skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Email does sort of support groups, they are just reply all + consent to be receiving the group messages. I put emoji in emails, I don't understand what the problem is there?

Anyway, maybe I wasn't being precise enough, more precisely I meant Unicode, anything that can send Unicode with file attachments works for me which is every message service already. All the other extra stuff apple and google do with custom emoji and other things like that is irrelevant to me and I would happily give it up to have all written communication in one client with one red dot showing unread messages and one list of contacts.

WRT to privacy concerns, maybe my dream client lets me prioritise which services I prefer and it drops down to the lowest common denominator. So I could prefer Matrix > Signal > Telegram > iMessage > WhatsApp > Email > (the google one?) > Facebook Messenger for starting new chats or groups. I don't see what else you can do as some people can only be contacted on Facebook messenger; either you stick to your principals and your kids don't go to football club or you suck it up and use Facebook for that chat?
pretty soon you need a couple helpers. Then a couple more. Then they form their own union and you're back to square one.
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Define "ease of reasoning," then you can accuse others of "straw man" attack.

OOP does not even consider effects in it's reasoning. You can do anything with the state of an object and whatever that object can reach through references. The changes are not atomic, they are allowed to be (temporarily) inconsistent.

In my book, this is opposite of ease of reasoning.

You can change something that will shoot the user of your program much down the line and do that without any hiccup.
poe's law to the rescue
I always forget when to plant things in my garden so I made a little tool for myself. You set your zip, then pick your plants, and it will tell you your upcoming planting dates.

https://rootedreminders.com
It's completely insane that they're not a "business associate" or a "covered entity" under hipaa. That's a pretty serious indication that the rules are broken.
I saw, with my own eyes, an IPhone upgrade to a new major IOS version and the SMS fallback setting turn off. The change may have been walked back, but I saw it myself, and had to fix it on dozens of phones.
> USPS spokespeople Sue Brennan and Tatiana Roy declined to comment and referred our email to the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, or USPIS, the law enforcement arm of USPS, which provided TechCrunch with a boilerplate statement — some of which repeated itself — but did not say how the U.S. Postal Service planned to prevent change of address fraud. USPIS sent its response from a general unnamed email address, and repeatedly declined to provide a spokesperson’s name when asked by TechCrunch, despite being standard practice for reporters to ask. When reached by email, USPIS’ Ariana Ramirez also declined to provide the name of the department’s media spokesperson.

The USPS is the worst.

We had video of a USPS delivery vehicle in our driveway (against USPS policy) causing all kinds of damage to our property, as well as the delivery vehicle. The serial number of the vehicle was clearly visible. We tried a few different ways to get them to do something about it (it was an ongoing problem). We finally gave up and put a few boulders in strategic places. The boulders have gotten some dents, but that seems to have solved the problem.

We had another on-going problem where the delivery person would refuse to put mail in our mail box if there was anyone parked on the street within 50 feet of the mailbox. We finally got a supervisor to come out and take a look - they backed up the delivery person. That one finally retired, and now we randomly get other people's mail, while other people get ours randomly.
If there were a political bandwagon around reducing child deaths, I'd probably still suspect ulterior motives. Also, if it were based on just death counts, I view murder differently from accidents. It's like when people try to compare lung cancer and 9/11.
When clothing manufacturers remove an inch or three to make people feel better about themselves, what else can you do?
I met Cleto Pavanetto, who was the head of the Vatican's Latinitas Foundation, around 2008. (Our only common language was Latin!)

https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleto_Pavanetto
He told me that he could receive mail addressed only to

Cletus
Vatican

That's the shortest address (?) Of anyone I've met, I think!
I think to be frank, this gamification of interviews is BS.

I’ve built actual production systems at scale. The fact that I need to follow a guide to “demonstrate” my ability to someone who 9/10 hasn’t built (or couldn’t build) anything at scale in production shows where we are in the absurdity matrix.
I find classes extremely unintuitive.

I find type classes and (generalized) algebraic data types to be extremely intuitive.
Two more weeks...
Thank you very much for your offer, I will apply the tester job. Lighthouse SF, that's pretty interesting, I may contact them for opportunities. My Email is in my profile, so if you see any opportunities, let me know. I really appreciate for taking the time to write this and giving me the chance for this opportunity. Thanks.
Well, sure, I'm speaking in approximations. My only point is that my personal preferences mean that a bright white room would drive me crazy. I could fix that with various methods, sure, but it seems to me the easiest and best solution is just to paint it a color I would prefer.

I'm certainly not saying that anyone else is wrong for having tastes that differ from mine.
From their 10k filing it looks like an average of $255k total expenses (including rent, etcetera) per employee.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35000125
You’ve commented a number of times on this post, and every time you relate equity language to communism/Marxism.

