skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And the US will quickly run out of goods that they can selectively tariff that will not immediately and harshly hurt the broad public in a clearly visible way. You already see that in this recent round - Apple gadgets being exempted from the tax is not a random coincidence.

The problem is: the entire US consumer population is addicted to electronics, and the only place where modern consumer electronics can be manufactured at scale today is China. Not because of cheap labor (there are actually way cheaper places today), but because the complex production chains necessary to even get all the parts to a single place for final assembly are all door-by-door in places like Shenzhen. Even if there was a serious intent to move these production chains to the US to escape tariffs, it will take multiple decades to do so and will require extremely high up-front investments. And nobody will start such an endeavor during a phase of special tariffs put in place by a president basically for personal reasons, without serious support even from his own party - a president that will eventually stumble over its own foolishness and thus probably not even reach the end of his theoretical 8-year "lifespan" (which, again, would not suffice when we're talking about a process that spans decades).

So, effectively, the US presidents' capability to impose tariffs end when he arrives at consumer electronics goods. Because his reality distortion field is not capable of making his followers just accept prices of iPhones, Apple Watches, TVs and countless other "Made in China" gadgets to rise by 25%. The good thing about a bunch of mindless zealots on Twitter and Facebook is, after all, that they hugely depend on smartphones, computers and cheap plastic routers, and the good thing about Fox News addicts is that they can't watch Fox News without a TV set.
That's my opinion. For me this protectionism could be a good thing environmentally, and even socially if the tariffs income are well spend. For instance if we spend this tariffs in a UBI we could use this to change the economy to a more efficient and local economy.
As a fellow non north american, that seems quite fitting.
18 hours does not work. But 10-11 is ok, as long as it is not 5 days per week. The trick is to have a long pause in the middle, like 1 hour for lunch and small walk (perhaps to a nice restaurant nearby).

This is how it works in Moscow. A person comes to work at 9, has a long lunch/pause from 2 to 3 and then leave at 8. As an added bonus late in the evening traffic jams are reduced and the underground is no longer overcrowded so it is faster to get home.
They were pretty silly in the first place. All it did was emphasise what a giant scam the CA business is: either all certificates have undergone meaningful validation, or none have, having higher and lower grades is .. broken.
I find it funny and scary that the US think they can win a trade war. The only outcomes I can see is 1) China wins 2) it ends in war because why the hell not. Everything the US does ends in war.
Because it's below the $800 minimum on which import duty is required for a parcel imported by a single person on a single day. So Amazon would have to pay the duty on whatever they import, and you wouldn't.

It does become a loophole if the duty is much higher than the price of shipping.
A machine that just distinguishes it then does nothing is useless. I want the browser to enforce it.

EV doesn't have the user distinction benefit of a blue checkmark if no major websites use it. No one notices EV. Twitter randomly switches between EV and non-EV, but no one gets worried.
Tangental, but the mobile experience is terrible: https://i.imgur.com/yW4VZNV.png
How can a lone engineer scale their impact after senior? I literally think the career ladder flatlines there because business value flatlines there too. It be nice if companies had work above it but I think it's hard.
this feeling made me realise how clocks and time influence our daily lives, and not care so much for such accurate timekeeping. i think most people would never need to be confronted with such things. it should be transparent to the user so to say... if some business or government processes require it, which i doubt unless they were constructed in a specific way to fit it, they can use their own time juggling devices for that. :s

people are so obsessed about time, all the time! it just cause them unneccesry stress. maybe if these kind of things are changed, people will start to look in other areas how time is affecting them and also make adjustments there to live more free and relaxed.

now i know some things are stuck with specific times, public transport, work times etc., but even there you can make your life so that you don't need to worry about it or have it influence you. i usually get up far before i need to leave for work, so i dont need to worry about catching the train or not, i can just get the next one, or the one after that. subsequently i also don't ever need to worry about that start time of work, because that's tied to the same mechanism. it saves tons of stress in the morning, which makes all days feel much much more relaxed even though i'm doing the same things and not missing time sensitive appointments (not to cause others stress because of their obsession of time!).

time is a funny thing, and one needs to be careful how to use it. it's arguably just a construct of our imagination, so don't let it be a nightmare ;D
i am also interested
You are not paying for customer service, you are just becoming a paid customer[1]. And then you can compare which email provider treats its paid customers best. For me, the best treatment is when a product is so well thought-through, that I never need to contact anyone about it.

[1] https://drive.google.com/settings/storage
We are currently running a $375 billion dollar trade deficit with China. That means each year they receive a net gain of $375 billion in trade with us. And ironically the Chinese already had disproportionate tariffs against numerous American exports. A handy tool on Google is search by date range (wish DDG had this). Search for 'Chinese tariffs' on google with a date range of 2000-2015. You'll find articles such as this [1] referencing China's minimum 25% import tariff on American vehicles contrasted against 5% from the US.

