skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not everyone has access to internet, high speed internet, or the devices or ability to connect. Think of the elderly and the impoverished. Pushing them off would push many of them out of connection with society and in many cases disenfranchise them. Furthermore, the infrastructure of the web is privately owned, unlike the interstate and other roadways.
Depends who you ask. I have no problem with it, and I suspect plenty of others feel the same way.
You should share this knowledge with her. That way if you're killed by a random criminal she can embrace her fear and become Crow-Woman.
This rumour is the best thing that could happen to Samsungs foldable phones

The Galaxy Z line just went from "expensive gimmick" to "the future of phones"
Doubtful. But if you'd asked me if bitcoin would ever be worth over $50,000 I would have laughed at you. So what do I know.

It completely depends on if it finds a sufficiently broad use case or not. So far, not.
You know, I'm pretty sure you're only getting downvoted because of the name calling; if you didn't call people sociopaths your actual concerns would be better received.
Give them a fake phone number though (if possible, I can't remember if they require SMS auth), they called me for like two weeks asking for me to spend money until I explained I was in college and I wasn't going to spend money.
These numbers are wildly exaggerated, but isn't this also the wrong "direction" of relativistic time dilation?

In the frame of the planet orbiting the hypervelocity star, the rest of the universe is moving at 0.5c, so the planet would measure all clocks in the rest of the universe to be running slower by a factor of 1/sqrt(1-0.5^2) = 1.15. Astronomers on this planet would measure stellar lifecycles (and every other physical process) to proceed slower, not faster.
You went from “useful union voting bloc” to “veterans and the elderly not being able to get drugs delivered by mail.” What a ride.

In reality there are lots of reasons to keep USPS, being able to get packages to all among them. Parent commenters have done a great job outlining some. I would encourage you to think more critically about reasons we would want a state-run postal system that don’t involve pet causes like union voting blocs.
AMP was about keeping news content on the web competitive with Facebook instant articles.

When Google was forced to cut a deal with News Corp last month (the Australian debacle) that would bring News content from the open web into their News app, AMP became much less important to them anyway.

All in all, yes, another loss for the open web, but I think the picture is more complicated then the "AMP is evil" meme.
After 30+ years of XGA and higher I've forgotten what coding on an 80x25 terminal felt like. Cramped. The answer is "cramped".
Some locations and people have sites like pastebin blocked, but image hosting allowed. Also in case of say technical blog posts, a combination of certain text characters might trigger a false positive for malware on your site. You don't get that problem with images.
I made that mistake early in my career thinking managers were my friends.

I have kept in touch with former managers and tried to meet them for lunch at least once or twice a year pre Covid.
Totally agree, Vanguard's landing page is a disaster.

I was able to directly link this page however, which I bookmarked:

https://personal.vanguard.com/us/AuthLogin
Many credit card using banks now offer "virtual" credit cards, which are one time or max amount or time-dependant expiring cc account numbers. These do a great job of neutralizing the abuse of power you get recurring payment dark patterns.
I knew this one was coming. I've been using it for a very long time and it hasn't let me down. I have considered using git but found no compelling reason to migrate.
Is it cheaper if you account the losses that amount from receiving things extremely late (mail that turns into waste)?

In my area, every single bank notes or bills arrive at least a month late. I've had water bills arrive 4 months late (bundled together with the ones from the other 3 months).

Something is very wrong with Correios, I don't think it's the last mile however, package usually arrives on time (with up to a week of delay in worst cases).
A lot of smaller employers will still do paper checks, not sure if it's because of the cost associated with having a direct deposit system. But also, a subset of people do not trust banks or are unable to have direct deposits. They usually use those check-cashing shops who give out cash for a % fee.
UPS should offer a "quote and send" system for letters, so that you type in your address and say when you want it to arrive, and they quote you a price. If it doesn't arrive by the time you said, you get a refund.

