skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, this may be a dumb question, but when the USPS loses money, where does that money come from? I assumed it was just topped up by the government but maybe not.
...by giving 97 workers union time off to perform political activities. It seems like a petty reason to trash an organization that receives no taxpayer funding, and punish the millions of poor and rural Americans that depend on it.
...if you only wash a full load and your hand washing is extremely hot water with the faucet at max flow.
For context:

Chinese IC talent whitepaper from a couple years ago:
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1116108.shtml

Domestic talent 2018

Need: 720k

Has: 400k

Gap: 320k

IC graduates per year: 30k

Current gap: 260k

A couple weeks ago: integrated circuit major upgrades to first-level discipline in China. Previously IC studies was organized under different disciplines and funding was not streamlined.

There's going to be an oversupply of Chinese IC talent in 5-10 years, Taiwanese talent can see the writing on the wall. 100 TSMC engineers + 3000 chip engineers from Taiwan over last decade (10% of their industry?) is <1% of need, but provides valuable skill. There's still 90% left to poach, I wonder if US new IC fund will compete, whether there's language barriers that prevents Taiwanese engineers from moving to Arizona, and how Taiwan would feel about that.
Slashdot was never close to "scale". OP is talking about FB numbers.
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> Rule 5. Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming.

That one hits me in the feels because I think a lot of folks focus on algorithms (including myself), and code patterns, before their data and as a result a lot of things end up being harder than they need to be. I've always liked this quote from Torvalds on the subject speaking on git's design (first line is for some context):

> … git actually has a simple design, with stable and reasonably well-documented data structures.

then continues:

> In fact, I'm a huge proponent of designing your code around the data, rather than the other way around, and I think it's one of the reasons git has been fairly successful […] I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

When I have good data structures most things just sort of fall into place. I honestly can't think of a time where I've figuratively (or literally) said "my data structure really whips the llamas ass" and then immediately said "it's going to be horrible to use." On the contrary, I have written code that is both so beautiful and esoteric, its pedantry would be lauded for the ages-- had only I glanced over at my data model during my madness. No, instead, I awaken to find I spent my time quite aptly digging a marvelous hole, filling said hole with shit, and then hopping in hoping to not get shitty.

One thing that really has helped me make better data structures and models is taking advanced courses on things like multivariate linear regression analysis specifically going over identifying things like multicolinearity and heteroskedasticity. Statistical tools are incredibly powerful in this field, even if you aren't doing statistical analysis everyday. Making good data models isn't necessarily easy, nor obvious, and I've watched a lot of experienced folks make silly mistakes simply because they didn't want something asinine like two fields instead of one.
How does it balance out when electricity use is taken into account? Saving water might be better in water-poor locations, but saving electricity might be better in high-electric-rate locations. In water-poor locations, it might be more advantageous to use the gray water from hand washing for other uses, such as watering the lawn or flushing the toilet.
Everybody wants nice things, not just "techno-capitalist industrial society". Everybody can take an economic hit in order to preserve health and enjoy life more. Downsize your house, get rid of luxuries, stop going on vacations, you'll save so much money that you don't need to work as much (healthy!). You'll also have to give up having a larger apartment, a TV and 5 sets of sneakers (economic hit).

Yet barely anyone does that. We haven't realized this because it's not true.
I would guess that there are social accommodations and expectations for these kinds of things that might be missing in the US. Sort of like how in Europe, delivery is widely available for large goods, because many don't own cars. This does not exist in the US. I thinking making American society more accommodating will be helpful toward breaking the ideology of single-family homes.
The body of evidence that Huawei steals intellectual property is quite substantial. If you want to read about it, you can start with these:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1124996/downl...

https://blogs.cisco.com/news/huawei-and-ciscos-source-code-c...

https://amlawdaily.typepad.com/motorolahuawei.pdf

https://www.mpegla.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/FINAL-Huaw...
Palantir Technologies, $20B Peter Thiel-backed government contractor
Some of these are weird.

> What PartnerStack is hiring for: Infra devs, Python devs, JS devs, Product, Marketing

Yet on their actual Lever.co jobs page the only technical role is a Senior Infrastructure Engineer?
I think most dishwasher detergents switched to enzymes to replace phosphates: https://www.cnet.com/news/appliance-science-how-dishwasher-d...

That article implies the enzymes do some work, so that surfactants/soap can carry away the tougher components (protein and starch)
Here's another solution. Next time you run out, buy two bags of dishwasher soap. Then when one bag is done.... wait for it... USE THE SECOND BAG!

All that's left is to put one bag of soap on your shopping list and you have 5 to 20 days to manage to buy it before you're back in fish soap and baking powder hell.
> Us Americans can get pretty craaazy with our naming conventions!

