skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's because the shipping containers belong to the shipping company, and are rented out for the trip.

So the shipping company will have a bunch of empty containers at the port of landing (destination), and needs to send them back to the port of departure to be filled again.

If trade between the two ports is balanced, then the containers will always be full regardless of the port of departure.

But since trade is not balanced, they wind up having to send empty containers on the "return" voyage. Which is pure loss for the shipping company, so they are willing to heavily discount routes that have empty containers transiting.

Which are these routes does change of course, but they are often those originating in the EU / US and arriving in Asia.
I agree that many parts of the Science Museum now look neglected and shabby, but the museum does have some truly exceptional exhibits - an original prototype Analytical Engine, a working replica Difference Engine, an Apple I, a Cray 1a, a Daniels Space Traveler and much more besides.

I have to admit a deep sadness at the recent closure of the old Wellcome collection on the fourth and fifth floor; this gallery had been left largely unchanged in several decades, but it had a powerfully evocative atmosphere. It was nearly always empty (hence the understandable decision to close it) and was poorly signposted from the rest of the museum, so it felt almost like urban exploration, creeping through a once-cherished but now abandoned site. By the passage of time, it had become a sort of meta-museum, presenting a historical perspective on the history of medicine. The galleries have been preserved for posterity by Google, but pictures can't really capture the feeling of stepping into a museum that is itself a museum exhibit.

https://artsandculture.google.com/streetview/science-museum-...
Okay, my grammar still sucks. But anyway, let's talk more about form, in language as in life.

In my 20s I had injured myself several times, from lifting and running around Ann Arbor. After one extreme and almost paralyzing injury I went to a neurosurgeon.

The neurosurgeon gave me the choice of surgery or strengthening my core and perfecting my form in exercises going forward.

Fancy exercise stuff is cheaper than surgery.

Strictly speaking the best exercises are all completely free.

There are a lot of comments here smirking about bikes that go nowhere, etc. If you think a stationary bike is "unnatural," pounding pavement does not seem all that different.

The point is good form. There are many rivers to that ocean.
>Dr. Alex Lickerman, the author of The Undefeated Mind: On the Science of Constructing an Indestructible Self, says that time anxiety stems from some of the following questions: “Am I creating the greatest amount of value with my life that I can? Will I feel, when it comes my time to die, that I spent too much of my time frivolously?”

Even before that, time anxiety stems from the idea that we're put here to do X thing or achieve Y thing, and not e.g. just enjoy life.

While the notion is ancient, many cultures don't really have time anxiety to any degree to write home about. It's more common in the US than in Europe, for example, and perhaps goes with the "winners and losers" view of society as some kind of race.
> And it stopped existing because she left Google. How could I possibly predict that?

It's pretty easy really, and you don't have to predict Google executive tenures: if the founder of a service you are considering using sells the company to Google and runs a completely different product division afterwards, even if that service doesn't immediately sunset and lives on as a vanity project, it will die of neglect. The founder focuses on the job they were hired for, and the competition will not remain in stasis like the service inevitably does.
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I was coming from Los Angeles where bicycle usage is a rarity so it was something I wasn't used to seeing!
Looking through https://killedbygoogle.com most of the projects look like crappy side projects so I can understand why a multibillion dollar company would kill them off.

My favourite one they killed was this one though:

Google Ride Finder

Killed almost 10 years ago, Google Ride Finder was a service that used GPS data to pinpoint and map the location of taxis, limos, and shuttle vehicles available for hire in 10 U.S. metro areas. It was over 4 years old.

A taxi app... Close, but no cigar.
Technically he's not the immigrant, and neither are his birth parents, so I vote you continue your quest.
Thats a very intriguing approach. I might give it a try. Farming looks easy but I find it hard.
Maybe for that one person who wrote that article that's true, at least for myself who has followed some of their advice (and many people in my network) we definitely all have to work to earn money and survive. I also think there is lots of other advice and frameworks for how to think about your career on the site so I would take one anonymous contribution with a grain of salt, even if they did have a high impact career.
People follow dangerous guides like this and then complain Windows doesn't work well. For example, following this guide turns off 'Let Windows track app launches to improve Start and search results'. You then see loads of posts on hacker news complaining that start menu search doesn't give them their most used apps at the top.
What makes you think that twitter, facebook, and similar don't already provide access to the US government based on just the username?
Yes, because that is probably not the setup/workflow that the majority of internet users are using.

Also, I'm not sure how useful deleting cookies is today if the new cookie can immediately be re-linked with the old profile the moment you log into your Google account.
...and ignore the externalities...
>I’ve heard...

