skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This can be very significant. Often the cost of delivery is noticeably higher than the cost of making the food in the first place, and customer generally won't want the extra (or at least the full amount of the extra) added to their bill. That can make it difficult (or practically impossible) for a small business to offer delivery.

Though I'm not sure how the cost/hassle of dealing with "gig economy" services compares in such matters.
> I personally know 2 people that had their lives shortened by the measures instead of the virus itself

If you look at the global rates of excess deaths:

https://www.ft.com/content/a2901ce8-5eb7-4633-b89c-cbdf5b386...
(look under “Death rates”)

It looks like the countries that had early and hard shutdowns (like Denmark and S. Korea), had almost zero excess deaths. Which at least to me seems to indicate that the shutdowns themselves have very low impact.
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/end-of-the-stick.html has some thoughts.

I like the horse answer at https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/67813/origin-of-... whether it is true or not.
Disagreeable people have done amazing things for the Free Software movement. It is, at heart, a highly intolerant movement. It does not care about compromise, it cares about principles. It does not tolerate half-hearted attempts and lip service.

Compromise and bringing people together is the slow track to becoming subservient to corporate interests. Mozilla works with people and we end up with an OK browser that is strategically playing second fiddle to Google.

Brave was really quite an eye opener for me as a reminder that a web browser doesn't have to tag along on the path Chrome dictates. Which is ironic given that they use Chrome as a base and Firefox has its own rendering engine.
I still don't see the problem here?
The fact that the 0-24 age range (typically dominated by car accidents and suicides) doesn't see much change suggests that the effect you are suggesting is small or nonexistent.
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For me it takes as long as I start sweating. When I dress up after taking a shower I start sweating about 20-40 minutes later and I immediately can smell the body odor. It might be because of how conscious I am of it due to a childhood experience I just shared in another comment, or perhaps there is a genetic factor to it, too. Diet plays a role, too, although it does not seem to matter what I eat, I still smell it on me when I sweat.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26558873
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They said 64k mono is indistinguishable, not 64k stereo.
Indeed "we're here to code" is the winner. Anything else just turns software into high school popularity contests, and there are thousands of other organizations who cater to that.
Using twitter to bitch at large about your former employer is integrity? Thats a new one.
...he said, to a wildlife photographer.
The US is designed with the idea of checks and balances. It is a half-truth that the Supreme Court can make up whatever interpretations it wants. It can only consider cases that come before it, and it can only take so many cases in a year. With the cases before it, in practice, there are a whole host of things limiting what interpretations are possible, such as precedent, the desire to reach consensus on a more limited ruling, the possibility of setting a precedent that could later be used against the justice's goal, and the fact that justices have to work together even though they strongly disagree with each other. These are in addition to the other checks and balances spelled out in the Constitution, such as the possibility of impeachment of justices.
Correct: According to the theory outlined above, no neutral form could have been a PIE nominative, because the PIE nominative would have been marked willfully acting entities. So the root cause would have been the distinction made for nouns (“can willfully act” – “cannot willfully act”), and this must affect all words with noun-agreement (i.e. adj., det.) or words substituting, deputizing nouns (i.e. pronouns).

It is wonderful that this formerly semantic system (if the theory is correct) has left its formal trace over millennia and a range of thousands of miles.

Such preservation was likely in so far as otherwise a new suffix-inflectional distinction had to be introduced in order to distinguish the nominative neuter from the accusative neuter; and in the history of the IE languages, suffix-inflectional distinctions are rather removed than built.
Sinograph is the term I’ve seen used in many introductory texts on Japanese. Apparently it was added just this month to the Oxford English Dictionary. https://public.oed.com/updates/new-words-list-march-2021/
Only Attiki syntax in Ancient Greek had this as a special form I believe and it was not limited to inanimate subjects. The classic example of this is τα παιδία παίζει , the children are playing.
>This means that with our 20/40 encoding scheme, a malicious attacker would need to physically access 20 different nodes within our network of almost 300,000 devices.

Which community is providing 300k devices? Is Polycloud building on top of IPFS or Sia?
Article was pretty good until...

> Protecting myself from bad actors is not my job. It is the government’s job.

I stopped reading at this point.

Also there were many misunderstandings (intentional or otherwise) that detracted a lot. Like "Free as in beer" which is commonly known as no money changing hands (price is free). Not the nonsense the author wrote.
Open source taxi hailing and food ordering services, accommodation services that are genuinely open platforms are such a pipe dream of mine - on the one hand there is no reason why existing restaurants, delivery drivers and existing taxi services etc. can't broker their services.

Hosting costs, moderation, payment processing and centralisation are major difficulties though. Legality and safety of providers are also significant.

