skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work in international freight, so I can only cofidently talk about the import side.

From my understanding/experience, dealing with counterfeit items is mostly the responsibility of the IP owner and mostly handled at borders, for the United States you mostly find this in 19 CFR 133 for intellectual property rights.

For trade name stuff, the trade name must have been in use for at least 6 months.

For trademark it has to be registered in Washington DC at the Patent Office, is good for 20 years, has to be registered with Customs and has a fee to register.

Copyright stuff is similar to trademark.

If Customs has suspicion of trade name/trade mark infringement they will detain the shipment, notify the importer of record and the IOR has 30 days to respond and get owner's approval for release of the shipment. The IP owner will also be notified with the date of import, port, name of manufacturer and the importer of record, the country of origin and then the owner has 30 days to respond before release, if the owner wants to stop the shipment they have to post a bond for the value of the shipment at which point Customs will provide a sample and the owner can decide to release the shipment to the importer of record , allow the importer of record to export it out of the country or to remove the objectionable mark before it can be released.

For counterfeit merchandise, Customs will seize and/or destroy it and they will notify the IP owner the names of the importer of record, manufacturer, country of origin and quantity.

For patents, has to be registered with the Patent Office and is good for 20 years. If there is infringement a import survey can be requested and and exclusion order can be obtained from the International Trade Commission.

For grey market articles (genuine articles but not permitted to be imported into the united states, think licensing agreement/authorized reseller type thing) it will get detained, it will be checked against a database, if the importer of record is on the allowed list it will be released and if not the shipment is seized.

The problem with this is, Customs doesn't manually inspect every single shipment so it is fairly easy to get the vast majority of counterfeit goods in. Once it is inside the country, it's basically entirely on the company that's product has been counterfeited to identify counterfeit merchandise, identify sellers and pursue legal action.

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I've seen plenty of tales on reddit and elsewhere of individuals selling knock off Oakleys/Coach bags etc get letters from the owners/their law firms and some instances of suit.

If you're selling small amounts, one can fly under the radar, if you're insulated somewhat by Amazon/FBA then it can also slow down all but larger companies from coming after you.

If you do get caught, my understanding is they'll usually cease and desist you. If you persist, they can come after you under the Lanham Act for 3x profit or damages (whichever is greater).
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Scientists map undersea fresh-water aquifer off U.S. Northeast
very sorry to hear that. Debit cards are convenient etc, but they don't offer much in terms of fraud protection. The general suggestion is to always use a credit card instead so that you don't expose your own money to theft, but the bank's.

This is among the most important learnings you can get from Frank Abagnale's talk at Google (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsMydMDi3rI)
> Additionally: when you're up for buying a house and all the lender bank has to look is the credit score, you will be paying more interest than if you apply for a credit at the bank that has handled your business over decades.

Which country are you in? This has most definitely not been the case for me anywhere I've lived. It's irrelevant if you were a customer with the bank before the mortgage application or not.
Really nice to see stories about Clojure on HN.

Initially, it wasn't clear for me what editor is used but it appears to be Vim/Neovim with Fireplace: https://github.com/tpope/vim-fireplace

Actually looks pretty simple and straightforward. There is a healthy choice of different editors and IDEs for Clojure right now, thanks to building on common foundations of https://github.com/clojure/tools.nrepl
They are listed as a MuleSoft customer too: https://www.mulesoft.com/
"Dry" just means it can't be sold there. Doesn't mean you can't own it there. Buy it outside, bring it in.
Being the birthplace of MySQL and Linux, naturally it's open source. Question is the math editor good enough?

test editor here: http://digabi.github.io/rich-text-editor/

Finnish education have gotten good scores internationally and ease of testing and administration speaks for digitalization. Still isn't the cognitive context switch caused by looking through menus to high for such a stressfull setting?

(article in swedish)
https://svenska.yle.fi/artikel/2018/04/05/oro-over-digitala-...
Seems kludge-y.