Heard from where?

>According to the people dealing with foreign student CBP has never done that before.

Again, do you have any sources?
That's a far worse privacy violation for those being filmed?
Its like the claim that electric cars are fossil fuel free. Technically they still use oil in the engine, the tires, glycol in cold temperature, and last the energy itself is likely to be generated from fossil fuels. The roads it travel on is often petroleum based.

A lot of Fossil fuel is involved when a electric car travels so a more accurate description is to call them low-carbon transportation, but no one does that.
How does this perception mechanism fit in with how people conceptualize or register numbers?

A friend was telling me that when she thinks of a number, a particular visualization of it automatically comes into her mind. From how she described it, I recall thinking it sounded like an accidental approximation of something like a logarithmic scale, but less direct and less precise than it had to be. I knew her pretty well, and, other than this visual, she didn't appear atypical (was social, smart and educated, but no savant superpowers, nor any unusually low limits).

I was wondering whether she had a normal human conception of numbers, and somehow just had a little extra introspection on that. Or maybe this visual was an independent mechanism (perhaps learned in childhood). Or maybe she conceived of numbers differently than most people.
Google doing what google does best.
The platform has also changed. Now it is ad-infested and algorithmically crushed in the pursuit of profit to something which actually discourages these interactions.
Though Grindr is also a treasure trove of dick pics!
All of the above, preferably. Government agencies for law enforcement may be exempt anyway.
Perhaps the only decent use is a biometric ID or passport and should be regulated as identification data on those documents, that is rigorously.
Code reuse is a powerful feeling of productivity in programming, however in many cases the pains outweigh the gains.

After making several npm packages, I've learnt that you need to put yourself in another frame of mind to reuse code. Here's some concrete steps in order to create good reusable components.

0. Ask yourself if this is this worth the overhead of code reuse???

1. Think from the perspective of the user of the component (because you will be the user in most cases), what's the most logical way to use and customise this thing?

2. Simplify the getting started as much as possible, it's much harder to reuse if it's complex to add to a project.

3. Remove as many dependencies as possible, this makes it simpler, lighter weight and allows more options for users of the package, (they can use different versions etc..).

4. Try to make an MVP and iterate on it.

5. Strive for backwards compatibility where ever possible.

There's probably many more good points I'm missing, but that's a few that I think are important.
Honestly I wouldn’t know, just musing! My background definitely isn’t in fluid flow.

A quick search suggests that cavitation modeling is actively being updated (src: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5052257), but I don’t know to what degree they’re refining them. Not my area of focus.
I would like to seriously ask you to consider a more nuanced stance on this subject, as you now seem either uninformed about the technology behind these systems or wilfully naive. Please consider the dangers that could spring from such capabilities, if not now, then in some time when another power has control of these capabilities.
A few thoughts off the top of my head:
1. If you can, offer a discounted promotional rate for tasks on your site, where some tasks will be completed for free. Tasks must be approved (by you). Then, just do the freelance work yourself at below-market prices.

2. Post tasks yourself. When people complete the training, pay them to help develop your app / site.

3. Offer discounted rates where you subsidize the income of the freelancer.

4. Offer badges for completing training, and then auto-create a freelancing profile for the user to advertise on other competing freelance site. Yes you're driving away your freelancers initially, but you must offer them something of value or they have no incentive to participate.

The problem you're having is not retention, per se. You are trying to be a middleman and create a new market. The problem with creating a market is that you need to ensure BOTH sides of the market are up and running (buyers and sellers) before you start to attract organic participants. This is the same problem Uber faced and ultimately conquered. Creating a market is hard, and almost impossible to do without large amounts of funding.
For me what is particularly galling is that the state department had already vetted and approved this person. Remember, part of the visa application includes your social media profiles, so he's already been vetted.

Then some random CBP agent reads through Facebook posts of his friends and denies him entry.

Some of the other comments here bewilder me. The US used to stand for fairness, equality, and due process. We've allowed the worst of ourselves (fear of the other) to destroy the best of ourselves (openness, fairness, justice).
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There is no safe way to take action to delete your accounts without risking being denied entry to the US for having done so, unless you simply do not attempt to enter the US between when you delete your accounts and when the deadline for reporting those accounts expires.

I’m assuming that people will, regardless, try to enter the US - after deleting their accounts, before the reporting period expires. If they have not taken these steps, they will be at risk of being compelled to divulge passwords and/or having their data inspected through a friend’s account.

It’s too late to take the obvious best step, which was to delete all social media accounts immediately upon the announcement.

