skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Strongly disagree. Second life games are at best toys , but that's totally beside the point, they just exist as an relatively unnecessary prop that people use to socialize. People use these worlds the same way they use FB or other media, except they are way different in that they live in expansive fantasy. Gaming the metaverse is not going to bring more people over. I think highfidelity was paying users to attend their load tests (Talk about gaming). Still, thjose users didnt stick.
I wish people would just use sockets to communicate. Way simpler than a heavy slow burdensome protocol like IRC.
The press release isn't very clear about exactly which contract isn't being renewed. Other news sources[1] indicate that it's specifically the air delivery contract. Not exactly a surprise with events like this[2] in recent memory.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-07/fedex-say...
[2] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/jeff-bezos-breaks-ground-o...
Yes, for the most part, it still is. It's not always disk though. I can be CPU or memory but most of the time it is the database that falls short of it.
It's just FedEx is not renewing a shipping contract. Amazon could still ship using FedEx at retail/non contract rates.
If an individual doesn’t mesh with the company culture, should the company change the culture or the employee change companies? I don’t mean to sound glib, but I don’t see any reason to think that every company should be a great fit for every employee.
It has nothing to do with this. There is a lot of pressure on Huawei also coming from Australia and New Zealand as well which given our proximity to China are not trying to be tough on them at all.

I work in telco and can assure you that Huawei is a security concern especially given the changing landscape of technology (more complex, more containerised architectures) which allows for more attack vectors.

People keep forgetting that China is a dictatorship, has no independent judiciary/media and a long pattern of IP theft, hacking etc.
The problem of this line of thinking is that it assumes every company is just one guy in a basement who's responsible for all facets of all operations. In the real world, an editorial department doesn't get to dictate what technology gets adopted by the SEO department, or how accessibility is implemented by the software development team.

It's easy to say "well company X should really simply do [Y] to fix [morally good cause]", but in reality that ends up being non-actionable because it doesn't take into account that due to bureaucracies, some things are easier said than done.

Another thing that I think is somewhat counter-productive is criticizing a news outlet for doing things that are at odds with what they write. News outlets are not about leading world changing initiatives by example, they are about spreading information so others become conscious of issues they might otherwise not think about. I feel that saying "well I see you don't put your money where your mouth is" somewhat weakens the importance of the point being made (i.e. if it isn't being done, then it must not be that important)
Lately I have observed that UPS has given up trying to re-deliver my packages if they don’t find me at home on their first try. They instead ask me to go pick them up from a UPS storage location.

I wonder if this is another sign of carriers getting fed up with Amazon.
It's unusual, but it does happen. My example is actually from hardware.

I was writing a Windows NT (what's that?) device driver for a communications board we developed for one of our products. I kept running into a problem and struggled with it for days. I was experienced enough to understand that the error was probably mine and the problem was so basic that if it was in the chip pretty much everyone who tried to use it in that mode would be screaming about it not working. The chip was an 8-channel UART (serial converter) and IIRC, the bug was in one of the FIFO interrupt modes.

