skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, bagged tea exists because there are lots of buyers who only want quick refreshing non-coffee caffeine, and don't care for taste that much. Or sometimes they just want a background for those 100 g. of sugar you mentioned. Tea dust is a perfect match for this market, because it releases everything it holds to water immediately, while whole leaves may require some patience, and proper procedure.
For packages the USPS is in a very competitive market, against UPS, DHS, and Fedex. The only market they have something approaching a monopoly on is regular letters. This ruling affects (IIRC) only small packages, but that's still a place where USPS competes.

Also note that where USPS has a monopoly it's often where it is required by law to sell below costs. For example, delivering mail to Alaska and Hawaii is quite expensive, but US law requires uniform postage costs.

The USPS is hampered by law in other ways. The UPU decision is one example; they also have fairly strict pension laws and they cannot raise prices without agreement from overseers (a price increase to 55¢ was just struck down in court). It's not totally clear that it's possible for USPS to run in the black while also being the mailer of last resort that it is today. (That said, perhaps mail is a government service worth subsidizing, though we can debate how much, and running in the black would be preferable.)
It was a decent approximation of a the level of continuous work output you could expect out of a horse without taxing it too much.
I'm in for $20 too.
Wow. Just to be clear, I'm not putting the burden of proof on you. I accept that the burden is on the side arguing that anthropogenic climate change is real.

I'm simply asking you what standard of proof you would require. What would convince you?

EDIT: for anyone else wondering about the "0.04%" factoid thrown out, this article is a pretty good explanation of how the greenhouse effect works and how a trace gas can have a noticeable affect on global temperature: https://www.sciencealert.com/co2-is-only-a-tiny-part-of-our-...
Give it three years.
People's pension can get dragged into this mess.
>Are they in a competitive market for the class of packages they ship in the US?

Fedex and UPS, in unison: am I a joke to you?

The short answer is yes, they are.
In the case of WeWork the warchest is streched by a price war. And the barrier to entry is basically office space in the interesting locations. Just what is an interesting location changes, and real estate is plenty. So the barriers aren't probably that high. Generally speaking the point can be valid so.
That's possible, but I think you've already reached a point of diminishing returns with a standard teabag. They do have a more premium feel, so it's probably a combination of perceived quality and cost savings.
What did it say? Was it using Siri’s voice?
I guess it would depend on the definition of "high-volume importers of mail and packages". I would assume the European countries had their own negotiators in the meetings.
Well, you can only trust a third-party audit as much as you trust the third party auditor, which usually isn't very much. What good does it really do that company X, which I know very little about, said that Y does such and such?
The use of "some" and "may" in titles always bothers me. Seems like there should be more concrete language available to state the point the article is attempting to make.
I know very, very little about any of this, but would this be akin to entity component systems in video games? Forgive me if I'm way off.
That is pretty much exactly the same thing as seeing a character wearing a T-Shirt in a movie and trying to argue it must have just been what the actor came on to the set wearing that day.
Actually, CZ.NIC (the .cz domain registry) runs one.

You can find it at https://odvr.nic.cz/doh.
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As a side note:

>We’re in a north London pub, and Engle is telling me about her manhunt: the search for Cohen. “I’ve searched his name online every two or three months for 17 years.”

IMHO you cannot seriously call searching a name on - say - Google amd/or Bing every two or three months a "manhunt".
Or jobs?
Not everybody is looking at the same statistics you are, and not everyone is as hopeful about our ability to store nuclear waste safely indefinitely.

I'm pro-nuclear power, but it's foolish to act like their motivations or beliefs are less real than yours because they have a different risk assessment.
Try PG Tips, it's the best tea you can get in a bag.
Lipton is shit, I agree!
The 'yikes' was more a response to his credentials. I agree, this argument seems scary coming from a policy adviser.
With an electron microscope and infrared and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. From the article:

The researchers counted the plastic particles by cutting open bags of tea, removing the tea, rinsing off any pieces that might have come off during cutting, and then steeping the bags in distilled water at 95 C. They then took a sample, let the water evaporate, and counted the plastic particles under an electron microscope, then extrapolated to get the amount in one cup. They also used other instruments to identify the type of plastic in each bag.

The researchers also repeated the experiment with uncut bags that still contained tea to make sure the cutting didn't cause the bags to shed, and with loose tea leaves, confirming that uncut bags shed microplastics too (although they were harder to count) and the plastic didn't originate from the tea itself.

The original study references the use of Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS).
And why should they? WireGuard is free† so it seems (to me) a bit futile trying to shame them on a niche site like HN and expect them to change their behavior and support the community that they draw from. Mind you, this problem is not limited to Wireguard/Cloudflare. The NTP servers, curl, libssl prior to Heartbleed, the list of important open source software in need of funding goes on. It's fighting also a basic refusal or desire to pay. When was the last time someone you know paid Redhat for CentOS or Canonical for Ubuntu on principal?

