skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The USPS is, by definition within the US Constitution, not a business. It is an agency of the federal government. It has no intrinsic responsibility to be profitable, or even self-funding, any more so than the Department of Transportation or the Census Bureau or the military.

All arguments and restrictions along those lines serve only the private businesses that would benefit from its de facto dissolution.

Per the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970:

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

> The United States Postal Service shall be operated as a basic and fundamental service provided to the people by the Government of the United States, authorized by the Constitution, created by Act of Congress, and supported by the people. The Postal Service shall have as its basic function the obligation to provide postal services to bind the Nation together through the personal, educational, literary, and business correspondence of the people. It shall provide prompt, reliable, and efficient services to patrons in all areas and shall render postal services to all communities. The costs of establishing and maintaining the Postal Service shall not be apportioned to impair the overall value of such service to the people.
I am going to preface this by saying I'm no scientist. I think it is because the expansion velocity is so high. It would be nice to get a definitive answer.
It’s more complicated than “do you believe in SE”. There’s a difference between using a SE for storing durable secrets (a bad idea in most implementations I’ve seen) and using a SE for provably destroying a piece of information. The former means that a break is full jackpot, the latter means that a break compromises the system for a window in time and forward secrecy can be restored with a patch.
Looks great. What differentiates frontendor from competitors with similar features? Someone recommended RenderForest to me because of the ability to drag and drop modules to build a website. https://www.renderforest.com/website-maker
50:- or 50 kr is how 50 kronor is written in sweden (and probably all of scandinavia).
But why would something like Facebook open up their walled garden? Does it even count as a walled garden when you have 2 billion people on the platform?
That little voice in your head begging for sugar? It's not in your head...
It is adopted from the print edition title which it says was "Cleanliness is next to growth". However the print edition apparently does not contain the same misspelling.

Originally I thought there was some special meaning to the misspelling, i.e., it was done deliberately and the reason would be revealed in the article.
The critical difference was that when the West was engaging with rogue elements, they stayed rogue elements, not "strategic partners," and trade deal members.
Sounds more like applied math...
The do’s and don’ts of button design
I’m not convinced you can do ORAM without a Secure Enclave. If you’re already using an enclave, you don’t need FHE.
The pervasive mention of "C/C++", as if C and C++ were the same language with the same failure modes, soured the whole thing for me, for reasons:

In modern C++, C bugbears are just not a problem that demands much attention; I had one (1) memory mistake in five years, caught in initial testing.

There are still plenty of bugs, of course, but they are overwhelmingly specification bugs: code is doing what was asked for, but what was asked for was wrong.

Babysitting the borrow checker steals attention from preventing those actually very common problems. In effect, the borrow checker has also consumed all the time then spent tracking down and fixing the bugs it prevented avoiding, and all the time spent adapting to bad interfaces it caused that more or less worked.

Attention is, by far, the scarcest resource every programmer manages. Anything that burns attention without adequate return is actively harmful. Coding at a higher level, using powerful, safe libraries trusted not to cost too much, is how C++ programmers get the safety that Rust coders grind out on the borrow checker. C++ has many, many features, not in Rust, meant specifically to help capture powerful semantics in libraries that raise the level of coders' attention.

The large and still growing suite of such features, and the powerful libraries written using them, account for the almost exclusive use of C++ in all the highest-paid, most demanding applications in fintech, medtech, HPC, CAE, telecom, and aerospace. Rust will never be able to call those libraries.

Still, Rust is the only extant language plausibly gunning for C++'s role. It starts with the advantage of leaving behind many of C++'s worst backward-compatibility boat anchors, but its focus on low-level safety features detracts attention from the high-level coding support that makes them decreasingly relevant. Rust is adding features and users at a rapid rate, but C++ picks up, easily, many more new users in each week than the total headcount of Rust programmers working in that week, and will continue. To be remembered in ten years, Rust will need to become useful to many, many more programmers than it is now winning over (HN buzz notwithstanding).

Gunning for C++ is a losing strategy. Planning to coexist with C++ will have better results. Rust is an overwhelmingly better language, on every axis, than C, Go, Java, C#, ObjC, Visual Basic, Delphi, and COBOL, all being coded today mostly by people who will and often should never use C++. Every conversion from those is a big net gain for the world. Rust will pick up few C coders, despite that this would produce the greatest benefit to society, just because almost all who might jump already did. But the rest are wide open.

Promoting memory safety is not the way to win those, either because they have it (at enormous cost) or don't value it. To win those coders, Rust needs to take memory safety as given, and promote fun, performance, and a future.

Java won big in 1995 by offering Microsoft sharecroppers a way out. Rust could be the way out for a new generation, if only it can raise its sights from C's too familiar failings.
The implication is that if it's not false, it must be true.

