skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite a few national postal services use custom or semi-custom vehicles, e.g. Deutsche Post. For those that use more "off the shelf" vehicles they are probably still custom orders specifying an exact feature set. But at the end of the day, it just becomes a matter of cost/benefit. The USPS is enormous, and that large scale makes it financially viable for them to purchase a custom vehicle since the quantities are so great. This allows them to get exactly what they want which gains some operating efficiency.

Oshkosh is also a very well established manufacturer of vehicles for the government and holds substantial military contracts for custom vehicles such as the highly recognizable HEMTT. So the Oshkosh purchase is fairly low-risk in that Oshkosh has a proven track record of delivering vehicles for government fleets.

UPS and FedEx also make use of largely custom vehicles. They are based on off-the-shelf step vans, but to a large extent OTS step vans no longer exist in the US and nearly all of them you see are contract designs for fleets. There's a bit of a cyclical relationship here as the modern step van is basically defined by UPS and FedEx, which purchase their trucks custom to specification from body-makers like Utilimaster and formerly Grumman-Olson. Grumman popping up here again is not coincidental - the USPS and UPS formerly got their custom trucks from the same manufacturer, but Grumman-Olson is no longer nearly as important of a player as it once was.

The short answer: USPS is contracting for at least 50,000 vehicles. When you buy 50,000 of just about anything you gain a lot of leverage to customize.
> Imagine you live in a neighborhood where people have guns and actually use them. Wouldn't you be a bit stressed out and thus being more prone to make errors, communicate incorrectly, both as patient but also as nurse/doctor?

No, have you never lived in a rural area?
What does that have to do with whether we should incarcerate people in small metal cages for possession?
If I could specify exactly what I want a vehicle to do, and have it designed for me, it would look weird too:

1. All electric

2. Can transport a double bass

3. But no bigger than necessary

4. Meets decent safety requirements
Does this mean that vaccine passports will become permanent requirements too? I don't just mean for international travel; I can imagine governments wanting to incentivise a high level of immunity in their populations by requiring a vaccine booster check when people buy tickets to large sporting or cultural events.
The USPS also uses Jeeps in the sticks, but those aren't common enough to be seen by most people.
typo:

"How can Lunatic help with security?
WebAssebmly" ...

Looks super cool, I believe it would be cool to make one app which works as a CLI, front-end web client, and back-end server, just by passing different environment vars... can this accomplish that?
Google does not offer me this option, I just checked.

If I claim to have forgotten my password, the first idea it has is that I should prove I still have my Security Key

Then it suggests it could send codes to my GMail (which might actually be useful if I have another device signed into that) or to another email address it knows about (it deliberately redacts part of each address in case I am not me)

Then it resorts to suggesting I try passwords I remember using on this account. I don't know what happens if I give it a password I haven't used for a few years, 'pass' means I keep a complete git history of Google passwords but I am reluctant to mess with this

Then it says too bad, it cannot authenticate me.
A bowl of rice with some veggies, beans or protein cooked at home is way less than $6/serving. Heck an apple and a couple of hard boiled eggs is a pretty healthy meal and is less than $1.
No one at the time ever claimed that the articles didn't exist, as you could just read the articles in question.

It was a revisionist lie added 6 to 8 months after the events.

Since you didn't bother to read the articles, there were 2 seperate articles both about Indie games in general. They both had sections on Depression Quest and both used Depression Quest for all the article's images. One of them at the bottom had a single hashtag #DepressionQuest on it. Both written by Nathan Grayson's subordinates.

Obviously, this isn't any different than large publishers giving the gaming journalists huge sacks of money, which they do.

The problem was it escalated out of control into the gaming journalists writing hit pieces on the gaming community as part of their damage control.

I'm sorry acdha but 7 years ago you were duped by hit piece articles.
I think pop scientists become successful because they're good scientists but also great communicators with a knack for making complex topics approachable. I've never heard someone insist on Neal DeGrasse Tyson (for example) as any kind of unquestionable authority, and I feel that if some surprising breakthrough upended his field (idk, an elegant explanation for dark matter) he'd cheerfully go on TV and announce his delight at having been proven wrong.

