skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not that no fees go to the USPS, but the fees that go to the USPS are pre-negotiated by the Universal Postal Union (UPU), which is a multi-national organization within the UN that the USPS is a member of.

China is considered a Group III country by the UPU, which is a "mid level developing country". Other countries in that group include Brazil, Mexico, and Thailand. The US is a Group I "Industrialized" country. Shipments from a Group III to a Group I country equate to about $1 - $1.50 USD per pound (it's not a linear scale and per/lb rate fluctuates based on total weight).
OpenAPS – The Open Artificial Pancreas System
Matrix.org is so slow it's borderline unusable, that's right. However, while switching to another homeserver (and avoiding federating with big rooms like Matrix HQ) helps a lot, Riot isn't exactly a lightweight client as well.
Related to the OP, I anecdotally have an acquaintance that is a bike messenger in the UK, who second-hand anecdotally reports that everyone who does it is an ostensible model of fitness until they 1) get hit by a car or 2) die at 50 of lung disease. There's a chicken/egg thing with regard to non-vehicle transport in that you're more directly exposed to exhaust, and aspirating it more quickly because of exercise. Which exacerbates the negative impact of pollution, which puts you back in a vehicle, which increases pollution :-/
Alternatively, if you can't do without the google search algorithm, use startpage. Doesn't track and bubble you, anonymises the queries.
Tangible improvements for almost everybody. The poorest people in China probably have seen biggest improvements. It’s not a capitalist government
This looks great! Been hoping for something like this for a while that is especially: free, open source, office first!
Sure but calling it a “God’s language” is a little too much.
This is actually a random side project of mine! https://github.com/tgvaughan/scheme.forth.jl
Did the MongoDB pay for their Linux distros? GCC? Git? How much are they paying to the FOSS projects they used to build their software for sale?
Perhaps, for sirens at least. But that was just an example. I haven't read The Odyssey myself so I'm not well placed to give further specific examples but I was trying to point to the idea that old cultural mythos and stories are there to provide instantiations of archetypes.

I'm not sure your disparagement of classical painters holds much weight though, given they painted plenty of naked women without needing an "excuse". The motivations seem more to do with notions of depicting beauty or purity than just being lecherous.
I upvoted you, as I share your sentiments with regards to Ruby and Lisp, but language evangelism belongs in discussion centered on that language. It's just offtopic otherwise. This is the thread glorifying Lisp. People want to hear what makes Lisp great.
But the oceans have been rising for over 1000 years at the same rate, and things like insect population and climate are cyclical.
Since the cable slipped past her husband on the platform, I'm guessing the anchor failed.

Zip lines _can_ have a ton of tension on them, that's terrifically scary.
>What's more, if you complain about being "sexually harassed", at the same time you signal "social proof" of you being attractive.

I'm more surprised than I probably should be about how much this misses the mark. You don't actually believe only "attractive" women are sexually harassed do you?
Intro to Machine Learning for Coders: Fast.ai
This is a good metaphorical version of what it's like introducing new people to Git: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92wPOsuHZ9Y
>Your typical web store was vulnerable to a remote execution vulnerability

Not much has changed honestly.
> We were quite seriously scared of repeating the infamous history of Netscape which was a well-known example of failing to successfully release a newer version of a popular software after deciding to rewrite it from scratch. Fortunately it did not happen in our case.

Big kudos for pulling it off!

> Two main candidates are Operational Transformation (OT) and Conflict-Free Replicated Data Type (CRDT). We chose OT and perhaps one day we will write down our thoughts on the ongoing OT vs. CRDT battle.

Please do, I would love to hear your thoughts on OT vs CRDT!
Seems that the problem is the existence of departments like the "Office of Diversity and Campus Engagement".

It's a school. Why are these needed? To pad tuition?
Site appears to be experience the hug of death, Google cache:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:rCmcbq...
Fair point, actually.
iFixit rips open the Pixel 3 XL, finds a Samsung display panel
Ask HN: Solo Founder, back against wall, looking for SG coach/help
I'm new to Singapore. Don't know founders in the region, looking for shrink / coach, or someone that works with business or startup founders.

