skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the country knows it is unfair, then they must have done an assay. If the assays exist, then the tariff cost can be apportioned fairly.

I'm baffled why you think these sorts of accommodations are not what would routinely be done if such a tariff scheme were implemented.
In this click bait only 6 short paragraphs are about scooters. Remanining 8 are about cars history.
> I can point you to countless articles, anecdotes and videos showing the exact opposite.

And yet...

> I care about the taxes everyone pays. It seems paradoxical to me to claim, for example, to care about the poor and at the same time make everything expensive through taxation.

Yes, because everybody pays the same absolute amount of income tax, and there's no provision for how much somebody earns, how well off they are, deductions for kids. Oh no, wait...

> these can be served by the private sector.

If you're dependent on your employer for health care, that's kind of servitude. Generally, that's frowned upon if you value human rights. Sure, you can always switch companies (until you get older, and then maybe you can't). And see how long your coverage lasts once you get ill. Not to mention all the co-pays.

> But the reason most companies in the US offer healthcare to their employees goes back to the time of FDR, when it was illegal for a while to compete on wages but not on benefits (if I remember correctly).

So then that's not true any more, see the "gig economy".

If you really want to save money, you could just move to the US and take the same gamble as 12% of Americans (used to be ~18% before "Obamacare"), and hope that you, your partner, and your children don't get seriously ill.

It's easy to talk shit and reason about these things if you're well off, and have never experienced these things yourself - being Danish and all.
>based on simple technical indicators

Pure voodoo
for example not being able to specify that this product weighs 80 pounds and is shipped in two separate pieces.
Shipping 1 large box costs less than shipping 2 boxes half the size and this was making us lose money on automatically calculated UPS shipping fees
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That last sentence
Yeah, I thought the article was interesting but the choice of "nursery" still has me scratching my head. I can't see where it comes from or why that word was chosen.
I wonder what will happen when an important hospital opts out of Medicare over this?
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According to this, Wall Street is still concerned:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/24/facebook-may-make-tons-of-mo...

Facebook has begun running TV ads to counter anti-Facebook sentiment:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/25/17280902/facebook-ad-abou...

They have also replaced their chief privacy officer with a former FCC chairman.
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Wow. I write: blockchain doesn't solve a single problem that hasn't been solved.

You: But you can buy drugs! Be open-minded!

So yes, ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain: https://hackernoon.com/ten-years-in-nobody-has-come-up-with-...

Oh, and yes, porn has advanced the internet. Please show me how blockchain "has driven the internet forward at critical junctures". No, buying drugs isn't it.
My suspicion is the statistic is too vague to be meaningful. I would bet that the key here is the average person in LA commutes every day, but I suspect the person in Jakarta does not commute in a way that is easily measured for the purpose of this statistic.
Since I have some Amazon stock, I recommend Amazon.
Druid also does this, with pre-aggregation of streaming data along predefined dimensions for very fast cube-based analytics. It's not a relational database though and is just now getting a SQL interface through Apache Calcite. http://druid.io/

Imply is a startup with a modern cloud/on-prem distribution of Druid with a built-in visualization and querying tool: https://imply.io/
I've seen this sentiment echoed over and over on here. I'm always wondering why people continue to order Macs. It's very rare that I see positive comments about the touchbar. The reason can't be because macos is better, since there are tons of complaints on here about that too. The hardware is definitely not the best anymore. So why are people still buying them?
I think you may have missed the quotation marks around free there ;)
This is a typical condescending blockchain enthusiast line. Stop implying that the critics don't understand how things work, it's insulting, intellectually lazy and false. When the blockchain is actually useful enthusiasts won't have to beg everyone to give it a chance.
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That is the way copyright works in general, except it isn't the way the Internet works. When I download from Microsoft, I actually am getting a secondhand copy from my ISP, who got it maybe from Microsoft, or maybe some other party in the chain between me and Microsoft.

In addition, if we are talking about general content of the Microsoft website, search engines routinely index store and cache the contents, and offer to serve it to third parties, without any intervention from Microsoft.

So no, if you post it on a website society recognizes that you are offering to allow a host of intermediaries copy and serve the content to intended end-users. Maybe this guy isn't all that sympathetic, maybe it's a little confusing because we are talking about CDs and binaries, but when you sit down and think about it this decision makes no sense.

What a colossal waste of resources.
The source of the diacritical mess in Polish is that it is a Slavic language rendered in a Latin orthography. Cyrillic is a good start for Slavic languages. Latin is a good start for Romance languages. Arabic is a good start for Semitic languages. When you start from an orthographic base of a related language, you don't need as much of these shenanigans. Persian, by the way, is in the same boat as Polish: a language with a large consonant inventory rendered in an orthography that is relatively consonant-poor.

However, the Turkic languages don't have a good start in any of these three, yet they're all written in one of them with a large number of diacritics.

