skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if you have a high order volume, a delivery service should still have more deliveries near a given destination and be able to improve margins by grouping those together for delivery.

I may be the only person in my apartment complex ordering Chipotle for dinner tonight, but there are going to be several others ordering something.
It's not the same, because HN users don't have local knowledge. People here mention landscaping, but that wouldn't make much sense where I live, for example (lawns are relatively rare). Locality is a crucial factor in the labour market.
Authorities will either look at the source code, compel the authors to explain how it works, push their own changes for the code in question, or just empirically monitor the random behavior and build models to filter such noise.
I wrote how Twinings was created and even competitors became clients
It seems to me like the main purpose of moderation is to make sure posts conform to the theme of the subreddit... to keep things on topic. Almost everything else can be taken care of by the downvotes of the community members.

A subreddit is like a community where every citizen has a gun. They can police themselves by downvoting each other... the only thing mods need to do is make sure the theme of the community stays on track.

I'm the sole mod of a subreddit with over 600k subscribers and I basically do nothing. My case is admittedly special because the subreddit is a weird kind of "game" with very specific, well-defined rules about how to reply to posts (and a bot that deletes replies that violate this rule), but in general I feel like people don't have enough faith in the ability of a community to handle itself. Occasionally I've had to ban people who are spamming /new with disturbing content, and I did end up setting some useful automoderator rules, but otherwise I find that the community runs itself.

I've gotten a few messages from people over the years saying they're unsubscribing because they wanted me to take a more involved role in moderating the content posted to the subreddit, removing posts they thought were "low quality". That's fair, but I don't think it should be up to me what counts as "low quality"... I'm just one person. The beauty of a community is watching it develop organically from the actions of thousands of people, not molding it into some shape you happen to prefer. It's like an organism, and it has a mechanism to achieve homeostasis: upvotes and downvotes.
I've never been approached about marketing once, but I am not prolific like other users. I imagine you have to be in the top 100 or 1000 users in order to get those sorts of offers. The closest I've experienced was when I organically made a post on the speedcubing subreddit asking for opinions a new cube by a fairly unknown company and I was contacted by an employee of the company thanking me for the post and offering to give me one for free.
It's crazy, right? Maybe it gets them more viewers from within that ecosystem but I find it hard to believe that it's a net positive.
More than that, Xi has been ginning up Chinese nationalist sentiment for months now as a way of distracting the Chinese populace from the economic hit they've taken/a supposed reason for their suffering. Hence all the conspiracy theories about COVID being starting by the US Army and such.

If they're going to start projecting that nationalist sentiment outward, Hong Kong is low-hanging fruit.
NASA scientists detect evidence of parallel universe where time runs backward
>we now have the opportunity to be joined by a whole lot of incredible individuals from around the world that otherwise couldn’t because of our previous default to proximity.

Wow, so they'll be hiring non-Canadians by the majority now?
Interesting. I wonder how this will affect the economies of places like Ottawa, with Canada not having the type of Tech Sector the US does.
Mods apparently inflict their PSTD from bad posters on good posters, given the common ban first ask questions later approach.

I really don’t care how shitty another poster was to you. I only care how shitty you are treating me.
Point of fact, colonization by the British wasn't exactly 'liberal government'. Anywhere. In HK's case, they only got their limited democracy in the last couple years immediately before handover to China. The 150 years prior, not so much.

Back in the 1980s, while Thatcher and Reagan were preaching about freedom, british-ruled HK had less freedom than they do now under the bad guy commies.

EDIT: This is not to cheerlead a regression of rights in HK. I'm just saying that being an imperial subject, being brutally put down every few decades when revolting, that's not some liberal utopia.
This sounds great in theory - harder to do in practice

And therein lies the root of "telemetry" — the SV bubble's lack of interest, lack of effort, and fear of interfacing with the wetware.

Telemetry is easy. Talking to people is hard. Too bad.
You wrote "strongly selected for as the ability to write".

I don't think there was any strong selection for the ability to write.

How do you know it wasn't a spandrel?
FTFY: The roads are safer, the moving vehicles are more dangerous
Data science and AI/Machine Learning.

Your background would help you get into the field.
How about I just close it and never open again?
I believe they also fell asleep a couple of times and the aircraft just kept on flying straight and level until they woke up.
Note that this isn't new. This has been going on since the PATRIOT act + FISA was in place.

The only news is that a recent amendment to curtail this power failed in the Senate 59-37.
A hotel conference room costs on the order of $50-300 an hour depending on location and group size and that's without the benefit of a bar so the host has to front the money for all the drinks. Most other available venues are either just as expensive or forbid alcohol, loud noise, and so on. A four hour party would cost at least $200 plus drinks before the hosts even collect any money - or if they do, that's another cost and more risk for everyone.

