skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The postal service lost my passport that I sent first class tracked to an embassy in order to get a visa shortly before I was due to leave overseas for an extended period of time. It was marked as delivered, but never was according to the embassy. After hours of phone calls and hold time, the USPS admitted that it had been redirected to a lost mail facility in a city 800 miles away from its destination on accident. It is still sitting in that lost mail facility according to the USPS all these years later. I had to call my congressman's office to push the state department to get me a new passport expedited so that I could get my visa in time before I had to leave. Huge headache.

They've lost plenty of other things besides. I once sent $100 cash in a fun colored envelope containing a birthday card. The card arrived scotch-taped closed with the money gone. I know it wasn't an accident where it got ripped open by a conveyor belt or something because they re-seal torn envelopes in a plastic bag when that happens. That was more an annoying than headache inducing, but UPS has never caused problems for me like those and I use them by an order of magnitude more than USPS.

The worst part isn't that those things happen. Theft and accidents can happen anywhere. The worst part is that the USPS takes no responsibility and could not care any less. So what if a postal employee stole money from a birthday card? Sucks to be me. I can't send letters any other way. The USPS has a legally protected monopoly on letter delivery. So what if the hold time is 9 hours? Who else am I going to go to? The post office is built on bureaucracy and you and I pay the price for it.
A problem with this strategy is that libraries are often used by the homeless in order to study and apply for jobs.

Librarians also provide expertise in sourcing knowledge that isn't available online; particularly with the way that Google search has evolved.

Larger libraries also provide archivist roles and even small libraries may serve to archive local news and history.
It's been added since macOS 10.12 (Sierra). According to my man page. Couldn't find any authoritative sources online on that, though. However, there are several secondary references[0][1].

[0] https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq/issues/2175

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/libc/issues/776
Government Covid-19 algorithms: multiple formats, approaches and challenges
Honestly, it doesn't bother me at all. I'm used to slogans like "syntax and semantics are adjoint functors" or "meaning is a functor from syntax to semantics" from category theory. In the opening definition, for example, I'm reading the LHS as a source category whose objects are abstract syntax trees and whose arrows are substitutions between said trees, and the RHS as any target category of interest. We're giving meanings to notation by sending the notation along a functor, and syntactic/formal manipulations of the notation correspond to manipulations of the objects which they "mean"/represent.

Framed this way, the properties listed are (1) (part of) functorality, (2) surjectiveness, (3/4) smallness, (5) renormalizability (!!), (6) smoothness/continuity of some sort, and (8) the ability to have natural transformations applied. Only (7) is culturally dependent. (1) and (8) are free for all functors!

To address your question on the head (I am not a mathematician), this post gave me some properties of good notation which I hadn't considered before. On one hand, yeah, it's kind of obvious that notation should somehow be able to surjectively reach all possible objects of interest, while still being small enough to definitely not reach everything. On the other hand, renormalization is kind of a dense topic, so it's surprising to see it arise here.
> What about NASA though? Incredibly smart, hardworking, technically savvy engineers saw their recommendations get ground to dust by powerpoint.

The problem this didn’t address though is when in-depth white papers are often written, they may not be read (or only read in a cursory fashion) because the audience may be stretched too thin on time.

PowerPoints abbreviated style is both a strength and weakness.
Let's see the convictions in court to determine that. I don't exactly trust online rumors.
Please add your photo so creepy people can check you out and potential employers can determine if you are ugly, wrong color, wrong sex, uncool, or other discrimination.
The Vaccine Trust Problem
> It’s similar in Canada - a number of previously run public services were privatized. And the level of service improved dramatically.

I disagree. At best, it has been hit or miss. Alberta used to have Alberta Government Telephones (AGT). It was later privatized as Telus. Saskatchewan kept SaskTel a crown corp. The level of service and prices are so much better in Saskatchewan as a result that some Alberta residents pretend to live in Saskatchewan so they can get a Sask mobile plan.

And don't get me started on 407.
That hasn't been my observation. Can you explain more how you envision this working?
So we let private companies have the most profitable routes, our USPS serves to either deliver spam to the suburbs or perform expensive rural deliveries?

I feel like something here needs to change. I’m not really advocating for getting rid of USPS, but if the only leg it’s standing on is delivering to rural areas, I feel like we need to take a look at different options.
>MYTH: the USPS is required to fund pensions for the next 75 years, for workers who haven’t even been born.

>“[T]he PAEA required the Postal Service to calculate all of its likely pension costs over the next 75 years, and then sock away enough money between 2007 and 2016 to cover most of them.” The Week, April 16, 2018.

