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How about not redeeming gift cards for 24 hours?

Basically gift cards are unspendable the same day they are purchased, giving people q day to cancel.

I would think most legitimate gift cards are not spent the same day they are purchased.
Clear code and clear tests absolutely don’t need comments that explain them if they are really clear, at least for me. Comments are extremely useful to explain something unexpected. Commit messages are too limited to explain properly a use case, but linking to a Jira with the proper explanation does the trick. From the tests you can see both the typical use cases and the correct way of using some piece of code and have a guarantee that the code respects the specification. With the comments you have none of this guarantees. I had the opposite experience from you apparently, the people that I worked with that used excessive comments were not up to par with the rest of the team. Also it may related to the mental model, comments just break my flow and make more difficult for me to read the code.
Public transport also is just subsidized and not free.
@ThrustVectoring has an excellent answer, but to add one more bit:

When you have your own delivery staff, you are planning your costs and setting your prices with all that built in. When a third party is handling deliveries (in a very non-integrated manner), it's a lot harder to consider the delivery cost as a part of the business, because the cost is being borne by a third party who is charging you an arbitrary amount that may not actually reflect delivery costs.

Since the third-party delivery companies usually take a cut for their services, restaurant owners can't plan that way. They do have choices: they can raise prices overall or they can charge more per-item for delivery orders (if the delivery platform allows it). If they do this, the restaurant owners will be fine; they'll offset any loss to the delivery company with an increase in prices (as long as this doesn't hurt non-delivery business).

The problem lies with the third-party delivery companies. They have drivers who are sitting idle during their downtime, so they have to pay them more per-delivery, essentially paying them to sit around. They have a ton of cheap VC money behind them, and VC's seem to care more about market share than profits, so they are incentivized to do deliveries at a lower price than what it actually costs. So it's no surprise that we see things like revenue of $50M on expenses of $100M. It's a race to the bottom, fueled by someone else's money. All the delivery companies must charge well below cost in order to be competitive. At some point (hopefully) people will stop investing in these companies. At that point, we'll see the final consolidated state of things, and we'll see delivery fees go up dramatically, or service quality go down quite a bit, or both.
"Average expected contribution" is not precisely defined in the Harvard document you provide, and thus does not commit Harvard to any particular course of action.
So, then, where's Intel's hoarded research? Seems like they're in the best possible "market situation" to want to be seen as innovating, right now.
Nope, it prompts you to enter a positive number.
Looks interesting. How does it work under the covers? Do you have an army of testers of various demographics?
Gentrification is a symptom of limited supply. The way to reduce housing prices in the face of increased demand is to flood the market with supply, by increasing high-density zoning, and loosening requirements such as parking. SF will probably respond with even more rent control, which won't work.
I never had any problem getting my credit card tips as a store-employed driver. The apps have done some of that kind of bullshit, but at the end of my shift at the store I'd get paid my credit card tips in cash. Only difference is that credit card tips got added to total pay for payroll tax withholding, while cash tips relied on your own record-keeping for tax reporting purposes.
Apparently ICE won't let international students stay in the US in an "online only" school [0]. Makes me realize that as convenient as it is to be able to get education online, having fast internet speed is a privilege.

[0]: https://twitter.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/12802074875730698...
- Ditch social media

- Forget tabbed browsing, try Surf/Vimb + Unbound under Linux/BSD

- Try Gopher, visit HN thru gopher://hngopher.com

- If you do Reddit, don't comment, check it under gopher://gopherddit.com

- Avoid multitasking
It will be at reduced levels.

I live in upstate New York and was thinking of vacationing in Ohio this summer and decided against it because cases are surging in Ohio. This winter it was going to be Toronto or maybe Thunder Bay but I don't think the border is open to Canada.
Neighborhoods are constituted by people not just shitty new wood frame construction.
OP here! I believe Apple is badly letting its users down.

The interaction and security paradigms on iOS being better and different to macOS is something Apple invests heavily in marketing. I'm a technically proficient user, but I didn't know that my iOS clipboard was an open book for each app. Basically: I believe that the average user has an increased expectation of privacy on iOS, and Apple does a lot to cultivate that expectation.

My intuitive belief in how it worked (which turned out to be wrong) is probably close to the system I now advocate for Apple to reform to:

0. Apps cannot access clipboard contents by default,

1. UIPasteboard should be pollable for whether the clipboard has contents on it or not,

2. UIPasteboard should be able to return the type of object on the clipboard so that apps don't incorrectly show e.g. an active "Paste" button when the user has a text input field selected and an image is stored on the clipboard,

3. Apps should only be allowed to access the contents of the clipboard when a user invokes a specific action to paste.

4. Apps which wish to prefetch URLs or other predictable strings (e.g. feed-readers and podcast apps) should present a regex-type pattern for the type of string they expect to be on the clipboard, and then Apple should display the URL in the system keyboard (where the predictive text field / SMS code fetch goes atm).

