skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is, if you order direct from a restaurant which takes orders from one of these platforms, the restaurant prioritizes the platform order, because the platform has reviews and ratings, which directly influences sales.

Your phone order will almost always be considered less important.
Do people outside of prison not also organize murders that could be described in similar lurid detail? Maybe we should monitor your communications in case you try something like that.

If it seems so imperative that we monitor inmates’ communications for fear they’ll order a murder, consider that there’s a more systemic cause that we need to address.
If you want to be alerted when threads like this come out, I have created a service to do this at https://tryjobalerts.com. There are also some threads like this on Reddit which we also alert on.
While on a work trip to Berlin, I walked into a random lebanese place in Neukolln to get a quick bite. Looked at the price of a shawarma - 2 euros - and thought, damn, this is going to be awful. But I was in a hurry and got one (actually two, in case they were tiny) anyway.
Not only were they not tiny, to this day the best shawarma I've had.
I agree with this as good general advice about economic slumps, but I don't think the v shaped recovery earlier this year accurately reflects the real impact that so many people becoming unemployed will have. Is the right time now, or is it a few months down the track once everything has set in?
'I feel like a lot of the work in something like Deliveroo is...'

You forgot 'delivery'. Many people don't mind paying an extra $10+ to have someone else pick up their takeout meal.
> I don't understand what commercial landlords are thinking?

The value of a commercial property is (generally, if it has development potential that may be the main factor in valuation) usually multiple of the rental income that it can generate. If landlords accept lower rents then that lowers the value of their property.
That thing is good, it's just a bit of a pitty the titles are so undescriptive. For example a typical one (in other languages as well) like a closed-over loop variable having the value of the last iteration in the closure, is called "the sticky output function". Meaning if this weren't all on one page it would be hard if not impossible to find what you're looking for.
ChowNow and qMenu are apps that restaurants can pay a small fee to use, that provide a similar experience to users as the big apps. The selection of restaurants is more limited but there are enough options for me on there in the Bay Area. Some restaurants do offer delivery on these apps, although I’m not sure if it’s restaurant employees doing delivery or people hired by the app.
If you don't want to use a language because in theoretical scenarios it's possible construct unintuitive operations with it, then what language are you left with?
I feel like what's often overlooked is how much so many of these delivery services have lost money over the past few years.

UberEats is more popular than ever, but it's not even close to helping Uber as a company avoid mass layoffs in the coming weeks. The UberEats division was losing hundreds of millions of dollars last year. Likewise with DoorDash.

Restaurants complain about the fees which is fair but they've failed to mention how much money and time they would've spent on hiring multiple drivers to fulfill orders as well as a digital system to allow people to place orders online. By all means, if these apps suck, then hire your own drivers like restaurants have done in previous decades. Furthermore, platforms like this apps allow restaurants to be far more visible than if they just used their social media presence.

IMO, the biggest flaw with restaurant delivery is that it's hugely inefficient. You can't optimize it like UPS/Fedex can with packages, and people don't buy as much in one go as you would with a grocer. So companies like UberEats need these fees to allow them to actual remain viable and so that they can keep spending on things like development, marketing/sales, etc. Like it or not, delivery is expensive.
In small rural Mexican villages, you can use your dining room as a cafe.
Thanks for the clarification. I do not have an answer since I have not researched it or yet read the John Barry book about 1918. However, the epidemic will be forgotten, assuming a safe, effective vaccine is found. In a few years time after worldwide vaccine deployment and ongoing international joint efforts to proactively fight emerging and unknown viruses, there might be an annual flashback on International COVID-19 Remembrance Day. There will be moments of silence and then normalcy straight thereafter. Adults who grew up during the era as kids might talk about it as a way to bond during in-person or VR (not for safety, the Metaverse will not be denied) dates. And then the next threat will arise and the cycle will repeat.

"the ruling class has major incentives to help them forget"

> Until then, get ready, my friends. What is about to be unleashed on American society will be the greatest campaign ever created to get you to feel normal again. It will come from brands, it will come from government, it will even come from each other, and it will come from the left and from the right. We will do anything, spend anything, believe anything, just so we can take away how horribly uncomfortable all of this feels. There will be an all-out blitz to make you believe you never saw what you saw.

https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2020/04/14/gaslighting-coro...
On the other hand, Python is the only language I've used which has this special-case parsing. 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.
Your resume link is not public.
Why not just use any other static site generator like Hugo instead of re-inventing it?
Sure. What is that better email client? I don't mean to imply there isn't one, I'm genuinely curious what you email client you think has these features.
If the answer isn't "whichever you enjoy", it's probably wrong. There's demand for both.
> "Startups are laying people off!"

