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Maybe we can blame Robinhood traders. But really, who knows? A lot of these valuations don't make much sense.
Disadvantage of retina screens, I didn't even realize. Thanks for pointing out, i'll fix.
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In recent years libraries haven't been used off CDN like this much but rather bundled, tree-shaken, and uploaded to a CDN with the library baked into a JavaScript app.
Acme is an incredible, fascinating editor... that relies too much on rat wrestling to be useful to me. I really find it interesting how it takes advantage of Plan 9's aggressive Unix philosophy to provide functionality that would've been plugins or extensions in other editors as separate C programs or scripts.

But having to use the mouse for everything just drives me nuts. It's easier for my fingers to acquire even Emacs keybindings than it is for me to acquire the mouse and point at something with any precision.
This website is extremely ideological. It's just primarily tech bro ideology. This post is from The American Conservative, a proudly ideological right-wing publication. By eliminating dissent you're only making the echo chamber louder.
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It's this kind of thinking that has made US to be at the level they are now. The freedom of an individual has been engrained in to the heads of people so well that a huge portion does not even consider social distancing / wearing masks, because it infringes upon their liberties. Of course, it is not as extreme as locking down villages/buildings but the point stands.

Sometimes people need to understand (I know this is not a popular opinion) that for the general good they need to give up their liberties for a while.
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"Witchcraft" is an excuse to socially isolate people, and in some cases arrest or kill them.
I feel super guilty ordering from food delivery apps. But I seem to have no choice if I want delivery.
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You have to be a U.S resident in order to win prizes right now unfortunately, so basically yes
What we've experienced is not open borders, at least in America it's mostly a mix of unskilled workers coming in over the Southern border and high-skilled workers coming in via visas. Naturally those recruited specifically to join companies are going to cluster where those companies are.

I also think that immigrants from a generation or two back tend to be spread out much farther. There's a large Indian population in the Detroit area, for instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Indian_Americans_in...

Bottom line: Immigrants, like the rest of Americans, go where the jobs are, and if that gets more spread out -- as might happen as a long-term response to COVID -- then so will the distribution of new arrivals.

Can't really speak to the experience elsewhere.
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Latte's in 1994? In North Carolina? No way

Definitely possible. Chapel Hill isn't like the rest of North Carolina, so I'd expect something like that to appear here before other parts of the state. And I remember the Books-a-Million in Wilmington started adding a cafe / starbucks-like area for "fancy coffee" about 1996 or so. I have no problem believing there were shops serving latte's in Chapel Hill during the era this story is described as happening in. And to be fair, the author even says in the FAQ that he's not sure about the exact date(s). It could have been as late as 1997.
The "100 countries combined" metric is a poor one. There are a lot of tiny countries out there. According to [1], the 100th smallest country has only 3 million people. So all 100 together are less than the 300 million of the US.

The US military is of course only a tiny fraction of the US, but it is an industry, and it's not surprising that it should be a bigger polluter than 100 mostly poor countries.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_populatio...
No, the dimension is in the other axis. Otherwise there’d be no need for sharding keys.
I like Rust a lot - especially since I have a C++ background - unfortunately I don't see any opportunities to move to it ATM, but I haven't really tried hard enough - maybe I'll take a month off after my current project to write something substantial in it and try to find a Rust gig.
I dont really see why its my responsibility as a consumer to police if business deals resturants engage in are "fair". That is the resturant's job. Its part of running a business. Actually its the main part. If the deal doesn't make financial sense - then the business shouldn't make the deal. If the business cannot survive neither taking the deal nor not taking it, then the business is not viable and it should go out of business.

At most i support a law requring that resturants can set different prices for uber eats than for walk in customers
> Chromium wouldn't work at all because it wouldn't be installed following an upgrade

I am not an expert in apt/deb, could expand on this part?

Is this a problem due to Canonical not offering a chromium deb or is it something that was already happening before? (like chromium requires many libraries to be of specific versions and if you pin them in apt then sometimes it is impossible to install any version)
Downvoted for downloading chrome from google to avoid snaps?
It's usually a measure of similarity to the mods, not pg, i.e. whatever dang thinks is interesting goes, if you are not "a good hacker" like dang - too bad for you. Although I do remember there was a pg article not so long ago that was so dumb and nonsensical it was flagged off the frontpage only to forcefully reappear a few hour later.
> If you can't criticize people because that's "alienating" then we should go to Mars already, Earth is fucked.

