skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using a Macbook Pro with an external keyboard for the past year. The builtin keyboard no longer works:

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zxcvbnm,./

Notice no E, R, T, or F keys. First the R key went out, and I got around that by leaving "r" in my paste buffer and typing Command-V instead of r. But then the T key went out about a month later.

Apple wants $600 for a logic board replacement.

It's so annoying to lug an external keyboard everywhere I go. Tiny wireless keyboards just aren't as responsive. But it's less annoying than paying $600 on top of a $2k MBP.
Seconded. We're not their paying customers, but their paying customers should be very interested in detecting fraud early, since they're often on the hook for the fraud, as much as it might seem otherwise.
I view this as something separate but equally important. "Right to repair" should ideally be something that strengthens such processes and I find it sad that it isn't already in place as a standard.

But I also think for it to work, it should be simple and easy for the consumer. Ideally, they could mail smaller items or put their larger items in a special trash bag on collection day. Less ideally but also somewhat feasible would be requiring stores selling or repairing certain classes of things to accept the same class for recycling regardless of whether or not the customer buys something from them. We could require a recycling fee on such purchases, refundable if there is a trade-in.
While the modern Android emulator is nowdays actually faster than devices, testing on the actual hardware is still important due to device-specific issues.

And having such tool makes this way easier since you don't have to constantly reach for a phone and be wrapped in cables :)
it would be nice if lawmakers could, for once, make a decision not based on the dollar.
I don't formally understand what knightship means in this context. I'd really love an ELI5. I've always been interested in Conway's game, and I'm excited to find this forum but I feel like I'm missing something big here.

I have run the things in the viewer and this looks to be a collective that is extremely strong in one direction. The follow up posts are throwing other gliders at it and them being destroyed. Knightship maybe is just being impervious to disruption? What is the elementary context? That it is huge and the pattern can now be reduced?

EDIT: carlob's post below pointed me to the wiki[1]. I still feel like my questions stand and could be elaborated on.

[1] http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Knightship
I can't speak for GP, but it looks like the usual "regulation hurts small business" argument, often used by stakeholders in large businesses.
What in the World Is a Developer Evangelist?
I need to read that...
Which model?
In general they use ananymized data. No one is advertising to Burt who likes bee hives, they are advertising to a cookie pool that likes bee hives. Your likeness would probably not cover anonymized data. At least here in Canada, PII (personally identifiable info such as email) is not allowed to be used.
Argument: A modern VR stack is much more complex, and does much more, than just displaying images on two screens.

Counterargument: The 16 things that happen other than just displaying images on the screen aren't relevant, have been done before, or has equivalent complexity to other systems.

Well OK. I just can't argue with that.

"A modern CPU SOC is no more than a souped up 6502."

That's true, if you ignore the integrated video, complex cache management, integration of networking/sound/northbridge/southbridge, secure enclaves, and significantly higher performance characteristics that result in subtle changes driving unexpected complexity. All of those things have been done elsewhere.

So if that's your perspective then we'll just have to agree to disagree.

Though I will point out the fact that all of those non-monitor components that you described also require custom drivers, which require their code to be signed, which was ultimately the item the OP took issue with. I'm frankly surprised that after acknowledging the amount of re-implementation VR requires, across numerous non-monitor disciplines, fusing the data in 11ms, for total motion-to-photon latency of 20ms or less, you still feel this is "common and straightforward."

But OK. I don't know your coding skill level, so this may be true.

And per this point:

> interpolation sounds a bit more complicated, I'll grant you that, but still pretty doable.

Valve has still not released an equivalent to Oculus's asynchronous spacewarp. If you feel it is "pretty doable" you would do a huge service to the SteamVR community if you could implement it and provide the code to Valve.

See https://developer.oculus.com/blog/asynchronous-spacewarp/ for details.
lamarckianism is not nonsense at all. It has been known in microrganisms for at least 30 years and is one of the foundations of molecular biology research.

Plasmids are genetic structures that can be acquired by a bacteria and then passed on to descendants or through the environment to peer organisms. Antibiotic resistance is one of the most common traits passed this way.
Appliance repair is still quite common in the U.S. The notion that white goods get disposed of as rapidly as they break down is something of an internet-spread cliche.

Most large property management companies employ a group of repairmen, or have contracts with several appliance repair companies. If your refrigerator stops cooling in a large apartment building, the management sends a guy to fix it; they don't Amazon you a new fridge.

Similarly, if your washing machine breaks, your home warranty company isn't going to send out a replacement machine until an appliance repairman says the thing can't be fixed.

I've lived in about a dozen different apartments and houses in almost as many cities in the last 15 years. I've had my appliances fixed by repairmen at least five times.

