skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
C# has had named arguments for a while now too - and I’m in love with them. They’ve helped me avoid many ugly bugs caused by refactoring, such as when a method has many parameters with the same type - and a refactoring reordered or added/deleted parameters - thanks to named-parameters the call-sites still worked instead of silently failing (because the call-site would still be type-correct and compiled, even if it was intent-incorrect).

My only peeve is that VS still doesn’t let you style/colour named-argument labels in a different colour, so it does add to visual-noise in the editor.

Adding labels to every argument is just silly, so I do have a personal hard-and-fast rule that any call-site of a method with literal arguments must be explicitly labelled (especially booleans!), and any call-site of a method with consecutive homogenous typed parameters must also be labelled - these rules have worked out fantastically for me.
Reduce inequity: Make the highest grades achievable by all students
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_R._Orszag
(NOTE: NOT suggesting he cheated, just noting that lots of people have fast-tracks pre-planned for them w/o the hassle of working their way up.)

Not quite running the FED, but look at the years, pretty close.

Orszag earned an A.B. summa cum laude in economics from Princeton University in 1991 after completing an 80-page long senior thesis titled "Congressional Oversight of the Federal Reserve: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives."[11] He then received a M.Sc. (1992) and a Ph.D. (1997) in economics from the London School of Economics.

He served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy (1997–1998), and as Senior Economist and Senior Adviser on the Council of Economic Advisers (1995–1996) during the Clinton administration.
Director of the OMB by 2008.
What a deepfake voice clone used in a failed fraud attempt sounds like
I'm building a bunch of opinionated Ansible playbooks + tooling, with a Heroku-like experience.
Yeah it's a similar situation in Switzerland. Not sure about the prioritization of deliveries though but the postal service started to offer different kind of services (like starting a bank "Postfinance" [which I guess is a swiss thing to do], or selling office supplies).
In general: revenue from mail is down but revenue from parcel is up.
Also during the COVID-lockdown people started ordering shit online like crazy, so there were of course delays and problems.
Yeah, I'm getting more and more convinced about my purchase strategy for electronics:

1. Get as simple and durable as possible

2. If it has to be complex, get something made by Apple

3. There's no rule three
Tesla will only really start competing in Europe once their factory is up and running. It messes with their financials to have lots of vehicles being transported. That should give them some high volume but the cars are still not perfect for the European market, but at least they should make a good margin.

It will probebly be 2 more years before they have a 'small' car for Europe and China in production. Only then they will really compete with the shorter range city cars.
Either go for a fast charging car, fastest Tesla moves 1000 km in 10h (incl charging), newest E-tron manages the same in 10h20m (Teslabjørn’s tests).

Or go for something super efficient, like the Kias (Kona/Ioniq). Kona does 560 km on a single charge (64 kWh) in real life tests here in Norway.
Ask HN: Slack runs files instead of opening folder
I've noticed that slack is now just opening/running the files when you download a shared one. This seems to be a bit problematic for me as sometimes we get files without extensions or I want to choose the app that should open the file given its context or I would like to inspect/scan the file before opening it. Slack used to open you to the folder that the file was downloaded but now they just run it. Does anyone else see this as a problem? Am I thinking about this wrongly or justified in my annoyance?
The responses here are full of misinformation. The bill in question was passed with unanimous Bipartisan support And the endorsement of one of the postal employee unions.

See: https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/house-bill/6407

They’re required to fund the present value of employee retirement benefits.
> If it's as I hypothesize and they can't revoke software licenses, I think their stance is reasonable from the perspective that this could be used to acquire all the games for free.

Doesn't sound reasonable to me. The law doesn't cease to apply when a business finds compliance to be inconvenient. At least, it shouldn't.
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Might be market dynamics; are Norwegians more status-conscious than the average European? The e-tron in the lead there would definitely indicate something along those lines.

Or possibly available credit and willing to use said credit. The UK is a bit of an outlier in terms of car spending when you look at its average wages, but the massive popularity of PCP loans probably explains that.

Norwegians are also higher income than the average European, of course, but that probably doesn't explain all of it.
> 1) Word-based crawling/indexing: quickly abused by spammers.

I guess that ends quickly once spam means you get blacklisted no matter how many Google ads you serve ;-)

A large piece of this article hints at how they have some interesting options that Google doesn't have.
...or they "got operating experience" and end up a partner at a VC firm.
> Are those the names of those disputed islands in the South China Sea

Yes
Unrelated, why are you using parallax effects on your landing page? It works really poorly when I scroll down fast.
The USPS provides universal service, especially to areas that are unprofitable. Moreover, congress sets their rates instead of letting market forces determine rates. Finally, they are under retirement funding rules that commercial carriers are not. Then, after being required to run unprofitably, legislators observe that the USPS is not competitive?