Scientism is a real thing but I think you're being unfair in blaming this on people who happen to be good ambassadors for science.
I think you missed my point, which is that WhatsApp is already rogue by way of metadata collection (which is as valuable as content), and that there’s no way anyone can claim with certainty that it’s not gobbling up more data on the server. Even Signal has stopped publishing its server source code for nearly a year, and if we are playing the game of what Telegram is doing with the data, we can say the same about Signal too on metadata (now that more information about groups and group memberships is stored on the servers).
This doesn't load for me for some reason. This works better: http://web.archive.org/web/20210315224524/https://lucky225.m...
Because of cancel culture. Out of millions of voices it only takes is 1 or 2 loud ones to be offended (really, mistakingly, or maliciously) for the bandwagon of ostracism to get rollin.
Are those the actual specific requirements? Would love to read more on the subject but it's hard to find authoritative sources.
Can’t pinch to zoom on mobile either. Can we please just go back to basic HTML and image tags? Rendering everything in client side JavaScript is worse in every way.
One of the first things I do with my userChrome.css is remove all of those effects.
Which is why recreationally regulated is a more desirable outcome than decriminalized. At the bare minimum this stuff needs the whole supply chain to be stable for consumer protection. Decriminalized doesn't do that.
I'm not aware what exactly the German government has said in the past w.r.t mask usage. However, governments claiming mask usage was not required near the start of the pandemic followed by them later requiring people to use masks was actually an understandable decision on their part from what I've understood of the situation as it unveiled.

At the beginning of the pandemic, it was believed that the virus was using droplet transmission alone. In such a scenario, surgical masks, for the general public, would only be required in people who were sick to prevent transmission and N95 masks would primarily be required by health care workers. Considering the mask shortages faced in many countries at the time due to panic buying, the communications made by governments to the public w.r.t the benefits of masks make sense from a cost benefit perspective since it would guarantee that the people who needed the masks the most (medical workers and sick people) would receive them and reduce the spread of the virus.

Fast forward 2 months later, airborne transmission as well as asymptomatic transmission of the virus were both confirmed independently in several labs. This would mean that the prior strategy of only using surgical masks on sick people wouldn't really work well anymore. In the meanwhile, the availability of masks was much higher due to increased production. Hence, to reduce the risks of airborne and asymptomatic transmissions, governments released advisories asking all people to wear masks.
These are not contradictory ideas.

The pro forms that will finance any construction loan/mortgage is not going to let the builder assume big increases in rents beyond inflation.

In fact, if the only way to increase rents is to build a larger building and collect from more units, rent control could actually incentivize building.

Where rent control gets into trouble is where it encourages "got mine, forget allowing anybody new here" sort of NIMBYism that accompanies home ownership. But that's a cultural problem, not a rent control or home ownership problem. And it's only a problem when the ability to build is gated by letting a tiny number of people veto new buildings.

This veto power of tiny minorities is the true problem with building more in SF and other supply constrained places. A more democratic process that took into account the broader views of the people would fix it.
Japan Post is still using Honda SuperCub. Maybe Honda will release an electric version they can upgrade to.
I built a watch face for my Garmin that emphasizes the time relative to the next solar event, so right now it reads

(last solar event in small font) Sunset 19:17

(current date/time small) Mon 15 19:26

(relative time to next solar event in large) Dusk in 17

It tracks dawn, sunrise, solar noon, sunset, and dusk. It's pretty simple but has changed how I go about my day. I don't use an alarm to wake up, but I've learned that when it's 8 hours to dawn I should be getting in bed.
I think it depends. There's certainly a ton of value in getting someone to puzzle through a problem by themselves. But at some point you end up with diminishing returns. Often the person struggling will learn 90% of what they're going to learn in an hour, and the next 7 hours will only increase their knowledge and problem solving skills by that last 10%. After the first 90% it's often a better use of everyone's time to just go and ask for help.
it is fascinating to see how (particularly in older software / systems) radically different decisions were made about what is nowadays considered "fundamental" UX, and to imagine what the world would have been like if this other thing happened to become the consensus standard.

Blender is, I think, another example of this... It's quite good, but relative to the other 3D editing tools available, it has an absolute space-alien UI. Quite internally consistent; a bear to get into if you learned 3DS Max or Maya first.
It really depends. If you're running a passion project where you depend on the dedication and commitment of others to move the project forward, heeding to the vocal users is integral to a successful strategy.

Outside of that case it's also really hard to say. I think the best advice I can give are "vocal users who aren't crazy" with all of those words doing magical handwaving and lifting.

For instance, certain features have a lot of vocal normal, reasonable users but seem to be ignored. On youtube, disabling the "recommended for you" videos. On facebook, whenever you have a capital letter, an annoying name selector popup happens. There's essentially armies of complaints for an option to disable it, make it only @ etc ... all ignored.

Another example is Firefox's ctrl+q issue (finally addressed) or the GTK-3 file selector. There's plenty of things where there's a substantial number of vocal non-crazy users requesting reasonable things And there's a very popular philosophy that strongly advocates for completely ignoring them.

I mean open source is partially about addressing the tyranny of decision in closed source. Not through combative forks and team splitting but through open community dialog. Some of these larger projects seem to lift their projects away from that, probably to avoid the aforementioned wackos who overreach their welcome.

