skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a shame that smart phones are so hard to repair these days. Ben Evans from a16z even argued that "selling smartphones is a subscription business" and that "You pay an average of $700 or so every two years (i.e. $30/month) and Apple gives you a new phone." [1]

I think the car industry is probably similar in that so many parts become more electronic and less mechanic and if a sensor is gone, the entire part has to be replaced. (Not a car geek, but the ones who are, please feel free to chime in here!). And with the EV revolution, that trend is going to be accelerated.

[1]: http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2017/7/13/content-isnt-ki...
Limited need, and thus availability, of driver heads. While possible, it's not simple (as in I have a set in my house already, or can get them as part of a regular set of drivers) to get pentalobe and tri-wing driver heads.
I have to disagree.

Most traffic jams are more a factor of human nature then anything else. Ever been in a slowdown due to drivers checking out a fender bender going in the other direction on a divided highway? Combine the lack of unneeded slow downs with closer following distances with fewer crashes and road capacity will go way up.
What does LIBOR have to do with regulation? What does regulation have to do with the OP?
They put up recordings later, hosted on Vimeo; for example:

https://resources.github.com/webcasts/GitHub-communicating-w...

With some digging you can get an MP4.
they don't really call it any name, what's delivered it's that CCP is irreplaceable and that China and CCP are synonyms

you can't love China and dislike CCP
What's the justification for anti-consumer practises like proprietary, uncommon screw designs? The difference between a Phillips and a 5-clover is the bill Apple gets for repairs.

>When repairs are needed, authorized providers can ensure the quality, safety, and security of repairs for customers

Do you think this is reasonable when Apple tries as much as possible to minimise the alternative at the cost of consumer choice?
I understand the sustainability concerns but what is the answer? More regulation from the government that would impact their designs? That doesn't sound right, I don't think there are smart phone designers working for the government.

I have replaced screens and batteries on iPhones, it isn't wizardry but does require technical acumen and some special screw-driver/pry tools that won't break things.

It isn't an open standard like PC parts but there are lots of other industries that are mostly closed and engineer their products to only last a certain usage threshold. Engineering them to last longer costs way too much.
you can always just use an s3 bucket
I think it's incredibly optimistic to think that there will be people around in 2,000 years to analyze our remains. The way things are going, I can't help but to lose faith in our species.
How efficient is the conversion performance-wise and code-length wise? Can I finally get rid of GWT if I want to develop web apps with JVM tooling? Is the debug mapping between JS variables and JVM variables better than with GWT and super dev mode? Is it easy to use Kotlin with ReactVR/Native?
On the other hand you can make a full iPhone by buying each of the components if you know where to find them (disclaimer: I've met Scott before):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leFuF-zoVzA
Given how short most posts are, I wanted to see how it would work out if they were inline boxes instead of flex layout and got this:

https://matracas.org/tmp/hashtags.chat.jpeg
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The second top level comment is much better:

>This is basically an advertorial for the Right to Repair legislation. I continue to be amazed by how uncritically this topic has been covered. Jason Koebler at Vice has basically been an activist on this issue, rather than a journalist.

And unlike what the name implies, Right to Repair isn’t about giving you the right to repair your devices or products. You already have that. It’s not illegal. Right to Repair legislation is purely about the third party repair industry lobbying to have manufacturers officially support them: with parts, blueprints, manuals, etc.

This may be fine for vehicles (and even that is questionable now that cars are becoming more advanced and require more expertise to repair), it would be silly for consumer electronics which is a much more dynamic and fast changing industry.

And as for the story about environmental standards. EPEAT is a shit standard if it would have prevented Apple from creating a unibody Macbook Pro. It was right to change. The real reason that Apple lobbied them to change it isn’t some silly conspiracy about making them harder to repair, it’s about making better products.

I have to congratulate Kyle Wiens and the iFixit team on having stellar PR. Whenever a silly environmental story about Apple pops up, he’s the go-to guy for a negative quote.
When I was a kid the psychiatrist prescribed me Ritalin and on an average 22-hour day I probably spent it watching cartoons for hours on end, playing Neopets ferociously, xbox, along with some time outside with the other kids riding my scooter and shouting conversation over the backyard fence with the older kids on the other side.

This was probably tolerated in part because I was a pretty darn misbehaved child sometimes and watching TV wasn't as hard to deal with as explaining to me that no you can't tape a kitchen knife to your toy assault rifle as a bayonet.[0]

I like to think I turned out fine, so freaking out over 30 minutes a day seems a bit hysterical. That in mind here's my advice to get him away from the TV:

- Try taking him to the park. A lot of when I got out and really exerted myself as a kid was when I went to the park. It lets you interact with other kids, climb on stuff, go running around, and play pretend games that are good for the imagination.

