skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am from SE Asia and postal system is non-existent to most people in my native country. Last time I sent anyone a letter was to my grandfather 30 years ago.

I came to the US 5 years back, and I still marvel at how crucial USPS is to the growth of tech and economy here. You see, back in my country an entrepreneur would have to tackle the last-mile delivery problem using their own fleet. Only in last 2-3 years ride-sharing service has become commonplace in major metropolis and as a result facebook-based housewife-run boutique shop businesses have boomed. But here in the US, you could always stick an address on a parcel and forget about it.
>My objection to your argument is that taxis and other car services existed long before Uber and Lyft, usually with some level of safety supposedly being provided by government licensing requirements for drivers.

And people preferred Uber/Lyft’s oversight versus the taxi services that existed before.
Ok let's change to that from https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200819005202/en/Onw.... Thanks!
You're correct that the presence or absence of a "this." shouldn't make a difference.

Having said that, C# also permits you to have fields with the same name in both the parent class and the current object.

This will give you a compiler warning suggesting you use the new keyword, though.
All you need is write access to the pty fd (or in the case of a reverse shell, just the fd of the tcp socket). The SREs could talk to the hackers and the hackers could just echo stuff in their terminal which the SREs could read. Writing a file to disk is less l33t, but more straightforward :)

Edit: I think I was wrong; you can't manipulate network socket fds this way, you'd have to use ptrace() on the process. If it were a real shell with a pty I believe what I suggest could work, but reverse shells don't open ptys.
People, presently seem much less willing to challenge what a computer says however.

I'm wondering if Little Britain's "computer says no"[1] sketch is somewhat foreshadowing here. It's certainly a situation I've ran in to in several banks (globally).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n_Ty_72Qds
Well yes, but you gave a good bit more detail than "that semiconductors have limits" ;).
As I understand it: If the application has been notarized before distribution, it should contain a signed “ticket” which allows the app to run immediately. If not, it will hit a server, but it caches the result on success, so it should not have to repeat the check.
Just goes to show, you really should take your whiskey neat.
> You could have one pamphlet with the policy, and a separate book with the reasoning, and instruct people to check the book when proposing a change or exception

Very often part of the purpose of the policy is to end debate about how to handle an issue, and to get the “crackpots and geniuses” to STFU.

That's not a motivation that policy sponsors usually want in print, though.
I'm curious how they protect the chicks in the mail during shipping when the temperature has been in the low-mid 90s the past few weeks in PA. Even in Maine it hit 90.
> Sublime UI on top of embedded emacs.

I would _really_ pay for that.

If you throw in a simple (even if limited) interface to elisp via something like python/lua, the would be IDE nirvana for me.
What aggregate do you use? Mean? Median? Mode? Second moment? Wealth-weighted average? Buying-likelihood weighted average?

How do you avoid Simpson's paradoxes?
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It's a toy demo.

If you want a full featured product, use Processing or Mathematica.

https://processing.org/examples/
People used to mail children through the postal service: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/brief-history-chil...
Not op, but migadu[0] and mxroute[1] are two commonly named competitors to fastmail.

[0]: https://migadu.com/
[1]: https://mxroute.com/
Like the article says it’s worked perfectly for a very long time. Having it be too warm is probably much safer than a little cold (our chicks would gather directly under the heat lamp and I wondered why it never bothered them). The problem here is probably dehydration from having shipments intentionally delayed.
The Temporal founders worked on AWS SWF too before building Cadence at Uber. They have a lot of experience in this area and are making the product better with each iteration no doubt. I enjoyed using Cadence at Uber and definitely sad about not having it at my current company.

One of the founders, mfateev, is around elsewhere on this thread answering questions.
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Apple needs to finish migrating their casual userbase off MacOS and onto iPadOS. Macs should be reserved for engineers and other technician oriented jobs in the various industries. That should be the delineation.

The industry tried to morph desktop computing into the world of Windows XP playschool friendly computing. Teach grandma for the 6th time how to click the start menu, etc.

That was a stopgap solution, and that era is over. We need to move all of those people off of computers and onto consumer-safe devices. Then restore desktop computing back to its originally intended audience, take off the bumpers and give unregulated access back to serious computer users who want to build important stuff, not get constantly nagged and prohibited from doing so.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/brief-history-chil...
Dear Mac, where the developer goes, your revenue goes.
At one time, USPS was used to mail children. [0]

[0]: https://www.history.com/news/mailing-children-post-office
I'll take it. :)
The post office actually transports quite a few kinds of live animals. It seems like it makes sense, since it's a very useful service for some kinds of farming, and there's not much incentive for some specialized service to deliver live animals to the middle of nowhere for a reasonable cost, whereas the postal service has most of the infrastructure in place already.

https://www.ups.com/us/en/help-center/packaging-and-supplies...
That's an inaccurate statement. The shipment of live animals via USPS is a specific service documented in detail at https://pe.usps.com/text/pub52/pub52c5_008.htm

These include bees, day–old poultry, adult birds, and small, harmless, cold–blooded animals.
Shit, that's like .8 of me.
We don't understand education at all. I'm seriously worried for the current cohort. Young children are missing the necessary face-to-face learning and social relationship-building that being in class provides, but it doesn't stop there. Some fresh college students are now paying full-price for 100% online classes, completely missing the college experience in the process, probably getting a subpar education -- if you're gonna play the "college is a normalized scam" card, then now is the time.

