skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Given the risk level, on an average basis, the question seems to be, "Are you willing to kill off either yourself, or more likely someone you know, so that we can all enjoy the ability to go stand in stores?"

This is an absurd appeal to emotion — it implies that you should treat COVID-19 as something you will deterministically die from.

The correct framing is “what _probability_ of increased death for yourself or someone you know would you accept in order for the lockdown to be over?”

Well, “someone you know” is extremely vague, but just speaking for myself, I’d probably accept a 10% risk of my own death to end the lockdown (which is many orders of magnitude higher than the actual risk).

No I don’t think my grandma dying is worth all this being over. I do think some small risk of people dying is worth it, though. Everyone thinks that way about everything, even if it’s hard to admit. If they didn’t, they would never have gone outside even before COVID-19 was discovered.
The media is also doing a poor job covering possible/impending/discussions of rent strikes.

The revolution, as they say, will not be televised.
It's not that simple.

First we need to know why they don't turn in a profit.
Potential reasons include:

- Because they pay to the people delivering (I don't think so).

- Because keeping the app running is to expensive, i.e. server costs (I don't think so to).

- Because they payed a lot upfront to create the app and are still paying it of (Maybe, still unlikely, this would have been their own mistake and go away after some time).

- Because they are spending to much on "external" cost, like advertisements (likely).

- Because they know they don't have to yet make profit so they take maximal advantage of venture capital by reinvesting much profits in R&D and similar (somewhat likely)

- Because they are selling a service for to little to the end customer, i.e. making losses to "kill of" competition by taking advantage of venture capital (I think that's the main point).

The thing is paying people to deliver stuff is expensive just the wage which needs to be payed can noticeable increase the price and doing much advertisement isn't cheap either.

So normally I would expect <price in restaurant> + <not small additional delivery cost>

Or alternatively <price in restaurant> + <a small bit more> + <constraints like only delivery if destination close to restaurant (max 15min time) and min order amount (20+$) etc.>

But what we see is prices nut much higher then restaurant, not limited to close proximity, no or low min amount.

So someone has to pay for it, and by using a combination of intransparency and their (perceived) marked power they force a not small amount of the cost they have to operate somewhat profitable onto the restaurants...

Which is the actual problem I think.
In the US, especially at the current federal level, the market is better at making a profit than the government is at governing.
This is one of the best books available on the subject of design patterns. I highly recommend it for all programmers even those not in gamedev.

Keep in mind that some novice programmers assume design patterns are strict rules and you have to copy all idioms, naming rules etc. but they are just simple guidelines, feel free pick them apart and combine them on your code.
yeah but here's the thing, is that bottle of alcohol made in china actually 70% or did they decide to save 5% costs

even usa is not immune to corner cutting, there's no government oversight or inspection, everything is defunded or regulations completely eliminated
We're working really hard to make extensions a first class product on Firefox Preview. The team rewrote the Android side of things from scratch so there's a lot to rebuild but we're getting close. Stay tuned!
Businesses are not inherently desirable; they are a concession that we haven't agreed as a society how to distribute capital. Lowering their ability to dominate laborers is morally good for basic utilitarian reasons. If it gets a little harder to run a business, oh well; I don't really have a problem with that. However, the prospect of ending the massive exploitation of the impoverished and raising some 40% of the population out of financial purgatory is far more important than any business-oriented metrics.

Looking at actual models for UBI costs [0], there is a solid argument that GDP will grow. Keeping in mind that we are currently seeing trillions of dollars in bailout money being pulled out of nowhere, I feel that complaints about the sources of money are a little facile; there are clearly enough money sinks to handle all of the wealth not currently trickling down. We can pay for it. More importantly, there's a clear gaping hole in tax revenue where corporations are not paying taxes that they could clearly afford, and this has gotten worse over time [1][2]. Going back to Obama-era corporate tax rates of 35% would be worth $473b; going back to Eisenhower-era rates of 50% would be worth $676b. Combine that with the idea that social programs wouldn't allow double-dipping into both e.g. Social Security and the Freedom Dividend [3] and everything is now paid for.

Sure, we don't have to talk about Sweden or Alaska. But it's really hard to take the core counter-argument here, the idea that giving money to folks is so harmful, without pointing out all of the places around the world where giving money to folks is not only not harmful, but positive.

[0] https://rooseveltinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Mo...

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Share_of_Federal_Rev...

[2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Effective_Corpora...

