skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Planet Money on NPR did an episode on the UPU and the impact on the US at https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/08/01/634737852/epis...

It's worth a listen to. I learned that it can be cheaper to ship things from China than across the street. In the episode the break down some elements of the UPU, where costs are, and who pays for things.
Estimates that mineral levels in vegetables have dropped by up to 90% since 1914
They screened videos to ensure the facts pertaining to a medical procedure were correct. The fact check itself had nothing to do with politics.
Being able to walk away from the deal is crucial in every negotiation. There is no limit to real estate. It's the same in employment, business, and yes, international diplomacy.
Twelve Words
I think you're right (I am Jewish by some default, but very much non-kosher). The practice itself is what makes the Kosher "Kosher". If the animal was killed in a different way, it's not Kosher. I know that as a carnivore I might be frowned upon by militant vegans for saying it, but I'm very aware i'm eating dead animals, not apologetic about it, and would rather eat animals that had a good healthy life and a swift painless death. Kosher slaughter to me is not a swift painless death (not to mention I have a lot of "beef" with the whole "Kosher" rabbinical institute).
The current pricing system is nuts, the European nations should consider doing the same. In Denmark, sending a package within the country (a country the size of Maryland), is more expensive than getting one sent around the world from China.
> Sophisticated type systems are money in the bank.

You better have money in the bank to allow for all the refactoring you will be doing once you realize your data model needs to change in unforeseen ways ;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanat date back further and are aqueducts by any other name, unless you want to nit-pick. Might be that equally as long ones existed in pre-history. Certainly when you are looking at 1000BC-3000BC as timeframe upon these.

[EDIT ADD]
The longest Qanat is https://en.mehrnews.com/news/108436/3-millenia-old-Zarach-qa... "The three thousand year old qanat is of 120 kilometers length and earlier in 2005 was enlisted in Iran’s Cultural Heritage List."
Which would pre-date year 90 A.D. by a fair bit.

I'd say that a Qanut is an Aqueduct by any other name.
You Can't Keep Your Relatives' Skulls
We have an entire team called the "student success" team, and it's certainly not one person. We collect feedback at the end of every lesson, every day, every unit, every build week, etc. and we can see and resolve any issues (be they across the school or with an individual) virtually immediately. The student success team monitors feedback and looks into how students are doing every day, and that team grows as the school scales. Our full staff is 130+ people full-time, and and every single student is in a group of 8 students with one Team Lead who spends on on one time with them and reports on it every single day.

That's why it's odd to me that I know who all of those students are. I shouldn't. There's no way I should be able to identify them that easily, and if it were the 1% of 10% of students complaining there's no way I'd be able to map back from the complaints to individual students.
Gmail is scam & spy business.
Your reasoning was fine until you jumped to your "doomed forever" conclusion. Clearly nothing is doomed forever if things like killing and racism are reducing.

Your theory explains why people misunderstand each other and are "doomed" to states of conflict due to how their minds work. It needs to go further to explain how good outcomes are produced despite conflict and misunderstanding.

Why do they accept "simple and blunt rules"? Where are these rules coming from? Why aren't the rules pushing people in the opposite direction? Are there other mechanisms beyond imposing simple and blunt rules on everyone? etc etc etc Don't be satisfied with your theory. It's a good start but keep digging.
It's still socially acceptable to hate trans people in a lot of places. I try to push back on it when I see it, but people are definitely not as accepting of Trans as they are of gay people.
Counterpoint:

The three deadly sins of a software developer.

1. Lazyness. The first step toward never refactoring your code, or tackling tech debt. "We can live in the cruft, we've been doing it for years."

2. Impatience. The first step toward premature performance optimization of what the developer does, not what the user does. "I need my unit tests to run in under 5 seconds, otherwise I'm quitting."

3. Antisocial. Inability to work with other people on the project to produce a coherent solution.

I may be being a little hard on this, but in reality, all of these mindsets taken to extremes is generally not healthy. To get meta for a moment, what's important is to realize what's important, and what's not important, and then focus on what is important.
> It had nothing to do with politics.

Surely you can see that this is impossible. There is no component of a video like this which has "nothing to do with politics."
Yes, thanks. Took the root of the wrong number.
Exactly my thoughts - its wolfenstein fizzlefade or LSFR that you learn in crypto 101 that can pick all the numbers in the range randomly.

"Algorithm No One Knows About" is such a condescending title...
Shipping something from Germany to Argentina cost €3.70 recently; the same thing (a large padded envelope, about 400g) would appear to cost $7-8 if from Chicago to New York. If that's unfair, who's at fault?
> I have to wonder in other parts of the world does soccer have such sway over universities? Are there universities that have soccer programs that bring in large sums of money for the university?

