skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you have so much incorrect views of Chinese companies, the technologies these companies have, what is actually happening on the ground in China. You also vastly underestimate the real complexity of making today's products, even as mundane as a hair dryer or a toy. Chinese manufacturing makes making them look easy, people think all you need is bunch of cheap labor and you are set. No it's not. Also, for white label products, examples like hair dryer, washing machines, air conditions, its the Chinese companies who design, build and test, the entire lifecycle of the product, importers buy them and slap on their own brand.

Think what goes into a hair dryer? Exterior design, looks good and functional. How you make the plastic cover, do the plastic injection molding? How you design all the internal parts, fan, motor housing, heating wire, power circuits, micro-controllers etc, and make sure everything fits. Some companies even do individual components themselves, like the brushless motor, or there is a Chinese supplier that makes them, which provides much faster time to response. Then do the testing for each component, electric, heat, water, moisture testing. Then design a mass manufacturing system with automation and human labor that achieves really high yield and low wasted materials. This is the hardest part, its easy to make a hair dryer by hand taking 100 human hours and make sure it works. It's much harder to make 1M hair dryers per month, that is going to be used in all sorts of environments and with all kind of abuse, make sure they work well for a number of years so customers don't return them, or you go bankrupt from recalls and warranty, and make sure you only have to throw out the absolute smallest number of manufacturing defects, and really control your cost structure so you still make a profit when importers are squeezing your price. Then the supply chain and logistics, shipping from suppliers and shipping to customers. Then create a number of products for different markets. China can manufacture for cheap, but people don't realize manufacture for cheap and at massive quantities is a technology itself. It's also management, business process, even company and worker culture. China doesn't have the cheapest labor cost. It's the combination of everything that produces a physical product with the level of quality, fit and finish at the price point.
2x minimum - but yeah fair enough 10x is an over exaggeration.
The press in Japan is noted for a fair amount of self-censorship in regards to covering government and business. https://www.dw.com/en/why-japan-ranks-poorly-in-press-freedo...
Informally they are used interchangeably. However, their definitions are different.

The subject here, is academic research involving algorithmic complexity. What papers do you know of that refer to algorithmic complexity and “runtime”?

Context matters. It is incorrect in this context.
Started using message queues properly back in 2015 with MSMQ (Microsoft Message Queue)

Had an urgent change to make, away from sending data over from one company... to another. It was a big change for small amount of time. I decided to try MSMQ as it was already available on Windows PCs and it worked an absolute treat! Another feature was added a few months later, which created a lot of "messages" than the others but being MSMQ is handled it just fine!

Since then I have been interested in Message Queue technologies. Been a ZeroMQ (and NetMQ) guy since.

I ended up creating a light-weight broker with NetMQ (in C#) to handle my requests, sending data to Workers. It made in completely distributed, and can be placed on different machines, etc. I didn't need a dedicated server.

The broker was using push/pull or router/dealer patterns, and handled issues and loss well.

pub/sub was also supported but not as a "reliable" pattern. It was for notifications but can "retry" if not received.

I have dabbled in others like RabbitMQ and Kafka. Its just I don't need to use them. I guess the only exception will be starting a new job that has 'em. I have a light-weight Broker than I can install easily.
I have looked at the comment and this person is clueless. What matters here is jurisdiction, and Hong Kong is certainly a different jurisdiction. Political independence of Hong Kong is immaterial.

If you want some actual information I recommend "Cross-Border Insolvency between Chinese Mainland and Hong Kong: The Past, the Present, and the Future" (2022). https://ssrn.com/abstract=4100844
Finding the Air Cannon
I'm going to talk about political gambling but I'm not going to talk about PredictIt.

PredicitIt is irrelevant to the conversation. It's high fees an miniscule limits completely distorts what is "rational" or "reasonable" to expect the market to do.

Betfair on the other hand is a reasonable thing to talk about. 2% fee on net winnings on a market and zero deposit or withdrawl fees makes it a pretty efficeint market for political betting.

The Betfair political markets are dumb as a bag of rocks and there simply isn't enough smart money to suck up the dumb money. Political markets are incredibly thin, the average India Premier League cricket match gets way, way more action than all but the very largest political markets. The 2020 Presidential election was fairly unique in that the majority of the money was wagered after the election happened and after it was clear Biden had even. Idiot Trump supporters buying into conspiracy theories flooded the market with money.

Political betting is very easy _but_ compared to sports gambling there is no where near enough events to make a living doing it. It's all very well having a huge edge (and betting on a even that has already completed is the largest edge you could ever have) but if you only get 1 betting opportunity a year that's not a way to make a living. It is a great way to have some fun though.

