skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Pre-funding has ZERO impact on profit.

You've just moved the goal posts. Your assertion was "Their current financial woes aren't caused by the requirement since their not making the payments."

Even though you've moved the goal posts, you're still wrong. Do you agree that having $0 available for infrastructure improvements, technology upgrades, delivery fleets, and R&D to improve efficiency for the past 14 years has had zero impact on current profit?

Really? Be honest.

Imagine if UPS had not upgraded (other than the basics) their hardware, software, and massive delivery fleet in a decade and a half. That amount of time is an absolute eternity in the areas of automation, transport and computing. Can you imagine where UPS would be right now in relation to FedEx has it stopped investing in itself since before the iPhone was invented?

Since you missed it. Once again, here's the relevant Postmaster General quote:

> "The Postal Service's $15 billion debt is a direct result of the mandate, this requirement has deprived the Postal Service of the opportunity to invest in capital projects and research and development."

Look, you've been arguing this entire time that the issue was pensions when it wasn't. And that it was the same rules for everybody (it wasn't). The other half of your argument was that the current financial position of the USPS is unrelated to the 2006 act. Provably wrong.

But since that original argument is falling apart you've changed your position to "the USPS is currently unprofitable". Well, obviously.

You're clearly not debating in good faith so I'm done here. Good day to you.
Twitter is really a terrible platform for posting more than 10 words.
if it wasn't worth it, people would not do such jobs and people would not use Facebook, so apparently for a lot of people it is worth it.
This seems like something specific to the individual. Maybe this isn't the job for you, but there's probably enough people "made of different stuff" that could handle it? I feel like there's a subtext in this discussion that "nobody can handle it" or "you have to be a monster to work this job" but that's just not true.

Just out of college in the mid-90s, I worked for a few months at a small local software company in the last throws of death. As a last grasp at survival, all the programmers switched to doing cold call sales. With phones.

I would stare at mutilated children all day long rather than go back to cold calling. I was miserable and I hated every moment of every day until the company (happily, for me) closed up. Yet I know people who somehow think it's perfectly normal to dial random numbers and try to pitch them something. They're made of different stuff.

I've talked to people who make the same claim about computer programming. They'd rather starve.

Facebook has 10,000 moderators. I'm pretty sure there are at least 10k people in the world who are psychologically fit for content policing. It's doesn't have to be for everyone.
Very slick site! In a previous life I worked in the crypto transaction tracing space, I ended up building my own tool to do what your API does, but this is much more polished than my tool haha.

Very curious about the front-end! I'd get many more side-projects out the door if I understood the path to get a polished landing page / front-end like yours!
The issue is that this is adversarial in nature. Certainly there are ML systems catching content before moderators.. however since it is adversarial people are pivoting to circumvent the automated systems.
i would not say it's less secure. Even if somebody overtakes one of my machine and gets to my lastpass vault or steals my clipboard having my smartphone with me and a SMS or PSTN based 2FA is better then not having it at all.
This one made me laugh.

> The Apple-backed study has four major findings:

> * Most app stores charge the same 30% cut on digital goods.

Fairly certain that if another company tires to create an "app store" they get sued by Apple. i.e. why Google is called the "Play Store". So when they say "Most app stores", are they are talking about the only "app store"?
The population desity is slightly different, so i am not sure if you are comparing two comparable entities, like apples and oranges.
When the code works the way I want it to for the version I’m about to release.

Like if I’ve finished the code for v1.6 and am ready to ship it to customers, I feel great. When I actually send it to customers my anxiety kicks in thinking of all the support requests and criticism I’m about to get.
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> Early in the pandemic, federal officials instructed Americans not to buy or wear masks. The C.D.C. revised that guidance in April.

That was stupid and a mistake, and I don't have the words to describe the disaster that's come of it. It was a mistake then, even though people may say masking was unneeded then, because it was clear even at the beginning that masks were necessary even in areas that had not yet had the virus. If we hadn't advised against masks then anti-masking might be less of a threat right now. The thing is, that even if masking may not have seemed to have work, they should have advised people to start wearing masks just in case.
Is there a Twilio page that's confirming this?
> no real valid reason to do so

I'm struggling to find a reason within my org as well.
The same way you talk to normal humans. Why are we trying so hard to label people one dimensionally?
Except in this instance Lego didn't adhere to a broader since of principles, they fell under pressure from a third party group. The product wasn't allowed the chance to have the populous relate their opinion. One group, one voice, and fear of internet mob reprisal, took all of that away.

Did you support lego reducing, removing, and stoping manufacture of Police and Firemen sets? What about the White House? Where do you draw the line?

