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As a final addendum, case clauses of options that take arguments like -a/--arg should not be terminated with `;;&`, but rather with `;;`.
(the critical detail is contained in the full headline - "can charge restaurants")

The commission is the cut of the "food price" that the delivery service gets from the restaurant, in addition to charging the customer-facing "delivery fee". So if the customer sees "Pizza $20, Delivery $5", and the restaurant is paying 30% to the delivery service, the actual breakdown is "Pizza $14, Delivery $11". It's misleading to say that the pizza costs $20 when $6 of that is actually a hidden delivery fee.

How this falls out depends on whether the listed food price was the same as the restaurant's list price, had been inflated by the delivery service. But continuing the example, with the cap we'd expect to see the explicit delivery fee go up to ~$10 (if customers will bear it), and the food price to end up between $14 and $20 depending on the market for the food itself.

> And the fraudulent number thing is a separate issue, totally unrelated to level of competition

My point there is that the services are only allowed to do this in such a misleading way by the restaurant signing a contract allowing them to do so (otherwise it would be straightforward fraud). Despite the presence of many delivery services, it would seem they're all pushing similar scummy terms. This is an indicator of a lack of competition.
your link seems broken, I believe it's .org not .com
Social isn't necessarily bad. Trouble arises when social is combined with reinforcement learning algorithms to drive engagement. Jaron Lanier makes a good case for not using social media that use reinforcement learning algorithms to drive engagement

> The results are tiny changes in the behavior of people over time. But small changes add up, like compound interest. This is one reason that BUMMER naturally promotes tribalism and is tearing society apart, even if the techies in a BUMMER company are well-meaning. In order for BUMMER code to self-optimize, it naturally and automatically seizes upon any latent tribalism and racism, for these are the neural hashtags waiting out there in everyone’s psyche, which can be accentuated for the purpose of attention monopoly.

BUMMER is an acronym

> Seems like a good moment to coin an acronym so I don’t have to repeat, over and over, the same account of the pieces that make up the problem. How about “Behaviors of Users Modified, and Made into an Empire for Rent”? BUMMER. BUMMER is a machine, a statistical machine that lives in the computing clouds. To review, phenomena that are statistical and fuzzy are nevertheless real. Even at their best, BUMMER algorithms can only calculate the chances that a person will act in a particular way. But what might be only a chance for each person approaches being a certainty on the average for large numbers of people. The overall population can be affected with greater predictability than can any single person.

Similar dynamics show up in any forum where people compete with others for points, e.g. karma.
What I think you're missing is that price is (or has been) an incredibly valuable input signal when determining the value of a previously-unknown restaurant. if I'm in the mood for a $20 meal, I know to avoid places that offer $40 meals, and vice-versa. My expectations for a $15 lunch are different than my expectations for a $25 lunch. Most people use price as an important signal, communicating something about the restaurant or meal.

These vendors are distorting that signal by misrepresenting the price. If it were clean-cut, and the original price were still visible, and the delivery as a separate 15-20% fee, then fine, I could do exactly what you suggest. Is it or is it not worth it to have this delivered right now?

But it's not. Let's say I see an arbitrary restaurant serving the kind of food I'm in the mood for, say Vietnamese food. I can then look and see the price to know roughly what quality of food to expect: Is it closer to $10 or $30 for an entree, since those are two very different things.

The total price might not even matter to me. But if I order a $20 entree with an extra delivery fee, and what shows up is a $10 entree, then that's a problem and most people will believe that the restaurant offers terrible value, because they were lied to by the intermediary.

That's the issue. It's not "am I will to have my In-N-Out burger delivered for $6 extra," it's "with Doordash lying to me about these restaurants I've never been to, I have no idea whether this is worth doing or not until I've already paid and accepted delivery."
Actually I feel like causalities time has come. The framework that has convinced me is just the simple approach of doing controlled experiments over observational data to establish causal links via DAGs no need for any drama!
Grubhub positions themselves as a delivery service, not a reseller. Receipts list the price for the item, Grubhub's fee, and Grubhub's delivery fee. I'm sure they're quite careful with exactly how they word it to avoid legal issues, but the implicit claim is pretty clear: "here's the restaurant cost, and here's our cost".

I would be upset if Amazon had brick-and-mortar stores and they sold me a $100 TV with a $10 delivery fee online, but that same product was available for pick-up at $90. I'd be fine with it sold in-store for $100.

We do flip out when these sorts of pricing tricks are used. One I can recall: Best Buy ran a bestbuy.com intranet in-store to wiggle out of online deals. https://www.engadget.com/2007-03-03-best-buys-secret-intrane...
> If you can only afford 2 then I decided against RAID/ZFS. The issue is that "raid is not backup" and I fear user error as much as hardware error so instant mirroring would be just as bad.

Mirroring is for preventing hardware failures.