[3] https://www.yang2020.com/what-is-freedom-dividend-faq/
Whose fault is it that restaurants aren’t pricing their services correctly?
Add to which, to be clear, I'm not defending an economic system that depends on continued growth, nor would I. GDP is and has always been a terrible metric by which to measure economic prosperity. I also do not believe that past performance is a sufficient guarantee of future performance. That said, all of this is orthongal to what has been the historical rate of return of the US stock market.
Apps are doing well because this is another one of those protective moat ideas where once they have established themselves they have no need to innovate further. Sites like grubhub have no physical reason to gouge 20-30% commission on top of charging both sides delivery fees (further on top of guilting customers into tipping more). In the end it's an app serving a few web pages and APIs (these filthy companies don't even deal with the credit card mess).

But because they have an insurmountable most (not earned via any sheer technical breakthrough, just through cunningness and being ruthless) they don't need to care if they have too many engineers,whether these engineers are any good, or if their nodejs ec2 instances serve 100 queries a minute. So they just keep it like that.

Companies like IBM needed decades to get into such a rot, modern VC funding and cloud computing have just accelerated this phenomenon.
Try checking email 2 times a day, when you begin work and when you end work. If the message requires an urgent response, the sender won't wait on an email anyway.
Your argument essentially boils down to "I'm frustrated. We need to do something! The only reason nothing changes is because of our mindset! If only we all made the same decision I made, we wouldn't have this problem!"

But this kind of egalitarian desire, well intentioned as it is, should not be mistaken for an effective mechanism. It does not take very much comparison to see the night and day difference between a low level IC employee at the DoD or a subcontractor, and a high level military chief capable of making executive decisions for a $700B/year war machine. Nor does it take that much thinking to consider that for a lot of poor folks, the military is one of the few options remaining for them to be able to afford an education, a calling, a social circle, and a sense of structure and purpose in the modern world. If you want to more insightfully analyze what enables this Leviathan to perpetuate, perhaps you should take a look at the nonlinear systemic factors involved rather than reducing things to a naive linear sum of individual actions.
> already lost 70-80% of their value

And don’t forget, property taxes are based on their value as of Jan. 1 - huge, unpayable tax bills are coming this year, too.
Ah yes I remember. This site teached me so much, even if I'm not doing game programming anymore. It shows some generally useful patterns and algorithms not only relevant to game development. So if you're a programmer, give it a shot!
But that's not where this fungus attaches - something I'm sure the internet would've picked up on when deciding a name:

> The fungi are in a class of their own because they live on the outside of host organisms, and even on specific parts of bodies—in this case, on the reproductive organs of millipedes.
It wouldn't be hard to remove such results using a browser extension,but you will be scrolling a lot. Maybe duckduckgo should support it,feature request?
Exactly. It's been a necessary thing since for a while now, in fact. This was an issue before C-19 -- it's just more obvious now.
Just having these antibodies does not mean you will not still catch Covid.
As someone who works with Python a lot, Coffeescript always looked more like Ruby to me, especially with all the syntactic sugar (lack of parens, keywords like `unless` or `isnt`, #{} for string interpolation, etc)
What extension do you use for that?
> Plus, you don't really retire, your job is now investing.

This can be as easy or lazy as you like. Don't want to do anything? Get a target date/balanced fund and eat the slightly larger expense ratio and realised income. Ok with rebalancing maybe once a year or so? Put X% into a stock index fund, Y% into a bond index fund, reinvestment on and look on your birthday/whatever day once a year to see if you need to rebalance.

You can of course spend more time, but if you don't like it, you don't have to.
I'm keeping my money there since it's backed by the US economy. Yes, the value of the economy is lower than 6 months ago, and while likely be lower in a year.

What else should it be backed with? Dollars are subject to (hyper)inflation. Real estate is nice, but I need more liquidity.

Seems like owning a chunk of the economy is where the action is.
So this was a solved problem with the Glass–Steagall Act (1933) brought in after the, you guessed it, great depression [1]. It was of course repealed (by Bill Clinton), as we'd learned our lesson thoroughly and completely. This led to 2008. And 2020.

So naturally, given the broad-based success of the repeal, there's no interest in reviving it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass–Steagall_legislation
Looks like the patched kernel is only needed to fix a minor bug in the kernel version OP ended up with. I assume that these issues will eventually be fixed directly in the mainline branch.

Also, not sure why OP didn't boot from the "unofficial" USB image with included firmware, that would probably support WiFi directly and not need a separate wired connection.
We have some of this already included. If you work in so called Mini-Jobs (up to 450€/month, employers do not need to pay into social security, reduced bureaucracy and public health insurance premiums), 100€ won't change your benefits and 20% of whatever more you make will also not affect your benefits. This is primarily meant to be exactly that: low-threshold ways to work for a few hours and have extra benefits.

