skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate when people confidently bluff and confidently spread untruths. He had fun, but world is slightly more unscientific sue to that.
There was a post a few months go about a pizza place that started getting customers complaining about their food arriving cold and damaged: except they didn't offer delivery. They discovered that a popular search engine was offering free delivery. The story ended with them ordering dozens of pizzas from themselves to themselves and making a nice profit.
I'm not even sure it's buying on anyone's "behalf" either. But rather just buying and then reselling goods.
There is, of course, an xkcd on this topic. https://xkcd.com/2270/
no, this was just another means of money extortion. they masquerade around like the companies they're preying on, then effectively blackmail those companies for connecting them to these customers.

unnecessary man in the middle. they're essentially the capitalist version of the cymothoa exigua parasite species.
Don't think it's mentioned, but actually what I hate most about it is that there are plugins that seem to do useful stuff, but they're paid-for plugins that also require the IT department to do something.
It's hard to imagine a more hopeless prospect that even one of these two things occurring (people agreeing that we should pay for something, and IT doing it in a timely fashion), but both at the same time and just because some lowly IC (or even whole team) wants them to is far beyond the realm of possibility.
But if the theory were true, they would begin to see hallucinations while awake as a way of protecting the brain from changes.
I was too young at the time but I remember older people saying the same about Les Pauls, Jazzmasters and vintage guitar pedals in the late 80s!

It was truly a weird time in terms of music and music equipment! Everything from the 50s/60s/70s went out of style, but returned in full force in the 90s, while the 80s stuff started getting rejected. Crazy!
Nice explanation. Could you be able to tell how the vaccine effectiveness is affected by the new virus strains at that level?
Matthew+5:9+NIV+–+Blessed+Are+The+Peacemakers,+for+They and|+Gospel+Of+GOD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Apple

I miss the days when major players in the game gave the middle finger and just let governments do the corrupt blocking.
what fish?
That's impressive, nice one!

I think a cool addition would be to include the Aero theme cursors.
This is a silly law. If someone feels like sending a courier to buy take away then that should be legal.
I recently noticed that some Google search results now load images associated from the content on the search results page when you hover over the search result link.

I have no doubt some users will find it helpful, but it is another example of Google extracting data/content from websites and then displaying it on their own platform making less people visit where the content originates from.
OP is talking about stuff like stormfront.org which is still up after like 20+ years. Your examples are terrorism and prostitution/money laundering. The federal government can't do anything about sites like stormfront.
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http://mathnotepad.com/ can do graphs and bitwise operations as well

https://dedo.io/

http://notepadcalculator.com/
The law is taking a food safety angle: restaurants have a duty of care to their customers, which extends through the delivery chain.
Sociology, demographic and history are all pretty bad when they appear here.

ANnything that requires empathy for different demographics too. (Like old people.)
At least Windows in the 90s had the decency to put up a blue screen

This sounds like back then there were only crashes with a blue screen (and dump), and currently there's only hard crashes without blue screen. Both of them are not true. I.e. there are apparently types crashes for which it hasn't been possible in the past decades to come up with a bluescreen, othiing new there. It is just as likely, maybe even moe so, the difference in your particular case is your hardware/driver. It's of course possible there were effectively changes at the OS level in how hard faults are dealt with, but I wouldn't just assume so.
Did you actually try multiple banks? Is the banking ststem really that broken in Indonesia?

My experience is that bank fees vary greatly.

My (limited) experience with US banks is that they have huge hidden fees and you get really bad currency exchange rates. I'm talking about 8% of funds miraculously disappearing during currency exchange. I don't understand why anybody would bother going via USD.

My Austrian bank on the other hand has much better rates and low fees. I think it was less than 1% for transfers of a few thousand USD last time I checked.

And finally, there are services like Transferwise; I just checked and they show rates of 1.5 - 2% for converting IDR to RUB.
im still puzzled by the seeming contradiction that sites can get ddosed from traffic from hacker news, yet the comment sections nor the average votes accumulation on posts seem to reflect the size of the community that such a traffic would warrant.
The story: https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/18/21262316/doordash-pizza-p...
I can almost guarantee you that your service could be rewritten to not require millions of unique objects per second per node, and/or split up so that the nodes were on different cores. I'm quite confident you are not anywhere close to optimization boundaries around throughput because MongoDB is far from the best-optimized database for batch processing.
How did they made a profit off this?
I think the intention though, is to stop say a Doordash from listing a restaurant's menu on its (DD's) website and making it seem like the restaurant is consenting to having delivery of its food with whatever margin DD feels like adding on top of it. (Also by the way, shadier practices too, like hijaking/publishing a false restaurant phone number that diverts to DD instead of the restaurant.)
But the prediction of the their theory is that without visual dreams his visual cortex would be overtaken by other senses.

