skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Apple has the ability to impose their will on their subcontractors when it comes to human rights and worker treatment (which, I stress for the wait-wait-but-for crowd so desperate for reasons to excuse large companies from having to act like citizens of the world, is a distinctly different use of power than self-enriching commercial ones, so save the handwringing).

The problem here is that you want corporations to use their powers do The Right Thing™, but ignore what happens if they make a mistake. Sure, we want amazon to crack down on counterfeits, but then we hear of stories like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24914501. Or worse yet, when The Right Thing™ is in the eye of the beholder, see: conservatives thinking that facebook/youtube is censoring them, and liberals thinking they're not doing enough.

>That doesn't elide the role of the state--it recognizes that, to our general detriment, we have allowed corporations to grow to the point where they are not practically regulatable by any given state due to their extranational operations.

But is that the case here? Winston is operating a factory in india and is therefore subject to indian labor laws.
The sole purpose of organizations like these, is to generate "information" that can impossible be verified, but does sound like it could be (sort of) plausible.

For those too young to remember, here is a wise lesson from "Yes Prime Minister" (Distract the press: expel some diplomats): https://youtu.be/v9meC6TmSig

If anything is at all remarkable about this operation (because as it currently stands, it is far more likely to be a US intelligence operation, trying to force Germany to back out of North Stream 2), is how eagerly most people in the West just swallow whatever is shoved down their throats. Apparently even without any critical thinking or common sense.

Many in the West would be shocked, about what an average (educated) Russians could tell them about Navalny .. but all of that is of course propaganda and lies, because Russian people can't think for themselves. Fun fact: most people who ever made an effort to contact Russians and get at least some first hand stories about events in Russia, pretty much all found out how unreliable US/EU media actually is.

But never mind .. if the US or EU end up in ruins one day, and won't receive any sympathy, at least it won't be hard to see/understand why.
Or reduce demand. Move move move
That's nonsense. I've been growing my net worth quarter after quarter and I'm not pickpocketing any poor people.
The big difference is the tooling gives you that for free with WASM. You can even run Go programs in WASM. You don't get that with seccomp.
You need to reform regulations as well.

Medicare + Medicaid cost US tax payers more per capita as the UK NHS costs UK taxpayers per capita. The UK NHS provides universal coverage.

Part of the problem is that Medicare is actively prevented from being cost-effective. E.g. there are restrictions on its ability to negotiate prices in many instances, whereas the NHS will actively use all the leverage it has by coordinating purchases across the board. I'm sure that alone would not solve the issue, but it's unnecessary hard to get support for universal healthcare as long as Medicare is as expensive as it is.

Fixing that would make it harder to argue against Medicare expansion. To start with you could expand coverage substantially simply by allowing any savings to go towards expanding coverage.

> Eventually, it would only be the wealthy who were still on the private insurance only system. Then employers can gradually replace health coverage with other benefits.

It's worth noting that this is pretty much how it is in the UK. We do have private cover, but only about 10% of the population uses it. Notably it's generally "add on" coverage in that almost all policies expect you to rely on the NHS for basics, but lets you pretty much use the policy to queue jump to private hospitals if the NHS is "too slow" or for services above and beyond what the NHS offers. As such that's 10% despite UK policies being generally far cheaper, since they don't need to cover things like ambulances and ER/A&E (whenever anyone complains about the NHS this is a pretty essential point: the NHS is good enough that there isn't a sustainable market sufficient to compete with it; it's not perfect, but as long as private cover is as limited both in takeup and what it provides as it is, that's a pretty good indicator)
I don't think that would really be too bad, TBH. Don't forget that the first project to popularize distributed map-reduce, Hadoop, was a Java project.

All you really have to do to translate map and reduce into an OO paradigm is have the map and reduce operations take objects that implement specific interfaces instead of functions that have a certain signature.
SBCL generates the best code for toy benchmarks and number crunching applications. Throw it against a CLOS heavy codebase and you'll be surprised at how it runs VS Clozure CL and the aforementioned implementations.

ACL's GC is still the best hands down (and of course ABCL by virtue of the JVM). I think SBCL is still sporting a conservative GC on x86.
> We do not have a free market. Other countries seem to have solid solutions for "socializing" medicine. I can't think of any highly functional system that is a free market. I don't even think that one is possible without people dying in the streets.

The government is perfectly capable of ensuring access to a market without regulating it to death. The SNAP program (Food Stamps) is a great example of how this works in a separate market with very little elasticity in demand.
15% is a decent speedup.
I have. Twice.

My situation is far more common than the people making millions from unicorns at IPO.

