skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A pretty crappy service, at that. Not unlike almost every other government service I’ve ever experienced.

I live in rural America and let me tell you the USPS is a complete joke here. Everyone knows it, and we choose to use UPS/FedEx instead. I don’t have a mailbox anymore nor do I have a P.O. Box. Many neighbors are going this way, too. We don’t want or need their services anymore. They’ve become too unreliable.
Typically I sleep with the phone charging in a different room. Is that weird?
We need to intervene much much earlier than college admissions if we want to fix that. But it's a really difficult problem because cultures in low SES areas like where I grew up tend to shame and beat the shit out of smart kids, and one culture's "intervention" is another's "unwelcome interference".
This is a fake, sure. Maybe it's not perfect, but the software is improving. So within a few years, I'm guessing that fakes will be indistinguishable from true recordings.

But this was based on the text of an actual speech written for President Nixen, to be delivered if the mission failed. So isn't it likely that he practiced it, just in case? And if he did, it might have been recorded, more or less accidentally. As Reagan's quip about nuking Russia was.

And so as others note, it becomes crucial to look at the historical context.
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Not enjoying these comments. Does this thread really belong on this site?
That's not universal. I have Brazilian family members of Portuguese descent who think of themselves as non-hispanic "white" and have Brazilian Portuguese as their first language. And a few others in the same side of the family with darker skin who I believe identify as black.

Yet I would probably have made the same classification you did without knowing them.
Expressif is based in Shanghai. I would think so but I don't know how to check.
The usual discussion on this topic goes like this:

Apple defenders - It is their right to do it, since Android store allows them.

Others - Apple is being a hypocrite. While they maintain that app store must be compensated for all the services they do to developers, When given a chance they do not agree with their above statement.

I feel w.r.t app stores, Google is User-centric, but Apple is Apple-Centric at the expense of their customers. They use users as pawns, to bully the best for Apple, rather than their customers (you and I).

edit: To explain "user centric" better

Because of Apple's rules, you cannot just sign-up from Netflix app in iOS. You have to sign up in their Browser and then sign in. And Netflix is not allowed to even specify that in the app. Absolutely confusing, for normal users. Very bad user experience.

That is what I say when they are holding you as pawns. Apple is okay for you and I to go through that confusing experience, instead of allowing Netflix to tell them that users have to sign up in the browser.
Why would you prefer actual aggression to passive aggression?

For what its worth, I don’t think the OP was intending to be insulting; this seemed more like an inside joke designed to foster camaraderie.
PAEA gave the post office much more autonomy over their rates. Months ago a bailout was offered on the stipulation of raised rates. The Post Office is culpable for their insane pricing.

And assuming you mean accounting for actuarial costs, other businesses certainly do need to account for those.
An interesting manifestation of this belief is the California separatist movement "State of Jefferson". These are people who believe that the economy of far northern California would be far stronger if they were simply allowed to clearcut every forest in the state.

One county, Lake County, had the good manners to cancel a planned vote of secession in late 2015 after the rest of the state paid to put out an enormous wildfire there.
The USPS: https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-history/pmg-frankli...

Its problems: https://ips-dc.org/how-congress-manufactured-a-postal-crisis... (when the Republican Party held the White House, Senate, and House simultaneously)

Who's involved with causing them: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/13/donald-trump...
Site doesn’t load on iOS even after a minute.
Digital data could overtake Earth's actual atoms, physicist says
Could you explain? What I meant, I believe Jai is vaporware and gets too much attention. I mean Jai sound exciting until you find out that the download link is missing.
Denver only has 30 to 40 days a year without at least partial sun.
True. You also cannot reasonably talk about saving the USPS without talking about who it needs saving from.
Saying "who cares what you prefer" and "you don't deserve that choice" are both examples of speech that's not welcome on HN.

>>You are demanding Apple turn the iPhone into the same insecure crapware that is Android.

Uhm, no, Android is full of crapware because Google does not vet apps the same way Apple does, not because you can side load APKs.
Look at the loss and val_loss numbers in the sample image, it's way overfitting.
You just don't start a fight without a plan. The legend of David and Goliath says that you need to be clever to take on an oppressive opponent that is far more powerful than yourself. Apple forgot that as it became the Goliath.
Anecdotally, I haven’t found that to be the case on the A10 through A12 chips. I’m impressed with Epic’s engineering.
300ish days of sunshine a year in Denver versus about half that in Seattle.
HN's great flaw is that it has been allowed to be overrun by huge numbers of people from large organizations.

There are tens of thousands of people from FAANG/YC acting as self-interested agents of their organizations without any kind of disclosure or counter-measures. These are, in effect, massive voting rings and propaganda efforts which are supposedly not allowed on HN.

