skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The postal service is in fact the only agency explicitly mentioned in the US Constitution:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_Clause

Whether it operates like a business now, it was absolutely intended to be a function of government.
Unambiguity as an adjective is slippery. Mathematical notation must be concise, because a key purpose is to provide understanding, which it achieves by focused abstraction. So when you search for notation to model some real world system, you leave things out, as such it leaves room for interpretation when remapping back to the real world, ie there is ambiguity. I think this #1 item should really be termed Consistency, because above all, notation must not contradict itself.
Although those are both search engines altvista produced drastically different results than google and the comparison of the results is generally subjective. The quality of the search result is what largely drew people to google (I was very young at the time please correct me if I’m mistaken).

Regardless of which entity delivers a package the quality of the result can generally be objectively judged (cost, duration, package care, etc). Depending on the entity delivering search results of e.g the term “bear” the quality is highly subjective (e.g black bear wiki, Chicago bears, polar bear wiki, bear Halloween Costume amazon page,
Berenstain Bears, etc). Not to mention the results are continuously changing.

I’m not really familiar with labor theory but I’m inclined to think your analogy isn’t applicable to the discussion of privatizing USPS.

Could you rephrase your comment in terms of sorting algorithms? Say a bubble sort would be rewarded more than a merge sort? Maybe that would better articulate your point??
I watched the video and it seemed pretty obvious that the old man responded mockingly to the other person accusing him of white power.

I don’t think the driver was actually chanting white power as a claim that white power was his desire.

Now, there’s certainly an argument for not making such a response and to channel anger better and not joke about such things. But I don’t think retweeting that video is a show of support for white power. Poor taste is much more likely.
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Renoise isn't open source but is Linux native. Aducity is good for recording. And hydrogen is an ok drum machine.
Such a claim may well be doubted, but why do you? Producing counterexamples is relatively easy, comparing to proving a negative, so why don't you provide the ones you have in mind?

I think it's an interesting question to ask, if there are people who aren't the President, who are worse, and are not ostensibly as privileged, what's going on? As I understand it, the system is supposed to prevent those who aren't world leaders from behaving badly.
People in power tend to curate content so as to consolidate and improve their power, not to make average people's lives better.
Mathematicians will never agree to write dblEulerConstant instead of e.
Can you give me one example of a billionaire doing this?
The plot of A True Story sounds like a Nerd poker campaign
I don’t think wealth should ever be a barrier to entry for anything.

The idea of privatization and inclusion are not mutually exclusive.
Colleges are getting ready to blame their students
Google rose to prominence by capturing the labor of others (links created by users and site authors between sites) and accruing the value of that labor to itself through automation. It effectively swallowed up the value of unpaid labor that existed at a scale with which Altavista could never compete.
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Ah...dictating priority and order automatically seems very useful. I think we might be able to do something similar based off due dates...I'll think about it, thanks for the tip
You can buy nuclear cars yet either...
> Who determines what is hateful?

In this case, Twitter.
That's not the evidence you think it is. In sports analogies That would be the equivalent of brian windhorst tweeting out something and then you saying that it came "Directly from LeBron James".

People are not responsible for what their ignorant fans say.
I think differential geometry may present the closest exception to this, not only is the notation often incredibly dense and subtle (i.e. spacing between indices when raising and lowering) but often everyone seems to have their personal favorite take on any given notation.
Totally anecdotal, but the second I embraced business objectives and commercial thinking is when my career exploded. 3 jobs in 2 years, and my income grew over 110% in that timeframe.

A lot of my colleagues seem to get stuck in a position of being very tech focused where JIRA tickets go in, and code comes out (and not much else goes on).

I highly recommend other developers try to sharpen their business and commercial skills, even if you don't want to be a leader. You'll be able to sell your skills and influence technical decisions way easier.
Reading https://www.gaijin.at/en/infos/windows-version-numbers, major.minor.build doesn’t uniquely identify a Windows version.

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 both are 6.1 build 7600, for example.

Also, suppose you check the version for compatibility checking, what do you do if you get a version that you don’t know about, say “6.4, build 7709”? You can give up and declare your program doesn’t work with this version, but that may lead to lots of support calls when Microsoft rolls out a service pack. So, instead, programs try to guess from the version string what OS they run on.

And yes, ideally, programs check for features (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/sysinfo/opera...). Unfortunately the world isn’t perfect.
Internet Explorer 5.5 on Windows 95 looked like this:

> Windows 95 browser agent string: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 95; BCD2000)

Back then browser agent checking was used a lot more.

