skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For in depth information on what specifically was merged see:
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/RELEASES.md
(These are the official release notes.)
I haven't created a performance report yet but I will definitely create one and add it to the docs. Good point.
Elections are only allowed to be rigged by private corporations!
So lets say Apple put up a store of spare parts and they charge $399 for a replacement screen.

How does that look?
Can you summarize the video, or give a link to text? It's not a great medium for citing in a discussion.

As the article describes it, the parts are only counterfeit in the sense that an original Apple part was broken, re-furbished by a Chinese manufacturer (e.g., replacing a piece of glass), and then imported into Norway without having the Apple logos sufficiently scrubbed off. It would be reasonable to call these parts "counterfeit" if anyone was actually being deceived into thinking they were genuine new Apple parts. But if no one in the supply chain thinks they are genuine, it seems wrong to call this counterfeit, which implies deception. It's like saying monopoly money is "counterfeit".
I’d be worried about copyright issue.

In many cases, the client doesn’t care/know about content copyright and just crawling.

(P/s: I used to develop a blogging platform and find RSS links to seed content)
As does Apple when they manufacture and sell you the device. If you trust nothing, LibrePhone is your only option. If you wish to evaluate trust and risk management as a spectrum — rather than as an all-or-nothing proposition — then you have a wider array of choices. Certification is useful for decreasing the probability of risks.
Malkovich Malkovich, Malkovich?
I believe that car manufacturers in the US are required by law to produce spare parts for 10 years after a model rolls off the assembly line. A similar law for electronics would be useful, but where do you draw the line? Maybe the FCC could be setting those guidelines for mobile phones.
More info on this kind of thing in the cultural field:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Blissett_(nom_de_plume)
You can catch coronavirus from your wife/girlfriend/children while sleeping. The virus does not care.
I upgraded my Robinhood trading bot in Python
Distributed is to 2020 what the Cloud was in 2008
Influential Lancet hydroxychloroquine study retracted by 3 authors (https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/hydroxychloroquine-covid-lanc...)

> Three of the authors of an influential article that found hydroxychloroquine increased the risk of death in COVID-19 patients retracted the study on concerns about the quality of the data....

> Results of a [different] high-quality randomized, placebo-control trial also published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine from U.S. and Canadian researchers showed hydroxychloroquine was no better than placebo pills at preventing illness from the coronavirus.
Sure, but that's just giving people compliments or confirming their world view, isn't it? I did understand the comment to mean that we find things obvious after we hear about them presented as the result of a study. I don't believe that at all, but I'm very much with you that it's correct with a modification: we find them obvious after hearing about them if they agree with our world view.

I don't think that "ideology lessens your ability to perceive reality" falls under worldview, though, and I cannot imagine that anybody was surprised by the result itself. That doesn't make the study useless, it's interesting and important to know how strong the effect is, whether it changes over time or can be negated etc. But other than that? Study finds that people shot with guns die more often than control group. I don't think you need to be an anti-gun-activist to say "well, duh".

More importantly: how did independents and apolitical people guess? Were they closer to the "real" numbers?
Actually that’s wrong. There are plenty of poor quality third party spares out there for vehicles. Lucas here made a whole business out of it.
The very purpose of a governing body, by greek idea, is to protect citizens. That includes protrcting from bad companies.
What makes you say that PoS is "unsolved " ? Did you hear about Cosmos for example ? Their mainnet is running for more than one year without any issue.
As the sibling comment shows via @saagarjha's resume, @saagarjha does work for Apple and is attempting to suppress comments unfriendly to them.
Fragile compared to what? Which economies can comfortably absorb the indefinite suspension of nearly all activity?
It seems that the average number of years of life lost per covid death is about 10.

https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/coronavirus/headline_720672_en.ht...
It is definitely a recipe, but the "reproducible" claim is weak. These 43 lines of Dockerfile text are unlikely to work in a few months (or even weeks).
> These people expressing their first amendment right to assemble should have been protected not persecuted.

I'm against the curfews, but where was everyone defending the right of people to protest the covid-19 lock-downs? I'm against a curfew in principle

> Police are out of control.

No they are not.
I can see the argument about flexibility, but it doesn't really seem to mesh up with the skyrocketing demand for rental properties in urban areas.

On the other hand, I'm not sure why the service of removing risk from home ownership is good (or why it couldn't be separated into ownership and property management.) In the paradigm you're proposing, the renter wants to be insulated from the risk of property damage or adverse effects on the home they purchased. And the price they're willing to pay for this is... 100% of the equity of the place they live in?
There's a certain irony in responding to criticism of that which you're extolling by saying not to use it.