This really goes both ways. :) Wait until you find out about "public schools" in the UK, or at least England.

(They're independent private schools which are not government-funded, and are in fact far less public than government-funded state schools. As I understand it, they came to be known as "public" because they were successors to traditional homeschooling in a private environment.)
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I'm surprised it's that low. AMD and Intel pay their CEOs ~6 times more.
One of the key things about the Swedish labour market model is that both sides of the political spectrum find it (agreements) better than the alternative (rigid laws for e.g. minimum wages). The same goes for both ends of the agreements (the employers' organizations and the unions).

This is why it works. It's also why it isn't very sensitive to corruption and political changes.
thanks, yea I'll try to figure that out
The age as a proxy for attractiveness issue is better solved by matching algorithms that take age difference into account. I'd be surprised if they didn't do this already.

And tbh the whole attractiveness argument smells a lot like how black people were considered unattractive customers that would make it harder to sell to white customers in real estate transactions in 1950s America.

It's not unreasonable that marketing a fair platform would cost more than a discriminatory one, just as it's not unreasonable that e.g. mitigating pollution at a factory costs money.

Regulations should address such things to level the playing field of course, but shit companies trying to sneak in practices like this should be condemned.
Here is a list of some of the exceptions: https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/exempt-job-categorie...
This gives you, as examples, Reddit, fandoms, academic niches, the Toxoplasma of Rage (SSC), cliques, cults, and the like. Not all horrible, but of decidedly variable, and often overtly bad, outcomes.

Small groups self-selecting rapidly give rise to highly idiosyncratic community behaviours (groupthink, cults, circle-jerks, mutual admiration societies). Large groups tend to vastly overemphasize first impressions and surface appeal, not long-term quality, depth, or complexity. See Dwight MacDonald writing on mass culture in the 1950s. Specialist fields have both legitimate barriers to entry (talent and expertise) and self-imposed ones (in-group, grants funders). Any remunerated content must appeal to the compensation mechanism, dynamics, or authority (this article was linked from Techdirt's announcement it had been banned by Google Adsense, currently on HN). Who pays the piper calls the tune.

Focusing on who moderates misses other factors such as how (mechanisms) and criteria (what is elevated / dropped). Those are also worth considering.

Most moderation tools are very blunt instruments: show or not. I've been quite frustrated with options on nu. By considering other factors -- prominence or obscurity, degree of exposure, how highly-rated though deep comments are presented, say, "virality", placement and frequency of countering or corrective messages, strength or lack of central control, frequency of posting or participation, and contributer reputation, just to name a few, there are numerous other controls which might be adjusted. Randomness is also underapreciated.

Most of all is what the moderation strives for: quality, popularity, engagement, conversions, advertising impact, artistic novelty, legal prohibitions or mandates, political objectives, humour, ... Few discussions of moderation even acknowledge this.

(This submission itself went through HN's 2nd chance queue.)

HN operates largely on human-induced nudges, some firmer than others. It's not elegent, and may not scale much beyond present activity. But it's been remarkably effective and consistent for going on two decades.
hahahahaha this is great! useful / insightful and really funny story.
This subthread has focused on buying a unit in a multi-family building, but historically owner-occupied multi-families are very common. I'm in the process of buying one to occupy myself. Owners enjoy many of the benefits of ownership, the rental income is a path to wealth (and an opportunity to qualify for a mortgage you may not otherwise have been able to afford), and the city benefits from increased housing supply and landlords who are present and attentive.
Four humans, all home all day long. We cook.

Minimum one dishwasher run daily, maximum 3, average is about 2.

If the sink isn't clear, I can't refill the water tank for the chiller. If I don't refill the water tank, people don't drink enough water.

Running the dishwasher is cheaper than medical bills.
It's not really down to Google, it's down to the European 'right to be forgotten' law.

The BBC once posted a list of their articles which had been delisted on google:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/1d765aa8-600b-4...

A Guardian article about the BBC list:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/01/bbc-wrong...

Seems to me it's a boon for corrupt politicians and career criminals, on that basis I do not support the law.
Rayiner's own positive examples did not fulfill that blueprint, either, with the exception, I think, of Japan.
Blame chatroulette. When people like google hear "videochat" they immediately think of that ridiculous image-recognition software that chatroulette rolled out in a feeble attempt to reduce abuse.
Great link. What assets do Wikipedia have? Looking at that, they’ve made a “profit” every single year. Do they use this to purchase assets (as obviously non-profit can’t distribute profits)?
I don't know why anybody has to keep entertaining the absurd notion that slowing delivery and making the service "not work" is not precisely the purpose of the changes.
In your two-family home, who gets to decide what color the building is? It would be sort of interesting to have an ongoing war between both occupants, but probably not a good way of structuring things long term.
I agree with you that, at scale, issues with moderation can become politically influential, and that's a huge difference from moderation at smaller scales. Lucky for us, says parochial me.

