skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Customs will know if Huawei is the shipper or importer of record, if it was on the docs. However "John Smith" could walk down to FedEx/UPS/DHL and go "I have this box of phones I'd like to ship, as John Smith" and hand a box full of Huawei phones across the desk.

The origin station goes "ok" and the provided documents get scanned in (commercial invoice, waybill). The packages goes along its way. If it is headed to the United States those documents then get transmitted to an office somewhere and someone reviews them and files entry on the shipment with the port it is expected to land in.

Say it's John Smith to Not Huawei Inc and it's 12 phones.

So Customs would get that it's John Smith and such and such street, shipping to Not Huawei Inc at such and such street. They'd then get the tariff number of 8517120050 for cellphones, that the quantity is 12, the country of origin on the docs and the value of the shipment.

What Customs won't see, unless they decide to manually review the commercial invoice themselves, is that the phones were manufactured by Huawei. What Customs and the carrier doen't realize is that "John Smith" is actually "Huawei Employee at Huawei, shipping for Huawei from Huawei to Huawei" because the commercial invoice says John smith to Not Huawei Inc which happens to be a DBA for Huawei (although Customs could catch this via the EIN).

A lot of customs clearance is "If it's written on the commercial invoice, it must be true" unless Customs flags something for manual inspection and decides to question it themselves. And the volume of packages entering the United States is such that it is just impossible to go over even 20% of shipments with a fine-toothed comb. You'd need to drastically increase the number of ports, the size of the ports, probably increase the number of CBP employees doing the job an order of magnitude and you'd still end up slowing down how fast freight is getting moved.

We live in a world where stuff gets on a plane in China and 12 hours later is clearing Customs and getting on a truck to head to it's final sort facility or onto a truck to be delivered to the importer. If you wanted to manually inspect every shipment you'd need an insane amount of warehouse space and something might get released a week or two after landing at the port of entry.
> This seems a little contradiction, I don't understand it:

> The 4-wheel drive car is designed to go for long periods without cable charging.

It is the long periods that are without cable charging, not that cable charging is not needed to drive long periods.
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Ask HN: Idea feedback on cheaper website/API uptime alerting
I am currently researching the idea to build a simple uptime monitoring tool to monitors websites and APIs.

Features:

Up to 10 monitors.

Sms(50 per month) Alerts, Email, Callback URLs.

1 min interval

Easy configuration

Pricing:

Looking to price it around 2.99$ or less per month to undercut the competition. Though the larger players have great(and more) features, I think there is a good enough market for a lighter and more cheaper alternative.

Target Audience:

Startups, Single owner websites.
Is Flutter a good fit for your business? 10 pros and 5 cons
Heartbreaking. And ludicrous.

For what it's worth, there seems to be a silver lining for some diabetics today, separate from the issue of insulin pricing -- the technology available now for continuous glucose monitoring, that takes a lot of dangerous guesswork out of day to day living.

It is another ongoing cost, but, it seems, not quite as devastating as what is going on with insulin.
> They turn racism from something useless into something they can use. This is what is truly 'deplorable'.

No, I'm pretty sure it's putting kids into concentration camps that's deplorable. Nice try though.
indeed there are the stories of people who have managed to raise themselves from poverty and gone on to be CEO, and it is possible if all the dominoes line up, there will always be the exception where this occurs, in general the odds are not in your favour. I can't help but think if the line from the hunger games - may the odds be ever in your favor.
> different angles

Yes, and your example of AuralAnalytics points out the two classes of angles:

1. Different modalities -- brain imaging, voice, eye movements, memory exams, etc*

2. Different diseases -- there are many similarities in underlying processes of neurodegen diseases, but there are many complexities that makes each one a unique, difficult to understand pathophysiology

*Etc is the exciting area, w/ startups still in stealth
Start with taking piano lessons for the basics and then learn to play some of the classics. Genesis, Toto, Saga, Herbie Hancock, you name it. There are plenty of tutorials on youtube.
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This is an issue beyond insulin. I hope they don't just focus on insulin.

Generics do not work to lower prices on drugs because there is price fixing between companies. Price fixing is illegal in the US but does not seem to be enforced.

I discovered this because my sister in law has a rare disease and she depends on a rare drug called syprine. Her drug costs went from 177.00 a month to $8000.00 a month where it hovered there for a year, then it went up to $43,354.73 a month.

The US funds the manufacture and research on drugs for rare diseases but only while the drug is under patent. Once the drug is out of patent then there is no regulation. These are called "orphan drugs."

It turns out that Valeant (the maker of syprine) was guilty of price fixing and was under investigation by the federal trade commission. The case went all the way to the supreme court which came down against Valeant. The end result seems to be nothing.
Ask HN: How to evaluate a financial model for potential investment?
I'm an intern at a small VC that has been tasked with vetting a financial model for a startup we are considering investing in. The analyst that's overseeing my work said he wanted to throw me in and see what I could figure out, but will actually guide me threw the process next week. I just want to get as much of a head start as possible.

