skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, just bad reporting.

"Apple lobbyists are trying to weaken a bill aimed at preventing forced labor in China, according to two congressional staffers familiar with the matter, highlighting the clash between its business imperatives and its official stance on human rights."

1) The US legislators could not care less about "forced labor" in China (or even in the US for that matter, e.g. penal labor). Same way they don't care when it is their allies doing it (or worse things). It's all about the trade and dominance war with China.

2) Apple and the other companies involved don't care about forced labor either (if they could legally and without media repurcusion use it, they would). But they also don't need and don't seek forced labor. Good old capitalist low wage labor is good enough for them. So it's not like they try to defend China's forced labor because they benefit for it.

3) What Apple and the other companies have is multiple suppliers all over China, including that area. Most of them (if not all) have little or nothing to do with forced labor. But because the law aims to hurt China and not to stop forced labor, it doesn't care about little details, but uses blunt force and a wide net.

4) Understandingly (from a business/logistics perspective) Apple, Google, and co, can't just drop/replace suppliers at the drop of a hat. So they ask for more time for check, and a better look at which suppliers are actually problematic to be added to the bill. So "weaken the provisions" is actually "make the law more accurate and fairer", but they won't say that.

Then the mix of propaganda for foreign policy (as if those legislators care), hypocrisy, business interests (from Apple and co) and extremely bad reporting for clickbait and patriotic reasons, then turns into:

"Apple lobbies in favor of force labor".

It's as if some companies wanted to continue to use some useful drug medically, and e.g. tried to "weaken the provisions" of an strict anti-drug law that forbade it without nuance, and the headlines were like "Company X lobbies in favor of heroin".
Real-world Apple M1 Chip Benchmarks for software development
Very good article. From the article:- “ At the heart of all of these systems would be the fact that the dollar would no longer be the world’s only currency for energy pricing. The euro, yuan, and perhaps a few others, or a neutral reserve currency, could be used in trade agreements to buy oil, gas, and various commodities, which unlocks the prospect for more global trade and reserve holdings in those currencies.”

While this makes total sense the fundamental problem with this is a consensus mechanism to control liquidity in a localized crisis. If you have one currency it’s easier for that country to make a decision rather than convince all the other countries.
I fear this mania for mass Covid testing is an expensive blunder
Goodreads really needs a solid competitor, the site seems to be stuck in a timewarp:

It is load times are one of the longest of the sites I commonly visit, and it barely had any new functionality added in the last 10 years.
Well, how 11 families were manipulated anyway. The other millions of Canadian families went on, heedless of the money.
I wonder how it would compare to something like DragonFlyBSD then
English had to be invented
Dark mode is easier on the eyes. Think about it: your monitor is not a piece of paper, no matter how hard you try to make it one. Staring at a white background while you read is like staring at a light bulb (don't believe me? Try turning off the lights next time you use a word processor). Would you stare at a light bulb for hours at a time? Not if you want to keep your vision.
It happens rarely but regularly. They fall asleep or try to pass and don't see you. This kind of passing is very common and major fatal accident cause in my country. If there is place to the right (assuming driving on right country) (sometimes designated safety area or a field of grass or whatever) then you have to escape and you have to accelerate to escape faster. Being only makes sense if there is enough time or it looks like they might be breaking as well. If it's a truck for example going your way hitting the brakes is just suicide.

Anyway my point is that it does happen. I agree it's rare. I would be careful when it comes to trusting UK guidelines blindly. Last time I checked they recommended push and pull steering which is to put it mildly a very bad way to control a car.
I guess I needed to allow cookies.

But apparently I need to read Twelve Steps. That's rather disconcerting.
Nah. They did it to themselves. Like the three men who hated each other and had to share a house (or lose it). I'd be more interested in whether they bothered to try. Which would have been self-inflicted as well.
you might be interested in privacy.com as an alternative!
Screenshot the QRCode, print it out, and keep it in a safe.

I have an encrypted backup of all my TOTP QRCodes and this has been tremendously useful.

I loathe sites that only do SMS 2FA, and I assume by default they just want my cell # for marketing or other privacy invasive purposes. Too many sites using SMS 2FA have poisoned the well.
That looks like magic. GDB should really add such functionality. It allready has dependency on curses.

