skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The reason why Apple doesn't want any Joe-schmoe just yanking and replacing caps and other components is simple: quality control. I can barely count on two hands people I would be comfortable working on the innards of a PC, let alone my phone and even then let alone desoldering and soldering new components onboard.

And yet people are perfectly OK with a greasy mechanic fixing their metal cage hurtling down the freeway at 65 miles per hour. Your attempt to demean skilled repair workers is rather telling of your own bias.
>EDIT: Getting down voted for being blunt. Sucks to lose rep because people don't like to hear the truth.

Because it's not the truth, it's just you being a jerk.

It's not one person being scammed over and over. It's people reading about the stupid rates of return we've seen on cryptocurrencies over the last few years, reading about some 19 year old who's now a millionaire overnight, and thinking this might be their way to financial security when they might not have many options.

Considering how these technologies are sold, in almost religious terms, as the inevitable financial future (especially by a certain hacker-themed website) and the people involved are touted as super geniuses, it's not hard to see how people who don't really understand them get pulled in.

I recall a few weeks ago being in a diner and overhearing a conversation between old men where one asks the other if they've heard of Bitcoin and then explaining how he's heard how much money people make off of it. I guess I could point and laugh at them but it's really more sad than anything that people are being sucked into this bubble of hype.
I added this link, instead of the main diaspora* page, because I've been looking into open social network _protocols_, instead of just distributed social network systems. An open protocol would enable much more competition in the social network space, since users would still be able to communicate with their friends when trying out a new social networking app.
Yup, this is a natural market correction of stupidity. We need more idiots to get bit, not to protect them from themselves. "Capitalism without bankruptcy is like religion without hell."
Mos 6502 Emulator and Edu6502 Visual Emulator
No, that's less than $30k. The article says USD.
I have another not-very-green issue: my iPhone lightning port is wearing out. Apple will not repair it in their own shops. At least they don’t seem to try to prevent third parties from doing it.

This is especially surprising given the unusual design of the Lightning port. Most ports (e.g. all USB variants) put the parts that are likely to wear out in the cable. Lightning has them in the jack, which is why the cable is so pretty. But for some reason Apple thinks it’s reasonable for the jack to be officially non-replaceable.
> I don't know if that is because SpaceX denied them, or if they just don't want to work with them.

Probably didn't ever ask, since they're a direct competitor. I can imagine how this conversation would go:

OneWeb: oh, by the way, can we buy launches on your rockets for our satellite Internet thing?

<Both sides laughing>

SpaceX: no.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_name
the formal complaints of all browser people seem to support the WHATWG
Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube
The article flatly contradicts your claims.
>>> Cyclists wearing helmets take more risks than cyclists who don't, and cars interacting with cyclists give more space to cyclists who aren't wearing helmets.

Is this supported by evidence (aside from the oft cited but unscientific University of Bath study)?
If Apple sells 2.5m units across all of 2018, that will be well on the way to catching Sonos on 4m, which has been in the home audio business since forever. Amazon has 5m, despite its home speakers being substantially cheaper. If KGI's figures are correct, Apple is cleaning up in terms of profit.
So if somebody breaks into yoir house takes your money you cant complain because that guy sometimes cleans the house or buys cable?

Accusing people who are not pro-government of hypocracy because the use public services is absurd.

You cant not pay my taxes and opt out of government services.
An Update on the GitLab Situation
The fairness doctrine was hardly ever envoked. Attempting to apply it to a situation like this would not be constitutional. The fairness doctrine was found constitutional when it required a rebuttal to a direct personal attack during an era when there were only 3 stations. But this situation is different.

It was never applied to a sitation where a network required "must run" content. At best, the fairness doctrine would require at least some dissenting opinion on the issue. The Supreme Court, in upholding the fairness doctrine, said it should never be used to limit speech. That's what critics want to do here, punish Sinclair for running content.

Arguably, the fairness doctrine is no longer constitutional at all. The court's reasoning relied on there being limited channels. That is no longer true. Even on broadcast, there are 20 channels available. If democrats don't like Sinclair, they can go start their own network. When you consider all the other sorts of media available, its just not credible to argue that there is a legitmate concern that people cannot be both sides of an issue.
Sinclair has a government-granted monopoly on the frequencies on which they broadcast. Google and Facebook offer service accessible over the (almost entirely) capacity-unconstrained Internet medium.
Ask HN: What will Facebook's replacement look like?
> Louis Rossmann, who openly admitted to using illegally obtained schematics and internal documents from Apple? I wouldn't be throwing that name around as a talking point at all in this discussion.

So you're discounting someone's opinion because they were forced to use unauthorized repair manuals since the manufacturer stopped producing repair manuals for devices customers have paid for? That's the whole crux of the issue, that people have lost the "right to repair" their own devices due to suppressing information, suppressing reverse engineering efforts, and suppressing compatible replacement components (and software).

