skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't post like this to HN. It's explicitly against the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Such perceptions are overwhelmingly imaginary and made-up, if the data and evidence are to be trusted, and meanwhile comments like this poison discussion badly. If you have evidence of abuse, let us know at hn@ycombinator.com so we can look into it. If you don't have evidence, please don't post insinuations of sinister spying and all the rest of it.

Someone posting a comment you disagree with does not count as evidence.

If you want more explanation, there's years' worth at https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

and https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&type=comment&dateRange=a...
Why would a businessman that has invested in companies that oppose the USPS be elected Postmaster?
That’s impossible for most people. Imagine following through with that in daily life, or even for your business. How many contracts have we all been forced to agree to that say “we can amend these terms with no notice and it’s binding”?
As Restaurants Move to the Cloud, Something Is Missing
That's working as designed. There's less work so people should work fewer hours and share the work.
I think I miscommunicated my thoughts, but I was neither trying to say there aren't left-handed folks who push, nor that there aren't ones who pull with a weird pose. Rather, I was wondering if these are actually needed, or if one could do it differently (yet comfortably). Because I believe for LTR and RTL languages, people comfortably write with their right hands holding the pen at basically the same angle regardless of the text direction. Compare [1] with [2] for instance. In both cases the pen tip points to the "north northwest" (so to speak), yet the languages go in opposite directions.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG-i9yA_OHs&t=3m59s

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwUkseFmqb4&t=1m19s
I'd like to offer an alternative view...

As Nancy Pelosi brings up the concern:

"believe these changes, made during the middle of a once-in-a-century pandemic, now threaten the timely delivery of mail — including medicines for seniors, paychecks for workers, and absentee ballots for voters."

... I'm not 100% sure from this article what shifts took place. It's quite possible to handle the increased volume of mail (and lack of funds) these changes were necessary in an attempt to prioritize her concerns.

Honestly, articles like this appear as propaganda to me.

Take my opinion as you will -- neither party represents me, so I don't feel overly supportive of one side (perhaps making me more sensitive to said propaganda).
Because we're seeing the postmaster general, a major Trump donor, take steps that would potentially threaten the efficacy of mail in voting?

And while I agree with the GP, it should also be noted that we've been saying "this is unacceptable" about a wide variety of things for the past 4 years, and it hasn't really had much effect, as far as reining in the crazy.

It's a scary situation indeed.
I don't pay that much attention, but I get the impression that the established parts of SpaceX are run by Gwynne Shotwell, and Musk focuses on new tech.
The credit bureau will do one of three things. They will show it as paid in full, settled(for a lesser amount than the full balance), or they will remove it(pay for delete). Although the credit bureau will state openly that deletion is not a possibility unless the account is not yours.

If the debt is disputed as ”not mine” the collection agency will be contacted to ask for verification of the debt. If the agency says no go ahead and delete it, well you got your “pay for delete.”

Keep in mind paying a collection off may not increase you score and in some cases may lower it. Getting it deleted is ideal, but the collection agencies should not be doing this(its in the agreement the collection agency makes with the credit bureau).
Exactly. There is so much fraud related to mail-in ballots, mostly on the handling side, not the voting side. This needs to be safeguarded if we go down this route.
Paying off old debt doesn't help the economy. It's just a wealth transfer from poor to wealthy.
The Paycheck Protection Plan is trickle-down .
I don't use it, but Cleanshot X can do this - https://cleanshot.com/
Spoken like someone who has never run a business.

Why do you think the government is handing money over to corporations? Hint: It's not just to give their big business friends some moolah.
Google bricked my Android phone many years ago by deactivating the auth server used for logging into the phone with your Google account. The phone didn’t support Cyanogen so I literally just had to stop using it purely due to Google deciding it was time to kill it.

