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> At the time of the acquisition Uber planned to integrate Drizly into Uber Eats, but never came did.

"but never came did" Is this a grammar mistake or am I reading it incorrectly? Am I going out on a limb thinking that Techcrunch might be leaning into LLMs and reducing their editor's oversight.

There is a typo under A Better Way to Build Your Frontend.

> Use page-level context without "worring" about concurrency and mutex

Edit: here is a PR to fix that https://github.com/yuriizinets/kyoto/pull/46

Yes, I had a 15 month non-compete after leaving a high frequency trading firm. I got married and traveled 3 months around Asia (Japan, Korea, S.E. Asia, Australia). We came back and did some domestic travel then she went back to work and I started to concentrate on job search and personal projects.

The travel was great and unforgettable. I would suggest taking it slow if you are thinking of something similar. We enjoyed places when we were there for at least a week or more. We both eventually got fatigued from the constant moving and planning. I would certainly do it again but I would try to spend more time in total and longer stays at fewer places.

When I got back and my wife was working again, I tried to stay physically active to take up as much time as possible. I committed to expanding some of my knowledge by working in languages and frameworks that I wasn't exposed to in my last position.

Even with the effort to keep active and learning there is still a lot of time on your hands when you are not working. This tends to get filled with more low potential pastimes like video games, TV, etc. Everyone I know who had a similar non-compete leaned on these pastimes more than they wanted to, but its really hard to fill that much time with productive activities. If you want to avoid your vices I would suggest setting out a plan for 3, 6, 9 months and revisiting it every month. I'm not saying you have to stick to your goals but you should stay long term oriented to be productive.

I believe the dark side of the moon would be more apt for radio astronomy. The obvious reason being that the Moon is blocking interference of artificial radio signals on Earth.

I've been working in golang professionally for about a year now coming from a long career in C++. Although there is some simplicity to golang that can be appreciated things like this below make me think that the premise of less is more is fundamentally incorrect if you cannot accomplish everything that is necessary.

https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf-go/blob/master/i...

Specifically the last one of embedding an empty array of mutexes into a struct prevents that struct from being copied. This is something that is easily and explicitly accomplished in C++ by making the constructors private.

I would be really interested to no what the cost of this program is. Even if it's above a modest cost I think it's something the city should look into providing going forward. We should consider providing basic services to all our residents no questions asked starting with food and hygiene services. I also think New York could be greatly improved by providing public bathrooms and showers.

I'm getting a 404 at your NYTimes link. I believe this is a correct link https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/health/medical-scans-butt...

I would be very interested to know what innovation allows them produce Lidar at this price point.

PBS Eons for Paleontology and Anthropology - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzR-rom72PHN9Zg7RML9EbA

Necessity is the mother of invention. I think a couple of these problems are overstated and if truly forced to create substitutes many non-US companies would step up to the challenge.

The panels must be old tech but that in itself would be a problem unless we see solar panels leveling off in their efficiency in the near future. Whatever you put into orbit is going to become outdated quickly. This is the source for the amount of power generated for the ISS if you are interested.

https://www.edn.com/design/power-management/4427522/Internat...

Can anyone comment on Bezo's claim that there will be so much more energy in Space via Solar Power. Based on what I'm reading the acre of solar power panels the ISS has generates less energy than what could equivalently be generated on the Earth's surface. I cannot imagine the lack of night/day cycle overcoming the amount of energy it takes to send an acre of solar panels into orbit in the first place.

Someone needs to figure out why the Grand Jury chose not to indict. This man was murdered in front of multiple witnesses. There must have been incredible extenuating circumstances if a Grand Jury chose not to indict.

Edit:

Come to think of it, the likely reason why the Grand Jury chose not to indict could have been self defense.

The population of Pittsburgh City proper peaked in the 1950's. It then depopulated significantly as people left the region and the city center. There is an abundance of extra housing at a reasonable rate close to the city center because of this excess supply. It used to house 650k people and currently only holds 300k. It won't last forever but by no means is it on the verge of becoming an expensive city.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=population+of+pittsburg...