ZFS Snapshots are one protection against user-error. Backups are another.
I agree with you, but the solution would have been Plan 9 namespaces, not Linux containers. What we're working towards today is awful.
Perhaps I misunderstand this, but aren’t waveform arrays are meant more for uniformity than output? At least in the case of lightbulbs, adding 10 1800 lumen lights in an array would not result in additional light at any given point unless the light was focused, wouldn’t the same be true of sound?
I'd have web widgets. No reason every website needs to take up the full window
Any sufficiently hard problem is indistinguishable from impossible.
or it's simply not practical because the scale is not close enough and i'd be blocking it for to long. on busy days there is often a waiting line to get stuff weighed. so really this only works if the shop expressly designs for reusable containers.
>Black lives matter? According to black on black crime statistics and black abortion rates, they don't

>Willing to take the L for saying the truth on this one.

>Judging by how the protests and riots have settled down already in less than 2 weeks, they are finished making use of black lives to further their political goals.

You seem sick with hatred, not to mention casting yourself as a victimized underdog who knows the Truth.
Just to be clear, this seems to be the first monolithic MEMS speaker, which I take to mean that the speaker array is fabbed as one die, as opposed to each speaker being a separate piece of silicon. There are already MEMS speakers available before this. Also, for mobile devices, MEMS have been used for a long time now, specifically for the microphone and IMU (inertial measurement unit -- consisting of accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetic sensor).
I agree that asking for reviews was a lot less common at the time (2012), but he actually says "asking for reviews ... wasn't something that came to the front of mind ... it felt dirty at the time". To me that reads like he was aware it was something apps were doing but he wasn't comfortable with it. So when the CEO of the company asked him "why aren't we higher rated in the app store?" he probably wished the answer was "they're cheating" instead of "because I feel it's unethical to ask for reviews".
Yeah, tiny keyboards are a menace.

I had a Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro for many years, the one with full size arrow keys, and I loved it.

The thing with the angle-in is because that's how most people's arms and wrists naturally fall when they put them in a relaxed position (on a table, in their lap) in front of them. Having your wrists at the same width as your elbows is for many people not a natural relaxed position.

I do like the Kinesis "fall-down" button position, though. I imagine your wrists don't bend back-/upwards as much? Today I have a large/wide armrest to avoid the wrist-bend. No ergonomical keyboard, though. A Corsair Strafe Silent RGB.
I think it meant to be "risk production." Risk production in chip fabrication process is the step to produce a batch of chips that's after prototype but before production. Basically all the specs and designs have been nailed down and frozen. It's time to go through the manufacture process once to see how things go before committing to mass production.
Subway-style maps of roads of the Roman Empire
The German surveillance state is very capable and often understated. They even “ran” Crypto AG with the NSA for decades and even profited from it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG
In Brazil we have "Capitalization Titles" that banks can offer to its clients. Usually you sign up with a fixed monthly fee (say R$50/month) for 1 year, and the chance to win monthly or weekly sweepstakes. When the period is over, you get your money back, plus some little earnings, usually just enough to cover inflation. I'm not too familiar with it, but that's basically it. Very common here.
Kickstarter's co-founder is giving workshop on decision-making tomorrow
It's definitely a thing. Media is one use case, logging is another.
I vaguely recall an article years ago, can't remember where, about a newborn social media site, sort of a restricted Facebook, intended only for intelligent and gifted people, but can't find any references.
It's entirely possible others have tried or are trying, but like you I hardly believe they would find any VC money.
I used to collect these kind of stories:

When I flush my toilet my computer reboots:
http://www.techtales.com/tftechs.php?m=199712#66 (the first story on the page)

If I buy vanilla ice-cream my car wont start:
http://www.netscrap.com/netscrap_detail.cfm?scrap_id=501

A specific cargo routing crashes system:
https://www.jakepoz.com/debugging-behind-the-iron-curtain/

Tape-drive failure only within large print jobs:
http://patrickthomson.tumblr.com/post/2499755681/the-best-de...

Interplanetary debugging with the Mars Rover:
https://www.eetimes.com/the-trouble-with-rover-is-revealed/#
What I find interesting about dynamism, is that every templating library I’ve ever used has a tendency to become php over time. Even templating libs in php! It’s fascinating to watch, since each new feature really makes sense because certain logic is trivial in the template, that would be way more complicated elsewhere, and so the template lib has pressure to add little things. Next thing you know the complexity and feature set of the lib is it’s own beast to deal with.
perks are very very hard to take away. THe lower morale, and in many cases cause the best employees to leave, not because of the actual perk, but because of what that means - That the company doesn't value its employees.

