skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The economic problems of Puerto Rico go way beyond the Jones Act. As long as your item is lightweight, you can turn a reasonable profit here - all the Viagra made for the North American market is made here, and other pharma companies have strong representations. CooperVision sells something like 3 billion pairs of contact lenses a year, made in their plant in Juana Diaz.

So it's a disadvantage - and one that has absolutely no relevance to the issues of the twenty-first century and that should long since have been retired (and arguably never passed, or had exemptions made for American islands) - but it's not a showstopper.

No, the real bar to a solid, stable local economy has simply been the ready availability of mainland capital. Anything you see the hedge funds doing in the Midwest was prototyped here first. The entire development strategy of offering tax rebates to relocate manufacturing was invented by Puerto Rico - the idea was that those manufacturing centers would lead to local management and a robust secondary technical and supply economy. This never happened - the mainland companies brought their own managers and continued buying from their established suppliers on the mainland. Puerto Rico was a convenient source of well-trained but very inexpensive labor.

There's a lot of detail. I can't claim to have done more than scratched the surface. But mere abolition of the Jones Act wouldn't be enough, sadly. Not that it will happen regardless.
You mean crap like an antenna around the circumference of the phone so if you hold the phone in the normal way, you attenuate the cell signal?
What a strange phenomenon. So essentially Trump is subsidizing the Chinese government.
You can only use his strategy if you do the work on the short side and come up with good ideas. That's what his actual edge is. He doesn't have to disclose short positions like he does long positions in 13-F filings, so you only know what he's short if he's willing to talk about it publicly.

Being a short seller is like playing a game on hard mode. The bias of most market participants, sell-side analysts, self-promoting CEOs, and frauds are to the long side. Being net long is the only way to stay in the game over decades like Chanos has.

Chanos has been short TSLA for 4 years, and that's only been possible because the fund is net long [1]. The only reason he probably hasn't shut the short-only fund is because clients who allocate to it are probably hedging other long exposure they have allocated to other managers.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv3YhMzS0z4
You can serve ads without unsolicited harvesting of PII.
Key point: I was trying to explain this to someone who had no idea of what a short is. I didn't want to muddy the issue with complex descriptions of equity, dividends etc.

But if you think of equity as having a value other than derived from the market, then 'expensive' might still have applicability here.

It's been a long time since I've used this though.
They will apparently collect $7.5B from steel tarrifs from everyone by the end of the year. That 10% is going up to 25% in January and China has no real counter to that since they’ve already tarriffed all our exports including some which really harm them. And trump has threatened another 267B.

3% is a substantial amount but I doubt it’ll be close to that much. Supply chains will move to avoid tarrifs, parts will be shipped to Brazil or Mexico and then into the US. Or from China to Vietnam etc. I highly doubt it’ll get to 3% but if it does and the economic impacts of that thus far are fairly minimal, that would be significant. Makes up for the entire tax cut deficit and more when accounted for dynamic scoring but again it’s still monumentally dumb to count on tariffs for revenue which Trump has been stupidly bragging about. I do completely support Trump’s trade war thus far however with the end goal of fair and reciprocal trade and limiting China militarily through the economy.
It seems like a "repairative spite" game theory move for funding. Cause more tax loss to the mainland when neglected to solve the problem one way or another.
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One of the criticisms of this directive is that only YouTube et al can afford to comply. If that's true, surely the big US companies will be delighted?
Yes, for now. I don't think essay-reading software is up to speed. ;-)

My preference would be for my reader to display every document in my own preferred format. This would be the case if essays were submitted in plain text format, for instance. In that case, the only formatting requirement would be something to delimit paragraphs.

That was the dream of the original HTML. It wasn't supposed to be a graphics rendering language. Your browser was supposed to format a document according to your preferences, or even read it to you if you're blind.

What's really happened is that teachers have dropped paper-based format requirements such as inches of margin, as they get more comfortable with computers. Today, my kids use Google Docs almost exclusively.
Peter Norvig, "Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle"[1] by constraint propagation.

[1] http://norvig.com/sudoku.html
I was always confused by page requirements, which could be trivially gamed. I always thought that word-count requirements were a much better metric.
What do you need a blockchain for? Blockchains are necessary when you need:

Proof of publication
Trustless time stamping
Trustless transaction execution.
What do you feel is missing from the system keyboard on iOS?
> Assumption: Trump wants fair trade.

Invalid Assumption: Trump has any understanding of cause-effect.

This is China's problem, right now. Trump doesn't have a specific purpose, so there is no pain point you can drive back at. China should have just tariffed some meaningless stuff, rolled out the propaganda machine, and just let it go.

