skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> EU dealer would have to pay the same import fees and VAT. It would be less of a hassle, but probably not cheaper.

In my country (and I guess many other EU countries - although it varies from country do country), it is a huge hassle and expensive too. And if you make any mistakes in the red tape you get hit with all sorts of ridiculous fees. Also, the package is usually delayed in customs for weeks or months. Whereas packages shipped from within EU typically arrives within next business day of them arriving in the destination country.

So avoiding the hassle is well worth it in order to get to the EU market.

Also, it may actually be cheaper. In my country, the local post office adds a "handling fee" of 30 EUR just for the service of informing you that you need to pay customs, VAT, etc. on the item.
At least this is 30 EUR that can be saved on each item.
A Reddit ad for a fitness app gets 19k upvotes
I bumped into this randomly but found it fascinating. People try to hack growth and use hooks to attract an audience, but all it takes is to actually build something useful and authentic. Its quite an underrated approach.
OK, whatever.

Re: sibling comment: I'm European, not native English speaker.
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He was charged with not paying taxes and felony gun possession and plead guilty to the tax charges (the felony will go to trial later). I've read nothing about access for money.

But I don't think anyone is ignoring it. Everyone is aware Hunter has had a troubled life and made bad choices. Everyone I've spoken to about this, even the left leaning, is of the opinion that if he broke the law he should face punishment. No one is on the other side of the issue here. The truly newsworthy bit is that he's been charged and facing consequences which, if we look at past presidential children, is the outlier.
I wonder why Canadians always look at housing from the demand perspective. What about supply? Canada is big. Unless everyone is trying to live in Vancouver and Toronto, there is more than enough space to build houses. Do you not have enough construction workers to build houses?
I think these types of fees happen often, are discovered, then they are refunded. This even happened with me with a government agency where we had a collegial relationship. The administrator found out we had paid for data that was supposed to be public, told us no one was authorized to impose a fee, and joked that they must have wanted to throw an office party or something. He was actually very serious about apologizing and refunding the fees, but it wasn’t a big deal.

It becomes a problem when people take the attitude that what’s done is done. The fees should be refunded, at least from the consultants back into the public purse, and they should take much greater precautions when it comes to “public private partnerships” and monetizing access to public land.
The world wide web is inherently a tool for distribution. Being upset at Facebook is nonsensical when distribution is the purpose of the web.

Technology is an amplifier for human behavior. If some humans use technology for nefarious rather than constructive purposes, then that is a problem with those humans - not the technology.
Canada educates a lot of technical and medical workers into the US every year. There is no "brain-drain" except for the person that posted the article FUD.

Keep in mind:

1. Canada work Visas usually have a 4 month window for you to get a position.

2. The wages are usually much lower than the identical US position (after currency conversion)

3. The incremental income taxes are relatively high

4. After a few months stay, you will be taxed on residency, and not nationality. If you have US citizenship, than you will still have to report in your home state as well (usually it is whichever is greater that is applied).

5. After several months stay, you can apply for a Medical Services Plan. Note, if you develop some issue while awaiting the provincial coverage it is common they will back date coverage. However, it is still highly recommended you keep your private medical/dental insurance during this transitional period.

6.Housing is expensive, and difficult to find these days. It may take some time to find a place if you have a large family.

7. Do a search to learn about TFSA, RRSP, and CPP. It will help you retain your earnings.

8. Due to the recent stressed medical system over several years, it is now rather difficult to find a doctor in some cities. This should be dealt with as soon as possible if you require care, as it currently takes months to find a GP.

Do feel free to ask questions, as the parts of Canada currently not on fire are quite enjoyable. =)
Not mowing your lawn and stopping cooking on an outdoor grill are non-starters for most people.
Microsoft uncovers cryptojacking ploy used to breach Linux devices
How big is this scale difference in orders of magnitude?
I saw it the other day. Its home is MoMA, but it is currently on loan at the Met through August 27th.

I just went the other day, and it was definitely worth seeing.

https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/van-gogh-cypresses
I saw Toy Story 3 with a group of longtime friends when it came out in the summer between high school and college. Definitely some wet eyes in the group during those final scenes. I don't think I could have chosen a more appropriate time for that movie if I tried.
Relying on apps for meditation is a recipe for distrac
Uhhhh not OP but yes I believe only one president has shown off classified material for money and power and ego. Disliking the system doesn’t mean we should abandon all critiques of politicians while we wait for our personal utopia to come about.
Yeah, I've worked at another large tech company who had accumulated a lot of in house tooling with a lot of invested SMEs who had been there a long time and missed that the state of the art out in the world had passed them by.
It’s easier to have sympathy for immigrants who are starving and dying trying to make it here and then demonized and used as a political punching bag if they do make it.
The subject of Pixar seems to be the actual interest and the article seems to be a vehicle to start that conversation. Not so unusual for HN.
This is yet another "it is the way it is because it is the way it is" argument. I will leave it here.
Glass Battery Is More Than Goodenough
> it didn’t work with just any images on device.