" I feel that Lego under represents bricks in non primary colors. As such they need to either remove their color or make all pieces in all colors so that I can enjoy them without being subjected to the hatefulness of harsh and cold primaries."

Where do you draw the line?
>> whine about how unfair it is that people don't unconditionally support them...

There's a difference between 'not unconditionally supporting' someone who offends you and, mob-handed, hounding that person, their associates, their employers in an attempt to have them ostracised, sacked and their life ruined.
Yeah but in the backstory they also mentioned that Kolmogorov conjectured that the optimal solution was O(n^2).

Conjectures aren't doing so hot in this area, it seems.
"We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters." ― Peter Thiel

I think people love to use "The Bay Area" and "Silicon Valley" and conflate that with "software startups that raise VC funding".

Silicon Valley still produced most of the internet (for better or worse) and the only new American mass production car company in my lifetime. Let's not overlook the successes while we are busy complaining about the average (especially because the VC model assumes 900+ failures for every 1-3 unicorn IPOs).

Not sure what the next few decades will bring (I'd be pleasantly surprised if the USA doesn't go through an actual revolution), but I'd wager that "real innovation" is still more likely to happen in Northern California than almost anywhere else in this country, even if the establishment VC club doesn't get disrupted.
>>>There is no other reason for those officers to be present

Looting? Vandalism? Rioting? Violence? Failure of local government to do anything about it?
Certainly there is more complexity than spam filters, and cultural differences, subtle nuances which are hard to train a system to auto-classify; things that need to be generalized to new cases that arises- that may be wrongly classified in the beginning, etc. Nevertheless such systems can be built from simple cases to more difficult ones step by step and gradually reduce the demand on humans to perform these tasks. Based on some other comments on this thread, I realize FB is already using these methods mostly in languages with plenty of data, and someone also in this thread has made an interesting comment about using machine translation to apply these systems to other languages. I think this will be less of a problem in the near future. (edited)
> How do we break out of this feeling of certainty and discover the truth? When looking for cause, try to disprove rather than prove the correlation. Ask what could go against the pattern of the event you seek — where you have randomness.

The more general approach is called Abduction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abductive_reasoning

Abduction is the process used in a legal trial--the crime or claim is a consequence, the prosecution proffers the hypothesis that the defendant is the causative agent and presents their evidence, while the defense attempts to disprove the hypothesis while also proffering their own alternative hypotheses. The entire trial and its procedural rules play out as an abductive process. (The book "Analysis of Evidence" describes this more formally, including exploring the relationships to Bayesian reasoning and other systems of logic.)

A doctor uses abduction during a diagnosis--take all the symptoms and patient context (prior illness, family history, etc), generate a set of potential hypotheses about the cause, and compare-and-contrast them to see which is the more likely. This is very often a more iterative, interactive process as you can intervene (ask questions, run tests, etc) to bolster or filter various hypotheses.

In science an informal abductive process is how you generate a hypothesis for rigorous experimentation. Abduction is how you pinpoint a potential cause from a consequence. The scientific method then starts from a cause (the hypothesized starting condition) and attempts to empirically reproduce the consequence, although formally you're attempting to disprove the consequence.

Abduction is a process of generating, comparing, and winnowing hypotheses, not making a single guess and looking for proof. And at the end, your chosen hypothesis, if you have one, is always contingent and probabilistic.

Abduction is often conflated with induction, but it's not really the same thing. For one, it's better characterized as an indefinitely iterative process rather than a discrete mechanism. (You can't string together a set of discretely abduced conclusions to infer something new; the new inference should begin anew by holistically assessing as many of the previous inputs as possible, as the broader context might reveal something new.) Recognizing the distinction permits far more rigorous and consistently analytical thinking, both professionally and in day-to-day life.
Amazon probably can't change S3 for backwards compatibility reasons (there was an outcry about just changing some legacy URLs last year), but they definitely can and should make an "S4" which would be an S3 compatible storage layer with sane defaults.

Essentially, people only ever want one of two things:

- A private FTP bucket

- A public static asset website (with built-in CDN and HTTPS!)

Thing people never want:

- A public upload bucket

Seriously, no one wants that in any circumstance, ever. It's a huge liability. I literally cannot imagine anyone wanting anything even similar to it. But many, many companies have accidentally made one with S3.