What/how can we do more to encourage corporate sponsorship (either time or money) of code that's critical to a company? There are various ways the community has tried to enable this, in different ways. Librapay and platforms like it try to make it easier (Think Patreon but less commercial). The Linux Foundation takes large corporate donations and distributes it out to a large number of projects they support. Stick a paypal email address or bitcoin address in the Readme.md as a "serverless" way to receive money.

However at the end of the day, that seems to not work. Curl is used in billions of devices but the majority of the work on it has been done by one person for 20 years.

Something is not working as we hoped.

†) specifically Open Source under the GPLv2 license
‡) https://www.linuxfoundation.org/projects/
It doesn't seem to be a property of the sound itself. It is more about me knowing that it is being caused by a person who has the power to stop, but doesn't. If you had the same sound being caused by nature and I knew for an absolute fact that it was outside of anyone's control it wouldn't bother me.

Bass sounds from down the hall or across the street definitely falls under the category of sounds that greatly irritate me. I would inevitably call the cops if I couldn't get them to stop even though I want them to be able to play their music as it makes me irrationally upset.

The kinds of sounds that annoy me on a daily basis are people eating loudly or talking too much. I bought some pretty nice sound canceling headphones so that I can avoid such sounds when I can. I would not be capable of working in an office otherwise.
Are there bars that don't hold a credit card when you're running a tab? I don't know of any..
Loss of sense of history/direction with a tremendous wealth/income disparity leads to this type of disillusionment imo.
The US is somewhat lagging "the world" right now in personal electric vehicle adoption. There are more brands/models/sales in both the European and Asian markets than the US is currently seeing.

The Chinese market in particular is fascinating from an EV perspective. Particularly because it seems to indicate that non-personal vehicles (especially buses, delivery trucks, and semi-trucks) are either going to be not far behind in electrification or even possibly slightly ahead.

It is starting to look like in the US it will be the case that commercial vehicles may electrify faster than the personal vehicle market (at least partly because manufacturers aren't really selling EVs for personal auto sales in a tautological fallacy that they think they won't sell in the US). Amazon's big recent deal with Rivian, for instance, should put a lot of commercial EVs on the streets. UPS' similar older, quieter deals with multiple companies pushing them to hybrid trucks only already and an entire EV fleet supposedly in the next several years. Proterra seems to be making great headwind in the US bus market, as another example.
Not to mention the water it is submerged in absorbs the actual radiation, so it generally doesn't even make it to the staple to begin with (at least, if you push the bad down to flood it before heating).
The high level evidence is that lighting can travel thousands of feet through air. An inch or two of rubber is nothing.

It's the metal cage of the car that provides lighting a more conductive path around instead of through you.
I personally don't blame the drivers, most of the time.

My impression is that taxi companies, wanting to be profitable, keep the largest number of drivers on call that can be maximally utilized -- not the smallest number needed to guarantee a certain SLO. So when you call dispatch and they tell you "30 minutes", that's a bald faced lie. It's not that the taxi driver got lost or stopped for a coffee break on the route, it's that they did not have any taxi drivers available for the next 80 minutes, and knew it.

The drivers don't get punished because they did nothing wrong; there may have never been a driver assigned to go pick you up.

It's like when you go to the grocery and there is one checkout open and ten people in line; it's not that the cashier is slow, it's that it is more profitable to make you wait than to have two cashiers sitting idle after you leave.
You're proving my point. There is a list - longer than this one of course, but a very finite list - of examples. You wouldn't think of listing the playable _male_ characters in games, because those would be, well, almost all characters in all games.
One reform worth considering is that an entity that can be demonstrated to persistently engage in frivolous patent lawsuits should lose the rights to their entire portfolio.

This could be accomplished with a legal mechanism that allows the defendant to counter-sue the plaintiff as a patent troll. In this scope they could bring in previous litigative history of the plaintiff (or any related entities, piercing the corporate veil). If the judge rules in the defendant's favor, then all of the plaintiff's patents (and any related entities) are immediately released into public domain.

This would go a long way to preventing patent trolling. And not just because of the direct incentives. Any entity engaging in a patent lawsuit would put their entire portfolio at risk. The larger the portfolio, the higher the risk. The individual or small company with one or a few patents has very little risk. Whereas the large company that hoards thousands and thousands of patents would bear enormous risk on any single lawsuit.
I had to resort to this for an Ebay account that someone opened with my email address. I finally got sick of them not fixing it so I used the email-based password reset feature to login, change the password, then closed the account.
Any CEO would be ousted out by board if he/she receives such negative reviews.
Wow! I guess LifeLock doesn't work after all.
Clearly your definition of "impede" is very different from mine.

