skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> no having to explain over a bad phone line to some person who might not speak your language that well (or you not speaking his) your order

This is an edge case in my experience. We're talking immigrants/expats that haven't learned the local language (I'm yet to see a restaurant hiring immigrants not knowing the local language for the front desk / phone duty). Not that it's not worth catering for, but perhaps not at the expense of everyone else.

> and hoping he wrote the right things down and don't make a mistake

This perhaps eliminates excuses. In my experience with on-line ordering, mistakes happen frequently anyway - it's not a communications issue, it's a "cooks and delivery people are extremely busy" issue. They'll just occasionally forget to add some topping or to package the extra sauce you ordered.

> and most important of all, ease of payment.

That is absolutely true. I was a fan of these third-party services because of that - because I could pre-pay using my card online, not bothering about having cash, whether the driver has change, or whether they took the card terminal with them. I was a fan, I no longer am, because mainstream food delivery services are abusive to restaurants and delivery workers.

> there is some value for restaurants, at least some of them, to not have to worry about hiring their own delivery driver.

Depends. Some may prefer their own drivers (e.g. small-scale restaurants, where the drivers are family members, or friends). Some purposefully offer no delivery (e.g. for branding reasons). The new breed of delivery services (Uber Eats, Glovo, etc.) don't give a damn about preferences - they'll offer delivery services for your restaurant whether you want them or not; they won't even ask you for permission. The problems here are twofold:

1. People associate delivery service with the restaurant. The squeezed, exploited drivers of Uber Eats, et al. make mistakes too, deliver cold food, etc. The customers often blame the restaurant. The restaurant suffers branding and monetary loss due to no fault of their own, and with no way of improving the service.

2. The business model of those companies depends on getting people used to ordering food from restaurant through them, and then blackmailing the restaurant into signing up and paying a percentage, or getting delisted. They're forcing restaurants into participation.

> If that's not the case, a disruptive service offering just a unified UI + Payment, but no delivery should have appeared by now.

One would think so, but this is a winner-take-all market; Uber Eats & friends outcompeted previous iterations of services that offered just the UI and payment service.
You know how posting nudes gets you banned from social media, or gets your google account banned and you loose access to all your files on Drive?

The same will happen with physical devices that you bought - a car, an electric bike, a smart coffee machine. Imagine a car detecting you are smoking dope, or taking an issue with your trip to the abortion clinic.

You think it's not gonna happen, its too absurd? I just had to sign a 42 page lisence agreement to ride a bike.
> Both of these would only serve to amplify the power of Iranian government many fold. And there is no "maybe" and no "time to time". We're talking the de-facto tools of surveillance capitalism here.

I'm not so sure they would be equal. Example:

Iranians have been using Telegram/Whatsapp/Viber for many years. And every few years the government tries to block them and push their own "national" app. Every time they try to push this agenda, there is a massive massive backlash, because noone trusts the government.

Maybe Iranian government would have enough leverage against Facebook/Google to ask them to do something (like removing Navalny app) at key moments (or push to surveil some key people at certain moments) but they definitely wont have access to every single person's database like a "national" app would. That's a very big difference.
Violence is the first recourse of the insane.

Individuals who dedicate their lives to violence and aggression in the way that superpowers do are committed to institutions.
I disagree that SS is geared towards professional athletes. What makes you think so?
Ive done both, StrongLift is simply not sustainable especially for a beginner.
Not all of those are necessarily intentionally libelous. Many could be based on misunderstandings caused by reading the InfoWorld article before it was updated to be somewhat less of a paean to Amazon, or not reading it at all.
Unless you're drinking tobacco beer, or a peganum harmala infused brew, I don't think there are MAOI's present in beer. A quick google search doesn't really show anything as well, can you cite any sources?
Neat. I see a lot of threaded components, is the expectation that at contact point we should have a threaded opening? How the heck does someone manage to do that at these micro-scales?

Also, wowza, it pains me to see non-metric units used there. One would have thought that fields that are so deeply academic in nature would be free of imperial units!
This is the best point of all.
We did that in 2014. The process is straight forward and is called a Delaware flip (if I remember correctly): you setup a C-Corp in the US and then do a share flip for all share holders in the EU company to the same percentage in the US Corp. this will make the shareholders of the original company stock holders of the US one and the original company becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of the US one (or can be folded if no liabilities are left and no need for it exists)
Don’t compare things like that. 60% of your income is going straight into funding someone else’s investments and you have no choice but to pay. It is a sickness, a malaise of society.
Not knowing the actual team, but being familiar with space projects, the satellite probably didn't start getting built in earnest until the MCDR in 2010. Most of these kind of projects start off as a spitballing study and then grow and grow and grow into a flight program. That is the time period being cited as starting in the 90s.

