skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It fascinating seeing the different passport requirements by country.

It's a well known fact that intelligence agencies will use other countries passports as cover. Israel is well known for this. Which countries would you use? Well, a US passport isn't going to be a good cover in many countries, so it's often more neutral countries like Canada, Australia, Sweden.

Canada has tightened up their passport requires a few times after a rash of stolen and forged Canadian passports.

Smaller countries with less security issues have much more lax passport requirements. A friend was able to get a Vietnamese passport through her mom. She brought original birth certificates, etc. They were fine with just photocopies (that could obviously be changed).
A lot of the controversy surrounding this Lancet paper was about the data being used, which was provided by a firm named Surgisphere [1]. One of the co-authors of the Lancet paper is Sapan Desai, he is incidentally also the chief executive of this firm.

The lone one who chose not to retract the paper was him.

I recommend this twitter thread that explains the thrust of the issue: https://twitter.com/reverendofdoubt/status/12669029690454630...

Essentially, doubt began swirling around when this company claimed to acquire in a very short time massive amounts of EHR (Electronic Health Record, basically large datasets showing how patients are doing, how they're responding to medication, etc.). When Sapan Desai was pressed on by the other three authors of this very paper, he refused to cooperate, invoking a somewhat shoddy defense of not being at liberty to reveal sensitive information. Surgisphere refuses to say which hospitals chose to give it the EHR.

The thing is, this EHR data is a big deal. Pharma companies give _big_ money to hospitals for this data. One of the key questions has been how this newcomer company managed to acquire these EHR deals with such a large number of hospitals. Since the scrutiny, NEJM has also chosen to retract a Covid-19-related paper which sourced data from this company: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2007621

[1]: The company is choosing to stand behind the data: https://surgisphere.com/2020/05/29/response-to-widespread-re...
> How many columns/rows can you realistically fit in screen?

I don't know why you think many rows is an indication that you're editing. Tables are the first resort for reports, and reports tend to have lots of data (i.e., rows).

While I'm not a fan of horizontal scrollbars, I absolutely prefer to render thousands of rows with a vertical scrollbar than use pagination. Give me a sort key or two, a filter box, and I'll whittle it down to what I'm interested in.

I've seen Airtable show up on some sites lately, and its scrolling performance is abysmal. None of the examples for Grid.js has more than a handful or rows, so I won't take its performance on faith. So far, DataTables has been my go-to option for web tables, but I'd happily switch to something else if it performed as well.
> It sounds like you're in denial of your disability or you're just lying.

I could talk about what IP relay actually is (it's definitely more than "just chat"), my experience on the other side of it as a public-facing city-government worker, how video relay services won't work for me because I don't know sign language (something I mentioned in my previous comment), but I'm going to sidestep this entire conversation.

Insults to my mental stability and accusations of lying are far below the usual level of discourse I enjoy on HN, and I'm going to freely admit that, after some personal things and what's happening with the world at large, I got more upset than I'd like seeing that. So, I'm just going to walk away. I wish I could discuss my experiences more but I don't feel like a civil discussion can be had.
I think in different industries you will find varied applications and use cases.

Obviously biased as a founder but we are enjoying helping shoppers save money with Shnap Visual Search for fashion -
https://getshnap.com
"Protecting" a person from a bad deal that he enters voluntarily is not protection, it's taking away that person's freedom.
And a big chunk of the 'funds to run' go to servicing existing debt. This is a big part of why interest rates never substantially increased to pre-GFC levels. Governments would never be able to afford the higher interest rates.
Are you doubting Jared's ability to deliver?
datatables uses jquery, though.
That's taking away somebody's property, justifying it by misuse. Which means that it wasn't really property in full sense of a word in the first place.
Weird indeed. This is my second reminder today that technology does not spread equally around the globe. The other was hearing my wife ask the IT-guy in her company if they had a fax number for a form from the Italian government.

After having my photo taken at the police office for at least my two latest passports it's somewhat surprising to hear about so many countries still using "the old way". There are such obvious advantages both in security and convenience by having the passport issuer take the photo and the technology is obviously available.
The service economy will continue to be fragile for years.

The resilient parts of the economy are already planning for EMP protection from disruption and developing space exploration economies.
Try doing that in e.g. Make
Automatically detecting phishing sites is surprisingly hard to do reliably. The only thing you can really do is rely on flagging and human verification.

I've seen domains like google5[.]$tld which contained a fake Google Login form, up for close to an hour with zero detects in VirusTotal and no detection by Google Safe Browsing itself. If Google fails at detecting phishing against their own brand, what chances do smaller shops realistically have? Here's the example I mentioned: https://twitter.com/urlscanio/status/1178043405529763841
Yes! Tabulator is amazing.
Databases of credit card numbers on USB sticks, etc
Except you and other third parties can https://support.apple.com/irp-program
Yeah, that's a shame. Vote bombed in what looks like under 20 minutes.

