skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly,those are amazing perks but they make for very expensive moat. As long as they need to bribe their users to stay with different financial incentives they will keep being glorified VC money redistribution schemes. My guess is that we will see a shift towards profitability when either cash dries out (which would mean Uber wins, they have deeper pockets and cashflow from ride sharing) or restaurants start to shift towards delivery optimized structures that would bring down delivery times and increase margins. I wouldn't bet on market domination from any player yet considering Just Eat's recent moves and deep pockets.

A little off topic, but wow it always amazes me how good credit card rewards are in the US.
From the lab, the first cartilage-mimicking gel that’s strong enough for knees
> My larger point is that, contrary to your and others' claims, income rankings that show the US at or near the top do not suddenly greatly change the US's position once healthcare expense is included.

Disposable income (except confusingly on some US tax forms) does not account for private healthcare expenses (the figure that is post other necessary expenses like health insurance is called discretionary income).

In countries where a huge chunk of insurance is private or people are paying out-of-pocket, subtracting such healthcare expenses from disposable income can drastically change the picture:

Your average American spent about $5000 of their disposable income on just private health insurance and out-of-pocket expenses in 2018[1]!

It's hard to reconcile averages with a median (I still refuse to use numbers that can be easily skewed by a handful of billionaires), but since healthcare costs should be more or less constant regardless of your income bracket, it would likely be a huge chunk of the median disposable income figure. Which was the point of the person you originally replied to.

[1]: https://www.cms.gov/files/zip/national-health-expenditures-t...
Boil water (other things can be done in parallel)

Add tofu, soy sauce, and green onion (45 seconds of effort)

Let it cook/cool down for 10 mins (other things can be done in parallel)

Delicious and healthy meal that wont hurt your wallet or time budgets
yeah my bad, I separated out the stuff about how Julia works into another post and forgot to update the title
Current top comment on reddit by PAJW:

This is a study with authorship by Vladimir Zelenko, MD, a New York physician who has often spoken in favor of HCQ in the popular press. I'm not sure what role the two German authors played.

The study finds a clear decrease in hospitalization and death among those treated with HCQ + AZT + Zinc to an "untreated public reference". Essentially no details are given regarding the control group except whether they sought hospitalization or died as a result of COVID-19.

The study group was clearly younger than the usual COVID-19 death (median age: 58; IQR 40-60), but 70% had one or more medical condition that may serve as a comorbidity (most common: hypertension 28%, obesity 28%, hyperlipidema 23%).

As with many of the studies that aren't RCTs, it is difficult to say whether the treatment worked or not. In this case, since the control group is unknown in composition, the data is really murky. 4 hospitalizations among 141 COVID-positive patients sounds fairly low, but I can't say that definitively.
The point the parent is making is that if you know in advance that you, will need to use the insurance, and you decide to buy it on this basis, then the premium the insurance company charges will need to increase to account for this, or the insurance company will lose money.

Since the premium has increased, the only people who will still pay the higher premium are those that know they will need to make a claim. The premium will therefore rise to the point where _only_ the ones with that extra information will pay.

Insurance markets cannot survive with this kind of information asymmetry.

This is not a North American definition. This is what insurance is.
We need progressive taxes! VAT is just noise if you're a billionaire, but it'll be a significant chunk of your income if you're at or below median wage.

I always liked Steve Forbes' flat tax idea -- the first ~$52K exempted (or whatever median income is) and then a flat rate of 17% beyond that no matter _how_ it's earned (W-2, dividends, long/short term gains, whatever, it's 17%). Oh and we get to scrap the tax code.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/steveforbes/2016/04/18/tax-day-...
> I once tried having a conversation with a girl from Beijing, while in Canada, about political freedom. She told me that China is "too big" for democracy or federalism, and that they wouldn't be able to "control" the people.

IIRC, that's one aspect of the anti-democracy propaganda: democracy's great but the Chinese people aren't ready for it, so the firm hand of the CCP is necessary to keep the country from falling apart.
Overall Doordash has beat them, especially now with the pandemic. Here's a breakdown: https://secondmeasure.com/datapoints/food-delivery-services-...
How is that legal? Is there something in the terms of use for the app that you have to accept
which is completely fine.
You're getting some downvotes for this recommendation it looks like.

My personal observations about BSG:

As a traitor-mechanic game it suffers severely if the traitor doesn't know how to play well or if someone gets bored and isn't paying attention.

Again in particular with coop-with-traitor-mechanic games, it is very vulnerable to loud alpha-gamer quarterbacking ("Hey! Everyone needs to support this plan because it's clearly The Best Plan, and if you don't you're clearly the traitor because you're playing sub-optimally.")

It takes a long time, 2 hours minimum and I've been subjected to 4 hour games.