There's really better amelioration than justifying the restriction of the many by the trespass of the few.
I've done this before, usually you just contact the upstream maintainer, get access to the project either from them or via the abandoned projects takeover process of the project hosting provider, make a new release and file a bug with the Debian maintainer documenting the new release and new maintainer.
I think the name comes from the fact that Oxford is one of the few British style guides that encourage its use. In the U.S., most style guides at a minimum suggest it as a common option. Hence the somewhat ironic sounding name in a global context.
> For that matter, some other issues that have nothing to do with GeckoView, like breaking Bitwarden autocomplete and not restoring deleted tabs to their correct position on undo, haven't been fixed for even longer.

Is this related to me typically not even getting the password manager popup? Or that even when I do get it, sometimes it just flat doesn't work?
FTR, I've filed a request for the Debian package maintainer to update to your fork of mmv:

https://bugs.debian.org/985325
I still dunno where to get some here in Oregon.
Except when most of the guns used in crimes come from within the state, how are you going to scapegoat those other states?
Funny they didn't had to build 10 million Microservices and host it through a million kubernetes pod instances to handle "internet traffic".
I suspect the opposite situation is what you run into: it is possible to write programs that are valid and out to be accepted by the type system, but get rejected because you blew the stack of the type checker. Had the type checker been allocated more memory / time, it could have accepted the program, but it crashed before that.

This reminds me of that: http://litherum.blogspot.com/2019/03/addition-font.html

You can craft font files that perform arbitrary calculations… if you give the font shaping engine a (practically) unlimited stack, where it usually limits recursion to 6 levels. If you do so, you can make a font that does math (or whatever you want) as part of computing ligatures.

But in practice, you hardly ever hit those kinds of limits unless you're trying to do something silly on purpose. Sure you cannot port Doom to font substitution lookup tables, despite them being Turing complete. But that doesn't make your font shaping engine useless, or even broken.
You do realize that you're moving part of the cognitive load until later and increasing it when you have to implement a type checker in unit tests for every program you write.
Viruses mutate. That's what they do. That's how they stay viable. And that's why there is a new flu vaccine every year. Hopefully covid and the annual flu shot can be combined at some time in the future...
Revenue sharing based advertising platform
Scanvertisement
http://test-campaign-57.kickoffpages.com/

The idea is to gamify the ad viewing process, take back control by introducing an egalitarian platform to show ads and share a part of the revenue with the viewer.

We are a bunch of people based in Melbourne, Australia who are sick of the modern advertising practices like listening to our conversations, scanning the screen for text (sometimes even reading our minds????), etc ergo we are sick and tired.

Market Validation stage.

Goals this month: validate the idea and build an MVP.

We offer free service to all & premium privileges for the first 1000 users.
That was what google wanted to do with Manifest v3 and nobody wanted it or wants it now. Safari has horrible extension support.
Possibly because as a global company, it's easier for them to have shared vehicles and parts across their entire service area (most the world). They can probably just fly the vans/trucks and parts in wherever they are needed, since they run their own fleet of (very large) planes as well.
Broadly speaking, math is made up of theorems. The goal is to prove the theorem by establishing a proof, or disprove the theorem using a counterexample.

In math textbooks and courses I’ve had, there tends to be footnotes on who produced some foundational result (statement of the theorem, proof, or counterexample). So you study or learn about the original work, but you’re not doing so from the primary source (original work).

This could be because the proof of original work was:
- in a different language,
- required advanced knowledge the learner doesn’t have,
- a more simplified proof was found,
- a more enlightening proof was found,
- an informal proof suffices,
- the statement of the theorem is all that’s needed,
- the proof is left as an exercise to the reader,
- the proof is a special case of a more general proof,
- or any number of other reasons
I agree with both generality and technical means. But I would add a third reason: there's people that want social networks to be that way. They want a place where they can make concerted attacks against other people that thinks different so they can express their ideas and make others shut up. And somehow this people has got their way.
If these companies set the wrong metric of success (in other words, if there can be better incentives) and these companies don't follow the better incentives, then better companies will arise.
How is that insulting? They are under no obligation to give them anything at all.
Zuck likely understands McLuhan very well, and it has made him billions to the point that he cares not for your trifle notions of good or evil.
I'm part Spanish, grew up mostly in the US, but often have to engage with Spain in order to do paperwork.

Does anyone who's lived there for a while have any insight on why tasks that I could accomplish in the US in 12 weeks take like 5 years in Spain?

Why is every form and document and signature and approval process seemingly arbitrary? Why is the person you need for the next step always on vacation?

Is there some kind of a system where 5 people are drawing a salary for a job that 1 person could do, so they all mutually agree to do it as slowly as possible?