The quote system could have everything from "1 hour" for door-to-door direct courier (probably costing $50), up to "30 days" for really low priority stuff. The system would give you a barcode to print on your envelope/package instead of a stamp, and an API so it can be integrated into business processes, apps, etc.

Then use a fancy algorithm to set pricing to perfectly fill every truck, reduce load at busy times, etc.

There are plenty of people like amazon who will happily use cheap delivery capacity when there is half a truck going in some direction, and deliver by some other route/method when the truck driver is on holiday so mail is expensive.
> Also, in a petrol car you are literally never worried about running out of fuel.

Slightly hyperbolic. I was on a long trip through Arkansas one night, and was very worried about finding a gas station.

These days, with smartphones and more 24 hour stations it's less of a concern, but if you're not careful it's certainly still possible to end up somewhere without a gas station in easy range. The world is a big place.
https://programmerhumor.io/javascript-memes/im-getting-secon... includes "Originally by nuephelkystikon" It would be great if a link to the original author is also added. It looks like all content is taken from Reddit.

I agree with the comments on the previous submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27014644 While the categorization might be automated, all content is lifted from another website and re-published with even more buttons and clutter.
> robots.txt can accomplish the same thing

Not exactly - robots.txt will prevent Google from crawling the page but it might still show up in search results (without a snippet or your page title) based on how others link to it.
For some of us, it is simply a question of budget. I'm using these tiers to run static sites for non-profits with no money and no plans to raise any.
Yes and of course Haskell is quite capable of supporting uncurried functions too, e.g.

foo :: (Int, Int) -> Int

foo (x, y) = ...
Non sequitur. That wasn't what I was replying to.
Here's some evidence...

Oracle for years secretly lobbied states, Justice Department to sue Google - Bloomberg (2020-12-23)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-23/oracle-fo...
Couldn’t you get around this by just making it a trade secret and not publishing it? Your competitor can’t ask to see your source code (assuming it’s compiled). Patent trolls deserve whatever they have coming. It’s one thing if they have a novel idea but if they knowingly sit on a patent of a fundamental method that was given to them in error, they don’t deserve any consideration.
Get passive income building actors: Pays more than open source, easier than SaaS
Even that is not really true. They paid no federal income tax in 2017 and 2018, but have before and since.

I'm no fan of Amazon, but you have to admit there is a pretty large distance between "Amazon pays no tax" and "Amazon pays billions in tax, but they didn't pay this one specific kind of tax a couple years ago".

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/04/amazon-had-to-pay-federal-in...
I am impressed concerning how much you defend Apple. I suggest that you look at my favorites list about them. Maybe it will tell you that they aren't as good as would like to think.
Are there any design agencies which focus on social-like apps?
Meditations on Monetizations
> but not deeply understanding it enough to provide reasonable estimates

There are enough senior software engineers in this world that will have a crazy hard time making a good estimate. There was this HN comment once that mentioned that learning how to estimate work is it's entire own discipline.

It can be done and trained, according to that comment, but the comment also seemed to imply that it seems very unusual to do so.

I can't find the comment unfortunately, I read it years ago here.
It's a metaphorical example. Even when I received a physical paycheck years ago, it wasn't typically done in the mail.

Personally, I'm more worried as a consumer that legal notice delivery is unreliable. My storage unit (Public Storage) jacked my rent up by over 20% without notice. They claim they mailed notice, and the lease specifically has a provision that there is a presumption of delivery when things are posted via first class mail.
I've seen it happen more than once that web devs create a website that's very performant, only to be maimed and slowed down to a crawl by the marketing department's trackers and ads...
https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/ strikes again:)
I'm a javascript developer.

if mutable is expensive, and should be difficult then "let mut" makes more sense.

var looks like a default to me, not a special case that needs care.
It's not just that, i.e. you may be fooled if you read the script "in the wrong way".

https://www.idontplaydarts.com/2016/04/detecting-curl-pipe-b...
What’s the problem, exactly? I don’t see how this is different from downloading a binary from the get.volta.sh domain and running it.
Argh this is my problem at my current company except I’m not even particularly introverted. I made lifelong friends at my previous small company but after four years at my current “top tier” company I got nothing, maybe one strong lead... in another state. We’re likable people and make friends quickly but nobody has time for a deeper connection, nobody wants to spend evenings or weekends doing bonding’y stuff (and I’m not into sports).