>FACT: the actuarial valuation methods used by the USPS are based only on accruals attributed to past service, no different than any other such valuation.

>The Postal Service Retiree Health Benefit Fund (PSRHBF) is a USPS-specific fund, and its 10-K report specifies that it uses the “aggregate entry age normal acturarial cost method.” For pension benefits, employees participate in the CSRS and FERS general civil servant pensions, using the same method. In this method, yes, the actuary calculates the value of all benefits to be paid out in the future, due to past and future service, and then subtracts out the value of the future accruals, to calculate the actuarial liability. In addition, the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund calculates a projection of liabilities 75 years into the future in its annual report, but this does not mean that 75 years’ worth of future accruals are advance-funded, only that the long-term sustainability of the system is measured over a 75-year period.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ebauer/2020/04/14/post-office-p...
Perhaps, I believe I was confused with the "55 cents.." reply.

I agree that private entities should be treated differently. It was never the objective of the service to work the way it works now.
You can write a Lets Encrypt module to auto-generate a new cert using the API and loading it.
I think there's two important timeframes to consider here.

You need to be "financially comfortable" for the 1/3/12 month foreseeable future to be able to fully focus on your startup.

I'm a lot less convinced that being 10+ year financially comfortable is necessarily a desirable trait for a founder. Knowledge that their future financial freedom is 100% dependant on the success of their startup is possibly a stronger driver of "better long term decisions" than someone in a position to think "it doesn't matter too much - even if this fails I have a contingency plan"...

(And I say that as someone who was once part of a team that rejected an acquisition offer that would've meant a half million payout to me, because we believed at the time we were going to be worth at least 10 times that within a year. And we were wrong. But I still stand by that decision at the time and would make it again in the same circumstances...)
Great point. It is bad to nitpick consistency when you are in the initial stages of developing a model outline, and looking to capture the most important points. What's the right term for this notational quality? Precedence?
I ran the test. The assembly for that program creates a "main" function, which contains fortran init code, and a MAIN function that contains the user code.
Another plug - https://rowsncolumns.app

It's a canvas based SpreadSheet. The Grid works with React and Konva - https://konvajs.org/

You can see the demo here - https://rowsncolumns.app/demo

And a whole bunch of features and upcoming roadmap - https://rowsncolumns.app/#features

We are launching formula support with Web Workers soon.
Absolutely.

Our workplace product does charitable gift matching automatically according to rules the company sets up, and provides reporting to company leadership on all the aggregate giving / matching / participation data across employees. A company can see their aggregate charitable impact in a broad sense.

To your second question, the giving funds belong to each donor, but companies can establish an affiliation with each donor's fund for the length of the employment, which allows us to enable that company's gift matching and reporting. It's not unlike a 401k at Vanguard for an employee—technically the employees, but the company facilitates the benefits for the length of employment.

So if an employee joins a company with a fund, we just add an affiliation between the company and that user's fund (via an email address). Likewise, the affiliation is removed when an employee leaves. Matching/reporting cease for that donor, but the charitable dollars in the employees fund will continue to be in their fund.
Rich Harris (the creator of Svelte) just released a short 5 hour video course on Svelte on Frontend Masters as well. It's great intro and touches most common usecases and briefly introduces Sapper as well. If you already have a FEM subscription, this is a great time to get into Svelte.
You beat me to it. I was just looking at that.
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The scale. These major platforms are becoming increasingly dominant forms of communication and mediums of expression.

There's a real question about when they cease being just another website or chatroom and become a public utility.
> Is a false alarm very costly?

Potentially, yes. If fire fighters are busy responding to false alarms, they may be delayed if a real fire happens at the same time. This can result in loss of lives and property.
Sure, exactly like that. People who believe there’s a vast conspiracy of celebrities to drain “adrenochrome” from children to gain eternal life or whatever aren’t a protected class, after all.
I’m arguing in favor of keeping mail delivery under the USPS because it’s one of the few functional democratic government services available. The government uses the USPS to send out many notices, payments, census forms, and so on. It’s a small miracle that one can place a postcard in a mailbox anywhere in the US and have it delivered to almost any address (some areas have mail service at a post office instead of home delivery). The utility of this service being available to everyone for the same price regardless of location is more valuable than any increased competition created by removing the USPS monopoly on first-class letters.

I’m arguing in favor of a system that everyone can access for a low cost, a service one could rightly consider essential.