From the linguistic point of view I posit, your primary concern in designing an orthography is: does this line up nicely with the phonology? If it does, congrats, your literacy rate just went up. Every digraph you add is another exception you have to explain, every sound with two letters is another exception you have to learn. My son is in kindergarten. He wrote "KUMIN" on a piece of paper and hung it on the door the other day. I asked him what it said, he told me "It says 'come in'". Was that obvious to you? It wasn't obvious to me.

So, in the grand scheme of things, I know a new Turkic orthography is probably a long shot. But wait, there is already a Turkic language with similar phonology: Turkish. Did they take the Turkish orthography and modify that? Not really. They had to come up with yet another g diacritic.

I hope they do normalize the spelling and make it phonetic. Then at least, they may improve literacy, assuming it wasn't as phonetic as it could be under the old alphabet. Because otherwise, what are they getting for what they're spending this huge amount of money replacing books, retraining teachers, fixing software, etc.?
I agree, that's why I was asking it from someone with, maybe, some analytical rational. With the reason your provided being absolutely viable, just not my experience. Anecdotally, my friends all did the calculations and planned kids, houses etc based on those calculations. So I am wondering how someone who is aware of this goes that far and then gets in a position where he has to ask for help. It is sad (I do not believe he should have been put in prison, but he should've gotten mental help right off the bat, imho), but one can ask the question. Maybe it is good to say that it is absolutely weird in my neck of the woods to have more than 2-3 kids. Everyone will look at you like you are a religious nut, so that probably plays into my curiosity.
What is your privacy worth to you? It's worth $100 / year to FB, and it probably costs you twice that much. (Assuming you live in the US.)

The average US user is worth > $100 / year now (forward looking) in advertising revenue.

Advertising works because it increases spending on products by some larger amount. Say this is 2x since there is significant risk and a lot of friction to overcome.

This means that on average, a US person spends something like $200 a year because they saw ads on FBs network.

This is simply astounding. Assuming 300m US users, this works out to $60b per year.

Kind of the opposite of free.
I don't think this is Redis, this is something that fully supports the Redis protocol.

I wouldn't be that much surprised if underneath use a custom implentation.

Said so, arguably, RDB and AOF are not a concern of the user but of the administrator so I wouldn't expect them...
> The parallel I see is that in both cases, you're introducing things into the news cycle for your own benefit.

That's just PR.

I'm tired of PG's submarine essay. Although he's got a cute hook with the concept of "the submarine," what he describes in the article is just bog standard PR. But somehow HN folks (most of whom have no direct experience with PR themselves) have come to believe, based on PG's essay, that anything involving placing a story with a reporter is some special thing called a submarine.

Anyway, yes, this fake person is an example of PR, but the reason it's worth writing about is that it's a great example of truly shitty PR. Reporters live to find out The Truth, and they hate to get lied to or fooled. Anyone who put Drew Cloud in their stories is going to be pissed off at LendEDU for a long time. Pissing off reporters and editors is generally considered to be a bad PR strategy.
That’s precisely what I was thinking.. “oh no! What broke!?”
Actually if you want a serious B2B tool set Shopify wants you to get ShopifyPlus thats 2000 per month, 12 months upfront and no free trial.
They each have their pros and cons. Meats and potatoes, they are basically the same, but each one has features that make one better than the other.
Probably much the same reason people continue to buy Windows: the software that is not supported on other platforms (or is used company/team wide).
This was a fantastic write-up. Learned a lot! Thanks for documenting your process like this!
> > It looks like the good things of Inbox are now in Gmail.

> The feature I use most in Inbox is the quick "mark done" which removes the mail from sight but allows searching for it later.

That sounds like the (ancient) Archive button..
Huge fan of RedisLabs, but I'm all for more managed Redis options.
> I like the OS, and I've never found a PC laptop to come remotely close to the sweet ergonomics of those Macbooks.

So, an interesting takedown[1] of Apple engineering was posted on /r/videos yesterday. I can't speak to the veracity, but there's some interesting claims there that if true would make me think twice before buying an Apple Laptop (specifically because of very long-standing issues and warranty shenanigans). There's a segment on the keyboard towards the second half as well.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUaJ8pDlxi8
> Although the science behind so-called A2 milk remains disputed, the entry of big companies into the market shows how changing consumer preferences create new opportunities that dairy giants can’t afford to ignore—especially as profits have been eroded in recent years by everything from almond milk to dairy-free ice cream.

Some days I want them to stop all AI research and get to work on an extension that removes all weasel words from articles.
Or maybe a backward.
As ridiculous as that sounds, does it really cost $100 per user per year to build a Facebook clone?
>This means that on average, a US person spends something like $200 a year because they saw ads on FBs network.