> Examples: Publicly traded companies Uber and Lyft.

> Sorry, they're not startups.

As an aside, I don't like how the tech industry/news sites call any non-behemoth tech company a "startup".

For example, these companies are not startups; they are large (and in some cases, deeply unprofitable) enterprises: SpaceX, Stripe, Airbnb, JUUL, Palantir, Epic Games, Wish, Coinbase, Robinhood, Instacart, DoorDash, WeWork, etc. [0]

Furthermore, 89% of American businesses have fewer than 20 employees [1].

[0]: These are the largest US-based "unicorn startups" per Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unicorn_startup_compan...

[1]: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/susb/tables/2016/us...
For:

- Marketing
- Delivery
- Payment services

30% is actually not a lot.

Delivery platforms has economies of scale when it comes to delivery, marketing, payment that the individual restaurant does not have.

Therefore they are (in general) a good deal even for the restaurant. Also their convenience increases the general demand for food services.
1 basically describes a food truck in the US, a deli or hot dog cart in NY, or hawkers in Asia; low footprint, low startup cost.

The problem that is endemic, is that most retail spaces are far too large for an operation like that, and you can't just ask your landlord to only give you 20% of the space they're trying to rent. And in most of the US street carts are illegal, and food truck permitting can be a PITA depending on the jurisdiction.
How long has this been going on? Perhaps the delivery platforms in Jakarta are still running in 'land grab' mode? The situation you've described (selling to you for less than their cost) obviously isn't sustainable forever.
This is simply not true. There are thousands of independent car dealerships in the US. There might be a local monopoly in a town, but you can always just drive a few miles over to the next dealership.
what ought to happen is to have the ordering/delivery tranaction be under some open protocol (i.e., each restaurant runs their own ordering service/api that talks on an open protocol, pehaps even just delegate this to a B2B SaaS for a monthly cost, like a telephone line!).

Then you can allow open competition between different delivery platforms, which effectively makes ordering and delivery more commoditized. This will allow restaurants to run more efficiently - they only need to be good at their core competency of making the best food, at the lowest possible price. The delivery will cost the minimum (as each app that compete on price of delivery cost will get more customers).

The end result is good for consumers.
The silliest one I've been to was an upscale pizza joint that sold tiny $28 pizzas because they were "artisanal". They didn't make it 6 months. I walked in, looked at the portions and the price and walked out.
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This is exactly the goal of DARPA's Pandemic Prevention Platform (P3) program.

https://www.darpa.mil/program/pandemic-prevention-platform

I am constantly surprised how often the answer to why aren't we funding this really ambitious but also really impactful project? is yup, DARPA is funding it, but nobody else is, and we probably should increase DARPA funding by 10x.
Interesting read indeed.
Too bad this was posted to Hackernoon, had a hard time reading it due to the header bar constantly dropping down into the text I was reading. So frustrating!
Location: Italy

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Not now (due to covid19)

Technologies: frontend (Vue.js, AngularJS), backend or desktop (Java, Python), database (Postgres, H2, Mongo), mobile (Cordova, NativeScript).

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rafas81

Email: rafas81@yahoo.it

Part-time is OK.

I've 10 years of work experience. I've started as a Java developer targeted to RFID, but in the last 6 years I runned my own small business. I've managed planning, developing, distribution and support of web based products for desktop and mobile platforms. I'm able to quickly pick new technology/stack.
I suspect there is motivation for a news organisation not to send users away from their website.
yes. whereas cut, considers ' ' (two spaces) as an instance of a blank column separated by the -d' ' space instance. Its like ,, in CSV being a blank column.
Great restaurants are like art, in the eyes of patrons and creators. They will continue to find each other among the robotic masses.
You are thinking of a Giffen good.

A Veblen good:

>...A higher price may make a product desirable as a status symbol in the practices of conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure. A product may be a Veblen good because it is a positional good, something few others can own.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good

A Giffen good:

>...The classic example given by Marshall is of inferior quality staple foods, whose demand is driven by poverty that makes their purchasers unable to afford superior foodstuffs. As the price of the cheap staple rises, they can no longer afford to supplement their diet with better foods, and must consume more of the staple food.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giffen_good
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> Just git checkout -b test-branch before applying the commits locally.

I guess that works, but it is a few more steps than clicking on a link. And if you are actively working on the project, it means you have to either switch branches or make a new workspace.
I have a hard time making sense of this. Would it mean 1 atom of Rn is always fatal for any individual?
The fact that it accumulates in the body doesn't mean it is fatal at any dose.
which is why i find buying a car on credit is such a poor practise. Unfortunately required for people who need a car for transport for work.