The majority of exits don't come from IPOs. They come from acquisitions of small-ish companies by big or medium size companies. These don't make headlines because they're not very noteworthy for the average person.
I don’t think totalitarian is a useful way to describe Tsarist Russia. It was so far from exercising thought control that vast numbers of its citizens embraced an ideology dedicated to its downfall. (Source: Slezkine’s fabulous book The House of Government).
Ah I see.... for an article about a covert investigation it sure assumes intimate knowledge of the covert investigation
That seems to be the explicit intent of the creator; a way to output C/C++ and hit the same use case targets but with much more powerful code generation facilities and a syntax that is much more amenable to that.
Love this, but the lack of interpretation of prefixed currency symbols is absolutely maddening! That it simply ignores the number and operand with no indication that these elements are ignored could easily lead to problems. I don't think I could in good conscience trust myself or those I might consider to be the target audience of this app to notice parsing errors in every case. Consider:

"$400 / 20" => 20 (ERROR)

"$400 / 25" => 25 (ERROR)

"400$ / 20" => 20 $ (OK)

"400$ / 25" => 16 $ (OK)
> Zillions of people use FB every day to read about stuff, connect, organize things.

This is literally a bandwagon bias argument.
This is hilarious sentiment to me because I’ve found it harder to find an honest dentist than an honest doctor. My experience is that they’re always trying to upsell you or perform unnecessary procedures.

The only good dentist I’ve had was a guy that specifically served working class people. He knew there was little upside in trying to screw people over (they’d either skip necessary work or just not pay the bills) and was completely open about everything from treatment options to their respective costs.
> Stability attributes are computed for most D language statements by taking the minimum stability and class of the entities in the statement.

That's a fascinating read and an amazing idea. To your knowledge are there any other software ecosystems that track stability in nearly as formalized a way? Has there been investigation into bringing these ideas into other modern languages? (I don't believe Rust has a concept like this, for instance, though it would even further strengthen the language's concept of correctness if it did!)
> Someone joining Apple today did not create any of that wealth.

Everyone working for Apple, including indirectly, i.e. all the way down its supply chains, are collectively generating wealth for the company.

Just imagine how much fairer it would be towards all these people who did the actual work, if the profits generated from every iPhone, every iPad, every MacBook sold (and so on) ended up in their pockets instead.
Every restaurant I've been to with mandatory tips or fees has it written on the bottom of each page. The only shady thing I've seen them do is add the mandatory tip, then give you the bill with an option for an additional tip, hoping people will forget that the tip was already included in the bill.
Wow, I never knew.
How about “surprise insurance won’t cover this” situations?
> the Lisp languages never took off after the 2000s

> I see no "enlightment" in learning Lisp

> the Lisp family is almost dead

You're conflating popularity with value, and the two are very different.

Moreover, you're missing the fact that most of the features that were invented in Lisps (like GC, lambdas, first-class functions, and REPLs) are now wildly popular, with every modern language having taken several ideas from Lisp.

Furthermore, you don't seem to understand that a language is not the sum of its parts. Python, Java, C++, and the rest of the languages that have been grafting on Lisp features do not have the unifying design philosophy that Lisp does, which is precisely the "enlightenment" that you don't think exists.

Finally, by the nature of "enlightenment", you can't see or understand it until it hits you. As someone who is stubbornly refusing to learn Lisp, you by definition cannot judge whether or not you might have a galaxy-brain moment if you attempt to learn it. (it's perfectly possible that you'll learn it and have no moments of revelation, but you can't even tell whether or not that will be the case until you try)
We don't have a free market in health care at all. In a free market you would be able to buy a coronavirus vaccine right now, instead of waiting months to get it for free. We haven't had a "free market" in health care in my lifetime.
“ The sequel's takings were inevitably affected by the coronavirus pandemic, which has shut cinemas in many places.”
Mypy doesn't like function attributes, https://github.com/python/mypy/issues/2087
> For many, one annual ritual will provide a welcome distraction: watching a depressed child get berated and mocked relentlessly

Some won't even need Charlie Brown for that ritual!
Haven't used a sigma lense for years. Are they now comparable quality to NIkon/Canon lenses?
>The AR OS battleground is going to be very interesting.

Not really, once Apple steps in with their own AR headset then Oculus is done. Not only does Apple build their own hardware, they also have the trust needed to make it mainstream.

Trust in the parent company is a core requirement of AR, one that FB will never be able to deliver, their brand is kaputt in that regard. In FBs position I'd try to sell it, the team they have working on it is great, they don't deserve the backlash from the trust issues of the parent company.
This comment should be flagged, it’s extremely sensationalist and below what I expect from HN.

1. On what basis do you say that people are underestimating the seriousness? Are you a doctor? An epidemiologist? Do you have any medical education?

2. Do you have any supporting evidence for your claim that it’s obvious that something was “off” about Kent and that there is a spread attributable to this? Or are you just drawing lines between dots? You source nothing, so it’s impossible to know.

