skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should read what I wrote to try and understand it, as opposed to looking for what you expect to see. As I said, from the banks perspective they have an asset (the cash) and an offsetting liability (the deposit account). From the account holders perspective, there is an of course an asset (the title to the account).

It's slightly more complicated, as the bank doesn't actually hold your cash as cash. It deploys it in a variety of financial instruments to make money. Go back and read the assets section of that balance sheet more carefully, and you'll see this.

The point is that deposit is a technical term with a specific meaning. Namely, it is the agreement between the depositor and the bank that the bank now owes the depositor an amount of money which happens to be equal to the amount of principal deposited plus any accrued interest. If you had any deposit accounts and had thought about how they work, I'm sure you would have worked this out.
And the bigger deal (to me) is that none of the competitors are really competitors in the key area of the USPS--first class mail delivery. Can UPS, FedEX deliver a letter (or a bill, or check, or...) for $0.55?
Maybe they are using the technical definitions of sheering and cutting?
It's funny how it's painted as malice and conspiracy, while the arguments on the other side are grounded in research and theory. The Kochs are the left's Soros conspiracy.
JavaScript is getting more “typed” anyway - what with Promises and other objects/interfaces in the DOM being conceptually statically typed - where JavaScript’s type-juggling simply can’t help you - so writing JavaScript today against modern browser/NodeJS APIs feels like writing VBScript against ActiveX instead of writing in VBA/VB6: you can do essentially the same things, but you have no idea if your program will actually work or not.

It would not surprise me if the ECMAScript folks just throw in the towel and adopt TypeScript into ECMAScript as its official type-annotation feature - like how Python is doing - except without the duplication of effort.
the game itself has changed quite a bit, and the number of people playing it, and the dominance that they achieve has also gone up quite a bit.
The iPhone's competition was not the flip-phone. It was the PDA and the Blackberry and the pocket PC. The iPhone was an evolution of previous similar devices.

I still do not understand why people consider smartphones revolutionary. It is revolutionary that everyone has one on them at all times, but the gadgets themselves aren't all that.
I can relate to this a lot. A technique you might wish to entertain is the "beginners mindset". The idea is to approach a situation or problem as if you were tackling it for the first time, or had absolutely no prior context to work from.

The thinking being that some (all?) of the side assumptions your brain is fixating upon developing responses to, could in fact be erroneous. By experimenting with adopting a "noob" mindset, you create the opportunity for new experiences to emerge which may well be more successful.
None of these changes impact HTTP server code. Pages that run javascript might want to set some new headers, but setting headers is something that web servers always have to do. Changing a site config to send some new headers is work for a web page creator, not the HTTP server developer. And the changes are backwards compatible, so you don't actually need to do anything if you don't want to.

This new complexity is about javascript execution, and creating a browser that can run javascript has never been simple!
Guess you can narrow that question down to "Can an infinite DAG be used as a random number generator?" which, I guess kinda trivially is yes? Probably provable practically using something like the Linux git tree using hashes as indicators of what to do.
UR Carpal Tunnel Was Intentionally Designed to Fail
Looks great. I couldn't see any way to sort by column - is that possible?
Please provide more detail. I find the USPS to be one of the best things about this country. Every morning I get an email with photos of the mail I will receive, and a listing of the packages that are coming my way. I can’t remember the last time they’ve ever lost anything of mine. I’m sure not everyone’s experience is like mine - I’m curious how they can be so bad that they create a sense of loathing.
That doesn’t explain the naming of Xbox One though.
My routine for normal week days hasn’t changed. I’m still inside in front of a computer for most of the day. I still jog most mornings and go for a walk most evenings.

Not hanging out with people as much and other similar things would’ve presumably been impacted the same in most places.

Anecdotally, I mostly know middle and upper middle class people. A few have moved or are going to move into bigger and farther away places from their current apt. But still within their current city limits.

I’m sure you enjoy your location and house size. It appears people who are enjoying larger and more rural living spaces always preferred them pre-corona too. Perhaps I am missing a trend of many people who can work remote now, moving out of cities. I know I see a lot of chatter on ‘trendy’ social sites, but it’s not always representative.
Is that those two french brothers who tried to publish fake physics papers?
The amount of narcissism these people (the Koch's, for example) have is just astounding. If you're a billionaire, what could possibly be a reasonable explanation for why you even care about the post office? Why are these people so hell bent on hurting people to feed their own narcissism?

The USPS could be improved but struggles primarily due to active efforts to kill it off. But it's a wonderful idea of a service that definitely should exist and be improved. What's next to kill off? Libraries? Public schools? The USPS, libraries, public schools provide basically guaranteed service to anyone, anywhere. They're wonderful institutions. Are they perfect? No. But very few institutions are, and these provide a helpful service to people. We should focus on improving them instead of spending so much money to kill them.

