skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure how you reached your interpretation. The USPS is not barred from urgent delivery and has a competing product. They're just not as good at it as the private companies are.

As for regular mail, they don't offer that because it's impossible to compete when you have to pay your competitor for every sale you make.
Unlike many who have not used Svelte due to lack of Typescript support, this may give my team reason to consider Typescript.
The article/your video make the assumption that light is particle and that those particles are independent and each carry polarization. While we know those assumptions to be true, the classical theory of light is not a theory of particles, but of fields/waves. So when you're asking whether there is a classical explanation that's where you should look. And if you do so, you get something perfectly consistent.

[I.e. if you assumed quantum mechanics didn't exist and that Maxwell's equations were the ground truth, you could explain this behaviour without any issue (with some leeway to define a polarizer)].

I think if you try and use that line of thought strictly (only call an explanation "classical" if you can explain with discrete photon particles), you'd probably have to argue that basically all of electromagnetism is fundamentally quantum mechanical. Again, while not strictly wrong (given our present knowledge), this goes too far for me (and I'd imagine most people).

Also: The "three-polarizer" experiment from your quoted video has a perfectly simple explanation in terms of electromagnetic waves. You use a polarizer to get light polarized along say "y" == (0,1). If you put another polarizer in front of it along "x" == (1,0) then the projection is of the E-field is zero and no light passes through. Now add another polarizer at 45 deg between the two: it then projects the E-field onto its axis, mapping it from (0,E) to (E/2,E/2) (magnitude is 1/sqrt(2)). The E-field now has a non-zero component along "x". So light comes out the final polarizer.
You're still overlooking the absolute scale. How many customers did peak, monopolistic AOL have?

How many collective human hours are spent within the walled gardens of Facebook and Twitter daily?
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Tesla Cybertruck Exoskeleton Alloy Altered to Ease Fabrication
It’s not obvious this smallness serves any functional purpose. Two (U of T, Mcgill) Canadian schools have extremely good international reputations and serve more than the entire Ivy League. U of T alone educates more than the whole Ivy League.

http://induecourse.ca/the-bottleneck-in-u-s-higher-education...
For a lot of online games I think matchmaking based on pushing you towards a 50/50 win rate is kind missing the point of games. It gives you fair odds of winning, but it doesn’t necessarily give you even odds of having a fun or competitive game.

At high skill levels players are skilled enough to where it might, but with most online multiplayers the overwhelmingly vast majority of players are lacking in basic fundamentals to varying degrees. At that level, ELO based matchmaking mostly just results in one person getting rolled or doing the rolling. They’re not really competitive games in my experience.
It allows regenerative braking in principle, I don't know if any mining truck actually has one. Imagine the size and weight of a battery to power a 200T truck (total weight up to 385 metric tons) for any significant time. These trucks use induction brakes, which do not give back any energy, for the same reason they use electric motors instead of a gearbox - a lone friction brake for such a heavy machine would be too heavy and wear out too quickly (they do have auxiliary friction breaks, though).
Ten Years of Flask: Conversation with Creator Armin Ronacher
I remember, as a callow college freshman waiting in the hallway of the math department to be able to go into a classroom reading an article which talked about mathematical writing and the first thing it said was to prefer English text over mathematical symbols in numerous cases (e.g., writing "For all $x$ in the Reals" over $\forall x\in\mathbb{R}$). As someone who was highly skilled in TeX at a time when such skills were still fairly rare (many colleges, if they even had TeX available on their time share systems, were still using the am fonts instead of the cm fonts as the latter had only been introduced two years earlier), I remember being upset that my backslash skills were thus denigrated.
I would argue that in fact this bet of 4G is "some great vision of the future" - but who's future, you ask? RIL's.

The man had the "vision" to put in place a massive nationwide telecom network to reduce his dependence on oil - what more "vision" does one need?
I agree with you, and further think it would be awesome if each doctoral program offered "user manuals" for each potential advisor in the department. Things like, "Professor X is very hands off, so you'll be able to do a lot on your own, but make sure you get on his calendar to get advice." Or, "Professor Y is a slave-driving task master but very capable; so make sure to stand up for yourself or you'll get crushed." Of course this is tongue in cheek and would probably never get formalized.

I got this kind of advice from people who already finished their PhDs while I spent a year in industry before grad school. Not everyone can do this but maybe there is some other way to cold-contact finished PhDs and see what they know about the faculty you're considering.
What's the point of posting this ? Nothing insightful or useful for founders.

"Work through your business model" as a growth strategy. Brilliant.

Paid acquisition has gone through the roof as Facebook/Google are increasing monetisation. Content marketing has never been more difficult as more and more companies compete for the same keywords. More and more startups competing for the same customer.