It's a shame what is happening, and it's not really clear how to fix the problem. How to safely maintain the social needs of humans during a pandemic is currently an unsolved problem, and no, Zoom isn't the answer. We'll probably see heightened suicide and crime rates for the duration of the lockdowns.
I had never heard of a reverse shell before. That is a very neat and simple little trick!
We have a Samsung smart TV. The smart TV features have never been activated. There are no apps, and it has never been connected to the internet. For connectivity, we use a roku, a laptop, and whatever board I feel like playing around with. For all intents and purposes, the TV is a dumb TV with a somewhat decent screen.
I think you're double counting the advantage for wealth if you consider resilience an advantage, but don't consider not spending money to be a disadvantage.

Keeping money reserved for hardships is a lot like having spent the money, since you can no longer use that money to increase your standard of living. If you put away $50,000 in case of job loss or health problems, you've bought resilience at the opportunity cost of $50,000 worth of something else. If you change your mind later and spend it, you just traded in your resilience for other goods and services. You have the benefit of resilience or the benefit of whatever else you might buy with that money, but not both at the same time.

When you look at consumption numbers for a country, they already include what people have spent to deal with hardships. Wealth, however, doesn't tell you how much in poverty someone had to live in order to save that wealth.

Insurance is a formal way of spending money on resilience. Insurance, though, has the advantage of pooling risk among a large number of people. You don't actually have to save up millions to be insured for millions in healthcare bills. Someone with excellent insurance but little savings can have both more resilience and a higher standard of living than someone who lives in poverty to save every penny, but doesn't spend on insurance.
You could start a rotation of timber harvesting. Then you're collecting interest on that money in the bank, without clearcutting your capital. In the big picture you'll get more value out of your asset that way.
i take it you've never seen the remainders of a pit mine
> Yes, our government has been incompetent all around.

I don't agree. This is not incompetence. It is malice. The government absolutely could be responding far better, and doing much of the same things every other western democracy is doing. A popular political position in this country is to prove that we need less gov't by making sure it appears incompetent. Combined with the similar political need to believe the virus is a hoax means we get zero federal response.
I genuinely don't understand what you're talking about. Preventing hospitals from being overwhelmed was not the only purpose of the lockdowns. The lockdowns have not continued indefinitely. A single infection/death is not anathema and nobody is doing everything to prevent it no matter the cost. If that were true then why has every stay-at-home order been lifted?
You do know that for every chicken you eat a male chick was pulverized to death, right? (in the US, some countries prefer suffocation).
This has apparently been a service since 1918. It appears in some circumstances (for medical research or making antivenin) you can also ship live scorpions[1]!.

[1]: https://pe.usps.com/text/pub52/pub52c5_008.htm#ep184083
I had a friend who recently got a mail-order chick from Russia... she was a bit thin and pale.

But, she's doing well now.

I can't imagine how those lonely Maine farmers must feel. Tragic.
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Yes, and lord I can't imagine what a dreadful scold those comments would make me if it weren't my job to post them.

Sorry for the confusion. We considered putting 'mod' tags beside our usernames but it just felt wrong, so as with most things about HN, people have to figure it out as they go, and it's always ok to ask questions.
I might be able to get 300K for the land with the house on it right now, if I nuke the forest and put it into hay production that piece alone would earn me 200K for the logs and 50K-100K per year contracting it out to cattle or hay producers.

It might not make sense but it is what it is, I guess.
> What does this say about us as a people?

Nothing. A large fraction of the population does not feel this way at all.
i have found most things i have gotten very angry at my wife over and we've had big arguments over, i cannot remember a week or two later. was it worth a big relationship damaging outburst, vs waiting a bit to cool off, talk it over later? i am not sure. maybe felt good at the time to get it out, but peaceful discussion with cooler heads and empathy is the only thing that results in lasting change
Spaced repetition enhanced with AI and the Google Assistant.
you are setting an example, you are fulfilling a duty to the transcendent. you are a beautiful person, can you market more? start a patreon and a vlog? the not clearcutting is much more interesting from that position. i wish you well.
That was yesterday. USPS was caught today continuing to dismantle sorting machines.

https://twitter.com/_HeatherWalker/status/129610953616467968...

https://twitter.com/_HeatherWalker/status/129612204377213338...

https://twitter.com/_HeatherWalker/status/129615356967935590...
Is this only for GUI applications? Admittedly I have not done much development on Macs, but have done some exclusively-command-line work post-Gatekeeper, and have never seen that dialog (or a textual equivalent) appear when running binaries I compiled and even copied across machines; from the Terminal.

