skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most cars are repairable, there is an industry of alternative parts, you go to a mechanic, he plugs the laptop with the software , find the problem, then you chose from a website with parts the one you want , you have different alternatives. Also you can visit places with scraped cars and you can find parts there for cheap. There is no DRM at the moment to stop you reusing a door from a different car or a door made by any third party(not sure about latest models, maybe Tesla does this).

I am not familiar with the latest models, do they changed that dramatically and I am out of date? Can't a competent mechanic replace any part on your new car?
Shill - One who poses as a satisfied customer or an enthusiastic gambler to dupe bystanders into participating in a swindle.
Especially unlikely, considering who runs Mindgeek.
Then maybe they should strive to recycle instead to repair.
I didn't say "unpackaged" or "unprotected". But I've seen the internals of multiple devices that have simple plastic wrappers (not hard shells) around the various battery cells, with wires connecting those plastic wrappers, and they don't have duplicated battery electronics, just one set.
IIRC this is correct, libstd is built in release mode but with debuginfo.
So, can you link the evidence for this?
Modern SF near future sub-genres are almost always called x-punk. (for x in [Steam, Diesel, Atom, Solar] ). I suggest we should call the phenomena punk-gate. (Not to be confused with gate-punk, which is near future political thriller.)
Wall Street Journal drops coronavirus paywall
Yes, when people lack morals, you are correct. In a world where your every word, thought, and idea isn't pre-chewed and then fed into your brain through some form of lighted rectangle, that is completely false. There's a very good reason that some people are DEEPLY inspired by the novel Atlas Shrugged. It took Ayn Rand an enormous number of pages to make her point. More than an internet comment ever will. Most people will read that and watch a lighted rectangle fill their head with what "new" ideas might be in this book. Almost nobody will read it. Even fewer will speak up. Markets can't be free if people are in mental slavery. Like Morpheus said... Most people will fight to protect the system that enslaves them.
Someone else posted else thread that in UK at any time 80% of all ICU beds are in use. It is likely a similar percentage in Italy.
you should start a podcast
BPF has some pretty good docs out there if you just poke around the BCC GitHub repo (libbpf-tools/ is a good one) you’ll find a lot of them. I was able to start building programs using libbpf, but a lot of the “understood” info about the kernel is what’s been slowing me down, so I’m psyched to go through all this material and learn.
Thank you for your kind words. I'm thinking of starting a section on the site with all the interesting ways in which people are using the service. If you have a moment, I'd love to hear how it's helping you.

Cheers,
Rikki
So the logic is that we shouldn't do anything because nothing has been done yet ?

Europe probably has the strictest car emissions laws (so strict manufacturers have to cheat to comply with it), and many of its country banned single use plastic bags, straws, &c.
Yes, and isn't this cause for some optimism since many people have now received vaccines such as Prevnar-13 and Pneumovax-23?
Something that is not much talked about is the fact that many people apparently die from a sepsis (bacterial) that is caused by the primary infection.

In Italy, it is almost customary to pop medication that contains antibiotics whenever you feel a bit under the weather. I lived in Italy, I experienced this first hand even from my more educated friends.

Because of this Italians have an antibiotics resistance of 26.8% [1].

I do not have data for South Korea but in Germany, where I live, antibiotics are not available over the counter. You always need to see a professional and then they are much more expensive that e.g. in Italy.

The resistance rate here in Germany is 0.4% [1]. That's 67 times (!) lower than in Italy.

[1] https://atlas.ecdc.europa.eu/public/index.aspx?Dataset=27&He...
What's MFC to do with this?
All these benefits don't seem like benefits to me. I don't want to learn a new short hand language when I already learned an extra language, English, to learn programming. Also I don't see expressiveness in terms of keystrokes, you don't store bytes in your head, you store tokens. I can have very different words for a character (char, "", etc.) but in my head they take exactly the same amount of space.

Are simple typos that annoying? Writing a wrong function call will lead to either a compile time error or a wrong behavior, but latter happens when the function names are not chosen smartly. Also we have IDEs now, they are pretty good at handling typos.

I don't understand how it is quicker to remember printf("hello world") than P("hello world").
I think the current most credible estimate is 0.8%-1%. That's what the UK government has been planning for, for example.
I’ll be reaching out :)
Hopefully you’re not overwhelmed with the hordes of people wanting to get into kernel development XD
Agreed! In the meantime, this is one way of calming down the distraction in your inbox until it's fixed at a more fundamental level.

Thanks for the feedback!
Oh yeah also forgot to add that once you have some hardware you'll most likely want a cheap logic analyzer that supports sigrok[1] like this[2] one. Some LEDs and a breadboard etc is useful too.