So a good reason to name it "10" instead of "9" is to differentiate it from Windows 95/98 for code that did things like:

> browser.contains("Windows 9")
Sounds Orwellian
You cannot corner a market through price dumping. You can lose money until the newer firm dies, but once you raise prices again, guess what happens? The Baltimore Gas Company is a famous example of this. They didn't establish their monopoly until the maryland legislature enforced a utility charter that granted them the exclusive right to distribute gas in Baltimore.
Many European countries have largely privatized healthcare providers.
I'm surprised this hasn't been used yet for any shenanigans yet...

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I mean, the Republicans did try to frame Obama as a radical black separatist and terrorist sympathiser with the whole Bill Ayers/Jeremiah Wright thing[0,1], but they realized calling him a crypto-Muslim (and terrorist sympathizer, and if you want to wonder if he's the Antichrist too we're not going to stop you) would be easier given his name[2].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers_2008_presidential_e...

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_Wright_controversy

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_religion_conspira...
Quote from the Forbes article I linked to:

>"FACT: ALL companies are required to fund any pension promises they make to their employees. (The only exceptions are for top executives, who can lose their pensions if a company goes bankrupt, and for entities that aren’t actually “companies” - state and local governments and churches.) NONE of them are permitted to take a “pay as you go” approach but must contribute to a pension fund an amount equivalent to what a worker has accrued that year in benefit promises, regardless of how far into the future that worker will be retiring, and must make up for any shortfalls due to asset losses or other reasons. The USPS and private sector companies use the same general actuarial principles to do so, though there are differences in assumptions, particulars of the calculations, etc."
Is "QAnon" even a person? I am under the impression that is a moniker that has likely been used by numerous unrelated people.

I know believers of this stuff think "QAnon" is a person, but I've not seen any evidence that leads me to believe this is the case and quite a bit of conjecture / circumstantial evidence that suggests at one point the name was being used by a cabal of imageboard moderators.
Lol, you're not kidding, TIL

I use vscode, it must be good, downvotes for thoes who disagree!
>USPS is required by a law created by republicans to pre-pay their retirement fund for the next 75 years

The USPS is required to pre-pay the pension costs they have incurred. It's not pre-paying the retirement fund for 75 years. It's putting money aside so that you have the money to pay your 25 year old worker the money you promised them when they're 100.
People are able to judge information they encounter. The problem is when there is so much information, that the amount of time it takes to get to a piece of information that is worthwhile to evaluate has long surpassed the amount of time people have to evaluate the information. So good info never even makes its way to them.
QAnon is a dynamic LARP. There is no conspiracy that they can't absorb. The anonymity of the authors is a feature, but it also means there is no person who can authoritatively deny that the WayFair conspiracy theory was not related to the core "deep state" one.

Honestly, my analysis of the Wayfair storage bin incident was that it was probably a LARPer (QAnon, 4Channer, Russian/Chinese troll, whatever) who had access to the WayFair vendor admin panel and realized that QAnon followers would eat it up.
This is the exact same language totalitarian states use.
> these provide a helpful service to people

To the people that run marketing and political campaigns, and utility companies.

Over 95% of all mail is not personal correspondence. ~50% is advertisements.

The UPS price probably reflects the fact it’s only allowed to compete with the USPS on an rigged, uneven playing field, through a legal loophole for “extremely urgent letters”.

And I wouldn't mind “killing” my local public library (despite spending hours playing Minecraft and Roblox there in my youth) in favor of the Internet Archive et al.¹, and public schools in favor of private schools that prioritize customer satisfaction over union agreements². And deunionize the police while we're at it: many of the violent acts and actual human killings BLM and others protest were perpetrated by repeat offenders kept in the force because of unions. After unionizing, police are 40% more likely to use violence.³

Camden, New Jersey fired their entire police force, hired a new union-less one, and decreased there murder rate while saving money that could then be spent on libraries, schools, etc. Private police have successfully served many communities.⁴

1: Edit: My area has private little lending libraries the size of large newspaper dispensers scattered around it, which work great because the area's dense and walkable; other less dense areas have libraries on wheels in the form of trucks and vans.

2: One of my favorite high school teachers was fired for lack of seniority because of union rules, and private and charter schools seem better by every measure I know of.

3: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=3095217

4: https://reason.com/video/dont-abolish-the-police-privatize-t....
If your answer the question of how being a billionaire leads to monopoly is 'crime', I'll have you know that that can be done independent of billionaire status.
I think another thing to keep in mind is that not necessarily hardware infrastructure size equals to profitability.

Some industries need a lot of hardware because they crunch a lot of data but they aren't software companies. Think Computer graphics rendering.

Paying a FTE salary for software is crazy for them. I would love to see a ration of developers/infrastructure per industry/company.
Yes they are, they've done it for all of modern civilization. People in power telling us what to think doesn't end well.

