skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> prevalence indicates the customers appreciate their presence

Focusing solely on consumers ignores negative externalities. There are many situations in which cost benefits from such externalities (slavery, pollution, human rights abuses, animal mistreatment) can lead to a favorable marketplace position vs competitors who do not exploit such externalities.

What is more, many of these exploits (slavery, pollution, human rights abuses, animal mistreatment) were or are legal at the time such exploitation occurred. Therefore using legality as sole criterion of propriety is insufficient. A moralistic/ethical take on business is, far from a negative thing, highly necessary.
You can never have too many The Last Airbender spinoffs.
I agree entirely. The system stinks to high hell, and I’d much rather see wealth more evenly distributed - it would make a better world for all. What we have now is little better than indentured servitude - actually, it’s worse, as it’s dressed up as “freedom”.

My business started out as trying to solve precisely this - we wanted to democratise ecommerce, and make it accessible for anyone, even with no capital, to become bourgeoisie.

Unfortunately, I learned the hard way that the lure of lucre is too strong for most to resist, and my partner, and our investors, dragged me kicking and screaming down the road of helping the rich get richer. There’s a reason (well, among many) that I cashed in my chips and left.

This way, I’m at least not actively making the world worse, and don’t feel the crushing guilt that came to characterise my existence.
Your chart shows the median P/E of 14.82. That would make us 38.5% over priced based on historical standards. Meanwhile, we just had the most significant unemployment event in our country’s history.

If you believe economic fundamentals support historically-high valuations, I think it does deserve an explanation.

Forward P/E at highest levels in 18 years: https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/stock-market...
Isn't this simply another name for diversification?
5x more expensive might actually be the correct price. Remember that you cannot compare a price for a good manufactured overseas with lack labor laws vs something manufactured in the US with laws, insurance, regulations, etc.

Further, just as the US abandoned domestically made masks after the H1N1 epidemic, and went back to inexpensive overseas versions -- they may do it again with PPE. So you also need to cover the costs for quite-possibly a factory you are building that might stop operating in a year or two.
You get a part of that company and dividends. If you have enough shares, you have influence, control or even ownership of the company. That is the primary purpose of shares.
Game Engine Architecture is a great overview and on it’s third edition.
The design is ironically could be seen as an anology to one of the most famous novels in Chinese history of all time - 'The Journey to the West'[0].

In the novel, the monk Sanzang has a golden ring on one of his disciples - Wukong's head, and it was used for causing extreme headaches with a spell, in order to control Wukong to follow his will because he is smart but violent, and IMO sounds like an ADHD guy.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_West
Ah, hacker news, the web site that can't detect duplicates or afford a message preview.

Anybody else amused that we use this bare-bones, no-frills forum to discuss high-tech? ;)
It’s not just wages too. There’s also the component of worker treatment and workplace environments. Cheap, volume products likely have less of a place in society too because people would be able to afford something better and plan long term.

UBI is a great debate topic as no one knows what will really happen. What it does do is reveal how people think of humanity and society.
Because there is yet no proper for loop for argument packs or tuple-like objects, fold expressions over the comma operators are unfortunately the next best thing.

Edit: also the default comma operator discards its lhs, it is pretty much always used for its side effects.
It need not be a high unit price, often a sufficiently large order could do the same as well.
Yes, marketing/customer acquisition. Promotions are increasingly passed onto restaurants. Restaurants have to opt-in to marketing promotions and then the cost is deducted from the order.
Thanks for putting out a working demo. Maybe if you could whip up a way for folks to tweak the basics, we could have a way to "vote". Hopefully that would prevent any "DarkModeGate" fiasco where only a minority ends up liking it.. /thought
>Except storage is much less useful in the old paradigm,

Plentiful storage would obviously have been very useful over the last several decades. There is a large variation in daily electrical usage (particularly in summer months):

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=42915

There is also the need for extra capacity in the system because of planned and unplanned maintenance.

>...Going forward, prices will swing wildly, so storage will be more valuable.

Well yes, our economy is based on having reliable power and it would be impossible to have anywhere near the reliable power relying on intermittent power sources without a huge amount of storage. The problem is that contrary to what advocates claim, people have been looking at grid energy storage for decades and it isn't as simple as they claim.

As Bill Gates said in an interview: "…They have this statement that the cost of solar photovoltaic is the same as hydrocarbon’s. And that’s one of those misleadingly meaningless statements. What they mean is that at noon in Arizona, the cost of that kilowatt-hour is the same as a hydrocarbon kilowatt-hour. But it doesn’t come at night, it doesn’t come after the sun hasn’t shone, so the fact that in that one moment you reach parity, so what? The reading public, when they see things like that, they underestimate how hard this thing is. So false solutions like divestment or “Oh, it’s easy to do” hurt our ability to fix the problems. Distinguishing a real solution from a false solution is actually very complicated."