Since this doesn’t happen, it’s an important datapoint towards a falsehood of the theory.
Agreed.
Its also pretty amazing what Yamaha was able to accomplish in the 1980s with the DX7 and successors using entirely digital synthesis without capable DSPs or microcontrollers.
Some interesting background here: https://www.gearslutz.com/board/showpost.php?p=10602091&post...
I'd generally agree, but it pains me to see how much pre-2000 info. seems to get lost. Even worse, is when it's 're-discovered' losing all the lessons learned about it, or failing to credit the original pioneers.

Computer Science didn't spring up fully formed on 1/1/00 ...
:-)
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The problem is not sending a courier. You can use Apps to send someone there without a problem.

The problem is them impersonating the restaurant and giving customers the impression that the restaurant is offering the delivery service themselves.
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> - Google search results will start becoming way better and super personalised as their data efforts start showing results

This one is very surprising to me. I think Google's results have been getting worse for me every year for a long time. They used to supposedly have the goal of getting people off the search page as quickly as possible, but it seems to me their recent data efforts have the goal of making people spend more time on search pages where they can see and click on ads. I.e. worse search results, caused by ignoring search terms and showing unrelated things instead. Why would 2021 be any different?
always entertaining how regulation unintentionally acts to increase barriers to entry for incumbents. in this case closing the barn doors almost a decade after the horse left the stable. you couldn't pay politicians enough for the favors they perform in earnest.

edit:to elaborate, the growth hacks of the likes of Doordash and Postmates doing exactly this got them their start, now it will be illegal to compete with them using the same methods they used. I understand there are also brand protection concerns for the small restaurants. have to weigh the tradeoffs.
Cool! What is the difference to e.g. repl.it?

Does it run Python locally in the browser or in the cloud?
What’s even sillier, every company doing this in California was getting consent from the restaurant to publish a number as if they were said restaurant BEFORE this law was even conceived. Of course, it was a click-wrap agreement that nobody read.
agree 100%. it honestly kind of baffles me, "async" is like the programming community's white whale, and all of us get to come along for the chase. meanwhile, I long ago grew accustomed to the paradigm of an "event loop" in my programs. after a certain point it becomes very natural. on the subject of memory, recently there was an issue where the async dyn futures were blowing up stacks because a resolved future was > 2mb - what!? I mean, look at the signatures in the aturon article - we are going from this

fn read(&mut self, buf: &mut [u8]) -> Result<usize, io::Error>

... to this ...

fn read<T: AsMut<[u8]>>(self, buf: T) ->
impl Future<Item = (Self, T, usize), Error = (Self, T, io::Error)>

is that supposed to be easier?

I recently tried writing a small program that would manually poll a future to get a feel for it - utter disaster. conflicting versions of tokio, compiles but crashes because something is called outside of the tokio runtime context, etc. all the examples have #[tokio::main]-decorated main - it's like, I'm not giving you my #$(&#@(&ing main function! the programs I write have tons of stuff going on! I can't just give some library my entire control flow!

sorry for the rant! felt good to write it though.
You could still do that without the app listing the restaurants without their permission.

There is a clear exploitation happening here, I think it's right to find a way to stop it. We should get better at iterating on policy though, maybe this doesn't work out or stops some other kind of less exploitive business from operating and they need to adjust it.
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They delivered pizza base with no toppings. The base was just so the boxes weren't empty.

EDIT and Doordash got the price wrong (I forgot about that).
Really sad news.

For me Four Tet's remixs of Great day and Money folder were as close to perfect as I've heard.

https://youtu.be/xD4g2Mg4AJc
https://youtu.be/dFis_o-QpD8
Someone else posted the below excerpt of the law that also prohibits couriers (who are not impersonating anyone) unless they have permission from the restaurant. That seems like a ridiculous restriction to me.

> 22599. A food delivery platform shall not arrange for the delivery of an order from a food facility without first obtaining an agreement with the food facility expressly authorizing the food delivery platform to take orders and deliver meals prepared by the food facility.
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Information overload. There is now lots of information available online but there are only a few systems for prioritizing/sorting it. For example, if you are a software developer and you want to continually learn about new software development tools and technologies, you can talk to colleagues, you can read the front page of Hacker News or r/programming, you can follow people on Twitter and on their blogs; I would think there would be a lot more ways to do this (for example, things like Hacker News or r/programming with a much wider variety of ways of sorting the stories; more transparent and customizable social media 'feeds'; a wide variety of collaborative filtering websites like StumbleUpon tried to be; etc).
The techniques are very unique to the book, and contrast to other negotiation books.
Not that unreasonable I guess?

