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I feel like Apple has apolicy that anything with red water indicators needs to be replaced. Since they charge a fixed price for labor and guarantee the repair they are protecting themselves from giving a faulty device to the customer. A third-party technician can bend back the pin, and ignore anything else because they are allowed to partially repair the device to a lesser standard.

The same thing goes with cars, the dealership will only replace OEM parts and usually won’t offer to repair something. A local mechanic has more freedom to give you the option of repair the part for less money even if the part is now less reliable.
>* My fondest memories of my teens was finally having a computer in my room and the freedom to stay up late and explore the online universe*

This is something i think about regarding my kids... specifically that my experience was free and unfettered - theirs is contolled, walled and full of ads and bullshit.
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This is why it's worthwhile filing a provisional patent application ($70).

When your product takes off, you have a potential recourse if you're ripped off.
> I wonder if that's going to happen for my kids.

I've got a four month old. By the time she's in third or fourth grade, I expect that VR will give her the same kinds of experiences that I had with the web at that age. What made the web exciting wasn't just the fact that it was run by amateurs, it was the fact that there was just an enormous amount of possibility waiting to be explored where we genuinely didn't know the answers.

I actually think the web itself may go back into that kind of phase again after a couple more iterations of Moore's Law make programming easy enough for people who wouldn't be able to do it today, especially when combined with blockchain opening up new kinds of relationships that people can have with one another. The web currently has some issues, but I think a lot of people have given up on it prematurely without taking into consideration the new kinds of experiences the recent and upcoming improvements to the underlying infrastructure are going to make possible.
It says in the video that the water indicators turned red. Under those circumstances it's customary for Apple Genius Bar to insist on full part replacements even if it's something simple like bending a pin.

More of a grey area than the clickbait title.
Actually there's some pretty cool stuff going on in steam engine research, if you look up "Coalition for Sustainable Rail", but that's neither here nor there.

I'm still not sure what part of filtering search results explicitly instead of statistically/nondeterministically is so backwards to you. Really, what's your angle in insisting on this particular future, where everything is sorted based on personal profiles?
They could copy China's WeChat solution.

Here, the buskers have a QR code where you can use to donate to them. You scan the code, and then you can select the amount to donate.

No external devices needed where you aren't sure about the safety of it and no need to be plugged in. Just a simple QR code.
That'd actually add a pretty cool cyberpunk aesthetic to an otherwise humdrum stripper scene.
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Making sensationalist Apple videos on YouTube might just be the best racket.
> It makes you a target for muggings if anyone notices you have a significant wad of cash on you. If you misplace your cash, you have no recourse like if you misplaced a credit card.

Generally speaking, the likelihood of these things happening is pretty small, and unless you carry a huge amount of cash, the cost if they do happen is not very significant.
This was on Windows, and dynamic linking as the project was proprietary. If you pay the fee or are open source you can static link and it will be much smaller.
I didn't get that impression at all. This is "get me the rank (index) of the first occurrence of x" in a succinct data structure. Nothing to do with relational algebra AFAICT except to the extent I suppose that some relational algebra implementations may use such data structures under the hood.
How many startup CEOs with "fake it until you make it" philosophy are sweating a bit more these days??
The water indicators are more like humidity indicators. In a lot of climates they're going to be red within a few months of normal use.
My only problem with WeChat is how difficult they make it for foreigners to use unless you have a Chinese bank account.

I had to resort to giving my Chinese friends cash, and then they can send me "red envelopes" to use.

Ideally, I would like to be able to buy top-up cards at convenient stores or even use my credit card to add money to my WeChat account.
Huh, I always knew them as LAN parties, and before LANs as gaming or computer parties.
For years, the only things I've withdrawn cash for have been farmer's markets and impersonal yet practical wedding gifts.
Without networking you might just end up with more nepotism.
> What else has approximately uniform local density

Vacuum.

Cool-phase neutral atomic gas in interstellar settings.

Cool-phase neutral molecular gas ditto.

What breaks the uniformity of the latter two is mainly electromagnetic interactions. UV or X-rays will ionize them, and the freed electrons will cause secondary ionizations. This is the main pathway for heating neutral interstellar gases. Subsequent cooling is by photon emission. This drives dust-grain-forming chemistry; these grains are more dense than gas, and so have different gravitational observables as well as different emission/absorption characteristics. Very roughly, the dust grains can collide and stick to one another chemically, leading to further density non-uniformities.

Cold dark matter doesn't feel UV or X-Rays or it wouldn't be dark, and if it is collisionless (as in the standard model of cosmology) then there is no dark chemistry that can locally densify dark matter.

> What else has approximately uniform local density of distribution?

Really, anything that approaches an ideal classical gas. "Local" is an important qualifier.

