skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, if the African umbrella maker could make a profit at $4, they would already be doing that, pre-tariff.

So they are more likely selling at $5.15 (or some other higher number), which means that the US consumer pays an extra 15 cents per umbrella.

That 15 cents is additional and what people refer to as a "tax", though it isn't a traditionally levied tax.
Is the Amazon’s one-click shopping patent still valid?

Google could add a ”Buy now” button there, handling customer shipping data and payment and just forward the order to merchant that serves customer’s location.

For smaller vendors it might be interesting to replace AdWords with the possibility to list stuff for sale. Instead of click price, you would tell how big cut of price you give to Google if customer makes the purchase.
electro...i'm out
They don't appear to have updated their official Docker registry yet but it should hopefully be available soon for anyone who needs to test things:

https://access.redhat.com/containers/?tab=images#/registry.a...

Following the pattern of https://access.redhat.com/containers/?tab=images#/registry.a... and https://access.redhat.com/containers/?tab=images#/registry.a...
Léon_Theremin#Espionage
It's not like you can't clobber PATH with ease and in diverse ways… It's just less easy to unclobber: huge hacks like Nix are born in this quest.
I had great experiences with their device support. Replacements, repairs, their folks seem to err on the side of cover the claim rather than deny the claim when the cause of the problem seems ambiguous. I don't have a complaint about support yet, but I can tell my keyboard on my current-gen macbook pro is going to start failing soon (the semicolon key no longer clicks when pressed, the tab key is inconsistent) and from what I've heard from others is that it will require turning my laptop in and waiting days or weeks until it gets fixed. This is a company machine and I can't simply "not work" for 3+ days because I'm waiting on Apple HQ to blow dust out of my keyboard.

Instead of taking it in, I'm looking at usb-c adapters so that I can plug in my external kb and use that instead. The _vast_ majority of engineers at my company uses some kind of external keyboard on these machines.
forty years is probably a very conservative estimate!
Why not? In a secular society marriage is just a legal contract, regardless of the participants' religion or lack thereof.

If there is an appropriate legal structure, all participants are freely consenting, and are not causing anyone harm, why shouldn't they be allowed?
No, OpenVDB solves the completely unrelated problem of keeping huge volume data sets in memory for efficient monte carlo sampling. This ray strip paper deals with tiangulated surface meshes, which are completely unrelated data structures in an unrelated domain (2d surfaces embedded in a 2d domain versus a discretely, regularly sampled 3d function).
> and everything was fine, therefore we need that again" is simply untrue.

I said nothing of the sort. If you have an argument with someone else, go have the argument with them; don't put words in my mouth.
Actually that's a very reasonable thing to do. macOS has been using hardware accelerated graphics since 10.0, and leveraging this is better than fighting it.

Also see https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty
> Are you saying in practice Chrome has competition?

Well, pricing power is a hard test, even in principal, to apply in a category of free products, but it does appear on first blush that feature changes between Chrome and it's competitors do induce movements of users between them, in both directions, so it does appear that there is competition in both directions even if Chrome over time is generally, on balance, winning. Actual competition analysis, though, would take lots of work.

What I was saying upthread, however, was not anything about UI a conclusion on whether Chrome has competition, but just a correction to the inaccurate definition of monopoly that was proposed.
This was in Bellevue, WA. I did get the sense I'd have had a much better time just buying online.
Nit: His name is Xi Jinping, where Xi is his family name and is pronounced sorta like ”she.”
If I understand correctly, this appears to be a continuation of the growing disparity between the little guy and Big Corp. The article talks a lot about publishers relying on affiliate links, but there are also many bloggers, YouTube channels, podcasters, etc., who have been making use of affiliate links. Will Google be "bypassing"(for lack of a better word) those peoples' affiliate marketing as well by placing their own links for those same products at the forefront?
The Bootstrap Templates are just 1 part of what we deliver. We also have React, Vue, Angular, Laravel, React Native, Node.js, Photoshop, Sketch, Figma, Adobe XD in our products lists. So if you take into consideration an agency who will deliver for his client a website + web app and they buy a "React + React Native + Sketch" combo from us and pay let's say 150$, that will be over 5.000$ for them if they have to build it from scratch. Also don't forget that we spend many months on building and testing our products on many devices (phones, tablets, tvs, desktops etc) Hope this makes sense.
Turbocharged engined still need a ton of cooling but yes I think they are more efficient overall .
He didn't prove your point. You're not making sense. You agree with him except for the last point. The parent comment said:

Tariffs against China are actually a tax on the American citizens, and only causes increased prices and unemployment.

and as far as I can tell you believe:

Tariffs against China are actually a tax on the American citizens, which causes increased prices and (eventually?) a shift to a different producer.

