skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Back when the US was a major exporter the UPU was great for US merchants.

The US is the world's #2 exporter. $1.57 trillion versus $2.15 trillion for China. China's figure peaked a few years ago, the US is likely to narrow that gap, especially with US energy exports continuing to ramp up. US exports of goods are near an all-time high after adjusting for inflation.
OK, let's reword that a bit.

Why didn't the same Congressional Republicans who pushed through the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 push for similar changes to how other federal agencies fund their pensions?

Why won't the military pre-fund pensions? Why shouldn't they do the same "fiscally responsible" thing for veterans benefits?
Exactly. The most demanding customers easily cost an order of magnitude more in business and support resources.
https://doc.duple.io/duplecli-documentation/
https://doc.duple.io/faq/

So basically Dropbox but with an SFTP server or network/local filesystem for hosting.
> I think it's the word "rabid" that carries a certain cartoonish meaning

It does, I agree =]
This is especially annoying because for every dollar they collect, you can end up paying your insurance company 4+ times as much because they now think you're a terrible driver for getting these minor BS citations.
I think it's important to do both.

Privacy aware users should take all resonable steps to protect their on privacy, but it is also appropriate to call out Mozilla.

Mozilla (and advocates) promote Firefox as the privacy conscious browser while Mozilla repeatedly takes actions that would appear to go against that claim.
Barry sobbed as he begged for his job. VR is getting heavy, man
>We've seen very little actual VC money or Research and development go into improving the cost of creating Shelter

"Blokable Closes $23 Million in Series A Financing to Lower the Cost of Developing, Building, and Owning Multi-Family Housing in West Coast Communities"

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/blokable-closes-23-...
I work in a niche area of consulting focused on SaaS sales / pricing.

All this will do is boost the threshold at which companies will even bother to negotiate. Too many people negotiating hard on $4k quotes? They’ll stop negotiating anything below $10k because they know the smart competition will do the same. They will be willing to let you walk rather than anchor a lower price.

They know their competition doesn’t have a significantly different cost structure, so by letting competitors undercut in competitive markets, they can afford to build a better product with the higher margins. Unless there are strong network effects creating a winner-take-all situation (and most of those markets have been claimed), this can work.

Don’t play the race to the bottom. Price is only one factor SaaS buyers use, and it’s like #4 on the list. It can even be a negative sign — if you get 3 quotes and one is way lower then the other 2, the lowest usually gets eliminated.
was a good article in NYT Magazine about this, almost the same kind of piece
"How Cities Make Money by Fining the Poor" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/magazine/cities-fine-poor...
I second this. It took awhile to get to a web interface, and in the meantime, the event and links were large enough in daily / details view to constitute a legitimate mis-tap threat vector.
Kenya northern white rhinos: Vets harvest eggs from last two females
I do like the concept: it's quite interesting to see what decision maker's opinion on pricing is.

For regular off the shelf SaaS like dropbox, gmail, slack, surveymonky and just about any other tools that SMBs use the pricing seems very clear: it's always clearly listed on the site.

The unclear pricing is just enterprise software, right?

Are companies that use enterprise SaaS actually sensitive to price? I was under the impression that they're almost never too price sensitive and hence it doesn't make sense to build equivalent products that are cheaper - otherwise we'd see low cost alternative products all over the place.
Even if it's 10x that, and one has 10k viewers, $100 is about one or two hours of work at a FAANG. And there's no health care coverage or free lunch for streamers.
Let's call it something else then: road piracy.
Better to use syncthing, simple equivalent & free / open source.
IMO, the epics are epics because of when they were written, not because of the content. Avengers: Endgame moved me to tears by killing off a character I had grown to love. The Odyssey? No tears. No attachment to the characters. Less entertainment.

> How many patrons will pay to have something made in the current world, knowing they could just recoup their money?

How could they recoup their money, if there's no exclusivity? There's nothing to sell.

> It seems to me that content will get created regardless.

I guess ultimately, there is absolutely nothing stopping people in today's from creating the best content they possibly could, except for having to cover their cost of living. Today's IP protections allow them to cover their cost of living by creating content. A lack of IP protections means that creation will always be a second or lower priority to a vast majority of creators (those not sponsored by a patron)

To me, that means that a world that lets them create as a method of covering their cost of living is a better world for those creators.
Has anyone else been scammed by the Uber pass? I spent $25 on it, and saved a grand total of $1.27. It’s misleading that it would save you money, unless you do hundreds of rides a month just to break even.
It knows about "Labor day" but not "Labour day".
Maybe you should have read the article instead, or at least the introductory paragraph, which states:

"Imperialism was both normal and common worldwide throughout recorded history, the earliest examples dating from the mid-third millennium BC, diminishing only in the late 20th century."

I am not aware of any capitalists or corporations predating the Iron Age, but perhaps you can enlighten me there.