Incredibly anxious, rattled, in do or die with startup for finding product market fit/raising. Trying to keep cool but not really holding the fort. Looking for help
Thinking Machines.

That company was too far ahead of its time. The trends in process technology steamrolled their architecture, but if they were around now they could probably do incredibly well.
SSPL is based on the GPL, not the AGPL, so no, the SSPL isn't itself a copyright infringement.

BTW, check out the "What specifically is different between the GPL and this new license and what will it be called?" section of the FAQ:

https://www.mongodb.com/licensing/server-side-public-license...
> organic foods improve vascular function and prevent insulin resistance in the organs

This is bullshit.

> Many of the 'deposits' in Alzheimers are composed of quarantined pathogens (lyme, chlamydia, etc) and fasting + diet + exercise can help minimize those.

This is also bullshit.

> Steven Buhner

He's a well-known crackpot.
It’s funny that the pundit writing this says the example liberation event is lopsided, when it seems perfectly mainstream to me.
Gardient boosting decision trees, comparison of technical papers
Tell me again. What is his issue?
Imagine 2.0 from an Amiga Format coverdisk (Like most of my application software when I was a teenager) I remember reading about Caligari, but I never used it.
Get rid of plastic waste with your phone
> Everyone talks about how confusing Git is, and I think it's because they do'nt understand what the commands do.

If nobody understands what the commands do, the problem is with the commands, not with the people.
For what it's worth -- an anecdotal as tentative counterpoint: my mentor in my teenage years, an academic and just an excellent man, was an avid cyclist with a diet that supported said hobby. To the extent that he rode daily and would cycle from around lake Michigan every other year. He repaired and built ham radios in his basement, next to his de facto bike repair shop. He was a socialite and happily married. This is how he spent his days.

Yet he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's at 72, six months after mild symptoms started appearing. He passed less than two years later, and his personality & mind a year before that.

Just six years before that he was detailing vector calculus proofs with me at his dinner table.

I try not to be too cynical but I just can't help thinking of him and his bitter end when reading about these albeit preventative measures.
SGI's 3D APIs, OpenGL and Open Inventor, were sublimely innovative. Some of us are even trying to keep Open Inventor alive:

https://bitbucket.org/Coin3D/coin/wiki/Home

https://common-lisp.net/project/clive

I wish more tech businesses were about the greatest common factor, and not the least common denominator. If I could find a place like SGI to work, I would camp on their doorstep until they let me in.
if you're working your lower back during squats, your form is incorrect and you're risking injury. Your spine should be neutral throughout the movement - the lifting force comes primarily from your quads and glutes.
Sure, they could make some colossal mistakes and get in a huge amount of debt, or some new competitor could come into cloud computing in a way we can't predict and Amazon can't compete with. The future is weird and things that seem like they will last forever can quickly vanish, and afterwards it seems inevitable.
I don't think moral and philosophical conclusions are universal in any way. In fact, there's a lot of mismatch between our everyday modern morals and the ancient (or even recent) moral and political religious texts.

I do think there's universality of moral and philosophical questions. King Cyrus and #metoo debated the same questions. Plato/Socrates, René Descartes & The Matrix constructed story worlds to highlight the same epistemological problem (what if the world isn't real).

Good stories give you a richness of scenarios and questions to discuss, whether you agree or dissent to the author's conclusions.
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Ask HN: Is there any real value to a company in SSL beyond Let's Encrypt?
This is a conversation that has come up a few times and the general sentiment seems to be that there is supposed to be value...but it's not actually there.

Just looking for thoughts one way or another? Do users or business customers care?
Nice, thanks. I'm still figuring out this WP plugin we're using for the guides, I'll give this a shot. Much appreciated.
Show HN: Turning science papers into referenced news items
If you want to try and assign Facebook responsibility, which is debatable, then I would blame them for the false accounts and real accounts that were taken over. It's simply wrong and should not be tolerated in any circumstance.

