skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dabbawala isn't a fair comparison.

- The person making the food in the case of Dabbawala, is usually someone's wife. That's basically unpaid labor. Its not fair for the wife, but that's a different discussion, staying on topic.

- Delivery routes are pre-determined so routes can be planned efficiently.

- There's established routines such as the Dabbawala arriving around the same time to pick up food.

- The dabbawalas usually use trains and bicycles. So they don't pay for the cost of a car, fuel, insurance and maintenance.

- Dabbawalas, AFAIK, only exist in Mumbai, which has very high population density and enough economies of scale to sustain the business.

- Dabbawalas don't have a middle man tech company which pays expensive software engineers, and tech executives.

So these factors make dabbawalas profitable while food delivery services don't make a profit.

We recently started calling restaurants and asking if they have in-house delivery, and avoid UberEats/Doordash/OtherDeliveryService. The other day we ordered Thai food, and the owner of the restaurant delivered the food personally and she was truly grateful that we called them instead of ordering online.

This made me wonder, what if restaurants in a city formed Co-op, and started a food delivery service ?

- Multiple co-ops across different cities could form a LLC and hire Software engineers to build an App & maintain backend services.

- The same app would work across many cities

- Each co-op is responsible for hiring its own delivery drivers in the city.

This would eliminate a profit-seeking middle man, and keep costs low.
I sense that there would be many obstacles, but I think its still possible, and potentially be even better for the consumer and the restaurants.
I just negotiated an extension to a lease in Boston. The landlord eventually conceded 2 free months of rent on an extension of less than a year, but absolutely refused to budge at all on the monthly rent amount.

Their adamant defense that the unit was already at "market price" was just such absolute bullshit that I nearly moved just on principle. Lucky for them, I hate moving even more than I hate the landlord.

The average monthly price on my extension is about 11% below my average monthly price on the old lease.
If I recall, that was a preliminary report. Perhaps the tests hadn't come back?

(access is restricted for european visitors I can't follow the link)
> “Bottom line is that you need to pay someone enough money to drive to the restaurant, pick up food and drive it to a diner. . . ,” the company wrote. “At some point, delivery drones and robots may reduce the cost of fulfillment, but it will be a long time before the capital costs and ongoing operating expenses are less than the cost of paying someone for 30-45 minutes of their time.”

Key point here. Even if you are expecting that these drivers are making minimum wage and your operating costs are zero and they have to maintain their bikes/vehicles out of their own pocket, that's still 7.50-11.25$ per order. Which is not something people would be willing to pay for a 20-30$ food order. Hell, I'd say even for a 100$ order people would balk at because they're used to it being free.

We are approaching a reckoning as a society where we need to understand the "true cost" of our choices.

I think the only way you can make door-to-door food delivery financially viable is with A) delivery drones, and B) massive centralized kitchens.
In the GDR (East Germany) during Stalin's period running the Communist bloc, prior to about 1953 they used to execute dissidents using a guillotine in the Stasi basement. The death certificates stated the cause of death as "low blood pressure".

They knew it was wrong, they didn't want to leave any documentary evidence: this is the same bullshit, just closer to home.
I'm explicitly talking about the people who are using the MLK quote to DEFEND the riots not explain them. If they actually supported the thesis of what MLK was saying they would post the entire quote with the relevant condemnation of riots, some are doing that but many aren't.
so which one is right? is a third autopsy planned?
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There's an unreleased Dreamcast game with a playable near-complete build leaked, called Propeller Arena. It's probably in my friend group's top-4 favorite multiplayer games for the platform, despite not actually having been released. Actually aside from MVC2 (still more fun for us amateurs than MVC3—and kinda looks better?) it might be the most likely game for us to play on the DC, just because the others have newer, better replacements, but I've not seen anything newer that's quite as arcadey and easy-playing as Propeller Arena in its niche (multiplayer propeller aircraft dogfighting, mostly)
There are people (i.e A Sheriff's deputy) claiming [0] you can't choke someone to death with a knee to the neck. I'm not sure if the goal is claim Floyd didn't die, died of something else or they're just trying to spread disinformation

https://www.magnoliastatelive.com/2020/05/29/mississippi-she...
Solving the Jane Street Puzzle of May 2020; Expelled with OCaml
Great analysis on uncovering a credential stuffing attack (using passwords found from a previous breach) disguised as a "MPD hack" by "Anonymous" which Troy also discussed here. [0]

> But anger shouldn't mean throwing logic and reason out the window and I cannot think of a time where fact-checking has ever been more important than now, not just because of the Minneapolis situation, but because so much of what we see online simply can't be trusted. So by all means, be angry, but don't spread disinformation and right now all signs point to just that - the alleged Minneapolis Police Department "breach" is fake.

