skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I evaluated flexport along time ago when I used to do importing

Basically, if you want to buy goods from China, usually you do it by container load. You rent the container, get a 3pl ( a broker) to arrange the shipments and port

If you want to ship less than a 20 foot container load, e.g. a pallet, your goods are shared between multiple parties who also are shipping that container.

Flexport can handle those clients and also clients who want to ship full containers of goods overseas

Basically, modern online freight forwarding and logistics. That industry is still very manually driven with old tech (edi and xml) that aren't consistent across shipping ports

I would say it's kind of like the Uber eats for shipping containers... where takeout meals are pallets and Uber drivers are 40 foot containers, the hungry customer is the business buying the goods from the restaurant
Seems like the "Equal Pay for Equal Work Act" which you're referring to only applies to US companies. And if it doesn't, how does Colorado ever plan to enforce, say, a company out of Estonia, to follow this law?
If you don’t know anything about fruit trees, it can take an awful long time to get an apple. If you do, then a handful of years can accomplish a lot.

We definitely need to reevaluate this idea of how long it takes to build topsoil, if you actually want to make it instead of waiting for it to just happen.
Yep, I was originally intending for this to be a PWA. I'm now planning on Electron (or Tauri, if stars align). There may eventually be a PWA down the line, but I think most students will be okay with installing a program. Electron and PouchDb can both use Sqlite/LevelDb/IndexedDB, which is cool because IndexedDB is a slow POS. So on Electron I think I'll use PouchDb's LevelDb adapter, and when/if I start work on a PWA version I'll use PouchDb's IndexedDB adapter.
There's Xojo, for small cross platform development on Macs... I've used it in the past for small desktop applications. Its commercial but I think they do have different license tiers.
I’ve been considering getting an Apple Watch with cell service, so I can just leave my phone in a drawer most of the day but still be a answer 2fa pushes and be in touch in case of emergencies.

But I’m worried I’m trying to fix the problem with more technology.

Anyone try this out?
I really wouldn't be so sure about this. Recently, Matthew Yglesias said something on twitter about excessive copyright terms and you should have seen the responses from writers, their fanbases, and (more generally) people who have never really thought much about the issue.

There is a deep intuition in our culture that creators own their works completely and forever. "Copyrights are about incentives" may be literally true, historically, but that's definitely not how regular people view this issue. They're entirely on the side of the "big lobby" you describe and they think anybody who disagrees is trying to steal food from the mouths of artists.

Yglesias deletes his tweets, but if you search "yglesias copyright" on twitter you can find some of the blowback, which basically boils down to, "creators live off the rights to their works, so if you change copyright, you're taking money away from artists and that's illegitimate." Here's one such popular thread:

https://twitter.com/silviamg/status/1367291186164109312

"The people," it seems, are copyright maximalists.
And it's many of the same constituents (i.e., farmers in red states) voting for the party of "small government".
I’ve been curious why they are constantly advertising on HN, it doesn’t seem logical to need that many posts.

Is the hiring process bad? Is the turn over that high? The constant advertising gives a bad impression. If they are just expanding at a good clip, it seems there are better ways.
if my diet was > 2/3 sucrose, I’d expect to have far more problems than just those listed in the title.
> So, what is the call to action here? Stop researching gain of function entirely?

I'd say it's this:

> We need to decide whom to believe: the people with a lot to lose and their not-very-parsimonious or plausible-sounding explanations, which receive almost all the media attention; or the people with expertise and parsimonious explanations who don’t have a dog in this fight.
It is very hard for me to imagine a world in which Google isnt the default search provider for almost the totality of people outside China or Russia. I don't think I even see my tech-aware colleagues using anything else except the rare unicorns with duckduckgo.

I just can't see putting netflix and google search in the same basket.
Wait, you're criticizing people for caring about the environment and animal rights?
Your first claim has a very large uncertainty in it's validity for use here, but the second - that second sentence is pretty important.
The preprint discussed in that post specifically calls out that there weren’t enough myocarditis events in the 13-17 age group to reliably estimate the relative risk, so I don’t see where that conclusion is coming from

Also, note the higher relative risk only applies to the full moderna dose

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.23.21268276v...
>It is now obvious that the vaccines do not prevent covid.

For the record, that was obvious when the vaccines were released, as the trial results for vaccine effectiveness against infection for all the vaccines were clearly and widely reported to be significantly less than 100%. I think you may be referring to the lower effectiveness against new variants, which, again, was always reported as a possibility even before variants started appearing.
I would add to that: "is it an intentional means of destabilizing the West?"

