skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a deep split over my eye (metal ring tossed while I was still down range) and knew going to the ER for stitches would end up costing thousands for a five minute stitch job, so I pinched it together and put on superglue. Healed better than stitches and cost me nothing. I hate our medical system too.
This fall:
https://sites.google.com/site/cs164fall2019/
Last fall:
https://sites.google.com/site/cs164fall2018/
> What proportion of mail comes from them

That's actually pretty hard to answer it seems. I can't find any straightforward chart from either USPS, or other research that would show the packages volume by year and country. Does anyone know of such source?
Ask HN: Have you seen group interviews for people who want to work together?
> I'm a bit surprised they haven't moved toward recognizing Taiwan as independently sovereign

Trump wants a trade war, not a real war.
How many products are directly shipped from China through the postal service? The answer is very few. This will have little to no impact on trade volumes overall, since they're largely moved as freight.
For example people following the Carnivore diet.
> Our economic system optimizes for exactly this.

It seems to be a facet of globalization in particular. When all your food came from a dozen local farmers whose names you knew, they each had to worry about reputational damage for doing things like this.

Today the decision is made by a mid-level manager whose name you'll never know and who doesn't even work for the same company by the time the public discovers the issue. Even the company itself generally isn't known to the customers. Do you know if the food at your grocery store is from Cargill or Conagra or someone else? What does a company have to fear about reputational damage if you don't even know who they are?

Capitalism requires informed customers whereas globalism smushes different quality products from different quality producers into the same pipeline based on broad categories that don't fully capture what customers actually need out of the products.

But we also can't expect everyone to have to grow their own food just so they know what went into it. It takes some middle ground where farming has enough size to get reasonable economies of scale and specialization but not so much that nobody has any idea where their food actually comes from.
That is just absolutely not true. First, go ahead and read the article. Next, order a few $1 items from AliExpress.
So I am a bit confused as to how Stripe Issuing helps us figure out the underlying technologies that ties a company as OP above asked? Am I missing something?
Python does support types though. It's type system is, imo more pleasant and powerful than Javas.
There are only two decision points in daily clothing: (1) What to buy, and (2) what to wear. If you've bought correctly, the "what to wear" decision is 5-120 seconds and no more. There's no pain to alleviate here... even a free service that told me what to wear today would be useless to me, and would take longer than just choosing myself.

This leaves the purchase decision, which is far more profitable and is (I assume) the focus of your venture. I see 5 primary market segments here:

1. Buy cheap, quick, lower quality. Any generic discount store or retail website fills this niche.

2. Buy cheap, higher quality (or better style), at the cost of time. Mid-tier retailers do well here, but it requires a heavy investment of time and mental energy to know what you want and find it on sale.

3. Buy quality, full price, auto selected. These are your monthly subscription box services.

4. Buy quality, full price, curated. Here you go to a store and someone knowledgeable helps select clothing that fits your requirements. Clothes may be tailored / bespoke. Nothing is ever on sale.

5. Buy quality, full price++, individualized. This is when you have a personal shopper / style consultant who knows you, knows your measurements, and shops at all the stores on your behalf.

If you're solving the question of "What do I buy? What is my personal brand?" then you're playing exclusively in categories 3-4. You want people who are bad at decisions, have disposable income, but also aren't ultra-wealthy and thus don't need the luxury human touch. I'm not convinced that this is an unsolved problem: you'll be competing with incumbents and need to be dramatically {cheaper, better, better marketed}.

Clothing, particularly men's clothing, is pretty darn simple. If there's any real edge left in the "what do I buy" business, it's probably fashion curation based on body type (especially women's body type) which can be quite variable. There are a number of efforts under way here but I don't feel like anyone truly owns this space yet.