I’m struggling to follow your reasoning. What does communism have to do with anything?
There was an NLP based trading firm about 10 years ago that would run sentiment analysis over articles from industry analysts. According to someone that worked there, some of the most useful signal came from analysts that had strong negative correlations with future performance.
Not to say that all forms of cryptographic currency will, but Bitcoin only serves as a value store.

The enthusiasts don't actually pay for things in Bitcoin but instead horde it so it doesn't really serve a society function as much as it services an ideology.

The Bitcoin core, the true adherents, are approximately the same percentage of the public that did Liberty Dollars; sovereign citizen types that maintain sprawling websites attacking the Federal Reserve or proffering quack miracle cures.

It's a weird sideshow of frauds, scammers, ponzi schemes, multilevel marketing, occult and conspiracy theorists, the kind that listened to Bill Cooper on shortwave ... That's what will eventually be left propping up the value so it's whatever that group can muster. The boom/bust cycle of Bitcoin being approximately 4 years and aligning with presidential elections could be a coincidence... Let's see what 2025 brings.

Regardless, someday Bitcoin will be integrated into their paranoid delusions as part of the enemy plot and these last holdouts will abandon it.

But that's the long game. I might be talking 25 years here. Or maybe 25 months, who knows?
As someone living outside the US, I've rarely, if ever, seen any ads like the ones you're describing
Yeah, the convenience of having drinkable tap water is also worth >3% of your net income. But luckily, because of competitive markets, it's often <0.1% of your income.
> Agency has nothing to do with it: suggesting that it does implies the possibility to avoid it

That was the point of my referring to it: the agency lies with the enslaver, not the enslaved.
Thanks for the tip, I'll look at quik!

My only experience with the approaches you mention so far has been code splitting and dynamic imports with webpack.

Yes my example was a bit misleading as it's probably not specific to the maps JS API. Just remembered my casual observation of the network requests when embedding Maps using the JS API.

Also saw that there were lots of tiny cacheable requests and overall great performance.
Remember that time we accidentally crashed a rover or something into Mars because someone forgot to convert their units? That was as hilarious as it was unfortunate.
I have personal experience with three unions in my area. All of which fit my description very accurately.

> You keep repeating this old and worn out talking point

There has been zero evidence produced that counters this assertion. I asked for evidence, and received complaints that cannot be addressed by unions and links to pro-union think tanks that unsurprisingly argue unions are a net-positive force.

A Union isn't some magical thing that solves all problems. Ultimately it's an organization that puts itself above all other organizations, which includes the businesses they work with and even their own Union Members.

Your local grocery store Union is probably actively engaged in forcing-out young people unless they fork over a portion of their scrawny wages to the Union for nothing in return.
Wonder what device contained the battery and how this fire was triggered.
> Yeah, but I don't think there are USB C razors yet.

Give it a few years :-) I have a hair clipper that uses micro-USB.

> France and Germany have different outlets (although there are plugs that work in both), and as far as I can tell, Italy has a completely different outlet from either of them.

See this:

https://www.plugsocketmuseum.nl/EuropePlugsSockets.html

In continental Europe in practice you only care about 2 standards: the German one and the French one. Those cover something like 45 out of 47 countries in Europe.

On top of that, the narrow connector actually works in all of continental Europe and for the big one, almost everything sold since at least 1 decade works with both the German and French standards.

Sucks to be Italy or Switzerland, I guess :-)

> And the UK never stopped using their own system.

The UK is still doing its own thing with many things, we don't talk about them anymore...
Indeed, that is part assumption on my part the OCR will get better with a GPT like setup, but, as I said on another comment, I have trouble believing OCR won't be one of the better applications, as "is this an A" is much more straightforward than most of what GPTs have been doing.
Sounds like unnecessary bureaucracy on top of an inherit cycle to me.
Can you explain why you posted this link-and-run? Because this is not a responsive criticism to what I wrote. And, if one reads the document you linked, the authors of that document expressly do not intend it to be responsive.

> If you plan to use your USB mic with its own headphone jack, then most of what is written here does not apply to you, and you can regard the microphone as a small, not particularly good, simple audio interface just like one of the boxes you might otherwise connect to you computer.

Yup. This is true. I recommended the Samson Q2U or Q9U in no small part because of this. It is a single-purpose audio interface and it's fine for people who want a good-sounding Zoom presence. They are also both microphones that provide some nontrivial improvement when they are used over XLR, which can rationalize later buying an interface once you've decided that you want to do so.

> If you're making a podcast, or working with some audio where the highest possible fidelity to the original sound isn't particularly important, you're probably going to be just fine with this resampling taking place. You can use your USB mic, the operating system will resample one or both audio streams, things will seem to just work, and you'll probably be happy with the results.

