skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it just me or are all these delivery apps pretty much the same thing, just with different restaurants?

In SF at least Grubhub tends to have some of the more "typical delivery" choices (pizza, chinese food, thai) and decent customer service, Doordash seems to have the most variety but the dashers take their merry time on their way to you (and customer service is nonexistent), Uber Eats is somewhere in between grubhub and doordash in selection and has nonexistent customer service (but at least give you a refund if something goes wrong), caviar has a smaller selection but a lot of unique/higher end things (along with a terrible app but OK customer service), and Tock is targeting the "high end at home" market. There's also postmates which seems more expensive than the others for the same exact restaurants (but seems to have more traction in LA).

At the end of the day, the search is really bad (clicking the healthy category includes deep dish pizza and fried chicken on almost all the apps), the drivers aren't adequately compensated so the customer experience is bad (your driver might make 4 stops on the way to you and your food will be cold), and the apps are slow and buggy.

I'm convinced that significant improvements in search, recommendations, adding proper review support, and finding a way to not piss of restaurants in the process will determine the winner in this battle. The differences in selection are too small (in SF caviar which is owned by doordash and tock being the exceptions) to really crown a winner on that front.
The Chinese Edward Snowden is not currently living in Moscow. "I see no reason" is not a good way to start fallacy-measuring.
We ban accounts that do nationalistic flamewar on HN, so please stop doing that.

No, I'm not a communist agent.

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Have you tried the Buffalo framework? It's touted as Go's answer to Rails.
Someone paid $2.6M in fees to move $134 worth of crypto and oops
Universities don't collect tuition for STEM PhDs -- you either do research or TA and get a tuition waiver and a stipend. It doesn't make any difference to them whether you're from the U.S. or overseas.

The real reason why the stats are so skewed towards foreigners is that the basic trade of the PhD is a lot more favorable if you don't have the alternative of just taking your bachelor's and going to work in the U.S.
This.

Huge fan of the ACLU in general, but some of the highly unpopular but incredibly important work they used to do, for example defending neo-Nazi groups right to protest, has been discarded in favor of popular causes.

While I understand why they have gone this way (who wants to defend Nazis in court?) it was a very important symbol of the organizations insane dedication to civil liberties. Taking a principled stand of preserving freedoms for those who are deeply, deeply unpopular is inconvenient and essential.
DDG's actually worse in many ways. I've just switched back from it to Google because most times I was prepending my searches with !g or rerunning them due to frustration at the crappy results.

Example: in the midst of my house renovation my Hisense TV remote has gone walkabout. After several months of having no idea where it is (I figured it would just turn up - I mean, it has to be in here somewhere, right?), I decided to order a replacement. Amazon is full of knock-offs, but turns out Hisense sell remotes directly.

So I type "Hisense" into DDG and it's the top result, but it's the Chinese site, and I can't figure out how to get to the UK site. The UK site isn't even on the first page of results either. I rerun the search with Google and the Hisense UK site is the top result, and I'm able to quickly find replacement remotes.
could maybe bootstrap, each subsequent race gets more complex dna and capability
Can you elaborate on what that means?
How did Cell compare to doing compute on a GPU? Was the difference in complexity due to support libraries etc, or because it required non-standard thinking about how it can be utilised?
I think OP's point has to do with the perceived value of their moral signaling vs the actual morals themselves.

It is a win-win for Reddit in terms of perception, whether they have to fight a case because of it or not. If anything, this would be an 'any publicity is good publicity' situation.

Now if it is actually inline with a truly moral stance...who cares. In this system there are only 3 morals. Money, money and more money.
Thank you for introducing me to the concept of a numbering machine, I have now ordered one so that I can replicate your behavior since I seem to go through a journal a month or so.

Here I was, manually writing a page number for each and every journal, and then doing it once again for the table of contents :D no wonder I never wanted to write a fresh session after doing all that, my hand was ready to fall off.
When you're selling a good or a service, you're exchanging one type for another, usually hand-in-hand. You buy food, furniture, etc. in exchange for money. There's value in the thing you're selling in exchange for a certain amount of money (which also has value).

When you sell money for money, this equation breaks. You're exchanging $1 for a different amount in the future, taking advantage of the fact that the borrower cannot pay you in the present. This is what defines interest and usury.

It's easy to get bogged down in the details to legislate or rationalize a certain action. Take a step back and see the destruction that interest based lending has caused throughout history, and in the present.
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It is a direct competitor to Judy Diamond, Mi-Edge, and Larkspur data. Our value prop is very similar, but geared towards ease of use and lower cost for the small to medium sized rep. Additionally, we have synthesized data which can be aggregated and sold back to the carriers for market share, etc.