I've learned that the USPS has free package pickup since someone is basically guaranteed to be in your neighborhood every day, which has been a wonderful service during this viral breakout. By having USPS pickup my small packages, it keeps me out of their stores away from other people and employees. I simply purchase a label online and schedule the free pickup, next day if it's a weekday. It's a minimum of $11 for UPS to come pickup your package at a residential address, even if they're already coming to your address for another delivery that same day.
Within the past week, I wanted to check out how YouTube handles graceful degradation when browsed with something like NetSurf. Spoiler alert: it just doesn't. It wasn't that long ago that such a cavalier attitude would have been unacceptable, if not unthinkable. See https://blog.chriszacharias.com/a-conspiracy-to-kill-ie6.
For a moment there you had me wondering why the post office was delivering canned meat.
I'm almost 50 and have been doing my "own thing" full time since 2004. I'm not rich, but have been able to be home while my 3 daughters have grown up. I spent 18 months traveling around the country with my wife and kids (we homeschool). I've been lucky enough to work on the things I want to work on, for the most part when I want to work on them. I have had years where my income has been under $12k and years where I've made over $300k - it's been an absolute roller coaster ride. No doubt if I had stayed employed by 401k would certainly be bigger, but the "cost" to me has been 100% worth it.

One thing that really made the decision easier for me when I left my job to do my own thing was that I could have been in many different situations around the world where I would not have even HAD the opportunity to do my own thing - and by NOT doing it I felt it was disrespectful to all those who would take the chance if given the opportunity to be in my place.
Thanks, I enjoyed that comment, that was an interesting read.

What about ships? Still woodworking, but propelled by wind and currents.

Harnessing renewable energy sources to build vast transport networks seems impressive.

I’d say it’s also a feat of engineering and not part of the iron age.
I remember when a OO framework like MacApp would produce a minimal "hello world" program that took up hundreds of KB and that was considered almost too bloated to be usable. I can't remember exactly how much, but the better part of a floppy to do nothing was ridiculous.
Deception as a Way of Knowing: A Conversation with Anthony Grafton (2009)
I wonder whether Wittgenstein would be satisfied with how things have turned out. We now know that what he considered "useless language-games" are in fact the building blocks of the universe, or as close as we're going to get to building blocks while still being human. We also know that every logic is either formal or trivially useless. Formalism ended up being the only path forward.

It's fun to see part of the origins of what we'd now call constructive logic in the question of whether a bridge might fall down if built from double-negation and classical logic. The idea that the bridge proves its sturdiness by holding itself up under its own weight is exactly the same sort of constructive-deconstructive idea.

I can't help but compare Wittgenstein to Confucius in their insistence on the meanings of words and their usage. Confucius wanted people to play fewer language-games and use simpler language because it was part of his legalist philosophy; by being direct and plain, a government could be more transparent and its people could find more harmony in their social interactions. But Wittgenstein was concerned with human ability to perceive truth, logic, and abstracta, and his desire for simpler language was so that people could see the world as it really is, with a simpler map for a more intuitive territory.
Ameelio: The Free Prison Communication Platform
This whole things stinks. Why does Facebook need to stick its nose in a viral post about a historical figure? I suppose the possible real-world repercussions of this "fact-checking" are not, like, genocide or anything, but the disposition of various Robert E Lee statues? Or is Facebook really trying to promote Truth as an end in itself? And they enlist Snopes to help them in this Noble endeavor and declare "mostly false" beyond their standards? Really? And you're defending this shit?
Having a last-mile delivery method available for every corner of the continental USA is enough of a raison d'être. That's value for the country.

Advertising is a money maker and it subsidizes the other business. I don't really see a problem with this.
This is interesting timing, given the recent UPU changes that should help shore up USPS by reducing the losses they experience from international mailings. They estimate that this causes 400M in losses each year [0].

Though, overall, this has been a long arc of slowly trying different ways to gut or kill the program in the last ~40 years.

[0] https://mailingsystemstechnology.com/article-4596-The-US-Rem...
How do I do mail in voting via Amazon, FedEx, DHL?
There are various advocates for allowing the USPS to return to the banking business. They would put the exploitative check cashing stores out of business.

Ellen Brown's has written a copy pieces advocating for postal banking.