It's crazy to me that Apple is being applauded for sending privacy alerts for a behaviour they have the power to stop.
The insulation of almost everybody from failure is somewhat of a problem.

On the other hand this is a unique situation where the economic downturn is being explicitly forced by governments.

Companies failing is important, and companies acting in ways in which they try not to fail is important, and all of this protection from failure puts companies who try to be conservative and responsible in their finances preparing to survive bad times are at a significant disadvantage.

And with all of this money being injected into the economy, we are absolutely going to get an enormous amount of inflation... eventually. You could see it as already happening with the valuation of the stock market. Markets usually lag consumer prices in inflationary periods, but it looks like this unique situation will be in reverse.

I think these are the first steps towards post-scarcity economies where money becomes vastly less important, but the road there will be extremely rocky, I wouldn't be surprised by global famines and world wars before it's all sorted out.

Short term though, many of these actions are extremely necessary to prevent a serious depression. What happens when you prevent a global depression by everybody injecting lots of new money into the various global economies is sort of an unknown, if everybody devalues their currency the same then it's not like everybody's currency can be devauled against everybody else's.
Just this week I heard an established jewelry store advertising synthetic diamonds. I've understood that historically de Beers would cut off jewelry stores from the supply of natural diamonds if they sold lab-grown, but maybe their power has declined enough for the stores to jump ship.

The ad noted "bigger" than natural, "created in a tiny star" (probably CVD https://www.brilliantearth.com/lab-created-diamonds/), and something about "created since you started dating..."

I expected them to cite the improved clarity vs natural, but the ad didn't mention it.
There is still significant aid available with incomes above $65k. There's a calculator: https://college.harvard.edu/financial-aid/net-price-calculat...
If it's $9 million why even bother, surely they could cancel a C-site bonus and cover that.
International students attend classes in separate rooms, looking at live video feed.
Inspiring! This would be an awesome punch-and-roll macropad for voice actors... well, this particular voice actor anyway. I currently use a 10 key pad with tape covering all but the three keys I want to press.
I'm five years into my career, and still experience this same kind of anxiety. Only recently did I revisit algorithms as I'm getting serious about my job search now, and am still super nervous.

Not to mention, having a family, I don't have a ton of time to study for the gauntlet decent tech companies put in place to vet candidates.

As for personal projects? See lack of time above. I'm lucky to get an hour a week to work on something I actually enjoy. Forget about building something unique/useful/worth public launch in any kind of reasonable time. Also, let's not forget the fun non-compete/anything you build while employed with X is owned by X clauses.

Hiring in general is broken. In tech it just seems amplified.
Sure, but then you offload the complexity to the functions used as the declarative building blocks, so you do the documenting in a different place, though you will probably end up documenting complex declarative business logic anyway. (like why is process X that is so similar to process Y require Z different declarative blocks)
The next step takes place after the singularity and ist the other way around. Humans try to stay below the awareness of the AI:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_War:_Fleet_Command
Thanks. This makes a lot of sense. Hopefully they will go for it. Next time I'm down in the Bay Area I will definitely try converting them and it sounds like it might be the best solution for me to be able to remotely assist with their computing needs. With the aging demographic in this country, I'd imagine there is some real opportunity for someone to create more tools to help those of us looking for solutions to help our parents navigate their safe computing / IT needs remotely.
As another example, checkout Pepakura for Windows.

I've used OpenSCAD to design simple 3D models and then used Pepakura to unfold them into flat designs. Manually cutting the designs is slow painstaking work. I eventually purchased a Cricut to cut the pieces out, but it's ability to cut shapes to a very specific scale is lacking. So, I find myself not having created very much.
Oof, yeah.

And even if you do manage to see them, sorting out how to intervene effectively --- where and when and in a manner that actually helps --- is still a Hard Problem.

I've lost a few friends this way. One I managed to intercede with. The first time....

Thank you for trying.
Agreed. All the firearm channels I have been subscribed to still exist. The only words they appear to be afraid to use are related to the pandemic. One of them holds up a Corona beer instead.
Isn't it plausible this could be affected by other the changes in infection demographics, testing capability, and treatment options we've seen since then?
This seems like some pretty good reporting-- I was particularly interested by the sections noting the difference between the marketing speech that is featured heavily on the site and the actual language used in the privacy policy and ToS.