The above text really does question what we see on the internet since it is very easy to fabricate news and evidence like this. With that being disproved, we should take such news on social media with a grain of salt until the full evidence from each side and analysis is available.

Once we do that we will be less susceptible to being deceived unlike the retweeter at the bottom of the blog post.

[0] https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/1267237884949483522
> Abolish the police.

Ok, I'll entertain the thought, what do you propose to replace it? Free for all deathmatch?
Many young people don't vote precisely because they see it as being an ineffective way to enact change, since the politicians they do vote for don't implement the ideas they ran on. They also see the establishment doing everything in their power to hobble candidates (read: sanders) that are actually honest, consistent, and striving for the common man rather than corporations and other powerful entities.

https://i.imgur.com/F9kdJqL.gif

https://img1.quotesuniverse.com/quotes/01/noam-chomsky-quote...

People, including the young, are demotivated by rigged games.
I'm sorry if it's a stupid question, but I'm not American and not a native English speaker. What do you mean when you say "Abolish the police"? You think there shouldn't be police at all? Or that it needs a reform? Do you disagree with the idea of having laws? I'm genuinely asking because I'm seeing this phrase more and more now and I'm not sure what people actually mean when they say that.
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Whenever there is a flotilla of ships in Star Trek, they seem to always arrange themselves into a two-dimensional plane and orient themselves according to their artificial gravity. This evokes ships at sea.

Starfleet seems to use a naval ranking, and officers use words like "hail", "heave to", "away team", and "bearing". The navigation terminology in Star Trek sees to be related to the galactic plane, which again evokes the surface of the sea.

The drive section of the Enterprise looks like the keel of a boat to me, and her nacelles look like the hulls of a catamaran.

Roddenberry loved the Hornblower books and I'm sure he was influenced by naval aesthetics.
Why did you use USO instead of trading oil futures contracts?
They do - sometimes.
>But police arrest a lot of people, and they aren't experts on the law. They will get things wrong frequently. They can't be expected to make the correct call every time, but they also can't do the job if the average officer is regularly sued.

That seems so very one sided reasoning when the same logic is not applied to the rest of us. When we interact with police, they get to break the law but we must perfectly follow the law or face charges. There is no equality in that arrangement.
Hence the larger conversation around becoming multi-planetary as a species being a survival mechanism.
Do you mean all police (detectives, parking enforcement, arson investigators, etc.?) or select divisions within the police? If all police, what do you suggest is it replaced with? A federal police force?
Attorney General != District Attorney last time I checked.
I'm not sure if the push is for corporate free speech one way or another, but rather that corporates can exercise their free speech by moderating and that facebook should moderate this particular post. So to me it seems like the ask is for facebook to align on a particular set of moderation rules.
In most (all?) countries CEOs (and directors, and employees) are personally liable for criminal acts.

The problem is this whole qualified immunity is a civil thing. Workplace safety negligence, theft, police violence all are criminal cases. But. After the the prosecutors (DAs) stopped charging police officers people started suing them in civil court.

The problem is not QI per se, the problem is _wtf_ is going on with cops killing anybody in non-violent cases. (And how come there's not a public inquiry when someone dies in law enforcement custody or during any interaction with police. And how come nothing has really changed over the years - except police got the old tanks from the post-9/11 war-on-terror spending spree.)
Scale as a Design Input, Not an Output
It's a common in the ambiguity of startups that engineering-led organizations will default to build and "push" a feature, hoping that it changes the market context. Last week I talked about integrating lightweight-market pull in the development process, building on well-established leanstartup principles. This week I shift focus to starting with scale in mind to eliminate the need for half-measures and keep the team focused on user growth instead of unit economic challenges with scale.
<sarcasm> There were no ligature marks from a rope, so therefore could not have been asphyxia </sarcasm>.

