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> The crime rates are nearly similar among all races

This is patently false and not all crimes are the same. The murder and assault rate, for example, is tragically - and dangerously - high for blacks.

> The thing is though, police don't patrol white communities.

The thing is though, police patrol crime-ridden communities, which sadly are often black communities. Or do you think there's a massive unknown murder wave in New Hampshire that would be uncovered if only the police presence there was increased?

I'm sorry to be blunt but this kind of obfuscation of facts is extremely unhelpful and we'll never resolve societies problems by shifting the blame to 'the man' all the time.
Google have done no research on the effectiveness of their browser identity indicators, so I'm not sure where the evidence that they're not useful have come from.
Data frames in R give you the relational model with a Turing complete language. I think of it as a better SQL, at least for analytics (as opposed to transaction processing).

Besides its data structures, R is surprisingly similar to JavaScript -- it's has Scheme-like semantics but C-like syntax.

For certain problems, it's a pleasure to program in. You don't have to go through "objects" to get to your tables; you just have tables!

The examples here might give you a flavor:

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/dplyr/vignettes/dply...

R itself has a lot of flaws, but the tidyverse [1] is collection of packages that provide a more consistent interface.

FWIW I agree that more mainstream languages should have tables natively. It is an odd omission. Somehow they got coupled to storage, but they're also useful for computation.

[1] https://www.tidyverse.org/
I'm having a surprisingly difficult time finding a nuanced view of these policies. On the one hand, china is taking advantage of us and is in part rotting our our middle class and blue collar workers. On the other hand, this could spark economic turmoil. Can anyone chime in here? Or is this beyond the scope of economics? (Not to dig on the field, bit we were told NAFTA we be great, look at the poverty in Mexico as a result.)
Are you thinking of https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium ?
China will quickly run out of American exports that they can selectively (politically) tariff. In fact, they will eventually run out of ANY goods that they can tariff that are not already already tariffed much before the US does due the huge trade imbalance.
I suspect that, at least partly, that's because philanthropists can choose their battles. They don't spend money unless they can see there'll be a good outcome. They can leave the high risk problems and "lost causes" to the government. Consequently governments will always look worse even if they actually do a good job elsewhere.
That cuts both ways, so we trust the client (users have to, even if remote sites do not) and do not trust servers to take individual user data in the clear and use it wisely & fairly. This applies to Brave servers too. Flip the model.
Stop repeating this, it's propaganda.
You may have already tried it, but I find Software Engineering Radio[0] relatively technical and informative. Each episode features an interview with a single guest on a single topic for about an hour. There’s definitely interesting discussions, especially in the archives - the episode / interview with Martin Thompson (of mechanical sympathy) comes to mind.

[0]: http://www.se-radio.net/
Are you sending from where you warehouse in China? Then maybe your parcels will attract attention and get hit by the tariffs. If you are shipping from NZ then I would guess not, and maybe you even have a new found advantage compared to competitors shipping from China, assuming there are competitors in your space.
I’m less than one year into my first management role. The job often feels like the early days of my software engineering career when I was pushing code as a junior dev with an extremely high internal bar and little experience (read: had no idea what I was doing).

The experience has been fun and exciting but its a mental and emotional grind more often than not. Knew it would be difficult, but I've found the learning curve to be far steeper than I expected. Its really helpful to read some of the hard earned lessons I’ve been thinking about recently expressed so clearly (#3 and #4 especially).

Thank you for posting.
...but those taxes (theoretically) serve as disincentives from purchasing the Chinese goods, no?
So if someone prefer to solar day then do it, its just with one time zone this solar day will be different for everyone.
1) Read the article.

2) What evidence do you have that they have done "no research"? Is it no evidence? You provided no evidence, so, that's what I'm left believing. (NOTE: typing things on your keyboard and posting them to the internet _does not_ count as evidence)
There are also "partly electrified" possibility e.g. only 10% of track electrified (stations for example). Trains can recharge batteries or supercapacitators there from wire. There already are such existing light rail lines.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_electric_multiple_unit
My naive view is that a simple RFID standardization would solve that.

Together with some regulations, of course. Though, this already has to be regulated. Not just anyone can put up a "only park during certain times" sign. (Right?)
We wanted to create a routing app for bikes, which would take in consideration cliffs, dangerous streets and the likes.

With our internal team, we’ve managed to create a killer backend that would do all the hard routing stuff without issues. It was better than Google Maps in most cases!

Now, we just needed the app. We used all our money to pay a third party contractor to make the app, and they failed miserably. We never received a working prototype. We ran out of gas.