To be clear: I see no evidence that Omicron is even a second lab-leak, much less that it's part of a sinister plot. My point is that there are immediate geopolitical implications, in addition to the scientific and public-health implications you have highlighted.
By invoking the US military you have lost the plot. There is no justification for a US military type response to a journalist. Neither the London police nor the CIA are military.
Chicken meat and hen meat are different things. Big stores very rarely sell hen (or rooster) meat, normally only the meat of young, immature chicks is consumed, free-range or not.

This is like the difference between veal and beef. The younger animal has softer meat and a different kind of fat.
The CBC's funding was decreased by a bunch in the Harper years. I imagine the liberals haven't reinstated it.

Without funding, they can't stay independent of what's fashionable
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One real‐world example of this is Ulysses S. Grant’s autobiography[1], which he wrote while dying of throat cancer, specifically to provide for his wife. He died five days after finishing the final manuscript.

It’s a great read and I’m glad it was written. I’m also glad that the copyright has expired and as a result there exist free, high‐quality community‐maintained ebook editions.

[1] https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/ulysses-s-grant/personal-m...
It's more like, when you are in university it's fine to add other students you barely know. But now with a job, I don't want to add my colleagues or business associates to social media. Also real friends != FB friends, I'm not going to miss out on making personal connections because of this.

I dunno, I guess for events FB is still the place to go.
And if they are using other techniques like browser fingerprinting or other techniques big tech uses to de-anonymize users then suddenly they have something to tie your voice to. Maybe the risk is low but I prefer to error on the side of caution.
My assumption is beyond 20. US is only after big time cybercriminals[0] smaller ones get away.

[0] https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/cyber
I think that my goal would be to demonstrate electrical devices starting with simple components and scale up progressively as people become more convinced.

As a starting point with minimal material requirements, I would build Faraday's rotating motor using: coins made of two different base metals and cloth soaked in saltwater for a battery, a lodestone as a natural permanent magnet, and wire or thin beaten sheet of any non-ferrous metal with a saltwater pool. Demonstrating continuous electromagnetic motion will hopefully be enough to secure some patience to request materials for further construction.

Radio demonstration would need to settle for morse code transmission because all of the components necessary for a basic radio receiver/transmitter are simple except for an amplifier. The leap in difficulty to construct a triode vacuum tube amplifier seems too far to expect to progress to voice transmission quickly. I would hope that a local ruler would understand the value after seeing a wireless telegraph in action.

The priorities from here would be to use the accumulated prestige to request smiths to make copper wire, to requisition the more exotic but already known sulfuric acid, construct lead-acid batteries, and short them through a copper coil containing an iron bar to make strong permanent magnets for use in practical motors and generators.

Once you get a bit of support, you can progress as far as needed through nineteenth century electrical development until they are convinced.
This logic works, as far as it goes. But it also suggests that there is a large body of work not worth publishing or otherwise capitalizing on that is trapped under IP protections. This a cost to society that is completely unaccounted for in the math folks tend to present when arguing for increased terms. There is a paper[0] that documents this effect to some degree, and it's overall high quality enough that I find the data presented and the reasoning behind it convincing.

From their summary:

> First, a random sample of more than 2000 new books for sale on Amazon.com is analyzed along with a random sample of almost 2000 songs available on new DVD’s. Copyright status correlates highly with absence from the Amazon shelf. Together with publishing business models, copyright law seems to deter distribution and diminish access.

I think identifying and accounting for difficult-to-measure societal costs is key in pushing back on further copyright extensions.

[0]: https://www.law.berkeley.edu/files/How_Copyright_Keeps_Works...
"clarity relates to your expertise, the less expert phrasing is sometimes overly verbose and destructive to quick comprehension, while the expert phrasing may seem incomprehensible to the non-expert. "

An expert programmer should write adequate code for the target audience - the people who will actually read and work with that code later.
They need to understand it, so he or she should not use advanced constructs, when beginners will work with the codebase.

Likewise with scientific language:

If you speak to fellow scientists you can and must use your special language. Way more efficient.

But if you give a press conference to present your findings, you have to use simpler terms, if you want people to understand you.

Many great discoveries probably got lost that way, because scientific language was not translated adequately.
All of the GoF research procedures I've read stress natural evolution, but still rely on random mutations at the end of the day, which would still leave you with a natural looking count of silent mutations in the general case.

