skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another limitation on repair and maintenance is that some manufactures deliberately make their products hard to repair and maintain because they want you to keep upgrading to newer versions.

Some mobile phones do this by making the batteries non removable so once the battery life deteriorates people will buy a new phone rather than a cheaper replacement battery.

Some laptops solder the ram onto motherboard so you cannot upgrade.

Other companies use things like non standard screws to make it hard for people to replace parts themselves.

In my engineering classes at university this was referred to as planned obsolescence.
Also, if you don't read A Stranger in a Strange Land, you'll never know what grok really means.
The current understanding is that you can continue investing so long as your money stays within a qualified opportunity fund. You have to make a substantial investment in the property or business, so simply buying land within an OZ won’t cut it. As a real estate developer, I can develop apartments, sell them upon stabilization, and redeploy that capital in another OZ investment.
Platform Specific UI Components in React Native
Rob, I was so sick of this that I started a company around it! We're still early, but what Clockwise does is pretty magical: we rearrange meetings to protect flow state. If you ever want to share feedback or give product ideas, feel free to reach out: matt [] getclockwise.com

https://www.getclockwise.com/product
Can you share which company you're working remotely for? I figured most people in Utah who are at > $200k base are working remotely for bigger SF-based companies, but I haven't really heard of many companies doing that. (I understand if you can't, though)
Of course it seems weird to think of Many Worlds as somehow manufacturing universes for each fluctuation. That seems weird and wrong ... because it probably is.

A better way to think of it is as the equivalent of the relativistic block universe. All these different spaces already exist in some superspace, and ‘random’ events take you from one space to a neighboring one. Nothing is manufactured.
I was under the impression a customer cannot replace AT&T routers. Do you mean you use a different router behind the box AT&T provides, or that there are viable replacements for the boxes AT&T provides customers to connect service?
> So what was recently a £20 simple repair to your fridge or cooker is now a £200 major component and more labour than it's probably worth.

I think this is a large part of the problem. Our goods have become so cheap to produce that they're cheaper to buy new than to repair. For example, I'm rebuilding a small motorcycle engine for a Honda. I can rebuild the engine, paying the machine-work labor cost and a small amount of parts, and it's actually just a bit more expensive than to buy a brand-new Chinese clone that's been in production for over a decade.

Labour costs for repairs have gone up, while consumer goods have gotten cheaper. In a lot of cases it's simply more cost-effective to replace than to rebuild. No mechanic rebuilds water pumps in the shop anymore than a home appliance tech would fix a coffee maker.

DIY is largely the one holdout for repairs, and it's unreasonable to think that every person can have the aptitude to fix any device that may break in their lives.
Quantum suicide is a fascinating thought experiment. If consciousness is a property of a certain type of brain (or calculation?), then the concept of ‘’’me” is just a variation of the anthropic principle: I believe my subjective experience to be something unique, but there’s nothing unique or special about a human brain and the conscious experiences it produces.

So even if there are billions of worlds, there aren’t billions of “me”s out there. There are simply billions of consciousnesses which share common memories and thought patterns. Each variation would believe itself to be the true “me”, when in fact they are all wrong: there is no “me”. Just the consciousnesses that all those brains create.

So in quantum suicide, there is no transfer of any sort. One consciousness is simply extinguished forever. The other continues.

This aligns somewhat with Buddhist teachings about the illusion of “self”. I don’t believe in the supernatural, but one could consider the idea of reincarnation as merely the fact that there are not instances of consciousness, but instead manifestations of one phenomenon. Which could possibly mean that if you are a conscious being reading this comment at this moment, you can rest assured that your death will not stop “you” from continuing to experience subjective experiences as another person, in another place, at another time. You just won’t realize it, because you won’t be “you” anymore.

Or maybe it’s all nonsense.

I have a hunch there is a variation of quantum suicide that would be less lethal, but no less measurable.
Interestingly, I think I built that project with an architecture somewhat reminiscent of the 'boundaries' concept (still just surmising at this point). It's a super simple framework with two types of things 'Domains' and 'Converters'. Domains are somewhat similar to a package... but with the boundaries actually enforced, so that you have to explicitly push or pull data through Converters to other Domains; Converters should just transform the format from one Domain to that of another (they are queue-based; also sometimes no translation is necessary).

I'll quote from the readme:

> This Domain/Converter framework is a way of being explicit about where the boundaries in your code are for a section using one ‘vocabulary,’ as well as a way of sequestering the translation activities that sit at the interface of two such demarcated regions.

Inside each Domain I imagine something like an algebra... a set of core data structures and operations on them.