The backend still exists, in case anyone wants to give the app a shot. I might release the backend as open source. Ping me if this interests you.
The "Level of experience" bit is a favorite of the Coraline monster that pushed for this COC.

Technology is ableist by default (from "techne", skill), and should be kept esoteric until problems get fixed by competent people (instead of this essoteric nonsense that dumbs things down in the hope of including everyone, namely people that cannot program nor intend to).

There, I said it.
Creating a telegram group for this. Will share link here.
Most of my engineering managers are usually just lieutenants for the next layer up. That person brought over his/her stooge collection from their previous company or collected over the course of their career. When you see a stooge collection forming, you know it's time to go. Not addressed in the article.
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School hours are 9-3:20 where I live, so they are nowhere near in line with working hours as you need time to get to work and not many jobs finish that early. Most schools run breakfast clubs and after school clubs as a result.
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Not yet, but I haven't done a new build recently - I think that China's aiming more at farm imports rather than chips so I'm probably OK (besides China let's me claim back any taxes I pay when I re-export a manufactured product)
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There are third rail systems that only switch the power on when a train is in range:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-level_power_supply
The problem left is that it's likely still somewhat (or much?) inferior to a lithium battery EV - or if there a good comparison? Energy efficiency is definitely much reduced.
One example of this is the Trump administration recently giving $4.7B in welfare to soybean farmers, as China raised tariffs on soybeans, something which the US exports to them - that, and farmers being part of Trump's electorate

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-markets/new-u-s-ta...
I have a hunch that as cars get more sophisticated, they also need to have more sophisticated treatment. The reason I leave my car out to have a foot of snow on it is because it works anyway. If the car wouldn't actually work without the windscreen clear and sensors ice-free, I would either use a garage every night or have a less sophisticated car. And I suspect that once autonomous vehicles get good enough, people will actually want to ride in them - so will keep them indoors more than they do with their normal cars. Effctively then, the rugged cars have become machines we treat like fragile fighter jets.

Still, for a wide range of weather conditions the autonomous car will just say a big NOPE and refuse to drive anywhere. Which is why it must always have manual controls. The autonomous car that could take me to the city through the worse conditions I experience every winter, won't have to take me in it because that car is probably clever enough to do my job as a software developer too.
Crazy that they turned down a $100M+ offer from Google in their first year.
Also mud spray and other road debris covering sensors can be solved with hardware (wipers, sprayers etc.) so it's probably not at the top of Waymo's long list of difficulties.
In Australia under our consumer laws the retailer cannot force you to go to the manufacturer. You can if you choose, but they can't force you to.
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You clearly don't undererstand the "facts" you're presenting or, more likely, you are being intentionally dishonest.You're comparing data from [1] which is clearly labeled 2012-2015 and using that to argue about the drug policy for the last 50 years.

If you really want to understand the "facts" about America's drug policy and the last 50 years of criminal policy there is a lot of academic literature written by some of the best historians out there. You can start with [2] for example.

[1] https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/rhovo1215.pdf

[2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/680751.The_Marijuana_Con...
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I'm curious if there's any examples of this ever happening. Some company keeps ignoring a contractor's requests for a couple of years and ends up owing ~$20 million on a thousand dollar debt.

But like you, I'm pretty skeptical. Probably wouldn't hold up in court.
The goal of the tariffs is to make Chinese produced products less competitive against American produced products. For instance you sell widgets. You can take advantage of abysmal labor conditions in China to have these widgets manufactured and produced for $70 there. Or you can have them produced in America by laborers who work in much more pleasant conditions and are legally obligated to higher wages for $100. For a company that's just interested in maximizing their bottom line, it's not much of a decision. But then imagine tariffs suddenly mean the costs become comparable. Now you have a strong economic incentive to use American labor.

Completely free trade sounds great on paper, but in reality it basically just ends up rewarding the lowest common denominators of the world in labor conditions. $1000 iPhones are produced in factories in China where each worker earns several dollars per day and live in on-site dormitories literally surrounded by so-called 'suicide nets' to try to deter impulsive suicides caused from both living and working in such conditions. In the US we'd never accept such conditions, yet in the process of trying to improve the standard of labor in the US we ended up causing companies to simply fire their American workers, and then shift all their labor overseas -- sending trillions of dollars in incentives to the countries with the worst labor standards on this planet. That this hasn't been as much of a political issue to now emphasizes how much both parties in establishment politics are indentured to corporate interests.
The consensus among economists is that it's a terrible idea which will hurt everyone. Often this sort of trade war is a precursor to real war.