Put simply, it is generally not fun for a rookie gamer.

Recommendation:If this game of cooperative play with traitor mechanic sounds interesting to you, I recommend the game "The Resistance: Avalon", which has similar mechanics but plays in 20 minutes optimally and 50 minutes for a slow game. Compare with 120 minutes to 240 minutes in my experience for BSG.

Disclaimer:I've played BSG twice (same group), I've hated it twice, and I refuse to play it anymore. I do not consider myself a rookie, and I personally prefer shorter (120 minutes or less), simpler games.
You are talking about HD Radio, which is quite different from DAB/DAB+ used in Europe.
Not sure I understand - Netflix has the same problem as Disney and HBO, they must spend a ton on content to differentiate.
> It'd be nice if the government banned preexisting condition consideration.

It...has: https://www.hhs.gov/healthcare/about-the-aca/pre-existing-co...
Never in a million years. No matter the price tag. I refuse to be billed for 95 different things in life
I just converted a relatively simple node.js program to Rust (because the native libusb bindings for node.js crash immediately on Windows 7 64-bit)

Rust made me worry about a lot more than I wanted to. Threads, locking, mutability. What was 80 lines of:

1. open USB device, get handle

2. start a WebSocket server, accept clients

3. proxy incoming USB device traffic to all WebSocket clients

4. proxy incoming WebSocket traffic to USB device

in node.js turned into battles with dyn FnMut traits to pass "callback/event" handlers around, spawning threads to not block on libusb reading / WebSocket client reading, borrowing, cloning, mutex locking, reference counting with Rust like you can in JavaScript.

You can't just "move variables from one scope into callback/lambda" scope with any sort of ease in Rust.
France is strictly three months, though it can be negotiated.
Ask HN: How are distributed systems as a field of study compared to ML/AI?
I currently work on Database Development at Oracle.
I would like to acquire knowledge on something other than the DB internals, and I've been recently fascinated with Distributed Databases like CockroachDB, AWS Aurora, Azure Cosmos, TiDB, etc.

So I was thinking I'd dive deep and learn more about distributed systems and possibly try to switch to any of the above mentioned companies.

I would like HN's opinion about the scope for Distributed Systems(& Distributed Databases) as a career choice, compared to the current hot areas like Machine Learning/AI.

A bit of background about me :
I did my undergrad in a Non-CS field, but I've had an interest for Computer Science since High School, so the switch to a full fledged CS job was not that difficult.
I'm self motivated and willing to spend copious amount of time to learn something that would help with my career.
But I'm confused as to what to study.

Should I stick with my current interests (or) follow the industry trend, and try to learn an ML/AI ?

Thanks!
https://colonist.io

I've played many times and it works great. Def worth having someone in your common circle that participates a lot to purchase the additional member pass (up to 4 players is free). The only thing is that it doesn't take into account extension pack rules for higher number of players but to me that's barely an issue let alone a deal breaker.
C More or Less
As someone that was active in the previous HN thread [1], this one, and in the Discourse one this position has popped up several times and it perplexes me. Attaching a persistent UUID on top of a protocol that carries your IP can not be more private as you are giving away additional information that would have to be inferred statistically from the IP alone. Now, we can argue other benefits of the UUID, but simply calling it a day by ignoring the fact that you are already giving away your IP is just baffling to me. Am I being thick here? What am I missing?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23706271
This really reads like it's overplaying its hand. Some of the concerns are valid, but it's so over the top that I can't take it seriously.

The real American Soviet Mentality is the ossification of the bureaucracy at all levels such that unsolved fundamental problems are leading to collective action because other avenues have completely failed.
what did they do of importance lately besides supporting radical political movements
Bloomberg's last China hack article was completely discredited, and still no retraction/explaination. They have the appearances of Trump's propaganda machine. Considering the timing of this relative to the election and GOP's sole strategy of China scapegoating we can all take this latest as more of the same
Crash-Only Software: More Than Meets the Eye (2006)
You could, I've seen a couple of papers attempt that approach with rather poor results something like 8-10% percent. Though I'd say by the easiest approach to producing thin films cells involves basically using electroplating which achieves similar efficiency (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/pip.417).

The cycle time is of course a highly dependent on the final design of chamber. There's no reason that Sorption and Getter Pumps combined with a ventri prestage can't preform to a degree that meets the design requirements.

However their performance is highly dependent on two things, the ability to reach bakeout quickly and the use of metal to metal seals instead of o-rings.

The actually difficult and expensive part of high vacuum engineering is figuring out how to engineer valves that can both withstand bakeout temperatures and make the tight leak free seals.