And since you asked, my personal datapoints: I am in category #2 (I'm cheap, but I care about quality and am willing to put in the time). Once I feel comfortable enough in my income I'll move directly to category #4 (pay for quality + convenience). I don't feel that category #3 offers good value, and I'm a long way off from affording category #5. I have a curated wardrobe of ~10 very nice dress shirts for daily wear and a set of "black base" jeans / shoes, plus a set of "brown base" jeans / shoes to match with the chosen shirt. Each morning I look at my closet and am done deciding within ~1 minute.

If you think you have an edge here, I'm genuinely curious to know what it is :)
You mean the US didn't try to do that for years?
I figured not many people remember this line lol
If I were afraid that I might be hurled out of a window against my will, I think publicly going on the record as philosophically opposed to suicide would be a very good idea.
You would need to do this for every change, every time. Hardly a good solution.
Not surprised (sad to see it’s this high though). The poverty level is calculated from the cost of living, so CA is at a huge disadvantage. Also the weather doesn’t force homeless people out of the state, so people in extreme poverty can stay put- compare that to Montana, where homeless and people without utilities can die during the winter and that pushes many out of the state.
It's not about having a huge impact on trade volumes. It will have an impact on small stuff and drop shipping. Why should we stay in a bad deal that was made fifty years ago when circumstances were completely different?
Except Dropbox is now a 12 year old company. So I don't see how that was insightful?

It reminds me of The Sharks saying "a product is not a company". It's a virtually meaningless statement.
> So you know, you might be missing some critical scenes in some movies. :)

A tolerable risk. Non-US airlines have wildly different criteria for this such that it really hasn't been in issue.
> The challenge is investing the right amount of resources that retain the necessary minerals, is ecologically sustainable long term and healthy.

Our economic system refuses to account for these things, and refuses any attempt at being held accountable for them, as well. It optimizes for a supply chain that depletes soil, replaces robust ecosystems with fragile monocultures, forgoes sustainability, and enjoys the luxury of not having to account for the negative externalities of turning a profit.
The graph of male testosterone levels looks very similar to this one. I'm not suggesting there's necessarily a correlation between the two, but modern life is taking its toll on our health.

Life expectancy may be longer in present times, but quality of life is in some ways lower (a notable exception to that is the status of even relatively minor infections, which were frequently fatal in pre-modern life).
- Bought a place with a garden close to the city center (Europe).

- Proposed to my girlfriend. Getting married next year.

Not my success, but my future wife's; She got a job as head of QC for a large company.

Life is pretty sweet right now :-)
> a guy who was supposed to be teaching me...sometimes...would spin around in his chair, showing me nudes of whatever target's wife he's looking at. And he's like: "Bonus!"

And that's just a lackey... this only worries me as to what a determined, calculating person is capable of with these tools.

> The most important part of the Rubik's cube was actually not as a concealment device, but a distraction device...I really gave Rubik's cubes to everyone in my office as gifts and guards saw me coming and going with this Rubik's cube all the time. So I was the Rubik's cube guy. And when I came out of the tunnel with my contraband and saw one of the bored guards, I sometimes tossed the cube to him. He's like, "Oh, man, I had one of these things when I was a kid, but you know, I could never solve it. So I just pulled the stickers off." That was exactly what I had done -- but for different reasons.

Love this, totally poetic at the end there. This really does read like a kid's spy thriller.

Can't wait to read the book.
Opt-out vs Opt-in
hence the lawyers contact card.
Yes.

In most of the companies I work with, there tend to be large email threads. It's not uncommon for a dozen people to be on a thread once I get snowballed into it. There are not only engineers but usually C-level folks as well.

By the time I make my reply, I usually end up writing "bottom up" just like you are saying... I write the detail, then summarize it above and then try to answer the top 1 or 2 questions I know the top-level folks will want answered at the bottom—even if it's just "we know what the problem is and it's been fixed or will be fixed shortly".

I think it's comforting for the top-level folks to see the respect that answers their questions quickly and it also makes them feel good that additional detail is available for those who care.
> Also I would point out that people searching Basecamp on Google rather than going to Basecamp.com may look for Basecamp type products.