All I can offer is steps that allow others^ to protect their privacy without having to intentionally withhold their passwords. If they truly care and consider you criminal, they will get an international warrant and retrieve the passwords.

They may or may not detain or eject you, but at least you will have told the truth and never misled them, which counts for a great deal if the law becomes involved.

^ HN visitors are frequently quite obsessed with maintaining the privacy of their data, even when they voluntarily posted it to the Internet. I offer no criticism of this choice, but instead offer steps that they can take to exercise their desire for privacy without having to lie at a border crossing.
And others too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK_m_3ZQN8Q
You have the “protecting their work” part backwards. You and I agree that copyright stops people from working. So clearly the way to protect your work is to not be at risk of someone using copyright to stop your work; for example, you can protect your work by not having a copyright law. Lots of people in China have work because copyright is not strongly enforced, and their work is in danger if copyright starts being enforced more strongly.

You say “jumpstart their creative sector”, but protection from copyright is just as important to allow an existing “creative sector” to survive.

Shanzhai in China will probably end, just like democracy in America. But we can hope that the flowers of human creativity and liberty will not die forever; somewhere else soon, they will sprout anew.
Plenty of non-rookies are using Behringer gear these days, and plenty of Behringer gear has been built just fine; I have a Behringer mixer from the late 90s that is still in use and 100% functional, and I've got a new XR18 digital mixer that can't be beat for bang-for-buck.

Want to help rookies? Steer them away from the $500 tube-screamer or dual-blues-breaker clones that you need to be on a waiting list for 2 years before you can even buy one! :)
This comment again underscores that it's naive to imagine technical solutions to political problems.

Clean burner phone? No social media account? Both look suspicious, and if they search and find your old account, they'll know you lied and can shut down your visa/entrance. Not to mention lying to a federal agent is a felony, and they could trivially ask "Do you have a social media account?".
> random CBP agent

High School grad with relatively low intelligence and likely conservative 'murica values.

> Some of the other comments here bewilder me. The US used to stand for fairness, equality, and due process. We've allowed the worst of ourselves (fear of the other) to destroy the best of ourselves (openness, fairness, justice).

Crypto-racism is in vogue in America these days. Where any deference to the law or the rules is used as cover for hatred of various minorities.
Thanks for offering him some punctuation, he could probably also use some ,,,
Obviously as soon as they figure out that you are being obstructive you get sent home?
How does it compare to UbuntuPhone?
How many programmers would have been unsuccessful if Stackoverflow didn't exist?
Huawei in talks to install Russian operating system on tablets
Well you did suggest that this discussion would go unhad, where it not for twitter, so yes?
Interestingly one of the hire support links in the announcement goes to the invalid address http://perezmiguel/. I'm guessing that is the person who worked on the announcement document.
Blackmail isn't just about embarrassment in public. It's more commonly about embarrassment in front of someone in particular.
I also demo only things, I am sure 100% it will work. Otherwise it doesn’t make sense. Every YouTube technical demo is repeated hundred times until perfect video is made to make an impression, it works 100%. That’s the purpose of demoing something. About bureaucratic incompetence I have no opinion.
Imagine Apple were run by professionals! They'd employ sweatshop labour, charge exorbitant prices, and control a colossal pile of cash for which they cannot find a use.
Signal's Linux client uses Electron. I wonder how well it will work on a resource-constrained phone.
Ok so outside of their own home people have to behave as if somebody watches them 24/7. No offense, but we already have data on what that kind of belief produces and that's the belief that God always watches you. Seems to be beneficial.
I have an easier process:

1) Do not visit the United States. Do not do business with companies that might require you to travel there.

It’s worked 100% of the time, so far.

Honestly, the US is such a hostile environment, it’s a wonder to me that anybody would want to go there.
As a first step, browsers should make extensions more powerful again. It's a pain that extensions are so teethless these days.

Then we could make a powersaving extension. It would allow a page a cumulative number of ms to use the CPU/GPU and a max number of network requests. After that it would display "This page has exceeded its quota of resources. Should all JS be halted? You can always continue the JS by clicking the little PowerSaver icon".

Here is a fun way to tame power intensive tabs (tried it with Firefox and Chromium and it works for both):

top

Look at the ID of the most busy tab. Let's say it's 1234

kill -STOP 1234

Boom! Immediately the tab is frozen and it's CPU usage drops to zero.

kill -CONT 1234

Now it is alive again.

To pause all tabs:

pkill --signal STOP firefox

And to continue:

pkill --signal CONT firefox

For Chromium, just use "chromium" instead of "firefox".

