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I went to Action Park (New Jersey) park back in the 90s.

I recall “reverse bungee jumping” (you are launched up & pulled back by elastic bands), and cliff jumping (just a high plank over water—that’s it; pretty sure there were some major belly flopping injuries if not fatalities).

I also remember how fun it was compared to other amusement parks I’d been to as a kid.
Steps to Successfully Build On-Demand Delivery App
In case you think this looks familiar, it might. I submitted it some time ago, and it was discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23050231

Comments are closed there now, of course, and prompted by a recent submission[0] about state machines I thought I'd give it another airing.

Reading the comments on these two submissions it's clear that people's opinions and experience are strongly, strongly divided about FSMs.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25601821
This happened to a friend of mine who is a restaurant owner. One day he gets a call for take out, for "Jeff" lets say $60. A DoorDash courier shows up (nothing indicating they are from DoorDash, restaurant assumes this is the customer) and attempts to pay with a credit card. Credit card comes back declined. Courier mentions he's going to step outside to get the issue resolved and will be right back. Half an hour goes by, another call comes in for the exact same order, $60. Another courier comes in, acts like he placed the order, tries to pay with a similar looking credit card, gets declined. 2nd courier leaves without the food. The owner thinks its some time of scam. When the third exact same order comes in via phone, the owner starts asking questions. All three were for the same DoorDash customer, all called in on the phone by DoorDash assuming the identity of the customer who placed the order via the DoorDash website using a menu that DoorDash just found online and posted on their website. It was an outdated menu with outdated prices. Apparently DoorDash would load their credit cards with the exact amount for the purchase (based on outdated prices) so both couriers cards were declined for the purchases. Meanwhile, the actual customer is waiting over an hour and a half for their order to be delivered and the restaurant owner has to eat 2 $60 sales because the food is no longer presentable. Owner was never contacted in advance by DoorDash regarding any business relationship, they just found a menu and included it on their site. Ultimately I believe they covered the cost of their screwup, and the restaurant owner required they pay over the phone when calling in the order before any food was made. I would absolutely consider this exploiting the restaurant brand and reputation without consent.
You mean like CERN? Yeah what a waste of everybody’s time that was ...
If it does succeed, it will be a perpetual, repeatedly brought up, example of how the EU can get things done. The other projects will remain forever forgotten.
You will also see entire threads of people confidently stating utter speculation as if it's fact. HN is well-moderated and has high information density compared to most subreddits, but that doesn't mean the information is correct. What you see on HN is that both correct and incorrect comments tend to adopt the same academic affect in their writing. If you're not fairly familiar with the subject at hand, it's hard to tell who knows what they're talking about because it all sounds coherent and reasonable.

If you really want a lark, read the typical HN subthread on a topic involving trading, finance or economics. It's like watching the YouTube-educated spar with the Wikipedia-educated. Commenters with real world experience are downvoted just as often as they're upvoted when they try to earnestly correct mundane misconceptions.

Likewise you can't have a bug bounty story on HN without someone repeating the farce that web app vulns have some sort of shadowy black market. There is invariably a comment near the top claiming the security researcher could have received so much more money by selling it to criminals. It is amazing that something so wrong gets repeatedly so carelessly and easily.

These are a substantial number of people here who think they can confidently talk about anything if they just deconstruct it to first principles and treat it like something else they know about.
Uh they use robocalls to advertise this "service". It's annoying as hell. I guess the tropical sounding music they play with the voice over is kind of catchy? But they're ass hole robocallers just like the scammers they're allegedly blasting.
If my resturant didn’t sign up for a middle man, don’t force yourself in between. That seems reasonable
Just prosecute the fraudulent misrepresentation of the restaurant.
> But why are we counting how many times we "touch" the list?

Well, right, exactly. Why did you ask for that? Probably there's a reason.

If I understand correctly, you are really asking why this needs to apply to all operations, and I think laziness is probably the answer. If I've asked for a linear list because I want to somewhere change it inline, and I ask for the length and "then" do something that changes that length, the value the length function returns would seem to depend on when (at run time) the change is forced vs the question (and they could possibly be overlapping, if you have sent the length to another thread!). That's not what we want.

Requiring you to pass back a "new" list forces the ordering - either my modification is of the list before I took the length, or the list after. In terms of sequencing, that's exactly what we want.

I do agree that it is a bit disappointing that the types don't tell us that length returns list unchanged.
Sweden missing from here is a surprise. We have Ericsson who still design their own chips for telecom devices - one of the few companies left in Europe to do so. And Volvo and Scania might be interested for self-driving cars.
It’s been done: https://youtu.be/2b-CMtKhTl0

Though I suppose we’re not above remakes.
500,000 cannabis cases expunged due to legalization
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No point arguing with ideology.
> Not to mention, of course, any new entrants! This law will make it much harder to compete with "the next Doordash".

