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After reading all the griping on HN about Apple's supposedly draconian independent repair policies, I was very surprised with my recent experience.

I phoned Apple last week to get the battery replaced in my 2011 MacBook Air, and the nice lady said that Apple won't fix it because it's classified as obsolete. I wasn't mad or anything; I kind of figured that would happen since the computer is eight years old.

What I didn't expect is that she had a list of independent, authorized Apple repair places at her fingertips, and e-mailed me the information for a few. Even in the craptastic low-end town I live in, there were three options. I was very surprised.

Brought my computer in, and the price is $180 — $130 for the battery, and $50 for the labor. Seems about right. When I priced the battery replacement last year (before it was "obsolete"), it was $130. I guess Apple doesn't charge for labor.

There was an interesting sign in the store. It was an Apple sign, and it asked to be sure to provide the store with an e-mail address, because Apple may follow up to find out if the store's service was up to Apple standards. I thought that was very interesting.

I haven't picked up my computer yet (the store had to order the battery). But I'm curious to find out if I'll get picked for my feedback.
...until it's your app that has been removed, your company that is going out of business, and the response from the rest of the technological world is, "Eh, collateral damage. Too bad."
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FWIW Apple devices can still download apps from multiple versions back (my ipad mini can download apps on ios 9), developers might just set a minimum OS requirement if they use certain new APIs.
...GNU provides pretty much the entire userspace on a standard Linux setup. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_GNU_packages for a list of software that's part of GNU; just a few examples are bash, coreutils (cat, ls, mv, rm, etc.), gcc, glibc (the C standard library used on most Linux systems), GIMP, and emacs.
I don't think that's realistic. You're getting genuine parts from Apple, not parts that fell off a truck in China. If you want the same margin, raise your prices.
If I understand it correctly Uber drivers must buy and maintain their cars as individuals.

That has to be more expensive than maintaining sizeable taxi service fleet. No matter how you make it Uber is taking 30-40% markup and letting drivers to eat the extra cost from this business model.
I think it is instructive to consider the mechanisms by which the soft and weak might overcome.
Of course this needs to be verified. At least they're making a move this direction.
AGI is becoming like communism in that it seems theoretically possible, might usher in utopia or be really scary, and apparently intelligent people often believe in it. Along that line of thought one can imagine a scenario where some rogue military tech kills 100 million people, and the world moves to ban it, but a small cadre of intellectuals insist that "wasn't real AGI".
iOS >= 11 has a native QR code reader in the camera.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208843

EDIT: 12 -> 11 iOS version correction
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Unfortunately, this particular program only includes iPhone parts.
This would be a pretty difficult change. Aside from backwards incompatibility, module names are both filesystem lookups and package stash lookups, and in most cases both of those are case sensitive, and it's entirely possible for valid programs to use two modules that only differ in case - at best I could see a warning that searches for a "did you mean?" but that sounds slow.
Hmmm, they'll have to start designing sets differently then. You'll often have the same element in more than one colour in a given set. Obviousl the colour won't matter to the person constructing it but to anyone viewing it, it certainly would.

Modified elements would probably need to be fairly descriptive:

- "place the 1x2 with the cylindrical protrusion"

- "place the 1x2 with the cylindrical depression".

- "place the 1x2 so that the rectangular textured masonry surface is facing out"
Am I blind? I can’t see a certificate mentioned in the link or the parent’s NEWS link...
That's a tiny, luxurious little subset of open source. Open source is also 500,000 other projects being worked on in parallel from which FAANG are waiting to exploit anything of interest. Underneath their open source software is a chain of open source dependencies all the way down to the bare metal where the developers are not even considered.
(Some of) the drivers are advocating for a (California) government policy (law) that would make drivers be treated as employees and therefore require their employers to pay minimum wage while on duty, have regulated minimum and maximum shifts with regulated breaks, etc etc.

Uber is saying don't do that, instead
proposing a new government policy (laws or regulation) of a minimum rate of $21/hour while providing a ride. Like minimum wage, this would be paid by the employer/client, but the government sets a price floor.

Note that how this compares to minimum wage for employees depends entirely on the occupancy rate for the vehicle: if you've only got a fare for half of the minutes in a hour, that's $10.50/hour which is under the 2019 California minimum wage of $12 or $11 for small employers.
You’re being downvoted for what, suggesting people buy their own vehicles? The downvoters conveniently skipped that you mentioned the primary option would be to pay the real costs of a private ride . Rideshare is a swindle against gullible, math-challenged contractors while painting the whole affair as a progressive, environmentally conscientious techno-inevitability.
How is an article about the role of beards in history “thinly-veiled misandry”? What’s with the MGTOW/redpill language?
Having walked this experience myself a few times. Borrowing from the GP: Repeats take an additional 3-4 attempts of 7 days over 1 year.
Well put!