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/11/we-need...

Gates is investing in 4th gen nuclear and energy storage companies so he is putting his money where his mouth is.
Monoglots: When a Subset Is Not (2019)
For me it's honestly refreshing and I wish more sites were like this.
At 1/3 brightness the text is barely readable. I think it looks amazing with full brightness. It should have been designed at a lower brightness, imo.
I agree with you - I think most of us are disdainful of watching television for long periods of time but there is value in getting the cultural context by audio. A lot of reading is not high quality - the interview Russ Roberts has with Andy Matuschak on Books and Learning discusses the topic.
This is quintessentially the human propensity to fear the new/unknown more than the known. Over your life 3,500,000 people will die in car accidents in the US, 6,000,000 will die of the flu. 7,000,000 will die of opioid overdoses. Each of these has serious, long-term consequences.

We shouldn't panic, we should make decisive decisions based on the best information we have, and we should seek to reject fear-driven reactions just because something's new and scary.

R_0 really isn't relevant, we're all in all of these together.
High Shiller P/E doesn't necessarily mean stocks are overpriced. Intrinsic value is based on future cash flows, what happened 10 years ago may or may not be relevant to future cash flows.
That's during extraction though. There's no way to reliably decompress a ZIP without reading the Central Directory first. While scanning for the Local File Headers works for most files, it's not guaranteed to be correct since it may not match what's in the Central Directory. Also as you point out it doesn't work when the file length is not in the LFH.

Streaming zip creation is well supported by the format though.
Do you have any links? I'd love to get my hands on some PCIe FPGAs and start messing with them
I made https://lostjourneys.live, a virtual bot that road-trips around the world in Google Street View and broadcasts its journeys, because I want to travel and see the world so badly!
I am getting "Unable to load the content" when I click on a thread, are you getting this? There aren't errors in the log.
This seems very cool, but I didn’t understand clearly what it is used for. More spelling out of the purpose would help, and discussion of similar software.
Challenge accepted: https://github.com/prettydiff/hn_dark

The CSS works well for me, but I understand presentation is highly subjective and some people may not like it.

Perhaps more important is that tiny bit of JavaScript in the readme.md so that anybody can rapidly experiment with CSS themes for Hacker News on live pages with just copy and paste.

This was my first time to do a deep dive into the front-end code of Hacker News and the HTML is archaic. If you would like I can help spruce it up to modern 2008ish HTML code that is fully semantic, accessible, and much better for SEO. Just let me know how I can help.
It’s a recapitulation of how broken and crappy most tech is
How corporate lawyers made it harder to punish companies that destroy evidence
Ask HN: Chrome Store is reviewing my extension for 3 weeks. Similar experience?
Chrome Store did say they take longer than usual due to the virus. The usual update takes about 5 days. I was thinking the delay would mean maybe 7-10 days. But no. Today makes the 22nd day under pending review. I'm starting to worry if it will go on for additional weeks.

Do you have a similar experience with the pending review due to the virus?
Google has suspended Podcast Addict for having Podcasts about Covid 19
> But, I think you achieve most of that with simply doubling prices, after that it’s generally more harm than good.

How can one make such a vast claim without knowing things such as cost of input materials, machinery, labor, etc?
To limit meetings, and unnecessary, distracting conversations, one way that I've found that individual contributors (engineers, artists, writers etc.) can segment their day is by splitting it between hours where they'll work on their individual tasks, and hours where they'll assist others.

For example, in practice this would look like:
If your team has a project manager, then explain the situation to them... tell them that you won't take meetings after 12pm unless it is for some kind of an major emergency. Similarly, tell your teammates that you won't go to meetings after 12pm unless they are stuck on a problem. Ask everyone to schedule time on your calendar if they want to talk to you - and it'll have to be before 12pm.

If you don't control your own time, then other people will.
Continuing with that logic; the prevalence of beggars on street corners indicates that their patrons appreciate their presence in the space.
I built https://playit.gg. It's similar to ngrok or Cloudflare but for self hosting game servers. It tunnels the connections for your local server through one of our public servers. Has a good little following.
Does the reason why delivery services aren't profitable actually matter as long as it's not "paper unprofitable" (i.e. they're unprofitable because they pay large sums as licensing fees to a wholly owned subsidiary)? The important part is that they're not profitable.

It costs money to run the services and someone has to pay for that. It's in these services' interest (as well as all stakeholders: couriers, consumers, and restaurants) to keep those costs as low as possible.

Perhaps the entirety of the cost should be shifted to the end user. Legally mandating caps on commissions would force that shift to happen to some degree. I'm not opposed to such a shift.
I wish restaurant websites were just PDFs of the menu, with a link to the ordering page.
Finally they did it.
Depends on the timeframe. If you want 5 million masks next week and each machine produces 1 million a week, you need 5 machines. If you can wait 5 weeks, then one machine will do.

