skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was even shadier than that. They were also producing content solely to upload to The Pirate Bay and sue whoever downloaded it.

After years of running the scheme and raking in millions, they finally got caught when a defense attorney noticed some oddities while trying to identify who Prenda was representing.

The Prenda attorneys continued to be evasive about the identity of the complainant in court. Pulling that thread eventually unveiled their shenanigans. The judge then referred the Prenda attorneys to the US Attorney for criminal indictment.

Two of the attorneys behind Prenda were convicted and sentenced last year: One for 5 years, the other for 14. [1][2]

[1]: https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/florida-attorney-sentence...

[2]: https://www.startribune.com/judge-throws-the-book-at-minneap...
yeah, but is that microservices? This is what we did the first place I worked, 15 years ago.
I'm not sure if you actually read the report. I just don't see the kind of abuses publicized in this incident in India -- namely deceptive "bait-and-switch" and skimming/unpaid wages. For instance, according to the report, their main grievances are that (1) the use of contractors and apprentices who make up 15% of the workforce there and are paid lower; (2) overtime and Sunday where they are required to work 1 or 2 hours more or work on holidays/Sundays during high production season. (3) resistant to unions.

According to SCMP, most, or about 85%, of Wistron's factory workers are contractors[1]. While there seems to be some discrepancy between workers wages reported and received at Samsung factories, the figure reported by Apple/Wistron's factory workers are as much as ~45% less -- Rs 21,000 promised vs Rs 12,000 received.

Now, I'm not saying that Samsung is a better corporate citizen, but it's just that I don't hear Samsung's CEO parading around making grandstanding speeches about how ethically they run their business or socially, environmentally responsible they are, at least not as often.
I think there's a mismatch here that only becomes apparent when you consider what level each web service and the browser are operating on. Search engines and publishers are considering intent - which is relatively easy because they have a small area over which to infer it. Browsers are operating as smart tools capable of interfacing but not capable of understanding intent because the scope of possibility is so broad.

You're right. User agents should be for the user. They should expose options and controls for the user. They should tune and change and transform things for the user. They should understand what the user wants and make life easier for the user.

I am just skeptical that browsers are ever going to be true user agents and capable of fully representing the user's interests and intent.
This is from memory, and i saw few examples
but what i recall the syntax was less dsl-ish
SQL is a DSL, it is not a general purpose language

Chris Dates' D ( not to be confused with Walter Bright D)
looks more like a regular programing language

And was functional

So I think an language can add a library or an extension that act like D, or simulate D

Check this to get an idea
https://reldb.org/c/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Rel-and-Tutor...

Also, as I recall, the Notion of RelVars made it sound functional

Each Relational Operator, returned a RelVar
So you were passing RelVars between operators until you get the result you want, which was a RelVar

Anyway this is from memory, so I maybe be wrong on many things .. but again from memory D or tutorial D sounded a lot less DSL-ish and lot more functional than SQL , which was an improvement in my mind
Whenever possible, yes.

Sane language. Fantastic tooling. Huge ecosystem. Backwards and forwards compatible like few other things.
> I simply don’t want to talk to electronics. The privacy implications alone scare me away. No thanks.

I think you should consider the tradeoffs here.

Practical safety on the road today, where I don't die because I'm fiddling with buttons, trumps theoretical unmeasurable fearmongering about vague privacy concerns. The reality is that if Tesla were to record every command I ever give the car and post them online against my will, no one will not learn much about me aside how aggressive I want the windshield wipers to be and that I enjoy having a warm butt when I drive.
That's my point. They can improve the car experience through Carplay and the iPhone. There's no point in manufacturing the entire car.

And ultimately buttons and entertainment centers only move the needle for relatively comparable cars. Apple would first have to get as good at Toyota et al at building the rest of the car before a better UX can win.
While Apple surely has lots of mechanical engineers, Apple doesn’t have the greatest track record of successfully innovating moving components with high lifecycle requirements.

Would you be excited to drive a moving vehicle designed by same company that has class-action lawsuits against many of it’s mechanical innovations: butterfly keyboard, failing screen hinges, bending iPhones, etc

On second thought, maybe Apple doesn’t actually have great mechanical engineering innovation chops.
This is the definition of a smart working developer and should be the gold standard.
One thing that really frustrates me about cosmology, or at least popular science reporting and books, is a particular kind of lack of intellectual rigor. Specifically, even as a layman, it's clear that observation and model are being conflated.

