skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Company M: you're given a machine. In fact, multiple machines. It's your job to setup them properly, install the OSes that the company provides (sometimes they are betas). You've got full admin access to your machines, of course. You sync the source code repo. It takes half a day, but you get all the dev tools with it. You run a full build. It takes another several hours. Hooray! By the next day, you're ready to do development work, run tests, commit code.
I have to point out that many if not most franchisees most own or lease the property independently of the parent company. Some parent companies own the property but most don't.
Chinese state media releases animated propaganda video mocking US
Thanks for engaging - I appreciate the chance to have a discussion.

I haven't read any previous thread on this issue. Just from your comment, it appears that discussion of this issue is absolutely alive and well - we are discussing it right here!

The question of balance between physical and economic health has hardly been suppressed - governors, mayors and public health officials across the country are engaging in it every day and are being quoted in major news outlets regularly.

I too wish, like Taibbi, that we didn't have a left/right media where everyone takes a particular side and vilifies the others, but while that points to a decay in journalistic decorum, I don't see how it qualifies as censorship and suppression of free speech.

If I want to know how conservatives feel, I read the WSJ and listen to Fox News. For middle-of-the-road liberals, NYT and NPR. To get mad about rich people, Red Rose Twitter. It's all out there, completely uncensored!

In the face of all this abundance, I continue to be mystified at Taibbi's rage about this one particular video, whose purveyors have suspect motives to boot. Like, if I was a lawyer trying to make a case, this wouldn't be one of my top witnesses.
Indeed. But should we not even discuss, instead, about something like this?

One of the treating physicians, Dr. Li Wenliang, warned some colleagues about the new illness on December 31. Instead of spreading the word about the new pathogen and dispatching the country’s top infectious disease detectives to Wuhan, the police arrested Dr. Li and accused him of “spreading rumors.” He died on February 7 from the coronavirus that he contracted while treating patients. It took China’s president Xi Jinping until January 7 to order his top medical officials to investigate the outbreak. They publicly denied it was communicable person-to-person. That allowed Chinese lunar New Year celebrations and holiday breaks to go ahead as planned, sending infected people from Wuhan around the country and across the planet.

https://lithub.com/on-the-near-impossibility-of-planning-for...
The reason I don't order from restaurants directly is because I usually don't know what I want to eat, and those third party ordering services give me more insight as a consumer as to what's available to me and at what price. They also use payment processors that I'm already using and have a more browsable and legible menu with consistent layout across other restaurants.

Oftentimes the difference isn't between ordering through a third party and directly from the business, but ordering takeout at all.

There's too much benefit to me as a consumer to using third party services over ordering directly from businesses. You don't have a right to more of my money because someone else created value that you couldn't or wouldn't.
There was no vaccine for the Spanish Flu either. We didn't even know what caused the flu at the time, had no particular reason other than the course of past pandemics to believe it would recede, and in many places got hit with 3 waves of it. But once it did recede (and in some places even before it receded!) people were chomping at the bit to go out.

It just seems unrealistic to propose that, after humanity survived plague and smallpox and tuberculosis, a disease less deadly than all of them will be what ends our general willingness to physically interact with each other.
This seems a bit offtopic, you’re not actually looking to hire a freelancer, you’re offering a program for freelancers; am I right?
Most historical foodways across the world involve plant-centered diets providing most sustenance for the majority of the population. We've lost these foodways in the USA, but they're not resource intensive and are, if anything, better suited to mass production and distribution than meats.

The issue is that people don't like how they taste compared to meat.
It's probably the smooth acceleration/deceleration. I bet if the movement was a straight ramp instead of a smooth curve you'd feel better.
Monopolies on what, selling their own cars?
If I converted the currencies correctly, India's annual government spending is about 10% of the US's.
Bananas are radioactive too, due to their potassium content. Nobody worries much about those.
The landlords are gambling. Their bet is that N months with no tenant followed by a tenant paying X% more than the going-rate tenant will net out to more than renting at the going rate. They also bet that by nudging rents higher, they will cumulatively ratchet rents up over time, to the benefit of all landlords (they hope).

I don't know how often this bet comes true - it is truly remarkable to see retail properties empty for so long sometimes. But it's just a bet, not a tax strategy.
Propaganda or not what this cartoon is depicting is actually more factual than most of the stuff coming out of the whitehouse
As I understand the animals that infected humans in the case of SARS and MERS where respectively civet cats and camels. Neither of those are generally bred for food consumption.
I'm not sure, to be honest. Can you email me? I'll try to figure out who I can connect you to for an answer when I'm back on Monday.
Did you even read it?

