skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed on the management. Regarding Intel’s CEO, Bob Swan is a finance guy with no history or background in semiconductors. It remains to be seen whether someone with no real background in technology or in the semiconductor industry can turn things around at Intel.
New reddit is so bad I can’t believe they are pushing it. It’s slower. It’s less usable. The us is worse. It’s worse in every way. I hate it and I only say that I hate anything very, very rarely.
They can also track you by IP and other means... It is better to avoid CDNs if you can (mostly because they are so popular and centralized).
The trade-off in this case is hundreds or thousands of hours of learning the ins and outs of Linux, hardware, etc., and still having to put in work to keep all of this running and secure.

If all you want to do is some occasional light browsing, use that banking app safely (that won't even run on Linux), look at photos and share them with others, write the occasional letter – why go through all of this? Unless this is your job or hobby, it feels weirdly out of touch to expect everyone and their mother to do this. It would feel like a huge disservice to them if that was all that IT could offer them as a solution to their needs.

Besides, is it really that desirable to keep hardware that old running for so long, outside of industry or some specific niches? It's doable, with a lot of effort and asceticism, but I'd rather have a recent device with all the convenience and horsepower and battery life and energy efficiency those have.
I've seen mixed messages as to the infectiousness of the virus with regards to asymptomatic carriers (or those with hardly-noticeable symptoms). Can anyone point me to some recent research that clarifies this? It seems like the most important statistic for creating policy in the near future, as fevers can be detected with thermal cameras.
Microcode obviously isn't hardware since it is program we can replace. It is firmware.
> Option implies that restaurants can opt in/out which for cases like GrubHub isn’t possible.

Should a manufacturer have the right to say that you can't re-sell something that you bought from them fairly? That doesn't sound great to me. If Doordash fairly buy the food then they can sell it to me (as long as they follow food regulations). That sounds fine, doesn't it?
Fractional Ownership: A Trendy Business Model That Might Be Having a Moment
Understood. But then the law should ban pretending to be someone else (it probably does, but evidently not effectively enough). Having a cap of x% on fees won't solve this problem. It will solve another problem which wasn't a problem in the first place.
> to solve our pressing problems

We will always have finite resources. Given finite resources not every human need/wish will ever be achievable, and various people have various needs and wishes. There will always be a boundary between the needs that are achievable with very little resource allocation and needs that are completely out of the realm of possibility. On that boundary, people will always have disagreements about what's more urgent or not. Some things will necessarily be deprioritized, and for a segment of the population it will look like pressing problems are not solved and the system is broken to the core.

There is no way to get out of this, in any conceivable system with finite resources.
I think 'delivery worker' is a clear term that identifies the worker that brings the food to someone's door. It's certainly the term that identifies, of all the people on your list, the one in the most fragile position.

But in any case, my point is that the cap is not on how much that person can make, but on how much these companies can charge.
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> WHO says something different:

IIRC, I've read the WHO tends to drag its feet with new information, and is usually the last major organization to come around to new findings. They might not be the best group to listen to in a fast moving area like this.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/04/health/239-experts-with-o...

> But interviews with nearly 20 scientists — including a dozen W.H.O. consultants and several members of the committee that crafted the guidance — and internal emails paint a picture of an organization that, despite good intentions, is out of step with science....

> But the infection prevention and control committee in particular, experts said, is bound by a rigid and overly medicalized view of scientific evidence, is slow and risk-averse in updating its guidance and allows a few conservative voices to shout down dissent.

> “They’ll die defending their view,” said one longstanding W.H.O. consultant, who did not wish to be identified because of her continuing work for the organization. Even its staunchest supporters said the committee should diversify its expertise and relax its criteria for proof, especially in a fast-moving outbreak....

> The W.H.O. has found itself at odds with groups of scientists more than once during this pandemic.

> The agency lagged behind most of its member nations in endorsing face coverings for the public. While other organizations, including the C.D.C., have long since acknowledged the importance of transmission by people without symptoms, the W.H.O. still maintains that asymptomatic transmission is rare.

> “At the country level, a lot of W.H.O. technical staff are scratching their heads,” said a consultant at a regional office in Southeast Asia, who did not wish to be identified because he was worried about losing his contract. “This is not giving us credibility.”
> When the redesign becomes mandatory and old reddit goes away (and don't kid yourself, it will)

Will it? The old phone design has been running for many years now, no?
Secondary Effects
This feels like capping extortion. The real problem in my opinion is the delivery apps masquerading under a restaurants name online, and then then charging for it. When I order online, I have no idea if i'm ordering from the restaurant directly, or if i'm ordering from some app that's registered a website under their name, and has better SEO.
> I wake up around 6 am, go to the gym with my buddy, come back to my room to take a shower, eat a bowl of salad and then leave for work. I get to work around 9 am, leave around 5 to meet friends, hang out, or do whatever activity I was planning for that evening.