One can't help but wonder if Amazon wants to pull up the ladder behind them.
Only usps can carry first class mail, or “letters”.
Just handle postal services like eg Germany. They privatised Deutsche Post and abolished the monopoly. Other European countries did similar. Germany is hardly the land of unbridled capitalism. But even they saw the light.

In general the European policies are far from perfect, but they show that the American arguments for nationalised mail are bogus.

> The message right before this you stated that you're perfectly fine with privatizing pensions, cutting union contracts, etc, but now you claim you care about not punishing people. Furthermore, you claim to be against wealth transfers upwards, but this privatization would do exactly that.

What makes you think so? I'm for a level playing field. Government employees should get the same options for pensions as the rest of the population. The best option to help workers is a vibrant job market. Unions mostly just protect the insiders, like union functionaries are just in general people who already have a job.
I’m a little confused, what point are you trying to make with the London Penny Post?

It supports the ideas of flat pricing, something you said you don’t support. It also not even close to the first postal company, Royal Mail was incorporated almost a hundred years before.
> I don't think anybody thinks that a place being on a map means the country where the map maker is from gets to control that place.

That is literally what the Nine Dash Line is about
Which is disappointing. Swarm is infinitely easier to setup and get running, and it scales down / uses WAY fewer resources than k8s.
Surely if someone is violating a rule 12 times a day you shouldn't need to make separate filings for each instance, right? I would hope something like "Hey we are still waiting on 1178 out of 1195 requests from this quarter" would get a judge's attention.
Ah, now I get what you mean - that entries such as

ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere 172.19.0.10 tcp dpt:8843

are created by docker, independently from the configuration of iptables themselves.
I just tried this and really like it.

Unfortunately the latency for the audio output from Teamspeak 3 just rose to multiple seconds over a fews hours of use.

The latencies reported by PulseAudio did not represent that, but I could hear people talking for a few seconds after their icon indicated that they stopped.

Did you encounter similiar issues? Since I don't know much about PulseAudio I am at a loss right now and have to endure the noise.
A cold war bunker that became home to a dark-web empire
There is a same system in Antwerp, Belgium, not at every intersection though.
Google or Bing help a lot.

See eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service#C...
I don’t find it onerous at all. The USPS pension will ultimately be one of the few fully funded public pensions.

Head to your favorite search engine, pick any city or state in the US, and then follow it with “pension crisis.”

USPS retirees will be better off than virtually any other non-military government employee.
That's with the 40 kWh version. I believe the 50 kWh version has the same charge curve, but obviously gets you farther.

You can get much faster there if you charge more often and stop around 60-70%. On long trips, I take a lot of margin, which isn't necessary if you drive to somewhere you know really well (say, a second home) and which has plenty of chargers.

I have to admit, I'm a bit in love with this car. So I'm perhaps overly positive.
Unfortunately not much of a surprise. Gig work is the technologically enabled version of people sitting on street corners waiting for someone to drive up in a truck and offer them ad hoc work. There's more people on the virtual street corner now and the companies hold all the power, showing very little, or no, loyalty to their ad hoc "employees".
AFAIK "+" is just space replacement, and quotes don't work anymore, verbatim flag is now used instead.
A Front-Row Seat for the Arctic’s Final Summers with Ice
I run a mail order business. I haven't noticed any delays.
> This is not true

Of course it is not true in an absolute sense, but take away the entertainment business from these risky sports and you'd be left with a mere trickle of people who do it merely for the kicks.

I'm obviously a lone voice in the desert, but I'm fed up with the show of "what a tragedy" and "thoughts and prayers" every time yet another young life gets squashed because a substantial segment of the populace will pay to have a dose of adrenaline through the death defying acts of daring of others, or have their unprocessed and suppressed aggression vented by proxy.

Needs that are nurtured by the industry, with hardly any opposition (nowadays).
> From the perspective of someone who is not living in a large city I think you are primarily talking about the properties of large cities, not about assimilation in general...

No, I am talking about assimilation. I'm only concerned with the end product of the immigration. I'm not opposed to large-scale urban multiculturalism on some spiritual basis, I'm opposed to it because I don't believe it produces an actual desirable outcome. It sounds like you've just spoken to my point: That in large cities immigrant populations do not assimilate to the host culture because of the availability of said enclaves. If you're the one immigrant in a village of 100, you may need to make a bigger effort to assimilate into the host community. This is true. Your post seems to agree with me on the point that many immigrants favour large cities because there is less obligation to integrate with the host culture.

