skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, since DoorDash is listed as the copyright holder on the bottom of www trycaviar com it looks like DoorDash is just bleeding their $400mm series F out under a different name.

Maybe have them try the arbitrage themselves per the article and put the profit _and_ the booze directly in their pockets... (/s?)
>The idea that scribbles on a paper would be conscious is really hard to believe.

But it's not that the scribbles on paper are conscious; scribbles on paper have no causal powers for example. The scribbles on paper are the volatile storage of this causal chain: the causal cascade flowing through the actions of the person reading the symbols, manipulating them, then writing out new symbols. The bait-and-switch is that when you adjust the thought experiment, the focus shifts from the unified casual process performing certain computations to the inert substrates of the paper (or in the case of the Chinese room, the man performing the computations). But no matter the medium of computation, the causal chains are still instantiated and so there's no reason to think this process is not conscious.
I guess, but ISIS still seems to be a thing.

Or in geek-speak. We have the Death Star, as we are the Empire. The Empire still lost.
Philip Hudok isn't a straw-man.

https://www.register-herald.com/news/local_news/is-real-id-a...
I'm familiar with the concept of chaos. I've also spent a certain amount of time solving DEs for money, and most were not particularly chaotic. My superficial understanding of Ferguson's model is that it's an extended SIR model, with different classes of patient with different behaviors, geographical grouping, etc. From my intuition, it doesn't seem like that kind of DE would be too chaotic, and I haven't seen anything in the literature to suggest otherwise (since when systems do become sensitive to limited arithmetic precision, it's common for practitioners to notice and report that, as they first famously did with the weather in your example above).

Note that this sensitivity isn't usually just a numerical implementation detail. For example, it's one of the reasons why the weather is so hard to predict, because the physical effects that create the weather are extremely sensitive to the real physical initial conditions, which we can measure only with some uncertainty, typically much worse than our numerical precision. So when such behavior is present, modelers are usually aware that it is, since it has consequences well beyond floating point reductions. I haven't seen that discussed in any of Ferguson's papers, so I strongly suspect that floating point issues may prevent bit-exact results but do not explain the variation seen.

But in any case, I think we agree that's probably not the biggest difference, and the biggest difference is probably random numbers in the wrong order? I typically attempt to determine whether a program is bug-free by testing it. That's harder when a program is non-deterministic, so people often include the ability to derive all pseudo-randomness from a fixed seed. It looks like Imperial College tried to do that here, but it didn't work. I agree that's not a flaw in the model, just something that makes it harder to prove that no flaws exists. Would you at least agree that in a perfect world, with unlimited resources, that's something you'd fix?
There’s 2 parts here that I think you’re tying together. They happened together, I don’t believe they’re causally linked.

First: feudalism was a system that came into existence in response to circumstances after the Roman Empire fell. In exchange for binding themselves to lords, serfs were promised physical protection in a world that was getting more dangerous. The negative sides of this arrangement became intolerable once serfs no longer needed to depend on lords for physical safety.

The other half is that serfs worked less than modern workers. But that’s not because they’re serfs, it’s because that in a world without refrigeration, you have a limited ability to over work, since your primary product (food) will spoil if you over produce it.

Serfs didn’t work less because they were serfs, they worked less because once enough food had been collected then there was no more work to be done.
Yes this is super annoying, especially if you're in a country with it's own alphabet, and the 'change language' menu item is written in that script which you can't read.

Google maps, for example.
A while back I read 'Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind' ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41571759-conscious )
which attempts to promote panpsychism. It does a pretty good job at exploring the curious nature of consciousness, but panpsychism I think is just at the level of 'woo'. It makes the case that because we are having trouble with fully understanding what consciousness is, we must fully engage in exploring ideas like panpsychism. While I generally support coming up with all kinds of ideas and exploring them, the proponents of this idea seem a little too convinced it's a real thing based on zero evidence, they promote quite a bit through seemingly scientific "speak" but use words like "may" "might" "possible" etc to exploit the basic fact that we simply don't know yet and want to present it as a credible possibility.
My point is that having kids massively strengthened those attributes in me—and others I've spoken with. I wouldn't have been in the same position otherwise.

All this is to say... it's not about fast or slow. It's about different and finding what works.

And there are counter-examples, too. I worked with a guy who ran a global business unit—a couple billion dollars, probably—and had 5 kids. Might he have been even more successful had he remained childless? Maybe... who knows. He was good either way.

I volunteered with a woman who is now the CEO of a Fortune 500 company. She brought her daughter with her, and doing social good as a family was an important part of her personal and. professional life.

If you're good and driven, it doesn't matter.
As they say, "There is no Planet B".
Wow, this account exists just to flamebait in Elon/Tesla-related topics. Check the history.

