skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You don’t have to pay in this circumstance as far as I can tell.

If you accept the package in a way where they pay the import taxes for you (you are not paying the government directly, they pay first then you pay them), it does indeed become your problem. They conducted a service on your behalf, with the expectation that you will compensate them, and the brokerage fees represent their labour in paying for you. Once or twice not paying those brokerage fees you could probably get away with, but eventually they’ll hold packages back until you have paid off all arrears + interest and penalties.

There is another way available to a small majority of Canadians:

If you live near a border crossing or international airport or harbour that regularly docks international ships, you will have a Canadian Border Services (CBS) office near you. This means you can self-clear any package, thereby avoiding brokerage fees.

The method is thus:

1. Refuse to accept the package from the shipper, tell them to hold it at the local distribution centre where you will pick it up later as you want to self-clear it personally. Ask for the Bill of Lading (BoL), which is a piece of paper attached to the package that defines the shipper, receiver, and contents of the package (usually itemized and $-valued). Some shippers call it something different, with other shippers you need to fill out an online form to be sent this document.

2. Within 24-48 hrs (2 work days), go to your local CBS office with your BoL, and if the BoL does not specify the value of the goods (preferably itemized), include any receipts or invoices you saved from the purchase. The CBS officers will calculate import taxes from those amounts and provide you with a BoL-linked invoice for that payment that includes all shipping numbers.

3. Provide to the shipping company the CBS form indicating that you have paid the import taxes directly to the government. This means that the shipping company will be reimbursed for its tax payment on that shipment, nullifying your obligation to pay the brokerage fees. Some (UPS) will demand that it be faxed in to a head office number (yes, even in 2023). Ask nicely, and the CBS officers may do it for you. Other shipping companies (FedEx) only need to see it when you pick up the package, as they’ll scan it into their records at that time.

Presto, no brokerage fees paid!

Good luck. And my condolences to anyone without a CBS office within easy travel distance.
Maybe the Bible has the answer?

“The Jubilee is the year at the end of seven cycles of shmita (Sabbatical years) and, according to biblical regulations, had a special impact on the ownership and management of land in the Land of Israel.

According to the Book of Leviticus (Chapter 24-25), Hebrew slaves and prisoners would be freed, debts would be forgiven, and the mercies of God would be particularly manifest.”

SOURCES:

- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee_(biblical)#:~:text=T....

- https://bibleproject.com/podcast/jubilee-radical-year-releas....
Would this paper be published in a reputable journal? I think they would ask for better graphs at the very least, maybe more detail of the process of creating the material. It doesn't seem like the arxiv prerint did any good here. I don't think science = being in a journal but this event doesn't show evidence for the death of journals.

>Their invention was scientifically bankrupt

Did you just replace "morals" with "science" here? What do you mean by this?

Or do you mean that their "invention" was without reason? Even if journals are not needed today, "arxiv and social media" did not yet exist.
> being able to write a letter to an organization that still insists on written letters for things

Maybe I'm especially attuned to this due to my personal biases, but I see a lot of cases where AI is the "solution" to a problem that shouldn't exist.

A real nuisance from my dayjob involves using AI to parse information out of PDF datasheets. If manufacturers would provide machine-readable datasheets, we could simply write code. But no, they for some reason only provide awfully-formatted PDFs at best, forcing the burden onto everyone aside from themselves, the people who have the data already.

It's wonderful that we can make AI do this tedious and difficult data entry work now. But the problem should not exist in the first place.
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One interesting expression of the bash personality disorder is alias.

If you alias p=printf in a #!/bin/sh script, it will work; it will fail in a #/bin/bash script, unless POSIX mode is forced.
This is just tap dancing around the fact that "gig work" is _work_ and should have all the benefits and protections of full time or part time jobs.
> So you're saying OP's numbers are incorrect?

That is not what cherry picking is.
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Really? I think the untrustworthiness of the CEO and their tendency to embellish facts around their background is a massive red flag. These have been reported on multiple times the past few months. Why lie about having a masters degree or working at a trading firm?

And of course you may say that all CEOs are liars. And I would agree. But the smart CEO’s know not to lie about trivial things like education credentials.

I don’t think this is a hit piece. I think the incompetency of the CEO is finally bubbling up to the surface and rotting the company from the inside. And now the original believers are starting to turn on their former saviour.
What about tasks? Surprisingly I never used them with calendar.

