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Ask HN: Should I smuggle components from Shenzhen to California ?
Greetings HN. I am the CEO of a small consumer electronics company. Our product is designed, assembled, tested, and packaged in the US, but some of key components come from China.

Two weeks ago we placed a $6000 order electronic components (1000 units at $6/each) from our supplier. Our tariff bill has since ballooned $9000. We would not have placed the order at $15/each but it's too late to cancel. The order won't be complete for another three weeks and if this keeps escalating we may have to abandon the order and temporarily shut down.

There are two evasive actions we are considering mostly out of protest to being taxed without Congressional approval:

1) Break this shipment into 8 orders spread out over a month with a declared value of $750 each ? That would be below the $800 de minimis value which is exempt IIRC. Or does a US department keep track of the total shipments to prevent this loophole ?

2) Fly to Shenzhen pickup the order and fly back to SF with it in a back pack without declaring it. All the units would fit in a shoebox. We could have an invoice mocked up showing it's total value is below $800.

Does any U.S. citizen have experience with not declaring the value of expensive merchandise purchased overseas ? A shoebox of 1000 small circuit boards almost ensures I'll be questioned, but since it is a custom circuit there is no way to confirm the purchase price isn't what I declare it to be.

Thanks in advance for any feedback.
What happens if a message somehow gets lost? Dropped packets, error, etc? Or is that completely precluded by using http streaming?
I've always wondered about whether I've been affected by this due to various known sources that I (mis)handled in times past.

Are there any pragmatic steps I can take to reduce/reverse any effect?
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Most of all stuff is from China, both low and high quality.
What does it mean when the letters become “straight”? I thought it meant they were in the correct spot but it was for what seem impossible letter combinations.

They also seem to become straightened out when not on the bounding boxes, and they seem to be straightened out even when not making real words. But also even when making real words they sometimes show as “broken”.

I see that it references multiple solutions but I’m still confused how that tracks.

EDIT: I ended up “solving” the puzzle but one of the words isn’t a real word, not even in a scrabble dictionary.
A Flawed Absolution for Smartphones
Both are possible, and in fact I could imagine not all servers being too happy with having to trickle data over a persistent HTTP connection through the entire length of the video, with an almost always full TCP send buffer at the OS level.
Good for gamers? You must not actually play any games.

The best thing you can do for a gamer is strip everything non-essential from the OS and let us enjoy the damn game. Windows used to be a great gaming platform but now I run nearly everything in ZorinOS except for Tarkov which has it's own hardware sandboxed stripped down Win11 drive.
Ex-OpenAI Staffers File Amicus Brief Opposing Company's For-Profit Transition
USSR once fucked up its agriculture and purged biological research, because Stalin thought survival of the fittest didn't fit his political narrative, and banned genetics for being an imperial ideology:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
To answer your question directly.

A mechanical timepiece that calls itself a marine chronometer has to be accurate to +-0.5 seconds per day.

The most accurate quartz wristwatch is certified accurate to +-5 seconds per year.

My experience, in the exact harsh real world conditions that you are talking about, is that is a realistic expectation for quartz watch to accomplish. I cant imagine why an instrument that is ~40x less precise would offer more precise timekeeping
Replication in SQLLite

cp data.db <backuo location>

On modern cloud systems you shouldn’t have data loss anyway
> no power, like prisoners, refugees, and mental patients. This starts the process of normalization,

Omits the most important one: Children. Will children raised on computers with schoolboard spyware on it, testing applications that monitor your face, etc. flinch when the state attempts to employ similar on them as adults? Will they shy away from these tools themselves when they take the reigns of power?
It maybe consumes 1-3 hours a week to skim headlines. More research as needed, and mostly focused on matters I have a direct interest in (interest as in money on the line) so it counts as work.

It’s small potatoes for time, most people spend way more on television and social media.
I think the major change has been that computers are very stable and secure these days. It's night and day compared to the 2000s.
There's a huge class of applications for which Litestream provides all the replication of SQLite databases you need.

https://litestream.io
https://github.com/benbjohnson/litestream
Me: For this POC you've given me, I will do an old-fashioned HTTP form submit, no need for anything else.

Architect: But it must have websockets!

Me: Literally nothing in this POC needs XHR, much less websockets. It's a sequential buy flow with nothing else going on.

Architect: But it has to have websockets, I put them on the slide!

(Ok he didn't say the part about putting it on the slide, but it was pretty obvious that's what happened. Ultimately I caved of course and gave him completely unnecessary websockets.)
I absolutely love winutil. Periods of installing fresh windows made this one of the first things to do on a new system.
There is a strong irony in focusing specifically on the weaponisation of rape in war as an act of terror where the official rabbi of the idf states that rape against palestinians in justified in times of war, and that the idf only has a 1% conviction rate in cases of sexual violences offences against palestinian prisoners by israeli army forces. Even the name of the attack by Hamas "Al-Aqsa flood" is a reference to the decades of persecution and systemic dehumanisation and othering by Israeli forces. The world didn't begin on October 7.
I would second the recommendation for Mint, or really any distribution that includes Cinnamon as its default DE (as long as it’s not a bleeding edge distro like Arch). Cinnamon is probably the closest out of the box approximation to a traditional Windows desktop out there, leaning more towards Windows 7 than 8 and beyond.