It does not make much sense from pure search engine quality perspective, top hit for a navigational query should be the main url, it also better redirect right away from browser addressbar context (“I’m feeling lucky” like) Alternatives are fine if the query contains the word “alternative” or other intent markers
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Please provide any evidence that a carb calorie counts for nearly 4 protein calories and I’ll take your anecdote a lot more seriously. You’re making an extraordinary claim with no evidence. Why would I accept your anecdote over my “assumption” that dietary scientists weren’t all completely incompetent when they agreed that a calorie is roughly a calorie? How is it that you calculated a 4:1 conversion and everyone with an actual lab doesn’t?

If you told me that one time your car got 120 mpg because you switched to premium fuel, I’d likewise not believe you. I’m much more likely to think your gauge is faulty or you misread your actual results.

As much as you might want your personal anecdote to be compelling, it just isn’t. I’m not going to give your anecdote the same weight that I give the broad scientific consensus.
The Groupon office lobby had a picture of Andrew Mason on the cover of a magazine, surrounded by magazine covers of famous dotcom meltdowns. I always loved that. Well, that and the cat UFO.

See https://amp.businessinsider.com/images/4cec169bccd1d5e76e060...,

https://www.businessinsider.com/groupon-office-tour-2010-11#...
I phrased it incorrectly, you are spot on "much less bio-available when compared with animal products"
"If something cannot go on forever, it will stop".

Stein's Law.
I’m not sure about that. The death rate from smallpox was unbelievably high before the vaccine, and it was eliminated or nearly so in many countries well before this supposed 1960s date.

Certainly more recent advancements have been wonderful, and the anti-vaux movement is callously throwing away lives and the hard-fought victories of our ancestors.
AWS-for-office-space is apt, considering EC2 instances/other VPS are paid per-hour(/minute) but AWS owns the computers for the duration.

As been pointed out elsewhere though, WeWork, owes money to landlords, even if that WeWork space is empty. AWS doesn't have the same contracts with their computers. Or do they? It's entirely possible AWS buys their server farms on credit rather than all upfront. AWS, of course, is a different beast, having the backing of Amazon.com.

Thus the more useful debate, rather than rehash the "is it a tech company" argument yet again, is what is a reasonable valuation for WeWork? Enterprise Value for IWG is 9.8B; so a 10B valuation for WeWork is not totally ridiculous.

There's a risk that everyone will just work from home during a recession. During that same recession though, we'll also want to move our company's website from AWS to a desktop computer I have in my garage that I leave on all the time, to save money.
Agree! Here is a great epidose on why Rent Control does not work by Freakonomics. http://freakonomics.com/podcast/rent-control/
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> I found that you don't lose weight until you sleep.

Hilariously, this implies that if you never sleep you don't need to eat. All we need to do now is figure out a way to put people on enough drugs that they never sleep, run them on treadmills, and voilà, FREE ENERGY!
Q: "Got a minute?"
A: "No"

Then close the app/tab and crank up that Led Zeppelin so you can GSD
Relieved actually, because it allowed to meet an overdue performance deadline.
Fascinating. Lots of pictures of it on this site: http://www.romanaqueducts.info/aquasite/gadara/index.html

And also http://qanat-firaun.de/en
We don’t have a capitalist system, we have the worst of all possible systems. There’s no competition, yet the state doesn’t control the prices.
Yeah how many people want to park their car in the sun all day long?

The better way is parking it in a garage of small to large size, that has solar on the roof, with a much bigger surface area, that you could plug into.

Another bad part is that since solar is still in heavy innovation phases, you'd need to be able to swap out panels for replacement and newer tech so there would need to be standards there or else it becomes highly cost prohibitive. It would add so much to testing that it would add layers of cost. This would also limit design options and weight.

