skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this is about China, then why wouldn't other countries want to join us in changing the fee structure? Better to team up with other nations than pull out and be all alone on a framework that's far bigger than China and relates to all global shipping, no?

Genuinely asking because I am unfamiliar with these issues.
Oh. Wow. I feel dumb now.
What's even crazier is that their actions probably lead to a profit of more than $1B.

So it's like me doing something illegal and profiting $100k, but then getting fined $50k. I'd be stupid not to do it again. And again. And again.

At a minimum, the fine should be 2x the amount gained.
it wasn't his own thing and there wasn't the scale yet to have it was a proper position, but when you were moving connection strings in a config file and linking it in etc you were doing devops. when you were building a shell script to fetch pinned dependencies so that the environment was repeatable, you were doing devops. weekend you were automating the package build/install and putting these files in CVS, you were doing devops.

heck we had versioned openpkg scripts in 200something to quickly rotate servers during upgrades, that wasn't called with fancy names and wasn't a standalone role but the seed was there.
> Nobody believes an average welder makes $150k a year. In fact, we know what they make: a lower middle class salary.

I think the ongoing repetition of the claim, and the fact that it seems to work for those repeating it, would suggest otherwise?
Most restaurants also seem to be much louder now than they were 20 years ago. They're so loud even people with good hearing have trouble having a conversation. I worry that just going to a popular restaurant nowadays is damaging my hearing, and I'm starting to avoid the loudest ones.
Hasn't the US been trying to do that (regarding China's categorization in the global postal union) for years, with no success? At what point does 'flipping the table over' become an acceptable action under your models?
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Nothing, only small orders are subsidized. Not bulk orders

( from experience)
Just because no one is forcing them to do it doesn’t mean it’s not exploitative. No one forces people to work in sweatshops.
Devops has been standard practice at every financial firm i ever went to. Back then it meant devs where a pager. Ops also wore a pager and would support us.
> But I wish companies would go deeper than "DevOps" when putting up job posting requirements.

I am not sure this problem is limited to DevOps. Once I applied for a job thinking I understood the job description. During the interview, I had to find out that they put only half the job in the description (the good parts).

Afterward, I took a look on the job description again asking myself if I misinterpreted the description but came to the conclusion that they just didn't want to write about the downsides of the job (not even in management speak like 'You love a challenge?').
I think you're getting downvoted because of the use of the word "taxpayer."

The USPS is not funded by taxes.
For what it's worth many things are like this. It's the same thing with genetically engineered products, also under FDA purview. There is 0 mandatory oversight. If you have the clearance to sell a potato, then you can produce any engineered potato you like and sell it with 0 oversight, testing, or additional requirements. All the FDA offers is a purely voluntary opt-in consultation. [1]

Perhaps unsurprisingly this [2] was the head of the FDA under our last president. He was appointed a newly created executive role, not entirely jokingly referenced as the 'czar of foods.' A Monsanto vice president and lobbyist whose career highlights included arguing that companies should be allowed to knowingly allow at least a very small amount of carcinogenic chemicals into foodstuffs. Seriously, that was the head of the US Food and Drug Administration for nearly 8 years.

[1] - https://www.fda.gov/food/food-new-plant-varieties/how-fda-re...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_R._Taylor
We don’t really understand the human condition of the past, even when it is within living memory. A related aspect of life that has been practically eradicated is teenage motherhood. 18-19 years at birth of first child was the most common age for Americans in the middle of the 20th century. 40-year-old grandparents were common. That was just 60 years past, but we view everything differently today.
IMHO DevOps has been around for many years. Is has just evolved as tooling became better and eventually tooling to connect tooling became better. It became META.
When I started doing database work we developed and implemented. We learned to produce reports on what we'd implemented by querying system tables. We learned to use those reports to produce scripts that could recreate the database on the same or a different platform.
This is a weekness in our current system that has been exploited. It's a strategic national security concern and is finally being treated as such. China has "Made in China 2025" we should do the same and it should be supported by whatever measures are necessary. The alternative is that CCP will take Americas place in regards to global geopolitics.
> Do you have to be on a team for those majors? Or does it count towards them?

Varsity sports provides letter-graded credits in “classes” available only to student athletes at many colleges and universities, and those credits are generally applicable to general ed requirements for any major to whatever limits generally apply to PE credits, and to major requirements in some related majors, yes.
That is the route they are currently pursuing. Leaving the global postal union is dependent on the outcome of a vote.
I am pro-life, with the exception of medical emergencies. I'm not going to argue about that. Seeing the discourse going downhill like this hurts, since it's just one more broad-brush tool to use against a different side.
> "Scientists say research conducted so far indicates that the targeted mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, is not a "keystone" species – meaning its disappearance would not have a significant negative ecological effect." [1]

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/03/01/6987087...
DevOps is blue collar work. Software Engineering used to be white collar work.