Well of course the law will make it much harder to compete to be the next predatory, deceitful company that pretends to be small businesses! That’s the whole point of this law. Some business practices are unethical and relying on them to grow should be made illegal.
Food poisoning has much slower onset than most people think, and, as I understand it, it’s very common to blame the wrong food.

I think it would be good to encourage everyone with food poisoning to notify a central authority to collect statistics, but blaming a specific restaurant from a single case is dicey at best.

It’s also worth noting that most people expect meat to be the riskiest type of food. In fact, lettuce is much more likely to cause food poisoning.

(Ground beef is indeed more dangerous than solid pieces, but most chain restaurants are pretty careful about their HACCP and are likely to cook it properly. Your average large burger chain won’t serve rare beef patties even upon request.)
I just wanted to say that I appreciate the courteous reply! :)
Water bottles for dogs can be the next big trend in the pet industry
To a first approximation, I only care about food delivery to my house. To a first approximation, I only use Uber for places other than around my house.

I grant that there are some economies of scale to having an app that companies in different cities can make use of. But I don't see that as requiring a nationwide company for the actual food delivery.
Then by your own definition, and the statement issued by the EU commission, this is a bad investment.

I've worked for the large, sclerotic organisations that once put man on the moon. They will take your 100bn, crush it in to dust, and outsource the production of 1 million pages of documentation in 32 languages detailing the workings of something your never asked for. All in the blink of an eye.
It depends on what you are needing to optimize for, industrial use is a very broad category. If you’re caring about the SD card’s endurance for reads/writes, I recommend trying the “high endurance SD” cards. I’ve had good luck with them having continual read/write activity over long periods. If however your concern is mechanical failure due to vibration, stay away from the SD card entirely. Pretty much guaranteed it’ll fail if it’s a high mechanical stress scenario. You’ve got two good options there I can vouch for, use a Compute Module w/ hard soldered eMMC or boot from USB instead. The compute module route is the best in my opinion, but doesn’t always fit the needs, and for those that don’t I recommend USB booting.
The Reddit experience depends, to an extreme and absolute degree, upon the moderators and culture of the specific subreddit. Each subreddit is almost literally its own independent kingdom.

Saying anything about the quality of "Reddit" as a whole is very much like saying something about the quality of bars, or messageboards, or knitting clubs as a whole.
anti tech... it's called fraud. The "We're just an app" excuse needs to die already. It has absolutely nothing to do with tech, everything to do with an unethical business model. Absolutely nothing to do with technology.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_dimensionality

The likelyhood of being average in all dimensions plummets with an increase in dimensions.
Theres worse things to be than a highly paid assembly line robot that also likely has vacation time, health insurance, a 401k and the option to walk away from one factory to work at another.
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It doesn’t IIRC. But, you can combine it with ccache which can use a NFS share.
If you use clang, that might be of interest: https://github.com/yrnkrn/zapcc
If they organise their logistics so that orders to Ireland are shipped from warehouses in Ireland (either the Republic or Northern Ireland) then there is no import duty or any additional formality.

They can't do anything about sellers located in Great Britain and handling shipping themselves, and I suspect that there is little to be done in any case because Ireland is quite small and right next the the UK... Maybe just filtering listings so that only Ireland-based ones are shown if the visitor so decides.
No, but this protects small restaurant owners regardless if they are a legal entity with trademarks to protect.
I understand that current theories link dreaming to REM phase of the sleep. That is when we are in REM phase, we dream. Yet, remembering of the dreaming is not always guaranteed. So it's very much possible to have the REM phase, but no recollection of having dreamt at all. The data on dreams is likely based on self-reports, unlike the REM data which can be measured. So there's a lot of room for speculation on any possible connection and purpose of the dreaming.

On thing is for sure, if we can say to remember of the dreaming, we indeed did wake up.

In personal experience, I noticed a direct connection between physiological discomfort while sleeping and the related dreaming. That is a discomfort, say in my body positioning would generate dreams around the effect of it, not always literal but often it would either trigger a brief awakening or a change of the positioning.

One very stark experience was related to a case when previously frozen (and likely swollen at night) toes were constantly triggering a dream of sleeping next to a campfire and leading invariably to waking up with my knees bent and feet tucked underneath me. Toes healed, the dream was gone.

Another very much reliable trigger is airsupply. Say, by odd positioning the breathing is affected, sometimes an external factor can affect the air quality. Sure enough, there will be some dream leading to waking up just to be annoyed at dry/stuffy nose or some random smoke from an open window finding its way in. That I should feel probably grateful about, as it's like an internal smoke alarm... (though no substitute for proper detectors!!)

