skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
congress should allow USPS to raise rates if need be, but how would amazon force USPS to make special, money-losing trips just for them?

most (all?) rural packages should go out with the regular (usually daily) mail carrier, so the marginal cost of also delivering amazon packages to rural addresses should basically be zero for USPS.

for the really remote areas, i don't think you can choose any time-bound delivery you want, like next-day or two-day. they would only quote you what they'd be able to manage with the normal, likely less frequent, delivery schedule for the area (like weekly).

so i can see how USPS misses out on lucrative urban deliveries, but not how they lose money on rural deliveries. amazon absolutely does gain by not delivering to rural though.
Rumor says the crew wanted wifi reception.
> "...only the most popular, most used dictionary definitions shall count..."

No, I just understand that words can have multiple definitions and any of them is perfectly valid to use. You were simply wrong to "correct" them in both cases.

Here's what you did:

> "...a comment in a forum"

I think you meant "a comment on a web site" because a forum means an ancient Roman marketplace...see how stupid this game is?
It sort of reminds me of the Nazi gun registration laws.

They made everyone register all their guns.

Then they came in and took them.

(change "guns" to "assets")
> user could not care less

Some publishers are giving the dollars back to the users. Like Fortnite.

Also, 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 horrible experience.

That is what I say when they are holding you as pawns. They are okay for you and I to go through that confusing experience, instead of allowing Netflix to tell them that they have to sign up in the browser.

> I suppose if you care about the users, you should argue for freedom of running the software you like on the device you buy

Android does allow it. They allow you to install any software. Even software that allows you to bypass Youtube Ads. In fact that is one reason why many stick to android
> People subject to the wealth tax would report it to the Franchise Tax Board along with their income taxes. They would have to report all assets including stock in publicly and privately traded corporations...

Does this mean that if you have paper wealth in the form of illiquid founder shares in a startup, you'd be subject to the wealth tax? There's a nontrivial number of people that have more than "$30M" in stock in their name, but that wealth only exists on paper.

If you are a co-founder with 20% ownership of a $500M company, that's an extra $280k a year of personal taxes even if your company doesn't make it to an exit.

This could kill the startup industry.
Some more examples (mind `contextual()` for combining selectors):

https://www.masswerk.at/nowgobang/2019/object-handle-event#j...
Thank you. Perhaps this will lead me down the trail that explains why the Postmaster General is apparently the second-highest paid U.S. govt official after the President.
I moved to suburbs in a mountain state. In a few years may move to a rural area if gigabit is available.

Most people have ZERO idea what this country is, how vast and unpopulated it is. You can have a mountain to yourself in many areas. The west is essentially empty. You can have 360 mountain views in a beautiful agricultural valley. You can live on a uninhabited part of a lake or river. You can live in an area that looks like a national park. Just need stable power, water, and internet which is/will be easy with solar and sat internet.
I love this comment because it exemplifies how easy it is to mix facts (the first part) and fabrication (the second part) and how facts make an obviously made up statement sound legitimate.
Australia said nah mate, all good down here.
Not the OP, but of all the places in Europe where I have been, Norway just feels the most comfortable to me. My city would be Bergen.
But that's not the point - the point is, sandboxing largely solves these issues without the need for restrictions on side loading, restrictions to a single app store or similar abuses of consumers rights.

Apple should build a better sandbox, the idea that "private APIs" exist and the only thing stopping them from being used is a basic string search on the app store review is pretty horrifying.
It happened
> Fuck your security and fuck your walled gardens.

Sigh. I guess we're going to remove a product category (the relatively safe, very consistent, managed platform you can use when you just want to use a computer and not also manage a computer) and call that consumer choice, then? I'd prefer instead that more companies make something similarly-nice and compete with Apple. I have lots and lots of options I can use if I want to have to worry about a bunch of silly stuff like "will this .exe or 3rd-party repo pwn me?" or "is this payment prompt fake?" when I'm just trying to play the piano, make art, track recipes, balance my books, or whatever. I use them all the time, in fact. When I don't want to worry about that crap I use iOS. It's nice having any option in that category. I do not want to go back to having zero of them. I don't care that 3rd party browsers on it have to render with the WebKit engine. Not even a little.
People will debate whether mail in voting is good or bad, fraudulent or not, etc. That's fine, let them debate, legislate, appeal to courts, etc.

But besides all that: There is simply no scenario where allowing the USPS to half-fail improves the situation.

Even if the USPS was running perfectly, this election would still have unusually low trust, because of the pandemic and because of our especially toxic political climate. Adding a hobbled USPS to the mix makes things much worse.