What should I be looking for? What process should I use? How is this generally done?
This keeps repeating every few years i guess.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/2/16/11018018/5d-data-storage-...

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/160928-five-dimensional-...

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/92892-five-dimensional-g...

or did we capture its evolution :)
Quantum will be the next 'AI', like blockchain was the last one. :-)
Actually the brand you mentioned seem to be legit, as in not one face of a vast multinational. They do just the brand you mention. They are not owned by Nestle or anyone else.

Meanwhile, Hill Bros are anything but. They were owned by Nestle but are now part of this outfit:

http://www.mzb-group.com/en/brands

It is crazy how the core product is merchandised to different people around the world.

In the UK we get one of their brands at train stations and it all seems cool and locally British. But what is not so obvious is that the other coffee place at the station that seems not connected to the chain is also selling the same product with Italian branded beans. So the apparent choice is lining the same pockets of the global mega corp.

Obviously there is choice but sometimes the choice seems imagined, the megacorp can monopolise a locality such as a station.

Coffee is a product for grown ups but when you look at the MZB portfolio it seems that only in America do they treat their customers to a dumbed-down, sugared-up childish product with garish packaging. This is not just this mega-corp, if you go into a British supermarket and find a special shelf area with American products you will see some true crimes when it comes to ultrabright and childish packaging. Sometimes the cereal boxes have to have stickers over some of the nutrition claims on the pack as Trading Standards would just have those products off the shelves immediately if they weren't sanitised that bit.

The mega corp will sell the ultra adulterated products for the US market and have another brand to cater for the hipsters that want heritage, eco-whatever, taste and what not.

I think I really will be sticking with plain tea or skipping the intermediate steps and just going for sugar coated crack cocaine. It is all pulling the same levers in the brain.
If your insurance knows about the problem before your doctor, there are lot of grey areas which could be misused.
It's not for production it's for kids to learn to code on.
Monitoring is expensive. The strips can be 1-2 euros per one.
"Big Pharma" isn't really the issue here. I mean, it is, but going around "Big Pharma" is a high hurdle to jump over, if you can jump it, and it isn't such an issue in other countries - which leads me to think this is a regulation problem.

First things first, though, simply "bypassing the big pharma" means you need to jump through regulartory hurdles. You need to produce insulin in a manner that won't kill folks, test the finished product for strength, and get it to the patients safely without the product spoiling. You'll need to invest in logistics. To get it to the final patients, you'll either need to hire pharmacists and support and send insulin directly to the patient, making sure you keep records as the FDA requires. Or you'll need to make sure that you can supply pharmacies with your products. This will often be shipping your product to warehouses.

The second one is more difficult to control costs, but the first option - direct to consumer - means you hire more folks yourself and have more risk.

None of this stuff means your insulin will be used instead of the more expensive ones. This is likely especially true if you are using an older version of the drug - though I doubt one would bypass using bacteria to produce and use animals instead.

And then, after all this investment, why in the world would you, the new insulin maker, charge a reasonable amount for your drug when your competitors are charging outrageous prices?

But again, this isn't the issue. Really. From the article:

" The three pharmaceutical companies that manufacture insulin—Lilly, Novo Nordisk, and Sanofi—rake in billions in profits annually from insulin sales alone, with the U.S. market accounting for 15 percent of global insulin users but almost 50 percent of its worldwide revenues. Insulin ranks among each company’s top-selling drugs; one BMJ study showed that prices could be slashed considerably and the drugs would still be profitable."

US patients are paying a lot more for the drug. This is, in part, because of the fragmented health care system and I'm guessing it is, in part, regulation. In a small way, it might be patents, but at one time, folks were shy to enter the market since there wasn't as much being made. Seriously, this calls for a legislative fix instead of "bypassing the big pharma". Sure, they raised their prices but only because the legislative environment allows it to do such things.

It isn't just in the US, by the way, as folks in some parts of Africa pay more for basic, not-as-effective medicines, but it seems to affect the average HN reader more. And it isn't like this is something special to "Big Pharma" either - other countries gouge folks on any number of things and take advantage of folks.
I've found that individuals in physical or psychological pain tend to have limited capacities for criticality while also searching for solutions to their pain. 9/11 and anti-vax conspiracies can be attributed to this. Having two skyscrapers fall on your neighborhood has to be traumatizing and finding out your child is not what you expected her to be is no walk in the park.

