skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The tipper "feels" good about tipping

This would be true if tipping was optional, rather than expected. But this isn't even close to how things work in the US. In the US, you tip so that the restaurant can advertise lower prices on their menu. That's it. They tell you a burger costs $12, when in reality it costs $15. And if you decide to only pay $12 instead of $15 the restaurant just makes the waiter eat the cost.
well, evidence would be something like this:
https://ish.app
> It's not necessarily the actions, but the perceived intent by "the other side" that is important.

We should regard "perceived intent by the other side" as most important, and there's no way that dishonest actors could weaponise that? No risk of concern trolling, double standards or phoney outrage?

Are you not paying any attention at all to modern politics?
> is that technically it could create its own OS

The vast majority of people here couldn't program a linked list given an hour and full access to the Internet.
Sadly, it sounds like the exact same thing needs to happen at Google again. History is repeating itself.
> Congressional representatives on the left attempted to block the counting of electoral college votes from a crucial swing state

Reference?
What about non-drunk driving? You still have a non zero risk of killing pedestrians or other drivers/passengers.

There's risk in everything we do, including for other people. What amount of risk is acceptable is a subjective choice.
How are war refugees supposed to fix the fact that they are getting bombed out of their homes, particularly in one of the most recent scenarios as part of a civil war?
Big-ass Guns are not effective against missiles launched at you from great heights and/or distances.
This seems completely disconnected from reality. There is not even one mention of "climate change".

> And as the world’s poorest countries are also the world’s sunniest, the democratization of both new and traditional storage technologies will grant energy abundance to those already bathed in sunlight.

I would love to have that kind of optimism...
With the WFH situation, I have friends who bought new desktops just for work since laptops tend to be more expensive, perform worse and portability is no longer a priority.

this is obviously anecdotal.
As someone who works in the enterprise space, I fully agree with you.

In every enterprise I've ever worked at, the purchasing process is a nightmare - it invariably takes months at best to purchase anything, and the bureaucracy, meetings and wasted time will cost you your soul. When you add up all the wasted man-hours it takes to purchase a $100 app, it will easily run to an order of magnitude more - at best.

Once you've been through the purchasing grinder once, you will do just about anything to avoid purchasing anything every again.

So no dammit, the vendors don't need to change - the bureaucracy-ladel, rule-ridden, time-wasting purchasing departments need to!
You can tighten the circle even tighter than that. Since (non-N95) masks are mostly useful for limiting how far your own droplets spread, and don't do much to protect against incoming germs, it's really not about whether or not you personally are following the rules. It's about whether or not everyone else is.

It's sort of like the pool at my kids' swim school. If other toddlers were being allowed to go in the pool without a swim diaper, then it really wouldn't matter if my own kid is wearing one or not. They'd still be swimming in water that's repeatedly being fouled by uncontained feces.
Giving a year 2500 forecast warning is as silly as using any forecasts in in 1500 to address the situation of today, especially given that change is accelerating.
Interesting, I've never seen food markups. That might be specific to a restaurant/location/app
"Customers can leave a tip when they check out or after the delivery is completed. 100% of tips are yours on top of base pay and promotions. The amount DoorDash pays will never vary based on the tip amount. For example, for two identical deliveries where one customer leaves a $3 tip and another customer leaves a $6 tip, one Dasher will earn $3 more than the other."

https://help.doordash.com/dashers/s/article/How-is-Dasher-pa....
>- Actually decent dev tools (used to be terrible)

As someone who has to support Safari, I can still say that both Chrome and Firefox are better by about an order of magnitude. They are bad enough that I've given up trying to debug safari specific issues in safari, and just proxy the behavior in firefox.
My parents live in the same city as me. I'll probably spend the day before thanksgiving in line to get a rapid swab, then bike to their place and eat some bird.
It's absolutely insane how indifferent some older people are to the risks of covid-19. Cognitive decline is a real thing but with covid-19, it's like they have lost their minds.
> which found no evidence that Trump conspired with Russia to influence the election

This is a straight-up lie. Mueller said explicitly they found evidence, but left it to Congress to pursue prosecution.
Newton's third law seems to apply to ideas as well.
And even when they don't show up with guns, they show up with molotov cocktails and water bottles filled with cement (and urine). Those aren't guns, but they aren't Girl Scout cookies, either.
People die.

I'm becoming more and more callus about the whole thing and beginning to think we just need to adjust our expectations and accept that people die.

I was told recently that my town is in terrible shape and the hospitals are nearly overwhelmed. Listening further, I learned that "nearly overwhelmed" meant we had capacity for two or three people to be really sick with Coronavirus.