- Get toys that encourage him to get up and play pretend. I was always a huge fan of toy guns, action figures, stuff with interesting mechanics (if you're on HN I'm sure you have the requisite taste to find such things). My rooms floor was always strewn with action figures and the like.
A lot of the time I'd pit them against each other, sometimes in epic battle royales that may as well have been the Ultimate Showdown Of Ultimate Destiny. [1] Important tip: Kids are generally not snobby, if it were me instead of buying expensive new toys I'd go down to value village and just pull twenty dollars of grab bags with interesting looking stuff off the wall, with the occasional new toy for flavor. When you're that age playtime is half imagination for everything anyway, and you won't get mad when he breaks them. Even when I'd play video games I'd make up my own story for what was happening with narration of the villain growing more despondent as I got closer to the stage end. Do be mindful of the choking risk though!

- Get him some real friends, especially neighbors kids. A lot of what would get me to go outside, was seeing someone else outside in the cul-de-sac and wanting to be with them. Even in those famous studies with rats and the cocaine water they found that when you introduced social opportunities and other recreation the cocaine water became much less compelling.

Overall though, your son is probably fine. As one comment in this thread suggested perhaps you could set a good example and pack up the TV yourself. After all are you really satisfied with the time you spend watching?

[0]: It needed a bayonet! Cmon I was like 9.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WgT9gy4zQA
I fail to see the validity of all the conspiracy theory evil claimed around modern manufacturing techniques. The overwhelming majority of consumers have spoken, and what they have said is they will pay more for smaller lighter devices and will not pay more for consumer repairable devices.

Manufacturers have responded in exactly the way the majority of consumers asked them to, by making smaller lighter devices rather than repairable ones. Connectors add space and weight, making devices bigger and heavier and less desirable to the vast majority of consumers.
Meanwhile, what consumers don't buy isn't available for long. It's a chicken and egg situation.

Unless, of course, you're arguing that the suppliers have coordinated to screw consumers. But that would be illegal, wouldn't it?
> then what makes Uber a tech company

Nothing. They are a transportation/logistics provider.
Same here! Remote work requires strong crypto comms
Exactly, their behavior can be explained perfectly well by this, the fact that they don't want to be dinged for low repairability does not prove they are opposed to repairs per se, just that for other reasons they will necessarily be making decives that aren't very easy to repair.

It seems to me that people buy new phones because they want the latest, I mean a lot of people just keep using their phones with broken glass or home buttons. Beaides, resell value is very high.
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It sounds reasonable, but their policies influence people to throw away perfectly good phones for the next big thing. You might say, "That's their prerogative." If they can convince us to buy new phones with new features, then fine. If it's by making replacing the battery illegal, then I say not fine.

The real issue here is not so much with smartphones, but with printers, cars, and other devices that have more predatory business models.
Few years back Apple 'silently' switched to a variation of Pentalobe screw which some thought might be patented. Stories also abounded about people going to their store for unrelated repair, and coming out with their regular screws replaced by pentalobe screws.

There are of course "compatible screwdrivers" out there, per the original post, but whether patented or not, it was a fairly transparent way of Apple keeping people out of their own hardware.
The car will take photos of the occupants, stop the journey, send them a bill for cleaning, and add them to a banned user list.
He definitely had some issues as well. For sex he let assassinating informants and others (non-militant?) slide. It seemed like he still tried to keep the sexual relationship going even after she told him she did some side work cutting a body into pieces, though it was harder and eventually led to him moving on. All around no bueno.
For homeless on heroin, treatment can be elusive with no ID
And my 2011 Dell I use for networking has only gotten better with time. Larger battery, more ram, SSD hd, Blueray DVD RW.
I will take something that can be updated over something that is just a few mm smaller any day.
Initially it was explained "create some inputs and ask for some numbers from the user" but later I realized what it is for: it's kind of a script that is injected in a banking page to leak credentials. Then I decided to not proceed with this shady task.
Every iPhone I had has had a "replaceable battery". Sure - it's a fiddly job usually done by a technician, but I think that is a small drawback these days. In 5-ish smartphones I have replaced at least one screen each, and only 1 battery. So if something should be user replaceable why focus on battery? Ability to expand storage (even only internally) would have been a useful iPhone feature.
Interesting, that makes sense, though of course I don't agree with either subset of the party; China has (almost?) entirely progressed to the capitalist mode of production, and if anything I believe that in China of all places the distinction between proletarian and bourgeois is most developed. It seems to me from the outside as though China has wholly abandoned the Communist cause in a less obvious way than North Korea has.

I'm about to start reading Badiou on the "Communist Hypothesis". It is clear the modern Marxists and Communists in general need to develop their praxis, or I am unaware of the modern developments.
Well, a company can provide a good service but be a terrible business. See TWTR or SNAP as examples. Uber would be another. They're mostly burning cash without a clear path to profitability. Given their recent scandals, an IPO seems to be extremely far away.
As a Python user who read about 60% of SICP, yes it really is readable.