But that does not follow. Mostly, when people have trouble calling something false, it's because it is obviously ambiguous and the meaning is disputed. The point of words like "inappropriate" and "divisive" is to shift to something less easily disputed.
Somehow you missed the fact that Facebook complied with the ruling made by Brazil's court.

https://time.com/5874695/facebook-blocks-accounts-worldwide/

Seems to me that, yet again, a service provider complies with court rulings requesting that illegal content should be taken down.
Let's say USPS has promised to pay for a 20-year-old employee's health care for the next 70 years. Let's say the total price of that health care is going to be $10M over the 70-year course.

What should they do that neither involves setting sufficient money aside today nor a significant chance of failing to fulfill their obligation?

Keep in mind that USPS' core business can't turn much of a profit due to Congressionally-defined price caps, so it is a very poor place to "invest" money.
Oddly enough, the West conceded this battle against the Muslim world to some degree. We are exhausted from that debate. The Muslim world mostly believes in their own bullshit, thankfully we bowed out from that fight.

China, though, owns an Islamic region. So they can't run away from it. They could build a wall, as Israel did, but that just contained the problem. Israel was never able to get large numbers of Arabs to abandon Islam. So Israel has an ongoing headache. China is trying to avoid getting stuck in that deadlock.

It's not the surveillance system that's the big problem. It's that they went all the way to concentration and re-education camps. They're trying to break the hold of Islam. In too brutal a way.
Note that the article supports your point:

the number of cats at home had a negative effect on depression (p = 0.021).

Suggesting that getting a cat is a good idea for someone concerned about depression. Of course, it may be that depressed people are less willing to take on the responsibility of pet ownership.
>A lot of mathematicians would consider this a very limited view of the subject.

I'm not sure it's as limited as you think it is.

It's not very specific though I'll give you that.
So you’re saying that we don’t own Apple devices but merely rent them out for the day?

Disneyland isn’t a product, you can’t compare it to a phone.
An Arizona superintendent on safely reopening schools: 'It's a fantasy'
"Harmful business model" is a reductive, meaningless argument.

I don't buy many games and have 2 latest gen consoles. I would be harmed by your suggestion.

How do you choose which group's harm is more important? And who do you trust to make that analysis?
> We can discuss form and composition forever

FWIW, I'm not discussing form or composition at all, nor am I defending the site's high level design choices at all. I'm just trying to help clarify what the rules on this page actually mean, because rule #2 was misunderstood above. This page has been posted before, and other people have also misunderstood rule #2 to assume it means that interactions have to be complete in a certain amount of time. The rule is simpler than that, and lower level than page layout issues. I would guess that part of the reason this rule is misunderstood is because it's rarely broken these days in commercial apps and web pages. Unlike the 80's, it's not that common anymore for computers to not respond at all in any way to a user input in more than 400ms, and browsers take care of a lot of the cases where it might happen.
Crowds are pretty good at that kind of thing already - for instance, I remember some protests a few years back where the protestors responded to the common police tactic of 'kettling', by just running like hell and scattering every time the police tried to surround them.

It worked quite well, because the police would quickly get exhausted having to reposition in heavy armor every few minutes.
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There’s no way to do a FHE style system with branching unless all branches are indistinguishable from one another. All branches must execute in the same amount of time, otherwise statistical analysis will leak information.

Forget Turing completeness for a second, that’s not actually what you want for a FHE style system. You want computational indistinguishability which can’t be achieved without side-channel resistance.
I think the first law gives ux people too much of a license. Who decides what is "aesthetic?" When it's designers to begin with they can use to justify all sorts of pretty but user-unfriendly designs. One of the best examples in my mind was that spate of poor contrast color schemes from the mid 2010s that was fairly common and still persists on some sites.
It ended up being a DNS failure, not an attack.
weird that a 20 UX rule website is so hostile to navigate on mobile.

for each role you click to get in then swipe all the way past the fold to get to the sentence of interest then swipe all the way past the footer (!) to get to the next rule
I think they probably say something like "You know, during this pandemic we should probably cut our ad spend. Which area do you think we can cut that will cause the least harm during this time? Facebook? Ok, and as a side benefit, we get to say we're opposing hate speech. Decided, we're cutting our Facebook spend."
Very cool. Any chance you guys will do what Creative Tim does and let us have one shot free?
Dems are more likely to be affected by polling station closures and consolidation, so that e.g. all of Detroit has to vote in a single location.
Very cool! Sounds like you and I had the same thought. I built something very similar couple of months ago: https://www.quickviz.app/
I love playing with slide rules because it wraps my brain into using logarithms everywhere.

The game of Go also redecorates my thinking, in a way I cannot put into words.