As it happens, I agree with the general thrust of what they're saying--for music. This is a reason why I have a very large and moderately expensive digital mixer. But they themselves are not intending to cover general-purpose, spoken-word uses, like podcasts (which I think one can reasonably expand to "teleconferences"), with their criticism.

So can you enlighten me as to your point?
I'd like to know that the value won't be absent when I build the code rather than when I execute it.
I've said this before but it was such a perfect moment that I share it whenever possible, my mother in law is one of these folks and once she said that she'd never support universal health care because there was a chance some immigrant might get free health care on her dime. She followed that statement up by mentioning she was going to Mexico for some dental work she couldn't afford.
(note: this may no longer be true - I learned this in the late 90s, and my recollection is slightly fuzzy, so take the details with a pinch of salt).

Royal Mail postcodes that people commonly use may be augmented with a so-called Delivery Point Suffix (DPS), that is an extension of the postcode that identifies a unique delivery address.

The DPS is an alphanumeric code like "1A". As such it is likely shorter than the decimal property number, and does not waste characters on things like "flat 2".

I think a postcode plus DPS should be sufficient to get a letter to a specific address.

High volume bulk mailers can qualify for discounts if they use the DPS, and apply sorting to bag up mail based on destination sorting office and the like.

Sometimes you can see the DPS printed after the postcode on your bills if you get mail from a company that has huge mail volumes.

I learned all this when I re-wrote a god-awful bulk mail sorting program called qamsort (Quick Address Mailsort) for a mobile Telco billing department. Back then Royal Mail used to give away the data needed to do the sorting. Took me a week of lunchtimes, written in Perl, ran in a fraction of the time of qamsort, and didn't cause monthly callouts at 2a.m. because of bullshit license key file expiry.

Never got used in production because people were too change averse and my boss didn't think we could sell it for enough to be worth taking on the risk, which turned out to be the right decision because Royal Mail started charging a pretty penny for access to the sorting data not long thereafter.

I was very excited to learn Perl back then. Fun times.
Nathan, Edgar Allan or Cameron?
AI art has a problem that it can reproduce the training data, or at best, still requires the training data.
Windows has long had the capability to share TCP ports between applications: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/wcf/featu...
> One possible reason, suggested by Taylor Lorenz...

Stopped reading right there.
I meant "American" as a noun ("Americans benefit from the investment in national parks") -- sure, I do too.
Apart from the excellent sibling post, the view is that data imports are hard to handle. The question of updating imported data is tricky. Most organisations who have map data think their data is the best, many times the OSM data is better than gov data in specific cases so should you overwritenthe better data just to get a complete map?

It is a tricky subject that OSM handles by not importing as much as Google.
I read all 4 parts in the pre-released version on the interviewing.io discord. Here's my feedback:

Loved how much they go into the actual interview dynamics and phrases to say, where as other resources wave away interacting with the interviewer as an implementation detail. Haven't seen that anywhere else on the web and it's super helpful. The framework is also much more fleshed out than, for instance, the HiredInTech system design guide.

However, the 12 tech ideas section was a little too dumbed down for me, though it might be helpful for someone with less experience. I also noticed a few typos (MangoDB, cache vs hash) and told them, and they said they'll fix it in the next version of the guide.

3.5/4 stars; would read again
I already said there is no cabal...
My dad was on a Medicare Advantage plan offered by a traditional "insurer", and it seemed to be worthwhile - it covered some drugs better than OG Medicare, and had fixed copays rather than anything percentage based. Towards end of life (pre-hospice) they proactively sent a doctor out a few times for housecalls, with the goal of keeping him out of the hospital. And the baseline Medicare rules reigned in a lot of the usual "insurance" company shenanigans. If he had longer term health issues perhaps Medicare plus a Supplement plan would have made sense, but as it was it seemed to work out - had two years of paying the drug coverage gap (paying a few thousand dollars is essentially table stakes for health "care" in this country). I'm not a fan of "insurance" companies in general, rather just reporting my experience.

I kept his phone number (VOIP is like $1/mo), and I still get spam calls from scammers claiming to be "from Medicare" that "have a new card" for him - shamelessly pretending to be part of Medicare itself rather than a private company that's trying to steal his Medicare payments. Many times I'll ask them if their parents know they scam old people all day, or if they would want their parents getting scammed in their old age. Most of the time they just try to get me back to the script and think they'll convert me somehow ("I am not scammer").

I'm ambivalent on medicare advantage as a concept, but the scam companies are really what needs to be reigned in. Given that the benefits of medicare advantage is supposedly better coverage, I think a great way of doing reform would be to make it so people could change back to regular medicare at any time, and doing so would end up yanking back the premiums from the private company for the past year or two, unless they had actually paid them out for bona fide services. In addition to a lot more criminal enforcement against fraud, of course.
Of your list, the party that comes to mind as a salient example most often is the state.
In the context of an issue of such global significance, given the degree of pressure a nation-state like China is going to apply, I think you are being incredibly naive to accept a single scientific paper on face value.
Here's a critique of the very same paper:-

https://zenodo.org/record/7169296#.Y0RCpkPP02y

https://changingtimes.media/2022/10/12/investigators-challen...