[1]: https://sigrok.org/

[2]: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32877931876.html (random seller link)
Maybe on paper they do. In reality you pay 20 Euro as bribe and you can get away with anything.
I think it's important to draw a distinction between what is true today, and what could be in the future. Today, the RFC text says:

> More generally, breaking changes to the standard library are not possible.

Could we amend this RFC to introduce a system like this? Sure. Have we? No.
One would hope they have learned a lesson...
Here's a decent article on the history of gin and tonic: http://activehistory.ca/2012/08/gin-and-tonic-a-short-histor...
Romania or Bulgaria?
It depends, most of the time the issue is a small component from a big system failing. This large companies should not block a competent repairman to diagnose and replace the broken part. I am not asking companies to make Lego phones just don't block people with DRM,copyright and supply chain restrictions.
It works well in humans: https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-d...

Main finding was at the high dose, there were some adverse events but no serious adverse events, and they all self-resolved without intervention. At the lower doses (0.3 and 0.1mpk), it still provided months of protection against infection assuming the "protective level" is accurate.
Therapeutic index of chloroquine isn't very high, and at the doses it's recommended for corona it's rather close to lethal doses, something like within an order of magnitude.

Malaria prophylaxis is dosed -once- a weeek. Half-life 60-70 hours.
Covid treatment is -twice daily-.
I understand there is probably no connection between the two sentences but to be clear as far as I know Aspirin is dangerous for children.
How were hospital beds made in 1918? Basically by hand ("artisanal"), but with lots and lots of very cheap labour. Those conditions still exist, since training someone to cut and bend metal tubes, drill holes and screw them together is not hard.

Picture of some hospital beds from around that time: https://images.theconversation.com/files/225680/original/fil...
My country also buys used cars off Germany, because people here kind of can't afford brand new ones.
Yes, either via ssh or telnet or even in your browser. The wiki lists several available public servers: https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Public_server#List_of_public_se...

The public server with most forks hardfought.org. Info on how to connect is on https://www.hardfought.org/nethack/

You can watch in your browser: https://www.hardfought.org/nethack/hterm/

There are 3 servers in Europe, the US, and Australia.

Most people are in various channels (e.g. #nethack, #hardfought) on Freenode but the #hardfought channel is also bridged to a channel on the Roguelike discord server (https://discord.gg/xUPxRe).
I think the whole thing should be thought of as built-to-be-repaired, rather than right-to-repair.

Build with simple easy to replace common components. No black boxes. Obviously some products fit this more nicely than others. Simple devices like washing machines vs smartphones.

Washing machines and other products that have been smartened should have mechanical mode fall-backs so that cheap electronic controllers susceptible to failure which may cease production, don’t doom the usefulness of a product.
Was it part of the plan for the president to talk about hoaxes, a 'foreign' virus, and deny there is a problem?
> SF is very dense by American standards

I thought everyone here said SF wasn’t dense and needed more high-rise building? Most of SF seems just two or three stories to me when I walk around.
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They already do: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_Electrical_and_Electro...

It's always better to avoid throwing something away by repairing it that trying to recycle it.
Fair point and I don't necessarily disagree. I don't like the consequences of superdeterminism, just playing devil's advocate. If we exchange simple ratios for fractals we could have compute based infinite precision. Precision would just be a matter of scale of the measurement.
> a pure design item, so small and precise that any breakage of the shell could destroy it

We have to come to term with the fact that owning such devices isn't good for humanity in the long term.

> Who exactly will I hurt with my phone

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/burning-truth-...

https://www.euronews.com/2019/07/27/europe-s-electronic-wast...
> Not sure I actually understand why K is pushed here almost daily. Is it just the esoterics? Alright, APL and K are expressive for array computation. Do many people here deal with array computation?

People like k for different reasons. For me, it's the right blend of fast to develop and runs fast enough. Someone recently made a database engine called okon which is designed to process HIBP and looking at their github it took 20+ days of C++ code to do. And they managed to get under 49µsec so they pat themselves on the back for it being so good.

But my k(q) solution was written in five minutes and runs in under 5µsec -- almost 10x faster. I used binary search instead of b-tree (a decision the okon author considered but eventually went the b-tree route instead), but it's otherwise the same basic strategy.

So for me, the decision is, 5 minutes, or 20 days, and that's a no-brainer.

> How does this free K from loading and writing data?

Your CPU has a shockingly small amount of directly-attached memory (around 64kb). That's been true since the 1970s, and is likely to be true for another fifty years.

This used to be called ram, but now we call anything directly addressable by the CPU as ram, and we call this thing cache (or L1 or whatever) because that's basically how most people use it.

Now what your CPU does all day, is look at a memory address, and if that's not in the cache, it sends a message to a memory controller and waits for that memory to show up (somewhat a simplification). Those instructions show up, now your CPU can execute them, and those instructions require more memory so again the CPU sends a message to the memory controller and waits for that memory to show up. All day long, alternating between these two wait states, we wait a bit for code, we wait a bit for data, and then we repeat.