But yeah, I have very frequently thought about visualizing its behavior while working on that visualizer :D

Is your research related to programming languages?

Also I'm going to have to think about "computing a new value" vs. "modifying state" —not sure I quite get it...
Unfortunately there is too much friction being generated by Valve's continued 30% commission and lack of curation/barriers to store entry for that to be the case.
How is that whenever someone on HN comes up with some gimmick around bitcoin or cybersecurity or something, they are met with a chorus of "the courts aren't computer programs, they can use common sense to nail you to the wall", but then we have all these tariff and tax laws where ridiculous misinterpretations of the law are upheld by the courts?
There you have it. They don’t even see it as something they should be embarrassed about. It’s something to be written up for their engineering blog. They’re proud of it.
You are doing good work. I’m sure it’s not the first time you’ve been told it but you probably don’t hear it enough. Keep it up.
After some time of experimenting with this. I probably can't recommend any colors.

The issue I've found is that of the 16 build in colors. cmd defaults to trivial colors.
(eg Blue is 000080 and Bright blue is 0000FF.)

Which give terrible contrast. MS seems to be working on improving things on their end. Then I'll be able to make it readable. (Eg: https://github.com/Microsoft/console/tree/master/tools/Color...)
The benefits are not purely monetary - raising the quality of an area due to investment that otherwise would never come in is an enormous benefit for people already living there.

That isn't too say throwing money at a bad neighborhood is guaranteed to succeed but it gives a far better shot than letting the area simmer in stagnation.
Aaand.. Not just on mobile now.
I learned to do that not too long ago, I started reading Asimov’s Fundation trilogy, but I struggled picking the book from my desk every single time, I was supposed to love it, everyone loves Asimov, so I had to love it too, but I just couldn’t, I felt guilty. Then I realized that the point of reading a novel was to enjoy it, if I was not enjoying it then I was just reading in a pretentious way. Since then I only keep reading if I like what I’m reading or if it will help me in any way.
Could the anthropic principle taken into conjunction with our continued existence be used to show that the MWI is more probable?

Here's the situation that I'm thinking about: it's well known that we've come close to nuclear annihilation multiple times, either by accident or by tensions between the US and the USSR in the Cold War. If the MWI is correct, it is probable that a good chunk of these worlds have been reduced to ash. However, we currently find ourselves in a world where that has not happened, presumably due to the anthropic principle. Could we then give a numerical probability that MWI is correct, based on this fact?

I'm not a philosopher or physicist - just an interested layman.
I feel like turning this into a technical issue is sleight of hand
Thanks for the eli5! Helpful
And in this conversation lies a great example of why semantic versioning != romantic versioning.

Good read: http://dafoster.net/articles/2015/03/14/semantic-versioning-...
The benefit of investing in an opportunity zone is not that great. It’s an incentive, but a rather modest one, for a specific group of people with ‘captive gains,’ and these investments will tend to be rather risky by nature of being in OZs. I have trouble fathoming a runaway investment situation (?). If, in 10 years, OZ policy has dramatically changed the state of a substantial portion of low income census tracts... is that a bad thing?
> DO NOT use hand sanitizer before or after handling thermal paper; it speeds the absorption of BPA.

Do you have a source on that? I'm certainly not disputing it. I'm just fascinated.
Is gov.uk actually better than places like Estonia or Sweden? Or is it just that info about it is in English, so HN talks about it more? (Accessible information is important, so I don't want to down play the importance of it.)
I don't think you need groups actively working against you to have a lot of stories about admissions right now. Any story about it will get attention right now so while some may groups doing stories purposefully there's also probably journalists just cashing in on a trend.
PCs are becoming smaller even; you can make one the size of a PS4 now.
TurboTax lobbying is the reason you have to use TurboTax.

It isn't like Australia, Sweden, or Vietnam have spent millions of dollars on UX for their tax filing, yet no one uses tax software in those places.
Bing's “download chrome” is adware
I hope that one day we will live in a world where we remove all barriers to trade, and governments will stop attempting to prop up industries via legislation. Until then I can only commend the tariff engineers on their creativity and wish them the best of luck.
I do have an SSD, but it's an old one. The new ones are so much faster. I used passmark to compare my new Ryzen 5 work rig to the i7 and the only spec that it seriously lags behind is in the disk.

It's amazing how much longevity it has!
As an FYI, Toby’s Estate started in Australia.
I'm very confused - are you saying that the announcement of experimental ESNI support is an example of companies "attempting to operate outside of the formalized process for internet standards"? If so, I really don't see how that is true - they implemented a draft IETF spec - https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tls-esni/ - If that isn't working with a standards body, I'm not sure what is.
Yep! I'm building an i7 machine for my brother in law this weekend using the in win chopin case: https://www.inwin-style.com/en/gaming-chassis/Chopin

It's smaller than an xbox. The only major limting factor is the TDP on the CPU, because it can only house a small cooler (so went for a 65w instead of 95w TDP).