Never wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
Assuming they update soon enough I suppose. I find using the browser window for Slack is easier, the main browsers I use let you pin tabs so it's even easier, plus I can put a darker theme on Slack, so sick of the bright white background.
Pegasus, which can hack a smartphone with a text message, is spreading globally
Every president has declared the ICJ irrelevant. The Pentagon would send tanks to the White House if a President so much as hinted at accepting ICJ jurisdiction. And in any event, the U.S. doesn't dispute the usefulness of the ICJ or its jurisdiction over other countries, it just disputes the usefulness of the U.S. being subject to ICJ jurisdiction.

By contrast, the WTO deeply matters to the wealth and security of the U.S. economy. But much like NATO, Congress is willing to call Trump's bluff.

[EDIT: I confused ICJ with ICC. My bad.]
This is referred to as gardening leave in the UK:

> Garden leave describes the practice whereby an employee leaving a job – having resigned or otherwise had their employment terminated – is instructed to stay away from work during the notice period, while still remaining on the payroll. [...] Employees continue to receive their normal pay during garden leave and must adhere to their conditions of employment, such as confidentiality, at least until their notice period expires.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_leave
You're providing an emotional response to a logical appeal.
The guy in the cubical next to me made a comment along the lines of "security is always inconvenient and hard" earlier today. And he's just expressing a widespread attitude, but I think it's not (or at least doesn't need to be) always true. If we do it right, we can make simple systems built from the ground up on fundamentally secure principals.

Example: Think of the simplicity and security of a cryptocurrency transaction as compared to a traditional bank. The crypto transaction is so much simpler, easier, and much much more secure.

I work in a bank, and there are so so many moving parts all with a myriad security weaknesses all chained together to make a transaction happen. First there's the web portal where the customer initiates the transaction. This is HTTPS which has well known flaws and so many things that could go wrong. Then his transaction goes into a SQL DB in the bank intranet, could be attacked hundreds of ways, then scripts process it into an ACH file, encrypt it with PGP, and SFTP it to the Fed. Those PGP keys were exchanged through unencrypted email, and the SFTP password was exchanged over the phone. Then the Fed uses a similar process to send it on to the destination bank, each step adding additional weak points.

The cryptocurrency transaction, on the other hand, is a well defined mathematical problem with no ambiguity, few variables, and a few easy concepts to understand. Yes, there are a handful of things that could go wrong, but they are well define and well understood. In comparison to the bank transaction, the whole thing is just so simple, beautiful, and easy.
I haven't fully through this through, but at a naive level it seems to me like the U.S. has the upper hand. Less trade between the two countries means U.S. consumers pay higher prices on non-essential items. But the impact on the Chinese is much more significant: people will lose jobs.
I'm sure the trees which are not paper, due to the author's misfortune of finding no other publisher, are applauding the novel's inclusion.
They are tagging so much code with text, that i'm sure they have something groundbreaking.
Qanon is trying to trick Facebook’s meme-reading AI
How Can I Take My Coding Skills from Intermediate to Expert?
I started coding about 4 years ago but I feel like I'm in a bit of a rut lately. I understand the basic building blocks perfectly, but higher level concepts, for example, abstracting the database away through an interface layer so that we may achieve proper unit testing in Go, are much harder for me to figure out. I understand WHY I need to do this, and I understand what is going on on a high level, but I get a bit lost when it comes time to implement. All the unit testing examples out there show examples of how to unit test a function that squares an integer. That has zero real world benefit to me. How would I unit test an http handler func that is the entry point for a RESTful API? I need to do authentication, database access, and return some JSON data. How do I keep the test as one "unit" when I need to do all of these things?

I feel like there are some intermediary steps or knowledge that I am lacking, where a more senior engineer would be able to figure out how to do unit testing in a real world app based on the squaring function alone. Again, this is just a singular example, but the theme is pretty consistent across any higher level programming challenge I come across.

There are plenty of tutorials out there about how to learn PHP (yuck) or JavaScript for newbies, but there are surprisingly few resources for people interested in becoming experts. I'm the only technical person at my job currently, so asking senior engineers for help really isn't an option. Where do I go to fill these gaps in my knowledge? Are there other engineers out there that felt the existence of a "skills chasm" that they had to cross? How did you do it?
Autistic? Really?

Looking beyond that, it would be nice if you had engaged with the GP post instead of talking past it. Most of your post seems to back up the summary there.

Like, "makes it possible for google to control the monetarization"...in what way? It always comes up in these threads that you can include any ad network in AMP pages, but it always comes up again.

> their plan of changing how URLs work

Their non-specific plan that displaying URLs in the location bar needs work?
Inside the fake science factory
> using developer tools to sift through page code and extract Instagram images of bikini models

why were you doing such a sexist thing?
It's a bit hard for me to reconcile "twenty percent of executed volume on [Coinbase's] platform was attributable to its own trading" with "[Coinbase] does not serve as a market maker that holds bitcoin".