I agree, I've seen many companies cut perks and yet not save any money, they just reduce morale.
The Boogaloo movement is not a terrorist movement, we wish to accomplish the movements goals as peacefully as possible but we also don't want the nations standard to be a "War is peace, freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength." because that is where this nation seems to be headed and if our second amendment rights are gone than if a government even more tyrannical than the present administration takes power we will have nothing to defend ourselves with.
The psychology of human behavior: A marketing lesson from Arnold Schwarzenegger
This point is moot. Canning tomatoes are different from market tomatoes grown for weight. Most tomatoes are harvested mechanically while green and unripe. They are gassed to ripeness.
For clarification, jeffreyrogers correctly states that the HN headline, based on the NYTimes subtitle "A new genetic study suggests that Polynesians made an epic voyage to^ South America 800 years ago", is wrong. As "irrational" points out, an epic journey did occur but we don't know the direction. To^ shouldn't be in the headline. Neither should "from".

The Polynesians are proven navigators but the natural current from Columbia/Ecuador to eastern Polynesia makes the alternative path quite plausible as demonstrated by Thor Heyerdahl's 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition.
Not a google dev but I looked closely at K8s in the early days .. in my personal opinion, I think it is complete fiction that K8s was Google opensourcing their actual code (in the traditional way). I think they rewrote the bulk of the initial code drop.

So agreed that K8s is not Google's crown jewels by any stretch. They were inspired by the Borg paper I'm guessing though the early scheduler in K8s was laughable IIRC.
The fact that your company’s product end up being represented by the store and its actions. Mistreating employees and customers, discrimination, bad customer service/return policy, terrible product placement, etc. There are so many ways a store can hurt your company’s reputation by association.
I don't either, but if it's going to happen, I'd MUCH rather those messages be sent directly to me via DM rather than being just @channel or @general blasts. At least with DMs it's obvious that I've been sent a message that I need to read.
> (and, usually, anti-unit-testing people are anti-type-safety people, too)

This is the opposite of my experience. Most of the anti-unit testing people I've talked to are very much pro-type people. I wonder if anyone has done any studies that shows what the actual numbers look like.

> Arguing against unit testing is like arguing against type-safety

I disagree with this. Types (at least when they've been built on top of an actual logic) have the benefit of real costs and benefits. You can show what programs you are unable to write and you can show (mathematically) that certain failures won't happen.

Unit tests on the other hand are much more hand wavy. You can show that some refactors seem easier, but you can't prove it without a lot of data that has to be collected on a project by project basis. I'm not saying that I don't want unit tests if I'm doing a non-trivial refactor, but I am saying that that desire is more of an intuition thing. It's not like I can make any proofs around it like I can do with a type system.
The Unsavory Story of Industrially-Grown Tomatoes (2011)
Who gets to be reckless on Wall Street?
It's worrying how government spies are getting legal cover to impersonate legitimate entities. Like spoofing a phone number and faking the voice of a loved one. You don't need to be able to compel speech, when you can employ doppelgangers.

> There's even a promotional video of how FinFly ISP sends a fake iTunes update and infects the target system with FinSpy

Does Apple not sign iTunes updates?
I find tailwind to be a pointless step in abstraction. Adding classes for every single thing is the same as writing CSS so why not learn CSS in the first place?
We've been saying this in Canada since at least mid-March.

https://globalnews.ca/news/6717166/what-is-physical-distanci...
Nice, by the way you could do the random number generation trustlessly, see for example:
https://medium.com/@jgm.orinoco/participatory-random-numbers...
Google security is massively biased.
I used to collect recycling on their campus and security rarely said anything, yet constantly went after non whites in the same parking lot as me.
Because sometimes the net result of individual optimization (predatory food delivery apps) is social deoptimization (local restaurants close).

And for the same reason that we don't allow health insurance to charge people different rates on the basis of their genetic profiles, the exercise of government prerogative to optimize for the greater good, on behalf of all, is apt here.

Whether or not this particular approach is the best way to produce that good is a valid debate.
Cloud Gaming and the Convenience of Streaming Media
Go-to-market masterclass from Rebecca Sadwick
Former Director of Marketing for GoGuardian on lessons learned while achieving exponential growth.
(2015) in the title is an error. 2015 in just the first heading in a chronological story, the last heading being "March 2020"
User-generated video marketing platform
Even the first-party benchmarks look pretty trashy. +20dB peaks at 2k and 10k? "A bit bright" might understate things. I suppose they intend to equalize this away with some kind of integrated DSP?

https://images.anandtech.com/doci/15894/xMEMS%20Montara%20PR...
But you never know who is reading..
You can opt in to an earlier delivery than the "mass delivery" target date, with the acknowledgement that it's significantly more likely to slip. And sometimes the prices are higher.
And this is the problem which MS creates for itself by sticking everything together into one huge gluey lump for you to get stuck onto, quite intentionally, but lack of quality plus emergent problems get you. MS has never been reliable throughout, and never will be until it gives up on complexity, and it won't do that because it's addicted to complexity.
Write an app for your home automation system that reports whether you're around, and serve a "defended"/"safe to rob my house" badge on your profile page.
"will" = "according to a proposed law", but sadly par for the course for our governments to push this kind of thing through, even if a good chunk of their surveillance laws get eaten by the constitutional court. (Maybe we should have a rule that you can't be in politics anymore if multiple of the laws you supported were found to be unconstitutional? ...)
But I mean there just isn't any law like you think there should be.