Interestingly, I had two brand-new GE appliances in brand new apartments that needed to be repaired within their first year of operation. But my current 1999 Maytag washer keeps chugging along without complaint. (Though its companion dryer has been repaired by a repairman twice — once for a clogged exhaust hose that caused a small fire, and once for a dead igniter.)
I understand the problem, I'm saying cutting red tape doesn't solve that problem.

It's always going to be irrational to choose lower-margin projects. Let's say there's a 30% margin on luxury housing and a -10% margin on low-income housing, and you cut red tape, increasing margins by 20%. It doesn't suddenly become rational to build low-income housing. Margins are now 50% on luxury housing and 10% on low-income housing. All this has achieved is that builders make more money when they build luxury housing.

The problem is that space in NYC is limited, and income inequality is such that the wealthy can and do pay orders of magnitude more for housing than the poor can. This means that, instead of dividing up the space in NYC between the wealthy and the poor, it's more profitable to divide up the space in NYC between the wealthy and not serve the poor at all. This incentive structure will always exist as long as the demand for luxury housing is greater than the total amount of housing available.

There's no reason to believe we've hit the ceiling on what the demand for luxury housing. So even if we were to selectively cut red tape only on low-income housing, the wealthy could simply pay more for luxury housing to ensure that it remains most profitable to give them what they want. And meanwhile you're giving these incentives to the wealthy construction and real estate companies, increasing the income inequality that caused the problem in the first place.

I've said before that HN would rather incentivize nails than use a hammer, and this is another case of this. If we want affordable housing, we need to require companies to build affordable housing as a condition of being able to build anything in NYC. Giving more money to already-wealthy people isn't going to solve this problem.
Try proper names like avcodec, avformat, avio and avutil. These should work as opposed to late libav.
Not this result in itself. Neuroplasticity refers to the ability of existing neurons of creating/pruning connections to other neurons.

However, separately, there is scientific evidence to show that neuroplasticity decreases after adolescence.
This exactly. This will only cause prices to go up if extra work is required to produce products that adhere to this new regulation.
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That is delightfully stubborn of you. I wonder what really goes "wrong" with those logic boards. Could it be as simple as a bad solder joint needing to be reflowed?
If it's a Macbook with a removable battery, check it for swelling.

I had a Macbook experience similar symptoms and it turned out to be pressure being exerted from the swollen battery. Twice.
I don't know what 100% efficiency means. You italicized it, so it must mean something to you. But I was talking about return on investment. The US loses 90% of the money it invests, whereas, for example, companies like Boeing make money with their investments. So, all Russia would need to do it not lose money they invest. That's not what 100% efficiency means to me, but it's a very achievable goal.
Steve wanted to build best computer. Bill wanted a PC in every household.

Maybe we're thinking about this differently but both of those would fall into the supergroup of events that "changed the world." How then could they not have that intent?
Unix folklore: using multiple sync commands (2005)
Or for someone in CA to make it available outside CA
A knightship is any spaceship that moves like a knight in chess - i.e. neither orthogonally, nor diagonally but rather at a slant.

A spaceship is any cyclical pattern that ends in a different position to where it started.

Elementary means it's not composed from other, smaller entitiies. You can compose a lot of stuff from gliders and other elements.
I liked Urbit's mapping from symbols to syllables: https://github.com/urbit/docs/blob/master/docs/hoon/syntax.m...
I don't understand how the stellar case and the bitcoin case differ in a network partition. You said "if Stellar fell apart and became partitioned, you would stay on DB's side."

How is that different from a network fork happening, and DB saying "We only accept tokens from ETH and not ETH classic".

At the end of the day, DB is deciding on a network partition to support, and you either support the network partition DB is supporting, or you don't do business with the DB tokens.
Here's what I see:

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/images/Lessons.png

Firefox on Ubuntu 14.
> I can envisage other projects doing a better job than make on its home turf.

Of course it's possible, GNU make is far from being perfect ; it's a pity we can't slowly evolve the language for backward compatibility reasons. Autotools also are far from being perfect.

- As a project author, I like writing custom simple makefiles and hate anything related to editing "autoconf.ac".

- As a package manager, I love projects using autoconf (or exposing autoconf's options, such as --host): they're the easiest to build because they all have the same "build interface" (alas, by default, there's no equivalent to "./configure --host" for cmake). And I despise projects using "custom simple makefiles", because it means that I'm going to have to learn yet another parochialistic BS (for build system) and have yet another special case for this specific project.

Maybe one day we will have a build system that's loved by both sides? :-)
Spot on, a big inspiration for me ! I really like RapGenius and even looked at some of their UI while I was developing this.

