skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it is just illegal if that someone pretends to have some sort of reseller contract with the restaurant in order to acquire you as a customer.

If you go to some guy, ask him to pick up food for you and the guy agrees for a fee, that's okay. But the incentive must have come from your side, and the guy must not have used the name of the restaurant to advertise for his services or even pretend to be a "part" of the restaurant.

Legislation often is widely different for the same eventual business act, depending on how the parties came together. It's not new stuff, real estate agents have had such huge difference for ages (at least in Germany, but I assume that other countries also differentiate depending on who initially hired an agent, even though eventually, the agent ends up having contracts with the selling and buying party).
Why? The practice involved is in response to the absolute garbage of misrepresentation of a restaurant's telephone number to be intercepted by your own call centre's.
How do I pay 0.005 USD to my friend?
Here in Italy (that is where the word was invented in the first place) that is considered a bad common mistake. Forgetting about the etymology or misusing a word is not what I would define as "evolution". We say multi-media, mass-media ecc. for a reason, for the same reason we don't say multi-mediums or mass-mediums.
You’re welcome to your view. But do keep in mind that one needs to follow the laws of each jurisdiction in which they operate, regardless of your opinion of that “rightness” of the laws.

Your breathless rhetoric is pointless too. When was the last time you actually bought or used an Apple device? You formed this view well before now, and now you’re just posturing.
Back in the days when public phone booths were still a thing, the local telecom introduced pre-paid chip cards that you used for paying for your call. They were widely advertised as “fraud proof” because the chip physically burned polyfuses on the silicon as credits were used up. You can never restore a card that ran out of credits that way, they said.

It was simple to make a card insert and a circuit that just lied to the phone that a fuse was burned. They switched to a different system soon after.
Interesting project!

Any plans to make it open source?
Another aspect of dam removal (though not on the Klamath River) is that dams with locks facilitate level pounds and boat navigation.

Several locks in the US have been removed or closed in recent years, making navigation impractical. It seems strange from a UK viewpoint: here, many formerly derelict canals and rivers have been restored to navigation over the last 60 years, and work continues.

Right now, for example, fish passes are being installed at the locks on the River Severn - the idea of removing the locks entirely would be unthinkable. (Though, in a sign of how attitudes have shifted, the once-popular notion of building more locks to extend navigation further upstream has died a death.)
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> Ancient Romans loved lead, not just for water pipes but for cups and vats they used to boil defrutum, a very popular syrup added to wine.

Ancient romans were also aware it was bad for you (Vitruvius wrote about it in first century BC)

Similarly with radium, i dont know about your specific examples but many of the egregious unsafe commercial radiation things happened after scientists knew the dangers.

That's very different than 5g and GMOs where there is basically no evidence of risk despite much study.
I can make my whole life in some other currency and then purchase some national currency just for the purpose of paying taxes once a year.
Why Kenya-Ethiopia power highway is a game changer
Are integral and derivative important for server load balancing? If you can't handle a sudden increase in load then we need to implement throttling, rather than load-balancing.
I appreciate your terse explanation! The "Historical significance" section on the Cape Bojador is impenetrable in my current tired state.
Show HN: SimpleLocalize – simple, clean, user-friendly translation management
> bitcoin to the moon

if you're assuming that printing money will inflate currency, won't every asset go to the moon (hold its value against depreciation of currency)? why would bitcoin particularly benefit?
Watching recent Tesla FSD beta drives made me understand how stressful/dangerous it is to take a ride in such vehicle.

If they make a 1000x improvement it becomes even more dangerous because it can make you feel safe and unaware of sword of Damocles hanging over your head.

I hope I will be proven wrong, but I don’t think any of the current approaches will deliver level 5 autonomy.
Interesting. I predict the exact opposite: birth rates will decline dramatically. I'm not alone in that prediction. According to this article, birth rates have already started to decline in the US:
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/11/covid-19-...
It doesn't seem like it a license to publish that's being controlled. It sounds more akin to a business license to collect money in app. The article alludes to ad supported games still being eligible for publication. This likely has something to do capital flight controls in China.

“However, this major pivot to only accepting paid games that have a game license, coupled with China’s extremely low number of foreign game licenses approved this year, will probably lead more game developers to switch to an ad-supported model for their Chinese versions,”
Yes. That's unfortunately how internet business work these days, use 'strategy' to dominate the market, and it has the power to dictate terms and profit from it. Although Walmart market dominance are protected with the shops and locations they own, apps such as Uber or Doordash where it is mainly a utility, the market dominance is not protected in any way. Once they start to charge more to make a profit, consumer can always go for an alternative app for it.
>Most likely due to economic growth.

Growing inequality with near zero interest rates is a sign of wealth re-distribution, not economic growth.
Programming & kids do not go together.

