skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if there's a best one. I've been using online ordering since Foodler days, and they seem to all be getting worse.

Grubhub almost always sticks to a $5 credit even if the problem with the other is much more than $5.

I routinely place an order on Postmates thinking everything's fine, and then they cancel due to not having someone go pick it up. Why list the restaurant at all?

Just last week, my Uber Eats order was missing a sandwich. This was probably the third order in a row where the restaurant didn't include an item as part of the order, with a fourth order containing a pubic hair in the food. For the missing sandwich, Uber refused to refund the one item, citing my account was flagged. After multiple levels of customer service, yeah, they just refused to refund me for a sandwich I never received. It's only $6 and frankly I just disputed it with my credit card, but the principle just sucks. I was halfway to creating a Twitter account to message Dara to ask if this is the new Uber he promised.
I do not think the author is testing Raspberry Pi at all here. Rather the capacity of the uplink. I have Pi and know it is capable of way more on local network.
Because the service represents the restaurant as actually participating in the transaction. If the food gets delivered cold or the order gets messed up, the restaurant is likely to get bad Yelp reviews which can actually affect business.
Why has there been so much Islamic terrorism in France?
The minute Nintendo finds out about something, they act aggressively. They fiercely defend their IP.

Compare that to Sega, which loves and almost endorses fan content. Look at the Sonic fandom for instance. They have their own original content, games, music, etc.

Nintendo crushes use of their IP.
I'm sorta getting "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, über alles in der Welt" vibes
We opted to slash&burn our guest list (~150>20) and do a very small ceremony in September for this reason. We didn't want the stress of dragging out, and as cases were spiking in August we didn't feel confident 2021 was even going to be an option.

Some friends of ours lost massive deposits on theirs in 2020, then rescheduled for 2021, and are starting to panic again.

It turned out to be a great excuse to uninvite a large swath of extended family we didn't really want to include anyway, and the small ceremony with only our closest friends & family was wonderful.
How many lawyers do you know who would love to represent the restaurants in general as a class, that they may make class-action-lawsuit money?

Well, I don't know any either, but if there's a good solid case then it only takes one.
I've seen this as a teaching assistant. CS class size went from a few 10s to over a 100 in 1999-2001, then dropped again when the gold chasers went somewhere else.

I did not find the boom period as bad as I expected. Many of the students in it for the money were still very smart and motivated and interesting to talk to. But I preferred the non-boom periods nonetheless :)
> I wonder if a better solution would be allowing people to really own digital goods they buy the way you do physical copyrighted goods.

the situation with blurays and dvds is not much better. "own" is not quite the right word for what's going on here; it's more like a permanent transferable license. you can freely buy/sell them second-hand, but AFAIK it is technically still illegal to make backups, even for personal use (since it involves circumventing DRM).

as both a long-time torrenter and someone who works on proprietary software project, I'm somewhat conflicted on this topic. for the consumer, it's best to just get the product unencumbered by DRM and do what you want with it. on the flip side, I really need people to actually pay for the thing that I work on so I can get an income. not all pirated copies are "lost sales", but some are. I've certainly pirated stuff that I would have paid for and paid for stuff only because it wasn't cracked yet. not sure what the middle ground is here.

sadly, I'm not sure the average person even cares that much. I follow a couple specific TV shows where I'm invested in what happens next. with the current balkanization, it would probably cost me $50+ a month to have access to the handful of things I actually want to watch. but most people I know just want something to watch, often just to have it playing in the background. they don't particularly care what it is or if it was well-made.
I'm getting Baader-Meinhoff'd about 10X Management...
Isn't that exactly what the OP says is being done?
Appealing to authority is what actual law is for.

Everything else is for children.
> How do you approach job search?

I call it "Devops" and apply there. It's one (misnamed, but whatever) position that appreciates front- and backend development experience, and system administration experience.
46 years old, 3 years into my first CTO role. my algorithm depends on pretty regular professional development outside of work, but every time i've had more than 1 offer on the table, i choose:

where compensation >= sufficient
order by entertainment_value desc
Worked briefly at a place where male developers were actively harassing female employees. Not extreme, but clearly unwanted behavior.

20 years professional work, first time Ive ever seen that.

Noped out of there as fast I could.

Now, As a white male, I’ve seen it going the other way much more lately.
Walk into a place where it’s all about diversity and tolerance, but failing, because hiring for diversity means passing on experience. Or frankly interest in doing the job.

So spent months cleaning up messes. The entire time everyone is bashing white males, unless non-binary.
This was the 16th loss of 3% or greater in the S&P 500 this year. Not to mention the major drawdowns in March when the virus became real.

Hardly historic, and not worth any attention or consideration.