And, it's modular, so if a bit dies we can replace it. If he wants to get a GPU 2 years from now we don't have to trash the whole build.
24:30 to reach info about Mill architecture, beforehand is building context by explaining Spectre
Discussion on Mill begins at about 24:30.
Commutes could also be shortened by removing cars from the road.
Have you seen the code people write for mobile apps lately?
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Pretty much everything Microsoft makes is adware/spyware. They are one of the worlds largest malware companies after Google.
Consider the Lick Observatory. Just be sure to drive carefully.
This was, indeed, the inspiration for my comment. It’s cogent and persuasive encapsulation of current free market thought.
Ajit Pai killed rules that could have helped Florida recover from hurricane
Absolutely nothing renders without JS FYI :( noscript is simple to add, at least warning users it's required.
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A certain percentage of that is simply cost of living - China can pay their soldiers and military industrial researchers a Chinese wage while the US has to pay US wages all the way down the supply chain.

Still incredibly inefficient, to be sure.
I've been trying to get my head around the idea of smashing SSB (the underlying networkable append-only log store, rather than the social network) together with some of the concepts from Camlistore, IPFS and Tim Berners-Lee's SOLID stack. I'm imagining a personal database that exists on my phone, on my desktop, and on some agent somewhere in the cloud (or even a Raspberry Pi at home). Applications -- local or networked -- could request access to append certain messages to the SSB queue, and provide a series of reducers/schemas to reify those messages into a collection of views useful for the application. It'd mean that my digital life would effectively belong to one replicatable, content-addressed database, instead of the current thing where we have a mix of files and online services that hold my data in their private databases. It's a personal database that's offline-first; it's backed up; it's distributed, and it means I'd be able to interact with my data as I see fit.

It seems like an impossibly vast and intimidating project. I think the main takeaway from this ramble is that I think the new tools emerging to re-decentralize the web are really, really cool :).
Brilliantly. Did he do that after he'd retired from music?
Raw materials are too cheap — the externality of their dissipation has not even begun to be appreciated.
Thats not remotely true. ESNI is a draft IETF spec - https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tls-esni/. It just so happens, that right now CloudFlare and Firefox are the ones that implement it. But any particular feature, regardless of how great it is or how well specified by a standards body, must have a first implementation by someone. And it's really not that shocking that a group like CloudFlare wants to be at the forefront of new web technologies AND also has the resources to pay for it. What does boggle the mind that is that everyone freaks out when a draft IETF standard is implemented. What do people want? For it to spring into existence fully formed implemented by all browsers, operating systems, DNS software and providers, etc all that once? That would be ridiculous - and worse, if there aren't a few experimental implementations to work out the issues, even if that could happen, what would be implemented would probably have significant issues that we'd then be stuck with forever.
While I understand your point, to me this seems like elitism and lack of empathy for less technical users.
Social media is a whole other can of worms.

What do you consider “undermining our political institutions”? If that consists of spreading disinformation and propaganda, those have been part of politics for as long as there have been politics. If it’s because the propaganda is inserted by witting or unwitting agents of a hostile foreign power—well, that was the rationale for blacklisting suspected Communist screenwriters. This wasn’t the angle I was coming from, but it does circle back to that somehow.
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The Bitcoin blockchain requires mining to solve double-spend - it's computationally infeasible to convince some subset of the network that you're spending a coin in one way, and also another subset of the network that you're spending the same coin in a different way. Notarization doesn't have a double-spend problem because there's no concept of "spending" - if you get the same document notarized by multiple people, that's perfectly fine.

And because of that, you don't have a centralized authority problem. If you don't think people trust Cloudflare, have other Roughtime services sign your message. Each one adds additional confidence that the message was seen before a certain time.

(Because you don't need mining to solve double-spend, you can do this without the effective requirement that any trustworthy Bitcoin-style blockchain must consume a significant fraction of computational power / useful energy in the known universe.)
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A tribute to the Fab Four and the freedoms they inspired
Now might be a good time to brush up on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell's_theorem
wait you don't need to get that college degree <insert liberal arts degree> to work in barista? Shocker!

