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I believe experience with USPS varies across the board from worst to the best. I am in the Bay Area, and in the last 8 or so years, USPS has been the best among all carriers. Be it package, letter or a Registered Parcel.

Of course, my experience does not translate to that of the entire service, but the point I am trying to make is what GBH experienced cannot be generalized to USPS. There are several other factors (some described in the responses here) that can make or break the service.

As with any Government provided service, there are inefficiencies, which need to be addressed and removed. I think these are being politicized by various parties to privatize it, which IMO won't solve the problems.
Tangentially related, but here’s the USPS page for the types of live animals that you can send through the mail!

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

There are probably similar pages like it but that’s always the one that comes to my mind when people talk about mailing odd things.
When I got moved from SPE-2 to -6, I went from a four-desk half-height team cube to just rows of desks in the open. That would have been 2012 I guess.
Yahoo used to have a 15% stake in Alibaba. Alibaba’s market cap today is ~643B according to (ironically) Yahoo Finance.

Edit: Apparently they used to hold 30%, but sold half of that for peanuts in 2012.
I typed `foo(x : int) : string` when I was starting and there was an error message telling me to use `-> string` so many people expect this syntax.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shear_pin

A better solution than a replaceable gear.
My favorite is piping stuff into awk to make bar graphs. Here's system load from atopsar for the current day:

atopsar -p | tail -n +7 | grep '\S' | awk '{printf("\n%s %6.2f ",$1, $5); for (i = 0; i<$5; i++) {printf("")}}'; echo

sample: https://gist.github.com/defulmere/bec1aef40ca4cddb5c421ffa5f...
> Apollo is getting it cheap!

And Apollo will gut these entities for every dollar that they can.
I kind of agree, but that seems more of a problem with the target system.

Anyway my name is remembered on my company SSO form, and I never sign in as someone else.
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I wish the language settings were more nuanced. I want sites that are primarily in my mother tongue use that, even if they have english version. I want foreign (often corporate) websites that also have a second-class translation to my native language, to stay in English.
Nano flashlight could allow future cell phones to detect viruses, more
If any company provided the retirement benefits USPS does and pre-funded them in the same manner HN would hail them as saints. They would be held up as proof that BigCos don't need to act like greedy backstabbing jerks.

But because an ideologically driven congress mandated USPS fund its retirement contributions in a highly conservative way HN sees it as evil.

Frankly, I'm happy that a government institution isn't playing fast and loose with people's retirements (ask Illinois or New Jersey how that turns out). If that makes it hard to balance the books then congress should either kick in some $$ to cover the difference or let them change their rates.
This "both sides" nonsense is complete fiction.

There was a BIPARTISAN senate immigration reform bill that passed the senate in 2013. THIRTEEN Republicans voted for it and every Democrat and independent did.

It went to the house and died there because the Republican majority leader Boehner knew it would pass and refused to let it be voted on. He was beholden to the most xenophobic, bigoted Republicans in his caucus and thought they would vote him out of leadership if he let it pass. He ended up losing his job anyways shortly thereafter for other reasons.

Now the entire Republican party is beholden to the xenophobic bigots and I guarantee you the exact same bill wouldn't find more than 2 votes from a Republican in the senate.

So no, there is no "both sides" here. Democrats have been remarkably consistent about what an immigration compromise looks like, and even were able to pass it in the senate 7-8 years ago, only to be blown up by the Tea Party ur-Trumpists. The GOP has only moved further to the right and will never support anything close to that.
It's just a lack of viable alternatives.
Would that be Russian gas they can then use as a bargaining chip?
I also operate a DTC company and ship similar volume.

8 years ago, when we started, we shipped exclusively in tubes. The loss rate with USPS was somewhere between 5-10%, it was too painful to measure exactly. I switched to a custom-sized "ear lock mailer" rectangular style box, and lost rates dropped below 1%.