Can they be organized into groups/projects?
Yeah, absolutely. I expect we'll increasingly notice that LLMs are being applied as stop-gap solutions to problems that would ideally be solved some other way.
So you can edit your OP and this comment but can’t edit “intend”?
This is Science: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LK-99#Replication_attempts
I agree completely. In the physical goods world, though, it’s not a continuous function. At points along the way, there is a very clear cost step response. Requirements evolving is totally fine and expected, but you need to periodically say “The current set is good enough, let’s build it and ship it”. Trying to do continuous delivery on manufactured items is the road to madness.

My general approach to this is to try to reasonably anticipate things that could be coming down the pipe and, if possible, do the bare minimum to cheaply support the next prototype. As an example, if the product has a GPS receiver and a microcontroller and could conceivably need to do dual-receiver down the road, I’ll have a quick look for spare Tx/Rx pins on the microcontroller and just route those out to blank pads. Two benefits:

- when product management asks, we have a way to build a prototype using existing parts

- if there aren’t any spare pins to break out like that, I can raise it as a potential design red flag early. It’s not necessarily a show stopper, but it contributes situational awareness for when the next big step cost might show up down the road.
It makes me so uncomfortable to see staff like this justify the use of these monitoring technologies. Employees are increasingly treating their staff like children, and with headlines like this, it seems increasingly appropriate.
softseek.com was better, because everything had a screenshot. I would actually prefer this interface over modern app stores:

https://web.archive.org/web/19991013034959/http://softseek.c...
No one in this thread is saying the Korean researchers have a superconductor in their possession has been proven false.

We have an unverified claim of a significant discovery released in a pre-print that was taken on good-faith and replication experiments were attempted.

This has resulted in what can be described as a very thorough and publicized review process by multiple researchers qualified to serve as reviewers. As this was all done in good faith it is effectively analogous to the scientific standard of blinded peer review as no one was considering the author's credibility.

The conclusion of multiple reviews has been the equivalent of "recommend rejection, invitation to resubmit with major revisions". Major revisions being verification of superconductivity in the sample they possess and further details regarding synthesis and yield as what has been described is clearly not working as claimed.

The relevance of author credibility is for a confidence estimation that a superconductor has been discovered at this time. Obviously, if this was Argonne or [peer] one would be more confident than in a private research corporation with a history of claiming false affiliations to notable research institutions. This is not an ad hominem attack, it's a credibility assessment.

The current state is we have a flawed and effectively rejected manuscript making a significant claim. Looking at the authors credibility is an attempt to remain optimistic but this also points to low confidence.
In Australia we'll have a little no junk mail or no unsolicited mail sign and most box stuffers are good at following that even though there's no legal obligation - except real-estate agents. They suck.

I saw one as I was leaving one day who had just left a typical pamphlet in our mailbox. I pointed out the no junk unsolicited sign and he started on how it was important information I may be interested in.

I suggested that while that was a nice rationalisation, he knows it's bullshit and he should get his hand off it.
And so the poor American can’t deal with the surplus of items that another person in China is literally selling to pay the bills to LivE. oh the humanity that poor woman receiving all that free merchandise that she could return get off her lazy ass and sell like the person in China for money. Oh wait, she’s privileged. She lives in America. She doesn’t need it. Why does she just complain about it online then
This is unrelated to the access to the service, this is about gig workers who do the service but can be cut by Uber/Amazon/etc.
Do travel to China, its quite nice.
Print still has to work through some digital intermediary, unless you enjoy truly uncommon access to trustworthy and quality printing infrastructure. One of the first things that printing services are going to look into is feeding the works they print into ai systems.
That is different as it is a DSL, and it was supposed to be Adobe's core product. Also I don't think there were any off-the-shelf page description languages that they could use in 1982.

Developing a C++ alternative in 1988 is a different story.
Or to any other authoritarian state.
The "innovation" is not paying or treating their employees well--sorry, their "gig workers"--and pocketing the saved money so it can go to the shareholders.
You're free to argue that DU rounds are effectively a poisonous weapon and should be banned on those grounds. I would agree. That doesn't change the fact that depleted uranium is not a nuclear weapon.
>With today’s tech we can literally be collaborating in real-time with people from any corner of the planet from the comfort of our home office. How would that change in office?

from my experience, collaboration is nice, after you establish the design.
WFH was awful for brainstorming and more than simple design/architecturing processes. That delay in communicating ideas on a virtual whiteboard can be felt.
There needs to be a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to a US government provided email, electronic money account that can never be blocked from receiving and sending money, and identity verification services as part of everyone’s rights.
Is that worth risking your freedom for?
All the benefits, none of the downsides, please
California’s new math framework ignores research about how children learn
Is this because PPIs are bad, or because people that need to use PPIs on average eat poorly and have worse metabolic health?
Another extension creator here, I've been getting more and more of these emails recently. I just checked, and my extension [1] now has a "Featured" badge, which I guess explains this uptick.

