skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The only reason to charge that same ~4x markup on the additional labor cost is to keep gross margins (as a percentage) unchanged, but that would actually increase profit (as a dollar amount). If _you_ just want to keep the same profit you'd get from offshoring, _you_ can probably increase the price by much less - $13 if demand were perfectly inelastic, somewhat more in practice.

I emphasized the _"you"_ in the above quote to show that your explanation inadvertently combines separate business entities into one.

The following are separate independent businesses in the chain with their own profit markups:

- manufacturer e.g. Wolverine Worldwide makes and sells shoe for $25

- distributor (importer wholesale buyer) (e.g. Bonvita Aps[1]): add 100% markup or ~2x price which increases to $50

- retailer (e.g. H&M clothing retailer): buys for $50 from distributor and adds another 100% markup or ~2x price which increases it to $100

So the counterintuitive ~4x markup math happens because the separate businesses don't add a fixed flat margin but instead, a ~100% percentage margin. This multiplier effect (2x times 2x) across layers of middlemen causes the ~4x increased price difference the consumer sees. So it's not just labor cost but any component cost by the manufacturer can be multiplied by the chain. If a raw material like polyurethane goes up +50 cents, the final cost to the consumer can be increased ~4x to ~$2. This is what Wolverine Worldwide's Mike Jeppesen means in his quote "that cost quadruples after wholesale and retail markups,.

This is a great example where journalism on financial topics would actually easier and clearer with spreadsheets so readers can easily see the cause & effect of input costs to final costs. Using a narrative structure and isolated quotes from vice presidents just confuses readers because it seems like "4x" got invented out of thin air.

Btw, your explanation that assumes a flat fixed profit margin would be more realistic in a direct-to-consumer model. It looks like Wolverwine Worldwide does run some direct customer websites to sell Keds shoes but most retailer contract agreements require that the manufacturer never undersell the retailer. Therefore, you'd still have the ~4x increase in price but in the D2C channel, the manufacturer captures more of the profit instead of middlemen.

[1] https://www.wolverine.com/US/en/international-distributors/
Does the logic not work the other way? If you start defending censorship of a position, you have lost the debate.
Accidental lab leaks happen often and are owned up to. Not just in China, everywhere (US, France, Russia, Hungary, Sierra Leone, etc): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laboratory_biosecuri...

If you scroll to the bottom of it, China owned up to accidentally leaking brucellosis mere months before Covid became a thing, sourced by China Daily (CP's English website). That's why I don't get the accidental lab leak hypothesis. It's inconsistent with previous ones unless you make some 4D chess plays in reasoning.

As for suspiciousness, is that action different than in other situations, or are we they just behaving like that all the time and most of the West is only learning about it now? I'm leaning towards the latter.
https://arethebritsatitagain.org/
Many of those movies never make it out of the US or are locked up behind streaming portals. If a movie can't be found by its audience it might as well not exist.
TSMC indeed has a dirty secret and I thought it was a clever wordplay on the fact that fresh water consumption is a very large issue for chip manufacturers. once water is polluted with chemicals their reuse value is significantly damaged. Yet the article barely talks about freshwater. Someone reading that might not realise that when fresh water runs out, your only option is reverse osmosis. which still consumes more power than most businesses and people can afford.

and how is power consumption of large factories a secret?
I posted this link because the #1 and #3 highest grossing movies haven't even been released in the US.

Obviously the theaters being essentially closed in the western world help those Chinese movies rise to the top, but I still believe this is a preview of what is going to happen in the coming decade.
May I ask the basis of what we /should/ be doing?

I’m not very knowledgeable on nihilism as a philosophy, though I’m surprised it can coexist with a care for society at all?
Go to your user screen and select "yes" in the dropbox next to "showdead".
Here in Italy it is been a thing for at the very least 10 years.

There is a sample system that every once in a while it ask an employee to check that you enter everything correctly.

I guess that if you repeatedly make conveniently expensive “mistakes” there will be repercussions, but never experienced any issue.

Even though, it happens that I made small mistakes.
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> The other article you cite disapprovingly mentions the author was claiming "lab leak" back in May 2020. That would seem a mark in favor of her reporting, no?

Not unless said reporting at the time actually had evidence to support the claim. A reporter has a duty to report based on actual evidence.

She has repeated misinformation, without that evidence, an argument you just used to dismiss the entirety of the Guardian, for all time, on one subject matter. Should that not equally apply to this reporter, then?
I use Anilist. MAL's atrocious management made me leave when they had that 2-3 month long downtime after GDPR went into effect.

Anilist just works and has a proper API (And such, a lot of apps and whatnot that use it). Creating a proper alternative isn't easy, keeping a good big database of all releases isn't easy.

