skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't downvote you (you can't, AFAICT, downvote a reply to your own message). Having said that: I did start to compose a reply to you last night, but decided against it for two reasons:

1. The process by which drugs are generally smuggled into the US from Mexico has been covered by a multitude of news sources for decades. The vast majority are smuggled through border checkpoints; a small minority are smuggled around border walls using tunnels, speedboats, aircraft, etc. It's hard to believe that you've had no exposure to any of this news in the past yourself if you're concerned about border security at all, but even if you hadn't, you could literally have looked this up by typing "HOW ARE DRUGS SMUGGLED INTO THE US" into the search engine of your choice.

2. The more I thought about "how do you know people's motivations for border concerns" question the more I was at a loss to answer it. I didn't say anything about people's motivations; I pointed out that to the extent there is a real migrant crisis on the US-Mexico border, it is a crisis caused by refugees seeking legal asylum, a problem which is entirely orthogonal to any problems that could be solved by a border all, real or virtual. The belief that the United States is treating those refugees inhumanely is also entirely orthogonal to any beliefs about border security, immigration quotas, etc. The "Trump era fight" that I refer to is the fight over the ethics not only of treating refugees this way, but over the honesty -- or, bluntly, lack thereof -- in the way the Trump administration and its supporters have been framing the debate in a way that conflates a refugee crisis with illegal immigration.
The Socialist Rifle Association, for instance, consists of left-leaning individuals who like guns.
> American capitalism rewards ownership, not labor nor time devoted to a task.

It's in the name, after all. One performs labor to (ideally) incrementally increase ownership. The concept thrives in the public mind as go-pay-off-a-house but (ideally) would also stick as go-buy-some-equities too.
And I would have never learned about this unless I was surfing hacker news. Bleh.

From the NDMA wiki:
[NDMA] is also used to create cancer in rats for cancer research.

That is super alarming.
And among "other medical conditions" would sit ectopic pregnancy, which not only you cannot deliver, you cannot even allow it to get to 12 weeks or the mother could die, so no attempt at delivery would make sense. How much medical case history would need to be in a fact-checking judgement to be accepted as fact?
>including the CEO

Didn't the CEO/founder liquidate like $700 million during a previous round meaning he doesn't care?
There are other opportunity costs of trades, such as increased risk of morbidity and mortality due to all the driving/type of work/materials worked with, and working away from home. If one can land a well paying desk job, then currently it still has a greater value proposition, and who wants to be real and tell their child that they probably won't make it into the ranks of a well paying desk job?
That's also one of the reasons this equation is not very useful in practice.
The current setup of law enforcement doesn't scale to millions of lawbreakers who aren't being reported by any victims of crime.

Are they just coming up here because they feel like it, or are they responding to some kind of demand?

That's incoherent. They're moving because they can earn more money in America. The fact that there are people who 'demand' lower wage workers is irrelevant: there will always be market demand to get more for less. The issues with immigration aren't on the employer's side.
Soil depletion: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/soil-depletion-an...

I have a friend who refers to vitamins as "expensive pee". He means taking vitamin pills when you eat a good diet containing fruits and veg is unnecessary because your body will excrete out the excess. I like to point out to him that fruits and veg are not what they used to be.
Ohh NO. Does this mean I won't be able to get a 79 cent LED bike light shipped from Chi na to my seaside Bulgarian Village (or Vancouver, Canada apartment) for free anymore?
The biggest unintended (or perhaps intended?) consequence I expect is that companies that ship from China will pass the extra shipping fees along to the customer, either through higher prices in general, or higher add-on shipping fees. So in other words, many goods will just get more expensive. Having a USPS a bit more flush with cash might have other positive effects, though.

I also wonder how the private couriers (UPS, FedEx, DHL, etc.) will react to this. Do they currently under-price a bit for shipments from some countries to the US in order to compete better with USPS? If so, they might consider raising prices if this goes through.

At the end of the day, though, shipping costs should accurately reflect the effort it takes to ship, and not be artificially depressed unless there's a good reason. It seems like (at least in the case of China) that good reason (under the assumption it was good in the first place) expired decades ago.
During my time at a FAANG this was my exact experience, I became a worse engineer because of it.
I've yet to meet a fat person who didn't eat large portions and sugary foods.

"It's a glandular problem," you'd often hear a few decades back. Now, there is other mumbo-jumbo. But, at the end of the day, fat people eat too much. Period. Mass is not created out of thin air. (Unless you're a plant.)

