skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The future of Uber is clearly diversification. Drivers doing everything. I absolutely love that I can order food from distant restaurants because they have driver routes programmed to cover large distances and a business model that supports longer wait times for the customer in exchange for cheaper prices, wider restaurant selection, and of course more customers served. The local establishments can't compete with the 1 driver to 1/2/3 customer(s) model.
He’s right, but IMO all that automation needs to be managed client-side, but most of it should be implemented server-side.

So, you would need a protocol for the client to speak to the server and communicate what needs to happen. And while Sieve exists, most IMAP clients don’t speak it. And most IMAP servers don’t implement it.

I, for one, do not want this intelligence about my mailbox, to exist only on the server side. The server needs to understand how to carry out the things it’s told to do, but the real intelligence needs to live client side — and be mobile to other accounts at other providers.

Most importantly, no third-party SaaS should be involved.
> assuming typical restaurant margins

I think Domino's margins blow typical restaurant margins out of the water. I don't have hard numbers, but worked a variety of delivery jobs from 2010-2014. Domino's was the only place with the attitude that their food was worth pennies to produce.

Most places didn't offer discounts to their employees, not even for food that was mistakenly made and had to be trashed. Domino's was the only one that would just allow employees to make themselves a pizza for lunch or to take home for dinner (but no feta cheese, we had limited quantities of that).

Call and complain about any Domino's order, even over the dumbest thing, and they're supposed to give you a credit for a new order. It was drilled into my head as an employee. If someone complains, give them something free, and they're pretty much guaranteed to order from Domino's again in the future more times than they would if you had never made a mistake.

Also an individual driver could do far more deliveries than an app-based delivery worker can. The routing software they used at the time was really good, and would group 2 nearby orders for one trip by a delivery driver. There was never any waiting unless there were no orders at all. From what I hear with my friends who work UberEats/GrubHub, a lot of time is wasted at the restaurant waiting for the food to finish. McDonalds (at least in my area) is a big offender, marking orders as ready for pickup when they haven't even started making them yet. Having all food coming from a single storefront, and being able to take multiple deliveries at once is a big deal.

As for why places like Pizza Hut and Burger King can't do it as well, I guess it comes down to the tech and management. When Burger King tried offering first-party delivery services it was a massive shit show. I worked there for a bit, as they were the only store paying drivers 100% of the delivery fee. It ended up being a terrible deal because I would average 1-2 deliveries per hour during the lunch and dinner "rush", while a great day at Domino's could have me doing 10 per hour. Pizza Hut wasn't as terrible as when BK attempted it, but I feel like it only worked because they have a limited menu and not because they're actually competent.
It's never too late! Demoscene competitions happen all year round, around the globe. Some of the competitions are super focused and aren't a ton of work to do. The competitions (called "parties" in the scene) are a great way to spend a weekend with a bunch of like-minded nerds from many different disciplines: programming, graphics, music, ANSI/ASCII art, retrocomputing, etc.
It seems like this is standard practice in other industries though.

For example, I used to work at a pizza place. What's to stop me from taking what I learned there and starting a competitor?

I also have a friend who worked at a carpenter's shop. What's to stop him from doing the same there?
Depends on dilution, Nortel could have easily issued enough shares to cause the stock price to drop over that period. I don’t know about Nortel, but Cisco was a stock printing machine over same period.
In case you're not a troll and your vision was just clouded by mindless Trump and GOP hate:

Have you ever heard the name Michael 'Mike' Bloomberg[1] before? He was a registered Democrat candidate running against(!) Trump in the presidential race.

The same Mike Bloomberg is also the founder and owner (well, majority shareholder) of Bloomberg L.P.[2].

Why would a Democrat presidential candidate use his company's influence support the strategy of his outspoken opponent?

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bloomberg
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_L.P.
Maybe it's due to my childhood, but even as someone who could easily afford a $25+ meal, it would hurt me emotionally to pay that much for delivery. Very few restaurants even offer a meal worth $25 in the first place (compared to what I can make at home), even in SF/NYC/London, and on top of that you don't know how long the driver is going to take, what kind of measures they are taking to keep it warm, and/or if they tamper with the food.
I definitely had the first impression that this site was selling "sealioning as a service", and agree that trying to get people to "debate me, bro" is fundamentally not understanding the problem on social media.

