jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> BUT: the vast majority of the mail I get through the postal service is junk mail that I don't want. The remainder is almost entirely stuff that I'd prefer to get electronically and, if the USPS were to disappear, I feel confident I would.

The answer to that has to do with economic issues. Once upon a time (and I have not seen the numbers in years) 3rd class mail (what you can junk, and is now officially called Standard) actually carried its own way, and supported the cost-basis for First Class mail.

The reason(s) were varied, but had to do with the number of times a piece of mail had to be handled/sorted. Properly prepared Standard mail, had to be individually handled less than 2 times. Much of it was handled once (by the letter carrier). Standard mail arrives at the USPS dropoff already is pre-sorted by carrier route, and potentially by carrier order of travel. The mailers get a reduced rate, but not as much as it actually saves the USPS.

Getting rid of Standard Mail would actually increase cost of First Class. Standard Mail is advertising, and if they didn't advertise to you one way, they would just do it another.

My beef is less with Standard Mail, and more with political mail.

> So I'd like to hear arguments for the continuing subsidy and existence of the USPS, but I wouldn't personally cry any tears if it were abolished tomorrow.

USPS delivers (in one way or the other) to every point of presence in the USA. UPS, FedEx and DHL can not match that (although they do try to come close).

USPS also provides a variety of services that none of the others do.
I get such little useful content from my mailbox that I only empty it when it's become completely full (about once every 10 days).

I'd be totally happy with weekly mail delivery, which would cut costs substantially.

Most of what is in the box is direct mail advertising that I've tried very hard to opt out of and which goes directly into the garbage. What remains is duplicate copies of bills I get online and tons of junk from Wells Fargo, etc.

I think the USPS has become more of an advertising distribution service than something of value to the typical person.

And, USPS doesn't attempt repeated delivery of parcels, so 80% of the time I'm not home to receive it and have to drive to the post office and stand in line to collect it.

Daily mail delivery would make sense if you could count on things being delivered with day level precision, but in my experience all mail that isn't coming from the same city or adjacent cities is wildly unpredictable.
Actually, it's entirely parallel, unless you only have one core. In a typical OS (like Linux), the scheduler runs on each core and selects which task to run next on that core.
Didn't receive an email, but are they just now referring to the incident that took place September 23 2020?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/shopify-data-breach-1.57351...
It hasn't been much more expensive for a long time. I think it has more to do with the marketing idea that if it looks more plain, you will feel like it must be a good deal and good value since they didn't waste money on fancy colors.
I stopped using almost everything, and I'm writing replacements for things I couldn't find replacements for, so yes, me too.
Yes, ok, different agencies, different laws, different domains, different impact, but same brave new world and the divergent responses seemed moderately interesting.
> Is it worth it?

> Um. Not really. At current Ethereum prices (2021-02-26), it generates $0.14 of profit per day. It’s still a profit, but very miniscule.

The real question is if it makes more money than it costs in electricity. Apple claims it uses 39 W max. That adds up to 0.936 kWh of electricity per day, which we can approximate at 1 kWh. Electricity prices range from ~4¢ to ~20¢ per kWh in the USA, which means that depending on where you live, you'll be making a profit or a loss of -6¢ to +10¢ per day.

So yeah, this thing can be profitable. But the capital cost required to buy the M1 in the first place is going to be really hard to pay off.
If you value fuel economy, CVT is good. If you value driving performance, it is bad. Choose one.

(Or just buy electric and don't worry about fiddly transmissions)
I mean... its only news because it got out. If you seriously believe companies arent accessing your data its borderline delusional.
> While I'm typing this I realise that I've never actually read the ISO 8601 spec, like probably most people here, because it's not free. I cannot even be sure it really exists.

Always wondered about this too. How can people implement a standard if they can't freely access and reference it? It's the 21st century. Why can't they just publish the document on the internet just like the IETF does?
Sorry, there was an outage this morning for a few hours, but it's back now.
dropbox doesn't encrypt your data either, so it's generally not a good idea to keep any kind of your sensitive data unencrypted there.

i guess storing something like a small truecrypt volume there would be just about enough.
I don't see closures. That's one of the most powerful aspects of Javascript.
Hi all! I'm a Fellow of FSFE, too. Let me add that, as vog already mentioned, the Fellowship is open for everyone. I was told that FSFE already has some Fellows from the US. So you are not alone if you join FSFE. :-)

Of course some of the really great thinks of FSFE are the local Fellowship meetings, etc. which is more easy to organise with more Fellows around. But I would love to see Fellowship meetings in the US (usally 2-3 Fellows are already enough if you invite "non-Fellows" too). But all this is not mandatory to join FSFE. There are als FSF members at Europe without any FSF or LibrePlanet meetings. So the other way around would be perfectly OK too.