A cubic centimetre of taken from near the middle of a small jar of water inside your household refrigerator or a cm^3 of gas taken from near the middle of a helium-filled balloon.

The middle, because the density differs at the boundary of the material in the container. Likewise, the density changes sharply at the edges dark matter clouds, but is fairly uniform in large volumes far from the boundary.

The overdensity in the jar's contents compared to the contents of the fridge overall and the underdensity of helium in a balloon in a room at sea level compared to the whole room are very roughly analogous to overensities and underdensities of dark matter at scales much larger than solar systems.
Yes, but that is not really the issue here. To take your analogy, you have the RIGHT to go to a local mechanic who can get parts for your car. Apple is trying as hard as they can to kill the 3rd party repair shops and make there life difficult. This behavior should be illegal since they provide a valuable service as your local mechanic does.
Money is generally taxed anytime it changes hands so an inheritance tax seems fine to me. Although, a 90% one would be ridiculous.

Also, if you are in the US, the estate tax is now $11.18 million per taxpayer (so 22 million for a couple) due to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. As a result, only approximately 2,000 people (or 0.0006% of the population) in the US are currently liable for estate tax [0] so you should be fine unless you already have fuck you money at which point it doesn't really matter because again, you have fuck you money.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estate_tax_in_the_United_State...
if you have office 2016, open it in Word and copy/paste into excel.
> The same thing happens with cars, the dealership will only do repairs with OEM parts and won’t attempt to weld anything back together instead option to replace it.

No, but they might be willing to rotate your tires without requiring you get a new transmission, even if they really recommend it. Now, if the dealership was also the manufacturer, and had a way to prevent repair materials from reaching the public, then perhaps they would be a but more strict about requiring all-or-nothing repairs...
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I made a toot with 100 boosts the other day on a new account. The average is closer to 10-20. Tweets barely register on accounts with 10x the following. Mastodon might look small, but it's big where it counts.

I'm glad Eugen started it, and I'm glad it's thriving. It's like Twitter was before they went impression-obsessed after the 2013/2014 Situation showed them what was possible. And it's all funded by Patreons for the most part.
I use Google Pay but only because it is the only option on my device. It's another one of those Google products with PMs looking for the next big thing instead of making all the little things work. For example, there is no way to name your cards, so I have a few cards named Visa [last four digits]. There is no way to say that you prefer to use particular cards at particular merchants. I used to be able to load library cards into Google Wallet and name them, but now there are only a few fixed name options for loyalty cards, they are all named Library Card, which isn't helpful to people like me who use multiple library systems.
That's a super cool dataset. It does drive the more philosophical question of "what constitutes a building" though.

Looking at the map, it seems that large liquid storage tanks count as buildings, but pipelines do not. Other large industrial facilities (e.g. distillation towers) seem to be hit-or-miss. Docks and other offshore platforms seem to be missing although it wouldn't surprise me if there are intellectual property or security issues around some of these things.

Edit: The statue of liberty counts as a building, but the map seems a little bit confused about various Washington DC monuments.

Edit2: Amphitheaters seem hit-or-miss. Playground structures and pools seem to be out.
Idol 3 5.5, it works well.
Are there any other sites/blogs that talk about professional communication like this? I found this very clear and helpful, while a lot of other sites I’ve read are either overly generic or focus on what not to do.
This was very reasonable and well written.

'Keep it short and sweet' or 'minimize friction' if I were to summarize it.

I don't know that there are excellent ideas with solid execution that go to the graveyard, because nerds just couldn't network their way to the top however.

There has never been a better time for intelligent, hard working people to see their ideas come to fruition. There is all sorts of infrastructure in place to help you - schools, loans, accelerator programs like Y Combinator, the internet!

While I don't want to minimize the value of having social skills for your relationships with your loved ones if nothing else - it is important to know who are and bet on your strengths, there's plenty of infrastructure to fill in the gaps.
Yes, this was very annoying when visiting China. I had to resort to giving my friends cash so they could send "red envelopes (virtual credits)" to my account.

I really hope WeChat does better on this. Either letting us use our foreign cards or have some type of top off card where you can buy at convenience stores or the airport and load that into WeChat account.

I know there are some services that can do this, but I'm not sure how reliable they are.
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It might be easier to tie in a few different external libraries if you're using C than with Lua FFI, depending on the libraries.
Convenient policy for humidity indicators.

Doesn't change the fact that they want to kill third party repairs and then also refuse first party repairs.
This is the common sentiment in this thread lol, is there a canonical reference for the other type of Networking(osi) for Nerds HN?
>Think of how much society is set back because people who have no interest or ability with "networking" aren't given the opportunities that they should have had.