Marginalized people are not interested in having to debate their existence to every person who feels entitled to challenge them.
How about this: The empty string and 0 are truthy. Why?
"Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting. Exception: when the author is present. Then friendly feedback might be helpful."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Seems like Clearview AI for the public?
Try Runscope.com with Ghost Inspector.
> If all you want is a single request (and you have wait for results to continue work), you don't gain anything by going async

This is true for HTTP version < 2 because of the head-of-line blocking. With HTTP 2 I think a single connection will see a better throughput if not massive increase.
HotSpot certainly does better than the vast majority of JITs out there, but it is definitely not perfect. If you have a JIT cache that is too small (really easy to do if you're not aware of the JIT settings or what they do), or your code does most of its heavy lifting in functions that are not called very often (because call frequency is the only heuristic it uses to prioritize optimization), you can easily trap yourself into horribly optimized executables that the JIT doesn't know its way out of.
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Won't ICBM work?
> It's becoming more common to not ever SSH into machines

This is a reality for me. At work we run a handful of distributed clusters, if anyone does an equivalent of sshing into a box and poking around (in our case, `kubectl exec`), the infrastructure team gets an alert, then follows up with whoever invoked the command. If they are doing debugging, we shift whatever resources they need into dev. If they are not debugging, they will probably get questioned by their boss. (fortunately, most of the time this chat results in, "oh wow I didn't know about the APM/Metrics/Graphs/Logs/etc setup we had, I'll check that next time)
This assumes that you have ingredients on hand, and experience cooking. I won't comment on the meal choice, as that is a very subjective. Also, a lot of people like to have variety, which if you work at some of these big companies will provide.
As someone who is neither Chinese nor American and has no horse in this race, I find it amusing how strong the bias against China is on this site. TikTok accesses clipboard, it must be an intelligence operation; LinkedIn and AirBnB do the same, I guess the devs were lazy and didn't do enough testing. Someone find a security hole in a Huawei device, that must be a communist backdoor; a Cisco device has the same security issue, they are just moving fast and breaking things.

You know the old saying that we judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their actions. If you cut someone off while driving, it's just a simple error and no biggie, you just misjudged the road situation momentarily; but if someone cuts you off, they are a idiot who should not be on the road and deserves to get their license taken away and their car impounded.

The reaction to anything China on HN is like the above, applied at a national scale.
> I just hope to convince people that they shouldn't.

You haven't given any reasons for that other than a vague 'if we hold people accountable for their actions society will break down', when even the US court system doesn't take that view. The legal theory is very much that choices of association by members of our society are the controlling factor for the government not being able make (even abhorrent) political speech illegal.

If your views are so abhorrent that literally no one wants to deal with the fallout of being associated with you, you maybe should have reexamined your views before it got to that point.
https://archive.is/UUXDc
I had a coworker who daily drove a dodge caravan. If anyone gave him crap about it, this was pretty much the answer he gave. He was especially proud that a full size sheet of plywood could lay flat in the back.
It is the difference between people who care about others and people who do not. Civilised society rightly considers the latter a menace and deals with them accordingly.

Sweden is now a pariah state in the EU, its borders have been closed by its neighbors.
Self-driving vechicles something like https://www.starship.xyz/ but food delivery would be killer.
Uh, considering they've been doing well prior to tech, and AI being a thing, I think that's non-factual
Uber paid $170 million for a stake in Lime haha. The math works.
I think you could say something about optimization here. When I was in college, I briefly worked as a delivery boy, and I'd often make 2-3 deliveries per trip.
The hacks were not the problem. They engaged in financial shenanigans because they had a bankrupt management culture.

Their decline and fall were the direct result of their human problems. And, briefly, their human problems stemmed from their human problems.

Culture and management matter.
> In 2005 the China Development Bank lent the Nigerian government $200 million to buy Huawei equipment for a national wireless network, offering an absurdly low interest rate, as little as 1%

Why collect an interest rate at all, if it's less than the inflation rate? It's basically free money at that point.
The first time I've played around with Borland Delphi was I think 99-00 and it was good experience. Then moved on and kind of forgot it. Last weekend I thought to look if Delphi still alive, found out that it's now owned by Embarcadero, downloaded their latest architect edition trial (they have community edition now too) and was surprised how easy it is to write cross platform apps. Stuff which I've remembered from ~1999 - still works the same way, and you can have Android, Windows, iOS, Linux GUI apps on the same codebase in one go.

