skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, but what's your point in bringing that up here? Both statements can easily be true.
How can granting residency be construed as discrimination?

The door is open, but there’s a queue
That sounds like a bigger loss of money - having the postman collect a couple dollars for every package would be labor intensive and result in multiple delivery attempts, and if the recipient didn't pay, then they'd have to return the package to the shipper, so the package would have 2 trips through the system.

Collecting more money from the sender sounds like the better solution.
Since Org is plain text, it’s a beautifully portable format.

And there’s parsers for many languages like: https://github.com/200ok-ch/org-parser
Just the other day over on YT the channel retro recipes also did a refurbish on a Commodore SX-64[1] for anyone who's interested.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlWsR5WN9e4&t=0s
> The broader issue is that the US birth rate is 1.77 births per woman -- and falling, which is below the replacement rate

That's the “Total” (e.g., projected hypothetical lifetime) fertility rate; completed fertility rate (measured by women age 40-44, so it's a tiny bit low since some, and an increasing number, of women actually have children past that age) is actually up above the replacement from a low of 1.86 in 2006. TFR is only useful as a tool to project the future CFR, but it has a pretty variable history in actually doing that, and there are reasons to suspect it currently may be underestimating what it will end up being for women currently in their childbearing years for the same (but inverted) reason it overestimated it during the baby boom.
Stop microwaving books: Michigan library frustrated by damaged books
It's also easy to be dismissive on the internet. Please don't do that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Nitpick: the FTC is in charge of US consumer protection. You probably wanted to mention the FCC.
Heapq is a priority queue implemented on a binary tree; not a btree.

> I dont say it's not a good DS, but having it in all languages stdlib seems overkill given the tool we have today.

C++ has map and Java has TreeMap. These are both red black trees (which are equivalent to btrees where k=4). So there's no question of whether there are ordered mapping types in these languages. IMO they'd be better as b(+)rees with a wider fanout. That's all.
That's because they are presorted.
And there are only two Star Wars films (trust me)
Fascinating. Now do it for facebook posts.
You do realize the Post Office is entirely funded by Postage?

The "loss" is artificial, imposed by the Bush administration, which required the Post Office to prepay benefits so far in advance, that at the time of the decision, there were people not even born yet, who would go to work for the Post Office having bennies paid for now.

Frankly, the Post Office could meet that burden if it were not also for deep rate cuts that essentially force the Post Office to deliver for big publishing at a loss.

Yes, that volume is significant, and Congress is responsible for it, and the artificially low costs for it today.

The Post Office is in the Constitution and it must be run by the Federal Government.

Many in said government want to further privatize the Post Office which in every other way has given the nation exemplary performance, at respectable rates, while serving everyone equally.

I am always saddened, and a little bit disturbed, to see the hobbling and abuse directed toward a clear example of a public service delivering a net good so well.

Prior to that mess, the Post Office made regular and significant contributions to the treasury, funds to be part of the General Budget.

It is a shame to see leadership priorities and politics cause so much grief.
I did some research and found a lot of quite a bit of conflicting information. One source [1] claims that 23.8GHz is the downlink frequency for the weather satellite, which I don't think is the case. It seems that water vapor emits radiation at that frequency, and the satellites detect it. Because radio signals at that frequency are also attenuated by water vapor, much of the signal from the lower levels of the atmosphere are blocked: all you can see are the tops of the clouds. [2] This leads me to believe that 5G signals are likely to be attenuated before they reach the satellite.

It is also important to note that the interesting frequency is 23.8GHz, but the spectrum that was auctioned off is from 24.25 to 24.45 and 24.75 to 25.25GHz... so not overlapping. The Ars article links to a primary source [3] claiming that the Navy desires a guarantee that signals outside of the allocated range are attenuated by -57dB instead of -20dB.

Typically, designers of RF equipment do not want to transmit power that their receivers cannot receive. Power is expensive to waste. So given the separation between the 5G band and water vapor, the attenuation intrinsic to 23.8GHz signals when travelling through the atmosphere, and a desire to produce efficient electronics (better battery life sells phones)... I'm betting this won't be a big problem. Obviously, the scientists that rely on the data are kind of obligated to say "never do anything with the RF spectrum, it interferes with our research", but it's up to the FCC to balance their concerns with the reality that someone other than weather researchers need to use the RF spectrum.

Anyway, this is all theoretical, whereas DFS is not theoretical. You could watch it actively interfere with weather radar, so the next generation of WiFi is using something else. Obviously if 5G interferes with weather satellites, they'll probably ask the licencees to turn their equipment off until they can mitigate the degradation of another licensed user.

[1] https://news.ucar.edu/132669/ucar-statement-opening-24-ghz-s...