Slide rules!
Far better than a Soyuz.
Some common hiring manager mistakes
Right, the bottom feeders... The people slaving away at two minimum wage jobs trying to make ends meet? The criminals... The small time weed dealers who decided they didn't want to work two minimum wage jobs to make ends meet? Demeaning these people shows you right there the misguided mindset of the arrogant.
I think they keep pretending internally but many think in the back of their head that it's all bogus and the real reason for the cut is slashed ad spend.

In any case, this situation reminds me of the time when Google exited China and said they were leaving due to censorship concerns. The real reason for leaving was that Baidu had gained an overwhelming share of the search market. I think at the time of Google leaving China, they had less than 5% market share.
Apple didn't change the rules after they sold you the phone. It was locked down when you bought it just like Disney is.

We absolutely don't fully own iPhones in the FSF sense. Same for your refrigerator with DRM water filters. Or your Tesla.
Love the color schemes and animations. Nicely done.

Some feedback:

- Make clicking the browser back button resume in the same position user was instead of taking them back to the top of the page.

- Move the 'Serial Position Effect' item to be the last item in the list for greater effect.

- Link directly to the PDF for the posters instead of the dropbox folder. Also having a separate page for all the downloads would be nice.

- Speed up the animations on the linked pages since they're a bit slow.

- Doing the shape animations as the user scrolls down the page could be interesting instead of the static images.
I think you actually misunderstood my comment. You know what are also “applications to service specific domains that uses the web as a data source”? Web pages.

Deliver the QML over the wire here and you just reinvented a kind of browser, that consumes html|json data from the web and has a different native UI library.
> "Trump at that time was a 'why the fuck not' to people who hated the current climate and wanted 'change'."

Absolutely nothing prevents that from happening again. The economic, social, and political forces that disadvantaged large swathes of the public, riling them up enough to make them take a chance on Trump, are all still there. If anything, the fact that the COVID-19 recession is likely going to hit full force during the next administration and make their situation even worse makes voting for demagogues even _more_ likely. Biden isn't going to be able to wave a magic wand to fix the world even if he wins, which is not a given.

We're in for a bumpy ride.
It seems better to try to ship software that works than ship software that will intentionally break. I get "everything will break" but ensuring it will break sooner and more spectacularly seems like a headache for users.
ARM-Based 12-Inch MacBook Specs Include A14X Bionic SoC, Up to 16GB RAM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwynne_Shotwell
> Is Mercedes a monopoly for Mercedes leather seating?

The key to understanding this is to realize that you're talking about two different markets, which makes your question ambiguous.

Are you asking, do they have a monopoly over the market for the Mercedes brand of leather seating? In that case the answer doesn't really matter, and I suspect this is the point you were trying to make, because the market for the Mercedes brand of leather seating is not a meaningful market definition, since there could be other seating brands that compete for the same customers.

But the analogous question to the one I'm asking is, do they have a monopoly over seating for Mercedes vehicles? That could very well be a sensible market definition, because if you need a new seat for your Mercedes, one designed for a Chevy may not fit. And then the answer depends entirely on whether they have any competitors in that market. If five different companies make seats you can put in a Mercedes, none of them have a monopoly. If Mercedes -- or another company which isn't Mercedes, if Mercedes itself doesn't make them anymore -- is the only one making seats that fit in a Mercedes, then they have a monopoly on that market.

The question is whether the customer who has a Mercedes and needs a seat can only buy it from one place.
Donkey-Man
I've been developing a game full-time for the past few months. I've sort of thought about how my journey will end.

In the meantime, I got to write a couple of VSCode extensions that are used at least by some people and React dependencies that I personally find cool.

I never really thought about it, but my open-source projects usually end up having 15-40 stars and that means 1 or 2 support tickets every 6 months. I guess not being popular has its upsides.

All that I can personally say is that, more than passion towards my current project, I feel as if I didn't make it, I would regret it deeply. So I wake up early every day to advance a little bit each day. I deeply enjoy the process.

I hope you someday look back at your project and see it as a success. A failure commercially, maybe, but a success in many other ways.

Anyways, thanks for the link to https://www.indiehackers.com/.
Disney World is Disney's private property and they can choose the rules while you are there.

An iPhone is your private property, not Apple's, and yet they choose what you can do with it.
First law quite ironic.
Although in juxtaposition from the English pronunciation, it has an advantage:

"If it was written as 1,200.00$ it would be easier to forge it to become, for example, 91,200.00$ by appending a single digit in front."
So in trying to answer your question I found this rather long-winded but nonetheless interesting and appropos link.

https://everydayastronaut.com/sls-vs-starship/
LinkedIn Marketing API signup has been down since July 23rd
The Price of Life Is Death, but Sex Improves the Exchange Rate
Would you mind sharing where the price cliffs are for (a), (b), and (c)?