Where do people get that energy?
Does it not work in incognito mode? the compiler reaches time out with the println!("Hello, world!") example

Edit: reloading the page fixed it.
You're one sentence away from discovering Common Lisp ; )
How much does the insurance cost? Was it hard to find someone wiling to insure that?

Finally, you pay 0.2% but Ally pays 1% yet you say your rates are as good.
Many? What other services do you know of that will be blocked? You speak as if you have a lot of knowledge/experience in this area.
I've been working for a couple multinational corporations during last 10 years or so and I never had ANY issues with using Tor in the workplace.
It does happen that you can have the setting on and them sending you to new reddit. It’s happened many times for me.
I disagree with the tweet:

> The Rust playground is pretty dope. D*mn near a full blown IDE running in your browser ...

I am not a fan of exaggeration. No, it is not ‘near’ a full-blown IDE.

That said, I think the Playground is wonderful, especially for a compiled language.
In addition, food delivery is not a basic need, it's a luxury.

If a luxury delivery service drives Lamborghinis and charge 200 to wealthy people, so be it. If a Toyota Corolla wants to charge up to 25% for your local pasta restaurant, so be it.
Ski instructor? Mine site commissioning engineer? Game developer (except you get the rest of the year off because you got fired when the game shipped.)
That's not an unreasonable concern but it does mean you're writing code targeting the lowest common denominator. That's not a decision free from negative consequences.
From the linked article:

> IBM continues to believe that the best way to manage key open source projects such as Istio is with true open governance, under the auspices of a reputable organization with a level playing field for all contributors, transparency for users, and vendor-neutral management of the license and trademarks.

Based on this comment it sounds like IBM is saying that Google's OUC is not a vendor-neutral manager of license and trademark. It's also suggesting that there won't be a level playing field or transparency.

Basically IBM just wants it managed by an independent un-biased entity. Which sounds fair, if the whole purpose of the thing is not profit for one org, but the profit of a community.

More evidence to my argument that it is impossible for a corporation to own and develop a true community-led solution. The corporation is a slave to its shareholders and profit margins, so the community's wishes will never take priority.
That's a messaging/marketing issue, which we regulate all the time.

It would be better and fairer to legislate that GrubHub and others must be clear about where their pricing comes from rather than legislating what their prices should be.
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Surely this price control won’t cause any unintuitive deadweight loss...
Wow didn’t take long to lose direction after Antirez’s departure.
> We provide a rate of return on savings that on average is in-line with the top yielding savings accounts out there like Marcus or Ally. You might get a higher return if you’re lucky and win more prizes than expected. You might get a lower return if you win fewer prizes than expected. Even in a worst case scenario where you never win a prize, you still have your savings.

Can you elaborate more on this? (Maybe you can't because of the SEC?) APY of Ally is 1.0% right now, vs. 0.20%, so are the expected value of winnings 0.8%?
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Hah, that's hardly the beginning of their shady practices.
> Remediating climate change will involve unimaginably labor-intensive tasks, like relocating every coastal city in the world kilometers inland

Isn't sea level rise likely to only be a few feet? Regardless, Holland seems fine living below sea level. I don't think we really need to move cities kilometers inland.
If we were going to limit profits, we should target visa/MasterCard/amex instead.

They are a true oligopoly taxing the entire economy and have acted in a highly anti-trust fashion. Limiting their fees to something like 0.1% of the transaction is plenty to not lose money and would put back something like 2.8% of every transaction back into lower prices or into the businesses hands.
I think the parent commenter would prefer a law that requires ordering platforms to list their cut separately, but doesn't actually cap how big that cut can be. That would give customers more information to choose for themselves whether to use a given ordering platform.
Finally a reasoned critique I can agree with.

Took you long enough, thread!
Honestly boggles my mind how unusable and slow the redesign is. But I don't think it matters anymore, seems like most Reddit users just use the app these days which is equally bad design wise but runs ok at least.
They don't say something different. The key part is who does not develop symptoms, i.e. ever. From what I understand the WHO basically distinguishes between asymptomatic transmission (which they say is uncommon), and presymptomatic transmission.
If you have nobody using your delivery service, you can't maintain deliver-ers. You're running a three sided marketplace in which you need to have both minimum wages and work for your delivery folks, enough orders for the restaurant to bother, and enough restaurants and ok enough prices for the consumer.