As much as I hate ads, this is a very poor way of understanding how advertising works.
As a law-abiding citizen, I do want you to obey the laws, even when you think they are folly. Fix the law, instead of breaking it to your advantage where you don't like it.

I want you to adhere to this principle only up to an admittedly subjective bar (e.g. circumventing a tyranical regime). But a lot of the "mischief" being described here is probably well within the threshold.
A typical Mac user on Linux; surely you jest.
Does Swift have the libraries that Python/Matlab has? My wife is doing some kind of fMRI analysis/research for her PhD and she's using Matlab. I'm an iOS developer, so I'd love it if I can get her to use Swift!
I don't think the Latin alphabet is particularly well-suited to English either. We pay for C, but it never does anything K or S don't already do. Yet, we cannot be bothered to buy letters for 'sh' and 'th', digraphs which cover two sounds apiece and are extremely common.
Isn't that just a sign that people need better housing options?
The source FAA "circularization" data (for any object above a certain height) are interesting for other purposes as well. You can also see the meteorological masts put up to study potential wind farm sites, planned tall buildings, construction cranes, radio towers, etc.

Fascinating stuff.
The worst part: As a 2016 MBP 13" owner, I cannot rely on my keyboard. The 1 and the n key fail or trigger twice sporadically. So I always carry an USB keyboard (plus adapter of course) in order to be able to really use it when I need to. Password entries with fuzzy functioning keyboards are a mess. It's a really bad experience.
> ... but they would only accept mail or fax.

It's because the USPS (and FedEx, UPS, et al.) and fax are considered "secure" methods of transmission for confidential or private information (including PHI).

E-mail is not, because it travels over the public Internet.
Is that what "persona" means now?

I am familiar with the term from usability testing/profiling, where it is a tool used internally. Pretty sure the originators of the concept there did not mean the "personas" to be presented as real people to... well, anyone at all. I don't understand them as being meant to be shared with the public at all. I don't think those who developed the concept in the field of "user experience" would take the "innovation" in the term as a compliment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persona_(user_experience)#Hist...
Somehow, even an article about dumplings is offensive.
I went from e-commerce to programming. Of course, being knowledgeable about the space, I interviewed at a lot of companies in the space.

It confirmed what was obvious as a customer. None of these companies have anyone working for them who was in the space. The founders mainly see an opportunity for disruption, which is trying to kill off an infinite hydra.

If any of them were knowledgeable of the space, they'd know that absolutely no one in e-commerce earns more than $20 per hour, even after a good 10 years in the field. Experts are cheap to pluck up. Crazy.
The overhead and transaction costs to calculate and collect the tax can't be overly burdensome. Once a year, at tab renewal time, the vehicle should be brought in for an odometer reading and the miles put one over the previous year should then be multiplied by it's weight or maximum rated hauling weight (or some formula using both) to determine the amount of tax owed.
Hmm... Perhaps I jumped the gun by linking to this. This looks like a draft of announcement to be released later (today, hopefully).
The one you link is entirely different. zzz
Wouldn't larger engines still draw more power at idle, though?
Good call, I’ll edit to clarify that.

In milk you still get natural separation: https://www.foodbusinessnews.net/articles/10654-stabilizer-o...

It’s far more pronounced in milk products mixed with something else - chocolate milk, ice cream, etc.
Shaking up big dairy would make big butter, no?
obviously I don't believe that Braun intentionally squandered Nazi resources to shorten the war, just like I don't believe Hitler was fighting Nazism from the inside out.

I a willing to believe of course that Braun's goal was scientific progress, irrespective of the role it played in the war: does/can it actually help the Nazis? or is he sabotaging the war effort? He doesn't care, he just wants scientific progress irregardless of the war, which liberates funds...
Very possibly. They perhaps simply don't have the numbers. But regardless, for anyone who has travelled, the assertion that LA is

> the most congested city in the world

is simply laughable.
The thing is, neither position is very useful (in the sense of information gain) as startup advice. You could break the rules and get killed by regulation, or you could play it safe and never have a chance to innovate.

Concepts like validated learning and kaizen are more useful IMO.
> the actual risk of driving a vehicle is astoundingly low

And what about the risk to other road users, pedestrians and cyclists, who are not encased in steel crumple zones?

Regulating driving behaviour is not just about preservation of the driver, it's also about creating an environment conducive to a functioning community. At present the bias is strongly towards the car-user ( e.g. making pedestrians wait at crossings ) but at least the principle is maintained.
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So, if not Electron apps, then what?
I'm trying to get some data on building a cross platform desktop app. It's to help devs in my company by giving a GUI for few tasks. But I don't want to suck up their RAM. What are the other alternatives that come close to electron in terms of productivity while consuming low memory?
Because the 2015 Macbook Pro Retina's were pretty damn good relative to basically anything else at the time but were in dire need of a refresh.