Lots of people are saying Trump is trying to "muddy the waters" of the election. I suppose Trumps motivation may be debated, but I think the result is clear: A half functioning USPS will "muddy the waters" of the election result. Does anyone disagree that this will be the result? Even if (being charitable) that was not the intention.
I think it would be much easier to pull off and work with now than then. The c++ world now has raii and smart pointers, so locking and unlocking could be something the compiler does for you based on scope, all using a pointer syntax.
And cold as hell winter 5 months of the year.
Not to mention that their cashpile is a hedge against very serious geopolitical risk, which Apple are taking making and distributing a device globally.

Is Epic taking that risk, or doing any of that work to reach this vast market?

No.
Someone actively sits down and codes all the things that make the world a worse place, and they often do it after and despite all of the arguments for why it is bad; maybe you disagree that AMP is a problem--I, honestly, haven't made a decision there yet--but to be very blunt about it: we tend to attribute too many things to organizations and companies when there should be a list of very concrete names of engineers working at companies like Apple or Google that actively continue to work on technologies like DRM to lock people out of devices and tracking to centralize data... and we should remember it was only due to their willingness to work on these projects that these projects get done.
Possibly? Doing the best you can doesn't necessarily mean you'll have an easy time as money rolls in.
Mobile safari has intimate links into the OS, intercepting links and sending them to apps, and no real ability to filter content.

(content blockers are opt-out - and you have no ability to even know what is loading)
I mean, I'm not an expert, so I might be misreading here, but section 803 of your second link seems to say essentially that the USPS must pay into the retirement fund pre-emptively.

"Requires the Postal Service, beginning in 2007, to compute the net present value of the future payments required...Directs the Postal Service, for each year, to pay into the above Fund such net present value and the annual installment due under the amortization schedule"

The "50 years" part that you bring up is probably an exaggeration to some extent of the amount of time between when a person starts working for the USPS and when they retire, but the general concept behind the argument remains the same I would think.
I think it's going to be pretty hard for you to argue that the proliferation of app stores for the PC is bad for consumers.

A lot of people credit Steam (I think justifiably) with kickstarting a huge portion of the modern indie gaming scene -- precisely because they got rid of the crazy rules, agreements, and contracts of the retail boxes, which acted as a massive barrier to entry for game developers. If Steam had never been built, I don't think modern games would be even half as diverse or creative as they are.

Then we move on to storefronts like Humble and GoG, which I think have been hugely influential in pushing DRM-free games as the norm for indies. There are a lot of games that flat-out would not have DRM-free releases if GoG didn't exist. Heck, there are a lot of games that would not run on modern Windows if GoG didn't exist.

Then we move on to Epic's store, which I know gamers hate, but trust me when I say a lot of indie developers are thrilled right now to see someone forcing Steam to lower their splits. Epic has done some serious good for the indie scene. I don't like that they're encouraging exclusives, I think that's bad for gamers. But I'm not going to pretend that as a developer I'm not happy to see someone breaking Steam's stranglehold on the mainstream PC marketplace.

So yeah, there are a lot of PC stores. This has been a massive boon to the industry, there are a lot of excellent games that (I think) would not exist today if not for the diversity of marketplaces. And a lot of these marketplaces fill different niches. GoG focuses on older games, Steam offers mainstream AA titles, Uplay/Origin offer corporate AAA titles, Itch has all the really weird, creative "true-indy" stuff.

No single PC store is expansive enough to cover all of the niches of the entire market.

Even on the console side of things, the diversity of games on the PC has pushed console manufacturers to offer much wider selections of games. Are you happy that basically every indie developer and their dog is releasing their game for the Switch? A big part of that is Nintendo opening up the development process, and they did that because after the Wii U they realized that they needed to pull indie devs away from the PC to stay competitive.

And on PC, what's actually the problem with this? You can basically ignore all of the other platforms and just download your games from Steam. You can opt out of all of the complexity that you dislike.

Sure, you'll miss out on a few exclusives if you do. But you would have missed out on many of those exclusives with a unified storefront anyway, because a lot of those games just wouldn't have been created if there weren't stores that were a good fit for them to sell on. You'll miss out on just as many games if you decide to stick with curated console storefronts.
Very useful Cloud Db
If you're spending that kind of money on a boat, you're almost certainly keeping it in a covered dock or lift. The panels won't get much direct sun except when out tooling around. Better to put the panels on the roof of the boat house.
A lawsuit isn't Apple's biggest concern. It's being set upon by the government for antitrust.
USPS delivers plenty of my Amazon packages to my definitely not rural apartment in San Francisco.
Wow, sounds pretty crazy. Did the note have personal guarantees? My understanding is that kind of thing is very rare. If not, what grounds did he have for suing you personally? Fraudulent conveyance or breach of fiduciary duties? Something else?
Shh we don’t want more people out here!