[2] https://www.theweatherprediction.com/habyhints2/523/

[3] https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Navy%2024Hz%205G%...
> Like a ban, you’re reducing the incidence rate.

How does buying an insurance policy reduce the incidence of ransomeware?
I use zimwriterfs to pack offline wiki into single file. Works great, thanks for the hint
In short: x86_64 and ARMv7/8 Linux, Windows 10 / server 2016/2019. MacOS Mojave.

In length:
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh
> I’ve been passed up for promotions, fired, and hired based solely on my color.

But... But how do you know that's the color thing? It could be nepotism, management incompetence or any other reason.
I'm concerned about what this means for hardware sold and used in parts of the world which aren't the US.

What guarantees do I have, as someone in Canada, that my device won't be reporting this data to the US federal government for dubious-at-best reasons (especially in the context of international use)?
The existing us worker is far less negatively impacted by foreign workers than they are by capitalism and antilabor organizing.

My favorite stats are around wage theft. Wage theft is the dominant form of theft in this country, but is not a felony. People rot in jail for years for stealing food...no one goes to jail for wage theft.
> Very little HTTP clients used by API are sophisticated and intelligent enough to behave like an internet user browsing hyperlinks.

But they easily could be and should be. Obviously if only HTML is getting transferred, that's a difficult representation for a machine-based API to reason about. But XML or JSON is easy to teach a client to reason about.

This is kinda the whole point of the Semantic Web and just about everybody missed it. So now everybody is finally actually doing Semantic Web [ish] stuff; they just call it GraphQL.
> Sure, the Soviet Union. A government literally made inequality go away with the stroke of a pen.

You have no idea what you're talking about, just stop. Source: born in USSR
And how well is mass migration to Sweden, Germany, etc. going?

I'd rather not have the same shit show happen in the US too.
>But its not clear that existing American workers would be better off.

There's actually a relatively noncontroversial theorem in mainstream economics that suggests with free migration (or trade), the wages of less-skilled workers in the richer country will fall, and in the poorer country will rise, until they meet in the middle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factor_price_equalization. Economists still consider the outcome to overall be positive because the workers in the poor country gain more than those in the rich country lose, and both benefit from increased productivity growth in the long term.
That's not what coining a word means.
It did go somewhere. It went out. Out of the kernel.
> likely reverse engineered

Probably some of this had to be done (specs never quite match implementation), but the ADB protocol and hardware interface was quite well documented by Apple in Inside Macintosh and Guide to Macintosh Hardware which I’m sure the Linux devs availed themselves of.

There was also an Apple KB article (written mostly for hardware and driver developers) with the charming title of “Help! Space Aliens Ate My Mouse!” which detailed all of the things that could go wrong with ADB that Apple hadn’t thought of when they wrote the original documentation.
Those discounted rates are still profitable. The margin is small, and they make it up in volume. There’s an economy of scale to be had when every single person on the route gets the same bundle of local grocery ads, whereas if I send a first class letter, that has to actually be sorted and delivered to a specific address, potentially across the country.
The Post Office is funded by those that use it, not Tax Dollars.

The poor rate structure and widely publicized losses are due to artificial and quite excessive benefit pre pay mandates going out decades and a rate structure mandated by Congress for political reasons.

These changes were made during the Bush Administration.
Discussed on HN a bunch of times: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=navy+ufo
I've recently stumbled on United States Department of War film from 1943

> We must guard everyone's liberty or we can lose our own. If we allow any minority to lose its freedom by persecution or by prejudice we are threatening our own freedom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGAqYNFQdZ4
I always thought bulk mail made more money than first class just by sheer volume of how much bulk mail is sent but color me surprised that in FY2019 marketing mail made up a significantly smaller dollar amount than first class mail.

First class mail just barely edges out shipping packages here.

For anyone who wants to check it out: https://about.usps.com/what/financials/annual-reports/fy2019...
Assuming this is medical data collected as part of UCSF's research (which seems to be implied by the article), doesn't it become worthless once you know malicious actors could have edited it? In other words, the chain of custody was broken, so how can we trust the resulting papers?

I realize the perps say they just encrypted it, but if someone has root access to your computer, they can do whatever the hell they please.
haha, it's not :)

Just making a joke that HN loves 1. emacs and 2. websites that are just a .txt file.
The Post Office works off Postage, not Tax dollars.

Congress is responsible for the rates. Politics and likely donor interests are why the rates are this way.
Which blogs/podcasts help you broaden your horizon and why?
I find Freakonomics, The Knowledge Project Podcast pretty intriguing. I am curious which are interesting and i missing out.
7 Habits that will make you a better developer
> I'm not American so I'm probably just used to other systems, but does a public service need to be profitable?