Like others here I tried finding local friends through groups, other dads, school events, etc but get nowhere. I’m honestly considering either switching back to a small cultish company or moving to a smaller town both of which have their own problems but... guess I could try softball

It doesn’t exactly make me happy others have this same problem but I’m glad I’m not alone.
I'll hold your beer for you while you do that R&D! :)
There is definitely an issue with posting your project over and over and over, because that's a sign you see it as relevant even when other people don't. That's certainly the case here. If you wanted to make the "and cybercrime" point, there are a zillion more relevant links than yours.

That looks like spammer behavior to me, which makes your desire to replace email absurd.
How do you feel about this whole thing?
I think their described as ‘best’ minds because they graduated top of their class at Ivy League, leading California school, etc.
I think there are enough retailers with at least some money, I think this is mostly an issue of business expectations.

If AWS were caught sharing your data, with anyone, for any reason, it would be a gigantic mess of a problem. Forget 'competing with Amazon on Amazon' - we're talking about sensitive data of all kinds in every single line of business. It would destroy them.

Selling on Amazon, and then having sneaky Amazon PM's use your data against you is bad, but the quasi-same thing would exist in other retailers. Best Buy doesn't sell '3rd Party' so obviously all of their sales data is theirs, and I think that the expectations between '3rd Party' and not '3rd Party' Amazon may just be a little bit blurred.

I'm suspicious frankly about the distinction, because Amazon may very well believe that that data is theirs to look at anyhow.

But AWS has to be a different story, if not, it's going to hurt.
Maybe not. I've always been frank with my 'managers'. I tell them "We both work for the company. I get support from you for information and resources. Other than that, try to stay out of my way?"

As a more senior guy it works for me. Not for everybody, I get that. But its a way healthier relationship.

Can they fire me? Sure. But I can get work again the next day. So go ahead, threaten and bluster manager guy. I've more than once picked up my coat and said "Are we done here?"
Seriously, though. Between reselling and 'owner/operator businesses' (read: pyramid schemes selling oils, scents, candles, and makeup), the local farmer's market is just an absolute train wreck anymore.

Local farmers who used to sell at the farmer's market have moved to subscription boxes, from what I can tell.
Thanks a lot.

> Expensive.

VPC Peering bandwidth rates are $0.01 / GB. EC2 (public Internet?) bandwidth rates are $0.09 / GB. For xfers between EC2 to EC2 via AWS backbone, I assume I'd still be charged the public Internet bandwidth rates, right?
If btc required switzerland's worth of energy to mine a block - how on earth did satoshi mine blocks in 2009 all alone by himself?

the answer is that bitcoin doesn't require any amount of energy beyond a single computer to churn out blocks. all the energy usually attributed to being "used" by bitcoin is in fact energy purchased by users to acquire and/or maintain certain level of security of their financial assets.

bitcoin is simply an instrument through which security of financial assets can be expressed in form of pure energy, which is completely transparent and can't be faked. that security comes for a price and as long as users are willing to pay this much money for that amount of security - miners will continue producing it, consuming energy in the process.
"thrilling" as in "causing great emotional or mental stimulation" could mean actually anything, like pondering where you could quickly move your decades of stored emails...
Rockley Photonics – Investor Presentation [pdf]
Personally, I find Rust syntax to be well-designed. At least, compared to any practical programming language I know.