Or articles such as this [2] which I will leave without further comment, since that's an entirely different topic...

[1] - https://www.forbes.com/sites/baizhuchen/2012/07/12/tear-down...

[2] - https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/commerce-depart...
Something I've been wondering about this. China is retaliating with tariffs against, for example: Sinograin [1]. What exactly is the point of this tariff when the company being taxed is, like many big companies in China, state owned? Aren't they essentially just taxing themselves?

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-soybeans/...
> We used all our money to pay a third party contractor to make the app, and they failed miserably

Where did you hire/find the third party contractor?

Friends of mine, in two separate startups, got burnt badly by those outfits that offer the "native apps for iOS and Android" package for $10K or so.

I talked to some of those "developers" once, when I helped my friend troubleshoot an issue. It was horrible. They were so inept, they couldn't solve a problem if you provided a solution to them (literally -- they failed at copy-pasting).
It's a PR piece for invisible hand consulting.
HN is not a place for political or nationalistic flamewar and you've been posting a lot of such comments. If you keep doing that we're going to have to ban you, so please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
But it’s more efficient to mass produce rather than have every country producing everything it needs. On top of that, some countries have inherent efficiencies in producing some items - proximity to resources for example.
Poorer countries struggle to look after their environment, if China's economy is slowing they may be tempted to burn more coal or dump more waste in their rivers.
I've been to more than a few meetings about the future of discourse online, and where I used to believe anonymity was ascendant, I now think identified use is on the up. It makes for better dialogue.

I fully understand some people need anonymity and pseudonimity. But the general case, very quickly goes to a descent to the bottom.
You should either guarantee a minimum speed with unlimited data or cap on maximum amount of data use can use. Throttling based on content means you were overselling. As an user I prefer to be in control of which applications get to use the Internet that I'm paying for.
AR/AP: https://www.diffen.com/difference/Accounts_Payable_vs_Accoun...

APR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annual_percentage_rate

Retainer:
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/retainer-fee.asp
Well in that case couldnt said person create their own community? Assuming there are those in Mastodon that don't agree with the (possibly repeated) actions of the server admin people will start to leave.

So no matter what there is still an option. Unlike Facebook/Twitter. I mean technically even InfoWars and Alex Jones could start their own community and by the rules of Mastodon not get kicked off.

Please no one tell Alex Jones about Mastodon.
Those digs may or may not accommodate nuclear waste with a very high degree of safety. What's sure is that nobody will be really responsible if (when?) the sh*t hits the fan, especially because some waste may kill or maim in the distant future (thousands years), or in stealth mode (polluting a phreatic zone).

When the Chernobyl plant was under construction a soviet newspaper claimed that "it will be so safe it could be built on the Red Square". When the disaster happened, the author of this claim was nowhere to be found.
"sew their chaos"?

I'm curious - I would've expected this to be "sow" as in "sowing seeds". Is this an American spelling?
I meant above 4 hours in total on average spend to get to and back from work.
From their messages, that account doesn't seem to be abusive, so it may be some kind of error?
For me protectionnism could be a good thing environmentally like adhelas said. It could be a good measure if you use this tariffs to improve equality, distributing this equally through the population. Sadly nobody knows here the income will be spent.
Apple Smartwatch series 4 available in aluminum and stainless steel
Physics > law > hope.

There is one bearer that is shared between all the wireless connections in a cell - the EM spectrum. Cells interfere with each other, so if you drop the power and up the frequencies of the cell you can have more cells in the same area but as you go up the frequencies to do that you have problems with things like walls and trees and also you have to have a wired network to provide the backhaul.
Looks good. Do they accept crypto?
That made interesting reading. It would have been even more interesting if they had also divided the population of cars by the drivers sex and age. At least here in Norway it is very much the case that accidents are more frequent and more severe when a young man is driving. Also I suspect that women on average are more likely to drive a two wheel drive car. My point is that we might find that four wheel drive cars driven by women are as safe or safer than two wheel drive cars driven by women and that the worsening of safety for four wheel drive driven by young men is even more dramatic than the study showed.
>telemetry part is much more restricted

Are you saying that Microsoft is collecting less information than Google would in the same situation? I find that very hard to believe looking at Microsoft's history. Do you have anything to back it up? The only comparison I can come up with is Windows 10 versus ChromeOS.
I expect prices to go up (across the board on such goods) in China, and US companies who are more price sensitive will get hit harder on their upcoming 10k's than others, predictably.
That sounds... kind of weird, especially the "a lot of cases" part.