Even in 2016, two days after the election, Clinton was @1.05 to win the popular vote. Right now on Betfair, despite almost £6 million having been traded on the market Michelle Obama is the 2nd favourite for the Democratic nomination @9.2 (that's a better than 10% chance). (For comparison about market size currently the Comilla Victorians vs Rangpur Riders match has over 4.5 million wagered).
This is by far the most advanced Vision Pro yet.
Excellent app. Very useful and I personally have faced the same situation oyu just did. I would very much like support for times as well as dates taking into account timezones. As it stands, it doesn't solve my problem but is concrete step in the right direction.
This is really nice. Very readable; better than some flashy web site.
To be fair, .amazon is on the list and under such logic (which I agree with) shouldn't be. Yes, Amazon is a word/name of a real place, but I doubt many would be registering anything actually related to the Amazon and instead it would be used almost exclusively for abuse.
The Ig Nobel prize isn't always intended to target 'invalid' science or otherwise mock the awardees. It's mostly meant to highlight odd or obscure work. The wording they use is scientific work that "makes people laugh and then makes them think". Though it does look like it's more like a mix of both: earlier years especially do have awards that are more satirical in nature.
What "home" hardware are you using?

Best person to ask I've come across all year!
And things like the ‘war on drugs’ was created to target non-white people
Nice.

I always like to see civil twilight as well because it gives a sense of when it's actually light or dark but I can see how for something like this simplicity might be better.
We've wrongfully imprisoned and executed plenty of innocent men.

Another case of freeing a man after 48 years wrongfully jailed just weeks ago https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67782907

It's not something we used to do, it's something we still do.

What checks take care of this?
Windows LDAC Dilemma in 2024 [video]
"Responding to the request below for a specific example. Hand washing, you wash your hands when medically appropriate to prevent facility acquired infections. If you don't you are progressively warned ultimately leading to termination and/or loss of license. If instituted nationally this alone would save at least 5,000 lives a year. Good luck getting it instituted at most facilities."

Sad thing is most staff in hospital doesnt wash hands. Reality is it would cost so much time. Handwashing is like a minute and staff has to go in an out of rooms where hand washing is needed so many times an hour it would slow everything down. And then trying to fire staff about this is not real because this would kick out half of it and it isnt replaceble. The problem is more why has staff to get in and out of stations so frequently. And multiresitence bacteria.
The mobile version of wikipedia looks nicer on a desktop/laptop than the regular version.
When I drink craft beer at home, I stick the bottle or can in my own fridge. I control the temperature of that.

As for draft when drinking out: how finely they control the temperature (and whether they take different beer styles into account), depends entirely on how fancy the place is.
I don’t get why people want to control this. My experience is that it’s almost always a mistake when they do it, or that they were working around a bug in one specific platform/browser/font combination, at the cost of others. I don’t deny that legitimate uses exist, not quite, but it’s seldom a good idea.
AURAL APPENDAGES, four letters: EARS.

Is that right?
The first step is articulating your problems, after that you don't need anyone to help resolve it. The tools you use to solve them are all the same assertiveness, accountability, and your own boundaries but if you skip over articulation those tools are worthless because your just randomly walking around in the dark trying to find a solution to a problem that you think is the problem, which feeds into a vicious feedback loop of learnt helplessness.

That is why a therapist will get you to articulate what you mean when you say a word/phrase because people have different meaning of words and/or phrases. That is why when clients relapse, they can go to a different therapist who uses the same vocabulary/words/phrases.

At the end of the day, there is a bit of a serenity to it all. You stop trying to manipulate the world, and start finding people who have the same wants, needs, desires as you. but, alas the first step is all-ways articulation.
But if the prisons makes a profit for every inmate, they might no longer be interested in releasing / reintegrating them back into society, right?

And (correct me if I'm wrong) there already are some cases in which people got prison sentences to make somebody else a profit.
Respectfully, I’m not sure what you are asking for. In-N-Out is only in a small fraction of the US so most people from the US wouldn’t know much about it either. I believe that’s why the GP comment provided a little more context which was more or less sufficient for me to understand the comparison.
Right? There's a lot in that for actually average to smart people who just struggle with the daily grind.

e.g. making sure you reduce friction for the team (they give some example with antibody prep time, but it could also be build pipelines, or onboarding docs) is something a lead developer should have in mind and either do herself or create a ticket so it gets done.
Nit pick: This isn't a "Show HN", and see it quite often lately, so I think it's worth pointing out. A showhn is:

> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread.

> Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Isn't this a stylistic choice? For example, some style guides would suggest to use "run time", but also "run-time error".
Hmm. Should we also get lasers attached to our eyes and chant "resistance is futile"?
But as a tech startup I'd expect them to solve all that. Automatically generate and fax the necessary forms to the right places. Sign with a robotic hand controlled by the users mouse if needed. Etc.
ClickHouse Segment Tutorials
They say it’s hosted by powerbunker.