But yes, this certainly could be true.
"The broken thought-process there is mostly about when you take a shotgun approach that involves many different things..."

This sounds like quite the qualifier...which is fine, but I think it's important to take your response/reasoning into a much more narrow hypothetical.
"Don't listen to what people say, watch what they do". Though it can readily be applied to politicians, applies to nearly everyone you meet.
I visited few links in hackernews and it shows as visited in dark mode too. How is it working?
"Stop advocating for JS-heavy/required sites (including SPAs) whose use requires browsers that depend on a massively complex specification that can only be implemented fully by a huge organisation, and advocate the subset of HTML that would be usable from nearly any browser --- even one that any reasonably skilled developer could write him/herself" ...... Yes, I agree. (There is occasionally a use for such things, but it should be avoided as much as possible.)

Furthermore, web browsers need to be fixed too, to give the user enough ropes to hang themself and also a few more just in case, and to block commands coming from the server.

Furthermore, web browser should be deprecated for many things. There is such thing as Telnet, SSH, NNTP, IRC, etc, that can be in use, that should be encouraged to be in use.

Furthermore, you could host stuff on your own computer if necessary.

I also like the idea (mentioned in another comment) to call much of the mess as "internet pollution". Yes, these ads, scripts, etc, wastes bandwidth, so it is "internet pollution".
I also check e-mail once a day.

I keep Apple Calendar open and hope any invites appear on it.

It happened once or twice not to, as it has a couple minutes delay from receiving the invite in the e-mail.
Seems fine but I'm confused by the async/await hate. At least in C# it seems to me thee is already a superset of Loom through async/await.

Thread.startVirtualThread(() -> {});

Starts a new virtual thread that will run a synchronous method. Ok cool. C# already has:

Task.Run(()=>{})

This will run synchronously on the shared thread pool. Tasks are futures and can return objects. Same as the Loom proposal.

Optionally you can decide to opt into the await unboxing sugar by adding async to your method signature. There's arguably some double dipping with the async keyword on a method. It allows the await keyword to be used inside the method but also forces the caller into a different calling style. You can argue this shows API intent for cooperative threading. That said, you can still use async and sync interchangeably.

The syntax seems very similar to me.

Is there something else going on in Loom that I'm missing? Is it a matter of how the virtual threads are scheduled/preempted vs how other languages with async/await schedule their tasks?
" since everyone else is happy with Youtube and other centralized services."

I also respectfully disagree, because YouTube consistently:
- recommends pop-culture content that can be found elsewhere, most specifically on cable
- recommends content I've already watched even though I'm logged in and they should know I've already watched it
- buries the content most relative to my interests
- gives me no means of adding or removing tags to help me filter my content
- has search functionality that constantly breaks when one applies filters (so you do a search, get a million results, sort by upload data and it returns 'no results found' W.T.F.

Hell I'd even settle for someone to just abstract the AI/tracking/algorithm and link to content on all of these sites so I don't see content on any ONE of them and can search across all of them. Why hasn't anyone done this? If someone has, please promote it more.
>And a lot of locals are going to be very reluctant to eat in crowded restaurants where tables are 3-4 feet apart and everyone is constantly bumping into each other.

i don't see any issue here as long as everybody wears their rabbies ... err .. coronavirus vaccination and immunity certifying tags/armbands/bracelets. Those can even be automatically read upon entering businesses, offices, subway, etc.

The crisis in many respects is incorrectly blamed on the virus whereis it is mostly self-inflicted by lack of coherent response and is self-prolonged and made much more severe by the failure so far to launch any real counter-pandemic measures like for example massive testing and contact tracing.

Wrt. the stocks - the government has already made it pretty clear that they are propping those pure numbers up, real economy and people be damned, at least until the elections.
> Operating such a platform shouldn't be to expensive.

What I meant is the cost for the platform not the products and service on it. I.e. the costs to keep the app running and doing the bookkeeping on in the server.

The idea is that if it's hard to profitable operate platforms for food delivery if you properly pay the delivery person and the restaurant, then maybe it would be better to not try to do so and instead operate such a platform as a non-profit (or shared responsibility of a large group of restaurants) focused on connecting independent delivery personal and restaurants.

With that you would only have the service/app operational cost and if the area you cover is large enough you probably could have something like a fixed $1 or less cost per delivery (+food cost + delivery personal cost).

Naturally this also would mean you don't have money for doing much R&D or advertisement. So it would be in the responsibility of the restaurants to advertise that people can order online over that platform.

I.e. it would turn the whole delivery business conceptually upside down by putting the focus
on the restaurants. Or you could say it's
just going back to the roots.

