skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The USPS does have a special relationship, but it isn't a one way street. First, it isn't a monopoly -- there are many other shippers competing in the profitable segments of the market. Second, USPS is obligated to service every location in the US, and at government-controlled prices.

USPS will deliver, door to door, a letter from Nowhere, MT to Remote, GA for $0.55, even though they take a loss on it. Try to get Fedex to match that.
Taking your comment at face value, it seems like the bee industry is no different than any other hyper-optimized corporate approach to optimizing for the bottom line at all (externalized) costs.
It's not "any other business"; it's a shared resource that improves the lives of all citizens. And we WANT it that way. "Any other business" would not offer or employ any of the features we expect from our Post Office (systemwide flat rate parcel & 1st class letter, 6d/wk delivery (for free!), lack of surge/congestion pricing). If you think UPS and FedEx aren't taking profit away from USPS think again.
A lot of Chinese ships burn spent USA motor oil (illegal to burn in the USA) on the way home, ergo, free trip home! And the entire smoke plume lands in the USA . .
Should NYTimes also refrain from speculating on topics like climate change? Ie, until climate change actually happens, all mention of climate change should be omitted entirely from all newspapers?
You seem to forget that what you refer to as "still the law" is only the law in one country (the USA), and when Apple, Google etc comply in China the rules they are complying with are "still the law" in that country.
It sounds like the cloud monad defined by MBrace for F# : https://lenadroid.github.io/posts/fsharp-cloud-monads-part-1...
Oh this is a pain. Even worse is trying to enter calories when you eat at local businesses and non chains
In that case, I'm going to hazard a guess that your iCloud email address was actually compromised, and is being used to send it to every address in your contacts.
Serious question - what percentage of people do you think will be swayed by these arguments? It's over 100 degrees during the day where I live (and it was before global warming too). I don't mind walking, but that temperature is dangerous for a lot of people, and inconvenient for everyone.

I really like the idea of density. I don't like big asphalt parking lots; but I think the alternative is concrete parking structures.

Disclaimer: I work for GM, any opinions are my own.
Has anyone started a project with elm and continued it for a long time?
Shakespeare, Gilgamesh, The Iliad, Romance of the 3 Kingdoms, Journey to the West... there's an absolutely endless treasure trove of content created without IP laws.
it's not the Chinese gov who subsidizes shipping, it's the US and developed countries who subsidize Chinese shipping.

I think China is no longer a developing country, should be on equal footing with Western countries now.
Why So Many Suburbs Look the Same
Avatar Used the Papyrus Font to Signal the Downfall of Civilization
Fulltext of the 2013 article about rates varying 0-100%: https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/2013-hurlburt.pdf
Every now and then we see articles which dissect how the Internet works, and then are appalled at all the supposed privacy violations. Trackers are part of the web and have been for a long time. I don't see them going away soon. They fund the web and keep it moving along. We get into trouble when all our browsing is done in one session / container and no effort is made to containerize our browsing so that chatty scripts and trackers can't talk to each other via cookies as you traverse the web in any meaningful way.

Personally I divide up my browsing into many different compartments to avoid or seriously hinder tracking. I also only ever enable JS on a site if I really have to. I am suspicious of news articles that demand JS just to read a small bit of text. This is not some magic bullet - I know I will be tracked; but at least now my identity is divided up so much that it's hard to discern who I really am. Couple this type of compartmented browsing with an anonymous mixing network like Tor and it's game over for trackers.

Having one single container / session for all your activity (and without an adblocker like uBlock Origin) is borderline stupid in this day and age and can do more harm than good. The modern web has been designed to be as hostile as possible when you surf 'bareback' without an adblocker and without dividing up your sessions into discrete containers. Of course you will get people that like to surf bareback, with literally zero configurations in their browser and without an Ad-blocker. These are the people who are the most exploited, their every activity mined like it was oil - their whole life put into databases that could leak and be hacked at any moment, meaning they're very susceptible to 'doxing' or having their life ruined.
There are a ton of great ideas backed up by a considerable amount of research done by 80,000 hours (https://80000hours.org/) about problems worth solving (although most I think would take longer than a year). They also have a nifty job board in case you want to work for an existing high impact org rather than start your own
I was just thinking the other day that we're in (or are at least entering) a slightly sad era as far as tech is concerned. Not too long ago (it feels, anyway) there was this explosion of possibilities when smartphones arrived on the scene. People were doing genuinely impressive and innovative things at a fair clip.

That's kind of dried up now. The latest iterations of smartphones are just minor progressions on previous models. Supposed new frontiers (AR/VR, self driving cars) have largely disappointed. The problems (the real problems) we face today like climate change, growing income inequality, stagnating public transit, aren't really solvable by most of us in tech. In fact, in retrospect I wonder how many problems we were really solving anyway (is Uber just a giant VC investment bubble? Will we look back on it as a distraction from improving public transit?)