But seriously, has me wondering how sat net will change the RE market once people can move away and stay connected.
I love this too. Moving Pinboard from whatever flavor of PHP it was based on (in 2009) onto 7.3 only ran into two issues—something to do with the "explode" function, and requiring a certain kind of constructor in objects. All the rest of the migration pain involved libraries.

Granted, Pinboard is just a wrapper around some SQL queries, but that's what most PHP apps are. It was a big relief to find the migration so easy.
It’s tricky.

California will subpoena cellphone location records.

They’ll query records from license plate scanners around the state, searching for those new Nevada plates.

They’ll consider you a resident just for having assets in the state, leaving the burden of proof on the defendant.

It’s particularly hard for executives whose companies are headquartered in California.

That being said, the new reality of remote work could be a paradigm shift that enables a mass exodus of firms moving their headquarters out of state.
That is a fantastic comparison. I hope that more vendors start making high quality AMD configs with good thermal management. We need AMD laptops to go mainstream to have enough SKUs specially those focus on say developer usage. Given the massive multi-threaded advantage and low power AMD seems more suited to a dev laptop than intel like first time ever. Even when a Zen 1 desktop was a reasonable choice (for cores and price) it was hard to justify AMD on a laptop until now. But if vendors keep making low end design or rare SKUs few would be able to take advantage of the fact.
Should a string, when converted to an integer, become 1, not 0? (Unless it is a string of only digits, like "567". Then it should become 567.)

(bool) 'x' // true
(int) true // 1

If a string is truthy in a boolean situation, shouldn't it also be truthy in a numeric one?

The types form a hierarchy in my mind, from simple to complex: from boolean to integer, to float, to string, to compound types like arrays and objects. It seems like values should cast up and down the chain uniformly.
I would like to learn more about Tim. Any suggestions?
Please note that private highways actually exist:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_highways_in_the_United...
Wouldn't that make it harder for kids to buy crap instead of easier? Parental controls or not if they have access to the card then they know exactly what they're doing and can go about it in any number of ways. The main issue here is single button purchases, not full CC entry.
It's not just about payment processing, it's about the size of the fees.
> He wants to make it harder to vote by mail to prevent fraud, not to create it.

This is technically correct, the best kind of correct. If 100 people actually vote for Smith and 101 people actually vote for Jones, and you count 99 of the votes for Smith and 98 of the votes for Jones, you have not counted any fraudulent votes.

The test of a democracy is whether it is representative, not whether it counts only non-fraudulent votes. Avoiding fraud is a very important means to the end, but it is not the end itself.

Here is an analogy for the HN crowd: If my site is broken, and I need to do a deploy to fix it, and we have a rule that says that every commit must pass tests and tests take 4 hours to run, then great, the rule is making sure that no code that's failing tests hit prod - but the rule is certainly not helpful in bringing prod back online. The rule is a means to the goal of making sure that prod works. It's a good rule, of course. Nobody is questioning the merit of testing your code or saying that untested code is a good thing. But you cannot justify missing your SLAs by saying "All of our code needs to be tested in order for us to know that our site works."
I expect an elic store on android soon.. And they might have a chance! Fortnite will pull in a lot of people!
I'm not newly remote as I made the move a little over 3 years ago. That said, I moved to Northern Georgia specifically to work remotely. I have an incredible (inexpensive) house that gets fiber internet, live in an inexpensive area, have luxuries pretty close (Apple store, Wholefoods, Tesla, etc), 45 min south of the mountains, live just off a lake and I'm only an hour outside of Atlanta.

There are very few places in the country that can give me all of these things I want at a bargain value. Even though I'm 100% remote, I always have Atlanta to fall back on if remote work dries up. I can't stress how important that peace of mind is (pun intended). I've lived and worked in the Pacific Northwest and just couldn't make it work financially.
Even if the claim is true, does allowing the post office to half-fail at such a critical time help matters in any way?
I am sorry, I don't understand. Will you be suddenly forced to install all the shit from all the sources? Nobody is forcing you right? How does your position change with the new one? Are you arguing having firefox and ublock on iphone will suddenly make it more pleasant to browse the web and you don't like it? I am sure you are not.
And they aren't out-competing publicly held roads.

This shows that the roads are serving their purpose adequately.
Obviously if state governments made a deal with UPS or FedEx to deliver ballots they would include some stipulations about delivering them.

Besides, the law is no guarantee. The USPS loses plenty of packages. You have no real recourse. What are you going to do, take them to small claims court? Make the government count your ballot anyway (assuming they believe you)? Good luck with that. Such guarantees mean nothing the real world.
My website has 40+ celebrity and cartoon voices:

https://vo.codes

I'm working on voice conversion (voice to voice for TeamSpeak/Discord) now.
I believe the word you're looking for is quisling.