Edit:
Oh 'gdb -tui' ... I should read the docs more ofent.
Termux + ipython/Jupyter has almost everything one needs for the casual 'pandas on the move' use case. The value proposition is not obvious, although having a nice physical keyboard helps.
Is eLua still maintained, or do you just build Lua into your firmwares?
Recovering data from a failing hard disk with HFS+ (2019)
Anyone have recommendations of graphical "reverse engineering debuggers"/binary-only debuggers (not sure about the name of this genre) like OllyDbg or x64dbg for Linux?
I'd blame poor folks for shooting their entire income on lottery tickets. That would be a reasonable thing. Its a choice, truly.
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I'm currently using pwndbg, which is really just a few python enhancements to the gdb cli, mainly focused on developing exploits, hence the name. It's good enough for me, for now.

Something I've realized about gdb in general is it gets a lot better once you figure out the python api and use it to ease your repetitive tasks.
"It will map a region of memory from the kernel to Akku, and scan through the raw bluetooth data."

I thought that the Bluetooth support on Apple devices was already crippled by Apple buy this is (for me) a brand new way to shoot yourself in the foot.

It would be interesting to someone from that company to explain the decisions taken to limit which parts of Bluetooth BR/EDR and Bluetooth LE they support and the limitations the force on their users.
Recall Gavin Newsom: Milestone of 800k California Signatures
“We had done no patenting, and ALOHA was published in scientific papers,” putting their work in the public domain, Professor Abramson said in the oral history, adding: “And that was fine with me. I was too busy surfing to worry about that sort of thing.”

This is the ideal situation. Groundbreaking progress made by people with no profit motive funded by the government. As we've seen with the Covid vaccines good things happen when governments fund basic science.
Waline – A Simple Serverless Static Site Comment System
Rockets that go above 60,000ft and at 1000kt are the case that this limit was designed for, they didn't want enemy ballistic missiles guided by GPS.

Of course that regulation is now useless because foreign receivers don't implement the limit and competing GNSS systems also don't have it. But at the time it was written this was a sensible restriction because it was a unique technology.
When I quit the app the Ad Guard shield icon went back to "paused" so I assumed it needed to be running to work
...and yet, you apparently understood. So it was a useful, effective use of the term.
Not exactly the same as other debuggers, but the "rr" debugger could be given a look.
Kind of a moot point when they can simply suspend your account for months for undisclosed reasons.

People literally just give up on their PP accounts, because it's not worth your sanity (dealing with Paypal's "customer service") for something like $100 left in the account.
It fits the flow model of a ponzi scheme:

At each future stage a growth of fresh input is required to make up for a growing backlog of past transactions. Since the world is finite, the available growth must come to an end while the back log does not. (A possible disagreement with this is if expected media quality/size is growing in size similar to Moore's law.)

The author makes their own distinctions in the article, but I don't see how you could choose a more appropriate title without assuming a lot of pre-existing knowledge in the audience.
> People should appreciate the template of conformity that allows them to find a place in the world and not let advertising, that often leverages the idea of uniqueness to sell things, diminish the value of their mediocrity.

Being mediocre is such a scary prospect given the requirement of differentiation for professional and personal attainment, that people seem to ignore its existence entirely. Any minor differentiator is magnified to represent a "uniqueness" which frees the person from the burden of the mediocre. I agree, everyone has something to contribute and the large swaths of mediocre people drive our civilization forward--but why can't they just be mediocre? Why is it bad news?
I wonder what results the author would have had if they'd tried to debug a binary written in C or C++.
After years of letting him sprout lie after lie can’t complain about that.
>20 years after his departure, itself before he had any real chance to make a mark, and 18 years after being bought

You seem to imply PayPal being scummy is a new development. Always has been.
Flashing my lights to warn another driver about a speed trap makes me feel like I’m part of some underground resistance
Bad Takes(TM) require a vaccine, too
> I would suspect that Yevgeny Zamyatin would also have been privy to the plan. Aldous Huxley too.

No, they were not part of any plan if there was ever one. Yevgeny Zamyatin and Aldous Huxley were participants and observers of civil war, revolution, and its subsequent corruption by totalitarians. Their books are a testimony to that and a warning.
Interestingly, in logic programming languages if/else sometimes turns into arithmetic, so (slightly simplifying)

'if x then y else z' becomes 'xy + (1-x)z', or 'x*(y-z)+z'
I did once spend a few boring hours on a plane on a genetic-algorithm-based optimiser that (tried to) minimise a Linux image (I believe I used Gentoo), eliminating packages first, followed by files, segments, and individual lines of code.

