skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least they receive their packages back.

Compare that to the eBay Global Shipping Program - where if eBay decides that your package violates some opaque rule, neither the sender nor the recipient receives the package. eBay keeps it.
I'm sorry for your trouble.

Customs are one of the most harmful things for society in our day and age. People in highly developed countries don't notice this much. Still, people from poorer countries with high bureaucracy and intervention in trade by customs cannot access good and cheaper stuff from elsewhere. In the end, a few official importers/exporters with good relations with the state apparatus plus corrupt customs agents benefit at the cost of the impoverished society.
Yes, it was Firefox. No worries, it was just odd.
I would say so, yes. As another commentator said they tried to get more people to pay but failed and then instead used corrupt politicians to do their bidding.

I didn't use to pay, now I have no choice.
Tech Features in Cars Getting Nixed Due to Semiconductor Shortage
I like expanding it out to 1000 doors. Even though the logic is the same between 3 and 1000 doors, the chances are more intuitive with more doors.

I think the part that really throws the brain off with the 3 door version is that the host opening a door seems like another random event but it's actually dependent on the state of the game at that point. Our natural intuition of the chances is for a version of the game where you pick a door, then the host randomly picks (and does not open as you also haven't) a different door, and then you have to choose if you want to switch to the door that neither of you picked.
When both his companies needed money desperately in 2008 Musk couldn't raise it. He ended up leveraging his last penny of his own money to save both of them.

He's raised lots of money, but only after he invested tons of his own to get a great product. And a great product sells itself.

The only significant money he raised before he had a working product was the initial NASA commercial cargo award. And that has nothing to do with being a master promoter. To win a NASA award requires a rock solid technical proposal.
> 60 is a better base than 12.

And it proved itself useful on this Earth for probably longer than the decimal system.
When David DeWitt (of "DeWitt Clause" fame) introduced SQL in while teaching CS564, he made it clear that SQL was pronounced as three letters.

I recall him saying that Sequel was a distinct language. The info I can find on SEQUEL today suggests he was trying to distinguish modern (1994) versions of SQL from the early versions. Or maybe he was afraid someone in a suit[1] would show up to admonish him for improper use of a trademark[2].

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15887145
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL
Except many stocks do not, in fact, pay dividends. Amazon doesn't and it's one of the most highly valued companies in the world. Meanwhile, just as a lot of crypto does not pay dividends I could make use of DeFi platforms to get it on the crypto I do own, or simply get Proof of Stake cryptocurrencies, then you can see the staking process as paying dividends of a kind.

I get your hatred towards crypto, but you're cherry picking. If all money is BS and made up then good ol' stocks have good company with crypto in hell.
The image claims the contents are

* plastic carrying case

* computer memory module
There’s no place for expensive laptops with 8GB of RAM anymore
Which dishwasher is it?
It's a blog on a site which sells things and the audience is presumably people who buy things on the site rather than hackernews:

https://www.bigmessowires.com/shop/
Ask HN: Did you quit tech job and come back? how is it on the other side
I'd like to leverage my comfortable position as a SWE with comfortable (but not great/exceptional!) financial situation to venture into another line of work that I have no idea about but willing to learn. My reasoning is if things go south, I can always come back to tech since I have 10+ years of experience and it's in constant demand.

Did you quit your tech job to do something else? what was it like? Any learning you could share fellow HN-ers?

Thank you in advance!
DPDK is fast in userspace by taking ownership of devices (I believe) so that there's no context switching anyways.
He bought health insurance for emergencies.  Then he fell into a $33,601 trap
The photo shows a shipment containing a “computer memory module”.
>It abstracts everything as if you were on a 1975 computer, so there's allocations, allocations everywhere!

Care to elaborate? Generally you don't care about memory management in Go at all, so I wouldn't call it 1975 programming where you certainly would. Sure, taking the address of a variable heap-allocates but that's an implementation detail and I don't see how it's related to the article at all. It's automatic and you don't even think about it. The article talks about userland software reinventing what's already implemented in a modern operating system. How is it the case with heap allocations in Go, escape analysis etc.? Operating systems don't have means to do escape analysis for userland variables. Or did you get the conclusion from the article that slow=1975 programming? I don't think that's what the author meant.
That makes me wonder if shipping it via UPS or similar would get them more information?
Particle interactions are visualized with Feynman diagrams which can be used for mathematical calculations (ref: arXiv:1602.04182). Do you mean something better than them?
One time a USPS delivery person stole my package.

I know this because the tracking information a USPS clerk looked up for me showed the delivery person marking the package as delivered while being nowhere near the delivery address. In fact, nowhere near an address at all. It was marked as delivered to a street-intersection which houses a vacant field.