Move on.
For the kind of people, who runs The Economist magazine?
But the customers are ordering the food from Grubhub, no? So why would they be confused that there's a middle-man?
It does.

According to Wikipedia, No true Scotsman, or appeal to purity, is an informal fallacy in which one attempts to protect a universal generalization from counterexamples by changing the definition in an ad hoc fashion to exclude the counterexample.[1][2] Rather than denying the counterexample or rejecting the original claim, this fallacy modifies the subject of the assertion to exclude the specific case or others like it by rhetoric, without reference to any new specific objective rule or criterion: "no true Scotsman would do such a thing"; i.e., those who perform that action are not part of our group and thus criticism of that action is not criticism of the group.

Now, with this definition in mind, let's review the context of this discussion:

> Using CoC's to backstab people is not going to end well.

> But that's their only usecase, isn't it?

> No, CoCs are meant to clearly state that bigotry is unacceptable.

> Oh really? This discussion is about someone that was persecuted and punished for violating a CoC. Do you see any bigotry involved in this story?

> This discussion is about someone being punished by a committee for something that wasn’t in the CoC, as you can read in the article.

So there was a debate about whether CoCs can be used as a weapon. gwbas1c rejected the idea that CoCs could be used as a weapon. barumi referenced OP article as a counter-example, to demonstrate an instance where a CoC was used as a weapon. pindab0ter then resorted to a "no true scotsman" fallacy to reject this counter-example. According to pindab0ter, this was not a "true" example of someone utilizing a CoC for attacking people, because the victim feels like they did not violate the CoC to an extent where such an attack was justified. This line of reasoning can be used to exclude all examples of people using a CoC as a weapon. After all, if someone feels like they violated a CoC and deserved their punishment, then they wouldn't characterize the situation as an "attack" in the first place.
One thing is sure: we've never closer from the next crash.
Emergence and spread of a SARS-CoV-2 variant through Europe
Why? The natural “up” direction is north, and east goes great with it like that’s where the sun comes up and also arrows pointing to N and E look like the coordinate axes in a default oriented graph.
Crime is crime, let's not excuse it.

You follow the laws of the country you are in regardless of circumstances in your past, coming from oppressive regime isn't a free ticket.
It is strange that I read every article from the domain *.substack.com with a preliminary conclusion that it was either written directly by GPT-3 or influenced by it.
You'd think a blockchain entrepreneur would start a site called Pokemon Online eXchange, or POX, to do this.
Hacker Paste – an ad-free, registration-free, decentralized pastebin on Skynet
This is so, so interesting. There have been lots of discussions about PouchDB and GunJs but they always seemed limited in the backend story. I've been trying to get Couchdb to work with my own proxies for about a year and it is a big pain point. But, the real time synchronization and offline support is so compelling with those stacks. Thinking in documents and only about your front end code (letting the library do the hard work of synchronization) removes a lot of stress.

Using postgresql alone would make this super exciting. Adding graphql takes it to "giddy" level for me.

Is there a story for offline support? Is there perhaps a react library that could help here? The tutorial uses subscriptions, wonder what happens when the app goes offline?

This is so amazing. I'm going to play with it and Svelte and see how it goes.

Well done!
For further context: this Economist article [1] references a letter to the editor by Peter Turchin [2], which is itself a response to the Nature 2010 opinion article "2020 visions" [3].

[1] https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2020/10/24/c...

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/463608a.pdf

[3] https://www.demogr.mpg.de/publications/files/3706_1264687048...
No I mean why should my OS (which I paid for) come pre-installed with garbage ware?
Assuming the conventional wisdom about the event is accurate:

A state military attacking a perceived threat to the national security of that state (while at the same time doing its damndest to make sure nobody knew about it) is pretty clearly outside the definition of terrorism. It fits squarely into espionage / warfare.

None of the terrorism boxes get ticked. It wasn't a splashy, overt thing meant to instill fear. It wasn't carried out against emotionally-charged targets attempting to incite, nobody claimed credit, etc.

Everything adverse that happens is not terrorism. The term has kinda worn itself out, which is bad, because that word invokes a whole bunch of executive power shifts.
This is the accident the commenter is referring to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunduz_hospital_airstrike

Note that Doctors Without Borders believes it was deliberate.
I don't know about Mint, but over here on Debian, figlet and toilet suggest each other. So, if you install figlet, then install toilet too, figlet won't actually be uninstalled, but the alternatives mechanism may decide that toilet is better at being figlet than figlet is. You can undoubtedly restore sanity using the update-alternatives command.
CEOs of Google, Twitter and Facebook Grilled in Senate Hearing
Oh good, were all part of rogue terrorist nations then. Shall we talk about Vietnam or Korea? Or how about the use of "Strategic Bombing" in WWII, which was specifically designed to crumble cities by terrifying their citizens into leaving. That's not even to mention the use of nuclear weapons, which under this definition would probably make the US the worst terrorist organization in the world.

