skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Curious what companies are doing to address the effects of food waste across the supply chain. It seems that ReFED has started a fund for this: https://www.refed.com/content-hub/announcing-our-covid-19-fo...
This actually is the normal for me growing up, except it was UPS and, occasionally, FedEx[1]. USPS doesn't deliver, ever. You rent a PO Box and that should be good enough. If we knew it was UPS, we would have an address like "House 311 Behind the School Loop". So, USPS delivers to PO Box and UPS would find your house or just drop it off where you worked because they knew that too. If a college won't accept applications from a PO Box then you don't get to apply to that college[2].

This in the modern, internet era, has become a true pain in the rear. So, somehow, somewhere, there is a list of street names for 911. This might or might not correspond with the utility company's idea of location. There are often no signs. To fix this, it seems a lot of websites and vendors are starting to use a USPS website[3].

I seriously think we need an article in the spirit of the name article[4]: Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Addresses[5]. I would like to contribute one: "The USPS Address Lookup Tool only shows addresses that the USPS itself delivers and not all valid addresses for delivery."

So, all that work to find out a real address doesn't really matter if the USPS doesn't actually deliver to that address, but UPS and FedEx are just fine. Never mind the fun practice of handing off the package to USPS for final delivery (looking at you DHL[6]) when the deliverable street address for UPS/FedEx turns into an undeliverable address for the USPS who will send it back unless you can convince your vendors to put the PO Box on line 2 of the address.

Now, a normal person would think it might actually be an ok thing to get the real address added to the USPS system, but that is currently a bit of an exercise in phone tree spanning.

Can you guess what I have been doing during this current unpleasantness?

So, my fellow developers, please allow an override of your address checking.

1) oh, by the way, do not confuse FedEx and FedEx Ground when talking to employees of said companies, they are quite hostile.

2) almost as good as the old "we don't accept money orders" for weeding out those pesky poor people back in the day before debit cards and online applications.

3) https://tools.usps.com/zip-code-lookup.htm?byaddress

4) https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...

5) I guess https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-a... is it.

6) ah DHL, who somehow shipped a printer intended for North Dakota to another tribal college in South Dakota (different tribe, different state) then had it go to Chicago and then Compton CA to be handed off to USPS.
Catalina finally pushed me over the hump of switching to Fish last month. It’s great! I was dreading porting my Bash config, but it turned out almost nothing needed to be ported because Fish does so much for you.
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Cool, IMO that makes it potentially useful (but being useful isn't required of course).

Out of curiosity, what part of the spec does that implement? Is it to do with fn:format-integer.
Can't speak for anyone else, but I have a 570 board I think (MSI, I think, Phantom Gaming 4) with 2700x CPU. I have 4 sticks of 16GB ECC RAM (can't remember brand either, looked at the PG4's page where it lists compatible RAM) and they worked fine.

I don't know if the fact that I was looking at said recommended list is what negates the issue you're talking about, but I had minimal issues in my build (mine was from also including a PCIe to 8 SATA port card. Moved the main drive off of it, installed the drivers and started working fine). Initially tried to do a Windows VM w/ GeForce 1080 but scrapped it after driver issues with the device in VM (apparently, Nvidia doesn't want non-Quadra GPUs in VMs).
It is less than ideal in USA in many ways.

That my insurance, and by extension, my ability to maintain a relationship with any one doctor is tied to my job, means that when I change jobs, there is a high likelihood that I now may no longer have a plan available to me in a network with said doctor, or, if I do, it may not be available at the same price. And of course, a gap in employment or employment by a company that does not offer much or any coverage means an even more precarious situation.

Even if you're making the effort to get regular screenings here, there's a good chance youll be seeing a doctor who is both caught in a slog of appointments with a maximum length of fifteen minutes as dictated by the insurance company and who you have never seen before

The value of an ongoing relationship is something that is dismissed as valueless by large corporations who would prefer that all goods and services be seen as completely fungible - with the existence of any particular person on either the buy or sell side simply an irksome artifact of the system that they have not yet been able to squeeze out via automation or otherwise.
> "Why not say “look, we enacted 90% top marginal rate and it hasn’t helped at all?”"

Because driving wealthy people and powerful businessmen out of your nation is obviously going to have bad effects that can't be reversed?
For me the miniseries nicely illustrated the fact that motivated reasoning will eventually clash with the physical reality and the costs may be pretty high.

The risk is especially high when the system enables coercion or manipulation to take place instead of persuasion, because motivated reasoning of a single actor with better access to the means of coercion or manipulation (typically a higher-positioned figure in hierarchical arrangements) might be acted upon regardless of its relation to the objective reality, as with Dyatlov.