I’m sure there’s a KDE fan writing up a reply right now, and while it’s also Windows-like, it’s considerably more indiosyncratic than Cinnamon is and has a bunch of bells and whistles that while great for power users have a decent chance of tripping up novices. Cinnamon doesn’t rock the boat at all which is exactly what makes it appealing here.
HN is probably not the best place to ask. I would start with your legal department and as if the risk is aligned with the reward. I do not have experience with what you are asking but I see articles all the time of people smuggling things into the country to avoid some tax and it never ends well.
Robust performance, error handling that's not stuck in 1982, and cross platform would be my guesses, but agree the OP could be more spicific as there are more benefits.
The QU have to mesh, and there is only one pair of them in the upper half. PIQUED fits.

The rest of the upper left only makes sense as SHIN, which gives SHINGLED going down on the left side.

From there, I got ELIXIR on the bottom cross-piece. ELECTION fit going down on the right.
Apple watch maybe. Most people don't wear full-size phones on their wrists...
Imagine coming into the mac world with a 10.5 cd and upgrading to the current 10.6 and then watching it deteriorate through years into 10.10. Yeah that's me. Peeking at a glimpse of perfection only for it to flash and fade.
The reality of one's lack of value to one's own employer is often baffling. It makes you wonder how anyone manages to stay employed at all, since apparently everyone is replicable and unimportant. I have been through layoffs where other people on my team, doing the same job I did approximately as well, got laid off. No explanation given for why them and not me. And it could happen to me at any time.

It doesn't matter how good my evals are or how big my contributions. It doesn't matter that there are multiple multi-million-dollar revenue streams which exist in large part due to my contributions. It doesn't matter that I have been told I am good enough that I should be promoted to the next level. Raises barely exist, let alone promotions. Because theoretically some other engineer could have done the same work I actually did, the fact that I'm the one who did it doesn't matter and I deserve no reward for doing it beyond the minimum money necessary to secure my labor.

Under those conditions, why should I - or anyone - do any more than the minimum necessary to not get fired for cause? If the company doesn't see me as more than X dollars for X revenue, why should I?
Discord implements its own heartbeat mechanism. I've heard websocket-native ping is somehow unreliable. Maybe in case the websocket connection is fine but something happened at the application layer?
Famsite: A super tiny social site for families
> Education is far from elite making, maybe elite in a global sense, but not elite by American standards. Being elected to a position also makes the social circle. It might surprise you that many American politicians are real people with real non aristocracy backgrounds.

Unfortunately, that is statistically and historically not the case:

https://whorulesamerica.ucsc.edu/power/class_domination.html

All the important positions are filtered. You are either born into the network or marry into it if you can.
>How expensive are the parts?

They make the parts.
I can't wait for the day my hiking trails aren't festooned with piles of horseshit.
It appears this will be an opt in feature.

Honestly it will probably help some people "hey where did I put that file?" but yes at a tremendous cost to privacy and security for those who use it.

I am also weary that it is opt in "for now".
balance has been working for a couple of years on everything except Safari (about a year on that I think). I've been using it on my headlines for that long.
These megacorps will have so much fun in the upcoming recession. They turned public opinion against them through sociopathic profiteering and then mass layoffs. When the cows come home it won't be fun and games like before.
de minimis is being removed due to things like this, and drugs.

3rd option make the parts in the US if your going to sell them in the US.
In what context does your local neighborhood FB group raise Jews (or any other non-local ethnicity for that matter) as a topic of discussion?
Google is winning on every AI front
I liked being able to reorder them outside boundaries, but I'd suggest some additional visual cues that might address the same issue:

1. Place an outline around the tile when it's on a word square.

2. Make the quadrant backgrounds a different color, shade, or texture. That will make it easier to see which tiles belong to which quadrant.

Agree on B.
At the expense of quite some overhead though, right?

MPEG-2 transport streams seem more optimized for a broadcast context, with their small frame structure and everything – as far as I know, framing overhead is at least 2%, and is arguably not needed when delivered over a reliable unicast pipe such as TCP.

