skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FTA:

"This is all related to the Universal Postal Union agreement that allows Chinese sellers to ship products to the U.S. for less than it costs us to ship to the same state."

The USPS has been losing money on this arrangement for a long time, it's one of these things that has stuck around despite being a total embarrassment due to industry pressuring. There is no reason taxpayers should be subsidizing this -- in fact, THAT is the most American of tales, everyday Americans paying for the privilege of bad downstream consequences.
I'm no ideologue, so I'm fine with scattering around some government subsidized housing to help out those who have been hit worst by the housing crisis.

It's a drop in the bucket compared to what's needed, so I think the solution needs to be mostly market-based, but it's going to take a lot of different approaches to fix things.
> If you really think it's just a config file and nothing more, then just ignore it and move on. It doesn't hurt you with it's existence.

I think you're missunderstanding the reasoning behind the backlash. People are understandably angry at this, because they are afraid of this becoming the norm. Unlike places like the browser, the terminal is a tool that is used strictly for work reasons for most people. Not only that, but for CI logs, it's essential for day to day work.

It only takes one brave soul to try something, see if people put up with it, to become the norm.

Also, I'm really not sure of why you are calling it "config file" in quotations if we're downplaying his work, because that's literally all it really is. A thin wrapper around ESLint doesn't really count for much. And as FED, I'm not really necessary what all this "cost of running" you speak about is.

I'm sure Feross has put a lot of time and effort into his config file, but what about the developers behind ESLint? The actual tool Standard.js runs on? How much % of the funding earnings by Standard is passed to the ESLint team?

Plus, it's not like the community doesn't exactly have a bone to pick with an already controversial library already well known for deceiving beginners. Even people like Dan Abramov (Redux's creator) called out it's unfair to call this library "Standard" when it enforces coding practices well known to have many gotchas for beginners and that are far from the norm. But of course, the creator couldn't care less about this, as he is well aware that calling it "Standard" brings lots of traffic to his library.
Not sure if it is the best book overall, but I used it for one of my college classes and I think it is a great book for learning much more about operating systems. And it is available for free online so my college student wallet loved it!
I think the difference is day and night.
A bit off topic; but is it possible to help home bees with basically no "beekeeping"?

I'm planting native local pollinator friendly plants but I'd like to "do more".. within reason. I don't plan on buying bee keeping gear, but I'd happily stick a box in the corner of my property and let them go to town. Is that possible without maintenance?

My concern would be that a "real" kept hive would have someone monitoring for colony health. I merely want to toss up some homes/food/etc for the bees, in the same way that I do for birds.

Thoughts?
We already do it with progressive taxes. Fines are just a type of tax, so why can't they be progressive too?
MineSweeper in React Native
I'm a Linux n00b. Can anyone tell me if LUKS is inline encryption? I use LUKS myself. Funnily this article never mentions it
I think these issues were implicated:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/65194
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/52956

No idea when these are going to be deployed. 12.2, 12.3, 12.5... But I'll keep checking in and trying the import every few weeks.
Given that income for the bottom 40% has barely budged in 20 years, keeping the price of goods low (i.e. low inflation) is probably a net benefit to America, no?
Yeah this is the one (and only) thing Trump did right. I can't believe we let China get cheap shipping for so long on our dime.
Risk mindset in blockchain and finance: expect the worst to happen
> According to people who have purchased from there, they're VL keys that can be used many times (e.g. 2500 times), so they just sell the same key over and over to multiple people

Erm, no - that's not how Microsoft's volume licensing works. Volume keys are issued to enterprises that buy them, and only that organisation is licensed to use them.

Unscrupulous employees have been known to sell the keys.
Caveat emptor has to have limits. If merchants can just write whatever on whatever package and sell it, how the hell are consumers supposed to function as informed or responsible? How long until every transaction turns into a sketchy used car buy, having to take my package of fucking toilet paper to a maid so she can use her expertise to make sure they didn't make the paper out of razorblades and carbon fiber?

I'm all for free markets but merchants have proven time and again, and long before China for that matter, that they can't be fucking trusted with anything. Sure, some are good, but the vast majority especially online will do any damn thing they can to increase bottom line.
This has been happening for literally years already. Basically dropshippers would buy products list them and ship direct in the way you're describing. Then, when a manufacturer noticed that a product was popular enough, they would undercut the dropshipper and just list the product directly. Most of the "advanced" dropshippers though have white label products with some branding and design changes and then buy them in blocks of inventory and have them shipped to a 3PL partner anyways.
I mean, I guess the tradeoff is "keep bananas cheap" vs "keep banana industry alive in Australia".