Here in Germany I am not aware of any substantial sports teams by universities. Universities here also generally don't offer any scholarships for athletes. AFAIK, the situation in the rest of Europe is similar. The sports programs that are offered at universities here are very casual and comparable to a cheaper gym membership in purpose.
> And in cases like this, where students are leaving the game early, it's perhaps not an activity that students enjoy after all.

This is completely misunderstanding what's happening. They're leaving early because the game is already decided. When the score is 62-10 in the 4th quarter, you're no longer watching a competition.
1st world to 1st world - doubtful.

3rd world to 1st - that gets more interesting. I recall a story about EU tunnel boring machines where the drilling head was welded together by a team flown in from south africa. Thought that was weird - that's a country with zero tunnel boring experience.

Bit more thinking later I realised...that's actually not a bad strategy. Throw some Euros down and get the top 0.1% of the skillset of a 3rd world country. Welding is welding and top 0.1% is pretty grand.
Maybe the headline changed but the app is not penalizing students for leaving early but possibly rewarding them for staying. Crazy how headlines drive a narrative that often times does not match the reported facts.

From an AP article on this...

"if they stay in the stands at a home game at Bryant-Denny Stadium through the fourth quarter, students who have the app could be rewarded with highly coveted postseason tickets to events like the SEC Championship Game or the College Football Playoffs"
ML is unlikely to bust; it actually works well and it's integrated into most services any of us uses regularly; just because you don't feel it/see it advertised openly, doesn't mean it is not going to be needed. I'd rather assume it's going to accelerate for even more (cognitive) automation, unlike AR/VR/BTC etc.
Still too much for what it is. Shady real estate play with a shady CEO. Why are we even pretending this is tech?
I think by definition it does change that it was calories in vs calories out.
All I'm saying is fasting doesn't work if you make up the calories during non fasting hours.
You're probably right, which appears to be what's happening. In the end I think the market will decide what's low enough. I'm very curious to see what happens to the stock if/when it starts trading.
The Writer of the Future
The flipside of this is that people generally want to argue endlessly about what are essentially micro optimizations instead of addressing the core issue. Maybe your gut flora are “out of balance”. Maybe your metabolism is a little lower than average. Sure, there are factors that can matter. But if you’re not losing weight you’re not in a caloric deficit. If you’re not gaining weight, you’re not in a caloric surplus (or you’re spewing diarrhea and should talk to a doctor).

Address the core issue first before arguing about minutiae. The emphasis on relatively low impact factors is especially unhelpful and unhealthy because people latch onto all these discussions as justification for why they can’t lose weight. Sure, an obese person might have a low metabolism[1], but if they eat 3500 daily calories and live an entirely sedentary lifestyle, those are probably the major causes.

[1] But they don’t. Study after study have shown that obese individuals have high metabolism because metabolism is tightly correlated with total body mass.
Medical equipment pricing is completely broken when a sling costs $200
I think there may be some parallels to draw here with the USSR. The CCP is another top down model that has some advantages and some disadvantages compared with western liberal democracy. Can China convince countries to align with its goals? If they can do this better than the US then they will win.
I suppose there are more transgenders every year. Are killings of transgenders actually going higher when we compensate for that?
I think about it this way: until about 3 or 4 generations ago, every single one of my ancestors running back to the time before they were 'human' experienced the loss of a child.
Every electronics I ever tried to buy cheap from China (e.g. from dhgate.com) has been broken. I have literally never seen an electronics that is remotely close to working from this source. I do believe that you can get something if you're lucky; but even after reading reviews and seeing good ones I got USBs that are not working (I tried to buy them out of curiosity, I just spent $10 or something).
Claim 1:

A method comprising:
obtaining an input array;
using an encoder recurrent neural network to generate a hidden state for each input;
and generating output by:
generating an attention vector for the position in the output order;
using the attention vector to generate a sorting weight;
using the sorting weight to get, a pointer to a particular position in the input order;

So basically, sort an array by neural network. How is this novel?
And 1.3 million murders per year by abortionists.
> Why can't the American football industry run itself more like the American baseball industry? Instead of leeching off universities, particularly public universities, they could be operating minor leagues independent of any educational system.

College baseball exists, and some of the best teams in the country are from public universities. It's also generally considered a revenue sport (although admittedly not on the level of football).
Calories out usually refers to energy expenditure. Nobody measures their waste energy calories.
A hundred years ago, 98% of all people were dead. Today it's only 93%. With some effort, we should be able to reduce that further.
My aunt owned and managed a welding shop for over 50 years. She'd disagree with most of what you wrote. The opportunity is there for people that want to work hard and learn. There is in fact a fairly good tradition supporting women in the trades, (in the US at least) especially during and after WWII. See "Rosie the Riveter" for example, which is where my aunt got her start.
I agree.