It's not like founders like me are looking to give equity to VCs. It's because it's getting more and more expensive to grow.
I don't care.

First, this CO2 mumbo jumbo doesn't matter to me.

Second, they help CCP with censorship so although I've owned several of their products for over a decade and still use two, I made a promise to myself to never again buy anything from Apple. Going 100% CCP free!
Genuinely curious. Why go with canvas over HTMl elements? Isn't it reinventing the wheel a bit for things like input fields
> If you hold, as Bastiat did, that "the law" (aka "the State") can be something like - but no more than - the "collective extension to our individual right to self defense" and that no mere aggregation of individuals can have a right to do anything that a single individual doesn't have a right to do, then you can conceptualize a State that does things like, say, protecting private property, but which can't lawfully require payment of taxes.

You can only do that for the specific case if you believe that either (1) the specific concrete details of property rights are matters of self-evident and immutable natural law, not contextual judgements that involve a balancing of interests, or (2) each individual is empowered to define and impose their version of property rights on others. Otherwise, a state with no power that isn't exactly that held by individuals comprising the state cannot define property laws, much less enforce them. (Technically, it can't define property laws in the first case, either, but it can recognize the concrete and specific elements of, and enforce, the laws that were carved on stone tablets by the invisible hand.)
Abstractions are equivalences, not equalities. You shouldn't expect an abstraction to make a linked list the same thing as a vector - they aren't, and they never will be - but they are equivalent for certain purposes, and a good abstraction can capture that equivalence. The performance of those two different collections is not the same, but that's not a leak unless the abstraction tried to claim that it somehow would be the same.
is this some form of SEO strategy?
the price is absolutely outrageous!
The article simply assumes that all responsibility for Covid-19 lies with Donald Trump (who coincidentally was elected the president of the United States by its citizens).

There's not even a hand wave to Red China for first quarantining and then spewing out thousands of Covid-19 infected civilians to the USA and the rest of the world. Nothing is said about the WHO, CDC, NIH all of whom obviously had no part to play in this story. No regard is shown for our nations laws, which vest powers of control mostly with the states in regard to the control of epidemics.
> And on what basis are you betting that an operating private company in America can’t achieve the similar pricing outcomes? Is it pure conjecture?

Yes, pure conjecture based on the population density data. It’s conjecture on your part to assume it can be done profitably so I guess we’re at an impasse here.

> Sure, and if that’s your argument, then why can’t a private corporation charge the same and maintain a national parcel mail network if it wanted to? There are loads of industries (airlines, payments, ridesharing) where margins are razor thin, but because of high revenues, there is plenty of incentive to serve remote areas.

Two facts support my conjecture that the service of a privatized USPS would not include all current users or heavily impact them via price hikes: We haven’t even wired last-mile high speed internet to everyone, and we don’t have true nationwide cell coverage. What makes you think private mail will be any different?

> While that’s true, this services represents the minority of UPS and FedEx’s total footprint. UPS/FedEx/DHL/Amazon still directly deliver the majority of their packages, even to remote addresses.

At least some of this is subcontracted out to other regional companies, I have a friend that works for a company that has a contract to deliver Fedex packages. It’s functionally the same thing as the USPS doing it, just privatized. I have nothing against parcel delivery being handled by private companies.

I just wish we could all view the mail as a public good that benefits people and is worth keeping around. I feel first-class letters should be treated as something all people should have access to at a cheap flat rate no matter where they live in the US. I also feel that is unlikely to continue if the post office is privatized. We could instead focus on improving the existing system we have to benefit us all.
It's the selective enforcement of such clauses which a causing a stir.
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I went to Georgia Tech, majored in Architecture, and even I somehow ended up in tech.
Last I checked, SSC was the first hit on google when searching for his real name. That would seem to make it rather pointless to believe in the ability of keeping that content hidden from his patients.

I’m also not entirely certain it isn’t in the public’s interest to allow patients to read their therapist’s writing. Yes, they shouldn’t be privy to the details of their love life and favorite spot to go skinny dipping. But Scott never disclosed much personal information anyway.

I think rather fondly of his writing. But it should be uncontroversial that some of it is, well, controversial. Even if I don’t agree with his critics, I wouldn’t consider it entirely unreasonable to disagree with him on some points. And because so much of it touches on hot-button issues, some of them might very well decide not to share their most private thoughts with him, and could feel betrayed when learning about it only after the fact.

It’s also somewhat strange to see a community (his, and here as well in previous posts) complain about unnamed sources any time the news media is discussed, but getting outraged when one publication actually makes it policy to use real names more often.