If you have an official company with official employees (and if either is not true, then well, everything's illegal anyway and your employees are not really employees) the health insurance will be on your toes quite quickly to pay your stuff (as I've experienced firsthand).

The only thing I can think about is having all your staff as unpaid/underpaid interns, but then they're not employees and your exploiting them anyway.

Would love to have some details on this.
It's not, which is one of the great benefits of being able to harness debt financing.
The Last Goodbye - Path service will be discontinued
- Founder gave up, went bush for weeks at a time, and I (the "right hand man") had no experience managing staff let alone running a company without the founder. We wasted tonnes of money on staff that I couldn't adequately manage or train which resulted in huge technical debt on almost every feature.

- I should have opened my mouth 6-12 months earlier and put my foot down regarding my own capabilities. Also, hiring great programmers is really hard.

I'm still trying to work out how to get co-workers and staff to come ask me questions when they need to, I'm unsure if it's because I'm not approachable (I always try to be!) or if they don't recognise that they need to ask a question.
>I was thinking more of the recounts that were cancelled. If you can't recount to check if vote counts were altered without first having proof that vote counts were altered, what's the point?

But you can. Many states already have automatic recount laws when vote totals are close. In many cases candidates can pay for recounts even if they aren't close.

Recounts are common in American politics, and sometimes they even change the result--Al Franken won in 2008 after a recount flipped the result.

The Florida recount would most certainly have been finished if any of the counties had found obvious cases of voting machine hacking. Every country completed at least 1 recount, and most completed manual recounts.
I didn't quite understand this. Presumably, you're developers and just created a I assume fairly complex backend product (better than Google Maps). What stopped even just one of you from picking up a book on react-native/electron/whatever and knocking out a workable front-end? Did you exceed your runway, run out of time etc?
edit: to clarify, I meant after the third-party didn't work out. Also not critiquing just genuinely curious
> "When performance doubled every 18 months, people would throw out their desktop computers that were working fine because a friend’s new computer was so much faster."

So we have finally reached some sustainability. Good.
Pmf?
I've seen the same sort of thing happen with bonuses, much better to avoid them in the first place.
I look forward to migrating to 2.0. I use GatsbyJS 1 for many websites. One website I regenerate every morning to build over 1600 pages (https://frekvensapp.com). I’m told 2.0 has much better support for large sites.
As per the article it seems that even rigorous science isn't even _that_ rigorous these days.
The most valuable lesson I had from the companies I ran/run is that both sales and getting investment are both volume plays. If am a technical guy and I used to be that even more than I am now; I thought people who could do sales were deeply magical creatures. But every time we had a 'super sales' (usually co-founder because of the 'super' part), the super wore off and turned into no sales which killed or downsized companies eventually. I only fairly recently found out that it is just a matter of meeting as many people as you can and having as many sales pitches as you can. Investors the same thing, although that depends a bit more on the phase and the business than the sales.
3rd party vouch for shameless plug: I was a RA in a minor role at this team and these are some of the friendliest and most approachable people I've had the pleasure to work with in academia. (Hi Elliot! \o/)
I recently built a keyboard with Gateron Clear switches (they have 35cn activation force) for someone who has problems with their wrists too. It made all the difference in her case. There are (AFAIK) a few manufacturers that offer full keyboards with those switches.
How is equality achieved towards the Chinese workers?
There is ispc: https://ispc.github.io/
talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjZP_wBQJ2U

tl;dr: surprisingly Clojure code benefits a lot from aot compilation
I don't know either. The significant thing shouldn't be that video vs pics vs text is throttled (although that's an important thing that should be part of purchasing information), but whether Hulu vs Netflix are throttled.
As an engineer what I learnt was that commercialization is the most important factor and that its difficult/near impossible to sell without strong branding, marketing and networking.
I now work for a multi-billion dollar company, the product I developed is superior to theirs in almost every regard.
What they have is an amazing marketing team.
“Trade wars are good, easy to win”.

It’s an amazing statement and it will be interesting to see how it pans out. https://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/03/02/t...
People still have to throw their computers out because other hardware still advances, software also advances, and companies decide not to support older hardware in their new software. The wastefulness really doesn't end.
Now that would be a dramatic (and perhaps painful) return.
You've missed parts of Australia and New Zealand, plus the UK (which will have left the EU by then and may keep DST).

DST seems to be one of those weird Anglophone things that we do, I would't criticise the USA directly for this one, they're not alone. As a New Zealander I was actually surprised to learn that DST isn't standard across the globe.
Yep, there's a reason that's legal under net neutrality laws:

- If you need to block streaming video because that's the only way your public WiFi on trains is going to work, iirc you can do that without any legal issues.