If we need to decimate our economy because only two or three people can be really sick at once, then that is the wrong trade-off in my opinion.
It's amazing how you used your creativity in improvising the tools to adapt to the settings.
Why do people go to work when they're sick? I don't understand for the life of me, how someone thinks it's ok? If you don't feel well, your company (or money) is not worth your life or the lives of others. Stay home ffs.
It’s interesting that the reporter here is shaming a wedding reception and not the long-term care facility where the deaths actually occurred.

And not shaming for people for going to work with obvious Covid-19 symptoms, both to a prison and a long-term care facility.

It’s clear the editors needed a story about family gatherings and not yet another story about old folks homes being high risk.
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I have the most experience in the greater Boston area, but a spattering all over the US (but maybe to/from airports is a biased sample too).

Note that I've also had a lot of responses that they are "retired" but also say they drive >30 hours per week, which I'd personally consider "switched careers" or "unretired" but it's somewhat a matter of perspective.
The governor of that swing state happened to be the brother of the Republican presidential candidate. That governor's secretary of state also purged the registrations of 90,000 black voters months before the election.
Feel free to demonstrate it :)
Never order just 1 thing if you are getting delivery. That will never make sense for delivery of any item. Same applies for grocery.
Man accused of hatching plot to kidnap Whitmer is BLM supporter and made comments critical of police >>
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/man-accused-of-hatching-pl...

In the age of agent provocateurs[0], it is hard to really know the truth even if you are present at the scene. There is only so much time in a day.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_provocateur
Reading the article, it sounds like maybe if the people experiencing symptoms had stayed home from work, most especially the care facility and jail workers, the spread and deaths would have been drastically reduced
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This doesn't claim that they're infringing on the copyright of their API, rather that they infringed on their copyrighted code (even if the code is just declaring the API).

It's fairly unlikely that someone would reimplement the API and then add in a Google copyright header. It's pretty clear that it was directly copied.
Mathworld is good to search for relatively wacky stuff (As is Wikipedia - you can sometimes find niche results squirrelled away in the depths of a big article), but as a resource for learning it's not great.

It is true that outside of Calculus (through to real and complex analysis) and Linear Algebra the density of good teaching material online decreases
> You have to be in a high risk group.

You have to be in a high risk group for what? To die? As far as I know, while some health conditions or age raise risk of covid death or morbidity, there is no group that is without risk of death, i.e. anyone might die from Covid19. Is that your understanding as well, or do you know of some demographic group that has experienced 0 deaths?
I would really like to abstain but my family doesn't take covid seriously and would likely ostracize me. I've tried to explain that I work in a school and I'm the most likely in our group to be carrying, but that doesn't go far with them.
I was not trying to diminish the study; correlation with N=84K participants is useful.
Are you trying to say the authors don’t exist because some troll entered a fake name on their website?

Huber, Gary. Chief of Respiratory Diseases at Boston City Hospital’s Harvard Medical Unit

Kilpatrick, James. Biostatistics. Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, VA

Wexler, Lawrence M. Epidemiology @ New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY

Wu, Joseph M. Biochemistry, molecular biology @ New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY

Ecobichon, Donald. Toxicology @ McGill University, Quebec, QC

These are all people who wrote in favour of tobacco not causing cancer in individuals for the tobacco lobby. There were many other equally credentialed individuals who also said so. If you put enough money in front of an unscrupulous individual, no matter their background, they'll tell you whatever you want to hear.
Here is another comment for you to feel better about by putting down. I have lots of points, I can help you, if you need to feel better about yourself by putting down what others say, here's another comment for you.
> Tip cash! Never tip in app!

This is very, very bad advice.

DD drivers filter out customers based on the size of the tip. If drivers see only base pay in the app, they will pass over your delivery request for more lucrative ones, meaning your food will take longer to get picked up and delivered, and in some cases, may not get delivered at all.
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There was no attempted impeachment. Donald Trump was in fact impeached.

And yes, there was an investigation into possible collusion with the Russians. That investigation was launched and conducted by Republicans.

What does any of that have to do with disputing election outcomes or denying basic facts?
On the random roadside attractions, who can forget Wall Drug? Get your free ice water!

https://www.walldrug.com/
Upvote/downvote sites are very easy to manipulate: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a9335/upvote...
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I enjoy writing software, but I approach it more as an art form, or a craft, than a trade.

I love that there are so few limits in "software world." No pesky laws of physics. No enforced values by one or another interest group.

Like any craft, it takes years to master, and efficiency comes from doing it so often, that it becomes inculcated. Nowadays, I make massive architectural decisions every day, without writing down a thing, and, here's the "hit": these decisions turn out to be correct, even though they often mean a lot of work (for example, this entire week has been spent re-testing -and fixing- an app I'm working on, in response to an internal refactoring job). It's like a wood carver, encountering an unexpected knot in their material, and having to work around it, or maybe even incorporate it into the design; treating it as a nice surprise and advantage.