That's why it's expensive. That's why you need marketing who doesn't just take out a facebook ad but literally visits and calls restaurants, IT teams to literally teach the basics to restaurants, and an ops team who can assist your delivery folks when a restaurant runs out of onion rings or accidentally slips an allergen into an order. All of that adds up real fast because you need all of those services running at all the times the business is running.

Nobody is going to order from a delivery service that only gives you two options. Nobody is going to deliver for a service that only gives you two or three delivery runs a night.

> economies of scale if you're effectively sharing a driver pool and software development cost with all of your competitors.

The software is so cheap as to be fungible here. It's the drivers who have geographical restrictions, dynamic shifts (gig economy) and also the freedom to not take orders. If you're a runner and you know Chik-fil-a has horrendous lines all the time, you may just never want to run those orders - and in the gig economy, that's a viable choice for you. The delivery service still has to handle those cases (pay more on them, offer incentives, argue with the restaurant for a way to get orders to drivers more easily, etc).

> I don't know why the delivery services aren't forced to undercut each other's prices to get the businesses.

Delivery services don't generally struggle to get customers, they struggle to get and keep drivers.
You're still using analogies to make a point? You still don't get my point.

Let me try one last time. When you call yourself a "toolchain for building native apps", what people are expecting is not another Electron like scheme. If electron called itself "a toolchain for building native apps", people will say it's false advertising.
Really interesting concept! Are you planning on adding index fund investing in the future? It seems like you could incentivize investors to take a long term view with a similar, gamified approach.
What market competition? Uber is buying Postmates. Both businesses lose money. The only reason to do so is to decrease competition.
The worst are those who prioritize politics above fighting the disease or those who consider mitigation solutions (such as masks) as a political statement.
Also these delivery services effectively provide advertising for the restaurants. If you’re not on the platform, you might as well be invisible.
Now I know why the gopher / gemini project exists.
>“You’re hurting her,” a woman yelled.

What should we do with people like this?
what other periods and cities there have been like 1900 Vienna. I guess the 70s Palo Alto. What others?
You're absolutely correct, but the hypocrisy will fall on deaf ears at the current point in our timeline. However, I'm confident that history will accurately portray these times as the textbook definition of psychological projection.
Actually many times it works agaisnt the restaurant. It misleads consumers into thinking they have high prices for real and many times their own reputation is harmed because these apps use call centers to place the orders and fuck up royally.
Objects that can be equal but not identical are not symbols.

They are, at best, cargo culted symbols: character strings with a tag bit which says "read/print me without quotes, so I visually look like something out of Lisp".
I sometimes remember then end of that episode when they drive to the coast, out of the blue for no reason. I mustn't have been very old when I saw it.
That one and the volcano one, and the hilbilly mother under the bed one.
Not super low end, but I used a Thinkpad X200 running xubuntu well into 2016. Swapping in an SSD kept everything feeling fast enough
There are also another advantage: font subsetting. Google Font automatically subset large fonts. This doesn't really matter for Latin, but for CJK where an entire font can be >10MB, Google Font automatically subset it into >100 files, partitioned by the general usage frequency.

I served my own fonts, but subsetting those font aren't trivial matter. Personally I just grabbed the unicode range that Google Font used and generate my own subsets, but it is not that trivial.

(The reason I served my own font is actually because some font on Google Font are not up to dated, and I actually abuse the unicode-range to use different fonts for different scripts)
It's a symbolic gesture, not a reasoned policy initiative.
Taking a career break after two years is going to be a red flag to a lot of hiring managers. It'd be safer to say you became a freelancer or a contractor.
What's it like to get a “?” email from Jeff Bezos? [video]
Hey HN: I've pulled together a video for one of the most common questions I get about Amazon: What's it like to receive a question mark email from Jeff Bezos?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1RD-UDE0rQ

I've never found any high quality info online for this topic save a few responses on a Quora thread. In the video I promise additional content, but I didn't realize that YouTube had certain thresholds to be able to post a link off of YT to another site, so I am including the link here: https://www.interviewat.com/pl/195251 (it's also in the video description text).

This is a good look at the process, deliverables, and outcomes when working at AMZN. For reference, I was the Director of Product Management for the Kindle sw platform. I probably handled no fewer than 10 question mark emails from Jeff over the 3 years I was there.
I think Unit Testing is good for when you have big teams and changes that can go across knowledge boundaries... so the tests can keep people in check from making changes that mess up other parts of the codebase inadvertently.
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Being too much behind a product idea is doubly bad, because an idea isn't a business. You need some plan for how that'll progress over time, or how does any delivery, licensing, or potential investment get managed?