...so yeah, I dunno. Feels like we're in a fallow year or few. It's not that problems aren't solvable, it's that they will take wide scale activism and a great deal of human work. A new API or tool isn't going to cut it.
Cultivation, selective breeding, and hybridisation of grains does not change the trophic level calculus.

The bulk of livestock feed is corn (which has seen tremendous yield improvements since the 1960s through "green revolution" techniques), and for protein content, soyabeans, which have rather pointedly not.

Additional silage provides some but AFAIU considerably less general nutritive content. And you will absolutely find vast acreages of corn and soyabean in the flyover states destined entirely for livestock feed. Not table crops with the leftovers going to livestock. Fully 100% livestock-dedicated.

Integrated farming operations in which cows run loose amongst the corn and wheat fertilising the fields are ... effectively nonexistant.

Theoretical possibilities are not on-the-ground, in-the-dirt, realities.
It seems like this is the best way to go, but capitalism's competitive nature is a problem. If a shipping company hires developers to write logistics software, and then everyone has access to the software, the company will have spent money but gained no edge. Same with novels. If everyone can freely print and sell a story, who's the sucker that'll pay the writer?

Of course, I see this as a problem with thr economy. Freely distributing ideas is better for society as a whole than keeping secrets.
locale is likely a big problem with this, as a canadian big mac might not have the same ingredients as a french or united states big mac
I'm not sure that "mistaking" is the right word.

For years the United States has protested the cheap UPU rates that China gets. But the UPU still classifies it as a "developing" nation.

China is the world's second-largest economy. It doesn't need or deserve the artificially cheap rates anymore. China shouldn't pay less to send packages overseas than countries in Africa.

By leaving the UPU, the United States can set correct prices.

It's one of those situations where China claims to be a developing nation when it suits its needs, and then claims to be a developed nation when it suits its needs.

If you're going to play in the big leagues, you have to play by big league rules.
I have heard that, in the long run, these kinds of legislation tend to really kick the housing affordability problem into turbo mode.

What ends up happening is that developers need to raise the rents on the non-subsidized units, because they're the ones that subsidize the subsidized ones. Which creates a constant upward pressure on housing prices that ends up squeezing everybody.

I'm not sure what the solution is, and I'm no economist, but it seems plausible. Looking at it from a 3,000 meter perspective, I would assume that, however well-intentioned San Francisco's housing policies were, we should probably expect that emulating them will yield the same outcomes that San Francisco is currently experiencing.

That's not to say that habitually segregating rich and poor people is a great idea, either. I would also suspect that emulating Detroit would also tend to lead to the sorts of outcomes that Detroit is currently experiencing.
If we didn't have cattle, would we have buffalo? Large wild herbivores in general? (Hmm, results of a quick google... there were 30-60m buffalo in the 19th century, and there are 94m cows in the US today. Given relative size, methane output has probably been more or less static over that period.)
Yeah this is just a hacky solution, not very effective. Forget reply notifications, even replying to a comment in a threaded style would be tricky using this approach :)
XFCE is by far my favorite desktop manager. Minimalist, snappy, clean (but not ugly), and customizable.

I like it so much I run GalliumOS on all my Chromebooks and Xubuntu on all my Desktop PCs/VMs.
The bone density risk is the only one that has been shown reliably, and even then it’s not enough to warrant not using them. A review of the current literature shows the evidence on brain development impact to be spotty. And here’s the Endocrine Society, saying they’re safe and effective: https://www.endocrine.org/news-room/press-release-archives/2....

The doctors treating trans children keep up to date on this literature and should definitely review risks with parents and children. I personally had to sign an informed consent form stating that I had to assume I’d become immediately and irrevocably sterile upon starting treatment, but this is widely known among trans women to not be the case. Medical science is absolutely still catching up on transgender care, but all the concern trolling about risks in popular media is unwarranted. I had several unsuccessful suicide attempts in my adolescence, and I’ve been a loyal HNer since around the age of 14. That’s the huge risk that doctors and parents understand, and doctors, being for the most part hardcore utilitarians (particularly at the research level) will gladly take the small risk of blockers over that one.
DRM video is a pretty big exception, and Google is already a de facto gatekeeper there.
Blank page in Chome with uBlock
Tokyo suburbia is quite dense. Gmaps should have pretty good coverage.
I've noticed the Pritunl VPN suite uses that to name nodes. Two words (adjective + noun) and a number.
I am a very good client of Amazon. Love this company, what a terrific invention.
From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. The aliexpress sellers need the cheaper shipping rates to be able to compete, wouldn't you say?
Any properly defined software should take a date that doesn't exist and move it forward or backward to a date that does. Leap years would crash every computer every February if that wasn't taken into account.
Pretty much. I absolutely fucking hate Amazon now. It's full of white label products. You can tell the seller does no real safety testing of any kind from their broad array of random shit. You can't even trust the kitchen equipment for chance they made the steel with lead or the silicone is mixed with something toxic, etc.
Completely unregulated market place of stupid. And this is on top of Amazon's counterfeit problems they half ass enforcement. I'm surprised nobody has died yet from counterfeit or substandard automotive goods of all things.
Developer’s Toolbox: Queue Data Structure
Making normative suggestions in the middle of a news article is exactly the lack of integrity that I'm talking about. Rather than reporting the facts, the "journalist" is writing an opinion column without having the decency to label it as such. The validity of his opinions are irrelevant.
I'm extremely excited to see those features. I appreciate your response. I'll definitely be in touch!
From not too long ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19225268
A translation of another README from here [1]