but that's not the argument you're making.
For anyone who needs a little dose of that https://mrdoob.com/lab/javascript/effects/solitaire/
Are there other locations in the world that has either the current capacity or the ability to ramp up to that quickly and cheaply to match China's current production levels? Supply doesn't come out of nowhere, and America is a prodigious consumer.
> Laffer curve on bond markets

Yield curve, Laffer curve unrelated
I'm not colorbind and the map is mostly useless. You're not missing much.
Yeah a terminal tab maps 1:1 with a tmux window. Same type of feature. You can also use the mouse and / or keyboard to navigate between everything.
So Trump did a good job, but let's hope someone undoes his trade policy because "fuck Trump"? Not sure what your point is.
As a long-time meditator and psychedelic user, I disagree. People can get attached to beautiful states in both cases, and both can trigger permanent insights. I haven't felt the need to use psychedelics in years, but the realizations are still there, as strong as any I've had from meditation.
Ah gotcha, I think I was mixing up MPEG1 and MJPEG in my head.

I didn't realize that you could disable those features in the encoder. I'll have to look into x264 tunables that lower latency. Might be interesting.
My thoughts, too. If you've got to pick one, the much more parsimonious explanation would be that people's attitudes are influenced by the attitudes of their friends and acquaintances.

That said, I wouldn't be surprised if it's a mix of both. I'm sure people's ethical judgments are influenced by the law, too. It's the main reason I can think of why, for example, alcohol tends to be so very much more socially acceptable than marijuana in places where the one is legal and the other is not.
The hardest thing with HTTP is to send server-initiated messages to client. There are multiple approaches (websockets, SSE, client polling) but they are not simple.

Also HTTP carries some overhead. It's not significant, something like 50-100 bytes, but it might matter for a lot of tiny messages, I guess.

Another factor is: those intermediate proxies might break your app. They might cache your responses even if you don't want that, so your application will act wierdly. Of course any intermediate proxy might break any protocol...
No reason to tie poly to either of those religions, since at least in some cases for those religions it comes from a very misogynistic mindset instead of any of the positive in any "real" poly community.

Instead of legalizing poly, how about we just get the government out of marriage in the first place.

(Incase it isn't clear, I am advocating for poly acceptance. Just not that it needs to be "legal")
Oh, I don't think Windows UI on Linux will become a commercial product... though I wouldn't mind a more windows-friendly shell with a much more complete WINE on linux. I actually like the tool/taskbar for windows 10 (sans cortana), still prefer the win7 start menu itself.

I did also like the Ubuntu UX a lot as well, not as much as Windows. Mac's is really usable but the MacOS-like shells are not quite there for the most part, at least from those I've tried.
Every Apple Store with a Genius Bar has a receptionist (a guy holding an iPad with the Genius Bar appointment schedule on it, running interference at the entrance to the store), and usually they try to get your attention if you look like you’re coming in for an appointment and/or a pickup rather than to browse; but I guess they can miss you if they’re busy.

I think the Genius Bar “workflow” might depend on speaking to said receptionist (either directly, or having someone redirect you back to them.) Without them, nobody knows you’ve arrived, so you don’t end up in the service queue.
Depends on who the next president is. If Trump is reelected or the Democrats nominate a more populist candidates (i.e. Bernie Sanders), it might not matter who's in the Oval Office. After 8-12 years of tariffs, it might be too difficult to come back from for China and the US.
I've only been in an Apple Store a few times, and have always thought it a cool store, but just not very practical. At best, I buy a new computer every few years. I kept my first iPad for about five years before getting a new one. I buy a new phone maybe every couple of years.

Despite recent design decisions that I find questionable, thus far Apple products remain the best choice for the work I do, so I don't really want or need to go to the store in person to be impressed. I just order online whatever best meets my requirements.

The last time I bought a computer in person was about 14 years ago. I did buy an iPad case at an Apple store recently...
Ah, that's interesting. I tend to view political leadership as intelligent, calculating, and manipulative but in service of "greed," that is for their own gain or that of their major donors, as opposed to their voter-constituency.

As such, planning doesn't surprise me but genuinely beneficial legislation does.
I'm sure some won't like this comment, but there are only two that matter: Chrome and Safari. Firefox's share is about the same as IE 11 (2.0 -> 2.5%).
In the UK, John Lewis, Curry's, PC world. At the least you can ask someone to get one from the stock room for you and you can have it and be on your way within 10 minutes. I bought my last laptop from John Lewis in about 5 mins of entering the store.
I fully agree. But I was talking about a (presumably not very tech-enthusiast) lawyer from 1998, not a software developer from that time.
This sounds interesting! Can you give any reference to your publication or URL?
You haven't even used their Terminal. How presumptuous to assume that iTerm2 will be better and that just copying it would work out.

iTerm2 is okay for people who want to customize their tools, but in terms of usability and performance, Terminal.app is a much better option.
Even if it is 10$/hour, and a template is 40$, you will spend more than 4 hours just to choose colors/fonts and design ideas. Then you will spend days/weeks to plan, implement and test on tens of devices (phones, tablets, tvs, desktops etc).
IMHO the MAD is still the status quo as of right now.