Quite a few times I was surprised that Rust breaks with some old patterns that were copied over and over in the last 50 years or so. For example: "match" instead of "switch", or the same if/else regardless if it is a statement or a value. These are small touches, but they show attention to detail.
Ok, thanks for clarifying. Yeah subdivision doesn't affect scarcity. The arguments the article made were weak, but there are plenty of solid arguments to be made.
Cell phones and social media. To learn about people you just look it up. You don't interact with them anymore. You text or snoop. It sucks but not like the past was all that better either.
You stated:

> people with the flu are without any question being counted as counted as covid-19 cases

I'm saying that is simply not possible - at least not in my country. We actually require a proper test for the presence of SARS-CoV 2 before they are diagnosed with covid.
This is actually good news. It provides a lever for the government to change our entire culture (in a good way). Much easier than convincing every individual that maintenance is required.
Reminds me of a page I found way back, where a guy tested to see just what kind of things he could get delivered through the postal service. I tried digging it up but can't find it.

He mailed a lot of things to himself, but there were two that stood out.

One was a brick, IIRC not wrapped, just taped address and stamps to it. It arrived with some delay, in a bag, smashed to pieces, likely in search of drugs.

The second was a full-sized cod or similar fish. Can't recall if he wrapped it. In either case, the fish did not arrive.

Instead he got a stern warning that if anything like that ever happened again, he wouldn't get any more mail delivered, ever...

IIRC apart from those two, most of the weird attempts were delivered successfully.
Programming in Z3 by learning to think like a compiler
Is there any real competition to USPS? Or do they get their check from the government regardless of how poorly they perform?

In my own country, the government owned postal service is complete trash. Yeah, it’s almost “free”, but we’re paying for it in taxes, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it actually costs way more than private carriers. Not to mention that the workers are incredibly lazy and rude, and opening hours are ridiculous. I’ve ordered a package which took 5 days to get here from the other side of the planet, by private carriers, and then it got stuck in the national mail service for 3 months. The seller was kind enough to resend the package, but I’m not sure if it’ll ever make it either.

What are you gonna do, choose the competitors? They still get their check.
> There is nothing more annoying than a picture of a block of text

Oh, but there is: Videos of bug reports where a person first has to explain that they have found a bug, and they will try to reproduce it now, and if you're still watching after 3 minutes you might see the important 5 seconds of the video, that could have been expressed in a few well-written sentences!
Every new generation has to either learn from the past or reinvent from scratch. The web has always had lots of cargo-cult copying of processes, because the most influential sites always get copied in order to try to be more familiar.

And with the overwhelming complexity of current front end web tech, it seems there's not much time left to put into thoughtful user experience.
It's the purposeful destruction of job security which is used as a threat to make employees work harder. Why make friends with your co-workers if you or them could be fired at any point when the shareholders decide to "cut the fat" for higher profits?

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/tenure.nr0.htm

>The median number of years that wage and salary workers had been with their current employer was 4.1 years in January 2020

It's difficult to make friends in this environment and this is a relatively recent change: https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/1984/10/art2full.pdf
Difference is that sellers have options because none of these are monopolies. It's not abusing your size at that scale and thus not antitrust. The same rules don't apply to everyone because not everyone owns an entire market.
I've been waiting for Yahoo to finally die for a decade now.
Multi-Cloud Comin' for Ya
Is multi-cloud a good idea, inevitable, or an advantage? Should you use the tooling cloud service providers offer or are third-party tools a better fit for your workflows?

On this episode of Serverless Chats, Jeremy chats with Rob Sutter about how bottom up adoption by developers has led to the proliferation of "cloud" inside most companies, the role third-party tooling plays in winning developer loyalty, and how the API economy inevitably leads to components distributed across cloud providers.
In the US, "payroll" taxes are split between employer and employee. The biggest items that fall into payroll are Social Security and Medicare.

https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/what-are-major...
I've got contacts with people I worked with 30 years ago. We have a bi-weekly Zoom chat for instance. Lasts for hours. Lots of fun.