Perhaps an even closer corollary would be our embargo of Cuba, which effectively cut them off from having viable trading routes. We did it to destabilize their economy, so they would get rid of Communism because we don't like Communists. How many people have died of starvation because we're artificially dampening their economy?
Not really, they're a trade association; their core mission is to support the recording industry. Not consuming their output is the opposite of their goal.
"Welp" might be a regional dialect, but it is used a bit differently from "well," evoking resignation about something disappointing that can't be changed. "Welp, with the gas out, we can't use the range and oven to cook the nice dinner we planned, so we'll heat something up in the microwave instead." People who say "welp" also say "well," so it makes sense to distinguish them in writing. That's not to say "welp" is appropriate diction for every kind of writing and every kind of audience, but where it's appropriate, it's appropriate.

"Whelp" has a standard English meaning, but I suppose you might see it used to mean "welp" as well. I dislike this spelling, because in my experience, people who pronounce "whale" and "wail" differently also pronounce "whelp" (the dog one) and "welp" (resignation) differently, but I don't know if that is universally true.
Well, the restaurant is participating, in the sense that they are making food for a customer. They just don't understand who the customer actually is.

Secondly, are the customers not ordering the food from Grubhub? Why would they be confused about a middle-man being present?
Wow. They say it right there on the screen "Rent $(x) or Buy $(y)". Now they say, they were just kidding? Give me a break.
If you don’t want to get sick or get someone you must see (eg elderly parents) sick, then wear a mask and/or hide inside. Let the rest of us do what we want. People my age have a 99.9% survival rate. My parents’ age, 99.x%. There is no evidence that the long term effects are actually any more severe or prevalent than with, e.g. particularly nasty flu years. We choose to get on with life.

I’m definitely not letting the government tell me whether I can have a family party or not. If you’re scared of the virus, stay home.

This pandemic will end like almost every other pandemic in the history of the human race: enough people get sick and acquire permanent/temporary immunity and the virus stops spreading. The question is whether in the process, we freak out to the point of skyrocketing suicides, economic stagnation, and becoming joyless.

Edit: not bothered by the downvotes but I am amused by the petty people who went and downvoted my other posts too. lol!
Slack is distinctly different from phone calls because it has the concept of presence. You can be "online" but "away". There is no such concept for phone calls. The closest thing to that is something like Discord rooms with always-on audio.
To apply AI for good, think form extraction
Not sure if they're "the best", but there are sites that claim not to be abusive to restaurants (some do have "apps," but why use an inferior interface to a website?) like chownow, slicelife, 9fold and beyondmenu are (or claim to be) extensions of the point-of-sale systems and only charge monthly fees or credit/debit card processing fees.
I wear masks and have been wearing one since the "experts" were claiming they were not needed. It just seemed so odd to hear them say that when at the same time the doctors and nurses were screaming that they didn't have enough.

There have been so many mixed and misleading messages I understand why some people doubt the efficacy of masks.

Remember "Don't touch your face"? What happened to that?

I think if the communication people had just come clean and admitted they mislead the public in order to secure the PPE the healthcare system needed and prevent hoarding (Like what happened with TP), there would be far less anti-mask rhetoric.

Unfortunately these politicians doubled down and tried to differentiate between medical and non medical masks. Totally a CMA attitude that understandably has been met with a degree of mistrust.
Yes, of course. Major omission on my part. I don't know how it's actually implemented by law, but I believe you lose the right to have the copies when you transfer your original to someone else. I believe this doesn't happen if the original is destroyed, but I really don't know how the law works in that respect.
Maybe, but in this thread we're discussing whether Pandora was a terrorist. I think the answer is still no.
Russian in Cyprus Was Behind Key Parts of Discredited Steele Dossier
My wife and I just went down to the courthouse with my parents and got married this September. God knows when this will all be over, we’ll have some kind of ceremony then.
Elections hand book is thousands of of rules.

Usually one or more deaths behind each of those rules.

Stupid rules come about because someone somewhere got screwed over.
All I know is I’m still waiting for my Equifax settlement check. Any day now, I’m sure!
Good luck quitting this game.

/s https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11828270/how-do-i-exit-t...
SQL was frustrating to me when I did not know it very well. Taking the time to learn SQL (especially analytical flavored queries) and relational algebra changed not just how I write software, but how I analyze other developers. RA is one of those can't-be-unseen tools that I think everyone either learns directly or spends effort/years doing poorly.
This attitude is exactly what destroys communities while letting investors profit.

