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"Motherboard identified 19 mail sorting machines from five processing facilities across the U.S. that either have already been removed or are scheduled to be in the near future."

I think it's reasonable to question how many ballots being sent to local county offices would cross paths with one of these five regional processing facilities.

Even the Motherboard article acknowledges this;

"Paul McKenna, president of Milwaukee Area Local 3 of the American Postal Workers Union, said that some of the DBCSs staying will have about 50 more stackers added to them, meaning the machines can sort mail to a larger number of destinations. This will help alleviate the pressure during high mail volume periods like the Christmas rush—when there is simply more mail in general to all places—as well as provide advantages during lower-volume periods like the dead of summer. But it won’t necessarily help the unique challenge of election mail. In that case, the mail surge stays local."
Regrettably he believed far too much in fungibility as well.

As technology increases you need fewer people with higher skills to produce everything, but there is no reason why they should spend all their time producing a surplus to supply everybody else. They would rather stop and have Thursday and Friday off.

We all work in solidarity with those we need to work. Because it is more difficult to share out the unemployment than it first appeared.

The solution is to retire people earlier and have a public job option so younger people can always contribute their labour hours for others. Retiring people at 50 makes sense in a Covid world.
Isn't Apple just like Google and Amazon also using people to listen to some recordings they get via Siri to improve it? If so, that's not really privacy.
Very curious to test it and compare it with other solutions.

FWIW, one can test the AI of Odoo here: https://www.odoo.com/page/invoice-automation
Ask HN: Was Cloudflare's DNS service down for anyone else?
Neither my laptop nor my phone could resolve DNS lookups. Switching from 1.1.1.1 to 8.8.8.8 fixed the issue in both cases.

Edit: seems to be back up now. Here's a screencap from when it went down:

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/391067478316548120/743710726429868042/unknown.png
And this makes me think of Minecraft (on multiplayer servers)
ok, i was not aware of the samsung galaxy app store. thank you. i do believe that this is on of their early deals however, and google would not make such a deal again.

tizen needs to support android because the tizen app market doesn't offer everything needed. some important apps are only on android. (namely chat apps for example. without those a phones usefulness is very limited) i had a tizen phone years ago. technically it was very nice, but not even having access to f-droid was a problem.

maybe samsung doesn't care, but as a consumer i do care.

technically it was possible to pack android apps into a wrapper to make them run on tizen. but it had to be done separately. a third-party service could do that, leaving samsung free from violating their android license.
Quite ironically (given it's Github who are defending ADRs in the article), I avoid ADRs by using Github more richly: before working on a branch at all I create a substantial issue (think: multiple paragraphs, links to related issues/PRs, etc) and try to ping the team for feedback.

The design process will ideally happen asynchronously, as comments posted in the issue.

That way, a truthful trail of diverse considerations will be left in written form.

Contrariwise, ADRs can be too written excessively after-the-fact, by a single person. I have seen them degenerate into bureaucracy ("we designed X because X seemed the best option"... how informative).
I am no expert, but a few things that helped me:

1. Read lots.

2. 30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary by Norman Lewis. Some the words I have inly encountered once or twice in the intervening 25 years since I read it, but many others I hear every day.

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Okay, here it is: I want to have single place to manage my payments. As a user, I wouldn't care about the implementation. I wouldn't care about Apple's, Mozilla's or Google's cut. Not good business for you? Tough luck(unless I really want your product, then maybe adjust the price accordingly). What is the difference between App and Website asking for CC? No difference, I hate them both.

As a developer I agree that we shouldn't be forced and restricted to payment methods. My developer opinion is that these payment systems should be considered public utility and should be unified and should work the same for everyone - including Apple. Apple should not be able to have competing products by where they don't pay someone the cut that we pay.

I also think that payments methods shouldn't be able to restrict who we pay. Be it Wikilieaks or whoever we please. That's actually why I am not amused by framing this pity fight over the commission rates as "fight for freedom". It's not fight for freedom, it is cocky businessmen looking to increase their margins.

