skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The independent repair program is designed to destroy independent repair businesses and mislead people in the process. It forces their customers to wait 1-2 weeks for any repair (even just a battery replacement) after being forced to provide their personal identifying information, and even then, does not provide parts for anything nontrivial at all. It ensures repair shops don't actually stay in business—customers wouldn't wait 1-2 weeks for just a battery replacement. Louis Rossmann explains it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPRjVvccQVM, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rCUF-V1esM
Or gpg
It's a bit of a stretch. There are plenty of alternatives.
There was one time though... When redhat went public, they gave redhat stock to a long list of free software developers that had made significant contributions.
I’m responding to the article, which called capitalism:

> A system devised to nullify human passions by keeping us focused, instead, on our interests.

That is the article’s argument, not mine. I am not sure why you are responding as if that is a position I personally hold and am willing to defend.

If you think I represented the article’s point poorly, say that instead.
However, can a social science framework actually predict what would happen, rather than postdict (after it happened).

If so, why didn't they make such predictions in 2012 during Facebook's IPO?
Of course it is. Industry specific regulation exists for all industries. This is nothing new.

Why do you believe that everyone else must pay Google's costs? Why do you think Google shouldn't pay its own way? It's a bizarre position to take.
"Github has told us that they are not able to restore our repositories - "I'm sorry to say that we aren't able to restore a branch or repository to its previous state on our end." So we will have to do it manually."

https://twitter.com/libretro/status/1295181352426516480
ICANN has been managing/backing it since 2011 (http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2011-October/008090.html), when the maintainers were sued by some random astrology company.
Well, we could make similar arguments about something like Chromebooks. You pay for the hardware, but then Google expects you to store personal data in a Google cloud data center. Your data and access to you is the product. They use pre-installed software, e.g., Chrome, as well as numerous other read-only, auto-running programs, and automatic updates, as a way to enforce control, including testing user behaviour through Chrome. The situation is even worse on Android phones.
Web development absolutely epitomizes this same technology churn.
Regardless if one personally sticks to older standards but its impossible to ignore the large section of commercial web applications that are just as much on the tech churn treadmill.
IIRC Las Vegas was originally the company town for the workers building the Hoover Dam.
The last part also has been a key impression from watching a bunch of Let's Plays. Beautiful world, but you are limited in how you integrate with it (which to be fair would be a crazy challenge to do really well, but still).
You’re the second person who has confused my paraphrasing of the article’s arguments as my own. I’m not sure who created capitalism because that is not my own argument. I am in fact arguing against the article’s core premise, albeit from a different angle.

Edit, here’s the key sentence from the article about capitalism, since I’m being downvoted:

> A system devised to nullify human passions by keeping us focused, instead, on our interests.

Systems are “devised” on purpose. You can disagree that capitalism was “devised”, just understand that you’re arguing against the article, not me.
No, that's not a fair take. I am saying that everyone is probably more akin to not knowing a darn thing about security (outside of HN caccoon) than people who are commenting here to setup their own security infrastructure.

Given the conditions of how ignorant large percentage (~ 99.999%) of the Apple customers are, I would trust Apple more than any other party to keep them and myself safe.

Can you imagine third parties siphoning off data, metrics, photos, etc. without Apple safe guarding user's interest?

I would pay a lot of premium for security if I don't have to do it myself.
with skiing at least, that problem goes away almost entirely once you can confidently get down blacks & double blacks. even short of that, congestion is only ever really a problem at the base of the mountain, everywhere else it is rare to even be within vision of ten people at any given time.
Ok, and if you sell or even give away your used item to me and I deem it harms me in some way? When does the litigation pain chain stop?
Back in architecture (as in physical buildings, not software) school, our professors always encouraged us to represent our ideas into diagrams to clarify our thoughts. This is a kind of designing and thinking feedback loop popularized by the Bauhaus.
I hear this argument often, but there are counterexamples like Minecraft, CSGO, World of Warcraft (one of the few MMOs that still have a subscription).

So it's entirely possible that Fortnite will stay.
I don’t think that’s true for all Apple Stores. I just got my battery replaced last week from an Apple Store and it took them a week to do it.
Here I give my analysis of what the best solution could be. Would like to know your thoughts too.

0. Lower rate from 30% to 15%
-Apple still has monopoly, nothing changes.

1. Side loading apps:
Not good! malicious apps can run amok, eg. $BIG_CORP$ will say - you will get 20$ credits if you sideload our app, and then surveil everything that is possible on the device. Here, we expect an average user to give all the permission that the app requests for.

2. allow secondary app stores:
-not good as it depends on the quality of enforcement in secondary app store. For Apple, it is in their interest to maintain app quality in their appstore to maintain overall good user experience in their device, but motivations are not same for secondary app store. May allow malicious apps which deteriorate the user experience/privacy similar to 1. And there will be a state where you will have to install 10s of app store just to install specific programs which is also not ideal.