Separately from morality, I would argue it negatively impact Facebook's survivability. If your _social_ platform cannot be trusted to honestly deliver it's only product, they will surely die.
Ways to Find and Reduce Your Computer's Energy Cost
> Holy side effects, batman.

I opened this post in a tab last week, and have been pushing back reading it for days. Finally read it today, and wanted to say - thank you! Your writing is clear and flows well, and I learned a bit of new stuff and got some great reminders/ideas about naming conventions. Looking forward to exploring the rest of your blog!
Amazingly good illustrations. Whoever did that should illustrate all the books.
I think it’s the old canard where conservatives don’t realize that the reason their viewpoints are not represented on campus is because they don’t hold up to intellectual scrutiny.
Just as note, for a trained adult male, a first set warming up for deadlifts with ~60kg is not uncommon.

A regular bar is ~20kg by itself.
I do remember a coworker at another company complaining that their hard drive was filling up and it turned out the problem was the App Verifier log files. In that case the individual log files were enormous so a few dozen (hundred?) runs of the program under test was enough to be a problem. Different, but related, and perhaps more common than the problem which I hit.
It’s basically a manifestation of programmer arrogance that they’re just too damn smart to encounter a software learning curve again.

Ever sat through user training on microsoft office? How to use email? The weird one-off enterprise apps that nobody else has ever heard of?

They’re unbearably tedious to users that can get by in a new tool with a 5 minute crash course, intuition and light googling.

Then git shows up and has the audacity to ask professionals to learn its mental model.

Once you do the interface isn’t great, but not particularly esoteric. The problem isn’t that users see dense-sounding things like “directed acyclic graph of revisions”, it’s that they assume they can competently manipulate one without knowing what that means.

I do think the interface could use cleanup, but can any ammount of cleanup prevent needing to know the mental model of git?
Can you expand on this comment? I'm running into Gartner more and more in my current position and am wondering about how legitimate they are.
Calisthenics.
Vue's Ecosystem Growth Is Taking Off Just Like React's Did
Go 1.11 on App Engine
I can't see Jitsi there
Every time I start to dig super deep on problems like this I stop for a second and wonder "just how important is it I fix this error" and "can this be solved by just paving over my local and reapplying my changes...". Most of the time the answer is not extremely and yes.
Oh man, so true. Where I am it's like a permanent Pride parade.

That said, is this really a big issue? Employees, often public employees, at traditionally liberal institutions, many of whom are humanities PhDs themselves are liberal... Popes are often Catholic and wear funny hats... I'm not clear this is a huge threat to Western civilization.
Mastercard, Visa, Amex Face Penalties for Violating India Data Law
I don't know about that, my car is covered with bugs on any trip along New York's interstate.
The case for pair programming
I'm still bitter about this. I loved the low resolution e-ink color display. It was good enough with great battery life, unique and easily readable in the sun. I wish more smartphone makers would use this.
"If you can do your job remotely, we can hire someone in India to do it for 1/3 the cost." - a former boss of mine.

Mindsets like that are a huge reason and in corporate America, "presenteeism" is still very common. Many people still pride themselves on long hours in the office.
> Besides, I believe that women are often the target of sexual interest. I just don't believe that it is such a horrible thing as some of them proclaim.

Harassment isn't the same as interest.

Heck, expressions of interest aren't the same as interest.

You are insulting men by equating male sexual interest with harassment.

> What's more, if you complain about being "sexually harassed", at the same time you signal "social proof" of you being attractive.

No, you don't.