Not sure if anyone else has noticed this pattern but I've seen it in a number of NYT articles that I would like to aggregate. There are seemingly offhanded paragraphs that ignore the issue at hand and insert something pro-NSA/pro-weak crypto.

From this article take the second to last paragraph.

At the least, readers of “Chaos Monkeys” will think twice before taking at face value tech leaders’ high-minded arguments for refusing to assist our national security apparatus in fighting terrorist threats. Even in the area of advertising, important social and public policy questions are implicated.

This comment hardly fits into the theme and flow of the rest of the review.

That must be related to the publicity of "Flash Boys" and the fact that some entities are rallying the public to send comment letters.

BATS when it became an exchange was nothing but a vanilla competitor marketed as a Better Automated Trading System. It didn't have anything like a speed bump.

Sounds like you are describing the NBBO (National Best Bid and Offer) which literally requires everyone to execute at the best price (or better) to buy or sell in the market.

If you send an order to an exchange (say NYSE) and they don't have the Best Bid then they will route your order to the other exchanges (NASDAQ/BATS/etc). Is this what you are getting at?

2008? Electronic Trading Firms were very active.

An instance of Fractal Lab you can play with:

http://hirnsohle.de/test/fractalLab/

In my experience a lot of people don't realize you can get network TV in HD with an antenna. The cost of cable is just way too high to stomach given other available options, the best option being watching less TV.

You're right but regulatory approval is still difficult even for generics.

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/09/gen...

This strategy only works because its so expensive and time consuming to bring a competitor drug to market. If it was a lot easier to get a competitor drug approved and to market then this strategy wouldn't work. Alex Tabarrok has some enlightening opinions on the FDA:

http://marginalrevolution.com/?s=FDA

Do you agree that this is their strategy? If you regulate us then we will leave.

It's not that they couldn't afford to do the additional background checks and insurance it's obviously a statement they are making and that statement fits right into the 'Randian' views that Travis Kalanick has already been accused of. He thinks that Kansas will come crawling back after Uber is gone but more likely competitors that are willing to deal with regulation (that is probably righteous) will fill the gap.

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-uber-ceo-travis-kalanick-...

I wouldn't express my frustration like this if I didn't think the comment system on HN is completely broken. I have been on this site for many years. Just because I have never posted a runaway front page story doesn't mean I need to be censored and seek the approval of others.

Oh I see my other comment got down-voted before it was even visible. Is this because I didn't sacrifice 2 Amiga 1000's to the Gods of HN. I am 2 minutes from being done with this site forever. Both the submission and the comments have devolved into something that no longer suits my intellect. Thanks for letting me have a chance to talk here.

To anyone who has updated their twitter mobile client they recently got rid of discover and activity. Typically you would get to these screens by swiping left on the home screen. Activity was a straightforward summary of what your friends had favorited while discover was an algorithmic garble of mostly high followed accounts. I think removing the activity feed highlights the path that could seriously hurt twitter. Alienating their core users for the sake of either ads or new users. Anyone who uses and loves twitter knows how to use it and why its so powerful.

I'd propose doing something more radical for the onboarding process. Perhaps, they could show an almost random feed of tweets and rapidly update where the tweets are coming from by using a bayesian learning process. The point is you need to build your twitter from the ground up and not the top down.

Even if you abolish cash there are still other ways to avoid negative interest rates with cash substitutes. If negative interest rates go too high then people would use their money to buy houses, gold, non perishable goods, anything that stores value. This is the main problem I see with economists thinking that abolishing cash is the way to implement widespread negative interest rates.

Relevant to discuss the viability of different fintech startup ideas:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9321019

https://medium.com/bull-market/a-cynic-s-guide-to-fintech-3c...

I agree that there is some naivety when attacking huge institutions as mentioned in the article. Particularly when it comes to dodging regulation. Rather than putting you on top dodging regulation is probably going to put you out of business when it comes to Financial Institutions.

[P.S. will the Gods of HN please upvote my comment so I can have the slightest visibility here]

Yes. I would say watch what happens when the Fed definitively decides to raise rates. If there is no pullback in the big social companies then I'll be converted to the "This time is different" camp