Just curious.
The word I would use here instead of “architecture” is “composition.” The article reminds me of William Morris who helped transform design into a conscious, deliberate practice.
By default to run an unsigned app you need to right-click on the app and select Open. Then it will present a dialog asking whether to ignore the signing. Otherwise there is no option.

Very few people know about this.
To be fair, if an alternative App Store was available and popular, I’d probably have to use it to download Spotify, Audible, etc. Its existence would affect me.

It would benefit in some way (like being able to subscribe to Audible in the app) but also it could be less safe (because if Amazon can, anyone else also can, possibly without supervision)
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This is an excellent article. It is comprehensive and has simple explanations.
We do, and that's an insightful comment.

I've never seen anyone point that out before.
Top Gov. Officials Plan for Scenario Where CA and Others Secede After Election
That might be the issue, what is "liberal" and "conservative" needs to be quantified. Taking Postel's law or any law/adage to an extreme is a bad idea.
Much as with Princess Bride, every line is quotable.

Unlike the film, most definitely not light comedy.

There are no good choices, no easy decisions, no Pareto-optimal solutions.
It can't be our justice system without a constitutional ammendment - which leaves just Facebook.
There are many jobs for which most people are not psychologically compatible. Off the top of my head, here's a few: long haul trucking, EMT, police officer, public school teacher...

Is that elitist?
How is setting a 400ms transition NOT breaking the "law" to not make users wait more than 400ms?
The can do all the important things using the hardware keys and buttons under the screen from what I know.
Many who knew Patton personally said much the same thing.
Everyone has a different definition of UX. That makes the term meaningless.
I've got serious doubts about a list of 'UX laws' that doesn't include any references to affordances (or anything else from 'The Design of Everyday Things').

Also, this site is impossible to read?
Yet there are people not wearing masks because they believe they don’t work, refuting your point.

As it’s still going on, I’d say it took more than a week.
Much more than any company that often are headed by literal psychopaths. At least I can vote for my representatives.

And considering a lot of regulation that is passing in the EU I think is at the very least a good step in the right direction, I would say its going pretty well.
IMO it's a bit different when you're someone who financially benefits from the dark event. Like a random American joking about invading a company for oil, vs Dick Cheney saying that the invasion of Iraq will be great for Halliburton. There's a point where it stops being a "joke" and is just a sad fact.
For the same reason you can't be with in a particular distance of the take off. It is a public safety concern. And in those cases we afford law enforcement the ability to remove you from the scene.
No, we don't all agree on that. That's my entire point. The position you're espousing is not shared by a big enough fraction of the US public to get the country's free speech protections overturned, so you're just going to have to deal with people saying things you dislike.
If Bergstrom's point is that one shouldn't believe claims just because someone asserts them, then yes, that's true.

But I would say that the set of assertions for which one is justified in rejecting them out of hand is perhaps smaller than he is suggesting.

For example, there was fake news recently in which the Gates Foundation was said to be inserting subcutaneous chips into folks who had received vaccines. It turned out to be untrue, but not obviously so. The technology exists and if not abused it could be an inexpensive and effective form of record keeping.
The LOOP macro is actually a very different approach: it's an embedded domain specific language for iteration tasks. The language is thought to be more natural (-> 'conversational') than formal -> an actual influence from Interlisp, where this macro originally came from.

If we talk about the approach of using larger building blocks with named parameters, that's also typical in UNIX, since most UNIX commands have zillions of named arguments, even more so than typical Common Lisp functions. Typically it is easier in using interactive command languages to fill out common options to a command, than to write programs.

For example 'ls' does not expose a bunch of functions to combine, but is a powerful command with lots of named options:

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/ls.1.html

Named parameters/arguments are not generally common in Lisp. Emacs Lisp did not have them and wanted to avoid them explicitly.
I think practice with a slide rule also gets you to sanity check your method and think whether the answer can be correct.

Given how you could forget and inadvertently reverse the scales, etc, you have to think whether the answer you're getting makes sense by looking at the trend of the numbers. Plug and chug into a calculator takes some of that away.
Well, very very technically; you kinda made a choice when you bought an Apple product.

It's like buying an android phone then being sour that photoshop doesn't work, I think.

As for why I'm wording it as if the AppStore will dissapear, it's because of all the reasons I laid out.

Right now it's a gate or a fence; the great filter which all must pass through; but if there exists a cheaper/easier alternative that gives the same results, why not use that? It will become incredibly normal to run the alternative app store- to the point where a lot of software will be released only to run there (which is a stated aim) and if everyone has the alternative store, why bother with Apples?
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