I just don't get it.
Ironic how someone on HN thinks the code was read by a human.
Looks like they have used DeepL as well ;-)
You act like that a lot of things were not done about newspapers or TV?
FWIW I've been doing this for 20 years now and I completely agree with you. Knowing when to get a fresh perspective on a problem is a part of learning healthy problem solving skills, and it's not often that banging your head against a problem for a full day with no progress is better for your skills development than asking for help after, say, an hour or two.

And it's not like you're going to someone more senior and saying "I'm stuck; do my work for me". Ideally you're just getting a strong hint as to the right approach to take, and can make progress with that.
> The USPS also uses Jeeps in the sticks, but those aren't common enough to be seen by most people.

Their previous standard mail trucks were a Jeep variant, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeep_DJ
When homeowners have the vast majority of their wealth ties up in land values, and not structure values, they become property speculators and rentiers just as bad as any other wealthy rentier.
16 channels of DDR4-3200, versus 8 in single socket EPYC or 4 for Threadripper.
Also do not like being unable to downvote on those really rare occasions it is warranted. Beyond that I use it daily and right now. Nice piece of work!
Because platypuses are bottom-feeders that use their beaver-like tail to steer and their webbed feet to propel themselves through the water while hunting for insects, shellfish, and worms
Better for all of us. The new vehicle clearly has really good visibility with the giant windshield, meaning we’re much less likely to get run over by Newman
Migrating millions of web sockets to envoy
Securityspace.com: Mail (MX) Server Survey, 2021-03-01
I hear you, this comes up more and more often. I remember reading that Singapore had something like this (for contact tracing, I think), but they'd give you a dedicated device if you didn't have a phone. Ugh.

I like telling companies who want my number: No, my phone is for people I know to call me, not corporations. Other times I tell them that I don't have a phone and ask them if they are refusing me service. Not saying I have a perfect record, sometimes it is convenient to have the mechanic call when the car is done, etc. But the more I see companies who don't need a dossier on me asking for my personal info the harder I want to push back. I seek out and appreciate organizations that don't do this. I joke that I might end up living in a commune one day!

I can see this becoming a bigger problem. I've been following the idea of covid-vaccination-tracking applications, and don't have a good feeling about any of that. I'm expecting that the vaccination campaign will work well enough for that idea to be a moot point, but also expecting that companies and governments will want to do the extra tracking anyways, because their incentives are not aligned with the general population for stuff like this.
Real talk, my mom plays bass. We fit that, two adults, two kids, a pair of fiddles and backpacks for a weekend away: all into a Geo Metro. The trick is to put the neck down between the drivers with the rear seats folded down, and then fold them up. Wasn't terribly comfortable back there, but we were small enough to deal with it.

Oh. You edited your post to say "decent safety requirements". A '91 Metro probably doesn't fulfil that these days. But they'd probably do fine with an electric conversion.
Really, that's Eich's Brave. I don't like the guy's politics that much either, but the project's solid.
that's strange in Seoul its $1200 for a gram and its almost always cut. So 1kg of puro is 1,200,000 !!!

It's exclusively for the super rich. I don't get why it is so ridiculously expensive. It's why nobody does it and instead the party drug of choice seems to be North Korean meth which is literally Walter White purity levels (it aint blue)

again I don't know which clubs in Gangnam you can buy these things from. It is what I hear on the streets.

marijuana is ridiculously expensive too, like a gram of indica would fetch around $200 USD.

I can't even imagine what the cost is like for Singapore because the punishment for smuggling and using is extreme.
Standardized, but not standard
Idk that shit kinda goes hard
Same thing with the Swedish cars. That's why they're right hand drive unlike other cars.

https://cdn.arbetet.se/app/uploads/2016/04/09235113/01-Brevb...
If you openly commit a federal felony that is widely unenforced, the state can choose to enforce it against you on the basis of the content of your protected expression, journalism, or religion, meaning that you don't actually have freedom of expression/press/religion in practice.

This happened to Rover Ver; he did time in federal prison for criticizing excessively violent federal agents during a talk he gave at a conference. Other agents from that agency present at his conference talk were pissed off and found some unrelated legitimate violations of federal law to have him charged under. If you are openly committing federal felonies this won't even take them the 24h it took them in Roger's case.

Same with 4A: if they want to toss your house or rob you of all your computers and all of your backups, and you've openly admitted to possession of schedule 1 things, a search warrant on that basis alone is a foregone conclusion, as it is obvious you are breaking the law.
I would just like to piggyback on this and say that in addition to this, an image or two goes a long way people. Especially if your program has a GUI!
I have the inverse experience. I find it far more cognitively burdensome to have to keep track of the types without annotations or assistance from a type checker. Getting rid of the type checker doesn’t make the type go away, it just means the full burden of managing them correctly falls on the programs. And it’s not for lack of effort—I’ve been using Python among other languages for 15 years, but I would still find myself prototyping big changes in Go before porting to Python (and crying for the lost performance, maintainability, and developer time).