Bad intentions are not necessary to build an authoritarian system. All it takes is enough good-intentioned people being unaware of the system they are building and their role in it.
That's the thing, though -- the labor theory isn't just "not scientifically valid." It clearly doesn't describe what is -- it's not how people value things, and it doesn't make sense as a description of what ought to be.
I love it when algorithms have such a real world measurable effect.
Is that based on total cost of ownership? AAA claims to have some info on that: https://newsroom.aaa.com/tag/driving-cost-per-mile/
This seems to be a reaction from Uber because they specifically do not want regulations to come into force on the issue. To me that takes it out of the baptists & bootlegger territory. Absent regulations getting involved, this is simply Uber offering better compensation.
Unions or not that change is coming.
In theory yes, but none of our implementations specifically prevent reallocations as we were not targeting this use-case. It should be easy enough to add though.
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I'd rather have all software sandboxed by default. It's a much better solution than walled gardens or "blessed" packages.
It's much easier for a company to do $goodThing if all other companies are also forced to do $goodThing. It's not necessarily good business sense for Uber to unilaterally do it while the competition saves money by doing $badThing.
Also touchscreens get filthy!
Personally I’d be shocked if Apple allows an independent repair provider to provide both OEM and third party parts. Their terms are pretty broad on their application page but they explicitly state they reserve the right to cancel your access for any reason. I can’t seem to find more detailed terms, but I’m willing to bet there’s something in their terms that would prevent this.
> I like the idea of taking periodical snapshots to have a feel that you are almost connected with your team mates

I hope you are being sarcastic.
Great writeup. Do you think there are stages (company size, age, revenue, etc) of Olark that might trigger the need for a total rewrite of your culture?
This wording is a little unclear. I’d have liked something a little more specific: “in addition to the incurred average costs...”. As is, it sounds like expenses may be part of the hourly rate.
The defining feature of a man? If so, why were codpieces in fashion?
> For example, maybe they have a great sense of humour, or give good advice

If they think failure to purchase a diamond makes you a lesser person in any way, I sincerely doubt either of those might still be true...
Sure, fair enough, I'm conflating the two for the sake of simplicity, and frankly because the idea of a "limit on wealth accumulation" is a fairly muddy distinction. (A limit placed by whom? enforced how? etc. Even with soft limits this would still be called "capitalism" would it not?)

I guarantee that most people, including the the person I'm responding to, do not make a distinction between market economies and capitalism in the manner you just did. He's talking about Star Trek utopia, nothing grounded in reality or history.
"Soft" keyboards on a touchscreen have a number of disadvantages, the biggest for me is that they take up a large part of the screen. I could use the terminal or edit source code just fine on my phone's screen, but only if at least 40% of it wasn't taken up by a keyboard. Secondly, I think you're underestimating the number of "weird" sequences of characters programmers and terminal users regularly type.

Sure, a proper keyboard and a table is always better, but there are often situations where such a comfort isn't available.
I dunno, I used to log several hundred hours of calls alone in a month on my iPhone (for work mainly) but now it's a lot less. I'm not thrilled about FaceID.
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Fair! But that many C-Suites in many other companies behave like this does not excuse Google or the behaviour of the other companies.

> I'm reminded of the bill burr bit, if a lot of women are throwing themselves at you, i wonder how many men would be able to be faithful.

I'm reminded of the Roman Triumphs of the republican era. Though the victorious general was paraded through Rome as a god-like figure, faced painted Jupiterian Red, with a full purple toga, there was often a slave very publically riding along in the chariot, speaking into the ears of the Triumphant :"you are mortal" and "look behind". Indeed, Cesar was killed by the Senate with small knives for being too ostentatious (among many many other things). Alexander the Great was killed by the smallest of things, a tiny little bug, likely the plauge (many theories abound though). Lincoln was killed not by great generals and massed armies, cannons and ships, but by a crazed and misinformed stage actor with a small Deringer and a single bullet. Hitler likely died similarly to a small mouse, in a deep and dark hole, convulsing and foaming at the mouth from eating something very bad.

Though martial infidelity by C-suite a-holes is not nearly the same as the deaths of famous men (in the case of the article, it is the exact opposite: birth), the lesson is the same: Memento Mori.
you're assuming that AGI is going to come from ML. While interesting I strongly believe that ML is not going to generate anything close to AGI ever. ML is more like our sense organs that it is to our brain. It can take care o processing some of the input we receive but I don't see it moving past that. super advanced ML + something else will probably be at the root of what could evolve into AGI.
Definitely, for debug builds. Eventually perhaps for release—LTO is one of the many things we would have to figure out if we go down this road.
I mostly use DDG and Startpage. But sometimes Google, when I'm not having much luck. But not via Tor, obviously. And even VPNs can trigger Google's "you look like a bot".