IMHO, if one is going to do one of these types of embedded systems, then PoE should really be part of the design process from the beginning.

They're using the Ethernet on the BCM2711, and Broadcom has sadly deemed PoE not needed I guess.

The PoE HAT had a bunch of issues:

* https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/11/raspberry_pi_poe_ha...
Examining the fate of Fukushima contaminants (2015)
For the sbc folk - is there a board that runs on 5V like the raspberry Pi and has power data and video over usb type c? Most if not all boards I've found only support power or data, or require 12V.
If we disregard "its not fair to me, when i paid mine off" and "this reduces my buying power because everyone is as well off as I am" as arguments, my problem with this is that it excuses the schools for jacking up rates as loan money became available.

This is a bailout, and the banks / schools are the beneficiary. No more loans that will never be paid back. Schools get every inflated dollar from the last two decades.
Instead of taxing everyone, shouldnt the schools who took the money be paying in for everyone they trained who is underpaid?

https://thehill.com/opinion/education/442497-colleges-need-t...
Plants require water. Yes we can solve the plastic problem by growing more plants, but then we will have a water problem as plants, heavy industry, chemical production, recycling (which uses a lot of water), power production (most use steam), live stock, and human water consumption all compete.

I mean I guess we could melt the ice caps for more water...
This is interesting, but I think the authors don't talk enough about CPU and memory utilization. To me, the "classic" Google distributed systems architecture puts different tasks in different logical servers (doesn't matter if they're separate physical servers or not), which gives those servers more predictable memory and CPU usage, which in turn enables tighter bin-packing of jobs in the datacenter. The price they pay is needing a really, really fast in-datacenter network, but in the past they've been okay with this.

The paper proposes putting application-specific processing and memory caching on the same host, which might give the combined server less consistent CPU usage and therefore lower utilization, but will also eliminate the network hop from application server to in-memory cache. It seems intuitively reasonable to me to give up some CPU utilization in exchange for eliminating an all-to-all network connections stage, but I would like to see a real cost and speed comparison.
Because the "eat the rich"-style taxes DO eventually effect Joe the Plumber if he owns a plumbing business.

Look at the people in this very comment section advocating for 70% marginal rates for income above 1.5x the average income.
Have you actually been to small and medium size towns? Those fears were realized.
In audio that's still acceptable. In our games we usually run at either 40ms or 60ms audio frame size(which means you are getting at least that much latency before hearing the sound for your action).
I used to order seaweed snacks. The type of things I enjoy but is hard to find locally. I can't take the chance anymore, Amazon needs a perfect reputation before I'm willing to eat something from them.
I caused a car accident 25 years ago when I drove through a stop sign and was hit in the side by another car. Other than being rattled quite hard I suffered no ill effects although it totalled both my car and the car that hit me. I'd driven that same route several times over the past year, I had just been in a daze or something on that occassion.

I spent a few days recuperating at home, sore as hell. During that time I replayed the incident several times in my head, and thought I had a clear idea of the stop sign I missed and what it looked like. I went back later, and the intersection was nothing like I had convinced myself I had remembered it being. Specifically I'd convinced myself the stop sign was partially obscured, and it wasn't.

This experience shook me for a long time, and gave me a deep distrust of my own memories. There's a reason why eye witness aren't entirely reliable, I'd experienced it myself.
It should be more of a sliding scale. Each year further from today gets less.
Wow, I thought that MuleSoft was a made-up anonymized name like SuperRentalCorp...
You can't use regular photons to detect one because that requires getting in a plane and going out to find them. You're an even bigger sitting duck in a plane in the air than the carrier is sitting on the water. Radar will find you and interceptors will destroy you before you get close enough to see their exact position. You using a plane and radar runs into the same issue.

If you sit on the shore and use active radar tracking then you're leaving yourself open to decoy ops and EM countermeasures.