Why should you should listen to me (or any other poster in this thread arguing in favor of keeping the status quo postal system) instead of the Koch brothers? I take the needs of everyone into consideration when formulating my argument instead of ideological or profit motives. Do you think it would be beneficial to the nation to saddle poor rural people with mail rates 10-50x what they are now when we have a perfectly functional system? I don’t, because it screws over the least fortunate to benefit.. who? It literally does not affect me if I have to pay .55 to mail a letter, but someone living on $700/mo that needs to use the private mail to mail a $10 letter will absolutely notice. Why destroy a functional and equitable system just so rich people in cities can pay less for postage? It’s not practical or fair.

I also clarified my position on the influence of billionaires and their opinions: They shouldn’t be ignored completely, but they should not be allowed to have the massive outsized influence they currently enjoy. Their opinion should count no more or less than anyone else.
You’re too used to privlage being used as a pejorative I think. It’s highly relevant that if a school admin wanted to use Malan’s work as an example to base some classes off of, that they can’t just throw a teacher at their normal course load and expect anything close to that level of work. I know many teachers in the public school system who’s admins don’t seem to realize how difficult a good online syllabus is to put together, and those administrators could do to be reminded that you need to put a lot of resources behind someone if you want quality work from them.

It’s not a bad thing that Malan has the privilege to be in a position where he can successfully focus on perfecting a single class. In fact it’s fantastic for us all that he’s doing this work. It’s just important to acknowledge the privileges he has so we don’t look at normal teachers and say “if you only tried a bit harder, couldn’t you do something like this?” It’s not just about effort and intelligence, it’s also about the resources that are put behind the educator.
Wait why don’t we use a deep learning thingy on this dataset and just back out a formula that predicts the wins based on just the relative numbers of the people?
Times change. This article would have been very useful 20 years ago, but after reading about and playing with GPT-3, I can't help but feel the article is dates itself. Focuses too much about operating at human-pace and fails to recognize we're moving into bot-pace. Bots don't care about quarters, calendars, or meetings.
Did you hear about it being used in the song in Colombia?
https://www.exploratorium.edu/blogs/tangents/great-colombian....
I agree. Communications have been mechanized and "social" has expanded in scale beyond any human limit.
The fourth is the market is drying up and your line of management isn’t going to bat for you. Lots of reasons for this and many aren’t personal so no need to personalize it. Many companies try to let underperforming employees go for cause before starting a lay-off because they can avoid the repercussions in unemployment taxes.
You could have read another 2 paragraphs lower and had your questions answered:

> The spokesperson said while the targeted enforcement against QAnon fell under Twitter’s existing platform manipulation rules, its classification of QAnon as coordinated harmful activity was a new designation. The spokesperson said Twitter was taking action now because of an escalating degree of harm associated with the conspiracy theory.

Q / QAnon only exists because of the Trump election. It's a way for "President Trump's most devoted supporters" to be engaged in the campaign. I wouldn't be surprised if the entire LARP was created by or steered by the campaign team.
> with the subject itself

that's the thing though, you can never grapple with the subject itself, only representations thereof. this is a mix of feelings/images/movements inside your head & mechanical manipulations of the notation; furthermore, the notation itself influences our internal model/feeling of the subject.
The flag had been there for 14 years. The one witness account in the Snopes story says that the raising of the Confederate Stars and Bars was accidental, and occurred many weeks after Feinstein ordered the removal of the long-present Confederate battle flag upon a 3-day-long protest that ended with an official removal request which Feinstein immediately granted: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/dianne-feinstein-confedera...

I don't think Feinstein is that politically craven. She has a spine, and a relatively rigid one at that. Rather, her poor judgment, such as it is, is all her own.

The Koch brothers and other anti-government radicals bank on the political disaffection that such historical revisionism generates. If every politician is a stooge, then there's no virtue in politics or government. Feinstein is no stooge, and while I wouldn't vote for her in most years, IMO she deserves respect as a strong, steadfast, and effective leader who almost incidentally blew--and continues to blow--many stereotypes of women out of the water. (And you can be all of those things, BTW, while also having flaws and a history of mistakes.) She definitely doesn't deserve a cheap character assassination.
€830? Seriously?
Trade options. Hold TSLA/AAPL. In essence continue doing what I have been doing.

