skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yet Prius catalytic convertors are apparently a big market, so much so that it is a regularly stolen item. so someone is buying these parts to install when a car is serviced.

[1] https://www.inquirer.com/business/toyota-prius-catalytic-con...

[2] https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/thieves-target-toyota-p...!

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/money/2020/feb/01/catalytic-conv...

> The thieves make about £300 to £500 from every converter stolen, fenced through scrap metal dealers, with car manufacturers warning that a gap in the Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013 enables dodgy dealers to buy them without checks required on where they came from.
I just want a commodity pocket computer. I don't need to be able to install linux on it or Uncle Jack's latest new app idea. I just want to see my calendar, answer emails, and take calls, I dgaf about "oh I can put git on my phone and download the latest rustc and compile my web backend and test it on my phone!"
How much of this, I'm curious, is changing now that Jony Ive is gone?

Think about it. Since he left, Apple is bringing color back to their designs, bringing back ports other than Thunderbolt, abandoned the Butterfly keyboard, made the MacBook Pro 16" thicker to improve battery life and cooling, added the discounted business rate to the App Store...

Now, this doesn't mean Apple will continue improving or will make Right to Repair happen. However, I think that with Jony's departure, something may have, just may have, snapped within the company, and they seem to be looking at changing their ways just a little bit.
It's a response to a bit of a loaded statement. What does the parent poster even mean that a descriptive term isn't 'true'?

That the behaviour it describes doesn't exist? That would be a truly remarkable claim.

That the term is inapplicable to that behaviour? On what grounds? Is there a term they'd prefer we use?

That the behaviour exists, but we shouldn't slap a label on it? That's almost certainly personal opinion, which is not very interesting.

If the OP would have instead said that particular claims about toxic masculinity are false, that would be an entirely different conversation. But that's not what they did.
No, I am not and had difficulties finding hints. Eventually I found https://www.ti.com/lit/ml/slup129/slup129.pdf which I found helpful.

"Magnetic Amplifiers

Although called a magnetic amplifier; this application really
uses an inductive element as a controlled switch. A mag
amp is a coil of wire wound on a core with a relatively
square B-H characteristic. This gives the coil too operating
modes: when unsaturated, the core causes the coil to act
as a high inductance capable of supporting a large voltage
with little or no current flow. When the core saturates, the
impedance of the coil drops to near zero, allowing current
to flow with negligible voltage drop. Thus a mag amp
comes the closest yet to a true "ideal switch" with significant benefits to switching regulators."
Oh, I’m not sure I miss them. They were fine friends in the moment, and we could be friends again, but I’m not sure how to find them, one might be dead by now (was an old guy at the time), and I’m happy with the small number of close friends I have now. If they went away for whatever reason I’m confident I can make new friends, and maybe I’d turn to an app like yours, so thanks for your efforts!
Curve is just leverage for speculation: deposit token A, withdraw token B, earn the appreciation on both token A and B. Speculation is still the only use case.

DeFi provides absolutely nothing novel. Nobody said it wasn’t used. They asked for a non speculative, “real” use case.
> Imagine... consumers constantly have to stay on top of which [regulators] are the current OK ones and which aren't...

A thriving market in marijuana has existed your entire life. It works exactly this way.

Countless examples. PC hardware. Vaping. Yelp.

It's fine. Which is lucky: who watches the watchers?

You want real-time feedback without perverse incentives. Only customers can provide it.
Blast from the past!
What’s the game? shown in the second image from the left?
The example you cite is of the US petulantly harassing the itinerary of a foreign leader. That is the US being a dick, in the vernacular.

The situation at hand is an act of war against an Irish airliner.

Sorry, but it's just not the same, and you know it.
Have you watched stuff with subtitles much? It doesn't sound like it. After not very long you hardly notice they're there, unless they're not well done. And you have just acquired a magical ability to understand every language on earth.

The only mildly frustrating thing is that after watching a lot of subtitled movies in a particular language, I still can't speak the language, after having the illusion I understand it perfectly!
Apart from this jarring omission, they repeat the propaganda claim that Minsk was the closest airport at the time, which is blatantly untrue.
Bottery by Google
I really don't know what you are talking about. ETH hit its all time high a few weeks ago (May 10th) both in terms of USD and BTC. Its still double it's ATH from its peak in 2018, before the crypto crash.

As to your other ramblings, mere snobbish tripe meant to demean and belittle those that disagree with your opinion. In other words, yours is a low information post.
Yeah, he doesn't have any social "credit" left. It put US at a great disadvantage.

If his policy was slightly not in favour for China, the policy would be called racist immediately.
>> Nigerian central bank banned crypto recently

The Nigerian central actually prohibited banks from facilitating or participating in crypto based transactions. You can still trade legally however you want.
He now can help us by saying "Brazilian/Indian/UK flu".