Satellites don't loiter over the area long enough to get a tracking lock. Ships can take evasive maneuvers and US Navy ships move very fast.
The key to being successful at something like this, whether it's internal LOB software or a B2B enterprise product, is to provide a way for users to handle any exceptions out of band. If you try to code for every process exception you will (a) never go live and (b) create a horrendous monstrosity of a system. But if you can find the right spots to put in manual hooks then the users can be empowered to solve their own process exceptions.

An easy example is if you have an application that does a bunch of different calculations based on random rules and data sets. Instead of trying to code every calculation and random exception that the users throw at you, you start with the top 80% (or 50% or whatever) and give them a robust way to add a "manual calculation". Then tell them to handle their own exceptions by doing whatever crazy crap they need to do and just stick the result in the system.

It's difficult because if you're not familiar with the industry then you won't even be able to imagine the places where exceptions can occur. And the users will complain about having to do stuff manually. If you automate 80% of what they are doing right now and they still have to do 20% manually, stuff that they are doing manually right now, that manual work suddenly becomes a critical blocker that prevents the whole system from being useful. So you need someone with a strong personality who will not just accept that whatever the users are saying is right.
Show HN: State estimation and filtering algorithms in Go
Websites need to stop being so js heavy
I'm perfectly fine with it having a touchbar, if only there was a physical ESC button.
Agree. I'm holding out on my 2015 MBP, no way I'll upgrade to one of the crappy keyboard shitters.
Wow, and bravo. Everybody everywhere would do well to hear/read this.

> Under the impact of complicated thoughts, shameless suppression and temptation, defending your freedom of thought has become very difficult.

> We usually believe that learning can make you powerful, but in the process, our independent will or freedom of thought is often hijacked, wittingly or unwittingly. Everyone thinks that learning is a good thing, but if we lose our independent will or freedom of thought, the outcome might be even worse than not learning.

[..]

> This is why the concept of “freedom and the pursuit of non-material goals” is incredibly important, but also incredibly fragile. Not only does it allow us to pursue our own lives, it also prevents us from becoming tools of crime.

> It is humanity’s first line of defense, or we should say the last. Actually, it’s the sole line of defense.

This reminds me of something I love to bits:

> But if you choose the liberty and pride and strength of the single soul, and the free fraternization of men, as the purpose which your life is to make manifest then do not sell it for tinsel. Think that your soul is strong and will hold its way; and slowly, through bitter struggle perhaps the strength will grow. And the foregoing of possessions for which others barter the last possibility of freedom will become easy.

> At the end of life you may close your eyes saying: "I have not been dominated by the Dominant Idea of my Age; I have chosen mine own allegiance, and served it. I have proved by a lifetime that there is that in man which saves him from the absolute tyranny of Circumstance, which in the end conquers and remoulds Circumstance, the immortal fire of Individual Will, which is the salvation of the Future."

-- Voltairine de Cleyre
You can disable Javascript on the site with ublock origin. Solves the issue.
I wish pi-hole was just a tiny bit more polished. I found it takes a lot of work (and knowledge of linux networking) to get up and running properly and stable.
Teaching 3-4yo kids basic programming skills. Using trains
oh—thank you!
"Libra" is the ostensibly independent / consortium organization in Switzerland. "Calibra" is a wholly owned Facebook subsidiary
Scroll down to the "Power and Heat" section

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/raspberry-pi-4-b,6193.h...
And so basically, the paper's tl;dr can be: It's time for everyone to stop using well-established best practices on X, and start using our product Y.
With the addition of iOS apps, would it be too much to ask for a touchscreen?
Genuinely curious what you'd want this for?

Cloud servers can be prepared in minutes, has decent performance, decent network, no upfront cost, can throw away or add at will and you don't have to take care of it physically. Also don't have to open up your local network.
>Fixing poor public policy in this case isn't subsidizing weakness; it's correcting an economic inefficiency.