> should be supported at all times

Where did I say that? We're talking about impeding growth, which is along a continuum of time. Any additional "n" amount of effort required during a growth period is going to slow it progress. Additional effort is absolutely necessary to support a different local language by definition. It doesn't mean growth is impossible, it just means it requires extra effort and resources, which in turn means additional time and money.

> that a localisation is costly

Are you claiming it doesn't incur any cost? At what scale (let's use lines of translated text as a barometer) have you ever operated at?

> ("screenshot have to be updated", come on...)

Have you ever had to create support documentation in different languages? For the French specifically? Your reaction tells me this is not the case.

> bluster are not arguments.

Where specifically was I acting in a threatening way in my argument?
Regulations of cloudfare and an ISP are often hugely different though.
But it doesn't make sense. OP is saying that there is no absolute measure of time, it depends on the frame of reference of the observer. Therefore there is also no absolute measure of speed.
I've got some great news for you: firefox is only doing DoH in the US.
The amazing book 1491 calls this Holmbergs mistake: that the indigenous people lined in a static world and didn't have the agency to make their own mistakes.
I do the same, but I hire children in 3rd world countries to help fill the bags.
Colonialism and Identity in French Africa and African France
I think Uber missed the opportunity to be a more full fledged wallet (which is what Grab started a few years ago). They have a "cash" product now where you can load money, but it's too little too late IMO, and the incentive to load money vs use your cc is small (e.g. tiny discount).

Starbucks is the obvious model here...IIRC they have one of the most success mobile payment apps in the country, even competing with Apple Pay despite being relevant to them alone. They have something like $1.6 billion in balances, which they can monetize (free loan + interest).
The Google data center in Hamina, Finland makes use of seawater for cooling, I believe. https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/locations/hamina/
> Patent was filed in 2008 and is about wirelessly (wifi/bluetooth/etc) connecting an "image capturing device" (webcam/phone) with a "receiving device" (computer) and selectively (date, location, image recognition...) transmitting them.

Pfffft. Primitive animals destroying civilization at this Rothschild troll plantation.

We need patent reform that involves criminal felony penalties for trolls on the basis that their actions greviously harm civilization. Get these parasites off the street and away from harming the people doing actual useful work.
In case you can't find it, c++ is on the list, but under cpp like the file extension.
Despite a bit of exaggeration and unnecessarily salty language, I found the OP to be a though-provoking piece, well worth the read.

This passage, in particular, struck a chord with me -- it criticizes all the money-burning unicorns selling products and services below cost:

"What predatory pricing does is to enable competition purely based on access to capital. Someone like Neumann, and Son’s entire model with his Vision Fund, is to take inputs, combine them into products worth less than their cost, and plug up the deficit through the capital markets in hopes of acquiring market power later or of just self-dealing so the losses are placed onto someone else. This model has spread. Bird, the scooter company, is not making money. Uber and Lyft are similarly and systemically unprofitable. This model is catastrophic not just for individual companies, but for their competitors who have to MAKE money."

Highly recommended.
https://secushare.org/comparison may be useful to some.
That article also suggests tap water contains plastics, so "stop drinking bottled water" will help, but doesn't remove it all from the equation.
I've noticed amongst some of my friends with similar issues that they see disagreeing as being a kind of harm. That to make someone uncomfortable or upset is as bad as kicking them in the shin or yelling at them.

You can't feed a child nothing but candy. Candy is delicious and great, I love candy, but it's just sugar. To merely agree with someone all the same is to both undervalue their agency (what makes them human, their ability to engage critically and freely with new information) and over-value the norm. In other words, to agree with someone all the time is to give them nothing but sugar candy.

That's not license to yell or be a jerk. Please don't go around trodding on people and calling them sheeple. But do disagree with people because it both helps you and betters them. To engage with opinions we don't have, to consume information we don't like is the intellectual equivalent of eating your vegetables.
Sorry, I don't know what "entity component systems" are. If you mean saving the same component for all entities, rather than saving a bag of components for each of the entities, then sort of.
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For scripts, libraries etc.
Am I reading this correctly.. creating a regexp introduced into a template, then applying that template to a value in the web request?
I'm thinking it doesn't matter if ProtonMail's technology is trustworthy if the users are using it for untrustworthy purposes. Tor browser technology might be fancy, but expect the end IPs to be blacklisted or recaptcha'd to death. If you use mailgun (instead of a more restrictive service like Postmark) expect your emails to go to the junk folder. ProtonMail may share the same fate.
Are FedEx and UPS subject to the UPU? Will this decision affect them? And are they currently shipping packages at a price that is comparable to USPS? If USPS is subsidizing international shipping from China by keeping domestic shipping charges high, how are they competing with FedEx and UPS?

