skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Square's been doing what Shopify hasn't, to be honest. I've seen a half-dozen restaurants who didn't do pickup/delivery before the pandemic who are doing their own delivery now — all have stood up square.site fronts. (Probably helps that a lot of them probably used Square for POS anyway.)
Good point, but OP's point is that they can't hide behind demos. Anyone who requests the source will most likely get it and be able to see what's going on.
TfL, BP, Shell etc run on SAP. Had good fun messing around with SAP over there
I can't imagine these tactics will end well for anyone caught doing it. I don't recommend that.
Nice hostname generator :) Reminds me burgundy:

http://burgundy.io/
Did you go to Northeastern? Glad to see a fellow Husky in the wild!
s/easily/expensively/

Khan Academy doesn't have infinite money.
It's a cookie cutter app engine stack which scales automatically
Switching email isn't nearly as friction-free as switching your browser. Not only do you have to change your email in every service you've registered for, you also need to convince your friends and other contacts to use the new email.
Sure, that's what's important after-the-fact if someone's getting mad at you. But that's very murky territory—the kind individuals constantly wander into because of conflicting motivations, but which corporations tend to stay well clear of.

Let's instead talk about legal liability, and how corporations seek to discharge it in their delivery of products/services.

If I'm programming a political auto-dialer, there are rules about which numbers it's legally allowed to call, and which numbers it legally cannot. It can't call people's cell-phones, for example. If I don't want to get the people who buy one of these things in trouble (and then get sued by them), I have to program this device to follow these rules.

In such a case, it's not a matter of resolving the mens rea from committing such an act anyway; it's a question of how to avoid getting into a situation where my motivations (or the motivations of the purchaser) could ever possibly come into question. I don't want to come into court with a defense; I want to be bulletproof from being brought into court.

So, now, an analogy: if I'm programming a lifelogging-drone-as-a-service that people pay to follow them around all the time they're in "public space"—which, from what I recall, includes commercial spaces without access restrictions, e.g. retail shops, but does not include private residences—then what rules must I program this drone to follow about "what constitutes a public space", to avoid me (or a customer) ever being brought into court on charges of surveilling private property? (It's okay if such rules are next-to-impossible to resolve from the limited sensory data + local regulatory databases the drone has access to. The point isn't to construct such a drone; just to speak of more cut-and-dry case replacement for a human actor.)
>even if we assume just three bytes per triangle,

that give's you up to 16.7m (2^24) possible triangles. Your napkin math is way off,
Longtime FreshDirect user. Nothing beats having an inventory management system. And the quality of the produce is fantastic.

In 10 years of using FD, only during coronavirus have items been missing from my order. And not many.

Compare to InstaCart, which has to go the opposite direction: https://tech.instacart.com/predicting-real-time-availability...

Sounds like a nightmare to me. And stores may not want to "plugin" their own systems because at that point, they're just commoditized with already razor thin margins.

The one downside to FreshDirect? It's very expensive. I'm lucky enough to be relatively price insensitive, but recently became a big fan of Trader Joe's. Obviously they're known for being economical, but I'm astounded how much cheaper it is. Even Whole Foods and the like.

Cooking 16 oz of cruciferous veggies and an ~8oz piece of meat is my standard lunch. At FD it's 10+ dollars (depending on the level of prep you want on the veggies). At TJ and grocery stores, even in NY, you can hit sub $5, easy.

Of course, the delivery itself is a huge convenience. But is it a 100% premium? I wonder.
manpool
a large pool, typically as part of a carnival or carnival
*"a few old dead men may be playing in the manpool"*

So close, yet still so far.
Yeah, tie it in with a Whois lookup and you're golden.
How about embiggening that to incromulentness: https://bit.ly/2zFhVaD
I think it's more accurate to say that OTP's dogma comes specifically from it having chased down pragmatism to a fault, to the point where whether or not OTP's doing something is a reasonably-reliable indicator of whether or not that something is a good idea (at least for Erlang's typical use cases) and therefore arguably warrants the dogmatism.
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Hello,

Ive just released a project Ive been working on, Id really appreciate feedback.

Thanks.
It's a paywall. Can you give us the name of the delivery company?
In principle you could make the same argument about lots of businesses. There are reasons Blockbuster, Wal-Mart, Target, Starbucks and the like dominated or destroyed their local competitors. The same would most likely happen to a local food delivery business.
Evolutionary Psychology gets another whack (2019)
Why doesn't Google notify all extension devs about these issues, to get it fixed, instead of sending vague threats?
Like I said, I'm not commenting on whether the site is "good" or "bad" or "funny".

My point is that calling it a Nazi or white supremacist site is completely disingenuous and pure bait by Vice.
Urgh...

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

or

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195024.A_Mathematician_R...
Do you have a reference on that?