There is a case for anonymity on the internet, and even for others to respect that wish. But at some point, when you start having the sort of cultural influence that Scott has, and your efforts of hiding your name were rather half-hearted to begin with, it’s nobody’s job to play pretend on your behalf.
The tl;dr; is that some profit is better than no profit (selling the white labeled money garners some profit vs. no profit if the manufacturer decides to not do the white labeling). The lower profit margins is made up for by higher volume.
More isn't necessarily better. I'd rather have a simpler and more restrictive model with fewer performance, accessibility, maintainability, and security issues.
> who coincidentally was elected the president of the United States by its citizens

US Presidents are not elected by the citizens, though the way they are elected tends usually in practice to align with the expressed will of the citizens, at least since the electors themselves have been elected by citizens, albeit disproportionately. But not in the case of Trump, among several other exceptions.
Not all broccoli taste bad. Some broccoli can be tasty. It depends on the qualities of the individual broccoli and your execution.
What decisions? They are just playing along. Incentives matter a lot, as you say.
No, but they became aware of it as the diseases were spreading and took the opportunity to conquer the areas.
I would disagree. Engineers, scientists, etc. have their own notation conventions as well. They may be aware of mathematical notation but only in specific areas of math related to their field (i.e. calculus and linear algebra for Newtonian physics). I would not expect a mechanical engineer to understand the notation used by graph theorists or algebraic geometers.
The present day mega billionaires have spent their careers building/funding the technologies to make universities obsolete.
lol it is so rare for a company that goes belly up to hurt someone's career
> Generally speaking the "rating structure" is a lattice where you can, for any two players A and B, tell whether A is a better player than B or the other way around.

Not really. You tend to have cycles, where person A can beat person B who beats person C who beats person A.

There's a guy who was even with the guys playing Go who were 2 or 3 stones weaker than me that would tend to beat me because of some of the unorthodox things he did. (Eventually I strengthened my game against these things).

Considering ratings to be a total ordering is a useful approximation.
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If you're a casual employee and don't have any sort of paid sick leave you either turn up or forgo the money (and potential future work). There are also those who pride themselves on never taking sick leave and "soldiering on", but invariably infect their coworkers. Here's some survey stats:

http://www.nsf.org/newsroom_pdf/Flu_in_the_workplace_(final)...
True. Maybe everyone is just playing along.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube_(film)

This is why I wonder if humans are actually intelligent or just clever. Seems to me that a true intelligence would learn to command its own game theoretic / emergent context, not be dragged along by it to wherever the magic bus is going.
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This is either astoundingly bad reading comprehension, or a willful mischaracterization. The whole article is about what they're doing to prevent Spectre-like problems. The config option is their backup plan in case they made a mistake in their threat analysis.

All in all, I thought it was a sober and mature approach to the problem.
It still amazes me why this has not gotten better. I had gotten used to presuming that there was a better ecosystem of tools that connected curl, wget or aria2c to the browser that I was incapable of finding. None of the extensions I've tried provide anything close to reliable performance.

The problem with using curl and wget directly is encountering websites that generate a one-time, non resumable link which they then communicate to the browser. In most of these cases, it requires a fair bit of reverse engineering and mocking requests to get the link in bash, in an unspoiled state so curl can download it.

The best option I've found at the moment is JDownloader2. It's been the most reliable downloader for complex files while being simple enough to use with its integrations.
The whole point of Parcel is that you basically can't configure it. TS should just work.

Rollup is basically a configurable Parcel.
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Yeah what we really need is a glassdoor equivalent.
If your curve is linear, it's because your game isn't that hard (or more formally, where winning and skill are less strongly correlated). This is tough for people to hear if their game is "designed to be a high-skill game".

The curve being linear means essentially that skill in the game confers less of a relative advantage. Chess is a good counterexample here, also rocket league. Both are games where difference in MMR is very strongly correlated with outcome, and both are games where skill is easily measured and highly correlated with ranking.
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Cool example, thanks!
Thus:

1. Write a good narrative

and then

2. Write good code

Which is to say that a mathematics text is an instance of literate programming.
Interesting take. Makes sense if the timeframe for startup success (profitable exit) was as truncated as startup death. Startups either die, show signs of dying, or get acqui-hired much more quickly than the startups that guarantee's (practically speaking) successful exit.
For the quality of blogging, psychiatry, and writing, I am willing to forgive his sysadmin capabilities... my inbox might not be so forgiving though.
Not to mention that the bonus pool feature has long been removed.

More importantly, though, your MMR has now been split up across the three factions that you can play as. If your Terran gameplay is much better than your Zerg gameplay, you'll be facing higher-ranked opponents when you play Terran, than when you play Zerg.

