skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Best outcome for whom? I trust people to spend their own money in the way that they want rather than some top down dictated manner.

I don't like the societal purpose questioning because people forget that not everyone has a lot of money to spend - the trade-off will almost definitely be between "ethics" and the cost to the person on the street.

I don't buy my books from Amazon because I love Amazon, I do it because it's the cheapest option and I know it'll work. If you want to spend a bit more and support a local book company that's up to you but Amazon is undoubtedly a better experience than any other company I've seen (Specifically for relatively niche technical books, if it was a fiction book it's basically the same).

^ that isn't to say Amazon should he left to monopolize as they please, just that the nuance is easily missed.
I’ve found Panera Bread’s online ordering system to also be a well crafted order flow. To your question, I wonder if the exact reason they don’t is because they view their order software as something that gives them a competitive edge in their specific cuisines markets.

Panera and Chipotle are about as far apart as you can get, sandwiches and soups versus burritos and burrito bowls yet where I see some alignment is how they both have amazing online ordering experiences which allow deep order customization that eschews a lot of friction in doing so. I can’t think of another large chain with similar order experience between the two (Edit: Potbelly, perhaps for sandwiches?)
Not prison, but unavailable technically. Former CTO/co-founder quit and we stepped up to maintain the company as COO and CTO and spent the year shipping to customers (we build custom enterprise applications with ML capability from data acquisition to "the javascript") while building a team that could survive if something happened to us, from how to pay taxes to how to write issues and develop product and think about the business, to how to hire and fire. After a year, new CTO was unavailable. We then started to build our ML platform and did our best to keep him informed so he could hit the ground running when he comes back, which is in a week. Woop woop!
But that constricts the supply because if you want to make a short term investment (the length of the pandemic) to increase the supply of home toilet paper, you can't as that investment can't generate a return. Most production is based on demand being there for 5+ years the current prices.

If home toilet paper demand will only be high for 2 years you can't make money.

You also want prices to increase to discourage hoarding. Otherwise what happens is that people with disposable income just strip the shelves because there is no possible downside to hoarding toilet paper. They can just not buy it later with no loss to themselves if the price is the same.
All project management tools introduce enormous overhead for me. All of them, they're clunky to use, either too general purpose or too specific, and when you need that bit of info you never know where exactly your colleague put it. Trello, Jira, Notion, even searching for something in Google Docs is a massive context switch and just feels dreadful with those sluggish single page applications that make laptop fans spin in five second bursts while they load.

So I have my own todo.txt with a plain old bullet list that I keep open in tmux+vim, and at the end of the day if there's some time left I update all the other tools.
This is also common in the C++ community. Clang-tidy has an auto fix for this that can be applied to code bases.
> I think you retired with much more money than me (I stopped at the absolute minimum, when it was really taking off).

Maybe, maybe not - I know many, many people far wealthier than me who are still deep in the rat race, and can’t see a way out. I had enough to blow a chunk on travel (highlight was a month in Antarctica, and I’m toying with applying to do a season or two with the BAS once things are a bit more settled on the homestead), to buy two apartments (well, unused basements with scope for conversion in a world heritage city), and two rural houses (one with half a roof, one with no roof), and to renovate them, which we did on a shoestring by doing everything we could do ourselves. My wife has become an accomplished conservation mason in the process, and I learned how to roof, plaster (lime, never worked with gypsum), pour concrete, plumb, wire, and all the rest - got offered jobs by the people I asked to come inspect and sign off on my work, which was really flattering.

The remaining cash I stuck in stocks I believed in, and continue to believe in.

I’m 36 now - it took three more years of hard graft (but enjoyable graft) to turn a lump of cash (oh, screw it - £400k) into earning assets that we can comfortably live off in a country with a low cost of living. Going off grid was part of the formula, as after the capital outlay for power and water, our cost here comprises food, and diesel for the truck - although I plan to do a TEC this summer and dispense with fossil fuels entirely, and their cost, and I’m hopeful that we’ll have two decent harvests this year. Good thing I like beans and potatoes and fruit.

I’ve got mortgages on the rentals, so do have exposure on interest rates, but this is why I went for mid term furnished rentals - allows me flexibility with rents, and means my tenants are usually businesspeople deployed elsewhere, with a corporation paying their rent, so I can command a premium, and not feel like I’m exploiting workers who can’t get out of the rent trap.

I’m toying with the idea of starting a YouTube channel to share the adventure, but I’m held back by the prospect of haters - I dealt with enough venom in the business to just not want to expose myself to it again, and I don’t want to accidentally turn my “quiet” life into a business.
It’s not the “common cold” as in rhinovirus, about 10-30% of cases of cold are caused by corona viruses other than SARS-COV2.