On the other hand, some situations cannot be fully grokked by everyone given the objective constraints. Delegating decision-making is essential in such situations, thus Legasov.

What a predicament!
Yes, this is exactly what you want. Even if it’s bothersome setting it up (which Python things can be, depending on how you are willing to install it; especially on Windows), you will find it worthwhile.
As explained throughout this comment section, much of success in America can be attributed to network affects, which are susceptible to social bias. That is the reason we talk about "Asian" and "Jewish" success, and not the success of individuals who happen to be Asian or Jewish.

Every group that becomes successful shuts their networks to black and brown people who are the descendents of the either de jure or de facto 2nd class. Asian startup founders do not take black people as business partners. Jewish academics do not mentor black students. White country clubs are still generally closed to everyone.

Cura te ipsum and all that.
I agree - as someone without kids in a neighborhood full of kids. In my decade of living in the burbs, I have not seen 2 children playing/going somewhere/interacting without an adult around once. I think most parents don't leave their children unsupervised AND there is a very easy alternative (videogames, internet, netflix, etc - as you mentioned).
I actually read (and liked) Halpern's book! In this case, I was responding more to the line quoted, mainly with the 'notorious' part in mind.
The whispernet is strong and favors those in the right cliques in after work drink scenarios. Guess when people realize the whispers are true it leads to market behavior indicative of the implications before.
The functional package management sounds good and clean in theory, but when I tried nixos Firefox had terrible fonts.

Because of some config files in /etc influencing it indirectly.

So pograms in nixos influence each other via global configs, they are not isolated.

I was unabne to fix that.
> It seems like the correct response is being received but there seems to be the wrong number of params or something.

Thats because you have to pattern match based on params and arity.
Google for "Trump bleach". The entire first page is media either saying Trump said to drink or inject bleach or lysol, or the media saying "don't listen to Trump, drinking bleach is bad", which is clearly implying Trump said that. This should be a pretty big red flag, since the word bleach does not appear anywhere in Trump's remarks. You even have them doubling down on it in the face of people pointing out they are liars:

https://reason.com/2020/04/24/its-not-fake-news-trump-did-ac...

There is no way for them to pretend they don't know better here. They are outright saying "our lie isn't a lie" and repeating the lie.
FreePascal is single threaded

But it is also like 10 times faster than other compilers.
I’m a structural engineer, running nonlinear analyses of buildings. These take about 3-5 days to run on an i9-9900k. The program runs each earthquake simulation on a single core.
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This was my first thought.
New York and some other cities had such a thing over a hundred years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_tube_mail_in_New_Yor...
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I have had an X570 with a 3900X for a few months. Everything has worked perfectly so far.
"decimated" means to reduce by 1/10th. I doubt that's what you meant here.
I think that very much depends on where you grew up. I grew up middle of nowhere Wisconsin and we were definitely drinking and throwing parties (even with parents home) at 15. All it takes is "cool" parents that accept kids are going to drink and want to provide a safe spot for it (especially taking all the car keys), or someone's older brother who will buy the alcohol and drinking after the parents go to sleep.
Add in x399, so many problems I had with ASUS Zenith Extreme I didn't see since original Athlon days.
by adding polygamy into the mix, you're moving the goalposts of what is really just an intellectual exercise here. The reality is that these sorts of laws are put in place based on what the lawmakers feel is culturally acceptable (tradition). Pretty confident the people arguing for male-only conscription aren't putting much weight on polygamy in their thinking. What they're really thinking is that they need male soldiers to win their war or defend their country...
Bought 1 board, returned twice. Third worked. I also bought an Asus which had similar non-POST'ing issues (slightly different).

I tried an Athlon 220GE in each one, too. It's not just a Ryzen 3000 problem being too new and requiring an update. This platform just isn't solid and that's my point.
https://shreevatsa.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/bashstartupfi... is not fairly simple.
The main grief I have is that the gvt doesn't seem to have a plan, or if it has, does zero communication on it. Are we still trying to build herd immunity? Are we trying to freeze everything until a vaccine is available? If so how long is it acceptable to freeze everything? I don't think this is specific to the UK but I have the feeling that outside of South Korea and Sweden, so far the policy responses have been pure short term improvisation.
You might get more mileage from Fedora Silverblue. Toolbox (a regular Fedora ran via podman) gives a disposable container for running dev stuff. The rpm-ostree package manager allows for fearless upgrades as you can always boot into an earlier version of the core OS.

There is small learning curve for getting to know rpm-ostree and toolbox tends to be a hindrance if you want IDE integration. Also you have to reboot after installing packages to the core OS, that's mainly why they recommend using flatpaks, but it's optional.