The option is to do "work for free" or to shell out hundreds of dollars.
The eZ80, I believe, which is backwards compatible but clicked higher and with 24-bit arithmetic.
Kind of duplicating https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23259159
Anyone else think these companies will pull a Yahoo and undo this policy after the pandemic?
And simultaneously remove old versions from the re-sale market that they have to compete against, since of course, they aren't secure.
First: I have no reason to trust Russia's reporting on their COVID statistics. Nevertheless, Russia probably should enact more road safety measures had they the resources to enforce them because Russia's road fatality rate is among the worst of developed nations in the world.

All that aside: road accident deaths aren't contagious. They happen and they are done. There is no possibility of [exponential] community spread, I don't have to worry about infecting my grandmother, your grandmother via you, or the immuno-compromised children my wife cares for in the hospital.
My point is that mv is a compiled C program, not a shell builtin or piece of shell syntax, that you may nonetheless call in a shell script to extend the functionality of the shell. rename is another such compiled C program. To say that it's awkward to batch rename files with mv may be true, but that's a deficiency of an external C program being used beyond its original purpose. Since we're using external programs anyway, you can just use one that's actually designed explicitly for the purpose renaming files.
Sometimes I wonder how long "permanent" will be for these decisions. Off topic, but if the permanent work-from-home trend continues, I cannot imagine what is going to happen to commercial real estate. Convert to residential? Is this equilibrium needed for overheated housing markets?
Different tastes. With all due respect, for every guy like you who doesn't want to work there, there are 10 that do.
I understand that remote first doesn't work for everyone, nothing works for everyone.
>Meanwhile in Russia, approx. 3000 people are reported to die of corona in 5 months.

Yesterday I got a great deal with a loan shark. He gave me $10 at 540×10¹⁴% annual interest. Everyone is acting like this is a big mistake, but today I only owe him $11. Why all the fuss?
I tried multiple solutions myself, this one is the closest to what I want, because:

- overlays the packages on top of nixpkgs
- understands setup.cfg and can get dependencies from it

It is still not perfect, but when I find some time I think to submit a PR to nixpkgs to improve setupcfg2nix. Particularly it doesn't understand tests_require which you can list dependencies to run unit tests. Nix has equivalent checkDepends.
Hi, I've been writing insights from pre-internet companies in my newsletter. Found it an interesting subject as some "modern" methods like A/B testing, distribution channel have been used for a very long time.

I also share on my Twitter https://twitter.com/leonagano bite-sized insights
Why is this flagged?!
There are also nightly binary releases!
The U.S. may come to the aid of Taiwan. The big question is to what extent.

For China this is the great unknown. Obviously they could retake the island on their own, albeit suffering casualties, but the question is what U.S. involvement might look like.

It could be anything ranging from saber rattling D.C. and not a single shot fired to full-scale war dragging in regional allies (South Korea, Australia, Japan, and others) in the ultimate raison d'etre to try to stop the rise of China. It could break out into a regional war with China and North Korea versus the U.S. and allies who decide it is a fight worth fighting - Japan and South Korea most likely.

I think most likely the Chinese will focus on a publicity campaign unless the U.S. is in a severely (historical not seen in the last 100+ years) weakened position, because while annoying, it's not worth the risk of such a huge war. You can basically change a country through influence, so why not just wait and go through things that way?
Setting aside the few religious exceptions, that is correct. This gets to the root of the issue. Whether the body is property of the family or of the state. I argue for the former. In the USA there has to be compensation for property taken by the state. There also has to be a public good argument in most jurisdictions as far as I know. Because the beneficiary of the organ is not the general public, but an individual, I do not see how this could work without massive revisions to state and federal law.
Hey, you know, gotta keep that a Chinese market open for when WaPo expands into the mainland.

I don’t like click-baity headlines, but it has it’s uses judiciously. This is an issue the general public can easily ignore or not understand, so in this case you need a more provocative headline to emphasize the magnitude of the implications.

‘US arms funding Saudi led destruction of Yemen, thousands dead’

vs

‘New Saudi-US arms deal, possibly being used in conflict in Yemen’
Does anyone know what might be the Youtube video that the article suggests kicked off this change?
I've seen this a lot online and I can understand the appeal, but it's also misguided. (I'm not all doom and gloom, I believe there's no need for total lockdown until a vaccine.) Simply we don't know exactly how many people have died of coronavirus right now because it's hard to separate out sometimes what the cause of death is. We DO know, however, how many more people are dying than generally die this time of year. It's a lot more. In England and Wales, it's 52% more while in Belgium 60% more.

You can read more here: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/05/covid-19-death-toll-m...
> This is why plain text is not executable—it lacks formatting. (This also explains the lack of functionality in Microsoft Excel.)