It's obvious how this results in the total dominance of FAANG/YC content, and how it skews the public conversation in Silicon Valley in their favor.

HN could take a variety of counter-measures but they don't. Maybe because users would quickly point out the hypocrisy of ending FAANG voting rings/propaganda while permitting the YC voting rings/propaganda.

HN is now the premier mouthpiece for tech corporate interests.

It would be great for the world if someone were to create a replacement that was designed to prevent this problem, while preserving what is good about HN. Or if HN took action even if it was 5+ years late.
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for one thing, USPS serves last-mile rural customers that UPS and FedEx do not find profitable. If you send a package to one of those places, FedEx/UPS will ship your package to the nearest town and then just _put it in the mail_
Yeah giving a third party the ability to control what ssh keys get provisioned on a machine isn't a big deal.</sarcasm>
Yes/no. It depends how the services are distributed. For example if this is actually one region that has the issue and your data is stored there, accessing another region's gateway won't help you. But if the service is completely replicated / distributed and it's only the networking of your closest pop that failed, then a VPN helps.
because race is the (possibly unfortunately named) trump card in a simple back and forth like this in a public forum
the problem they were running into was that they got to much money early on. that distorted their vision of what's possible and instead of keeping it realistic, they shot for the moon.
The article linked specifically mentions that one of the main advocates for the Post Office from a medical standpoint are pharmacies. The point is certainly valid.

The high risk loans and bailouts given to the post service are absolutely more expensive than mailing medicine to veterans.
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The establishment of the post office is not in the Bill of Rights, it's not an inalienable God-given right that the government exists to protect. Personally I don't have a problem with it even though people like Jefferson expressed concern that it would be a waste of money and should not be the federal government's responsibility.
Ok so you don’t disagree with any points.
As part of our TOS, we will triple-decimate your app fees.
At least he provides the references to the info that he presents. I assume that you did your research and the vast majority of the information he presented was verifiably false. Can you please share your findings with us ?
How much tax money goes to the USPS?
Please provide credible evidence for this claim.
Mozilla fired the XR team.
Republicans and Democrats passed that law unanimously
3% of 5M is $150,000. Not shabby.

One percenters often have multiple houses to move to so this isn't some major obstacle.
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> USPS operates with many government mandates that don't apply to private companies.

Then let's remove those mandates before asking the taxpayers to pump more money into a failing system. The system won't magically fix itself. If we allow it to continue to demand more and more money, there won't be any incentive to fix the underlying problems.

We could have a very similar conversation about the pension obligations of Ford or General Motors, but I doubt people would be as enthusiastic about bailing them out as they are about the USPS.
“They need that money in order to have the post office work so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballots,” Trump said in an interview with Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo. “If they don’t get those two items, that means you can’t have universal mail-in voting because they’re not equipped to have it.”

“If we don’t make a deal that means they don’t get the money. That means they can’t have universal mail-in voting. They just can’t have it. Sort of a crazy thing,”

He is explicitly trying to remove the USPS's ability to handle voting by mail.
Nobody, absolutely nobody, lived in a fully dispersed car-based rural landscape prior to 1900. They lived in small towns and villages, like sensible people.
The times I've seen numbers on this from the business side, from biz-intel sorts of places (think, Gartner), the figures are crazy-unbalanced in favor of Apple. Way more spending per device (not tens of % more, but an integer multiple more), larger fraction of time spent in apps (as opposed to the browser, or basic phone use like texting or calls), and on top of that way more time using the device period. My guess: some of that's demographics, some of it's how pleasant/usable the OS and device are, some of it's how consistent and safe-feeling the spending-money experience is.
Not OP but did you got a remote position after learning and practising all this because I'm interested in only remote positions.
My apologies, it wasn't meant as an insult. I was trying to make a point and added a smiley face because I thought it would certainly be misconstrued as insult without it.
> By that you also give a choice to app makers, some of whom will happily sell you out to bigcorps.

No. If the app wants to sell me out to bigcorps, Apple will ban them from the store.

Of course, as a consumer, I'll have the choice to leave the Apple store and follow my favorite apps elsewhere. But if the 3rd-party stores end up with a reputation of being insecure, then consumers will refuse to use them. And everything will be fine.

> Now imagine that Epic wins the fight, has millions of teens on the fortnite needle and no one to prevent them or some inside bad actor to demand whatever device clearance they want.

Then Apple will ban them from the store, and teens will either follow them elsewhere, or they won't.

In theory, this is already possible with Android. But people can't have this argument both ways.

- If jumping ship to Android is easy and available to everyone who owns an Apple device, then clearly having an escape hatch out of Apple's store isn't a big deal and consumers are smart enough to choose whether or not they want to download apps from a secure store.