My theory was that the cylinder shape was rolling off of some sorting line / conveyor, or possibly the tubes required a different (maybe manual) scan that had a much higher failure rate.

So I don't ship in tubes with USPS anymore (UPS and FedEx don't have same issue).
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It really feels like you're twisting reality.

Amazon went 2 years without paying _income_ tax, not 4.

Amazon paid $3.5 billion in taxes in 2019 (some of which was differed, but still owed). That is over 25% of their income that year. Their federal income tax rate came out to 1.6%, but its borderline lying to say "they paid a measly 1.6% in taxes".

Amazon is an awful company. There is no reason to bend the truth to try and show how awful they are. Being disingenuous only makes your argument weaker.
Is Yahoo actually turning a profit, if so which service contribute the most?

Also, are there any stats explaining why so Yahoo still have so many daily visitors? Is it just result of having a ton of service and then the numbers afe bundled? It seems hard to understand that pages like Yahoo (or msn.com) would attract so many users as the Alexa ranking would suggest.
No. The Alibaba and Yahoo Japan stakes would have paid for the entire purchase while still having benefits and then some. Yahoo sold $8B of Alibaba in 2012 and $40B of the remaining in 2019. They sold Yahoo Japan shares for $4B. Microsoft would have had no need to sell the 2012 stake at the time. They could have possibly doubled their money.
> You must be over-enthusiastic about the product and willing to work brutal overtime hours for little more than a market rate engineering salary.

That sums it up.

These environments can produce a lot faster, but they require a steady stream of new hires to replace all of the departures.

Most hires know what they’re getting into. Spending a few years at a Musk company is a career boost, and they know it. Once you’ve had the resume boost it’s easy to pivot into another company as “the person who worked with Elon” where you can get paid more and work less.
You choose the one single example where this doesn't apply: If you mail any letter from Germany to anywhere else, don’t just use a regular stamp (0,80€) but use certified mail (between 3 and 4€) and you’ll have a tracking code, and it’ll arrive in france within of 24h (because then it’ll just be delivered as parcel by DHL, which is owned by the german mail service)
Does this include Yahoo Japan or is that already a separate entity? Yahoo is BIG in Japan, with Yahoo Auctions being what Ebay is in other countries.
I was a bit disappointed by this too. Apple even mentions tracking your wallet on their website. Maybe someone will release one of those Costanza wallets with a dedicated cut out for the AirTag, but the smaller billfold style wallets simply won't do.
Why would it be final? It seems to be quite successful, and any new owner would want to keep it that way
Why are you booing me? I'm right.
How stable is the entrainment effect they plan to use in their engines under high winds, rain, changes in atmospheric pressure, etc? Accelerating air by creating a low pressure region seems like a pretty delicate setup.
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Then people should fund it like it's a critical service. Now it's treated like some punching bag. Mandated to spend money on non-profitable areas, but prevented by competition from raising prices in the profitable ones to be able to properly cross-finance the more costly parts.
social media is cancer, do what jaron lanier says and delete it all
I'll work on a script to figure out all the permalinks to the original submissions.

> all content is lifted from another website and re-published with even more buttons and clutter.

I am working on adding more sources and reddit doesn't allow you to infinitely scroll all the good posts, I mean you can sort via hot/top all time, but the content there is pretty static. I feel like I exhaust the sub in half an hour worth of scrolling, but sometimes I just want to stay longer, procrastinate some more..

Also, thanks for the feedback about buttons, I'll remove a few.
> he probably spent more time with his coworkers than his family.

This is so sad. Unless he didn’t like his family.
While it's fun and easy to pick on Clubhouse lately, this is true of every new software business. A company can value privacy, security, and accessibility, but it still makes sense to value finding a viable sustainable business model more, particularly with the clock ticking as you burn through your funding. Privacy, security, and accessibility are difficult and expensive, and most often come at the cost of slowing down iteration on new functionality at the time when fast iteration is the most important. And no amount of money will buy you speed if every new feature needs to go through a whole accessibility review.