Even when efficient, you still want to park your car in or under a cover/garage. That is the best place to put the panels because noone wants a hot car.
A movie just isn't the same without popcorn :)

And you're a captive audience; they don't allow you to bring in your own supply.
Kind of ironic that a style meant to lay the cards on the table is called bluff.
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parent poster here: in-flight movies are a popular option.

any entertainment I try to bring myself "just in case" really just ends up taking up space/weight and not being used

last decade it felt like a luxury to bring my laptop/device for travel, this decade it is a burden if it happens at all.
Honest question, are men allowed? I assume so because I didn’t see anywhere that they aren’t, but I didn’t see a single male in the marketing images, and it has a feminine-looking brand, so now I’m slightly unsure.

I’m assuming it’s just their target demographic is young single (white?) professional women, but the homogeneity of the marketing images honestly tripped me up a bit.

Edit: on further examination I do see an image with a guy in a red track suit outside of one of their busses, I missed that the first time.

Still, to be honest I think I’d be intimidated to book a trip and be the only male on the bus. Role reversal, I guess :/
>clip off the top frequencies, (8k+) add some clicks and hiss (raise the noisefloor) you'd then be espousing the wonders of its "warm analogue sound".

You know, you may have a product idea there. Not so much for hearing aids, but as a standalone device.
> I genuinely believe that if I were to keep up my current lifestyle, I'd be in for a bad time by the time I hit 50.

That's mostly diet. With a better diet and 20 minutes of working out a day, you could make yourself healthy. Hell, run just a mile a day, and do pushups, pullups, and planks every other day. It's amazing how short workouts done consistently can actually keep you fit.
This is why I like Kaiser so much. If you make it to a Kaiser emergency room, and you have Kaiser health insurance, you are not going to get an out-of-network surprise bill. Everyone at Kaiser works for Kaiser and is paid a salary by Kaiser and the Kaiser hospital is the only one that bills you.
The question is, is there sufficient demand? Just to break even on the massive carbon footprint of building an HSR line, you need 5-10 million riders a year. Does that demand exist?
But...why? Do you have an autoimmune disorder? Generally find yourself especially vulnerable to the errant bug? How do you feel when you breath in someone's fart? You're a walking bag of mud expressing discomfort at other bits of mud in the world. One bit in a million might be annoying. One in a billion actually painful.
Here is something practically all news article about China exploiting these low terminal dues fail to reveal:

Since 2018 the UPU moved 40 countries, including China, to a new tier and this actually is causing them to already pay higher terminal dues. This decision was made in resolution C 7/2016, see the list of 40 countries in "group III" at page 212 of http://www.upu.int/uploads/tx_sbdownloader/actCompendiumDeci...

The tiers that countries are classified into are called "transitional" (developing country) and "target" (developed countries.) Transitional countries pay lower terminal dues. Target countries pay higher terminal dues. The longer you have been a target country the higher are your terminal dues. And again, China has been a "target" (developed) country since 2018. This is explained in http://www.upu.int/uploads/tx_sbdownloader/questionnaireTdrA...:

Countries in the target tier prior to 2010 pay the most

Countries that entered the target tier between 2010 and 2012 pay less

Countries that entered the target tier after 2016 pay even less

Countries that are still in the transitional tier pay the least

Every few years these dates change (by approving agreements amongst UPU members) and countries pay more and more. So everything is set for China (and 39 other countries) to pay more and more as the years go by, since they've been moved to the target tier in 2018.

This 2015 USPS report explains it (https://www.uspsoig.gov/sites/default/files/document-library...): «Forty of these countries, including all of the BRICS except for India, will join the target tier next year. However, moving these countries to the target category may not immediately lead to significant terminal dues payment increases. The UPU Congress will approve new rates, for the period from 2018 to 2021, next year — meaning implementation is 2 to 6 years after a decision. The new target countries may continue to have an advantage during this period.»