- If consumers aren't smart enough to choose their own platform based on security, and the cost and difficulty of moving outside of Apple's ecosystem is the only reason why stupid teens aren't being exploited by Fortnite right now, then clearly the "consumers voluntarily choose to stay with Apple" argument is nonsense.

Nobody is talking about forcing Apple to get rid of their store. You will always have the choice to opt into downloading apps only from a secure, strictly managed, curated storefront.
This seems like a disingenuous comment at best. For example, Harvard's incoming class was something like 25% Asian-American, which I think is probably the highest it's been (compared to Asian-American's probably being like 5% of the population). Whatever the policy is, it is not trying for "equality", nor is it really anything close to what happened in the Soviet Union. My grandparents lived there; some relatives were killed in the middle of the night because of their ethnicity. Nowadays, someone gets turned down by Yale, and these BS comparisons start up. Come on.
I have done it several times. It was no problem at all. I prefer using them for important documents. Why would you think it would be any worse than the USPS?
That must be a metaphor for Tim Cook, I guess?
They're very concerned, though. Troubled, even. Furrowed brows and everything.
Considering the democrats cheated in the last election. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to be suspicious of mail in votes. I think just about everyone has a valid ID.
What an Epic move by Apple. Quite ironic.
I find it odd that in your first point, you seem to argue that only the most popular, most used dictionary definitions shall count as being “correct” and in your second, you seem to argue just the opposite!

By the way, I never the said the guy was wrong to say fiscally. It was sort of a sloppy usage of the word—in my opinion of course. Which I hope its obvious that this is, seeing as its a comment in a forum!

And I’m certainly not wrong to say that fiscally is to do with taxes. I might have been wrong assuming that he or she was looking for a less ambiguous word. I do tend to assume the best in people, and am often wrong.
Snowden is a traitor who let his psychological issues lead him to think he was about to be assassinated, so instead of getting help, he breaks into NSA systems, steals data, then sells it to China and Russia for safe haven for him and his fiance.

This Saint Snowden crap has gone on too long.
Keep in mind that Apple is slugging developers $150 every year just to get their foot in the door of the App Store. That's not an insignificant sum.

No developer or company is happy with the way Apple runs the App Store. Their commission is outrageously high, their approval process is slow and often arbitrary, and their tooling is god-awful. We all just put up with it because the iPhone/iPad install base is so large, we don't really have a choice.

That being said, I'm very reluctant to demand regulation that interferes with a private company's right to run its own products. After all, maybe Apple's attitude is precisely why their install base is so large.

But God I wish there was a competitor that knocked them down the leaderboard a few pegs. Android is great, but the ecosystem is too fractured for the market to force Apple to change.
Keyword: anecdotal
Again, you are misrepresenting the distinction.

The purported claim was:

> "all Asians" have personality defects

"All A has P" is a world of difference from "A has P", or "on average A has P".

>How do we even calculate an average personality? I doubt that even Yale people would stoop to such sophistry.

This is exactly what Yale is doing and the DOJ is going after them for. Yale requires personal statements, which they grade and rank based on personality attributes they find desirable. By Yale's metrics, asians, on average, score lower and this is used as rationale to deny acceptance. Asians who score high on the personality assessment are given acceptance. After ranking tens of thousands of students of different races, Yale or a 3rd part can look at the scores given by reviewers, and see if there is a correlation with race. This is the avereage, as reviewed by Yale.

YES, this can have bias. YES, this is highly suspect. Yes, I think this should be investigated. As said in my original post, I don't support Yale's position.

That said, I think it is important to have the moral and intellectual honesty to represent it for what it is, and debate it.

There is no need to lie and claim that Yale says "all asians are inferior". refuting this claim is a waste of everyone's time because nobody is making it.
No, but they do sort millions of ballots.
A good friend of mine is an Uber drive, and he travels to other cities cities on weekends to capture surge pricing for clubs, shows, etc. I think he clears about that, but it's also bartender-timeframe work, and some of that goes back into his car and gas.

Not everyone clears this, but the people trying to make it a proper "career" can---at the cost of other things.
I would distinguish user vs developer. Android had always been partial to developers (more APIs at the cost of inconsistent and poor experience, sweeping location privacy on install that they refused to change until 10 version later, etc.) to entice developers to build on Android at some cost to the end user. Arguably, this 30% thing is not a freedom fight, just a payment negotiation for the publisher, and the end user could not care less (except for trusting their credit card number is not spread around and when they cancel subscription they won't have to mail a letter with certified mail).