I'm about 1.5y into a startup that's picking up steam, and I've stopped feeling worried about similar "ideas". We have a plan for who wants our product, what they care about, and how much they'll pay for it. We have an platform that can be used to support a plethora of unique marketable products. We have a sales team in place. There's so much more going on than the original "what if we used version control thinking with contracts and legal knowledge?"
Most people couldn't care less how much the restaurant or the the driver is making from an order. Believing the market will regulate itself to a point where the restaurant and the driver receive a fair cut while the customer pays less and the gig app makes a profit is almost childish. The scales are not balanced in this equation. A company that has virtually infinite money to burn is in a position to burn the whole market to the ground and rebuild it on it's own terms if it wished. And in fact that's what has been happening.
When I think of "Uber", 'well-compensated employee' is not something that comes to mind.
Don't you afraid it would be like browser addons - developers selling users to spyware companies?
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> So delivery apps pay restaurants 25% less for their food.

No, delivery apps charge you extra and pretend it's part of the restaurant cost. If you can buy your burrito at the restaurant for $8, the delivery service is going to show you a price of $10 on the order screen (and add in their $4 delivery fee, etc).
Does this addon have any security implications when used in combination with uBlock or NoScript? If the JS is being injected, does that induce any risks of JS being executed when it should be blocked?
Giggle. How things evolve. "Unit Testing" came out of the Smalltalk work around 1997. I was there.

It was Kent Becks brain child. The first NUnit framework was SUnit.

What was a unit? Kent was never absolute about this, I always felt because as a consultant he wanted to peddle the theory far and wide. But the early examples all had a pretty strong trend towards "a unit is an object." Nowaday "what is an object" is pretty loose; I just finished some Dart tutorials where an object is a way of "organizing our code into smaller reusable pieces" which ironically, I did in Fortran77 with common blocks and well factored files. But in the Smalltalk world, which was "objects all the way down", an object was small amounts of imperative behavior bound to data, where computational results were achieved via an approximation of the way cellular biology solves problems: lots of little glumps of data that achieve a larger result by sending messages to each other.

This process of turning behavior and algorithms into things, or reification, was sometimes easy and sometimes hard. An object for Point, obvious. An object for SortCollationPolicy, less so.

What Unit Tests did was help programmers design good objects. Beck said this in eXtreme Programming eXplained. He said that traditional QA departments would laugh themselves silly at what unit tests did. But that the value was that it drove good design. And that in a collaborative (pair programming) environment, it helped communicate the design intents around objects to fellow developers. I did the Smalltalk koolaid fest for 20 years. I found Unit Testing to be immensely effective. It made my designs more cellular again and again. When my designs were solid, I had less bugs.

As a mechanical engineer, I still see similarities between unit tests and geometric dimensioning and tolerancing, a practice in the mechanical world that also swam against the current of conventional testing practices and left some shaking their head.

In todays world where OO design is more of a "small unit of organization" I'm not surprised that unit testing also seems meh.
Scalping product AND funneling all the blame on their fuckups onto the restaurants. It's a american rent seekers dream gig.
Another great example is Aliivibrio fischeri [0]. Generally, squids are subject to predators as they group together and at night. The light of the moon creates a shadow that predators recognize as a group of squid. These squids have a special organ that lets in these bacterium that when in sufficient numbers, called quorum sensing, actually light up. All these bacterium glowing at the same time reduces the shadow and protects the group of squid. The bacterium are provided a safe space and therefore this is a great example of symbiosis.

0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliivibrio_fischeri#Symbiosis_...
No, but friendly devices like Pinephone exist :)
Disallow foreign code execution in the browser, allow spawn of non-native code only in a separate process. No JavaScript, no Java, etc.
> Why have this expire post COVID though?

Because COVID has entirely transformed the economics of owning a restaurant. It might be worthwhile revisiting this in the future when eating in restaurants is available (and safe).
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Is it possible that some of that difference is due to amortization of hardware and other assets? I'm not a finance person, but I thought that those sorts of expenses show up incrementally on the books over the course of the amortization period even though they're typically paid for up front... (?)
This largely does that, by my reading.

The delivery apps aren't forbidden from charging the customer a sky-high fee. They're just not permitted to hide it in the supposed cost of food.

Before: Pizza ($10), Grubhub fee ($2), delivery fee ($3), but the Grubhub fee is actually $5 because they're taking 30% of the restaurant's revenue behind the scenes.

Now Grubhub has to accurately show their fee as $5 if they want that revenue still. The restaurant either makes more money to stay afloat, or can charge less for the pizzas if they're doing fine.
> people experiencing the "unit tests pass but the code is broken"

Arguing against unit testing is like arguing against type-safety (and, usually, anti-unit-testing people are anti-type-safety people, too). The presumption always seems to be that if it doesn't solve every problem, it's unnecessarily slowing things down.