You know how 99% of the startups fail? Well, maybe they fail because they forget about the user.
> A) Consumers want Apple's walled garden and Apple is meeting their needs,

> and

> B) The option to install apps from a 3rd party source would immediately mean that consumers all jump ship from Apple's official store and there would be no incentive for companies to release apps on the official store, and security on the device would be ruined forever.

> Both of those arguments can't be true at the same time. If you're providing a service that consumers want, you don't have to force them into it. If forcing consumers not to sideload apps is the only reason why consumers use Apple's store, then maybe that's a good sign that consumers don't want what Apple is providing.

The reason this looks like a contradiction is because it's not the actual position.

Mine, at least, is that 1) yes to A, and I'm not speculating, I personally feel that way as an iOS user, but then 2) no, on B: the concern isn't that users will jump ship from the App Store (I don't care, why would I?) but that developers will (and that I care about).
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Honestly, most race/culture terms seem weird to me: Caucasian (random geographical area), white (tan-pink), black (brown), African-American (regardless of being from Africa, or being American in some cases), native American (as opposed to immigrants?), Asian (sure, the biggest continent can be lumped together)... I assume it's from trying to describe a very complicated combination of factors in a single term, but the results do not make my programmer's brain happy.
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> but Apple is Apple-Centric at the expense of their customers

Apple has done a lot to curtail scummy developer practices and protect users.

You could go over each of their App Store policies and see how few of them are "at the expense of their customers."

Not the least are their privacy and anti-tracking protections. iOS 14 already caught many apps (including Discord and Instagram) stealing our clipboard data and secretly accessing camera, mic and location.

Claiming Google is "user-centric" and Apple isn't, usually means taking the side of the corporations that are hurt by limited access to user data.
Can this be hooked up to Hive to replace the metastore? Or Presto etc?
My point is not that it's easy, or that having a guide is unhelpful.

My point is that the pretend song-and-dance of current car buying is ridiculous and anti-consumer.

And lots of people don't have complex requirements for their vehicles. Size, color, type etc. Which could probably literally be managed via an Amazon-style listing.
You're kidding me. It's not a great speech but it is incredible for a machine-generated speech. Unbelievable. I love it!
Layouting is hard only from a css perspective. We used TFrames and tAligns in delphi, we used (sane!) boxing in gtk, we used apple's constraint system. Entire operating systems and business packs were built exclusively on these for decades. And nothing was as hard as making damn css work on three devices without an explicit role or two to manage that.

Alternative is a king. Leave your css if you like it, but please make it an intermediate layer, not final, and allow more sane primitives on which people could build their ui. People are sick and tired of translating geometric ui layout to allegedly-text layout, when there is not a single character of text until fifteenth level of divs.

Edit: it is not "css as format" that is broken, if that was not clear. Broken is a set of primitives under "display" property.
It’s easier, for me, to write websites that require JS. Why should I spend time on that 1 lonely user who browses with JavaScript disables when I could focus on maximising value for the other 100,000?
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While one can draw parallels to all sorts of things the question is whether that makes the original situation clearer or offers any insights. In this case it doesn't, it's just a cutesy yet pointless way of expressing something.
In many states gift card balances remain with Apple if they expire or are lost. They may make close to more money from that than the discount.
> It's not Apple's place to arbitrarily decide what I can or cannot do with my phone

This is a good way to kill Epic's fight.

If I want a hackable general-purpose computer, I can get one. I have one. The iPhone is not that. That's made clear at the time of purchase. It's a tradeoff between freedom and specific utility, and it delivers the latter in droves.

As a result, most Americans are fine with it. "Free software" is a great mantra from an important minority or Americans. But it's a minority nonetheless.

Big tech antitrust, on the other hand, is going mainstream. Epic's fight is riding that wave. Muddying it with an old and weaker argument is not helpful.
and jolla could do that because they didn't have an android license from google to begin with. tizen coudn't.
Isn't that what Mac's are for.
He or she was likely paid in equity for some portion, and that equity grew.
> "white" (which is weird in itself because it's technically a bunch of different races bundled into one light skinned bucket).