Either this or "GitHub for business plans" (but many features missing for that, to collaborate, fork, go back to a moment in time...)
How to Write CSS That Works in Every Browser, Even the Old Ones
It also depends on the brand. I regret getting a Samsung for my area because if it breaks, then I am screwed. A key criteria for me now is the bias towards simple things that have operational support from the community.
It's amazing how this discrepancy always seems to pop up. The five corporations with the largest market cap in the United States say SESTA will hurt small businesses more than big ones. Those same companies tell us that net neutrality is important for protecting small businesses. And these giant corporations are investing millions of dollars to fight these changes.

Whenever the largest corporate entities are talking about how bad something is for "small businesses", it really means it is bad for them.
This Acer Chromebook 11 has a few recommendations: http://laptopkarma.com/Acer/B019G7VPTC
Per Wikipedia,

[EFF] is currently the third-largest party in both houses of
the South African parliament, receiving 1,169,259 votes and
a 6.35% share of the vote in the 2014 general election.

Is it really news that they're demanding expropriation? They seem like a fringe, far left party.
Victor Gevers, co-founder and chairman of the GDI Foundation, says there are already substantially fewer vulnerable servers. https://mobile.twitter.com/0xDUDE/status/971515743589322752
> The replaceability of something is usually more reliable than its fixability especially in high stress environments like ... battlefields.

I imagine that would depend quite a bit on how close you are to supply lines.

My (admittedly amateur) understanding of most military grade devices is that where possible they reduce them not to the level they can be throw away, but to the level that the number of things that can cause a problem are reduced to a level the average soldier can be trained to diagnose and fix. If your AR-15 jams or gets clogged, you're expected to know how to disassemble and fix it. A few replacements for the parts that are most likely to be unrepairable is likely much easier to carry than full replacement units. I imagine the same is done for their communications equipment.
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Microwave yes. Not sure about washing machine. And I've both had a service tech in and done my own repairs for a dishwasher, freezer, and an oven.

It's definitely partly about the cost of getting a repair person in, especially for a major appliance where they have to come to your house. (Often twice. Once to diagnose and once to replace a part.) Though I'd note that repair parts, even from third parties, can be a pretty substantial portion of replacement cost even if you can diagnose with some certainty and do your own repair.
tantalor is correct. If you look on the knightship[0] page links a non-elementary ship: the Waterbear[1][2]. It is essentially a circuit built out of gliders, rather than a compact mass.

[0] http://conwaylife.com/wiki/Knightship

[1] http://conwaylife.com/wiki/Waterbear

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on3ZLLKQp-4
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Bye bye slack
Reddit markup doesn't work on ycombinator. Use square brackets and a number to designate the link [0] then put the URL at the bottom of your comment.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/
Thank you! Very informative. I'm excited to play with GoL this weekend and experiment with it.
Here's one I always wonder about:

$36.2M;
$36.2m;
$36.2mm; ?
People who can afford to live in NYC generally are tax-insensitive, and mostly would ignore the type of tax increase we're discussing. It would take a double-digit increase in the tax rate to even trigger a noticeable dip in the number of high-wealth individuals.

Source: Me. I used to represent high-wealth individuals.
> If you want to buy repairable goods, vote with your pocketbook - don't force your preferences on me.

This only stands true in a competitive economy. We live in an oligopoly, where the highest tech choices are not repairable.

The oligopolists will be able to lobby against the "Right to Repair."

My point is there isn't much ability to have "preferences" (i.e.: nothing to vote our pocketbook on) in the first place.
Greg Cochran, an expert geneticist who wrote 'The 10,000 Year Explosion' has a different view.

1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3310KWlDXg (especially the Q&A which is dominated by epigenetics).

2) This explains it in text -> https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2012/10/26/epigenetics/
A desert wasteland is still land nonetheless. Great for land collectors. Best part about very rural areas, you can drive really fucking fast.
My stove (a 1950s General Motors electric...yes they made stoves apparently) was finally too old for the local repairmen to want to repair it since they no longer had the equipment to replace the outlet which was a different standard at the time.
Employees + Salaries seems a bit higher than what I would expect. Does tinder employ 500 people? Last I heard it was around 200.
This bill is a step in the right direction.

The Earth has a limited amount of resources, so we should really start thinking about better resources management because otherwise, we're going to have serious problem in the future.
”The legislation would require manufacturers of electronics...”

Seems like there’s a pretty big loophole here in that it’s mandating just manufacturers, not retailers and resellers. There’s a fair amount of electronics on eBay and Amazon that are from US resellers of Chinese manufacturers. Those manufacturers often have no US presence, and so no compelling reason to care about any of this.
The one time working inside a nuclear plant probably puts you in a environment with lower than ambient levels :)
I find it interesting that the site-generated revenue almost covers what they pay in advertising to others. I wonder if that's an intentional strategy.
I'm a big supporter of this.

I also feel 'right to support' is very important. Copyright law that mandates proprietary service and technical manuals and software should become public domain after x years.