(BTW I agree with the other responders - this was an excellent summary for those of us not in the US)
Ben is one of the greatest thinkers in technology writing today - period.

You're only depriving yourself of an important perspective in this case.

He's open to arguments and is extremely reasonable. If you're only looking for writing that agrees with what you already believe then you might be disappointed, but if you're looking for extremely thoughtful thinking on strategy and technology then you won't find anyone better than Ben.

It's not just a blog, it's a paid publication with a ton of research and effort behind it.
Your tone is quite alarmist and combative. If this is how you approached them then it makes sense that you were blocked.

Anyways most users use Mac and Windows not Linux. How can Mozilla fund the development of DoH on the network level?

Also on Linux, dnsmasq can be configured to use DNS over HTTPS.

At the end of the day. This is DNS is just looking up IP addresses in an address book.
CF is just as well hitting at the first two points with Warp VPN and eSNI.
How is it a sign of respect? Are we not respecting Fourier for his transforms? Are we failing to respect Stokes, Green, Riemann, Cauchy, Ramanujan, and Pythagoras? The vast majority of "respected" mathematicians retain capital names on their theorems/equations/conjectures etc.

This seems false.
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> If Facebook working conditions are so terrible as to make suicide the only viable option, then why don't they just unionize?

First, unionizing is not simple. One needs a majority of workers in agreement of forming a union and voting on it.

Meanwhile, anyone who stands to lose money from better pay and benefits from the formation of a union -- anyone in management and the executives -- will likely try to stop any efforts, mainly through propaganda: "Unions are not good for you!"

With a company as big as Facebook and management likely monitoring everything its employees do, unionizing will likely be difficult, especially if people are not educated on the benefits of a union.

Contrary to popular belief, you cannot get fired for joining a union.

> With collective bargaining power, they could get much better work/life balance.

That is assuming they are unionized, which would take a while.
Yeah they swipe your card early on in the night and give you your card back.
I agree in the case of WeWork.
No parent comment. My reasons are
1) Custom domain if you're a paid member

2) Better and more responsive UI (better is subjective but you can feel that it loads much more quickly than GMail or Outlook)

3) e2e encryption is great if you use it for business, some businesses are skeptical of free public email services since the emails aren't really private.
The truth is single-use plastics are very useful in certain applications. Sanitation and reducing food waste likely outweigh the cost. I do think it's great we're being more thoughtful in our consumption and thinking more about where stuff goes when we throw it "away."

I do think you can address some of your issues assuming your grocer is a bit accommodating and you don't mind the perception of being a bit odd. Farmer's Markets rarely package things like grapes and cherry tomatoes. I got some reusable produce bags that have a tare weight written on them [1] (I don't usually bother having them tare it). I just stuff the produce bags into one of my grocery bags.

There are a bunch of "zero-waste blogs." I can't seem to find it, but I remember watching one video bio where she went grocery shopping. She had them put cuts of meat into jars and brought her own containers for everything. The only "waste" was the paper sticker they put on her jar. She did say it was a bit odd at first and she had built a relationship with the grocer, but I'm pretty sure it was just a local Whole Foods.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07FT4ZCKZ/
Co-founder of Monolist here.

We started Monolist after years of spending too much time managing work, and not enough time doing work. The number of tools we use every day has drastically increased, work is spread across so many places, and important tasks slip through the cracks.

So we built something to bring it all together. Monolist is a command center that pulls in your most important tasks, pull requests, documents, and messages into one feed where you can search, or take action with full context.

The "feedification" of work, driven by tools like Slack, forces us to make thousands of micro-decisions per day. Feeds are great for some things, like discovering important updates, but they're terrible to-do lists.

We want to move away from a world dominated by notifications. We want to give you one list that tells you what you need to do across all the tools you use, with all of the context necessary to actually complete the tasks.

Please let us know if you have any feedback or requests!
ever tried T2?
Social justice causes are popular to talk about, not to actually do something about.
The idea is that ridesharing is still early on in the monetization/profitability/growth curve. Right now, its possible to value online advertising companies (google, fb, linkedin before acquisition etc) based on some multiples of revenue and growth. What those multiples are fairly well agreed upon and relatively static. The argument above is that the multiples are not well defined in the rideshare sector, and its hard to find a stable valuation for these companies based on that. As uber and lyft turn profitable-ish in the next 6 - 8 quarters and focus on revenue growth as opposed to purely gross bookings growth as well as stemming losses, the multiples these companies are valued on are going to change a lot.
An adult saying, "Hey guys, try this cool, totally safe, vaping product!", doesn't exactly sound like the typical authority figure that a teenager rebels against.