So while one side of my brain says - these services could offer and respond to requests in a federated system (akin to activity pub) where you can post menu feeds for example, and respond to requests for your food / taxi / accommodation in a requested location if it is available.

The other half of me says - too expensive to host and build, time consuming to build, difficult to get providers to use your protocols, and then difficult to stay non-commercial - and difficult to work out how payments should be done, dispute resolution, reviews issues and the fact that probably the service would end up used to sell sex and scam people somehow because it almost always does...

And I shrug and think: this is why we probably can't have nice things.
Works well enough that I use it everyday. I think it's less straining because you can move your monitors far away in visual space, so even though you are looking at a screen an inch away, your eyes are focused as if looking at a giant screen much further.
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Personally, I see the arguments about software security to be a bit distracting. In my experience, users of free/open source software don't generally inspect the code (there are definitely exceptions of course.)

What it can provide is things like the ability to customise, to avoid vendor lock-in, and things like that. Most users aren't developers, but those that aren't can still get benefits from those who are. For example, if I provide software X to someone, and they use me for support (set up, config, development, whatever), they can choose to move to someone else to provide their support if they want. If I start charging too much, or provide bad service, or just want to get out of the industry and go into woodworking, I as a developer am replaceable. If I don't want to do something, they can get someone else to do it.

I used to work on a free software project where this was a big draw for the users. They usually didn't have their own expertise to do the support, but there was a big pool of people and companies they could choose from to take over. And, some did have someone internal to do it, which meant they could change things to suit their own needs as they saw fit. We occasionally got patches and QA reviews from our customers, through the public bugtracker for the project.

It does get more complicated with SaaS stuff, but that is solvable also (for example, requiring that data and code is provided.)

This is of course only one aspect, and is a bit more commercially oriented (because that's a lot of my experience), but I just think that the security aspects, while valid, often distract from some of the core reasons behind the free and open source models.
Super interesting topic. Sometimes Japan uses the simplified version, or somewhat in between. Off the top of my head I only can think of 学/學.

There’s a handful of kanji created in Japan (called) kokuji, mostly food related. Some of these made it back to China. And there are a few differences based on simple mistakes, for example a Chinese character mistakenly applied to the wrong species of fish.
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Taking 30% of restaurants is really dispicable.

No company should be allowed to profit from restaurants that are currently struggling to survive.
They do do all this. From my understanding it’s just a very hard problem.
A bus once an hour is the backup of a backup plan for those who have no other options. It means the blind don't have to bother their friends for a ride as often.

What it isn't is in anyway useful to anybody. It shouldn't even be called public transit, be honest and call it last ditch option.

Real public transit needs to run more often. Half hour service is marginal public transit.
Only reason I think this was not written by GPT-3 is that I suspect GPT-3 would be able to produce much more sense than this drivel... Maybe it was written by GPT-2, I guess.
Japanese-speaking people have trouble understanding each other?
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It seems the oxford dictionary also has an entry for -gratis- in the english language (middle-age from the same latin origin, as -late middle english-

Interesting!
It also means that if I modify it, it's no longer signed. And if the system is configured so that only binaries signed by Microosoft (or by a signer that Microsoft trusts) can run, then the modified software won't run.

Code signing is A Good Thing, in principle. But it's easily hijacked by bad actors to further monopolistic goals.
RMS created the FSF, and you're asking if he is fit for the role?

He created the role. It fits him like a glove, because he created it from his own vision. If you don't think he is fit for the role, then you don't understand what you're talking about.
Not quite one in three, but quite a lot. Here's a relevant bit from the Wikipedia page [1] :

> During later years of the round pound's use, Royal Mint surveys estimated the proportion of counterfeit £1 coins in circulation. This was estimated at 3.04% in 2013, a rise from 2.74%.[9][10] The figure previously announced in 2012 was 2.86%, following the prolonged rise from 0.92% in 2002–2003 to 0.98% in 2004, 1.26% in 2005, 1.69% in 2006, 2.06% in 2007, 2.58% in 2008, 2.65% in 2009, 3.07% in 2010 and 3.09% in 2011.[40][41] Figures were generally reported in the following year; in 2008 (as reported in 2009), the highest levels of counterfeits were in Northern Ireland (3.6%) and the South East and London (2.97%), with the lowest being in Northwest England.[42][43][44] Coin testing companies estimated in 2009 that the actual figure was about twice the Mint's estimate, suggesting that the Mint was underplaying the figures so as not to undermine confidence in the coin.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_pound_(British_coin)
Kind of wish new languages were a lot less boring. Almost every project like this is just classic imperative programming with different syntax.