MAL-Sync seems to do all your extension does, but even more, while remaining FOSS.
Do you really think the previous president and the current president are enemies?
I have a calculator which doesn't appear on the results table: http://www.rskey.org/~mwsebastian/miscprj/models.htm

It's a "Casio fx-991ES PLUS", and I get 9.00000000733338.

I want to submit this result to the author but I can't find contact information anywhere, despite this page explicitly asking for help: http://www.rskey.org/~mwsebastian/calcinfo.htm
You either don't get it or you are trolling.

Einstein's elevator metaphor did not at all draw any important bits from the impossible construction. A spaceship under constant acceleration works just as well.

A thought experiment that creates a problem out of an impossible premise is just worthless as such. First of all, everything can follow out of a wrong premise, and secondly you can create an arbitrary amount of such experiments, preventing any insights.
Shellac has uses but for most furnitures, you are better off using precat lacquer. Shellac takes a lot of trial and error to get it right for your specific uses. So I recommend you experiment with it first. For example, denatured alcohol (from big boxes) has diff evaporative properties vs pure ethanol vs rubbing alcohol etc. Same goes for lubricants.
You can move to Afghanistan to see enjoy one.
Possibilities:

1) Natural bat origin

2) Natural non-bat origin

3) Originated elsewhere (per above) and broke out in Wuhan

4) Unintentional lab leak of a natural strain

5) Unintentional lab leak from GoF research

6) Unintentional lab leak from bioweapons research

7) Intentionally released to by the CCP

8) Intentionally released by internal opponents of the CCP

9) Intentionally released by external opponents of China

10) ... and so on

I can come up with sensical (if not always likely) scenarios which fit all of those, and many more.

Most of the scenarios suggest we should be doing much more.

For example:

* If there was an unintentional lab leak of a strain in GoF research, China knows things about COVID19 we don't. They took extreme measures. It's reasonable to assume they might have had some reason.

* If this was a "test" of a bioweapon -- understand China's and the world's response -- it's worth treating as a dry run (note that this does not necessitate Chinese-run test)

* If this were a bioweapon, we should take long COVID very, very seriously, since the best bioweapons are designed to cripple rather than to kill.

What's odd to me is that, as far as I know, no one has compiled a list, evidence, or implications.
> though this is prohibited in some backwards countries for superstitious reasons

It was banned in my country after a dozen people died and more went blind after someone made a bad batch of something. Not superstition.
I was pretty sure tdeck was being sarcastic, but I might be wrong.
That is what I mean about it only being better in the limited scenario where you are getting the package from an already-trusted central repo. But that is surely not the case in this particular situation for example.
Scanning the hero/splash section

This is a bookmarking extension that also enables me to search through my bookmarks (and I presume, their contents) while introducing the addition of curated bookmarks and bookmarks from those that I may have interest in following?

It feels like a reasonable path to universal personal search, if that's what the authors are after
Absolutely. For my workflow, the XCF requirement and the need to manually export were completely wrong. In the 23 years I've used it, I've never once needed the XCF file format. I acknowledge that others will need it, but I don't, and the change to the workflow made it significantly less usable for me.

This again comes back to the project management and project goals. There is very clearly a desired workflow and feature set that users are expected to use, and deviations from this workflow are not desired or well supported, and accommodations for non-standard workflows are not well received.

As a minor developer of open-source software, I've always been surprised at the diverse range of uses people have attempted with my software. Often things I'd never considered. In most cases, I tried to accommodate these uses so long as they could fit within the application design, and occasionally with some refactoring to fit them in. Because in most cases this was of net benefit to the application, widening its appeal and usability, and driving cleanup of the architecture to make it more flexible and more amenable to extension.

The unwillingness of the GIMP developers to support fairly basic vector and path operations speaks volumes. There's clearly a demand for it. They would be self-contained and not have any major impact upon the wider application. And yet, they have been repeatedly rejected. If I was the maintainer, I'd have considered and allowed their addition. But it seems that the GIMP developers do not want to expand the remit of their application, even if it would be of net benefit.
If that indeed was a master plan then Id argue it backfired massively, that information is not worth the losses and the risks, and is exactly why modern armies don't deploy biological or chemical weapons or zeppelins (because they are hard to control and are not effective against armies).
I have no idea. Probably a mix of factors like tradition, know-how, proper soils and climate, subsidies and/or big local demand
Or in this case ”automatically”.
At that moment, Anton became enlightened.
How Accounting Giants Craft Favorable Tax Rules from Inside Government
I suppose the end goal is to replicate production traffic patterns as close as possible. Why not just use production traffic? Of course omitting PII is mandatory.

