skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absentee ballots can be sent with private couriers like FedEx. That's actually what some people living overseas have to do. Election commissions can choose to send ballots via private mail couriers as well, and allow people to print and send self-certified ballots.
"No, it isn't."

There ya go.
That’s a shame; I’m have remained close friends with a couple of dozen dorm- and lab- mates even after 35 years. Even started a company with one 20 years ago.

And we were all non-gregarious nerds. I wonder if that is why?

My university was quite large, with about 4,000 undergrads and about the same number of grad students. My high school was about 40 students a year (240 total) and I am barely in contact with any of them.
IIRC, PMR(perpendicular magnetic recording) technology is also used on SMR drives, so It's not correct term to differentiate SMR. And the technology have been used around 15 years.

CMR(conventional magnetic recording) is retronym to differentiate SMR.
Also... one of fundamental flaws of Wolfram Physics Project's meta-model is that it uses weightless graphs.

There is literally nothing in his model that can prevent his beautiful graphs from simply collapsing in on themselves, with all the points just piling up on top of each other into a naked singularity before they've even succeeded at forming any space at all!

For starters, empty space should have weighted (space-like) connections of the weight value of 1.

This accomplishes two things:
a) prevents the space from outright collapsing in on itself, and
b) forces the space to form a stable configuration

For b) part, imagine a 2-dimensional discrete space (graph) made of hexagonal shapes.

You will immediately notice that weighing knot (node) connections (with the value of 1) forces that space to maintain a stable spherical configuration (providing that it had formed uniformly to start with.

Expand this concept to 3 dimensions, and you'll get a similarly stable 3D configuration (that has been uniformly expanding from the very first step of 1), with 2D surface (at any distance r/step k from the center) being a very good candidate for defining a holographic principle (of some form or another) on.

Now...

... wait for Wofram to expand his model with weighted graphs... and then sue his sorry ass for stealing somebody else's idea.

P.S.
One of the fundamental flaws of WPP's meta-meta-model is... Wolfram himself.

A terrible, terrible choice for managing the, literally, biggest breakthrough in physics since QM.
Would it be possible to take half the 70B that we’re paying USPS and quickly build out fixed wireless service to at least the lower 48?

I don’t know myself, but it seems within reason to me.
Only by convention though. The radio systems I use have a configurable channel width and center frequency - there are only so many legal options. Center frequency is just a convention though - a 100kHz channel being defined as being bounded by (freq + 50kHz, freq - 50kHz) is no more logically valid than (freq, freq + 100kHz) or (freq, freq - 100kHz).
Most likely a TV station. Known as "Franken-FM stations".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_6_radio_stations_in_th...
Multi-Trillion Dollar Disaster Is Coming
So far in Italy nothing will change until May 3rd. But the government is in total chaos over this (mainly because they're afraid of death themselves...). Lots of very unpractical ideas to keep distancing from so-called experts, too.

I guess we'll have to see what happens. Personally, although I'm very aware of the risks and will prepare accordingly, I'll be glad if I can finally get out of this isolation.
Would love a copy but price is pretty steep from what I see, any HN discount? :)
As someone who also does this, I find that the problem becomes not processing the information, but retaining it, and I haven't found a solution to that yet.
It's because they have a legislated monopoly on letters. For parcels they have to compete with UPS, FedEx and others, so they have to price those competitively or they'd get no business, which means they have thin margins there and even then lose a lot of the volume to competitors.

But they can't just charge arbitrarily much for letters because people would stop sending them, which is really what they're doing regardless.
Since you want to discuss, and clearly looked into this:

I do not agree on any single one of your numbered points.

1) "eradication is not possible" just does not follow from "this is a highly transmissible respiratory virus". "Eradication will be difficult" follows; but several countries have shown us that "eradication is entirely possible if proper measures are taken"

2) The purpose of lockdowns is to eradicate the virus. https://medium.com/@joschabach/flattening-the-curve-is-a-dea...

