skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Went a dozen or so times. Go-carts were fantastic. Surf Hill probably the sneakiest danger, it just didn't have sufficient runoff, people regularly slammed head-first into the back "padding" at very high speed. Cannonball Loop definitely existed for a few years, but never saw it actually open. Standard Cannonball and Tarzan Swing shared an shockingly cold collection pool everyone was dumped into. Alpine Slide was way too easy to jump the tracks or flip. "Cliff diving" was probably 25, maybe 30 feet, was actually safer than other rides because you could easily see if other people were in the way. Wave pool had 10 or 12 lifeguards but still was simply way too large to see everyone (plus they were evenly spaced instead of concentrated at the deep end with strongest waves). Saw, heard, experienced plenty of racism, anti-semitism, other -isms while in lines, in the changing rooms, etc., as might be expected when mixing kids from city, suburb, rural cultures and virtually no adult supervision. Plenty more rides, some were great, others disappointing, some it just depended on the day.

I can understand why an outsider might consider this place some kind of dystopian nightmare, with the injuries and chaos, but it was honestly the greatest place ever for a short period of age 16 to 20 or so. It did feel like a gauntlet you just had to put fear aside and make it through, in some ways, but then you felt stronger when you made it out alive, I guess.
This is already the case with bigger companies. As is the usual case with a lot "disruptive" firms, that "growth hacking" comes from exploiting some regulatory loophole that no one else has seen yet (e.g. most things related to the "sharing economy").

I'm pretty sure if I just declared myself to be a sales partner (idk the term?) of Cisco, IBM, Oracle, etc and just resold their gear, I'd be in hot water legally because my actions would reflect on them.
Microsoft uses something similar for their on-campus cafeterias. All Microsoft employees are issued a RFID card with a chip that functions as a door access card, visual ID (it has your photo/name/employee number on it), smartcard for 2FA (this is being phased out in favor of TPM-based device registration), and cafeteria payment system. You can elect to have some percentage of your paycheck automatically loaded on the card. I used it for a bit early on in my employment, but then switched to paying with credit card (like almost everyone else I know).
You are far too kind to the US military. Afghanistan was too tough a nut for the British long before the Americans showed up. Pastoralist herders with a country that’s mostly mountain is practically perfect for making ungovernable people. See the Caucasus, Balkans and upland Indochina for further examples. All the more so when they were swimming with guns already.
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>GrubHub would argue that their logos are everywhere on these menus and it’s clear that they’re acting as agent

Which is obvious to anyone who can and does read text. It seems to me that CA protects businesses not from impostors, but from illiterate who cannot differentiate delivery from production and they just rush to review on completely separate review platforms (it is wrong even if delivery contracted with production beforehand, imagine an angry customer reviewing bricks from a brick factory because a reseller brought them half a trailer of bricks broken in half). I bet that when you call a number, they even introduce as “grubhub support”, not as a restaurant. Not only this law treats a symptom rather than a disease, it also allows established monopolies who first used this “loophole” to retain their status in the future.

As of the problem as a whole - restaurants with their own delivery usually have a much worse service than aggregators’. Claims that “they just take our markup” is nonsense, because in practice people do value predictability and ratings of separare delivery services, while they cannot really stick a lever into many different companies that produce nice food but their delivery guys simply suck “because it’s small place and they have to meet ends”. The alternative is not their own delivery, the real alternative is to shutdown. Pandemic changed markets and fault tolerances drastically and those who ignore these facts are unlikely to bloom in it anyway.
The thinking in here echoes Carlota Perez, which shouldn't surprise anyone since Fred Wilson has been a known Perez devotee since c. 2012. In the Perez model, this marks the transition from "irruption" to "frenzy" for the general constellation of 21st century technologies ("the sun, the genome, and the Internet", to take the title of a Freeman Dyson book). Perez's book doesn't really touch on the fractal nature of technological revolutions: published in 2002, it described the WWw as having just moved from "frenzy" to "deployment", which was true for the specific case of the WWw but missed the bigger forest of how software in general would eat the world. We're now starting to see many of the technological developments spawned by the Internet (cloud computing, AI, cryptocurrency, drones, etc.) get more mainstream attention.
I don’t understand what you’re getting at. The entire point of this law is to make online delivery platforms get permission from restaurants before taking orders on their behalf.
To combat this, I try to keep reading multiple, disparate sources until enough facts agree, and the coverage converges, to paint a relatively clear picture of the actual facts. What's been interesting to me, since starting to do this, is that some very, very popular stories -- upon which people will hang their entire political self-identification -- never actually converge, at least to my satisfaction.
It’s interesting that the kids with helicopter parents had reduced confidence, and reduced perception of their own skills - confidence does seem to be a necessary (but not sufficient) thing for leadership.
Lookahead is what causes a language not to be regular. In fact, common regex libraries support broader classes of languages than the regular ones. Perhaps that's why there's no `and` operator.
> Isn't part of being a successful business knowing where to put your energy as a business owner?