The discourse in your country doesn't seem to revolve about facts any more. At the moment it's just political. I'm wondering why this is on HN at all. We all know whatever is going to be said about this topic is going to be political eventually.

(wow fastest downvote ever, I just posted this, like 5 seconds, and it already got a downvote :)
The End of the Golden Era of American Chess
You have to make a decision given the information you have. You can chose to wait, but that is a decision. You will always have to choose again in the future based on new information, but often once you set a plan in motion you should continue even if though without the sunk costs of the past you wouldn't.

I don't know who the next President will be. The current president could die in an hour. The current president could win or lose re-election. The current president could become a military dictator for life. The above applies to any president of any country (not just Trump). You have to decide what the risk of each is and prepare accordingly.
Except in real estate, employment and business, you are usually only talking about a single contract during negotiations. There is little either party can offer the other outside of that contract. In diplomacy, there is so much going on between states, that you can offer completely unrelated incentives in negotiations.
Your inflammatory pseudo-counter-argument doesn't change the fact that abortion in cases of non-life-threatening births remains morally problematic.

The personhood debate is nontrivial and unless, like e.g., Peter Singer, you're willing to (excuse the pun) throw the baby out with the bathwater, justification for mid-to-late-term abortions is quite difficult and rife with edge cases.
What you are describing is dukkha and it is something we all know deep down. Aging, sickness, and death are facts of life, this is part of samsara.

This can be seen however a person wants to see it. I am ennobled and encouraged by it, I value life more having seen death up close.

There is a balance and everything is interdependent, so nothing exists in isolation. I do my best work and thinking when alone at my desk or out in nature. Time away from society makes me value time with my family more.

I serve others and create value for them through my agency and I serve society at large with the things I am developing, maybe attending YC for. I have always strived to be of value to society, to make something of lasting value. Now I am.

Instead of living from the mind, I now live from the heart. It looks 'dumb' to the intellectuals but the 'simple people' of the world know this to be wisdom.
Last news I've seen is https://www.avweb.com/air-shows-events/unleaded-avgas-all-on...

There's also some news at https://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/avgas/ , but nothing substantial..
Does anyone find Kickstarter’s conflating of corporate ethics and adherence to far left political positions disturbing? Diversity hiring, “salary equity”, and other such policies are extremely hot issues; nearly every time they are discussed here the threads have hundreds of replies and give the mods a run for their money to manage. Chief among these recent issues is the recent controversy around deplatforming of political speech. This appears to have bit the louder left wing folks at Kickstarter (banning of the nazi punching comic book), to which at least one such employee cried foul at since it violated their dogmatic political worldview.

If you’re going to allow your employee’s controversial political opinions to guide corporate policy, I’d argue it’s unethical to build a culture in which disagreement is not permitted. A substantial number of people disagree with these policies and want to debate them, you can’t just dismiss those people as having wrong ideas and push forward patting yourself on the back for being the ethical good guy.
Are you accusing everybody who is pro-life of doing or supporting this? Because that's really what it sounds like.
For products that currently cost $1 to order from China, what will be the typical cost after this change?
The Necessary Talent
Rome, Paris, Kyoto, TPP, landmines, this pattern is not new
Not sure if this is the case with the postal union, but many multilateral organizations are structured one-vote-per-country and the Chinese side is able, by dint of its greater leverage with corrupt small governments, to get a disproportionate amount of influence.

(The obvious caveats apply: no idea if this applies in this particular instance; this doesn't mean that withdrawing from international agreements is always the appropriate step for the US to take; other voting systems have their own problems)
How I Built a $400K/Month Property Management Tool Because I Needed the Product
I learned how to weld in high-school years ago. It would be sort of nice to be able to weld a thing or two now, but my skills are probably not very good, and safety is very important. Also, the equipment isn't cheap.
Mapping Ancient Rome
My wishful thinking is move more of the manufacturing onshore and use automation to reduce costs yet give blue collar workers some opportunities. Also favoring trade relationships with all our neighboring countries as a substitute to China.
I wonder what SoftBank thinks investing so much money in this. Sunk cost dilemma? Throwing too much good money after bad? No idea what to do with all the Saudi bullions? Makes one wonder.
My New Old Friend – An Odd Formulation
I think you're right that you can probably get some value out of pure client-side search and parsing. Here's my take:

1. I like being able to search through old archives and interactions that might have happened a long time ago. I believe there's value in preserving history and being able to easily look back on it.

2. We can provide value by doing basic message parsing. Right now, if your message includes a Youtube link or Spotify URL we'll give you a player to view that content in-line. If your message has a Yelp link, we'll pull the restaurant details such as where it is, how expensive it is, etc...