So if we had something like native extensions, we could achieve a "pause button" by simply leveraging the STOP and CONT signal of the OS. If one were to look deeper into how browsers do their work, I wouldn't be surprised if we could target the signals more precisely and keep scrolling alive during the pause. Or we could CONT the process in case of a scroll event and then immediately STOP it again.

Another approach could be a "BrowserTamer" application that keeps the browser STOPped as long as there is no mouse/keyboard activity and CONT it for 100ms on scroll/keyboard activity. That could probably be implemented as a seperate program without help from the browsers themselfes.
The corresponding provision in European human rights law, article 10, applies to all humans.
Ask HN: What Are Your Hobbies?
I am tired of very boring day job (programming) and looking for something to lose myself again. (the feeling I used to have in early days of programming). So Friends, would you care to share you hobbies ?
Why is this posted here again? Is it usable now?
Why not?

A constitution is the statement of intent for how you want your country to be (minimums anyway). If you can't even apply those minimums to foreigners what does that say about your country? Your respect for your own rule of law?

Would you question if murder laws applied to non citizens?
> Without seeing the comments it's difficult to know if this is a reasonable call or not. I can certainly imagine posts from Facebook friends that I think would be disqualifying for a visa, but I can also imagine government employees overreacting.

He already received a visa. That was already approved. This was the CBP agent at the border.

> On the other hand, my immediate thought on reading this is that I wouldn't let my phone, and definitely not my accounts, get searched on visiting a foreign country. I'd also support people encrypting their phones and turning them off prior to government checkpoints. I just don't know how to square my intuitions there with my doubts about this case.

Then you will enjoy a prompt flight home. Do you really believe that the customs agent will say "oh darn, he said no. I guess I have to let him in then."

> ...it strikes me as a bit elitist of the NYT to add "Harvard Student" to the title...

This is called adding context. It shows how anyone can be affected by the capricious rules. A harvard student with an approved student visa was denied entry. This means he was vetted by the US State Department and Harvard University. This isn't just some tourist coming to see the sights.

Should the NY Times have simply said "university student?" What would that have helped?
1. We were thinking of personally completing tasks at first to get a steady supply of tasks
2. We cant afford to post task ourselves as we are just starting out (no funding)
3.Again no funding to do that
4. We have created a profile that shows courses and tasks a freelancer has completed on our site. I can maybe add a feature that allows them to share this on other freelancing sites or on job finding sites

But really the problem is that even if we had tasks most people arent motivated to complete courses. This seems like a problem in other e-learning sites as well. People just enroll in a course but they dont have the motivation to complete them. So, I wanted to know how we could incentivise users to actually complete a course
Back when I was studying for a cybersecurity course, I had the pleasure of reading a few posts on the Cloudflare blog.
There are about 88 pages(!) of blogs at blog.cloudflare.com

A few recent ones might pique your curiosity

https://blog.cloudflare.com/on-the-recent-http-2-dos-attacks...

https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-gentle-introduction-to-linux-k...

https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-deep-dive-into-how-verizon-a...
> Who gets to decide who lives and who dies?

Doctors do all the time, they even have their own word for it: triage. When resources are insufficient to cover the needs of everybody, difficult decisions need to be made. Or as the case may be, easy decisions...
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To corral, as in "collect or gather", is an euphemism though.

> Now the police dreams that one look at the gigantic map on the office wall should suffice at any given moment to establish who is related to whom and in what degree of intimacy; and, theoretically, this dream is not unrealizable although its technical execution is bound to be somewhat difficult. If this map really did exist, not even memory would stand in the way of the totalitarian claim to domination; such a map might make it possible to obliterate people without any traces, as if they had never existed at all.

-- Hannah Arendt, "The Origins of Totalitarianism"
WSL2 is going to cement this episode of Embrace, extend and extinguish, in part as it requires Hyper-V and therefore prevents the use of VirtualBox, VMware Workstation/Player etc. The freedoms of Linux (such as not having a boot loader assume it's the only OS on the disk) will be forgotten as people take the easy path of running WSL2 on the OS their computer came with. Is this a sufficiently-modern criticsm for you?

A blog post from late 2018, which references things like an October 2018 Windows update, counts very much as a modern experience with Windows. I don't think it's fair to try to smear the author in that way.
It's not a "conspiratorial plot", no. But time and again, research has shown that the implicit biases held by the people building these tools [0] are observable in the tool's results — and all people hold implicit biases.

It's not the tool we need to debug; it's us.

[0] Where, by "these tools", I mean machine learning writ large.

EDIT: I highly doubt your comment's parent was suggesting we had to be irrational in order to be ethical. Rather, I believe they meant we should be rational and ethical. Wouldn't you agree?