Imho the primary issue remains: it's not required to work, you won't get a massive improvement if you're okay with the current situation and you have to expend energy and do stuff you don't love. Open source projects that rely on donations often face similar issues. Donations are not mandatory, so few people will donate, as they can still use the software without contributing. I don't believe that "donating is difficult" is the issue there either, most accept paypal, github sponsors etc.
I was a big fan of coffescript, it was way better than what ES3 offered. I did a small startup where everything was coffee, frontend and node backend.

The biggest issue was a little spacing between things would change meaning of program and things could go wrong. I lost some early customers because of reliability. That was a hard lesson and I learn the value of static typing.

Typescript is way more verbose but the lesson is you’re writing code so other people can use and improve it. That could also be future you. Dropdown and squiggly driven development that vscode offers is unbeatable as dev experience.

But coffeescript, like actionscript (Flash) has a special place in my heart. They were the big ideas back then.

Thank you jashkenas.
I believe it’s a static copy to just showcase the new dark theme.
It appears that GA is also engaging in some reporting shenanigans to make things look better than they are:

https://twitter.com/GAFollowers/status/1261688916375212037?s...
Next: Mobile mode.

The links are rather flimsy on mobile.
Then you change your pricing to reflect reality...
Contextual switches.

I work on a variety of development projects with sometimes entirely different technology stacks, goals, people, etc. Sometimes there's overlap, often there's not. It can be daunting jumping between entirely different sets of technical challenges, goals, and conceptual framing of problems.
I don't understand why it's a commission price structure. Take uber eats. You buy some price of food, then there's an uber eats service fee on top of that, and then a delivery fee (and you're supposed to tip the driver in addition to the service fee and delivery fee?). It seems like that price structure already clearly splits the restaurant's and uber's (and the driver's) portions, but I guess uber takes a commission in addition to that? Like, why fees and commissions instead of just fees? Consumers would understand that delivery is an added cost, so you just add the cost.
We need to expand the TLA space.

The only options I can think of are increasIng the number of letters and redefining “T” to “tetra” or even “thirty”.

Time to get started on a new RFC
Location isn't important just for procreation. There are reasons that certain places are more attractive to live than others other than that (climate, accessibility for trade goods, proximity to natural physical recreation venues, etc.) Shifts in technology may change exactly what locations are more attractive, but they won't change that some locations are more attractive and that land in attractive locations is scarce.
I would have a lot fewer distractions and get much more done if we could just drop the pretext of "working" full time.

The "wasted" part of my day is simply being extremely inefficient and dicking around simply because it's expected to be in the office or available online. I would get much more done if my job was to hit milestones and goals (perhaps with some designated "office hours"). And then I have the rest of my time to do what I need to. Fortunately the "dicking around" involves taking online courses, personal "stretch" projects, etc.. but still.

I don't want to sound bitter. I have flexibility when I start/end my work day. On any given day I can peace out at 1pm or show up at noon (so long as I'm not blowing anyone off). But that's on _any given day_, not _every day_. And so the repeated, iterated game that's going on between me and employer reaches a nash equilibrium where I do just "enough" that I'm advancing my career in the organization and little enough that I have enough lax time in the day to do whatever I can online for my personal life (coursework, shopping, personal tech projects/experiments, enrichment reading, etc).
> depend on high volume

And they’re taxed accordingly. Governments are going to be facing huge revenue shortfalls, too, and they’re going to be coming after already squeezed taxpayers to make up for it.
> novel problem set

Examples?
They aren't making a profit because they're spending more than they're making. They make enough to pay the driver, the operations around that, and the tech running the site.

But their shareholders see this as an opportunity to expand the markets. They aren't taking this for granted, they're aggressively spending on marketing, on signing up restaurants for their platform (except DoorDash, they list most restaurants without partnership), on ads for Google, Facebook, and other major platforms. This is why they aren't making a profit.

But it's eating so much into their costs that they're doing some sneaky practices: they're doing the same that Etsy does, taking more out of the net sales on advertising that the restaurant did not consent to knowing they will be charged for it as much as they were.
Deploying my tests apps to heroku
Poorly defined and incomplete functional requirements with mare hints of the expected non functional requirement

Leads to:
- Frustrated developers who thought they were done and were doing good
- Frustrated QA engineers who can't certify the feature as written
- Frustrated product owners who were assured the feature was "done"
- Frustrated management who is told it will take longer than promised
Poland and the rest of the world is just slower to change culturally. If what he describes happens in the usa, it will happen elsewhere just takes 10 years longer, but maybe less.
The Sickness in Our Food Supply [Michael Pollan]
Pleased to hear that!
I don't know about single step when debugging, but it seems intelligible stack trace for async code is available only recently, starting with .NET Core 2.1

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15410661/is-it-possible-...
There are hard limits to predicting the future when it involves fat tailed processes. Like pandemics, unsurprisingly. The law of large numbers gets less and less useful, for example, as you examine alpha stable distributions that have heavier tails than a gaussian. The mean even becomes undefined for extreme distributions.