3) See 1.

So my position is that eradication is possible, and - given the possibility of multiple waves if the virus becomes endemic (large virus population --> increased chances of dangerous mutations) - it is vital that we give it a really good try.

The discussion should re-focus on how we go about eradicating the virus, while minimizing the damage to the economy. This article outlines an appropriate path forward: https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-th...
America’s junk food diet makes us even more vulnerable to coronavirus
What are they using to connect to these services?

An up to date windows 10 laptop? A MacBook? You are making a lot of assumptions about a lot of people.

Even on a completely updated, modern machine try throttling your bandwidth to 56k and paying your bills via your banks website.
I absolutely love programming books (more than videos), if you need to increase technical knowledge for a specific programming language you can use plenty of your free programming books

E.g: https://books.goalkicker.com
As important as politics and implementation diversity are, if I were to take on the monumental task of developing my own browser I would rather focus on improvements that are actually manageable and useful to me as an independent dev or small team. Browsers are more than just webviews with tabs and a lot of potential in the non-core parts is left unexplored by the major players.

And it's not like you're throwing away any effort. A browser isn't automatically worthless "just" because it's built on WebKit the same way an operating system isn't worthless "just" because it's built on Linux.
It's Korean (probably also Japanese) thing. My friend attended their interview, said there were little to no technical questions, but he has been asked to create "self-presentation". He was hired.
Samsung produces tons of software quite far from near-hardware level, for example Java and C++ applications for their own version of Android.
Why not just hydroponically grow excellent grass feed at scale for milk cows for making good butter and destroy that market?

It seems like a problem that can be cracked with comparative plant tissue analysis and replicated by proper plant lighting and nutrition schedules.
Supreme Court judges are not reflecting popular will. They dont align with what the majority of population think.
From what I remember from 14 years ago when I was more interested in this, psilocybic mushroom strains are, gram-for-gram, almost all equivalent in relative potency.

Drying them to cracker dry, then grinding them up, and encapsulating (optional), is a safe way to dose. It's not unpredictable.

> But a whole batch mixed together

Indeed. This is the right way to do it.

Making it in a test tube is fine, but it's really not needed. Mushrooms are very cheap to grow, and it's not like people need to take big doses daily to get the benefits.
> There is no reason That psilocybin shouldn’t be administered in its most common form, as it has been for thousands of years

They’re using very large doses in therapy, and there are a lot of unpleasant things that are going to happen already even at the minimum effective dose.
I cynically thought that was corruption by design, politicians - trying to get them into a 'contribute to both sides so they shut up' with shakedowns. They were trying to cast Google as sexist well before anything else happened to harm their image.
Ha, it had to be somewhere. The last I recall hearing "megacycles" was in Bond movies from the 1960s. Wikipedia says this was 1960: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertz#History

You can see why I say Title 47 is crusty.
> there will be traces such as a bunch of feathers and inedible parts

When my family lived in Hugo MN (north of St. Paul), we regularly saw feathers and other remains left by our cats. Occasionally they would leave a bird (or mouse) half dead on our kitchen floor... as an offering? Note that cats might not leave a lot of remains when they hunt, and the sometimes hide the parts they do leave.

Also, while our cats regularly hunted birds, the local blue jays liked to hunt our cats... for sport. The would send one bird out at one end of the yard as bait, and wait for the cat to start hunting it, creeping slowly towards the bird. Then another bird (or several) would suddenly dive bomb it from behind, dropping 20-25 feet strait into the cat's rear end. Our cat would end up launched (and/or leaping) 6+ feet in the air.
Old style COM is defined in tlb files.

Modern COM (UWP) uses .NET metadata and is stored in .winmd files.

C#, VB.NET, JS(Chakra), C++/CX can use them directly, while with C++/WinRT a source file generator was introduced that generates the necessary boilerplate to access the objects in a C++17 friendly way.