It's expensive as hell, and took a while to build - but I think, considering what it is, the schedule isn't all that crazy. The price is a bit insane... but it's also like, wonder of the world level of engineering. Building something like this is akin to making the tower of babel, and then placing that on top of a rocket and sending it almost a million miles away in L2 orbit.

We could argue that a constellation of smaller and cheaper satellites would have probably been better - honestly I don't know much of anything about space optics so I'm not sure if that's really the case lol.

I think it's a pretty amazing project and can't wait to see the results!
That kind of thing is very common with many kinds of mixtures in Germany, especially apple juice unsurprisingly :) but really all kinds of things. I was shocked because in the UK it is very uncommon to see such a thing. I remember having something similar in Budapest too.
When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
They have a sense of humour from what I can tell.
> a pint of beer provides about 180 kcal

Then two paragraphs down:

> Contrary to popular opinion, however, beer does not contain any fat. Rather, the pot bellies of heavy drinkers probably result from the effects of alcohol as an appetite stimulant.
I built four eight-foot-long handwriting robots
Yes I can see why it could be difficult for some people to make calls. Also I agree that being able to use your credit card is convenient. However I am not sure that premium that e-food gets is actually worth that convenience...

As I said before almost all the reastaurants had their own delivery people and the major reason for them that decided to use e-food is their fear of missing out the online delivery hype.

If most people at least understood how much better it is for restaurants to avoid the intermediate it would be much better.
Wow. I cant believe how simple the building of a custom kernel has become. I fiddled with this 15 years ago and it all seemed very unapproachable at the time.

Great writeup, thats going straight to bookmarks.
This sounds familiar. Aside from the part where he tells the PM that something is going to be delayed because of a tech decision.
+1. I use the postup/postdown settings in wireguard to add/remove iptables configuration, but it would be nice to have a more user-friendly setup.
I think because in this case they enforce that by hosting the control plane themselves, it doesn't really matter. I wouldn't use something I can't self-host anyway, not something as security-sensitive as a VPN.

So many users will not have even considered the paid version anyway, and their participation will give tailscale a higher marketshare and thus more viability.
you know things are getting stupid when you have to stop and think about whether you should open a youtube video in incognito mode or not
Building a Lego-powered Submarine 3.0 – balloon and compressor
Ew.

I instead wish creative works entered public domain _way_ sooner. Like mb 15/20 years.
>>A generator that delivers "unprecedented levels" of electrical power has also been developed for the aircraft.

Someone at MOD has finally learned... "what do you mean you can't move the ship and turn the radar on at the same time".. "what do you mean you can't fit catapults because there's nothing to power them".. etc etc etc
For sure! I knew it was crazy complicated, but watched a youtube video that details the deployment procedure.......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTxLAGchWnA

It takes almost a month and is craaaazy complicated!

Plus it looks like some freaky alien thing.
The US uses war to export its domestic issues abroad. War is the primary conduit and excuse for corporate welfare.

Some of this goes into jobs. Occasionally - exceptionally, and less often than most people realise - some of it spins off into useful civilian tech.

But most of it is just free money for nothing much to not very nice people. Some of whom use it to buy political influence. And some of whom use existing political influence to make sure they benefit from it personally.

It's a perfect circle of corruption and moral decay built on foundations of death and terror.
> how we got to this place

Money laundering. It’s as easy as that. International organised and serious crime is buying up real estate to clean their money flows, typically from wholesale meth/cocaine/opioids and human trafficking.

Then they started buying up businesses and politicians and now we are here.

Construction companies build huge towers full of huge apartments nobody can afford, yet they are all bought up, and nobody lives in them.
>Comparing minimum to minimum would be a more useful metric.

Nope. This is minimum wage and sadly there are plenty of people with an income lower than that. You have to chart both progressively and simultaneously.

Bottom %1 income to bottom %1 rent, 1-2, 2-5, 5-10, 10-20 etc. I'm not familiar with the data so those bucket sizes and positions are almost certainly capable of being greatly improved.