In this regard I plan to use what essential amounts to a plate valve with something called, a "powdered seal".
This valve meets the requirements for the design in every aspect with it's only downside being that it is slow to change open to close. Though this downside will not reduce the overall throughput of the system as it is designed.
Ask HN: How to keep up with new studies?
If I'm interested in following several topics and want to follow any new studies on that given subject, where would be the best places to track new papers?

Non-profits? Universities? The number of potential sources is daunting.

Ideally, I'd like to follow an RSS feed, but I'm open to alternatives.
You seem quite invested in the difference between Republicans and Democrats. Normal humans are not so invested. We don't care whether a particular face of the status quo party is elected; we just want our votes to lead to policies we support. This has been a rough year for that: during a health emergency Congress has given the rich trillions of dollars in nearly unanimous fashion but hasn't found a way to improve health care. One difference I see is that Republicans have built a national machine that has worked for decades to disenfranchise as many minorities as possible, and Democrats have only disenfranchised citizens through apathy and poor prioritization. Neither face of the status quo party owns my vote, and that may be why neither have any interest in policies that would appeal to me in any way. In any event, neither of them are going to "defend" my vote in the way you seem to imagine above. When only people who toe one of the two strikingly similar party lines are allowed to vote, we'll see even less innovation in government than we see now.
I'd love to hear more about your boat!
I am betting it is density.

I can order Chinese From halfway across the city for the same price as delivery by Dominos. The closest Dominos is 5 minute walk away. The next is a 5 minute drive. The Chinese food is 25 minutes away.
I'm not sure it's worth even looking at Chernobyl data as an example of the impact of nuclear energy in a forward-looking way. I too can pick worst-case numbers [1] but I wouldn't be doing so in good faith.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam
Canada isn't totalitarian in policing of speech or anything else. The US is perfectly happy to force people to behave, look at the rate of imprisonment vs. many other countries. Look at how peaceful protests are being handled in the US vs. other countries.

Let's just apply your argument to speeding. If I'm a risk taker why can't I drive 100MPH in a residential neighbourhood? Heck, life isn't worth living if I can't get that thrill. Tell that story to the US cop that pulls you over. Naturally the others you are putting in danger, their lives are worth nothin'.

You're right, it's all about values.
Wow, this is a brilliant landing page. The use of the product to justify the product is very clever.
Tracks your running speed in a 4 square meter area? Running in place?
what a disaster of a website on mobile
You're assuming that domino's makes a profit on food delivery rather than breaking even on it.

But domino's also makes the food, so if they break even on the deliver, that's fine, they made money on the food. Scaling the delivery part of the business also scales the food part.

If you aren't making the food, you have to make money on the delivery alone because scaling your delivery service scales someone else's food business. You're essentially competing with your suppliers (restaurants with their own delivery), and they don't need to make money on the product. That's a hard position to be in.
You should try out Tabletop Simulator for board games, or Roll20 for tabletop roleplaying like D&D. Both of these offer good options for online gaming in this space.
> What am I missing?

I'm guessing there's an unspoken assumption that given a UUID the server-side would not log IPs. It then comes down to trust that they'd stick to that.
Clearly private industry has run out of profitable investments. Better to shift spending to public investments (science, education, err, the current public health emergency) than to waste more money on delivery boondoggles.
Taking Stock: COVID19 in Switzerland – Everyone Was Wrong
This merger might trigger an antitrust case. Although people who order stuff might have lower fees through economies of scale, restaurants and drivers could be negatively impacted (more of a monosopy). At some point we need to start considering gig workers as part of antitrust considerations.
Im very skeptical that the comparison really makes sense. Programs written in GC languages are so different in their allocation behavior from those written in manual memory languages that I don't think you can meaningfully compare them. And comparing regular C++ with Boehm GC is probably not that interesting, as Boehm is extremely limited by the semantics of C++.

And whichever way you look at it, the GC doesn't really have to outperform manual memory management to be extremely useful. It just has to be close enough, the correctness guarantees alone make it worth it as long as the performance difference is not too large, in many domains, not to mention the productivity boost and program readability.
Papa John’s is kinda unique in that they game themselves quite often and use
it to their advantage. I will order pizza and have zero problem with the delivery or order and I’ll get one of those “we’re sorry” postcards. It’s just a better than average coupon and since they expire quickly there’s pressure to use it.

I’m kinda surprised (and happy) that all these delivery startups haven’t figured out that bs customer service can be a way to make money.
Generally people trying to scam customer service out of a free pizza doesn't seem to happen at scale at least based on my experience in the food industry.

Folks who demand free food do it regardless of if it can be done or not and most everyone else just shrugs their shoulders and doesn't want to talk to anyone about their experience.
Yeah, but the delivery companies take 20-30% of the gross food order.