Deep thinking and juggling complex structures in mind with past and future states...

"Hey dad, check out my new dress and ring I stole from mum!" <gone>

... 15 mins later.

Where was I... Ah yes, deep thinking and juggling complex structures in mind with past and future states...

"Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad! She took my toys" <gone>

I literally end up jotting pseudocode as fast as possible and then translate it for the simplest things.

So I work when they sleep.

You'd think these constant interruptions would make you super efficient with focus and time, but it's the opposite. Concentration is much harder to obtain and retain because of the constant potential for interruption looming.
* It will be widely acknowledged that non-pharmaceutical interventions had little effect on the spread of COVID-19, with geographic and demographic factors the principal determinant of countries' death totals. Deaths indirectly caused by lockdowns will exceed deaths attributed to COVID.

* Large companies will roll back generous WFH arrangements, claiming that it really is "better for your career" to be in the office.

* Dominic Cummings will return to Government in some form.

* At least one COVID vaccine will be withdrawn for safety reasons after a large number of people have received it.
The link states:
"This bill would enact the Fair Food Delivery Act of 2020, to prohibit a food delivery platform from arranging for the delivery of an order from a food facility without first obtaining an agreement with the food facility... "

No question of pretending anything, just literally of doing what you suggest (food pickup for a fee, if that is arranged through an online platform)

Using the names of the restaurants you are able to collect from in order to describe your service is obviously fair use of the names.
And it's examples like this which help us to understand Brexit (and the broader resurgence in neofascism globally).
That's reasonable actually, on further thought I should have clarified that it isn't just nationalism that creates duty.
Suppose he was corrupt - does that justify censorship?

Does everyone that is corrupt get censored, or is it selectively applied?
This has been a theme since the start of the first lockdown, but surely humans in general would seek to avoid having babies during a pandemic?
They are terrible because Apple sabotages the ecosystem that enables them by crippling the necessary APIs in Safari.

PWAs can be a great experience, and they already are on android and desktop when they're well done.
You/she might enjoy: https://psyarxiv.com/k6trz, discussed on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19143590 [written by me]
>they say in their own literature they can't account for all their upstreams.

Sounds to me like a) at least they're trying and b)they're being honest. Still a significant moral upgrade over most of their competitors.
I read the post you linked, and was surprised by the description of money being created when a UK bank buys a government bond from a pension fund. I thought commercial banks were only allowed to create money when creating loan assets. Is creation of money when banks buy assets a unique feature of the UK banking system, or does it also happen elsewhere?

If banks would buy financial assets and create money in the process as described in the post, then that would certainly be inflationary. (e.g. I can imagine hypothetical legislation that forces banks to buy government bonds, that would be the time to run for inflation protection.) As far as I understand, this has not happened, or at least not to the degree that it caused inflation. The effect of QE has been to increase bank reserves but not the money supply, which is why we haven't seen inflation since the financial crisis.
And that's exactly my point :) Shouldn't this have happened to those blind people, too?
Sorry, I meant stock market growth.
I agree. One of my favourites for a long time. It's rather oddly structured and structure is critical in terms of general readership.

I think the basic Faustian story does have a strange structure. It's all buildup and denouement and very little middle.
Isn't FSM more like writing a program consisting only of GOTO's? I call this the "loopz-effect", where any single state may have effect in any other state of the program.
> The government can print money and distribute it uniformly, such as with this year's CARES act (which is about as uniform as one can ask for in this political climate).

It can, but it almost never does. Usually it just subsidizes or bails out businesses.

> Regardless of government policy for how it distributes newly created currency, inflation is fundamentally beneficial for debtors and bad for creditors.

If the inflation rate is stable/predictable (which is the goal for the USD) it makes no difference for creditors/debtors, it gets baked into the interest rate spread.
Thank you for relieving the secrets of prediction making!
The word "media" has become shorthand for "communications media". While correct in the original Latin, trying to use "media" as the plural for "medium" in any other context in English is jarring.
The spinning wheel is at least several centuries old, so it seems unfair to ask how much of an impact it had on the industrial revolution. How much of an impact did agriculture have?

Were you thinking of the spinning jenny?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baizuo

> Baizuo (/ˈbaɪˌdzwɔː/; Chinese: 白左; pinyin: báizuǒ, literally White Left)[1][2] is a Chinese neologism and political epithet used to refer to Western leftist ideologies primarily espoused by white people.[3] The term baizuo is related to the term shèngmǔ (圣母, 聖母, literally "Blessed Mother"), a sarcastic reference to those whose political opinions are perceived as being guided by emotions or a hypocritical show of selflessness and empathy.[4]
Tolkien and I wouldn’t have agreed when it comes to the sort of language required for a translation of Beowulf—

Then you would be wrong. One of the most important things about pre-Hastings English literature is that it was not in any sense casual writing. It was not being written by common people. Old English on the page was very different from Old English as spoken on the streets, just as different as a Twitch stream chat log is from a post-grad dissertation. Written Old English was institutionally formal to such a degree that it preserved grammatical forms that hadn't been in common spoken parlance for hundreds of years. If you choose to ignore this you're doing a rewrite, not a translation.
It's Apple's fault that they've built a system that is so perfectly suited for state-mandated censorship.

