skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It makes hiring new people very expensive.

I'd imagine one of the goals of such legislation was to reduce the bloat within USPS - ie. let go of unproductive employees and replace them with productive employees, or just remove dead weight completely.

Instead, USPS is basically a job's program. "Nobody ever got fired from USPS", is probably not very far off from the truth.
Looks like we found Gareth Morgan's HN account.
To avoid giving the impression that I had a horrible advisor who twisted me into cynicism, I should say:

My advisor was definitely one of the "idealists". I was his first graduate student. He always treated me well, with respect and reasonable expectations, and we are friends to this day. He did have some of the weaknesses you mention. He looked out for me as well as could reasonably be expected, but he did occasionally throw me to the wolves if the stakes were high enough -- for example, if we had a collaborator who was giving us substantial money, and they asked me to do the impossible or the unreasonable, he'd tell me to grin and bear it, and do my best, rather than informing the collaborator about reality.

In short, he was way above average, but still, his interests and mine occasionally came into conflict. But it can get so much worse -- I have seen numerous graduate students and postdocs absolutely exploited (department chairs and big shots are the most frequent offenders), and the most vulnerable targets were always those who assumed that we are all but brothers-in-arms in the great Scientific Enterprise.

What I mean to say is that even if a grad student lucks into or intelligently selects a good advisor, idealism is still a problem because as your collaborations and career expand, the probability approaches 1 that you will run into someone who will absolutely exploit you if given the chance. Someone who has enough leverage on an otherwise good advisor can also exploit a student by proxy. Students should be prepared for this inevitability.

In my view, when we read a document like the OP, what we are mainly getting is a window into how a PI likes to view himself -- i.e., the benevolent master lovingly and altruistically shepherding his apprentices into independence -- rather than any relevant form of reality. I'm sure OP came by this delusion honestly, but one of the primary qualifications to become a PI is the ability to spin, and no one is easier to spin than oneself.
Peter Thiel is one of the last people I'd pick to be a steward of justice.
Clearly this is more of a cogeneration situation.
Are you aware of Nathan W. Pyle?

His Strange Planet comic is written a bit like this
i am so opposed to mass surveillance that if i could snap my fingers and make both Ft Meade and Cheltenham into craters, i would have zero hesitation. so i am no FVEYS shill. but i still care about the historical accuracy of mass surveillance.

in the Snowden leaks, there was a GCHQ document about their policies for targetting US Persons using data shared with them from NSA. GCHQ is not allowed to indiscriminantly spy on US Persons. the document, marked classified as STRAP1, clearly orders GCHQ to apply US laws when targetting US Persons. which means "reasonable, articulable suspicion" before firing up XKEYSCORE and searching for everything a US Person has done in their life.

sadly, the reverse is not the same, since the UK has very weak privacy laws compared to the US. NSA can search for anything about any UK citizen without needing some form of probable cause. the Official Secrets Act and RIPA makes the UK into a quasi-dictatorship IMHO, which explains why we see the native population of the UK being so heavily subjugated by their Lords and Royals.

part of the SIGINT sharing agreement between NSA and GCHQ is that data will only be shared as long as these rules are enforced. so the myth that the FVEYS is a backdoor to circumvent the law and allow foreign intel to mutually spy on each other's domestic populations is a myth.

however, this assumes the FVEYS actually obey the rules in this document. how would we know if they dont? impossible for us uncleared civilians. for all we know, there are more layers of secret laws that allow FVEYS to ignore any and all of the checks and balances intended to limit their abuse of the SIGINT system.

that's the problem with secret laws. once you have them, nobody can trust anything about your entire legal system and you become a tyranny.
we've had friends politely suggest that keeping a cat indoors is cruel

Lord, no wonder there's a bird mortality problem.
Will it be enabled on Android before Linux?
> 30 cents per kwh

That is about right. Note in NZ includes 15% sales tax.

https://www.canstarblue.co.nz/energy/electricity-providers/a...
This looks a lot more comfortable than wearing a QR code on my head. Is there expected to be a lot of accuracy difference between a TrueDepth cam and a regular cam?
To be clear, I think this is a pretty bad "study".

But there are plenty of reasons why antibiotics are given to people with Covid-19 to deal with secondary infections.

> And why are doctors giving untested treatments to patients?

This seems a pretty bad-faith comment. In the early days of COVID-19 there was no "tested" treatment, so doctors use reasoning to try to find something. This is a completely normal thing to do.
Cloudera... you mean the same Cloudera that has basically traded below the IPO price for years?
This isn't really what market makers like JS do. While they do make profit from the spread between prices they buy and sell at, the key difference is that they will buy from seller A and sell to buyer B at different times. For the duration between the two trades, they either own a positive or negative amount of whatever the good is, so they are at risk of losing money if the price changes. The spread pays them for taking on the risk and providing liquidity (allowing people to buy and sell any time even if there's no matching counterparty).
You stated it in a particular context. Either it was intended for this context and therefore meant to defend child sex trafficking, or it was not meant for this context, and thus off-topic.