Take a look at goreplay. https://github.com/buger/goreplay/wiki
Incorrect server response. when entering email id for secret key.
The debate wasn't about scientific fact. It was about whether a journalist was spreading misinformation and according to whom. The debate is about the Orwellian term "misinformation" and has less to do with science than with Scientism.
Render: Downtime for EU Services and Databases
The app uses the same technology as some trojans: it connects to different pseudorandomly-generated domain names under Cloudflare protection, changing at least several times per day.
Oh my, time to get some more sleep. I swear I saw through the list a few times. In any case. Thanks.
Based on the experience below, that doesn't seem to be the case. Reviews for Klein bottles were hijacked and moved to apply to black-head remover.

https://www.kleinbottle.com/Amazon_Brand_Hijacking.html
Japan closed its borders 3 weeks before North Korea. Several other countries too. I suppose one difference between North Korea and Japan is Japan allowed residents to return, however that's unlikely to be an issue for North Korea, given residents aren't allowed to leave in the first place.
Show HN: Leaked password check library with go
This is especially ironic given that Sinclair himself is iconic because he did things cheaper than most people thought possible.
While silencing Li was appalling, in practice it probably didn’t slow down recognition and escalation of the issue much as there were other doctors already aware of it and raising the alarm. Wuhan CDC had been alerted on 27th December, and the WHO had been told there was a pneumonia cluster of unknown origin on 31st December, 3 days before Li was strong armed.

All the instances of messing up found so far were incompetence and bureaucratic bullying. This certainly obstructed the free flow of information and delayed effective investigation and action though, but there’s no real sign of a concerted cover up because there were several lines of investigation in the open from early on that were never shut down.
I don't live in Germany but one of it's German speaking neighbors and we have also have a so called dual education system.

In tertiary education there are multiple tracks you can choose the more academically focused universities, more industry focused universities of applied sciences and higher certificates in the profession you learned (my father for example got a master painter certification, which allowed him to train apprentices and taught him a lot of the skills to run his own business).

But what's more important the school system starts splitting people up into workers and academics as soon as they start their secondary education:
- The kids that perform better in school go to the "Gymnasium" which leads them to get a high school degree (Abitur or Matura) which allows entry to universities focused on academics.
- The kids that perform worse go to a junior high school and start an apprenticeship and go to vocational school after finishing junior high. The academically stronger kids also have the option to get a high school degree at vocational school that allows them to enter a university of applied science (Fachabitur or Berufsmaturität).

Of course there are ways to change between the two tracks but most people follow one of the given paths. And I'd say even the more "ivory-tower" universities at least in STEM are really industry focused with companies having a big presence on campuses.
Linguistic curiosities abound.

“Mandarin” also being the name of a particular type of orange (fruit) because of the Chinese connection. The Dutch word for the fruit being “sinaasappel” — Modification of earlier “Chinas-appel” (close enough to English to guess) — https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/sinaasappel

However, the Orange Order in Northern Ireland is named after the Dutch King William of Orange, whose title “Prince of Orange” derives from a principality in southern France — https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Orange — but this in turn is probably etymologically derived from the Gaulish ar-aus(i)o- ('temple, cheek': https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange,_Vaucluse) while the fruit and colour come from the Arabic nāranj (نارنج) which is probably close to the original name for the fruit in Asia.
Name a product which allows me to find my dog, without paying monthly subscription fees.
Taiwan is irrelevant to the point I'm making. As the Taiwanese people are acutely aware, if push comes to shove, that supply chain comes under the physical control of the CCP/PLA in single-digit hours (albeit in a nonfunctional state).

The CCP has veto power over the production of all iPhones and iPads (and soon Macs) in the whole world. This has little/nothing to do with Taiwan, other than their unfortunate proximity to China.

If Apple wants to continue existing in any meaningful form, they must presently do what the CCP wants.

This goes the same for selling their devices in any given jurisdiction, such as Russia, to keep this on topic for TFA.
The topic is not the implementation, but rather the concept. To make the topic accessible to as wide an audience as possible, including old C stogies, the traditional anonymous function is much easier to understand.
I'd venture a guess that this low-grade whataboutism directed at US comes overwhelmingly from Russian and similar bots trying to divert attention.
The restrictions are quite useless (and BTW the website is quite horrible and has a bad security record). Even in Yandex you can easily find the list on various websites. It has even been duplicated to Wikipedia:

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Список_кандидатов_по_одноманда...
Imagine a study where half gets vax and half doesn't. If population is pristine at outset at end of study VE is 1-ratio between people who get COVID in the two arms.

Now, if there is any prior exposure to the disease among participants (this isn't always known, esp. for something like COVID), and if there is any natural immunity that accrues, this will pull that ratio towards 1 (VE=0)
The interest on the British dye patents was paid in German poison gas.