And the only reason I might be pushed down that path is because the task I'm working on happens to involve filenames with spaces in them (without those spaces, the code would work fine!), because spaces are a reasonable thing to put in a filename unless you're on a Unix system.
Space solar is a way to get the most out of expensive PV cells. But PV is no longer expensive. It's cheaper to just overbuild on Earth and transmit energy through time (storage) rather than through space (microwaves).
Your are probably disappointed about a corporate owned planet..just saying ;)
It's to deceive buyers.

I bought a new apple battery with the apple logo from online vendor - turned out to be total junk. Amazon used to be filled with these junk apple parts - I tried so hard to buy a real apple charger etc and you just get junk (with an apple logo).

Despite the claims here that all this trash is "refurbished" real apple product it is not.

Apple has some lawsuits going about this issue. 90% of the items they bought from amazon that were "genuine" turned out to be fakes.

Apple has tried to crack down a bit. You used to be able to drop a crappy third party battery into a used iphone and the buyer would see that battery had no degradation (it often died months later). Now if a bogus battery is installed you get some kind of warning.
Debugging Linux pipelines is not a fun experience.

This is one clear area where Powershell with its object model has got it right.
It uses some combination of the serial number and the NIC (at least on Macs, probably not on iOS) to authenticate with Apple. That's why it's fiddly on Hackintoshes.

They couldn't use the enclave because not all currently supported Macs have it, but maybe in 10 years when all of the old ones fall off the support tree.
I've always wondered why apple gets a pass on the kinds of anti competitive suits brought against google. Google gets fined Billions of dollars for preloading a web browser in Android, but it's fine for apple to completely monopolize their hardware and software ecosystems.
I think consumer protections should provide nice long warranty periods that ensure you get what you paid for.

Phones are designed to be held in your hands, and hands occasionally drop things, so phones should be designed to withstand being dropped. You should be able to get a warranty replacement / repair for your phone if you drop it.

We would have stronger phones that last longer, and produce less waste.
There is since 2007, at the Bundeszentralamt für Steuern.

In addition, many decentral databases (such as local registration databases) can be comprehensively and automatically queried by many individual authorities.
> (1) everything is text

Not at all, you can pipe around all the binary you want. Until GNU tar added the 'z' option, the way to extract all files in a tarball was:

`gunzip -c < foo.tar.gz | tar x`

However, "text files" in Unix do have a very specific definition, if you want them to work with standard Unix text manipulation utilities like awk, sed, and diff:

All lines of text end are terminated by a line feed, even the last one.

I can't tell you how many "text files" I run across these days that don't have a trailing newline. It's as bad as mixing tabs and spaces, maybe worse.
I'm not an Apple apologist by any measure, but I don't think that's really true. At least last time I looked into it, Apple supported their devices with software updates for longer than the majority of other vendors in the market (for the majority of their devices at least).

Of course Apple is a company that likes to keep a tight control of their market and their image, and you could maybe say they go to the point of control freakiness in that regard. Any potential loss in image regarding the quality of their products is a significant cost to them; being able to charge a premium for replacement parts probably doesn't hurt either. If independent repair shops and consumers lose something in repair costs and freedom, that probably doesn't tip Apple's scale in any way. For the rest of the society it could, and if needed, Apple (or any company) needs to be able to be criticized for that, and legislation needs to cater to that and not to the needs of any single corporation.

Edit: It might be worth pointing out that while yes, Apple would probably like you to buy a new phone within five years, e.g. many Android devices aren't supported for more than a couple of years. I agree you shouldn't necessarily be forced to buy a new device even every five years, but most other vendors aren't any better in that regard.
> the person you're buying a refurbished iPhone from has silently replaced parts

Silently? Unless they're passing off a refurbished iPhone as a new one, replacing parts as necessary is exactly what refurbishment means!

As a buyer I might be interested to know if they used only genuine Apple parts, but I'm happy that the market can take care of that and the only legal intervention should be if there was a deliberate misrepresentation. It's perfectly fine for a repairer to use third party parts without having to specifically call it out. This has been done in every other market since the beginning of time, so this would not be misleading anyone.
New solar is much cheaper than new nuclear, per kWh.
CDC is worried Americans aren’t following its advice
Maybe they can be amphibious too!
They are definitely still going to Home Depot
Well, the effect of the protests is tempered somewhat by the fact that they are all outdoors. So the risk of Covid + Protests is significantly lower than that of Covid + No Lockdown.
Oh wow, I didn't know that. Every time I see it spelled that way, my mind assumes some kind of script-kiddie/1337-speak vernacular.
Because virii and reality don't give a damn about human sense or fairness fairness compared to what can and does work. "Making things fair" and forcing non-hazardous businesses to close as well even if they can teleoperate would be counterproductive.