Your frustration is likely borne out of the assumption that people deserve all those opportunities.
My MacBook Pro late 2011 model suffered from the GPU flaw less than a week after Apple's "free repair" window ended. This repair window only existed because apple failed to recognise it and a class action lawsuit resulted.

Even after a repair it's never truly fault free, due to refurbed motherboards being used.

That was the end of my relationship with apple.
Well, honestly, I've owned Apples for decades, and I was truly a fan, but between the touch bar madness and their lame repair policies, it's truly the EOL for me with it all. Thank goodness the Linux and Lenovo game has gotten so on point.
I am so envious! I feel like I'm pretty lucky in general as far as innate abilities, but this is one I'm definitely lacking and really wish I had. I'm constantly trying various techniques with varying success, but for it to be easy like that would be amazing.
This doesn't seem all that scammy to me. The genius bar person was forthright that they needed to replace the components because they have a full repair only policy and the water damage indicators were red. He was forthright that this wasn't necessarily the cause of the display issue. He also did hint at other repair shops in the end by saying that there were no other options "in terms of fixing it in the store".
>It doesn't seem very efficient

It actually isn't. Which is exactly the reason networking is emphasized so much. You generally have to meet many people, with virtually no way to reliably prescreen them to get any benefit out of it. If it were a lot more efficient, it would be a lot easier and there wouldn't be a need to heavily emphasize it.
Using credit cards at thrift stores cannot affect your credit score. That article is poorly written and is discussing impact to credit issued by the credit card issuer. It may impact models run by the bank which issues your credit card but it will not impact lending from any other source and will not impact your credit score.

No one can share individual purchase data with other lenders, that sort of data sharing is prohibited.
For those that didn't watch the video before commenting the 'water indicators' happen with just normal humidity, not actual contact with water. Like the little moisture indicators digikey gives out. It's a terrible method of determining damage.

The real issue however is that apple purposefully makes it hard to do repairs and replacement. It's anti consumer behavior, and it amazes me that some of the culture here doesn't find it appalling. $2000 for a laptop it should be at the least repairable.
Although I know many people hate the book, but Keith Ferrazzi's "Never Eat Alone" is well worth reading - both for the practical tips, but also for the attitude one should adopt while networking (the more you care about others, the more they are likely to help you).
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This got posted on Hackaday a little while ago but Fran is apparently getting kicked out of her space.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLBhwR_WWB4

And the Hackaday blurb:

"FranLab is closing down! Fran is one of the hardware greats, and she’s being evicted. If you’ve got 2000sqft of workshop space in Philly you’d like to spare, you know who to talk to. There will, probably, be a crowdfunding thing going up shortly, and we’ll post a link when it’s up."
The article is about a foreign government using data sold (or given for free) by an American anti-privacy company to build a facial recognition database. We seem to be plenty capable of subverting our own democracy without anybody’s help.
Yeah, but what does it take to actually create the provisional patent? Correct me if I'm wrong, but is it not $70 + thousands of dollars in legal fees?
Unless it's AGPL, that answer is actually still "Yes".
Just double checked and the false dependency problem is fixed for tzcnt and lzcnt, but not popcnt, in Skylake. So that's one (slightly) good reason to use tzcnt over bsf if possible, as of Skylake.
I could see how that was their policy, however, they could have explained to the customer their options. Either have it repaired here and Apple will guarantee it, or take it to an independent repair shop and potentially get it fixed for much cheaper. I realize they're not obligated to do that, but I certainly would think a lot more highly of Apple if they did that.
The Amplify and AppSync models are also architecturally more scalable as you don't have one big opaque DB and endpoint in a single region.
Ahhh, but they don't. They're ports.
You say shamelessly but it could also be "cluelessly" (which doesn't excuse the company in any way). When I interview candidates, one of the questions I ask is if they know anything about licenses and if they can describe differences between for instance MIT and GPL. In my experience a surprisingly large number have no clue of the implications on a product and use code/libraries without considering the license. Either way, it's prudent to have someone review projects for this kind of liabilities before shipping anything.
Fran Blanche is being evicted
I use it regularly.
For sham marriages, this is a real problem!
I wouldn't might sending the Chinese companies some ideas to implement but I guess what they was is validated ideas to reduce the risks.
The full repair only policy is not really a problem. Apple wants to make sure they give you back a functioning device, so people aren't walking around saying they got their Apple repaired and it's still broken (or breaks quickly afterwards).

The full repair only policy while actively trying to prevent third party repair services is a problem, as then you are preventing people from being able to repair only actual problems just because Apple wants to control its image, and you run into situations like this. Who cares if water indicators are tripped? There should be an options for someone to repair what's needed, and deal with further problems later if they crop up. Apple doesn't want to allow this.