If you own a small restaurant... are you really in it to be a tycoon of industry? Or are you passionate about the food and the community?

I know I want to spend as little time as possible thinking about sales and marketing, and just focus on improving my product and making my customers happy.
Frustrated by people having terrible customer service experiences associated with their business but completely out of their control.
What's the "next TSMC" (as an investor?)
It seems kind of disengenuous to blame this on trump and right wing outlets. They definetely pushed distrust of the media along, but how long could the media really expect to keep getting away with things like Iraq wmds? It seems like things were going to reach this point sooner or later anyway when mainstream media started agreeing to become propaganda machines
California got this right. Credit where credit is due.
Seems to be a common pattern. Eg in world of tanks/warships, there are "premium" tanks/ships you can buy for money and which are slightly better than the free vehicles at the same tier.

While they are decent enough to not reduce the specs of stuff people have paid for, what they do is boost other vehicles and introduce new ones, which over time has the same effect.
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(Author of the blog post here) Thank you for the kind words about Advanced Swift, Chris. I'm glad you liked it.
This translation was discussed on a recent episode of the Lingthusiasm podcast:

https://lingthusiasm.com/post/632086691477323776/lingthusias...
Still, I think the 2-3 years is too short. I believe if you put in a lot of money into something it needs a bit of time, otherwise every participant will just do whatever they normally do, just more of it.
He may be talking about the underrated Swastika Nights. A new world, after memory of the old one has been erased is part of the plot, as is a secret manuscript.

That said, stories and plots have been retold ever since the beginning of literature. Here's a lovely article about various versions of the well-known story about the Baalshem being asked to intercede for a sick child: https://brill.com/view/journals/jjtp/22/2/article-p127_2.xml
> The issue is where they report on things that I can’t easily verify. [...]. These are areas where I have no choice but to trust the media,

Why? What's wrong with just not really knowing?
All right, mister fancypants. I decide to create a sawtooth signal by repeatedly drawing a diagonal line, then a vertical line in my digital PCM sample array. It looks like a sawtooth when I plot it, but the sound that comes out doesn't sound like a sawtooth: it has lots of reflected harmonics caused by those sharp corners. What is your term for the artifact that I had unintentionally introduced?
Carrying the Fire sounds great! Thanks for the recommendation.
Yevgeny Zamyatin's We. (1921) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel)
Remind me how is that WeWork and Theranos investment going?
If they sell thousands of dollars worth of digital items then yes, they should have a moral obligation to support those customers. Particularly given the murky exploitative psychological tricks employed by these games to get customers in the first place.
It’s true that these platforms can also be free or low cost sources of new business. GrubHub et al can still mail/call/etc. them an offer to become a partner, with stickers and a “congratulations we’d love to do business with your business”.
Yes. It's bad investment for the one who pays. Possibly great for everybody else and humanity in general.

If efficiency is your thing go into business. The smaller the better. But if you want to have a chance at literal moonshot stay in your job and swallow inefficiencies that come from size, ample capital, and no expectation of monetary profit.
Facebook's Folly provides something similar: https://github.com/facebook/folly/tree/master/folly/experime...
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The problem I have with "America's Most Dangerous" is that factually, it wasn't even New Jersey's. Six Flags Great Adventure had 10 confirmed fatalities during the years that Action Park operated, the documentary claims 6 at Action Park itself. (just 1 is too many, it's a grisly type of scorekeeping). 8 at Great Adventure were from a fire in the park's haunted house.
> you're just seeming to want them to spell it out completely

Yes because that’s what “clear disclaimer” means, which was the ask. I’m really baffled that this line of logic, because the post I was responding to said “clear disclaimer”, when I’m pointing to something that requires second-order interpretation and therefore by definition can’t be a clear disclaimer. (I mean you yourself said that it’s understood by extrapolation. Requiring extrapolation =! clear disclaimer imo. I would in fact expect a clear disclaimer to require no extrapolation, and be so dumbly explained that anyone who can read at at teen level can understand it.)
I am no Apple defender, but I am not even sure what you advocate by saying cancel, which has specific political and cultural connotations. Do you want to boycott them? Say so. Do you want US to stop using the services? Do you want financial sector to divest? Do you want them to withdraw from China? Say so. It is difficult for me to guess without projecting my own thoughts on the matter. My recommendation is that you stop saying 'cancel'.