So which is right? You don't know, I don't know...so maybe we need to also consider other scenarios too.

And contemplating the possibility of a lab leak, when a coronavirus outbreak randomly appears just down the road from a laboratory that studies coronaviruses (of all places in the world) is about as far from "wild speculation" as you can get. It's just simple commonsense, unless you have an agenda.

Here's some other examples where "wild speculation" must have been involved:-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laboratory_biosecurity...

And I havent mentioned all the other kinds of intelligence data used to analyse such an event, like satellite photos of the Wuhan lab carpark, or peaks in mobile phone activity in the area, or there are some indications that 3 scientists at the Wuhan lab came down with an "unknown" respiratory disease a month before the first appearance of Covid.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/intelligence-on-sick-staff-at-w...
Why is the BBC even reporting on this?
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Great ideas about the adblocker, and I totally forgot about notifications!

I've turned off all notifications on my phone, aside from texts and phone calls. It really helps. I don't have my calendar on my phone. I bought and use an nice, leather bound calendar/planner now (aside from work stuff, which I have a calendar on my laptop). It works really well for me.

For things like email and Discord, I just check them on my computer. If there's some reason I need Slack/Discord on my phone, like I'm meeting up with friends who have a Discord group chat, or I'm at a conference with co-workers that communicate with Slack -- I'll download and use the app for the period of time I need it, and then delete it ASAP.

I've told my friends if they need me to reply instantly, they should text me. People often look at me funny/ask why I don't have Discord on my phone. Most will understand when I answer that I don't want to be distracted.

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A lot of this is a huge mindset shift. I'm 25 but I have (some of) the habits of a 70 year old. I think it's worthwhile to use technology (some things just require a smartphone), but you can get 90% of the benefit while avoiding most/all of the downsides if you take a step back and think about what you're doing and why you're doing it.
I’m willing to give some leniency considering this is clearly an op-ed, but not giving any sort of citations to the curriculum itself but instead saying “I read this document (?) of which 1/3 is written in a language I don’t understand… here’s my interpretation of what’s happening in classrooms!” is a little… unscientific.

> To grasp government intentions requires a little work, because every third word of the relevant documents is in Māori.

I would be totally on board with proclaiming how harmful this is, but let’s be precise about it!

I’m having some trouble tracking down actual materials for students that espouse this. Has anyone found anything? Closest I came to a government “thing” was this student encyclopedia [0] managed by a university with funding from the NZ government. It doesn’t seem too bad to me, learning about fungus and different names for stars.

[0] https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/topics/mātauranga-māori
I think a lot of comments are missing the idea that this is a single timezone, not many. The sun is always "up" on some side of the moon. Establishing a common time reference is for coordination of activities on the moon.

I imagine that the human-human verbiage with respect to sun angles might go something like, "at 2 MoonST the sun will be at a 4pm position for the rover and a 6pm position for the base. In two days, the sun will have moved about 1.7 hours later for both locations."
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I agree and it actually gets worse…

The other alternative to gentrifying a neighborhood is moving to a LCOL city and watching prices rise there. So now Americans want to keep other Americans out of their cities.

And on top of that we are so car dependent that we can’t hope to build the kind of infill housing we need because there is literally not enough road capacity and transit options == lol.

Too bad the US has some of the worst transit construction costs in the world and tons of local opposition to boot.

If I was a betting person I would bet against the US figuring this out and guess that renting for your life will increasingly become the norm even in previously LCOL cities.
Como puedo implementarlo en un proyecto ?
> But roughly, the coverage will be the same, anything medically necessary. The difference is that with Medicare Advantage you'll have an insurance company sitting at the table between you and your doctor. Then there are restricted doctor networks, copays, coinsurance, deductibles. But when you get expensive, you become a cost center, and they can delay and deny coverage.

I'm much too young to figure this stuff out now, because it will be drastically different by the time I would need to use it, but ...

If you're in regular medicare, don't you have a government agency filling the same role at the table with you and your doctor? Or does medicare not deny or delay coverage? Not all doctors take Medicare either, but I do understand it's pretty widely accepted. I've also heard something that if a doctor accepts Medicare and Medicare won't pay for a procedure, you can't pay for it out of pocket; is that accurate, or something misleading I picked up?

And doesn't the patient have to pay some portion of some procedures etc? You could get Medigap insurance for the patient pays portion, but does that have limits or judgement, or are they compelled to follow Medicare's decisions?