> He also did hint at other repair shops in the end by saying that there were no other options "in terms of fixing it in the store".

That's not hinting at other options, that's just not outright lying when asked a direct question, which ends up revealing another option. That's a low bar to hit (and thankfully he did).
Is the function blocking or asynchronous? Cant quite find it in the README.
All manufacturers are worser than Apple. I was trying to shop for an laptop/ultra book(who buys bulky products anymore) and was surprised at lack of competitive products to Apple's. Perhaps a decade back there were quality, high-end products from IBM and Sony which could rival Apple. Now you are stuck with low quality products with much lesser reliability than MacBook pros at a higher price point even for the same spec. Apple is sort of enjoying it. May be surface would make a difference.
> the developed world is catastrophically infertile

I read that more as "have defused the population bomb". Cultures that have less children have more wealth to pass on to their children, making each one more likely to survive. The rest of the world having tons of children is likely to face shortages of land, water, food, health care... etc. This leads to all sorts of instability, which I'm sure you can imagine.

The thing is, liberalism has a lot of memetic fitness too. Classical liberalism has been devouring the world for the past few centuries, and while it occasionally suffers setbacks, it's done very very well against kings, dictators, popes, shoguns, and the like trying to hold it back. Just because liberalism is in a decline now doesn't mean that it's lost its power.
It says a lot about the state of HN's community that this post is poorly received, while posts supporting cocaine use are seeing more support. This used to be a techie playground; between comments in the heroin thread yesterday[∆] and in this thread today, now HN seems like a druggie haven.

[∆]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18193884
You're arguing that it isn't "scammy" because the policy that Apple itself created sets a rigid structure that causes repairs to be more extensive and expensive? Essentially a policy replacing completely working components without testing them, because a 5c Liquid contact indicator said to.

This seems like a defense of the individual "Genius," since they can point at corporate/policy, rather than a defense of the policy itself which is what the video is about.
That is truly remarkable. What a nice moment, a human shining through the bureaucracy. And a smiling immigration agent, which is itself a rare treat. Thank you for sharing it!
I keep sharing this article on Aeon, titled "In praise of cash" [1], and encourage people to use cash. This was discussed then (March 2017) on HN. [2]

It is almost impossible in many countries to use cash for large purchases, but many routine purchases that people do can easily be done through cash (this may vary by country, as there are some countries that have adapted to being hostile to using cash).

Within the constraints of a government issued and recognized fiat value exchange system, cash is freedom. Period. Everything else is a bunch of people sitting between you and the seller, taking a cut on every transaction and imposing more restrictions on what you can do with your knowledge or labor.

[1]: https://aeon.co/essays/if-plastic-replaces-cash-much-that-is...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13782561
I don't see Zuckerberg etc. putting up online puzzles so that some high IQ person can cash in a small fortune. There is something about the cryptorich that is very different from you, me and the regular rich.
is this at all surprising given that we're talking about the company that made windows? did we forget that for a while it would silently put telemetry in your binaries?
It is really a thing. You've been super lucky. After my first apartment, we started hiring cleaning services to do a pre-move-out clean, which, in retrospect, was pretty stupid, because the condition of the apartment's got nothing to do with anything.
I was with you right up until the end; the "I had one bad incident with company X so I'll never buy from them again" is a really tiring thing to hear. This is akin to "I had a bad flight on Delta so I'm never flying with them again" Ok, I get it, you had a bad experience. That doesn't mean your next flight on Delta will be bad, or your next experience with an Apple product. You should demand more of Apple, and get the compensation you deserve. Other companies aren't better, though. Apple's hardware, customer satisfaction and general end-to-end experience, on the whole, is the best in the industry. Tossing them aside because of one bad experience with a hardware product feels like cutting off your nose to spite your face.

[edit] The repair process with Apple, in particular, is really spectacular. If you break your phone on vacation in Australia (like I did), you walk into an Apple store and 2 hours later you're off to the races. Try that with LG/Samsung/Huawei/HTC. Good luck even finding one of their stores. Do they have stores? You'll mail the product in I'd imagine, and weeks later, maybe, you'll get one back? Who pays for shipping again? If your laptop breaks, same deal. Anywhere in the world. Yes, it's not perfect. However, the idea that I can count on my Apple products no matter where I am or what I'm doing is worth the premium alone. Finally, for better or worse (or rather, for more expensive) Apple is pushing AppleCare+ to all laptops and phones, which means that accidental damage like this would be covered for a low, flat fee no matter what happened to your device.

I'm actually surprised you had issues with a refurb product. The thing about refurbs is, unlike new ones, they're individually tested.

I don't mind that they will only do complete repairs. What I do care about is them actively trying to hamper third-party repair shops and opposing right-to-repair legislation. That's not ok.