Microsoft now calls to COM libraries without type libraries, like DirectX, mini-COM.
Twitter UI is a disaster.
Evolution of Standard JSON APIs – Avro API
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Thanks for building this! Also, great performance of Still Remains. I'm looking forward to checking out the Kickstarter. Any chance you could add support for Google Assistant?
This doesn't wash. If advertising is down 40% and parcel services are up 150%, that's a substantial revenue increase overall.

https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/financials/annual-reports/...

I can't get the numbers to add up here. Even with letters down, advertising down then their revenue should either be flat or have a slight increase based on my guesstimate for their increase in parcel business.
It was the lead pipes in Flint that were the problem, not really the water.
Proactively sabotaging something and then using the consequences of the sabotage as evidence that it should be dismantled isn't "it either works or it doesn't". Such details actually matter.

Incompetently legislating some thing to ruin isn't a failure of the thing, it's a failure of the people writing the legislation.
>it's a fair bit nastier, certainly in some cases, or the hospitals wouldn't be full

While I agree that it probably is indeed nastier than your average flu, it actually wouldn't have to be much nastier to achieve health system saturation in places where it hits groups that are particularly vulnerable (the elderly mainly). Almost all healthcare systems operate on fairly thin margins of tolerance for overload, and a virus of even mild percentages for hospital-worthy or lethal cases could easily, temporarily overload clinical infrastructure if it comes out of the blue and is moving through a population that was entirely virgin to it before the infection in question arrived. This lack of immunity among all parts of society means massive numerical surges in cases very quickly and consequently, major numerical surges in that small fraction of cases that end up being bad enough to warrant hospitalization.
So, basically the company hired complete junior, was willing to train him and somehow that is bad thing as big companies should hire only already learned people?
https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/financials/annual-reports/...

If advertising is down 40%, and their parcel business is up 150%, they should be making way more money in this climate.

150% is my estimate, but I suspect it would actually be more than that.
No matter how much I admire it technically, from an ethical point of view things look a bit different and one might wonder if going forward with this and introducing yet another large scale industry abusing animals is really the best thing to do at this point.
> social security checks, taxes, bills

Sounds like we could go to weekly or even bimontly delivery for all of these.

> communication with family and friends

My grandmother had a telephone growing up deep in rural Kentucky 80 years ago. It's 2020. Get with the times.
That is a 14 or 15 year old kid playing on global level.
Worst tap water I've ever had was in Fort Worth Texas. Only time I've ever bought bottled water for taste and not convenience.
Its purpose isn't to be real internet, its purpose is just to do what the postal service does. It doesn't matter if cnn.com has 500MB of javascript because you're not going there, you're just doing email and banking.

And nobody pays by the minute anymore.
I guess I assumed the apparent AA elsewhere was a result of some sort of post-processing but what you're describing makes more sense, thanks.
There's no point in covering any US government shutdown more than a week or two before it happens. We've turned political gamesmanship into a refined art-form.

Everyone knows the USPS isn't going to stop running. Republicans will try to gut the union as a precondition for emergency funding. Democrats will try to beef up the retirement funds. Of course the head of the Postal Workers Union will want to prevent the former from getting pushed through the negotiations, so they'll talk up the potential shutdown now. But that doesn't mean it's a realistic outcome.