Still, being able to essentially chop a single, progressively written MPEG TS file into various chunks via HTTP range requests or very simple file copy operations without having to do more than count bytes, and with self-synchronization if things go wrong, is undoubtedly nicer to work with than MP4 objects. I suppose that's why HLS started out with transport streams and only gained fMP4 support later on.
are you under the impression that 70 years of attacks on Israel are humanitarian? I'm sorry but rape is not ironic. The attacks on Oct 7 were absolutely where this conflict started, as there was a ceasefire or if you want to go further back. How come jews were attacked before zionism? Also Israel is the only party here seeking peace. What's the conviction rate of Hamas rapes? Zero. Also, unlike Hamas, the IDF does not use rape as a tool of war.
Here [1] is a documentary that talks about LifeLog and the origin of other related platforms as well.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3Xxi0b9trY [video][44 mins][documentary]
Wait people are complaining about this but not OpenAI’s memory feature?
Can't beat physics but can write better copy.
In some ways, yes. "Changing clocks" is the easiest it's ever been. We should be looking into changing them more often, not less. Two levels of daylight savings might be better than 1.

But on the other hand I think having the same sunrise time every day is actually pretty bad from a coordination perspective. Instead of everybody having a fraction of their year have an unfavorable sunrise, you will lock people into having either a light or dark commute.

Everybody will want to start their jobs at the same time making congestion worse. "Support jobs" (e.g. opening the store before "regular" business hours) will be permanently in the dark for their commute.
And while the Apple Watch is objectively better value, it's destined to be e-waste after a couple of years. Mechanical watches last far, far longer.
Yep. I work in finance. There are a ton of things like this that are just convention. Like treasury bonds being priced in 1/32nd increments. It probably made sense at the beginning, doesn’t now, but the whole market is built around the convention so we’re stuck with it.

Regulation is the other reason. APR is required to be rate-per-period * period-per-year while also accounting for fees. But APY is rate-per-period compounded over a year. These have more to do with the grifts and bubbles that gave birth to the regulations. Again, it made sense at the time and now we’re kind of stuck with it. Not the best standard but better than no standard.
TCP provides a lossless in-order stream, and errors are corrected at the layers even below that, so HTTP and WebSockets are equivalent in that regard.
It's pretty rare because when it was being originally designed the main intended use case was for bragging about the cool unique niche programming language you use on your blog posts. While it's a very good language for being able to recursively get itself onto the front page, it's not so good at conformist normie use cases.
I know gift cards in california are supposed to never expire, and if you have less than $10, you can request a refund in cash.

I wonder if this kind of thing might apply?
I still don't see why this is a point against Adobe. When you select a plan, they very clearly give you 3 options. Monthly, Annual billed monthly, and Annual prepaid. The Annual billed monthly is just flat-out better for end users over prepaid. Why do people want to get rid of it? Because some people FAFO when trying to get an annual price while still being able to cancel any time?

I do not like Adobe in the slightest, but it's not because of their billing practices.
Like how "piracy" in the context of software licence violations is equated with raping and pillaging on the high seas, and the phrase "drugs and alcohol" appeals to those who might feel uncomfortable with alcohol being a (first class, world's most popular after sugar) drug.
I don't really agree with half the list as those are just apps you can get but...

> Does a crappy job of reopening windows on reboot. Miserable copy of macOS.

Please! Can windows figure this out and can Macs figure out how to restore window to monitor configuration as well as Windows.
They do all the time, but Israel sabotages any attempt to reach a two-state solution. Take for example the so-called Great March of Return (2018), where thousands of Palestinians in Gaza, who lived under Israeli blockade (land, sea, and air) for over a decade, marched peacefully towards the border with Israel to protest the blockade. What did Israel do?

- Israeli snipers shot a large number of protestors

- 214 Palestinians, including 46 children, were killed, and over 36,000, including nearly 8,800 children have been injured

- 81% of the gunshots were to the legs

- 122 people had one or both their legs amputated (including 20 children)

https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/hrc/co-iopt/report2018-op...

Also, what kind of peace Israel wants when they let their settlers attack Palestinians in the West Bank, aided by the Israeli military, and without consequences? All Israeli settlements are illegal under international law. Maybe they should start dismantling those settlements first?

If Israel wants peace, they should accept the two-state solution and let the Palestinians have self-determination, instead of making their life hell on earth with their apartheid regime.
The word "movement" for a watch movement is old. Ditto for "complication". Or "calibre". They come from the late 1700s and early 1800s.

They were the normal words for the items described. They only sound fancy now that they have fallen into disuse.

Actually, ditto for bespoke, now that you mention it.
Presumably because violent content really does decrease the value of their site, and meta is in this to make $$$. Broadly speaking people don't like content inciting violence, and will go elsewhere if there is too much of it. Just look at what happened to twitter.
I just went back through the sign up process to check and it seems pretty obvious these days? I got three options at checkout annual billed monthly, monthly, annual.

