skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems you're misundestanding the problem entirely.

Secondly, factories in China shipping a lot of products aren't going to be sending their entire inventory in the small $2-$3 packages mentioned in the video, they'll be making larger freight shipments not involving the USPS at all.

This was precisely what Chinese factories were doing: dividing up shipments to the US into smaller packages that qualified for the USPS treaty rates, because it cost them pennies per item.

The other way of assuming, is that the China cost is the exact cost, and the US cost is just extra profit to the USPS because the market will bear it.

It cost the USPS more to collect and move these packages within the US then the Chinese sender paid in total shipping costs (China and US combined). These aren't "lost profits," they're actually increased expenses that eat into actual revenues resulting in actual financial losses on Chinese parcel shipments.
Fair enought.

On another note I believe one fundamental reason some employers prefer younger employees is that they are easier to push around.
> Those people were caught committing a crime.

Speeding tickets are also people who were caught committing a crime.

Regardless, it is a new policy to put Adults who cross with children (even though many of these Adults are the parents of those children) into jail.

I for one, believe that there are more humane ways to treat boarder-crossers who are crossing with their family. Sure, maybe put the lone crossers into jail, but if they're coming over with kids, then I'd hope that the judges / immigration agents / etc. etc. have power to show compassion in those cases.

So yeah, put some of them in jail, and put others into other forms of detention that don't necessarily involve separating kids from their parents. And yes, I recognize that Coyotes exist (professional illegal boarder crossers who specialize in trafficking children into America), so I recognize that ICE has a hard job here. But a repeat-offender like a Coyote could be caught on the 2nd or 3rd attempt. I recognize that ICE needs a plan to deal with Coyotes appropriately, and that not every adult-with-children is necessarily the parent.

There's a lot of ways to deal with the problem, and its sad that the current administration thinks that separating families is the best way forward.

If separations are to happen, I want it to happen only to Coyotes and the children they're smuggling. We need to be careful to keep the real parents together with their real children.
This is kind of analogous to photorealism versus cartooning. A history or biography would attempt to adapt events and experiences directly to the page: "this happened, and then this happened, and it felt like that". Fictional work transforms those same elements into exaggerated characters and scenarios. Both kinds of works require some creativity to build up a coherent story, but fiction has a freer hand to manipulate elements and choose its focus.

Just making it up without adapting from anything real usually isn't something that good fiction is built up from, though. That path goes directly to cliche, and it's easy to find cliched fiction.
> less vulnerable to fighters.

Less vulnerable to flak as well, primarily by flying faster (less time to get shot at) and higher than the heavies (cruise speed of around 300 kn vs. 160-190 kn for heavies).

And of course, if one got hit, it was a much smaller loss than a heavy.
None of the claims in Bloomberg's recent series on Super Micro have been confirmed and many doubts have been raised about the quality of the reporting[3], including by Bloomberg's own sources[2][3]. The affected parties have all issued strong denials, including to Congress[4], and figures from US intelligence agencies, where Bloomberg's anonymous sources allegedly worked, have cast doubt on the story as well[5].

That said, supply chain attacks have always been an issue and it's entirely possible that Super Micro has been a victim at some point. However, this will also be true of virtually any other supplier.

[1] https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1049687546945392640

[2] https://twitter.com/riskybusiness/status/1049429881031819264

[3] https://www.servethehome.com/yossi-appleboum-disagrees-bloom...

[4] https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/08/apple-rebuff-bloomberg-let...

[5] https://www.businessinsider.com/security-community-voicing-i...
Contrary to popular opinion, politicians actually (used to) lie very rarely. For non-elected officials, such as the WH press secretary, it was even rarer.

Yes, they'd deny comment, avoid the question, give a completely unrelated answer, etc. But they avoided actual lying.

What was especially rare was lying to gain something, as opposed to, for example, getting out of a scandal. There are people now gearing up to give me contrarian examples of politician X telling that story how they were shot at in Belgrade, etc. But the simple fact that we remember these episodes proves their extraordinary nature.

So I'd say the main problem with your comment, among many others, is this cynical view that everything is as terrible as it can be, anyway. If that were true, we'd have lost already and the US would be indistinguishable from, say, Yemen.

Once you agree that there is something like a political culture, or at least there could be, your other claim seems to be that the internet just doesn't matter. Because people shouldn't use it for information, or because it just is a space seperate from "the real world" in your mind.

But just as nobody is ever influenced by advertising and yet the practice continues, everyone thinks it's a stupid idea to get your news from Twitter but it just happens to be one of many channels that has an impact on people's opinions.
Medical research is paid for by people that want a specific outcome. But, they also care about the truth as they don’t want drugs that kill people for example.