I want to see new languages that bring something new to the table besides what you'd make for a compiler class final.
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Unrelated to Deliveroo, but "How to Become TripAdvisor’s #1 Fake Restaurant" (2018) was very telling as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqPARIKHbN8

From the video description:

> The Shed at Dulwich was the number one rated restaurant in London, with foodies, celebrities and bloggers trying to get a table. The main obstacle for them, however, was that it didn't exist. Over the course of 8 months VICE's Oobah Butler used an assault of fake reviews to get his 'restaurant' to the hallowed top spot on TripAdvisor.
> Why?!

Because it costs a lot of money to buy a house with enough room for 2 separate offices. Paying for that if you have no reason to believe you'll ever need it would be well into the stupid range for most people.
I bet they'll walk back this advice when employees start moving outside the UK and start living across the world, and suddenly Nationwide has the laws and bureaucracies of hundreds of countries to deal with...

"Hi HR, you need to pay be the 8 years maternity pay you owe me because I live in Svalbard and the local laws require all employers pay that".
What do people do then, do they just get lots of 20ies, or are they mostly paying electronically for anything > £20?

We have the a similar issue in Germany, but it's mostly with 200€ notes (and 100€ notes for a small shop, maybe). I've never had anyone even as much as look annoyed to being handed 50€.
I am working on something like that please feel free to play around with it or contribute.

https://github.com/prettydiff/share-file-systems
I have been here (it's not far from where I live): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah%27s_Ark_Zoo_Farm It's certainly an experience (and the animals don't seem too bothered about the whole creationism thing)!
Containers have to become a lot more expensive to have that effect. Per unit costs are still a fraction of total costs, so I wouldn't worry to much about that.
I don't own a linux phone yet but from the last reviews I would buy one immediately if it had last generation hardware + hardware acceleration. (don't even need a camera or other gizmos).
Micros were still viewed as toys by mainframe and mini manufacturers in the 80s. It wouldn't be until the 90s that micros started punching above their tiny weight.
Literally the only significant amount of data I've ever lost in my life, either on a personal or professional context, were: 1. half a decade of emails dropped by Microsoft from my old Hotmail account with no reason or warning; 2. all my highlights on a 3000-page book series lost due to a iOS update breaking compatibility with the app I was using for it.
I'd say good riddance. Why saddle yourself with this abomination?
Yeah, Law Enforcement won't request to protect users' privacy, but users may very well reply to the heads-up requesting a "broad" protection of their own privacy...
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Just out of curiosity, is Alan Turing from Cryptonomicon at all recognizable?
A less technical vector is that users are continually trained to think it's ok to enter their username and password in any old app that throws up a webview. Phishing here we come...

I spent a while complaining every time I saw one and nearly always got brushed off.

Then I realised that even large companies do this. The most recent example was Microsoft doing it in the Windows Gamebar!

So I give up. If anyone wants to harvest passwords just release a few apps that claim a legitimate need to login to Google, Facebook, Amazon or anything else you want access to.

EDIT - what's the correct thing to do? Launch the user's browser where there is a slightly higher chance that they will be able to spot that things aren't legit. And if they are using a password manager that will refuse to fill in the site and is much more likely to alert them.

The two simple rules:

1. Never enter your password in a 3rd party app

2. Always use a password manager

are simple to explain to non-technical users and fairly robust.
How did the FSF imagine this would play out? The fact that RMS isn't really the kind of guy you want doing public relations work, combined with the cancel culture shitstorm that originally got him booted, should've been enough to make anyone think thrice before reappointing him.
First the truck driver and now a hotel owner - it's nice to see real people doing real work on HN.
What are good small towns to work remote from?

I consider "good to work remote from" to mean

- High speed internet

- Somewhat reasonable way to get to airport for office time (e.g. Michigan Flyer has bus service from East Landsing to the Detroit airport.

Personal bonuses

- Mountains, trees, and winter

- Low cost of living
From memory 10.1 was a big improvement. And I think was a free update.

I was at the Paris Expo when the Beta was launched!

Truely an exciting exciting event!

Sadly the beta was all but unusable, despite looking amazing and butter smooth on stage when Jobs did the demo!

I think it was the event where the Key Lime iBook was released too.

Good times!
These are the tech companies that decide what speech is allowed online
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France, for example, has gone through many different constitutions (the current one is from 1958). I don’t think they’re unique in changing up their foundational texts (and don’t forget places like the UK, that have no constitution, and rely on norms)

But my point was mainly around popular movements. Not going to comment on international judgement in these circumstances
Ask HN: Why is the wording and grammar on SPAM Emails so bad?
I am still receiving a fair amount of SPAM each month (5 E-Mails maybe). But for years, they still don't have proper grammar, spelling or even the right greeting.