I'm not sure if that could work in the US. But I think it has a chance of working in many EU countries.
This is a beautiful experiment. More details and pictures in the orginal preprint:

arxiv.org/pdf/2005.03929.pdf
I get that too. Looking at the comments work though - click the right side of a link.
That’s right! I’d forgotten how utterly amazed I was when I discovered multiple cursors and how useful they were. I don’t think I’ve ever encountered that feature anywhere else.
Speaking of lawyers, unless a person is prepared to lawyer up, asserting copyright is largely empty. Litigating copyright takes time and money and energy. In typical infringement, the possible rewards will be blood from a stone scale. There are exceptions of course, but they don’t usually involve “the principle of the matter.”
> the only browser that allows mobile extensions and syncs bookmarks with my desktop

That's not correct; the "regular" Firefox on Android also allows extensions and syncs bookmarks.
Restaurant owners: Oh, we have thought of it, many guys comes in and invite us just like you. But at the moment, we’re unable to use it. Maybe sometime in the future.

P/s: there is another they won’t tell
I kind of agree, but on the other side - if 20-30% is too much there will be competitors which offer 2-3% and theoretically all restaurants will move there as well as customers to pay 20-30% less.

And tbh this should happen. UBER had to spend billions on marketing and getting their model "right". But now it is clear that such platform is essential for modern city. At some point UBER will have to get this money back with ride fees. Next competitor that can replicate UX of UBER, but raises less capital will be very well positioned to offer competitive pricing. And switching between these platforms is much easier compared to something like Facebook/Apple.
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IMO, HackerNews has a few frills, mechanics-wise. Like the fact that
you can't downvote direct responses to your comments. Or how you can't
downvote at all until you get the right amount of karma. I also
consider the lack of notifications about new responses a feature, but
a lot of people will probably disagree.
I honestly didn’t see the post before and I’m kinda glad that I have now.
Not every repost is bad, also timezones and such.
>Vietnam currently has no deaths from covid-19 precisely because scientists were in charge

Vietnam was prepared because they, like Taiwan, knew from the start that China was lying and took proactive steps that western countries failed to take.

>Yet, idiots who have absolutely zero understanding of this domain continue to insist that there's nothing to worry about because they read something on Facebook that one time

I'm a geoscientist. The fact that climate dogma is righteous dogma doesn't mean it isn't dogma. You claim that none of us have the qualifications to question climate change, but somehow we are equipped to call "deniers" idiots?

>People who actually study the climate are the ones who have the best idea of what will happen. Period. These people are unanimously telling the rest of us that all the best available evidence suggests that horrific things will happen.

Except if you actually read an IPCC report (not the made for headlines summaries, dig in a page or two) you'll see that in reality scientists are far less certain, and all this world ending talk is literally worst case. And historic data tells us that even the most rapid historic climate changes happened over scales comparable to human lifespans.

>You're essentially advocating for playing Russian roulette with our biosphere

There's a grand irony here - once again, like the reopen controversy, the people have chosen the side of the majority of "scientists" and hunkered down, shaming others with worst case threats while ignoring that mitigation is also enormously expensive and pretending that anyone questioning the lockdown is a denier. Your dogma leaves no room for shades of gray.

I'm out of room to explain for the billionth time so I'll keep it short - climate change is one of the softest of sciences because it is purely model and backtest driven. That leaves a massive gap in capabilities to be nicely filled with unquestionable dogma. The fact that those ignorant Republicans don't understand climate change doesn't mean that the learned and capable among us shouldn't be free to question the narrative.

Look at how poorly we understand nutrition - that's arguably at least as rigorous of a science as climate change yet the difference here is at least the conclusions are falsifiable. Meanwhile the food pyramid has been dangerously incorrect for decades.

You put too much faith in modern institutions.
A question, how would the black bar appear in dark mode? It should be set out somehow. Also would be useful if when the black bar appears there’s a link to the person honored.
I'm not sure what you mean by "highlight", but I remember reading somewhere that Japanese people are usually very nostalgic of their school years, though I don't remember if there was an explanation given for it.

My personal opinion is that the Japanese society is very demanding for adults, and people recall these years as less burdensome. Perhaps this is the same everywhere?
It's a joke, sir.

(That and the "In Rome" comment are both references to a classic Monty Python bit from The Life of Brian (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx_G2a2hL6U)
I should note that naming things with mischievous puns certainly wasn't beyond early Haskellers - that's the origin of `return` as a name for part of the Monad interface (since quasi-deprecated in favor of `pure`).

I just have never heard that allegation about `functor`, which seems to have been taken directly from mathematics that predate any notion of function object. It's possible that OO programmers and the mathematicians both borrowed it from the same source (it seems to have originated in linguistics).
I use chownow. It has a fixed fee (based on pricing page on their site). Made me feel good. Probably true, too, because I checked the menu of one of my favorite restaurants, doordash prices were much higher.