- If you zero-rate music services as a marketing stunt, go ahead, but then you shall zero-rate all music services. (Still seems annoying, as a music service, to go around the world and apply to every ISP offering this (i.e. it still makes it slightly harder for newcomers), but I guess it's not unreasonable.)
Covered here just a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17850960

This article is similarly alarmist with some stupid click bait title suggesting that you are too stupid to read the documentation that comes with VS Code which points all of this out but somehow smart enough to read the genius bit of journalism that uncovered this terrible truth.

Just checkout what vscodium actually modifies. There are a few small diffs to disable telemetry and take out branding and a few other things.

But this is hardly some secret plot by MS to do something evil. It's a nice product provided to you by free by MS that is almost entirely open source. Yes it has a bit of branding and a bit of telemetry, which is presumably there to help them improve the product.

If the handful of stuff in there that isn't OSS bothers you for whatever reason, you can indeed build from source and take these things out like vscodium seems to be doing. You'd be well in your rights to do that. And it's very relevant for e.g. linux distributions like Debian or OSS purists.
Not sure whether that reply is aimed at the right parent; if I'm wrong, can you elaborate?
Precision Medicine Comes of Age
Welp. And you just totes changed my mind from the reply I just made.

This is fantastically well put.
Same here. My kids have early dismissal every Wednesday. The winter and spring breaks are 4 weeks(!!!). They schedule "open house" type events which you are expected to attend monthly at 2:30pm on a Friday.

I'm very lucky that I have support from family and an employer that is very accommodating to my schedule, as I am a divorced dad with a full time job.
This post feels like looking in the mirror to me
Portainer 1.19.2 is out
But from a physics/technical standpoint, a radio only has so much capacity. How would you handle the situation, if you managed a provider, and 10 people at a bar started streaming an NBA game in HD? Somethings got to give.
Fair enough, but this protects local businesses trying to compete with imported goods from China, since Americans don't have to pay the taxes (tariff) in question for goods made in the US. It's been like this in India for decades, and as a small, profit centric business person, I take it with a sigh of relief.
…"Invisible Hand" being a fictional firm, created for this article, with its name taken from the "invisible hand" that drives the market.
You have the effect "mix vs sort" that shows that if you are very good making thing you are bad distributing them. So mass production is not as effective as local production if you account transportation externalities.
It's true, that Tesonet operates both, NordVPN and ProtonVPN, but it's not true, that Tesonet has any ownership of ProtonMail, as far as I'm aware of. ProtonVPN seems to be a partnership between ProtonMail and Tesonet.
Oops. You are right, my bad.
Incidentally, this is one of the reasons companies are extremely resistant to providing these types of perks even if the benefits are clear: once provided, they can't be scaled back and/or taken away without making employees really, really unhappy.
I'd expect that was just an amusing incident of the left hand not knowing what the right is doing.

Throwing out tariffs on the US farm industry is probably a smart move from a political point of view. Our farm industry is heavily subsidized and controlled by government programs. For instance we literally pay some farmers not to farm lands and in cases where harvests are unexpectedly high farmers can end up being prohibited from marketing some of their harvest. In extreme cases, this means the product -perfectly edible foods- just ends up getting destroyed. It's all about extreme control of supply to try to stabilize prices for the consumer and ensure farmers are a bit more insulated from the swings of the market, and to keep them farming (or potentially farming) year after year.

Anyhow, the point of this is that by imposing tariffs on American agriculture (thus reducing Chinese demand) you stand to force this system to respond very visible ways, such as for instance by increasing the number of farmers being paid not to farm or increasing the amount of harvest that can't be marketed. Imagine a photo of some US farmer surrounded by produce thrown to rot and a headline suggesting this was the product of the tariffs. Great propaganda that makes good headlines against the purpose of the tariffs. That a Chinese state company ended up paying the tariffs, rather than just achieving the end of reducing demand and thus hitting with some bad PR in the states, is something I'd expect is just a hilarious short-term miscalculation.
Sorry UX, the party's over
It's indeed not free trade, since the playing field is tilted massively in favor of the US, by controlling the global currency.
Itanium only failed because Intel had agreements in place that allowed AMD to build x86 compatible CPUs, and they were clever to come up with AMD64.

If it wasn't for that AMD stunt we would all be using Itaniums by now.
A fake floppy drive. That's
sort of like cars with an "air scoop" on the hood that goes nowhere...heh
1st private moon flight passenger to invite creative guests
I mean. What could you have told that stupid guy
You broke the site guidelines badly here, regardless of who's right about historical events. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't do this again.