Whether this fact is "helpful" to people trying to lose weight, I'll leave to the psychologists. But, it's true. And, there are some fat people that do change their behavior when presented with the truth; namely, quit eating foods with so many carbs, starches, and sugars.
This is a helpful comment. Thank you.
That's interesting. Before about January of 2019, I was able to ship for about those rates to the U.S. Recently, I took an envelope to the German post office and was informed that the Global Postal Union has barred shipping of goods in envelopes at postal instead of package prices. I pay €16,- minimum whether in an envelope or a box but can send up to 2 kg of goodies.
Wow, that's extremely judgemental. When I was on the swim team in highschool, I was fit as a fiddle. When I went to university I chose to stop swimming but also chose to continue eating the same (because I like food.) Predictably, I started to get fat. I'm certainly capable of eating less, and I am also capable of increasing my activity. Your rant denies that I have any agency in this matter, which is somewhat offensive.

And even if it were the case that I had no agency, it would still be the case that my weight loss was due to a CICO imbalance. CICO is a matter of physics, not ethics or morality.
Not if the rider is mounting the head. :-)
If one claims to have growth experience. Enough to create a blog post about it. And one can't figure out the appropriate strategy to make a return on your head count - then stop pretending . A growth team should be designed to meet the business requirements and make a return (on top of your head count). Because one can't create an effective strategy to produce a return, doesn't mean you toss out the entire idea of creating Growth Teams. Because you failed - it doesn't mean its bad. It wasn't bad for Facebook.
Well there are some that say that minerals on vegetables are not bio-available for the human digestive system, so in the end doesn't make a lot of difference.
No one knows a lot when they first start out. However, there's a lot of value in learning new skills by doing. It's the main skill programmers need to succeed in their jobs. No one becomes a great programmer by taking a new college class for each new API.
I don't have a concrete roadmap yet... Just put the project out first, so anyone can use it as a starting point. But feel free to open a issue for that in the repo... You can also fork it and add support for it :) I'm looking forward for contributions!
How is this disadvantageous for the US?
Facebook Confirms Suspension of Hong Kong Police Hotline
>I've been doing this stuff for decades and I have never had reason to _read_ a patent filing

Knowing of a software patent exposes you to willful infringement, and you'd need a lawyer to understand what the bloody hell most software patents are even claiming to patent.
> American taxpayers subsidize the USPS at a rate that surpasses the costs associated with any Congressional mandate. He estimates that, all told, the subsidies and legal monopolies that Congress bestows upon the post office is worth $18 billion annually.
https://fortune.com/2015/03/27/us-postal-service/
> I would pay good money for a supply chain based “consumer reports” so I actually know what’s in my products eg

That's already existed for decades, so why aren't you paying for it then?
I tried out the original. My impression was that the small FoV helped with motion sickness & immersion. I could see the objects in the room (table, wall, etc.) with infinite frame rate, and when I looked directly at them the augmentation (poster/tv on wall, something on the table) was where I expected it.

I always felt the small FoV was a complaint by those that couldn't see the bigger picture (haha)... at least, for the current-gen tech that has built-in latency, and how the smaller FoV might actually be a benefit.

Anyways, my own thoughts and ramblings (I work at MS, but not on Hololens).
No, that's a perfect example. You'd want to be able to see those colors, to be sure that those are the colors your program is actually attempting to render. When you see the "right" jank, that means you've mastered everything correctly and it'll look right when you write it to a cart and test in on real hardware. It's a way to eyeball the intermediate layer, to know when things are going wrong at the intermediate layer, without having to interpret the problem "through" the filters that apply after it.
You Can’t Create Jobs by Outlawing Work
The currently-posted national Republican platform (presumably written during the 2016 election cycle, given the “current adminstration” reference) says this:

“Through Obamacare, the current Administration has promoted the notion of abortion as healthcare. We, however, affirm the dignity of women by protecting the sanctity of human life. Numerous studies have shown that abortion endangers the health and well-being of women, and we stand firmly against it.” [emphasis added]

So, yeah, Trump’s “group”, stands “firmly against” abortion.

https://gop.com/platform/renewing-american-values/
they are $50!!!
Yeah, I grew up in a very rural area with a major natural gas pipeline running through it. I know a lot of folks who work on pipelines. Welders who have all of the certifications/etc needed for that job do quite well. ~$100k is pretty standard for someone who meets the qualifications, and that's in an area with a dirt cheap cost of living.

It takes a lot of work experience and education to meet those qualifications, though. You're welding specialized alloys and need to make absolutely airtight welds in weird orientations and tight spaces. Mistakes get expensive fast. These folks aren't just out of tech school. They're mid-late career professionals who are _really damned good_ at what they do.

Saturation divers (i.e. "deep sea oil guys") and even some salvage divers can all make significantly more, but that's an additional, hard-to-find skillset tacked on top of the welding certifications and it's often contract work instead of full-time. It's also a lot more physically demanding and damned dangerous. The $150-200k/year welders exist, but an awful lot are ex-Navy folks with a decade or so of experience working in very extreme environments.
China's population is more than 1 billion larger than the USA's. Relative growth rates until the end of the century are irrelevant.