A public service doesn't but the USPS is effectively run as a highly (and hostilely) regulated private monopoly, rather than a public service.
Lots of other countries with higher percentages.

https://data.oecd.org/migration/foreign-born-population.htm
I've been doing mouth taping for maybe six months to a year.

I think it's helping.
The piece states -

> “state transfer” in “Representational State Transfer” refers to navigating a state machine using hyperlinks between resources (and not, as many people seem to believe, to transferring resource state over the wire).

but this line from Fielding's thesis reads -

> REST components communicate by transferring a representation of a resource in a format matching one of an evolving set of standard data types, selected dynamically based on the capabilities or desires of the recipient and the nature of the resource.

.. which is closer to the alleged false belief?
It might simply be that "comments promoting allyship" are off-putting. They very easily become preachy, and if it feels like a third party inserting themselves and telling me what to think, I get irritated. The comments by the black programmers in this thread are a million times more interesting. Sometimes I feel like all the loudest voices in this debate are white and that just has to be wrong.

I don't mean this to make an argument, I just heard you about feeling frustrated and wanted to offer a possible explanation.
Habits are the cornerstone of success. At least that's what I believe. In case one wants to become a great developer, good habits are vital.

In this short video, I list the 7 habits I believe have made me a better developer.
What, exactly, is inherently noble about making a profit?
I tried unsuccessfully to load Windows98 (via same link) in the Internet Explorer. Inception!
The Briefcase feature was used to keep folders up-to-date across multiple machines, via removable media (as opposed to a network connection). You can still do this today using rsync.
Why instead of raising the birth rate, must we bring massive amounts of immigrants each year? For the short time Hungary's loan assistance to families with children has been put in place, it has already had great effects.
There's 2 cool things related to floating point error I learned recently.

First, `x + x + x + x + x == 5x`. This is true for values up to 5, but is not true for 6. Proving this is a fun exercise, but is a little bit painful and has a lot of cases.

Second, SMT solvers can actually prove stuff like this relatively easy! In Z3py, one can prove this in 4 lines of code.

from z3 import
x = FP('x', FPSort(8, 24))
set_default_rounding_mode(RNE())
solve(5*x != x + x+ x+ x + x)
Cool project! You might already know about this, but if you don't, this is an excellent course on implementing an 8-bit computer, and might answer your questions about the instruction set. https://eater.net/8bit
Running WSL GUI Apps on Windows 10
Before around 2012 Singapore didn't do this; practically anybody could go there if they could get a job. In the early 20th century America didn't do that (apart from banning Chinese immigrants); there's a reason the following is inscribed on the statue of liberty:

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Sweden essentially still lets anybody in who has a job offer (https://www.migrationsverket.se/English/Private-individuals/...):

"to obtain a work permit you must

* have a valid passport

* have been offered terms of employment that are at least on par with those set by Swedish collective agreements or which are customary within the occupation or industry

* have been offered a salary that is at least on par with that set by Swedish collective agreements or which is customary within the occupation or industry

* you must be offered a position that will enable you to support yourself. In order to satisfy this support requirement, you need to work to an extent that will result in a salary of at least SEK 13,000 [around $1500USD] per month before taxes

* have an employer who intends to provide insurance covering health, life, employment and pension when you begin to work."
Right now - a lot of hacked organizations may just say "it's not worth the payout" but if they are already paying insurance then of course they are going to tell the insurance company its important and ask for the ransom to be paid.

I think the bright spot of the ban would be that if it was legally enforced then all hackers would see this and quickly realize it wasn't worth the risk.

(Not sure if I'm for this 100% - but I think it is worth considering)
Out of interest, are they addressed?

Here in Finland you can opt out of unaddressed bulk mail by adding a "no ads" note on your mailbox/mailslot.
99%+ of bulk mail is unaddressed here (addressed mail would be more expensive and senders would need address databases etc.).
We generally want equal opportunities, but alas that sometimes produces unacceptable outcomes.
Looking at the replies to my comment, it seems clear that the brain rot is well advanced with some people. Therefore some random points in no special order:

23 billion is nothing for a project that has 23, mostly western European, member states paying for it. The GDP of Switzerland alone (which has a population of only 8.5 million) was around 700 billion in 2019.

Climate change is not going to be solved by an “International Center for Climate Modeling”. That is so completely nonsensical that I didn’t even thought it worth pointing out. We already have climate models – that’s how we know we have a problem.

Also, we have solar, wind, hydroelectricity and nuclear fission already. The first two could be refined a lot. The last one I am not a fan of but it’s either that or coal in many places. THAT is what’s going to solve our energy and thus climate problems. It will also solve some longstanding geopolitical problems as a bonus (no more western money for the Saudis).

That being said, nuclear fusion could be developed much faster (than ITER is) with the right minds and organizational structure behind it. Just look at the Space Launch System (SLS) which still doesn’t exist, has cost 20 billion already and whose ultimate goal is throwaway rockets vs. what SpaceX has done with a fraction of the money, faster.