Gives me cyberbunker vibes and memories.
Oh good point - I forgot to set that up!
I find squatting .java, an island with a population 7.5 times that of Scandinavia by a tech company even worse. I'd be also annoyed if Oracle had .sjælland.
Wow , exciting!

I must admit , I worry going public might actually be a bad thing for the Pi org. Exposure to the winds of quarterly earnings reports and hardware timelines can often conflict...

I have no real evidence to support that feeling, but I have it just the same.

Excited to see where this leads!
Seniors spend the equivalent of 3 weeks a year on health care, study says
I just kind of wonder how the segment has been doing?

meta/oculus quest, htc vive, valve index, playstation vr, ...

I had the early HTC Vive, which at some point I put on a shelf and have not resurrected. It was fun and novel, but that sort of wore off.
Do you own a Quest 3? I disagree on a few points here.

> Beyond that, the Meta Quest 3 doesn't have the best screens, so things like watching video aren't actually very good.

Is it as good as a 4k OLED TV? Obviously no, but it is the by far the best screen watching experience I had away from a TV. So if you want to chill in bed or a travelling for work and spend a lot of times alone in hotels it is by far the best media consumption device.

Another point are immersive 3D VR videos which is a completely new dimension and let me tell you there are a few really great things to watch, which you cannot replicate on a TV.

> The reason to consider the Quest 3 is almost 100%, "do you want to play VR video games without breaking the bank?" That's it.

see above about watching stuff. Another point are social experiences like VR chat, which I would not consider games.
That they do this to unprotected populations is proof positive that if labor laws did not exist, employers would happily pay all us less and work us more.
In germany we have this allready but it doesnt work. It reduce the problem. But the real problem is ER. In a life death situation it doesnt work. ER are very hard to keep clean. But yes you are absolutly right

EDIT:// I am no doctor but did work in Hospitals. Doctor friends working in ER are telling me about those dangers. And also bigger Hospitals have less control about it.
I don't care.

I have a Roborock. I genuinely don't care if the Red Army knows how dirty my apartment is.
https://wapo.st/49cWlWM
Often, the concrete problems we are interested in have some internal structure that make them easier to solve in practice. Solving Boolean formulas is NP-complete but we routinely solve problems with millions of variables.

ILP (and sat) solvers are interesting because they are great at ruling out large areas that cannot contain solutions. It's also easy to translate many problems into ILP or SAT problems.
Going on arXiv computer science and searching for the string "runtime" returns 6135 results, many of which seem use it in the sense we're talking about here.

https://arxiv.org/search/cs?query=runtime&searchtype=all&abs...

In any case Quanta Magazine is not a formal academic journal, and neither is hacker news. We're having an informal discussion about a popular science article.
> it's not eating crap.

Add "and regularly exercising" to the formula. Our bodies are not made to be sitting all day.
I'd have to agree with this.

A lot of anecdotes about people switching to keto and feeling better, but not giving the context of what kind of food they were eating beforehand.

As I'm sure many of us know, a lot of software engineers (to be fair, this applies to most people as well) have very bad diets; buying fast food lunch every day, eating free snacks, etc.
Indeed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal
> already get rewarded with great working conditions and good pay

In addition to those, having clues that my work is appreciated (by colleagues / customers / users) plays a big role as well.
This kind of stuff is why I reject the notion that the west has truly abolished slavery. It has been abolished in name only. There is still wage slavery and sweat shops.

And also, there are implications in terms of market monopolization if only certain large corporations have access to the prison slave labor. It can create unfair, anti-competitive markets which harms people outside of the prison system.
Your parent never mentions overtime. Personally I agree with his assessment and none of it requires overtime.

Lack of effort literally means people that show the level of effort your reply seems to suggest you are putting in. A normal level of effort, not just doing exactly as much as you need not to get fired is generally enough to stand out and have good results (output and pay wise). No overtime required.

A good level of organization helps in that regard because you aren't wasting any of the effort you are making. It cuts out the overtime by itself.
otpw PAM module does this.

https://manpages.debian.org/buster/libpam-otpw/pam_otpw.8.en...
Thanks for your information. I think it really bridge the gap between the people who are interested in this algorithm and MILP "users". I have two more questions.

1. Usually we deal with models with both integer and continuous variables (MILP). Conceptually B&B tackles ILP and MILP in similar ways. Is there any difficulty for lattice based method to be extended to solve MILP?

2. How likely do you think this lattice type algorithm will overcome the difficulties you mentioned and eventually replace B&B, totally or partly (like barrier vs simplex methods)?
> So many vendors are focused on charging money for customer specific features or adding new features to win new tenders.

In turn, this enterprisey anti-pattern creates unfocused products which can be configured to sort-of-solve every niche customer requirement that might block the sale.