The point is, the dreaming might still be an extension of our survival mechanism. Kind of internal dashboard to check while asleep, no matter how oddly scripted.
I'm not sure they are quite capturing the epic glamour I long for. "Episode 8. Traffic officers track down pedestrians taking a dangerous path alongside the carriageway...."
Great way to shut out any new competition in the space.
The US military has had some innovative payments ideas.

An occupying force prefers to use a money that 1) doesn't dollarize the nation they are occupying 2) can be tracked, thus thwarting black marketeers 3) is lightweight 4) if they lose, the enemy can't reuse it

Unfortunately, dollar bills are bulky, infiltrate local economies, and aren't enemy-resistant.

So we get innovations like EagleCash, which solves a lot of these problems.

Other payments ideas emanating from the military include Military Payment Certificates (https://jpkoning.blogspot.com/2017/04/c-day-and-military-mon...), overstamped currency ( https://twitter.com/jp_koning/status/1343874636480729088) and pogs (http://numispedia.org/AAFES/).
Years ago, a family member of mine hired a college student to develop an informational application for their small business. This app offered reference guide type information for a niche. To set expectations, my family member paid sub $10k for the entire app to be developed when mobile apps were new.

After a few years it had attracted a few thousand users but needed updating and the developer was non-responsive. The family member of mine was non-technical and had allowed the developer to publish the app under their own developer account.

A saga begins that I won't bore everyone with the details but basically this family member didn't want to lose the thousands of users. They tried to get the developer to send them the app to maintain but the developer was non responsive. They tried to enforce their trademark on the app but Google would only delist it.

Now they had no listing at all for their company so they tried to start over. They tried to create a new app with the same name but Google's review process wouldn't let them because another app had already existed with that name. Armed with a trademark and people we knew who worked at Google we got exactly zero steps further after three months of trying to work with Google on the issue.

Eventually, we tracked down the mother of the developer who had ghosted on us and paid them to give us their developer account. Where we showed the trademark, had the app re-activated, and moved it to another Google account we controlled.

Basically, Google couldn't help us at all. It was a mess. Eventually we got things sorted but we had to go around Google.

Was this Google's fault? Heck no. The family member got unprofessional help from a student developer who ghosted on them but Google didn't make it easy to fix the issue. They made it impossible.
This is true. My wife paid out of pocket for a procedure that should have been covered, and when she finally made it through the labyrinthine process to seek reimbursement, they only wanted to reimburse her for half of the cost, because that's the negotiated price the provider would have paid the hospital.

In case you were still a bit unsure if the entire American health care system is irreparably broken or not.
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It's much broader than just public perception of companies. A lot of stuff that passes off as information is actually entertainment.

For example, news about some new nutrition study typically don't involve any of the hard scientific line of inquiry that actual science work entails (e.g. critically thinking about potential methology flaws, for example.)

Reading about some politician slipping out a gaffe says nothing about what is happening in terms of law making (and nuances are often lost in translation when an article does talk about new laws). Etc.

A lot of articles are filled with rethoric and/or "real life" stories that don't really have a direct impact on the reader other than to elicit some form of emotional response. Contrast to actual educational material that is denser and drier, and can make a real impact in the reader's future when studied properly.
life isn’t about choosing only the things that are good for you
Notwithstanding caveats about what "reversible" means here, I'm interested in the application. I've been interested in "non-destructive compilation" for a while, including what you might call "language skins"—derivations built from reversible, deterministic transformations on the syntax graph created from an arbitrary parse. With the current popularity of (one-way) transpilers, I'm surprised there's not more interest and work on making them two-way, for example, but that's just one possible application.
> as something the restaurant has responsibility for

Exactly. It's not unreasonable for customers to make the assumption that a restaurant has entered into an explicit contract with a delivery service, the same way we hold them accountable for the ingredients they select. It's a very different mindset from something like postal delivery from FedEx or UPS, where we are more likely to treat each party as separate entities.
My personal experience has been that dreams seem to play a critical role in learning. Often when learning something new, the new experience will manifest in my dreams. The more immersive the new experience, the more rapidly the dreams come and the more vivid they are. Most dreams that I remember are almost like mashups of previous experiences. Very often, my dreams have elements of places and experiences from my childhood. I could see this being a manifestation of the brain managing placticity. Perhaps the brain grounds itself in old experiences and mixes in new ones so that things are not forgotten.
So the alternative should be that we should continue to funnel VC money into every new predatory impersonation business?

Sometimes it really is a loophole that is now closed, and the government can’t subsequently dissolve all companies they’ve used it, they can only ask companies to stop.
I don't think Scotland will 'ask for a referendum', if they won't get the permission they seek they will go the legal route:

https://www.dw.com/en/scotland-nicola-sturgeon-aims-for-2021...