Think boiler room vs drafting room.
The Five Eyes, often abbreviated as FVEY, is an anglophone intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. These countries are parties to the multilateral UKUSA Agreement, a treaty for joint cooperation in signals intelligence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
Could web developers please stop using floating top bars? It breaks the UX of the "Page Down" button. It's annoying beyond imagination. Thank you.
I agree that it's a silly argument. F150s are not a market, that's one product. The truck market is a market.

Ford may have a "monopoly" on F150s, just as I have a monopoly on ownership on the house I live in. That's not a market, it's a product.

Apple isn't anywhere near a monopoly in the app market, there are alternative places to sell your apps other than their store.
The Chinese factories have used this to cheat the system and sell directly into US Consumers homes via Alibaba AliExpress epacket . The Chinese exploited a system designed to facilitate global exchange by using it to bypass customs, taxes, and enter markets below competition. The Ccp also subsidizes many of the exporters to further destroy competition.

The Chinese have had a free ride since 1982 and they have no business in the preferred nation status at the world bank; three words - live organ harvesting. The Chinese human rights violations are here Doug. They cheat steal and harm humans. Their population is enslave by way of currency manipulation and non existent labor laws

Non of this is worth buying cheap Chinese manufactured products

How can the virtue justice warriors allow it? Discrimination?
> the University of North Carolina uses location-tracking technology to see whether its football players and other athletes are in class.

Oh my.
Do you know that the next president is going to undo this? If the bar for action is that someone might undo it in the future, why do anything?
China has supposedly been "cracking down" on illicit Fentanyl production in their country, which of course is total crap. They are happy to see Americans harmed by such things. Fundamentally, their culture is morally bankrupt. They belong right next to Saudi Arabia on the world stage.

Edit: Flag me all you want. You know it is true.
Any company that offers preferred stock and non-voting stock is participating in some form of "governance concessions", a number of which are hugely successful (eg Google's stock-split in 2012). WeWork went a step or two further than most with their LLC and holding company shenanigans before this announcement.
For a siphon to work at all requires negative pressure at the top.
The current US President approaches diplomacy likes real estate deals. A good approach - in real estate markets - is to threaten to walk away from a deal. Unfortunately, it doesn't work quite the same way in international diplomacy.
If I had to guess, because it's about infant mortality but the poster presented it in support of an assertion about child mortality; which of course, it says very little about.
There are a number of other great coworking spaces in Manhattan (I'm in one now!) so there's definitely a story where over 10 years, We consolidates it all in a winner-takes-all format. That's... not a story I'd put money behind, especially not with what seems to be an executive team intent on extracting personal wealth until they're caught doing so.
I think the business case for it depends on training time, training costs, the odds of a person being useful after training, and how expensive it is to get someone already trained.

Training a batch of people for six months who will mostly be useful after completion and are mostly likely to complete training might be a good proposition. If training time is four years, 50% of entrants complete training, and 50% of those trained are useful... the case might be weaker.
These are not component tariffs, and in any case, importing container loads of components is not "post" anyway; if it didn't come with USPS, this has nothing to do with it.
> macho white nerds

two out of three a'int bad.
No more 1 dollar 4 week shipping from Hong Kong?
More People Are Leaving NYC Daily Than Any Other U.S. City
You are probably thinking of "consultants" and not consultants. Consultants comes in, fixes a problem, maybe educate employees about the problem and then leave.

Take management consultants, their main job is mostly to go in and fix other managers messes and possible educate them so it wont happen again or get them replaced.

Software consultants can often have very similar roles, a company have a problem with producing software, they take in a consultant to fix the issue because they themselves don't know how, the consultant comes in and fixes the issue and in the best case educates your workers so they can handle these issues themselves in the future. This is what a company typically wants when they hire a consultant to fix a problem, not a person who only solves already well defined problems.

Example: You have a new cloud based solution but prod is often broken, you hire a consultant to flesh out your deployment strategy to make it more robust, he comes in, creates a basic deployment strategy and shows your team how it works and how to add more tests to it, then he leaves. Production failures go down and your team is now stronger as a result. This is an ideal software consultant.

Of course you also have "consultants" who are just normal employees with less legal rights, those are more like what you are talking about.
"Going" downhill?

https://www.vox.com/2015/12/1/9827886/abortion-clinic-attack...