> Also capitalism implies imperialism, not the other way around.

I would disagree that capitalism implies imperialism, but let's put that aside. My claim was exactly that imperialism doesn't imply capitalism, so I guess we agree on that? Non-implication is not exclusion, mind you. The Soviet Union was imperialist, but not capitalist.

Having said, that, I'm sure there is a fruitless debate to be had with those Trotzkists that would claim that the Soviet Union was imperialist, capitalist and fascist[1].

[1] https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-3/iwk-ussr.htm
> Trying to make better babies through breeding / genetics feeds right into the white supremacy narrative however. It is a really slippery slope, one I'd rather we not try again.

So.. we'll make them non-white, and sidestep that issue? I mostly kid. Yet, it's a shame that even a fairly tame discussion about selecting sperm based on DNA has to be dragged through the mud with racism and godwin-eugenics.

At some point humanity needs to stop being so anti-racist-racist. I'm not saying I don't understand where you come from, I just long for the day when we can discuss DNA selection without someone bringing up skin color.
That actually would have been cool. Not sure if they were taken. He has a video where he explains more about it and the background to the names he picked.
LA Metro's Expo, Red, and Purple lines are packed for the morning and evening commutes, both ways. These 3 lines also see heavy usage during the day, and the Expo line can be packed going West all day during the summer. (The Expo line in particular is more than 10 years ahead of ridership expectations and Metro is already begun planning for expanding capacity.)

Bus lines going to/from major job centers like K-town, Century City, DTLA, Hollywood, Culver City, and Long Beach are also packed during the commute.
Yet still I think we should point it out. Mozilla can't have their cake, and eat it, too.
It's cheaper to ship 10,000 items in a single container, than to ship each one separately, which is why mail carriers bundle items together (in bags, vans, containers, etc) instead of handling them separately all the way.

Domestic mail is like sending separate items, which get bundled together, then un-bundled again to deliver them to their final destination. All these steps happen at domestic wages, and at best with medium volumes. If there are not enough items to fill a container, it's still getting sent some other (more expensive) way.

Items from China get bundled by lower wage workers, the bundles are sent by lowest priority freight (usually a 7-45 day delay), bundles are only sent when fully filled in order to minimize costs per item, and sorted to minimize un-bundling costs.

This won't change no matter what, it's just economy of scale.

There are other factors like the reduced shipping costs for China set by the UN, or the fact that some will ship items at a loss just to convert Yuan to USD through Hong Kong, but ultimately the production vs. consumption imbalance is what decides most of this.
If you’re in the “Jefferson” counties of northern California it’s not unusual to have cops waiting at the bottom of an off ramp for those drivers who practice “California rolls” at their stop signs. Locals seem to know better.
This is nothing more than highway robbery, lock the fuckers up.
And I think, I've seen a lot of studies that compare eating "normal" amounts of cholesterol to eating more than normal. But "normal" cholesterol levels in your blood still leave you with a "normal" American rate of heart disease, read, still very high. Those studies might not show much of a difference in disease rates. But studies on eating cholesterol versus no cholesterol are much clearer in showing a significant difference. On a plant based diet people can get their cholesterol below 60 and the disease rates for people with that low of cholesterol are much lower.
From what I can gather from the FAQ, this won't work for routers behind a NAT, which is the case for me and I assume many others too, this should probably be mentioned somewhere.

A bit worrying that it'll be forever closed source, especially since it needs to expose your router to the internet and that it's written in C and also this sentence from the FAQ:

> Everything was built from scratch
I need more from private cloud than just storage
Jeremy Howard: Fast.ai Deep Learning Courses and Research [video]
Sadly I have but one upvote to give, because making that kind of optimal use of garbage would solve a bunch of other problems.
>Trademark is pretty different from copyright and patents.

Trademark is intellectual property, you stated:

>intellectual property is an invalid form of ownership and shouldn't exist at all

>This is because claiming to be another party or claiming your product is their product is fraud.

It would not be fraud, it would be infringement of intellectual property.

But what is the practical difference if you manufacture/sell computers under your mark/logo, or if you are an author selling your book and I begin reproducing your book and selling it to the public? What if I begin reproducing Harry Potter original works or even create my own Harry Potter works and adopt the authors copyright pen name?
Long live zerotier
Let me ask. If you had to make a choice between "obeying copyright laws (where copyright is granted for 7 years, no more and fair use clauses are a thing), or being a literal slave (by the definition most people think of when you use that term), you'd pick the latter?

Sorry, I call bullshit and gross exaggeration.
People like the freedom that a car currently embodies — if you have good alternatives, the physical object is unimportant. I’m 35, I have owned one car for two weeks, and then only for the purpose of selling it on behalf of my partner without it looking dodgy. I don’t miss it.
I've always thought society would be better off if fines and money confiscated by police was redistributed as tax relief rather than going to the government or police department doing the confiscation.