Because K is small: Because the interpreter, the application source code, and all your state variables fit into that 64kb, you can see that memory waiting drops by half.

> Is K in fact a thin layer on top of assembler (specifically SIMD and other extensions), for number crunching in the vein of shaders/CUDA?

No. It's a very simple interpreted language that (in most implementations) dispatch directly on the source code (or in some cases, on the AST).

> why those techniques aren't looted for open-source languages.

If you really understand the above, the answer to this question is obvious (hint: try to think about values, not features). Until then; until you really understand the question you're asking, you're not going to find the answer very useful.
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If you read more into the law, they want to have parts and documentation available to professionals mostly. The consumer might still get them, but the goal is not to be user-friendly.
Like with your car, sure I can change my fuel pump, but most people will go their mechanic, and their mechanic can buy parts from the manufacturer. The law is promoting this kind of service.

Right now if your TV has a broken part, it might be impossible to fix, even with a pro. Maybe a really good one might change some electronics, but not an OEM part swap.
Why? Most of the time you design your stuff deliberately to not be easy to repair, see Apple, see every mobile phone/notebook with a non-replaceable battery.

Just don't do that and you're fine. Publish your schematics too, they are not a company secret, they are for your customers.
They block competent repairman? Or they ask money for competent repair?
Another definition like "nondeterministic free will" doesn't make much sense, so when you say such will does or doesn't exist, it's unclear what it means and what conclusions should follow from it. Some people assume it makes sense, but only until you question it.
>..and what would be the cost (when compared to those billions of dollars spent) if they weren't fixed at all.

I worked on fixing Y2K bugs at the time. It was very methodically and planned, and tested on-site at a space agency. If we hadn't fixed those Y2K issues at the time then weather forecasts would have suffered greatly. The cost of that happening? Hard to calculate I think.
Not really. Google has invested heavily in making its login process as secure as possible. Unless you had a very easily guessed password and were unlucky enough to live in the same region as your attacker, it'd be very unlikely for this to happen to a Google Photos user.

That said, nudes don't belong in any cloud.
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Seattle lab uncovered coronavirus outbreak only after defying federal regulators
According to those stats 14% of people tested were positive and of those, about half had to be admitted to hospital. It's clearly very far from a random sample.
Harris believes that the rapid spread of Spanish flu in the fall of 1918 was at least partially to blame on public health officials unwilling to impose quarantines during wartime. In Britain, for example, a government official named Arthur Newsholme knew full well that a strict civilian lockdown was the best way to fight the spread of the highly contagious disease. But he wouldn’t risk crippling the war effort by keeping munitions factory workers and other civilians home.
I would suggest that you learn from this that your father wanted to do some things alone and that he didn't HAVE to teach you anything he didn't want to. He is an autonomous individual with his own drives and needs as are you, parents are not slaves to your desires. You should also stop using this as an excuse.

My father did the same to me but I still learned to build both software and DIY-type-things. We are shaped by my own decisions.
> Let’s be honest: majority of users will cause more harm than do good when repairing something.

What kind of argument is that? Right to repair isn't about you and me fiddling about with with broken appliances.

It's about qualified and licensed people in repair shops being able to acquire parts and schematics to do their job. No one is arguing that your average Jane or Joe should be ones doing the repair! That's just another
strawman that is easily dismantled...
We have a system that seems close to this in France called "Alternance". In this system, you spend some fraction of your time (1/2 to 2/3) working in a company, which pays for your studies, and the rest studying. You are also paid, which is great.
https://theintercept.com/2015/07/07/leaked-documents-confirm...

https://wikileaks.org/hackingteam/emails/
For a simple reason: if a product is anti consumer rights, it's good if it is not sold here in Europe

Toxic kids toys are not sold in Europe, is it bad?

Europe has the right to set their own quality standards, companies have the right to not respect them and say goodbye to European market

What's wrong with that?

It could also start a new wave of European brands which are seriously lacking right now
> First, I made the PIC global offset table (GOT) writable by disabling PIE on the link line (-no-pie).

Wait, what?
You can totally just type assert your custom error type to check for it.

If it's the only type of error your method returns you don't even need to, just define your return type as your custom error type.
After Steve Jobs returned to Apple early in 1997, and then became de facto CEO later that year, he was unquestionably a wartime CEO.

Yet many years after he'd successfully turned Apple around and, arguably, become a peacetime CEO, he wasn't fired. Moreover, were it not for his declining health, I don't think he would have stepped away even as Apple became the dominant force it's turned into over the last few years.