3. On what basis do you claim that this strain “probably” has spread to tens of other countries? Who are you, and based on what do you make this guess?

The pandemic is taxing enough on everybody as it is. We DO NOT need “educated guesses” from armchair epidemiologists that do not identify themselves or what sources they are drawing their conclusions from — and I could expect as much from a random comment field on the internet, but not as the top voted comment on HN.
Ray Ozzie's latest project out of stealth mode.

https://www.geekwire.com/2020/ray-ozzies-latest-project-form...
Btw, the article made me curious about the prospectus of Apple's IPO some 40 years ago. Here's a link for your archive. :)

https://www.sec.gov/apple-computer-inc-ipo-prospectus-form-s...
Worked at company for 4 years. About a month after I left, the company was acquired. Fortunately, I could still exercise my options. I paid around 10K to exercise my options and got about 70k once the sale was finalized. Honestly, I was expecting more but I'm not complaining.
IS this really the definition of slavery here on HN? Pathetic. I've been supporting nonprofits engaged in anti-slavery issues - I will ABSOLUTELY stop if this is what is considered slavery. Such pathetic misuse of language.
I'm referring to cost. A maid in Singapore will run on the order of $10-20k per year. Cost depends on standard of living and the maids country of origin, with discounts given if there is an elderly dependent in the household. This is an amount of money well within the ability of US dual income households to afford. I'd go so far as to say that economically it's a no brainer if such an option were available.
Not a bad idea, but I would like to point out one of the arguments of getting rid of private insurance is that wealthy would need an incentive to not degrade the system. Like it or not the wealthy have have much more political power then common folk and allowing them to have them own system outside of the general public gives them incentive to cut cost with no effect on themselves.
Hi,
Not yet, it is on my list, but unfortunately with a low priority.

But fortunately, the whole architecture was designed with the terminal in mind:
- 99% of the functionalty is implemented as a lib, and just a tiny part is responsible for input and rendering, so it is very easy to write new frontend for it.
- both the rendering and the input uses characters as a basic for coordinates, so it is easy to translate the render commands generated by the lib to the terminal.
Yep, that's the punch line
Is Apple forced to use Wistron? No? Then sorry but this is on Apple. And I doubt anything will change.
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Very nice, reminds me of "literate programming": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming

In a similar vein - a few years ago I built an open source REPL calculator called LastCalc (http://lastcalc.org/), which supports some advanced ideas from functional programming including pattern matching.
Yeah, we got a bill from the hospital once with a footnote saying, some of these procedures may have actually been for another patient, not for you, we don't have complete records. But your insurance agreed to pay it, so we recommend you don't worry about it.
Yup, I totally forgot about that.

Though that still gets to my point that they make optics, and pretty much just optics. Makes it hard to pivot (ugh, sorry) to anything else, from a corporate mentality standpoint.
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If the goal is to provide the non wealthy with the ability to attend higher education facilities, then scholarships or grants or taxpayer funding for the school is the proper method.

Giving out blank check loans with no underwriting standards does not help the non wealthy. It results in what has already happened in the US, schools collect as much tuition money as they can since why not, and the non wealthy end up indebted for the rest of their life.
>I think it's pretty important to maintain the same manufacturing quality between the two areas. I'm sure that's possible when moving production to Thailand, but I expect it will take time for them to iron out their processes.

Nikon have already been making weather-sealed cameras in Thailand for ages (e.g. the D7500). I think your concerns here are overblown. Any quality problems with their Thai manufacturing operation would already be apparent, given that most of their cameras are made there.
You don't really need anyone else screwing over the hospital to have for-profit hospitals be incentivized to screw the patient by jacking up prices on demand inelastic goods. Not to even mention that many times the patient chooses these procedures while not thinking clearly, when under duress, etc.
Crystal is a very interesting technology indeed and with my 2020-12-10 and 2020-12-15 measurements I was mainly interested how fast the compiled binary and the compiler work in comparison. With the 2020-12-20 measurement though I was interested whether MRI Ruby 3.0 was indeed significantly faster than 2.7 which doesn't seem to be the case. It's also interesting to note that even if MRI Ruby was tree times faster it still would be half as fast as LuaJIT (considering that LuaJIT would be even faster if the tracing JIT would also support closures).
> Also much like acting and sports, there are a constant stream of new entrants who have not learned the lessons.

That sounds like the general software startup industry has built their own version of video game industry goggles; glamorize the startup lifestyle and culture so much millions of kids will compete with each other into a race to the bottom. There's probably some succinct German compound word for this dynamic and if there isn't, I hope some German speakers can suggest some here so I can add it to my lexicon.
Apple's first published ML paper was on using GANs to make synthetic datasets more realistic. They applied their approach to computer-generated eyeballs to add sensor-like noise. I find it interesting that the paper was published before Face ID was announced, since in retrospect it's clear that's what they were working on.