Even an App is free, it doesn't mean you can distribute it without permission? I would say the case apply to restaurants as well. I can see good restaurants leverage this to negotiate favorable terms with platforms.
Yes, most people reading this thread know that it’s possible with JS, but then it would use javascript which I assume was not the point of the experiment. Trying to suggest javascript is missing the point.
This seems like a stretch to me. If I am using a courier service to get food, I know that there are two different parties involved and that the restaurant's own standards cannot be guaranteed. Safety is, as ever, a way to generate political expediency for otherwise bad ideas.
Pure speculation but could it be a network effect? I frequently visit websites that were shared by coworkers and friends over text communicators that they originally found on HN.

Obviously, not all people vote or comment either so that's a second multiplicative factor.

Finally, causation != correlation, which most likely is your point, e.g. things on HN already spread from somewhere else.
Yes, hence, impersonation
Doordash priced the pizza at $16, but the pizza place charged $24. Presumably a 'growth hack' to get more users.

The pizza place, seeing the difference, bought pizzas for $16 and received $24 from Door Dash, so for each purchase they were $8 better off.

They also ordered plain pizza dough in larger quantities, for more profit. Presumably because they didn't have to actually make the full pizza.
I don't think sending someone to perform a task is the same as taking an order, though. The restaurant is still the one taking the order for the food itself in the case of a courier.

Also the law seem to only include "food delivery platforms", which exclude couriers.

(Of course, I might be wrong, but it seems that the intent of the law is to stop impersonation, not couriers).
2020 was not the "start of the decade". There was never an year 0.
What is the exploitation exactly?
That discussion was Dec 16, 2019. That was the day of Wuhan's first Covid-19 hospital admissions, so I don't think it was really in the news yet.
From a game design and game mechanic perspective, do you have any suggestions on how to remove the cartoon violence? How would you design a Mario or a Zelda game? Or do you have any examples of comparable games without cartoon violence?

Many popular games have an element of rivalry; you have to take away the ball, defend or capture a base, get the most points, etc. In a game of tag people chase and touch each other. One could argue that being “caught” or being “jumped on” are violent concepts, but in the context of a game I’d view them as harmless.
I wonder if it occurred to Nintendo at the time that they could have sold the device by themselves. Right now it seems that one of the best business models in (casual mobile) games is to make the game unwinnable at some point and then sell boosters that allow progress to next level.
I would imagine the amount of people who engage with the content is much smaller than the amount of people who have not logged in and just read the site. As usual, only small portion of any site’s users are the active kind of.
In Spanish Teredo Navalis is called Broma (joke).

Jokes helped starting the industrial revolution.

Cool.
>unintentionally
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Thanks to everyone on HN starting with pg and dang for providing this incredible discussion and a learning platform!
I'm not sure I understand the suggestion. Why shouldn't a courier service be allowed to list a business to get something from. That's like saying "people can't use mapping services". This doesn't feel like exploitation to me but maybe I don't understand your position fully.
No. Funds are still protected by a private key once you create an account, so stealing a phone number doesn't help you spend someone's money.
The wise will know not to answer when both choices are wrong.
People making money by providing a valued service
Similar story but with Door Dash. Explanation: Door Dash charged lower than actual price, so owner placed an order and sent just plain dough. Their profit was higher than cost of making the pizza.

https://themargins.substack.com/p/doordash-and-pizza-arbitra...
Yes but now the politicians can't hide behind the idea that "we can't do that because we're in the EU" - even as you said they could. One big advantage for me with leaving is that British politicians can be brought to account. They will have no excuses.
Really interesting how you extract cloze deletions from ebooks! It sounds very similar to what I'm building with Traverse.link, a social spaced repetition app with connected cards.
You can import an article (working on ebook support), and it'll turn the paragraphs into cards, to which you can then add cloze deletions and free form prompts.
What good does Palantir do? I'd be quite interested to hear about it.
A courier can still collect food. They can’t impersonate the restaurant anymore.
Honestly, no one cares. You're given favored access here on HN. You are given privileges few others are afforded, and, oddly, you excursively propagandize the deep state.

I am not terribly interested in hearing your apologia, your rehtoric, I'll be silenced for some redicilous reason as I have in the past. Defend yourself, I'll be silenced or mocked. HN is another compromised site, and sayiy such is forboten.
Governance systems. A lot of resources are allocated by institutions, and institutions have a lot of power over our lives. There is a decent amount of research comparing and analysing existing governance systems (e.g. comparative constitutional law) however there is surprisingly little effort put into coming up with new ones. In more detail, there is surprisingly little thinking, research, and experimentation on alternatives to the current procedures by which institutions make decisions (things like Robert's Rules of Order; voting systems; procedures for determining what gets on the ballot of e.g. corporate shareholder meetings; procedures for selection of judges, conduct of trials, resolving disputes in the interpretation of rules; etc).