We'll inevitably get a shitty, 18 month funding deal out of it, and kick the can down the road to the next congress. It will suck, we'll live with it, whatever. Everyone knows this is the outcome though, and there's no point talking about THAT stupid game when we have the stupid game of the week to cover -- in this case, re-funding the Paycheck Protection Program.
Thanks for sharing your setup, that sounds awesome! I'm curious, how is the latency? Also, how are you getting sound out of the compute stick?
Live tool for measuring viewport sizes on any device
Are the margins the same for both? I doubt it
Opportunistic lobbyists are using coronavirus to attack EU environmental laws
How much of your business communication goes by USPS, and how much goes by email?
You applied for a grant but you didn't ask for any money?
And yet medical personnel are without required medical protections.
5 Years of React patterns, practices and pitfalls
That's how you would describe the Lynx browser or curl. Way better performance and memory usage but much lower ability to handle modern pages.
I used to listen/watch everything at 1.5x-2x speed but found a similar result. Now I only increase the speed if it's information I only need to process once (e.g the news) but not remember later (lectures, tutorials etc).
Well it's good that it's up on the internet. Gives you and me data on which companies to avoid.
This is quality, you gotta give it that.
I agree with you in that it's an unreasonable expectation, but this does not explain the alleged crisis.

By my calculations, their revenue numbers should be flat or slightly up now.

Parcel volumes are up in excess of 150% where I live.
> - Erlang (Actors): fibers are better. Use Clojure if you like Actors.

Usually the suggestion for actors is to use something else, but I think the main exception is the big one. If you have a need for horizontally scalable concurrent state and behavior, there hasn't really been a good alternative to distributed Akka Cluster Sharding. People are working on it, but I don't think we're there yet (although my opinion might be six months out of date, I haven't caught up).
Growing it in yeast would be great if you are trying to get a consistent quantity of the drug. You could do vats at a time all genetically identical and producing the same yield batch over batch, and can scale up and down your operation for as much as you have vats and yeast food.

This is something you want if you are going to press this into pills at a certain dose and give to people for psychiatric disorders, not for people looking to go on spiritual journeys or see a phish concert.
(Author of Dgraph here)

Dgraph is being used by many big and small companies in the wild. Some public examples are Intuit [1] and VMware [2].

1. Graph abstractions all suffer from high fan-out problem. Because all processing of data needs to be done at the abstraction layer, queries which deep traversals or lots of results in intermediate steps end up fetching lots of data repeatedly. This causes query performance to suffer. This is why many performance focused users avoid anything deeper than depth-2 queries with typical DBs / layers.

2. A way to think about this question is: Are data denormalization and duplication actual things? Indeed they are. If the DB did not suffer from join depth performance, these two things wouldn't need to exist.

3. Surely there are.

[1]: https://github.com/intuit/katlas
[2]: https://github.com/vmware/purser/blob/master/docs/developers...
Interesting, I felt Échiré was more or less indistinguishable from Isigny Sainte-Mère, but that Rodolphe Le Meunier was in a league of its own.
I imagine it is like representing code with a flowchart. Suddenly you are a lot less restricted by your mental representation and you can draw arrows any way you want.

I often experience something similar, even though I'm not blind: When I'm doing algebra I sometimes get stuck 'looking' at the equation and systematically trying patterns on it. But what works much better is to really load the equation into your brain so that you have an intuitive idea that guides your pattern matching. If you are blind, I suppose you always need to load it up.
There used to be another FM band around 6 meters
mushrooms aren't as cheap to grow as laboratory yeast cultures already set up to produce quantities of drug of interest.
one example: https://about.sourcegraph.com/strange-loop/strange-loop-2019...
another: I have RSI, and while I use speech recognition, my voice gets fatigued really easily. Also, using speech recognition in public can annoy people. Real time lip reading recognition would be a serious boon for me.
Aren’t all browsers on iOS using WebKit by Apple decree? I mean the ones you get via AppStore, at least.
Pretty neat if you think about the technology as a smarter cache. One could easily see certain applications, such as blog networks or Twitter alternatives.

Security is easy in some cases. Sign your log appends. Security around transactions without a central authority is pretty complex. Whats the solution there? Block-chain type things? It would have to be application specific I suppose.

I never gave FirebaseDB a shot because it felt like too much vendor lock in but this might be interesting to try one day.
I don't work for a FAANG, but I work in Silicon Valley for a major traditional enterprise company as a research engineer.

