skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The driver pays with a Doordash prepaid-reloadable card. When the driver GPS-checkins at the restaurant they're picking an item up at, the card is loaded with the exact balance the restaurant is "supposed to charge"
Yep lets hope Telsa cars stay expensive and we get a public hyperloop instead and we can just ride bicycles around in the clean air.

Remember when Richard Hammond crashed the Rimic, it burned for 5 days!
I'm not sure to what extent it's possible to have it both ways.

I have not experienced it first hand, but my impression is that such long tenures have been underpinned by a social expectations on both sides - that employee will remain with the company for a long time, and that company will in turn heavily invest in new employees and treat experienced ones better than would be expected solely from their "market value".

But as soon as that expectation starts to lessen on one side (say, on employees side), it might necessarily reduce it on the other.
> Stop using Apple products.

Sure.

> Stop developing for Apple products. Stop treating Apple like they matter.

The market, as it actually exists, disagrees (especially in terms of profit, as opposed to number of devices). I understand hating Apple, but if I write software for profit, I care about where the customers/money are and Apple absolutely qualifies. Should you also support other platforms? Absolutely. But removing support for a platform like you're suggesting is at best prioritizing ideology over profit, and even the ideology argument is... not one-sided.
Bletchley Park codebreaker who helped change course of World War II dies aged 97
There's not much reason to buy a model s right now compared to the 3 imo. The model 3 is #1 on your list and sells 4-8x more than the next 5 on the list, including the e-tron
I would sort of agree. Just avoiding first positing "well, even something silly would do" and then saying "well, that proves it's impossible 'cause it's silly". Then the argument is clearly unfair.
If only Chevy had been able to deliver on the Volt’s original concept (with the electric motor connected only to a generator)— it turned out that that arrangement was actually pretty inefficient, and the production car ended up being more of a traditional series hybrid approach similar to the Prius (with the ICE and electric motors connected through a planetary gearset so both can drive the wheels).

BMW does something similar to the Volt’s original concept with the Range Extender in the i3– that actually is a gasoline engine coupled to a generator; it never directly drives the wheels, and it can’t be used as the car’s only power source (once the battery’s dead, you’re done, even with a full tank of gas).
The way AMP hijacks my Chrome menu bar and disables tab management until I scroll all the way back up the page to the top makes me actively wish death and despair upon its developers.
I'd argue that the major change is that people often aren't allowed to benefit from their property the way they used to. That places us in a situations were we are limited in a manner that I guess could be compared to feudalism. I'd say it's a completely new thing though, humanity hasn't really done what we're currently doing before.

This time around it's the middle class that's taking the hit. Our consumption fuels the process that does result in a certain re-distribution of wealth, and yes, some of that does indeed reach the poorest. That's good. Most of the cash flows up though. The richer do become richer, and the middle class is probably going to be a thing of the past in 30-40 years. If we continue down the pre-COVID path then the middle class will be replaced by a consumption economy powered by debt, and where the richest own the debt and the rest will have to live a life constant work in order to pay their debt.

Mind you, this won't necessarily be a horrible existence; people will still have access to modern technology, will still have streaming services, phones and whatnot. Compared to how average people lived 500 years ago it will most likely be quite a step up.

The former middle class, on the other hand, will have much more limited freedom, and far less influence on their own situation compared to today.

Time to re-read "The Space Merchants" again.
Car insurance and registration is one of those "interesting" areas if one bothers to peek below the surface. I've got a couple stories about it, but how about this (details removed to avoid personal information) one.

A few years ago, my girlfriend moved overseas for about a year, nearing the end of her time overseas I went over and we got married as we had planned. A short while later she returned and moved in with me, having mostly gotten rid of her car/apartment rental/etc (and moved the remainder of her personal items she didn't take overseas to my place) before she left the US. Within a couple weeks of her return, I received a letter in the mail from my automobile insurance stating that they had reason to believe that additional adults of driving age and related to me were living in my house but weren't on my insurance. I either had to notify them of said persons and sign some paperwork indicating that they would never drive my vehicle, or I had to add them to my insurance (for an additional $$$ a year of course).

Now when I got married overseas we did some some paperwork local to that country. But the state I was living in, there was additional paperwork that needed to be completed stating that I had been married overseas/etc. As far as I'm aware that paperwork had not yet been filed before the insurance company contacted me. Nor had my wife changed her address from her foreign one.

So, somehow, not only did the insurance company discover that we were married, they somehow found out when my wife had flown back to the US as well (she returned a bit after me for various reasons). Its not hard to come up with ideas for how they might have put these details together, but I've never managed to find any evidence of the existence of the kind of channels/databases that must have existed for them to pull this off, considering it was a low key event.
I've been going back and forth on this for quite some time. I find that I often end up compromising when choosing an implementation language based on availability of the kind of libraries/UI I want.