Note that it's still beta but pretty reliable as you can always downgrade and wait till they fix stuff that may be broken after an upgrade.

When it comes to actual setup needed it's not much different than a regular distro. No language to learn, no additional setup required.

Initially I played around with toolbox, wrote a 30 line bash script for initial setup for it and eventually ditched using it.

You can still use RPM Fusion and install regular .rpm's.

One thing to note is that they recommend to use the default partition layout as custom ones can (and do) break.
...which, if it turns into a cultural habit, will both protect against getting infected but also make future humans more susceptible to diseases since their immune systems have not had enough exposure. It might also lead to an increase in allergies, as can already be seen in the higher prevalence of such in modern clean suburban housing projects versus the countryside. A bored immune system will find other things to attack, including harmless agents or even the body it is part of.
Oh, I wanted this years ago when phones had terrible microphones and audio codes.

The idea was that at a gig loads of people would record and you could reconstruct a much better recording.
This reminds me of OpenMOSIX, which implemented a good chunk of POSIX in a distributed fashion.

MPI also comes to mind, but it's more focused on the IPC mechanisms.

I always liked Plan 9's approach, where every CPU is just a file and you execute code by writing to that file, even if it's on a remote filesystem.
I've been using it for years but I can't figure out how to make it work on mobile. Gmail mobile (web and app) simply doesn't have those various icons for stars.

What's that small modification?
Presumably there could have been asymmetry in the other direction too? Perhaps the americans knew they were in for a bumper wheat crop, and thought they'd lock in the price now before prices fell?
I am a little out of date on this topic but what effect does Spectre/Meltdown and other mitigations have on newer processors? Is it fundamentally just a software fix going forward? Seems like we are willing to sacrifice in the order of 10% performance at least in the previous generations....
And I have those notifications turned off.

Regardless of that, Slack is a complete and easy to understand solution. IRC is a collection of unknowns where each user ends up with a different implementation and may not be satisfied with where they end up.
I like the workflow. It seems reactionary.

I always considered the advantage of real-time chat is that it was more conducive to socializing. To injecting a bit of your personality.

Is it antisocial to only respond to that which is asked?
I'm aware that "house number + postcode" is often sufficient to uniquely identify a property -- it works for my house, for example -- but I've wondered if this is always the case. When I enter a postcode into my satnav, it sometimes offers a choice of several street names, which seems to imply there might be duplicate house numbers within the single postcode. But I've never tried to confirm this -- do you know?
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Excess deaths may work, considering we are in a relatively calm time when it comes to armed conflicts and such.
Agree. It's even easy to do manually in audacity with recorded tracks. There are probably some ML innovations here (maybe isolating the voice signal from the background in a way that lets you label the phase info sufficiently to correlate it) but the main innovation that I can see is packaging it in a way that's useful in this context.
> As for "Netflix can grow by getting more users by offering attractive services and features", that's circular reasoning. They need growth to help pay for new attractive services and features.

Growing is exactly what investors money is for, besides their monthly revenue that allows them to grow a bit every period of time X.

> The problem is that their none of their existing user base signed a 30-year irrevocable contract to always pay $11.99 for the next 360 months. Consumers have free will and their preferences change which is why Blockbuster couldn't count on their old customers to keep walking into their stores to rent DVDs.

That's a problem for when netflix loses users at a rate that will damage profit rates unacceptably, not before.

> E.g.: https://www.google.com/search?q=netflix+lost+subscribers

They lost market share because Disney+ has exclusive content Netflix doesn't and some users preferred to only maintain one service, there's nothing Netflix can do about it besides trying to make their product _more_ attractive, not less.

You could argue that maybe they could regain market share by making the product cheaper, but I doubt they will ever achieve a cheaper enough price where people would be willing to pay for both Netflix and Disney+/Other streaming website with more attractive content for them or switch back to netflix because it's become trash without an interesting catalogue and full of ads for being so cheap.
Could you at least, at some point, when the comments have died down, share what this third alternative is? I'm really very curious - everyone replying to you is.

- It can't be GoboLinux, because that post-dates Nix (by a small amount)

- I've never heard anyone suggest environment modules have more technical merit than Nix, though they do predate Nix

- Could it be portage, which has some of the same features as Nix? Nix explicitly cited portage as a predecessor, and IMO it surpasses it, so that would be surprising...