3. Allow secondary payment methods:
-Average user will have to give up their payment info to everyone who asks for it. Most of them will not be trustworthy nor we can expect all of them to maintain good security standards for saving payment info.

The biggest culprit of all this drama is Apple does not allow secondary payment inside apps AND also, if you have secondary payment outside of app, they do not allow that price to be lower. There is no competition, thus Apple can get away with whatever it chooses to. Thus the monopoly.

4. SOLUTION:

a) charge a flat fee for reviewing/serving apps. If necessary, linearly increase it based on daily active users if they need more resource to support that app.

b) allow secondary payment providers (whitelisted only).

c) allow secondary payment price to be lower than Apple.

With this solution, there will be competition between payment providers which will drive the price down. Only whitelisting few payment methods which are trustable eg applepay, googlepay, paypal, stripe, etc will maintain security of payment data.
Maybe that would lead to 1000s of new possible libraries to use in your projects, some of them useful.
> Stallman's former view on this was always wrong.

Norms change and any norm that has been the opposite way for most of history probably won't stick around long term (unless current norms get enshrined in seed AI code or something). Give it a few decades and various forms of pedophilic behaviour (such as non-penetrative consensual (not in the current legal sense) masturbation of children) will go back to being politely ignored.

Whether that is a good thing I can't say...

I think it's more likely that anal sex will be considered wrong in 50 years than that the above actions will be considered wrong in 50 years.
This trend towards huge dependency trees has started to turn me off getting serious about learning software development. It seems like unless you want to make a toy program, you end up with hundreds of dependencies, most of which are made by volunteers who could decide they don't feel like working on it any more. Even having someone paid to do the work doesn't seem like it matters anymore when you consider that Mozilla just laid off a bunch of technical employees to focus on whatever else.

Are there any other solo devs who get "dependency anxiety" and don't want to start working on a project because you worry that you'll have wasted your time if one of the hundreds of dependencies breaks something, and there is nobody to fix it (like a crypto library for example)?
Just to jump on this: Guns Germs and Steel seems like it's not an isolated incident for Jared Diamond's less-than-ethical process.
https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/2009/04/22/new_guinea_...
Is there a better source? This article is hard to read. It jumps tense and confuses chronology repeatedly.
Big deal if true.

Initially I was of the mindset of open up at pace that keep hospitals not overwhelmed. Herd immunity would gradually set in.

We could get on with our lives as it would be just another cold / influenza style strain.

All the articles about reinfection rates were very scary. As it would mean years or decades of massive disruption.
You’re doubtless right about that, and it’s the same defeatist principle that’s let capitalism survive as it long as it has (aside from the natural fact that it concentrates power in such away that those that wield it are incentivized in keeping the structure in place).

Any empiricist can’t ignore the brash inequality of modern day late capitalism—thinking that, in spite of the many negative effects of this inequality, that it is simply “the best we can do” is in my mind a fallacy of affirming the present as the only possibility comparing it to failed regimes is also disingenuous in my opinion and a limited view of alternatives—we have novel ideas in play today, e.g UBi—the situation is not “capitalism or soviet era communism” as many capitalist apologists would have you believe.
It would be interesting but why would they?
On the other hand, Dallas is the hub of 2 airlines so well connected. With the rent money you save you could afford to take multiple mini vacations a year!
https://marc.info/?l=imagemagick-developer&m=104777007831767...

More info on the reason for the fork (at the time)
No I don’t. I’m not in the sticks - it’s a ~20 minute walk to southern cross station from here. I’m not saying how much I paid but it was noticeably less than $600k. My apartment is small for a 2br (It would be uncomfortable with a family) but I live alone and it’s great. It’s bigger than any studio apartment you’d find in SF for $3k/month.

The numbers work out because I had a decent deposit when I bought - which I should have mentioned above since it certainly brings the repayments down. And (I think) let my mortgage broker negotiate for better rates.
Yes, that would be a “remote copy” since it doesn’t require physical access to the u2f token.
Too much solar to handle evening A/C load?

Rarely does northern California have heavy A/C loads in the evening. Solar power output and heat load usually match well. But not this week. Usually, peak loads are around 2 PM, at air conditioning peak. This power restriction is for 3 PM to 10 PM, which presumably comes from evening A/C loads while buildings cool down.

Wind is all over the place, up and down by a factor of 4, unrelated to time of day.
Now I get what happened...

Look again: He (/u/egocentric) linked to his HN submission of his twitter thread about his experience. What you are referencing is the top comment in the that discussion, by someone else (/u/TedDoesntTalk) talking about their app. So your (understandable) ire is directed at the wrong person here.
I think there is a market for selling rights to browser extensions. Someone I know with a mildly popular extension got offered $10K by a buyer to completely take over.