Maybe eventually he'd have stopped but, were he still alive, I imagine he'd still be leading Apple now.
What we learned from the recent Mandrill outage (2019)
You should read your news when it is actually newsworthy. It'll give you time to digest the news items and reflect on the way things are presented.
I think when you add in the word "experience" you turn the physics problem into a philosophical one, and every pragmatic scientist wanders off to work on something else. Many worlds is totally sufficient for every question except for the nature of consciousness, and there are some very good reasons to believe that consciousness is non-empirical.
The direct demand is low; the Linux kernel is open source so framing yourself as a 'kernel developer' probably is not a very good way to be an ideal candidate for a job opening.

On the other hand, most developers and even some non-developers recognize that kernel development is hard. If you have a name in the kernel development world this will certainly help your reputation. Likewise, if you have a good knowledge of Linux this will certainly help you for certain job openings (kernel development is probably a great background for most low-level job entries).
Hackers are luring people to download coronavirus trackers to install ransomware
It's not about accuracy, weather data us provided by the government in most countries, the third parties are using the same data. You could make a case for better UI or UX but not really data...
Forget about the hard problem of consciousness, solve the easy problems first
Doesn't that describe all high-budget games?

Would the average Unreal-based game be built with ICC?
This update (aka the “collapse” of the wave function) is instantaneous; it happens at the same time everywhere.

So it's like the refresh rate of The Universe?
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You can also buy quinine pills online.
They are no longer included by default but you can still add them back as maven/gradle dependencies.
As posted else thread, the percentage of positive tests in Italy is almost 5 times larger than in Korea. This probably means that the infected population is much higher than what's being reported.

In the initial weeks of the crisis, the Italian government said that they would switch to only reporting symptomatic cases [1] ("because that what every body else is doing") instead of all positive tests. I do not know if they followed through, but that would make a large difference if Korea was reporting everything.

edit: as far as I understand, that only changes what they report in the official numbers that make the news. The actual medical data might contain the real numbers.

edit2: if they started doing what they said they would, the actual positive rate would be even higher. So the issue is likely that they are just not testing as much.

[1] https://www.wired.it/scienza/medicina/2020/02/28/coronavirus... (in Italian)
They are marketing agressively. For example they were pitching to a bunch of people at AWS re:Invent, and very definitely marketing along the lines of it being a generic language for data + a database.

When I told their marketing folks that I had used kdb/q a bit, didn't think it a good fit for our use-case and knew from a brief sojourn in hedge fund-land how hard it was to hire kdb programmers their response was on the lines of "It's not hard to program in and if your guys find it hard they can just use our python wrapper".

Honestly it is an interesting thing but the extent to which it's being pushed here on a daily basis at the moment feels "inauthentic" and somewhat tiresome.
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> A macro is a bug report against the language

Agreed. But in order to receive that bug report, you need a macro system. This is partially because...

> Rust is crying out for a way to treat structs generically (i.e. what frunk does with LabelledGeneric)

frunk is very cool, and I'm glad it exists, but it gets about 100 downloads a week. The matches macro that we uplifted to the standard library in this release is getting around 20,000.

> the disadvantages for readability and tooling are very real

Interestingly enough, just this week rust-analyzer gained the ability to do code completion within macro invocations.
> While C-3PO and WALL-E might be good at processing algorithms, they can never replace living, breathing, thinking humans entirely in the workplace.

I think another flaw in the article is the "entirely". Most of the time you won't automate everything, you will replace 10 factory workers with a machine and a technician.
I am still a hardcore fan of Angband:

https://rephial.org/

Different types of information (inventory, map, monster info, etc) can all be put in separate windows, so my screen is plastered with Angband windows when I play. Makes for great immersion, and the windows all retain their position and size between program starts.

It may even be older than Nethack.
Than what is your selling point against all those Chinese cloud based services?
Covid-19 dashboard to compare the viral spread across countries
Hi folks,

Just made a dashboard on COVID-19 to compare the viral spread across countries.
It's based on JHU & World Bank data and is made with D3.js

Happy to get your feedback !
This article is full of great gems and as an avid fan of the cyberpunk genre, I loved it. Kudos to the writer!

Definitely read this article while listening to LORN’s ANVIL as the author suggests.
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There is zero value in crypto as a currency with this kind of volatility. It would be equivalent to trying to buy coffee at Starbucks with shares of Boeing stock.
Car parts are being made in plastic for safety reasons

And it's completely renewable
Let me frame this in another way, the court acted in the best interest of a private company over the interests of its own people.
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Maybe I'm an outlier here but I love my Pixel 4! Battery life isn't great, but the 90Hz screen is amazing and I definitely wouldn't go back to 60Hz if you paid me.

Aside from that, the Pixel 3a doesn't have wireless charging, so if that also applies to the 4a it's a total deal-breaker for me. And I really enjoy the performance of the Snapdragon 855 - especially with 90Hz forced at all times and animations tweaked to run at 2x speed, it's extremely noticeable how fast this phone is.

Not saying the Pixel 4a won't be a good phone, but the 4 is definitely better for premium features imo.