Those kind of discrepancies really make it tough for me to get interested in a company, because despite the best intentions of people, function often follows form. If an organization doesn't take their mission seriously enough to modify their corporate structure to fundamentally align the two (I think a public benefit corporation with reporting requirements is an example of that), then I'm not sure why other people should either.
Count me out. I'm willing to pay for things that improve my life, but if anything, this is likely to be a downgrade in terms of user experience.

Google benefits from the fact that they have billions of users. The nominal cost of their overhead per user is very very low. A company like this is gonna struggle to get even a million users, let alone billions. So even if they charge, it's unlikely they can keep up with Google's infrastructure.

I care about my privacy a little, but less than the cost of a subscription + added hassle / downgraded user experience. I'm betting the the market of people for whom the tradeoff is worthwhile is low enough thast this company won't take off. But I support competition, so I hope i'm wrong.
This was tried multiple times but it never took off. One that was kinda widespread at least in the Germany blog / podcast scene was: https://flattr.com

I think at some point they changed the way it works and it fizzled out. I barely see it any more.

For YouTube: Maybe YouTube Premium is what you need then? No ads and you are supporting the creators you are watching.
And low unemployment, which, I guess, is the main reason for this bond buying program.
> we should take national ownership in the company if they want us to buy their debt.

Equity is equity and debt is debt. The two things are different and serve different purposes. There is no reason to take equity in a company when all the company wants is a loan.
sure, and for all of them you can find if they do or not by looking at the source code.
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>"Male spaces"?! Since when are conferences male spaces, they are a freaking professional space and yes expecting men (and women) to act professionally is exactly what we should do.

Male spaces are any spaces that are predominantly occupied by men. It is an observational definition and does not imply that women are deliberately excluded.

>B*ll, to imply that men can't control themselves is just offensive to men. But I guess you're also a proponent that women should wear burkas to protect them from those men that can't control themselves. Funny how those "policies" are always to the detriment of the women, not the men who can't control themselves. So much for unequal strain.

No, I am not implying that men cannot control themselves. But it's possible that in unisex spaces, there is a much higher burden on men not to be men than there is on women to accommodate to the spaces they are entering (practically by force).

But I'm glad you brought up burkas, because I considered mentioning the fact that men and women have largely self segregated across time and culture; we seem to be taking our very modern experiment with diversity and inclusion as though history (and non western culture) has been unambiguously wrong.

My ultimate point is inclusiveness does not come without its own costs, and there's no guarantee that an environment re-emagined to be overly inclusive will overall accomplish it's initial goals with the same effectiveness. In fact some degree of implicit exclusivity is not only good, but necessary for many pursuits. In sports the differences (not just in performance, but strategy) between males and females are obvious - but we're just supposed to pretend that sexual dimorphism stops at the shoulders?
Why do you think no one would buy their stores and continue the same business but with living wages and such?
> Not that I can really blame them, even if you make enough money that your kids don't qualify for aid, $70,000+ per year per child is just out of hand.

At a high enough income level, is it out of hand? If the parents' income is, say 7 figures per year, why not charge even more, and in doing so increase the assistance to those making closer to the median household income?
>another commenter points out that another version of the article does indeed say 30 seconds to complete one unit, as opposed to “one unit per 30 seconds

How would that even be possible? Also what's are the start and end state here? Just pure assembly? Surely printing the PCBs can't possibly take a fraction of 30s. Neither can placing and SMD soldering the components.
Most applicants fail out but are still comped.

For a business the cost to make the hire is the same, the time commitment is much less and the candidate fit is more accurate
You may not need a global god state in React
Growing cities can avoid gentrification if the investment improves opportunities for people that already live there.

For example, a city could plow money into K-12 education and the local college.

Then, it could provide small businesses loans to students graduating from the local university.
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But then your problem is with authoritarian harassment, not with facial recognition. If you're fine with the fact that the police can stop and harass random people based on indicators that have a high rate of false positives, then facial recognition is not the first of your issues.
yes, the ingenuity of capitalism is redirecting selfishness and greed toward societally productive uses, rather than attempting to eliminate them. but that mechanism has largely been subverted from a relentless onslaught over the last many decades (cartels, regulatory capture, etc.).

but i'm not sure why currency needs reworking? unless you mean the central banking system and where and how money gets injected into the economy?

(having just watched hamilton, the interesting bit to me how instrumental he was in the creation of our financial system as much as anything else--something that didn't stick from high school history apparently)
I tried smell testing it too. For glass, we find 70 tonnes for a 1 MW capacity unit [1]. Using slightly more normal 20 year lifetime, and I'll re-use 25% capacity factor (which is about the avg in the USA), this comes out to 1597 tonnes/TWh of glass, compared to 2700 on the plot I showed. Running some sensitivity analysis shows that if you use 15% capacity factor, then you get 2662, basically the number given. Capacity factor is very location dependent so I guess the answer for solar resources is also highly location dependent. For instance if you're choosing between nuclear and solar in Boston, these numbers are pretty reasonable. In Arizona, there might be a factor of 2-3 improvement in solar's resource usage.