This isn't allowed on HN. Get a new obsession.
I'm over 50 and don't have kids. It is incredibly unlikely that I ever will have kids ;-) Has it helped my career significantly? I don't think so. I know lots of people who are more successful than me in objective terms that do have kids.

Not having kids means that you get to be selfish. That's pretty much it. If you want to devote yourself completely to your job, you can. I did that for some time. It was fun for some time :-) If you want you can travel a lot. I did that too. If you want you can quit your job and live in a shack by the ocean and teach English. I did that too.

Having children is always going to be a tradeoff. It requires time, energy, focus, and huge amounts of money. It requires you to be responsible, to prioritise and above all to be selfless.

On the other hand, based on virtually everybody I know who has kids (and doesn't have other significant problems in their life), there is a pretty significant payback. If you have a child, I assume you understand that payback.

I realise that it's tempting to want it all. It seems unfair that people who prioritised other things got advantages that you don't have. Trust me, I understand that. I've lived all around the world. I've worked in many super interesting jobs. I've been able to literally say "Fuck it" and forget about money and just do what I want. But I'm never going to be able to go home and give my child a hug. Trade offs.
I am arguing that they would rather be paid some wage rather than have no job available.

A backpacker who just wants to make enough money to get to their next destination probably doesn't want to deal with the overhead of taking on a full-time job and is happy to have the flexibility in exchange for less money.

Fair is determined by the two people who are party to the transaction. If they both agree to it, then they consider it to be fair. If it is unfair, they are free to decline. The opinions of unrelated third-parties about whether a transaction is "fair" are irrelevant.
Didn’t want to sell my soul to a heartless company that exploits workers. I’d rather be part of the solution and build products and services for unions, non-profits, and movement organizing.
I live near a lake side villa in India. It's spread in 21000sq feet.

Very sparsely populated.

It has a few shops and hospitals within a kilometre.

Ofc, there is no way I can afford same land in middle of city but a lot of people don't have choice between living in a city Vs living somewhere peaceful / scenic.

Their jobs are in city so they can't just move to somewhere clean and beautiful.

There are things in city which is mostly services available at walking distance.

I am YouTuber - I need the land my channel and also don't really need extra services which city offers.

Once a month, I take the truck to city and hall all the stuff I need for channel.
This is basically the same backing service, corporate-issued "cards"
"Time for the Stars"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_for_the_Stars Not quite a worldship, but a large exploration vehicle.
Ahh the “is it the US or British flag next to English” problem.

I’m genuinely surprised that there’s not a falsehoods article that includes things like:

* The mapping between languages and countries is 1-1.

* Every language has a mother single mother country.

* “English” refers to a single language.

* “US English” is good enough for all English speakers.

* US English is well defined and refers to a single language.

* You can partition a map into areas for which there is a single reasonable default language.

And so on.
The amount is calculated off of what DD thinks, not based on what the restaurant charges.

Yes, this causes a significant amount of driver support issues where they have to live chat in because their red card is declining.

The driver is instructed to not give the restaurant receipt to the diner.
Do the airlines have an api ?
zoom does : https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/api-reference/zoom-api

How many yc startups will be enabled with it ?
It’s actually the China Brain scenario
The paper doesn't say that at all. It isn't known whether these antibodies are effective at fighting SARS-CoV-2 or how effective they are.

The actual deaths we've seen and the overwhelming of hospitals in multiple countries refute the kind of narrative you're fantasizing about.
It's terribly degrading to blame personal life choices on the media, as if there were no other cause.

>it has become taboo to acknowledge it openly

Do you want to discuss it openly? The politics behind that has immense potential for debate. Fathers and mothers will endlessly tell other adults how to behave and give their own children excuses for not performing to those standards. There are some very famous examples of this.

Western society is rapidly becoming more traditional as we eschew modern liberalism and embrace a classical perspective. There's going to be 40 years of cultural building towards the traditional center. Are you going to attribute all your decision making to a cultural movement that flies above you, or do you just reserve that judgement for others?
> Restaurants have been running successful delivery operations independently for ages.

Crappy phone call driven ones with few checks for information accuracy.

> Is it just the benefit of being able to browse in one app/website everything available for be delivered to you?

Yes, that is a large part of it. I can be hungry and just pick up the DoorDash app and browse for food. I also have a single point of complaint for any issues with the food, can be confident that DoorDash got my address correct do not need to deal with a credit card at the door, and when I am in a new city, can instantly know what is available.
Productivity and true isolation, even somethingas as minor as window size/placement... wouldn't replace VS Code, Slack or Spotify clients, they simply do more.
What's your typical strategy for parsing something like a large text file for some relevant data?