The fact that China is still relatively poor per capita while already being the 2nd largest economy overall shows the potential they have left to become the world's central economy (along with India's)

Squabbles about postage rates are distractions.
> CICO is mostly nonsense, because you can't control neither CI no CO.

This is a wholesale abdication of responsibility and an embrace of victimhood.

Yes, there are elements of calories out that aren’t fully in your control. However these place a lower bound on calories out. You can absolutely increase your exercise and activity level.

On the other side, you are very much in control of your calories in. You can choose to eat a better diet (e.g. whole foods) that makes it easier to maintain a caloric deficit. You can choose to stop eating before full satiety. You can even go so far as to fast, cutting your calories in to 0. Obviously hunger matters but this idea that you can’t control your eating at all because you’re hungry is ridiculous.

You are very much in control of these factors. Yes, there are broad issues contributing to obesity but individuals are not relieved of their responsibility just because society also has problems.
Flipping the table over isn't a new tactic. When Nixon was President, the US abandoned convertability of dollars into gold without consultation (the "Nixon Shock" of 1971), which makes leaving the postal union look like small potatoes.
I know and have played variants with 4 balls. Very much fun.
A cheap inverter arc welder is a few hundred dollars - not expensive.

Hire one and have a go on any 5mm+ steel job you have and you will likely surprise yourself.

The inverter welders are also way easier to use (and portable) compared to the old school transformer welders (i.e. don't buy a second hand transformer welder unless you are a hipster).
What other countries have a record of regularly doing things that cause direct harm to itself for the greater good of other countries?
> Pretty sad and worrying to think that since then an entire generation has gone through that school with no opportunity to learn how to actually make a physical good with their hands.

Welcome to globalism? 98% of the physical goods you buy are made in the developing world, there's not much point in acquiring these skills here.
Do you know of some cases before 8 Aug?
Read The Omnivore's Dilemma. Do it now.
And fertility clinics commit even more. Yet no one talks about them.
What about India? Are Indian generics affected as well?
What I found interesting was the fact that the VCs funding the schools are selling the ISAs. There's even an online ISA marketplace: https://edly.info

Also, note that it's 17% of gross income, so before taxes and benefits...
"I don't know if Lila is Catholic, but a lot of her reasoning seems to fall under the "Principle of Double Effect.""

She in fact is.
Note that vaccines were introduced in the late 1700s, not the mid 1960s.
Yes, devops is not one person, but team is devops. It comes from standards, that developers should not have access to production data, so you need ops. But on the other hand you don't want to have dev and ops team people who throw shit over the fence.

So basically it comes to having devs, test, ops, sec, persons in one team with common goal of delivering featuers.

Because most friction was on boarders like dev | test | ops | security, all those people being on role specific teams would do what is important for their team. So test people would blame devs, sec people would blame ops, test or devs. When you are in one team that has common goal of delivering feature X and you are measured by delivering feature X, everyone is willing to take pragmatic approach instead of "code has to be perfect", "tests have to be perfect", "security has to be perfect".

I read somewhere "magic happens if you seat testers and developers in the same room", I belive it was "Project Phoenix" book. But I despise from the start having those devs vs test people or test people beeing happy about finding bugs. They should be sad because what matters is delivering feature, so they should be happy when they don't find anything. That said, thay should do all they can to find bugs, because we have common goal: "working software".
> The original PageRank was defined by what other internet publishers considered to be a relevant and informative webpage. Specifically, the original PageRank was weighting content by the links (and content around the links) it was getting. The trust was placed on the internet publishers linking to it.

Which fell apart badly when:

1. Personal web sites (and, later, even personal blogs) fell out of favor, reducing the quantity of both independent web sites to surface in search, and the number of available signals of page value

2. The migration of users to social media silos reduced the visibility of genuine personal recommendations, especially as those sites often applied "nofollow" to links in user-generated content

3. Search engine optimization became a thing, leading to a glut of low-quality pages (even from previously reputable publishers!) and massive abuse of the remaining signals of page quality
I'm sure they were quite obese before insulin resistance kicked in.
Your body of course doesn't use energy it doesn't have. But it can balance the equation by restricting the output - lowering muscle repair (so post-workout recovery is slower), lowering brain supply (lowering concentration), lowering heating (so you fell cold), etc.

Whether the body decides to use stored energy or lowers output (while signalling hunger) is mostly hormonally controlled, by insulin and glucagon - this is why insulin resistance is such a problem.