Friends? Sure, I've offered to come take care of them when they're having surgery, or invited to stay when the spouse is making them sleep on the couch. Even sent money a time or two when they're between jobs.

Maybe its different nowadays. But coworkers used to be easy to make friends with.
In this particular niche', yes. But again, that is almost entirely irrelevant to the vast majority of the millions of scientific Python users.

I'd love to write my own solution in assembly or C where I give birth to every function, but nobody has time for that level of monumental effort. Low level matrix libraries have a lot of inertia for a reason.

I'm not disparaging anybody's point of view. Yours is certainly valid for a small group of elite users. I'm just trying to point out that it is only a valid point for a very small group. Most simply view these things from the perspective of the entire ecosystem. Even scientists well aware of the C internals will not always use that knowledge.
Remember Microsoft Surface Duo? It's apparently plagued with black screen bug
The environmental impact of having no alternative to the duopoly is much larger.
That seems so similar to the Moller that it almost has to have been inspired by it. Looking at their website, it seems like the Moller folks have finally given up. Strange that they were able to string things along for so long, though.
What is dangerous here? Wasm is more crippled in access than normal js. And js is simply in every web page these days. You can't make a static site hosting service and tell people not to use js, that would be very lame.
What does Yahoo do nowadays?
> one would expect to annotate the return type as

> foo(x : int) : string

> since the pattern is showing foo applied to x.

kind of like the C/C++ "declaration mirrors use" thing, i.e.

int *foo;

which means

"the result of dereferencing `foo` is of type `int`"

which is not the same as saying

foo : Ptr<int>;

because in the former, you're kind of describing what `foo` is a without actually saying it, if that makes sense.

i find that way of specifying types counterintuitive in both C/C++ and MLs.
Let’s not pretend the USPS was anywhere near this bad before Trump’s appointment of Louis DeJoy to postmaster general: “Mail Service Deteriorated After Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s Arrival, Watchdog Found” (wsj) https://www.wsj.com/articles/mail-service-deteriorated-after...
Transforming Tata Group
> And yours was an argument from authority. You gave no explanation of or support for Mullis's arguments, and you gave no reason to believe his conclusion except a positive aspect of his reputation (i.e., his discovery of PCR in the first place).

Nice try but your tit for tat doesn't quite work. I explicitly said I have no attachment to Mullis or his claims. I didn't make an argument myself. I was asking "the creator of PCR made this claim, what are the counter-arguments?"

Then, and now again, you gave your irrelevant ad-hominem points. I don't care if he believed in voodoo or saw pink elephants in the sky, because they're irrelevant to my question. And as I already said, Newton believed some outlandish things, yet I still believe in physics. I'm interested in what the counterpoints to his argument, not his reputation, are.

I also read your comment, and it's also not relevant to my question. You seem upset that it's gotten zero interaction, and I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do about that. But I'm not looking for info on why PCR tests are true positives, I'm looking for arguments on Mullis' claims
No, this monetary theory is disproven by facts. The gold standard was not inflationary. And bitcoin is not deflationary. Look at the data, it's not that hard. The data says the price level is not determined by the money supply. So, back to the blackboard.
> to some degree

That kind of hurts ;-)
Another one:

SaaS websites, don't make visitors hunt for what the hell the service does.

It's somehow hard for many SaaS websites to clearly explain what their service does. I often have to dig into multiple pages to figure out what the service does.
Online shopping in Cambodia’s government-run, nearly empty pandemic store
I think you're virtue signalling concerns about the environment in a situation where those concerns don't even apply. Bitcoin is an idea that opens a market for financial security expressed in form of energy expenditure. That kind of security apparently has value on the market and so while users are willing to purchase it - energy will be spent. If for whatever reason bitcoin ceases to exist, this kind of energy expenditure will just migrate into different system because idea is out of the bag.

So get off your high horse and do something that actually helps the environment rather than fighting windmills.