So, if you like FSFE than join us! :-)
I don't think it deals with cycles at all (it's hierarchical, after all), but talloc does allow you to do funky stuff with object ownership - it uses reference counting and features a talloc_steal() function to move ownership.
"when we're sitting around in 2030 with a million times more computing power at our fingertips than we have today, constructing a workable AI just isn't going to be that difficult of an engineering problem."

Sorry, but bruteforcing "creativity" is a p==np problem. If you have a proof of p==np then please submit it right away and collect your turing award.

"We already know the equations that we'd need to use do general intelligence, it's just that they're not computable with finite computer power, so we'd have to do some approximations, and at present it's not realistic because the approximation schemes we know of would work too slowly."

Unless there have been some MAJOR discovery within the past couple of days, this sentence is completely wrong. We don't have equations to build an AGI because if we did, we would already have a working AGI. If we had these so called equations, we would have a more fundamental understanding of humans, how they work, and how they "learn". I will now stop thinking about this ridiculous sentence before I get an aneurysm.

P.S. I would love it if you could prove me wrong with links to any academic papers.
That's clever, but I wish you had chosen a nicer-looking veneer. For all that work, the result hilariously cheap- and cheesy-looking. Jennifer Newman's slot desk, by contrast, is gorgeous; love the firetruck red (although the grey is also lovely).
While I think the intelligence agencies were just incompetent to identify the proper threat, perhaps for lack of an adequately warped imagination (911 was a game changer in the rules of plane highjacking - nobody ever used a passenger plane as a missile before), I don't think anyone allowed it to happen on purpose.

However, the president and his associates certainly saw the opportunity and ran with it. The damage done will take decades to undo.
As vog already explained, in many cases it is good to have people locally availabe. But FSFE does world wide campaigns too.

One example would be the Document Freedom Day: documentfreedom.org
It _should_ requires a license if the stall speed is that high; my Cessna stalls at around 77 km/h, seven more than this thing and it was very challenging at first, especially in gusting crosswinds.

I also wonder what the stall characteristics of that wing would be...I'm no aeronautical engineer but I'd be willing to be that the bottom falls out.

To their credit, the site mentions this: "If you’ve ever had a pilot’s licence you’ll fly Nano right out of the box. The rest of you will need to learn the simple rules of the air. Minimum red tape – maximum thrills." Implies a sport license to me (half the required instruction time of a regular private license and simper medical rules).

Edit: another issue/question...the Flynano only takes off from water so wouldn't that require a single-engine sea rating? IIRC that can't be had without a private pilot's license, unless you can do sport pilot primary training from the water (which I can't find an authoritative "no" on but I don't think the FAA allows that).
Wasn't Verily supposed to do this, or are they moving too slowly?

Edit: This item's page doesn't work on iPad. After three seconds, the page freezes.
I was thinking dutch angel dragon or something, so I was confused.
Isn't it more fair that everyone gets a chance to spend some time on the coast than that a few people who hoarded all the property there before we were even born get to have it to themselves?
My understanding is that's the hope for Chloroquine and the other drugs being rolled out en-masse this week. They have shown enough promise by various limited trials that we are rolling them out nation-wide to see if they actually do help reduce the severity of the virus.

If they do, then less hospitalization, and less ICU / ventilator needs.

If Chloroquine doesn't end up working, basically we need to find something that does, because that is the only feasible way to get us out of this mess. We have shuttered the economy because the healthcare system can't handle so many people needing hospitalization. The only scalable way around that is to find a treatment that significantly lowers the need for hospitalization.
AWS. Being the first in market not only has been their advantage but also the struggle of the later movers like Oracle and Google.
Anyone think Airbnb will take a hit after people become more concerned with covid? Creating a less travel friendly society and if they have to travel for business they will demand a properly cleaned hotel room?
i use harvest and i hate it but the toolbar app is convenient & delightfully buggy
> What are your thoughts? Would you use the Verbose Dictionary?

Isn't that Wikipedia?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skimming_(reading)#Methods_&_P...

> also not as long as a Wikipedia entry.

I don't get the issue. What would this Verbose Dictionary provide that Wikipedia doesn't? You seem to want to differentiate it for no reason.
I don't see why people think we will hold out 18 months for a vaccine to be developed and tested, society would fall apart by then. I don't see it lasting longer than 2-3 months quarantine and then the common people will just go out anyway, especially in the USA where there's not much of a safety net.
If all effects of warmongering and racist propaganda (on both sides, to different extent) were to disappear too, definitely.