A car depreciates. One should never buy a depreciating asset on a loan. A car should be treated like a consumable - buy it with existing cash.

The only thing that one should buy on a loan is an appreciating, or income generating asset.
Hyperlinks in news articles give an air of authority to the stories.

I started following down the links in the story only to find NYT articles.

Does the wiki game [0] also have a NYT analog?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Game
I have yet to see the benefit of worrying about how your branches or organized behind the scenes.

As a user a/b/c is the same as a-b-c, with the exception that with the folder structure I can’t have a branch called a/b also, for technical reasons that aren’t clear to most users.

But what would any of that matter if all branch names are prepended with a unique ID? You’d never have 2 branches in the same sub folder.
> 1. No cross platform builds allowed.

Mozilla cross compiles Mac (and soon Windows, I believe) Firefox builds on Linux build machines.
Automating society paves the way for people to do creative work about which they truly care.

One of those things is doing 20 covers of handmade tagliatelle every night.
Example from C2[0]:

(* x y percent approxEqual *)
DEFINE approxEqual == 100.0 / rotate [0 =] [pop] [dup rolldown -
swap /] ifte >

[0] https://wiki.c2.com/?JoyLanguage
Even HN is not free from this China smearing campaign. Smh.
I'd almost call that style of salesmanship as something like an "account representative" or perhaps there's a better word for it.

But it's someone with intimate knowledge of the industry, of the other customers, and works closely with the customer and even educates the customer.
> the standard that has historically proven to be the best one, i e. the market.

Well, the market isn't the best standard, it's the only one. The market is the price. That doesn't mean it's reasonable (otherwise bubbles wouldn't exist).
> There are many expressions you can write in dynamically typed languages that don’t make any sense, probably most of them actually, but they have to be considered valid because it’s a dynamically typed language.

Not really - a language could throw an exception in these cases, as Python does for things like “a”+1. Not every dynamically-typed language is JavaScript.
The public always gets constantly bombarded with "Apple rumored to do _X_ in _Y_ months" news articles. I always wondered how accurate those predictions turn out to be since I don't think anyone ever does a retrospective on the accuracies of those fodder of news articles.
>The craziest thing to me in all this is, I love food. Like, obsessed. Who’s with me? My point is: if eating is literally one of our favourite things ever, are we willing to pay adequately for it? Do we value it sufficiently? Honestly, seems to me like, if there’s one industry that should be profitable, it’s restaurants. One, we have to eat. Two, we love to eat!

I'm wondering if there is some personality differences at play here. The author loves food and probably eats out regularly. I like food, but I see it as more of a means of sustaining life than something to be enjoyed (I typically eat the exact same thing every single day). I only go out to eat about once a month. Am I an anomaly, or is part of restaurants' problem that a significant part of the population is not in love with food?
Thanks for linking to the source. This is super cool! I'm going to try and get through tomorrow night. I hope the eels appreciate English.
But first you’d have to get to France...
It doesn't matter if Metal was first, or better.

The problem is that it's unique and different. The problem is that I (as an open source developer for a popular gaming-related project with an OSX port) can't realistically develop and support a metal backend without having to buy an expensive mac with a good modern GPU.

And with OpenGL being deprecated on Mac, with old and (sometimes) broken drivers that are missing 10 year old features, along with apple breaking things and adding new signing/notarising requirements, it's hard to justify continuing to support mac.

Same kind of thing goes for Nvidia/Apple. It doesn't matter who's fault it is for starting that feud, it's still hurting the users.
Games are different, though. They don’t play as part of the ecosystem; they run full-screen and do their own input processing and use no system widgets or controls. They essentially take over the lowest level of hardware they can get access to, and in many ways once launched would be indistinguishable between the various platforms (quirks and rendering idiosyncrasies aside).
>No one is making money off gaming hardware.

Some gaming keyboards full of fancy LEDs and software and stuff and military-grade whatever retail for the price of a small car.
Yeah I’m not calling this out as the ideal system - it’s the system of a restaurant that had to start doing takeout overnight in order to survive. That being said, I would be interested in the number of “card over the phone” transactions that still happen. I bet it’s huge.

The main point is that there is an opportunity to unify this experience over a ubiquitous channel that would include seamless menu, schedule and payment steps.
741! Takes me back to my teens! Are they still used?
I've recently modified and published that tutorial as an ebook [1], which can be read from the github repo or downloaded as PDF (currently free). I am also updating the book to include exercises, other minor improvements as well as epub version - expected release by next weekend.