If you meant it to be more nuanced than that, maybe include that nuance in your comment.
SFO opens first airport Covid-19 rapid testing site in the US
There is a much more plausible explanation:

1. The timestamps reflect some process that occurred before the files were uploaded to the internet.

That's it. That's the plausible explanation.

* Secondary transfer to removable media that changed timestamps

* Transfer to network file server, likewise

* Archival

* Compression/decompression

* Encryption/decryption

* Analysis of files that touched them (set timestamp) to indicate completion

Basically any process that proceeded at an average of 23MB/s would produce that pattern. And note, that it doesn't preclude the possibility that the timestamps changed many times between when they were on the DNC server and when they were made public. So indeed, the 23MB/s could indicate removeable media was involved, but it could have been from one Russian intelligence officer's computer to another's.

Occam's razor: the simplest explanation is the most likely one: The timestamps reflect a process that occurred at a rate of about 23MB/s.

We just can't speculate on what process that is.
How do you sustain yourself? How do you afford food?
There are lots of things I do for free that multibillion dollar corporations would consider a cost centre. Amazon also doesn't maintain my garden.
It was foolish for Apple to retaliate IMO. I think this example will be used in multiple litigations to paint a picture for jury that Apple operates in bad faith and anti-competitively. I am also certain Steve Jobs emails from the eBook trial fiasco will be coming up.

Apple is likely going down if this goes to trial. Their best interests lie in settling before trial but it doesn't seem Epic is looking to settle.
Ack you're right... same conclusion though.
You need to add in a 'force majeure clause' to your contracts.

The IRS issue was not your fault. There was NOTHING you could do about it. EIN number, was probably the easiest part of setting up the company. Value ... maybe a 10% refund.

I think your taking the blame, was not a good business practice. Explain what happened, offer a discount, or offer a logo, or cancel everything (eating expenses, but not giving it away free).

Write this off as a lesson learned.
Your example makes no sense. If both those orders were on the books then the exchange would have to immediately execute that trade at $1.00 (Assuming A is before B).
This change in perspective is really interesting. Would love to read more if you wrote about it elsewhere.
In that case, the ISP runs chromium, figures out the domains, and they can stop hijacking those domains. Then the feature gets the wrong result for the rest of the day.

(Hell, it's open source, ISP could just integrate the algorithm into their DNS hijacking logic).
As someone with ADHD, this sounds like an ADHD symptom called hyperfocus. Note I am not trying to e-diagnose you with something, I'm just comparing the similarity of your description to the description of an ADHD symptom, not saying I think you have ADHD.

I make that comparison because if you do a search for hyperfocus, you may be able to find strategies to help you break out.

For me, hyperfocusing can be so strong that hours will pass with me barely noticing. I often say that the house could burn down around me and if I am hyperfocusing, I'd be toast. I don't get it for multiple days as you describe, but it's not unheard of for others. My dad is a metallurgical engineer, and described something basically exactly the same to your experience with programming. He had some lab course involving programming freshman year and stayed in the lab for 24 hours straight obsessed with a project. When he broke out of the 'trance,' he realized that he could never be a programmer full time because it would completely take over his life.

For others who maybe aren't familiar with this feeling, it is most definitely NOT a pleasant feeling. I always come out of that state feeling almost sick to my stomach, headachy, dissociated. Not something I enjoy, and not really something I can direct to be more productive.

----

(Note that it may sound odd to describe hyperfocusing as an ADHD symptom -- isn't ADHD about a deficit of attention? But actually ADHD is kind of a misnomer; a better name might be "Executive Functioning Disorder." ADHD is more about being unable to direct or control your focus, and this can work either way -- to make you appear less focused, or severely over-focused. In particular this symptom is not a side effect of medication, and in fact medication can help to break out or prevent you from being sucked in in the first place.)
They do, but cost of electricity is relatively consistent because cost of production is (or at least upper bounded, some places have particularly cheap electricity because of geography). In this case the trick is that 30nzd=20usd and they didn't feel the need to clarify the currency.
I've personally found the pdf on kindle experience to be absolutely frustrating but YMMV I'm sure.
But their telemetry says each of the thousand features removed is a mere papercut!
It's cheaper to just replace the heat source than attempt to fix it starts malfunctioning.
I thought "independent delivery contractors" definitely not employees were the ones delivering.