Cosmology is a science in the broadest sense of being a field of human knowledge, but it isn't a science the way that, for example, physics is. It would better be described as a phenomenology[1]. I'm sure many will disagree with this factually more accurate description, because of the emotional role their ideation of science plays in their lives, but I believe it has greater intellectual utility and that a phenomenology can even be of greater value than an experimental science. This framing helps us understand that we should spend less time on trying to come up with dubious "natural experiments"[2] and more on the collection and publication of data in useful formats. And most of all, to be absolutely clear what the assumptions of the model are, even the most trusted ones, because they may well prove incorrect. But maybe this is just an issue in the popular press?

[1] "A description or history of phenomena." (not the definition from what we now call philosophy)

[2] Which aren't experiments at all because selection isn't control.
In my years of using black cabs, there were no common fixed fares used, they ran on a meter.

Fixed fares were mostly arranged and inflated by dealings with hotel concierges with cash exchanging hands before the guest went in their black cab.

So, to answer your question clearly, they attempted to rip me and my visiting relatives off multiple times by hearing a strong accent, and starting taking obviously non optimum routes until they are told to take the exact road I know that is in fact much shorter, and much faster. Several times.
I think the shift to web apps and repackaged web apps happened largely because of how insanely hard it is to roll a decent multiplatform app between mac, windows and the various linux platforms even before considering mobile. For example, the OGL backend for GTK3 has been broken on MacOS for years and while there's been a rewrite for GTK4, porting from 3 to 4 is non trivial and so is maintaining 3+4 so GG if you're a small project.
Right, but you can also eg run both versions of python on different machines and switch between them at the load balancer layer. That also lets you eg quickly roll back the upgrade from a single area.

You can do all these things either way. The question is which way suits your tools and organisational structure.
Peloton Buys Precor for $420M
RIP Harold Budd, one of Eno's contemporaries.

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/10/944962303/harold-budds-music-...
Has Apple been poaching significant self driving talent to attempt self driving version of the electric car?

Based on their consumer electronics past, Apple would probably nail the design and get the hardware mostly right. For self driving I think Apple's best bet here to me seems like licensing Waymo tech. Waymo seems to have the lead amongst all and Apple would be more interested in the complete product unlike Waymo which seems to be just interested in the driving tech.
Hard to tell what you mean.

Talking about feminists then "We are useful", I might assume you are a feminist, but switching between 1st and 3rd person.

Or, you say "We are useful by default" as if from the other perspective (i.e. mine). If so, hard to tell if you are responding to me specifically, or some "HN crowd" generally; in either case, yes, feminists have to prove themselves, or specifically their ideology. And no, I haven't said anything about "useful by default", that's your strawman.

I think you're being sarcastic, in which case your whole post is just a bad-faith, low-effort dismissal. It'd be useful if you'd respond less cryptically.
As well as the comments already made, there's another thing to consider: in a SLR or DSLR, the path used to determine whether or not you're in focus is different from the path light follows to the medium: the autofocus system has a screen that takes light from a mirror, and then adjusts the lens based off that measurement. In manual focus, you're basic it off the path the light takes to the focusing screen, via a mirror.

In either case, when the photo is taken, the mirror whips out of the road (which generates mirror slap, another problem), and the light travels to the film or sensor. Since this path is a different distance to the one used for focusing, it requires only a small calibration error between the body and lens to end up with out-of-focus images. It is very normal to have to tweak the focus (higher end bodies will let you do this), or to have to have a body or lens physically corrected. No matter how exquisite your optics - in fact paradoxically, this effect is worst with high-end optics - the way the light path works here can be a real pain for getting good focus.

Because mirrorless systems focus and capture from the same medium, this literally can't happen with your mirrorless camera.
>Webpack and/or React must be very aware of what the other is doing here in order to drop the server-only JS from the bundle. Is it even possible to use alternate bundlers with this feature?

The bundler-specific code is here[1]. As you can see, it's not much. We will happily merge PRs and tweak the infrastructure to work with other bundlers. E.g. we're already in conversations with Parcel who are also interested. Yes, there is a cost in under-the-hood complexity, but we think you get a pretty high benefit (e.g. automatic code splitting), so we think it is worth that integration. Just like we take many other things bundlers do that we now take for granted.

>The React server has to be deeply concerned with the application logic to know how to transparently pass state back and forth, presumably via some generated JSON endpoints. I guess maybe this was already the case for hybrid client/server apps.

Not quite sure what you mean by this, but you be the judge: [2]. There is no "state" being passed. Server Components are completely stateless. (But they can render Client Components, which are normal React components on the client and have the lifecycle you're familiar with.)

>What's the lifetime of "persisted server-component state"? A component lifecycle? A page reload? A user session?

Server Components are not stateful. They follow a request-response model, just like traditional server pages. The novel part is that we're able to merge the result into the client tree (instead of .innerHTML = newHTML with old school partial templates, which destroys client state).

>How did they make an asynchronous call synchronous? JS doesn't normally allow that outside of an async/await context. Did they wrap the JSON response object in some kind of lazy proxy or something?