I built it last year as a semi-hobby to really learn about all the data tools and experiment a bit. Launched in October, got some customers through brute force Linked-In ads, and then took from January to now off to build a house. Well, we've moved in and now I can turn my attention back to it. Note that during my "hands off" time, it did add customers when I was absolutely not touching it. That said, it has pretty low revenue now (~$500/month).

But honestly I don't really have time to focus on it the way I should, and I have other activities (more lucrative for now) that need my time. I do believe it could have legs to go after this market in a really efficient way, but it needs a motivated leader.

I'd love to find someone who might be interested to take this on. Here is the offer:

1. Significant equity / ownership of the business
2. All the cash the business generates (until a certain point - but you get it all until well after Ramen profitable)
3. My support on the market / innovation side(I am a management consultant who has served this market for years, so I know the space.)
4. Some additional capital to help get up the curve.

Email ceosearchemail@gmail.com and I can give you much more detail.
How do you have so much experience with Amazon employees and their financial management behaviors? AFAIK you've never worked for the company.
> We’ve advocated that governments should put in place stronger regulations to govern the ethical use of facial recognition technology, and in recent days, Congress appears ready to take on this challenge. We hope this one-year moratorium might give Congress enough time to implement appropriate rules, and we stand ready to help if requested.

That's a little weak. If they were serious, the moratorium would extend indefinitely, or until such rules were in place.

One year might just be long enough for the fervor to die down, so they don't take such a PR hit when they resume sales.
> The economics are that when you insert a multinational between a local restaurant and a local hungry person, revenue to the restaurant drops, prices paid by the customer rise, and service gets worse.

Exactly, when the Softbank or VC money runs out for Doordash and the like it will be total mutiny, I doubt most if any drivers, outside of the Top dasher that accepts any orders, will continue to do so when the pay rates are reflecting the true costs of all externatalities are included in the total calculus. Several drivers see their 0% acceptance rate as a badge of honor, as its their only real avenue for opposition against the low delivery pay orders.

I was interested in the logistic sides of food delivery systems, especially during the shutdown, so I started to spend an hour a day of research on DD on their subreddits, and over time that led to even doing a few dashes myself during this period... and suffice it to say, everything from their app, to customer/dasher support, to the pay model are not sustainable so long as Humans are involved in the equation.

I've spoken to local restaurant owners and cooks during the shutdown in person, having experience in the Industry, and most were reluctantly using it as crutch in difficult times but it was cutting into their over all margins, which already suck.

Now with things starting to re-open in many states I hope they start to de-couple it to be less than the 10% of their total sales for their sake.
> 1 example: they could take on debt from a Bank to make the purchase for example.

How is taking on debt, relevant to an all-stock deal? An all-stock deal means that Grubhub shareholders aren't receiving any cash, they are receiving $7.3B worth of JustEatTakeaway stock.

The only interpretation I can think of, is what the previous poster said - the existing shareholders of JET are getting significantly diluted
Alabama doesn't (or hardly does) but I've seen it in Texas and New Mexico
sic friatur crustulum
using the word 'granted' is an odd phrasing here
It bothers me that a “fully-qualified domain name” is still relative to some implicit DNS network class. There’s no syntax for specifying whether you mean an Internet domain, or some other kind. Because of this, there’s no way to have a URL that resolves from an Internet-relative origin to, say, a Chaosnet-relative origin. Lame :(
Students may not pay for the tuition directly, as a matter of course, but all the universities I'm familiar with still collect tuition, from grants of the students' advisors, etc.
Isn't what we call thinking simply an introspection layer on top of our neural network hardware? Sometimes I wonder whether the entirety of what we call the mind is just an epiphenomenon that attempts to explain the workings of our neural network after the fact.
As much as I love tech, I love old stuff more. I'm always fascinated by more tactile items. But everything below still works.

Mac Plus, 1986 - My first computer, I gave it to my parents years ago. It still boots, and my mother still uses it to play Hoyle's Book of Games.

Der Spieler, 1969 - It's an East German pinball machine, and completely mechanical. You can still service the light bulbs.

Parker Vacumatic Fountain Pen, 1931 - It's an awful fountain pen compared to pretty much any modern fountain pen. But it works the same as 90 years ago, bleeds the same. The nib is in epic condition.