Project evidence hasn't claimed the thing was engineered; only that a lab was involved in it in some shape or form.

They also address the articles you've linked if I recall. It's not a bunch of conspiracy theories. It is a vast collection of circumstances that make it very difficult to discount a lab origin out of hand.
Can you give reference that AWS was after car selling business? I only know there was AWS engineering platforms for automotive industry.
FPS games typically use raw input, which bypasses any acceleration settings in the OS. This works on both Windows and macOS, assuming the game is properly written. This is why I insist on keeping mouse acceleration enabled since it helps with everyday computing tasks and has no effect on at least the games I normally play.

Regarding the comment above, it is definitely possible there are subtle configuration differences that cause the described behavior (different acceleration curves, polling rate/DPI settings, display refresh rates, etc). FWIW, my “gaming” mouse works fine with my MBP, but it takes a moment to readjust to the different sensitivity and acceleration behavior.
Does jpm have an option install packages to a local environment (virtualenv)?
Or think about just ending domestication of animals full stop. Maybe it's having grown up without pets but I don't understand the need.
I feel lots of people realize they don’t need anymore to order. When do you need to order something? It’s either you have a party , people are gathering or you rushing back home from work and don’t have time for cooking. Non of this conditions exists anymore. I realize that plastic wrapped food from local restaurant is not as good as I can cook myself. I never cooked a lot before. But this time , you have time for yourself .dont get me wrong I want to help those people , but helping is not ruled by communists rules. Me and many of my friends just don’t want to order home even as much as before lockdown. It’s not about money it’s about time for yourself :) and those money I saved I usually donate.
The above line is a git alias. I failed to mentioned that.
People forget that the reason these services showed up in the first place was that ordering from restaurants was an absolute mess. Most of them don't have websites, and if they do it likely doesn't work on phones. Menus are outdated or non-existent. Few of them have online ordering systems. There is no way to securely share credit card info. Phones are always busy. There is no way to know their hours, whether they deliver in your area, how long they will take. No way to easily customize or track your order. Delivery is slow and unpredictable (if they even offer it).

As the article itself states, restaurants don't like using these services but support them regardless, because the alternative is no orders.
That level of differentiation, though, is only available to on the order of 20 restaurants in the entire country.
Just finished reading Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, and if we could travel back and show the original hackers at MIT things we use in 2020 like systemd, electron etc. I think they would be in complete disbelief over the amount of bloat, and ask us why we stopped caring and started to accept software design like that.
Runlevels, for one.
How did you come up with that probability? Seems gratuitous
"the National Institutes of Health abruptly cancelled funding for a long-standing research project by US and Chinese scientists"

"The grant that is now going unfunded is titled “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence,” and it was written by EcoHealth Alliance, Inc., a non-profit based in New York that collaborates with a leading Chinese researcher who studies bat coronaviruses in Wuhan."
It is not a technical problem, but a legal one. It is that they do not want to expose themselves by violating agreements with Apple.

Do you want to be the genius that saved a few dollars on hardware with a Hackintosh only to get the company sued?
Depends how politically connected they are.
Wait, so now the plan is (a) reduce rent overhead (b) pay someone to deliver all the food? You're betting that the increase in costs implied by (b) exceeds the possible drop caused by (a) ? Good luck!
Thanks! I just reinstalled Manjaro yesterday, but I guess I will be installing Void today!
Why is this article dodging the question of whether the restaurants are making or losing money due to food delivery apps?

> We didn’t have a choice, we caved. Revenue from these platforms made a difference for our business

Ok, I assume it's a positive difference...

> even more aware of the amount of money that we get withdrawn from our account just to have our name on their site.

Wait, so you're losing money? I don't get it.

I hardly ever use any of these apps because the mark-up is insane, and it's rarely quicker than just picking the food up myself. I also don't trust any of them after the doordash tipping fiasco. And, I have no doubt that choosing to order from the restaurant directly means more money for the restaurant.

But, either the apps are bringing in more sales than the restaurants can drum up on their own, and it's therefore mutually beneficial, OR the restaurants are losing money on every app sale, in which case they should pull out. Am I wrong?
For the most part the answer to "can this possibly be legal under US employment law?!" is yes.
It could be as simple as "easy time to let people go" but things have changed..

If your plan hasn't changed since January, you're doing something wrong. Odds are companies are changing direction and killing off ideas/projects that aren't working and doubling down on those that are. That could be as simple as the marketing mix but may be product roadmap or target customers and the entire go to market strategy.