As an example, modern cars are virtually unserviceable by mechanics with no access to proprietary diagnostic software and equipment.

If a company is out of business or their support staff are unfamiliar with old products, publish everything to help right to repair...
That's not the problem. There absolutely should be two different types (and I don't even care that the names are so poor). But half the rust APIs take one type and the other take another (even when the string isn't manipulated or stored in any way, shape, or form). Some interfaces are only implemented for string and others only for &str.

Deciding betweene two distinct types &str and &string (not mut &string) for your function's interface is nonsense. It makes no sense to have to _decide_ between which two views of a string that you can read-but-not-manipulate you want to use, and it makes zero sense that they can't unify the types with some simple compiler magic. A constant reference to a string should automatically decompose into a view of that string and that should be that. [edit: as in that view shouldn't be a separate type]

Additionally, that dereferencing a string returns a pointer... that makes no sense. That's the kind of nonsense we ran away from in the C++ world.

strings are the reason I regret not adopting rust back when as a user of a pre-1.0 language I could have joined in efforts to lobby against this insanity.

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As a sidenote, string_view is so late in coming to the c++ world that it's not even funny. Having a separate std::string with an "implementation-defined" in-memory representation in a world of c strings (char *) is inane beyond belief. (Yes, nulls in strings would still be a problem. But why do your strings have nulls in the first place? That data should probably be a vector of strings or a [vector|array] of uint8_t (even if just typedef'd to unsigned char) and C++ strings should have been mandated utf8, contiguous, and null-terminated. You should be able to compose a zero-copy, read-only, non-owned string from a character array and decompose automatically to it. And don't get me started on the fact that C++ doesn't have sprintf because of the obsession with sticking to the overly verbose and way too complicated streaming operators. Developers end up using c strings with sprintf to format text and then copy it back to a std::string just to work around that stupidity.
You do not want to mess with a co-op board in NYC. You'll have neighbors who will rat you out whenever they can, the doormen/supers will be on the lookout for sketchy behavior, and the board will be draconian in it's enforcement. It sounds silly but people take co-op rules very seriously.
Guaranteeing repairability costs money. As does understanding/compliance with the law, the paper work, the legalities if someone tries to sue, ... i could go on and on

Big companies can afford it, start ups can’t. The alternative for an incumbent is less profit and a higher barrier to entry for ne competitors. The alternative for the start up is not existing
I'm a little confused, is there actually any content for this series yet? Or just a table of contents?
Its more complicated than that. You are probably included in separate funnels that can't communicate.

The "fridge store" is doing a pixel based retargeting list, which is easy to take you off when the purchase is made.

But they also might have a list of 'customers likely to purchase a fridge' from Google searches that you are being served ads to as well. You might be on a 'look-a-like' list from Facebook, because people in your demographic tend to buy new fridges. You could be removed from that list if Google shared the IP addresses of everyone on their list, but at a serious cost to your privacy. These walled gardens are ultimately good, but result in a ton of advertising inefficacy.

I know its annoying but the advertisers are smart enough... we don't actually want them getting any better than they are now.
Having a single active connection is an assumption those tools tend not to make
In your wordcloud graphic "Java" is twice as big as "Python"; however, in the rankings they are almost identical (Java=22.7%, Python=21.69%)
Bottom line: I get what they want to give me?
If they decide no dividends this year, i get big fat zero :)

Considering amount of bad blood among us, i think i will just return shares and hope i never, ever meet them face to face again.
If you experience sudden shortness of breath, call 911 (or whatever your local emergency services number is).
I get it, and agree with everything you said.

My comment was mostly in jest.
I don't really get it but it seems like people are getting married who met on Tinder at this point.
K, M, B, T, Q

thousand, million, billion, trillion, quadrillion. I'm not a fan of M and MM and MMM, it's much easier to use one letter that is different from the others.
FWIW, macOS has arc4random(3) and arc4random_buf(3).
Keybase started out with an identity system because it was the key foundational module to create their entire e2e encrypted software system.

After the user system, they created a network filesystem, which their git system is based upon, and I'm guessing it's also something their team chat system uses too. The entire groups system is also based on their user system.

It looked like they were building out a dependency tree bit by bit.
Any chance of Tinder IPO someday? TNDR
I'd guess it's the other way around.

'Autonomous' is an unusual enough word that you remember what it means (especially once you understand the 'auto' prefix), or look it up because it's strange.

'Agent' is so familiar though that I can imagine lots of people don't attach its literal meaning to it in the sense of 'having agency'. Popular uses are things like 'secret agent', 'cleaning agent'... "probably means like, 'person', or 'thing' or something".
Lots of talk and no code or proposals, in so far as I can tell.

The thing that makes the web slow isn't web standards, but too many ads and too much tracking code. If only there were a company that controlled a lot of the ads and tracking code on the web...