Everybody assumed that the refresh would take a winning formula and adjust it a little bit. Nobody assumed that Apple would completely screw up the keyboard, hose things with the touch bar, abuse people by only having USB-C ports, kill the MagSafe power, and still not offer modern processor and memory specs.

Everybody then assumed that when all these problems came out, Apple would own up and make it right. The fact that Apple is NOT doing that is finally pissing people off.
> has a lead foot

Also known as: isn't being paid-by-the-hour to make whatever trip he/she is making at the moment.
That's right. And the Gestapo arrested him at one point and were going to shoot him for not wholeheartedly working on the rockets, until he was rescued by Dornberger.

What would you do in such a situation? We all sit safely in front of our keyboards certain in our moral rectitude, but how many of us have been tested?
Cosmic collision 12bn years ago created mega-galaxy
We are in complete agreement, sorry for making my argument a bit on the terse side.
> Assuming that lawmaking systems are altruistic and incapable of folly.

As opposed to assuming all those that will individually assess and decide what rules are worth following won't diverge in "interesting" (read as dangerous and life-threatening) ways occasionally as the inexperienced, the unethical, or the just plain stupid make choices we would all rather as a society they not.
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native apps.
Every example in on the readme demonstrates that using an identifier in that position becomes destructured assignment.
Yes. I do feel like I legitimately learned, that I didn't just get some certificate that I had to jump through arbitrary hoops for.

Of course you get out of it what you put into and paying money to learn seems to be a good motivator to learn etc.
When it comes to roads, why is increasing capacity to resolve the capacity problem always automatically dismissed? I know building roads is not politically fashionable, but the alternative is to invest billions into poorly designed public transport, and (even worse) cycling infrastructure. Spending which over the course of decades barely manages to move public transport or cycling adoption by a few percent, where ever its implemented. Poor zoning regulation always seems to be a major contributor (to both transport and housing issues), but when your population increases by millions, you need to increase the capacity of your infrastructure, especially roads.

The problem is a lack of rationality. A politician that says "I'm going to spend billions on new cycle paths" is somehow going to be more popular than a politician that says "I'm going to spend billions on new roads". Even in cities where cyclists make up <5% of commuters.
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Now we just need to start arresting people for jaywalking across the sidewalk.
We're looking at the sources you came up with.
You are not correct.

Stabilizers and emulsifiers are only used in beverages made from milk (chocolate or strawberry milk) and heavy whipping creams. They are not used in normal dairy products, even homogenized ones.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk#Creaming_and_homogenizati...
this is a bad joke right?
The GGGGP (who you’re talking to) asked the GGGGGP if a country having a Latin based alphabet would really be easier for a non-speaker than another alphabet (in this case Cyrillic). I stated I only speak English for context (I can get by with Spanish and a middling amount of French, but neither at a level where I’d say proficient) as to why, yes, I would personally find a Latin based alphabet easier to search for words than one where the glyphs are very different as being able to locate said words helps with the stresses of traveling in a foreign area.

If anything, I’d say the initial statement of the limited nature of speaking a single language was off-topic. True, yes, on topic, not so sure.
Why would you say such a thing? It's simply wrong.
When I read the title, I thought it was an essay about the European Union...
It's one of the highest quality news sources in the United States and many people pay for it.
In PoS, it is a known assumption that if the majority of nodes act rationally, then so be it. This is an issue that is out of scope.

Humans can be rational or irrational. That is how they are born. So far, we can only make tools and books to prevent irrationality.
Not sure about Swift libraries, but you should definitely try Julia. It's incredibly easy to move from MATLAB to Julia.

https://julialang.org/
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That's 5MB compressed and also doesn't account for the fact that you'd also need an actual userspace of some description.
I'd be interested to hear more about this. Is there a writeup somewhere?
What private data do you need to submit to only participate in some forum?
Using pure 26-letter Latin alphabet means using multi-letter combinations to represent particular sounds and/or using same letters to represent very different sounds in different contexts. Both things feel very ugly. I am not really familiar with non-european alphabets but Č (Czech, Croatian, Latvian) looks much better and easier to read than CH (English), CZ (Polish), TCH (French) or TSCH (German, I'm not even sure I've spelled it correctly, it may happen to be even longer and more weird in German). And you can fit more in a twit this way :-) When I was a student speed-writing huge amounts of text on lectures I went even further, e.g. using Ŋ in place of NG in Eŋliš :-)
You just accused the grandparent comment of being unsubstantive. That sounds like a politically correct insult to me. All I did was applaud them for doing something well.
Why wouldn't the increased electricity demands negate most of the environmental benefits of hybrids versus similarly-sized fuel-burning vehicles? The same work is being done to the vehicle cabin, no matter whether the fossil fuels are being burned at the vehicle or at the powerplant...
I don't want to see another good cheap source of protein be demonized, the way gluten (seitan) and peanuts have been. Most people can tolerate milk well.