If privacy, security, and accessibility advocates want to be taken seriously they need to stop bitching every chance they can and start offering solutions to developers to make it brain-dead simple to respect all 3 aspects while not slowing down the pace of development. Instead accessibility advocates seem to be more interested in criticizing every attempt at automating accessibility while acting incredulous when early stage startups aren't willing to pay them $300/hr to consult on UIs that may not even make it into production.
Also, IIRC, Yahoo Japan is basically another entity and way bigger than all of Yahoo global, in which Yahoo had a stake in as well.
Verizon to sell off Yahoo and AOL for $5B
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I'm not living in the past, that has been how it has been for decades. In new communities they create a hub or mailroom. It isn't typically the post office that designates that, it is the HOA. They don't want ugly mailboxes in front of everyone's house. An old boss of mine successfully lobbied to get mail delivered to the house since everyone was pissed at having to drive a mile or further to the club house to get their mail.

Since around 2013, though, the USPS HAS mandated new communities get a single mail hub, but it still satisfies their rule of delivering for every address.
Dammit, there's one tech company using my first name, and they mess it up with a harebrained DRM scheme for soap!?
Maybe I should get out of tech. At least "Daan carpentry" won't come up with results that make me instinctively close the tab...
Composting is nice if there is a dedicated collection of it (like in some part of Italy) and if it is actually used (eg. not landfill/burned anyway).

Doing compost at home for yourself is not working in general because most people live in an apartment:
- People won't know what to do with it and will throw it away.
- A large amount of moisty stuff in a small room with bad ventilation.

That's my experience of seeing city people doing it.
Thanks! Very practical advice :-)

My friend reset his password and chose the option to disconnect everything and it didn't happen again after that but as mentioned in the post he had looked into all devices and there were nothing surprising in the list when it happened so I still don't understand why.
I have seen you doing this for years (here and on reddit) and I have to say it's amazing and thank you.

You're always very calm and communicate quite clearly even with aggressive people suffering from the Dunning-Kruger effect that probably don't deserve it.

But like you say, there are a lot more people reading the interactions so your efforts aren't wasted.
There are certainly sites that many assume must have totally faded away years ago that are still floating around.

The one that gets me is Second Life which was such a hot thing for an instant in time and is still, amazingly, around even though I haven't heard anyone mention it for years.
Passive aggression ;)
Who will be hosting verizon.net email accounts, held by Frontier customers?
Alternative perspective: the glitch is the whole thing.

https://asemic-horizon.com/2020/04/16/glitchy/
The Alibaba and Yahoo Japan stakes Yahoo got were selling half of Alibaba stake for $8B in 2012 and $40B remaining in 2019. They sold Yahoo Japan shares for $4B in 2019. Microsoft would have had no need to sell the 2012 stake at the time. They could have possibly doubled their money.
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This is factually incorrect. And, this sort of misinformation is one of the reasons people don't like the crypto-hype.

Perhaps a pruned node can get somewhere in the area of sub-10G, but a "full node" is actually at around 328G: https://www.statista.com/statistics/647523/worldwide-bitcoin...
I don't know if all of the SSO login sites do this, but Office 365 authentication makes it a huge pain in the ass to get back to the page that you tried to login from; usually you get dumped back to the home page, and have to try to navigate back to where ever it was you were.

Azure Active Directory does not make it easy to do this, with the way you have to explicitly whitelist post-back URLs, or else you get the dreaded login.microsoft.com 401 page of death, where you have to parse out information buried in the query-string to determine why you didn't get redirected properly (usually it is a trailing slash on the URL... %2F)
Another reason to avoid getting permits for remodels.
If it's quiet enough to leave any doubt whether it's still running, then it's probably not able to consistently get stuff clean either... :|
Based on previous experience with Samsung devices, absolutely do not buy any based on promises the company makes about the future. Buy it based on what is proven to work today(probably good advice in general, but plenty of people have been burned by Samsungs promises).
Doesn't apply, nullc is backing up their arguments with actual technical explanations, not just saying "Just trust me, don't you know who I am?"
We should all be using nuclear anyway.
There is no need for a conspiracy theory.