If the government doesn't first fix higher education for people graduating highschool from now into the future, then they're not accomplishing anything. They're just buying votes.
> Does the 4 have a composite output

From what I can see on the specs, yes it does.
Facebook. Google will point to facebook's news feeds and internal mechanism as evidence that Google is not alone in terms of news and information linking. Similarly, there are many legitimate competitors in search. DuckDuckgo is a minor player, but microsoft's Bing isn't.

I think that Google is far too big, but I just don't see an antitrust case in the areas of news or search. Oldschool advertising would seem an option but that is a decreasing area, not the place to make real change going forwards imho. I'd like them to break up youtube, but there too Facebook's video sharing is a valid competitor.
After WW1 Austria lost its ports on the Mediterranean, those went to Yugoslawia, it lost the industrial areas and coal mines, those went to Czechoslowakia and Poland and it lost its agricultural areas, those went to Hungary. Any questions why the administrative hydrocephalus in Vienna wasn't commercially viable any more, and why the Anschluß was considered a good idea by so many Austrians?
I'm not a plastics guy (so correct me if I'm wrong) but my impression is that it's not either-or. Some parts of the crude oil is better for fuels, some for plastics. It's so cheap because it's a byproduct of the refining we were going to do anyway.

I've been told that the plastic companies would prefer to burn it for energy for disposal, the idea being that it was destined to be energy, and that path had a short detour as a cup. Not saying its a great plan, but it's a plan that let's them sell more plastic.
I see value in what you call home cloud. It has a lot of potential for distributing things and giving control of data back to people. Is there a place where I can follow developments like this?

Also, it seems like Western Digital would be an ideal player in the space since they want to bring processing to data storage via RISC-V.
So alter your plans and bring the kids! Not to the casino floor or adult bars of course, but kids love the shows, the crazy hotels, Bonnie Springs, the pools...

But yeah, having a supporting extended family is super useful indeed. Not mandatory, but it does make life easier.
If you are referring to the "30% increase in productivity from REPL driven development", it could be he means not having to recompile after each change, so not having your workflow interrupted.
In this case Verizon seems to have absolutely no functioning NOC at night (if even at day).
I'll get on the bandwagon once these companies do something that puts money in my pocket. Orange back in the day used to offer a savings account with 4% interest. That's how you build market share.

All I hear from these upstarts is how easy their app is to use, and how frictionless my payments will be. These are utterly meaningless platitudes. Show me the money.
The article mentions the fact that the dialect and culture are diminishing. In Louisiana, we have the same problem happening with the Cajun and Creole cultures, and it’s very sad to see. My wife’s grandmother spoke only Cajun French for all of her youth and still doesn’t speak English very comfortably, but that generation is dying off. Unfortunately, the more thoroughly Cajun areas of Louisiana are also the poorest, and so many of the new generations are leaving to bigger cities and more opportunities, myself and my wife included.

There are attempts to keep the language alive, but I’m betting it won’t be nearly enough, and it will likely only live on in an academic sense. The culture has of course also started to dissolve, but that’s no different from what’s experienced in areas all over the US what with ever increasing exposure to the ‘common identity’ via the internet/etc.

At the very least, however, our food culture has been so well-infused into our lives that I really doubt that aspect will die off anytime soon.
If you don't mind could you explain what your use case for something like this is?
How to turn Gmail into a help center and support customers with a shared inbox?
It’s original pitch is for an educational product, but some people use it as a very powerful embedded system.
“Electrified” meaning at least hybrid, at least plug-in hybrid, or full EV?
Google’s Enemies Gear Up to Make Antitrust Case

So customers and users are "enemies"? That's quite and indictment of their business model!

Edit specifically this part, which I read as "customers and users":

News Corp, which owns The Wall Street Journal, and other publishers say Google and other tech platforms siphon ad revenue away from content creators.
Avoid Working Alone
Yeah, option 1 is what I do for my own remote machine.