It kept the peace for 50+ years. (Excluding all the "little" wars.)
>This is the disengagement of US economy with the Chinese economy as we speak. No more IP theft, no more US factories for China, no more knowledge transfer, no more opioids from China.

Great, it is going to screw both parties and then they will blame each other and we will be very lucky if we avoid war. Yippidee-fucking-doo-daa.
No he hasn't. You haven't proved that African umbrellas even exist for $4. If they did, we would have been buying them instead of the $5 chinese umbrella long ago, or at least the people who didnt want chinese umbrellas would have supported them.
It screws over everyone in China not living on the coast, since the one-true-time for China is Beijing time.
> The public certainly hates them. Right of left, I don't see how anyone can see these surviving through another administration.

Citation needed. Free traders certainly hate the tariffs, but only a tiny fraction of the public are committed free traders. Also Democrats are dispositionally far more favorable to tariffs and protectionism than Republicans, so unless Trump doesn't run or the Libertarians win the presidency (ha!), I don't see the next administration being much of a swerve in the direction of free trade.
And let's not forget that it's the same with Apple Music search

Edit: meant that search is bad enough on Apple Music too (not that it has ads)
I live in a two-party-consent state and I'm wondering how tortured a reading of the wiretapping statute it would require for this to qualify. It certainly seems like my phone's location ought to qualify as "Private communication transmitted by radio."
You might find the CLIPS docs useful [0]. iirc, DROOLS was at least in part inspired by CLIPS. Plus the CLIPS docs are very well written as noted elsewhere.

The book "Expert Systems: Principles and Programming" [1] is also good though now out of print.

[0] http://www.clipsrules.net/Documentation.html
[1] http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0534384471/ref...
I was always fond of the castle at night back. The backs were pretty awesome though.
How Much Water Should I Drink a Day?
I setup an appointment at an Apple Store and walked in about an hour earlier then the appointment. The person at the front created me a walk-in appointment and told me to wait.

An hour goes by without anyone so I ask the person at the front (new person) and neither my scheduled appointment nor my WALK-IN appointment were checked into... How the hell do you check-in to a walk-in appointment?

Definitely not a great experience. He checked me into both and 10-20 minutes later I get two people asking me what I need help with.
FaceID works fine for me with my sunglasses and "require attention".

I did also have trouble unlocking while laying in bed though. For awhile I thought it wasn't recognizing me without any glasses on, but then I realized that when I don't have any glasses on, I hold the phone much closer to my face, and it doesn't recognize me that way. It unlocks fine without glasses as long as I hold it at the same distance. Still kind of an awkward process.
That's the one, I screwed up my terminology (not an economist, just dated one for a while).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvV9jJCAP2w
I can contrast with my recent experience at Best Buy. Last weekend, they had $50 off the new Series 4 Apple Watches. I dreaded going in-store because of my problems with Apple Stores.

But I went in, asked the Samsung guy where the Apple Watches were, and he pointed me to a counter in the middle of the store with 2 registers. I had a brief conversation with a sales guy there, confirmed the $50 off, size, and color I wanted.

I waited about 5 minutes and a different guy brought one from the back, complete with a silly dramatic bow where he handed it to the first guy (made me laugh.) I declined the warranty, swiped my credit card, signed, and was on my way.

The entire process took about 10 minutes, whereas buying at the Apple Store can definitely result in the "ping-pong" effect and can take upwards of an hour. And they were not pushy about the warranty.

I would buy from Best Buy again given this experience.
Let's just say that - and that goes especially for the UK [I'm looking at you: Boots!] - self checkout tills and me seem to be in a perpetual war.

Herearound at least you scan your crap and pay. In the UK there's some shitty weight system, which I don't get and the system accuses me after every third item of being a thief and instructs me to call assistance (which cannot be found since, well, self checkout tills).

Look, if you want me to do your work then, at the very minimum, trust me not to cheat or kindly fuck off!

The worst experience I've ever had was in a Tesco in London were the completely rude security dude claimed that there's only self checkout.

My friend wanted a pack of cigarettes. Good luck getting that from a self checkout till.
What’s going to happen when Apple rolls out the game subscription? Will they favor those games over publishers that decide not to be part of it?