> Testing cryptographic strength

> Data for testing are in the following directories:

> - data - contains randomly generated data set for applying encryption keys

> - keys - contains encryption keys

> In the beginning of every day, the `data` folder will contain a file with encrypted data and `keys` folder will contain a public key. The task is to decrypt the data in time that is equal to voting duration - 12 hours.

> 12 hours later, original data will be published in the `data` folder and `keys` folder will contain a private key.

[1] https://github.com/moscow-technologies/blockchain-voting/tre...
Huh? Tickets are an outdated concept on internet platforms. Space is unlimited and advertising can sustain a channel just fine.

Edit: Medium sized channel.
https://github.com/s-matyukevich/raspberry-pi-os

Matyukevich page on GitHub has lessons with accompanying code to develop a Linux OS for raspberry Pi.
The author goes into kernel, processor initialization, interrupt handling, scheduler, implementing syscall, and virtual memory.

I like his approach for these reasons
1. Minimal workable code,
2. Points you to entry function in linux repo
3. Line commentary of those entry function

Note that it's also a somewhat short read as he focuses on the practical implementations instead of the theory.

I myself was hoping that the author continue developing the chapters on file system, drivers, and networking but seemed to have been on hiatus.
Half of children score below average in tests!

>! Cue pedantry about what 'average' means.
> Yes, it's quite a pity that Microsoft didn't put some weight behind it. It causes a never ending amount of pain to the average users too.

Yes, I never understood why this was never improved across the years (and systems).

The only explanation with which I could come up, is that the team in charge is still the same team who designed progress bars in DOS and Win 3.1 times, and they have been granted the role of tradition keepers.
Elias Naur – Portable, Immediate Mode GUI Programs for Mobile and Desktop in Go
I refuse to believe that you actually believe what you wrote, upon a moment's reflection. Opposing Trump's approach to immigration doesn't equate to opposing better border security. That's like equating opposition to "No Child Left Behind" with opposing "improving K-12 education." Trump's border policy promises to be both ineffective, extremely expensive, and a semi-permanent symbol of xenophobia and racism.

If I had to stack-rank:

(a) a literal Southern border wall motivated by President Trump's vile campaign rhetoric.

(b) making the border completely open and defunding ICE entirely

I'd prefer (b) - but I still think (b) is a terrible idea. I actually (unlike most people who are "afraid of immigrants") know a convicted violent felon who was deported from the United States to their home country (in Europe) after serving a prison sentence who I legitimately think is a threat to people I care about, and who I don't want re-entering the country under any circumstances (Ironically the deportee is a diagnosed pathological narcissist) - and I still prefer open borders to what the current executive leadership of the United States is pushing.

The question is not whether to have controls on who/what crosses the border, the question is how and why.

I personally think the marginal utility of spending additional Federal dollars policing the border and enforcing immigration controls is a net negative to the United States given our current infrastructure, so I believe we should spend less time and money doing it. That doesn't mean there aren't other avenues for controlling externalities caused by illegal immigration (such as they are).
They were largely purchased by nobility, or by large theaters (in turn supported by nobility). Copying a book or play was also effectively impossible (months to years of painstaking manual work) in those periods of time, granting strong exclusivity to the purchasers.

It wasn't until later, sometimes centuries later, that these became broadly available to everyone.

So I guess, how much of an advance are you willing to give Steven King (or your favorite author) to write a novel for the world?
I realize this is a tired trope, but I firmly believe it:

If California got rid of prop 13 and allowed by-right zoning, market forces absolutely would build what we want.
Relevant article. The plausible deniability of the gesture seems to be part of its appeal to 4chan and Proud Boy trolls.

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/09/18/ok-sign-white...
There's no baiting here. The guy says he's very leftie, but says something that sounds the opposite. I was curious.
It’s not ‘free’ it’s paid for by property taxes. Just because in certain areas it’s not worth it to actually enforce permits doesn’t mean the city won’t at the request of the homeowners or businesses.
it works on my test:

https://godbolt.org/z/sSSdjw

where ivdep fails. Nice!