From what I remember, (a) you can probably get to an extremely low size, (b) it won't be worth it compared to similar efforts taking a different route and getting 90 % there, because (c) your test will never be sufficient for any real-world usage: I remember going through some of the codepaths that had been disabled, and it included handling of specific dates, any unicode character I had not used, handling of networking and disk access failures that I did not even know of, etc.
See also WorldCat:

> WorldCat is a union catalog that itemizes the collections of 17,900 libraries in 123 countries and territories[4] that participate in the OCLC global cooperative. It is operated by OCLC, Inc.[5] The subscribing member libraries collectively maintain WorldCat's database, the world's largest bibliographic database.[6]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldCat

* https://www.worldcat.org
End Covid lockdowns, say over 49,000 doctors and scientists – The Christian Post
Ask HN: What stocks are you bullish on for 2021?
Hello HN, it's almost 2021, and with it we could see major shifts in the Coronavirus crisis, with multiple vaccines potentially coming out next year and a new US administration.

Given this environment, what stocks do you think have the greatest potential for the upcoming year?
Thanks for the examples! However, I fail to be horrified by them.

Private fire brigades only putting out fires when people pay for them upfront seems all right to me. Everything else just promotes moral hazard. It's like always bailing out the banks after the fact, no matter how much risk they took up front.

Of course, today you wouldn't have marks on the building. We have much better paperwork and municipal maps these days, or you just use electronic means to keep track.

There are some externalities: when your building burns down, other buildings might catch fire too. So municipalities would be well with in their rights to tax uninsured buildings more, or even outright prescribe that all buildings be insured.

The latter is in some purist sense less 'free market' than having no special regulation at all; but I guess we can agree that it would be pretty close to free market fire fighting?

> The US is much less densely populated than Denmark and dealing with fires is a fairly time sensitive operation, I'd imagine that might explain part of the difference.

Canada and Australia might be more natural countries for comparison in that regard. Let me see whether I can find statistics for firefighter per capita.

(Btw, on the flip side, having less density also means that fires are somewhat more self-limiting compared to blazing through a dense city.)

Even the actions of Marcus Licinius Crassus as described seem fair to me. If he made a killing doing this business, surely some competition would spring up eventually ensuring that the discount the previous owner has to offer would become reasonable.

(Of course, that's all assuming fair play. Historically, Marcus Licinius Crassus probably kept competition at bay with threats of violence? Similar for the Gangs of New York.)
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This is my favorite so far
While in general I understand (and agree to an extent) the sentiment it's nothing at all like a Ponzi scheme.
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We share the cynicism. I completely agree that there is a huge difference between what people say they want and what they actually end up choosing. That doesn't make it any more defensible, though.

I still reserve judgement for the people that will buy it and the companies that produce this.
NumPy – Matrix Library
> Most languages are context sensitive. Most language tools are context free. How did we go so wrong?

We never did. We always knew that any real-world useful grammar is multi-level and attribute (well, it's constraint-based, though depending on your definition of "attribute grammar", those are equivalent). That's why we so much like recursive-descent parsers: adding any multi-level constraints are so easy to them - you have a full Turing-complete language at your disposal, unlike simplistic 1-dimensional DSLs of most parser generators.
Cebsocket: Lightweight WebSocket Library for C
These folks don't want to allow anonymous users to run searches on their website which is a shame, semantic web or not. The bolg post is also strangely devoid of meaning.
This is great, Thanks for sharing. Can you mentioned what the source is?
Can we please dispel this notion that “unlimited” means literally unbounded to the point of absurdity. Seemingly everyone understands that bottomless breadsticks doesn’t mean that Olive Garden literally has infinite breadsticks and that you’re not allow to show up with a semi and tell them to fill it up.

Unlimited means that you don’t have a set quota and as long as your usage doesn’t cross over into genuine abuse of the service that you don’t have to worry about it. If you cat /dev/random into your unlimited storage provider 24/7/365 you can’t really be surprised when they ban you.
Ah great, that's it!

The other thing I miss with Safari I don't think there is a solution for... there's no version for Android, so I miss sharing history and passwords with the browser on my phone.