I enjoy writing software. I think I'm fairly good at it. I'd not want to stop.

But the rant reminds me of this old gem: https://www.internetisshit.org
Not the most productive comment, but I always wait 6-12 month before doing a major upgrade - I let other people find issues like this. Or just wait a month if you're in a hurry for some reason.
The US government invented NCAP, and their crash structure standards in particular have always been the strictest in the world. Also, IIHS testing in the US further pushes up the structural standards for mainstream models due to testing at even higher speeds and with harder tests, even though it isn't a regulatory requirement.

The original US NCAP tests from 1979 were performed at higher speeds than Euro NCAP today. (which is the standard most other NCAPs borrow their tests from)

Euro NCAP does place some higher standards for pedestrian safety and active safety features, though. I don't think C-NCAP recognizes these, though.
Personally I feel like it should be based on the time to fulfill the order primarily if you have a good idea how long it took. For example, I used to order from a place that did bike delivery from less than five minutes away and I feel like obviously that was much more convenient than someone who has to drive 30 minutes to reach me and then go back to the restaurant.
Sure. But you seem to be specifically missing Github's owner Microsoft :

https://web.archive.org/web/20201025014127/https://www.riaa....
Because some people are selfish and stupid.

It's fascinating to watch, for example, people commenting on Facebook about vehicles driving too fast in winter conditions, endangering other road users. But those same Facebook commenters will say that nobody can order them to wear a mask...
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You can read the report, released by the Republican-controlled senate intelligence committee, for yourself:

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/docu...
The pandemic makes ongoing science/technology news, and has substantial impact upon the work culture, sector demand, and societal role of the tech sphere.

Hundreds of thousands of Americans have perished from this disease and it didn't have to be this way. There is a major thrust of anti-intellectualism in the US, Brazil, and other countries. As "hackers," we try to understand what the intellectuals believe. Then, we figure out what's happening in the real world, and finally, we break the intellectuals' rules in pragmatic (but not expedient) ways.

The guy who just won the US presidential election claimed that we are entering a "dark winter," and it's a pretty relevant topic to HN in my view. COVID-19 sits at the unlikely confluence of medical science, tethics (shout out to Gavin Belson), statistics, system dynamics, and public policy.
Looking forward to the series! I hope, in one of his "presents", he talks about Lisp conditions and signals, which have also inspired PL/I conditions, and go really back to the idea of an error handler in an operating system.

Unfortunately, Unix (and C) really botched signals by limiting their number in the user space (in particular, they cannot be stacked), and so the idea largely fell out of favor as an error-handling paradigm.
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> Both the left and the right in the US have paramilitaries (antifa, proud boys).

They are both irrelevant comparing to the US military. Germany, when Hitler rose to power, had a bad economy and weak military but I think he did give up to the military choices at the end of the day. The US military is a behemoth who could decimate the left and right paramilitaries in a few days, and then go to invade Argentina.

Having lived in a region where countries changed regimes from dictatorship to democracy to dictatorship multiple times, it seems that there is one similarity: The military has the final shot; and a weak or no military meant chaos (Libya/Yemen/Lebanon) since every paramilitary now has a shot at power.

It'll be much easier to predict the outcome by knowing the US military. Does it support Republican or Democrat values? Does it care for democracy? Is it fed up with current day politics?
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Some people aren't paid if they aren't working and can't afford not to work. US employees have no federally guaranteed paid sick days and that results in a culture that prioritizes showing up to work no matter what.
Abstaining as well. No Thanksgiving this year.
I am getting more and more frustrated with the FDA. The vaccine has been around since February. The severity pandemic can be boiled down to a function of drug testing. If we had a pandemic drug testing protocol we could have had a vaccine months ago. The FDA is just sitting on their hands right now waiting for people in the stage 3 trials to get sick to see if the vaccines are effective. If we would have used challenge trials where people are deliberately infected we would know this answer months sooner and save possibly 100,000's of lives.
Came down to 500 votes in a single state. This ain't that.
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And Microsoft is also part of the RIAA :

https://web.archive.org/web/20201025014127/https://www.riaa....
One thing that frustrates me is that as far as I'm aware none of the delivery apps provide an option for me to tip the restaurant. Especially in these times I want to give some extra support to the workers preparing my meal. The lack of that option is one of the main reasons I usually pick up myself; if any of the delivery apps added the feature I would immediately switch to it!
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Fortunately, in this WFH era we can do both!
because this is neither China nor israel ?
unclear to me whether we meet even your low standard
Eh, I live in the bay area and spend $13-15 bucks tops on a burrito. Where is it $25?
Why does the care facility deserve more blame?
>> or twitching your trigger finger when someone just happens to be in front of the gun.