So don’t give me this nonsense that Android phones live forever.
There is a good lawsuit Godzilla vs BagZilla. Bagzilla won.

http://bgbg.blogspot.com/2002/08/zillegalities.html

I created a groupware platform Officezilla (have since sold the domain). Almost as soon as I registered the domain the GodZilla trademark holders lawyers sent me a letter. I sent them a letter letting them know I appreciate their concern and to take a hike, never heard from them again.

Toho Company, Ltd. v. Sears, Roebuck & Co., 654 F.2d 788, 790-94 is precedent. Courts have to follow it and lawyers know it. You don't even need a lawyer to send Twitter packing.
It's a fatalism, escapism and defeatism catch phrase in China, boils down to: if you can't single-handedly and immediately change the status quo or make it better, then you are not entitled to judge/criticize, shut up and eat the shit up.

I suggest an immediate ban.
SmarterEveryDay, United Launch Alliance factory visit, https://youtu.be/o0fG_lnVhHw

Earlier ULA video by SmarterEveryDay, https://youtu.be/OdPoVi_h0r0
Researchers created a test to determine which masks are the least effective
congratulations on hopefully becoming one step closer to being debt-free!

I've settled nearly ten thousand dollars of debt for far less than what I owed over the years thanks to the introduction of these programs, getting me to a point where I finally had my own credit cards instead of being an authorized user a few years earlier than I would have been able to.

It is unfortunate that I had to attribute this ability to pull myself out of dire straits to being rear-ended by a teenager texting, and getting a larger than expected settlement through a referral to an accident attorney from a close friend of mine -- and a lot of teachings from the experience of my father, who dealt with quite a 180 of his financial situation during the great recession.

I really can't put into words how much of a relief it was to stop fearing The eventual litigation of most of these debts, having my credit damage for another 7 years into the future, having what wages I was earning at the time garnished... The psychological damage that some of these outfits play too in a way is reprehensible in my opinion.
Low double digits is not considered moderate levels of inflation, if you're talking annually. In the 1970s in the US there were years of double digit inflation and real returns were negative.

https://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-historical-prices/table/by-ye...
It would still be nice if users can enable sound for all videos with one click. Currently you have to enable sound on each individual video.
Why does every news site require subscription cancellation through their customer service instead of a cancel button?
Anecdotally it worked for me on mobile. Perhaps your using some kind of Facebook container on Firefox which breaks the referrer somehow?
Nice downvotes. As if downvoting is a way to vote on the issue as in a referendum.

Since it isn't, step out of the shadows and step up with a counter-argument.
First Week Distance Learning Done. Key Takeaways
my parents have been avoiding using stuff like glyphosate for years.

They would describe it better than I can, but they can get away with e.g. just having plants that are repulsive to aphids (and plants that attracts insects that eat them).

They sometimes do have to use stuff like bordeaux mix but very rarely (if ever) use glyphosate.

Their garden is pretty amazing as a result. There are tons of birds (they have bird feeders) and insects. Bats in the summer as well.

Definitely how I see my garden if I ever get a house (I have been living in large cities all my adult life).
For sure, but he’s still the owner and could still presumably have a melt-down and halt operations while mounting Quixotic legal challenges
Walking away is a great strategy. Especially if you don't care too much about your credit score. And especially if you don't have much collateral in the asset, e.g. 3.5%.
Interesting situation. Postmaster DeJoy is a Trump supporter, and one of his recent changes was to limit overtime, which worries Democrats.

The Democrats want greater voter participation because they believe it will swing elections their way.

The Republicans want mostly in-person voting by motivated citizens, in the hopes it will swing the vote their way.

It's an unprecedented situation and no one seems to know what's going to happen.
Late to the party, but Pentagon/Gov/Military always hedges its bets by running minimum 2 different launch providers almost regardless of cost.

Orbital ATK, the only other active US based provider would have been another contender but they don't have a heavy launch system yet.

So, all in all, this awarding is quite expected.
If you're talking about the NY primary, it didn't have much to do with the mail, it was mostly people who were unfamiliar with the process and mixed up things like forgetting to sign it.