What I would really like is to completely separate application logic and UI so I'm free to choose whatever language fits best and potentially add several UIs on top of the same core without being forced to write it in C.

I recently started playing around with the idea of implementing application logic as a separate server that reads/writes a simple line based protocol from/to stdin/out. Simple enough to be tested from a shell, and easy to map to JSON for a web server or drive from a GUI.
With few modifications, your praise of serfdom/feudalism could also be applied to the chattel slave system. I don't think anyone in today's world would trade their lot for that of a slave or serf.
Raising prices always results in some amount of pain and frustration for some set of users. You could just start with calling your low price as an introductory offer that will be available for a limited period. You could also give extended credits to paying users who refer others who become paying users. Have the introductory price locked in for life for those who get in early.

Bonus points if you can quantify what the limited period would be, instead of leaving it vague. This is how most of the good sellers do (be it a SaaS or some other content or service).
Ok, then, explain to me why Santa Clara disagrees. Partially reopening with more cases and more deaths per day, and 1/3 the testing capacity they claim would be safe for a full reopening does not seem to compute.
This isn't a new thing. Google has been doing this for almost 20 years. I was at Google at the time they first started doing this, and it was somewhat controversial.

The rationale (which I still don't agree with) was that many browsers would send "en-US" by default, and so it wasn't a reliable indication of the user's actual language. If you set your Accept-Language to anything else, then Google would pay attention to it, but en-US was treated as if it wasn't set at all.
Not according to the article: "Then the authors accounted for other illnesses the victims had, in case they were unusually frail for their age."
This is misinformed. jlink has existed since jdk 11 and allows the developer to produce a custom JVM to ship with their application. jpackage also now exists to create installers for whatever platform your on. It is you the developer who are responsible for packaging your application correctly.
95% of a market that has shrunk nearly 50% over the last decade.

In many ways, the consumer and non specialty business are post desktop. Turns out documents, email, and other communication apps cover 90% of use cases. Anything that requires major performance gets rendered in a cloud and delivered by these other apps.
The cross-pollination effect of Couchsurfing is so powerful. I often wonder — how could you create a digital equivalent of this?

We let strangers into our homes, but not into our superuser shell. Why?
I dunno, this claim isn't extraordinary. MSNBC/CNN/Nytimes/WashPost say stuff like this all the time. It's a very common talking point. Certainly (in my opninion), the reason why some people are so interested in voter ID is to make voting harder.
I used Couch Surfing thought-out the world.

In China and Vietnam, I found that the locals use the site only to meet foreigners. For example an teacher in Vietnam asked me to be a guest during an English class.

I traveled by bicycle. This meant I could use also the Warm Showers website. This worked extremely well in Europe and the US. I had wonderful hosts in New York City, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Bavaria, Zurich, Washington DC, Berlin, Czech Republic, Dallas, Houston, Baton Rouge.

And in the Netherlands I used Vrienden Op De Fiets, which is more expensive, but also very nice.
Samsung Unveils Five New C-Lab Startups to Support
The e-tron is not in the same price category as the Model 3. The Volkswagen ID.3 is in the same category. The ID.3 will become the best selling EV in Europe, maybe as soon as this year, definitely by next year. Have a look at it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03n2H_EY2zA
Don’t think it can be an MCU box. You can select an individual stream from the grid to make it larger almost instantly. The individual feeds can display both as grid and a horizontal row. I’m assuming they send individual feeds and the client can ask for feeds at different predefined resolutions.
That's not bootstrapping, just investment funding. We have that, though many still prefer debt financing instead for whatever reason. For example you can often get money "cheaper" via debt versus giving up too much ownership.
The reality is that the coronavirus isn't going away. We need to minimise the risk, i.e. slow the spread down; that's why we do social distancing.

Every day and every part of life, we balance safety with living life. Public health is no different: it is a balance, not an extremist view that we must eradicate COVID at all costs.

We cannot shut down non-essential until there's a vaccine. That's just not possible. All work is essential, and public governments can't print money forever (without hyperinflation).
I know there's some controversial history adjacent to this idea, but I think everyone (native born included) should pass the test before they can vote. I also think we should throw out the voting age and the felony condition and ONLY have a voting test.
Your theory sounds reasonable but in the case of webex it's using ultrasound put out from the displays to figure out which room you're in.

https://help.webex.com/en-us/WBX89838/What-is-Cisco-Intellig...
It still does! https://www.winamp.com/
Sure, it is slower, but my point is not that I sort by doing `Map.toList . map.fromList` but that I don't immediately turn the map back to a list. The sorting literature is optimizing a thing I don't need to to do.
Anything is capable of not sucking if you go out of your way to spend several man-decades optimizing it.
Masks are not established to reduce the spread of CV's. They will however lower the blood oxygen content of the people using them. It's entirely possible they are a net negative.