Finally I gave up, got the phone number for the chip vendor's (I think it was Texas Instruments) local Field Applications Engineer and explained the problem to him. "Oh, yeah, we know about that bug, there's a new version of the chip about to be released. You guys are actually only the second customer to sample that chip. Lucky we found the problem before it went into production!"
I used to get around 25% of my Amazon packages from Fedex, now most come from Amazon's own delivery service, the rest either come from the USPS or UPS (or sometimes both - UPS delivers to the postoffice and the mailman delivers to my house)
These guys are a big part of why I rarely answer my door anymore.
Ask HN: How to make browsing the web more 2G friendly?
I'm using the internet connection from my cell phone service, tethered for use with a laptop computer. The service is throttled to 2G speeds at the moment. What are some ways that I can make network throughput more streamlined to make navigating the web with 2G speeds more reasonable? Many desktop sites load very slow due to the multitude of files and hosts that it needs to get requests from. Sometimes there is no visible feedback for minutes. I feel like a "display of unstyled content" is reasonable for slower connections, because content is still king, not scripts. Also, I've been getting a lot of errors like timeout errors, and SPDY ping failures.
that means less competition, zuck is probably happy now, he already has all the data
Millenials grew up with an internet which was build by the generations before them.
Yes, you are right. This function should behave as the ordinary strlen function. Fixed.
I agree. There has been the odd fedex package but extremely rare. It's usps, ups and most recently amazon delivery itself.
I think curiosity implies intellectual humility but the converse is not necessarily true.
That's nice, but I imagine the use cases are pretty different, the Pitaya's sampling frequency has 3 orders of magnitude on the Labrador (and 2 more bits of sensitivity). I think they're both pretty impressive for their respective prices.
You're right, I didn't mean "manufacture". Production of a good to my understanding includes inter alia R&D and manufacture. All the steps from starting with nothing, to having goods to provide.
Catching Rust with Deep Learning
Has anyone seen a live online demo of "Sign in with Apple" anywhere on the internet?

I've seen a few tutorials - https://developer.okta.com/blog/2019/06/04/what-the-heck-is-... is particularly good - but no one seems to have deployed a button I can click anywhere yet.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20086045
It shouldn't be twitters job to clean up after jsfiddle, who don't seem to put any effort whatsoever into mitigating malicious code beings shared on their site.

Doesn't really take much for a code sharing site to demand registration before you share code and to have a report button.
Florida prefers to upgrade the poles to ones that hurricanes can't bother. Concrete is popular, with some poles being 2 feet thick. Ductile iron is becoming popular.

Buried stuff is hard to fix and is at risk of flooding.
(I'll spare you argument about your facile comparison between a strong aluminum tank covered with 5000 pounds of thermal-protective material and a thin silk balloon.)

The Challenger astronauts didn't have all the knowledge they needed to be aware of the certainty of their own deaths — I'd hold that there was no such certainty. The explosion was due to a confluence of events beyond their control, even beyond their knowledge. De Rozier had all the knowledge he needed to avoid dying, and no new information was gained by his death. There's not just a line between the two, there's a broad gulf, dividing reasonable reliance on systems that one knows could fail, and unreasonable trust in a device one knows to be misconceived from the start.
Of all the shippers, I've found Fedex to be the most unreliable. UPS deliveries via Amazon seem to always arrive without issue but almost every Fedex package gets lost en route or is delayed.

Always felt like Amazon should drop Fedex.
That doesn't really clarify anything (for me)... What are the other business units? I've never gotten a Fedex Home Delivery pacakge from Amazon, are there other Fedex business units that ship for AWS?
Maybe, but it also is forcing a lot of editors to use article titles that actually make sense. There are plenty of editors, especially in the magazine business, who use silly, non-descriptive title to their articles because if you're holding the physical magazine, then they've likely already captured your money. Many magazines have featured a table of contents with the ridiculous title in bold, followed by a subtitle that actually tells you what the article is about underneath.
If you want the mind-blowing read on this, it is pre-determined, and contains very little information content; only the specification of the field, the rules, the initial state (often very compressible since it's one point), and the number of iterations it runs for. Add a dash of information for the coloration if you want to specify the image rather than the raw state.

And that's how quickly "low-information states" become very superficially-rich-seeming states. You'd think all the things you can represent with just a handful of bits would all be relatively boring or regular things, but this disproves that.

I often find myself boggling at just how little math it takes for our brains to be essentially completely incapable of handling it. If you gave a human who had never seen this before all the information above and asked them to guess what it would do, the odds of them being right are basically zero. And this hardly even wading in to the shallow end of the world of math and where we can get with more bits.

There's some ways we pride ourselves on how good at math we are, and there's some truth in that. But in other ways, we cognitively fall down and go splat on even the simplest systems.
I feel we may have crossed the Rubicon on this. 2G rings in my ears like "dial-up" Not saying the web needs everyone rocking gigabit (at least not yet), but I don't know that there is hope for 2G. I was working with a 3G device like just a little bit earlier today and I noticed it was 3G because it was already painful.