That paper also mentions something that has still not found its way into an Apple product: they posed 3D models of hands and then degraded them to appear as depth maps, with jagged edges, artifacts, and occlusions.

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/gan
See here[1] for a pretty good explanation. Importantly, your insurer treating the visit as in-network does not force the provider to treat it as in-network; surprise bills come from the provider, not the insurer. From that post:

If the insurer pays less than the out-of-network emergency room bills, the emergency room can send you a balance bill for the difference, over and above the deductible and coinsurance amounts you pay.

That “if” condition is usually going to hold, so a lot of surprise bills come out even despite the ACA rule.

[1] https://www.verywellhealth.com/get-in-network-rates-out-of-n...
> Parent poster is referring to a full build,

Yes

> which are not really representative of a daily workflow.

Only on Rust :). This is a "hack" that must be done to make Rust viable. In Delphi, a full compile is so fast that it's pointless to make it incremental.
The biggest fuck you is that Medicare can't negotiate.. it's actually written into the law.
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~50min presentation
I was part of a startup for a few days short of a year. We got acquired by Apple and I walked away with ~$400k after taxes (no 83-b election benefit). I’d say that was a significant amount for me for 1 year of work.
Apple doesn’t have to deal with perishables.
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It is, since the compiler can inline the comparator.
Piggy backing here, I exercised options 2 years ago when quitting my job. The company had a down round and I don't believe they have much of a future so I'd like to sell my stock back to the company, the stock at least being worth more now than the $30k I paid on exercise. Has anyone sold stock back to their company? What was the process like?
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It's true whenever the function call overhead for the comparison operation dominates. Inlining a trivial operation (often just one instruction) is one extreme.

At the other extreme L1C cache (typically just 32 kB) gets constantly trashed by numerous type specialized functions. Individually fast when microbenchmarked, but collectively slow.

That's why profiling is a must when high performance is required. Microbenchmarks can be very misleading.
I bought 10k shares for 75 cents each a few years back. They're currently worth 3 cents per share.
The problem is that you never know when a liquidity event will happen, and not all outcomes involve you at least breaking even.

The company I have my exercised options with hasn’t gotten acquired, hasn’t gone public, it just hobbles along failing to make a profit year after year receiving round after round of funding by investors who just hope to turn the company viable.

I was only able to buy a few hundred bucks of shares, and I considered the proposition to be like a night out at the casino. Plus, I get to satisfy a little post-employment curiosity by getting to read investor information like balance sheets and income statements.

In my opinion, equity compensation and/or stock options suck. They probably only make sense for people working for Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon, and the like. I don’t want thousands of dollars in my investments riding on the success of one single company, especially is that company doesn’t have a street named after itself.
I have other USB-C devices as well, but most of them shipped with an A-to-C charging cable, and if they included their own brick it was a USB-A brick.

The only USB-C chargers I've had included with a device are from my iPad and my laptop. For those of us in Apple-land, that started around 2016 for laptops and 2018 for iPad Pros. The iPad Air just went USB-C a few months ago, and the base model iPad I assume still comes with a USB-A charger (though I didn't check).

But at least with USB-C instead of MagSafe I can get a $17 multi-port charger with 60W power delivery and 3x USB-A ports to hook up at my desk, and keep the laptop brick handy to toss in a bag or use elsewhere without digging it up from under my desk every time. https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=24425
> Windows 10 has "curl" support out of the box since update 1803.

Huh, TIL.

(At first I thought that maybe Microsoft had just done something like

Set-Alias -Name curl -Value Invoke-WebRequest

but no, it’s the real deal[0].)

[0]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows10v1803/
Thanks, you are right, I did not notice but yes it could be annoying.

The reason is that the content of the note is stored in the URL so it is easy to share it by sending the url to friends. So the URL changes basically on every modification.

I add it to the fixlist.
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Actual stock, no. Options, which are probably more common than actual stock with start-ups, you have to pay tax on the "profit" when exercising them. Often, you only have a short time to exercise options when you leave a company.
I wasn’t referring to things people HAVE to do to survive - I’m talking about stuff they don’t have to do but want to do because they “just want to be back to normal”
I have a Zojirushi rice cooker and basmati rice is practically the only type of rice I ever eat.

It's basically the same as cooking white rice, although it takes a bit more water. Do a batch or two as an experiment.

Cook it like it's white rice, and if it comes out too dry, experiment with adding a bit more water next time you cook it. Eventually you will figure out the ideal water line for your taste preferences. You just have to remember it!
This is a pretty loaded question to then say "not trying to be judgemental"...take out the bias if that's actually the case:
"What kind of benefit do you believe your work provides to society?" or "How do you justify the extra resources taken away from society that may be more beneficial elsewhere, such as X?"