You do need -fopenmp of course.

edit:

strangely, it still fails to vectorize the original vector example.
Kaeli Swift (quoted in the article) has a corresponding post on her blog that goes into a little more detail into the experiment: https://corvidresearch.blog/2019/08/26/dumpster-diving-is-gi...

Her blog is wonderful, by the way, if you're interested in crows and other corvids. I highly recommend checking it out.
Other part of the equation is being be happy with living location. Walking to work is nice, but if that means you've to pay fuckton for a tiny apartment in concrete jungle.. Some people will be happy, some people would be more misery than dealing with long commute.
It’s just not going to be a boon to US drop-shippers, the Chinese ones will still have a lower cost of operations by dealing direct and almost 100% Chinese labour costs.
I believe streaming services are a response to piracy and I know a lot of people that stopped using torrents because of Netflix and Spotify.
I have heard of Haiku,but haven't looked at it in a while. However, I have heard great things about it and would certainly be interesting in learning and contributing
It's more complicated than that, apparently.

https://peterattiamd.com/the-straight-dope-on-cholesterol-pa...

I've trudged through all parts of his explanations; worth it if you're interested in lipidology, but this contains adequate punchlines to be helpful. TLDR we're probably measuring the wrong thing. And stop eating sugar. Oh yeah, and eating cholesterol is irrelevant.
This Business Insider link is a reblog of https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/23/business/how-uber-got-los...
No, that's not true. Real estate can be purchased and owned, resold over and over without being improved by labor. Land property is not created by laboring on it, in fact it was always there.
Except for the pollution. That bunker fuel is terribly dirty.

Athens Greece has a pall of smog over it mostly coming from the ships in the harbor as they sit there spewing columns of thick black smoke into the sky. I don't doubt some of the pollution is from vehicles, but it's pretty noticeable how the particulate smog starts in the harbor and moves inland.
Transistor-Transistor Logic (TTL)
> This is the absolutism that derails the discussion for me.

Sorry. Many of us have assumptions which are hard to change.

> In one step, you have forsworn any service which doesn't own it's entire stack from CDN to network switches to racks on the data center.

No quite so. There are modern tools which make owning the entire stack not absolutely necessary - end to end encryption and proxies, including Tor-like, come to mind. We're in the state of flux regarding privacy, both with losses and some gains, so it's not binary.

If HN uses it, it's a reason to improve things - not to dismiss as unattainable the privacy feature which seems so essential for many purposes.
People with different viewpoints can't talk to each other. Or rather, on several important topics, too many people can't or won't talk to people with different views.
This is not a us-specific situation, e-packet deliveries ship to Canada too. I get plenty of stuff from AliExpress with free shipping
Coin3D 4.0 Is Out
Ugh. Has this author ever visited LA? The entire city / culture is built around using a car to get to places. This article does nothing to address that, other than a few whimpy shoutouts to build more “convenient” public transit. Apparently we can get rid of all parking in Hollywood because a single red line runs through it.

In order for a public transit system to be convenient you need a LOT of density. You also need speed. The two goals are fundamentally at odds with each other. That’s why a lot of people prefer cars. No one likes traffic or emissions, and cars are way more likely to kill you, but damn are cars convenient even in urban environments.

Any plan like this can have all these numbers talking about how much space could be freed up but they need to address this fundamental problem, and this article failed to.

Now what interesting is the rise of self driving cars. I’ve often see paid parking lots and think within 20-30 years they will be out of biz. A few large operators will emerge and park their cars overnight at some owned large lot far out of the city to recharge, maintain, etc, and there won’t be much need anymore. So that could be a path to what author is talking about, long term. Of course does nothing for parking lot owners who just hold onto the property speculating...
99.99% of pirates don’t give a shit about “preserving culture” and just want to do the mental gymnastics necessary to rip off content creators
Shipping rates? As in exchanging money for shipping? There's no money in communism.
What about Plagiarism though? That's the main point of intellectual property. If someone writes a song and it's really good. It's about the artist's life, full of personal stuff that only that artist could think of. It's this artist's master piece. But then a more popular artists decides to steal it and makes it becomes more successful. The more popular artist doesn't owe anything to the original creator?

I think IP is definitely abused, but still a lot of cases were it can protect people.
Publishing an Android Library to MavenCentral in 2019
Trade secrets are protected only by intellectual property regimes, and we're talking about a world without intellectual property.
Agreed the app could use it. The report as spam capability is in the web version and works.
We should make a 21st century version of The Pirates of Penzance with Donald Trump as the Pirate King, or perhaps the Major General, and September 31st the farcical contractual factor.