Trade is not a zero sum game.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-02/economist...
Ask HN: Best book or resource to REALLY grasp CSS?
What was the book or resource that really made you grasp CSS in a way that you proactively know what will happen when you change random position or display attributes on elements and that enabled you to design pages without too much trial and error?

Background: I was primarily a backend developer but in the last 3-4 years I do full-stack development, first with angular now with vuejs on the frontend. I always use CSS "framework" on the frontend like Bootstrap and usually buy some theme when I start a project and start from there. I was always able to get the look that I wanted when I changed stuff in CSS but it was always with many trials and errors, usually trying stuff in the browsers inspect window until I get things right. I am sick of that so I would finally really like to properly learn CSS.

The end result that I like to achieve is that I would be able to not use CSS framework (maybe just something like tailwind css) and easily create and maintain responsive page designs. I am primarily interested in pure CSS stuff, not how to organize it, that is a broader topic especially if you use SPA framework, pre/post processors, modules, etc.
I had the same reaction, I was wondering why NYT was writing an article baout GCs...
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Lol you idiots downvoting. I learned this fact from a law professor/attorney. You don't like it so you are downvoting? Lol. Go look it up on wikipedia, but I think maybe if your are getting this emotional about a fact I learned in a law class, then wikipedia may be too advanced.
thanks, but I still don't get: aren't most allergies due to hereditary factors?
If so why would they be cured by resetting the immune system?
No personal attacks, please, regardless of how annoying a comment is.
But the US has a trade surplus over China in Services exports into China. Presumably those will get tariffed.

Also, US made products that relied on chinese intermediate products will go up in price, passed on to consumers.

Those same US products will not be export competitive in other countries (because input costs increased with tariffs) and thus China can now export to places that US used to export to.

Trade is not that simple and usually needs negotiations to be win-win.
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shipping from China is far far cheaper than shipping from NZ (or almost anywhere else) it would almost double the cost of my products - NZ shipping costs would be higher than US tariffs - >90% of my customers are NOT in the US

The US is also applying tariffs against other countries too.
Yeah, frontend work is routinely under estimated. You are not the first.
I wish more companies did this. We have such a hard time with this in our culture. Even at a company that has a good IC track, it's usually fake. The person eventually gets perceived as expensive and is laid off.
Unfortunately, the electrolysis of water is not efficient enough to produce enough H2 on an industrial scale at the moment. Most H2 is produced by steam reforming of gas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_production https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_reforming
That sounds really impressive. Definitely interested in seeing what you've got (and an open source release would be cool)!
Exactly! If we can improve the methods of generating hydrogen, fuel cells have the potential to act as versatile, phenomenally efficient, dirt-cheap batteries, without all the issues of limited metals and dirty production - Being a better battery is a huge deal.
meanwhile other recent tariff deltas available here: https://www.usitc.gov/tariff_affairs/tariff_databases.htm
It's just a reflection of who's on the site.

Reddit is mostly full to the brim of dudes.
Cool domain name though
Self driving cars also have prior experiences and a sense of what other drivers are doing and why. That's sort of the point of machine learning.

In fact, they will have a lot more prior experience than any human driver in the world.
Ask HN: How should open-source projects written in Java be structured?
I recently made a small library in Java and pushed it to GitHub. I was wondering if there is a recommended way of structuring such projects in Java. (Here's the link by the way - https://github.com/calebwin/quill)
What it gains is the ability to include some proprietary bits, including their branding, the extension system, and the option to send telemetry back.

Just the same reason that the chrome binary isn't open source. Though MS doesn't make it's money on personal information, so the telemetry part is much more restricted.
I think it's more that the tariffs apply to the US importers, not to the manufacturers (unless they are the same people) - when you buy something from me (or Aliexpress for that matter) you are the importer, when you buy an iPhone Apple is the importer
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You seem to assume China will not retaliate, but they already have.
I was with you right up until you mentioned Trump.
Please keep race war and ideological flamewar away from this site.
It’s unclear to me how solid the Chinese economic position actually is. It’s possible that their high debt load will mean that they have to fold very quickly.

On the other hand, as an authoritarian regime they can handle much more political pain. You have to hurt China badly enough for them to fear revolution before politics alone will break them.

In the other direction, all China has to do is make republicans deeply unpopular before the next election. This would reinforce democratic chances, and increase the likelihood of Congress putting a stop to this whole trade war.
I never understood why this is such a binary discussion, either wintertime, or +1 hour for summer.

Why not settle right in the middle, +0.5 hour = EU time :)
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Chefs willing to work 6 days a week instead of the 4 everyone else is doing?

I am not anti the concept but it isn’t going to work if it becomes leisure class vs service worker class
I use VPNs like PIA all the time to leech movies from nflx.