I think (and hope) that I read that it will be a separate tab. My heart goes out to the few non scammy, paid up front/pay one time to get rid of ads publishers that might be affected, but honestly if all apps that are dependent on ads, in app purchases of coins, power ups and loot boxes disappeared from the store, nothing of value would be lost.
In a certain sense that's the goal:

> Our research on eighteen OECD countries shows that, between 1975 and 2008, there was indeed a strong correlation between reductions in top tax rates and increases in top 1 percent pre-tax income shares... higher top tax rates may discourage work effort... the incentives for [executive] rent-seeking are much stronger when top tax rates are low

> there has been no correlation between cuts in top tax rates and average annual real GDP-per-capita growth

Piketty wants to reduce inequality without damaging the economy, not specifically boost tax revenue from the rich. His claim is that raising top tax rates does discourage people from obtaining extremely high pre-tax incomes, but doesn't shrink the economy. There are several possible reasons for that, but the basic question Piketty cares about is whether you would stop being productive. Someone who trades off salary for a shorter commute, or spends less time angling for a raise, or even hides their money from taxes more effectively, is not necessarily producing less value.

If you lost your motivation to seek more than $500,000/year (remember, this is about the top bracket), but continued to do equally GDP-boosting work elsewhere, that counts as success for this system.
> A comprehensively secure automatic update system would have process isolation between the normal web interface and the updater (and the latter would run as a different, more privileged user). However, not everyone can do that. (Shared hosting, etc.)

That's right, and I also think the popularity stems from the simplicity and the fact that it existed when the whole blog thing took off.

There's actually the option to provide your FTP credentials in the admin console and have wordpress update itself over an FTP connection. It is process separation, then, but OTOH potentially exposes your webspace credentials to an attacker. :-)
Holly Herndon: Mind-bending music for a digital apocalypse
Historically speaking, monogamy and civilization seem to go hand-in-hand. Undermining the former might undermine the latter.
It is definitely a factor, but there is no auto-win for any deck. It definitely matters which cards you play and which ones your opponent plays, because just like rock-paper-scissors some cards are good at eliminating specific other cards. But unlike RPS you cannot always enforce a favorable interaction between specific cards. Your opponent can maneuver around whatever you are playing.
Because I am trying to make a statistically significant change, not a change just to make me feel good.
You call it wasting time, Apple calls it "increased product exposure". It's the same reason Target staggers their registers and makes their checkout process slow as hell; they found that the more time you spend waiting in line, the more likely you are to remember something you wanted to buy and return to the store to get it. They don't care how quickly you leave the store, they only care about how much you leave with.
In addition to all these other things, Apple within the past year or so changed the bathrooms in (from what I’ve heard) all the stores from public to “staff only”. What kind of “Town Square” doesn’t have a toilet?
Right now we have the lowest unemployment ever plus a number of other amazing numbers. To claim the US economy is bad right now would be pretty out there.

And thats despite us already having started the tarrif game with China.

I can live with a few things being a little more expensive when the jobs are coming back even in blue collar areas as they are right now.
> If an Apple exec wants to bring back the dedicated area for the Genius Bar, how does one avoid the logistical nightmare of those lines? You still have to work within the same finite retail floor space.

The 'logistical nightmare of those lines' is just how every other store that has a similar problem operates. It maybe wasn't great, but the alternative of having people randomly milling round the stores (and usually getting in the way of people who want to browse) is much worse and a terrible customer experience. 'Every table is a potential Genius bar' is a great line to sell the idea internally, but it's a disaster in real life.
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First of all, once factories leave China, they don’t go back. China’s wage is already at a level similar to Mexico, and is more expensive than Southeast Asia.

Second, both Democrats and Republicans leaderships are anti-China. Chuck Schumer, senate minority leader and a democrat, told trump to “hang tough” on the Chinese tariffs. Bernie Sanders slammed joe Biden when Biden made a remark about how China isn’t a threat.
That sounds a bit optimistic on the no IP theft or opioids front.
One based purely on the law and not any other reason?

I don't think so. People already have a bias against tobacco smokers and that doesn't have any criminal law component. Habitually smoking (or vaping) any substance is viewed as a vice and a moral shortcoming. It also tends to make a person smell bad and people naturally feel a bias against bad smells.

The fact that smokers are accustomed to the smell and don't notice it is also frustrating. It's an externality.
I like the profile manager.
I have all my servers in there.. ssh directly and have a certain color for prod etc.
LOL

Thanks for the correction.
They don’t know (and/or trust you if you assert) that you know exactly what you want; so they’ve got to assume that whoever’s helping you is going to need a large enough time-slot available to help you select SKUs, too.

If you pre-purchase online for in-store pickup (which you can do while you’re standing around in the store), that’s essentially a guarantee on them that you won’t need “SKU selection” service, so once you’ve done that, you can go up to the receptionist staffer at the front and get someone to bring out your purchase pretty much immediately. (Because they do have staff free all the time, but they’re only free for a minute or two at a time between scheduled time-slots. “A minute or two” is enough time to service a pick-up, but not a complete in-store purchase flow.)
Is it perhaps in a separate package, at least?