That's how the game a is played, and we end up with grid-lock. Think what you will, but the military community is huge and is not going anywhere. It includes not just your 2 000 000 active military. Add in the veteran community and their extended family, and you get close to 50 000 000 people. Many of those will happily advocate with you for climate action. So long as you don't single them out as scape goats for your goals. Advocate for carbon tax policy etc. and make sure the Military is not exempt from it. Advocate for naval traffic pollution action, and don't exempt the military.

The percentage of pollution produced by military air- or naval- travel as a percentage of regular civilian is minuscule. For every military airplane in the sky, there are thousands of civilian airplanes. The same is true for sea and land transportation.
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Yes.

My problem in 40y of programming is still making bugs and those I make come from not thinking about edge cases or from wrong assumptions and not from being lulled into writing tests to meet a 100% number.

But personalities differ and if being lulled into security by writing towards a 100% number is a problem for you I would be careful, I totally agree here.
I think the discoverability has increased, though. There are multiple ways to "run" the code, all next to the "run" button (which will automatically change to "test" if you put tests in your code), and compilation options are next to that. Stuff like Clippy and Rustfmt is in the "tools" section.
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The concept of a containment board dates back at least to the early days of 4chan, probably before that.
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It's falsifying the restaurants prices. Grubhub shouldn't be able to say a dish costs $15 when it actually costs $10. It's a false statement that harms the restaurant.

Sure, they will get some deliveries but what about the people that would buy at $10 but not $15? And what about the people that won't dine in because they think prices are 50% higher than they are.

GrubHub is skimming valuable customers while discarding others. That's good for them but ultimately harmful for the restaurant.
Calling for people to be fired is "more speech".
People could paint their roofs white, but they just buy more A/C units instead. Sadly I don't see people "deciding as a society" unless they're forced to by something or someone.
>What is everyone's problem? Why do we want to interfere with this?

Because customers who order through Grubhub/Doordash blame the restaurant for issues such as high prices and wrong orders instead of Grubhub/Doordash. So on one hand, the restaurant gets increased business but on the other they never interact with the customer directly and so their business' reputation depends on Grubhub/Doordash/etc to not fuck up, which is unlikely.
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Maybe consider dual-licensing. For those who want FOSS, offer them the code under GPLv3 or AGPL.

For those who want to use the code in a proprietary setting, offer a commercial license.
Next week there will be complaints that food delivery services are no longer catering to certain areas. Instead of accepting that it is just not profitable for them, journalists will label it as backslash or an act of punishment. Same thing happened in others states/cities that implemented similar rules.

The winners are people living in central areas of the city with lots of restaurants. The losers are the poorer outskirts.

I fully support the idea behind this rule. But this implementation has been proven to not work.
Depends really. Something like iPlug2 (https://github.com/iPlug2/iPlug2) would allow you to write code once and compile to all these targets.
Operative concept: representative.

None of the language you mention had any sort of wide-spread visibility at that time, meaning they were not representative of the (overwhelming) majority experience with statically typed languages.
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What, are we still talking about reading an article on a website, which you could have easily skipped? Or something else?
Bryan Caplan addresses this as one of his "keyhole solutions" to various perceived negative externalities: [0]

> For instance, if the problem lies with migrant welfare use, the most keyhole solution-like approach is to change the rules, or enforcement of rules, surrounding migrant welfare use.

Another option is open borders with a migration tax [1].

At the end of the day, I think that once someone adopts the mindset that, prima facie, it's morally wrong to deny people the right to move where they wish,[2] it becomes a lot easier to shift one's thinking away from "identify that there are hard problems and give up" to solving those problems.