As a GoF researcher you don't want to cull 'silent' mutations because those are a major source of building blocks for useful mutations.
> Why do people use NASM? Faster binaries?

There's nothing NASM can do to produce faster binaries than any other assembler - as it doesn't control which instructions to generate - they're specified entirely by the user.
Millions of people are dead. I think it's worth having an objective public debate about what steps would be appropriate to reduce the risk of this happening again. I don't see that "be mad at science" has anything to do with an insistence on an honest exploration and testing of hypotheses.

Neil deGrasse Tyson sums up the scientific approach as follows: "Test ideas by experiment and observation. Build on those ideas that pass the test, reject the ones that fail. Follow the evidence wherever it leads. And question everything." Cosmos (2014).

Why is that approach considered so anathema when it comes to hunting down the killer of millions of people?
Any thoughts about remote? I am fascinated by the work you're doing but can't relocate.
Because people need to eat
People are going to keep using non-realtime systems to run soft realtime UIs.

We can't make them stop, so it's still important to distinguish between "this syscall might hit a signal or an interrupt, just like every single line of code in the program" and "this syscall might hit a signal or an interrupt, but also it might get stuck waiting on a resource in a way that couldn't have otherwise happened".

If you want to suggest different terms from "nonblocking" and "blocking" I'm open to change. But in the absence of better terms, I'm going to keep using those, with an asterisk that says I'm inside linux and literally anything could technically block.
Ask HN: What is on your yearly checklist?
I wrote my list here[1], and I'd love to hear, what are yours?

[1] https://gavinr.com/yearly-checklist-backup-privacy/
For TVs even people who didn't normally fix things around the house could usually fix them. That's because 99% of the time your TV broke it was because a vacuum tube failed.

You took off the back cover with the TV on, looked at all the tubes, and found the one whose filament was not glowing. You then turned the TV off, pulled that tube out of its socket, went and bought a replacement, put that in, and that almost always fixed the TV.

You get could the replacement tube at many supermarkets. They would have a self-service kiosk that had a tube tester built in. It had a bunch of sockets covering all the tubes you were likely to find in a home TV or radio. You'd plug yours into the right socket and hit the test button, and the tester would verify that the tube was indeed dead (or tell you were wrong in which case maybe it was something other than a tube that failed so time to call the TV repairman).

There would be a book attached to the kiosk that listed all the tubes likely to be in home TVs or radios. You'd look your tube up in that and it would tell you what equivalent tube available at the kiosk could replace your tube. You'd grab that tube and go pay the cashier.
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>Just because the language had made decisions because of tradeoffs doesn't make it immune from criticism. If it's OK to criticise c++ for not breaking backwards compatibility (vector<bool> comes to mind), it's OK to criticise go for its shortcomings.

I never said it was immune to criticism. I think most of the criticism is misguided.

>- go's error handling has a major issue; it forces my model to be able to represent invalid state (see above). Because go doesn't let me have a sum type, I'm forced to return a "valid" return value alongside the error value, which means that state has to be representing in my code.

I recognize that this does not perfectly map to your mental model, but why is this a major issue? I think major issues are those that cause practical problems.

I also think there is a question of what the cost, in terms of developer cognitive load, would be of adding more advanced modeling features to go.

It's a bit like saying "that tire isn't perfect because it can pop, so lets use a metal tire instead". Sure, you fix one issue, but you create others.

>- repetition. Contrary to best practices in every other programming language, the advice given for go on so is frequently "its not that much work to implement the X yourself". Now instead of using an existing well supported library I'm maintaining my own X.

This is too vague to evaluate. There is a point at which repetition becomes a problem, and there is a point at which repetition is cheaper than having an abstraction. I don't think it can be evaluated in general.

> cgo. Performance is terrible, its completely unique compared to every other FFI style system (e.g. see dotnet), and it doesn't work with MSVC.

I agree on the factual level that it would be nice if cgo didn't have so much gc overhead. If this is meant to be evidence that go is a bad language, I would disagree.
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I'd say communication (speaking 'client'), just being able to get on with other people.

Code is very easy, people are 'hard'.
Elaine Ingham also has some things to say on the subject.