Seeburg M100B, 1950 - My grandfather bought this jukebox to play music in his shop. I always wanted one, and he gave it to me. It still works, still plays 45s. My kids use it to play Michael Jackson.
For 2D people generally prefer Godot. There's also https://coronalabs.com/
I don't care if you remember me. Remember this.

> Please use "they" when you don't know somebody's gender
Isn't their purpose to be politically biased?

Just because you share the bias doesn't make it unbiased
Hello my name is Iyana and I wanted to know if you have time to join my team. We are forex traders and we make our own income. We make money just sitting at home, if you are willing to make money at home you can contact me.
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Cmd Hijack – a command/argument confusion with path traversal in cmd.exe
My perspective on what might contribute to this (perceived?) lack of open source contribution coming from China may partially be our (the US') fault. Everyone knows that open source has mostly shifted to being commercialized on the whole and therefore most of the development is done from 9-5. There is literally no intersection of normal business hours between the US and China, so synchronous communication is severely impeded. Obviously, many open source projects are excellent at working completely asynchronously. However, many are not and I think the commercialization trend of recent years has made it even more so a rarity. I've personally seen an uptake in video chat meetings that are sometimes not even recorded, so it's difficult for non-attendees to follow the project. One of the fantastic things I saw in the OpenStack community was a very intentional effort to schedule alternating meeting times to maximize time zone coverage of waking hours. (It was also in text, which made it easily archivable, searchable, and available to people with minimal bandwidth.)

I realize of course that open source development occurs outside of the US and I may be inflating my country's importance in the whole matter. Would love to hear from some non-US open source devs how their contribution experience with people from China compares.
This should be a web app
That's sort of what was stated.

They said they "were blind to". It is easy to miss things when they do not affect you personally.
> who forget their last name

I've not heard that one before either. Is it a reference to the Dark Tower? ("[he] has forgotten the face of his father") or did Stephen King borrow it from somewhere else?
Safari does not crash, but audio is not working.

I will play with it today and send bug report. Might help you guys out, I really like it otherwise
Stocks and options. The drop has provided many opportunities to make some gains.
Eh, I don't think there's much of a selection of legal audiobooks on YouTube other than public domain stuff, so it's not a great substitute for Audible.
I open-sourced a simple but convenient Chrome plugin for online shopping
I'm not a reddit fanboy anymore (I was a decade ago) and there are a few annoying pop-ups/dark patterns here and there, but reddit.com in firefox on iPhone 11 works seamlessly for me - logged in and not.
Blosc – A high performance compressor optimized for binary data
There are plenty of Chinese dissidents, including the the activist that is the subject of TFA. The default assumption is to assume noncorrelation between things until proven otherwise. That's a defensible position, yours isn't.
>> The economics of food delivery can’t be solved with efficiency. There’s not enough pie to split.

> Have you tried pizza pie?

IIRC, proper pizza delivery requires a special warming bag. These generic delivery companies that employ gig-working randos don't equip their drivers with those bags, so they suck at delivering pizza at any distance, greater "efficiency" or no.
There are edge cases in many languages, there are more in PHP. It would be better to not have the edge cases than to have an IDE that tried to pretect you from them.
When people say "don't talk to the cops" are they referring to situations like this too? It just seems like not talking is not the way to get a favorable outcome from this circumstance.

Like it is a privilege to be able to absorb the potential ticket, that you might be able to get out of like this guy did with a warning.

It seems more likely that the cop would create pretexts to escalate the situation by not talking to them.
Community college 2 years with a transfer to a 4 year state school program may be best option. Depending on state and your income you could wuslify for at least community college being free.
There’s no model more powerful than static analysis if, by static analysis, they mean abstract interpretation: the Galois connection guarantees this.
What are you looking for? In Chicago there is a POC developer meet up. There are black software developer/engineers out here.
scrappy or not, it's still very informative. thanks for sharing
> Trans women are women

Trans women are women from a gender perspective, and not from a biological perspective. Unfortunately, the biological perspective is what the separations of men's and women's sports a thing, because of inherent biological sexual differences (primarily testosterone). I mean, if they want to get around the issue, then let's go all in - disband men's/women's sports and just have sports. Then anyone can play with anyone. That's never going to happen though, for political, cultural, and safety reasons, so we're stuck with a situation where gender is bumping up against biological sex hard.
> I've taken to appending "reddit" to my queries just to know what actual people think about an issue

or appending "site:news.ycombinator.com"
There’s asking for something and then there’s being a Choosing Beggar(tm).
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>The majority of users will use the app.