0 * * * * /sbin/pfctl -f /etc/pf.conf.knowngood

If needed, copy then edit the known good file, load rules temporarily, make sure everything works. Make sure the tests have enough time to run (that is: don't reload every minute, but every <long enough duration here>). If all is OK, then backup the old known good file, move the new one in place.
For very simple applications you can get with just the VB6 VM DLL but anything practical needs a bunch of OCX controls - even if you stick with the stock stuff you get with Visual Studio 6. AFAIK those OCX controls come with Windows for some years now so you can give someone a VB6 .exe and it'll work, but if you need anything outside of that you need to register them (unless i am wrong and VB6 can freeform OCX files directly but i'm almost certain it can only use stuff registered with the system).

Delphi VCL can use COM objects but on Delphi this is an exception rather than the norm, components on Delphi are (or can be) statically linked with the application. For VB6 the norm is using OCX controls... actually, i do not think it is possible to do anything else (outside of manually calling DLL functions of course, but even that is relying on a separate DLL).
Not a lot of detail here.

I wonder what the motivation for this is.
>To a large extent “be agile” is almost synonymous with “trust each other.” If you’re wondering why large companies have trouble being agile, it is partly because it is impossible for 11,000 people to trust each other the way 5 people can.

I wish the author had explained this more. What is it about agile that requires more trust than anything else? Can't you write lies in any format equally easy?
For what its worth, I just picked up the latest gen and the keyboard seems like a real improvement in both feel and noise. The Touch Bar still sucks, but I am happy with the keyboard.
Flies are a health hazard, is that news?

Although I can't say I've noticed True Bugs (Hempitera) around, perhaps I'm just not looking right.

What we need are spiders to catch the flies...
The parent comment did the same. I don't see it downvoted.
I commented something similar on an article here about a year ago, and people had some good points[0]:

> Heavy metal poisoning may take years to show effects.

> Shoddily made laptop chargers may be a fire/shock hazard that kill in 100/1,000,000 instead of 1/1,000,000 cases.

> Not every dangerous counterfeit is immediately obvious as such.

> If you're slathering it all over your body but you have no idea where or how it was made, do you suppose that you might suffer from deferred regret at some point in the future?

So, yeah, if the counterfeit is just as good, then fantastic. If it's not, that's a problem. If it's not in a non-obvious way that affects health or safety, that's a big problem.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17526538
UPDATE: Revolut have emailed me in response to my official complaint (possibly after seeing my post gain attention, I can't say for sure). They admitted it was a mistake to decline my chargeback and have refunded me the purchase.

They also said they would take measures to avoid this from happening again, hopefully they make good on that promise.

Thank you all very much for your help and support, I hope this doesn't happen to anyone else.
WaPo is pretty good, as is Reuters. Forbes is also decent in my experience.
> As would be expected, Lin claims the 16-inch MacBook Pro will feature a newer processor. No other details are known.

Didn't they update macbook pro with latest intel CPUs like a month ago?
If there’s no escape key and inverted-T arrow keys I’m cutting my losses and jumping to Linux after 30 years as a Mac owner.
Austria, as a part of Austria-Hungary, was a much larger country before WWI than it is now.

The borders of Austria-Hungary included the entirety of the modern countries of Austria, Hungary, Czechia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina. In addition, it contained hunks of the countries surrounding it. The belt of land in modern Poland and Ukraine along the axis from Katowice to Ternopil were all in Austria, while the region of modern Romania northwest of the mountain range was all in Hungary. Serbia north of Belgrade and Sabac (along the Danube-Sava river boundary) was Hungarian. The triangular region in northern Italy of Sudtirol was Austrian, as was the region around Trieste.

Internally, modern Czechia, Slovenia, the southern coast of Croatia (Dalmatia, specifically), the peninsular coast of Croatia, and most of the aforementioned territories were Austrian. Modern Slovakia, Hungary, the rest of Croatia, and the extra portions of Serbia and Romania were all part of Hungary. Bosnia was in neither Austria nor Hungary.
As we ditch the cultural foundation to our society in an effort to be more inclusive, we experience a crisis of meaning.
I envy those who are able to bring themselves to escape from this hell world.