The issue is social media and the speed and scale of information without identity or verification. That's not going to be solved by curation.
Maybe someone here can explain: I've come across more than a few philosophers, of the PhD/academic flavor, who are dismissive of Wittgenstein's work. I have a gist-level understanding of his work, and a hobbyist's knowledge of the history of Western thought up through, say, Foucault.

Am I seeing a biased sample or is LW out of fashion these days? If so, why?
This is an example of the intellectually dishonest juggling act I'm talking about.
I'm both a programmer and a mathematician. Mathematics is written in English (or another human language) plus added symbols. The symbols are what we refer to as the notation. It's not comparable to programming language. Here the words are equal to the symbols.

Also, no better notation could help you understand most modern mathematics. There's no better choice of symbols or names that will help you understand Galois theory. You simply need to understand high-school algebra, then group theory, then Galois theory.
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> ...to jump from banning hate campaigns on private platforms, to total censorship, is an impressively intellectually dishonest juggling act.

I don't know how unintelligent you have to be to not see the connection here. I'll assume you're just being disingenuous. I don't follow or support QAnon, I think it's nonsense. I however recognise these kinds of sweeping bans as an effort to corral online speech into a restricted orthodoxy of opinion. Free speech is not just the speech that you agree with. There's been such a large body of literature written on the importance of free speech as a right. There's no point me pontificating at length here, if you haven't figured out the importance of free speech by now, God help you.

Give yourself a big pat on the back friendo. You've got the right opinions and you're on """ThE rIgHt SiDe Of HiStOrY""".
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The USA is such a mess.

Can't have free speech because too many voters are conspiracy nuts. Can't ban content because free speech.

The level of ignorance has to be seen to be believed, on sites like 4chan.

Education can clear this impasse, but is it too late?
I'd ask "why did they decide to try to get more efficient now"?

And here the answer is: because there's a big overall downturn.

When things are going well, we generally try to find ways to grow. Find new things for people to do if they aren't needed in their current roles. When we have to focus on trimming costs instead, it's usually due to negative factors.
Free market won't deliver to unprofitable zip codes, won't treat unprofitable diseases and cannot effectively account for negative or positive externalities created by a given business.
How do you define failing?
That's a feature of QAnon, not a bug.

If none of us knows the identity of "Q" then anyone can pretend to be their prophet and there is no way to confirm nor disconfirm. This is why I describe QAnon as a LARP -- it's easy for the average person to participate without knowing any rules (because there are none).
Or at that point you can have a datacenter/colo and not spend anywhere near what you're thinking :)
> No code to share yet, but I finally got (for %95) of website, the browser of my dreams.

> Lightning fast. It will fetch and render almost any page in less than a second, but one thing it was missing was some customability and expandability, hence the natural move to embed guile. So I now have a lisp that is my browser and I am in the process of exploring what that means. Full keyboard control, for everything. VI bindings. A cache from heaven that remembers everywhere I've been and never reloads unless I tell it. I can fly around history like you've never seen.

Why do you tease us?

More seriously, I'll be interested when/if you do have code to share - this sounds great.
If you don't produce desirable results for your customer you go out of business?
The US equivalent to Ofcom is the FCC, which is not as powerful in statutory authority nor as aggressive in practice. Ofcom, among other things, regulates rates and service days for Royal Mail. I do not believe FedEx or UPS would accept this degree of regulation in exchange for the liberty to deliver letters to mailboxes.

What's also significant is that Royal Mail privatization is less than a decade old. From a policy perspective, it's still an experiment. It doesn't actually have any competition for letter delivery. That Royal Mail has survived despite the lack of a statutory monopoly does not mean that the same would be true of USPS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tontine

I really like this idea, but it reminded me of the tontine episode of Archer.
>Do you expect a private company to service every single rural address that currently receives mail for the same or lower price?

I don't quite understand why that's something we need to do. Those that live in rural addresses that can't be efficiently delivered to can pick up their mail in town. Sure, it's less convenient but lack of conveniences is part of living in the country.
No, it was proprietary code, and it wasn't for an Intel processor. It was a pure software approach, but the particular (embedded) environment made it harder to attack the shadow stack itself.

I had a pretty cool optimization that I don't think anyone's figured out yet. Oh well. That's the downside of software-as-trade-secrets.
VSCode might be the best of the electron apps, but being best of the worst isn't something to brag about.
De Beers does not have a monopoly. Look up their market share.
The US Postal Service should be funded like NASA. It can contract out to companies like Amazon - just like NASA contracts to SpaceX.
Poor taste is much more likely.

Was that not the very point of some people’s frustration? Why does the intentions of the person on the video need justification, rationalization or explanation?
I’d like to see Antifa added to this growing list as well.