No intention of "monetizing" as there is no non-shady way to monetize this feature. I perhaps don't maintain it as much as I could (sorry Windows and Linux users), but on the upside it is so little work that I'm never tempted.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-to-windowpopup...
That is a law. It is illegal to seize domestic mail without a warrant.
They accomplished it by removing the only American “safety net” for our completely broken health and other infrastructure: having an employee-employer relationship.

As long as healthcare and job are intimately tied, these “hacks” are exploitive at large.
I'd almost bet money that it's assault if the target decides it is.

Gently putting your hand on someone's shoulder is assault if it's unwanted. Water is less pleasant.

Here's some people on a random website claiming to be lawyers, but also saying the right words: that they can't give specific legal advice and that the OP should not do that and/or get a lawyer. https://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/can-i-be-charged-or-arres...
> up to 800 MPa

The words “up to” would imply lesser pressures would work.
I have over 400 movies, and about 30 complete TV series. Ripping movies isn't so bad, takes about 40 minutes on my laptop, but ripping TV series is a huge pain in the ass.

Episodes appear to be stored in no particular order on Blu-ray, so I end up having to open the video file, pray for a title card, and match that against an episode order list on Wikipedia.

For some shows (like most British shows) this isn't too bad, since there's a very small number of episodes so re-ripping doesn't take too long. For other shows (e.g. Adventure Time), there's a million episodes, and correctly labeling them takes a lot of effort that I do not want to duplicate.

The thing is...I have re-ripped all my blu-rays. Twice. Because I didn't know what I was doing with ZFS and kept breakingu cluster. I don't really want to do it again.
fyi, Macromedia had a counter law suit, and both eventually settled.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-jul-30-fi-techb...

(fyi, I worked for Macromedia, and work for Adobe).
I don't think my freedom is at risk when I go there honestly. There are probably people in some fields or businesses that do have some risk. But I think the fears are overblown.
>Management stupidity and employee incompetence certainly wasn't a thing before COVID

problems change, and some problems get worse while others get better. No need to be snide, it's honestly a thing to consider when talking about these situations.
:planet: :gun:
MySql did have better insert performance for a while, but this was due to unsafe defaults in conjunction with no transactions, which is only a good tradeoff if you're storing disposable data.
It's not terribly far off. ChatGPT is so bound up in muzzles and straitjackets it's surprising it can write at all. Its wet toast style of writing is heavily enforced, i.e. it's a "feature".
I'm surprised the integrating part matters. Does it matter if your internal documentation uses the same stack as your product?
I didn't know there was a name for this, thanks!
Cracking passwords is legal if you obtained the hashes legally as part of your pentest conttract. So is shitcoin mining.

But you seem dead set that there are no uses for ROCm so I'll leave you there.
Thank you too.

I’ll correct a couple points I think you missed: the extinction rebellion people are not offering a policy that stops warming or stops existential threats from warming. They are choosing simplicity over efficacy. It’s absurd to say I am choosing extinction, I oppose them _because_ their politics won’t result in reducing risk of extinction.
What does it matter if the risk of droughts/circulation changes is low? Because if the risk is low, then there is a greater chance that an early intervention will cause more harm that it saves. I gave you a few examples of such policies. Acting from ignorance almost always results in bad policy. You may interpret this as me being “too slow” but I have shown that being “too fast” results in negative outcomes that makes the problem harder to solve.
this is also tap dancing around the rigidity of full-time and part-time jobs were dependability on a daily basis are required something that gig workers enjoy not having to conform to
I understood this to mean the amount of information they have is enough to uniquely fingerprint you and associate that with your derived wants and needs.
I'd rather read the article on a commercial blog than on Medium. Medium is horrible and promotes centralisation.
Our discourse on this topic is horribly stunted by everyone — on both sides — insisting that there are only two God-ordained classes of employment: "employees" and "contractors".