Boom. We will immediately stop using the word like "India variant" (and etc.).
The largest part of app store revenue is games, most games use only a small subset of Apple APIs, and very often only because Apple is not supporting industry standards (like Vulkan or OpenGL)
It was at least able to roll from point A to point B without consuming a small country's worth of power.
Crypto relies on the internet. It benefits from its adoption. It should be much faster. YouTube, Facebook, Netflix, Spotify, App Stores, etc. All of these advancements experienced rapid growth. Hell, even PayPal.

The internet built the network that made that rapid growth possible. Crypto is not reinventing the internet.
Yes they do. They charge you compute time, data egress and storage costs. They charge you for premium support, DNS lookups, and even just having an unused IP reservation. AWS has an extensive and diverse model for charges. So much so that it's very difficult to accurately calculate the total cost of a new project ahead of deploying it due to all the hidden costs.

If Apple adopted the same model as AWS, people would still moan.
Are you referring to the yellow 4.7 nF ceramic Y capacitor, with a capacitor symbol printed on the PCB underneath it?
Facebook, instagram or any ad-backed app users are the product not the customer.
Created an account again (lost old few weeks old one lol) just to reply in enthusiastic agreement on the utility of barebones custom software - but not so much due to the lack of public-facing maintenance and the responsibilities that lie in parallel. Frankly, my own reasons hinge on annoyance with status quo consumer-facing solutions gone boiling over.

Ex: I’ve taken to creating my own CRUD programs for iOS or likewise for shell-based Python scripts on a desktop for things from lists & reminders, tallies, to some minuscule gym data tracking, and a few memory logs.
I grow weary of bloated apps and programs built for a remarkably simple purpose but lacking just basic malleable parameters - and yet swelling in size, latency, cost. Or hell, advertisements and “social” shit haranguing me at every menu bar. What the fuck? Hell, music applications are lousy with them - as with YouTube Music or Apple Music.

So yeah, I’m all for it. My life is too short to acquiesce & tolerate the specter of proprietary watered-down stacks without reservation where I consider it desirable & plausible to do otherwise.
A problem I experienced with this is future-me is another user. So some aspects of documentation, ease of use etc became more important. Of course, that's my decision whether to support future-me or not, so is consistent with your philosophy. But it's quite difficult if I do, to know how much, and what exactly, is really needed... because, well, I can't google for it.
Not to mention the free tier.
That sounds a bit like an intentional false flag operation. Intentionally upload landmines into a free resource...
Hey you didn't say it had to be cheap!
> JetBrains and VSCode are painful to get to function like Xcode

Because nobody sane wants them to? Like, to me, I can jump into most any IDE I’ve ever used without too much trouble, but Xcode is impenetrable.

It’s like Apple tried to throw up an artificial wall by making all Xcode paradigms different from anything else.
You brought up fiat in a way that implied a dichotomy.
This article reminds me of a saying, along the lines of "the mission of any organization eventually becomes self-proliferation". No matter how noble the original mission, it devolves into selfish pursuits.

I can't find the actual quote nor its origins. If anybody knows what I'm talking about, please let me know.
What the pilot chose to do in the situation has no bearing on what France, Italy, Portugal, and Spain did, and whether they should have done it.

I will ask again - do you think it is appropriate for countries to disrupt third party, commercial air travel, in order to force travelers down into a jurisdiction where they can make political arrests? It's a very simple, yes, or no question.
Arch?
That’s not very Sybil-resistant: how do you prove that the node is actually verifying things?

The only remotely viable way would be to use recursive SNAKRs to prove that you verified block proofs in block chains like Mina
The term counterfeit is here being used by some people to mean 'genuine parts sold off-license', which is much more like a bootleg copy[1]. That is, it's the same item sold off-license.

To some extent words mean what people who use them intend to mean, but in my opinion we shouldn't be calling parts from the same production line counterfeit, because the word implies forgery.[2]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleg_recording

2. https://www.dictionary.com/browse/counterfeit

Edit: changed a word for clarity.
It's still laughable. Most conservatives are just old people. You think the kids are gonna start fighting their parents?

It's not like it's a north versus south thing.
And directly responsible back in the Soviet era: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007
And at the same time less than some realise. E.g. UASF.
My understanding is that this is for original content, which can then be used as a corpus to make generated sounds
It’s not possible to catch an even number of leprechauns. I mean, basic fact checking is what I expect from a HN commenter. This place is turning into Reddit.
Went when I was pretty young. I remember finding tiny pieces of glass on the ground that we took to get inspected to find out that it was, in fact, glass and not diamond.
Well that explains a lot. Imagine the success of all his work had it had better branding.
In Canada, I’ve never once had to give over a ssn or do a credit check. The American landlords are being abusive and invasive
CiviCRM can handle bounces (fetches them from a mailbox using a VERP), but for spam complaints, you need to own your IP block in order to manage feedback loops, which is another level of complicated.
I'm definitely biased towards exactly that frugal-and-bank-the-money mentality ... but if others don't want to be friends with someone who doesn't spend money, that's their thing. I've found it much more rewarding to find people that like you for the way you are rather than trying to buy favor with status or money.