Here's an atlantic article about it: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/07/new-yor...

That said: I think New York is an example of why the debate about this is worth having. 20% of ballots getting tossed is catastrophic.
10min later someone else posts another article from some random news website also using paywalls, so according to you now I have to subscribe again for this new website that has a minimum plan of 1..2 months, or maybe do I check for the annual subscription of $50 so I'm done with this website?

Your logic is so brilliant, I'm amazed.
I'd like to see crop prices listed by expenditures. Something like this:

For every $10 of wheat produced it costs -

$X for gas for production
$X for transportation and packaging
$X for human labor
$X for machinery
$X to buy the land
etc.

I'm guessing that land ownership is a tiny minority of this - and if you are building towers that are 50x more expensive than an empty field it would make the process more expensive and less energy efficient if you factor in upfront costs. Making land more efficient is great but I don't think it is the limiting factor for supplying ample food for everyone in the country or the world.
Apple computer and Apple records are in two different industries. It wasn’t till Apple opened a music store online “iTunes” that Apple records sued (again) and got a settlement.

Apple seems to think people will confuse fruit types and they make some claim about “apple health”

Because a lot of orchards use logos that look a lot like apples (and you know an Apple a day...)
Reminds me of the best no-bullshit algorithm:

int getRandomNumber()
{
return 4; // chosen by fair dice roll.
// guaranteed to be random.
}

https://xkcd.com/221/
So let me get this straight. They break global keyboard shortcuts, which people could use to play/pause media on different websites three years ago:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1411795

and instead of fixing that, they introduce this shit? Fuck Mozilla. I am already using Waterfox, looks like that wont be changing any time soon.
Finn here, yes it's normal to drink milk. When I was growing up, the school lunch hall had big posters about how milk is important for your health.
Fair!

I've heard the advice of only comparing myself against myself in the past, etc, I think it makes sense. Sometimes (often) I forget about all that.

On a positive note, it _is_ pretty cool when I have a moment of clarity I and I manage to see accomplished people as inspiration instead of feeling behind.
I think maybe what's missing is one tool which the "one thing" it does well is put all the other tools together seamlessly and make sure they work right. My guess is that's what an IDE is supposed to do (I say "my guess" because I've always done my development in Vim).

I just know that every time I revisit any JS front-end stuff, I end up punting and just manually adding script/stylesheet includes for Vue and Bootstrap or whatever so I don't need to deal with half that crap. As an outsider it's always so daunting, and I feel like whatever I learned 6-12 months ago last time I needed to do something doesn't necessarily apply anymore.
I'm honestly curious though how volume would make this work. What is the square footage of the largest vertical tower you think could be built for under $1B? And how much would that same land cost you in Nebraska?
I’m not great at predicting how tech will evolve but I have a feeling that this will be built in a day.
Because consumer protection legislation is lacking.
It's a contract between the bank and lender. The bank can take your house if you default - that's the agreement both parties sign. When you put 20% down the bank puts down the other 80%, making them a co-investor, but as a trustee in the first position.

Depending on context it can be a sweet deal for both parties. When times are tough it's time to play the game.
Mine's: "Get off my damn lawn". That way my neighbours aren't any the wiser.
Is the 'difficulty' related to the method at all, or just the amount of effort required?
That shot of the men lining the trench... with cloth hats. No helmets.

Imagine the constant artillery bombardment above you - shrapnel and rock everywhere - and you’re wearing not much more than a baseball hat.

Truly an incredible time in history - these old armies colliding with a new type of war.
Isn't that like comparing apples to pears?
That wasn’t luck. That was Bill Gates being his genius self.
It's commonly reported H. Ross Perot didn't drink. Not a sip ever, a promise to his father. Ross Perot wouldn't allow people to drink at lunch at work. He is quoted as saying he really appreciated people who managed to get off the bottle.

This is both evidence the story is false and true!