The metadata that is _required_ to produce your monthly AWS bill reveals a ton of information about the success of your business and what is doing very well for you.

Doing analytics on customer billing is something that Amazon has every reason to be doing, and what Amazon does with that information can be anticompetitive or not.
AWS could easily collect metadata like how your traffic looks over time, where it's coming from etc., and use that to inform Amazon business decisions. That would go a bit further than what's in this article, but it isn't a huge stretch.
SNMP: Security Not My Problem. That is how I learned it decades ago and it still holds.
That blog's author also suffers from obvious mental issues if you look at any of the articles on it.

Nearly everything he says there is not substantiated. The links don't actually support his arguments, and in fact disprove them in some cases.

In one case he accused Disroot of DDoSing his crappy blog because they wouldn't deny some claim he made that they probably didn't even know about. He used to post it in /r/privacytoolsio until we banned him for low quality posting.. That article is here: https://privacy-watchdog.io/the-truth-about-disroot-org/

He then wrote an article accusing us (privacytools.io) of being paid $11 a month by ProtonMail because we "censored" him. That article is here: https://privacy-watchdog.io/privacytools-io-censors-true-inf...
possible interim solution: put your email as the first recipient in the bcc field
No no, it still sounds ridiculous.
in USA it works like: pay is $100. then take home is $80 because $20 is taken out for various payroll taxes. then also the company pays $20 for their portion. employees only see the -20 from them, not the +20 from Company on wage stubs.

also, if the company has profits there is some tax on that (well, my little C-corp did)

(numbers are made up to show process)
Here's a few functions / aliases I have set up that I use on a pretty regular basis:

# Generate a random password and copy it to the clipboard.
pw () {
pwgen -sync "${1:-48}" -1 | xclip
}

# Get the current weather.
weather () {
curl https://wttr.in/"${1}"
}

# Get the numeric value of a file / directory's permissions.
alias octal="stat -c '%a %n'"

All of my aliases are listed in my dotfiles at: https://github.com/nickjj/dotfiles/blob/master/.aliases
There's a strong survivorship bias in what you hear about. A few hundred folks made solid money, but many, many more had to go hunting for jobs after the bubble burst.
HTTP headers already let you assign weights and such to languages you understand, but I doubt many sites implement this properly.

If the site had its own set of weights corresponding to the quality of its translations, it can multiply those out and arrive at a "best" language to show you.
First, are you not thinking of Liquid instead? That is run and developed by a private company. Lightning does have some big nodes, but in general the interconnection is pretty good, as far as I can see [0]. If you want to route payments, it's not enough to just have channels going to you, but you also need to have outgoing channels to balance the flow, and you are on the hook for the closing fees, so that should help with stability.

[0]: https://explorer.acinq.co/
I'm really surprised that Yahoo Finance has not been spun out as an independent company at this point. I think as a stand-alone company it could easily be worth in the billions of dollars.

Reportedly Yahoo Finance has revenue between $100M and $250M annually. With the increase in retail interest in investing it seems like a property that could have some growth potential behind it if they did things right and separate from Verizon.
I recently thought a tubed item I ordered was lost in shipment. I found it 2 weeks later in the bushes where the mailman apparently thought was a good place to stash it.
no you shouldnt, the vaccine is going into muscle tissue, the muscle will experience inflammation due to the presence of the vaccine, this means things are working as planned, and the tissue is opening up to allow the immune system access to the site. you wont find endothelium in the muscle tissue, and you wont get a systemic distribution of vaccine or free floating spike protien.
>What's the answer? Commit to do the work necessary to turn it around.

No. I'm going to commit to dismantling an outdated and unnecessary burden on society that serves mostly to deliver literal garbage to a box in my yard. Since it's easier to destroy than to build, I predict I will win in the long run.