I used to love Metacrawler. And I see that it's back, but just drawing on Google and Yahoo!. Also by InfoSpace, Dogpile, which draws from more sources. But I haven't used either enough to say much.
Competitive forces prevent them from raising wages unilaterally, because their customers are extremely price sensitive. They're not going to commit corporate suicide over their ethical preferences, any more than most people would.
So what does that mean for that famous picture of the non bearded "Honeyed Cat" (a famous Condota / Mercenary then)
that's what he's saying?
Private businesses, especially banks, are free to ban guns (and may be required to do so). So while this might not work for the gas station next to the hunting club, it should be fine for the bank.
Their business model is not nearly as disgusting as the modern advertisig business.
If you were to stand on your porch with phone in hand, on the line with the police, and narrate aloud that your neighbor is out getting the paper, and what he looks like, and that he has a strange car in his driveway from the night before, etc. it would be immediately obvious how socially inappropriate and unacceptable this degree of surveillance is. The fact that we have not already codified a specific right or social norm against it is an accident of the fact that nobody has the time to do this manually, and most people don't know or fully realize that their neighbors' doorbells are doing so electronically. Any networked camera continuously filming a field of view off your own property is bad.
Exactly. And 60fps (which is not that high for many games) gives you 16.67ms per frame. at a 50ms delay you're already 3 frames behind.
What is the right payment for Uber drivers? Will 21/hr cover costs plus give a living wage?
That's the starting point before decing if it's good or bad.
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They think they can survive doing it, but their competitors can't (or can't survive it as well). They probably can't survive doing it if their competitors don't have to. Whether they're sincere about thinking it's a good thing or not is irrelevant to the practicality of the suggestion, and the suggestion only makes sense for them to make as a law.
I still remember the old days of Altavista, Yahoo, Lycos and Infoseek, to name a few. I would usually have to try several and comb through their results to find what I wanted.

These days, I'm getting a sense of deja vu, because Google is slowly getting worse and DDG is slowly getting better. Most of the time, I'll get the desired result right away, regardless of the engine I use. But sometimes, I'll be surprised at how bad the results are on one and then I have to try the other. And although it's not happening very frequently, I have to do it more and more often.

I guess that's good, in a sense. Sure, it's nice when things just work and you don't have to think about them, but we've all seen that lack of competition is, in the long run, bad for the users.
So do you really want a random supplier installing the Secure Enclave that verifies your biometric Data and ensures a secure wipe and encrypts your user data?

Have you ever had a repaired phone with a faulty touch screen?
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Great read. Though a bit unclear if using stale assets while updating? Guess that could speed it even further.
The economics of the situation aren't friendly to humans, because human intelligence doesn't scale up well. Take energy consumption-- once you're providing someone 3 square meals they can't really use any extra energy efficiently. So we try training up lots of smart people and having them work together, but that causes lots of other problems-- communication issues, office politics, etc.

Additionally you can't replicate people exactly, so even when Einstein comes along we only have him for a short while. When he passes away we regress.

Computers are completely different. We can ring them in power plants, replicate them perfectly, add new banks of CPUs, of GPUs, wire internet connections directly into them, etc.

This didn't used to matter because the old "computers can only do exactly what you tell them to do, just really fast" limitation. Now that computers are drawing, making art, modifying videos, playing Chess and Go preternaturally, playing real time strategy games well, etc we can see that that limitation doesn't really hold anymore.

At this point the economics start to really kick in. More machine learning breakthroughs + much, MUCH bigger computers over the next decades are going to be interesting.
That’s what, a few dozen devs and infrastructure, probably? Not at all outlandish.
No background in this, my layman interpretation is: Track a histogram with log-scaled bins. These are easy to increment and only takes up size of the number of bins in terms of memory. Two histograms from different servers can easily be merged together since they use the same bins.

But then I got completely lost in the math to show why this guarantees anything. What's actually preventing the scenario where everything falls into the same or just a few bins? (as so happens in the real world where all your data is of a relatively similar order of magnitude) For example what would happen if my data is random from 1 to 10? And on a different server random 1000 to 1010?
So first they evade regulations, then they propose regulations?
Is there any type of ultrasound-like equipment used by archaeologists that scans below ground and allows some crude-resolution view of whats below?
I don’t know. Take YouTube. For all its faults, it has enabled countless people to make a living, or helped artists get noticed. I personally feel having the option for everyone to publish content without prohibitive cost or other barriers is a massive achievement.

