skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thesis in TFA is "82 percent of articles published in the humanities are not even cited once." This claim is unsourced, but it's the same form of claim that's debunked by the linked article (once you scroll past the stuff about spinach): "The main problem with the 45 percent figure is not that we have to work hard in order to find out where it comes from, nor that it is old and rather irrelevant for the situation in 2012. We have in fact stumbled across yet another academic urban legend."
More regulation actually increases the barrier of entry to make it even harder for new companies. Well financed established companies are well able to comply. There is a reason that FB always begs for regulation.
> The IP strategy ones often missed...

I don't think it was missed, in whole or in nuance, by anyone paying attention, but bringing attention to it was met with accusations of racism, and those were partisan.

Not that I'm chill with the Right, either: the "markets can do no wrong" philosophy leads to an enormous blind spot. Greedy optimizers fall apart when sub-components need to coordinate. When an adversary realizes they can just pay the hand to shoot the foot, suddenly the system finds itself with a destroyed industrial base but can't understand what just happened because the explanation lies in the blind spot. That's an even bigger problem than easily co-opted social justice causes.
Each share is (roughly) the same size as the original. In effect, all of them are just encrypted versions of the original.
The choice between regular and tax-managed funds, and also the choice between regular and tax-exempt bonds, is not straightforward.

There are quite a few caveats in that wiki article, e.g. stuff like this:

> Your actual tax cost will be higher if you owe state taxes (add your state tax rate on the dividend yield, reduced by your federal tax rate if you itemize deductions and are not over the limit for deducting state taxes) or are in the phase-out range for some tax benefit such as the child tax credit (add 5% to all tax rates) or the personal exemption phase-out for the Alternative Minimum Tax (add 7% to all tax rates, but your overall tax on non-qualified dividends is 28%).

That's a bit complicated. I would still recommend paying for at least a one-time consultation with a financial and/or tax advisor before choosing where to put $450k.
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I agree it's a shit website, but I loaded it on Chrome with uBlock Origin and I don't have scrolljacking (scrolling seems fine), history hacking (my back button works as expected), and no background ads at all.
Least important doesn’t mean unimportant, just that all the other things are more important, in relative terms.
I have a standup every morning and am happy we are not obligated or somehow pressured to turn video on.

I don't have to shave.
I don't have to put on a business casual shirt.
I don't have to clean up my living room.
I don't have to be aware I am being looked at the whole time - seemingly paying attention when someone rambles on about a topic which I am not involved in, not scratching my ear when I want to, whatever.

Every two weeks or so, we do have a meeting where people turn their camera on, which is fine. Every morning would be too much of a hassle with everything else going on though.
Hearing his name more brings to mind for me the Quaker Oatmeal commercials he did in the '80s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOLXnkbfEuo
Is there a legitimate law on the books that Fedex et al cannot legally deliver letters, or is it just that subsidized postage stamps are so cheap no private company can profit off paper mail delivery?

Because letters are paper but so are magazines, newspapers, etc that I know are delivered by non-USPS mail carriers.

It isn't a very persuasive argument to destroy cheap post for the masses to... let investors make money. As it is if usps was incapable of fulfilling its duty private entities could enter the market at way higher prices and if useful would see business.
I strongly agree with your last paragraph. It is a very bad habit, from within the event, for people to conclude that everything has changed, that this thing, which is ephemeral, will have the particular long term impact that the authors are wishing for.

There may be long term effects, but ... In the valley, the number of people I personally know who are moving - not talking about it, actually moving - out of the city, in particular, but also out of the peninsula, is actually quite surprising. But I saw this happen in 2000-2002, as well, and half of them moved back by 2004.
Web apps aren't tech. They're “tech”
Yep, this is a pretty meaningless statistic
Newborn schedule:

7:00 Our oldest has woken up and is playing in his room. We get up.

8:00 I get ready and start working from home. My SO, their mother, takes care of the kids.

12:00 I take a break to look after the kids a bit.

12:30 I eat in front of my computer while working.

16:30 I'm done working.

17:00 I take a walk with the kids in the forest while their mother prepares supper (if we don't eat out).

18:15 We eat supper.

18:45 I get my oldest ready for bed and sing him lullabies.

19:15 My SO and I watch something together, or do each our own thing, while caring for our baby girl, who has Colic.

23:00 Their mother goes to bed. I stay up with our baby girl. We take turns to sleep.

00:00 I watch Vikings while consoling her.

01:00 She feeds by her mother. Time to work on a side project.

01:05 I watch Vikings.

01:20 She's done feeding, and I bring her down in the living room again.

02:00 Can't follow the plot any more.

02:30 Data missing.