Net result a small bias, but not the kind of conspiracy worth talking about.
My employer's expense policy allows tipping 'in line with local customs', but I imagine the accounting department would roll over laughing before they'd consider reimbursing a cash tip with no receipt.
Perhaps there is a free way to get more users (or a cheaper way). Why don't you post how you are currently getting users and Ask HN if there is a more economical way.
Oddly enough I've been getting into UE4 and things would be so much easier for me if the core classes were better decoupled.

For instance, I'd like to have a quadraped skeleton with the ability to apply a movement vector. Unfortunately, in the Actor->Pawn->Character hierarchy, you cannot have movement (applying vectors, walk/jump/fall state) without a capsule root component - which is the only one respected for collision - so either I have to rewrite all of the movement code or somehow make the capsule vestigial and carefully maintain its state.

In short, in some cases it's useful to say that a Pawn is an Actor with a set of extra features, or that a Character is a Pawn with a set of extra features, but even there, the way inheritance forces you to adapt an exact set of extra features and no others and also those features are not piecewise reusable elsewhere is a pretty big structural problem.

I've already done enough arguing about OOP for one career in programming, I think, but the more I see what's out there, the more that I think the real enemy is any use of class inheritance - even the TAPL formalization of OOP uses interfaces only.
> when I saw the part about how the number of books varied between nations, I thought, "oh cool! They're going to use that to address the possible confounding affects, since otherwise you might just be measuring whether parents who make sure their kids are well educated end up with a lot of books in their home

Per the abstract to the original article, they didn't need to address parental education as a confounding factor by such an indirect means, since parental education (as well as the subject’s education and occupation) was one of the directly studied factors, and the library size contribution existed even after taking those other factors into account.

> and since it's Elsevier I can't look at the original.

Well, yeah, I'd like more than just the abstract and secondhand reporting, too.
Even with the promise that they'll delete the data after, it doesn't seem like a reasonable value exchange.

I would assume that meta-data and derived data is still going to be preserved. This looks like it's lead-gen for a future service they are building.
There is a paper by Stroustrup et al titled something like "Idiomatic C++". Check out the books by Andrew Koenig (especially "Ruminations on C++") and Bertrand Meyers.
Get your daily dose of climate hysteria.
Finding My Way to Insight DevOps
I'm not saying you're wrong to hold this list of desired attributes, but the short of it is that houses are generally built the way they are to satisfy demand at the lowest possible construction cost. When you consider the average time people stay in a given home is only about 7 years, durability doesn't carry particularly much sway.

FWIW, the reason there are so many crappy houses in the Bay Area is that the climate is so mild that even the most poorly constructed shacks have staying power... and with the cost of remodeling/construction here, there isn't much incentive to rebuild unless you've got significant disposable income.
I'm not even 30 yet everyday the news is reminding me how I'm actually aging. I still remember watching Sesame Street as a young kid on PBS, and I remember over the years being surprised how the series is still on going, especially when my nephews were born and my sister soon started watching Sesame Street with her son. Seems like a retirement well-deserved.
I'm going to be curious how it stands up to wear and tear. I notice that these types of terminals which are brought to tables tend to be pretty beat up.
>To be fair: you can do that with probably any unixoid OS

Totally.
Actually I work primarily on web services. We benefit from Haskell in that HKTs allow us to model our service completely in the type system. Our Rest and GraphQL API are completely modeled in a type level DSL. Once we've ingested data, which can then be validated automatically using types, we can then express our data transformation in a way that makes the transitions extremely transparent in our code.

Our backend services are written in Rust for things that need efficient computation.
Which _paradigm_ has those facilities? Not a language, but a paradigm?
The fancy bed was auctioned off in 2013.

http://www.heinleinsociety.org/2013/07/own-heinleins-second-...

It went for just over $2K.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Robert-A-Heinleins-Bed-/25131783994...
The international terminal at SFO often has dogs patrolling along the line; when they do that, everyone gets the Pre-style experience.

CLEAR does not provide Pre. You can read their own documentation on that; they only get you past the podium.
Apprenticeships are rare, particularly in tech. Technical schools exist, but aren't known for teaching things other than more physical work, like electricians or mechanics. Bootcamps and "desperate companies hiring more junior than they'd like without a solid plan for onboarding and teaching" fill that void. It's kinda dumb.
I don't have enough experience to agree or disagree with the quote you're responding to, but I think the intent was in part to claim that OOP gets misapplied enough that if you're working with a large enough group or company, that's what you'll end up with.
Packet.net launches GPU machines
Question: there is a "rule" separating "no cuts" from others, let's call it a purity class. Is "no arbitrary folds" also an established purity class? When I was a kid with too much paper at my disposal, arbitrary folds felt like chatting. Arbitrary folds would be any fold not defined by either a side or existing fold aligning with another side or existing fold or by a corner aligning with another corner. Many intermediate folds would be done just as guidelines for layer folds, and four the structural effect they would have after getting undone. A bit like the "only lines and circles, no measurements" rule in geometry.
In my experience Northern Utah is good, Southern Utah is not very good
Correct, the first game to use ECS was Dungeon Siege back in 2002: https://www.gamedevs.org/uploads/data-driven-game-object-sys...
And he had some... interesting... ideas about who makes a good sexual partners. [1]