The article states this group has “ties to dangerous real-world activities”. Does anyone know of any? Or is this just conjecture? The article’s statement was fairly vague.
Does it? There are other privately owned platforms you can use to accuse Hilary Clinton of pedophaelic blood rituals and satanic mind control.

When Ingsoc comes in to ban reporters from asking unflattering questions at presidential news conferences then maybe we can talk.
This falls under the Rule of Goats

https://twitter.com/popehat/status/858722120620265473
I'm not an expert on the labor theory of value, but I do know that's not a valid interpretation of it. For one thing, I believe it applies only at a macro, or sectoral, level.
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> The average person isn’t capable enough to judge information for themselves; we need people in power to curate what is seen.

I hope this is just missing the sarcasm tag?
They should just use the admin panel to start posting different stuff, a distributed re-education campaign with shadowban for user-generated content

I'm sure they granted themselves this power in the Terms of Service, if not then I'm sure they've granted themselves the power to update the Terms of Service
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Cool, that's an unusual use of Unity - but I imagine you could do some unique graphical things with the UI later on to take advantage of a game engine.
To support your last paragraph, no company has yet successfully entered competition with the UK Royal Mail on letter delivery.
Good thing many alternatives exist!
It'll be the same thing that drives people to bang on about code reviews and tabs vs spaces and camel vs underscore and semicolons in a language that defines their use then says they're optional. Mostly.
That makes sense. Thank you for clarifying.
Opaque names have the advantage that they don't trigger any potentially misleading associations and they emphasize the abstract nature of what is being discussed. A variable named x could be anything, even something that the mathematician/programmer didn't anticipate.
Uhh money? Why does UPS deliver packages to rural areas? I live in a rural area and the majority of my packages arrive by UPS or Fedex rather than the USPS.
Silicon Valley really loves some formal education it seems. Both of my Si Valley interviews, where they were willing to fly me out and accommodate me, involved an older gentleman having a sit-down with me about university, and how I should have gone.
Thanks for the references. I think Android's versionName / versionCode are closest to what I have in mind. The problem IMHO with CFBundleVersion, CFBundleShortVersionString, et al. is that they need to be parsed before making comparisons, and this is where developers make mistakes or take shortcuts. Whereas with plain integers, direct comparisons are simple and usually correct as well. Take the story in question: I can imagine being lazy and skip over the major version part of the version string. But with integers, I wouldn't go out of the way to mask out the MSBs, no?
They are not profitable at the rates necessary to keep them universal.
lol im sure you do, as does pando.

and ya, that makes sense. it should be offered by YC and other accelerators, but it should be managed by alumni and pool members, not by the investing party.

edit: a word
Can you describe to me what you think Antifa is?
They also work well as home servers and stuff!
I don't have any hard numbers but quite a bit. Everyday we process millions of background jobs, thousands of database queries per second, etc. and stats are collected and sent to Prometheus for all those.
The question is if we should optimize for pencil efficiency or education. To me, it's obvious: I've met way more people interesting in learning math than performing it, so we try to make notation as clear and possible.

Vim, like math notation, is optimized for efficiency. That's great for power users, but it's not what you would use if you wanted to teach someone how to word process.

(BTW, try imaging Vim where each file mandates its own special keybindings. That's math notation for ya.)
who are also heavily consolidated in certain markets, who also recruit from the same state schools that Big Tech can't figure out even exist
Don't you think if your going to attempt to argue against someone you should argue against what they actually said?

If so then why the double standard with Q there are dumb fans who post stupidity for literally everything. You would think people would actually quote the source (always ignored) instead of using a clear falacy of using ones followers to define them.
I take that as a possibility, but not a given. And even if it is a given there’s nothing to say a better, more efficient system couldn’t be employed.

For example, current day drones would excel at rural mail delivery. Bread and butter business opportunity for someone so inclined.

Just because one method is removed does not mean the product ceases to exist. If it’s valuable a provider will find it.
Ha, my mistake, I misread your comment's reference to my own. I thought you were saying that it is definitely impossible to do while having a family.

Thanks for your perspective!
I'm a weird computer nerd. When I'm working in my frugal environment (with links, i3 and whatnot) and I switch to something mainstream (e.g. Windows 10), I get a feeling of relief.

However, when I switch back from the mainstream to the frugal environment, I also get the same feeling of relief.

In the frugal environment, I feel very productive and creative. In the mainstream environment, I feel that I have more cognitive bandwidth to just get stuff done.

Anyone out there feeling the same?
Do you mean that you want antifa-related accounts to be banned? Or do you mean that discussion of conspiracy theories about antifa should be banned?