> However, what you seem to fail to grasp is that what you are seeing isn't actually the native culture of these people...

I fail to see the significance of this. I have my own doubts as to its accuracy. True or not, I still don't see the relevance. One possible way of interpreting your post would be that this is their attempt at assimilating into the host culture. If immigrant populations in large cities forming racial enclaves and ghettos that exclude the host culture is the best possible outcome, then why are we obliged to believe this multicultural experiment is a good thing?

FYI: I am an immigrant myself, having come to this country as a child.
> You simply wouldn't do a cross-country trip in a Zoe -- say, from Belgium to the French Riviera

What percentage of people actually do that at all regularly? I would have thought a lot of people would fly or take the train for that.
This law is often credited to Republicans trying to destroy the USPS but the law was cosponsored by Democrats and sailed through congress without much pushback: https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/house-bill/6407
Configuring Auth0 as an OpenID Connect Provider for Your Azure App Service
From what I hear, for the same price range BMWs, Mercedes, etc. are also much better quality than Teslas.
As we have seen, they didn't hit their target often enough for it to make much difference back then.

Most offices didn't have an enthusiast yet, and certainly not IT professionals.

I even took a look at a personal computer publication or two at the time, and I am neither.

Publications needed to cast a wider net, but it took a while to reel ordinary users in.

_App_ was literally understood by enthusiasts for years without ever becoming part of the everyday spoken vocabulary even among themselves. It still had no meaning to users at the time, but they already knew what a program was, as well as a computer programmer. However, most users purchasing their first Apple or PC had never yet heard of a software engineer.

Kind of helps to explain why it took until the 21st century for the nomenclature to become mainstream.
Proofs work in steps too.

I can never tell what an index-juggling loop is doing, in whatever language (including Scheme).

But when you follow the data type case by case, each step is simple and logical, easy to comprehend so the whole solution is easy too.
> USPS delivers to anyone in the extended U.S. with sane prices.

They are able to do this by overcharging for local mail and absurdly undercharging for rural mail. Just another in the never ending list of ways that dense areas subsidize less dense areas.

But the kicker is the less dense areas are the ones who would vote to privatize the USPS. So I say give them what they want.
Is cancel culture a real thing among comedians, as in are there real-life examples of comedians who got canceled because of edgy jokes?

Lewis C.K. and got cancelled because of unwanted sexual acts, similar to other actors. It had nothing to with his humor or acts.
I’m curious- why ansible instead of terraform for dealing with the cloud provider APIs for your base layer of infrastructure?
That case though was about safety of the audience, says the article.
Not everything that is possible has been done. That is such a dark outlook. Do you really think 2020 is peak humanity?

New approaches are successful all the time.
California proposition to allow racial and other discrimination
Yet few predicted just how much the web would change things over the next 10 years, and then mobile computing over the 10 years after that.

If you'd have said in 1997 that the most valuable companies in the world would include Google, Facebook and Amazon you'd have been laughed out of the room, when you then said that failing toy company apple would top the list

Even outside the world of IT, if you'd have told people in 1997 that a new car company would emerge and become one of the most valuable car companies in the world, given it had been 30 years since the previous car company had gone public, you'd have been equally mad.

In 1997 the most valuable companies in the world included Shell, Exxon, Toyota and Coca-Cola.

Predicting 20 years away is hard.
Or let it provide banking services... It would add another revenue stream and provide a service that is currently very hard to access in many areas.
History provides many great examples. Your particular concern also comes up in the building of canals or railroads.

So see eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_rail_transport_in_G... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_British_canal_s...

But also have a look specifically at roads: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnpike_trust
Just thinking this through, wouldn't three weights on springs get you all the data? Or some sort of membrane containing a liquid than ruptures when a particular amount of force is felt in any direction?
Do you not see what it's going to do with the USPS? Why would you want it done with cities and states, unless your goal is to privatize entire cities and states.
Went to the Front Page, quickly got cancelled. I guess Cleese might be hitting a nerve.
That’s why Amazon built their own Shipping network now. They only use USPS where it makes financial sense, notably often in the Midwest or in places where they don’t have other deliveries. They are rapidly gaining competitive advantages that cannot be equaled without billions in investment.
> This means we can connect to MySQL from the client side! That will be secure, right? ;-)

Not really, the MySQL server would need to support something such as webSocket or WebRTC to be able to directly connect to a browser (or just plain HTTP). So you'd still need either to modify MySQL or write a proxy server.
Exactly! Who the hell programs in PHP anymore.
Hi there (sorry to thread hijack) - found this comment of yours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20517293 but I can't reply there.