This has made it easier for players to switch their factions up, without being punished for it.
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Amazing. I heard similar stories from other 2x founders.
> I don't understand the logic here. We're talking about the new version of your target OS. You will presumably always need to support it eventually.

Maybe not, you might be able to skip a version that had poor adoption. Windows ME, Windows Vista, IE7 and TLS 1.1 never had a very high market share, because people put off updating so long that better things came along.
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“ Private Equity investors are even worse than venture capitalists; instead of destroying fledgling businesses, they destroy great existing companies. Sears, Toys R Us, and a very long list of other companies have been destroyed by PE. ”

Uh, ok.
When safari 2.0.4 was first released huge numbers of websites broke simply because they detected Netscape 4 by doing navigator.useragent.indexif(“4”)>0

Never underestimate the ability of developer hacks to screw things for years.

Many releases after had a lot of paranoia about including the character 4 in the version number
Seriously?? You call that torture? The spoiled lives we lead here in the west truly makes us not realize hard realities. I can promise you that torture is way more unpleasant than sitting in the airline seat with your nice noise cancelling headphones and watching a netflix show on an ipad. Even as a over 6 feet person I did way more unpleasant stuff in the army compared to sitting a few hours in an airplane seat.
Analogous statement would be that interference of light (say through a pair of slits) is also quantum mechanical in nature. This isn't strictly wrong (since basically everything is quantum mechanical in nature when you get down to it) but is a misleading way to present something that can (and was) understood perfectly well before quantum mechanics came along Thatis.
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It costs the NYC nothing to respect his efforts at pseudo-anonymity, as halfhearted as they were. The cause of journalism is not advanced in the slightest by publishing the real name.

The problem with "unnamed sources" is there's no fixed point to compare against -- the unnamed source loses nothing by lying or making things up. Scott has a huge amount of reputation to lose if he lies, even if it doesn't directly tie back to his real-life persona. It would be a REALLY long con to blog for a decade to build a reputation, just to be a disreputable unnamed source in an article.
I think you might be missing my point: often the conditions are not correctable by the individual. They can only be resolved by collective action, and we can’t really start on that until we stop holding people responsible for things they don’t have meaningful control over.
Here's my take on it. Academic philosophy in the US is highly focused on making completely clear claims with a rigor approaching that of mathematical logic. It is more or less pursuing the program Wittgenstein sketched in his first book, the Tractatus, creating a collection of concepts and network of relationships among them in which apparent philosophical paradoxes vanish. This is the analytical tradition. It is nice because it is indeed rigorous, but it can be limiting because it severely constrains the topics you can talk about. Something as big and multifarious as, say, Heidegger's notion of Dasein does not fit into this mold. And certainly nothing written as poetically as Nietzsche would pass muster.

In his second book, Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein completely rejected this approach, and his earlier work. He claimed that....well, no one's really sure what he claimed, or that he really claimed anything, and that's exactly the problem academic philosophers have with him. To a first approximation, he claimed that the whole idea of language as a formal system was either wrong or a waste of time, and that language is better thought of as some kind of game.

The thinking, then, is that later Wittgenstein was not making a clear point, was not interested in making a clear point, and possibly was not even serious at all. Philosophical Investigations is an enigma, and modern academic philosophy doesn't deal in such things.
Look into esbuild as well. It falls somewhere in between Parcel and Rollup in terms of configuration options but it's way faster (around 10x compared to Rollup for my tests) than either.
This is instinctually how those of us with anxiety disorders and cognitive challenges think. WAVINGEMOJI hi please feel free to ask us how to help when you see us around.

Edit: sorry, didn't mean to volunteer anyone else! Just ask those of us who make ourselves available for it, you know us as the people who are constantly warning doom.
More likely it shows the fact that I was born in the late 1980s and Michael Jackson had fallen mostly out of favor by the time I had any wherewithal about pop stars.
Player retention was significantly lower before the new rating system was introduced. It wasn't just complaints, it's just that is a more direct metric because multiple changes may have affected the retention.
> Is it correct to call the third filter an obstacle? In the quantum realm, it’s not really an obstacle, is it?

Evidently not!
Here, walking away doesn't leave the entrepreneur wealthy, but we hope, covers some opportunity cost. A safety net. This can provide a source of strength in VC negotiations as well as a foundation for the founder to make calm, rational decisions rooted in long term success.
grsec seems to think CET won't be effective:

https://grsecurity.net/effectiveness_of_intel_cet_against_co...
To paraphrase the great answer given by '
jbaudanza':

Be consistent in both producing value, and in sharing it. Try to get better at both of these activities as you progress.

Your 'luck surface area' [1] will, over time, increase and then network effects will take over.

[1] - https://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/increasing-your-luck-sur...
Rocket can now compile on stable Rust