1; https://www.amazon.com/dp/0441748600
that's the CEO... not the stakeholder.
Netflix Shows Different Skin Colors on Movie Title Cards Depending on Your Race
Ask HN: Is it hard to get hired on F1 OPT?
I'm a recent graduate in math (BS) and am working full time as a statistician at a university lab. I am on an F1 visa and have the option of getting an OPT STEM extension so I can work for 3 years total. I love my current job but I want to transition to industry and have a higher pay than what a university can offer.
How hard is it to get hired at a startup/company to do stats/data science/machine learning while on F1?

Are people at all interested in hiring someone who only has 3 years of legal presence guaranteed?

How common is it for startups/companies to hire a person on OPT with the goal of sponsoring an H1B later?

Would be grateful to hear HNers' takes on this topic. See my profile if you'd like to email me.
This has already been done. cf. The "Bernie Bros" accounts that were harassing democrat women.
I listened to the author's recent appearance on Robert Wright's podcast. He states, as what seems representative of his beliefs, that Cinnabon preys on the poor and should be stopped via regulation (similar to alcohol). I couldn't really get on board with his brand of paternalism.
The Why We Retweet Scale
In practice, I have never seen a beg button that works well for pedestrians. Even in the cities that I've lived in with high pedestrian mode share (New York, Seattle) beg buttons are almost always heavily tilted in favor of drivers; and as a result pedestrians can easily add a minute or two (dependent on where they're walking, how many legs of an intersection they need to cross, etc.) At one intersection, this is not a big deal, but at a lot of intersections this can very quickly pile up; and because pedestrians don't really accelerate quickly or have a high speed, the already small feasible pedestrian walking distance is reduced significantly.

Conversely, most major roads these days are designed to give green waves if you're traveling at the intended speed; you generally only catch the wrong light once. (If that's not the case, removing a pedestrian cycle would not really give your road any more significant priority than it already has, since your road is already being deprioritized for the crossroad.)
Something like my circa 200 year old New England farmhouse that’s pretty typical hits about half the list but you’re starting from a place where rooms were small. I’ve opened up the first floor a lot but ceilings are still low and the renovated bathroom, which wouldn’t even have existed in the original house, is small. And it’s the only one in the house.
Also what about propaganda created by the US under the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Authorization...
I wrote this a while ago with the same frustrations:

https://penguindreams.org/blog/how-google-and-microsoft-made...

I have DKIM, SPF, DMARC and reverse DNS all setup. I've moved to a provider that disallowed 25 in/out and you have to specifically request it be unblocked.

I still have this issue. There is no real way around it. Microsoft and Google's spam prevention algorithms are very over-aggressive and will push out anyone with a personal e-mail server.

Each time you send an e-mail to a new person you've never e-mailed before, contact them on Twitter/Facebook/Reddit/Discord/whatever and tell them you sent them an e-mail and to mark it "not spam." They'll be able to receive your e-mail from here on out (just don't include any links).
downvote a factual annecdote all you want. still a fact :)
I agree that commute minimization is a game changer for freeing up time.

But it is a privilege.

Unless you happen to be very secure in your quickly-commutable job, or located a short commute distance from a variety of different job opportunities, you are at high risk of losing that short commute.

This is exacerbated in places like SV that have disparate job and housing centers, and extremely steep housing costs near those job centers.

> Even when I was taking the train and could read, listen to music, play games, etc, those were always compromise activities and didn't contribute to my personal happiness.

I've found that my short train commute (25 min) is a great time to memorize the compositions for an instrument that I play, with the help of a metronome app while viewing the sheet music on my phone.

It's far more relaxing than reading the news, for certain.
That's obviously not what he's suggesting? He's just saying (and correct me if I'm wrong) that, for a company whose business is based in no small part on trust, it's a bit weird to not have any information about any of the people involved in the project.
Development Highlights: Using Mapbox and Foursquare for Greta Van Fleet
thanks for sharing this - the animated step-by-step is very nice and especially useful if you're following any kind of complicated design
OP here, ya that shouldn't be. We used a GDPR service called ShareThis.com and I will check that as we do not share that with any 3rd party.

[Update] - We are only doing 1st party consent so I will email their support to find out what the heck is going on with it showing that.
Hi. I am author of this website. I hope you like it. I made it public today. It was my favorite math textbook and I think it still can help a lot of people :-)
Security community increasingly believes Chinese chip hack report could be bogus
Yeah. What avip said. As a US citizen this saddens me. A Russian friend easily got into Australia and is on path to citizenship.