Consistency is probably a red herring. Moderation will never be perceived as consistent, at any scale. Different mods will always make different calls, and even the same mod will make different-seeming calls because humans are complicated.
I think this puts pressure on the government to find a compromise, because Californians will be pissed that Uber stops working.
Unless the patient presents a truly astounding infectious risk, almost certainly not. Surgical masks are not valved. However, the fact that theatres have a truly huge and mind boggling amount of air handling equipment on the floor above them, directing highly sterile and laminar air flow directly down to the floor from all angles, definitely does help this not matter as much...in an operating theatre, at least, not an aircraft.
> Anyone driving for Uber is doing it because they want to do so

Or, they have very limited other options.

The entire concept of Minimum Wage laws are put in place to address the points you're making.

As FDR stated in 1933:

> It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.

You can argue about what you think a fair wage is, but it has been decided that the absolute floor value you are allowed to argue for is set as the minimum wage.

It is unclear, that after accounting for all time spent "driving", and paying all expenses related to driving, that drivers are always paid even minimum wage.
On the topic of dishwashers, can anyone tell me why no dishwasher let's me fill it with, say, 20 loads worth of detergent and then it just dispenses it as needed? My dishwasher can do that with "rinse aid"(which I don't use), but I've never seen one that can do it with regular detergent.

Another "hack" is that the tray you're supposed to fill with detergent is almost always way too big. People think "more soap -> more clean", but that is only true to an extent. You will be just fine filling it only halfway up, even if you have a full load in there. The same goes with laundry detergent.
In any negotiation the main factors are power, information and time. Does the client have the power to get someone else to do the job or does he need your specific skills and experience with the code? Can you do other work and just walk away if you don't get your asking rate? Knowing the rate your friend charges is good info and it would be good to know what any other client employees/contractors make and also what general rates are available from other employers. Time can help - how soon does the client need the work done - can he afford to hire and get someone else up to speed? Can you hold out for a higher rate or do you have living expenses to pay etc?
So I had this thought the other day while talking to a friend that works at an electrical utility, the thought is naive so I'd love to hear some thoughts from people in the ISP game.

My friend and I calculated that it takes about $1 worth of electricity per year to keep your smartphone charged, we have cheap power so let's say $1-3, but even on a very cheap MVNO it costs at least $360 per year to provide cell service to that same phone.

There are a lot of assumptions here, I pay ~$30/month for 12GB of data, for a lot of people that's too little, for some more than enough, but its the orders of magnitude that are important, is it just the case that providing cell service is 100x to 300x harder than providing electricity? I'm curious to hear the answer from people in the field, because for my friend who works in power generation, electricity generation doesn't seem 100x easier than providing data service, no coal had to be mined or water reservoirs had to be created in order to send cat videos, his words lol.
> Personally I tend to lean towards privatizing or eliminating the USPS,

The USPS is funded nearly entirely by postage revenue.[1] Why do you support privatizing it when it doesn't cost any taxpayer money?

1. https://facts.usps.com/top-facts/
One way of looking at it is that equipping our data with that bookkeeping gives us something that commutes.
That's what they already do. So establishing operations in Sweden means that isn't enough.
The timing doesn't line up - the USPS has been under attack since well before 2017. This reason might be reinforcement, but it can't be part of the core rationale.

And, honestly, there are "politicalish" scandals like this pretty frequently - I don't know if you recall the uproar about the IRS targeting conservative groups a few years back[1].

1. Which was, for clarity, disproven after the fact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_targeting_controversy
Those don't replace SQL in the same way that typescript does not replace javascript. They are also often specific to a certain framework or language in a way that makes them infeasible to compete with SQL in a general way.
That's optional.

In Settings, search for "Allow Text Selection in Links" and deactivate it. Now you can drag+drop links.
I don't think they meant to imply that these things are requirements for everyone. More like highlighting and discussing the reasons a person might feel pushed to prefer a particular type of home.
From Wikipedia: "Regarding the monopoly on delivery of letters, the report notes that the monopoly is not complete, as there is an exception for letters where either the amount paid for private carriage of the letter equals at least six times the current rate for the first ounce of a single-piece First-Class Mail letter (also known as the "base rate" or "base tariff") or the letter weighs at least 12.5 ounces."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service#2...

edit: Here is the law https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/39/601
You didn't rephrase the question, you formed different questions with easier answers. I don't see how this causes the broader philosophical issue to "evaporate".
I’m saying that government intervention through anti trust actions were useless the last two times in the modern era - MS and IBM.

Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Google came to prominence by being able to execute. Even MD stayed relevant while the other four were growing through better execution.

Why would anyone think that the government has all of the sudden become competent when it comes to regulating tech when we have forty years that shows just the opposite?

Did you see the dog and pony show when it the government trotted out the 4 tech CEOs? Would you really trust them to be both competent and not corrupt.
Of course they will catch up. It's impossible to maintain a lead forever in a field that is slowing down as a whole. It will take some time, but they will definitely get there at some point. There is no magic sauce that makes TSMC or Samsung better at this than China can ever be. So better plan for that.
This. People are conditioned to non-productive, consumptive leisure. Some have hobbies and can find meaning in productive leisure, but for those who don't, after a while binging Netflix is just meaningless. Creating things is a very important way for humans to find meaning and to be in the Zone.
My dishwashing hack is to simply clean them in the sink by hand and to never use the dishwasher.

I find this encourages efficient reuse of dishes wherever feasible, and ensures that things are always cleaned to my expectations.

You might think this takes some extra time, but there are major advantages to having a sink full of hot soapy water available to you each morning. Wiping down arbitrary surfaces, mopping floors, etc, is a trivial next step after you finish with the dishes.
Indirectly it is.
Fair points, I'm operating mostly blind on this so I'm grateful for you and others who are bringing more references to laws and the functions of it.

The question still gets me is "why now?" Why privatize or change the USPS now, when it could very well jeopardize, or at the minimum, give people the impression that it will jeopardize the election?

In other words, is the <$10B in annual loss more important than the integrity of the election?
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Not all optimization candidates are about bottlenecks. Reducing allocation is also optimization, for example.
PS other blog posts are great too, like this one on Energy:
https://www.jimmckelvey.com/reprogram-your-brain-to-save-ene...
I guess you have to be a tablet user to really see the value. The fact that tablet users have more screen realstate increases their desire to want more on their screen. While for example I as a mobile user can't think of much use-cases because I'm used to a different user experience and my expectations are different.

I'm not sure if Microsoft strategy to call it a new device category instead of tablet is effective though. I can imagine if Apple was doing it, they would just call it a fold-able/dual-screen tablet.
Honestly, how do you expect Uber to, overnight, suddenly change their entire business model, and interview and choose who to hire on full time? And this is in addition to determining benefits, over time, managing those new employees, etc etc.

There is so much that needs to be changed for this to happen, it would be more shocking if Uber didn't shut down.
Perhaps, but that's not an indictment of Feynman, but an indictment of how you get a PhD nowadays. Today you get a PhD for something rigorous and technical and ultimately irrelevant compared to Feynman diagrams and path integrals.
Lucent and GM had WFOE arrangements (certain plants) in the mid 90s.

Artcile from 1997.
https://hbr.org/1997/03/entering-china-an-unconventional-app...
Legality is only one of numerous considerations. It's highly consequential, but also variable, often hugely, in both space and time.

Most pointedly where one jurisdiction's mandated content is another's prohibited. Maps exhibit this frequently, though there are other examples.

I've addressed considerations other than law already in this thread.
In this situation, CPM is likely based on impressions, not clicks.
The land in question is extremely contaminated.
I don't really understand this. Firstly before this whole contractor vs employee situation, Uber was extremely strict on drivers and enforced a high degree of rider privileges. Drivers were penalized for rejecting rides without reason, rider destination was hidden and surge pricing was uniform and purely demand based. These policies objectively improved availability to and from poor neighborhoods, and reduced the opportunity for profiling passengers.

The employee debate has near uniformly turned into dialing back rider protections, removing up front costs and handing drivers more control. The employee requirements will unquestionably increase ride costs and decrease driver availability. This is going to worsen access to poor neighborhoods and add costs on people who cannot afford to pay them, making ride share further restricted to "good" neighborhoods and higher income folks.
So the hardest part is calculating the amount of the subsidy. Once you know that you just make it a deduction from the fare the customer pays and the government pays the difference.

Calculating the amount is finicky because the subsidy itself is going to affect the market pricing. But in the end, as long as there is a competitive market for both drivers and ride share companies, you know whether the subsidy is too high or too low because the subsidized cost of a ride there will be more or less than it is in other places (rather than exactly the same as you're trying to make it).

Because if the subsidy was too high then there would be "too many" drivers and the subsidized price would fall below what's required, and if the subsidy was too low then the opposite.