Keep in mind this USPS report was written in 2015. This is now 2019 so the terminal dues have already been increasing 2 years in a row (2018 and 2019) and will continue to increase until 2021: https://www.lexingtoninstitute.org/terminal-dues-time-end-dr...

They increase 13% every year. In 2019 they are up 27.7% since 2017. In 2021 they will have increased 63% since 2017.

So the reality is that the US leaving the UPU is no because China pays low terminal dues. They want a deeper reform that address other issues as stated by the 2015 USPS report: excluding packages (as opposed to letters) from terminal dues, stopping private carriers from being at a disadvantage compared to national posts who receive terminal dues, etc
No. The USA might pull out, not Bulgaria or Canada.
That's a good remark as well: we didn't have effective iterations with feedback, just long arcs of speculative changes.
Of course the US would not push him through a window but someone that wanted to damage the US international image might...
I have had similar experiences when working on something I was driven to finish. Fat simply could not stay on me during those times. I had a ripped six pack without even trying during those times. (When I was younger of course, ha)
they're a pile of emergent behaviors driven by incentives

Never thought about it that way, thanks for the insight!
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What did you pay? What did the insurance company actually end up paying?

This is one of the areas that open pricing should help.
It was not really commonplace for someone like Bach to have any involvement in raising his children until they were preteens, and then only as an advisor or counselor, not dealing with anything like meals, bathtime, etc.
>How do you think you tested for water loss?

Over time. I was not dehydrated at the end of the month, but I was 15+ 1bs lighter, and my neck, waist and limbs were slimmer.

>do you really think you're the first person to research this?

Nope, I have no such illusions. I find though that science _requires_ discussion to move forward. And I found a phenomenon. I can't explain the details, but the results are sound.

I think it's simple to test my theory. Stay up all night, don't drink anything, do what you normally do. In the morning, you will not have lost any weight (call it water weight if you want). During sleep, your body does something different. Go take a nap, when you wake you will urinate again, but it will be different.

But maybe you can only understand this difference if you are carefully monitoring your weight over an extended period of time?

The reason I don't think the carbon dioxide thing is the primary method of weight loss is because of my tests, where your body weight simply does not normalize until after sleeping. I think the majority of the fat (by weight) comes out in urine.

But I am just guessing based on my experiments over the past few years. Yep, I am an amateur scientist, but I control my weight now.
Sleep only has a second order effect on weight. Almost all of the reasons that lack of sleep affect weight loss is due to overeating (calories in) and lack of exercise (calories in).

https://www.topfitnessmag.com/lifestyle/sleep-important-weig...

This is just like all of the studies showing diet soda causes weight gain.Diet soda doesn’t actually cause weight gain. Diet soda gives people the license to overeat and it may cause some people to crave real sugar more. I’m sure we’ve all seen people order a Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese, a large fry and a Diet Coke.
This is a Republican talking point. The bans that prevent the Post Office from doing logical things like being a local bank of last resort, becoming an identity broker and online access provider, etc. would more than make the Post Office viable and dwarf any so-called subsidy.

In reality, a bunch of Republican dipshits are jealous of some of the real estate that the Post Office is sitting on and they are trying very hard to hose the Post Office finances to make them sell it.
> Because any nation that isn't on your side is corrupt, right?

Do you have experience living in countries where you need to bribe everyone everywhere to get anything done? You're missing the point, and I doubt you're speaking from any sort of authority when you say these decisions are not made via shady backroom deals.
The article gives only half of the facts. The universal postal union has already reclassified China as a "developed" country since 2018. Their terminal dues have already been increasing two years in a row and will continue to increase: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20967141
Developing economies get pressured to implement western style IPR regimes as part of trade negotiations, to the point of getting draft legislation written by foreign powers.

See: https://www.grain.org/article/entries/399-information-feudal...

(whole book: https://www.anu.edu.au/fellows/pdrahos/books/Information%20F...)
There is a market where people buy from us based companies, the items are made elsewhere but people are more comfortable buying from a us brand