Travel between US & (Canada|Australia) is easier than probably any other country.
Let's put the blame where it belongs: on the consumer. If there was a market demand for repairable products, companies would make them. It's not like Apple is using IP law to keep you from repairing an iPhone. If people wanted repairable products, there would be demand for them. (I have a dryer I was going to throw away until my father in law spent $50 replacing the belt. Now I have a stupid old dryer that doesn't match my fancy new Samsung washer that I feel too guilty to replace.)
Large institutions, and interactions between large institutions, use complex rules to manage their very many and varied activities, often called 'bureaucracy'. Nobody has found an alternative; you can't name any sizeable institution that lacks it.

We're talking about the rules governing all mail sent between all countries in the world. 200 pages seems very small to me.

And what better option do we have? If there's a simpler, equally effective one, I'm all for it.

> stretch that constitution to its limits

How does it stretch the constitution to its limits? The ratio of pages isn't high (look at any charter and then all the policies that organization makes) and is no indicator of 'stretch'. Stretching it would be violating the rules in the constitution.
I was looking for that one too. I think I learned to fold it in middle school. It is one of the best performers that is relatively easy to fold.
So you're saying that you know for a fact that Amilcar Adamy, a geologist with the Brazilian Geological Survey (known by its Portuguese acronym, CPRM), is actually a layperson? What evidence do you have that he was lying about his qualifications and actually is a layperson who has no idea what he's talking about?

Are you an expert in spotting fraudulent researchers who lie about their qualifications in multiple magazine articles and peer reviewed scientific publications?

What are your own qualifications in that field, and can you prove your accusations? Or are you doing exactly what you're baselessly accusing someone else of doing, without any evidence? Do you have an instinct for debunking fake science?

Is his biography and all these research papers and articles he's published fake too? If it's not true, somebody sure went to quite a lot of effort to perpetrate this fraud... What do you think their motivations were? Perhaps you should report him?

https://www.escavador.com/sobre/2015231/amilcar-adamy

https://www.linkedin.com/in/amilcar-adamy-90b71b25/?original...

https://nl.pinterest.com/gsarisoy/

https://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/36983/20170403/myst...

https://www.beyondsciencetv.com/2017/07/05/hundreds-of-giant...

http://www.look4ward.co.uk/animals/giant-tunnels-in-south-am...

https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/extinct-megafa...
That's nonsense. It's literally illegal to change your car so that it pollutes more. You don't need a second law making it illegal to modify any and all software to make sure that doesn't happen.
Never heard of Zone Alarm before, but from what I've read it sounds like it _only_ controls network access. All other application permissions are left completely unrestricted; is that correct? I'd hardly call that robust.

iOS/Android are much closer, but still don't offer quite the same level of control (you can literally revoke a web app's ability to execute code or play sound; good luck getting that to work on iOS).

> My point is the current permissions model of the web doesn't eliminate a whole lot of bad behavior. In fact I'd go further than that and say it's fundamentally useless at eliminating bad behavior.

Again, that's true of all permissions systems, by definition. You can't eliminate bad behavior with permissions, you can only limit what that bad behavior can affect.

> XSS was just the first example that came into my head about how permissive the web is by default

XSS isn't a permission (and certainly not a "feature"), it's a security vulnerability (essentially the web app equivalent of an RCE). Pretty much irrelevant to a discussion of the web's permission model.

> That's not a permissions system of the web, that's additional security, usability or privacy tools you have to install to block parts of the web.

You're right, that's not part of the web permissions model. I only brought it up because you mentioned "data leakage and privacy concerns that we seemingly have little control over", whereas in reality the web allows much more extensive control over that sort of thing than any other platform.

> having to install additional plugins to block stuff that should be blocked by default

Ads, persistent storage, and analytics don't need to be blocked by default. Though if you disagree, there are browsers that will do that for you. Worth noting that in native apps this sort of thing is effectively impossible to block. If an iOS app decides to keep track of how you interact with it and send that data to advertisers, there's little you can do to stop it other than to stop using the app. The web gives you other options.

> Actually you'd be surprised at just how many consumer friendly networking tools there are.

Fair, but I don't think that merely controlling network access externally gives you a sufficient level of control over an application's behavior for that to be considered a "robust permissions system" all on its own.

> Sure there are some rudimentary security policies baked into the OS/browser but they're often not granular enough and definitely not far reaching enough.

What more would you add? The existing permissions system on the web seems to be very granular to me.
A lot of people do consider it an iconic American landmark, but don't necessarily see it as a good thing.

In this particular case, for me the first things Hollywood sign evokes are "megalomania", "shitty blockbusters", "overinflated ego". I'm super biased (I don't even really know Hollywood history) and it doesn't necessarily make it the "most derided piece of art", but it wouldn't surprise me