In any case, best-case solar uses vastly more raw materials from Mother Earth than all-case nuclear.

Also, solar is usually first built where it will make the most money, so early fleet capacity factors are likely to be biased high. They will decrease as people build solar in less sunny places.

[1] https://www.irena.org/-/media/Files/IRENA/Agency/Publication...
I need this as an emacs mode. Would make coding feel different
> The kind of journalism that these people do is dead as a professional information-delivery job because it is outcompeted by obsessive bloggers since the advent of the ubiquitous Internet.

Eh, not so much. That's not much different than saying that journalism has been out-competed by the Facebook News Feed. It might be true that they've "outcompeted" journalism by pulling the rug out from under its revenue model, but they certainly haven't out-competed it from an information-delivery perspective.

Blogs/social media is full of grossly unreliable information, for the most part due to the lack of professional journalistic standards. If they're amateur, then they have greatly reduced coverage due to lack of time and experience. If they're professional, then they've either recreated traditional journalism (with all the same difficulties) or they exist explicitly as PR to push some agenda. I'm reminded of the hordes or mattress review blogs that are mostly owned by or tacking kickbacks from some mattress company or other (see https://www.fastcompany.com/3065928/sleepopolis-casper-blogg...).

The idea that blogs could replace journalism is a dated, idealistic, early-00s idea. The best they ever managed to consistently do was to was replicate the hot air of the opinion pages. Sure, occasionally amateur blog gets a scoop, but they're relatively few and far between, separated by chasms of noise.
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"This is bad. ICE just told students here on student visas that if their school is going online-only this fall, the students must depart the United States and cannot remain through the fall semester. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/sevp-modifies-temporary-ex...
Not fuck you, just pay what you can? Harvard is extremely affordable - like among the most affordable of any school.
Here's an example. Brendan Eich became CEO of Mozilla. Someone tweeted that he donated money to the side fighting against gay marriage. The internet mob did their thing. Brendan Eich was forced to resign.

I disagree with his political choice. But I defend his right to make a political choice, and not be fired because of it.

You shouldn't get fired from any job for your political choices.
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Not the person you were replying to, but in PyCharm:

- right click on the line number, click Annotate; this gives you the commit date and author in the gutter

- hover over the date/author name; this gives you the commit hash and message

- click on the hash itself in the popover; this shows the git commit graph on the Version Control tab

- right click on the date/author name, click Annotate Revision; this opens up the version committed then, with its git blame in the gutter.
I was using "community" as synonymous with a geographical area. Your comment matches my thought of particular geographical area receives money -> the folks in that area get pushed out some period of time later.
First Bezos unbundles product search with Amazon from Google's core BU. Amazon US is earning an ARPU of 900 almost an order of magnitude higher than Google. Now Twitch unbundles the most profitable piece of Youtube while he bundles a Netflix video service in Amazon Prime at the same time.

What does Bezos eat for breakfast?
Agree. I wonder what is the rationale for all this. Other than plain old xenophobia.

Will this reduce pandemic ? No, it will incentivize colleges to offer in-person classes promoting COVID.

Will this reduce students on non-immigration visas ? Not sure it does (students might find in-person classes somewhere). Some students might just say 'fuck it' and study elsewhere. Maybe that's good for them.

Will this reduce unemployment? Maybe. But I'm doubtful. Most F1 students are barred from working off campus other than internships, and I doubt on-campus work and internships make a dent in unemployment.
> No money is paid from the government (according to you) but they acquire debts (on behalf of citizens) with owed amounts of $8B?

No, the government does not acquire debts, the only entity here that acquired debts is Walmart.

When walmart wants capital they have two options, issue stock, or issue bonds. When they issue bonds buyers can buy the bonds. The bond is a contract which says that the Walmart will pay the holder of the bond certain monies.

What happened here is Walmart issued bonds, those bonds were bought by some legal entities, then the Fed bought those bonds from the legal entities that held them.

So the fed paid money, which it created out of thin air, to some legal entities, in exchange for contracts which require that Walmart pays the Fed some money (probably quite a bit more than what the Fed paid for those contracts). When Walmart pays back the principle of the Bond the money basically gets deleted and the yield is added to the Federal reserves balance sheet.

(I am not an economist, so I may be wrong on some terms here).