Then there’s individual transportation which is being solved right now with electric cars and batteries. Both of which are just at the beginning of their development. More interesting to me however, is the loss of energy through badly built homes that have almost no insulation at all (U.S. and Japan come to mind).

Hossenfelder rhetorically asking “why, you may have wondered recently, do we not have a center for epidemic modeling” is the worst kind of pandering to the fears of the people at this moment. It’s also wrong because epidemic modeling has been done for a long time at many universities and the pharmaceutical industry.

Hossenfelder says a lot of extremely idiotic things in her piece but “the potential rewards are unclear” is on my number one spot: The potential rewards in experimental science are always unclear – that’s one of the key characteristics of experimental science.

The only point she could potentially have would be the one about inertia in funding. That’s something I don’t see into as I don’t work in that field.
Given, however, how ill-informed and, I have to assume, ill-intentioned her other twaddle in that article is, I would rather hear that information about funding problems from a more trustworthy source than her.
There absolutely are country based discrimination even if it doesn't say so by having country based quotas irrespective of the population of a country. A country like China or India has the same cap as a country like Singapore for Green Cards etc. This means that two people who are exactly the same in every way except one is born in India vs one who is born in Singapore will have very different length of time to get a permanent residency. This isn't hypothetical, a friend of mine's dad was an Indian working in Iran when my friend was born, his brother was born a few years later in India. The one born in Iran got his Green Card in a few months after application, the one born in India is still waiting.
Sometimes other people benefit, not always. It depends on how you go about things.
>At the end are we happier if we follow our hearts?

Yes. Absolutely. I wholeheartedly agree with the author's conclusion.

Money is not the only thing which provides options; time does too. As you age, you tend to have fewer and fewer options.

People usually think that freeing up time at the expense of a cushy salary is an enormous opportunity cost.

But it is much rarer for us to think of freeing up money at the expense of time as a huge opportunity cost, even among people who make enough that they don't need to work 2000+ hours every year.

I wonder why. After all, how often do we say things like "time is money" to each other?
"Seems like your original point was centered on shipping costs"

I made both points right at the beginning, though the thread got focused around one of them.

1. e-packet shipping cost adversely affecting US businesses

2. e-packet being used to hide fentayl shipments thanks to massive volume and delivery convenience. (cheap and fast)

"Which is irrelevant, this will be the case regardless of the shipping costs, within reason."

I fail to understand this statement. How will reduction of e-packets - one of the major causes of the bloat of international packages not help in inspection ?

If you reduce the total number of e-packets by removing the subsidy, then it becomes far easier to inspect which packages have fentayl and which do not. EMS shipments apparently quadrupled after the e-packet scheme was introduced which adversely affected all inspection procedures as agencies could not cope with the volume.

Reduce the volume by removing the subsidy - the inspection agencies can then manage their job.
I get solicitations from Amazon on a monthly basis.

I don't even bother answering them because I've already dealt with the process and am not interested, based on the amount they're paying for the (awful) work conditions for which they're known.

This is like many companies in my area. Word gets around.

So the point is, these companies set their salaries, interview process, and work conditions explicitly low because they know they can just use foreign workers if they're not good enough to attract enough Americans at the skill levels they need.

It's a self fulfilling prophecy. They use tons of indentured servant Indians whose green card they promise to sponsor, pay them low, burn them out, and then cry they can't find Americans who don't want to work for similar pay and conditions, but don't need the green card.
Seinfeld denies it: "This is hilarious to me, that somehow I am getting credit for making an X on a calendar with the Seinfeld productivity program. It's the dumbest non-idea that was not mine, but somehow I'm getting credit for it." - https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1ujvrg/jerry_seinfeld...
> >I don't know where your "human wants are unlimited" comes from and is a pretty big statement to make to not back it up with evidence.

> For evidence, look at the average savings rate in developed countries. It wants were limited, it would be higher. It's also the case that savings rate doesn't increase as income increase (in fact the inverse is often true; compare savings rates in poorer China and Indian to the US).

That's a giant leap, to get from savings rates decrease in some countries to human wants are unlimited. Moreover, savings rates are quite country dependent (e.g. Germany has very high rates). Might it be that people in the US have been led to believe that they can make up for their unhappyness by buying more things?

> Clearly humans want things; this is the default case. To show this stops at some stage should require evidence.

I can easily think of many people who are quite happy without having more things. So I just falsified your claim. Moreover there is significant research showing that having more things beyond some point does not increase happiness.

> >Traffic accidents, environmental pollution, obesity, divorce all increase GDP, not sure if they fulfill human wants.

> Driving, cheap energy, tasty food and divorce clearly satisfy human wants.