So while they aren’t technically vertically integrated, they have the pricing of vertical integration (assuming typical restaurant margins).
If what you care about is funding services, which is ostensibly what we're taxing people for in the first place, billionaires are just noise; there aren't enough of them to fund anything interesting.

A flat tax is great if your goal is to just stop funding anything at all.
Are food delivery services cash cows?

I hadn't gotten that impression.
That sounds more reasonable. It depends a bit on what kind of game you are making.

What would be an interesting stretch goal is someone promising to take the extra money to spend more time thinking hard on how to remove and simplify mechanics.
Have any countries voluntarily sold off territory in recent history? How do you protect this territory once you have it, including from the previous owner?
PimEyes: Upload Your Photo and Find Where Your Face Image Appears Online
I would be delighted if my product turned out to be unnecessary and I am not being sarcastic.

Science homework should be able to be done in little more than it takes to copy it from an A student. It should not take hours, which it often does. I am looking through the lens of disadvantaged students.
Yeah my comment is half a facetious metaphor—making fun of the current state of affairs, and half serious in that pure popular rule has also proven to scale poorly.
Only in the same way as Java can (run the .NET VM) and the GUI story is far less clear.
Sure. But other than "no occult" you didn't give much indication what you want. So, how about a push-your-luck game: Can't Stop.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/41/cant-stop

Too pure a "game" and you'd prefer a bit more theme? Maybe a chance to see how history might have been different if you'd been in charge during the Cold War?: Twilight Struggle.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamefamily/51380/game-twiligh...

Better to stay away from politics as well as the occult? Is it OK to make wine (you are not obliged to drink the wine)?: Viticulture

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/128621/viticulture

If it's OK to make wine, how about whisky?: Clans of Caledonia

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/216132/clans-caledonia

If it's not OK to make wine (or whisky) how about electricity?: Power Grid

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2651/power-grid
Get a bag of Atlantic Salmon from Whole Foods, season 6 fillets, wrap them in foil and throw them in an air fryer for 12 minutes. Boom, done!

In the meantime, you can microwave some frozen jasmine rice, veggies, or a mix of both. You can make baked sweet potatoes on the same air fryer though those take ~30 mins until they're nice and soft.
Countries with VATs seem to tend to exempt residential real estate.
It feels a bit like hard work to use. They seem to have support for Dropbox but just as an afterthought and not the main thing. The main thing means running your own server, but it doesn't look easy to set up.

I want to think of an approach that is really easy to use so it becomes popular for that reason.
I agree that Twitter's main user segment is interested primarily in entertainment. A very small subset of users are actually interested in taking things into idealand. The majority of social tweets are memes, jokes, trolls, and hot takes with a "don't @ me" mentality. The people who want to talk about ideas are probably in private groups, niche subreddits, and forums, but that number at any time is certainly less than the number of people who are looking for entertainment.
Making a RISC-V OS in Rust: Userspace Processes
It worked as a vertical before technology allowed it to work as a horizontal.

Now it is just a value proposition. Dominos can still make it work because the delivery is bundled with incredibly cheap to produce food. Horizontals do work and aren't going away but right now there's many players making the bet that future market position is more important than current revenue so its not making great money today.
Oh, yeah that's an embarassing lapsus.To my defense,it seems like most of the equity is owned by investors and not founders, so the average return of the 900m$ is probably still around 3x~. It also seems like they have never been valued higher than the price Uber paid for them so odds are few investors got really burnt regardless of when they invested.
While this is certainly a method that could be used to tell if it's doing anything it shouldn't, it still skips over the fact that this is a violation of the GPL. That being said, this is apparently a Chinese company, and I have no idea if the GPL even has teeth in this scenario.
Thanks for all the work you’ve put in to this. I hope we see a Pi with NVMe soon.
> That ad was a neat PR trick, seeing as it seemed to make people forget that Apple is one of the most profitable companies in human existence.

That ad aired in 1984. Apple was nowhere near as profitable at the time as it is today.
I'm intrigued by the idea but I have some reservations:

1.) How likely is this to actually happen? Are there any talks with nations for purchasing land? How many members would actually uproot their entire lives to go live in this experimental nation?

2.) I'm absolutely a libertarian, but even if I have to admit that some of those that care so deeply as to self-select for something like this are likely to have some... oddities.

3.) Libertarian principles have never been very popular with women, so I imagine most of the interested parties are men. If this were to last for a long period of time, I would imagine that most of the unmarried men would compensate for that by finding wives from the neighboring developing nations. I don't have anything against that, but I feel like this new nation would quickly get the reputation of being Thailand 2.0.
Are we playing the same board games? There's only a small minority that has an occult flavour.

Have a look at eg the full list of games on boardgamegeek https://boardgamegeek.com/browse/boardgame?sort=rank (sorted by rating).