Since corona viruses are quite common it will be hard to know which one causes this immune response.

The interesting part is that early on tests of MERS and SARS survivors didn’t indicate an adaptive immune response against COVID-19.
So they are comparing revenue with job loss? Those aren't the same class or the same measure... This is just pointless.

Focusing on jobs in the context of gains and losses is a bad idea in general as the only real measure you'd get regarding jobs is 'how many people can support themselves by working' which is the actual real-world impact. And if you want to take survival in to account or basic living standards you could even go a little more abstract and try to report on 'how many people are stuck in poverty'.

It doesn't matter how many jobs you have if people barely get by. Same goes for having less jobs: if people are still doing OK it's not as strong an indicator of anything to report job counts.
The immune system in the elderly also deteriorates with age, so it's not as effective.
I've been programming in the games industry, first at indie scale and now at AAA, and I use almost all of the patterns described in the book in some way. This is an invaluable resource for people to learn not only the sorts of programming patterns used in games, but also the sorts of problems that game developers are challenged to solve.

I've found that google and stack overflow are now worthless for anything outside of checking syntax for a C++ lambda. Everything else I work on is essentially a novel problem set.
Seven percent is the historical return of the US stock market. Other markets have different historical returns. This "comes from" the historical data of US stock prices. Comparison to GDP or inflation rates don't apply.
In Portland there are efforts from local businesses to form their own delivery consortiums, such as https://www.pdxccc.com/restaurants.html
> If a significant number of people start moving retirement money out of index funds

A significant number of people do not also control a significant portion of total stock ownership. Droves of retail investors could sell, but their ownership is rather inconsequential: the top 10% of Americans own 84% of stock. https://money.com/stock-ownership-10-percent-richest/
What Problems Does Kubernetes Solve?
> What did Facebook do when they were faced with 4% global revenue fines? Hire some moderators and it appears to work reasonbaly well. Same goes for advertising.

No it doesn't. Facebook is a highly visibile, monolithic entity. If you only have a few bad actors legislation works fine. This isn't the case here.

If you want a more apt analogy, the fight against privacy violations in advertising is much closer to the fight against piracy: it will never go away, no matter how many legal restrictions you put in place, unless there's a technological solution that prevents it from the get-go. There probably isn't for piracy, but there is for privacy.
For some reason, I am able to view the linked page while logged out, even in a private tab.
Dunno about Warzone, but CS:GO, League of Legends, Valorant and Overwatch will all run fine on this box.

And right now, in the UK at least, console prices are mental. This would be cheaper than a PS4.
Right, but "raking in mountains of cash" is skipping the "in the face of even larger mountains of costs". That's why this article feels deceitful -- using words like "raking in" and "surging" as if revenue before costs means anything at all.

If you lose money on every order, you're not thriving in any sense. You're hoping to thrive some day in the future. The fact that they're venture-backed is irrelevant. Restaurants are backed by investors and bank loans too.
I clicked on the comments for a stock market post, and was directed to the comments section for the dark mode post.
If the type is not obvious one can also write

for(Class entry : container)

This is still an uncontroversial improvement over having to typedef or use auto for the iterator.
Yelp has a massive team of sales folk that calls local businesses.
The Shiller Price earnings ratio is based on average inflation-adjusted earnings from the previous 10 years and the recent earnings weren't really affected by the virus yet and thus the current 10 years of earnings happen to align with the longest period without a recession in US history so it's no surprise that metric is high. The current P/E ratio is 20.53 [0] and there have been many periods in which it has been higher.

[0]: https://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-pe-ratio
I think our personal every day experience with water dulls the intrigue around one of the more remarkable and unique substances on the planet.
It's very common for businesses of all sorts to view anything not their core competency as a cost to be minimized or a distraction, instead of an investment with return.

a website and online menu is something that they felt they could get away with the bare minimum, no regard for surfer experience. it, along with maybe throwing some money in an seo pit, with a checkbox in a playbook.
The real answer to this question that people are missing:

- The website you are looking at most likely uses Shopify as a CMS, they add this automatically to any store created with their software.

So no, people don't add this on purpose. There around 500,000 active Shopify stores according to recent statistics so this is why it is so common to see it.
> Honestly I'm tired of the game and want to get out before I get axed.

I'd recommend staying for the axing - you'll likely get a nice severance or might even get paid to voluntarily leave.

> I want to get a job where people care about what they do and software is a product not a cost center. Should I even apply at start ups?

I won't pretend to know what it's like to apply for software jobs at 50, but I think startups or mission driven companies are the only ones that meet this criteria.
What countries and laws/judicial systems are you referring to? I don't think it's the same in all ~200 countries around the world.
I think they were arguing that measures intended to stop price gouging can disincentivize an increase in supply, e.g. it's a lot harder to undercut someone selling a pack of toilet paper for £10 than £1.