Part of forest soil creation is the life and death cycles of trees. We haven’t let many trees alone for the sort of time frame this takes, and we haven’t tried to speed things along by accelerating tree deaths a bit (we clear a forest, which is very, very different than making trees fall down and then leaving them where they lay).
Small? I can't think many subscription services with such numbers.
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Oh no, you are now required to watch this damned cartoon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTybKL1pM4 (A one minute ELI5 explanation about the difference between physical and intellectual property.)
Wish there were details on how much energy can be captured this way. Since it also charges via solar, it would be difficult for a customer to tell if this new technology makes any meaningful difference, or whether it's just included as a marketing gimmick.

Are there any other sources that provide more details?
For sucrose, mice apparently have the opposite reaction that primates have in this study. Maybe the guys who did the linked study didn't read it.

https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(21)...
See Also: Lord of the Rings Extended Edition. That's a good reason to not take a hardline stance on film immutability.
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> You cannot be healthy and fat, and we should not pretend otherwise to spare hurt feelings.

I think I’d say more that you can’t be morbidly obese and healthy. Fat people can be healthy (just probably less likely to be healthy than someone at a “typical” weight.

Too bad this podcast’s website is crap for linking to specific episodes. Check the ep from a few weeks ago: Is Being Fat Bad For You?

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> I'd rather have a farm raising plants than do that kind of stuff.

I can understand that if you're vegetarian. If you eat meat though, what goes on in this farm is what you'd you'd want for the food you eat.

BTW there is a good reason these animals get castrated, which is far more than we can say for all the millions of human babies that have the ends of their dicks chopped off in the US every year.
No it’s not. It frequently takes a long time for something unknown to get popular. There are thousands upon thousands of albums and artworks and books that didn’t get popular until a decade or two after they were made. Another example you might not be thinking of is software startups take 10 years to get going all the time, and their entire codebase is protected by copyright.

That said, I’m still not hearing a particularly compelling reason why copyrights should revert. Regardless of how long it takes for something to get popular, why should your protections expire such that it becomes legal for me to wholesale copy something you made, and turn around and sell it as if it were mine?
>Comments like this lower the level of discourse

His comment was crafted to do exactly that.
I think I'm happy enough but at the same time I feel scared shitless most days... Just recently I took a bump to a more senior position and I just keep having these visions of absolute failure... I just always have such a hard time taking it easy and understanding that even if this doesn't work for me its not going to be the end of the world.
The poll should be phrased as: Which FAANG would you short-sell relative to long positions on the others to maximize return in 5 years? Then at least we can measure performance, otherwise there isn't really a right or wrong answer we can evaluate.
Censorship? Lmao. If a restaurant kicks me out, they aren’t starving me. The internet is open. Make your own blog.
To me, Go is just a boring language to write in. It’s target audience is large corporations where individuality is discouraged. I’ve used Go extensively at work, and its lack of expressivity definitely has some upsides on large teams, mainly keeping things simple and understandable. But when I program in my free time for fun, I want to be able to express myself fully.
>Especially no problems with electrical components

As long as you carried some spare wiring harness smoke.

http://www.whereisbobl.com/tiger/smoke.html

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Yes, it's 'in mice'. Where else should we study this?

Should we study these effects on prisoners, military personnel, government workers, or school children? Perhaps those with this 'in mice' attitude think we should raise primates for these purposes?

Mice are not the best model for humans, just like a Representative Democracy isn't the best model for a government. These things are, however, the best we have at this point in time.

This is a great study as it conclusively proves not that sugar diets are bad, but HOW they are bad, and WHY they are bad. Sucrose is shown to interrupt key systems in the brain and now we have a model of how this occurs. Now we can try to image human brains that are suffering from these psychosis and we'll know better where to start our investigations.

This is a good study with many implications for future human health studies. Great work.
If all it takes is a short sample of your voice then you're probably already screwed. May as well have fun with it!
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Proficiency in any reasonably common scripting language. I don't even care which. PowerShell, Z shell, Python, Ruby, just please know enough of something to write scripts to perform the odd task we don't have a dedicated tool for. Feels like I'm always running into a new employee who freezes when asked to, like, write a script to pull our phone number inventory and compile a list of vendor IDs for the numbers. Here are the API docs, here is the format of the file I need you to produce, please figure it out.
We're currently dealing with problems that arose from people assuming that their systems wouldn't ever be used for more than, say, 50 years. That assumption is frequently proven wrong.

500 years is pretty different. Odds are that computing will look nothing like what we know today. Our software will be long dead.

And if it isn't, there will be yet another Y2K bug in 500 years' time, and they'll solve it. Just like we keep solving it.