Suppose you could cat and grep, but what if you don't know what you're looking for?
> no one seems to have challenged the fact that rural areas are poorly served in areas like medicine by the policies of the political faction they appear to support.

Rural areas are poorly served, in almost exactly the same ways, no matter which (of the two) political faction(s) they decide to support, which is why they overwhelmingly support politicians who promise to dismantle the status quo. This is one of the qualities that both candidate Obama and candidate Trump shared. The actions of both in government ended up following the Reagan orthodoxy, though their rhetoric was different.

I don't think that a lot of these people take elections seriously anymore as a method for accomplishing change (with good reason[1]), and now are just voting for the person whom the most complacent like the least.

[1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...
It really doesn't. Don't cry just because someone has a different opinion to you.
"a cardiac surgeon can still know far more about your heart than you do"

You're conflating the knowledge surgeons have with the subjective experience of a pounding heart. Surgeons study the heart qua plumbing, not as object of awareness related to primal feelings. Noting that physical changes in the brain cause changes in consciousness does not explain subjective experience.
> leave the delivery up to the restaurant

Then you get an inconsistent experience.
Many of those are fringe cases, and many more are moving (or have already moved) to digital payments. Square took food trucks, restaurants, handymen, lawnmowers, etc, on to credit card payments. Janitorial staff probably get paid through payroll the majority of the time.

Sweden even got to the point nobody was accepting physical cash in the first place.
>> Are you seriously arguing that the drivers would rather be underpaid than get paid a fair wage?

Economist Thomas Sowell has argued that point and more about how the minimum wage enables racism, so, potentially?

https://www.aei.org/economics/thomas-sowell-on-the-cruelty-o...
The US spends substantially more on health administration than other nations. Removing that administrative burden (ie the private health insurance organizations as arbiters of health care delivery) would substantially lower the cost.

As a percentage of the GDP, the health industry is a larger proportion than military production, but as a percentage of the US Federal budget, the military consumes roughly half.
One of them is the CEO of a a multi-billion dollar company, the other is a diver. These aren't two children on the playground, who "started" it is not relevant.
If you wanted simple writing you would omit "very," not replace it.
>Tesla said employees were told to report to work or be fired.

Bullshit. You are confusing different activities that involve not getting paid.

Not showing up for work, the person doesn't get paid, and contrary to your claim (there are no such "multiple reports" unless you are counting reddit comments?) Tesla is being nice and not firing them, but instead putting them on unpaid leave so their job is actually held open for a while. Not even the same ballpark as fired.

Yes there are consequences for unemployment since their job is available to them should they want to do it. This is by law, not Tesla's doing. They aren't terminated by the way… another word for fired… just on unpaid leave, again.

>workers are generally spaced more than 6 feet apart

That's also the case at the Fremont factory.
It sounds like the exact plot of The Glenn Close movie from a couple years ago
> This notion of “stream-table duality” might be the most misleading, damaging idea floating around in software engineering today.

I disagree. Kafka is a log. That's half of a database. The other half is something that can checkpoint state. In analytics that's often a data warehouse. They are connected by the notion that the data warehouse is a view of the state of the log. This is one of a small number of fundamental concepts that come up again and again in data management.

Since the beginning of the year I've talked to something like a dozen customers of my company who use exactly this pattern to implement large and very successful analytic systems. Practical example: you screw up aggregation in the data warehouse due to a system failure. What to do? Wipe aggregates from the last day, reset topic offsets, and replay from Kafka. This works because the app was designed to use Kafka as a replayable, external log. In analytic applications, the "database" is bigger than any single component.

I agree there's a problem with the stream-table duality idea, but it's more that people don't understand the concept that's behind it. The same applies to transactions, another deceptively simple idea that underpins scalable systems. "What is a transaction and why are they useful?" has been my go-to interview question to test developers' technical knowledge for over 25 years. I'm still struck by how many people cannot answer it.
Those prohibitions have nothing to do with the original seller asserting his copyright or trademarks or patents, which is what the first sale doctrine prevents. They're just requirements for anyone who is selling food to the public.

The safety angle is interesting.
Excluding chromebooks the market share is ~1-2% of all machines. However when you look at the developer crowd, the situation changes with ~25% of devs using Linux as their primary OS.

Considering that developers often prefer premium and powerful laptops it seems like there could be a market if the experience was polished.

Edit:
Source: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#development-e...
> I mean, the draft. Can you even imagine that today?

Not in the US, no.