We're working on a simple drag/drop style report builder to turn jp notebooks into shareable reports. Currently in private beta, would you be interested in trying it out? If so, please drop me a line: rohit [at] dolphyn [dot] io . Thanks!
And Deutsche Post DHL isn't happy to be associated with DHL Express...
> named arguments allow you to pass input data into a function, based on their argument name instead of the argument order

Granted, I'm not a PHP developer, but I can't understand why a change like this would be controversial. It sounds like it's optional, and would help greatly to reduce mistakes when passing arguments to functions? Having multiple lines of things being passed to a function may look odd to some, but couldn't the same argument be made as with arrays, that one line per "thing" makes sense, if nothing else to clean up diffs when collaborating on code?
True. How about suspending a little metal bullet in a gel, chosen such that the bullet will break through the gel if the G-force is more than a certain threshold. This will give a good indication if the forces are within an acceptable range.
You are correct that this is completely unrelated.
Maybe in the future cars will asymptote towards the upper limit of mechanical efficiency (for each given class, like the school run, city trips, long distance, etc.), allowing users to keep them on timescales similar to homes, so the only profitable innovation will then be on the software. Then we might see "car-OS wars" and the beginnings of open source driving systems in parallel.
I don't understand the Tech Regulation chart [0]. What does the y-axis represent?

[0] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50363cf324ac8e...
It's a totally valid rant, and one that I enthusiastically agree with.

I work in adtech (apologies). We have maybe 10 - 15 instances (16 vCPUs, 31GB RAM) that each handle 10k+ HTTP requests per second. There's a push to dockerise all this. I don't see the point.

I've often wondered about the potential performance loss of Dockerising all this, do you have public numbers available? We recently hired a ex-Googler to a management position who claims that on GCP, running docker may actually perform better than VMs. If true, that's really interesting, but I can't find anything to back it up.

Code optimisation (or even profiling) seems to be a dying art since people think that it's easier to just throw CPUs at the problem.
For anyone interested in exploring this history in depth, I can warmly recommend Fred Turner’s book From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism. Very interesting stuff.
Portable Synthesizer OP-1
And it's hard to describe Louis CK as "cancelled" when he's still touring to packed audiences.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2020/03/11...
EBS is not "compute-attached". GP means the disks that appear to be local to the instance.
My main grief with Google is that it frequently omits keywords, contrary to DDG. As to trying to make people confuse organic results and ads, Bing is by far the worst. It often proposes malware sites when queried with open-source projects (try VLC, Audacity).

Sure having a search engine do exactly what the user requests would be great for us, IT people. Not sure it is possible to build much traffic with that alone, though.
> surrounded by masses of her former subjects

You're not supposed to say that part out loud /s
Anti-Semitism row prompts 48-hour Twitter boycott
The problem with three axes is that the registration of the largest deviation by the pen happens for the axes independently.
Surprising though it may seem, with some limited exceptions, it's illegal for a private party to deliver a letter to another private party without paying the US Postal Service.

The term to search for is "Private Express Statutes": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Express_Statutes.

This article (titled "Universal Service and the Postal Monopoly: A Brief History") goes into more depth:
https://about.usps.com/universal-postal-service/universal-se...
From what we see on European roads it's quite common for people in Belgium and the Netherlands to drive to Southern Europe for the summer holidays.

Usually these are big wagon cars, though because they need to fit the family and luggage in there. So I think that people will stick to ICE until there are family-sized EV with the range and the price range. Teslas are not really an option at the moment, IMO.
Although it's from a "newer" author, one of my favourite short stories is Diamond Dogs, by Alastair Reynolds. For me, it's perfect sci-fi, it gets a re-read every couple of years..
Antitrust Hearing: Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook Will Be Testifying
since 2013 that contract must have been foia'd by now
A Late Awakening to Gödel in Physics (2004) [pdf]
A house servant who pioneered the franchising business model
> Nobody will use this for functions that have just two parameters. It’s the ones that have 10 possibilities that are crazy.

It can be super useful even for functions with low arity e.g. `max(seq, key=func)`.
I have a “playing cards in a bottle” one on my desk as a reminder that seemingly impossible things often are quite possible, given enough imagination, patience and perseverance.