I want to make sure you're talking about the same thing.
It might be for this app but say the app displayed an image of the cloud cover. That image, from a MITM could be designed to exploit a know decoder bug (project zero just had a post about bunch they found in Apple's OSes). Browsers (or at least Chrome) run the image decompressors in the sandbox. Does Dashboard?
I don't think vice understands what accelerationist means in the context it was used.
relender

re·len·der

a unit of weight that is equal to the weight of a pound of food
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Active worlds.

I've played open world games like the Witcher 3, or Assassin's Creed Odissey; and damn they're impressive games.
Assassin's creed in particular was really amazing, you could wander through ancient Greece and just enjoy the sights, visit the cities.

With the kind of things demoed here it will be even more amazing.

But the games feel somehow lifeless, as if you're the only one really living in there.
Sure there are some NPCs, but they are all reactive, not active. You can roam the countryside for a while and come back to civilization, nothing will have changed, except maybe the town will be governed by blue instead of red.

There's some premises, on Odissey, you have some patrols for both sides moving around, and if they encounter each other they start fighting.
But that's small scale, and partly scripted at that, there will always be the same patrols going through the same
paths.

What's missing is that you cannot walk on a battle in progress unless it is in the story. You won't see a city patching up its walls after a siege, merchants running a real economy, people going on with their lives in general. But meaningfully, not just walking around the town and going back to their house at night.

I assume it's really difficult though.
First technically, it's a lot of CPU power. And a lot of work to create AI that meaningfully impact the world.

Then it's how to design a game in a world you cannot really predict. It could be purely open box, a la mount and blade, but I think it could be more, with an underlying story line that would adapt to the changing world.

Of course you don't need to do everything at once. In this case, simply having the 2 armies stateful (e.g. a set number of troops with some replenishments, but not always the same soldiers in the places), with troops moving across the countryside, and 2 AIs vying for power across the land would be fantastic
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"Purposes of bonsai are primarily contemplation for the viewer, and the pleasant exercise of effort and ingenuity for the grower."

Still figuring out the second part!
Usual answer is that this would make it easier for malicious actors to bypass the limitations.

Likely there is some automated system running these checks.
There are a couple of "stop the computer working" solutions there, so if you have a Pentium or Pentium MMX, I submit a 4 byte x86 solution ;-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_F00F_bug
Sure, and I use it daily. But my frustration isn't about me particularly, it's about Google's increasingly hostile behavior. They're the 800-pound gorilla of the internet, and the way they behave affects all of us.
It's a cute anecdote, but I don't think it really illuminates enough or even thinks through the implications of its analogy.

Water evaporates out of the Dead Sea because there is somewhere better (in the sense of lower humidity at least) for it go.

If you treat people as evaporating and disappearing when they leave your company, you'll never have a clear picture if the dynamics at play. You need to think about where they are going and the relative difference between their current environment and the other one they escape too.

When the air holds enough humidity, it rains on the Dead Sea too sometimes.
For me it is one of the more amazing market failures that restaurants can't come up with a food delivery/online order coop. Owned by restaurants and offering services to the owners at cost. (same applies to e.g. hotel booking sites who are able to rack in outrageous fees while producing outright disgusting dark patterns to the end customers)
Feel free to judge the tree by its fruits.

Feel free to tell me what FAANG has accomplished in the past 10 years besides monopoly status, global surveillance and serving ads?

All that good theoretical foundation - you mean leetcode for 6 months right?

All that good theoretical foundation - you mean React and Angular? What great accomplishments...
I consider it a "token" amount, calculated to be just enough to keep people that aren't actually serious about releasing apps out.

They sure aren't looking at developer account fees to hold their bottom line up.

It's low enough that I can easily keep two organizational accounts going.
What is the difference between a white supremacist and someone who acts exactly like one but ironically?
We have some machines that still run Windows 7 at the office, while we don't use Windows 10 for anything beyond isolated testing environments. This is a result of assessing the risks of using Windows 10 as being greater overall than the risks of using Windows 7 in the relevant cases, despite the state of official support and lack of any further security patches. And that in turn is in no small part because Windows 10 has a track record of breaking things that would be important to our business operations. Newer is not always better, and being more secure in some respects is not always being more useful overall.
For slang, I'm training another modelusing urban dictionary as the datasource. I hope to release it someday but there is a lot of work to be done to clean the data. The articles are huge, user-generated and full of racism.
My issue is that whatsapp really compress the photos. But decent workaround.
Wow, even with definitions! That looks like a better version of a game I made years ago where you have to pick out the real word from four options. The three "non-words" are generated by Markov chains:

https://www.michaelfogleman.com/wug/
Oh please, a website that aims to shame race-mixing, even as a joke, deserves comparison to white supremacist and neo-nazi groups.