Given that extreme events tend to belong to these sorts of difficult to predict distributions and have a high chance of ruin, fear is far more rational than pretending you can apply empirical methods that work for mundane phenomenon.

This is the study of extreme value theory and estimators for heavy tailed distributions. A well known popularizer of these mathematics with applications to events like pandemics is Nassim Taleb. His style is very brash and arrogant but his mastery of probability theory in this domain is very solid.

The appropriate reaction to a highly unpredictable event with potential widespread impact will look like overreaction to a naive rationalist post hoc. Don't fall into that sophistic trap. Your lizard brain knows a lot more than you give it credit for and you debase your intelligence by innapropriately elevating your rational brain.
Is there a tutorial for dummies somewhere? I want to implement my deep learning model in an fpga to see if it would be faster.
It looks like excalidraw.
That idea is too much of a reduction of how businesses actually operate.

Most businesses that aren't market leaders have to offer new or upsold products and services to grow because they can't throw around their monopoly power.

If you control 0.01% of the the entire delivery food sales market, and you raise middleman fees 3x, your (restaurant) customers will take a hike and switch to a different, cheaper delivery app.

If you control 75% of the market, your customers might be more willing to accept the increased fees.
The worst part about this is how productive I seem when I can be interrupted at any point in time. The interrupters find me to be fantastically productive because I can assist them at the drop of a hat. Those who sit an inconvenient distance from my desk (usually because they are sitting in the board room) don't share the luxury, and find my inability to complete work in a timely manner disturbing.
As Jeff Goldblum would say, “There it is.”
> Does a company indulging in non-coerced commerce (i.e. voluntary) make it virtuous?

No, the reward is money/resources and the person wasn't implying the polar opposite of the article. You are creating a false dichotomy here by trying to split things into good or bad. There is a neutral position that you don't have to be invested in.

> Why is questioning the efficacy, for society, of the economic models of any company considered immoral?

I don't think the parent said this at all.
+1.

At my job, any high priority alerts are communicated via phone calls or Slack messages. Emails secondary, but it is annoying if someone sends you a last min event invite that you miss :-/
Only if there's genuine risk of competition. If there's even the slifhtest whiff of lock-in the executives in any sufficiently large organization start milking their customers to enhance their personal portfolio even at the immediate (not to mention the long-term) detriment of the organization itself. See Oracle.
Google ranks apps higher than restaurants. It would not be all that difficult to roll out a more open source technology that all restaurants could use. Then Google can rank the restaurants more and the apps less. or perhaps a search engine like being might move into this space. This would be a savings for the restaurants and the consumers.
> And the fees charged by delivery services are artificially low due to the high level of competition and all the investor money.

And them forcing part of their costs onto the restaurants. ;=)

Still stopping operating a restaurant doesn't stop all costs, so operating it on a small flame and doing a bit of not very profitable delivery jobs can still be better then not operating at all.
Lazarus would like to have a word with you.
Maybe. The other possibility -- with people 3-4 feet apart -- is that demand will outstrip supply. You'll have far less capacity for people to eat, perhaps by much more than fewer diners.

Two things are sure: (1) Things are gonna get weirder (2) Landlords aren't going to do as well.
Not just that, but it's expensive to build and maintain a website, and no one's going to install and app for a restaurant with a handful of locations. These apps built a marketplace, and people say "they're just middlemen," there's absolutely a value-add to what they do.
Building mini house model with mini bricks – Full steps as reality – Part 1
That's the thing though. Gamedevs aren't throwing shade, it's a strawman. Look at the twitter threas mentioned in the introduction and you'll see a bunch of civil gamedev industry veterans offering constructive criticism, only to be shut down with "that's misguided" and no counter argument. It gets old fast and it's been like this for dozens of years. I'm not surprised that they stop caring.
Need a whole lot more to be convinced that basic economic mechanism can be circumvented than someone's enthusiastic Medium blog.
The delivery business is in a bubble right now, deservedly so. But it's going to come back to earth once we have a vaccine. I don't think the price model is sustainable at all. They are trying to get into the middle of an already tight equation between the service industry and the customers.

To me the main issue is for restaurants the margins are thin and the price/profit equation is very different for every restaurant. So applying the same business/pricing model for all restaurants won't work. The only sustainable way is to let customers pay for the delivery. Right now the apps are forcing the restaurants to pay up in some ways by service shaming them to sign up and offer delivery. Of course profitable restaurants will become do more business and the rest will lost more money. Not a good thing for the over all ecosystem.

I guess this is when the concept of kitchens set up just for delivery will take off.
Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle Proof