Only a matter of time before an authoritarian regime forced them to expand its scope. Create a Pandora's box and it will be opened.
That's the right approach. But, as the other commenter pointed out, there are a number of complications which mostly center on the inability to distinguish cancer from self. Many of the mutations that make cells cancerous are not expressed at the cell surface, and the only way to probe the interior is through MHC molecules which act as little windows into the cell. More specifically, during normal metabolism the cell will chop up the proteins its making and display them on the surface for immune surveillance. The immune system can use these because its been trained against EVERYTHING SELF (in the thymus) so when something goes wrong in a cell and surface expression looks different it can usually recognize this.
Of course by the time cancer has developed something has gone wrong in this process normal process in any number of ways.

Even if the challenge was just "recognize MHC-presented cancer antigen" in therapy you have to a) determine what section of the mutated protein would be displayed in MHC, b) determine and develop an antibody (or antibody-like molecule) how to recognize specifically that (and not the non-mutated version which will be present in healthy cells), then c) either genetically engineer the patient's immune cells to recognize it, or hijack the recognition process in some other manner.

Each of these steps is very very difficult and we're only just developing the computational and experimental tools to do these for any patient, let alone every cancer patient.
I won't go into it, but you also have to think about cancer as a living organism susceptible to evolution so if you don't hit hard and fast to wipe it out all at once, you select for mutations that evade your treatment. This is made especially challenging considering that cancer usually has some mechanism gone awry that leads to increased growth and mutation rates so that they're even MORE likely to evade your treatments then a generic cell - think of it kind of like antibiotic resistance in bacteria
Many command-line CSV parsing tools mentioned here, adding my choice to the list:

http://harelba.github.io/q/
Because they get laid off in random staff cuts just like everyone else. When tech companies band together against tech workers, it doesn't matter how many Xs of an engineer you are.
https://youtu.be/dBnniua6-oM
How does hibernate make hard thing harder? Can't you just use the `@SQLSelect` or `@SQLInsert` annotation along with SQL?
There are all kinds of tweaks like

defaults write com.apple.finder DisableAllAnimations -bool true

defaults write com.apple.dock launchanim -bool false

defaults write -g NSWindowResizeTime -float 0.001

defaults write com.apple.dock expose-animation-duration -float 0.1

defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -float 0

defaults write com.apple.mail DisableReplyAnimations -bool true

etc. Look it up.
There's a second blog post here with substantially more technical detail: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/breaking-mlperf-training-r...

Additionally, code for the actual submission is available here https://github.com/mlcommons/training_results_v3.0/tree/main...
South Korea makes changes to age-counting law; Some people now two years younger
For me, this article does not make Rubio's position clear. Previously, he had been involved in the UFO industrial complex:

https://reason.com/2022/11/15/the-military-ufo-complex/

I'm surprised that congress finally wants to stop the gravy train, unless this is another refined misdirection scheme. Probably a lot of that money went into covert operations.
Did the Marines have keyboards dedicated to password entering?
> A year ago i had to develop a big Java application without orm (cto’s choice): i didn’t remember how tedious, error prone and slow is development without orm!!! Never do it again!

To be fair, JDBC is an awful, awful, API. In a sane language, with a sane SQL API/library, there's really no reason you shouldn't be able to just pull out a statically typed tuple (with proper handling of NULL, unlike JDBC) from a query result in one line.
In New Orleans (and surrounding areas), we have a large, dusty industry of salvaging old long leaf pine and either reusing it directly or re-milling larger pieces like beams into flooring etc. You can easily pick up old growth pine with tight grain here, but depending on where these kits sourced their wood, it is probably the wrong species. Might still be closer than anything you can find locally. If you ever make a trip to New Orleans, most salvage stores like The Bank, Riccas, Demo Diva etc will sell you a chunk of wood no problem.
Please do! Maybe Amazon is the easiest way to do so? On top of reducing delays, you'd reduce uncertainty. Here in Portugal, the problem isn't really custom fees - but customs completely blocking/losing/returning the product. Really hard to get packages from abroad to get through our super incompetent custom services. But that's not a problem if it comes from within EU.
Not sure what that is, docker? None of the several dozen projects I'm referring to use it.
Jensen Huang emigrated at the age of 4, Lisa Su at the age of 3, Satya and Sundar both came over as part of college visa programs.
I don't see what that has to do with mass importation of low skill workers to hammer down high middle class wages in the US?
You still trust Google to give good results? That (air)ship has long sailed...
They won’t be replced by an LLM but by another person using an LLM, most likely a dev and possibly the same person who is asked to use an LLM to increase productivity. I see more and more companies/institutions adopting LLMs and training their workforce to use em. Interesting to know how all this will play out.
> Easier: a device that shreds the phone onsite, in front of the customer.