The trick is to realize that in lisps open-parenthesis denotes something more than a grouping. ( means "function call", and a change in scope.

So if it really was written in Python, it would look something like this:

setv(result, sub(div(add(1, 2, 88), 2), 8))

Really, this is clearer what's happening under the hood than infix notation. + is a function, and so is =. Why is it called the way that it is, other than convention? It's just syntactic sugar. Doing it with prefix notation makes every function have the same syntax, which makes nesting functions easier to look at and reason about.
Yep. Well, they try to keep it that way at least.

(First google result)
https://www.google.com/patents/US20140150613
Apple forces "authorized providers" to gimp their offerings and push you strongly towards buying a new device.

That's not a hypothetical, btw. Louis Rossman (an unauthorized repairman) has some good youtube videos where he calls around to get quotes from authorized vs unauthorized repair centers. The difference in what they are able to offer is dramatic and repeatable.
I'm not sure the analogy is all that apt. Sensors can fail all the time for reasons beyond the company's intention or control.

Phones on the other hand should be an easy-battery swap away from future usefulness. And that's just from the hardware perspective. There is no functional reason my Nexus 5X should stop receiving security updates next year, other than the fact that Google wants to sell more Pixels (which I will probably buy because going without security updates is cutting off my nose to spite my face).
>it would be insane to let a private company dictate who gets to use the platform

It would be absurdly easy for anyone who has problems with Patreon to set up an alternative place. Though you still have to deal with payment processors.

Patreon is less a platform, and more just a hosting service. Saying someone banned from Patreon is shut off from this sort of service might be a bit of a stretch IMO.
Wow that looks pretty cool
My cousin's iPhone 6 stopped charging a few days ago. Everything works, but it seems like the port for charging is worn out or something and wouldn't recognize/charge when being plugged in. He is visiting from Australia and he took a lot of pictures lately with his phone. So he went to the Apple store in New York to get it fixed (in the hope to save his photos/data). They told him that they'll give him a discount for a new iPhone 6 (same model) for just ~$270 or there's no way to fix it.

I thought changing the charging port should be relatively easy. Now it is certain that my cousin will lose all of his photos in the old phone unless he gets it fixed at an unauthorized repair center.
While I agree that the US should arrest people or entities that tries to harm its citizen; it's important to note that the US doesn't really look for that criteria.

For example, they attacked Syria for crimes committed by Syrian against Syrian. The US wanted to carry the attack, and then found the excuse.

But why would this surprise anyone? Do anyone think that the US is spending billions on military weapons just for the fun of it?
It's not all that hard to find screwdrivers for the fancy screws that Apple (and other companies) use.

And the justification is that it's not at all anti-consumer. Allowing consumers to disassemble the devices will practically guarantee that they break (and in a manner that voids the warrantee). The only people who should be disassembling them are people specially trained to repair them, or experts who have a lot of practice disassembling electronics safely. The former have the screwdrivers already, and as I already said, it's not that hard for the latter to get their hands on the screwdrivers.
I used to be a Chomsky-esque defender of free speech. Believing the correct response to Holocaust denial was refuting it, not banning it.

But now we know better. How you talk changes how you think. Violent rhetoric normalizes that behavior. Refuting misbeliefs cements the falsehood. Propaganda works.

Worse, the hate speech has become a virtue signal, a tribal identifier. It's become overtly political, a bludgeon.

I now prefer to think of free speech as a form of hygiene. Sure, feel free to poop on the sidewalk, but don't expect me to accept that as permissible behavior.
Counter anecdote: I have never been able to swap out a battery in a sealed Apple device. Even attempting to remove the screen is a much bigger financial risk than I am willing to undertake.

And my six year old 5 has long since hit the proverbial trash. It was too slow about four years ago.
Did you read the article? If not, search for "Macbook Pro".

It spends a lot of time talking about voluntary standards bodies for eco-friendly/sustainable technology development, and how those standards are manipulated by participants, rendering them utterly meaningless.
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In the west, its the corporations that decide what content is considered "harmful" and remove it. Ex: youtube, patreon, twitter, etc.
Cars pollute significantly more at the start of the journey. One long journey is better than 2 short journeys.
Advertisers Will Inundate Your Future Autonomous Car with Ads
Didn't Blue Apron and Square Space alone underwrite like half the podcasts in the world last year? Wonder what this means for podcast advertising in Q4/Q1-18
I was hoping to see something in the Wiki article about "Amazon Wallet".
There's a trade off between modularity and sleek design as Apple has proven better than anyone.

They were arguably the first PC manufacturer to take design seriously and while Macs began to become more difficult to repair beginning with the iMac in 1998, there's no questioning that the component choices (from the external to the internal) lent itself to an increasingly sleek design that eventually led Apple to create the best-in-class laptops and desktops.