People are free to resell any goods they own (exceptions for things like controlled substances, other things with regulations etc.)
You should definitely rethink this. You're a savings account. Be honest (read: obvious and clear) with your customers.
Interesting - I haven't come across Capitalization Titles. I will definitely look into these now. Thanks for sharing
Is there an animation/code environment similar to Adobe Flash Professional (now called Adobe Animate) on the modern web?
> So the facebook-ification of GitHub progresses?

GitHub's premise has always been "social coding". They should indeed become more social, that may or may not remind you of Facebook but I personally have wanted more social features out of GitHub for a while.
Have you ever gotten a job because of your GitHub profile?
The resize functionality doesn't work very well on macOS + Firefox. Once I place an element, I can't easily make changes to it, for some reason (possibly due to adblock?)
I use Acme (from Plan9Port) as my every-day editor for work. I run it full-screen on a 4K monitor. I've got a co-worker who likes to grumble about mice, but somehow when we're debugging something on a call, I'm always in the appropriate file at the appropriate line number long before he is :) There are some tools (acmego [9fans.net/go/acme/acmego], A [github.com/davidrjenni/A]) that make working with Go a lot more pleasant, too.

I've been using Acme for about 15 years now, though. I dimly remember deep frustration when I was still learning it, but now that I'm used to it it's great.

Here's a screenshot that shows my typical work layout, although it's a little "manufactured" to avoid including any proprietary code from work: https://i.imgur.com/Trg79NS.png
DoNotPay Unsubscribes You from Spam–and Tries to Get You Paid
Redis Core Team Update
"will" isn't the exact translation of the headline, the idea is written in an upcoming law that will be discussed (or rubber-stamped?) next Wednesday...
Ensuring the browser uses the desired font weight is a hell of a lot different from pixel perfection
The value is in the hope it creates. As a statistician, a lottery seem hopeless. To everyone else, it's about feeling that something impossible becomes possible.

Tbh lottery tickets can be a pretty cheap form of hope relative to other forms of gambling. Take a look at some of RobinHood's customers who are ”investing”. The odds seemed so favorable until they realized 95% of traders lose their money.
CUDA is nowhere near the de facto in the ML industry. Beyond some specific application domains like CV where DL makes sense, most ML still runs on commodity hardware, and I happen to believe this will be the case for a long time once the Gartner Cycle of Hype settles on the Deep Learning craze and everyone runs out of VC money.

Despite what cloud providers and NVIDIA want you to believe, no you most likely don't need a lot of compute power for your industry problem. Basic knowledge of statistics would help though.
Mods: This is an article about a proposed law, so "will" isn't really an accurate reflection (yet, or hopefully at all) and the title should be changed.

My proposal: "New German law would force ISPs to redirect traffic to intelligence services for trojan install" (if that is not to long).
and also i think that this idea that the boogaloo movement is some how bad comes from CONINTELPRO or some modern equal to it
Thanks. Can the information about the prize cutoff be added to the official rules or the FAQ?

Based on this, I think someone with $10000 deposited would appear in the winners list about 4 times a year, assuming those that win the $15 prize appear on the list of winners.
OGAS
apart from the pure financial stuff that others are discussing - COVID means that Microsoft is selling a lot of product right now. There are a LOT of PCs getting built right now, and what goes on them? Microsoft's OS and Microsoft's office suite. And I would not be surprised if a lot of places that may have been reticent to move into the subscription-based cloud model are suddenly seeing the light now that work has suddenly become decentralized and remote. Anyone who is selling collaboration or telework tools (Zoom, Citrix, etc) is benefiting hugely from this pandemic.

Dunno if you have tried to find PC parts lately but things like power supplies are extremely difficult to get your hands on right now. I have seen $100+ for a shit-tier random-brand gold power supply, take it or leave it, because right now there is just no supply. 30% of America is suddenly working from home and a significant number of those are building rigs for their new home office.

Monitors are another, the impact on the monitor market is palpable, basic productivity monitors (60 hz 24" 1080p and 27" 1440p) are up 50% or more in some caases from the start of the year.

I consider myself lucky that I am sitting on a great ultrawide gaming monitor and a lot of misc hardware, as things have been heating up this summer I pulled my J5005 NUC off one of the TVs and reformatted it yesterday so now I don't have to run my power-hungry gaming rig just to do citrix.