(BTW, I may not represent an average israeli — living in TLV, more leftist, less racist part of the country.)
> Not sure what it's like in the US but in the Netherlands at age 11 you get tested and go to a certain level of secondary school.

Wow, that sounds really f*-ed up! I always thought most places were like Slovenia (or UK is similar, if I understand correctly), where the main decision point is only at 18-19, when you're choosing your university! (The earlier is at 14-15, between a "gymnasium" - general-purpose school - and a vocational school (e.g. for a hairdresser, cook, ...), but most reasonably intelligent people go to a gymnasium).
We need software to protect privacy, not security cargo-cult and bizzare homebrew encryption schemes

>... The first step is always optical, and that is an exchange of an AES 256bit key, plus an authentication key, and so those are the keys to encrypt the One-time pad as it’s being transferred ...

This software does not use one-time pad. It uses AES-256 with some extra hoops.
Authors are either incompetent, thinking that having message-sized chunk of random data somewhere during encryption is 'one-time pad', or dishonest, using 'one-time pad' as empty buzzword. Both are huge red flags against using that software
With fairly minimal training one can learn to use existing, secure constructions. Hell, there are now protocols designed specifically for this, open source ones at that.

In fact everyone who even considers touching anything crypto-related should know one simple thing - do not invent your own schemas!
Depends on your users I think. If 50% of that traffic is during a 10 hour window of time each day, that could be around 70 views per second. And pulling email for an account could be more costly than a static page view. Then if he's getting that many views, he could be processing tens or hundreds of emails a day per account more or less.... Could get expensive.
I'm making about $500/month (was $800/month when bitcoin price was better) by code reviewing altcoins for exploits, undisclosed premines, and other scams that can hide in code. I have an arrangement with an exchange for a monthly fee, and sometimes am paid by others as well.

I've successfully stopped 1 full blown exploit (admanteumcoin) where there was code that allowed a block to mine any amount of coins desired, (and had RPC calls modified to hide this).

I started out doing it to try to help the altcoin ecosystem, because it's pretty interesting, and because it's a great way to learn more about cryptocurrencies and all their implementations. My code review directory (that isn't actually up to date) is on github: https://github.com/Earlz/coinreviews
I really want to switch back to a "dumb" phone once my contract is up on my iPhone 5. Im always at a computer or can have my iPad (which I never use anymore) with me in wifi everywhere I go except my car. The only reason to need internet in the car is for gps which convieniently they sell those too and I have one.

I just don't see the need to own a smart phone anymore for myself. If I wasn't at a computer all the time I could justify it but it no long serves a purpose.

I really hope they sell this in the us eventually. I suppose you can still buy an unlocked one and use that however. Just make sure it has the right keyboard and language.
You're reading too much hostility in it. The article does not claim to be better than Varnish. Performance is achieved by not implementing many features. For example, Varnish is a full-blown programming language and has an infinite size. The Passenger turbocache has almost no configuration options, does not support any sort of custom programming and only supports 8 entries at most. The fact that the max size is so small allows it to be implemented in very compact data structures, but its usefulness is also severely limited. It's merely designed with a different set of tradeoffs than Varnish.

It isn't that difficult to make a web server that's faster all the production servers out there. For example H2O is faster than Nginx... because it has infinitely less features. Ditto for Passenger's turbocache.

The rest of the article describes some ideas, some of which cannot be implemented using pure Varnish and require cooperation from the app. In my opinion you're missing out on a lot of interesting ideas if you stop reading only because you think Varnish is being slammed.
AOSP doesn't include drivers so you meant to say stock Android builds.
How large a room is that in?
The GP's argument doesn't make any sense to me. The reporting was good for a change. It gives named, verifiable sources who are legitimate experts on the subject and several of them, it tells us where to find the video in question [1] and gives us the basis for their opinion (e.g. no visual artifacts in the smoke or when the hand goes in front of the face).

All of this can be confirmed by a responsible news consumer and everything I can find here checks out. So this is legit investigative news and precisely the kind of thing we should encourage more of.

I am aware of Project Mockingbird [2] but I cannot see any relation between it and this report. It makes no sense whatsoever that the CIA would care about some squabble over unknown cheerleaders. It makes no sense to believe that everything is or isn't a deepfake without examining the facts. And this article, unlike so many I have seen, is an example of news done right. Given how disinformation works, this is the opposite of it. This article was written to inform, not to inflame our passions.

In short, it's the polar opposite of what I would expect from disinformation and this is the kind of good reporting that should be rewarded.