The next question, and the one clearly being examined is raising the minimum wage. Seeing how it affects everyone all the way down is informative there.
>This study assumes you must spend less than 30% of your income on housing

As long as I can remember a reasonable budget has been assumed to be 1/3 on housing, 1/3 on living expenses and 1/3 on savings.

I never really saw that as unreasonable. Are there people who think it's reasonable for an average household budget to be 40% living expenses and 60% housing?
That’s why I have access to a VM for the rare occasions I need windows, and have had linux just work, not getting in my way, for 20 years.
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If the array is stack-allocated and the elements are boxed (i.e. heap-allocated) or have destructors, you are still going to need to call the destructors or the free on the elements when the array goes out of scope.
Human nature, sadly, is such that "It is better to be a warrior in a garden than to be a gardener in war". You will find similar sentiments with Machiavelli, Zen, Art of War etc.
I love me some checked exceptions.
I've been using Ecosia for over a year now. Took about a week to get used to but I'm getting good results and if they actually do what they promise I'm doing something good for the world :)
Lies, Damned Lies, and Microservice “Advantages”
Matrix[0]?

[0]: https://matrix.org
Untangling the Tale of Ada Lovelace (2015)
I wonder if this is the same tech behind columns from examples in Power Query?

That and flash fill has saved countless hours to my team.
Only thing I would change in this proposal is to make it Apache, BSD or MIT licensed instead of free software (which implies GPL), or at least make sure libraries are packed up as LGPL instead of bundling everything under (A)GPL.

I know for sure this is a controversial point of view, but to me it is obvious (even if I can see the reasoning behind hard-line Free Software advocacy).

(What would probably do more good for both Open Source and Free Software in my opinion would be to get rid of CLAs as far as possible since they create a unhealthy relationship where the strong part is constantly tempted to relicense contributed code.)
Clickbait has made it's way into MS naming. I remember being filled with joy when reading the title of the Windows Subsystem for Linux announcement. You can imagine my disappointment and I was probably not alone.
FreshRSS + Reeder

https://freshrss.org/
https://reederapp.com/
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I think everyone in Europe is keen on "mutually beneficial economic exchange with Russia and China" but I think that recent history demonstrates that Russia and China have different views from us about what mutually beneficial means.

>Putin, repeatedly, has been shown to be a reliable, and predictable partner

Oh come on:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Sergei_and_Yulia_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Vrb%C4%9Btice_ammunition_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_bounty_program

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Montenegrin_coup_d%27%C3%...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_independence_movement#...

and many other gigs!
I would like to firmly push for a new definition of what an exception is for. It's for _aborting a sub-task in your program, if it cannot complete it's assigned goal_. Unlike the meaningless "it's for exceptional situations", this definition has the benefit of describing what they are for, and when you should use them.

Are you really not expecting an error, even as you are writing code to detect and report on it? No! You think it is unlikely to happen, but you are spending time preparing for it.

But after some errors, whatever sub-task the program was working on just isn't going to happen, and in that case the program needs to get back to a state where it can continue with the next sub-task. Exceptions do precisely that, letting you gracefully back out of the sub-task in a clean and clear manner.

Exceptions are not for aborting your entire program, as some people mistakenly hold (there's abort() for that). The fact that they are comparatively slow doesn't matter. Once you are not going to achieve your goal, it doesn't matter too much whether you'll do so at a rate of a thousand per second or a million per second, except perhaps for total system throughput.
I had the same thought. It's a reasonable choice for a definition of "to afford rent". Ya you can spend all of your money on rent, but then you'll have nothing left.
It's a statement to how much other websites are bad
They emit Hawking radiation from the event horizon itself, not from the area inside the event horizon. As far as it is theorized, they shrink by emitting this radiation. This phenomenon is poorly understood and likely impossible to study, at least until we have a quantum account of gravity. But what is clear is that a particle that has crossed the event horizon will never again cross it back, the very geometry of space prevents this.
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Sure.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1541-4337... (See table 22)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1530-0277....
Dehumidifiers are ACs, just with the condenser indoors and exhausting heat back into the cooled air stream (so heating the room overall).

A particular dehumidifier can (of course) be more or less efficient than a particular AC system. But it's probably more efficient, given similar technology, if you want a drier, warmer room.

Hardly ever want that warmer room bit during the Southeast US humid season. So you'd wind up running the AC too, to exhaust the excess heat (including the extra heat from the dehumidifier).
> I don't understand how so many VC's fell for a supply chain concept that a first year Operations Research student would had figured out that is so inefficient that is not worth pursuing.