It's just pleasure to work with. If only Embarcadero modified their licencing terms, e.g not charging ~5k for Architect edition and did some marketing they could win over some space in software development world. Something like Microsoft did with Linux and Open Source world when they changed their view on it.

Even if you don't plan to use it, it's worth a try, just to see how joyful and easy it can be to write cross platform apps. It also somehow reminds me Smalltalk/Pharo experience in some ways.
In the notices example, I arrived at number one for answer because of a simpler evaluation: it's less code.

One of the principles I follow is "the best code goes unwritten" so a good rule of thumb for a good abstraction, for me, is if it reduces (noticeably) the total amount of code. Conversely, if abstracting just increases the total code, I call it an indirection and avoid it.
Part of it I think is that Dominos only does delivery, and their product holds up well in delivery. It comes out of the oven very hot, and with an insulated bag, it can sit for a little while and still be good. If you deliver something like Thai food, it doesn't come out as hot, and there are hotter and cooler parts of the food. This doesn't taste great if it takes 20 minutes to get from the kitchen to you.

That, plus the volume, allows Dominos to send out drivers with multiple pizzas. They can calculate an optimal traveling salesman route from the store to all of the customers in the run, and then the driver comes back to the store to do it again. Also, the whole organization is built around the drivers not waiting around. Restaurants will often not have the order when the driver arrives, and they have to mess around with payment, etc for every order.

All of that makes driver productivity much greater and so the delivery cost per order is much less.
I've worked as pizza delivery. The tipping and per-delivery payments to drivers is why it works.

Roughly speaking, a delivery driver in my area nearly a decade ago earned roughly $20/hr after gas and car expenses, half in hourly wages @ state minimum and the other half in tips + $1/delivery payment. They also took about 3 deliveries an hour when fully utilized, which wasn't for 100% of their shift. The wait time got used productively, combination of answering phones, making pizzas, or at worst folding boxes.

This combination means that you're employing people at a significnatly-above-minimum-wage level, but their excess time waiting for deliveries gets paid at minimum wage and used to do customer service. And in the worst case when things are so absolutely slammed that there is no downtime, well, that's when you have to let phones ring (or answer briefly with "thank you for calling, our wait time is currently two hours, would you like to place an order?"). Plus these drivers know the store and the area well and from that alone should be significantly more competent at resolving issues - often enough someone calling in about their order will end up talking to the person who just tried and failed to make the delivery.

With Postmates and the like, though, the time spent waiting for a delivery has no useful work to fill the time. It's also not paid, but the gig has to justify itself economically, which means that drivers have to make up for it through increased per-delivery payments.

Basically, the difference is that store-employed drivers can do useful work while waiting to engage in deliveries, while app drivers can't. This is a very significant efficiency gain.
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everything is political

what are they going to encourage, talk about music?
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Basically it has to run on a fairly clean Windows machine. The competition will usually publish the specifications of the machine ahead of time and what's on it. What you enter has to fit entirely within the bounds of the competition, but can use anything else on the machine if it's available. So you could enter say, a 4kb entry, and use a bunch of Windows .dlls for icons or something as artwork, but you couldn't enter a 4kb executable and 100MB of libraries and other stuff.

For some languages where this is really hard to achieve, they'll carve out a separate category for a language if they think there will be enough entries. e.g. a Java category where the entry fits with the space limit, but can use any other library in the default Java classpath, even though that's very very big. Likewise for different operating systems (Linux, MacOS competitions).

There's been a fantastic resurgence in retrohardware and a category called "old school/skool" for entries that have to run in MS-DOS -- which can be ultra hard as you have to code up a lot more of the runtime libraries like music, graphics rendering pipelines, etc.
I don't think so. JUCE includes an audio/dsp engine. This is only for UI
I thought the article did a decent job of explaining that.

Nortel without the IP theft was certainly on shaky ground.

It sounds like the IP gave Huawei an opportunity to catch up more quickly and with Chinese govt cash, pull the rug out from under Nortel.
Pandemic has exposed the uselessness of orthodox economics
You didn't read as trollish but others did, and unfortunately there's a problem with comments sometimes being written deliberately to straddle the line. That's why I wrote my reply as a question.
It just found a bunch of other Asians (none of them me) LOL
I'd imagine if you called their employer to tell them your examples, the employer would laugh in your face.