As for the suffering, while absolutely accurate and true, I would like you to consider certain sad truth:

“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops"

You think people are suffering now, but they have been for a while. The only difference now is that we can't pretend we don't know about it.
It is interesting since it is not pure EOL. I mean, if Microsoft discontinues support for Windows it does not force you to uninstall it. And with Flash it is exactly the case. Each other day it prompts me to uninstall it even while I didn't ask for any of such support.

It seems like Adobe gave itself permission to control what is on my computer. But does it really have authority to do so?
Advice I wish I could give myself. Don't eat out if you can avoid it and if you do go in person, never order in.

In secret someone who cares less about your health than anyone you know prepares hundreds of meals a day and if they don't come in because they are sick they lose money. If they don't try to hide mistakes it will cost them. If they don't save the company money by picking up food off the ground or using yesterdays soup as a base for today's soup they are doing a poor job. There are very few ways a customer can prove these mistakes unless they are visible upon receipt. Poor reviews hidden from the public is the only recourse.
The vast majority of Mujahedeen never underwent US training. Most of their small arms (those that didn't originally float in the always militant tribes) were provided by Pakistan and China.

Also, becoming a half competent combatant is not like getting a PhD, more a function of you surviving your first few encounters.

The world does not revolve around America, people were able to fight and kill each other well before the CIA was formed.
Correct. I received a refund check from my insurance company this year because they did not spend 80% of premiums on healthcare.
Totally. That's what'll have to happen instead. But it's more expensive (cost to restaurant ultimately goes up) and annoying.
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Why would we be bitter? Here in Germany for example there is at least one example ( https://www.lieferando.de ) of a takeaway/delivery service that AFAICT operates only on official partnerships with restaurants etc.

Just for the record, I'm not in any way affiliated with them or any other such business apart from ordering through once or twice a few years ago.
Frankly I do not consider nurses to be experts on anything besides nursing (patient care). Whereas the experts on vaccines are toxicologists, immunologists, and pharmacologists, who do not appear to be the ones rejecting the vaccines. Physicians aren't even experts in these areas, as the information they use in deciding treatment is provided by expert researchers in the field.
“bureaucratic arrogance” is a great name to define the EU. I’ll borrow it.
> Investigative journalism, I hope so.

I work for one (not involved in the actual stories) and I can guarantee that the process I've seen is pretty meticulous.

> But general journalism...

There's a separation that needs to be done here as well between news and columns / opinion pieces. News are supposed to answer what's known as Five Ws (Who, What, When, Where, Why), while columns/opinion pieces are rarely expected to be held to same standards, are often inaccurate, and subjective by their nature (they are opinion pieces after all). Unfortunately they're almost always published under the same brand, but usually when I see people complaining about journalism, they don't make that distinction.

That isn't to say news in itself is not biased, because even picking what's newsworthy is a process that relies on bias.
We can translate that to pretty much anything that we hear/read/watch second-hand from any source (including the news media). I grew up in a South Asian country and came to the US in early 2000 for college. Before then, I listened to BBC, RFA and VOA religiously and thought what they report there about my country is the truth (we were ruled by the military regime back then and most of the population assume everything the government said is a lie. An example in which people were already desensitized to disregard the government--the military government broadcast a public health service announcements after 8pm news everyday and those includes things like not using too much oil in the food for fear of heart disease. The general public would assume the government cannot import sufficient amount of edible oil from abroad--because of economic sanctions--so they are discouraging everyone to use less oil in cooking!).

But when I came to the US and started to learn who is feeding these news to the VOA, RFA, etc. and how these people and organizations (including the UN orgs) got funding, I realize not everything that I read is true. This became very apparent when I read news about my country (reported by NYT and other reputable media outlets) that are too simplistic and one-sided. Then I stopped reading news altogether since 2016 and quit FB.

That was the best decision ever and nowadays I only use Reddit to follow very specific subreddits (just sports, aww and funny). People are very opinionated about things that they have not experienced, and with online anonymity, people can sprout baseless stuff and easily buy into believing things that are simply not true.

Everything I said here applies to HN as well. There are a lot of very poorly-informed-but-opinionated users here just like everywhere on the internet.
As always, the Gell-Mann Amnesia Affectation is in full effect here at HN.

You realize this isn't a piece of serious research, right?