My local PC repair shop has a hard-disk destroyer that you can use to destruct your own drives. It's basically a lever-operated vice-crusher with a four-foot lever that you use to close the jaws. As soon as I discovered it I was able to destroy the hard drives that I'd been keeping in a bucket in my garage. The shop keeps the bits and manages the e-waste disposal. Bonus: it gives you an upper-body work-out
tomato is a fruit
According to the (unsourced) article, casualties were reduced due to the generational memory of farmers knowing of a similar nearby incident in 1911.

Oddly enough, I found an article from an NSW newspaper from 1911 about symptoms that sound vaguely resembling Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) in a cluster of downer cows. Perhaps (v)CJD is an recurring, emergent prion disease that cannot be totally avoided in either cows or humans.
> Me too! That's why I use an ORM that lets you write queries in SQL, like... Hibernate.

Yeah, this criticism of ORMs strikes me as off-base. I feel like any ORM worth its salt gives you the tools to write raw SQL as needed, which can also be combined with the query builder the ORM uses.

I use Rails/ActiveRecord and have very few complaints. When I need to do something simple, the convenience methods work great. When I need a complex query, I just write it.

There's a learning curve here, where you have to understand when to "break glass" for writing queries directly (either for better performance reasons or because an ORM lacks the expressiveness required).

I think a lot of ORM hate comes from people who never got deep enough to really hit the sweet spot. They (correctly) note that the ORM abstractions aren't suitable for every query, but (IMO) they disregard the benefits that they provide for most queries. If something like 90% of my queries can be generated by an ORM, I'm feeling pretty good about that - it's a lot more maintainable.
It is the way it is because it is the way the citizens of countries want it to be.

That’s unsurprising that that would be stable over long periods of time.
If they're lying, they have a moral obligation to declassify everything they know.

If they're telling the truth, they have a moral obligation to declassify everything they know.

Official secrecy is fundamentally incompatible with the needs of an informed public capable of voting intelligently within a democratic republic.
Haha thanks, I think I'll finally give those a try, I've been trying to make KDE work, and it just doesn't.
What about sharp rocks? We need to send somebody around with a file to sand off the pointy edges
> Canada has a far larger housing crisis than the US does

I did not know this. Makes me wonder -- what is the point at which housing is so unaffordable that people start to riot?
Exciting or terrifying? Seems like it would be highly dependent on context and how minor details get interpreted.
That museum was definitely one of the highlights! I can only second every recommendation for it.
I can't really compare to Meta, but I will confess that "industry standard" tooling has been very disappointing for me. Trying to get a build setup that automatically pulls in dependency changes once a week is something I'm still not entirely sure how to do in a way that everyone agrees with. Seems most tools bake that into a code commit with a lock file nowadays. But even that is amusingly recent. Years ago, you had to mirror any repository system locally and learn how to set that up. Probably getting it wrong in the process.

Mentioning splunk, I'm assuming you are using more paid industry tools. I suspect that opens things up a bit more, but realize that most of the industry doesn't use those due to prohibitive pricing. And I don't even know what the appropriate paid tool for building would be.

We seem remarkably primed to just hate whatever tooling we have at our disposal in ways that baffles me.
FDA issues draft guidance for research into psychedelics
There's actually an answer to this; if you compare the Windows machine to the average spec from the time it was released you'd probably find comparable performance. This is not a coincidence. What is happening is this: Work is put in to attain the minimum level of performance a paying user will find acceptable. This threshold has not changed, so in general, neither has real performance. The places where modern computers actually strut their stuff is where the paying users care a lot. For example, a game pushes 120Hz at 4K because the paying customer cares. Video editors care about every last bit of performance because at scale each bit becomes seconds to minutes to hours pretty quickly.

(There's an averaging effect to. That game paying customer might like it if Windows was snappier, but in that market they're just another voice in the crowd of people who on average are satisfied with the current status quo.)

"Paying customer" is important too because you can almost measure how much social power the user has by how slow the software is. Why is the point-of-sale device in the checkout miserably slow? Why does the device the desk receptionist is using at your national-scale bank need 30 seconds just to pull up your appointment information? Those people have no social power, so they get to just sit and wait while the computer swaps things in and out for a truly simple task. Executives get machines that can switch between email and the browser in a heartbeat with the other 24 gigs of RAM and 6 cores do nothing. Using what machines the developers get as a metric for how much the company cares about them is something smarter developers have been doing for a while; if your developer interviewer uses the 8 minutes it takes their machine to boot to sing the praises of the engineering culture the company has, well... make appropriate judgments.