As it stands it only encourages abuse.
I'm going to continue to disagree on the definition of consulting companies. Consulting companies have billable hours as their primary revenue stream. SAP in Q2 made over 80% of its revenue on cloud and software licenses. It's an ERP company with some consultants, not the other way around. Accenture, in comparison, makes about 75% of its revenue on billable services. I'll give you maybe IBM since their revenue is close to a 50/50 split between billable hours services and infrastructure/application fees depending on how you define the categories in their 10Q.

If anyone has any breakdown for Palantir's revenue by category, I'd love to see it.
The police force doesn’t need to be spread evenly, especially in areas with little crime.
How is this different from syncthing - https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/ ? I am still trying to figure out
> how, without whole program compilation?

Dataflow analysis. If size() depends on values that are in one malloc'ed block, and the vector elements are in a different malloc'ed block, then you know there is no aliasing. (For example).
> Imagine what can be done when sensors/cameras can transmit 10x the amount of data per second that they can now.

I've thought about this before and honestly I can't come up with many things. Telemedicine in terms of speaking to a doctor over video is already very possible over the connections we have today. Bringing that to a wider audience (say, third world countries) is an interesting possibility, but it also requires bringing 5G to third world countries, so I don't think that's going to happen too quickly.

Aside from that, what does 5G really bring us? The same stuff, only faster. I mean, good, sure. But it's not that inspiring.
Hong Kong? Definitely not. London also looks pretty terrible (affordability-wise). SF surprised me but its probably just because local incomes are so high.[1]

This Tableau/OpenStreetMap chart isn't quite displaying correctly for me but it paints a bleak picture of California's affordability. Not sure if you can scroll over to NYC.[2]

This last source has London, NYC, and HK all in its "most expensive" 5 (from an odd assortment of cities) for rent-to-income ratio.[3]

[1]https://www.numbeo.com/property-investment/gmaps_rankings.js...

[2]https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/07/heres-the-share-of-income-th...

[3]https://www.weetas.com/article/rent-income-ratio-17-major-ci...
Changing the legal framework around intellectual property doesn't stop it from being intellectual property.
As you probably know, the Long Now foundation has wrestled with the problem of extended time period preservation of physical buildings. In the video linked below, they discuss how ancient people attempted to carry knowledge through the generations. Some of my favorites: the stone markers for the high water mark of Tsunamis, and the temple that is physically rebuilt in exact duplicate every 20 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nphxoUxSvgY
He must have an extraordinary amount of patience!

Doesn't even look like he has any dealers up here—but I was able to find a Premier Guitar demo video from last year's NAMM:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkaCKtUd79M

Didn't realize he was from Tone King previously.
Wouldn't it be dual factor by default? You need your device with sqrl and you need a password to use sqrl.

So it's something you know and something you have.
A long time ago, USPS signed an insane sweetheart deal for free shipping from China, thinking that it would help US companies ship to China. But for many reasons (labor laws, environmental laws, go subsidies) outsidee of shipping costs, US-China post package shipping (not heavy industry whatever), is absolutely massively imbalanced. Chinese shippers massive privilege over US domestic shippers (shipping to ISo customers) was the main side effect. US shipping costs more than Chinese manufacturer + shipping, despite shipping from China being obviously more expensive in real world resources.
I see. Coming from swift the ?. syntax feels weird to me because it implies there is some property accessed or method called when there is not.

Ambiguity with ternary operator is unfortunate but this one is lifted (in Swift) by harder rules on whitespace. A postfix operator must not have space between the variable and the ?: operator must have space around.
I'm absolutely certain the air force is willing to give up some efficiency to gain some obfuscation.
I see https://www.duple.io/en/blocked.html when I click Try Duple What countries do they intend to not sell their software in and why? A FAQ would be nice.
Maybe it is anecdotal, but whenever I order anything from China on Amazon, it takes exponentially longer to receive my product. Once I got Christmas items that I ordered in November the following March. There was no recourse when it happened either.

I know it's a long distance, but it's substantially longer than orders I've made from other parts of the world. So I avoid purchasing from there.
It’ll be good for the USPS (or maybe not if people just order off Amazon and they deliver), but the benefits to US jobs will be oversold.
This genuinely won't change anything on Amazon because top sellers are already using FBA.

This is bad news for Ebay/Wish/some-shopify-dropshippers.
- The "Pain point: no concurrency" thing seems wrong for Nix. By default, Nix isn't using any hooks at all, and it should be concurrent. The confusion might come from the fact that NixOS does have something kind of like hooks, but nothing makes you use them.

- The QEMU results are highly misleading, because there are tons of different configurations possible with QEMU. Nix builds all QEMU architectures while the Alpine one only is getting qemu-system-x86_64. It's apples to oranges.

