skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect some of these prices are generously rounded up. I think there is a very good possibility that the author doesn't actually track costs down to that level. They are probably looking at their overall costs and extrapolating downwards to the one item. Possibly a good review of their spending could save them a lot of money.

Yes, I realise it is Ottawa and CDN, but I lived in Ottawa for over 10 years and these prices don't really line up for me. $2.50 for 125g of protein. That's $2 per 100g -- without labour. I understand going for high quality, but there is high quality and there is needless spending. I should introduce them to some good butchers... Tofu should be bought from the tofu maker in Ottawa (forget the name). It is awesome (and cheap).

And $0.50 for sauce? I don't know what sauce they are using and the amount they are using, but donair sauce is primarily yogurt, mayonaise and sour cream... (condensed milk if you are going for Halifax style, apparently...) The ingredients should be on the order of $1-2 per liter.

The "toppings" appear to be cucumber, red pepper, red cabbage and lettuce. $0.50. Looking at the amount there, I'm guessing it should be about half that price.
I think you could achieve something similar but by just using simple standalone containers that you start with Podman or Docker. Once you have the OS up and running, then all you need to do is push the configuration to the server (I just rsync systemd service files) and start the services. Persistent data is stored elsewhere anyway, so moving a service is just a matter of copying a directory over to another machine and ensuring that the permissions are correct.

k8s is probably great for many things, but as time goes on I really appreciate the ability to debug things effectively and by keeping my homelab setup as simple as possible I avoid the complexity of whatever advanced solution that is out there.
Behavioral Immune System
I really dislike the way in which this article has been written - it reads as the typical piece from the "bro culture" that massively ignores the rest of the world. Besides this, which is not the point...

1) most restaurants in US and high-end Europe that survive and thrive do so by having big margins on alcohol. Their margins are not single-digits. (edit: just saw other comments mentioning this).

2) Many restaurateurs don't have the skill or knowledge to run a restaurant, and yet they do so because it's often one of the few options left (if you can't land a high-paying job, and don't like a low-pay one).

3) What she describes in the article is very US-centric. Most of Europe, or Japan (where I am currently sheltering before returning to the US soon), have a very different restaurant landscape. Most are small mom-and-pop shop, they have very low ops costs, and can do not too bad in a time like this one. I spoke with a few owners recently (in Italy and Japan) and they all confirmed it. They mostly don't have personnel, or if they do, their relationship is flexible enough that they can quickly react to 2-3 months of 50-70% less business than usual.

4) For the long term, nobody knows what's going to happen. Are we ever going back to pre-covid levels? Don't know. Probably not. Some restaurants will close, sure, as well as car dealers, etc. Good restaurateurs will manage to find a way, IMHO.
Yes, we replaced the cat on my wife's car last year, it cost more than the car was worth. That and a ton of expense on sensors and fuel injectors pushed us into replacing it. It was a shame really as cosmetically it looked fine and generally drove well.
I'm a great asset to anyone's team.

I learn new things quickly.

I make friends in the workplace easily.

I share memes and various development-related links on Slack (or whatever the company-intern messaging tool is).

I organize after-work outings (bowling, beer, sushi, fare, etc.).

I can grill burgers.

I have a beard.

I have a Switch for lunch breaks.

I can help out coworkers - often times as their rubber duck replacement.

I have a good taste in music.

I also have a shameful taste in music.

I'm a 1x engineer: https://1x.engineer/

I take my projects serious and I will work to the best of my abilities.

I make mistakes. But we're all human. It's ok.

I will remember the mistakes I've done and avoid them in the future.

I'm not allergic to animals.

I don't do soccer (I tend to break things when I do sports - usually my own bones).

I cannot work with Windows.
But would the tests be measuring something that a generalized IQ test wouldn’t? It seems better to have one standardized way to measure whatever it is IQ tests are measuring and then use applicable thresholds for your domain.
I don't think the passion argument is that valuable. For a LOT of people programming is their passion. Yet they command some of the highest salaries. The labor market doesn't care about passion. It will settle where it needs to based on demand and supply.
Startup has been consumed by its use as a marketing buzzword and as far as I can tell just means 'company' at this point. People just say they 'founded a startup' instead of 'started a company'.

I suspect most air conditioning contractors and electricians would be called 'startups' if they worked in software.
The title should still be in the sea offshore as it is in general car is parked on cargo ship all the time when it is delivered even if there is no virus. In fact, I suspect the time stay in the ship could be > 1 week.
Please let me know where you get such amazing prices, because with wiggle you have at least 8$ plus in shipping within the UK (where they are located). I can only imagine outside EU.

I also believe you are wrong if you think that sourcing internationally is anywhere within the "low impact" range.

Happy cycling, to each one her own.

[0] https://www.wiggle.co.uk/h/option/international
Yeah, I was pretty excited about things like "Food Truck Tuesday" in our neighborhood, but it didn't take long to realize 90%+ of them are pretty bad, slow, and unhealthy.
Been interviewing for current SG cohort last week and been rejected.

1. Yes upcoming cohort will be fully remote.
2. That would be the tricky problem to solve but I bet that Zoom could help to embrace the founders creativity as well. Will see.
Niedersachsen. I usually get a falafel tasche which is €3 (same size) but you're right, maybe the equivalent sized döner is 1 or 2€ more. Still, there's a large gap in price I can't get my head around. Maybe your tax evasion point could be it, or maybe the author's business is in an unusually high rent area (shopping centre or big city or something).
The prices charged by Securus and other 3rd party services provided to jails are ridiculous and predatory. Competition would be great but I’m not sure they will allow it to happen without a fight.