Or is the Amazon Logistics gig-economy tax scam unique to the UK?
Nintendo 3DS doing that, 2010: [1]

The "big window" form of this (2012) is especially cool.[2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUC5JJCxx5k

[2] https://youtu.be/V2hxaijuZ6w
I don't doubt that the guy with a maths PhD understood the mathematical content. And I would even go farther than to say that many disagreements are based on different axioms. Many disagreements are even due to different definitions (such as "free will"). I think that was one of the key points of late Wittgenstein.

So yes, in many cases, laying out the assumptions carefully is a good idea, I agree. I just didn't think 2+2=5 was the best example.
Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2)
This false argument is done to death by Apple apologists. Apple sells the device, but somehow feels itself entitled to control what the user can and can't do to it even after sale. It shouldn't be their business which apps a user wants to run on the device.
Especially at Jane Street level incomes... the marginal cost of 10% is not a lot compared to the 10% my mom gives from what she makes near minimum wage.
Everyone is different. What you’d prefer is not what others would prefer. Hopefully a customer service agent is going to be able to pick up on someone who dislikes small talk and just get the job done.
It's seamless. That's why. The use-case is small amounts of money like splitting dinner. It's super-fast. You select the four friends you want to split with, type in $400/5 and 'Request' and they get requests for $80. You're done moments after you've signed the receipt.
> WordPress is okay if you have a site that you don't really care about and isn't worth hacking

Unfortunately all sites are worth hacking to host phish kits (fake login pages for phishing), and hosting one will get your website added to browser warn lists and flagged by search engines. There seem to be automated bots scanning for vulnerable WordPress sites so it's possible to become a target without much attention from the attacker.
there's an iceweasel f-droid fenix build available that enables more webextensions if you're so inclined, see r/fdroid leading you to github.com/interfect/fenix/releases
IBM already over leveraged themselves to buy Redhat.
The irony? Ppl then order more and are likely to keep more. Free returns is a means, not an ends.
I agree. We didn't intend to post on HN until everything was public. Someone else posted it, so I'm here rolling with it.
Excuse Me for Being an Optimist in “The End Times” of Our Current World
PAWS in Seattle will give you a cat and it comes for a coupon for a free spay or neuter (often kittens are too young at adoption time). Of course the fee for adoption is higher than the cost of the surgery, so you are paying for it whether you use it or not.
wouldn't it be more efficient to ban humans?
Used to work there now work at McKinsey. “Tech McKinsey” is apt. Just a lot more tshirts and LotR references.
> I think it's more than that. The abstract nature allows for higher information density. The more you depict reality, the more you are constrained by the real world.

I guess that is why Lego and Minecraft are fantastic.
Betting on the Return to the Workplace
But what happens if there's an unlimited supply of mice?
> communication between programs uses pipes, requiring transitions through the kernel

Not if you use shmem.

> it's fairly primitive, because all you can pass is a sequence of bytes

Assuming you have abi sorted out, you can generally write objects directly to a pipe. If you have indirections in those objects then, again, use shmem. (If you want synchrony, you can write the objects over the pipe but share the memory referred to by those functions.)
Ah thanks for the clarification. It didn't per se make sense, but was related based on the final bit.
Mozilla funding $245,000 for Black artists to show how #AI can reinforce/disrupt
That shouldn't be a problem: I don't think it's possible to make qwajuixk resolve to anything on the public internet. I bet they could hardcode a list of domains, change it up every couple releases, and that'd stop 80% of the rogue sysadmins who are doing this.
Wait, houses on Lake Tahoe go for $130k!?
I had that speed to the US West Coast over Hyperoptic gigabit in 2017 from London. Very steady. There are qualifiers that are missing from the claim, I agree.
Seems like it hints at — is price fixing the right form of anti-competitive behavior when players mutually agree not to compete?
I think he was referring to the highly famous quite (/s) from Street Fighter the movie delivered by Raúl Juliá
Not sure why you're getting down-voted. Yes, constitutional amendments are repealed by the government. A very challenging majority of government officials, yes, but the government.
I've read that some bird populations might suffer, but even ecologists will admit that mosquitos aren't particularly vital to any one species, and the elimination of mosquitos as a primary disease vector may even be a net-positive for the animal world.
Tell HN: Node.js and npm prone to critical phishing vulnerability
Look, either USPS is a "Public Service" and it doesn't matter how far into the red they run, or... thy're a business and it does matter, a lot.

If they're a "Public Service", then let's stop these emergency bailouts every few years and just fund the darn thing properly.

If they're a business, then we need to stop bailing them out and force them to work with what they have, or let people go that are not pulling their weight. After all, their private-business competition has managed to do just this.

Either way, pretending this is some new emergency is disingenuous. USPS has been on fire for decades, that is a fact, paper-profits or not. It's about how they operate, at the core.