Sure you could go back to selfhosting. But monetization and, more importantly, discovery will not work that way.

Or we go back to the days of yesteryear with vetted and sanitized gatekeepers (also beholden to advertisers) in place.

So yeah. Until there is a empathetic, nuanced AGI/ASI in charge of policing content there’s not gonna be a good solution. That might take longer than a while.
And there are only two bus companies, most consumers have never seen a car, and the two bus companies have a lock on the technology and supply chain and aren't interested in promoting cars because cars would jeopardize their business models.
Based on what? they were selling cheap costume jewellery to the working and lower middle class, both of which were exceptionally squeezed by the 10 years of thatcher that had just ended.

Luxuries are typically the first thing to go for those close to poverty in a recession.

I would argue that Ratners were uniquely placed to suffer the worst in a recession, and that they hadn't collapsed during the aftermath of Black Monday is the bigger surprise.
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> 3. The insistence on branding sub-components of it and exposing that branding. Yes, it has a VM. Yes, it has a compiler. But why do people talk about ParrotVM and Rakudo as if they're different things? Java has a compiler and a VM, they're called "javac" and "jvm." This wifty "no, Perl 6 is the standard, the software you're running is Rakudo and Parrot" distinction is totally irrelevant to anyone actually wanting to write code, and weirdly confusing.

I'm surprised by this comment because this is how pretty much every language works. C++ has specs and different compilers with different names and has done for decades. As does C, Python, Perl 5, Javascript, PHP, Lua, LISP, LOGO, BASIC, Pascal, SQL and your own example of Java has different compilers/interpreters/VMs.

Often even in languages where the "spec" is defined by a reference implementation, you still find people building their own compilers or VMs for different platforms or use cases.

It's really quite common to separate the language name (and specification version) from the compiler and runtime branding. In fact that used to be the norm back when target platforms differed wildly.
> If you read up on the program it's more geared towards allowing customers to fix their own issues, and less of "lets go back to reliance on independent repair stores".

Where do you see this? The requirements of the program directly contradict what you're saying as you need to be a registered business, have an address in a commercially zoned area, and have an apple repair certification.

https://support.apple.com/irp-program
I've got to agree Raku is way better than Cameila.

Although I understand why the female developer couple would want a female name. It just doesn't sound like a programming language and shorter the better (nothing beats Ruby).
No, but they still haven't shown remorse for claiming those payments were held in escrow when in fact Brave held the payments, and planned to take them after 90 days. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736743
They want the government to force all their competitors to do the same.
I think you're right (and the article is right) about the particular timing, but I also think Baptists-and-bootleggers is a good way to understand why Uber would prefer this policy over the other regulatory proposals it's reacting to.
What would you call that type of free market system? Is there a real world example?
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I suggest you watch some videos by Louis Rossmann on youtube to understand the problems with Apple's repair policies. The problem isn't with Apple certified repair shops, but with independent repair shops
ceejayoz didn't say slippery slope - they mean slippery as a synonym for "tricky" or "furtive"

For example, "$21 per hour while on a trip" could mean that, if a driver takes a fare 30 minutes out of town then returns empty, they are only paid $10.50 for the hour's work because returning empty was not "on a trip"
Then the IRS is being generous, as most of the vehicles in that linked page cost less than $0.58/mile.
> Personally I’d be shocked if Apple allows an independent repair provider to provide both OEM and third party parts.

How exactly would they know? Just run two corporate entities out of one shop, with the grey-market one registered to a nearby PO box.
> Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures (2001), Breiman

> There are two cultures in the use of statistical modeling to reach conclusions from data. One assumes that the data are generated by a given stochastic data model. The other uses algorithmic models and treats the data mechanism as unknown. The statistical community has been committed to the almost exclusive use of data models. This commitment has led to irrelevant theory, questionable conclusions, and has kept statisticians from working on a large range of interesting current problems. Algorithmic modeling, both in theory and practice, has developed rapidly in fields outside statistics. It can be used both on large complex data sets and as a more accurate and informative alternative to data modeling on smaller data sets. If our goal as a field is to use data to solve problems, then we need to move away from exclusive dependence on data models and adopt a more diverse set of tools.

http://www2.math.uu.se/~thulin/mm/breiman.pdf
The flexibility is in what you buy. Rent is flexible in the sense that you can choose what to rent, and whether you have people paying with you (roommates). And so on with other expenses; a new Tesla or a 8-year-old used sedan? etc.

SV's problem is that even the minimum rent is pretty high, but that's a local problem, not a universal.
What is the right payment for Uber drivers? Will 21/hr really cover costs plus give a living wage?

Seems to me that's the starting point before decing whether it's a good wage or not.
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