Depending on what you're doing, you try Brave or other adblocking solutions or a straight-up text-only browser which maybe could help.
It's quite real. A Second Life user of that suburban area wrote: "Not being American, but having been so 'TV Sitcom and Movie Americanised' over my lifetime, this is exactly what I want. When I visited the US the first time, I was in Connecticut, and I was like a kid with my face pressed up on the car window. When I got out of the car and went exploring I am not embarrassed to say I actually teared up, because there were hoops over garages, there was a bike strewn in the front yard and one front yard even had a catchers mitt and some kind of goal net thing. There were flags beside the front doors, it was everything to me."[1]

[1] https://community.secondlife.com/forums/topic/435890-oh-the-...
There's confirmation in the PDF that there's a JavaScript SDK, which is nice. Native widget in Safari, but it looks like a fairly standard OAuth flow in others.
> ...can't argue that nonsense anymore. We all know that argument was just a cover for "we want to be able to spam our users with impunity"

Run a site that allows/displays user submitted content and you'll likely change your mind about that being a cover or bogus argument.
For my own curiosity I did the simplest Python version I could think of to see how it would compare:

import os
import random
import sys

os.system("clear")
print "Hello there. I'm a computer. What's your name?"
G = raw_input()
print "Hello " + G + ". You are welcome to computer land."

while True:
print ""
print "What would you like to do today?"
print "1) Say something random"
print "2) Make a maze"
print "3) Exit"
print "Enter your selection"
S = raw_input()
if S == "1":
F = open("/usr/share/dict/words").readlines()
W = random.choice(F)
os.system("say {}".format(W))
elif S == "2":
for i in range(1, 3000):
if random.random()>0.5:
sys.stdout.write("/")
else:
sys.stdout.write("\\")
elif S == "3":
print "Bye."
exit()
else:
print "Try again."

It looks like a tossup to me, all 3 versions have their own share of magic that will confuse the beginner. I say this as someone who reads and writes a lot more python than bash daily.
Might just be a contact negotiations fail - Amazon given their options might not be too keen on paying what FedEx demands and FedEx thought it would be beneficial to disclose first and control the narrative.
Babies in breweries? Once taboo, it’s trendy now
No, Skydive Freefall Adventure is a brand new reincarnation of Green Bay Skydivers.
"The network is the computer" doesn't feel like a slogan that a company ignoring distributed systems would use
That sounds as if trying to figure out on your own was antithetical to curiosity. That doesn't sound right to me.
genuinely asking, why would not be justifiable? That is tax on personal income and capital gains just like any other.
My intention was however to only have one copy (other than initial DMA to (hopefully) directly L3 cache).

Yeah, it hurts if it's 400 Gbps ethernet. L3 bandwidth is like 50-90 GB/s. X86 just doesn't have enough bandwidth even to the caches! Better have pretty high CPU frequency, as I think L3 gets faster in proportion (but not completely sure). 200 Gbps should be somewhat fine.

Also pretty bad if the data travels over a QPI link... better have both processes in same NUMA region. And that ethernet PCI-e adapter... :-)

Regardless, I do think it'd still work way faster than anything a reasonably general kernel stack could do. Might be a reasonable compromise when process & permission isolation is required.
Cellular automata and the Ant in particular have always been fascinating to me because of the complexity of behavior that emerges from very simple rules. This always has made me wonder if there are similarly simple rules at the foundation of our reality.
I would add some important evaluations. These are some less obvious, deeper aspects of intellectual humility:

10) I accept that someone with less experience may have better ideas than I have, even in my own field of expertise.

11) Even if I am not certain of myself, I am willing to suggest and defend my ideas because they deserve equal treatment.

12) I am willing to forgo new ideas when they hurt momentum too much.