Poor example, as Firearms safety 101 would prevent this:

- always point weapon in safe direction

- finger off trigger until ready to fire

- know your target and what is behind it

- treat every weapon as if it were loaded.

https://gunsafetyrules.nra.org/
Cloning+the+vote:+DiAMMER+/+SCORECARD+To+Repeatedly+CLONE+Blocks+of+Biden+Votes?
The guy who murdered the teenager had nothing to do with the CHAZ security team. He snuck in specifically to murder the other kid.

I have a feeling you know this.
What's the likelihood of Windows on ARM Boot Camp for iPads? 1%? 0.1%?
None of the drivers want to get in accidents either!
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Not to defend Apple because your point is valid, but you can buy a $25 Anker hub and run power through that and gain a ton of ports.
As I was a child I really believed that there's a technological solution for everything.

I don't agree with that anymore.

At least now there's a book that writes about the state of the world as I see it now:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/575671/the-story-of...
That's reserved for the only true mortal sin in legal practice - fucking around with client money.
We are going on a year with COVID and the death rate is not what was advertised at the beginning. Everyone has to live their life, part of life is risk. Personal choice is BS? What in the literal hell!!! You want to take freedom away? You want to remain under house arrest fine, stay in your bubble, the nut house is a warm safe environment.
'fighting the virus harms the economy'

Would you believe it if I told you that not fighting the virus has an even bigger toll on the economy? Imagine if we'd aggressively addressed this problem back in March, how much less economic impact would have resulted. But then, as now, we wanted to "protect the economy" and avoid restrictions as long as possible. But this time the strategy will work? I have trouble believing that.
When I first read the title I thought it meant Wake-on-LAN or something.
And yet, we have companies building their value based on giant, secret hoards of information hidden away in their lairs, offering mere glimpses of treasures (or horrors) within through their APIs.

Just try to imagine what would happen if the entirety of Facebook's or Google's user were dumped somewhere for everybody to rifle through... The only saving grace here seems to be that the amounts of data are so huge that copying it all takes an unreasonable amount of resources.
Are there significant restrictions in place in your town, or is it the pandemic that is hurting the economy?

Also, the word for "cruel disregard" is callous.
We had a similar discussion once in an undergrad course I took on History of Christianity--just replace "death penalty" with "Hell."

The professor(and ordained priest)'s conclusion was the following:
"Most Americans believe in Hell, but none of them think they're going there."
Honestly, the _incredibly_ numerous sexual assault complaints against him should have disqualified him at the start, especially when combined with his publicly indecent behaviour.
I wonder is the author old enough to remember the Ethiopian famine in 1984. I would enjoy reading an article that made an argument about what was at stake and what might be lost with high intensity farming and capitalized distribution, but I can't take seriously something that long about food in Ethiopia that doesn't even mention the fact that 1.2 million people died only of hunger only a generation ago. Was that Melinda Gates' fault too?
The armed occupation of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge was also “mostly peaceful.” Much more peaceful than CHAZ/CHOP, in fact.

I am friends with people who lived close by and visited the CHAZ/CHOP, and I watched live-streams from the CHAZ nearly 24/7 for the entire span of its existence. It was a lawless area patrolled by gun wielding far-left activists who routinely harassed journalists, ripped phones out of streamers’ hands to delete footage of the “security team’s” deadly mistakes, assaulted visitors of the wrong political stripe, and ultimately were responsible for the shooting deaths of several people. While the atmosphere was more “street festival” during the day, at least for a while, at night and as the occupation wore on it swiftly devolved into violent anarchy.

Remember Raz Simone, the local rapper who showed up on the first night with an AK-47? Remember how he handed out rifles to seemingly random untrained people from the trunk of a car? Remember how his crew assaulted and pistol-whipped a graffiti tagger on the very first night of CHAZ/CHOP, on a Facebook Live stream, saying “we are the police now?” Many similar incidents.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/seattle-autonomous-zone-leaders-w...
Fortunately my extended family and my immediate family already share a mutual distaste for each other, so I don't anticipate a problem.

Hell, I face a bigger risk coming in to work every single day because my employer insists on all hands on deck despite the pleading of my state's governor.
lmao ok 'John Galt', you literally sound like a sociopath but I know that's a common theme with libertarians
Turn a profit? No these companies are taking all revenues and deploying it back into the company to continue to grow operations. They will be loss taking companies until they get market share and then Extract profits once they have market share or die trying.