The largest source of trauma in the country right now is school gun violence. The gun control movement being led by the traumatized victims of gun violence, regardless of it's ultimate effectiveness, is the healthiest response to trauma I've seen in the US.
It took suburban middle class children access to therapists, to start moving that conversation towards a place of sanity. If their pain never subsists, what kind of adults do you think they'll be?
They are not same nor was I implying they were the same. The point being that oversight and genuine mistakes happen. However Cloudflare wants to characterize it as "sloppiness and laziness" when it's someone else. And even here you are "parroting" them here when neither you or they actually know the details do you? Clearly Verizon has prefix filtering in place in other places or this would be a regular occurrence for them and it is not. Cloudflare is pretty far down the list in importance during an outage that affected many companies - other Tier 1s, 2s etc. Just because Cloudflare didn't get a response does not mean they weren't communicating. I know two network engineers who were in contact with Verizon yesterday during the outage. But again you seem intent to just "pile on" after reading a one-sided and self-serving Cloudflare blog post.
The reaction from the US seems a little outsized too - why is the FBI swarming this guy and US bothering to attempt to expedite for something that’s basically a petty fraud attempt?
Or go a step further and build them yourself. You get to keep the house, but you won't be able to make much use of it because every available space is taken up with a random assortment of wires, op-amps, resistors and capacitors.

DIY synth making will take up every bit of spare time you think you have left, and then some. Your hands will become a puzzle of soldering iron scars, and you'll slowly lose your hearing from accidental speaker pops. You have been warned.
> game.active_item = 1;

Nailed it!
Buy it, think of the cool projects I'll make with it, then hide it in the cupboard. Every few months I'll take it out, set up a webserver on it and after few days hide it again.
Pick from encyclopedias of group sourced solutions to problems. It is a copypasta nailgun to help stick frame the newly settled Cloud Frontier. We can thank the OP when we are all slaving away in the code mines.
Is this the traditional insulin that Walmart sells or newer versions that are so expensive in the US?
>You also need to be able to read and decode it many years into the future, which is really tricky to guarantee

Not really, those future people don't just come out of nowhere. It's a gradual, incremental change as there are still systems using tape storage the technology or formats are not lost but migrated.
When you say “play synth” ...

Do you mean compose music with a sequencer or DAW like ableton?

Or, read and play sheet music using a keyboard to control the synthesizer itself?

The synthesizer and it’s means of control being separate make it a little different from traditional acoustic instruments.

But, no musician ever went wrong by learning to play piano and/or taking lessons.

Also, no musician ever went wrong by listening to the music they loved and trying to imitate it on their own.

Lastly, it helps to be around other people playing or making music.
Came here to point this out as well. I didn’t read the entire article because I was too confused by that being called a “candid shot”. I’m sure there is a real issue to discuss here, but what a terrible way to introduce people to it.
> you need to get the right ones for your exact machine

That's my problem. I have a Nuovo Era Cuadra and it was never a very popular machine.
My personal experience is kind of inbetween. Analogue monosynths are great as a learning because you are stuck with what you have, and can't easily switch to another VST or scroll between endless presets. Their limitations force you to actually learn how to create sounds, and over time you get an intuitive sense of how to tweak each knob and slider just right in order to get the sound you want.

However, VSTs are vastly more convenient and eliminate the annoyances of tuning, physically powering and plugging in a large amount of bulky machines, losing previous specific sounds, and they give you the ability to easily tweak and edit previous recordings. However, you lose the immediate sense of close control over each aspect of the sound.

Ideally, what I would like is a physical MIDI controller with an exact map of my favorite analogue VSTs in terms of knobs and controls. My current keyboard does have a few a customization options, but it's rather awkward to map it to the VST each time, and it's not precisely 1:1 as there's not enough knobs, and they're not laid out or labeled in an intuitive manner.
Seeing the word concentration tramp unironically being used in a current world is obscene. Where did that even come from? That cropped fake photo on twitter?
> Or go a step further and build them yourself.

Absolutely! There's a group on FB called 'Eurorack DIY' if anyone's interested in this. Thonk [1] is also the store for you. Lots of DIY kits (before you inevitably embark on the path of building your own modules from scratch!)

[1] https://www.thonk.co.uk/
>People seem to think that the defective US healthcare system is an indictment on free-market capitalism. But there's nothing free-market at all about our system. What it's really an indictment on is cronyism, corruption, and rent-seeking.

Isn't the allowance of 'cronyism' etc, what makes the market "free?"
For learning to actually "play" any instrument, I'd recommend starting out learning some songs you like. The theory/effects/gear stuff develops in parallel. Songwriting will help too, even if it's something simple.

Depend on your taste in music, learning songs from classic synth era can be very useful too, whether it be prog-rock or anything else. I'd recommend songs by Camel, Allan Parsons Project etc.