"Since 1977 there have been eight murders, 17 attempted murders, 42 bombings, and 186 arsons targeted at abortion clinics and providers across the United States. In some cases, a small group of clinics have been targeted multiple times."
And once the table is flipped, you have no more leverage. Plus, the other side can tell their population, "the US is being a bully." It looks cool, but it's not nearly as effective as the slow-moving grind of global diplomacy.
Now that's the fun part of the cyberpunk timeline I was looking for.
> two standard adults

But doesn't using a phrase like this open up the very matter that Stallman is trying to implore the forum to consider? "Standard adults" is not concrete language.

Can someone be a "standard adult" at 17? I don't know. I do know that I (and everyone I know) was having sex at 17. I'm male (and white, and middle-class), so my surface for being victimized in this way is much different from the victim in this case. But I think Stallman's point is that calling this "rape" merely because of the jurisdiction in which it happened serves to trivialize the word "rape" rather than add clarity to Epstein's conduct.
Your response is exactly why I think the article is horrible - why not lets look at the source data and then discuss that: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/production/welders-cutters-solderers...

What this says is that the 90th percentile for this entire group of "Welders, Cutters, Solderers and Brazers" was $63,740.

But the small table there also says that there is a big difference in the average between "specialty trade contractors" and "manufacturing", which isn't that surprising. It also says nothing about the age range (I don't know where you got your 15+ year experience data from), so when looking at percentiles, it wouldn't be surprising that the field has a ton of junior folks that brings down the average.

It would be very interesting to see what the distribution looks like for master welders with at least 10 years experience, but the article has none of that data.

Furthermore, if you dig into the 150k claim, you'll see that that is almost always for welders in high demand areas, like oil and gas during the fracking boom. That doesn't make it apocryphal, just constrained to a specific industry.
Is it just me or does putting FACT CHECK above an article immediately make anyone else not want to click on that article?
Ah, that makes sense. I was afraid maybe you were referring to something horrible coming in iOS 13
Can someone explain to me why sufficiently good VR can't function as AR?

Just to lay out my point: AR has to have extremely good detail, framerate, and even depth of field to work well. It has to track everything perfectly and blend the two lightfields seemlessly or the immersion is broken and you risk nausea or at least annoyance.

But if you have high framerate, ability to simulate depth of field, high knowledge of the environment (enough to overlay seemlessly), etc, then couldn't you just... operate purely in VR with reality streamed in via lightfield cameras? That would allow you to do things that are impossible in AR, like display darker overlays on lighter surfaces, and everything would be at the same framerate so it'd be easier to seemlessly integrate everything.

So what does really, really good AR get you that really, really good VR with reality overlay does not? Seems like you can avoid a lot of super hard to effectively impossible hardware optics problems by just doing things with an opaque visor...

I'm not an expert in this field, so I'm probably using terminology incorrectly.
We can look at the genomes of things alive today. They can be measured and compared, from these comparisons we can make educated guesses of what the genome of the long gone last common ancestor of closely related species might have looked like. With theories of "molecular clocks" (rates of ambient mutations) we can make guesses at how much time is needed to explain different amounts of change in genomes.

Here getting actual data from an ancient source beyond being interesting in its own right for rino lovers around the globe provides a reality check on the processes used for phylogenetic inferences across the tree of life
This article seems to point out that there are toxic internal communication problems at Kickstarter. All companies have that, of course. Does anyone know of examples where unionization created a better forum for communication? I know unions are powerful forces for rectifying inequality especially around pay disparity. But, is there evidence that they improve communication between management and individual contributors? I would assume adding an extra layer would worsen things.

And, I'm also laughing at the suggestion by Kickstarter that they offer mediation for employees looking to improve; that's a joke that a mediator paid by Kickstarter would ever fully be an advocate for the employee and not the company. That's an idea only a lawyer could love.
Correct. This is the final straw to correct what is arguably an unfair model.
This is because antitrust laws are not specific to solving the problem of monopolies. Your point is an obvious one and borders on argumentative without a point.
> Rose retaliated on Twitter, claiming the doctors were “abortionists” and therefore not impartial.

> They said that the code of conduct established by the International Fact-Checking Network (ICFN) stipulates that fact-checkers not advocate or take policy decisions on issues which they fact-check.

The argument they seem to be making is that describing basic medical facts is biased because the facts are inconvenient to the anti-abortion argument and therefore not impartial. This is a continuation of the GOP war on science and it's sad to see Facebook take it seriously.