Some research seems to show that portion restriction leads to lowered output while increasing time between meals (i.e. not snacking) lead to use of reserves, but I don't have a nice article to link.
Don't apologize. Regardless of his intent, he claimed

"I've lost weight eating 900 calories/day and I've lost weight eating 3500 calories/day with the same level of exercise. The difference was the 900 were carbs, the 3500 was >90% protein"

And if you're not trying to refute CICO, you better make damn clear that even though you're ingesting 3500 calories, you're essentially just crapping out most of it because our bodies can't process that much protein at once.
Brief mention of Meta in that article. I had missed that they shut down, though I can't say I am surprised. Their first headset was uncomfortable and lacked the field of view or functionality of the Hololens. It was a cabled only experience.

They were secretive and lacked decent SDK support.

When we tried to buy the second one it was delayed again and again by an insistence on US manufacturing and an inability to scale.

When they finally announced that our preorder was available 18 months later they wanted me to create a completely new order since my credit card was no longer valid (I decided not to waste my time or money).
Which is exactly what the president campaigned on and presumably why his voters voted for him.

And that's not strictly accurate. The US is only pulling out, something they announced a year ago, if a new deal cannot be made.
And if that's a total burn (hard to tell without the paper), only about 50 of that is from the activity...
You're right, I didn't make that point well.

This Alabama coach is famous for erupting in anger during the last play of the game if his player makes a mistake, even when they are winning 60-0.

To him, every moment matters equally, whether in practice or in the championship. And he considers support of the students and fans to be key in the performance of the players.

The students there LOVE being apart of a winning program. They enjoy the first half when Alabama walks over almost every team in the country.

Saban, i think, feels that the students are threatening the part they enjoy by not staying to the end.

I agree with you that he's probably wrong about that, but I also kind of respect the attitude. And so do most of the fans as you'll see them now happily sitting in the rain until the last second to show their solidarity.
You are free to come an go any time you want, swiping or not, but only people who swipe in before the game starts, and swipe out after the game ends would get entered to win playoff tickets.

It would be easier to game (you could leave for part of the game and return), but is less invasive than the app approach.
It was a joke, do you really think he believed this? He graduated from Lipscomb.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/09/10/tennes...
Sorry - bad link. It should be https://bionwi.wordpress.com/2019/09/13/why-im-checking-out-...
Looking at the data with compassion, I would say that access to abortion didn't result in more abortions. In fact, the opposite occurred; access to abortions appears to have reduced the abortion rate over the long term. So if you are truly pro-life, then you would want abortion to be very easy to access; this will save (prevent the "murder" as you say) babies by the millions. Obviously it isn't access alone, though, probably the real cause is that increased access to abortion comes with increased sex education and access to birth control for women, which in turn lowers the rate of unexpected pregnancies, which in turn lowers the rate of abortions. Now if only we could all agree on improving sex ed!
>Perhaps most importantly, the densified wood is also moisture-resistant: In lab tests, compressed samples exposed to extreme humidity for more than five days swelled less than 10 percent—and in subsequent tests, Hu says, a simple coat of paint eliminated that swelling entirely.

This is an improvement, but it doesn’t appear to solve the fundamental problem: rain. In practice most structural materials must survive exposure to not just humid air but liquid water — this is why Sorel cement is not used in construction, for example.
Explanation?
It's just because you can't find any content. It will be very easy to prove I am not right on this one by pointing to one video.
Growing food has turned into an engineering problem where people think you solve it by investing the least possible resources into it. Whatever the consumer will buy and you can produce as cheaply as possible wins the day. Our tasteless vegetables are like cheap Bose (no highs, no lows, must be Bose) speakers or pressed paper furniture at Walmart. On the surface they look like a vegetable should look, but the taste, what’s inside, is completely deficient.
It is of course perfectly possible to be a fan of football, sane, and show a proper sense of proportion.

Really in some cases football isn't big fron being a cash cow or "lotto ticket" for a society that views it as an acceptable way to make it big but frankly a cult. It doesn't matter to them if it is a poor investment or if there are horrifying human costs. It is an end to itself and all who question it are the enemy. Penn State and their Sandusky handling is a particularly infamous example of the mentality.

The local fervor is what leads to its undue emphasis where voters balk at funding for textbooks or class sizes but approve oversized stadiums without a thought. Undue emphasis is a symptom of anti-intellectualism in that they don't value education or view it as actively "betraying" their culture in a tall poppy way. Football is a way to get rich without "betrayal" of their self-perpetuated station.

That aside I suspect the institutions adapt to this by knowing that a football team raises their public profile more than academics. Which could be considered a "tradition" - a legacy of population and education. Since during industrial eras the vast body to market to were farm and factory families who never went to college - regardless of intelligence they would have little reason outside of personal interest to follow the academic details. This isn't a sleight on them - most don't follow areas of expertise outside their profession except for personal interest. Even if outdated for the purpose the institutions are still in place.
A space elevator to the moon could be doable – and surprisingly cheap