Effectively you're saying that if someone supports and tries to uphold the "right to repair" their opinions should be ignored because they did something a large corporation told them not to.

> Apple isn't doing this because they don't want people to repair their stuff

See, I thought it was financially motivated.

> but because for most consumers it isn't feasible without ruining the rest of the product.

Someone has a broken device, they shouldn't be allowed to try and repair it themselves because they could make it worse? In either case they have a broken device. And Apple is well within their rights to refuse a repair after someone has tried a DIY repair, but often that isn't a financial possibility which is why a DIY repair was tried to begin with.

You don't have to go far to find an anecdote of someone who took an older Macbook into an Apple store and the repair cost was nearly as high as a replacement cost.
Hi djangowithme, thanks for the comment. There are several features like bookmarking/favorites, advanced search, better night mode, better mobile support that are not available on CMC.
Hugo's custom output formats are powerful. It ships with just inbuild RSS xml generation (in addition to HTML of course). But it is very easy to add ATOM xml too.

And another custom output format to dump search index in JSON for the whole site (to be used by sorts of fuse.js, lunr.js, etc.)
EPYC is already four NUMA nodes per socket though.
Tesla shareholder lawsuit against SolarCity deal set to proceed
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-shareholders/tesla-...
I was a long time safari user, but I stopped taking safari seriously when they started requiring you be an apple developer to create an extension - $99/year to even make one for yourself.

Apple is trying to create a closed ecosystem with the browser and I for one will not just let that go. Add all the features you want! You'll be treated like IE until you start playing nice with others.
I don't know about Echo Dot, but I definitely use my Home Mini for music.

It's nothing special in that role, but actually better than I would expect, and music isn't the main use (controlling content being cast to the TV is a lot bigger use than listening to music from the speaker.)

I guess I can understand getting one of the premium (Home Max, HomePod, etc.) smart speakers if direct music playback on the speaker is your main use case, though even people for whom that is the main use case often seem happy with the mid-range units like the regular Echo and Google Home.
Argentina is legendary for bad credit, so that's why returns have to be so high
An open protocol sounds like the only sustainable solution that protects privacy. Are there any other popular, open protocols in the wild?
Don't blame the robots for bad design!
But it is. Clearly in the article, both people wanted the record of their crime removed. This is censorship, pure and simple.

This is why the EFF opposes the Right to be Forgotten.

And the bigger questions: why the fuck is Google is soul source of record for things on the Internet. We need other viable search engines that are no subject to this kind of pressure.
Not really. Many peasants in Europe for example were bound to the land.

In addition, moving was even more devastating then than it can be now. Mutual aid and social networks were everything, outsiders not trusted.
Outside of Gmail, they just won't be emailing you the content to begin with. It's another way to keep the data on Google's servers, you'll just get a link in the email to them.

Mind you, this is a better case than for Gmail users who will probably see the content inline with their mail, only for it to disappear later.
> So you're discounting someone's opinion because they were forced to use unauthorized repair manuals because the manufacturer stopped producing repair manuals for devices customers have paid for?

Yes, because it's a legal case we are discussing here and that's called "breaking the law". Failing to understand that means I cannot discuss this article with you at all since a really important common understanding has been missed on your part.
That is very cool. Why is it a Mac app instead of a web app though? It appears to be focused on animation, not applications. Is that the case?
> 7% interest isn't absurd

It does require asking intelligent questions. Like what has been the historic default rate amongst TWINO’s borrowers? Is the borrower quality for recent cohorts higher or lower than for earlier cohorts? How might one enforce their claims in a Latvian court? Cryptocurrency gamblers don’t do this.

If you’re earning 7% in U.S. dollars or Euros and not reading and thoroughly understanding the prospectus, you’re being a chump. (Not making specific claims regarding TWINO. Seven percent may be reasonable compensation for the risk involved. But claiming there is “no risk about performance” is absurd.)
Thomas Aquinas defines( over simplifying here) evil as an absence of good. Works well in this case.
I have a use-case: I wrote a software that is used for validating accuracy of AP data by reaching out to vendors. The default method, if available, is to email the vendors. In many cases, our customers don't have accurate vendor contact info (and rarely do they have good email addresses) so, when email addresses aren't available, we print letters. Our system right now prints and formats the letters, but someone still needs to go mail the letters physically.
Gmail's New “Confidential Mode” Isn't Confidential
What is that and how does it work?
It’s not about making a profit versus not—these prizes would almost certainly not be profitable for example. But you have to set high enough prizes to create the right level of incentive. Likewise, your (prices + subsidy) for transit or water/sewage must be high enough support an efficient level of infrastructure spending. With transit, the government underpriced and undersubsidizes. With water/sewage, the government under prices and doesn’t subsidize at all.