[0] https://openborders.info/keyhole-solutions/

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2035616

[2] http://www.owl232.net/papers/immigration.htm
Well done! The only company that successfully managed to ride both the blockchain and AI hype :)
Reminded me of my Cybiko. Man that thing was great fun.
The socialist busybodies in Portland want to "do something", so apart from rendering these businesses unprofitable, they are also going to put more of the relatively less skilled workers out of work, while at the same time lower the quality of life for consumers who will now be forced to find less convenient or more expensive ways to eat.
Individual restaurants don't do many of the things delivery app companies do: offer an multiplatform app, have a sales team, 401k matching, expensive MBAs, software engineers, and lawyers, etc... A lot of overhead, and how can they really save money? Compare that stuff to just hiring a delivery person for near minimum wage.
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What common startup wisdom do you disagree with an why? Bonus points if you got a startup off the ground based on your better approach :)
> This doesnt mean international students should be forced to leave the country if they are not taking an in-person class, for example. But I don't think it means universities should be prevented from allowing in-person classes if they take precautions and understand the risk.

?

Nobody is being prevented from holding in-person classes if they want to. And yes, international students being forced to leave the country is what we're talking about.

This rule has nothing to do with risk/reward balance or picking which classes benefit most from in-person interaction. The driving analogy would make sense if students were being forced to drive one hour a week without a seatbelt for no reason in order to remain in the country.
Also recently the OpenPOWER foundation got moved under the Linux Foundation
The Grubhubs of the world have substantially better SEO juice; if they start offering delivery for your restaurant, their listing is probably going to wind up above yours.

Once a substantial portion of a restaurant's orders come in this way, they can cut off the flow at will. "Sign a contract with us, or these folks will go elsewhere".
But if you have nice natural sharding keys for your data (the most common example is something like TenantId), how do bounded contexts help?

EDIT: Perhaps you mean something different by bounded context than what is usually meant in the context of DDD, where they separate groups of entities not data within those entities.
Is this not the case? It looks like it's a cap of 10% on what the app can charge the restaurant. It doesn't say one way or another, but I don't see any restriction on what the app can charge the consumer. The big problem isn't so much the size of these fees, the big problem is that these fees are hidden. Like you, I'd rather see a 0% cap, requiring the app to charge the customer directly.
The cynic in me

> noted that the city rule has a provision that drivers’ pay can’t be reduced because of the fee caps

This seems impossible to enforce right? The city can't reasonably have any insight into why driver fees change.
Exactly that! As I read the article, I kept thinking "this guy is not following the money".

The author's ultimate assumption is that money supply is somehow decoupled from accumulation. People receiving money from the government and using it to buy their basic needs may not drive inflation because their labor is not being procured by anyone else AND those basic goods they are buying would not be produced otherwise. However, the constant money stream will drive accumulation on the other side of the economy.

The owners of capital (or the 1%, however you may want to call them) would become unimaginably wealthy in a scenario like this. And it would be hard to prevent that. A super wealthy class is already a big problem today. Imagine the influence that group would have in politics if they had 10x the purchase power they have today.

Another problem that I believe exists with instituting a UBI through money creation (e.g., MMT) is lack of innovation and market disruption. It essentially puts a tax on innovation. In order to hire people you now have to be able to afford to pay more than the government and still have sufficient funds to fight well-established mega corporations.
If I worked that full time, I could easily afford my apartment and other expenses. (Castletown, Isle of Man.)

Now, if I still lived in London? Different story.

Certain restaurant types (high margin, food well suited for delivery) and locales (high population density) seem well suited for delivery. The local steak house? Probably not, for a number of reasons:

- The main profit generator at many sit down venues, drinks, are unlikely to be ordered.

- Impulse add-ons, especially dessert, are less likely. Even with dark pattern upsells on apps. Dining out has many minutes or hours during which additional ordering opportunities are available. Ordering out is a single discrete event.

- On platforms that don’t work with the restaurant, the option of a higher margin delivery-only menu doesn’t exist. Items with low or negative margin can go out the door that otherwise wouldn’t.

- Delivery services seemingly take more for merchant processing than many restaurant chains I’ve helped secure acquiring for. Likely due to much higher chargeback/fraud on digital apps than through traditional delivery or in-restaurant. This is a killer on a low margin vertical such as dining.
How would restaurants have a choice, here? As far as they know, Uber Eats/Doordash/etc are just "regular customers" but are really just scalping the restaurant's product.
Legally, do you have a business relationship with a company you buy a product from on Amazon?
Reposting with new title because original was downvoted for no reason other than the title: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23779616
Thanks for this comment! It resonated with me.