But it'd be nice if everyone stopped the virtue signalling. It's boring, the story is obviously a just so story. The true story will at best complex, like maybe he tested if someone would break the no lunch drinking rule over a contract.

It's also reported Ross Perot wouldn't hire managers who had a limp handshake shake because they might be homosexuals. Can't you all virtue signal over that instead?
People keep arguing for array covariance as if soundness and developer ergonomics were in conflict, but upgrading your type system from a laptop keyboard to some infamously-sound Cherry MX blues shows you indeed can have both.

With the amount of high-quality keyboard manufacturers these days, though, and the support for variance in preferred type parameters—do you need backlighting? Mac keys?—I do not blame people for asserting the problem of picking one is undecidable.
Compared to the time before cards, merchants are protected from credit fraud by simply being partially connected with the bank so they don't have to hire their own debt collectors.

https://minesafetydisclosures.com/blog/2019/5/29/part-l-a-hi... ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20523646 )

Nowadays cards are taken for granted and always accepted because it's necessary, but it would still be pretty hard to create your own system that checked if a user had enough funds in the bank to purchase something without either Visa/MC (or I guess Plaid).
> Legal implications aside, it's still sad to see that 'do no evil' is so hard to agree with.

I disagree that you can ever put the legal implication aside when discussing license terms. The legal implications are the entirety of what's being communicated by a license, which means you're basically saying "if you ignore what these words mean, nobody should disagree with them". That's very true! It is easy to agree with something if you ignore what it means. And?
It's as if, I don't know, mail-in voting were ripe for fraud or something.
Personally I feel good Mr Cook is enslaving hundreds of thousands of Chinese to make a higher profit on the iPhone. Bravo!
I think the solvers _are_ tuned for PP. But we're comparing CSA and PP on the queries that Formulog issues... which don't really match well with the DFS discipline that the PP stack aligns with. I think CSA beats PP in our experiments because CSA is more flexible about locality.

Broadly---and I haven't looked at the memory usage to confirm this---I think CSA trades space (cache more old formulae, not just the prefix of some stack) for time (look, our answers are in the cache!).
That does happen, but it wasn't in this case. I looked the defense attorney up and he had been with the public defenders office for a few years.

Not claiming all public defenders are that good. Just that I was surprised.
I worked at Borland just before this came out. CASE (now called "no code") was hot then and didn't really absolve anyone of programming or debugging skills. And it still doesn't.

Best part is the beginning where the teacher says you can learn "everything you need" to write Windows apps in an hour. Of course you can!
They just pushed an update on android on me that disabled all addons except uBO because they don't support them yet, a few hours ago.

That was the last straw that broke the camels back for me, after using FF since 1.0. Just rm -rf'd my firefox profile on my desktop a few minutes ago.

I've defended them for a long time even if I didn't agree with everything they did, but they're so completely off the rails, enough is enough. Blink mono-culture it is then.
Robert Burrows wasn't the worst novelist in the English language. The article makes that clear.

The article includes Gene Weingarten's demeaning characterisation to get clicks. That wouldn't be necessary if Barrett Swanson had listened to his better instincts, and built on his portrait of Robert Burrows as an earnest man of letters. Instead, he had a bet each way, perpetuating Gene Weingarten's cruel ruse as a straw man, and negating it.
Bangalore Becomes 'Bengaluru' (2014)
DFT = Design For Test
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_for_testing

They have a resistor to ground in parallel with the buffer? I get the diode but I can only assume the resistor is a weak pull to prevent charge building up at the pin. But it seems the diode would mostly do that job, to the point of preventing damage anyway. I guess they weren’t concerned with leakage power then.

Protection resistors in series with the buffer are fairly common these days. Especially on GPIO type pins.
> In some of the fancier fonts on macOS, the characters actually change slightly if there are other characters nearby.