It's definitely not for everybody, but you might be surprised as to what you find by cutting expenses by what most consider to be "drastic measures" just to see. You can always just go spend more anyways after seeing what it's like!
Decentralised communities used to exist without such bribery. I wonder why that's not really happening much any more. (Of course, the old ones still exist, and there are replacements to the ones that went defunct, but precious few new things work this way.)
I bet that Apple will be forced to make big changes to its App Store policies, including allowing third parties payment processing for digital goods.

But it will remain the only store on iOS.
Ok, thanks for pointing why I got flagged and -2 points. Just for your record, Sasha is not Polish name at all, but is one of most popular russian one, that already shows some attitude at least and in conjunction to fuzzying discussion by introducing new focus elements and or discrediting actions by pointing to non related actions, that all is to me VERY suspecious. And need to point that too - all of it can be purely accidental. It is just too often it is not, that led me to try to save you from that crap. Will not do it again, sorry.
We'll see, but perhaps there was some Russian involvement.

Now that the plane has arrived at the intended destination (Vilnius), it was missing two Belarusian citizens (Protasevich, and presumably his girlfriend who was on the flight has also been arrested) and four Russian citizens. There are some rumors that those four people were trailing Protasevich before the flight and were involved in the 'bomb threat', so it might as well have been a common Belarussion-Russian operation, but as of now it's all just guesses and speculation, perhaps tomorrow we'll have better info.
>> You can't say the same when you deposit money into, say, Robinhood

How do you know what the major exchanges are doing as well?

By the way, how did the exchanges wind up becoming so powerful and rich. Becoming almost a parallel Wall Street, just a smaller one, in a system that was supposed to ultimately democratise power. Some people with resources managed to emerge at the top in decision making...
Sean Culkin becomes first NFL player to convert entire salary to Bitcoin
All of the more senior engineers I know who have kids are taking a break right now. The pandemic means that both work and family need more time than normal. I think it’s about 25% more time needed on the job for same results and about 50% more time needed with kids. There isn’t enough time in one day to do both so a lot of people are off the market for a bit longer. I’m one of those!

For the more senior people without kids, what I’m hearing is that shifting to remote means spending more time with the “less-fun” people on the team because it’s harder for them to hide. So everyone’s closer to burnout and I bet more than normal are taking breaks to recharge.
Oh ... Kay? The thing with that wonderfully high minded approach that seems to get missed: you can do that at home by yourself without involving me by musing out loud in a forum like just maybe you’re smarter than everyone else. You want to check yourself? Do it by yourself.
Fair points, and as someone who can only imagine what it’s like to menstruate, I hope for more women to be part of (if not fully control?) the decision-making processes that affect women’s bodies.
I’m not shy about talking about my vasectomy, but other men might be, so I don’t support mandatory disclosure of why a person is taking time off to recover. Not a perfect analogy, since hopefully it’s a one-time procedure, and it’s not a natural process like menstruation is.
I reiterate support for people having autonomy over their bodies.
California places Tesla’s 'Full Self-Driving' under review
Ah, I meant from allied states. You'd probably refuse entry to planes that went directly Belarus airspace -> Russian airspace -> allied airspace as well, but you don't have the ability to deny Belarus airspace -> Russia airspace.

Poland is apparently really mad about this, and given that Ukraine is currently at war with Russia you can probably get them on board. Just those two are a pretty good "wall". Maybe add in a few states blocking northern routes (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia), or not as effectively (Germany, Denmark, Sweden) and they're really isolated from everything apart from Russia.

Anyways, idle speculation, I'm definitely not an expert on this type of politics. I'm sure that in reality a move like this would have all sorts of consequences that I can't predict.
i’d like to think if Apple allowed the AppStore to be an interface/gateway to other stores, most users would be happy. similar to how RSS works, but it keeps it unified for the user.

as many people have mentioned before, one of the main reasons people choose iOS is that it removes the choice and worry about unintentionally installing malware.

opening up the AppStore like this i think would allow Apple to ease up a bit on the gouging they’ve been doing now and instead become a pro-active leader in creating a specification/platform that others can adopt.
I think it is quite common:

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna13907293
There's a pretty comprehensive reddit post [0] by a virologist, James Duehr PhD, listing all the reasons why it appears that covid-19 did not come from the Wuhan lab (with numerous supporting references, well over a hundred).

For example, section 4.4 [1] under Q4 in his table of contents explains how the strains of covid-19 from the Wuhan meat market are genetic descendants of earlier covid-19 patient samples from hundreds of miles away.