Because the people who actually take accusations of sexual harassment seriously don't associate it with attractiveness (people who habitually defend harassers or who are serial harassers themselves like to associate them, at least rhetorically, as part of a defense against harassment claims by arguing that the accuser isn't attractive enough to harass, but that's about as far as the association goes.)
If you're in detached head then `checkout -b the_detached_head_i_just_had` and the fact that you were in detached head becomes irrelevant.
It's just a yet another closed silo. Its score seems about right relative to other listed networks.
Mulberry Mail!
It isn't reasonable to make compromises on public health for religion. In fact, the separation of church and state as a fundamental tenet of Western society was implemented for this exact thing.

What is reasonable is for the religious to make completely acceptable exemptions while performing certain tasks, like biking, for their own safety, and that of the the public, not to mention tax dollars saved in the treatment of accidents from those disobeying common sense laws like helmets.
I absolutely agree with you. However, I do have a good feeling that someone (Bruce) is talking about this now. Talking about it extensively, with a consistent message (for over 20 years), building a reputation, and building a wealth of knowledge that'll be accessible to policy makers, lawmakers, and laypeople when things really start to catch on fire. When the policy makers and lawmakers start to freak out and ask "where can I learn more about this?", there will already be a wealth of Bruce's work to reference.
One thing I've found with functional programming (Elm) is that writing JS requires constant mental effort. E.g. dynamic types, mutations, side effects, state. In Elm all of that neural machinery becomes obsolete, but your brain doesn't just magically switch it off. So Elm feels hard at first, until the concepts sink in a little bit and your brain re-wires itself.
> who tried to open an honest discussion

I mean, that's precisely what people disagreed on. One side thinks his way is the best and most obvious way of getting to the truth, and the other side thinks he's a deliberate provocateur who's loose with his facts. There's nothing wrong with being on a side, but at the same time we shouldn't paper over that it is A Side.
Accidentally Quadratic looks interesting. I've certainly found lots of accidentally quadratic algorithms throughout my career - and written a few as well. It's amazing how badly they can blow up.
In American english tariff is usually used as "tax". Especially in the context of import & export taxes on goods and services. (E.g. The American colonies revolted over the tea tariff.)
There are good reasons why MYCIN and similar systems were never accepted, mainly the fact that diagnosing an infectious disease is pretty useless on it's own. If the doctor has already narrowed it down to an infectious disease, telling which one it is is trivial. The hard part is getting there.
Aren't the sports teams and the residences and the fraternities more of a problem?
If the denominator you are looking at is morality, then those actions are at odds.

But as others have said, the common denominators are profit, social credits, employee demands (only a few people resigned b/c of the china initiative), suppression of individual opinions and elevation of collective opinions, corporate leadership, corporate power, innovation and culture that leads to innovation, etc.

Anyone else care to identify other parallels between these two actions?
I have a few questions:

1. Why aren't there very many conservative administrators? Are they not interested in these sorts of jobs, or is there discrimination/bias in the hiring process?

2. Why does having such events threaten the free and open exchange of ideas? Shouldn't it be quite the opposite? Incoming conservative students are being exposed to viewpoints they haven't heard before; isn't that a good thing?

3. Why aren't conservatives organizing similar events? The only group I can think of is Turning Point USA, which is hardly acting as a serious ideological advocate for conservative viewpoints.

4. The author calls "justice for women" a progressive cause. Does he believe conservatives are not interested in justice for women? Should conservatives run events about injustice for women to provide ideological balance, and if they do, is that good for society?
It's not a situation which I personally support, but in the UK (which is the example I gave) there is no separation of church and state. The head of state (the queen) is also the head of the official church, and various religious figures are granted automatic membership of the upper chamber of the legislature. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state...

My quick googling (eg http://www.religioustolerance.org/sep_cs_can.htm ) says that Canada has no equivalent to the "Establishment Clause" in the US constitution, and also doesn't have a strict separation.
How do I know my XMPP client is actually doing what it says? Are you saying the provenance for my XMPP client is fundamentally better than that of the WhatsApp app?
You're probably right. I, though, know just enough GIT to get by. In every case where things have gone seriously pear-shaped, it's just quicker -- like days quicker -- for me just to throw everything to the wind and clone the repo again. Reading up how to do the proper thing a recover will just take me order-of-magnitude longer, and frankly, I don't have the time.