While they're at it, S4 should also actually use IAM and all that other "modern" stuff that S3 doesn't have because it's so ancient.
Why do humans get acne? A hypothesis
Talking about brain connectivity being equal in all mammals using MRI? This is a joke! The resolution of MRI is too big to map the connectivity at the level of single synapses. Only Electron Microscopes are known to achieve that resolution and so far mapping a mammalian brain with Electron Microscope is very much impossible because of several reasons [0]

[0] https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2019/10358/pdf/dagr...
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It's purely there because of the stock price. Blame Cramer.

https://www.thestreet.com/technology/what-are-fang-stocks-an...
Just to clarify what you are describing is called “active surveillance” and is a step up compared to “watchful watching”. Both are ways to deal with prostate cancers.

It depends on risk, diagnosis, and age, but generally with active surveillance you will be actively monitored, you’ll monitor PSA volumes and prostate sizes (and get biopsies), usually on a regular basis. Watchful waiting is much less invasive. When someone is old, their cancer not aggressive and low risk, and is dealing with other health issues, subjecting them to numerous tests for no real benefit is a big stress to both them and their families.
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My experience:
Went to work at a startup transitioning to the next stage. When hired I was told everything is available to all employees, 'there are no secrets here'.
I quickly found that most was locked away...and then noticed the same in many places. That and what comes with it led to my leaving.
When I left I went back for a pseudo-exit interview with the CEO and he actually told me he had been screwing my team for the past year.
In essence what I found was mostly lies. The lies began in interview (everything open to everyone) and continued until I left (continuing to hire based on things that don't exist at the company...like HR).
My take: if you are told one thing and find it different, look around at more things.
Try Win10 for RPI.
Of course not. This is a misleading title.
I think author wouldn't have this problem if they wrote "Best practices for common UI components" instead of "The documented collection of UI components" as the header.
Purism makes laptops and a phone with kill switches for camera and microphone.
Not to mention these are gas giants at a relatively nearby star (300 lightyears away) and we consider the universe is something shy of 100 billion lightyears in diameter. We're not even scratching the surface!
Not true at all. Listen to History of Rome and you’ll hear historian Mike Duncan constantly saying “we don’t know how this happened because no one ever wrote it down”. Dan Carlin says the same thing a lot in Hardcore History. If was just a matter of too much details they would have said “this detail doesn’t matter” or just bypassed it.

It’s not that the medium isn’t granular enough, it’s legitimately that no one wrote this stuff down so it’s just gone forever. There is no source material to start with.
Previously on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19474280
I wonder what consequences it would have if I would use a cloaked photo for my passport...
Most such devices (e.g. "development kit" devices for game consoles) look very different than the release product. Usually in such a way that it'd be impractical to use them casually for your personal needs.

In other cases, e.g. Android/Chromebooks, there's a common, immutable early chain-of-trust that stays the same between production and development devices (or in this case, between rooted and unrooted devices); which pops up a message during boot warning that a device is currently a development/rooted device, and therefore should not be trusted for production use-cases. It could just-as-well also say "DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE ON THE SECONDARY MARKET; IT HAS BEEN TAMPERED WITH, AND CANNOT BE TRUSTED WITHOUT FACTORY RE-VERIFICATION" — and then users told repeatedly in the company's messaging to look for messages at boot before buying.
For varying definitions of pratical. For example, you can use a star as a gravitational lens.
I strongly agree. I have a (mostly) link blog [0] (for which I wrote the SSG [1]) and do link to Medium articles but am getting more and more tired by the nag-screen that shows up every 5 or so posts after having deleted the medium cookies (again). I guess there is an extension for that, but I am too lazy to install it :-) But a bigger question is for those who publish on Medium: how many people get scared away daily from your articles after hitting the sign up nag screen?

[0] https://plurrrr.com/

[1] https://github.com/john-bokma/tumblelog (as of today available under MIT license)
Sounds like privatizing the gains and socializing the losses to me.
I'm no legal strategist, but I would take the position that even if Apple's store charged double or triple what others do, that is not the standard by which what is legal should be measured.

Apple (or any platform) provides a service for people / companies to voluntarily develop software to offer to the users of that platform. What cut they take is an agreement entered into based on people's assessment of the costs and benefits provided, and people are free to decline it and take their efforts elsewhere. Their terms for their platform are not hindering people from competing and offering services on another platform. Each developer is free to make his/her own judgement about whether that commission is tolerable and desired, for the value created.

If the agreement if free and voluntary, Apple could set any price it desires. You, in your own business are free to (and probably generally also try to) set the maximum price you desire. By some similar logic, all apps should charge the same price to be seen as fair. What principle says that one platform's price has to be in line with others? It's what your offering can justify, and what people are willing to pay, with free choice.
Because wealthier people can always move. They can move away from flooded areas, away from hot ones. They can afford air conditioning, they will always be able to afford food and water, and they won't be called upon to serve in the military if there is a resource or land focused conflict.
I often use metrics for giving reports via Grafana. They are usually 99% correct which is good enough for many cases. The benefit of doing so is that you already need and have nice dashboard for devs to follow what is going on with the system real time, and its just grafana account distant from customer. So we do this on several big gov systems. Sometimes customers complain that there is a slight difference between real state and what metrics show but its not a big deal and rarelly happens (when you have millions of things, is it really important to know 100% precise value in majority of contexts?)