If you have the resources to send thousands (if not millions) of these E-Mails, wouldn't you take 1 week to actually compose them rightly, hire a translater for a week or whatever?
There is a certain vibe to many of his performances but if you consider that he even played (in the film not the book) a gay man in roughly the same time period in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, a performance in which he is still a little bit cumberbatch-y for a brief moment but generally warm and humorous, there's more to it than that.
It's not only about a legit project failing with gigantic losses.
A blanket liability insurance would also raise hordes of liability insurance trolls. I.e. organized efforts to collect insurance payments by claiming damage caused by the use of the software.
I sigh every time someone says deadbeef is great alternative to foobar2000. The greatest thing about foobar2000 is media library which deadbeef doesn't even have. Actually, no other player on the planet can compete with foobar's media library. I'm not sure what kind of magic it uses, but the second I put new files in directories where my music is, foobar2000 sees it and I can access it in foobar. Sometimes, I listen to a random track and decide I want to hear everything from this artist that I have in library. I press 'a' on a selected track and I see everything from this artist. I press 'A' on a track and I get everything from this album. I press 'q', type few letters in search bar, press enter and I get new playlist with the results. I press 'o' on a track and it opens a file explorer in the location where the track is located and it also selects it. Quite useful if I want to move it somewhere else or copy it or rename or whatever. These are all my custom shortcuts but I love the fact that you can assign shortcut to virtually anything. There's also tag editor and format converter. There's also really cool feature that you can queue any file you double click in file explorer in its own playlist (I call this playlist Inbox), so that the playlist I'm currently listening is unmodified.

Closest thing I found on Linux is ncmpcpp and it's still a far cry from everything I can do in foobar2000.
Saying "free software has failed" is like saying "communism has failed".

What the author really means is that the FSF's achievements have not satisfied his expectation. However, expectations are subjective and personal.

That is a perfectly good opinion, but it's an opinion.

The FSF could shut down tomorrow, but the existing GPL software would continue to further the goals of free software, however successful they might be at it. How many organizations can you name that wield that kind of eternal influence? To me that puts them into a row with the French Revolution and Bauhaus.
RMS doesn't lead with authoritarianism. You're assuming that anyone who is in a position of leadership is an "authoritarian," but that's not what the word means.
Ask HN: Literature on crisis response?
So I've always been interested in how teams respond to crises. I love reading about teams that handle crises well, and try to figure out what I can learn from their actions for the teams I lead. (Apollo 13 continues to be an all-time favourite movie of mine...)

Recently, there've been two discussions on HN [1,2] that have gotten me thinking about this topic again. And now I'm wondering: are there any good books on the topic that you can recommend? I'm not restricting myself to any domain - business, politics, engineering, natural disasters, could all be interesting.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26506920

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26539495
The point is that there is a system, with feedback loops.

The point is NOT that the system is somehow immaculate and incapable of drifting into instability.

Indeed, the concentration of power in the hands of the few we see about us is, arguably,
the rejection of representative systems developed in the last several centuries in favor of historical authoritarian approaches.

Sweet, sweet panem et circenses => https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses
I don’t know much more than superficial things about either FSF or RMS. I read the things he said, they sound reasonable, but very prone to misinterpretation.

I won’t jump to his defence, I think not offending people even through their misunderstandings is a key skill in public speech. I do find it terrifying though how he is lynched for what is essentially rational and permissible speech in an ugly wrapper. I don’t know if I agree with him, but I sure have some opinions of mine that are not palatable to mainstream woke Twitter mobs. The idea that I couldn’t express them for fear of being cancelled sends shivers down my spine.
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The actual science involved:

"The test measures expression levels of 14 small noncoding RNAs in saliva, including microRNAs. “MicroRNAs are messages the cells transmit in response to an event, like a brain injury,” Belli tells The Guardian. “The place where you find microRNAs most abundantly is saliva. Salivary glands are connected directly to the brain by nerves. We’re seeing this response within minutes of injury.”

https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/simple-spit-test-...
I think it is ridiculous to condemn someone for what happens solely in their imagination. I don't believe in thoughtcrime.
RMS regrets not accepting LLVM into GCC during 2005 (2015)
The FSF promoting the use of only GPL licenses seems to indicate their version of freedom to be you should have freedom as long as you follow these specific rules we as your superiors have decided are best for your well-being. Doesn't seem very libertarian. Promoting software under the MIT, BSD or similar licenses sure seems like it would be the more libertarian stance.
I didn't mean to say it was limited to inanimate subjects. It's for neuter subjects. But we've been talking about a relationship between Indo-European neuter gender and inanimacy, so this still seems plausibly related.
I agree. Imagine having your senses overwhelmed by images and sensations of the most terrifying shit you can’t even imagine. And the way governments excuse their repeated attacks on encryption - no safe harbour - who can’t see that directly translating to mind reading?