The USPS clerk acknowledged this, but said that because there were no other complaints about the delivery person that day, there was nothing they could do.

So it seems like USPS delivery people are literally allowed to steal one item of mail a day.
Conversely, cheap international goods can wipe out local industry, which can leave people in less developed economies permanently impoverished.
There's a whole column in the table for it, or you could just check the shop page. It's electronics components for retro computing, basically.
Just what we need... more incentives for scientists to game the system.
It's kind of interesting to see an apparent expression of pleasure at receiving a T-shirt from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, followed immediately by an expression of disdain about political missions.

I'm pretty sure that, if you asked a random EFF board member, they would tell you that digital rights are largely just the application of human rights principles to the digital domain.
Surely.........they reimburse both sides for it? Otherwise that's just theft or at the absolute minimum fraud. Ebay is absolutely free to reject any packages for any reason whatsoever, but they should always return them.
One reason this can be doable is that working in the 20 microservice environment is so unproductive that the original app probably did very little.
There are advantages of using HTTP cache on application side even if you use CDN:

- Varnish can guarantee that a given resource will be fetched at most once every TTL expiration since you can set up one instance to do so (+ some HA solution like hot standby). This complements a large CDN that is highly scalable but at a cost that there is no hard "synchronization" between servers. You will see many requests for the same resource, even when the CDN uses cache hierarchy because they can't risk such bottleneck not knowing in advance your traffic pattern. You can intentionally do that with Varnish and benefit from that.

- Complex caching rules, even including what to do if application is not available/slow. That includes serving stale content, how long to serve stale after TTL expires, guarantee that fetching a new version is performed in background. Example: https://varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/users-guide/vcl-grace.h...

We've used varnish + some other magic in addition to Cloudflare to withstand Black Friday when marketing insisted the promo has to start at specified time, anuonced much earlier to all customers. The landing page had up-to date info on available products updated almost instantly, thanks to serving stale (in practice < 1s) content and guaranteed prefresh in background. Cache key was properly set up to exclude tracking elements from URLs (from FB, adwords etc) and only include what is necessary.
Try to ship the returned packages with Fedex or UPS.
You shouldn’t be. At the level of scale at which Twitter runs, a custom kernel modification that improves performance by even a small percent can yield millions of dollars per year in hardware and energy savings. Investing in a kernel developer makes financial sense when viewed in that lens.
>Why don’t more plants evolve towards the “grass” strategy?

Fun story!!! Seagrasses are like whales, in that their ancestors lived on land, and now they live completely submerged.

Seagrasses are nowhere closely related to grasses. Quote: 'They just… both did that.' They're at least three, maybe four distinct 'back to the sea' events in the seagrasses, with distinct lineages that went back separately, but show convergent loss of genes.

Most seagrasses look a lot like grasses, bringing me back to OP's 'grass strategy' - under water it's a very successful strategy!
Because culture has been weaponized against minorities:

“The poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits ever since 1994. You would never learn that from most of the media. Similarly if you look at those blacks that have gone on to college or finished college, the incarceration rate is some tiny fraction of what it is among those blacks who have dropped out of high school. So it’s not being black; it’s a way of life. Unfortunately, the way of life is being celebrated not only in rap music, but among the intelligentsia, is a way of life that leads to a lot of very big problems for most people.” - Thomas Sowell
Software is near impossible to estimate. Things that can be done in 1 day can sometimes take 2 weeks. And something that seems like it should take weeks can take hours.

Then you factor in the huge difference in approaches, skill, efficiency, and productivity between employees. If you are experienced, you skip the hours of googling, reading SO, etc.

You are probably pushing way harder than you need to be.

If I feel like I made good progress, I take the rest of the day off. If something should take a week and I finish it in 2 days - I take the week off.
Qbist/aqo – open-source air quality display
The site sells a bunch of retrocomputing emulator products. It's not at all unlikely that some of this looks like hacking or R/E devices and fell afoul of someone's filter (or maybe they sell a keylogger or something unsavory that I just didn't see).

The author, as others are pointing out, should hire a customs broker. This is a licensed professional who knows the process (and often the specific employees at the customs office) and can get answers to questions that can't be answered in stickers on packages.

Or, if there's really a law enforcement angle here, they should call a lawyer.

But HN isn't going to provide much help.
There was a pretty nice project a few years ago, awarding Bitcoin to Tor node operators called Oniontip [1]. All Tor operators had to do was to add a Bitcoin address to their Tor contact info. Donors would transfer Bitcoin to a Oniontip-operated Bitcoin address and Oniontip would regularly pay out the Tor operators proportional to the bandwidth they provided to Tor.

That did work remarkably well, but unfortunately the author lost interest at some point and took the whole project down.