We would have infinitely more sophisticated discourse if we allowed for the possibility that our taxonomy does not capture the reality we live in, where there are intermediate classes of labor which should have some (but not all) the rights, protections, and expectations accorded to full-time employees.
Likewise.. I expected a burial site with the accomanying artifacts that somehow they knew that woman would never really want in the afterlife.
They were loading up encampments with propane and diesel fuel [1] mere feet from the Parliament buildings. The threat was dispersed peacefully, including by temporarily suspending access to bank accounts - as a Canadian I fully support the government's actions. Those whackadoodles are free to - and continue to - protest things that don't exist to this very day [2]. I believe one of them continues to believe she's the Queen of Canada. [3] You know, the Queen who died last year. This was not about what they were protesting, but how, and the threat it posed.

This is completely different from a few different perspectives but the most relevant is that they lost access by judicial process with legal recourse.

This article however is about private companies making (from some people's perspectives) capricious business decisions with no recourse because gig workers are not deemed employees.

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/ottawa-police-seize-fuel-truckers-a...

[2] https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/national-security-officials-...

[3] https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7n8aw/queen-of-canada-roman...
I browsed through it shortly but it is impressive. When it comes to existing resources, the boring university classes can actually be navigated online. For this topic CS-152 from Berkeley could be a nice followup (https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs152/sp23/) and there's a CPU design project in CS-61C that should cover everything you learned if you want to apply the knowledge to a concrete design.
SEO optimization is actively destroying the archives of blogs out there. Pruning articles to rank better is rewarded. Removing knowledge to "play the game" is a viable path to making money.

The saving grace here? The existence of the Wayback Machine. A non-profit by the Internet Archive that is severely underfunded. If you ever needed a reason to donate, this is probably it. And even then, the survival of this information depends on a singular platform. Digital historians of the future will have a tough job.
Of all of the software EOLed by Macromedia / Adobe, this is the one I probably hear the most from people wanting it to come back.

(I worked for Macromedia, work for Adobe).
How to lo-fi with A.I.[video]
The nature of gig work is that you always need to be looking for your next gig. The problem they talk about here is getting cut off from the matchmaking service, not that one customer doesn’t like you.
I would also be interested in stats on eCommerce websites for businesses which have
been shuttered. Wouldn't that be interesting if you could still shop there?

When I played an MMOG, we had a very complex economic meta game, where you could purchase shops and stalls, and you could trade, buy, sell, and manufacture goods, you could store them, and you could ship them around the world.

And players began to discover that they didn't necessarily need to micromanage, or even manage, their shops. They could set wages and prices in the spreadsheet, then toss millions of coin into the coffers, and then just let it run on auto-pilot.

And then there were players who did this, and retired from the game, or they were even banned. Their properties weren't disabled in any way, IIRC, so as long as those shops had funds to pay the rent, they could attract traders and employees, and operate with impunity, and we began to call them "zombie shops".

These zombie shops began to dominate the economy; even though the trade pricing was not optimal and they weren't being tweaked every day, they could easily absorb a lot of commerce, because there were a lot of them in the marketplace. So it was so frustrating to be an active business owner and competing against zombies!

Of course, a real-life zombie eCommerce site would be more difficult to pull off, but perhaps not impossible, given the logistics of drop-shipping and automated payment processing. Consider a personal website, whose accounts have been prepaid well in advance, with future-proofed technology; it could be the next Energizer Bunny.

Here's a Scavenger Hunt: what's the oldest extant personal website still running today? What's the oldest revision date on a website's page files? What's the oldest personal website where all functionality still remains?
Worker protections have incentivized automation historically.

Workers providing these services is a point in time, and while it exists we should mitigate the downsides.
I'm not sure if folks remember this, but Macromedia's NLE avoided the fate of FreeHand and Fireworks thanks to Apple. The spirit of Macromedia lives on!

https://macromedia.fandom.com/wiki/Macromedia_Final_Cut
Flexibility in working hours does not mean all other employee benefits are forfeit!
But both Amazon and UPS or FedEx will still claim that she owes them money, which if she simply ignores it results in material damages to her credit, which can F up everything else in your life.

That damage itself might give her some weight in court but that is it's own whole 2nd career just pursuing that which is unreasonable to inflict on someone.
"We are today serving notice if your truck is being used in these illegal blockades, your corporate accounts will be frozen. The insurance on your vehicle will be suspended,"

Blocking up city streets for weeks, disrupting people's lives, preventing emergency services from operating because of it, all while "protesting" when >90% of truckers were vaccinated, far greater than the average population, oh and all major trucking companies supported vaccines and mandates for obvious reasons. Meanwhile a select few "truckers" some funded by US interests, were, as you call it.... protesting. Give me a break.