03:00 I hand her to her mother and go to sleep.
What paranoia are you talking about ? Weird to hear that because it's the safest city I've been to...
He isn't saying it's okay.
Buy stamps, as if they were toilet paper or war bonds. If the American public buys stamps they can have a collective action of helping to save one of its finest institutions.
> the virus is killing tens of thousands a day.

There hasn't been a single day with over ten thousand worldwide deaths from corona so far.
Academic journals are not news articles or Facebook posts begging for eye balls.

If only a few of them that are important enough to help push humanity forward, then that is good enough.
Maybe that's a sign of dysfunction. People like to rail against ad supported companies, why wouldn't we feel the same way here?
No, it's still stupid. The government creates dollars.

Asking individual agencies to save money for pensions just distorts monetary and fiscal policy.

When will people understand fractional reserve banking...
why point out "ethnicity" at all? all it shows is that you personally were predisposed to be less trusting of something different. and that probably you're white and don't view whiteness as an ethnicity.

your readers may not be the same race as you. maybe to them "different less-trustworthy ethnicity" is white.

or maybe you only wanted to talk to other white people so you could reconfirm to yourselves that "ethnic" cultures are "backwards" and "exotic" and "less trustworthy."
Interesting. Feels like you could accomplish the same effect with regular encryption though.

Base64 encode the key, pad it with random data that matches the size of splitting into N-1 parts. Then split the encrypted file into N-1 b64 encoded parts. For lowish values of 'N', you could then just decrypt with each "key" until something readable emerges. The key size, algo, etc, could be prepended to each part in plaintext.

Or, if you want a variation where no parts are optional, a piece of the key in every split part, with a sufficiently long key.
Now repeat that for your mail server, your expense tracking system, your HR system, your project manager system, various collaboration software....

And what happens when that one server goes down or becomes overloaded?
> I have heard about experiments related to free-will wherein the brain already made a decision even before the conscious mind became aware of it

I believe these studies were not able to be replicated. Also, we have no way to scientifically measure consciousness. So a study that purports to time it is measuring reaction speed, not consciousness per se.
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Play chess, and do physical exercise.

Both will develop your mental stamina, and chess especially will hone your adversarial thinking.

You may even find that your chess fitness is directly comparable to your programming fitness and vice-versa. When you're programming fit through working on some incredibly hard problems in the week (think distributed systems or file systems or algorithms), then your chess will show an improvement. And when you're playing several hours of chess a day against a good opponent, then your programming will likewise benefit and your bug count drop as you naturally start thinking further ahead.
Her "data" is mostly liking cute dog videos. China can have that data for all I care. Meta data about my network, devices? If China really wants to know that I'm on Spectrum internet, and have a few other devices connected, sure, go ahead. I monitor my network and haven't seen any suspicious traffic that would worry me.
Hate to break it to you, but it’s more complicated than that. You may want to do some reading from the other side, you sound like you’re parroting Democratic talking points.

NYTimes disagrees with you that higher turnout always helps the Democrats.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/15/upshot/2020-election-turn...

Typically increased turnout helps the Democrats, but that’s not necessarily true now.
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Maybe r/datahoarder ?
Or even r/opendirectories ,r/plex , r/homeserver ?
The underlying motivation here is to accomplish two things:

1. Destroy the viability of the post office as a business (a long running campaign)

2. Disenfranchise voters (a relatively recent campaign)

Tens of thousands of people were disenfranchised during the primaries because their ballots were received too late, even if they were postmarked on time. [1]

Tax returns are considered to be submitted on the date of their postmark, but ballots are not. There seems to be an important disconnect here tied to the different incentives for the state.

Dropping ballots off at dropbox makes a lot of sense, but it won't work for everyone. The rules also vary and availability is often poorly communicated. Plus, most people won't expect to have a problem with their ballot being counted until they find out that it wasn't counted.

But the problem doesn't start with submitting your ballot. First you have to successfully register to vote-by-mail (some states require a form to be mailed in), and most importantly you have to actually receive your ballot in time. This also happened during the primaries, and so people had to go vote in person after all (or be disenfranchised). [2]

Lots of things we take for granted will stop working with a failed postal service, but voting is particularly key right now. It is the only path towards attempting to fix the issue at hand.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2020/07/13/889751095/signed-sealed-undel...

[2] https://time.com/5874571/new-york-state-general-election/
> If anything, all entities promising retirement benefits should be forced to do it the way USPS does

That would be nice but [insert financing excuse here] others cant do it too.

> Too bad it didn’t apply to governments, because if it did, then my kids and I wouldn’t be stuck paying for labor performed 30+ years ago because all the city and state governments decided they can just promise to pay people with future taxpayers’ money by underfunding defined benefit pension plans and retiree healthcare benefits.