How many upvote points do I need before I can read [flagged] posts?

edit: Found showdead, thanks everyone. Probably makes sense to get votebombed because its low effort. I retract my comment.
Right, the more idiomatic approach in java would be

- define the class

- let the framework fully handle serializing/deserializing it from your file to the neat in-memory object
It's possible in Ireland, which doesn't have mandatory or even widespread government ID. You can even apply for it online.
>Would need to make a package lockbox similar to a mailbox that is accessible by the dronecars

at this point, you can almost get rid of the whole last-mile problem that you're trying to solve with the drones, and the delivery truck can just drop off pre-filled lockboxes roadside.
Third parties could get access to those parts in theory https://support.apple.com/irp-program
You're certainly not the first, nor do I have any misconceptions that you will be the last, person to claim this. As my evidently readily accessible resume shows, I do not work for Apple, though I did for two brief periods in the past. To round out this "disclosure" I hold no stake in the company other than perhaps what might be part of VLXVX, which I haven't looked at all that closely.

But back to the point: I have not "suppressed" the comments; in fact I chose to respond in good faith to a fairly clear violation of Hacker News's guidelines (which interestingly enough happened to be an accusation lobbied at 'Improvotter, not me) as I am a bit reluctant to use the other tools such as downvoting or flagging. You're free to dig through my 13,000 comments if you'd like to discover cases where I have done this even when the topic is not Apple.
This is just one of many studies which has not found medical benefits for hydroxycholoroquine.

https://rheumatology.medicinematters.com/covid-19/hydroxychl...
It's extremely straightforward: Apple is in the user experience business. People buy Apple products because they 'just work'. That reputation is worth hundreds of billions of dollars because most people have frustrating experiences with tech.

Unreliable devices damage Apple's hard-earned reputation. An end user won't know why the Apple device they're holding is unreliable - they may not even know it has been repaired if they acquired it from someone else. They'll just know it's an Apple device, and thus it must be Apple's fault. When that person talks to someone a day or a month down the line about their experience, they will not have as good things to say. In sum, this reputation will depress sales and customer satisfaction, which are the two key metrics for how Apple measures success.

Building reliable tech that just works is hard enough. Non-OEM components and third party repair shops add additional business risk, which is why Apple takes a pretty restrictive stance.
From Trump's tweets:

"Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts."

"Looting leads to shooting, and that’s why a man was shot and killed in Minneapolis on Wednesday night - or look at what just happened in Louisville with 7 people shot. I don’t want this to happen, and that’s what the expression put out last night means..."

Perhaps it would be useful to keep an unbiased and neutral attitude when thinking about Trump? Sure, I can see how you think it is a direct threat by Trump. That is how I initially took it as well. But it also the very natural reaction by the residents/business owners to protect themselves and their property. To me, it is entirely plausible and likely he was referring to locals fighting back against the rioters and looters.
Trump to sign order to waive environmental reviews for key projects
We don’t have full employment because the Fed is failing its mandate. That’s pretty clear.

> Fed policy should be to enable full employment after the lockdowns are fully lifted, not now.

This is out of touch. The lockdowns are already lifting and as we will see, you don’t just bring back 41+ million jobs at the drop of a hat.

As long as prices (read: stock and bond markets) are stabilized, many of us don’t care.
Fact: A Flexible, Constant-Time Programming Language [pdf]
Won’t this make it easier for the looters to target and destroy them?
I don't know if this counts, but every Saturday and Jewish holidays we can't use phones/computers. It's calm in a way. And also the only thing to do is to be with friends and family.
A few times a year it can be 2/3 days long.
It's not lashing out, it's a calculated decision to reduce the power of the adversary.

> Countries like Britain show that good policing is a possibility so we should be working towards reforms that make that possible.

Just because we call our thing "police" and they call their thing "policy" doesn't mean there is a direct path of reform from one to the other.

The situation in the US is very different from other rich nations---former widespread slavery, more guns, fewer social services. All this in forms the culture of the institution in the US as much anything it has in common with other rich countries.

Defunding and simultaneously reinvesting in this areas addresses exactly these underlying conditions---the Police are forced to do less and other agencies are empowered to do more. Then, and only then, can the US police be expected to act like their Western European counterparts.
I don't know about BBC or NPR, but VOA and Radio Free Asia are much more borderline. A valid argument can be made that they are not really independent of US government.
There are poor quality parts, but few problems around them. The good mechanics know to avoid said parts and people know to avoid bad mechanics, all without Ford taking them to Supreme Court.
Generally their biggest fixed cost is rent, which most didn't pay.
*worked at Apple
Related: Pipelines can be 235x faster than a Hadoop cluster https://adamdrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-...
So where do I get genuine parts? Oh right, Apple doesn't sell them and even prevents OEMs from selling them.