Incidentally I have never run those binaries via the Finder either, so it makes one wonder where exactly this check is --- is it something Finder does when you open apps, or when GUI libraries are loaded, or something much lower-level in the kernel, like on an exec() call? I don't have a suitable machine around at the moment to check, but the need to right-click suggests Finder is doing this?
Depends on the size of the propeller. The main issue is the tip of the propeller breaking the sound barrier. This limits the RPM. Bigger propellers mean more noise at lower RPM. Smaller propellers enable higher RPM.

So the noise profile of a plane with smaller, faster propellers and engines is going to be very different from a big noisy helicopter where you can clearly hear the engine over the already substantial noise of the very loud propeller. Faster also means the noise is of a higher frequency and carries less far.

Comparatively the engine noise for electrical engines is not going to be a factor. Think of the noise level of your vacuum cleaner; most of which is in fact the spinning blade inside hitting a few thousand rpm; 3-5K is pretty common for vacuum cleaners. Dysons apparently go way beyond that. A typical Cessna would max out at around 2700 RPM and be cruising at around 2200.
Observational research is not good enough for public policy. Look at the spike in cases in Japan. It completely destroys the correlation.

> What do scientists do in the face of uncertainty on the value of global interventions? Usually, they seek an answer with adequately designed and swiftly implemented clinical studies as has been partly achieved with pharmaceuticals. We consider it is unwise to infer causation based on regional geographical observations as several proponents of masks have done. Spikes in cases can easily refute correlations, compliance with masks and other measures is often variable, and confounders cannot be accounted for in such observational research.

https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/masking-lack-of-evidence-with-...
Don't downvote. Valid distinction, factual reporting.
Yep less and less we see this
One thing I'd like to see decentralized storage protocols guarantee is that not only does the data exist on the backend, but is it available enough to be useful, and if so, are the latency and bandwidth good. PoST might be able to solve this if it enforces a strict deadline on the answer and tests availability sufficiently frequently.

The other is some sort of authentication. Encryption of the data itself, IMO, is not good enough. In 10 years time I don't want a nation state or megacorporation with enough entangled qubits to be able to pwn all of my data. But distributed authentication as I understand it is a hard problem, because you probably need to make your authentication proof public, which creates a similar set of problems on the authentication itself.
I am so completely unsurprised that people who don't understand the concept of undefined are telling me that it's actually defined.
What's a mitigation for the spoofed packet? TLS or something of the sort?
Of course C# (and friends) has the similar problem using LINQ -- referencing what looks like the same thing, but possibly re-creating the underlying lazy IEnumerable each time. To fix this you typically do a .ToList() but that materializes the whole thing which you may not want.

F# has Seq.Cache so the the seq stays lazy but only remembers what has come in the "past", mimicking the Clojure behavior if you want to opt-in -- I'm not sure there's a corresponding BCL fn yet for C#.
>The stock market recovery is not due to the government "buying the stock market" because they never did that

Whether they directly bought stocks is irrelevant because money's fungible. They injected trillions of dollars into the economy[1]. If that drove institutional investors to stocks from treasuries/bonds (in search of higher returns), the effect is identical to them buying stocks directly.

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...
Maybe reasonable just means "least bad" in the current context.
Note that HEDT Skylake-X all let you choose the clock speed for each license in the bios.
It is definitely not a "we won't let you".
> They aren't being more careful now than they were in early June.

Source? This is a significant claim. Early June was a low point in cases, hospitalizations and deaths. Lots of states were at peak reopening around then, as things seemed to be on the right track.

For example, bars opened in early June in Florida. They closed on June 26th after cases started spiking.

Louisiana was similar. The state started reopening May 15th. Later in June, bars were then closed back down again, and a mask mandate went into effect.

In Arizona, the story is similar, with gyms, bars and movie theaters shutting back down in July after having opened in May.

What sure seems to be the pattern is: things open up, cases rise, things close back down, cases drop. I'm not so sure that your "they aren't being more careful now than they were in early June" statement is accurate, and I think this is causing you to misattribute the cause of the drops in cases.
This is not surprising nor recent. American politicians have been trying to dismantle the government for decades; almost immediately after the New Deal era.