We will be posting a separate RFC in the coming weeks/months that dives into details. But the high-level answer is that we want to model it as a cache that you read synchronously. (So if the answer isn't synchronously available, we throw and retry later.) Async/await adds unnecessary overhead when content is already available synchronously, and especially on the server we'll expect many synchronous cache hits because some data has already been accessed from a parent component. Think of DataLoader-like abstractions.

[1]: https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/6cbb9394d1474e3a728b4...

[2]: https://github.com/reactjs/server-components-demo/blob/a8d5c...
I think they don’t just solve the problem faster, but over time they’re more likely to solve the right problems in the right ways. It’s not “here’s a programming problem, I’m going to start a stopwatch go!” It’s over the past year you’ve had 10x the impact.
They do this in the Consumer Price Index, yes. But that's not the same as doing it in all the analyses that are claimed to show wealth inequality. Not all sources define "inflation" the way the CPI does.

Also, even in the CPI, they don't do "hedonic adjustments", which is what you are describing, for all goods. For example, I mentioned cars and computers; the only adjustments made for those items are "cost based adjustments". And many items don't even get those.

Then there's the question of whether the methodology they are using for making "hedonic adjustments" where they are making them actually captures what it claims to capture, which is, to say the least, not something everyone agrees on.
Not OP but I have great eyesight (I think...) and much rather use a big screen (my neck thanks me too).
Sure, but Apple had a revolutionary new product. They weren't that great at the nuts and bolts of making a phone, but it didn't matter because the concept of the iPhone was so much better than any phone out there. What is Apple going to bring to the car to match that?
> It isn't synchronous, it only looks so. It actually uses FP Promises under the hood[1]. We're doing a bit of a trick there (it throws a special value the first time, and then React retries when it's resolved). Then the result gets cached, and the repeated render succeeds synchronously.

I don't mean to offend, but this level of magic behavior sounds terrifying to me. React's original slogan was "it's just JavaScript". That made it easier to understand without special knowledge, easier to pair with whichever libraries you wanted to use, and easier to apply tooling to without special integration. But it seems to be getting further and further away from that goal with each passing year, turning into an opinionated, all-in-one framework like Angular.

Maybe this is just the cost of gaining and maintaining popularity. I won't say it's intrinsically a bad thing, but I personally don't feel good about it.
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I think they were referring to nineplay's post, which was the GP of the post that replied to you. It gets pretty confusing, I guess pointers are hard even in natural language.

nineplay's post seemed to me to suggest that they believe that jaywalking being illegal is in itself a way to deal with the externalities of the car culture - it seems they are happy with jaywalking being illegal. I would guess that is why they also got the down votes.

Your reply seems to be written as if you thought nineplay was praising people making jaywalking not illegal, which I believe is the wrong reading of their post.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2020/05/23/us-navy-laser-weapo...
Those of thus that don't own cars are not pretending!
> I'm really curious what Apple's differentiators will be.

In the car market, being a different brand is a differentiator. Ferrari, McLaren, Bugatti, Lamborghini, and Porsche don't offer vastly different products. But the car market is heavily driven by people wanting something different from their friends. Once Teslas become popular enough, people will want something else just to be different.
Next.js can output static pages now on build time, so you don't necessarily need to use SSR unless you're hydrating data on the server.
No, that's not how it works.

Most health insurance plans have a few services that are copay-limited even before you hit your deductible. i.e., the $40 for an office visit to your primary care doctor, $90 to see a specialist, and in my case $500 for the ER visit. Imaging and procedures are my problem from the start, up to the deductible though ... apparently unless they happen in the ER.

Like I said way up-thread, the way it's structured puts the incentives in the wrong place for me. Had my two visits for ER and scans been in the opposite order, I would have been out of pocket the same total.

Anyway - I'm done arguing with you. I know how my plan works and what I've paid this year, whether you believe me or not.
I completely agree. CentOS Stream will only receive updates that have passed RHEL QA and CI testing. These are patches that would normally go straight to RHEL in the next point release, so these are stable.

Even Fedora is pretty damn stable. Stream will be far, far more so. I'm planning to run Stream for all but one of my use cases (my home router, which is a SPOF for my internet connection. Not sure what I'll run there yet).

More info about why I think Stream is mostly a good thing (not universally a good thing, but for most use cases it is IMHO): https://freedomben.medium.com/centos-is-not-dead-please-stop...
And now my Netflix is almost at $20/month. And $12/month for Hulu. What about Disney+? Peacock? HBO Max?