For many, many repairs the Genius bar just tells you that it is not repairable even though it is. A 2000$ device that you just bought a couple of months ago. What right to repair do we have if Apple doesn't offer repair, even if you bought Apple Care.MacBooks are designed to fail, a drop of water kills the machine, the fuses never blow, if a sensor dies the whole machine stops working, they admitted a keyboard design flaw and if you get it replaced they replace it with the exact same one...

If Apple made parts available there wouldn't be a case. If Apple offered repair services like Lenovo there wouldn't be a case. If Apple designed their machines to be serviceable there wouldn't be a case.
This doesn't seem to have anything to do with Plato's Cave.
The legislature has already long since punted regulation of most things to the executive. The Code of Federal Regulations is a lot larger and lengthier than the United States Code. That includes environmental regulations: the EPA is an executive agency.

If your response is that the above is a bad idea, I agree; I think the legislature should be prevented (by Constitutional amendment, if necessary) from punting regulation to the executive. Anything that has the force of law--and regulations issued by executive agencies do--should have to go through the Constitutional process to create a law. But that's not how things are currently done.
Why assume it's economic? All of the signs point to political interest in my opinion. Trump said we should check it out, it might help. Therefore, we must destroy it, because Orange Man Bad.

Just because a President, or any man, is bad, doesn't automatically mean that every word he says is wrong. And if he really is that bad, why is it necessary to fabricate studies out of thin air in order to discredit something he said, complete with people dying because they couldn't get a medication that might have helped. If he is actually bad, the actual facts should be plenty to demonstrate it.

This doesn't even seem like a "conspiracy theory" to me. If you want to get into conspiracy theories, you'd have to start asking what else is getting this treatment.
It's sad to see such unwarranted self-loathing. You have nothing to apologize about for other people's non-contribution.
Can you give me any clue as to what execve does? I looked at the man page but none the wiser. Sounds like magic from what I read there. I'm from a Windows backgroud and not used to pipes.
I hope this will lead to more public scrutiny about the practices of the leading scientific journals.
The vast majority of issuers in both those ETFs (especially HYG) are US companies. A liquid ETF with substantial AUM that only holds US issuers does not exist. You'll have to blame the companies that created and marketed the benchmarks these ETFs track on that one.

Also, the Fed has not purchased a single corporate bond yet so the "majority of the money" has gone to ETF purchases so far; the vast majority of the facility's capital is currently sitting in Treasuries.

The mere announcement of investment grade ETF purchases re-opened the primary markets without the Fed spending a penny. High yield primary markets were completely shut for a week before the Fed said that they would purchase fallen angel bonds and HY ETFs. The whole purpose of these facilities is to make sure funding markets function properly and ensure that companies that would have been fine without the pandemic will be fine now; not bail out distressed companies that are going to go out business anyway.

I don't even know what you're talking about with bank failures on this. The Volcker Rule really gutted bank prop trading and banks barely have any of this stuff on their balance sheets. It's a big portion of the reason why there was a massive lack of liquidity during the first quarter of the year.
Thanks. That's helpful.
You're entitled to your opinions. But the 50 percent rule is pretty established by real estate investors as a way to estimate those fixed costs.

https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/7172/46252-what-i...
Fed has directly bought securities in every downturn that I know of. They bought MBS during 2007 recession. They are buying corporate paper right now directly. What they didn’t do was go bailout the mortgage REITs.
Lancet, NEJM retract Covid-19 studies based on Surgisphere data
"They've been building up a drum beat about debt and deficits over the last several weeks"

... every time there has been a Democratic president.
This is just plain dumb. Undercover work is crucial to law enforcement.

edit: I would delete this, as as others have pointed out, the headline doesn't match the article. But apparently that's not allowed by HN once replied to.
No shit dude.
The difference is the challenge of imaging those wavelengths. You cannot just use a glass lens to focus a nice sharp picture onto an imaging sensor. Imagine that car is heading towards you, but you have to close your eyes and try to pinpoint its location by judging the shine of light through your eyelids.
I'm not sure that to run a CI you have to violate the Apple license. I mean most core components of macOS (the Darwin project) are actually open source, and thus can be built and used freely. And for a CI you don't need a GUI and other stuff, only the kernel and the compiler basically. So maybe it's possible to compile a version of Darwin so close to the real macOS that has the bare minimum to run the compiler to build and test software.

Of course the problem are the SDK that you need to use to build most software, they are obviously proprietary, but does its license say that they can only be used to compile software on a real Mac?
Without getting into the details: kind of a combination of things, indeed :)

I just think it's time we as a society accept and understand that having support and medication for things that relate to our mental health is fully part of the toolbox of healing, and not a fringe thing that remains on the sidelines for an insignificant proportion of people.