1) Theres not a reason to when there are so many poor people who volunteer for the promise of 3 hots and a cot, healthcare, and an education

2) The workarounds that >=middle class would have to do to keep their children exempt would be harder to keep quiet in the age of social media

3) If >= middle class kids were actually forced into service, it would be much more difficult to garner wide spread support for military actions

4) There’s much more legal flexibility now than there used to be. It’s not really required or useful to formally declare war and open up a draft.
It's mostly because everyone needs energy and they buy it in form of petroleum, gas and coal.
The typical incubation period is more like 5 - 6 days. A 2 week incubation period is possible, but very rare.
Fiction v non-fiction.
"600 mi" would be fine too. "600m" is definitely confusing.
I don't know what makes this virus spread or not spread. All I know is that as long as another Wuhan/Lombardy/NYC is still possible, we should be doing every damned thing we can do to control this epidemic as though it's deadly everywhere.

Hopefully scientists will figure out that chrysanthemum pollen or TB vaccinations reduce the severity, and then we can deploy that tool here. Until that happens: we have to act like this disease is going to explode. That isn't confidence, it's just common sense.
Yes, today you can use JavaFx to build cross platform desktop apps.
> What do these people even have to live for?

As someone that's childfree in his thirties and is planning to not have any children; I live for myself, my own aspirations, philosophy, love and exploration. Career certainly does not come first, but its not hard to see how having a family would stop me in my tracks of progress in life. Being around peers with children does bring me joy, but it would be a personal experience I could not handle. And I figure, for someone like me its probably best to embrace the child free life with my partner rather than put someone into this world and raise them as unhappy and unmotivated parents. What exactly is wrong with that?

> They are, in the truly biological sense of the term, drones.

Does it really matter what makes another happy?

> They are drones, by choice.

And you're not a drone by choice? Just another side of the same coin. You're not exactly coming of as happy and fulfilled either, more as a someone with a ingrained world view of kids being a necessity for ones happiness in life.

> I don't understand why they even bother without love and laughter to look forward to at the end of the day.

There's enough love and laughter in my life, I don't have a deficit of it at the end of my day. Instead there are other long term goals, career and non-career wise which are indeed very important to me, but which absolutely do not leave any room whatsoever for children.
Not the where, the how.

How much do they cost? Do they know where my hotel is or do I need to provide a specific address for their GPS? Are specific taxis limited to specific jurisdictions? Can I get a van if I have 6 people or do I need two vehicles? Do they go out as far as the somewhat rural university? How about to the manufacturing plant 20 km outside the city?
Mozilla _critically_ lost its way. No RSS, no NNTP, no EMail; but a paid news service, opt-out services and so on.

The data services which provided content-without-markup were abandoned, and the fluff and garbage were embraced.

It was supposed to be that Mozilla would be a beacon of light in a murky web, but it has lost itself in the void.
Why does couchsurfing.com need to be a $22.5m venture backed business?

Not everything needs to be the next WeWork.
I’ve begun to suspect that we’re not in a capitalist society for a while. In Bullshit Jobs, David Graeber argues that a surprisingly large percentage (~34%) of workers don’t believe their job even helps the company turn a profit. In a capitalist society this is something that shouldn’t happen at scale; market efficiencies should theoretically eliminate all jobs that don’t help companies turn a profit.

I’ve had a suspicion that we’re trending towards a feudal structure, with managers as minor lords, companies as countries, and CEO as a modern king. It’s not a perfect analogy, but it does explain why our culture doesn’t seem to be doing things that a capitalist society should do.
From the title I expected a story of how Doordash is running a pizza arbitrage scheme. Using an expensive restaurant name, and having the drivers go to a cheap pizza place to get the pie.
HN is subsidized by Y Combinator. The costs of running HN are probably a drop in the bucket of the money sloshing around YC.
Thé weight of your family on your career dépends a lot of thé behaviour with the second parent. If thère are fights (even silent), kids will also be more difficult. Try to have a good split of the tasks and to be thankful and respectful.
Use JavaFX to build cross platform desktop apps, lot's of enterprise client apps are written in it.
One thing I'll point out is that we don't actually know if delivery services (for restaurants such as pizza places that the article mentions) are profitable period. It's entirely possible that businesses offer delivery at a loss (i.e. cost of delivery is more than the delivery fee, so it hurts their overall profit margin) because they expect the increase in revenue due to added convenience for customers to offset the lower profit margin.
Just this morning I was getting annoyed about exactly this.

If I want the Australian site I'll go to the .au domain name. If I go to .com then I want the global/USA site.

It is SO annoying when going to .com redirects to .au

Maybe this is what happens when companies stockpile so many developers that they have more than they need - everything that can be written does get written.
Saving face in this scenario would be imposing punishment on Tesla to show that when they make rules they mean it. This whole thing just reeks of Tesla testing the waters on how far they can push the State/setting up the narrative that they are being treated unfairly here to get other states to make offers to bring Tesla over.