Also, a non trivial # of people are driving with then, walking outside, riding their bike... I could go on.

And then theres that psychological elephant in the room.
Why does Google keep fooling around with fabrics? This keeps coming back every few years and then disappears again.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/6/16428338/google-atap-levi...
Yep - this is optional though, it's essentially an ad service.
I don't know, energy doesn't need to be that unstable, hidrogen fusion gives a lot of energy and don't need much mass of it, not more than current fossil fuel methods.

PS.: Of course no fusion reactor that fits in a car will probably de developed in the next years
This mechanism reminds me of Moviepass.
...or just use CloudFlare, which will automatically take care of it.
It's a pretty obvious potential next step for wearable gadgets and a bunch of specialty applications.
Installable web applications are an incredible concept that have saved my customers and myself countless hours (and money).

The experiences are fantastic. The applications look native to the platform, with coloured title bars and OS specific window decorations.

The performance is not noticeably different than the equivalent native experience. I am taking advantage of multi-threading through web workers, web push notifications (sorry iOS), and the (single) code base is maintainable and easy to work with.

I don't see how a GUI framework like QT or several native applications would make a more effective alternative either aesthetically or financially.

I'd consider it uncontested once installable web applications have deeper system access (filesystem, etc).

The addition of web assembly bindings for direct DOM manipulation and directly importing wasm binaries via a script tag would complete the browser as the most sensible customer facing front-end environment.

RE performance, look at Figma.
I thought HN frowned upon paywalled content?
Some websites (Mozilla) doesn't even show a language change option on all of their deep link, which is annoying on a whole new level.
So passes the glory of this world. But which glory?

There are plenty of families and people who prefer to live to work than be stuck in an endless work>home cycle that bores more than the Truman show in a loveless marriage with kids they dont like as resentment builds for past indiscretions and it ends badly.

There will always be the cogs that dont fit, as much as it may seem that the childless life is an affront to the love you feel for the family and you feel is infinite in nature, there are situations where an extended sabbatical from family life is a positive.

The glory that is worth acheiving for some is building the technologies that you use to improve your families' life. A family is not the end all of productive life, even at the cost of a hypothetical human life.

Having some respect for the sacrifices of others that keep the show running is beneficial.
The i3 range extender kicks automatically once your battery range gets low, and uses gas to maintain that range (while reducing power). So theoretically, your battery should never die while you have gas.
Perhaps it's because some HNers forgot, or somehow acquired downvote powers without ever learning, that downvotes apply only to replies that are in bad faith, nasty, or poorly argued; none of which applies here.
Yeah, and big chain apps and mobile sites, while not amazing at times, all work pretty well now.

Outside of a few odd situations now and then, most big chain apps (if they typically take mobile type orders) .. offer a competent experience.

Other benefit is if you sing up for some "club" or email list you'll often get a coupon or etc.
> We've seen a great convergence in global equity

Our wealthiest cities in the U.S. are packed with homeless people, sometimes lining entire streets with tents [1]. Denying the enormous divergence between the wealthy and the poor at this point is just straight denial.

> Lack of property or wealth also doesn't imply 'serfdom'

Yeah, tell that to the homeless.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skid_Row,_Los_Angeles
Sorry I can’t directly help you. I’ve looked at email clients a long time ago, but never found anything that seemed trustworthy or didn’t send information back to its servers.

Email is very important to me. While there may be security issues with Mail.app, I’d trust that they’d get fixed quickly. I can’t say the same about some smaller client that’s rich in features but has publicly unknown vulnerabilities for a long time. I don’t trust the larger ones like Gmail and Outlook to not track me.
How has your experience been with privacy.com?
Yeah, "free-response" is only true if you're unprepared.

A significant part of taking AP English when I went through was the teacher saying: "Okay, here is the question. Now, what are the likely literature references the AP reader expects you to use? Okay, what are the likely scoring points the AP reader has on their worksheet? Okay, now write to those. Writing anything else is a waste of time."

You could count the number of students out of her class who didn't score a 5 on a single hand.
Again, that's 40 mid size boxes with questionable GC (32G to 48G heap size is the no man land, G1GC target pause time of 500ms of course will result in 500ms P999 latency, etc), versus 4 big boxes, which have more than 4x higher specs. So 10 divides by 4, that's the 2-3x that I mentioned.