[1] https://github.com/learnbyexample/learn_gnuawk
lack of a build your own, flexible yet affordable desktop option

From Apple's perspective, that's a machine with razor-thin margins. Why would they want to sell that when all of their other products have enviable margins?

Moreover, such a machine would cannibalize their high-end Mac Pro sales. After all the money they spent to develop it, having your pro customers scoop up the thin margin gaming machines seems like a poor strategy.
Most likely a single specialization won’t span your whole career, so have a solid general base and then delve deeper into something you enjoy.

A broad base will allow you to re-train much easier, plus draw parallelisms from your areas of expertise into new areas.
That (“card by phone”) is a problem of trust. Whatever happened to that concept?
I’ve given away my CC details probably hundreds of times in the pre-internet era (travel agencies, hotels, phone-order, etc.), because I had the details of and trust for the opposite end. That trust is increased through a platform provider is a fallacy imo.
The only two times I experienced dodgy charges to my CC that needed refund were because of database leaks/breaches. Go figure ;)
It is not disconcerting. It is necessary if you want to perform string operations efficiently.
Java has String and StringBuilder for the same purpose.
Rust has str (always static, immutable) and String (can be mutable).
This is very common in non-scripting languages.
Interesting that you list DNS, because in my experience one of the worst-implemented network protocols in pre-systemd Linux is the DNS client. The systemd implementation isn't perfect either, but it's a lot better.

The design of classic Linux DNS simply assumes that 100% of Linux systems are university lab machines, and that there is a single DNS server that is 100% reliable.

I've heard people making various arguments to support the classic Linux DNS client's failings as if they were features. These have included: that I should "fix" my telco's DNS servers (wtf!?), set up a HA load-balancing solution on premises (in my home!?), use anycast routing (really!?), reinvent the DNS protocol to not require multiple servers (I'll get right on that), or change third-party software to not require DNS (wat?).

When pressed, all of these people eventually boiled their arguments down to: Fine, yes, it's broken, but it's the way it is, that's what the man page says, that's what was established in the 1980s, and systemd is different so we don't like it!

It's mind boggling how conservative Linux people are...
Work is what gives life meaning for many people. You can't just say we'll automate most productive tasks then expect everyone to be mozart or do yoga all day or something. That's not a future I want.
Trillions of dollars for the world's voluntary and foolish lockdown that destroyed their own economies? lol.

Mark my words ... there will be more suicides in the US by former business owners than corona deaths.
They should quarantine until tested.

The idea is that with mild social distancing + contact tracing + good testing infra, you can track virus spread faster than the virus actually spreads, keeping outbreaks localized.
Even in The Culture there were restaurants, some people just like making and serving food
This doesn't make sense in the first place. Don't suppliers charge lower rates to restaurants exactly because they'd otherwise just go to the supermarket?
Thanks, whisky has apparently made my math skills suffer this evening.
South lake union? Gonna be even more of a ghost town with the amazon ‘wfh til October’ directive.
For about a 2 years now, and yeah I know it isn't sustainable forever, but I know I'll be spending less if the prices go up.
I think this C pointer ambiguity would be "easy" to solve with one of those minor changes:

1 - (sorry, formatting is messing this up) mandate the declaration:

'A*' or '*B'

without space (depends if you think the pointer is a type of variable or a type of type)

2 - add some keyword like "type"

Though the compilers are able to deal with it, so it's not a big issue
> our general willingness to physically interact with each other

In the best outcome, there is a successful vaccine. Even Introverts Gone Wild. The Roaring Twenties all over again, as another commenter mentioned.

In the worst outcome, we learn to live with COVID-19 or its offshoots, forcing each person to take into a risk calculation and mitigation measures for meeting others, especially in crowds.

In all outcomes, humanity will survive. Even if the Contagion virus, which was modeled after the Nipah virus with 80%+ mortality rates in certain break outs, becomes a reality in the future, there will always be survivors.
The measures we have in place in CA do stop 50-70% of transmissions. The challenge is relaxing some of those while keeping transmission at the level that it is.
Can't say for sure but the way I read them most complaints about Javascript performance are about the results of the abuse of Javascript applications everywhere.

I guess Javascript just happens to be the common thing between a number of them, and people would be just as annoyed if the multi-megabyte, cpu-hogging, data-stealing monstrosities where hand-crafted in assembly ;-)

And: If someone complained about Javascript being slow for scientific calculations I'd probably call them out on it ;-)