skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FedEx has partnered with lots of pharmacies and bodegas around the city who can ostensibly receive your packages. The problem is that these locations are allowed to decide that they just don't want to deal with any given package even if it's within the allowed size and weight requirements, and/or FedEx is allowed to decide they aren't going to bother actually delivering it and instead of just routing it to another nearby location or holding it at the distribution center, FedEx will instead just send it back to the sender. It's basically a scam that FedEx is running to make senders pay multiple times for shipping the same thing across the country.

I recently had to stake out a Walgreens and wait for the driver to show up to actually get a package before it was returned to the sender.
"Vim modes" only offer like 40%-60% coverage of features in IDEs. I haven't found one yet that lets you set marks with :k[letter]. Jetbrains (and maybe viper) are the only ones I've found that support block modes.

"Vim mode" means a lot more than just using 'hjklioaD^['. It would be fairer to call them "nvi modes".
I tried the cornell system when I started back at school (OMSCS). I didn't really like it. It felt overly tedious to me. I think it's probably an okay starting point if you have no idea how to learn things. At some point you'll figure out your own personalized way of learning and retaining information - at that point you'll become a lot more productive than following some formula.

My approach is:

* Take lecture notes during the lecture, pausing the lecture to really understand everything (active listening). I never re-watch a lecture (takes too long), so I make sure the lecture notes have all info needed to review for an exam.

* Before an exam review all lecture notes.

That is about all I need to ace pretty much any exam that is about information retention.

If the exam requires real understanding and thought (algorithms, math), then the best way to prep is doing lots of practice. No note-taking system is going to help you there, it will only waste your time.
All the time.

Highly recommended.
As someone currently embroiled in a project to motivate people to explore classic videogame development techniques- this is super interesting.

I'm not sure how I feel about Pygame/Pygame Zero, though. It feels a little detached from classic C techniques and doesn't present the technical challenges of original hardware. On the up side, it's far more accessible to beginners.

I really enjoyed working through, for example, this Wolfenstein 3D-style raycasting tutorial- https://lodev.org/cgtutor/raycasting.html
Cool app! Curious about the data sources, or is that a secret sauce?

For example, you have "google cloud platform" trends going back 15 years - does that mean you have 15 years of data from all your data sources? How do you backfill that?
Support for repeal of the 2nd Amendment is at 20%, which is far higher than I, for one, would anticipate for a fundamental Constitutional right. For comparison, 12% of Americans answered "Do you agree or disagree? Homosexual couples should have the right to marry one another?" with "Agree" in 1988.
Sure they do.

https://www.fda.gov/cosmetics/cosmetics-laws-regulations/fda...

https://www.fda.gov/cosmetics/cosmetics-compliance-enforceme...

> Section 704 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act) authorizes FDA to conduct inspections of cosmetic firms at reasonable times, in a reasonable manner, and without prior notice in order to assure compliance with the applicable laws and regulations, to determine whether cosmetics are safe and properly labeled, and to identify possible health risks and other violations of the law.
The packages were laying directly on the street.
I live in a much smaller city (~50k) in the US. The post office will leave anything, anywhere. Once in a while I need to go downtown to the main post office to pick stuff up. Takes them forever to find my packages, and there's always a big line. Terrible.

UPS/FedEx packages that need a signature are a pain, you can't do anything until they try to deliver at least once. Then you have to drive to the hub which is either by the airport or the next town over and pick it up, their hours suck.

FedEx lets you re-route your package to the local Walgreens, which I really find useful.
Insight? It's false. The symbol for zero originated as a dot, indicating an unfilled place in the place value system, and evolved from there. [0]

[0] https://www.newscientist.com/article/2147450-history-of-zero...
The problem with (the title of) this article is that it suggests there is one single united "U.S. Education Reform", when in reality there are two approaches to U.S. education reform efforts.

One approach is the big government approach: nationalized education standard and accountability system, which includes NCLB / ESSA and common core. This approach is heavily pushed by the Bush and Obama administrations, and some left-wing organizations (mainly Bill Gates Foundation). It is the one addressed in the article.

On the other hand, there is another approach is the decentralized approach: school choices. It was suppressed by the federal government and the education establishment (the teachers union and their allies), but has been pushed in some states and cities.
Eh, I would doubt it seeing as how pot was the drug of choice for all the hippies during the biggest anti-war movement in our country's history
> especially lacking support for using multiple devices concurrently and buffering up messages while disconnected.