Do you mean kerning and ligature or something else?
Dynamic and Secure Memory Transformation in Userspace [pdf]
There are a lot of people out there who think that the Russians spending a couple hundred thousand dollars on shitty Facebook ads was an intolerable affront to democracy. So I have to imagine there would be a lot of support for not allowing a real geopolitical rival to completely control the next big social media platform.
The resistor is on series. I.e pin - resistor - diode to ground and circuitry.

The resistor is just some silicon, probably around 30 ohms.
Excess weight can increase risk of serious illness and death from Covid-19
Unless they only have one engineer, adding a new feature is not at the expense of fixing one bug.
I don’t doubt and didn’t doubt that Tim Cook could make hundreds of billions of dollars. What I do doubt is that a Tim Cook led Apple will be able to do something like create the “next iPhone.” But, he may not need to.
Blue Origin was also competing.
Cook is a numbers guy. You can't really learn anything or be inspired by a numbers guy
This is about interference with the delivery the ballots (both from the election officials to voters and to vice versa), not about the security of the ballots themselves.
I agree with your point - the article does not mention what shifts happened or how that affects USPS aside from what you can imply from Pelosi’s letter. But if you trust Pelosi‘s sentiment, which I do, then the article doesn’t seem like propaganda.
Instead it looks to me as if you’ve given in to the other propaganda that you can’t trust either side and that they are both equally detrimental to US democracy - which is false. At this point the biggest threat to US democracy is Trump and the Republican party. Period. Vote him out and then convert the remaining anti-racist Republicans to Libertarian or vote them out. Republicans do not deserve to be in government. In my public opinion they have tarnished their reputation through DECADES of deceit, culminating in this wretched administration. There are two things they stand for now - racism and classism. Vote them out.
What do you mean?I don't understand
Paper rockets though, they have to actually launch something to orbit first
Rust-playground/proteus: Dynamic transformation of JSON data
And that is called the shadow effect. The UV-C doesn't much make it into the plastic statically-charged inner layer of the mask.

In May I built a 5-ft long 24x24" cross-section sealed plywood box with a small (6x6") MERV13 filtered inlet opening and an auto-detailing fogger filled with 3% hydrogen peroxide at one end. A center chamber with a web of small hooks on a wire frame for the N95 masks, mirror (plexiglass) glued on the walls of the center chamber to bounce the UV-C around and an 18" long Blade UV-C (254nm) lamp that peers in through a slot on the top of the chamber. On the far end I used a ~30cfm duct fan to pull the the hydrogen peroxide fog through the chamber and masks and a flexible duct to take the exhaust outside my garage. I used UV-C dosimeter disks to tune the amount of time needed for proper UV-C exposure (about 5 mins or so). I put the masks in it, turn on the Blade UV-C lamp, turn on the fogger and let it go for about an hour. I then turn off the fogger and let the fan pull fresh air through for another hour or so. It's not pretty but I think it is effective.

My wife thinks I am crazy.
ThinkPad 560E
Keep in mind that having everybody well informed and voting is the main idea of democracy, which is what the democrats are trying to achieve and what the republicans are trying to hinder.
But they’re not and never have been.
The rules of a language are its conventions.
They don't say how they picked those 23, so you're right, there could be a sampling bias. But if picked at random, that's kind of frightening.
Yeah, that's why I mentioned 'active' specifically to mean having currently flying heavy launch vehicles.
Not for civil cases and in truth even if criminally prosecuted you are only sure to have a body you aren't actually in fact guaranteed competent representation in fact but rather only in law. In America if someone with more money than you disagrees with you and has even a trivial cause of action its entirely plausible they can legally destroy your finances and your life.

Having the most money is pretty much the only thing that matters here.
There is a lot of correspondence. I was recently working on making a "geometry" based programming language. As I was working through it one of the ideas I realized geometry was a really good fit for was a language focused on pattern matching and data deduplication.
Haha - thanks :-)
I thought it was an abbreviation for some special tome on Operating Systems design.