Once your ears gets used to learning and playing whatever you hear off records, jam along to some classic Vangelis or something like that. Improvising is key to learning to play without sounding "stiff" if you will.
Caustic 3 has a great collection of all the basic synths: Modular, KS-synth, FM, Subtractive Sawtooth synth, Vocoder, Fourier, 8-bit, PCM.

https://singlecellsoftware.com/caustic

And it is free for iOS, Android, Windows, Linux/WINE
Type-C are expensive, it's worth the extra cost for the power stability (bad power is what causes most of the problems with previous Pis) but would increase the price if they used them for displays too.
Amazon is not a neutral referee though. They have an incentive to block (both fraudulent and legitimate) one star reviews but keep (even fraudulent) five star reviews: better reviews lead to more sales.
I would think that the differences in american marketing is because they are selling to a market that is 4-20 times larger than any european market, so you get more common denominators. Plus they have a longer tradition of consumerist culture.
There is a lot of investment in higher ed. Everybody wants more of the limited resources available. Since resources are limited the natural result is marketing trying to show you are worth more.
This is absolutely the story of the American ideal. We're a nation of Horatio Algers -- the quintessential "rags to riches" story.

Poverty, in the US, is a personal shame, not a systemic failure. The successful end result of centuries of propagandizing in favor of the Individual, and against organizing. We're a fractured people, to our detriment.
It is also possible to smell Parkinson's before its onset: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2019/03/21/parkinsons...
I'd at least consider a cheap VA too. I personally would find starting with just a monosynth to limiting.
The pitch sounds very cool. For all the information given, it could well possible take 13.8 billion years to write 360 TB of data and always in the lab environment that needed to be funded. They seem to be avoiding specifics.
Also forced non-competition... You simply can't make a generic version without your company being bought and/or litigated to death, preserving the just-barely-isnt-a-monopoly goal.

This happens in the garbage collection industry, people make competitors and offer 30% discounts on going rates, Waste Management or similar megacorp loses an entire county or region... Then they buy the company and slowly raise prices back up.

There's non-competes in the contract, but the owner doesn't care, they pocket 10 million and take a 1-year vacation then repeat the process. Only customers and employees are hurt (as there's less need for employees when the companies merge)

Same with pharma... Though I imagine there's extra pressure on the factories to not serve "little guy" as part of their contract with big pharma. So even if you have all the necessary process and expired patents, the industry stacked agreements and laws to make it nearly impossible.

Like many American industries, this is the kind of behaviour that caused Roosevelt (a Republican) to leverage the Sherman Anti-Trust Act... The key point being that mega corps were exploiting the populace and the only solution was to break up these giant monsterous companies that effectively created monopolies. He specifically targeted companies that used this power for ill, jacking up costs to consumers.

Now we are back at this point, but the public unrest hasn't reached a critical point while we are upset over other political issues, so big business continues to shovel buckets of money at Republicans to try and maintain the status quo until enough Americans get upset that politicians fear loosing their seat over the money (and right now, thanks to gerrymandering, enough politicians need 10% or more of their loyalty base to convert to the other party for that to be an issue.

In reality, this is a genius system that is perfectly legal... On the surface.
> Price fixing is illegal in the US but does not seem to be enforced

Those companies are too powerful. There have been many investigations, but you never hear anything back.
I really liked the envelopes part. I had hard time grasping the idea back in the days.
Python in a REPL isn't really possible because you can't reload modules. It's OK if you're working on just one module but as soon as that's not true it's just not possible. And if you use relative imports you can't even do that.

I'd love to know if anyone has a way to get it to work because I really miss REPL based development from my common lisp and Clojure days.
But if chip cards are much, much more secure than before and chip breaches are negligable (which they are), then why is the default presumption of fraud being the user's fault unfair? Users can and do write their PINs down, give them to other people and engage in other unsafe practices. That's by far the most common way chip cards are breached: social engineering.

I think there's a limit to how much liability system vendors should be expected to take. Insisting on all-corporate liability all the time, even for cases that are basically unsolvable like users deliberately giving away credentials, just socialises the cost of careless behaviour on all card users. Why bother upgrading security at all, in that case?
Two real ways to go about it, it works about the same as learning guitar for a specific genre. Either find someone competent in that play-style to tutor you, or take a beginner-intermediate class in piano. Up to that point it will conceptually be similar. Once you feel like your basic technique is sound (rolls, fingering, rhythm), start learning songs you like. You'll pick up the specific techniques you need as you go.

Taking a class early on is important though. You'll ingrain bad technique if you're entirely self taught, and reteaching yourself later when you realize your technique is holding you back is absolutely miserable. Taken from experience.
so that's why I'm getting a crapton of robocalls now?!
The generic insulins that are out of patent protection are also significantly worse than modern, patented insulins. Here's a good article on the topic: https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/news/20150318/why-isnt-there-...