The rents are given locked in periods which change vs the potential real swing in value. It is a "futures contract" sort of situation. If sales at a location increase tenfold over others of comparable nichw and expenses rent raising relative value compared to comparably priced competitors then the landlord cannot instantly raise rent for the contract period. They effectively got stuck renting "undervalued". This situation is a reverse of sorts - the income is down but the price is locked in so the retailers are paying for overvalued rent.

This leads to a bit of rent hardball as the retailers can "call their bluff" as they know if they were evicted they could not be replaced with anyone willing to pay the old value and try to force concessions.
yeah. the "anti-conspiracy theory" reflex is starting to become just stupid. We do live in a world where people struggle for power, influence and money. It's just as silly pretending everything is due to people plotting as it is to pretend everyone always has pure intentions.
The WHO already restarted studies involving hydroxychloroquine.

>> Who is liable for their denial of treatment?

Doctors base their treatments on the best information they have at hand. In many cases, that information turns out to be faulty.

This retraction does not mean the HCQ works against COVID-19, only that this particular study is no proof that it does not work.
Also, when you think about it, they put a lot of lives at risk by publishing, seemingly, false information in a critical time.
Apple cares about how their brand is perceived. Similarly, I doubt there are people at Apple who cackle maniacally when they lock down their operating systems; these are just a result of trying to protect their image at the expense of user freedom.
iPhone AC adapters come with a bog-standard USB-A connector. That's what matters to EU; the connector at the phone end is immaterial.
so, I'm a rock climber, and I'd never go into the mountains without a helmet. because falling objects to the head kill.

What are people even thinking, mixing spaces for humans with our fragile little egg heads and corporate swarms of falling death blocks?

hmm...
Aside from the license, it's annoying that "Propel" is Windows only and only supports MachXO3D (though they say they will add more chips soon).

Also, I'm not a huge fan that they are copying Xilinx's "IP Integrator" graphical system builder. It would be far better if the tool was somehow HDL-centric instead of schematic-centric (not that I've tried it- just looking at the documentation).
No, that said someone else, he just commented on it and basically said it could become true. It wasn't his own prediction.

A few days later, in an interview he said that the country's elevated death toll "really came as a surprise to us."
https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-sweden-lockdown-...
Refurbished means previously broken and hopefully fixed. In today's reality, fixing is generally by replacing components. If Apple doesn't make repair parts available, they're either coming from other phones, non-oem manufacturing, or possibly grey/black market overproduction.

Refurbished products should always tell you who refurbished them, and you can draw conclusions about the supplies from there. Ideally, they'd also tell you what was replaced, but it can be difficult to track that with the item.
What did the retracted study say about hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine? Did it claim they were efficacious versus COVID-19, or that they weren't? Or was it something else?
> The problem with betting against the dollar is that the West is to a great extent dependent on the US

Not even just the West. The Asian "tiger" economies are all heavily export oriented. If China, Japan and Korea cannot sell to the US, there is no viable plan B; Europe is in no state to absorb all of that, to say nothing of poorer countries.

Chinese consumer purchasing power has certainly grown, but not enough, and if anything the Chinese social safety net is thinner than the American one and they have still not fully recovered from their lockdowns. And CNY has a long way to go before it's as liquid as USD.
> We've built an insanely fragile economy.

Citation needed. Things seem to be functioning pretty well, all things considered. I can still buy virtually everything I need from the local grocery store and Amazon.

I've lived in third-world countries where regular products would be out of stock for months at a time under normal circumstances.

To me, the economy looks insanely resilient in a global pandemic.

> the mere fact of people stopping doing a bunch of stuff has the potential to cause complete economic disaster for, what 15-20M Americans?

That's just how it works, if people stop buying the stuff that 20M people produce, the work for those jobs stop existing for the moment. That's neither good nor bad, it just is. There's literally no way around it.

The problem isn't fragility or doing unnecessary things. You just need a social safety net, which Europe has been better at providing than the US, but the US could easily provide if it wanted.

If you want to have a conversation, the one to have is about social safety nets, not an "economic resilience" bogeyman.
US Army’s New Drone Swarm May Be Weapon of Mass Destruction
I remember the days in the early 80's when Merrill Lynch would charge $70 for a trade. That's the equivalent to $190 today. And people paid it because the low-cost firms like Schwab weren't well-known and people thought "If they're that cheap, they can't be any good."
I'm not privy to anything specifically about batteries, and you may be right about the batteries all effectively being the same.

However, I do know - in general - component manufacturers are notorious for cutting corners to save a few cents, doing additional factory runs after hours, altering chemistry, faking specs, etc. It's a shady business climate that needs constant QC.