Our mission is to provide the best service to allow people to build meaningful, long-term relationships, because _that_ is a need that's not being addressed. A lot of the features we want to offer will require some centralized processing. If you want a purely anonymized, E2E encrypted service, I would recommend Signal or Telegram.
Maybe pro-taking-responsibility
The change in job description from just "operations" to "developer operations" over the past decade is best captured by the growing number of systems that must be managed per person, often larger by a factor of 10 times or more (e.g. going from 10 systems per person to 100+).

I appreciate the self-reflective views on this "new" job role, but they often seem to miss the rather basic market forces at work. More systems, more automation, new skills and demands.
Azure Data Lake Analytics and U-SQL
I haven't published it yet, I will share some posts here when I do. They are topics/guides HN would find value in.
> A good approach - in real estate markets - is to threaten to walk away from a deal. Unfortunately, it doesn't work quite the same way in international diplomacy.

I think it actually does; what the President (assuming he is actually trying to acheive what he overtly claims to in negotiations, which is far from obviously true) seems not to understand about international negotiations is that while it can be very useful to make the other side believe you will walk away from a deal if they don't bend far enough, making a public threat to do so that makes it hard for them to claim victory (particularly, to their domestic constituents) when a deal that is actually in your favor is reached makes it politically difficult for them to compromise.

And this is true for authoritarian regimes as well as democratic ones; the absence of electoral accountability doesn't mean that domestic support is irrelevant (it just means opposition lacks a nonviolent safety valve), and even in regimes that tightly control public information, influential elites which the leadership wants to keep in line will generally be aware of public information from outside of regime channels.
A humorous conclusion we can draw from your posts is that if you're losing weight while you sleep and the weight comes out through urine, this must mean you urinate while you sleep. ;)
A quick search states about 2% of college football players manage to go pro.

I'm not familiar, but I imagine it's a bit of a cliff for the other 98%? There don't seem to be too many transferable skills from college football if you don't make a living from football.
Prophets of the Modern
Depends on how you're measuring. Saban is making about 8mil (lazy math) and you think he's worth 70. Let's go crazy, and say he's actually even more valuable, and worth 80 million.

So he's making about 1/10th what he should, or 10% of his value.

Best student athlete is worth 8 million. They make $0. They're making 0% of their total value back.

The cost of the education is meaningless. It's all arbitrary and basically monopoly money costs. Oh, you're getting a full ride to a school that would normally charge you $50K? That's great, but it's not of real value in the same way that actual cash is.

This is why I'm a big fan of California's move to allow students to take endorsements.
Not to make light of his loss, but even with ten kids, I marvel at his ability to crank out as much music as he did! I can't imagine any peace and quiet at home for concentration.
They can claim the US is a bully for anything... Like Europeans will point at Libya and say the US is a bully and they eat it up in self stroking agreement.
A reflection across the axis of rotation, which is a point, not a reflection across a line.

–1 is the quotient of any two vectors which have the same magnitude and point in opposite directions.
Any large-scale logistics (e.g. bigger than a garage-scale operation) will be handled via international freight brokers -- not USPS.

So components should be largely unaffected.
>"If you have something important to say, don't say it in a paywalled publication, NO MATTER much they're paying you."

There. I've fixed that tweet for you.
This is probably going to hurt China big time. They will either have to open US warehouses or China will subsidize shipping even more.
Now I'm even more confused because we're mixing positive and normative discussions :/

Parties are still highly effective at consolidating power in countries with many parties.
It's unfortunate that big tech is essentially acting as a "morality arbiter" in such cases -- perhaps we need not only a separation of church and state, but also of tech and state.
This problem effects a lot of other countries as well. For example Switzerland which is dealing with a huge amount of packages classified as mail but can't be run through automated sorting systems. Switzerland is putting the pressure on but it's a tiny country. The US jumping ship doesn't help anyone.

Switzerland is planning on charging receivers for the extra postage to make up for the huge losses until the postage union changes the rules. Why doesn't the US do something similar? They don't seem to have a problem applying tariffs on imports.
How is Devops "blue collar work"?

Provisioning servers, databases, load balancers, etc and other resources use to involve someone driving down to the colo and installing hardware. Often now, it's a yaml file you run through Cloud Formation.

Devops is just as much development and software engineering when you are working in a cloud environment -- it's an API call.
> And once the table is flipped, you have no more leverage

One only has leverage if the other side thinks one might flip a table, which requires a periodic demonstration.
Yeah, I agree, but to catch up to 2013 Apple, 2019 Apple only has to fix the keyboard and a few other hardware updates, whereas other manufacturers have a whole new OS to write :)
Can enterprising students run this app in an Android Emulator and fake the GPS location during game time?