Unless all those growers had cyclone insurance, in which case, yeah, probably should have let in the foreign bananas, right?
This software is a tool that is very easy to abuse, in fact I would go so far to say that its primary purpose is to be abused. Like a gun it has its place in society, but that doesn't absolve you from responsibility when you sell guns to a known dictator. IBM is definitely to blame when they sold their punchcard computers to nazi Germany, knowing that they would be used for genocide (which was not only common knowledge, they even wrote the damn programs!).

You are conflating two separate issues here: The morality of Palantir and their employees and the practicality of stopping abuse.

To get back to the weapons analogy: We may not be able to stop everyone from selling weapons to North Korea but we can surely condemn those who do, wouldn't you agree?

> Punchcards weren't the problem, Nazis were the problem

Nazis are inevitable. Even if you assume that the government actually acquired this software with good intent, you have to anticipate that someone will abuse it. Maybe not today but tomorrow.
American Factory
This is not limited to the US. I believe it is worldwide and it is certainly the same in The Netherlands.

edit: I believe there has been some change recently, the 'ePacket' ? Which is not delivered to your door, but you have to fetch it at a postal point.
>from the OEM as much as possible

I think I'll take my chances with the "Mexican" parts you've described as I have seen them installed in countless cars and road deaths have only been dropping year over year.

There is no need for me to crucify myself financially because German plastic is supposedly better than Mexican.
If fines are intended to be punitive, and intended to discourage people from committing crimes, then a person's wealth is the only thing it makes sense to base them on.

Otherwise, wealthy people can flout fine-based laws with virtual impunity, while poor can't. That doesn't seem fair, that seems like justice for the poor, lawlessness for the rich.
I thought/wondered the same regarding wish.com. Although this 2019 Forbes article makes it sound like it's not a death knell.

> Shipping is cheap thanks in part to an agreement between China Post and the U.S. Postal Service that allows goods that weigh 4.4 pounds or less to be shipped at low rates. About 15% of Wish’s shipments qualify.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2019/03/13/meet-the-...
You forgot about fluoride in toothpaste (sarcasm)
> The USPS will certainly make more revenue

Maybe. The main benefactor may be Amazon people switch to them. They have the lowest domestic shipping costs (presumably, since they’ve implemented their own in-house couriers).

The actual cost of USPS of delivering a package is kinda complicated. If USPS is going by your house every day, how much do their costs go down if they have 1 less package to drop off?

Dividing total costs by packages delivered doesn’t tell that story.
Your message is essentially an ad-hominem attack that doesn't even successfully attack the author.

The fact that they publish a book and have written negative things is not particularly relevant. Especially if those negative things are about Uber, which was and is doing a lot of negative stuff.
My first thought was it was related to the cloud security company Presidio not MS.
Does the title mean "Let's build houses for people, not build cars for people", or "Let's build houses for people, not build houses for cars"?

Language is weird.
Syncthing is peer-to-peer, Duple is one master + many slaves.
We have a looming crisis in air and in some places water.
Even if true, I rather doubt that extends to an employee selling access to their employer's volume licensing key (it seems clear that's what's happening here)
I disagree. I think these concepts are fundamentally linked - the architecture around us has a significant impact on the human psyche. Make the place look shit (read: putting people into literal boxes) and the people inside/around the buildings will feel and act the same way. The atomisation of individuals and devaluing of the community is part of what's lead us to this point in the first place.
Also businesses like Harbor Freight will benefit, because it will be much harder/more expensive to buy direct. Same thing with the "cheap" brands at places like Menards.

This will slow the pace of innovation in a lot of areas, especially among electronics hobbyists. Cheap chinese circuit boards from Shenzen are a major driver for electronics related businesses, robotics, drones, and lots of other areas.

This is going to hurt a lot of people in the US, and put more money in the hands of big business like most other initiatives coming out of the government lately.

All this isn't talking about the elephant in the room, which is the fact that this agreement is changing because our delusional President doesn't like non whites.
The assumption here is that viewpoints have an equivalent value.

That assumption is probably the most toxic element contributing to the demise of intelligent public discourse and disagreement in the last decade.

I see no problem in refusing to argue with someone who is ranting against established science and refuses to look at the evidence or to reproduce the scientific results themselves.
With current technology, definitely.
Basically:

- Town is poor and economically desolate.
- Town gets money from being legally petty to try to stay afloat.
- Everyone who gets fines hates Town; wants to avoid it.
- Town is poor and economically desolate.

Not a prime long-term strategy. If the Town is already on life-support, then short-sightedness is their de facto choice if the Town going belly-up is their other option.
I 100% guarantee someone has died from substandard automotive goods. Not sure when or where, but mechanical failures contribute to accidents all the time.
> Amazon thinks they're selling you genuine merchandise.

I'm pretty sure Amazon doesn't believe this anymore either.
A certain someone has a real hate-on for China?
> the underlying principle behind the GPL could not be achieved without copyright. The GPL doesn't merely require you to let other people reverse engineer your binaries, it contemplates that the distributed source code will be in the "preferred form" for working on it. There is no way to enforce that provision without copyright.