Yup, this is why IRC is dying. Unfortunately the vacuum has let proprietary services like Discord and Slack take over, just like GitHub now owns open source infrastructure. We'll come to rue the day we let this happen (see: SourceForge). Hopefully Matrix and GitLab will be ready and waiting when that happens.
I get a white page, both on:
- Firefox + uBlock
- Firefox without uBlock
- Chrome in incognito (no extension enabled)

I wasn't able to get a not white page in any browser.
For a split second appears the text "Loading...". On the inspector, it says you are using a dev build of Firebase SDK

Edit:

solved, I was accessing "/index.html"
I live in the suburbs and have long thought about building a small package shed in the front of my house. I use Amazon for most of my packages and was thinking about getting Amazon's smart lock and putting it on this shed.
I love spending time on these platforms, what are your faves?
To put some numbers on the board, you'd think #node.js and #javascript channels on Freenode would be massive given the ubiquity and low entry barrier of the technologies. But there are probably 10 regulars across both channels. I hang out in both daily and it's always the same people. Of course, they also suffer from the toxic personality of veterans that tend to scare away normal people.

Now compare that to Elm's Slack community. A much more niche technology yet an absolutely bustling chat community. And I can repeat this for all sorts of Slack/Discord communities I'm part of. Even my MUD Developer group on Discord is more active than any Freenode channel I'm part of.

Things like "always online" and offline messaging are essential for community building.

IRC never solved this because it requires everyone to have a sufficiently capable client (like paying for IRCCloud or using weechat in tmux on your VPS). Even if you solve it for yourself, you haven't solved it for anyone you talk to who will likely be logged out when they close their laptop.
This looks very cool, thank you very much.
"I can't figure out" != "I'm not clever enough"

I think saying "i'm not clever enough" (one of the options presented in the article) was never a realistic option given the premise of the article, which is: "a problem somebody’s been working on for a week or a month or maybe years". In this context it's also the least likely interpretation of any other question unless you are a telepath, the limitations on the time you've spent thinking about it are implicit, it does not mean you are incapable of figuring it out...

The other person has been working on this significantly longer than you, this is the reason you can't quickly deduce everything they know. The whole point of this type of questioning is to try and extract some of the results of work the other person has already achieved, for the purpose of better understanding the problem, guide further enquiry and possibly allow you to make useful suggestions.
> Too many armchair economist

Isn't that the beauty of economy and meteorology? That everyone is an expert?
Looks bloated and isn't open source
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=imdb+brad+pitt - the first link is to https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000093/
I've seen it, but never taken the plunge. Thank you for the encouragement -- I'll definitely give it a go. That said, it's going to be extremely difficult to actually incorporate this in my 9-5 environment, so it will probably end up being for my home projects only.
That‘s true, it‘s not present at the voting level. But I believe it’s present at the level of submitting and feed selection.
As far as I know, H1B are transferable, so you are not actually 'tied' to the employer. Some employers are actually reluctant to hire H1B as some people accept jobs they don't really want and then find a better job thanks to H1B transfer being much easier and cheaper than requesting a new H1B.
This is an every day sight here, especially during the holiday season. It's not uncommon to see entire carts stacked full of packages left unattended on the sidewalk as the employee is delivering packages inside a building.
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Well there was this thing called 'BufferBox' in Canada and a similar thing in the US, essentially semi-private boxes into which mail could be placed with a temp. combo.

The UW grads that sold it to Google were borderline arrogant about it, boldly assumptive about how they were going to change how packages were delivered in Canada. That was 10 years ago and of course nothing has happened.

I suggest there are some fairly simple technological solutions along those lines (i.e. a series of larger boxes in each building with a temp code) that could really work, but that the USPS etc. are fundamentally not interested in doing anything innovative. Private entities just aren't positioned to do this, as the pervasive nature of 'mail' is something that lends to socialised/government action.

I really wish UPS/FedEx/Amazon would get together in this because collectively they have enough power to lobby/influence enough cities to create a critical mass for this, and they have the incentive and operational capabilities to do it.

Making boxes available for purchase for homes, having everything standardised etc. and the legal issues sorted out around it would be so beneficial.

It's one area where we hardly need 'new tech' rather some 'operational innovation' at scale.
Looking forward to this update hijacking my browsing and demanding a restart instead of just waiting for me to close the browser.
What the world looks like through animal eyes
JavaScript Promise combinators: race, all, allSettled, any
How to Build a Multi-Tenant Application with Django Rest Framework – Part 1
I work at a company doing something very similar, owned by an aerospace giant as well.