No, it's not. There aren't “technically” multiple light-skinned races. While there are a few different models of race, they tend to descend from the old three-race (Caucasoid, Mongoloid, Negroid) model and tend to have only a few more categories than those old models, which are now more commonly labelled White, Asian, and Black, with Native American typically added and, in the case of the US Census, “Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander” also added as a distinct category. (Both of the latter would generally have previously been considered part of the Mongoloid category.)
> Linux lacks native support for Autodesk, Adobe CC, Office 365, FL Studio, Pro Tools

I understand your point but I've been using Ubuntu since 2009 and never needed any of those programs. I do another job (web development, mostly backend.)

Actually I had to run the real Excel (not LibreOffice) for a project many years ago. I created a VM with VirtualBox, got a license for Excel from my customer and installed it there.
In general I think invoice extraction models will only generalise up to about 90% F1, after which they plateau off. What you can do at this point is to include examples of the specific formats your clients need to process and overfit on those formats, making the system 95% or 97% accurate. But for new layouts it's only going to be around 90%.

The problem with invoices is that some fields have extreme variability - the address, the company names and the product descriptions. So a synthetic invoice generation approach might not work when you want to process in a new industry or language.
Assuming your annual expenses came to $50K, you had to have made $225K-$325K a year before tax to save up that much in eight years. Shave or add a couple tens of thousands in either direction.

$225K is a high salary almost anywhere in the states that's not on the coast. It's an absolutely ungodly amount outside of a small number of countries. You're likely to make a third of that in the EU or Asia. Maybe half that in cities with large tech scenes.

Advising someone to save up $2M before they're thirty is like telling someone to be born rich, except that the odds of being born rich are much higher (~40M millionaires in the world vs ~3M programmers in the States, of which the majority make less than $90K a year).

You start a company and go through hell to get $2M in a bank, not the other way around.

I'm not nuanced in the ins and outs of YC, but $150K on fair terms is a sizable amount in almost every reasonable context.
Ethical engineer: Not if you want anyone to keep working here. Also, it'll make the news. No.
I’m paid to be here, but not by Apple, that I’m aware of anyway. There is no way to stop it. Even tying a LinkedIn profile requirement like someone else mentioned isn’t an option. I’ve got thousands of accounts active on most social media platforms and discussion-based sites. Puppeteer + mobile proxies makes this simple these days and completely undetectable. I’m posting it from a setup now!
On Android, you can download and install the apk directly from Epic Games: https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/mobile/android/get-... You just need to click through a few warning screens and it works fine.
There are so many FOSS projects out there that we use at work that we're willing to contribute financially to. Either for support, or for specific feature development, or as as donation masked as one of the two. But as you mentioned, the second a vendor introduces code that creates _another_ external dependency, we have to walk away.
Over time, the rule I've "discovered" is:

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Essentially "personality" appears a very pretextual criteria along with the goalposts mounted on rails. It is an infamous pattern of behavior of bigots that when they present some nominal objection they keep on changing it whenever it can actually be fulfilled. If they keep on changing the game it becomes clear that they just don't want to let them win no matter what and aren't acting in good faith.
UiPath has free community models (hosted in cloud) for invoice and receipt processing. They integrate with RPA workflows or can be used as JSON APIs.
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> Explain how.

I'm supposed to explain to you why your apps, of which I know nothing, keep selling?

For one, it might have something to do with the fact that you have been on the App Store for a decade and that your apps do actually show up in recommendations. Not every App gets that.

Secondly, whatever your Apps do, they might be referenced on aggregators. When I look for an App to solve a problem, I google it. Inevitably, I'll end up on some site comparing apps for that purpose. The App Store doesn't do anything for me here.

You need to understand that you're the exception and that your experience doesn't generalize.
I understand your point, but I think your argument is based on an implicit assumption that may not be valid: that the items you like, the apps in this case, will still be available at all if the restrictions continue. For example, apparently even if you were able to buy the Apple device you want with the restrictions you want, you still can't get Fortnite on it now. The difference between your position and mine is that in mine, you don't get to choose whether everyone else is limited in the same way, and neither does Apple.
Have an X1 Yoga here with Arch on it, it was painless.

Bought an X390 for my mom last year, tossed Ubuntu on it after putting in a larger NVMe. (she prefers to use a more 'mainstream' distro so she can follow tutorials to setup new dev environments for things she's tinkering with) Her Macbook Air is weighing down paper now.
I am going to assume that you don't know much about business.