As far as I know, Coinbase has no investment vehicle which uses discretion to speculatively move into and out of individual cryptocurrencies.

Instead, they sometimes collect their commissions in cryptocurrencies, and they offer an index fund. To the extent they'd need to convert those commissions to fiat to cover other expenses, or acquire/discard coins for the index fund, those activities necessarily require buying/selling at market, but offer limited opportunity for manipulation.

If the "20% volume" is from these necessary activities, it's not so concerning, and (for example) forcing them to use someone else's market for these activities would be silly.
Great example of a modern PHP codebase!
Is this a case of mismanagement or over-estimation of market size (note-taking)?
> A bookstore relies on having enough copies available at every store

The bookstore syndicate could collaborate with a third-party, like alibris.
This is also known as a "galley kitchen" similar to those found in the galley of ship:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galley_(kitchen)
That is like 99th on a list of 100 of PR's problems. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/18/broken-bonds-wall-streets-ro..., poor access to capital/need for capital after Maria, and an apathetic (if not antagonistic) administration are absolutely worse right now.

How much would you really estimate is wasted above what would be paid for non-US flagged ships? How would a race to the bottom in terms of flag-of-convenience destinations be detrimental to the long term interests of the US shipping/shipbuilding industries? Would repealing it have any security impacts? Who would benefit most from it.

I don't expect you to answer those, but they are all complicated questions and worthy of better discussion than this.
I haven't met many urbanites who would deny that cheap and reliable public transport also is the backbone of any large urban area, precisely for this reason.
Apologies - in this context cryptocurrencies would definitely make more sense.
There already exists dedicated infrastructure for cyclists. It's called roads. Just need to get cars off of them.

I'm joking just as much as the people saying that bikes don't belong on roads are.
I too appreciated his style of candor at times. I hope that he is able to find a way to keep being Linus while also not resorting to personal attacks, and I applaud him for reflecting on his actions.
Trump wants an excuse to pull out of the WTO.
This only works with (relatively) newer books that have digital versions. I have a few books that are only available as physical copies, I love them and don't want to give them up.
I'm getting ripped off: inside Ticketmaster's price-hiking bag of tricks
You can kinda disable gifs by going to preferences > Messages & Media and unchecking "Show images and files from linked websites". Doesn't get them all but it really helps.
It nicely deferred the giveaway phrase 'intelligent design' until very late. But they call evolutionary biologists 'evolutionists', and find that this new model refutes the whale fossil series (creationists really hate the whale fossil series). And, as always, it is a model without a mechanism. Because they already know the mechanism. God did it.
Funding an account usually takes a few business days unless you use a wire transfer, which has a cost. By the time you open and fund the account, it may be too late to execute the trade.
I always recommend using the browser because you're likely to have one open anyway, so you might as well reuse that (and save resources) than run another one.
How is it not cross-platform? It does run on "both Windows and macOS" which seems to be the usual definition.
Yes, the bottom of the cross bracings are underwater on the near side and well above the surface on the far side.
Anybody try on a 5s?
I agree with your sentiment, the car industry in its current state is getting pretty ugly.

I choose to avoid these trends entirely, and I'm happy to keep driving my 2.4L naturally aspirated, 5 speed manual, touchscreen-less shitbox until it dies.
Parts are still cheap and it's easy to work on.
> It's a matter of objective fact? Show me the experimental data...

You're looking in the wrong place. It is objective precisely because it comes from logic, not experiment. The question is not "which system better optimizes for a certain set of subjective preferences" but rather "does this act inherently justify this response". That is true only if the response is proportional—similar to the original act both qualitatively and quantitative—because the perpetrator of the original act cannot then argue that their action was right and proper while simultaneously claiming that the same action is wrong when someone else does it to them. Either they allow that the response is acceptable, or they admit that they were wrong to behave as they did. However, you cannot make that argument if the response is non-proportional, such as the case when responding to speech with force.

> Sorry, but claiming the American legal interpretation is "objective fact"...

I'm not making any claims about the American legal interpretation, but rather the principles of natural law which underpin the best parts of it. There is still a lot which the American legal system gets wrong on that score, including that travesty of a ruling made under duress to justify suppressing political protest against the draft (the infamous "shouting fire in a theater" case).

> Or, say, planning a murder.

The problem with that is not the planning, but rather the intent to actually murder someone, which is obviously not merely a matter of speech. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with planning a murder, per se; mystery-novel authors do it all the time. If you lead people to reasonably believe that you actually intend to commit the murder, however, then you shouldn't be surprised if they respond accordingly in self-defense against an imminent threat of irreversible harm.
Interesting as we have basically spent 2.5 years building a Frankfurt kitchen without the humans...
Product management is only fun from the outside looking in. You're going to be dealing with a lot of egos, appeals based on things that look a lot like reality, and minutiae.