The result is a massive ball of muddy configurations and feature-flags, so that learning isn't very portable and backend integrations are very painful.
> The most common "they'll be isolated from their peers" argument seems pretty superficial and can easily be worked around with even a tiny amount of efforts on the parents' part.

This is so incorrect it makes the flat earth theory look good.
If you look at the American justice system you will probably agree that the entire system is one big fu. Thats because focus is on punishment and not in the reintegration back into society. Some northern European countries do focus on this. Result is a much better system. There are literally millions of studies that provides evidence. Let people work in poor working conditions wont really help making them better people. It only helps filling the pockets of business owners who don't give a damn about society.
It used to be extremely common in Denmark a few years ago, with even the official ID system NemID (like BankID in Norway I assume) using nemid.nu.

I can't remember when I last saw a .nu domain advertised recently, they seem on the way out. But it seems business domains in general are also disappearing in favor of Facebook pages or Instagram accounts.
HTTP is a transport. It doesn't have any other properties besides you could make a request and hopefully get a response. Semantic is defined by actual client/server implementations with corresponding backend.
No, it's not. There are absolutely no real statistics that confirm what you claimed.
> Transaction-safe does not mean "protecting against concurrency issues".

That is the I in ACID.

> It just means that a transaction either succeeds or fails, nothing more and nothing less.

That is the A in ACID.

If you can say isolation is orthogonal, I can say atomicity is orthogonal.

In any case, I was refuting the idea that transactions in a standard ACID database would protect you from, e.g., two message queue workers picking up and processing the same message when they are not supposed to. But if that's not a part of 'transaction-safe', then you're essentially backing up my point.

>> it won't protect you (more specifically - your data) from logic issues

> Nothing protects against logic issues though.

That's a given. If you destructively update your business data with bad logic, the data's gone. You're screwed. You probably won't even know it happened until you get complaints. And once you get complaints, you won't know how many rows in your database were affected, or what their values should be.

With an append-only MQ, you will let a few bad actions happen - logic errors, and consistency errors resulting from too much 'eventual'. You can spot these actions since you didn't delete them. Then you can append the corrections to the MQ.
Wasn't it supposed to be a charity/non profit foundation?

Isn't an IPO kinda the opposite of that?

Or is is the fashionable thing these days to claim to be non-profit when you're young and looking for grassroots support, only to transform when there is money to be made?
On the one hand I'm happy they're doing well. On the other I'm very much worried that floating the stock will make it plaything of people who couldn't care less about what the Raspberry Pi and the people behind it stand for, they're just going to use the stock to make money, or, alternatively, to make trouble.

Being a listed company is a source of all kinds of distractions.
In practice, it doesn't matter so much, because IBM i is an (ever-increasingly fringe) server platform for business applications, so the odds of malicious code ever making their way on to the system is much less than for an OS used for more general purpose computing

But you are right, and in that it has something in common with sandboxing of Java applets, for example – which didn't work out as well as its inventors had hoped.

That said, although classic applications all run in a single shared address space, newer versions have added support for isolated per-process address spaces (teraspaces), which have in turn used been to add an AIX compatiblity layer (PASE). If you write your apps against AIX compatibility layer, you get process-based security just like you do on AIX. And in that layer you aren't just limited to calling (a subset of) AIX APIs, you can also call into IBM i native APIs which don't exist on AIX – albeit at some performance cost, since the call has to be marshalled into the single shared address space.

IBM's original JVM ran in the classic single shared address space, and was deeply integrated into the OS. Then they replaced it with J9, their JVM for AIX/Linux/Windows/etc, and J9 runs under the AIX compatibility layer. Given they encourage Java for developing new apps – a lot of apps now contain a mixture of legacy RPG/COBOL/etc code along with Java code to implement web UIs and SOAP/REST APIs – more and more stuff is running outside of the shared address space.
This is very true, but not sure how to solve it.

For a job where the "reward" (mainly salary) is fronted and somewhat fixed (no bonus or bonus isn't worth it), some (even most) people basically work as little as possible to not get themselves fired.

But it would also be challenging to change the rewarding structure to something similar to salesman.
Oh, I should really post it in the HN Show .... I don't know how to remove this post. Sorry about that...
Why China Could Surprise World by Being the First Country to Adopt UBI
This article provides excellent perspective and background. I hadn't been aware of these findings.

Retired neurosurgical anesthesiologist (38 years)
Exactly this. I hate it. Impossible to distinguish a button from a label. I don't understand how someone could come up with such ideas and get them approved for such wide-spread UI.
SCOT or BELL can also work, especially in a cryptic.

a thing that is added or attached to something larger or more important.

"they treat Scotland as a mere appendage of England"

and they never shut up about it.

I guess this is a comment about context.