There's a lot of good information in this post, I'd encourage anyone interested in this topic to read it.

I have yet to see a fraction of the evidence presented by Dr. Duehr's reddit post in any article blaming the Wuhan lab. That includes this article, which quotes circumstantial evidence provided by unnamed and unconfirmed intelligence sources.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/gk6y95/covid19_did...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/gk6y95/covid19_did...
Serves him right for that god-awful software he conjured up!
facebook literally already got their hand slapped for abusing the very limited sideloading mechanisms that Apple already provided.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/01/facebook-and-google-...

This would generalize that and allow them to sideload for everyone. They straight-up would pull out of the app store, block Safari users from the website, and force everyone to sideload a tracker build on day 1.
CEO, 4 others held in Web gambling crackdown (2006)
You can write real code given only the definitions I gave:

someCode :: IO' ()
someCode = do
PutStrLn "What is your name?"
name <- GetLine
PutStrLn ("Hello, " ++ name ++ "!")

and you can run any such program, for example by translating it to the “real” IO:

runIO' :: IO' a -> IO a
runIO' (Pure a) = pure a
runIO' (Bind ma f) = runIO' ma >>= runIO' . f
runIO' (PutStrLn s) = putStrLn s
runIO' GetLine = getLine

main :: IO ()
main = runIO' someCode

or you can imagine an implementation of Haskell where IO is IO' and PutStrLn really is that data constructor and no such translation is necessary.

You might ask, what’s the point of separating it out this way, when obviously you still need to actually perform the effects at some layer? The point is to demonstrate that running code in the IO' monad (and, similarly, the IO monad) does not require “reaching into” the pure functions that define it and violating their purity; you just use them as black-box mathematical functions. All the equational reasoning you can do with pure functions applies equally well to the IO monad.
Pretend that Apple is a federal agency, not a corporation? Then its monopoly power would be legitimate and antitrust laws would not apply.
My blogging engine [1] also supports submission via email (and has for twenty years). I have a unique email address for it and it has never been spammed (or received anything from anybody except for me). The only check my software does is check the author field (in the body of the email [2]) is allowed.

[1] https://github.com/spc476/mod_blog

[2] I could check the From: field, but the majority of the email processing is shared with the "local file submission" feature.
Agreed, but only one party there is supposed to be working in your interest.

It's why i'm pro-big-government, but also very heavy handed about what i want to see with government transparency and power dynamics.
I saw an example once with a 3D network physics engine and the improvements were crazy.
Went there for a school field trip around the age of green. They did you a favor, I hated it then!
The reverse is sort of happening with IPv4. ISPs are pushing more and more people behind CGNAT where multiple people share the same IPv4 address. This is a problem because some video games (Terraria) don't support IPv6.
I hate capitalism, am I alone?
I hate the idea of for profit. It seems like society is trying to measure everything and reduce it down to a price. I watched a video today of an economist advising someone that if they wanted a home, they should open an OnlyFans to increase their revenue. What kind of fucked society do we live in where this is normal? This seriously can't be the best system for everyone involved.
Why wouldn't Epic Games then come crying that those rules are unfair and burdensome too?
Plenty? There’s one option. Which is Android.
There's already a lot of proof that it didn't [0], a lot more than in this article.

(Genetic evidence, 1200 mutations from the nearest related bat virus, receptor optimized for multiple species, evidence it was first seen in humans hundreds of miles form Wuhan, etc)

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/gk6y95/covid19_did...
We pay mailchimp closer to 2,462.74 EUR per year. At this point it is totally worth it.
Three of those and two sticks and you can make a pickax.
This was always one of the major problems with alternative energy sources. Wonder how the whole industry will change.
"Yes, he talks about John Deere, or medical devices, but he never talks about HP, Lenovo, Dell, Surface, Acer, or any PC manufacturer flaws, many of which have flaws worse than Apple's. This is what makes him look dishonest because laptop repair is his specialty - he should be awesome at detecting or pointing out how they have problems too, but he caters to the PC crowd and says nothing." - gjsman-1000 [1]

"He won't. He knows his crowd, and he keeps quiet about criticizing his crowd's products." - gjsman-1000 [2]

"Alright, so today we're going to be taking a look at the new Surface and by taking a look at I mean watching somebody else's YouTube video on the new Surface because hell if I'm going to be walking in to buy one of these pieces of crap." - Louis Rossman [3]

Rossman's video continues for a half hour to bash the Surface Laptop's lack of repair-ability and general poor design...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27257606

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27258123

[3] https://youtu.be/yswp0Bio4Oo
Is it possible to ban users from posting issues on GitHub to your project?
> The US does not do this.

many examples of exactly this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition

if anything the US normalized this. thanks to this nobody can today say "how dare them Bela|Russians ... we'd never do that". we're all morally complicit (whether it's Europe or the US)