Depending on people's willingness to be blind, the rug is HUGE.
Options provide more leverage than margin.
Would you call Netflix a rich client for s3 though?

I think there is value in the destinction if it's only used as a storage backend, but actually gets the media through different sources.
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You don't understand AT ALL how someone could want an organization to make a choice, but not want the government to make that choice for them?

I don't think people should wear socks with sandals, and I will not hesitate to tell them that should I see it. I'll still be the first protesting if the government starts making them take off their socks.
The issue is injustice. What alternative to the police is there? Anarchy? Is that going to result in justice? Abolishing the police is not going to fix the issue.
I know. But when you are betting on btc to rise and banks can short BTC, i went out of there.

I was right, BTC had the first major decline arround that time. My guess now and then is that banks were buying BTC to make it drop when they want.

PS. I went out BTC 3 times and started all over with the initial starting amount, so saying "betting on BTC to rise" is a bit exaggerated though.

PS2. I'm talking about very big "banks" mostly, eg. JP Morgan or Goldman Sachs. When they give a public statement, i'm always inclined to think the opposite.
I'm puzzled by this though, isn't the knee on the neck thing a standard technique used by cops all the time? Apparently people don't usually die from it or this would happen all the time, right? Was the cop somehow doing it wrong?
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I personally think that the only meaningful use of "exception proves the rule" is in its original meaning: spelling out a specific rule means that there exists a general opposite rule, i.e. "parking prohibited on Sundays" implies that parking is not prohibited on other days. Every other use of this phrase sounds to me bizarre and nonsencial, contradicting the basics of logic.
My limited understanding of the situation is that there's general displeasure with the leadership response around Trump's persistent & ongoing violation of community standards that other members would have been censored for.

This is qualitatively extremely different from the position of "I should be allowed to do anything as a private party" and also different from the "government should regulate it".

It feels like a strawman to paint everyone with the same brush and then just focus on the contradictory extremes. There's a pretty clear contingent that is in favor of having clear community guidelines that apply to everyone & don't have blanket carve-outs for those with already powerful voices.
Grant is a very dense, but very good book.

The period after Lincoln's death until Grant's election is nearly unbelievable. Johnson was an avowed racist and openly apologistic to southern gentry. The south and a sizable percent of the population was under armed guard and were essentially in military dictatorship under Grant. Grant was the obvious next pick for president and, wisely, was quiet about being the 'real' power in the US, physically right next to Johnson.

Then, as Johnson can't help himself but to be a bullheaded moron, he gets impeached by the radical left wing of the house: the 'newish' Republican party. His trial is wild, by the way. He gets impeached, and is then sent to the senate. Where the southern states, still under the war department, can't vote or sit; it's all Union states. Bribing was rampant in the senate, but not publicly known. Johnson misses conviction by one vote. The left-wing Republican senators that vote to acquit never serve in public office again.

Again, Grant is a dense read, but Chernow did a fantastic job on it. Big recommend

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Andrew_Johnson
I thought for a moment this might be like a trap street.
We overlapped for a short time. It was my first job straight out of college. I worked around some really nice people but even my inexperienced self knew that it wasn't a good environment to grow (terrible code base, silo-ed teams, archaic processes, weeks onboarding, etc) so I left after 6 months.

I think it was about a year later when I heard the IT team was fired. The kicker: a lot were hired by IBM _and subsequently contracted to work for Hertz_ on the exact thing they were working on before.

Safe to say I didn't regret my decision at all
Who's to say that wouldn't have been a better world, technologically speaking? Who's to say Intel's market dominance was a good thing? I thought it was a truism in tech that monocultures are a bad thing?
Australian Media lose Facebook defamation case, mull appeal
Original title lacked context; this case was in New South Wales (NSW), an Australian state on the east coast which includes Sydney as its capital. The case may be appealed further to the High Court. Original title was:

Media lose Facebook defamation case, mull appeal
> The reasonable professional standard

I don't know much about it, but taking "qualified immunity", which is evaluated by prosecutors and DAs, and moving it to a police organization (expecting police to police the police) doesn't sound like an improvement.