Definitely possible but I'm not sure it's happening specifically at the moment.
Electronic medical record post-click data load time
Seems like that means of productions being shuttered to protect humans might have a bigger play on that.
Yeah, running from an old 250GB HDD will be horrible tbh.
It's a very weird position. Even if I were taking in a trillion in cash, if my expenses are a trillion+1, no would call me a success for long.
College, prestige, and the NY Times wedding section
Will restaurants fail slower or faster without food delivery services?
Can you visit same console friends/family islands or does this have to be online?
Simply removing Pinterest would be a huge step in the right direction.
I'm scared of people.. their laziness in thinking and consequences of it. I wish people wear masks by self if it may be needed - not because someone told them so, like being responsible for others acting first on self could prove that no one need to 'take care' of you if you don't want it, otherwise you just allow to treat self and others like you may need it.
https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20160106185816/ht...

> Asian/Asian British

> 9. Indian

> 10. Pakistani

> 11. Bangladeshi

> 12. Chinese

> 13. Any other Asian background, please describe
I use ChowNow, which apparently is a fixed fee. I’m not sure if they’re lying or not but there’s a pretty large number of restaurants in my area that send you to their app for online ordering.
I don't think so. auto adds some more complications in C++ than var or let in other languages. Consider "const auto& a = x" vs "auto a = x". What exactly is the type of a? It depends.
Why Zoom Meetings Are So Dissatisfying
Compiler constantly saves me from errors that I would've made because of "lack of discipline". That's the main purpose of various coding abstractions: to make coding errors that you would spend your "disciple" points on compilation erros instead.
To your point, Dominos is. Their pizza order tracker is open source [1]. The code is now two years old but I thought it was really cool of them to even do this in the first place.

[1] https://github.com/nikolas/dominos-pizza-tracker

(I’m still hunting the original article where this was announced, the first version they released I’m pretty sure was linked here on HN in the mid 10’s?)
I agree; obviously, I didn't write it. Feel free to delete it.
Useless meetings.

The worst is where some middle manager or project manager or business analyst calls in 20 different people into an hour long meeting. 5 people might actually get some meaningful benefit from the meeting, let alone actually utter a single word.

You try to skip it, but then said organizer pings you asking why you aren't present.

The same meeting is scheduled daily, because reasons. Never mind that there has been no meaningful progress or update to the project during the last 24 hours.
> closing the schools globally probably has saved millions of children

Actually I don't think we don't know the infection rate among children[0]. Keeping them isolated among adults 24 hours a day could be having the opposite effect.

[0] Although one Icelandic study claimed 0 (zero) known transmissions between children.
Awesome! Glad to hear that there's a section on that. Quick question. I'm thinking of leveraging elasticsearch for the fulltext search capabilities. Is the work to get sorting on various different attributes heavy from a dev perspective and is there any advantages of doing it through dynamo rather than querying with elasticsearch?
>Life looks ok for IT people working in their underwear right now, but we are heading into a very challenging time with fundamental changes in consumer behavior.

Ah ha! The MUI is being skewed by IT workers expanding their new office wardrobes:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men%27s_underwear_index

Now it all makes sense!
There's no particular reason to expect it's a high number. We're going to have to make decisions under conditions of uncertainty, because there's no way to become certain of such things in any reasonable timeframe.
The truth is that in the current situation most restaurants should not be in business.

And the fees charged by delivery services are artificially low due to the high level of competition and all the investor money.
In general UIs should always respond in 100ms or less.
For lord's sake GMail takes a full 3s which is slower than any desktop client took in 2000. Somehow people think it is okay to make your page slower because "ooh aah AJAX" and "oh I can just add a spinner" or something ...

Back when I used pine it just loaded instantly! No spinner, no splash screen, no progress bar needed.

And don't give me that "oh but it's in the cloud" crap -- the cloud isn't an excuse to be slow when I have a 300mbps downlink with sub-10ms ping times to headquarters and datacenters of these companies.
Disinformation and Democracy
I think the underlying question is "what is the alternative?". Twice a month everyone in the US from the middle class up, has to invest a fairly substantial chunk of money. With the FIRE movement this is only growing. Where but in the stock market should that money go? We've created this firehose that will continue to pump money into the market regardless of what the economy is doing. If you take the perspective of an individual, long-term investor, this isn't even irrational. What else are you supposed to do with the money? Keep it in cash? You also don't want to start playing the market timing game. So the firehose keeps on hosing.