My fault for not buying all Apple devices I guess
Not making things worse is another expression of making things better. I also dislike where politics has gone in terms of how it's being exercised these days, but I would agree that the building blocks of politics are still, how do we make decisions as a group. Some people have managed to pretend the most important decision is that "person X most not enact their agenda", but it comes from the same root.
I added a few of my favorite books (mostly 20th century lit) and depending on the set got mostly children's books or non-English books. Not terribly helpful.
This is part of my problem with speed cameras everywhere. I respect the idea, but speed limits many places are too low given that roads and vehicles have improved significantly and they have not changed much to keep up. I would be all for more appropriate speed limits and better enforcement of speeding - and congesting traffic by failure to yield to faster drivers behind you.
> open their wallets, pay for the services they use, and support independent businesses

Except these things began as hobbies before business became involved at all.

It’s a message board for book lovers ffs, pre web people used to build things themselves, at their own expense, just for fun.
I've been working on a related product (never going to be a complete set of books, but you can read them through the site because they are public domain) that you can check out in my profile if interested
Yes, Bait and Switch is the right term.

The author is trying to allude to the positive business sentiment of an every growing base which fuels the hustle until there are no more takers, but it doesn't quite work I think because it was always costing and losing money.

With Ponzis, you need cash from ever more investors to payout previous investors.
XHE-AAC in a Nutshell
I rarely stumble upon such well-written articles, it was a joy to read.

I didn't know the author before but after a bit of research… well, I'd expect nothing less from someone who has been awarded the Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT.
It had, but when they forced me through the 2FA enrolment flow recently the only option was SMS.

To use OTP I had to break out of that flow and start from a different part of the site.
The Guide to Candlestick Patterns
Thank you. That's a much better way to say that.
Or, if everyone (or at least more people) managed to have symmetrical high-speed Internet connections, self-host a lot more stuff.
I sometimes flash people on roads where there are no speed traps. This way I achieve two things: defeating the usefulness of flashing people as a warning and also possibly making people drive slower than they would.
I wonder who the executive was who decided to start assigning International Standard Book Numbers to non-books.

“Why not? What’s the big deal?” said someone who has never worked with garbage data.
You're contradicting yourself. Should we use TIOBE as a guide or should we pick Rust? (The correct answer is neither of those two.)

Rust is just about the worst language that you can recommend in this case - it's more difficult than most other languages and there are close to no jobs with it out there. OP is probably looking for JavaScript/TypeScript + a frontend framework or Python.
They’ve basically found a way to steal what’s left in the account. That’s all this is. There’s probably tens of thousands of accounts that people got locked out of or abandoned with money in and this lets them steal it.
On Emacs, I'd recommend using M-x gdb, rather than running gdb through GUD (which is M-x gud-gdb).

Emacs has a much tighter integration with gdb than with other debuggers. The features and interface are documented here: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/GD...
Indeed it would behoof us not to assay to declare words archaic ere their time
> Dynamic linking is not quite as useful today a it was in the past

Linux distributions need to be able to backport security fixes to shared libraries, test them and deliver updates to all users quickly.

With static linking it becomes practically impossible.
I use my local credit union primarily since they are "supposed" to be non-profit, lower interest rates and fees. I used the term supposed, since there are a lot of variance. I was thinking about Chime too

Why do you need a bank API?
I remember something like 25 years ago (when I was 8) that the variant of Basic I used did not have a good if-then-else. Instead it was done a lot using if and goto (with line numbers :-))

Some years later in embedded development I learned that this was actually more similar to the CPU instructions used underneath, conditional jumps.
Not sure if I understood what genre you have in mind. Does Ghidra fit the bill?
Balanced sources tend to give you what the extremes don't, which is nuance.

Does your approach not gloss over the nuance? Or are you able to surface the complexities of a given topic simply by examining the extremes?
There's also shortcuts to enter and leave tui mode:

https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb/TUI-Keys.h...

(I never start with gdb -tui but usually end up there for a little bit).

As the author pointed out, this hijacks arrow keys, so you have to use readline editing:

https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb/Readline-B...

https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb/Readline-M...

Fortunately, there's a lot of stuff that uses readline so it is all very portable.
Apparently Amazon’s Kindle lost the ability to share progress on Goodreads in the last week as well.

I guess the writings on the wall...
Sounds like they want the burden of proof to be on the accuser.