Responsible employers should be looking to high out of high school and train them instead of requiring a undergrad degree. This education for the sake of education is a cancer.
More expensive housing does precisely nothing for low income earners.
Digital Giza
Maybe they have many of the features that are new in 11, but what about what PostgreSQL had already? I have used all three, and like Postgres a hundred times as much. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/postgresql-vs-ms-sql-server-g... (I did not write this, just found it after a quick search)
From my understanding it evolved from Japanese net discussions aka kaomojis

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A1%94%E6%96%87%E5%AD%97#%E...

Complete history is here:

Link: https://www.theawl.com/2014/05/the-life-and-times-of-%C2%AF_...
I'm in. Gonna start researching the stack while waiting for my firstborn to arrive. What's next for you?
The Slide Rule
I think this idea has promise.

Shouldn't the "Apply as an expert" really be "What are you expert at and what would you trade for it?" Otherwise how does the matching happen?

I applied as an expert in marketing and music and I would like to trade that for software design/development expertise. But the form seems to focus on only the former, not the latter.
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I think "Trade your experience" would be more valuable than "trade your expertise". If I need expert knowledge of a well-defined domain, there's always Google. But if I need advice from someone who's had a particular experience, there's no easy way to find answers.

For example, I'd like to talk to someone who's self-published a book and overcome the many small challenges associated with that journey. Would this person identify themselves as an "expert" in overcoming any of those particular obstacles? Probably not.

And similarly, I have a lot of experiential knowledge to share with others, that doesn't necessarily fit under the umbrella of a single "expert" label. My valuable experiential knowledge covers dozens of niche areas.

I'm not sure how a service could effectively act as a match maker for that type of experiential knowledge, though.
Everything is so black and white nowadays or it always was, I dont know. Gandhi had his failings, but if you aggregate his life, he was definitely a positive force in the world.
This [0] one about Twitter? Not a security breach, but users' passwords were being written to a log file before hashing.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16989534
I would love to perform DIY maintenance, but it seems more like a luxury activity.

From an economic perspective, the amount of effort spent in researching, diagnosing, ordering and fixing any one device far exceeds the effort being good at one's core job and trading dollars for someone else's experience.
http://archive.is/Lkwz3
Brilliant, hilarious, disturbing movie. You probably know this already, but Brazil has two versions, with radically different endings. They lend themselves to diametrically opposed interpretations of the film as a whole. I prefer the director Gilliam's cut, but also appreciate on some meta level how the juxtaposition of both the original and alternate endings -- and the real-life drama around their editing and release -- serves as a self-referential commentary on the film's themes of social critique / satire and the struggle of the individual in the face of massive, broken, impersonal bureaucratic machinery.
Also who sits at a red light when there are no other cars in sight?
Well, after playing with it this morning using a dummy project, it is definitely faster than the (horribly, horribly slow) JIRA Cloud I can't avoid using at work.

But it is still sloooow.

Notice when I switch from "Board" to "Roadmap" it takes 4-5 seconds to load... every time:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zlz74h1azxg3gp4/2018-10-19-new-JIR...

This looks better to me than the current JIRA, but also looks like slow performance of basic operations is still Problem #1.
> If you need to postulate such amazing complexity just to say basically nothing in terms of realism, then you’ve already lost.

What about many worlds is complex? The Schrodinger equation predicts macroscopic decoherence. Macroscopic decoherence implies many worlds. Many worlds can hardly be called an interpretation. Rather, it is a prediction. It is just taking the Schrodinger equation literally. Every other "interpretation" is more complex, as they bolt things onto the Schrodinger equation, and often very ugly things, too.
If you have tracking on your site you need to give a shit about GDPR.
This is political propaganda and has nothing to do with tech. Also fertile ground for flame topics.
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There's an element of scale; if you can afford lawyers to analyze and defend a loophole, go for it. If you can't afford lawyers then you're taking on significant risk.
> Since when have we disproved the butterfly effect?

There never was such a thing, not the way you are using it.

The butterfly effect is an observation in chaos theory that small changes in initial conditions can make large changes in output.

The "popular" usage of butterfly effect "A butterfly flapping its wings can eventually cause a hurricane" is not a thing that ever existed.

The difference is that one is directly fed into the output, the other is not, the other is filtered by huge amounts of noise.
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"a pair of 68000’s with a 8087"

Reminds me of the TRS-80 model 16 which had a 68000 + a Z80.
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No, I have no contact with any of that ecosystem, and I use very few mobile apps since most of them seem like pointless skins over poorly designed websites. What do you have in mind?
Does anyone have a good pro/con comparison between AdGuard and Pi-Hole?
>The "notices" you see on pages today are actually asking for consent to store data

Consent to store data or share it with third parties? I store PII, but I don't share it with any third-party.
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Ah yes, that's the one, thanks!