe debit is way more common than credit and the fees are capped.
> In all others, a < b < c would be parsed as ((a < b) < c) which may or may not be a type error, but it's consistent with the other binary operators.

In APLish languages, it's (a<(b<c)).
Conversely, being good at a single thing will give you the necessary mental tools to get good at other things too. One of the biggest hurdles beginners face is not knowing how to push through "the gap" and reach a level of competence where they can actually produce work that aligns with their vision. Being able to draw on the memory of already having done that in the past can be very powerful, and can help you acquire new skills more quickly and with more tenacity than others.
> Capitalism is all about competition

I think you missed the memo.

Capitalism is about socializing losses, and privatizing profits.

It's about building moats to prevent competition.

It's about lobbying to raise the drawbridge after you won.

That's the reality of US capitalism.

If you want to see a billionaire smile, just say "Capitalism is all about competition." I guarantee it will make his day. You might even get a pat on the head!
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This will no doubt be an unpopular opinion, but I’m not a fan of food trucks as an everyday dining experience. Not super impressed with the average food quality, and the “stand around waiting for 20 minutes” experience is also not ideal. Crowded food truck clusters are super annoying to me.

For the odd meal at a festival or park or whatnot - sure. But every day? not so much.
That's uncommonly cheap. East Germany somewhere? Those Döner prices are usually found in Berlin itself.

I live in a cheap part of Germany, and our Döners have gone up from 4.50 or 4.70 Euros to about 5 Euros everywhere.

But let's not forget that even 5 Euros is an insane price for that much meat.

It works out because (a) the meat isn't great to begin with and (b) Dönerstuben are hotbeds for tax evasion. Many many Döners never make it into the cash register.
another one i forgot

- drawing at exact aligned pixel boundaries to avoid or minimize antialiasing

this makes uPlot charts a bit rougher looking, but the perf impact is quite large.
This book lists a lot of them:
https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Power-Negotiating-15th-Annive...

I encourage every entrepeneur to read this, because you'll see them time-and-time again. Most of the tactics are used to "get what you want", as they say, but also making the other side convinved they "won". Where they presumably come back and do it again to you. It relies on cheap psychological tactics. As a business-owner, 100% of the salesmen I dealt with used these same tactics. Identifying the tactic and calling it out usually neutralizes the tactic with the salesmen.

But as an arbitrary example, anchoring numbers. They'll show you an insanely expensive first solution. And then later lead you to a merely overpriced-solution. But the second ones seems "cheap" because they are judging it from perspective of the first price solution.
The Nordics are more like socialist countries with a large capitalist sector. We use the regulated market as a tool where it works.
What do you mean? They’re different branches on the tech tree. Saying one is more advanced than the other is strange.
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I think the issue is more that predictable, timely delivery is expensive.

When I was growing up we'd get pizza delivery from a local pizza shop. Depending on the day of the week and the time we'd call, our pizza could arrive in a half hour or two hours. Sure, a part of the was the capacity of the kitchen, but a big part was also their delivery capacity. They had two guys each driving a car. They could batch deliveries to some extent so each driver would drop off more than one before returning to the restaurant, but while that gave them better throughput, it gave them worse latency.

Meanwhile, with Grubhub, Postmates, etc., you have a fleet of always-ready drivers -- effectively an unlimited number -- who are ready to take a single order, go pick it up as soon as it's ready, and deliver it directly to you. That's terribly inefficient on a per-driver basis, but it's great for the customer.

I personally don't mind the variability in timing in the old system all that much. Sure, there are some times when I really want food now (but even then, the fastest deliveries on these platforms is usually around 45 minutes), but for the most part I don't care if it's going to take another 30-60 minutes. But a lot of people really do value the speed, and, more importantly the predictability. If you want to eat at 6pm and know that the delivery time is nearly always 45-60 minutes, you can pretty much eat at 6pm. If the delivery times vary from 30 to 120 minutes, you order at 5pm and live with eating anywhere between 5:30 and 7:00. Yeah, this is seriously a "first world problem", but plenty of people have gotten addicted to the predictability and seamlessness of it all.

It's really unfortunate, because at the end of the day it means we value convenience over the health of our local businesses.
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Just don’t call them from the Yelp app:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjwebw/yelp-is-sneakily-r...
It's true they are so much to support the case against China in its whole Covid-19 management:

https://vodpub2.v.news.cn/publish/20200430/XxjhmeE007026_202...
that is not equivalent because awk will remove trailing/leading space/tab/newlines (newlines come into play with a different record separator)

whereas, tr will still leave a trailing/leading space

for example:

$ echo ' a b c ' | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f2
a
$ echo ' a b c ' | awk '{print $2}'
b

and by default awk splits on space/tab/newlines, whereas in cut example above, you get only space as delimiter

cut has its uses and will be faster than awk, but it depends on the problem being solved