If the UK had not strangled that sector of their economy the Germans would have never gotten the industrial know how to make a thousand tons of chlorine a month in 1915.
From a data modelling perspective, it's nice to have them. When your input/output data has unzoned datetimes, you need to model them somehow, and it's better to have a competent implementation than something hand-rolled. I agree that you should avoid them in greenfield designs, but I don't think that's sufficient reason to exclude them from libraries.
That discussion from May has to some extent been made out of date by subsequent information revealed by a freedom of information request showing

>new viruses increased viral load in lung tissues up to 10,000 fold

https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1436301383163129871

You can debate whether that counts as gain of function research - the virus definitely gained as a result of the experiment but you can argue the experimenters didn't know that was going to happen. It still remains risky research whether the researchers deliberately made a more infectious virus or said oops we've accidentally made a more infectious virus.
This makes zero sense
Why isn’t git fetch included? Having worked with a quite a lot of developers who don’t understand git, many of whom know so many things I don’t when it comes to so many other domains of dev knowledge, it always astonishes me that people don’t understand what is happening underneath when they do a git pull.

I feel like the two main reasons people don’t understand git is that they start by using a GUI instead of starting with the command line, and that they don’t understand fetch.
It is worth keeping in mind that "every team I've been on..." is a bias. Your skillset on one team will drive your success getting hired on the next. I recommend that people find a tech stack that they enjoy, because you will be anchored to it until and unless you actively seek to move off of it in future jobs.
Yes, first it would have to work.
I don't think so, plumbers, bricklayers etc. are not the ones putting fundamental scientific achievements into practice. That's engineers and other scientists. That doesn't mean the German system of separating vocational training and university training is not useful. However it does actually the opposite of what the original post hypothized, it separates vocational training from universities. Unlike in many other countries, universities in Germany do not do vocational training in general.
Right. I'm not just grumbling, I do work on these things. Check out my Github repository: https://github.com/churchofthought/ScatterLife
https://github.com/churchofthought/HexagonalComplexAutomata

https://youtu.be/g-m0hJFiHJ4

I'll never stop working on artificial life and digital systems. The heart of information is at my dying core. :-)
I'm fascinated by this because I'm beginning to suspect it's impossible to really escape uncanny valley, almost by definition.

The CGI "style" seems to rely on battering the viewer into submission by packing as much detail and movement into every frame. But it's exhausting to watch and even if everything is perfectly photorealistic it's still kind of jarring.

If what I'm seeing on the screen cannot exist physically then it doesn't matter how detailed it is - my brain responds with "That's just CGI" and it loses credibility.

My partner works on opera productions and it's been really interesting watching high quality theatrical effects create believable settings on a stage.

Physical objects have a weight and credibility that I suspect 2D CGI can never match. With skilled designers those physical objects can be made to do impossible things, but somehow they're still believable - which actually makes the experience more convincing and magical when they do something extraordinary or uncanny.

There's also an element of sketching and leaving elements to the imagination of the audience. A lot of staged work implies something, and it turns out this makes the experience more engaging. CGI tries to make everything as explicit and busy and huge and detailed and overwhelming as possible, which actually has a distancing effect.

We'll have immersive VR movies soon and we'll see if they work any better than 2D.
What is your evidence that she didn't have evidence? Lots of credible people were saying lab leak in 2020. I was there and following it closely. It wasn't hard to come by if you employed basic skepticism of the mainstream narrative.

I didn't dismiss the entirety of The Guardian for all time (straw-man, anyone?), I said I would be skeptical of anything they publish related to a contested narrative because they have shown repeated bias. What's wrong with that? I'm not telling you not to be skeptical of this journalist. It seems like you're really projecting your own beliefs here.
archive: https://archive.is/kSfKL
There is no fundamental difference between the approach of German and American sport shoe makers on this subject. [1]

[1] https://manufacturingglobal.com/procurement-and-supply-chain...
> It's hard to imagine the Internet without WireGuard, without a VPN I have confidence in. Thank you Jason and team!

Most of the time I forget i'm even using wiregaurd until I hit a site that blocks non-consumer IPs, which I think says a lot for just how performant it is - More than simply not slowing down the connection much, it's actually improved reliability considerably for me since I started using it a couple of years ago, in some cases throughput is also improved due to better routing.

It's also made a huge difference to the stability of my SSH connections, making my day to day work a lot more pleasant. Before, SSH connections would arbitrarily drop due to carrier grade NATing ignoring TCP keep alive rules... it's almost impossible to find a consumer ISP these days that doesn't drop idle SSH connections like rocks. With wiregaurd I can keep them alive even while I change connections! my tmux use has dropped to when I actually need to multiplex.
I am getting following error response when I enter the email

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