This push towards sleek design also gave Apple the chops to create the original iPod in the first place...which eventually lead to the revolutionary iPhone...which completely upended the mobile phone industry.

As a PC fan, I love creating and building my own box...carefully selecting my motherboard, case, processor, and memory in the process...and I rest easy knowing I can upgrade my machine over time...

But I wouldn't question the value that highly integrated designs that Apple and others have brought to the table. You can feel the quality in the products they make. There's a lot of careful thought and design. Modularity and repairability are a necessary sacrifice to build products that sleek.

Take a look at the failed Project Ara by Google: https://atap.google.com/ara/. It would have brought modular parts and design to the mobile phone industry. While a great concept, and something that appeals to my custom rig PC roots, it may not actually have been that useful in practice for the vast majority of the general public.
Yes, I had the same thought. Has anyone quantified the difference?
If it enables new kinds of transactions, it will create wealth.
Yep, but this happened a lot in those two months I'm mentioning + there's quite a few todos that are noted either on projects list or in mdo's mind ;)
Now make it work remotely in NATed environments.

And make it work for low power/battery driven electronics which don't have the power budget for WiFi.

Oh and they don't have a whole lot of RAM and CPU cycles to spare, so pulling in an XML library isn't really the option of choice.

And how should authentication work, including initial setup?

It's a lot more complicated when you drill into the details. You might be willing to accept a bunch of trade-offs, but that will limit this to a niche product.
They don't have a great moat (all recipes are available for free online for instance) and the meal kit market has gotten very, very crowded since they invented it 5 years ago.
I've had to pick dust out of the port with a paperclip a few times
And I still have a toshiba satellite from 2008 that works as well as the day I bought it. I think reliability isn't something only high end manufacturers offer.
If we define "user replaceable" as "requires specialized tools and skills, while voiding the warranty in the process", can we agree we've stretched the term beyond usefulness?
> Most traffic jams are more a factor of human nature then anything else. Ever been in a slowdown due to drivers checking out a fender bender going in the other direction on a divided highway? Combine the lack of unneeded slow downs with closer following distances with fewer crashes and road capacity will go way up.

Even with autonomous cars, roadways still have a peak capacity. Yes, the peak capacity will probably go up if every driver is driving "perfectly", but there will still be plenty of bottlenecks, whether those are slower moving trucks, crosswalks, traffic signals, etc. I'd guess that we might even see more traffic than we currently have because if you don't have to drive yourself, people are incentivized to take their car; even if it's slower than mass transit, sitting in your own car is more pleasant for most people than a train or bus.
As mentioned by others lubuntu and xubuntu are fairly lightweight and I've used ubuntu variants on netbooks in the past and where reasonably fast.
From ubuntu server you should be able to install the different desktops anyway, but seems a slightly harder route!
Saying that look to the browser, chrome tends to be memory hungry, due to multiple processes, and firefox is heading (headed?) that way, which tends to be bad on limited resource computers. I'm finding firefox slow on my old laptop now.
There are some other views here
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-lightweight-linux-distros-ide...
Honest question, how can you patent a screw shape? Isn't literally every other screw shape prior art?
I understand, but what does it have to do with my comment? Were you replying to the wrong thread?

Person said Syria was "just fine" before recent US involvement. I was pointing out how it was far from just fine. Whatever the US did elsewhere in the world is irrelevant to this subthread.
Never heard 'underwrite' used in that context. Can you provide links?
Except for the fact that (at least the authorized repair part) is a bald-faced lie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR5ZUl0Q-NI
That does matter because at least in Canada you get a lot of points for having a job offer or if you have previously worked in Canada (the former gives more than the latter).
I'm willing to bet that it's the same case for AUS.

In most cases having a job offer is the the highest (points wise) score awarding qualification, in the UK currently you cannot qualify for a Tier 2 visa without this (simply won't reach the required points) but in any case in CA and AUS this puts you over anyone else without a job offer pretty much by default.

Hence you are likely to be declined unless you are really over qualified for every other requirement but then it shouldn't be a problem for you to get a job upfront also.
With all of the things that can happen to a phone -- damage, loss,theft etc. I would never trust any data that I cared about to remain on the phone.

I would be auto syncing like crazy over iCloud or Google Photos.
The way that I think about a "tech" company is that it is able to scale its growth non-linearly with its staff (or human resources). This isn't a binary rule, and obviously many successful companies are in a gray area -- but I think that it serves as a good litmus test / starting point when thinking about companies.

For example, an app that is running on a few servers can gain users more quickly than it needs to hire additional workers. A company like Blue Apron has to grow its warehouse staff as it gains new subscribers, effectively meaning that its SG&A and overhead costs scale fairly evenly with growth.