Perhaps it would work if it was coupled with some sort of a complete overhaul in the culture of policing, but I don't see how the "culture" changes from the outside.
> I'd be fine with just an "Apple tax" added on top of the bill.

I can't understand this point of view - why do you care how the person you're buying from is breaking down their charges?

If you're a rational person all that should matter to you is are you getting the value that you want from the transaction. If you are and you can't get better value elsewhere then go for it. How the price came to be determined is completely irrelevant. Either it works for you or it doesn't.
The primary job of the Supreme Court is not to decide cases. The job of the Supreme Court is to create precedent to help lower courts decide cases.

That they have to decide cases to create said precedent is a side issue.

What this means is that if the law is likely to be changed, then there is little incentive to set a precedent that will have effect on a limited number of pending cases. Whereas if the law is not likely to be changed, the precedent set will affect many future cases and has a greater impact.

Therefore the Supreme Court is properly less interested in cases if it looks like legislation will be passed to address the issue.
Of course they are not satisfied. That's why they were considering a life-changing decision, because they were not happy with the status-quo. Duh!

—"Levitt found that those who had opted for the choice that involved making a change (as opposed to sticking with the status quo) were more satisfied with their decision and generally happier."
Decision tree on 41 is great
Oops, now I found it. I briefly checked this page but didn't immediately saw the filters. Maybe put them on top, below de navigation bar, above the "Best Free to Play Games for PC and Browser in 2020!" section?

Thank you!
You and I have very different definitions of "sustainable". Absolutely nothing about the modern global economy is "sustainable" for the planet. Infinite growth is not a realistic goal. We need to start putting a sustainable planet above a sustainable income statement.

Setting that aside, failing startups are actually great for the average Joe. You've basically sucked off an enormous amount of capital from naive but rich investors and transferred it to the employees and local businesses where the company is based. Even consumers can benefit if prices are subsidized like Uber, etc. They can also brutalize corrupt local industries like taxis and hotels.

Failing businesses also teach lessons about dumb capital and dumb managers. Smart capital and smart managers usually take notes.

It's basically win-win all around except for whichever rube is holding the shares when the house of cards collapses, which, as I said some people have more money than sense.
Facebook has already set a standard for what it deems as approved speech: https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards/credible_violenc...

See this section

> Do not post:

> Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) of any target(s)
Anonymous hackers re-emerge amid US unrest
You can work from home, but you can't career from home
When people say 'Abolish the police', what they mean is tearing down the entire current institution and reforming it from the bottom-up. The corruption is so deeply embedded that if you try to do anything else, you'll end up right back where we started.
Similar here (except I get paid a lot less to work on the other side of Stevens Creek from the big G). $2k is pretty much the very bottom of the rental market here. I'd imagine that the top and median are going to fall first.
How many LBOs happen each year in the US? I would guess somewhere around a hundred. So dozens of success stories per year might be really good, compared to similarly distressed companies that did not get the LBO.
Nice that it works with various deformations, but because of the latency and more shaders i'l skip this. I have still learned some things from this post.
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Very cool! Do you plan to open source it? I'm curious what it looks like :)

Great job'
Tough on crime, as long as it wasn't perpetrated by mah buddies in blu?
Here’s some documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/Windows.Networking....

Lots of new core APIs added in Windows 10 aren’t available via Win32 even if they have nothing to do with packages, unfortunately. It’s extremely convoluted but you can use the Windows.Sdk, Contracts, or CsWinRT packages to interop with the WinRT APIs from a C++, C#, or now even rust application but depending on which APIs you consume you may need to use a Windows Application Project appx/msix wrapper to package your code and associate it with a package ID unlocking the APIs for use.

(I have a hello world project demonstrating a WPF .NET Core project hosting a custom control consisting of a single text block that displays your current location via the Geolocator API and it requires four different individually user-created projects in the Visual Studio solution and a minimum half-a-dozen NuGet dependencies just to make it happen. It’s a terrible, terrible mess.)