We are led to believe that safety is the most important aspect of any part of our work. At least that’s what we’re told at group meetings and company-wide meetings. But when push comes to shove and the (arbitrary) schedule demand a test, hacky code is produced, checks fall off the list, and errors do happen.

Progress seems to be more important than safety. We are instructed to show some sort of significant return on investment within 6-12 months for the funding we’ve received. It’s pretty sad.

Telling mangers that we need to take it low and slow at first makes them angry and ignore the engineers who do the good work in exchange for engineers who do it fast.
Can't be worse than how Slack manages Slack threads.
Many of the IRC networks offer a "cloak" if you register your nickname, and of course it's trivial to connect via a VPN or via Tor (if your network allows it).
Like a lot of apartment buildings in NYC, in my building, packages are left in the hallway instead the key-pad locked front door. There were some problems in the past with packages getting stolen, but not recently. However, there are a few packages that have been siting there for a few months that are at the wrong address. None of the carriers seem to give a shit to pick them up, even when people mark that they are at the wrong address.
This should be interesting.

Maybe they’re both guilty of wrongdoing. In the end it’ll likely be difficult for them to prevail over Google.

Plus, as many people have said over and over, leave your politics at home, despite this “bring your whole self to work”. It just opens you up to more scrutiny. Of course google is to blame for fostering this attitude. I’m sure they regret their initial idealism and realize you simply cannot mould people into your vision any more than a few societies have tried and failed at raising the perfect citizen.

To be clear, there is a right to unionize. There isn’t a right to politicize work and bring your personal politics into the work realm.

I don’t want to hear your take on 1A, 2A, reproductive rights, medical rights, whatever, at work unless it’s a conversation we volunteer to enjoin in.
Sites select content that is most likely to generate engagement they can sell to advertisers. Content that is liked turns out to be a poor strategy for that. Content that generates violent reactions of all kinds is more effective. (See also tabloid newspapers.)

Karma is a very poor proxy for post or poster value because it's cumulative.

Example: Stackoverflow has no way to distinguish between a poor post and a good post that's too recent to have acquired many upvotes. Likewise karma provides no useful distinction between someone who has been posting for years and someone who has just joined. (Also applies to Reddit and HN.)

In fact markets are perfect examples of Keynesian groupthink. The goal of most investment decisions isn't to assess intrinsic value or potential, but to second guess how everyone else in the market will estimate their ability to profit from collective average estimates of value/potential.

This leads to investment distortions where investors would rather chase potential unicorns - because of the explosive IPO potential - than invest in unexciting but solid businesses with stable but undramatic growth prospects.
To be extremely pedantic, I think they’re correct at an implementation level: for most chips, as long as they’re receiving power at all from a power supply, they’ll run, unless a reset line is being held high. In most consumer electronics, that reset line is held high by default (by power coming off the wall or from the battery), unless power is supplied to a NAND gate coming from (a flip-flop in front of) the power switch on the front of the computer.

To “turn on” a computer (using the push-button at the front, rather than by flipping a power-supply toggle-switch) is, then, actually to SET that flip-flop, feeding a high input to the NAND gate, which in turn will turn off the reset line to the CPU.

(And, vice-versa, if your computer has a “reset button” on the front like some old computers do, that one throws the flip-flop back to its RESET state, which puts the NAND gate back low, which brings the reset line to the CPU back high. Wiring for push-button toggles is weird!)
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Seems like they only resemble Channel Programs in spirit since they don't use any specialized hardware. If it all runs on commodity hardware and is completely generic/customizable in software then it seems a lot more useful and economical than anything for a mainframe.
Modding Games and Freezing Fish
A lot of the convenience of online shopping is that it's shipped right to your door. Make it almost as inconvenient as having to go shopping and the appeal is dramatically lessened.

Besides, losing occasional packages is still less expensive than having to operate a retail store front in Manhattan!
Asians Might Be High-Achieving Thanks to a Growth-Mindset
Why isn't the vi editor in there? It's at least as "vim-like" as bash or tmux.
It's of course a reference to Dune but given the fact that the episode with this joke aired just days ago, there's quite a chance that OP was making a reference to South Park's "spice melange" (shit)
This is a downside of Libgen: duplicate uploads, missing or erroneous metadata. You start wishing that there was at least some curation of the collection, so it could approach the quality of an academic library catalogue as many users are usedto. But I guess the people behind Libgen want to keep the number of people with database edit rights small. (When you upload a book, you yourself can edit the metadata for that book for 24 hours, but you cannot go through the rest of LibGen's database and make corrections.)
This is pretty different, Hurd ran all of this stuff in user space.