Any one of those things means you might need to shift people from one area into another or even layoff one group to add to another.
Face recognition, border searches rifling through your data, NSA mass-surveillance, Prism, every busybody agency going through people's data like food standards in the UK (that is the end goal of initiatives like this once they get you "used" to the lack of privacy), the CLOUD Act which lets foreign govs request any data they want from U.S. companies without oversight, giant data-stores of data which doesn't need to be stored ready to be Equifax-ed.

20 / 30 years ago, could the government identify precisely where you were and when without having to question witnesses? Was it even possible for this data to be leaked? Could they serve a warrant (or administrative order as warrants are overrated nowadays) on an Amazon Home assistant? An always-on listening device. Privacy is slipping away a bit at a time.
Yes, I was going to comment much the same but with the addition that Joel Spolsky famously documented this phenomenon is his essay on The Law of Leaky Abstractions:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-a...
If anything that just makes the problem harder.
Yeah, type inference is preferred (and pretty common). I'm just saying that, if I had (or wanted to) set the type, at the end of the expression would be my preferred place.
Bookmarking for tomorrow
Unless you're a really special restaurant with significant differentiation capabilities and people come to eat at your place irrationally, here's a tip:

Restaurants are never the ones making the money. They enable others to make money. Usually, landlords.

And generally, be cautious about going into a business where people want to do it because it's their passion. It means you're going to competing with people who are willing to work for nearly $0 because it's their passion.
Yes. One-quarter of 3.3% of your portfolio would lose value during that period. That is the cost of the insurance that paid off when 96.7% of your portfolio would have lost over 12% of its value.

The hedge is not your primary investment. It is an insurance policy. Crashes happen several times over an investor’s lifetime.
> I convince you - good salesman that I am - to vote for someone you wouldn't have otherwise.

How's that an argument against ballot harvesting? That's exactly how political campaigning and elections work. Spread over several weeks or moths, of course. In fact official campaigns are much worse because when this door-to-door salesman talks to a voter he's not in a position to make promises that must be funded by money taken from other people.

That's an argument against democracy and centralization and the way to fix that problem is to decentralize and eliminate multiple layers of government.
> If the motor is in the hub,

Is this referring to motor as in an electrical bike? I am not using that.
I’d like to show them my hovercraft.
They only have two options there as I see it. Either the emulator only runs on a single core per process, or they have an ARM with (maybe optionally?) stronger than required for ARM consistency guarantees.

Both options kinda suck.
I find it cool to explore these edge cases, but putting anything like this in a real code base is a terrible idea BECAUSE there are so many different ways to interpret it. Sure a < b <= c has a clear mathematical meaning which works towards python's overall mission of being clear, but in general please good people only have one or two variables in your conditional statements!
I'm not sure why you couldn't buy 20 cases of pop per day at a big grocery store. There's more than 20 cases of each flavor at my local grocery store and there's lots of other grocery stores nearby that have the same selection.

Also, you're right. Costco exists too.
What the!?

I've owned three cars, all three of which I inherited used and were already ~8 years old when I got them. My current car is nearly 17 years old and drives great!

What in god's name are people doing to their cars that they have to be scrapped so early?

My partner was nearly crying with sadness recently when she had to scrap her 22 year old car!
The author says that restaurants just started competing on price without stating why. Maybe there is just fewer people who have the money to eat out?
A View into Americans' Compliance with Covid-19 Movement Restrictions
Also polonium. https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/radiation/smoking.htm
You are dumb.
I mean, I'm happy to say that neither Nock nor anything else solves the problem, and I think that gets to the same conclusion: Nock is not a useful/worthwhile invention, it is an obscurantist rehashing of old ideas with more emphasis on looking elegant than being elegant.

That's what I'm pushing back on. There's an idea that because Nock exists and looks cool, it must mean something. And just like the idea that because the rest of the blog where Nock was introduced exists and looks cool, it must be a meaningful philosophical contribution, it's not true.

For instance - Nock, as both its advocates and detractors readily point out, is too low-level to be a language to actually write in. So that means you're writing in some other language which has an implementation in Nock (or perhaps in Nock-and-hopefully-equivalent-C, how's that for security risk surface). And that other language is rich enough to have security issues just like LLVM, and it's either frozen and you accept the potential insecurity, or it's patchable and you accept the potential nonreproducibility. You haven't solved the problem, you've just shoved it up one level so you can get a cool blog post about your elegant lower level.

I agree, I'd love to have a language that solves the problem you describe. I don't think Nock is tangibly closer to solving it than other things are, nor do I think it is tangibly closer to solving the Urbit system's needs than other things are, nor do I think it has some other unspecified merit. And I certainly feel no obligation to figure out some use case which would make Nock look meritorious.

(And, again, Google shipped pNaCl as a way to run untrusted native code. They had to do something to deal with the very concerns you raise. And unlike Urbit, the stakes for getting it wrong were very real.)
Radioactivity derived from tobacco is significantly higher than from bananas.