Sales is just like that, but at least you'll be making a commission. If you're driving large sales in a b2b space, you'll be pushing a lot of product changes anyway (because clients demand them).
> Stupidly inflexible paper length requirements

Paper (or whatever) length requirements (and even voluntarily maintained traditions like when people write many-screens-long articles on Medium or a whole book when the whole valuable idea can be perfectly expressed in a twit or two) is among the things I hate the worst in this world. IMHO shorter (more concise) is better. Writing long papers has always been a huge pain for me and I've always been using dirty hacks like increasing fonts, interline spacing, margins, adding more pictures etc, IMHO inserting more unnecessary text is a much more evil thing to do and papers that are made actually long this way are a pain to read and a time waste.
Well, well.
Bookshops see it as a book problem, the author see it as a text problem.
Kadın şoför vites değiştirir gibi el freni çekti
The magic of 9
The digits of any multiple of 9 add up to 9 or a multiple of 9.
> But mere abolition of the Jones Act wouldn't be enough, sadly.

I never said that the abolition of the Jones Act would be sufficient. But I am saying it's necessary; as long as the Jones Act is in full force, Puerto Rico has no hope at a stable economic future.
The TPM simulator is created by Google, which uses vTPMs in "Shielded VMs", https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/googl...

> Shielded VMs use a combination of firmware-based UEFI Secure Boot and vTPM—a virtual Trusted Platform Module, which can generate and store "sealed" encryption keys. Those keys are used for Secure Boot, which ensures that the VM will only run authenticated software, and for Measured Boot, which checks against previous baselines of the virtual machine's configuration ... Both Secure Boot and Measured Boot can help defend against rootkits that might execute during the operating system startup, as well as kernel-level malware ... making it difficult if not impossible to gain access to the contents of a virtual machine's drives unless the operating system boots in a "known-good" state. If the VM's operating system, boot loader, or firmware image is compromised, the system won't reboot—so an attacker won't be able to decrypt the virtual disks.

Here's a talk by the author of the Intel TPM2 Software Stack (TSS) used in the simulator, https://www.platformsecuritysummit.com/2018/speaker/tricca/

> TPM 2.0 became an ISO standard in 2015, a Windows 10 security requirement in 2018 ... This talk will cover Intel’s collaboration ... to create a set of usable APIs. Design and craftsmanship of APIs with intuitive, predictable behavior can increase developer adoption and the likelihood of critical infrastructure functioning as intended
The company is very clearly mismanaged.
When they were invented, they did what they were supposed to - in 1943, nobody had ever done this. In 1943, the mean annual income on the island was $142. The economic boom that followed on the tax incentive plan made Puerto Rico's mean income the highest in Latin America, built was was, in 1972, one of the finest electric grids in the world, and led among other things to an automobile-per-capita rate that's even higher than the rest of the United States.

Unfortunately, the heirs of the architects of those policies had no idea why they worked. So as world economic conditions changed, they just doubled down on the cargo cult, and stagnation followed. Then Congress decided it wasn't fair to prop up large businesses who were taking advantage of cheap labor, and yanked the rug out from under the whole scheme in 2006.

So far, nobody has had a good answer to that.
Given that phone OSes are guest VMs on an unreachable host and managed from a centralized authority with push-permissions, this shouldnt be surprising.

Is this news because of how easy it was accidentally rolled to production and applied to more people?
Believe me, Trump doesn't want "Fair trade" when your slogan is "Make America Great Again".

Corporate America's welfare is around 100 billion as said by many rather partisan think tanks... but in reality, its trillions of dollars when you figure in realized costs such as below poverty level minimum wages, the collapse of pension and retirement programs, the exploding costs of for-profit healthcare.
Their lawyers can only advise them to follow the law to the letter, and try to mitigate the fallout when they inevitably just do whatever they want to do, with the expectation that they won't get caught.

These in Puerto Rico aren't the Davos-level or Bilderberg-level rich people. These are the ones who can maybe buy one congressperson, rather than all of them. They are rich enough to fleece a little, but not rich enough to hit back very hard.
Cooper from Kong here.

No HTTPS support in https://docs.konghq.com/hub/kong-inc/forward-proxy/ yet - we hope to add it in the future.
The pins are permanent?
That would only be a headline if the VPN software were somehow camera-specific, which seems unlikely. That fact alone is a benefit to using general-purpose security tools: more eyes on it, making a zero-day that much less likely (and a fix that much faster).

Another benefit is that updating a single instance of firewall or VPN software is much easier than updating dozens of cameras. Of course, if there are more VPN clients than cameras, that ceases to be true.

Adding such a layer is also just a kind of defense-in-depth. With the instant example, both the cameras and the VPN software (or firewall) would have to have vulnerabilities, at the same time.