- The Nix docker image is not actually running NixOS, but instead running Alpine. It just has the Nix package manager installed on top of that.
Waldo, Fl until the "Waldo Bill".
I read it a few years ago. Thanks for the link, I'll take a look.
As a reader of the threads, I first assumed you were an independent security/privacy researcher. Only when I saw a reply of yours "that's being worked on" did I begin to suspect you were affiliated with brave (but assumed as a fan).

I was not able to quickly confirm your affiliation (bio was first place I looked). Not disclosing this more prominently felt icky.

(Disclosure: I am a user & fan of Brave)
the commenter acknowledged that, and pointed out that there are responsibilities that come with their privileges.
I appreciate that you cited a paper, but I think you are overstating. The paper discusses CO2 emissions, which indeed are lower for transport by ship than by trains. But the parent was talking about "environmental damage" from ships that burn the "nastiest, most sulphrous and damaging forms of crude oil", and thus was referring to pollutants other than just CO2.

This report, for instance (I have not read it completely) says "Rail is generally the cleanest mode of transport for most pollutants" and "Maritime shipping is one of the cleanest mode of freight transport, except for PM and specific sulphur oxide (SOx) emissions". While there is lots of emphasis currently on CO2 emissions, other pollutants are also worth considering.

https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/indicators/specific-...
In my view, we should dramatically expand public funding for technology and the arts, especially in a world where distribution is nearly free.

But then we need a way to decide what is or is not worthy of funding.

The effect of copyright is to create a market-based approach to this, where something similar to the familiar economics of trading goods allows us to direct money to those who provide value.

A move to publicly funded creative works would prompt the kind of debates we have today about public service broadcasters in particular and about pork barrel politics in general, but on a scale several orders of magnitude larger. I find it hard to imagine how that could possibly be as effective as what we have today. The power wielded by the gatekeepers of taxpayer-funded financial support would be immense and inevitably deeply corrosive.
>Creators aren't entitled to a "fair" world. Nobody is.

This is psychopathic. Everyone deserves a fair world. That's a huge part of what society is all about. "All men are created equal" is a great thing for a society to aspire to.
I feel like I've been looking my entire life. Maybe I'm just not looking hard enough, or maybe it's a lost cause.

It's true I haven't traveled to eastern asia and studied under the tutelage of a monk, I haven't taken ayahuasca from a shaman in the Amazon, I haven't drank the cool-aid at a Mormon retreat, or attended a Joel Osteen mega church sermon.

I just grew up in America, in a Catholic family. Went to church most Sundays until I was a teenager. There's a vide of me at a young age, asking (essentially) why we are here/alive. Seems that I'm still asking that.

So maybe you could say I haven't really been looking. But honestly, I think you have to believe in something a priori. You don't go to a shaman in the amazon because you want to believe, you go because you already do and you want to validate that.
This article is talking about fines as a proportion of overall revenue. In the Northeast they can fine the crap out of anything that moves and taxes revenues are still high enough (because there's so much expensive property, high incomes and other taxable stuff combined with decently high tax rates) that the fines are still not a significant percent of revenue.
I think most will agree that is a "fair" competitive advantage.

What myself and I think most find problematic is that the USPS is actually subsidizing Chinese packages inbound to the US, to the point where its somehow cheaper to send from China than domestically.

That may have made sense at some point when China was still in its embryonic phase of development, but they are well past the point where this is necessary or desirable.
Its the government agency that tracks illegal immigration and detains/deports them.
I do live in LA, and the rail goes to places that are useful for locals, especially those who work.

DTLA, K-Town, Long Beach, Hollywood, Universal City, North Hollywood, Culver City, Pasadena, and Santa Monica--i.e., the biggest job centers in the LA area--are all connected by light or heavy rail. Century City is the only major job center not currently connected by rail, but the heavy rail out to there is under construction and should be finished in 5-10 years.

School-wise, USC, Cal State Long Beach, and Santa Monica College are already connected by rail; UCLA is part of the Century City rail expansion.
Even if they did, there's often a substantial cost difference between delivering an order form and delivering the goods being ordered. I'm not sure I've ever ordered something as small and light as a letter.
Four-in-one pill prevents third of heart problems: study
The word you're looking for is a "public good", a good that is non-excludable and non-rivalrous. In economics it is well known that businesses operating in the free market will always underproduce public goods if at all. We've already solved this issue with other public goods like infrastructure and defense, which is to fund it publically.

> ... or government funding from taxes that can't be escaped.

This is bad why? You seem to have issue with the fact that it's being funded in a way that you can't be avoided, but this is true even for private institutions. The truth is that in perfectly competitive markets most companies do not make enough profit to reinvest into research. Most research instead come from near-monopoly markets that have the profits to invest in research. Take for example the development of UNIX at Bell Labs. I doubt anybody living in that era could've avoided telephone charges entirely.