Recently my colegue was testing some script and added some huge numbers on metric that is used for one of those reports. We had to delete those tests as customer complained that now his total invoice number jumped to trillions.
Hey, thanks for the continued discussion:

> If there is some kind of emergency and I need to have
> the database on the cloud, this is a serious restriction.
> It limits my choices and constrains my actions.

> if the license change to allow me to deploy to a cluster
> of AWS servers (just in case we ditch our own hardawre),

You can deploy TimescaleDB on AWS servers (the TSL certainly allows it). Most of our users do. They don't run their own hardware.

You can even use our Apache-2 k8s helm charts [1] to immediately spin up a cluster of replicated TimescaleDB nodes with automated leader-election/failover and continuous incremental backup. The helm charts have first-class support for AWS EKS.

What the TSL prevents is _Amazon_ offering TimescaleDB as a paid DBaaS service. To my knowledge, none of the major cloud vendors offer Clickhouse as a first-class paid service, so that's somewhat a moot point. I guess theoretically Amazon could launch Clickhouse-as-a-service, but that theoretical possibility doesn't help you in your emergency.

[1] https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb-kubernetes
Nomnoml
I read the terms of the SRD [1] to suggest if you get one, and use it, you aren't eligible for bounties on any bugs you find while using it. So, you are an entirely unpaid Apple QA engineer. Knowledge is its own reward I guess.

[1] "If you use the SRD to find, test, validate, verify, or confirm a vulnerability, you must promptly report it to Apple and, if the bug is in third-party code, to the appropriate third party. If you didn’t use the SRD for any aspect of your work with a vulnerability, Apple strongly encourages (and rewards, through the Apple Security Bounty) that you report the vulnerability, but you are not required to do so."
When you say FFT is slow, did you know any way to multiply large numbers that was fast? Or you assumed it was without evidence?
Further, this behavior is quite common. Pretty much every mental health professional I know who engages in social media does so under a (light) pseudonym. Its their solution for maintaining a professional relationship with people who may not understand or respect that boundary. A great many teachers do too, for basically the same reason.
The other big difference on check sizes is that YC started during now documented collusion in silicon valley. Now, the check size really doesn't matter a ton to the FANG engineers looking for a sabbatical. Building a 100k cushion to fund said sabbatical is pretty easy when you're making 400k at Google.

I think there's no real way for reducing checks to have meaningful impact at this point.
I have all my clothes from Uniqlo except for shoes, wallet and a bag for 5 years now. The reason is I don’t have to think hard about it. And I can restock worn out items pretty reliably (although I wish they did not change items year by year at all).
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Don't you think we have other problems too if Sha-2 is broken? I'm going to assume that you aren't worried about the numerous other applications where this scenario would be catastrophic?

In any case, this scenario has very well been accounted for. The Bitcoin network can fork its consensus rules when such drastic requirements require it. Such as to a different hashing algorithm, and snapshotting of its previous state.

> Ponzi scheme
This goes back to square one, which is that in the absence of understanding the value of bitcoin, a scheme is the only logical explanation.

We are now sitting at 10 years and $XXB ponzi scheme. Perhaps one of greatest schemes in history? Maybe it will unravel in the next 10? Time will tell.
(2017)

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17832936
Can lead to or correlates?
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What? That isn't even remotely related to the point you tried (and failed) to make!

At no reactor size is waste management a significant fraction of the cost. It may become a larger fraction with future developments, but never a large fraction.
Do you think your perspective is coloured by your own experiences?
> After running from September 2000 through July 2001, seeing the first class to graduation, the program was forced to shut down.

I wonder why it was forced to shut down?

I bet a few of the graduates are on HN, so maybe someone has the backstory?
Ag-grid has a lot more features. Very mature, big team I'd guess. However, Ag-grid does not offer quick Excel-like editing. If you're looking for this type of editing, don't bet on Ag-grid.
I don't think many people would enjoy that at all.

The appeal of games like Dark Souls (and Slay the Spire!) at high difficulties arises from the knowledge that you _will_ win if you are clever and observant enough.

It's the learning process that keeps players coming back to these games, not the Game Over screen.
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"make sure you are not going to be financially destroyed by your actions".

this 1000 times.
The talk begins at 4:45
Thanks kevas, I appreciate it!