You realize Michael Crichton purposely used Gell-Mann's name knowing it'd lend more weight because he's a "scientist," right?

You do realize Gell-Mann's field has nothing to do with any of the fields that would study this phenonemon if it were anything other than a cocktail party story, right?

If you'd be uncomfortable casually mentioning trickle-down economics as serious national policy, you ought to be just as uncomfortable with your Gell-Mann Amnesia Affectation here.
That was what Nintendo Power magazine subscriptions were for. Recurring revenue for stuff that should've been in the game manuals (maps, secret explanations, etc)
> "Meet you at the office to discuss something" serious.

Sorry, is this a reference to something?
Yet after spending 133 billion € the vast majority of Romanian, Bulgarian and many more countries villages do not have sewage pipes for example
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This maps onto my experience with an Horizon2020 project. I don't want to say that it is wasted money, rather just point out that it feels like a spray&pray approach. We travelled a lot, produced a lot of excel and word documents in a very inefficient way, the outcome, despite being the project "successful", is completely useless and will never see the light as a commercial product, not even as a useful blueprint for other organizations. All in all it was a depressing experience, knowing that we were going on thanks to taxpayer money. R&D is good and I don't want to bash on these initiatives... I guess I just ended up in a project that didn't go anywhere.
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I thought it is not possible to have 100% funding through EU funds, there needs to be a sustainable business; but maybe ppl do not check this.
In an odd way, we also had a glimpse of real information control vis-a-vis Hunter story. If that did not open people's eyes, I am not sure what would. The system of control is different and distributed, but the principle remains largely the same.
> There were whales that paid thousands to have items in the game - those just vanish?

Yup.

> These whales took the game seriously. "Meet you at the office to discuss something" serious. I expect a class action very quickly.

Very sure the terms of sale for those items made them contingent on the continuation of the service, which was expressly in Zynga’s discretion. Selling added privileges related to another service that only survive as long as the base service is offered is fairly routine; there's nothing novel happening here, even prior to online games with premium items (of which this is not the first to shut down, anyhow.)
Serious question: Why is the EU so far behind in tech company influence/leadership compared to the US and Asia? Europe has successful tech enterprises, but surely is capable of so much more on a global scale.
I don’t think anyone is claiming that Bazel is “the same thing” as distcc. But they both solve the problem of distributed builds.
I did not read the article but the title and the top comment here before commenting.

I follow scientists/engineers on youtube thats all to get all the knowledge i need.

Through debunked videos i've come to know the state of current journalism.
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Are people on the ground outside of Silicon Valley seeing this technology boom?

I know that Tesla etc are going to the moon, but from my perspective as a small IT services company and many peers in a similar situation, the market is pretty slow and fundraising sounds pretty hard.

I think some of this commentary is disconnected from reality.
ARM will be owned by NVIDIA soon anyway so it's all swings and roundabouts.
It never was true for some people I know, for example my parents.

My parents have such a bias towards their and their ancestor’s culture/religion, that anything said in favor of it will be believed instantly, and anything critical of it will be met with hostility.

I do not dare point out to them basic falsifiable truths about things such as medicine (e.g. this simple action will cure cancer or reverse male pattern baldness).

My parents are very gullible people. Skeptical about exactly the wrong things, repeatedly wrong year after year, yet ever so trusting of the same bullshit sources and rhetoric, as long as it resonates with their prime belief about the superiority of their culture/religion.

I see this in mainstream US too, with the antivaxxers who got a C in high school biological or 5G crazies who couldn’t pass a physics class.

Once someone has formed an identity around some core assumptions of the world, anything that challenges it will be seen as an attack on one’s ego.
Heroin is also a widely used and loved product.
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So much focus on developing the confidence and skills necessary to be a good leader. So little on developing the substance, breadth, and judgement necessary to lead to a place worth going. It would be nice if leadership skills and confidence correlated with wisdom and capability. But if they do it seems to be weak. Which makes people worth following that can lead so rare.
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Just as they should be.
* Objective-C first appeared one year before C++

* Metal was launched two years before Vulkan

* Lightning was invented two years before USB-C
I have 2 legal entities in 2 EU countries, you are free to invest any time.
I’ve come to just not give my business to restaurants that don’t want to exist in the modern world. It’s a high risk, low margin business. The fact they don’t want to support any type of delivery with these apps shows to me they don’t care about staying in business.

“Support local” goes both ways.
And the post clearly says that:

Afganistan is probably the best example. It was never easy to govern, but after the US trained a guerilla resistance to the Soviet invasion it became impossible.
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