They had to have known this would have happened. The lack of sideloading on iOS doesn't just protect users from malware: it protects repressive governments from criticism and protects corrupt organizations with political power from reporting and attempts at organization or reform.

Furthermore, it's reprehensible for Apple to tout their commitment to human rights, but also appoint themselves the decider that you're not permitted to choose to see nudity in the apps on a device that you purchased. Only assholes decide for other competent adults what they're not allowed to watch, see, or read.

Inserting rent-seekers hellbent on surveillance into every single little purchase we engage in on a daily basis is the worst thing that's happened to our society in a very long time.
> The main reason games are violent is that you are usually presenting the player with a challenge to be overcome. That challenge has to be simple and visual. The simplest way to do this is with a fight - it’s why my game will have combat for example.

I wish I read this point more often.

I would love a game where you had to convince someone to change their mind or get a team of people to help you achieve something by only talking to them (like being a character in a non-violent movie). We're just nowhere close to this level of AI yet.

That's why we have so many games where button press = shoot gun in my opinion. It translates the physical controller actions we have to actions that the game can practically react to in an interesting way, in terms of graphics and gameplay. There's probably a similar mapping to why most TV shows and movies revolve around murder.
Stoic: Towards Disciplined Capabilities
At the same time, EU is about to sign an investment agreement with China. And some top level EU politicians claim that China and USA are equal evil.

As a citizen of EU member, all I can say is SAD :(
As a user, I remember it exactly as the author of this article does. "Standalone player" (let alone on 'linux') is a bit of a strawman. For me it was always as easy as just opening it in my browser and it worked out of the box.

And even if this had problems as you rightly suggest, for its time the alternatives were worse. Comparing via the benefit of hindsight in 2020 isn't really relevant to the point of the article.
Apple patents keyboard with dynamically changing key functions
I was excited to see this project on HN today. I see a lot of value of Wasmino in that it runs in the browser: it lowers the bar considerably for starters. I remember when I started that the amount of different boards you could buy was overwhelming and being able to try things out before going in the rabbit hole of selecting the right components and boards might definitely helps out some software developers that do not have a strong background in electronics or electrical engineering and make them excited to work in the field of embedded software.

A side project of mine that has become more serious last year is quite similar (https://www.studiotechnix.com/). My tool has the same caveats as Wasmino in that the CPU is modelled as "infinitely fast" and only "time functions" progress time. It is inherent to the method of simulating software coupled to physical models of hardware. Even with these assumptions, simulation can uncover a lot of functional faults / logic reasoning flaws in the embedded application. Testing on real hardware is of course still needed, but iterating on your design in simulation is much faster than on the real hardware. And it provides an easy way towards test automation which is much harder to setup with real hardware.
But authority doesn't have to be a person like a leader. It can come from a common way-of-life, a belief set that everyone in a society is born into.

For example, you shouldn't litter, and if you see someone else doing it, you have to overcome your shyness and point out to the kids their duty. And if you get busted littering, you should feel bad.

The thing that happens when authority breaks down is everything else is questioned too, whether or not that authority had anything to do with creating the pre-existing norms.
Reminds me of the story of Don Johnson, a professional blackjack player who made $6,000,000 in one night.

Because he is a known high stakes player, the Tropicana casino in Atlantic City invited him over and gave him a discount ("loss rebate") on chips.

Because of this 10% rebase on loss, even when his blackjack win-rate was below 50%, he would still make more money that what he lost.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/04/the-man...
I’m not saying the COVID situation went well by any stretch, but I haven’t spoken to anyone on the street who wants Boris out of office due to it. If a general election happened tomorrow I doubt he would have problems. It’s pretty clear most countries have struggled to handle it so that’s probably why Boris hasn’t had as much flack as expected.
Like I said, it’s unlikely that would be the reason he resigns, if that was the case he would have gone already.

Brexit will cause issues, but I don’t think many of them will happen in the next 12 months. The UK won’t “cease to exist” with the next few months let’s not be alarmist. (And I’m the one in an alternative universe?).

It’s more likely that Scotland will continue to ask for a referendum and Boris will continue to deny it.
* FB releases a thin virtual reality headset

Currently being tested in Seattle! Had a conversation tonight about it. I hear there’s a ray-ban branding partnership. And the product is supposed to be way less creepy than google glass, but similar.