See also: regulatory capture, gerrymandering, campaign financing, etc.
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Resisting the urge to mindlessly browse reddit has done wonders for my productivity and peace of mind.

It's like removing a giant time sink that was not adding any value to my life.
Thats a good idea, unfortunately most of the trees worth harvesting are 60+ years old, im not sure I have enough years to do that.

Truth is I was having a weak moment when I wrote that comment, I dont think there is a homesteader that hasn't share my thoughts at some point.

Sorry for the whining rant!! Chin up!
I've seen a couple projects do this by publishing a Mac App Store version. Completely identical to the open source release, but it pays the Apple tax to run without warnings, and it gets App Store-powered auto updates.
> Who thought it was a good idea to 'mail' live animals?

The USPS: https://pe.usps.com/text/pub52/pub52c5_008.htm

And it's been used for this (well, technically, it was the US Post Office, when it started, not the US Postal Service) for more than a century.
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Yes, I am very well aware of this. Which is why I don't eat chickens, other animals, or consume any other livestock product.

But every once in a while I forget the fractal nature of the horrors we inflict on any animal that is unlucky enough to get caught up in our agricultural industry.
The male chick's death was planned for. These weren't.
The macerator is preferable. They are pulped faster than a nerve impulse can send a pain signal.
Yeah... The unsafe keyword is not unique to Rust either and exist in C# with similar semantics (although slightly different due to gc vs borrow checker memory management). One way to think of it is unsafe blocks effectively let you write C, with pointers and other memory unsafe operations inside of an otherwise safe language. This can be used for performance critical code (in a similar, but higher level, way as inline asm) but is primarily used to interface with unsafe C APIs (OS APIs, graphics APIs, etc) and libraries. Entirely agree that this is a misunderstanding.
Yep, this about sums it up: "All I want is a secure system where it's easy to do anything I want. Is that so much to ask?"
From what we now know, the "whole word" or "whole language" approach seems to be actively harmful. It is linked to the dramatic increase in dyslexia in the regions where it is used to teach English reading.

https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-ho...

> ...it turns out cueing may actually prevent kids from focusing on words in the way they need to become skilled readers.

Turns out this was previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23981447
Erm... AZ and TX opened up in May. So not sure how that poorly cropped image with no source justifies your point in any case.

Just look through the data here for AZ:

https://azdhs.gov/preparedness/epidemiology-disease-control/...

Similarly for Texas:

https://www.tmc.edu/coronavirus-updates/total-tmc-covid-19-p...

And pretty much any way you slice it, opening up prematurely resulted in a huge ballooning of cases, deaths and hospital/ICU bed utilization by late June, early July. Perhaps you should look to getting your news from more reliable sources than some dude on twitter with a clear agenda...

It also doesn't help when the Governor of TX was actively hiding data related to hospital bed availability, etc to mask the complete failure of his head-in-the-sand approach to leadership in the time of a major public health emergency [1]

1 - https://www.texastribune.org/2020/07/02/texas-hospital-capac...
If a gym can't be open and avoid killing people who don't actually use the gym then it can't be open. Classic example of your right to swing your fist ends at my nose.
>but I think a lot of people on this thread have never even used a mac for more than five minutes, let alone developed on one. HN monoculture is real.

I for one, use mac and develop on it for my job, and I like windows significantly more than mac. Dunno how many people here are like me, but I don't think this kind of assumption is fair.
USPS is unreliable because it is partisan. Observe:

https://twitter.com/SheriffTNehls/status/1276646406682484736

It's a postal worker caught on video throwing campaign materials in the trash. She drove to a storage rental place to do it, evidently thinking that that was safer than disposing of the materials at her workplace.

With postal workers like that, it is nuts to think that ballots will be safe. If a neighborhood seems to vote in a way that the postal workers don't like, the ballots will be much more likely to go missing.
it is the political party, though. If it were an isolated gang of criminals then you would expect the political party to vote to remove, distance themselves, scowl at them, anything. With extremely few, vanishingly few exceptions, they are not.
But economically freeloading is the only correct behavior.
No they didn't. SARS1 and MERS vaccines had a ton of problems, such as Imuenopathic responses and Immune Enhancement syndrome.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3335060/

https://www.pnas.org/content/117/15/8218
Real life has predators and infant mortality too. Should i feel bad about keeping predators as pets and seeing them hunting bunnies in the yard? I don’t.

The state of affairs where people find grotesque ordinary life occurrences because they are so separated is troubling.
I didn’t migrate anything into Fastmail.

When I removed the Fastmail accounts everything else went back to normal. It could very well be a problem with MacOS.

When I have time I’ll try setting it up again and see if it happens again.

Works fine on my iPhone.
Why not?

The only reason to stick with a job you don't like is if you really need the money.

If you don't need the money... what else is there?