I really don't know anything other than Nix or Guix that follows Nix's philosophy. I'm really interested to know what you're referring to!
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So absurd that college admissions care about your hobbies etc. If they want to receive public funding they should have to only consider academic performance, maybe with some weighting for life circumstances. Are we missing out on the most qualified mathematicians and doctors because they didn't attend volunteer programs and play sports?
The unfortunate truth about the Intel-compiled/supplied libraries is that they deliberately only use the SIMD codepaths on Intel chips. AMD chips are forced to fall back to SSE1.
There is an excellent short sci-fi film exploring this concept by a former technical director at Pixar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv30ExfoKcc
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If someone said the flu has a 3% ifr (infection fatality rate) they were way off.

The best guess for the covid-19 IFR I've seen is ~1%. New York City has has .02% of it population die above the base death(excess deaths). And the last serological study said 20% of people have been infected. So that gives us an approximation of 1%.

This is 10x-100x worse than the flu.
I'm actually guessing that, while fewer packages, there were probably more deliveries 100 years ago than there are today. A huge amount of shuffling paper around--see bicycle messengers--has been replaced with electronic transfers.
Doesn't augmenting imply replacing at least a big percentage of workers?
I totally agree, for whatever reason it's decreasing. The reason I mention hallway conversations is that that's the way OP or any non-statistician would perceive these things. That's why he says

> nobody's f*ing or even dating at all.

while your link claims

> In 2015, 41% of high school students reported having sexual intercourse.
Maybe it's also the context, the gradual buildup France had over Romania at the time and now. Romania endured the communist regime for many decades and was very much isolated.
In a lot of corporate environments, "self-hosted" is not an advantage if you're the one trying to set up something new. In order to self-host, you have to go through your corporate IT department to provision servers. This alone can take 6 or 12 months, and you still have to find someone to maintain the service.

And the kind of companies that value self-hosting will usually want this to be set up inside the company's internal network. So you'll have a bunch of firewall issues to get through, otherwise good luck getting your users to connect to some non-publicly-accessible server from their phones.

Other comments talk about how Slack nailed the UX for users to join a Slack workspace. But they also nailed the UX for getting a workspace set up in the first place.

(Well ok the whole idea of separate accounts per workspace thing is a bit of a mess, but they nailed everything else)
We’re these all purchased through Amazon? I usually always buy mobos physically from retailers.
Not the point, If installing such a software on a locked device is technically feasible that's a pretty glaring hole in the entire security approach, essentially making Apple a trusted party to your phone data with the ability to create other such parties.
Which regulator’s job do you think it is to audit all public companies every X years, and based on what laws?

There are rules around audits, and it’s illegal to do specific things in the US. But enforcement is reactive not proactive.
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I'm pretty confident that most of the young people optimizing to get into the very top schools, are optimizing for $$.

Perhaps to some extent some are optimizing for social class (staying in the one they grew up in).
Replying to seszett; You're right, I forgot about Haïti. Don't forget that they are their own country so they are not quite under the same amount of pressure than Québec or other French minorities in NA. Apart from that I don't really see your point; the other francophone territories in NA are mostly France's Territoires d'Outre Mer so of course they wouldn't feel that their French culture is under threat... Let's just say I'm less than convinced by your point here
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There are large number of self taught people in my area of the company (services). Experience in another industry is plus- we are the people who directly help customers build on top of Microsoft’s products.

The biggest thing we (my division) look for in industry hires is an ability to interact with customers and master new skills quickly. On the technical angle, we do want to see knowledge beyond just on area of development (full-stack to cloud, o365 integration, sys admin experience, analytics work, etc...). Direct knowledge of the MS stack helps, but we hire plenty of people who know AWS and them teach them Azure (for example).

In terms of setting yourself up to get hired, I recommend trying to start a product/business. I’ve done three side companies/projects over the years, all done on nights and weekends, all of which never really did anything. I wasn’t very committed to them, they didn’t take up THAT much time, never really cost money (never had payroll, biggest expenses was a small factory order of light up dog collars at one), and I expected them to fail, but I learned a ton of new stuff to make the MVP and business systems happen.
Longitude a big predictor of C19 deaths; any ideas why?
> I'm pretty sure QNX could do this in the 1990s.

Plan 9, SmallTalk
My girlfriend didn't k omw what we'd was until 18, didn't try it until college.

I on the other hand was a total loser by age of 13.

Key takeaway one experience of no drugs no body fucking etc. . Can't appear to be total reality to one person and not others.
For anyone wondering about anecdotes to the contrary, I slapped random DDR4 DIMMs into my x470 no problem whatsoever. I heard of issues with original Ryzen, but not 3000, and you’re probably best ignoring the FUD and just going for it.

(FWIW: I’ve built 2 Ryzen 2000 and 2 Ryzen 3000 boxes, all on x470 and B450. No RAM issues.)