13) I am willing to forgo momentum when the benefits of new ideas outweigh the costs.

14) When I feel it is right to assert my position, I am able and willing to back down if I receive feedback that changes my assumptions.

15) I know when to humbly defer decisions to the team even though I believe the team's decision is less than ideal. People are more important than problems to be solved.
I find myself in a similar situation - a friend's perspective is that you can learn from anything. Mine is that you should triage endlessly after a certain point, I guess that makes me dismissive.

Of course, if I told him "So, you can browse facebook all day and be better off?", he would probably say "You know what I mean."

Real "wisdom" is knowing when to be dismissive and when not to be, either extreme is bad, but being able to discern is tacit knowledge that no one can really say anything useful on without being super specific.
But Huawei would forfeit their non-China market share.
I noticed FedEx seems very well partnered with Walmart right now: FedEx stores are now eligible pickup locations for the free store pickup option at Walmart.com.

This was pretty handy because getting in and out of busy Walmart's is a pain, and most FedEx stores are basically deserted at any given time.

Even when picking up at Walmart stores, I believe they were in FedEx packages. And this would be that two-day express shipping speed.
The part about it being ok to break rules more freely as a solo dev because it’s all in your head also resonated with me as something I think about but stray from due to needless guilt
I always use bc -l, as it gives more digits in the reply.

Also available on macs/linux and most unixes.
e.g.:

$echo '1/2' | bc

0

$ echo '1/2' | bc -l

.50000000000000000000

though honestlyI usually just type bc -l you enter into an interactive calculator similar to python.
Fintech platform Synapse raises $33M to build ‘the AWS of banking’
I imagine Express is where Amazon was leaning the hardest on Fedex, to avoid losing too much blood on each Prime shipment.
It's a mix they use UPS, USPS, Fedex and now their own trucks/contractors vehicles all depending on which is cheapest at the moment. I do anecdotally get much more from all the others than from Fedex.
People like that are impossible to work with. It's a flavour of narcissism where the person in question is never wrong, cannot be wrong, so any mistakes are obviously someone else's fault.
FedEx Ground is a completely separate business from FedEx Express/Air.

Different trucks for the last mile(s), even.

Likely their bulk freight unit is also separate.
My experience has been the same, FedEx is always a crap shoot. USPS and UPS are always much more reliable.
If Chinese companies are an extension of the PRC government, then the USA government is an extension of American companies.
They have been making the wrong move in green tech is what I meant. Toyota makes good ice cars. I own a Toyota Corolla. I love the Toyota Corolla.
Moreover, Sun’s legacy in distributed system goes far beyond theory, people forget about Jini (and Javaspaces) a distributed computing platform that shipped by 2000 or before (I had the pleasure to work with and it was the only reason I would develop in Java), SOA? micro services? In-memory distributed computing? It was all there at work. Want P2P?, enter JXTA. There you go.
This entire section, your explanation of a natural environment:

> In a natural environment, there is no 'evolutionary diversity' in the way you try to paint it. Main drivers in human sexual evolution are hidden ovulation and a monthly cycle, we are one of the few rare mammal species that have it. Its purpose is to make monopolization by a male costly, because he doesn't know when the female is fertile. This generally results in serial monogamy - a male and female are together until their child reaches age of around four. The female, being fertile from cca 14 to 30, will generally enter cca 4 pairings of this kind. With high child mortality in hunter-gatherers, that generally results in slightly above replacement rate.
This is especially problematic in machine-control code.

I've seen code from an otherwise highly capable developer that contained 1000+ LOC functions. When asked why he couldn't do a refactor the answer boiled down to fear. When the only real way to test the code is by physically running a machine through a number of scenarios, many of which are difficult at best to recreate, you become very reluctant to refactor or clean it up.