[1]: https://github.com/DonnchaC/oniontip
This is the correct answer if you run a business. Customs brokers accept responsibility for making sure the packages go through the process successfully and usually have access to customer support channels normal mortals don't have.
The issue is not with USPS, but with Customs, a wholly separate government entity.
Even with reimbursement, it is still theft. It's like if I buy a bike from you, and the delivery truck driver decides to keep the bike for themselves and instead gives me cash and drives off, with me having no say in this.
Bitcoin makes no claim of being an income-producing asset.
All non-income producing assets { gold, wine, art, baseball cards, air-jordans } are bought as a store-of-value with the hope of selling it at a higher price.

Ponzi appears to be an income-producing asset, but the income is paid out from the principal.
i find NewPipe subscription groups are a better way to keep up with creators i care about.
I've had a growing suspicion that even plants have more 'awareness' than we give them credit for. You still gotta eat, though.
I think their point about VPN is that a third party provider then could be compelled to disclose information about you. Since all your traffic routed through a single provider before hitting the remote proxy, there is now the potential for a single point of collection. When using Tor only, traffic leaving your computer is encrypted before hitting the first node which mitigates this threat. If the use of Tor is illegal for you, a VPN makes sense to hide its use-- but like you said, it is only hidden from the ISP. The VPN provider can still see that you are using it. In practice, how Tor is used should depend on the threat a person is trying to defend against.
Imperial College actually used to offer a BSc Physics and Music Performance course[1] (it was suspended recently). This is notable because dual majors, even between similar/adjacent academic fields, are rare for UK undergraduate degrees.

[1] https://www.imperial.ac.uk/study/ug/courses/physics-departme...
I played a lot of 40k, but got rid of it all in a move one time. Still really love the lore.
> Music is best learned young.

In what way? When I was a kid, I would have been a horrible music student. I was interested in 500 things and music wasn't one of them.

I eventually bought a guitar when I was around 25 and took lessons. When it's something you want to do and you have songs you want to play, it's a much different experience.

I don't think I would want to trade the thousands of hours I spent playing with legos, swimming, riding my bike or doing any of the other things I did as a kid (including more passive things like reading books and playing video games).

So to answer your initial question, no I don't think kids should be forced to play any instrument with a few exceptions. Childhood is too short.
Looks like the big item is an "EMU," which is a floppy emulator (pretty cool).

If the customs inspector has enough domain knowledge to know what a "computer memory module" looks like, and sees one of these:

https://www.bigmessowires.com/shop/product/floppy-emu-model-...

They are likely to say "this person is trying to ship a 'not-memory-module'. Goodbye, Mr. Bond!"
They are, in the context of F=ma where m is the inertial mass and an object is deviating from a spacetime geodesic, which explains why we feel a force from gravity as we sit here.
So that just sounds like a team event, which I try to do once a month just to help keep the team connected.

I think the difference is internal vs external release then. Our internal releases were generally "nice job" and the like, as we completed sprints. It was still a clear recognition of something being completed. The actual external facing launch that the company cared about, the 'go live', was more what I was referring to, and which never really meant much, to me at least.
Yes, you have to pay them of course if you use their services, but it's also possible you can call one up and get a nice person who will take a minute or two & freely tell you if there's a current issue they're aware of.
> but to yourself, you don’t see any change

This hints to me that you might be thinking of the concept of invariant vs relativistic mass[0]

> i.e some sort of integral of moving matters between a distance, with respect to time.

It might be easier if you intuit it as total energy (encapsulates the relativisic aspects) - but that description you wrote seems to be another way to rephrase the curvature of space-time analogy; you could say that what you are describing is retreading how "steep" the bend is, yes?

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_in_special_relativity
Schreier's Press Reset investigates high human cost of game development
So instead of finding the item I'm looking for, it finds me a local store that sells the same category of items as the category of items I'm looking for.
What sort of berry is a tomato? I would have thought culinarily it would be a vegetable.
It would still have a fun pronunciation controversy, with some calling it lamaplot and some calling it yamaplot.
What is the other option?
The sticker their package got links to the United States Postal Inspectors website which indicates this is USPS inspectors rather than an unrelated government agency.

https://www.uspis.gov/about/what-we-do
I think your first bullet points out an undervalued skill. So much time is spent on rote learning when I think improvisation should be encouraged once the very basics have been learned.
"the very value of the entangled properties does not exist locally"

Does physics have a definition for existence?
How dare he live so close to home, what a fraud.
Why do people even measure rotations in radians? It’s a stupid unit that’s never ever written out but always expressed as either “pi radians” or “tau radians”, and just like with degrees, or the measure which has 200 to a circle you end up spending time teaching students how to convert to the sensible unit we all default to, which is just plain rotations. Everyone understands intuitively half a rotation. A full rotation or a quarter rotation. And when you tell a student 30 degrees, they all spend a bit of mental effort thinking before they go “Ah yes, 1/12 of a full rotation” and if you tell them 0.52 radians they’ll just look at you blankly stating they need a calculator before they know what are you are on about.
Yes, my experience with LED bulbs from a swath of manufacturers is that they have only slightly better longevity than the old incandescent bulbs in reality, no matter what the theoretical lifetime claims are.