Because Apple's 30% is their charge for selling a product using their distribution channel. It is no different to how Facebook/Google/Twitter etc have a CPC for ads. Or how a brick/mortar store would charge to put your product on their shelves. Or as was discovered how Nintendo charges 40-60% as a publisher fee for the Switch. Or even the percentage for most affiliate or influencer programs.

Perfectly legitimate to argue that it's unfair that you're forced to use their channel. But it's simply ridiculous to say that it's an excessive or unsustainable percentage.

As the CEO of a SaaS startup I would kill to have such a cheap and profitable channel.
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Correct. For me there are valid arguments for a walled garden (providing users can opt out) but this isn’t about any of that. This is about Apple not getting paid, the users are not ‘winning’ in this standoff.

Apple are prepared to fuck over their users for them not getting paid, and I can’t see a good argument for anyone thinking that this is okay.
Yo but what about privacy and freedom of expression bruh.
They are exaggerating at best, or highlighting an extreme outlier. Non-FAANG jobs are going to have between 50% and 70% if the total compensation of FAANG most of the time. Good example: a SWE 1/2 60th percentile base salary is around $120k in the Bay Area. Taxes and living expenses for a single individual will eat 40% of that, at least, unless the person is living in a slum with roommates. Lead/principle engineer (L5) salaries are about $175k at the 60th percentile. Again, taxes and living expenses for a single person will consume 35%-40% of that. RSU grants and bonuses at these places are good for maybe another 30% on top of the base, typically, in extreme cases.

A person saving 100% of their net of taxes and living expenses would have to see a return of well into double digits every year to accumulate $2.2M over 8 years or so, because their base savings rate over that period will be (probably far) less than $1M under optimal circumstances.

It isn’t at all common enough to obviate the need for things like YC.
Sadly yes, Wikipedia is not good source on information like this anymore. It always was criticized that info on there wasn't sufficient evidence and that you had to get secondary sources. I think Wikipedia is a good source on most issues, but this topic is certainly not part of that.
>The findings detailed in a letter to the college’s attorneys Thursday mark the latest action by the Trump administration aimed at rooting out discrimination in the college application process, following complaints from students about the application process at some Ivy League colleges.

I'm an Asian liberal and I think trump is an idiot but the reality is that all people, as altruistic or immoral as they appear to be, are, in fact, complex amalgamations of good, evil, intelligence and stupidity. My judgement of trump is just a biased simplification of reality and the complexity of his character.

Props to trump for supporting this initiative.
I know, that's what makes it so infuriating that it doesn't work on Windows. Chrome has supported it for years now.
This thoughtful essay ends with a codicil that I'm glad was at the end and not the beginning, otherwise I would not have finished it, and it was otherwise delightful: "... [the book] is far from perfect. Centered and based on the experience of a white male not only in war but also in life writ large, it could be said that his theories discounted and excluded many."

This wasn't a tax-payer-funded, expensive clinical survey that excluded a demographic it shouldn't have. It was a solitary soldier daydreaming at a war front in WW1 Europe. The nature of the study itself and its creation necessitated that it be solitary and introspective, which by definition "excludes many" - everyone not the soldier, in fact.

However, literally anyone in the world, without permission or funding, can document their daydreams using the method described in the book.

I believe these oddly interjected, gratuitous observations will not age well and will be viewed by our future selves and descendents as symptoms of collective psychosis
Why would a professional device for adults ship with the same locked down protections of a kindergarten computing device?

Your children are not in danger from antitrust enforcement.
There is actually evidence that Putin wanted Hillary because she is a "softer" partner, and in contrast to the conspiracy this is evidenced in written words. That is actually an argument to vote for her, but don't let that stop you.

edit: In case you actually do try to research it, that info was kept hidden by Brennan to the objection of CIA analysts.
If she gets seriously into photography the cost of a Windows machine is the least of the expenses she's heading into, but I understand that a main machine running Windows is a good insurance. And yet I didn't have one, even a backup, since 2009. I won't be too worried.