Yes but forcing just USPS to do it was an attack on USPS because it has to compete with private companies. State and local run organizations have no such competition thus 'locally too big to fail'.

I've heard of some interesting talk about making a working USPS federal credit union/bank for a variety of services to the public that might prove lucrative and something that would potentially ease USPSs cash troubles. I'm not an expert into the economics about that and it might prove disruptive to a lot of businesses.
My understanding of the matter is that while KODA and Google were negotiating, Google insisted their cut be raised with 80% until they reach a new agreement at an unknown date in the future.

I would also be wary of letting the other party in a negotiation create strong incentives to never reach a new mutually beneficial agreement.
I agree with you that hostile satellite recovery would be fraught with challenges. That said, I expect there are people who 'war game' these scenarios all day and probably have various counters or techniques to prevent damage to the shuttle or its bay.
It's illegal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Express_Statutes

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Here is the livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-l6f4wcv2I

If it is live, go back to roughly 2:45 EST. If it is no longer live, it should be around 7h15m in the VOD.

(I really wish you could link to a time on a livestream, or even better, create a "Clip" like with Twitch.)

EDIT: Well it is streamed on Twitch so here's a clip: https://www.twitch.tv/nasa/clip/CourteousPatientVelociraptor...

From which you can also click "watch full video" which puts you at the exact right time in the full VOD.
Yes, it has a very 2006-era "OCaml as an alternative to C/C++" attitude, hence the claims that OCaml has an extensive library ecosystem and developer tooling: compared to C this is true but not compared to Python/Java in 2020.

The suggested tools are also out of date. If you want to try OCaml nowadays you should probably install it with opam and use dune as a build system.
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Fascinating to me too. People would be outraged if an insurance company wasn’t appropriately saving for annuities it sold.

But it’s perfectly fine if a government sells defined benefit pensions and retiree health benefits, saves a fraction of the promised benefits, and then raises taxes in the future to pay for it.
Funny how half the country voted for Trump but not a single one can show up here and express a single opinion even in the most implicit way.

You control all the big and small tech companies, online communities, all the big media except Fox and have your minions even inside the white house office yet still will lose miserably just like 2016.
NO_HZ_FULL only works on Fedora and RHEL/CentOS 7+ unfortunately. Not sure why Debian derivatives haven't enabled this feature in the kernel.
>an intentional kneecapping of the USPS by the administration

You mean the republicans. There's only one political party out to prove government services do not work by intentionally destroying those institutions. And whitewashing that by using whataboutism and using weasel words like "congress" and "adminstration" will just keep things going the way they are.
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left/right completely falls apart when you apply it to groups like ISIS. They're decidedly not capitalist, which is strongly associated with "right wing", they run/ran their system on a religious taxation-scheme with a lot of "nationalization" of anything in conquered areas, but they're also not marxist in any way. They are obviously not nationalistic and are a diverse group, they are united by belief/ideology, not by blood/heritage.

Declaring them to be "right wing" is obviously nonsense unless you remove all meaning and just call "right wing" whatever isn't explicitly left wing.
I do exactly this! VTSAX,VBTLX, and have a fun account.

My fun account has made me much more aware of global scientific news and research as I see my stocks jump up or level off; really neat understanding why.
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your last link is 404; this is it https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/...
I saw the craziest thing Friday in my little town, there were five, maybe six postal carriers all on one street and they looked like they were in a hurry to get everyone their mail. I'm wondering now how many others there were on other streets that I just didn't see. It was so bizarre.
>> Retirement benefits should be funded as they are accrued. That is not the problem.

No, that really is the problem. Prefunding pension liabilities is something that literally no company or federal agency ever does, for obvious reasons.
In short. Yes. Most code needs to be maintained and understood(!), so having some semblance of standardization (in its many forms) usually provides benefits to the stakeholders.

And to address your last sentence, I think it’s important to understand that for a skilled engineer it _does not necessarily_ take more time to write better code!
Your comment would have been incredible if you had ended with:

> Before, I used to have low patience about prose that was too verbose. But now with GPT3 more people will start doing so, amd commenters will hace to start introducing typos to beong perceived as a human.
Im doing a "browser-based something" that can mostly be reasoned about as a web-over-rpc-services where the primary pitch to start it, was exactly based on the thinking generously expressed by this article (albeit i had to start it much earlier).

The first thing is to expect the app devs to define a api in RPC so that what they app serve it transparent to the whole platform.

That way, users and other apps can reuse that api and integrate tools and other services without worrying about if the node is online or not.

Given they are RPC (over TCP or IPC), they can be used as a peer node in a distributed computing flock or in the app service process the application can serve the RPC requests not locally if it wants or needs, but going over the network.