The trick is to change your user agent string and make it totally dynamic. Seems to throw off their models.
Personal swipes will get you banned here, so please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't post like this.
I don't find the articles' arguments compelling at all, hence my statements contrary to it. Many of the arguments against EV, including in this article, are circular and depend on appeal to authority towards companies who don't like them.
File sharing community should adopt and thrive on this technology. Viva!
Both autonomous cars and autonomous aircraft (likely) have manual backups. So the goal is to be 99% autonomous, or something like that.
That works for flying because the failures are probably more far between. The planes are very well maintained, the route is clear from other planes etc.
For a car, reaching 90, 95 and 99% is really difficult because of other drivers, bad weather, ice covered sensors, higher risk of mechanical failures.
I agree making a 100% autonomous plane that needs to land safely in an emergency is probably more difficult for the reason you mention.
The legal guys are more gangster than the cowboys who made up the industry just a few years ago.
Taken to a logical extension, this is also why you shouldn't give most perks. No?

Joke I always have is that folks will get actively pissed if you take away free coffee/soda. To the point that they will look to leave. If you never even offer it, though, they'll just complain about it.
The people enacting these policies (Trump admin) argue that what we currently have is not trade, given how the Chinese have manipulated the markets, it is a one sided agreement. Free trade requires both sides not place restrictions on the others. Would you say this is true? Sometimes I feel like economic theory is like psychology, it seems real, seems like it has truth, but counter examples are abundant?
Netflix is the problem. Nobody is forcing them to implement a VPN check.

Rights holder want this. Netflix just delivers.
Internet psychiatric insinuation breaks HN's civility rule. Please keep personal swipes out of your comments here.

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Well boys, looks like it'll be another couple of decades
Partially I agree. On the other hand there are alot of cases of smaller companies not paying social security and health insurz for there employees in Germany despite having universal health care.
It's hard to imagine you actually believe that maturity and experience are not related to job performance. Regardless, it might be helpful to think about experience as a hiring heuristic, like having a college degree: you certainly don't need it to be a good programmer, but having it is positively correlated with skill (in a way that is rationally causal, unlike, say, race). Recruiting, screening and hiring are massively expensive. Screening every inexperienced candidate who wants a senior position to find the rare gem would have an outsized cost.
I think a lot of people are missing the point. A higher demand for hydrogen will incentivise companies to improve the production methods for hydrogen, hopefully with a more conscious effort to keep it green, i.e. Improving electrolysis methods.

Nobody is claiming that all hydrogen is greener than diesel, the point is hydrogen has the potential to be vastly greener than diesel, and the best way to explore that in a capitalist society is to increase the demand for it.

A small disclaimer, I know nothing about hydrogen.
This breaks the site guidelines. Could you please read them and follow them when posting to HN?

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Even if China retaliates (more than they already have), their economy is way more dependent on physical exports to the US than the reverse. I see more downside risks being exposed to EM than US markets… though I do see US markets catching up soon, esp companies with large exposure to EM revenue flows.

This has been a good year to be short EM and swing in and out of volatility.
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I'm arguing about drug policy for the last 50 years?

I disagreed with two false statements of fact: "The crime rates are nearly similar among all races" and "They also let white people off the hook".

I said nothing about drug policy.
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The 25% is additional. So for the goods I import I still pay the old tarriff schedule but now I have a 25% line item tarriff that is additional to the existing tariffs.
I still prefer inexpensive sponge based keyboards.

Everything else just hurts my wrists. Too much tactile feedback.
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It doesn't affect a lot of US consumers, but it will affect a lot of US retailers.

Let's say after 2019-01-01 I want to purchase a $500 gadget that's being hit with the 25% tariff. I can either:

1. Buy it from Amazon or a local retailer and pay $500 x 1.25 x 1.085 (state and local sales tax) = $678

2. Buy it online from AliExpress/BangGood and pay $500 + shipping
You probably care about moderation more than Reddit C-level execs do.

Do you think you would personally feel more, or less, comfortable than Steve Huffman about hosting content from a hate group on your servers? I don't mean he intentionally supports it, but he tolerates it.

> unpaid volunteers

That's probably related to why your task is impossible. Reddit's valuation is $2 billion.
I think it is because I assume that highway driving in good weather is a solved problem. I'm a skeptic so I also belong to those that believe that "complex" driving in bad weather is a nearly impossible problem to solve. So the interesting part of this discussion isn't "will cars have useful autonomous features?", but "will we see completely autonomous cars?". The second part is key because that is what things like autonmous taxis require.