I do wonder and am concerned what the endgame is. Is this all gonna crumble like a Ponzi scheme? Is it just gonna smooth off as more investors start retiring and pulling money out? Maybe at that point this will all just turn into a fairly indirect redistribution from working, young people to current retirees, as we see in some national pension systems?

One thing is for sure, the stock market reflecting on people's near- to mid-term outlook of the economy is likely over.
That's true but there are quite a few people out there who don't understand/believe in that.

Talking about buying your own health insurance is taboo amongst some in the UK, even though it reduces pressure on the (I should "our") NHS, because to them it's immoral to have capitalism in healthcare or something like that
I've been using Android since 2012 and I only have one phone that doesn't run Android 5 or later, which is the Galaxy Nexus from 2011. That phone famously (and controversially[1]) stopped getting updates after less than 2 years. My other phones, a Moto X (2013), a Moto E (2014), a Blackberry Priv (2015), a Moto E4 (2017), and a Moto G7 Power (2019) are all on 5.0 or later. I know not every manufacturer is as good as Motorola at providing system-level software support but I think supporting phones from ~2014 and later is a good enough baseline these days. The last time Google released Android version stats[2] (about a year ago?! WTF!) they showed devices running 4.4 and below at only 10% of total devices.

[1] https://www.androidheadlines.com/2013/11/galaxy-nexus-owners...

[2] https://venturebeat.com/2019/12/27/probeat-google-only-updat...
> shipper is in charge for collecting payment to compensate themselves.

That's a deal-breaker for me as I want to pay with a credit card.
Some games have servers, too. And many of those are request-response (not "hold socket open") servers - which are ideally suited for GC.
Ask HN: How can Amazon degrade delivery while not refunding prime?
Called Amazon rep today to complain about the delivery timelines for our orders. Orders, if they show up at all, are 1-2 weeks longer than the date shown while placing the order. I asked for a partial refund on prime, due to obviously degraded service, and was offered nothing.

I fully understand the impact of Covid - but I paid for a membership that offered one thing, and now it’s totally different. Can that even be legal?
Take out customers don’t order high-margin beverages in proportion to dine-in customers. In most of the US, restaurants cannot even sell the highest-margin beverages, alcoholic ones, to go. With the lost beverage margin, increased take out volume is at best a wash for most restaurants.
Fuzzy interfaces with my product team

No one can agree on the definitions for the following regarding features and bugs: in production, ready for development, ready for QA, blocked, cannot reproduce. Jira simply exacerbates this problem by giving the appearance of the opposite.

At the end of the day, progress is only made when engineers turn ideas into applications, so the buck ultimately lands with us each and every time. However, we are not experts on product development so any criticism we may have regarding the process is not only misinformed but detrimental to our team spirit ...

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
That is addressing a different point. The comment I was responding to claimed people were upset that companies are making a profit. I countered that profit is OK, profiteering is what has people irate.

What is the ideal pricing to achieve long term goals wasn't something I was addressing.
I wish there was more discussion around how to get these delivery apps to compete with each other on price. Are there any meta-delivery apps where you can easily compare prices?
For us it's purely cost. My company looked at the alternatives they wanted, and they cost significantly more. Everyone complains about it, but the cost savings is worth the pain to them.
> That's how business works, be it in Tulsa or SV

Um, no. Most businesses seek growth by trying to offer new/upsold products and services rather than trying to squeeze their customers for the same service.
I love this story on many levels, but in particular what it says about the “trained eye”.
I tested your search term and had similar experience. I have, however, had positive experience with other categories, such as philosophy. Searching Wittgenstein with the top million sites removed, I found some gems: a play, a disney character that was a supercomputer named after Wittgenstein on a direct to video movie which I learned was later partly inspiration for Wall-E, Wittgenstein-oriented societies, awards, and general philosophy references I had never heard of.

I suppose it depends on the category.
A restaurants entire purpose is to provide food for people that’s more convenient than the alternative. If they can’t do that, there is no reason for them to exist. If they can’t survive, someone who can come up with a business model that meets the needs of consumers will take their place.

Times change and circumstances change. Businesses either evolve or get replaced.

The problem now is that delivery services are being subsidized by VC money or however Uber is getting new money after their IPO.
it's also now customarily a means to anchor a page, in the footer, to signal the end. it's comforting in a way.
Also, I assume, it’s custom - like starting a letter with “Dear Abby, ...”

Even knowing it’s not a legal requirement, I can’t imagine leaving it out. It’s like creating a painting and not signing it.
Slack semi-async back-and-forth exchanges for hours about things that could be solved in 5 mins with a sync voice call.
It's worth noting that this study only looked at risk of infection, not the severity of infection. The grandparent comment was about severity/death.