There is a very nice episode of Veritasium (science divulgation YouTube channel) which shows exactly this together with other "well known" radioactive sources (e.g. Chernobyl, Fukushima, Marie Curie's office etc)
Essentials for emerging successfully from Covid-19
1 and 2 can both be true and margins can still be low because of higher rent and/or labor costs.

> Is it really just too many food vendors thinking that the $1 happy meal is their competition?

Maybe if you're a Burger King, but most restaurants aren't really competing with fast food. It's more like the Italian place is competing with the Sushi place in the same price bracket (I'm guessing, but 3x-5x more than fast food).
Harvard Square in Cambridge, MA, has trended towards being one of these places in recent years. Restaurant or other long-standing business can no longer afford the rent, and it’s either replaced by nothing or a bank. It says the lifeblood out of the area.

From what I understand, the owners of the buildings are holding out for the high cost renters... like a bank.

A city government could provide incentives to ensure these places don’t sit vacant, and that formerly thriving areas stay interesting and have shopping for most people, not just those with massive wallets or looking for a bank.
I can equip myself by reading the docs. I don't need to run through the Arch Linux or Gentoo Handbook because I want to run Arch or Gentoo. I can do those experiments in my own time, after I've delighted in what those distributions have to offer.

Besides, none of this addresses the laundry list of reasons why running the distributions that package your stuff is unfeasible: a server administrator with a Synology NAS, an enterprise lackey with a limited environment, or one working with any of the containers-only enterprise distributions.

Guix System (another really cool FOSS thing) and sr.ht are beautiful projects from the outside but they are hampered by their inflexibility, adherence to dogma, and resistance to critique. I once wanted to play with Guix System's new `deploy` command on a DO droplet and nobody really wanted to consider that their newfangled command was entirely bungled. You can see this kind of treatment to potential contributors echoed in examples throughout this post's comments. It is endemic to FOSS communities. And it sucks.

Ideals are only realized in compromise. There is no example in history of anything else.
> more sales than the restaurants can drum up on their own, and it's therefore mutually beneficial

while mutually benefitial, i can understand how a restaurant don't want to become a commodity in a platform they don't control.

The food delivery apps unify food delivery into a single platform from which the customer orders, and thus, every restaurant is now in heavy competition with every other restaurant directly. Customers comparing prices is the number one thing that decreases restaurant profits. Therefore, while the sales are up due to these apps, they cannot keep the same margins as before.

Being commoditized in someone else's platform is not a great business strategy.
Thanks for engaging - I appreciate the chance to have a discussion.

Actually, that part of what he said I disagreed with the most vehemently. His logic in that paragraph is very hard to follow - it goes:

1. "Experts get things wrong for reasons that are innocent." Okay, absolutely agree with the premise.

2. "Both of the above examples point out a central problem with trying to automate the fact-checking process". Hm, okay, I agree that "automated fact checking" is a chimera, at least in the journalistic sense, but these examples are about opinions based on models, not "checking of facts." So already I am losing Taibbi in what his thread is about

3. "“Authorities” by their nature are untrustworthy." Is this a new premise? It sounds somewhat axiomatic - are we supposed to believe it follows from the flaw of "expert innocence"? Or should we believe it because Taibbi says so? Now I am starting to feel like I've been bait-and-switched. We have gone from innocent experts, to untrustworthy ones, a real escalation of rhetoric.

4. And then the conclusion: "“Elevating authoritative content” over independent or less well-known sources is an algorithmic take on the journalistic obsession with credentialing that has been slowly destroying our business for decades." -> Again, this sounds like a brand new premise that drags in the state of the journalism industry into the picture, plus a specific announcement by some large tech companies. What in the previous paragraphs prepared me to believe this? Who are these "independent, less-well known sources" that have entered the picture, and why are they implicitly being cast as the "good guys" in this picture?

Do I put this together and try to believe that innocent experts, who became untrustworthy, decided to shut out more trustworthy people by erecting credentialing barriers in the profession to disguise their untrustworthiness, having made a devil's bargain with large digital media companies? That meanwhile the truth is to be found among others whose chief qualification is that they are not as well known, and/or are "independent"?

And his poster child for this angel of democracy is two doctors with suspect motives, running a clinic somewhere in the middle of California?

This really feels like a post facto conspiracy theory that works as a Michael Crichton plot. I love Taibbi, thoroughly enjoyed Insane Clown President, loathe the Clinton machine as much as he does, and yet, what he does with this essay totally feels like he went off the rails somehow.
Yes, cutout the parasites.