I used to really be happy about computers - they made people's lives better. But business interests have really changed how computers work and I truly hope we can get them to work for us again.
Racial quotas in the admissions process have been ruled unconstitutional a long time ago.

https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/supremecourt/rights/print/land...
First up, monopoly is a false argument here. Consumers have choice, and Steam doesn't prevent games from launching on other platforms.

Compare this to Epic, which directly impacts consumers by limiting their choice of platform. Epic's work here is a reduction in consumer agency, not an increase. Furthermore, Epic has shown direct anti-consumer activity, with interference in games explicitly available for the Steam audience. As such, from their previous and current behavior, I can see the Epic store only as a long-term negative, with the worsening of user experience and the introduction of even more "store exclusives" into the ecosystem.

Add in the permissionless acquisition of private user steam data files, and we now get security issues in the mix.

I'm more amenable to origin. They make the games, they can have it on their own platform. They don't go out targeting games with multiple distribution platforms to buy exclusivity.
It's a good thing all other languages are perfect and have always been perfect, otherwise the rest of the community would have no pedestal to stand upon.
Smartphones are not stand alone widgets. They are portals into vast troves of software made by legions of developers. Right now, at least for Apple, their app store is the lone chokepoint between this software and the world. Them taking 30% of every sale between the developers and their users deserves scrutiny. This percentage is not based on the market because there is no market. There is one option. There lies the monopoly.
Your links are 10 years old. The current website of the American Anthropological Association seems to have reconciled (compromised on) both views:

https://www.americananthro.org/

Their subtitle is "Advancing Knowledge, Solving Human Problems"

Their About page (https://www.americananthro.org/ConnectWithAAA/Content.aspx?I...) says:

"The Association is dedicated to advancing human understanding and applying this understanding to the world’s most pressing problems. While 75 percent of our members are employed in higher education or are students of anthropology, about 25 percent of our members work in the public, private, and non-governmental sectors, beyond the academy."

The Statement of Purpose page (https://www.americananthro.org/ConnectWithAAA/Content.aspx?I...) says:

"The purposes of the Association shall be

- to advance anthropology as the science that studies humankind in all its aspects, through archeological, biological, ethnological, and linguistic research;

- and to further the professional interests of American anthropologists, including the dissemination of anthropological knowledge and its use to solve human problems."
Do you have any referrals or links to those types of places? I'd pay that gladly.
Governors Island (at least the only photo they have of it) seems to be wildly different to when I visited recently. I don't know the full history of the island, but that seems to be one of the places where it's actually less populated than it was in the past.
Neither of those articles mentions fraud at all. In fact, they strive to point out the problem of under funded postal and electoral systems...
How are they proposing to account for someone's networth, vs say things in family member's name that they really own, or things in trusts that the person controls, etc?

I dont know how high end finance works, maybe its an already solved problem, but it seems a lot easier to define incoming income (which is already challenging) than it is to define net worth.
It really doesn’t. But why would you tell the internet if it did?
While we're at it, let's not let websites process payments either. Or retailers. Or restaurants. Or anyone. Apple knows best, right?
There is actually quite a bit of redundancy in place, there are several cables which all still hold the larger instrumentation cluster in place above the dish and are able to tolerate a failure like the one that occurred.
Excel + VBA is insanely powerful, and except for the IDE a surprisingly good dev experience. I would have never thought if I my client hadn't insisted..
I've been in San Antonio for the past 5 years and love it, even the heat. I actually got a job in NYC and was planning to move up, but my first day was the day they started wfh.
The big difference is that the platform is completely decoupled from app store.

On Windows, publishers can choose to which store they would publish, and you can choose from where you want to buy it.

On iOS you are completely at the mercy of Apple; not only won't they allow specific apps or content on the store, they seem to make exceptions for some apps/publishers. There is no way to install and use something that Apple doesn't like.

Android is quite different, since it allows to load a different store, like the Amazon one, or FDroid for open source projects (you are still more or less tied to having Google Play Services on the device, since majority of Android apps use it, but the situation is a LOT better than on iOS.)
I've owned a Dell XPS13 which was the crappiest product I've bought in a while. So I'd say the problem with Dell is more inablity vs. malicious intent.
Mostly latency around WebSockets.
In my experience, it is not race-blind (see above comment). Also, Professor Sander at UCLA is suing the UC system over alleged violations of Prop 209.

https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2018/11/19...
Dismissing facts based on the accompanying commentary is fundamentally flawed. You may not agree on the commentary part of a journalistic piece but you cannot dismiss their stories a priori. Same applies for Fox News.