The pension requirement is two-fold. First, to guarantee postal employees they will have a retirement waiting for them, regardless of who the current administration is or what the political tides bring tomorrow. That's huge.

The second part is it makes hiring new people quite expensive. That discourages hiring instead of working with the people they already have (~470,000[1]!!!!). It's no secret it's hard to be fired from government jobs, and no secret USPS is the same in that regard. There's likely a massive amount of bloat within USPS that would better be cut than preserved. That alone, chopping dead weight, could help free USPS up from it's current predicament.

I'm floored that we have so many people staunchly defending status quo with USPS today. A year ago, we would all be railing about how inefficient USPS is, blah blah blah. But, politics blinds everyone in turn.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service#:....
Sounds like the Shrek Donkey method.
"Are we there yet"?
Having two font settings to choose from is a degraded user experience. You're also missing the margin and line spacing settings, as well as font style. Also TTS sucks with PDFs but works excellent with reflowable formats (this one is important to me personally.)

> the usual format for [any ebooks] looks [...] like webpages.

Because they basically are, and to most people who use these files, that's a feature. Attempts to subvert that are misguided.

> math

This is legitimately a pain point for ebooks, I agree on this point. However I think embedding formula as images with alt-text is a better solution than offering dozens of PDF variations.
I genuinely don't know the answer to this, but are they not a significant source of food for any predator such that their elimination wouldn't be noticed?

I'm reluctant to be playing god on this front, especially in light of the fact that it seems like the insect population is not doing well, globally, and forms the base for a complex food chain.
Almost entire Scots Wikipedia is written by teenager that does not speak scots
This company makes a lot of amazing compilers. I have been using some of them and it works like a charm. C#, Go, Swift all can be shared in a project and compile down the necessary target, e.g. mac, iOS, win64 etc
I love projects like this. It's such an elegant and in hindsight immediately obvious solution that it definitely stops you in your tracks. Will try it this weekend with FS2020; certainly a good stop-gap until they implement native VR.

Can you perhaps elaborate a bit on what the process was like getting some of that info through the iOS APIs and then exposing it through UDP for the PC? Any interesting snags you hit along the way?
Some companies actively solicit feedback after interactions with customer support, about the interaction. Those surveys link back directly to the agent. More generally there's also NPS.
Couldn't find a more resilient/less sketchy way to rehost without breaking my half-hearted anonymization, so here's the link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UvMeetDz-uEhxolTAGBrwh2hugt...

Hope I'm not blowing anyone up (well, not really. Scammers can drown in their own sewage).

I dug around for what I could, but there are a distinct lack of identifying details. I don't think I've seen a marketing PDF in a long time that didn't contain a single link.
Looks like most of their coordination is done through Telegram groups and Zoom presentations, without an actual internet footprint.
Don't be misled, it was enabled for windows then got disabled when they switched to clang. To windows will get back this optimization so newer Chrome releases will get up to 10% more performance on windows
Do you find it effective? I read it as empty Republican virtue signaling.

> They do not know more about...what justice requires.

That's just the "You can't handle the truth" speech with the speaker reframed as the hero.

> Our company was founded in Silicon Valley. But we seem to share fewer and fewer of the technology sector’s values and commitments.

That's just saying "We're Republicans" with more words.

> We have repeatedly turned down opportunities to sell, collect, or mine data.

This bit's just a lie that presumably involves some esoteric reinterpretation of the phrase "mine data" in order to somehow exclude whatever sort of big data operations they perform on data to draw conclusions. What on Earth is the difference supposed to be between "mining data" and "big data analytics?"

> Software projects with our nation’s defense and intelligence agencies, whose missions are to keep us safe, have become controversial...

This is just the standard Republican talking point of "liberals are insane, the police PROTECT us, and for some reason, they're OPPOSED to the police. It's lunacy!"
In the beginning, I just lived more minimally.

Now, I rarely think about food. I just don't.

Whenever it appears before me, and it's of quality, I eat enough to be full. Otherwise, I don't think about it.

It has opened more time for me to think about programming and other things I actually want to think about.

I no longer have to think about what I'll get for lunch, spend time getting there, wait in line, pay for it, etc.
But the company has existed for a long time. The higher ups of the company have already vested a lot of stock (which would not be subject to California's reach).

I admit I wouldn't know how options would play out here, but if the reason for the move is 'avoid taxes', they have probably done their due diligence.
These things take time. Having sold a stateless container PaaS for many years, the main technical objection is they couldn’t run a database on it, you still needed VMs (even if they were on demand).

People caught in tech fads get obsessed with mechanism over outcome.
The criteria are well-known and basically restricted to what is contained in an HTTP request. With web-bundles (like with service workers) the logic which actual resource the URL resolves to is instead deeply embedded into the browser.

At least, that's my understanding.