Scotland will be disproportionally hurt by their lack of EU membership and voted strongly against leaving the EU.

As for people not wanting Johnson out of office due to COVID: we are in a similar situation here in NL, but at the end of the day results are what matter and Johnson has done the UK citizens absolutely no service with is performance so far. Maybe it will take some time before that sinks in and I don't have a shred of doubt that he will try to pin the blame on the EU for all of his own failures.
Thanks, that explains why Such Such Were The Joys is available on an australian site, yet the TFA seemed to say it was still tied up.

(I wonder to what degree my heterodox take on 1984 is due to the fact that I read SSWtJ, in combination with The Spike and other essays, well before having read 1984 itself?)
Ah, Traction Park! We survived at least two visits. That wave pool was brutal.
Thanks, appreciate the kind words!

Disclosure/shameless self-brag: I wrote the original synthesizer engine that became Dexed, though the team has moved it forward in lots of important ways. I did careful reverse engineering of an actual DX7 II, including disassembling its ROM, so the fact that it matches well should not be surprising.
This is an electronic form of "scrip".

The risk is that it gives the script system owner control over the value of money.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrip
I've thought of dreams as unique in suspending self-doubt. For some reason, while in a dream, we are incapable of doubting what is going on. Everything feels incredibly vivid and real. Then we wake up, and we go back to doubting: "Ah, must've been a dream!"

Edit: Perhaps immersive psychedelics (LSD, ketamine) are similar actually. Speculatively, one could define "real" as our ability to doubt, "fantasy" as the suspension of doubt.
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And certainly there are better things.
Not Debian, but there are lots of Linux distros pared down to fit on a single floppy disk.
They will run just fine within that amount of RAM.

https://web.archive.org/web/20161109230651/https://bengross....
> they will refer you to the business that cooked the food unless

This hasn't been my experience. Every time I've used Grubhub or Postmates and used their form to submit an issue with an order, the services have always either refunded me the issue or provided credit. I've never had to deal with the restaurant, unless I wanted something outside of money.
And cache build outputs: https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/remote-caching.html
I would think the opposite. What's the long-term effect on births when the dating world shuts down for 6-9 months? I'm not single though, so I do wonder how much it shut down and was affected by lockdowns?
Right, there’s still the photorealistic CGI version to be made.
My pet theory is that brain uses its power at night to process data from different organs and to fine-tune their settings (especially guts which is extremely complex organ with millions of sensors). That’s why sleep deprived creature dies from misbehaving organs. Some neurons are not required for this task, because they are too specialized. Namely neurons responsible for vision, conscience, movement. They receive random signals which don’t really mean anything and more like white noise. But brain is brain, so those neurons are trying to make sense from that noise and that’s how dreams are created.
Be careful that 'trivial' is a term if art in the context of C++ initialization. Having to do work is different than not having to do it. Constructting a vector of N optionals is O(N) as opposed of a vector of a truly trivially constructible type, which is O(1) (although I'm not 100% sure if the standard guarantees it or it is just a QoI).
Would be cool if it was compatible with Tree Style Tabs ;-)

In fact, one feature I am missing in Tree Style Tabs is the ability to save a list of tabs as a text file to archive it and to open/import it at a later point in time again.

Somehow TabFS feels like it could be used to achieve that.
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There are a couple of much shorter videos that present a good introduction to this theory of Wolfram's:

TED talk (20.5 minutes total): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60P7717-XOQ

Or, start at 14:05 or so for his fundamental theory of physics: https://youtu.be/60P7717-XOQ?t=850

Here is a 43.25 minute interview with Wolfram centering on this theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPaBRjSrq2A

I've always thought Wolfram was a bit of a blowhard, but, this theory (our universe as computation) is actually interesting.
I wholeheartedly agree. I would add that it is very difficult to tell when to break away from that rule of thumb thus a good decision making is a never ending struggle with a self doubt and a leap of faith.
The Dollup Podcast has an episode (which exaggerates how dangerous it was) but is done with the same irreverent comedy as the rest of their "broadcasts" - http://thedollop.net/wp/episode-87-dollop/
Agreed. Funny thing is that even if you're aware of this it can affect you. I noticed this recently when I spent a bit of time watching 3D printing videos to find a solution to a small problem. When I was done watching this video I felt like I absolutely had to buy this much more expensive printer to get any decent results, which was completely false.
The legislator has to act when the private sector refuses to behave ethically. I don't see any problem here. DoorDash and co created the problem with their unethical business model, which is at the expense of restaurants they list on their own website without any kind of agreement whatsoever. They should have stuck to restaurants who agree to do business with DoorDash.
Sure, with probably very different stability and risk profiles as well as entrance requirements.