"Protecting" communities by excluding people means that the only people that get in are the wealthiest, and because exclusion is the baseline, every new wealthy person kicks out a less wealthy person.

The exclusion is an excuse to enforce austerity, the classic means of squeezing the less wealthy to the benefit of the more wealthy.
Tbh I don't see a major problem with this. If folks want to pay someone (Grubhub) to go pick up food for them, why should the restaurants be allowed to say no?

> Food may not travel well.

Fair point, but if the customer still wants it, that's on them.

> But that may lead to unfairly low ratings for the restaurant.

If (say) 30% of the restaurant's patrons choose to get the food via food delivery, why shouldn't those folks' ratings of the food be factored into the restaurant's rating?

> If people want food and the restaurants doesn't want to support delivery apps, then folks should respect that and visit the restaurant in person.

Many people aren't able to visit in person, either due to time constraints, mobility constraints, COVID precautions, or other reasons.

> Restaurants may not be able to handle the additional load placed on them by these services.

I empathize with this one and don't really have a rebuttal.

> Delivery services sometimes make their own websites and phone numbers more prominent than the restaurant's own, deceiving people into using them instead of going straight to the restaurant's site/number.

I agree, this is a horrible tactic and aggregators like Google and Yelp should work to prevent this.

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These are just the opinions of me, a privileged engineer who has little knowledge of the restaurant industry, so I definitely welcome any criticism to my points and am certainly open to changing my view!
For me, the most attractive feature of their chip was that it had a built-in PCI host controller, nothing else did at the time. They could have released anything that ran at a reasonable speed and had a market, they didn't need to beat Intel.
Your "big picture" largely consists of CNN headlines.
> Although 44 vaccines have made it to clinical trials, it might not be clear which works best -- or if any work at all -- until they have been authorized and distributed to many people, a team of experts said Tuesday.

This is so different from Hollywood but so similar on how as as software engineer I solve problems. For complex problems, you find a few reasonable solution and you try them out. As you find that one is not feasible or too costly, you move to the next.

> Until a vaccine is available, experts say social distancing, wearing masks and staying in your select bubble of people are crucial to helping quash this pandemic.

I cannot imagine how live is going to be to 13-14 years olds that will live their most formative years in this situation. The world would go back to normal, we will forget about the pandemic, but for a few people it may always feel that is not how they grew up.
Chrome borrows from Edge to add “side panel” for collections
Sales as Understood by an Engineer
In a similar situation, the alcohol delivery service Drizly received a ton of backlash for buying ads on the brand terms of a Black-owned wine shop in Boston that they had no affiliation with. When buyers understand how platforms do this, they are pretty clear that they don’t agree with it.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CGpUGbuAc-q/?igshid=1u5yor18vch0...
"generalist" has worked for me.
Regarding rule two, cohesion, I remember being struck by the writing in this New Yorker piece from 2011 on the subject of Rwandan bicycle racers. This goes beyond good writing. The writer didn't merely begin his sentences with what he had just said or with what he could count on being familiar to the reader. I noticed that the writer would take a paragraph and somehow manage to raise a question in my mind, and then in the next paragraph he would answer that question. This happened over and over.

Give it a read!

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/07/11/climbers-phili...
Zuckerberg told Congress he supports rewriting Section 230
Because so many people would want to buy a random forgotten movie from the 90s that the prices can't be lower, than £3.99. Nonsense. It's already outrageously high if it's not an owning-type buy.
Previous submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=principlesofchaos.org and discussions
> "The CoCs are completely unnecessary and, as shown in this example, arbitrarily enforced."

The whole point of CoCs is to avoid this arbitrary enforcement. The problem in this particular case seems to be that they ignored their own CoC and picked on someone who didn't violate their CoC, while the committee did violate the CoC.

That situation is indistinguishable from not having a CoC at all. If you've got a CoC, it needs to be clear, and you need to be consistent about how you enforce it.

It has been shown plenty of times that if you don't have a CoC, there will be some people who think that racist or sexist jokes, sexual harassment, etc., are okay. They are not, and a CoC can help to make that clear. But you have to take your own CoC seriously and follow it, and not use it as an arbitrary excuse to harass people, like what seems to have happened here.
My wife and I have been watching a ton of movies in quarantine and it feels genuinely weird to see images of the old world with huge crowds of unmasked people.
Frank - Thanks so much for the sentiments. It means a lot to serve you and your family as customers.
Docker.app requests unexpected permissions: 'Reminders' and 'Downloads folder'
In the c++ community[1] someone did just publicly announce that they were tired of the hostility so... yes

https://thephd.github.io/the-community#

[1] if you think this is "just a c++ problem" you're going to be very disappointed