This is at least better than the CFL situation. At least in my house they had an absolutely horrific failure rate. The whole shift to CFLs had to have been an environmental disaster.

I still buy LEDs because I like the light from them, but man, I'm basically paying 10x the price (I like the 100-watt equivalent bulbs) for the same quality bulb. It's depressing.
So if using regular expressions is "bad practice", how should one write the tokenizer or lexer stage of a parser?
This is a lie. If you live in a rich country you consume thousands of different things a day. If you live in a poor country and are really poor, you might consume hundreds.

You consume way more than you produce. Don't fall for this trap. Otherwise, next thing you'll stop doing business with anyone else because it's better to live by your own means.
Also, try reaching out to your local congressperson’s office.
It changes what you know. States are measured in the mind.
Well.........kinda, but he's not stealing from you, he's stealing from the delivery company at that point. The delivery company accepts responsibility for the parcel when they collect it, and the contract usually says that either they will deliver the parcel or pay you back X where X is agreed beforehand. So if either of those two things happen they successfully complete their part of the contract. If the driver takes your parcel then it's up to the delivery company to prosecute, not you.
This is my complaint about most of what I read about advanced physics. I have enough understanding of math and basic physics that it seems within reach for me to follow an equation-driven explanation, but the papers are a bit too dense for me. And I suppose I'm not interested enough to invest the time to truly understand all of the notation.
Try reaching out to your local Congressperson’s office. The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

Edit: also, your local Postmaster.
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It's not from ppl eating ppl, it's from ppl eating ppls brains, specifically.
It mostly appears as immigration restriction or excuses for why you're doing so much better at your intellectual job than those other people.

I was looking at the kind of off topic thread about how Mexicans shouldn't immigrate to Japan because they're genetically cursed to have unruly personalities…
Gravity is what we call it when objects interact via their masses. Other fundamental interactions are electromagnetism, the weak or the strong interaction (often also called "weak (nuclear) force", "strong (nuclear) force").

In the static case (i.e. time-independent), there is a (let's e.g. focus on electric / gravitational) potential. It's spatial change ("gradient" / "derivative in space") is its electric / gravitational field which is also the ratio of the force on an infinitesimally small charge/mass at the given distance to the charge/mass (it has to be negligibly small so that it does not influence the field).

So there are few different concepts that usually all get mixed up and lead to some confusion. It hope the overview helps a bit.

If you want to read more, look up the italic terms in Wikipedia.
>Then Tor decided they would label themselves a “human rights project” and started to go full political

Why is this bad? Branding yourself as a human rights project garners way more sympathy than having the implied branding of "we help cybercriminals cover their tracks". In an age where encryption and privacy is under constant attack, having the public be on your side is very important.
The author's advice is fantastic for learning a specific song, note for note as written. @MrGrando is smart to point out that Jazz and other forms of music are much more about free expression and improvisation. A level above the author's practice would be to start understanding the structure of the piece from a music theory standpoint. The relationship between the notes becomes the important element and you begin to see things like a II V I chord progression. By understanding the structure, you realize you can improvise on implied scales, transpose to other keys and harmonize with new chords to add your own creativity.
Look again. The context is definitely one of identifying tags that should be closed, but aren’t, and being identified thus in order to normalise a malformed document into well-formed XHTML. It is not prominently stated, but it is nevertheless the case. Consequently, balance matters. The clue is in the title: “match open tags”, for which the body text has only
one part of the author’s train of thought (i.e identifying the opening tag). Further discussion of matching the closing tag is omitted from the body of the question, and many people
forget (or disregard) the nuanced difference in the title at this point in their read-through, not stopping to ponder “why the heck would
they just want the opening
tags? what have I missed here about the context?” and instead treating it like some particularly awful and weirdly contrived exam question, as in the article at the top.

The final confirmation of all
this is in the question history of the question author around the same date: it’s definitely what they were working on.

Consequently, our zalgo-spewing correspondent has it right, they should use a parser, and in addition the question should’ve received feedback early to help them describe the context more clearly.

That all this was never properly clarified is a failure of moderation, and further a demonstration of how many folks struggle to challenge (or even identify) their own assumptions.