Those are the groups that find "comedic value" in a site like this. It it appears to have content that directs harassment and hatred at real people, so I would think really hard if "just a joke" is really the excuse you want to make for hate speech like this.
It's a year-long project in the minimum:

1: Start up new email (for me it was Fastmail) and preferably get your own domain

2: Forward all mail from gmail to your new account

3: Create a rule that flags messages that are still delivered to gmail, go through them at your leisure and swap to the new address
Extension developers monetizing their extensions by selling the data that they get from users is a big problem. It's the reason that I don't freely install useful extensions that I find today. I have no way to distinguish those who sell my data from those who dont.

I love that Google is starting to solve this problem, and from my perspective an extension that is sending and receiving SMS messages should not be requesting the ability to read and change all data on all websites that I access.
I got one of these for a birthday when I was a kid: https://www.handheldmuseum.com/Grandstand/Jack.htm

I played that thing for hours. The fact that it was solar powered and thus never needed batteries replacing was just magical to me. At some point I guess I swapped it for something useless.

Picked up a couple on ebay recently :)
Some people find it funny to emulate the most offensive things they can think of. Often fuelled by the outrage it generates.

It doesn't mean it's funny for everyone but it is a possible motivation for the site.
The quote you wrote exclusively referenced a Feynman book (I suggest you to check your sources), so it was you who brought up Feynman.

> The QM phase answer provides a deep explanation for why least action occurs at a classical level.

No, it does not. The phase in a QM state provides the intereference of the probabilities, which is an integral part in the calculations on the many-paths formulation of QM, it has NOTHING to do in the classical sense.If that is true, please derive the GR action from QM, if you do so a Nobel prize and a seat along Newton and Einstein are waiting for you.

> QM and Classical are far from equivalent. QM looks like classical under many macro situations.

These two statements are contradictory.Maybe you are misremembering the Ehrenfest theorem. If that is the case you are confusing the expectation value of a physical quantity in QM with an actual physical measurement.
This is the most cromulent tool I can think of for nameogenesis.
The big crime isn't the request to reduce permissions. The big crime is the lack of details and lack of communication. It's having to drop everything and work in a panic trying to guess how to please the faceless mysterious robot.
If you and your partner's photos, phone numbers, home addresses, and other personal details appeared on this website, would you be making this same argument?
"virtue signal some sort of privilege" - I'm referring to a particular "let them eat cake" sentiment I'm detecting by your posts. An apt analogy because it was a signal of her misunderstanding of the lower classes food situation.

Still confused…what does "virtue signal some sort of privilege" actually mean? Do you have some sort of privileged information on the matter?

"vulnerable populations" - people who are unable to quickly and efficiently move either laterally or vertically, in whatever industry they are in, such that they run real risk of losing food or shelter.

Under your definition here, what constitutes “quickly and efficiently”?

Who are you to judge and label someone as being vulnerable - or not - based on that answer?
Unless you stick to a very niche domain that you know well, there will be a massive amount of new information to learn. It takes many months to absorb it all.
I am quite disappointed she does not leave footprints in the sand, at 1:30.
Shopify will wait until a partner builds it on their platform, see if they're successful, then acquire them. They've done it a couple times, they have tons of cash and don't need to take huge risks.
It's funny. I remember a court case where Shotspotter had a pinprick on one block and the news said "the shooting actually occurred a block away". Haha, that's nuts. Crazy accurate.

The expert testimony did have the engineer saying "The accuracy is invented by sales and marketing. The pinpoint is just a starting point. It's in a radius around that." Which I found amusing because it seemed obvious to me.

It did improve my ability to sell, though. These caveats are useless when you're selling. You can always explain afterwards.
Notably:

- No Rust/Go rewrite

- GC not disabled

- Didn't apply the latest research on k/v storage

Jokes aside, this is the fun parts of hosted software and glad to hear the "things don't have to be so hard" side of things. Hope it continues working out!
Nobody is against enforcing better behaviors from developers, the issue is that they are not telling anyone what those issues are. I don't know why you can always count on someone to defend a multi-billion corporation against small companies, is there no empathy left?
In what way is calling a website dedicated to harassing interacial couples white supremacist disingenuous?
"Concurrency primitives" here is probably referring to Java's fundamental mutex system as used with `synchronized`, `wait()`, and `notify()`. Java's thread pools and concurrent data structures are built on top of these and as you noted are relatively straightforward to use correctly, as they take care of the actual coordination of threads for you.
I second the Fastmail vote. I have been a happy user for... maybe 3 years now? A while at least. The web UI on mobile and desktop is second-to-none (I love not having an app) and the spam filtering is as good or better than gmail and the other big players.
Inflation and Price Escalation in Estimating Program Costs: F-35 Case Study [pdf]
I think this is what akka and quasar gives you. There might be some other trade offs at play though I can't say.
But where are you getting the food delivered to if you aren't at home?
I stopped using pushbullet because I realised its access made me a bit uncomfortable, but had I had the 'So, can we cut any of these permissions?' paragraph to read at the time, that may have reassured me. Nice to see it not only being investigated (even if it took Google's vague threat to spur it on) but positively so; seen as 'A big win!'.
??? The very first word I got was a real word (Shmoo).
For your office specifically, have you looked into Windows 10 LTSC? That's my solution when I need to run Windows at home.
palumpolism