Sure there is. The GPL just used copyright as a hack to enforce on a limited basis what the creators explicitly think ought to be a universal obligation not dependent on the use of some upstream content that imposes the rule, for which the natural enforcement mechanism would be for the rules to be in law directly instead of copyright. “Copyleft” essentially implies that—its twisting what proponents see as a bad law into a tool for approximating the nearly diameteically-opposed law they wish existed in its place.
There is within reason just cause to criticize trademark as it is exists now from an IP abolitionists perspective - trademarks are often liberally given out for nebulous concepts and the process of overturning a generic trademark is, like almost anything related to legal proceedings, outside the purview of most average people.

The act of trying to deceive people through imitation of another product should fall plainly under a better written statute against impersonation, slander, and deceptive advertising. You shouldn't be registering trademarks or having the bureaucracy associated - all you need to do is sue someone you think is trying to mislead in imitating your branding under such expanded laws to get them to stop.

Because inevitably it comes down to the interpretations of people on who is the "real" product, whatever it name may be. Trademark registration gives you a date to go by but that doesn't guarantee use of the name or nuance about presentation aside the trademark. It still ends up being in front of a judge even with a trademark in hand, and like with all the IP offices of government the trademark office is usually understaffed, overworked, and not capable of accurately auditing all incoming requests for brand protection or to verify issued trademarks are being used for their intended purpose.
Really depends which little corner of the pedal market you’re talking about. In the digital realm I would disagree, there are a lot of really interesting designs from the past 5 years or so. Some of them hide complex dsp algos behind a couple of simple knobs, and some of them have full menus or fit an entire modular synth crammed into a pedal format. There’s also some really cool stuff happening with open source algorithms, for instance the popular clouds modular synth module is fully open source to tweak and port to new formats. There are other pedals that can run different formats of open source dsp algorithms.

Even in the crossover analog/digital world (chase bliss being one of the biggest examples) there’s some cool and fairly new stuff happening, like fully analog circuits that are completely controllable over midi or other lfo type control signals.

In the fully analog realm, yeah, there is a bit of what you could call cork sniffing, dressing up the same circuits that have been used for the past 30 years in a boutique package and selling it for twice as much.
https://www.geek.com/tech/worlds-first-5g-powered-remote-bra...

https://www.cnet.com/news/5g-could-make-self-driving-cars-sm...

There's also the possibility of much faster speeds even in areas without 5g, since the competition will make 3g speeds a really bad look.
Millions of Calc I graduates would beg to disagree on the first point... :D
He's a journalist with a particular opinion about the company. The tech reporting at NYTimes isn't necessarily as neutral as the general reporting.
I have repeatedly bought the Puma suede classics or whatever they're called, not because they rip or get beat up, but because they last indefinitely. I haven't thrown out a single pair and still rotate them out. And they're only ~40-50 when on sale.
Interesting. Never even knew XKCD had a blog until now. I love the way you can read all his posts on one massive page lol https://blog.xkcd.com
Facebook to world: Truth is a choice
I don't disagree that they're the best form of treatment right now. I can see how the tone of my post definitely disregards the importance of pills right now.

I just feel like they are a disappointing "solution" to a yet fully understood problem. I'm hopeful that we (humanity) continue to invest in real cures, rather than treatments that often come with side effects.
I don't believe that speaking of "future consent" of a "potential person" is useful. A child was never asked if he or she wanted to be born. After birth, parents essentially own their children until majority.

Parents make many, many decisions that will shape their child's future. Maybe editing an embryo is just one more. How is that different than choosing to feed your baby formula, put them in front of a TV all day, or drinking/smoking while pregnant (neither of which is illegal)?

This is the essence of the law: figuring out what happens when various rights intersect. I don't think there are right answers here but I think we need to generate some precedent in this area, and quick.
wget is not a command, it is a program
>There are, of course, toll bridges and roads, including private ones. (The fact that the laborer doesn’t get the payment is a function of the arrangement between the laborer and the person who owns the bridge, not a function of the nature of the property right.)

You mean like publishers and creators?
This so much is literally my point ^
I guess we agree.

I don't argue that we should continue todays consumption, only that going all vegan might not be a good idea.

Reducing consumption seems like a really good idea to me for several reasons. As does small scale poultry and animal farming (raising a pig or some poultry on scraps instead of throwing it away should be a good idea today as well if one could get away with it.)
I misread and joined his first and second points accidentally. I thought he was wanting to live abroad for cheap.
> there's a lot of cork sniffing sane nose thumbing generally, even though two designs may be electrically exact.

Which is why Behringer is good enough for most people.
Is Our Fear of Smartphones Overblown?
> If they are going to use minor violations of the law as a pretext for revenue collection, they should call it what it is: kleptocracy.