What We Could Do with a Postal Savings Bank: Infrastructure that Doesn’t Cost Taxpayers a Dime - https://ellenbrown.com/2013/09/23/what-we-could-do-with-a-po... (2013)

This piece concludes by suggesting the postal service is being looted so its property portfolio can be sold off.
There will probably be defeats and accidental gadgets for the first couple releases, but this hardware technology has the potential to be better than any software based mitigation with the same goals.
Here's a paper with a more detailed security analysis:
https://sci-hub.tw/10.1145/3337167.3337175
It's ideological. They believe that the government should not be in the postal business. They probably believe that it's harmful to competition in various ways, and they are probably right in certain narrow contexts.
Well, there is a disctinction.

It being a compiler problem, you can just accept the performance/size penalty and leave your code as is, but hope that in the future it will eventually change and the eventually really smart compiler will accept your current code as is and produce output without the penalty.

Language problem would means you have to rewrite it differently.
We have all 1.4M eligible US charities in the IRS database.

Some places of worship are not included as they've never filed with the IRS, but we can add them very simply.

We can support your charity of choice as long as it's legally possible to do so!
UPS, FedEx, DHL etc., when they aren't just completely scummy (lying about delivering something when they haven't; lying about delivery charges), take far longer to deliver packages and often leave them in completely arbitrary places - in the middle of the driveway, for instance.

Essentially none of the major commercial delivery services in the US seem to know anything about actually delivering packages.
Notably disappointing: Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy must be set on a page to isolate it as the default value is not safe.

i.e., if I have a page with sensitive client side data, I need to set this header to prevent a page on a different domain from opening a popup to that page then doing a Spectre-like attack on my web page and exfiltrating that sensitive client side data.

I don't actually entirely understand the purpose or effect of Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy. I thought browsers already blocked cross origin requests without CORS headers in the response that allow it. Does this header UNDO that by default?
why should basic government services be profitable?
Yes, tried Glicko then TrueSkill, both generated huge amounts of complaints. New system produced few complaints. If the community had liked it, would've stuck with TrueSkill.
I guess maybe you haven't enabled electronic statements for your accounts or something, but for me 99% of what I get from USPS is junk mail or online shopping deliveries. Not clear why either of those need to be subsidized.
Yeah.

I read "decimate" with the broader definition.

I would write "decimate" with the narrower definition.
But that scenario doesn't come up much.
That kinda hurts.

There are 100k's of happy InfluxDB users -- untold millions of completely open source Telegraf deployments doing meaningful work for people -- integrated into our products and our competitors' products. We make the vast majority of our codebase public under liberal OSS licenses.

And we'll keep listening and learning how to do more.

... off to see if I can change my internal slack handle to @corporatetool. Unless there's a policy against that ;-)
Consider that a hobbyist C compiler isn't going to perform the same optimizations as gcc. Likewise, clang and gcc aren't totally equivalent, either, despite being based on the same language standard. Most languages don't have multiple compilers, but any non-commercial language can in theory have multiple competing compilers that don't give equivalent output for the same input.
Optimizing a rating system for minimal complains, maximum player engagement, or some similar metric is of course totally valid. It reminds me of Sirlin's story of being hired to design a rating system for Starcraft 2, and optimizing for totally different things that Blizzard wanted [0].

If the author (you?) had just described it in those terms, it'd be hard to object. But the article goes further, and makes claims about the system being more accurate due to a different rating curve. That's the claim that would need to be justified by actually comparing whether the predictions the new system makes really are better.

[0] http://sirlingames.squarespace.com/blog/2010/7/24/analyzing-...
A complete disdain for jQuery is what allowed me, as a full time JavaScript developer, to become promoted to a senior and nearly double my salary. That is only because I was working, at the time, in a niche area where jQuery failed amazingly in production. I was deemed an expert and rewarded for it, but that is astonishingly rare. Now you cannot get hired, much less attain any kind of success, without something like Angular or React even you can write superior code without those in half the time. That is why I only look for jobs that primarily deal with writing for Node, but even still competence is not well appreciated when interviewing.
> You can usually save double-digit percentages by stripping debugging information: pass `-ldflags=-w` to `go build`.

Is there a way to make `go build` for a particular project always use `-ldflags=-w`? Or do I have to remember to type it in every time (or hide my `go build` command inside a Makefile or `build.sh`)?
> However, in 2018 he defended Cody Wilson, who later pled guilty to sex with an underage girl, with Stallman saying that the girl likely had "entirely willing sex with him."

I read that post and I do not see anything horrible about it. He makes a fair point regarding the use of term sexual assault or characterizing the teen as a child.

> In 1993, he asked for birth announcements to be banned from emacs mailing list, unless they are announcements for seahorses, because then it would be the male that gives birth and therefore interesting.

I do not see what is weird with that either. Would you be interested in birth announcements in your gitlab issue tracker?