I hate annual billed monthly but the wording isn't hidden.
It seems you're right. I can't find how big the fine was. ChatGPT says it is still ongoing. Not sure if that's right. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/06/...
The ship has sailed, but I can understand artists feeling that no matter how any AI is trained prospectively, it was only made possible because the methods to do so were learned through unethical means - we now know the exact model architectures, efficient training methods and types of training data needed so that companies like Adobe can recreate it with a fraction of the cost.

We obviously can never unscramble that egg, which is sad because it probably means there will never be a way to make such people feel OK about AI.
For Python, take a look at the musl builds in python-build-standalone[1], which are statically linked.

I also have a tiny collection of statically linked utilities available here[2].

[1] https://github.com/astral-sh/python-build-standalone

[2] https://github.com/supriyo-biswas/static-builds
Cause OpenAI is not installed by default as part of your operating system?
The glasses are rose-tinted. There were a number of little bits missing from Windows 2000 that were helpful to have in XP, and you could change the theme to make it look just like Windows 2000.

And I really don't know how Windows 7/Server 2008 R2 doesn't win this battle.
> Both are possible

It is possible if you are in control of the client, but no browser would stream an mp4 file request by request.

> with an almost always full TCP send buffer at the OS level

This shouldn't be a problem because there is flow control. Also the data would probably be sent to the kernel in small chunks, not the whole file at once.
This has likewise been my experience; it's exactly the OS that I want, but it's definitely better suited to programmers and other techies unless you have such a friend you can call on when you need to do something non-trivial.

If you're up for getting your hands dirty though, it's a gift that keeps giving.
Google's Safety Plan
Because OpenAI memory can be turned off and is not necessary to use at all?

But the whole point of recall is to store and remember past information. Plus you have a lot more control of what you send to OpenAI with memory enabled, and you can even temporarily disable it. With recall on it's just taking random screenshots and you don't really know what it was all given.

I dunno, it doesn't feel like the same thing at all to me.
You are quite incorrect. This is a wearable 1/1 and took 8 years to develop and build. The rumor from the Hodinkee folks is around 4 million.
Honestly: Why? It’s an opt-in feature you have to go enable. You can just not enable it and nothing changes for you.
It used to not be clear at all. Maybe it is now.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/06/...

Interestingly, just fyi, they do a reasonable-person test when trying these cases. That means they literally pull 100 people off the street and ask each one to go through the funnel and then give them a quiz with questions like "How much am I going to be billed?"

So if people are confused, it's basically on you, regardless of whether you think you were being clear about the terms.
You're right, attacking civilians is bad. So what does it say about a nation when it kills at least fifty thousand? (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...)
Their point is that if 1000 programs use the same 1000 libraries, static linking duplicates all those libraries across each binary, taking that much more storage and memory (which can hurt performance as well), effectively making 1000000 libraries in use.

Dynamic linking gives you M binaries + N libraries. Static linking is M * N.
No worries, I know how it feels! (I said, plugging away my own project in a sibling comment, lol)

I do like the reactive approach (in fact, I’ve reinvented something similar over SSE). I feel a standards-based solution is just ever so slightly more robust/universal.
I hate this comparison because it ignores the obvious important difference: humans aren’t owned by somebody. When models aren’t used commercially, they should be compared to people for copyright purposes. Its when their outputs are sold for profit that copyright should be applied to the seller of the outputs, eg openai.
I have wondered for sometime who is going to run this new behemoth of tariff bureaucracy
> Because OpenAI memory can be turned off and is not necessary to use at all?

This Windows feature is opt-in, off by default, and not necessary at all.

Are all of these angry comments from people assuming it just comes enabled?
20 years ago. We had the 2008 GFCI and COVID since then. I'll take whatever cliff they are referring to over the deliberate madness of Trump.

It's awfully convenient that "in economics you can say what's going to happen but not when." So you really don't know where the cliff is, how steep it is, what else is between us, etc etc. They even say at the end it's possible to outgrow the debt, but then just dismiss it.

I know you're trying to approach the whole thing in an abstract unemotional way and not defend Trump. But there is just no world in which what he's doing is somehow better in the long run... Well maybe being a pariah state solves the trade problem, but that's not "better" in my book.

The answer is for Congress to balance the budget and intelligently incentivize new industries. The fact that Congress has failed doesn't mean an incompetent strongman is the answer. The things he's doing to reorganize the executive and ship people to foreign gulags with no trial have nothing to do with improving the economy. And the legal argument he's using to claim tariff power is specious at best.

The structural reform we need in the US are things like: ranked choice voting, proportional representation, eliminate the electoral college and/or redraw state boundaries, and for the love of God get limitless corporate money out of politics.
All the games I play have anti-cheat and it seems most of them don't work on Linux which is too bad.
I'm not sure buying the super fancy handbag is primarily about showing off, either, and I think people who consume a lot of these goods have a lot of brand knowledge.

I mean, I think you're right in that watch nerds usually have more domain knowledge, but I don't think it's inherently dissimilar.