Most people will spend some amount of time in a hospital or clinic in their lives, for a broken bone, a disease, or some functional change to their teeth, or whatever else. It's all pretty accepted, nobody thinks that it's a fringe thing.

We should accept that the way we look at psychiatry or targeted support for mental illnesses should be similar to surgery for broken bones: if you have a sprain just take good care of things at home with basic knowledge, but if there's a chance you have a fracture you won't make your bones heal well by praying or by finding a blog post, you need professionals for however long that situation lasts. And there are way more mental fractures out there than people like to admit to themselves and each others.
> It seems to me that the field contributes nothing to society,...

Better markets allow our economy to prioritize resources better and convert assets more efficiently. This increases prosperity.

Good HFT improves markets.

Of course, there is bad HFT, but such actors tend to not last long due to natural market dynamics and regulatory enforcement.
> But, that's kind of the nature of bugs like these, they creep in through unexpected logic paths

Sure, agreed, this isn't a post-hoc "what an obvious bug, they should have just <done everything perfectly from the start>". I was just addressing the dichotomy laid out by the GP comment, which only mentioned top-level generic exception handling instead of case-specific, intelligent exception handling.
I would have to agree. Unless they only interviewed the people who saw a targeted campaign of just that fake info, and then asked how many of them believed it. But broadly there's no way that's an accurate percentage
I'm not interested in perpetrating violence against others (even in self-defense), nor having violence deployed against me for my simple belief in human rights.

You're not advancing a cause by getting killed by feds or rotting/dying in prison. The only way you can make real, meaningful, effective progress (and not little teensy incremental baby steps that take 500 years to mean anything) is to be happy, healthy, and prosperous outside of an oppressive system, and to amass huge resources that can be deployed against the damage.

PS: Don't knock "complete anarchy". Most human beings are kind and considerate, and certainly much nicer than those in the current government who would be happy to rule you at the point of a police officer's machine gun or tear gas grenade launcher.
No way. Here in Australia or would be incredibly politically unpopular to do it again.
but remember that "taking into account" does not necessarily mean "make impossible".

yes, humans can attack drones. but humans can also attack postal carriers, or steal packages off porches. neither of those facts seem to be disqualifiers for continuing with the current system. Some level of theft will always happen, and the cost of that theft needs to be factored into the overall cost of the system. if that cost is too high, it can make the system untenable, but eliminating the possibility of theft is not a realistic goal for any delivery system.
The Fed has not bought any corporate bonds yet. If you have some proof of that, please share your source. I work directly in this space, know everything that is going on and am unaware of any purchases so either I'm terrible at my job or you have some information no one else has.
Because your system of government is so fundamentally broken it barely even qualifies as a democracy anymore?

All the systems built into the US government were designed for a country with 1% the number of people it has now, when the fastest method of communication was a horse and the majority of it's populace were farmers.

There are a few simple things that could be done right now to fix the US government (abolish the EC and gerrymandering to start with), but no one has the political will to do it.
I've had that thought as well.. basically driver takes a truck/trailer and parks, drones swarm and deliver packages within an N mile radius and come back to the truck... driver moves to next deploy point.

Of course the size/weight of some packages delivered via amazon would be an issue in terms of using a drone at all. Not sure about the energy use for flying drones... Land based drones could also work for some deliveries.
Yes, the ToS for the SDKs do say that.
Thinking of the stock market as merely "a way to provide retirement plans" is wrong. It costs money to serve meals, put people in housing and invent technologies. Where does a lot of that money come from? Our financial system (of which the stock market is a key component). A better functioning financial system enables progress in lots of other industries.
Dude, cool website!
Well, both are injustices and Apple was 'wrong' before, given they reversed their decision [0] after being accused of double standards when Tim Cook defended their decision to side with China and censor HKMaps [1], suppressing the HK protestors. And now they backing this injustice and these protests?

Sounds like hypocrisy here.

[0] https://www.macrumors.com/2019/10/03/apple-bans-app-used-by-...

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2019/10/11/tim-cook-defends-remova...
+1

Piping is great if you memorize the (often very different) syntax of every individual tool and memorize their flags, but in reality unless it's a task you're doing weekly, you'll have to go digging through MAN pages and documentation every time. It's just not intuitive. Still to date if I don't use `tar` for a few months, I need to lookup the hodge podge of letters needed to make it work.

Whenever possible, I just dump the data in Python and work from there. Yes some tasks will require a little more work, but it's work I'm very comfortable with since I write Python daily.

Your project looks like, but honestly iPython already lets me run shell commands like `ls` and pipe the results into real python. That's mostly what I do these days. I just use iPython as my shell.
Click the time stamp ("N minutes ago").