In the same way that the majority of users use pintrest. Until you train them to close the site out of reflex.
That is exactly how it works. The color of the Police is Blue, not black or any other color.
These kinds of subsidies are brought up during negotiation as bargaining chips. You subsidize that such amount, we we get to subsidize by this amount without trade penalty.
I have a lot of friends who do or have worked there, and we swap tax strategies. Much like me and my Netflix coworkers, they don't get a lot of help internally because most of their coworkers don't look into it.

I see from your profile that you work there. Curious if you agree with me or not.
> Min speed limits are usually 45.

Where? That depends on the jurisdiction. That also may depend on what kind of road we are talking about.
Reminds me of the Parks and Recreation episode with the delegate from the Venezuelan city

"Drive too fast" JAIL

"too slow" JAIL
Any time Graphviz is not enough for whatever reason, I’ll usually reach for TikZ. This is part of the TeX ecosystem, but I often use Graphviz by itself and paste the resulting images into web pages, presentations, or design docs. TikZ lets you control the path of arrows to a fault, so you can easily get the straight arrows and 90-degree turns, rather than the “anything goes” automatic layout that you get in Graphviz.

I use it pretty often to illustrate state machines, system diagrams, or flowcharts.

Well, or I’ll reach for Inkscape.
I remember reading or watching something by Naughty Dog about how they maximised use of Cell which was fascinating. (And something about how they ported to PS4 and made extremely efficient use of the eight cores by running game/physics in parallel with the previous frame’s rendering/graphics. Or something like that. It was ages ago and I can’t seem to find the talk online.)
HN has many accounts with "throwaway" or something similar in the name that have been in use for years now. You can't conclude anything from such a name.
Great post!

I wrote a (fast?) fsmonitor hook in Rust...benchmarked against the reference Perl implementation it's quite a bit faster. On a repo of 130k files, my monitor is able to `git status` in 18 millseconds.

https://github.com/jgavris/rs-git-fsmonitor
Ours is one of the first Leafs off the line, still has a usable battery (if it were still under warranty, it would have one battery bar left before we could make a claim). Living in Seattle probably helps a lot. So, yeah, Nissan might still be waiting on batteries, even from early first-gen. At this point we’ll probably just keep ours until it is no longer usable, or VW releases that electric van they’ve taunted us with (2023, they claim).
Uh, what? China is already making state investments in domestic chip fabrication; it was in the news recently and even discussed on HN.

https://www.reuters.com/article/china-semiconductor-smic/chi...

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/04/china-ramps-up-own-semicondu...
Everywhere I've worked, 75% or more of acquisitions or acquihires went extremely well and resulted in strategic benefit and/or gain of great talent. There are only a couple of instances that stand out as being a bad fit, and one of those companies later got sold to another player in the same space for a profit. So it's really never been a bad use of capital from my perspective.
This is how small children learn. They copy first, understand later, sometimes very much later.
Hopefully that will be a short period.
Except that no one says white people that hire friends--most of which are white friends from their childhood and school background--are racially motivated and yet the impact is white people hire more white people. This implicit bias might not be intended to be harmful, but it is racially informed.

If we, as a society say we need to make a conscious effort to have more decision makers from a variety of backgrounds so that this human tendency to hire friends and people we know can actually result in a broader group of people being able to access opportunity.

I still say allowing people to be passive aggressive and "ask the question" about whether someone is qualified because there was a effort to be inclusive is a way to undermine the credibility of the candidate and this effort doesn't seem to ever be directed at white people. You ever hear someone question another executive for hiring a college frat brother? or someone that worked at the same investment bank? Hiring preferences exist.
See also "pay for delay" deals where originator companies pay generic companies not to sell generic versions of a drug.
I’m not knowledgeable on the technicals of what would be required, but scanning over this reddit thread from yesterday implies that it is still intensely difficult for individuals to contribute. I didn’t see any indication of a successful backup so far, but the subreddit that this thread is a part of might have some info.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/h02jl4/lets_sa...
HN is literally a reddit clone.
I'm not sure if you are kidding, but that's not the reason. It was a decision by the security team and a reaction to multiple security issues that were found in the Zoom client. Google employees can still use the Zoom web client on work computers.
Please don't make your arguments this way on HN. It poisons the community and evokes worse from others. Worst of all, if you're right, i.e. if you're in possession of some truth that others don't know, you end up discrediting the truth by mixing it in with personal attacks, calling names, or other aggressiveness.

That phenomenon gets stronger the less-known the truth is, because people will more readily look for reasons to reject a contrarian/minority view than a familiar one. It's important not to supply spurious such reasons, and that means articulating the truth (or what you believe is true) in a way that avoids gratuitous admixtures.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

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