[1] It should've actually linked it, IMHO, but I won't complain because it wasn't hard to find this video @0:49 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5I1RfxehT4

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mockingbird
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> do single-file components _actually_ work better for you than having the script, markup, and styling in three separate files?

Absolutely not for me, I much prefer Angular's style of separate files living in a dedicated folder. With Vue, I also find myself constantly scrolling up and down.
How big is the Vancouver office? Are you in the office off Burrard?
Your examples are mostly still "faking" - faking consumer interest, faking popularity.

Companies do that all the time.
You've got to consider how tiny of a market share Linux has in the "adult" world, then remember Roblox is mainly played by kids. How many kids do you think are using Linux? To Roblox, porting to Linux would be absolutely worthless. Not saying I don't wish it was on Linux too, but it really does seem completely pointless for them.
Do you mean the very short travel, clicky ones (like a 2018 or 2019 MacBook)? If so the current magic keyboards have the same keys and you should buy one now because they will probably be updated soon. If you prefer the longer travel ones (like a 2015 MacBook or 2020 M1 MacBook) you have to find an older used one or wait a bit.

I have a 10 year old Bluetooth magic keyboard and a 10 year old USB magic keyboard and both work perfectly with windows.

Be warned, they are difficult to Bluetooth pair with windows for the first time, usually takes 10 tries for me.
They made a conscious decision to focus their efforts on where they're able to be a leader. They saw early on that they couldn't compete in advanced logic with the Asian foundries without making astronomical investments -- so they decided to compete in a non-feature size dominated market.
In the decades-old tradition of foss collaboration, there is also bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org, which is quite good.

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-d...
“The hardware companies are still stuck way in the past.”

You wish they were stuck in the past. People like Steve Wozniak often designed new stuff only based on the manuals that back then had complete schematics in them. They didn’t have enough money first to buy anything but that information later on resulted in sales.
I suspect setting the bar at 20h sends a reasonably strong signal.

Even if people do overwork, they should only do it with that as a baseline, which should keep anyone from 80 hour workweeks far away (why would I work there for 80h/week when Netflix would pay me 2-4x for that much work?)

You might see people working 40h/week but I'm not seeing why that is bad for the company or culture.

I think you're pushing at "there will be people who really want a pay raise and they will work long hours to get it" but I honestly just don't see that happening. It only happens if it's rewarded, and they've set up what seems to be a strong culture that motivates people to not work too much.

It seems like their current culture consists of people who don't want to be defined by their work. The post notes this explicitly.

If the employees will overwork, I suspect it will be on their side projects, and more power to them
Other than getting transactions automatically imported, which at least for me is the difference between using it and not using it.
If it's a different syntax, then you can expect people to know that it's semantically different. That's the whole point of using a different syntax, I think.
Why does signal still work when the other party is offline?
Well I was trying to choose a relatively non-negative word. Apple made an app, then "bought" a name - and then enforced it.

Kosher, yep I guess. A little forceful; yes definitely.

It's not something most people would make a habit of doing.
Another factor may be that for those wanting to buy a fancy car, maybe they don't have many other obvious way to show off or look good. If you have a huge house, or own the world's largest retail chain, you probably don't need to show off, the showing off is practically done for you.
I wish more people would have identified themselves with their HN usernames somehow at last year's startup school.

It sucks to find out that there were a bunch of people from HN there and I missed out on the chance to talk to them in person because I couldn't make the connection based on their name.

Although to be fair, I put my twitter address on my name tag which happens to be my username here... So I suppose I'm guilty of doing whatever it is you're accusing edw519 of.
the bottom of the sea
I hate it when people call me a programmer, I'm a *developer*; I don't *do* IT. I have better things to do than re-install Windows all day.

...is the title of the next rant I expect to read from Zed.
The configuration file for Nginx is much simpler.
I use this method of saving on home electronics. Home electronics depreciate at a stunning rate, and by buying "behind the curve" you can find great deals on things you wanted a year ago.

This is why I still enjoy, and buy games for, my (refurbished) PlayStation 2 (actually, I still play games on my SNES too). My workstation was dated, so I built a new machine with parts just below top-of-the-line (Core2Quad rather than i7, 600 GB instead of 1.5 TB hard drives, for example).

The advice in the article about new cars is valid; new cars depreciate as soon as you drive them off the lot, because then they're "used." You might get a nice warranty package with it, but you can get extended warranties for used cars from certain dealerships.
To a certain extent I agree, but to another extent, everyone worries about your ability to provide. It's just... a factor, along with the rest. Not to everyone, but to most people.
An Ansible playbook with the podman_container module is my go-to. It's not as easy because it's less magic but it's also less magic which I count as a win.