I had somewhat of existential crisis after watching "Cowspiracy" and immediately gave up all meat for a few years for what I anxiously decided was for ethical and environmental reasons.

I did it because I felt guilty, then I watched more documentaries like it and made myself feel more responsible and guilty for everything.

One day I just "woke up" and started eating some fish and chicken. It felt good, not at all because I ate animals (I don't love the ethics of this), but because I no longer felt guilty for eating food.

There are some behaviors and activities I think as individuals we should maybe feel guilty for being involved in, but I don't like the way people are made to feel guilty for just doing the basics.
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This is just reflective of inequality. I don't know about China specifically but in other asian countries that I know, most locals buy their ingredients at the market, and grocery stores target richer less price-conscious consumers. So it's certainly possible that the markup that the grocery store applies is greater than the cost of cooking and delivering the food, but that doesn't mean that it's cheaper than buying the ingredients at a market and cooking it yourself.
Are you sure these companies are getting an increased customer base? These services are giving them advertising but also giving advertising to all their competitors so I would assume it cancels out to a degree. Also the negative reviews for high prices or food being served cold probably hurt more than they help
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Right now an artificial nose is kind of a big device, about the size of a microwave oven or bigger. [1]

You could build much smaller devices to detect particular molecules, but even a CO detector is about the size of your thumb. And it would take quite a lot of such devices to even begin to describe a real smell.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_chromatography%E2%80%93mas...
Who is the delivery worker? Is it the guy on the scooter? The app developer in the office? The marketing guy brought your attention to the take-away place and caused you to make the order?

Since all these services are operating at the loss, the "delivery worker" might actually get more than the full fee.
Nonsense.

They have been making these silly doomsday forecasts for 30 years now.
WHO says something different:

Q: Can asymptomatic coronavirus disease be transmitted?

A: Asymptomatic transmission refers to transmission of the virus from a person, who does not develop symptoms. There are few reports of laboratory-confirmed cases who are truly asymptomatic, and to date, there has been no documented asymptomatic transmission.
Ask HN: What do I do if I take a career break?
I'm a young developer with a couple of years of experience in industry; that is obviously not to say I still have a lot to learn. I am dissatisfied with my job but haven't been able to find a position elsewhere to go to - my dissatisfaction right now is so that I'm thinking of taking a career break, living off my savings for a while until something comes up.

If I was to do that, how would my time be best utilised? I'm looking more for things I could do to better myself as a professional without having a formal job than suggestions about my lifestyle like "go on holiday", etc...
Unlikely: there's no visible motor on the wheel (it appears to just be a clip holding it in place, so all that speed is the hamster's doing. It's no more animal cruelty than tripping and faceplanting while running would be the ground assaulting you.
You can build new towns, but they tend to have a chicken-and-egg problem with respect to jobs. No employers will set up shop in a new town because there are no employees, people moving in get jobs in the nearest city because there are none suitable in town. These places are often called bedroom or commuter towns.
https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5730772021411840

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1536058

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110269
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If you are someone who games metrics for his benefit or hire people who are gaming metrics for their benefit, I assume yes, this metric is very easy to game as are most metrics. Metric systems are not cheater proof.
That video gets off to a very slow start but by minute 10 or so some very interesting features are on display.

Some that stuck out were using filenames plus regexes or line numbers to create links in text files, a text file that is also a shell session, things that have been done in vi/emacs but this editor is mouse-centric so it looks very different.
They're not profitable with 30% fees; they won't be profitable with 10% fees, but they won't withdraw, they'll just adjust their burn rate in the hopes that eventually they'll dominate the market through undercutting prices that they can start to jack them up again through other channels, or bully municipalities into changing these rules.
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The public noticed the value of technologies MSFT offers. Not everyone who has money and invests understands what Cloud is or why MS Teams is something that might sell well.

Covid-19 gave all those people a very visual example of the value proposition.