I don't know what world you live in but the Postal System has been a running joke for at least the last 50 years. I mean there's even a meme called "going postal" where someone commits mass murder. When was this time you're imagining when it worked well?
yeah but you have to have something. A liberal computer nerd and a firefighter steeped in macho culture are just not gonna work.
You must feel quite oxymoronic, being here.
I'm stupid. I'm so used to using a "dark mode" extension in my browser that I'd forgotten it was enabled.
Inexplicably, humans refused to use the old and reliable tail to nose handshake. Dogs still bark about it.
Maybe if they don't sell it Apple will eventually just re-implement the technology, so by selling it now they come out ahead?
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I like you missed the timeline this year, but next year "Google Summer of Code"
I have a note in my calendar with a link to this article for the past two years, so that I can read it and renormalize, degauss your rain, if you will, of the incessant worries, todos, Internet posts, etc.
This is true but Python has a user community which is several orders of magnitude broader, which confuses the issue a bit. These days if I was designing a language I'd probably ask “How would I explain this to someone who learned JavaScript/Python?” since even if you have great reasons for doing things differently it's a pretty reasonable way to predict sources of confusion for newcomers.
Similar things have happened elsewhere in the media world. I've seen some of them first-hand within the org. It was hard to watch a 100-year old magazine of note continuously stretched to its possible thinnest by the parent company because the returns were not what they blindly promised and seemingly wanted to reduce the price of the properties to make a sale cheaper. Thankfully in that case the company who purchased the properties is actively working to bring them back to their former selves.
It's different managing a team than doing it yourself. Tools that work for one does not work for many. Would like to have basic foundations right while doing nothing too compolicated.
After having been at KSC and working around Muskrats, almost being one of them myself, this is also the impression I took away. Kind of like IB for the tech industry.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slotting_fee
> This can happen already to you when products go out of stock (...)

No, it can't. Your case involves a scenario where no transaction is possible because there is no product to buy or sell. It has zero to do with my very simple and very straight-forward example of a customer wanting to buy a product indeed sold and available and on the store of a seller who already reached its 10% market share.

My example is very clear, and for some reason all proponents of this virtuous 10% market share are either unable or unwilling to step up and either think their idea through or explain how they expect to implement their virtuous idea.

And this is a very simple and straight-forward example: a seller has a product I want to buy, I shopped around and that seller has the absolute best offer, I want to buy the product from that seller, the seller has the product on the counter and I have the cash at hand, but the seller already hit the 10% market share. What then? Is the next step so mysterious that no one can even come close to dare explain what they believe should happen?
C# feels cramped unless you have huge desktop monitors.
so just thinking about this and had a look at Pool.

An example, to my first point, is like some old cyphernomicon txtfile from 1994 that's been submitted every few years for like 10 years and never really gotten many upvotes nor discussion, now gets submitted a day ago, I'm assuming not much traction again, and then submitted to Pool and now has 74 upvotes. It's weird. Never got much attn before, over and over and now all of a sudden all these things are getting large amount of upvotes. It shouldn't really get that much more attention and my gripe is that it shouldn't be on my radar as something new/interesting for the day because overall it really isn't. It's old and never warranted much interest repeatedly over time. Changing audience (a decline imo) or like something else driving more HN votes in recent year...hmm
Thank you, thank you, thank you! "open ." is post-it note worthy.
> Hoffman said he thinks DeJoy’s real goal is to erode public confidence in the government-controlled postal system in order to build support for privatizing it.

We don’t need to privatize. We need to get rid of it and switch to digital for everything except physical goods. Revamp USPS as a package delivery company, or just outright get rid of it and let the existing delivery companies handle it.

USPS has an $80 billion annual budget. Put that money to use investing in something that has more use in the future. We don’t need to invest more in spam delivery.
Sure. So instead of memorizing LC solutions memorize algorithms?
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