The market looks fine right now but after today we may chop a bit.
They’re the equivalent of the public square today, and should be regulated like utilities.
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The monopoly on first class mail point is well exercised; will also point out that turning the USPS into a public corporation with shareholders does not itself have any impact on governance. Facebook has shareholders, and Mark Zuckerberg does exactly as he pleases with zero accountability.
Yes we do start with the IRS EO BMF.
accuse, then expel, keep their money,(note, number one is the rules of acquisition = Once you have their money, you never give it back.) fund a generation of class action lawyers, some as yet unborn...
For reference:-https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Rules_of_Acquisition
From what I can tell, Parcel v1 does not have linting, but I rely on linting and typechecking in my editor anyway, so I didn't notice. It's actually pretty handy to bypass typechecking and write untyped JS to quickly check if something will work then add types to it gradually. VS Code yells at me until I fix it, so it doesn't go unfixed.

https://parceljs.org/ is the homepage. Run the command (or put the command in an npm script) like `parcel whatever.ts` and it will output your bundle with all dependencies transpiled to JS and CSS. The simplicity does come at a cost; it's not as readily customizable as something like Rollup. I've been eagerly tracking v2 and it appears they are adding linting and much more into Parcel.
I agree. Be humble. Try to understand the existing laws and customs before you come in and try to make changes.
That's not exactly false, but at that point you might as well say that anything that breaks is an abstraction leak. If my car won't start in the morning, is that an "abstraction leak"? I don't think it is (or at least I don't think it's a useful perspective to see it as one), because the problem wasn't that I was thinking of the abstract notion of a car rather than the details of a bunch of different components connected together in particular ways; the problem is that one or more of those components is broken (or maybe that some of the components are put together wrong).
Yes, finally.
This (by me, from 1999) remains mostly aspirational, sadly: https://www.kurtz-fernhout.com/oscomak/
"The OSCOMAK project will foster a community in which many interested individuals will contribute to the creation of a distributed global repository of manufacturing knowledge about past, present and future processes, materials, and products."

You may want to take a look at things related to "Open Manufacturing": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_manufacturing

Or the maker movement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maker_culture

I can also wonder if there is more such information out there on the web in Chinese these days than English?
If you're optimizing for "ties to dangerous real-world activities" it's weird that you'd pick anti-fascist protestors before considering cops and soldiers. Cool ideology you have there.
Totally agree.

On a slight tangent, my writing has improved tremendously since working at Amazon. I’m far from great now, but I’ve always been contrarian and saw most writing as needless fluff. Over time I’ve come to appreciate how writing forces clarity, both for the writer and the reader.
The price only includes support and the ability to remove branding. You can use it sans source code with branding for free.
I think your parent is talking about Twitter, Google and the other internet platforms and infrastructure.
Twitter might not be the government but it surely is an institution that has a significant amount of power and influence on society. So much so that I think the public should pressure them to adhere to liberal values like free speech and rightly get upset if they dont.

And regarding the fact that conspiracy theorists arent an ethnic group, sure thats right they are not. They are still an ideological group. Are we committed to making a society that works for a diverse range of ideological groups or do we have to fit inside the box of what Jack Dorsey thinks is normal to participate in society? I think the american value of right to pursue happens means powerful institutions should be extremely careful before judging some group as not being normal or fit for society. Or I guess we can give up these values because now we dont like the results.
I still have the machine. The only reason I had to stop using it is that it can't run anything later than Lion.
You mean live in a small, dark, windowless room for a few years, with little privacy even if I want to go to the bathroom?

No thanks.

I did the "travel the world at other people's expense" thing for a bit too. My experience is that an international trip every 2 months is just about as much as I can handle before my mental health starts slipping. There's a huge difference between going to conferences 1-4 times per year (which is fun!), and living on airplanes.
You write once for yourself/thinking, let it sit overnight. Come back the next day, and without looking at the original text, write it again for the audience.
Then regulate them, break them up, nationalize them, etc. But don't pretend that internet communities don't have the power to moderate their content. It's inherent to the format and has always been with us.

One would imagine in the '90s, AOL was probably as dominant as Facebook or Twitter is today- large enough to push its own alternative to URLs ("AOL Keywords"). The difference was there were far fewer people on the internet and the internet and computers in general were not as significant to our day-to-day lives. I doubt that Twitter today acts any differently from AOL Time Warner in Y2K.

Finally, scale is a measure of quantity, not quality.
Seeing how deeply you've been downvoted makes me so embarrassed to be on this hell website. Too bad you can't delete your account.

EDIT: Your downvotes prove my point.
What Is It That Keeps Most Little Kids from Getting Covid-19?
This has already been stated by them on the record multiple times. The last I seen was on Joe Rogan I believe. In that episode the CEO stated that trans is a protected class and it would be a ban-able offense for a Christian to tell a trans person they are their biologal sex (male / female). Obviously Christian vs Non would have differing viewpoints towards this subject.

She also stated they made they decision internal how they personally feel is best.

Personally, I believe that any monopoly having power to silence a crowd should be held to a legal standard. Ban all or ban none.