I'm concerned about layoffs occurring within the next two quarters due to the economic effects of coronavirus. As an enterprise company we depend on other companies for our business. If the global economy is struggling, this means fewer purchases of IT equipment and services, which means less revenue.

This is anecdotal, but I have noticed that research divisions are typically the casualties of economic downturns. In recent decades research is increasingly seen as a luxury or as a public service rather than as essential for the longevity of the company. If research is a luxury, then companies can cut it with little hesitation. But even with companies that view research as essential, an economic crisis that threatens the future of the company may force the company into making short-term decisions to ensure its long-term survival, and research thus becomes a candidate for the chopping block.

I'm not too worried, but I might start cracking open my algorithms textbooks and grind LeetCode as a precaution.
I find the conclusion that the masks helped a little puzzling. I'm sure it indeed slowed the rate of infection, but what they ultimately wanted to happen was fewer total people getting sick. With constant travel through SF, slowing the infection doesn't seem like it should produce that result, just spread it out over more time.
You're conflating a lot of things with sweeping generalizations. And, I've lived in CA for 40+ years, and know where the proverbial bodies are buried.

Bread, milk, cheese, and butter vary a lot, depending on where you get it and how it was produced. If you're lazy and only go to a corporate, generic supermarket, you're likely to only be able to buy inferior products or marginally-good products at high prices. If you go to farmers' markets, specialty, independent, Italian grocers, and other quality stores, you will have much better choices of superior products.

Tap water in California ranges from acceptable to terrible. Sacramento and Davis are notoriously bad with very high mineral content (hardness). An ion exchange water softener is a luxury in some areas and essential in others. Also, a multi-stage carbon + RO filter is a requirement for drinking water anywhere due to chemicals including chloramines. Another common improvement is a whole-house carbon block filter to catch chloramines that can damage RO membranes and produce undesirable odors at all water use points.

Rice from California should be avoided because it contains arsenic from the soil composition. As I don't completely trust the coffeemaker rice cooking method, it's better to get rice that's safer to consume in the first place.
Half baked and complex are hardly descriptions that endorse their process:

> It’s not perfect. We ship too many features, many half-baked. The product is complex, with many blind alleys. It’s hard to integrate non-engineers – they aren’t valued.
Junk mail is a profit center for the USPS. It isn't the thing being subsidized.
Its interesting the article says "canaries started to show signs of distress".

Humans don't show distress when exposed to carbon monoxide - they just get tired and go to sleep forever.

Do birds have a different response?
Ha, it does. Though, I meant "I don't know if it's smart to admit publicly that I'm not a Linus Torvalds-level programmer".
Sounds like they got the wrong protocol for it then. UDP is not meant for "reliable". It's send and forget. Not sure why anyone would implement TCP on top of UDP.
I wonder if Marc Andreessen would have invested in any of the things he now says that are in shortage. Words are cheap. By writing his essay Marc portrays that he is interested in the greater good but when it comes to actions its all quickbucks.
Is that why flour is flying off the shelves right now? ;)
This looks like it might help me do something I do multiple times a day. I work with multiple AWS accounts and have to sign in to several different ones each day.

Currently, I have to:
- sign in to AWS SSO
- choose an account
- copy the ENV VARs to my clipboard
- select an iTerm2 tab
- paste ENV VARs into the tab

Using 'tip' I think I could automated the last 3 steps. It's a small win, but when you do it multiple times a day it adds up.
This is a symptom of ADD in extremis. Take the other advice here about trying harder, but if it doesn't work consider looking at what ADD entails and ask whether any of your other behaviours fit that description.
However, probably their candidates have to show some projects with electronics and FPGA. Again, Intel has lots of "pure software" development, for example their own compiler, profiler, debugger and rest of similar tools, bundled into IDE.
It is far worse than that. If they did a 'bailout and buy up' of failing companies. Instead it is still for private profit and receiving an arbitrary punishment to try to enrich private parties. Which is so damn very corrupt by definition.