Just think how many person-hours were wasted by that team huddled around the monitor...

GIT: The Swiss-Army Chainsaw of Version Management.
Do you ever garbage collect the graveyard? I wrote a tree based OT (slightly different domain) and never found a great solution for that.
Every SVN branch costs money, any system that cares about branch ancestry is expensive.

If me and Jim are working on two features on the same release and then I find that I need to integrate Jim's work in order to continue mine, Jim will need to merge his [incomplete] work into a common ancestor. If I am working on a feature in a completely different release, this "merge path" gets long and begins to cost money and carry risk. Jim hasn't finished his work yet; before any release can happen, Jim has to finish his work and merge the complete changes to all affected branches. If we can't wait for him to finish, then we're rolling back his changes and, oops, someone rolled back the same change on multiple branches.

Now we can't launch a hundred features because there was an interdependency between two.
If you are making the claim that the use has recently become entirely ungendered, then let's see your evidence. Note that there are two aspects: one would have to be that it's applied equally to the genders, and the other is that it no longer draws upon gender stereotypes. (As an example of latter, saying that somebody "hits like a girl" is highly gendered but is said mainly to boys.)
You must be thinking of a different TLA.
It's unfortunate that HN only shows the domain name of a source. Sources like NYT and other newspapers have News and Opinion directories, which quote different reputations.
also, what about 'blockchain messaging' apps like Dust, Echo etc. ?
Aardvark was the best Q&A system I've ever seen, felt like the most miraculous thing I've seen in my life. Sadly I've only learnt about it from the news when Google bought it and in just about a year Google closed it.

It worked like this: you just write (on the website or in ICQ) an question (in whatever a form on whatever a subject, no limitations or rules, just avoid offence), it gets routed to a number of semi-random people all over the world (you included for the other people's questions, once you receive a question you can answer it but there is nothing to encourage or discourage you, purely voluntary, and nobody but the question author will see you answer), you receive the answers (you can also answer an answer to thank/feedback or ask for a clarification). Everything was semi-anonymous, you were not forced to disclose yourself. Unlike Quora Q&As were not recorded (openly at least). Unlike Quora, whatever you ask (whatever a question you could imagine) you would always receive at least some useful and interesting answers in minutes-day (and could request more if not satisfied). Unlike StackExchange you hadn't to bother with boring rules, the format was just like asking a good friend that knows everything and enjoys answering your questions. I've ran out of questions my imagination could supply back in the days, now I have much more but there is no Aardvark any more :-(
James Damore, as far as I can tell, argued that people gravitate towards things that interest them and gender plays a role in this and that is why women are not 50% of the engineers and programmers.

Bret Weinstein and Jordan Peterson for example agree and talk about these things, the cultural phenomenon of 'group identity', 'social justice warriors' and 'equality of outcome vs. equality of opportunity' and are generally opposed to this radical movement that tries to tell us that you are defined by what you (must) identify as or what group you belong to, eg. white heterosexual male.

Bret Weinstein, professor of biology, gets attacked and has to resign: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen_State_College#2017_p...

Jordan Peterson gets protested a lot and labeled a right winge extremist despite being left wing liberal (but an advocate for 'fixing your shit' so you can 'step up your game'): https://www.queensjournal.ca/story/2018-03-06/news/jordan-pe...
The topics discussed are about as political as “slavery is wrong.”

Edit-Just to add a quote, the author describes the following as being liberally “lopsided.”

“The conference would touch on such progressive topics as liberation spaces on campus, Black Lives Matter and justice for women as well as for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual and allied people.”

This has no place on HN, as it’s clearly political and not what this sites about.
Well, RGA has been proved formally [DOI 10.1145/2933057.2933090]. Regarding Figure 3 of the Treedoc paper, I believe the IDs of dY and dZ are in the correct order, according to the rules in the paper.