Also a fair amount of what you pay for is a known chain of custody from component manufacturer to your device. From what I can tell for many components there isn't a clear feedback loop to end customers, as parts travel through several intermediaries, which means its less likely bad quality will lead to repercussions to the component manufacturer. It goes all the way to the repair place, who's typically doing a one-off order for a customer rather than having an ongoing customer relationship, and who may never see a failure 6 months down the line.

As far as batteries, and this may be a hypothetical as I do not know about who's manufacturing what and at what quality, but there's also legitimate safety concerns which is why a higher than typical level of scrutiny is required.

These are all conditions that could lead to potentially higher failure rates. How much higher is debatable, it may be only a percent or two, and for many folks a small additional risk may be worth saving some cash for.

Personally? For older devices I wouldn't care. A newer device, I would.
I can’t change the world all by myself. It’s a suggestion to weigh the Leetcode less.
Pretty sure I could do better. Downvote me again. You're making a difference!
This site and other similar ones are governed by algorithms and people who intentionally push some topics and some trending patterns down or away. Not really a reason to get concerned. You can use link 'new' in the header above to get an idea on the real interest of people here (assuming it is not manipulated).
Honest question though... did we? Did we actually ramp up healthcare and medical supply manufacturing? I saw a lot of news about it when the pandemic first started but I still see a lot of news stories about PPE shortages.
Obviously, companies that depend on crowds and foot traffic are seriously hurting right now.

However, many other industries are still business as usual. E-commerce businesses might actually be doing better than ever.

I tried to schedule a few contractors to get work done recently, thinking they’d have additional openings with the slowdown. Turns out, they’re booked farther out than ever. Everyone else working at home had the same idea to schedule that work.

This will clearly shake a lot of businesses, but the real question now is which ones survive and which ones can’t come back. I suspect a lot of the businesses that don’t make it were nearing the end of their viability anyway.
>Luckily, Facebook is the perfect arbiter for making such assertions. Only by branding foreign and independent media outlets as such, can the good name and reputation of Facebook and other altruistic independent sources of information be protected by such evil.

Ironically, "facebook shouldn't be the arbiter of truth/speech" is exactly the defense Zuckerberg made about the decision not to put a disclaimer on Trump's "looting and shooting" tweet. And people are still killing him over it. At this point, I'm not entirely sure what people want.
I think the security issues are potentially pretty significant.

It's a garbage collected language with parsers that have been run a few millions times so its not new code but...

I generally don't do much network anything except across secure lan.

I personally think using Emacs for irc or chat is bananas.

Emacs can be sandboxed but mostly isn't as people do so much with it and the current model is for a single main process usually.

It could evolve though and I think its inevitable that it will.

Fwiw I think not just Emacs but all the ditors are more at risk from supplychain attacks and build scripts from the internet.

We'll see.
It helps if you avoid the syntactic sugar of do-notation:

main = getArgs >>= processData >>= displayData

main is in the IO monad. The >>= function takes a value wrapped in a monad and a function which accepts a value and returns a value wrapped in the same type of monad, and returns the same monad-wrapped value the function did. It can be used as an infix operator because Haskell allows that if you specify precedence, in which case its left side is the first argument (the value-in-a-monad) and its right side is the second argument (the function).

The (imaginary) function getArgs takes no arguments and returns a list of command-line arguments wrapped in an IO monad. The first >>= takes that list and feeds it into the function on its right, processData, which accepts it and returns some other value in an IO monad, which the third >>= accepts and feeds into displayData, which accepts it and returns nothing (or, technically, IO (), the unit (empty) value wrapped in an IO monad) which is main's return value.

See? Everything is still function application, but the mental model becomes feeding data through a pipeline of functions, each of which operates on the data and passes it along.
What about 204? If that produces 205 you'd have some long-lived waste.
Going with this analogy, what if the government partnered up with banks and offered huge loans to everyone, with minimal interest and the ability to postpone repayment for months/years.

Since money is a human invention, if everyone pretends that these are not handouts but just a lot of debt, the economy can keep going and those loans will be repaid slowly or it will be a figure somewhere of how much debt the public is in.
> When I first was learning Common Lisp I was appalled at the tolerance on Usenet comp.lang.lisp of arrogance, hostility, intimidation and other anti-social behavior of the presumed ‘smartest guys in the room’. I was determined (a) that the Clojure community would not be hosted there and (b) that kind of behavior would not be tolerated.

Thank you, Rich Hickey!

The persistent data structures and functional core library are great, but many would not bother with Clojure if they had to deal with the toxicity that is present in the Common Lisp community.
I do the same, with VM; 25 years and counting. My Emacs doesn't have EWW but W3M is sufficient for almost all HTML messages; for me shift-H is the keybinding that sends a message to the browser should I want to view it that way.

I love being able to write my own Elisp code to have VM work exactly the way I want it.
The university of Minnesota has a clinical trial out showing no early benefit of HCQ treatment.