(In 2023 this almost impresses me. Setting up a computer that needs 30 seconds to switch between a calendar and an email is almost a challenge now. You need to harvest those last few precious $10/unit to give them really shitty hardware and combine it with an almost sociopathic dedication to layering on enough virus scanning and tracking software to slow down a cheap machine even so. Even the cheap stuff shouldn't be that slow!)

If you work at it even a bit on Linux, you can set up a very responsive system. You've been able to for a long time, really. But you may find you don't get to use the latest and greatest of the heaviest weight desktop system at the time. It's a lot easier on Linux to use the stuff from years ago that flies now. Emacs use to be joking referred to as "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping"; now it's a "light-weight" text editor. (Though it doesn't quite start instantly for me, it is under a second in my configuration. YMMV.)
Huh? It’s a real dichotomy. We have one model today that all companies use. Apple proposed an alternative that people hated, so we still have the secret cloud scanning with no auditability or transparency.

How in the world is that a false dichotomy? It is literally a choice betweeen two options that people were very adamant about.
I wonder what the Ad looks like. Anybody got a link?
Did the phone company provide the service for free or did you have to pay the phone bill?

Congratulations on discovering how advertising works.
How Microsoft Excel Tries to Rebrand Work as Excitement
Aliens that are alternate dimensional / advanced technologically could control the release of their existence through various means, while still having some incentive to reveal themselves in stages that seem plausible to us. Imagining them only as meat-sacks-from-another-rock is lacking imagination.
I will become 30 this December again (which sounds a bit sad to me). I could not get the point by where did I study.
Not providing a megaphone to conspiracy theory nutjobs is a good thing, actually. We need a lot more of that, and I choose to give my business to platforms that have those kinds of policies, and not to those that don't. YouTube booting RFK Jr from their platform gives me better feelings about YouTube.
I don't know why this is allowed to go on. It's been going on for years with almost no consequences. At one point relatively recently they threatened to cut off one generic manufacturer from the US market but then backed off, as far as I remember.

They know this is a trend, it's been documented in many articles over the last decade at least.

They could make unannounced spot checks, they could do more quality control sampling, they could increase accountability by mandating manufacturing information and links to safety violation records be printed on drug labels. And so forth and so on.

Sometimes I feel as if the entire medical industry in the US, and especially the drug regulation culture, has its head in the clouds with either some form of regulatory capture and/or narcissistic feeling of impunity or disregard.

Several years ago there was an article in a major news outlet about generics, and how lower income individuals were more likely to to choose brand name drugs over generics. The entire article, with interviews with physicians and medical experts, was framed around this idea that lower income individuals were less educated and didn't understand that generics were "chemically exactly the same" as brand names. This was going on at the same time as all this adulteration and dangerous manufacturing of generics. Not once did they mention that the possibility that maybe lower income individuals had a realistic, healthy fear of being screwed over by inferior products and lack of real oversight from authorities who are supposed to protect them.

The entire article was like a snapshot of problems with healthcare in the US: impoverished individuals getting screwed over by credentialed, overprivileged individuals in authority positions who are more concerned about maintaining a fiction of superiority and regulatory capture benefits than actually thinking of protecting the individuals who actually need help.

It's like cargo cult medical regulation, but with motivated ignorance.

The FDA needs to focus more on safety and quality control and less on the murkier and more questionable topics around efficacy and gatekeeping access.
We need the flexibility to choose, there's no one size fits all here. Workplaces also need to cater for different needs and be appealing enough to make it worth going there. I've analyzed the results of a study on this last week: https://leadership.garden/back-to-the-office/
Long way to go, but that's what international solidarity is for.

[0]: https://aflcio.org/issues/global-worker-rights

[1]: https://cwa-union.org/workers-rights/international-solidarit...
It does, but the applications and environments I need to use are Windows only anyway.

IT policy also doesn’t let us have anything other than Windows. I could skirt it for the day to day stuff, but I wouldn’t want to maintain my setup in multiple places anyway
Your logic is that governments depend on funding themselves by recapturing money that they print for circulation? That's adorable. They do recapture money by way of taxes and redistribute it to themselves, but they aren't limited in their self-funding by recaptured domestic currency.

Your immigration GDP logic isn't accurate. Immigration only increases GDP insofar as it increases foreign currency influx to Canada. Does it do this? Sure. But not in the prior implied rate and manner. More people making less domestic money doesn't magically increase GDP.

Blaming my critique of "more domestic labor = more government profit" talking point, typed without a hint of irony, on anything else is lazy. Especially combined with a warning not to critique that point.
£35k is the minimum, average salary for skilled visa holders AFIK is much higher (there should be some stats but cannot find now).