The author is not alone in that observation. There's an incredibly high demand for programming via formatting functionality in spreadsheets[0][1][2][3]. One can only wonder why no one has yet tapped into the huge market opportunity of supporting WysiScript in Excel or LO Calc.

[0] https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/4477/sort-by-color/

[1] https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/46352/how-to-filter-...

[2] https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/98321/need-to-sort-d...

[3] https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/136705/hi-is-there-a...
And provide a lot of real world data for things that would move the same levers.
You'd lose any privileges associated with a high number of karma points, also all of your previous content would be removed, so people could cover the same territory in possibly new ways with less fear of being called redundant.

It basically compensates for first-mover advantage in forums.
> He should at least know that players being taken down by cold or flu is not unusual in football.

One could think so, of course, but then how does one explain the fact that when testing really started in Italy (end of February - actually early March for footballers, after the Juve - Inter match played on March 9th) not one football player from Inter tested positive, even though they were in what was even by then the center of the pandemic in Italy, Milano?

By contrast two Juve players (Dybala and Matuidi) tested positive immediately after March 9th, plus some other players from Firenze and Genoa. One of the only reasonable explanations would be that most (if not all) Internazionale players had already gotten the virus by then and had managed to get rid of it.

And I've heard of that "tainted" argument and for the life of me I couldn't understand it, being sick (or having been sick) doesn't taint anyone. It somehow reminds me of the infamous #milanononsiferma hashtag used by Milano's mayor (among others) at the end of February, people who were thinking that ignoring actual real stuff for fear of not "tainting" the city (in the mayor's case) would somehow make things better.
> [...] we find that the group who read the information on a logarithmic scale has a much lower level of comprehension of the graph: only 40.66% of them could respond correctly to a basic question about the graph (whether there were more deaths in one week or another), contrasted to 83.79% of respondents on the linear scale.

> Admittedly, we cannot know which policy preferences are superior. However, we do know that unlike the people who saw the graph on a logarithmic scale, the people exposed to a linear scale graph can form their preferences based on information that they can understand better.

While they're using pandemic data, they're asking people about their basic understanding of data in the graph.
Commuting is the big time saver, but you can also do chores you'd relegate to the weekend or after work while WFH. Not always of course, but chores like a quick grocery trip, laundry, cleaning, errands in your immediate neighborhood no longer crowd your weekend.
Let's be realistic about what the UK can do here, especially in light of its need to deal with the consequences of brexit on its trading relationships.
My point is that none of the data we have support the conclusion that the roads are safer.
It's not just people in sports cars speeding. Minivans, SUVs, beat up old 90s sedans, semi-trucks, I've seen every type of vehicle speeding. I don't see any sort of pattern on my commute of people who speed.

While sports cars speeders are usually going the fastest, everyone's just driving faster. I don't really understand why. The speed limit is now a danger to follow if your head's not on a swivel.
Thanks very much, that's really helpful. Like you I've been around tech for 30-odd years, but haven't dealt with this side of it before. Siri and a stylus was the conclusion I'd reached. Voice control does seem a bit too much for what she wants to do, but it may come in handy later on if the shaking gets worse.
USA signals plan to take full control of New York City?
I'd give someone $30 to cut my tiny lawn right now.
The UK is weak (both in terms of their collective mentality and their influence on international politics), and they have an aggressive self-hate over their history of successful colonization efforts. This is what they decided they wanted for Hong Kong - they knew what would happen when they voluntarily ceded control of HK to China.
People lose their agency when they die, after that there is no agency to lose.
Not OP but perhaps I can answer a different way. They are outsourcing the marketing. I can set up my own hosting company, do my advertising and to get clients and I don't have to worry about the technical stuff.
spyware is software that spies on other processes.

Usage data is a better name for what gets returned in most telemetry.

I would much rather genuine telemetry is supported so it can be reported in a way that doesn't allow a "you agree to this" hook to be used for both innocent telemetry and problematic telemetry.

Throwing your toys out the pram at any usage data going back is harmful not helpful. It will mean that the bad actors will win because they'll be the only ones who have the data to improve their products.

Or everything will go saas so you'll get desktop "software" that's nothing more than a shell making HTTP calls back to a backend so all the usage gets tracked there and it'll be slow as shit for the priviledge.
My parents just paid a kid $250 to lay mulch for a day. Found him on Nextdoor.

He doesn't even have to bring the mulch - homeowner purchases it and has it delivered, and he just shows up to lay it.

I guess he does this a few times a week - that's a cool thousand bucks on a good week.
The fact that so many people have the need for throwaway counts entirely disputes the concept that this problem is easy to solve.

The upvote/downvote system is designed to reinforce echo chambers and create a chilling effect for your “real” opinion if you know it doesn’t agree with the hive.

That system is already trying to solve the problem and instead creating a different one.