> but still implies that people with Trisomy 21 should not be born

Yes, he has an opinion that he does a good job justifying. So what?
The question is why can’t we? Why can’t the USG print and mail out ballots using these services? I don’t think they are fundamentally less secure, and if they are than we can just have them add on the capability of doing secure delivery.
AMD sells a 6 W Ryzen part that come with 2 10 GbE ports and a GPU. I believe these are 14 nm parts...likely the 7 nm parts will have 50-100% better perf/W.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15554/amd-launches-ultralowpo...
I can't imagine the number of tons of paper and c02 we would save the planet if we got rid of it. All they do is deliver spam that's thrown away. I fully support selling it off to private companies.
USPS is a disaster in Philly. Mail and packages don't get delivered, the tracking is a lie ("attempted delivery" when they haven't etc.), and it's impossible to get any customer service at all because the the escalation path is to a local postmaster with a full voicemail inbox.
There is huge value to the USPS, but it should be publicly funded (to whatever extent necessary) and should have serving the public as its mission, and should not be treated as a business.
On the other hand, privatized delivery poses the same problem as private control of the internet in the absence of net neutrality. If there was no USPS to compete with, what's the stop Amazon and other major retailers from coming to agreements with delivery companies to charge higher fees for "non-partner" deliveries.
Next you’ll ask for roads, schools, public transit, and the military to turn a profit! Public goods need not be revenue neutral, although efficiency efforts are palatable. The “profit” is the utility value it provides.
By 2030?! Is this serious?

If you want to trade in green credentials, do it today. They could offset their entire operation with a few calls. They have the cash to do it. They could take more active steps in short order too. Waiting 10 years to meet the target is a poor show.
I agree with what I think your point is, that having mail for all is a requirement of a civilization. (Sorry if this was not your point.) However, elections alone are obviously not enough to sustain a mail operation.

[Edit: I had a double-not, hopefully everyone understood my meaning before.]
Ironically, the problem is that you accept that the Person responsible for the Post Office can say "American citizens aren’t our customers—about 400 junk mailers are our customers." with impunity, not that they say it.

Corruption will exist, no matter how perfect the system is, but when the corruption becomes the norm without anyone fighting against it then privatization will not help you.
The USPS already has a purpose. Your problem is how it funds that purpose.

We could fund it ourselves through the government instead, but why?
why should basic government services severely damage the environment?
I also thought it was because of TenVer! "Windows 9x" makes more sense.

https://github.com/cube-drone/tenver

Like Spinal Tap, now it's time that this one goes to 11.
There is a minimum of 10 games before people start being ranked. People who quit early don't get ranked. People who have played 10 games gain a new long-term goal.
Ask HN: Is Amazon/AWS still bad when it comes to work-life balance?
I’m an engineer looking to move to One of the Amazon and/or AWS in an engineering role. I’ve heard horror stories about the work culture there. Is it still bad, or have they improved.
Hello friends! It's always nice to see SerenityOS posted. :)

(Note: The serenityos.org website is pretty barebones, there's a lot more information over in the GitHub repo.[1])

I'm the principal author of the system, although it has grown quite a lot since it was first seen on HN back in March of 2019.[2]

The system now has its own HTTPS-capable web browser, JavaScript engine, and many other applications under development. Over 180 people have contributed changes and we there's active daily development.

My most recent project has been adding a userspace x86 emulator [3] to the system that provides the same kind of features as the famous Valgrind.

Happy to answer any questions about the system if anyone has them. Either way, thanks for checking out the system!

[1] https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19537807

[3] https://twitter.com/awesomekling/status/1285685093961469955
"...any significant value is already sent via Amazon, FedEx, DHL or UPS"

And then those things are handed off to the USPS for "last mile" delivery to the millions of rural addresses that UPS and FedEx don't delivery to directly with their own vehicles.

USPS serves some very critical purposes, and ensuring mail 'works' for all citizens, even those with deep rural addresses, is one of them.
Given that they're forbidden by law from doing so (without first paying the postage to the USPS), no.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Express_Statutes
Not only is it valuable to private citizens, but FedEx and UPS use the postal service for last mile delivery as well. For example here's FedEx:

https://www.fedex.com/en-us/shipping/fedex-smartpost/network...
Like the parent mentioned, the service is exploited by companies to do their cheap spam advertising. Is it okay for taxes to cover this?
The same argument of being harmful to competition could be extended to schools and libraries and <name a service>. It's just mind blowing why we should care about companies more than people. So what if it's harmful to competition? What merit does that have? (These aren't questions for you. They're rhetorical.)
They're not subsidized. USPS is required by law to pay its own way. This is a common misconception about USPS that is simply not true.

When people talk about International Mail being "subsidized" they're talking about EG treaty negotiations with China that force the USPS to receive international packages from China at significantly below cost. They then have to pass those costs onto the US consumer.