The government underprices for the same reason it underfunds pensions and over promises pension benefits. It’s a way of pushing costs into future generations while buying votes in the short term.
Torn here. On the one hand, I hate the "must run" items, yet on the other hand, I see this as being a slippery slope if they were to punish as that'd be dictating to a company what is allowed on their stations.

Having said that, two things:

1) I'm glad it was exposed and wish it were highlighted more than it was. This gives viewers the ability to discern how valuable they find the content to know that scripts were dictated to their newspeople.

2) I'm hoping, though doubtful, that this prevents Sinclair from buying up other small market stations as they've shown their hand as to what they'd do with a monopoly.
I'll repost the same thing here, since apparently this is confusing to some HN users this morning:

> So you're discounting someone's opinion because they were forced to use unauthorized repair manuals because the manufacturer stopped producing repair manuals for devices customers have paid for?

Yes, because it's a legal case we are discussing here and that's called "breaking the law". Failing to understand that means I cannot discuss this article with you at all since a really important common understanding has been missed on your part.
> and recognised judicial ways of getting off it

That would make sense if you were never guilty of it, but I disagree completely with the idea that somebody who has been ruled guilty (without a successful appeal) has a right to be forgotten only for having served their time.
Hey all!

I tossed this together because I had trouble with YouTube and its rabbit hole. I wanted a way to still watch my favorite people without a lot of noise + distraction. I also use YouTube for live music while working (which is an issue if I get distracted by a neat looking video)

So I made Tube. It is just a search box and it shows you the top few results, you click on one and all you get is the player.

Let me know what you think. This is the first time I'm showing it off so there is likely still some rough edges! :)
I feel like ActivityPub has won here. (Used by GNU Social, Mastodon, Plemora, PeerTube, etc.) I think even Diaspora plans to add support for it eventually.
Ok :) fingers crossed! let me know how it goes
Absolutely it’s popular, especially with older people, but that doesn’t make it a monopoly.

I’m very hesitant to have the government interfering with media, even against right wing clowns like Sinclair.
And hopefully remember why we have things like the SEC and securities regulation.
There's this cool new thing called SMS...
I think this has always been the case, it's not a new thing.
>As long as they are properly disposed of, you wouldn't be producing additional waste.

I'm not sure that's entirely accurate. You'd have to take into account the cost of sourcing raw materials for a replacement machine, right? I've heard anecdotes about how buying a used gas-burning car is actually less detrimental to the environment than buying a new EV; this strikes me as a similar situation.
> This is one thing most people don't understand. If someone is selling you a financial instrument with >6-7% annual returns, it's as ridiculous as someone selling you a time machine or the cure to death.

That's actually pretty achievable using market neutral strategies. Considerably higher is also achievable, you just can't really access them unless you have a lot of capital. However, 6-7% per month would be much more suspicious and should be an immediate red flag.
Here is an "exposed structures and visible thought processes," website:
http://motherfuckingwebsite.com
Nice night mode, but it shouldn't be hidden at the bottom
For many people, greed, or just having no financial luck in life and being desperate for a way out, are both powerful forces that can pretty much turn off any rational thought.
There's a really interesting Defcon talk about the subject: https://youtu.be/uBy2N0NmS2o
> What are absolutely dismal are the conditions that make it a reasonable question

I'm a pretty free-market kinda guy, but all systems have flaws. Biotech and capitalism seem to have a fair few chasms between them, and this GS report illustrates one of them quite well. Capitalism is not a 'complete' theory, holes exist in it, as they do in all things. If anything, as the GP states, GS is pointing this one out. Suggestions for what to do about this 'hole in theory' are needed though; likely it's government funding (in a 'lighthouses' manner).
Actually the mini-USB put the parts that were likely to wear in the plug...
Clearly you did not study journalism.
Why is that better than the iterative plan, where you write all 5 chapters and then rewrite chapter 1 once to support all 5 chapters?
Perhaps Google the service provider or ISP or carrier could censor search results according to the specific geo the query originates from. i.e. in many states it is not illegal to conspire to intercept communications so long as one of the parties are aware, or if this is a place of business.
We're building the wrong thing here at Cruise. The problem is partly that incompetent engineers are influential within the organization. The team is much weaker than outsiders believe and we're lacking competent big-picture technical direction.
Awesome -- new post from WBW.
Lots of countries ban masks and facial coverings due to either crime or burka scares.
«no justification for all the rediculous Coins that pop up constantly»

The market certainly agrees with you, this is why the top 5 coins account for the 75% of crypto market cap, valuing the combined value of the hundreds of others at less than 25%.
In Canada those citizens who are incarcerated retain the right to vote. The democratic right to vote is inalienable in Canada.
^ This is lecture notes from a semester-long course, and a veritable gold mine of advice and anecdotes.
> Getting down voted for being blunt. Sucks to lose rep because people don't like to hear the truth

I think you're getting downvoted for dehumanizing the people affected by scams. Crypto scams are not the only scams in town. There are tons of them of varying from legal to illegal (MLM, Nigerian Price, etc). Do you not care for the victims of _any_ scams or just specifically for crypto scams?