There's a difference between 'their dog barks too much' and 'they're marching through the streets advocating for genocide'.
That works fine for simple axioms, but how do you square where science and "popular" opinion differ? Eg, science is pretty clear there is a climate crisis caused by human activity, science is pretty clear that lgbtq+ people are valid, etc. But if you put those up for any sort of agree/disagree metrics it's gonna be a shit show.

People politicize everything right now. I have no idea how wearing a mask to avoid spreading a pandemic somehow became political, but here are.
It sounds like the argument is that the individual mandate to have health insurance has been repealed, so therefore, the mandate for insurers to cover people with preexisting conditions should also be repealed.

What is absurd about that? It seems reasonable to me. Covering preexisting conditions and the individual mandate to buy health insurance are two sides of the same coin.

Personally, I'm on the side of "we should have both" rather than "we should have neither", but the argument that you can't have one without the other is sound.
For me, it's not about the word choice of "killing"; it's the seeming implication that "current radicalization" is caused by lack of "understanding" and then leads to "cancel culture" as the true problem. Your mission statement sounds kind of like "I want to win the argument with my current set of beliefs" rather than "I hope through honest and open minded discussion we can discover our own blind spots and reach common ground to move forward" or whatever.

Look at the supportive and critical comments you received; it looks split down the line based on political leaning. It may be worth considering that if you want to avoid creating just another echo chamber.
These days South African universities deny entry based on racial and gender quotas. They also have racial quotas for sports.

The rest of the world seems okay with this because they still allow them to participate in international sporting events.
Apparently enough that the employer takes the complaint seriously.

I mean, in your Amy Cooper example, she was a VP. Part of her job was literally to represent the values and ethics of the company. They obviously took the opinion that being associated with her was worse than what she could bring to the table.
Because it's a small city with zero resources that acts as a gateway to the Chinese economy as a whole. If China didn't use HK as its economic entry, HK would be absolutely worthless with Singapore relatively nearby and in a much better geographical position.

Larger, independent countries with resources that open themselves to the extent of city states end up selling their resources to the lowest bidder (after the proper hands get a little extra) and having their industries siphoned off to places that'll work for less.

If economics were so easy that the optimal way was mathematically proven 200 years ago, I think economic difficulties would be resolved by now.
Network effects are the moat here, much like for ride hailing apps. More drivers signed up on the app means that the service times for customers are improved, and more customers using the app means less waiting time and dead mileage for drivers.
Curious why didn't you use promises in the nodejs code?
Monoprice was guilty of this for a number of years... as I suspect Lerdge is as well, they encrypt their firmware and bootloader, and there's just no reaosn for it.
I mentioned this in a comment above, but I worked at Domino's and this was 100% encouraged. My manager hammered it into my head that a mistake was just an opportunity to gain a more loyal customer. If someone called with a complaint, we would credit you for a whole new pizza. Drink and dessert too if we really F'd up.

The reason being people will actually stop ordering Domino's if they're upset at a mistake in an order. Even something as silly as not getting ranch dip you paid $0.50 for. Making it up to them with a free item way more valuable than the mistake almost made the customer feel guilty. After using their free pizza credit, a customer was almost guaranteed to order Domino's again within 2 weeks, and would generally order twice as often as they normally would for the rest of the year or longer.

My very first delivery ever, I opened up the heatbag and their whole order slid out and fell onto the floor outside their front door. Maybe still one of my most embarrassing moments ever, I was sure I was going to get fired. When I told my manager about it, he said "This is going to be more powerful than a hundred TV commercials"

Oh, and they have all your orders and previous free credits saved in the computer system that handles orders, tied to both address and phone number (or online account). So if you tried taking advantage of this thing they would just permanently ban you from ordering from our store. This only happened once or twice in my couple years there.
That doesn't really help, that set might as well contain the sources the parent commenter suggested. Several of those sources are really low quality organizations.
So this found a headshot on company website. Low hanging fruit. But it also found a stock photo where I am fairly fuzzy in the background of a local event I definitely attended...this really impressed me. Then quite a few photos definitely not me.