All you can do with an invite system is to make sure the echo chamber is even more structured. That “those people” aren’t even allowed to join. Hello country club.
There are two separate issues here:

1. Non-science: calling Karol Sikora a "professor of medicine" hides the fact that he's an oncologist; if he ever had any expertise it was in cancer, not epidemics, and he has no business speaking outside his field. Sikora is also a fellow of The Princes Foundation For Integrated Health and a professional member of the generically-named College Of Medicine. Both of these organizations are lobbyists which promote alternative medicine.

2. Censorship: rather than allow conversation where real scientists can respond to Sikora's nonsense with facts, YouTube decided to push his followers into their own echo chambers where pieces like this which represents him as a martyr go unchallenged.

Sakora isn't a martyr: he's either an insane person or an amoral profiteering liar who doesn't care if his lies get people killed. But I don't think censorship is the answer to lies. Truth is the answer to lies.
Square flew under the radar compared to Twitter coverage but it too is on the same policy as Twitter given Jack is CEO of both. Noteworthy because it has a similar number of employees, an even larger market cap, and HQ'ed in the same location.
But do you subscribe for an accident or a non-contagious disease at some kind of Public Terminal of Fate? 3000 dying of tuberculosis every day, did they subscribe for such a death?

Well if nobody subscribes for death, why are people still mortal?
This is really sad and a huge about face from the TI-83 Plus, which let you program in assembly on the calculator itself (fun fact: I wrote a CTF challenge based around this, https://github.com/saagarjha/ictf-carprey). I’m not looking forward to the next generation of students being stuck with TI-BASIC unless they “jailbreak” their calculators…
They (CCP) would gain power and prestige, that's what matters to the government of China.

How many lives and how much wealth was destroyed all over China under Mao? The party still celebrates him.
After following Make A Lisp [1] and seeing how easy it is to parse and get all that power, other syntax just seems sadistic for both the language developer and the users.

[1] https://github.com/kanaka/mal
It sounds nice to say, the outside world should stand up to China. But what does that mean exactly? War? Nuclear war? Something that involves the threat of nuclear war? There just isn’t any obvious solution. Our era of nuclear deterrence means that self-sufficient nuclear countries can largely set their own internal policies.

IMO any change in China will come if and when the Chinese people themselves fight for it.
The US's interest in Taiwan is part of a divide and conquer strategy. Nothing less, nothing more.

The current political regime in mainland China is actually the best thing for the US and a transition to democracy would be bad because that would make reunification more likely, at least possible, and it would take away much of the arguments the US use against China.

If the nationalists had defeated the communists and the mainland and Taiwan had remained united, I doubt that the tensions between China and the US would be less than they currently are, for example, because these tensions are not caused by the political regime in Beijing, they are much more profound.

In any case, the US cannot realistically intervene militarily directly against China whatever happens.
"Don't wait for the perfect moment, take the moment and make it perfect"

While there is definitely bad timing when it comes to kids, there is never a perfect time. I waited because I didn't really care but now I wish I hadn't. Every year you wait is one less year you get to know them. They are selfish little jerks that could change the way you think and give you a renewed purpose. As long as you can provide food, shelter, love and imagination you don't need anything else and neither will they.

Maybe now really is a bad time for you though as it's hard to know without stepping in your shoes. But if you really want them, I genuinely hope you find that just-perfect-enough moment.
What does listening to telemetry even look like?

The user spent an hour fiddling with settings. Is that because they love the new settings toolbox? Or is it because they were very frustrated with it and couldn't find what they were looking for?
Yeah! Shoosh already!

Don't drag the debate in here!

You might as well wave a red flag in front of a bull! Or pour gasoline on a tire fire!

(Meant humorously with no disrespect.)
WaPo seems to sugar coat it? Of all the headlines to not sensationalize this seems like an easy one to take advantage of.
That's not so great news for the southern half of the planet.
Google is a totalitarian institution and this is offensive to anyone who values free speech
An application is a guest on someone’s device and that means treating it and it’s owner accordingly
Imagine treating a civil poster as if they were a jerk, just because a different civil poster once turned out to be a jerk.
Been a while since I've used a Linux distro, let alone one that focused on being basic, but it feels like there is a lot of overlap with what Slackware was last time I used it. To me the whole point of "Simple" is to make the system comprehendible and Slackware did a very good job of that.

(Or for that matter, given the functionality presented here, I think OpenBSD as well)
I realize now that you were talking about changing types, which I didn't factor in. I guess what would happen is you would cascade the hot swapping, reloading anything which depends on the function for which the type has changed.
Admittedly the example was a bit fake :)

I /have/ put other secrets into frontend code before, strictly for small temporary projects where the cost of implementing secret management outweighs the size of the project. And obviously not in code that was anywhere close to being deployed outside my own box.

Unfortunately the method outlined in the article allows access to environments that would otherwise be considered trusted and not-accessible over the internet, hence the problem