If this stands, I expect to see anti-vaccine advocates make similar arguments, painting doctors as "vaccinists" and therefore not impartial. At that point, might as well not bother with fact-checking.
Trump2020

Hey liberals, give trump the credit he deserves even though it clashes with your cnn man can and npr brainwashing
If you look at how the world is currently "overtaken" by the USA then realise that China has about the same land resources but 4+ times the population, then the unescapable conclusion is that China is bound to absolutely overtake the USA and the world. India probably is, too.
Adding to this some people may not know unlike here in Canada supplements in the US are not regulated. Herein Canada they are treated as a drug and regulated by Health Canada.

There have been recalls of supplements from the US due to contamination or mislabeling (for example, adding stimulants or steroids but not disclosing that). Although supplements here in Canada can still be questionable in quality.
And when they are given tools to help them not to overeat like a gastric bypass did their insulin level resistance decrease?

Also on the same show, when they were put under medical supervision where they had to consume only 1200 calories a day they would drop around 30-50 pounds. There was one guy who would lose 20 pounds in a week (he weighed over 800 pounds) when his mom couldn't sneak food to him.
Sometimes you gotta be results oriented. This situation has been going on for decades according to TFA.
I've never shopped on these sites. What are people typically buying? Is there something I should be stocking up on?
If those companies deserve a subsidy, then do it directly, not through the post office.
The slow-moving grind hasn't worked.

This isn't some whim of the current administration. The United States has been trying to correct this for decades.
Perhaps instead of "pro life", a better moniker would be "forced birth"
That would be assuming you don't write more than 40k ops per second. See here in AWS's document https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerg...
This is a very uninformed, topical response. Football on college basically pays for all other sport on campus. Athletics are an extremely important part of a well rounded education (today more that ever!). A lot of activities and school pride are based on the sports team so the benefits there are enourmous if not tangible or quantifiable immediately.
Checkout Bright Machines. There are several reasons why people want to onshore. Supply chain security is a major factor.
I'm so glad big tech screens videos for the correct political viewpoint. Nobody could have predicted events like this.
Without tactile feedback is how the majority of people type out text messages. In my opinion it's actually easier to type on a phone screen than a tiny smartphone keyboard (of which I had many).

But I agree. I never said AR would replace keyboards -- just screens.
Repair is quite expensive.
> make my job of doing all of the above easier.

That’s the dream… the reality in my experience is that you have to describe, in detail, the exact steps that you would perform if you were doing it yourself so that somebody else can perform them, verbatim. But you have to describe those steps, exactly, without any access to the target platform where they’ll be performed.
This seems to be a highly romanticized view of the recent history of international relations.
Yes, because international diplomacy is like 18-dimensional chess. The two parties are negotiating over a multitude of different things in parallel.
> median for plumbers is $54K per year, which is not such a bad money for a job that requires no school, just on-job training.

Not only is it not bad, it's higher than the median salary of many college graduates, even of highly accredited known public schools.
My fundamentals include a basic knowledge of algorithms, data structures and essentially just how to think about problems in a way that solutions can be programmatically represented.

Basically, can you write simple software? Everything you mentioned is also needed, but I really, first and foremost, need them to be able to write some simple software. If they can't do that, I really can't afford to teach them. A CS degree often makes this check simpler than for the candidates with other educations, such as the history degree holder we have.

If you don't need that then sure, it's a different hiring game for you.
But we certainly fund the government that mis-manages the USPS.
The first 10 for me were:

NYT, NYT, NYT, NYT, Vox, NYT, WaPo, NPR, CBS, LA Times

They certainly seem to like New York Times
The USPS is exempt from paying federal taxes therefore we are subsidizing it. "The United States Postal Service (USPS; also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service) is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States, including its insular areas and associated states. It is one of the few government agencies explicitly authorized by the United States Constitution."

It is essentially a public service built to deliver our packages with special federal provisions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service#L...
But once you have manufacturing in the US it can be cheaper.
US manufacturing needs to be very automated because of labor costs, but if you are very automated the US is a useful place to be located: close to your customers, who speak the same language. (of course Europe is also a potential customer and so the location advantage is lost)

Of course this assumes that you have a process that can be automated cost effectively. That assumption is often false.
Sounds like your response to "students are not enjoying it" is just explaining why they are not enjoying it. They want to be elsewhere and do something else.

It is not disrespectful to not attend sport event you are not interested in, no matter how hard players trained.
After two years, the Orii smart ring is finally available for purchase
The US has been overly patient with China. At some point you have to flip the table over. I don't want to bring politics into the discussion, but I actually think it's one of the few things Trump has done that I agree with (I'm a Canadian so I only tangentially have a horse in the race.)