Can’t recall if this was spoken to me in confidence. Alcohol. Happy New Years!
The misrepresentation would seem to be the big thing. Someone, let's call them Joe, publishes a list of restaurants online with links to their menus and offers to deliver for the price of the order with tip plus a $10 delivery fee. And has a clear disclaimer that they're not affiliated with the businesses. That seems pretty unobjectionable. And how would the restaurant even know? [ADDED: Subject of course to any health regulations that might apply to food delivery.]

But that, of course, is not what any of these services do.

There is still an argument that some foods just aren't a good match for delivery and, disclaimer or not, some consumers will still tend to blame Sally's Piping Hot Burgers when their burger arrives soggy and cold (or, worse, because of mishandling someone gets sick) rather than think that maybe they should have just gone and picked it up themselves or just not gotten burger take-out. So Sally should maybe have a right to refuse to sell to anyone other than the end consumer. But that seems trickier.
Since the UK was never in the eurozone, if anything it would be more affected in this scenario following Brexit.

In that scenario, the UK will have no influence in the EU and not a single person in the EU will think it's important to protect Britain's political interests.
From 4 Bn to 92.2 Bn push notifications sent in a year
I love this part of it. On reddit, any comment I make is usually drowned out by noise and missed (unless I'm on a smaller or local subreddit or something). Here, I can genuinely engage in interesting discussions with people.
Isn’t it example of «people "just followed orders" in the name of a payslip» quote? Apple could withdraw from Chinese market losing customers but staying clean of accusations.
I didn’t know of DNA Chisel (https://edinburgh-genome-foundry.github.io/DnaChisel/) until now. Thanks for the heads-up!
You are probably overly optimistic about Rails, I wish it could be true.
This raises an interesting question. Now that we have things like ruffle, could flash content see a resurgence? Or are there no viable tools for flash/ruffle content creation anymore?
Anti-China rhetoric gets downvoted with fervor on HN.

I also agree with OP. It's one of the most pressing issues for our country and for democratic nations throughout the world.

I'd be happy if it were Japan, Korea, or India (or a democratic China) rising to #1, but the CCP being in that slot is scary. The thought of having an oppressive regime become the world's most powerful economic force is unsettling.
Hard to get much of your US bank account contents as USD cash when you're off on a military base enclave in some foreign land. It's less hard (but still expensive and inconvenient) to get it in the local currency.

You're also capped at relatively small amounts (a few hundred bucks of local currency per day).
> Oh god, that was not my intention in the slightest

yes I can see that. but GP didn't actually say "5G is deadly", but "there might be something we don't know that can turn out to be harmful"

> we have access to an immense amount of knowledge we can use to help ourselves make decisions

the older-generations in the examples by GP could have been thinking the same thing. we all know better than older-gens, and future-gens will probably know better than us

Anyway, just don't try to attacking too soon -- might hinder discussion / research-attempts / etc
Complexity.

Digital AA is very hard to design, just the mathematics involved are extremely difficult to grasp, much harder than analog.

Aliasing shows up SPECIALLY in purely digital systems. Take a sample every half period of a periodic signal like a sinusoidal wave. Your signal output will be constant or zero.

Take a digital sample(calculate a frame) of a wheel in a 3D game (draw the wheel at a specific position), each 30th or 60th of a second. The wheel will go backwards at some speeds(stroboscopic effect, a form of alias).
> I didn't know what hexidecimal was, so it was a wow moment when I realized a > 9

Reminds me when I was a kid in DOS days. I somehow managed to learn how to save a game, modify something (e.g. sell some items to get gold), save a game again, compare two savegames and then use a hex editor to modify the memory that changed between those two savegames. I also didn't really know hexadecimal back then, I just knew to put 0xff into all changed fields. I always wondered why it gave me "ugly" numbers like 4294967296, but I wasn't complaining because it was a lot of ingame gold.
I had never heard of asbestos fire proof curtains
This idea ignores a fascinating aspect of REM sleep. During REM, the brain shuts down the executive functions, while the brain goes into extreme 'story generation mode'. A story in which you are a character. I think this is one of the most overlooked and interesting parts of dreaming. We are able to observe ourselves in our dreams acting without the constraints of our 'executive functioning' brain. This means we get to learn about our purely emotional behaviour, and perhaps spot where it is maladaptive. (I am very bias on this subject, as I have written a paper on this topic - https://psyarxiv.com/k6trz, which was discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19143590)
I'm curious about this. Could you provide a link where I can read more?
I'd be amazed if the only thing that makes the website inaccessible is the use of a single div instead of a button - that'd be an enormous oversight. As in, there's either a reason for it that does not make this an easy fix, or it's so trivial that it's not a mistake you make if you're the kind of developer that follows basic accessibility practices throughout the rest of the app.