Why not? From my understanding, individual restaurants were doing it for a long time with less efficiency (orders via telephone, staff would be idle when no orders are around and can't do orders for another restaurant during those times). Why wouldn't it be profitable to make that process more efficient?
If you can't understand something on your own, you might be grateful for an explanation, but nobody actually owes you one.
See my other reply. The quantities are not ”incidental” in daily use, because these alkaloids tend to get stored in brain fatty tissues and have a rather long half-life, measured in weeks.
France recalling ambassadors to the United States and to Australia
Any docs or tips on how the mobileconfig or configuration keys look like?
Perl 11 was a thought experiment. It never actually became anything beyond a website expressing that notion. It got no traction from anybody apart of the originators. And of that I'm not really sure either.
It's not as simple as that with humans. scarcity is just of factor of many.

I don't think there's a scarcity problem these days yet population is still declining(especially in educated/civilized countries). That's been ongoing since the 70's

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_decline
The world was still scarred by WW2, humans proved the worst if themselves just few years before. It's very reasonable that people were trying to find out why
What you don't consider is that the restaurant owners cannot decide anymore if using the service is beneficial for them or not! It's either use the service of lose a lot of customers because they will go to the next restaurant. These people are small business owners and can't afford losing customers.

Now, if there was a way all restaurant owners could agree that "nobody will use e-food from now on" then they would definitely decide that since using that service is not beneficial for them.
But how efficiently are alcohol calories metabolizied? (I think not very)
Not sure why you’re downvoted; you’re correct. This 1996 article reflects the debunked 90s logic that eating fat makes you fat.
This isn't gatekeeping, this is signaling that the lead might lack experience to even live through consequences of his processes and decisions.

If you've never finished a project, lived through political, technological and social consequences of your actions, what use is your experience? You could make any decisions and you wouldn't know if they're worth anything.

Doesn't mean his post is useless or worthless - but it does give important context to his writing.
If you insert in batches, elastic is quite fast. Also it shards and scales horizontally really well without the client having to know that.

My cluster of 6 instances could index ~20k large, complex docs per second while still serving production query traffic.
Yes! Facebook is not really a "US company", for each country they operate in they have to deal with the local laws, and they have lots of office and crews in each country, simply to comply to local issues.
Facebook is reacting to 10.000s of legal requests in Germany alone PER DAY, coming from a wide range of actors (copyright issues, violence, hate speech, police, government).

It's bizarre that so many people are so naive thinking political issues on the web - especially on the big platforms - are not censored.
Doesn’t really work if they know who has the money.
One quibble - in my experience the water content of beer doesn't outweigh the dehydrating property of breaking the seal. The first time I wrongly tried to quench my thirst with multiple beers, on a summer day in the desert when I was 13, I nearly ended up in the hospital with dehydration and heat stroke. Water does work best in those situations, and beer will definitely aggravate dehydration.
Because, as the other poster put it, we're now "gatekeeping" if we don't put a big title badge on anyone with a few months of work behind them and willingness to talk big.
lol Google being the default search engine is literally how Firefox makes money. Only Microsoft has pockets deep enough to replace that revenue stream.
I would also add: on a much higher surface area. Something like 20000sqm to allow the species(mice in this case) to form different groups/tribes
I'm curious what other HN users think of Gitlab's pricing?

I was considering Gitlab when pitching a new platform for my org but the value really didn't seem to be there when compared to Atlassian/Microsoft.
I keep reporting comments across the web that says someone or whole groups of people should be killed.

Response sadly varies a bit with who said it and who they wanted dead.
Is there an archive link to the second article? The conclusion is not available...

I find the premise interesting, but consider how many supplements/drugs intentionally inhibit MAO's at much higher than ng/L quantities and how promising they seem for Parkinson's (there seem to be more positive studies than negative studies, though the measured effect in both types tends to be quite small). It seems unlikely to be the critical factor determining health effects in alcoholic beverages.
There are no more details to be had -- nor needed. It's very simple: If you find the mere fact that one organisation is amassing an apparently undue amount of influence something to be worried about, then be; if you don't, then don't.

The fact that you're obviously trying to paint a legitimate worry as overwrought histrionics by spelling "worried" as "outraged" would seem to indicate you're already leaning towards the latter -- perhaps sufficiently so to be intentionally trying to ridicule the original worry.