The common thing in any scam is that there is a victim. Not everyone knows better. In fact, you hear on the news constantly about how bitcoin is huge or some new crypto currency is taking off and people who know absolutely nothing about it want to figure out a way to get into it, not having any idea they are getting scammed. I've had non-techie friends ask me "how do I do this crypto thing? everyone is getting rich from it!".

Having a high and mighty attitude of "you're stupid therefore you deserved it" doesn't progress anything and just shits on the victims. Instead, let's try to figure out ways to create _less_ victims.
> Assumptions of linear regression: There must be a linear relation between independent and dependent variables.

That's not wrong, but it's a strong way to word it. If linear regression were only suitable when the variables were perfectly linearly related, it would get a lot less use. Practically, linear regression can be used when the relationship is linear-ish, at least in the interval of interest. In other words, you can choose to declare linearity as an assumption (and take responsibility for what that choice entails, and for the error it might introduce into your analysis).
Yes a lot of companies do. Especially minimum wage jobs. Because there are vastly more people without a record willing to work. But now imagine you have a previous conviction but you are willing to work for less than minimum wage?

If I value a fry cook for $10 an hour and I get 1 person with a previous conviction who wants to work for $5 - I'll hire him in a heartbeat so long as I could fire him at any moment. And since I'm a good employer I'll make him a deal to pay him $10 an hour after 6 months provided he stays clean and works hard.

As it stands I'm not allowed to do any of that - so the convict remains unemployed and will probably commit more crime just to survive.

I'll let my man Friedman take it from here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca8Z__o52sk
I bet whoever said that had "no accent" too :-).
I feel like I see this on the internet more and more lately. Paragraph one starts with some shoddy, made up evidence where they mock some idea and then you look for the start of paragraph 2 to figure out what they're really getting themselves upset about:

"This is my biggest complaint with the "Right to Repair" movement."

So yeah, have a problem with some group, reorganize information to make that group look bad and pretend like this thing you made up is a great illustration of the grudge you had against some people.

But my question is, why?
I said same thing. I went further to say they shouldve bought OK Labs to get one of best combos of team and tech. It already worked with Android, too.

Far as NOVA, here's the dissertation that goes into a lot more detail on design considerations than most of the whitepapers.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275031217_Improving...

Of course, the number of hardware and firmware type of attacks on mainstream platforms made NSA retire the SKPP for doing separation on them. Even a perfect hypervisor cant be trusted to maintain that when its dependencies are garbage. That was even noted in 1992-1993 papers on VAX Secure VMM. Even secure digital desigms might have analog or RF attacks.

So, the current recommendation is to build things that way just to reduce number of attacks with monitoring and recovery as usual. Those two, though, could run on simpler, verified platforms. There's a lot of precedent for such split architectures.
There's a big difference between allowing people in prison to vote, and in never allowing them to vote again after they are released. People in prison by intention don't have the same civil rights as normal citizens, and so withholding the right to vote doesn't seem unreasonable. Withholding it in perpetuity seems outrageous.
Check this discussion: https://sciter.com/forums/topic/sciter-vs-electron/
"Must not intentionally report false information as truth."

Thus, lawsuites would be allowed if your org was found to be intentionally lying. But unless someone can prove you did it intentionally, they have no case.

Obviously you can lie all you want if you take the word "News" out of your name.
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> The reason why Apple doesn't want any Joe-schmoe just yanking and replacing caps and other components is simple: quality control

Right, and the entire discussion is that Apple's right to quality control has overreached to the point that it is now impinging upon the common sense right of someone to be able try to fix something that they own when it breaks.
Yet here you are going on about this crap instead of getting shit done.

The people who care about improving their tools and knowledge will almost certainly end up way more productive than those who don't.

There's a thing called meta-ignorance; you don't know what you don't know, so how can you tell you're really getting stuff done optimally?
I indirectly know of someone who makes extra money by plagiarizing little known books, changing the cover and republishing them on Amazon. I'm surprised Amazon has no system to detect this kind of gross plagiarism. Remember Google's digitize all books project? This would be a useful use-case for it.
I think that's DataRobot's business model, although I think they run more sophisticated models as well. It was 5+ years ago that I spoke to them but IIRC they were able to compete pretty well in Kaggle competitions with a fairly hands-off algorithm.
That’s why mini USB is now almost extinct, replaced with micro USB (and now Type C?) which doesn’t make that mistake.