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Just remember kids, when talking about communist countries, "pro-democracy" in the western press means "pro-market/pro-capitalism". Her beef may be real, but understand what the sides are. The question to ask is: "How would the government treat pro-communists in the US?" and compare. You may well conclude that both countries are doing shitty things or one of them but you'll have an informed opinion.
My typical experience with AMP on an iPhone SE2 running iOS 14 has been that it either takes 10+ seconds to load or simply never does. I am not using any sort of ad blocker.

This obviously isn't the typical experience with AMP, but they clearly have something broken somewhere.
All speech should be acceptable, according to the Polish government. It’s not right for a private entity to regulate speech. This law puts the locus of control back in the hands of government, but nowhere does it imply that the government will censor the citizens of Poland. It promises the opposite: that their voices will be heard instead of stamped out by the big tech companies.
Apple released one of the very first digital cameras back in the day - The Apple Quick Take (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Qu). Somewhere deep in their R&D facility I wouldn't be surprised if they are quietly working on a full speced ILC camera system - they could just license the Nikon Z mount (which is the most advanced and future proof mount of any other vendors - Nikon's real ace in the hole) or - as people have said here just outright buy Nikon - and apply all of their silicon / imaging knowlege to it.I wouldn't put it past Apple.
I couldn't find anything about this after a brief Google, and the Wikipedia article for Apple Card doesn't say anything about this. Could you provide more information?

Edit: found this after more Googling: https://www.cultofmac.com/614988/apple-credit-card-histor/
I was very disappointed when they bumped it to a version 2 and don't appear to have touched the motors or electronics. I'm very fond of the FOV from this focal length, but I have a hard time springing for a lens that will make... me... wait... so... long... for... focus... lock...

Especially when it doesn't have a nice manual focus ring à la the Olympus m43 lenses.
Yet worth more than all the car makers combined! Tesla's supercharging network and battery production capabilities is a match for just a handful today
It's a strategy: let the market mature some, allowing others to make mistakes, giving you a view of what works best, and then launch a product and launch it to your existing consumer base. For example, how long ago did Apple Music come out, with how many existing competitors, and how successful was it? Apple has deep pockets, can do packaged deals for subscriptions as well as your iPhone, Apple Watch, laptop, etc.

It wouldn't surprise me if Apple didn't get into a few other markets that Elon is targeting as well, though Apple's careful to not launch too many products at once - it may put them at a disadvantage over decades; of course they can always buy companies in a market they want to be in.
https://www.otsuka.co.jp/en/nutraceutical/products/os-1/
Gatsby: https://www.gatsbyjs.com/
That's a long-term manual process. You need to go around to every spam list you can find and open up direct communication with the person/s that control it or go through their removal process (some offer a simple process, some are obnoxious, as you'd expect).

That said, I checked your site against blacklists. It appears clear -

https://mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx
Everybody can buy Tesla cars and stock so there is the rest of the world. That's not very up to date with Musk's tweets and political stance, because of the language and cultural barriers. What they see are cool cars and spaceships, so Musk should be cool, right?
I think most people are comfortable with a soft cap at 60 seconds?

A simple animation, a voice over, and maybe some video captures of the software would be great.
They are only talking about paid work ("annual working hours per worker").

But their data at https://ourworldindata.org/rich-poor-working-hours shows that unpaid work is about 40% of the overall work, so a significant factor. (I'm eyeballing that "40%" characterization.)

In Italy, for example, 230 minutes of the day is spent on housework, shopping, care work, and "volunteering". That's more than the 204 minutes in India or 179 minutes in China and far more than the 149 minutes per day spent in Italy on paid work.

And at least part of those four categories is unpaid work.

I single out Italy, which is an outlier, because I recall reading things like https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/07/italian-campai... :

> Italian campaigners call for housewives to be paid a salary ...

> But a prominent pair of campaigners in Italy, a country with an estimated 5 million casalinghe (housewives), a moribund jobs market and a lingering patriarchal culture, this week threw their weight behind an eye-catching proposal they say would boost equality and fight domestic abuse: a salary for women working in the home. ...

> "I want to destroy this great prejudice that says: 'I am the one who earns; you have nothing,'" she said, adding that women who chose to work at home should be rewarded, not humiliated. "They must not be considered B-list citizens," she said

This "ourworldindata" site continues with this prejudice by only considering "paid work" as "work".

If unpaid work is included as work, then China's 315 minutes of paid work + (56 + 123) of unpaid work = 494 minutes.

While the US's 251 minutes of paid work + (96 + 122) of unpaid work = 469 minutes. That's only 25 minutes less. (And most of that extra time in the US is spent on "TV & Radio".)
Calca does look like a really nice mix of note-taking and calculations. The screenshots made me realise I was missing variables in Soulver... until I looked at the Soulver docs and realised that it does have variables, I just hadn't thought to look. Thanks for the prompt!