(in Hinduism) a state of complete consciousness and mind

"she had reached a mystical state of palumpolism"

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shakura

a traditional Western-style ceremony performed by traditional Japanese people in which offerings, including candles, were offered to the dead before burial

"the shakuras return next year"

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empaired
em·paired

(of a person) having; displaying irrationally

"he seemed to live vicariously through his empaired friends"

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mousselike
mous·se·like

manifesting as lovable or strange, especially for unpleasant or stupid reasons

"a mousselike ghost"

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poone

the nearest possible neighbor

"we must not be dupes, fellow poone"

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delack

the sound of a fish drowning in water

"cures of delack and mauling"
That's not necessarialy a sign of the site being compromised, I've had that happen to my own domains by:

1. Host an application on some VPS with a static IP on a domain.

2. Destroy the VPS server but don't change the domain entry.

3. Boom, domain now seems to be hosting porn or other random stuff eventually as the IP in the A record gets used for other things.
I don't see how it helps with voting on a restaurant. Also it seems that the instigator is picking up the bill. I wouldn't want to bicker with my neighbors over them forgetting to pay. The workflow should be brainless, else people will start thinking and that's the end of it.

Most importantly, I've never heard anyone using it, so it wasn't done right.
Where I am pizza costs about the same as what an uber-eats purchase would once you factor everything in (eg the tip).

I think the reason it has worked for pizza, is that pizza always had that extra cost baked into the product itself.
«Muh freedom!»
Right, this suggests the app either (1) runs a web server on the client device, or (2) wants to access a third party webserver on the client device. I don't know if this is common. Or maybe I don't know/understand why this is needed.

Also, isn't allowing access to the app's website the same as allowing access to any website? Can't you just redirect?
I can’t see it from browsing the page quickly, does this support exporting (ie to import time tracking data into a tool for generating invoices)?
flirtion

flir·tion

a stroke of incised or oval lettering on a shield or medal belonging to a householder

"a flirtion shield in the back"
The Challenges of Testing GUIs
To provide some context on this, Bruce Webster worked mainly as a consultant that triaged projects that have missed their targets. Therefore, his definition of the "Dead Sea Effect" probably comes from his almost exclusive experience with failed projects and ineffective teams.

Source: He taught my software engineering class and this blog post was required reading. I think his "thermocline of truth"[1] is one of his more effective metaphors.

[1]: http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/15/the-wetware-crisis-the-t...
Your noble spirit embiggens the smallest man
Sorry, I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here. Authentication without encryption is not meaningless, and if you can authenticate then there are multiple possibilities for setting up encryption for the subsequent communication. Tightly linking the two is not necessary, and not necessarily desirable.
> How can that make sense?

If you discount something but you're still making money, and your discount gets more people to buy the product, then you can make more money than you would have without the discount.

That's how it can make sense.
It wasn't so long ago that I was calling up restaurants directly for delivery. I don't do that anymore.

There were difficulties ordering over the phone sometimes. People would mishear you. They would be overwhelmed with orders at busy times. A few places had online ordering directly, mitigating these issues.

But some of the most interesting aspects in contrast to the apps is how they charged for delivery. It was common for, say, a pizza place to hire their own driver. But, and maybe this only works in cities, I ordered from some people who seemed to contract out. It seemed like some of those people were making it ok as a standalone business, though you wouldn't necessarily know that the restaurant wasn't employing them directly or that they did deliveries for multiple places.

A lot of places seemed to eat some of the cost of delivery but not raise the menu prices. So they would only let you deliver above a minimum price or order size. And of course you were expected to tip the driver.

But these apps take a hefty fee on top of the posted price, and they have a charge that goes to the courier, and you can tip above that. It seems like added consumer costs are higher than with the old way.
My favorite is trying to figure out a bug and nothing I can think of provides any clue. So I do some other work for a bit and go home. And the next morning sit down down and fix the problem in 2 minutes. Obviously _something_ got done between last night and this morning. But how would you bill for THAT.

Or an old example from a mentor. Get in the shower, start thinking about what you're going to work on today. Realize you've been in the shower for half an hour. How you going to bill for that?

I've come to the idea that you pay an engineer for his attention to your problems. Engineers I dislike working with are ones that don't. Their other interests have crowded out what they are being paid to mind. And some of those guys definitely do spend 8 hours in the chair going through the motions. They do work but there is a disunity to the whole thing.