It's really close to exokernels though. XOK had three different, but similar VMs for running user code in kernel space. Like their version of futex was a filter program that got run to see if the program should be woke up.
If you like to read, read Clive James. He is perfectly at home discussing anything from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to George Orwell, and his essays are just beautifully done.

Sadness that he died, but he knew it was coming, was grateful the sentence had been deferred for 10 years, and died at home surrounded by "his family and his books". A good end to a brilliant life.

I think this is his final interview:

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/qa/2019/11/clive-james-...
I doubt it Disney always treated engineers are disposable overhead not treasured talent. I got a Lyft ride from a former head of Imagineering really Disney's poor treatment of technical talent is their huge weakness.
So does GitLab and it actually has an open source version.
Knowing what we now know about WW's various side businesses, I'm honestly quite surprised that they never launced WeCoin when the crypto craze of 2017-18 was in full swing. But perhaps useless tokens are only the go-to option for businesses that don't have a patron saint like M. Son.
Can you give examples of locale-dependent things, or issues with extended grapheme clusters?
This is a bit on the unsafe side since it blindly trusts user input. At minimum, there needs to be some kind of magic number in the struct header to validate its looking at the right memory. Best case, some kind of pointer accounting. Unfortunately, magic doesn't come for free.
Sadly, I'd argue that broadcasting your IP is the least invasive of the options available today.
He also has a book coming out this month, BPF Performance Tools
http://www.brendangregg.com/bpf-performance-tools-book.html
Nah most irc networks masquerade the client ip in the whois to prevent ddos.
Hahaha - maybe he did! Completely agree it has huge potential. But I think I came out of it well too and still have a revenue stake :)
So, the regular price is $5.00/month, but with that incredible partnership, it's only $4.99! This is a game changer!
Well.... [0]

I have a whole list of absurd patents... this is the classic go-to example of a patent that should have never been issued... basically, a patent issued saying that if you exercise a cat by moving a laser pointer around a floor, you're infringing on this patent.

[0] https://patents.google.com/patent/US5443036A/en
Exceptions & anecdata can be found anywhere...
I am not saying a graduate degree is the only necessary qualification, but one among other such as their OSS contributions, relevant work experience etc.

But strict enforcement is needed to prevent H1b fraud by body-shoppers. I do believe there is a significant need for H1b developers, just a higher quality filter.
Every day, for keeping in touch with far away friends and for a few programming-related channels on Freenode and OFTC.
> The tabs look bulky and have animation performance issues.

The fact that the tabs don't shrink, but instead slide out of view is infuriating. Something like this affects users constantly.
one of the next interplanetary or Interstellar Probe should carry a copy of the sci-hub torrent in some kind of permanent storage
I believe that is cohesion which isn't inherently linked to group think but attempts to promote may lead to it.

To use a cliche combat context it is like loyalty effectively. There may be questions of whether to attack from the woods or an open field with tank support and working together is more important than one or another as even the situational "wrong" choice is better than a split effort.

However absolute blind loyalty ends only in needless tears from trying to shoot tanks with pistols, charging the no man's land into machine guns, massacre of villages, or military coups.

The dangerous aspect is the "delusion" in both.
It's more an exokernel, but yeah.
I've always been a Clive James fan - his silly TV show "Saturday Night Clive" was appointment viewing in my household when I was a teenager. And his fantastic end of year New Years specials were great as well.

Later I read some of his written works. His book companion to his TV documentary series "Fame in the 20th Century" was by turns wry and thoughtful.

I am not normally a poetry kind of guy, but this is hilarious: https://web.cs.dal.ca/~johnston/poetry/bookofmyenemy.html
Can anyone explain how the statement I responded to makes sense?

I must be wrong, getting so many disagreements.
Electrocute may also mean to injure, not just to kill...

The chain was probably the cell ground? Unless the Leyden jar had a different ground wire, which seems improbable. Likely he got it straight across the chest.
The CSS Changes page is a godsend. When editing CSS live it collects all the changes you've made so you can then go back and apply them in your codebase without having to hunt for them in the page elements.
So common that Economists have invented a term for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
The difference, and the problem, is the word "clever." If you leave it out, and just plainly state "I can't figure out why x doesn't work," it's less likely to be misunderstood, and it's an accurate representation of your current mental state.
Yup, looks like a classic case of regulatory capture.