Like all problems, it's best to nip it in the bud before things get that far out of line.
JavaScript example https://developer.apple.com/documentation/signinwithapplejs/...
Depends on how good Facebook's lawyers are.
Then say that: "we want your email in case there are issues with your content".
`Behaves`, a better way to define contracts/behaviors between classes in Ruby
It could be, but keep in mind Skydive Freefall Adventure is trying to capture a lot of northeastern Wisconsin, not just Green Bay.
Aaron Parecki, the author of the "OAuth 2.0 Simplified" book, wrote a blog post on the misunderstandings around Sign in with Apple: https://aaronparecki.com/2019/06/04/23/sign-in-with-apple-mi...
https://github.com/dom96/nim-in-action-code/blob/master/Chap...

Does the linked line imply that a slow client will block the rest of the clients from receiving new messages?
This false equivalence is so ridiculous.

China is a dictatorship, has no independent judiciary/media, routinely kidnaps Chinese people (not even citizens) in foreign countries, is running the world's 're-education' centre where millions of journalists, Muslims etc are all being detained and is a police state unless anything in history.

US maybe stealing your data. But at least you can go to a court or deal with the media to advance your cause without fear of retribution.
Study to learn skills, not to get certs.
I believe this is largely the reason Galileo is often considered the first scientist. When Copernicus argued for a heliocentric world-view, he was largely doing so on the basis of aesthetic value: it simplified the mathematics. But it was always theoretically possible for another mathematical model to make the geocentric perspective more appealing, so anybody who was attached to it could simply cast his model off as a mathematical trick.

But Galileo built a telescope that anybody with a pair of eyes could use, no matter your aesthetic preferences, and he was compelled to transform his world-view on the basis of the facts he observed in it. He didn't really have to make any mathematical argument at all; he just had to explain what he observed, and it directly contradicted the Aristotelian model of reality.
For me Fedex was pretty good, straight UPS quite good, and UPS Mail Innovations (with USPS last mile) was a reliable way to get a package a day late, meaning chasing Amazon CARE for a credit that was usually worth more than the inconvenience of the packaging missing Amazon’s guaranteed delivery SLA.
It's dangerous to go alone. Take this:

https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
In the context of a lyft/uber it's a bit different; it would not only be socially awkward but also usually make me late (and possibly even dangerous) to stop the ride halfway through and exit.

It's not the case (thankfully) that I've felt my safety is in danger in these situations... it's just annoying.
Let's Clarify Some Misunderstandings Around Sign in with Apple
Most words have a history of use before their current use. Führer was just German for "leader," but it still has some very specific connotations nowadays. In this particular case, the word snowflake, when used in a context similar to how that poster used it, is very strongly associated with far-right "political correctness" grievances these days.
I'm really thirsty, oh look a well built by the public, hey there's a bucket stall in the nearby town, I could get a bucket and then everyone can have a drink ... oh hang on though, other people might use my bucket.

Oh, best just stay thirsty then.

Hang on, perhaps I can force the people to pay for security guards that stop them from using my bucket ...
Just another fancy token... not a real currency. The only global digital currency that has a future is bitcoin.
Delivery sucks.

Vendors can't find me because my address is half a block away from my actual unit. When they do find it, they pick one of two mail rooms, inside a random exterior door, in front of my door, or at the front desk.

The front desk is often not staffed and closes earlier than deliveries are out.

The front desk occasionally forgets to notify me a package arrived.

The delivery "lockers" sometimes don't email me.

The architecture and management of a building is very important for delivery success. It needs to be a "business address", it needs to be faithfully staffed, there needs to be delivery-only parking, and it needs to be obvious where a deliverer must go.

I have lived in places where this was done right, and several places where it was done wrong to my intense dissatisfaction.
Google is US intelligence...
I disagree with that last sentence. I see this as the same kind of "audience analysis" you need to do when writing a document of any kind. Your presentation of pretty much anything in life needs to be geared to the listener.
They are clearly "fishing" for other charges or suspects, if it where a more serious crime be sure they will find evidence, we know access to the device it's not completely necessary, they can get location, call registers, social media info and so on.