There are many new and small institutions being formed all the time (e.g. HOAs; new companies; local non-profits; technology standards committees; etc) but few of them experiment with new and "experimental" procedures, and few experimental procedures are proposed (which could be a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem; maybe no one wants to try out a novel procedure unless it has been at least analysed a lot, but maybe no one wants to spend time inventing and analysing novel procedures if there is little chance they will be used).

In addition, there is little work on novel procedures for self-governance of large asynchronous online communities (such as forums).
Healthy people dream several times a night and don't remember most of their dreams upon waking.

Have someone monitor your sleep and wake you up when observing REM. There's a good chance you'll remember the dream you're currently in, and feel the disappointment of not knowing how it ends...
* 50% of all US currency is printed between now and the end of 2021

* 1 Bitcoin will cost over $100k on Dec 31, 2021

* An animation tool rivaling Adobe Flash for the web will emerge

* FB releases a thin virtual reality headset https://research.fb.com/blog/2020/06/holographic-optics-for-...

* Austin Tx or Seattle Wa succeeds Silicon Valley as the next major tech hub. San Francisco and its century old Victorians become the Detroit of the tech world

* Section 230 doesn't get repealed

* WFH and quarantine continues until the summer

* A React competitor that compiles to WASM with promises of perf and space gains will emerge

* A Reddit competitor emerges and wins majority marketshare

* 2021 will be the year of punk and rock n' roll
Solar production in the US is growing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_the_United_Stat...

No need for them to produce electricity, they can trade fish for electrons.
Boldog új évet!

Sometimes there are weeks when I read HN daily, sometimes there weeks I don't visit it. But somehow I get back to the site every now and then.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25601970

I'm well aware.
Oh, you mean the guy that comes around at 11pm to tell everyone "It's Mario Time" meaning you're working until morning?

https://kotaku.com/at-nintendo-working-all-night-is-mario-ti...

Strange how Nintendo gets no shit for crunch because they're "beloved". Lots of articles about Nintendo USA not crunching but the main office in Japan is still the same
* SpaceX's starship will reach orbit.

* The theorem prover Lean 4 will be released.
> Odd as it may seem, a lot more people want to buy Bitcoin at $28,000 than wanted to buy it at $5000. That’s just how things are. And it is important to understand that.

This is a classic line.
Say you're the restaurant, I'm the delivery guy. I pickup your meals and deliver them to your customers. On the way the meals go cold (or hot) and get damaged. Your customers aren't happy and want their money back.

My actions have made your service look bad, your customers unhappy and cost you money. You didn't know I was delivering your food!
OT since not FM, but my favourite OST is from Battletoads in Battlemaniacs for SNES: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RGsaKoP66o&list=PLA90CC2EE7...
Exploiting the customer my misrepresenting a restaurant as a partner when they are not.
This is also why op-amps are named that - Operational Amplifiers, they can do many mathematical operations.

My college electronics prof was old-school enough who told us back in his day it was “standard practice” to use pp-amps to solve differential equations from their Calc class.
Why can't I pay someone to place an order and pick it up for me? Can't I have someone go shop on my behalf at non-restaurant businesses? And if so, isn't it reasonable that a menu of options be shown with items and the costs? I agree that there should be transparency about who is delivering the food, there should be no impersonation of the restaurant, no false listing of phone numbers, and so on. But allowing restaurants to deny a courier without prior agreement seems like a government overreach.
Wishing the bests! Stay safe! I'm sure it will be better than this.
Venezuela aside, a lot of these LatAm countries have some type of capital controls in place. (Girlfriend is Colombian)

Unless you have originally brought cash in the country and received some type of pre clearance from the government, it generally is not so easy to convert back to EUR/USD/etc and move meaningful amounts of cash out of the country.

Don't know what the adoption rate is in Argentina, but with inflation being 30 to 40% a year, why would you even bother holding local currency?
> That said, I try to insure that nothing I make wastes the players’ time by having them do things that aren’t productive or creative.

> And this is why I like Nintendo games.

I've sold my copy of Animal Crossing because I felt it did just that: wasted my time on meaningless repetitive tasks
A charitable interpretation is that OP is using that as an example of how a white supremecist inserts his own biases when reading various translations of Nicomachean Ethics. Sort of a meta-example, since the guy in the video makes mountains out of moleholes wrt to how public domain translations use more antiquated language than the modern translation his college professor made him buy.
I never thought I would see references to Itchy Boots here

Good morning Internet!
Bitcoin will evolve laser turrets to adapt to the rise in people doubting its power.
'Media' isn't the same as 'investigative journalism' (where a lot of fact-checking occurs).
Eternit is still available in a new form without Asbestos. Parts of our house are covered with it. I find it really interesting that they are still using the old name that is associated with Asbestos. I mean you would not call a new tranquilizer Contergan.