They make so much money and portions of that money are shared with the jails the pessimist in me doesn’t see there ever being a free option for instant communication. I appreciate the effort and I think this space has a lot of room for improvement. Godspeed!
I have not tried to install/work with Openshift recently. If Redhat can take the fast moving target that is Kubernetes, add its weight on it, provide excellent user focused documentation, And “stable”ize it for non big scale companies to use, that’ll be great.

Although, it is only useful if they are same/
'Stay at Home Valley' is a virtual recreation of Silicon Valley's tech scene
I haven't carried cash in years.

I could go through the steps manually. But why would I willingly increase the friction to making a purchase for myself?
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Check out this 2005 statement from George W. Bush with some very similar ideas: https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/20...

Some notable passages:

> At this moment, there is no pandemic influenza in the United States or the world. But if history is our guide, there is reason to be concerned. In the last century, our country and the world have been hit by three influenza pandemics -- and viruses from birds contributed to all of them. The first, which struck in 1918, killed over half-a-million Americans and more than 20 million people across the globe. One-third of the U.S. population was infected, and life expectancy in our country was reduced by 13 years. The 1918 pandemic was followed by pandemics in 1957 and 1968 which killed tens of thousands of Americans, and millions across the world.

> Three years ago, the world had a preview of the disruption an influenza pandemic can cause, when a previously unknown virus called SARS appeared in rural China.

...

> The second part of our strategy is to protect the American people by stockpiling vaccines and antiviral drugs, and accelerating development of new vaccine technologies. One of the challenges presented by a pandemic is that scientists need a sample of the new strain before they can produce a vaccine against it. This means it is difficult to produce a pandemic vaccine before the pandemic actually appears -- and so there may not be a vaccine capable of fully immunizing our citizens from the new influenza virus during the first several months of a pandemic.

...

> To protect the greatest possible number of Americans during a pandemic, the cornerstone of our strategy is to develop new technologies that will allow us to produce new vaccines rapidly. If a pandemic strikes our country -- if a pandemic strikes, our country must have a surge capacity in place that will allow us to bring a new vaccine online quickly and manufacture enough to immunize every American against the pandemic strain.

...

> Since American lives depend on rapid advances in vaccine production technology, we must fund a crash program to help our best scientists bring the next generation of technology online rapidly. I'm asking Congress for $2.8 billion to accelerate development of cell-culture technology. By bringing cell-culture technology from the research laboratory into the production line, we should be able to produce enough vaccine for every American within six months of the start of a pandemic.
A lot of application software is fungible, boring, and just needs to get done. Agile helps with that.

No one is suggesting planning poker for qubit wiring.
> Ok, let's try: Do SQL without the SQL syntax.

Select(`my_table`, [`column_A`, `column_B`])
.Filter(`column_C` > 53 && `column_D` == $varA)
.Sort_by(`column_C`)

There you go: you have the exact semantic as a traditional SQL query (1:1 mapping) and only the syntax is different.
Now, one may argue that the syntax is "ugly", less familiar, that the ` are hard to type or whatever, but this is just taste. One simply get used to it. The expressiveness and semantic are the same as in SQL

> Syntax is 100% tied to paradigms, idioms, and such. Is intrinsic to the language we use.

I think then we don't have the same definition of syntax.
The way i understand it is that the syntax is just the way to represent these idioms and paradigms visually.
What the parent is saying is that these paradigms and idiom as what is important, but the exact way they are written, not as much (as long as it is within reason)
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This made me very happy, since it goes to the 'you can either use awk or explain awk but not both' problem which is definitional in monads in Haskell. I thought LWSP was a thing. I forgot not everything is a thing. And gobbling is maybe very jargon ish. Python sys.stdin.rstrip().split() comes to mind.
Regarding the hardware, are you deliberately ignoring Nintendo? They have low cost, cheap hardware, good margins, and are able to get a huge part of the market.

I agree on the need of a shift in product development, but the hardware isn’t what is lacking here.
We have this today - McDonald’s, Chipotle, Jimmy John’s, Dominos, etc. Sure there are some humans, but there is also an optimized supply chain and in the case of McDonald’s, a fair bit of automation.

> Restaurant cooks/servers are the equivalent of hand washing clothes

Both are a skilled trade. Can you not tell the difference between the best meal you’ve ever eaten at a restaurant and a cup of fried cheese balls from Sonic? If not, then your post is entirely logical.

> technology has enabled humanity to do a great deal more with their life

More than cook good food for people? Are you surprised that there are people who dream from a young age of cooking, or cutting hair, or working on a construction site? That people have different skills, aptitudes and interests?

I’d rather see people flourish while doing what they love to do - especially if that thing is as central to the human experience as preparing a good meal.
Next, have all the settings in some sort of central database.

And in 20 years, Red Hat will have finally finished re-inventing Windows NT on top of the Linux kernel.
I wouldn't know about most of the restaurants in my area without these third parties. That's the insight I'm talking about.

Like I said. The alternative is not me getting better service or product or whatever. It's buying from them at all.
The backwards compatibility for games on Linux is being improved.

We do have Flatpak[0] which could be used for indy, DRM-free games.

Valve is also working on a Steam Linux Runtime[1] which uses Linux namespaces to make older titles work on newer distributions.

[0] https://flatpak.org/
[1] https://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/16386755...
> Automating society paves the way for people to do creative work about which they truly care.

Automation alone certainly does not guarantee this.