But even in the case it goes straight to the "cloud" for resources, in the node it will always go through the RPC-api first. (How the application handle the RPC request is defined by the app developers).

There are a lot of others important details actually, for instance the UI sdk, window management, its already there, the storage layer (files and key-value db) are distributed over p2p(torrent) and everything is accessible/bootstrapped through a DHT address accessible anywhere.

But imagine if you had this architecture before, and Twitter, Facebook or Google search had to install a api-based application, where they need to ask you for permission to index content, or store locally your list of friends.. where later other apps could extract that information from your machine.. For instance you could change your search to DDG or export your Facebook list of friends and post to some other social network(this is actually the primary reason almost no one could compete with a popular social network).

In the end, things that should be yours are yours and third-party apps will have to be installed and granted permission by you to manage that digital property.

But overall i'm very glad to see that this is starting to become some sort of a trend, that people are finally waking up, because despite of all technological implications of it, it also have a lot of political and social benefits to this approach.
The federal government creates dollars. Ask the taxpayers in IL, NJ, CT, KY, Chicago, Detroit how their money printing presses are doing and if fractional reserve banking is coming to their rescue.

And it still results in devaluation of the dollar. You don’t get to pull resources from the future for free, especially if the expected economic growth doesn’t materialize.
No, their engineers are mostly in China.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/26/zoom-key-profit-driver-ahead...
This seems unlikely to produce enough methanol to be harmful.
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Varies per state.
Also, Hyper.app has ctrl+shift+v/c for copy paste, Git-ui has some weird shit like alt-shift-fn-c/v too LOL...
The simplest argument against government run services is that eventually, the people you don't like will be in charge of them
This is exactly right. It was a way to get free advertising from cutting your advertising budget.
Unfortunately, HN userbase frowns upon what they incorrectly perceive as politicization of topics, so a lot of people will resort to whitewashing in the manner you described in order to avoid getting their posts flag-killed by partisans (which is what will happen to this comment - just watch).
The boiling point for ethanol and methanol are close and methanol boils at a lower temperature, so if you distill your alcohol incorrectly, your end product could have both ethanol and methanol. Unless you test for it, you won't know that you have both which is why illegally made alcohol would cause blindness, hence the turn "drinking yourself blind".
> Is there a legitimate law on the books that Fedex et al cannot legally deliver letters.

I just learned this, but yes, that appears to be the case! The private express statutes[1] appear to do just that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Express_Statutes
> let them do what they want to do

That's the thing. Sometimes it is specifically to use the GPU in which case a silent fallback isn't desired. It's fine for the software to include a CPU mode but make it an actual mode and and not always fallback so the user can specify 'what they want to do'.
I don't believe that is what the poster meant. I think the meaning is more like, "if the reason you love research is because you want humanity to learn more about a topic you know a lot about, you will have a larger impact by improving Wikipedia than by pushing out a survey article to a journal that nobody reads". Not that Wikipedia would be a good place to publish original research after having run a couple of experiments and stuffing your data into a table there.
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Banking from the post office is a pretty common thing and makes a lot of sense as it gives people a public, non-profit banking avenue for the poor and under served.
It sounds like you need to educate yourself on how alcohol is produced, especially amateur alcohol production.
Then that's a "function containing an unsafe block," not an "unsafe function." In any case, this is still a misunderstanding of what staticassertion said. I elaborated more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24028359

My bigger point here is that you're misunderstanding the advocated Rust value proposition. The value proposition isn't literally "Rust will forever and always eliminate all memory safety bugs in safe Rust." That's silly and no serious person with any credibility would double down on that claim.
Being able to produce a counterargument does not qualify the original argument as "parroting talking points".
That sounds like a pretty relaxed schedule. What do you do for work if you don’t mind sharing?
The USPS includes legal protections against your mail being opened, and a mandate to serve everyone. Whereas private companies can be fully employed for government surveillance (third party doctrine), sell bulk records to commercial surveillance companies (equifax, google, etc), as well as refusing service to whomever they like (ala MC/Visa).

I agree this isn't the overriding concern of those trying to destroy the USPS, but it's surely a nice bonus.
Ive pushed back hard against video on for everyone. There is usually very little gained for everyone having video on besides allowing the meeting host to see who’s paying attention. If I’m spending time with my friends that’s different because the point is to see their faces and be social, but my coworkers I don’t need to see their faces just their presentation.
The USPS actually has two legally enforced monopolies, as per Title 39 of the US Code. One is over the delivery of anything defined as a “letter,” which is within certain size and weight limits. The second is over the use of your mailbox. That is correct: there are criminal violations if anyone puts anything in your mail box that is not US government approved “mail.”