I suppose if you care about the users, you should argue for freedom of running the software you like on the device you buy (ability to control secure boot keys/root access in some sort of developer mode), akin to values that Free Software Foundation has, not some petty marketplace rules. Neither those platforms, nor Epic, seem to give rat's ass about that freedom though.
Many of these are monthly, quarterly, or yearly subscriptions that do not account for a fraction of what the USPS delivers. The USPS delivered over 500 pieces of mail per living person in the US, including children, in 2014.

Were the US to pay for private delivery the 30-40 pieces of critical mail people receive each year and use bulk pricing discounts, they would likely come out ahead.
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23564247
+1. Great book.
Is said a/b test supported or funded by the Department of Health and Human Services? If not, that website clearly indicates that the regulations do not apply.
No, they aren't.

At least... not about this.
> Why would you prefer actual aggression to passive aggression?

Probably for the same reason I disliked the Sinatra content so much, too obviously fake.

The whole of the parent comment was that single remark I quoted, before they edited the comment.

They were intending to lob a passive aggressive insult on the lighter side. They didn't like my comment, so they fired off a shot about my comment being equivalent to a questionably human, possibly mediocre GPT3 text.

I don't mind that sort of mild insult in response, I just prefer it without the unnecessary facade of the smiley.
This is a dupe. See the discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24146987
I don’t know if that’s true otherwise but webgl is supported by safari on iOS.
Actual statistics of the Yale student body by ethnicity:

- American Indian or Alaska Native 0.3%

- Asian 14.7%

- Black or African-American 5.8%

- Hispanic of any race 9.8%

- Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander 0.1%

- White 42.7%

- Race/ethnicity unknown 1.0

SOURCE:

https://www.yale.edu/about-yale/yale-facts
The cost of keeping the post office afloat is part of the cost of mailing medicine to veterans.
this is what people mean by a disease becoming endemic aka (with us).
We already have a robust e-commerce infrastructure because of the roads, the airlines, and the multiple private delivery companies like UPS and FedEx and DHL. We also have large e-commerce companies building their own delivery networks. The USPS is not essential to e-commerce.

The suggestion that Amazon wouldn't exist without the USPS is ridiculous.
Can we please calm some of these wild theories about election sabatoge please? It seems unbelievably unlikely to me that there is not a more obvious reason why mail sorting machines are being removed.

Just some thoughts that seem much more realistic than crippling the post office to steal an election:

1) Bulk pre sort mail is down due to reduced marketing budgets during covid.

2) Paper bill volume is down due to adoption of online payments.

And also: why save the USPS? It’s current form seems completely and totally broken to me. The VAST majority of what I get is bulk pre sort literal garbage. We’ve got thousands of trucks driving around every day delivering trash into peoples homes. Why?

We need a postal system (obviously) but that doesn’t mean that this specific iteration of the postal system is the right one. We are a bunch of hackers. How would you improve the postal system if you had the power to do it?
Real ML and not just plug and play models takes a serious amount of knowledge
Sssssshhhh. Giant bears roam the streets and everyone walks around with guns.
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That has to be one of the most competitive places to surf in the world. Hope you are good!
Yes, maybe, but who would write that? Seems an arbitrary example used to denigrate weak typed languages in general. Not sure what is bering tested there, but easy enough to do this: if (is_numeric($foo) and !intval($foo)) {
> Yes, I am saying that the costs for delivery would become unsustainable for many companies if we had to rely on UPS and FedEx alone.

I mean you could levy this argument in favor of anything you wanted. Early computers were prohibitively expensive except for very wealthy households. Now you can get 1000x the computing power for a fraction of the cost. You would have been out there making the same argument for having the government build Apple IIs for everyone at cost.

You're basically arguing that innovation or having a better run system is fundamentally impossible in the area of logistics and delivery in general and so we need the government to step in.
The best summer in north west is in Seattle.
You use the 2000 dollar one? Is it possible to get a rough but working measurement device for around 100 dollars?
Repeated rejections by Apple, Facebook removed instant games from standalone app
The USPS serves the more remote addresses that those private alternatives will not choose to lose money on. They contract out to USPS for those deliveries.

I highly doubt a private mail corp would get the job done. Consider healthcare.
> The quality of commenting has really fallen at HN.

Amen.

> It’s starting to feel like a raging boomers Facebook wall

I wish. It's the eternal September problem now, except with pedants and spectrum patients.

Boomers actually built things, and the current generation hasn't even read about it.

The US is at war with China, and HN wants to debate judicial procedure with a totalitarian government.
Well... That's inconvenient, isn't it.

I've long suspected the cofounder thing was really to be able to divide and conquer. To have a spare founder when one inevitably quits. To play them against each other.

Call it experience.
Is the tesla model ok for you or not? I'm curious.

You could look at it as no haggling (and no sleazy salesfolks), you could look at it as everybody pays MSRP or you could say everybody gets the same deal.