The TWCS is just a good example that raw performance is not everything. Performance also comes from things like compaction strategy, data modeling, and access pattern, while users and stakeholders also care about things like easiness to modify, friendly license, and steady stewardship.
To be clear I am not against "small sorted flat thing" is an optimization for smaller data structures.

My point is I care about the map or set interface. I don't use temporary sets or quicksort to sort....because I don't sort---I don't want a list/array of things in order, basically ever.
Ask HN: What jobs do you think will be created and/or disappear post Covid 19?
Given that, I wonder if there is an opportunity to provide the ordering service and leave the delivery up to the restaurant... It would be dramatically easier to start up, require far less capital, require almost no human resource challenges, etc, etc.

Edit: Just noticed lower in the comments that this is exactly what GrubHub was doing before Doordash showed up.
> Because unlike everything else in the body, we don’t know what sort of material explanation would possibly work.

I think that the closest we have to an explanation for something capable of thinking are CPUs and we're just not sure what the right software is to create independent thought.

This might imply that traits like universal computation are necessary (but not sufficient) for thought.
Does Y Combinator have a lot of companies that could go public? Most do not seem IPO ready.

And what does any of that have to do with YC?
It seems that half your question is about experience, and half is indirectly asking for advice. So, experience:

My experience is the opposite. Since having kids, I have been ruthless about changing jobs as needed, standing up for what I need, and getting a lot more money on each career move. I was much more lax on these matters before, and would spend countless hours on pointless drivel. I still spend hours on drivel, but I count every hour! As others have noted, having kids makes you question the value of your time and forces you to be much more efficient.

Advice: Value yourself more than your managers value you, present yourself with confidence backed by experience and knowledge, and your career prospects are wide open.

Also, I mean this in all seriousness, read "Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In" by Roger Fisher and William Ury. Its advice contributed the most money directly to my bank account of any book I have ever read, followed by "The Richest Man in Babylon," another good book. (Getting to Yes to increase my income, Babylon to decrease my spending and increase my savings.)
there will be 2 groups of users.

Students can use this for their homework. It will be a better mathematics.

Programmers can use this as a knowledge community. similar to dev.to
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Why is so hard to find a self-hosted PaaS for Kubernetes that seamlessly handles TLS certificates and https redirection through a slick web UI like CapRover does? Any recommendations?
Can't read story about Couchsurfing paywall as the article is behind paywall ;)
Shouldn't plan B for most of those scenarios start with the creation of self-sustaining, independent ecosystems here on Earth?

Bruce Sterling pointed out that colonizing the Gobi desert should be far easier than colonizing Mars.

Set up 100s of these around the world. Worried about a pandemic? Set up testing and quarantine policies for everything and everyone which comes in and out. Seal each site, and stagger any openings to reduce the chance of infection.

Once we know how to set those up in the desert, and Antarctica, and underground, we'll be in a much better place for colonizing off-planet.

I think it's odd that most of the people who argue the "don't put all your eggs in one basket" point, end up with "make rockets!", not "make self-contained ecosystems!"
Using your figure of 1e12 joules, I thought, what about a hypothetical miniaturized fast breeder nuclear reactor?

Googling, I found a document that says regular light water reactors produce power with something like 1.8 tons of fuel per gigawatt per year. And fast breeder reactors potentially could be 100 times more efficient, they say.

So if I did the arithmetic right, and if Google unit conversions didn't fail me, you could get 3.2e16 joules from 1632 kg of uranium fuel, which ends up being about 2 ounces per 1e12 joules.

So, sure, it seems doable to me. The "battery" would be about the same weight as a regular alkaline 9V. A bit smaller though.
Pentagon Contractors’ Report on ‘Wuhan Lab’ Origins of Coronavirus Is Bogus
In what sense are the cases "dropping"? When I go to the "Daily" tab of "Alameda County Total Daily Cases", it's literally the same as 1 week ago (33 people on the 10th, and now on the 16th). See https://imgur.com/a/XTGzpVk and https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/1e0ac43.... I'm struggling to see a downward trend.
To speak more precisely, the first sale doctrines prevent the original seller from asserting intellectual property rights (copyright, patent, trademark) as a basis to prohibit resell. I was writing an internet comment, not a legal brief!
It seems like it would depend on who's initiating the action.

While the restaurant preparing "partial" pizzas to ship to coordinated orders is obviously fraud, I'm not so sure "Asking the restaurant owner about their costs, then independently ordering a large number of pizzas" qualifies.

It's not your responsibility if Doordash has shit code and auditing. And given VC-onomics, it's not even clear how you would be certain this isn't "operating as intended."
I can fly into a city not knowing anything about how they do taxi

What airports are you flying into where you could avoid signage/references to local taxis/buses/transit if you wanted to? Heck, most have taxi stands right outside baggage claim, if not all exits.