Context!
> Binary is the source code, albeit in less convenient form.

At least the copyleft defenders would not agree.
Ask HN: How did you get multitenancy right?
Hello, HN!
I'm currently maintaining the backend of a "job board" application. This application allows nonprofits to register and publish free volunteering opportunities, and lets volunteers search and apply for jobs.
The thing is, some companies want their own platform for their employees to do volunteer work. Sometimes we also fire up platforms for specific volunteering events/dates. We want to keep every client/platform on their own server, with their own database. This would be perfect for us except for one thing, sometimes we want to integrate two or more platforms.

Eg: There's a client who has a country wide platform, but he also has 2 platforms specific for two cities/communities(cities A and B). Projects hosted on the country-wide platform that are on city A, should show up on the A-city platform. Also, all projects on the A-city platform should show up on the country wide platform.

So, basically what we want is to have multi-tenancy but allowing data to flow freely between multiple platforms/websites.
Our current solution involves sharing a database between all the platforms and every table has a 'channel' column, where we tag which site the row is from. Using this we can design content flow rules between the channels. The downside is that all the data is cramped together now, with unrelated clients sharing the same database and this will be hard to scale, insecure and hard to maintain.

With this being said, we are looking for a solution that allows us to integrate multiple tenants data, we've been looking currently at stuff like PostgreSQL dblink and at the idea of duplicating data but every solution we see seems to have huge flaws.

With all that being said, how did you solve your multitenancy problems? What should we consider?
>>>Can you name any city's suburb(s) that has enough affordable housing for 3 million people?

Sure: Yokohama, if you'll accept a city of 3.7 million as a "suburb" of a city of 14 million+. Just as a rough guide, compare these two results: [1][2]. The lowest Yokohama rents are HALF of the lowest HK ones, and I'm fairly confident that lower-class/lower-middle class incomes are not doubled in HK.

[1]https://realestate.co.jp/en/rent/listing?order=12A&page=1&pr...

[2]https://www.squarefoot.com.hk/en/rent/list/?sortBy=price-asc
> If you're a real expert in arbitrage, you don't settle for making a couple dollars at a time.

Have you been to Thailand? I estimate these "digital nomad" drop-shippers and drop-shipping-shippers comprise about half the GDP of Chiang Mai
Suggestion 1 is terrible unless it's combined with a limited permit scheme for street parking. Otherwise you end up with a mess where everyone buys a car anyway, then ends up circling the block around and around hunting for a space.
It's even worse - this is something of a yesterday's problem. We have a growing trend of turning products into services, which not only prevents you from repairing things (which you now don't own), but also restricts ways you can use them and creates an aggressive form of planned obsolescence.
https://www.noparkinghere.com
how to reach you for working on the project
I have a lot of friends who are in your camp. Me? I love the Seattle Central library and have found some happy nooks where I can comfortably read for hours. By far my most favorite part of the library is level 8: endless sheet music and a couple of piano practice rooms nearby.
Planet Money did a great breakdown on this. Essentially it comes down to international agreements on the cost of doing the past mile of shipping for other countries.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/08/01/634737852/epis...
It is snark. It isn't meant to be constructive or add value to the thread, it is meant to condescend by saying something true but using that truism in order to imply it is also easy (in spite of all of the evidence to the contrary).

To quote the site's guidelines:

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

It is snarky. It isn't thoughtful or substantive.
+1 for xv6. The commentary book is really well written, and is a straightforward introduction to a lot of important ideas.

https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2014/xv6/book-rev8.pdf
Fundamentally this problem is not fixable.

Everybody wants to live in NYC/SF/LA/London/Paris/Tokyo/...

The moment rents drop for whatever reason (more building), a new batch of people will finally afford to move in.
Does anyone know if it's possible to do a 'reproducible build' of mainline Firefox so we can be sure their official releases are actually based on legit Mozilla code and not tampered copies with hidden nasties baked in?
Congrats on selling into universities. That's a tough market - long sales cycle, lots of bureaucracy, multiple decision-makers.
I suspect this may be true of many industries, but I don't know it because with respect to those other industries, I am among the normals.

But I definitely agree with respect to our industry. Right now the normals seem apathetic, but if they knew they'd be outraged.
I just realized monorepos are analogous to a flat network, everything can reach everything else, or that main memory is flat/linear/same cost for each read/write (not true, but it is the abstraction we believe).

I now believe that monorepos can only work well when there is a mechanical tool for ensuring correctness and that refactorings can be done atomically across the whole tree. Infact, it might be necessary to _only_ commit the refactoring operation to the tree and the source itself. That the whole tree is a blockchain of tree edit operations.
I know NoRedInk has a lot of Elm components; however, they employ Evan Czaplicki, who is the creator of the language.