This market might be one of the reasons why extension API powers have been scaled down.
> The problem was promptly fixed, and for the vast majority of us users, there was no down-time thanks to caching

I don't know much about npm management, but I'm assuming it actually had nothing to do with caching? More like most companies have pipelines and breaking dependency changes won't reach prod.
version 10.0.0.1: local config and data files backed up to cloud

(this actually happened to an ios app I had years ago - gas cubby - one day all the local data about your car - vin number, insurance info, mileage and more became cloud based overnight)
I see I pissed someone off. Whatever, you are who you are.

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2020/05/22/borehole-thermal-ener...
ADSB Exchange does not. https://tar1090.adsbexchange.com/

As another commenter noted, not every aircraft advertises itself using ADS-B, but the majority do - even military. I’m no expert here, but I think the distinction is that military aircraft operating outside of civilian airspace don’t need to. But some do anyway - I’ve seen a U-2 flying at 62k feet over the Southwestern US show up on ADS-B exchange. There’s no need for it to do so, as no civilian aircraft flies at altitudes that high.
You’re right—I called you out far too quickly, I’ve edited the original comment to point this out .

My apologies—that wasn’t a fair response to your comment.
Seems like a bad idea. Requiring a touch means it's much harder to trigger the key through software alone -- or maybe impossible. So someone has to actually be present at the machine. This is particularly important when, for whatever reason, the machine you can actually put your hands on is actually a gateway to other machines. You can ssh tunnel all you want, but somebody still has to physically touch the key for it to authenticate. Naturally, that only works if you authenticate at each level, and if you do not trust other levels.

The way we use them at Google, the keys are associated to particular machines and human accounts. You can't just remove a key from one machine and stick it into something else. It is the combination of the machine and the key that is enabled. A key can be deregistered/wiped, and assigned to a different machine...but you need to be properly logged in to make that happen. In the context of a corporation that is relatively straightforward, but perhaps for personal use it is less so. Actually, without the right infrastructure in place, it's quite likely to be a lot more complicated.
Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_attack the majority who attack humans are infirm and desperate. Doubt taking them out of the gene pool would do any long-term good.
If you didn't ping each other to see this within 15 minutes is a nice testimony regarding the reach of HN.
So, let's say hypothetically Epic allowed the sale of third-party skins in Fortnite. Would a skinmaker would be entitled to demand the following concessions?

1. The ability to install skins outside of the V-bucks store.

2. The ability to pay for Fortnite skins using payment methods other than V-bucks.

Alternatively, should Epic not be permitted to impose the following restrictions in their Fortnite store?

1. Skins must be approved by Epic before they can be sold. No x-rated skins, etc.

2. Epic will take a 30% cut of each skin sold.

What if I'm a skinmaker that wants to compete with Epic because I think I can provide higher quality Fortnite skins than they have made. Should I be able to demand to participate in the "Fortnite skin" market which is currently 100% controlled by Epic?
Internation freight may be travelling in some sense but the time differences for me now are huge.

Motorbike parts used to be airfreight. I am now waiting 8-10 weeks as it comes by sea.

I use eBay now because - as per sibling comment - it lets me filter by where the sender is. For little bits and pieces - silicon tubing etc - I can often find it in my own city. Otherwise I'd have to wait for it to come from America or China...
I was stuck in traffic for hours and had to abandon my car but I was on a mission to like your post so I managed to crawl all the way to my keyboard one suburb over to give this comment a like!

I have to say its not often that someone I don't know in person is annoying enough for me to actually remember their name from social media spamming but this is an example.
> Without benchmarking it, my first instinct would still be to design the schema in a way to avoid recursive queries, if possible.

In my experience that's a good idea. The query planner has a really hard time with recursive queries.
Hacker News Capitalism Defense Force is really circling the wagons and downvoting totally reasonable comments on this post.
shhhh. Don't tell those of us who don't like apple. We'll pay him to make the project unusable.
You’re getting downvoted because those kids with iPhones talk to kids with google phones and would know that Fortnight isn’t available there either, because Epic is also starting shit with Google simultaneously.

Edit: also it’s in bad taste to discuss downvotes on HN
Glad to see this, a great related TED talk by Allan Savory that introduces why this is true can be found here https://youtu.be/vpTHi7O66pI
Germany: Possible Legal Action Against Amazon for Price Manipulation
That's the kind of ads worth saving for future reference
Good luck with anything of non trivial types. Numba is awesome but also quite finicky.
Because the people involved have political and legal power.
Before your edit, it was not at all clear that you were talking about selling to people who aren't scammers.
> they could be replaced relatively easily

That's leaving a pretty big loophole there and in the case of SQLite you'll need that. To re-create something that solid will take a lot of effort.
According to this article, some people believed that
self-interest = capitalism and capitalism = safety. Very interesting.
You can, if the consuming system is format-aware. I think MSI can fall into that category.

I developed something like this to put an md5 hash in a comment in the first line of a code module at a place I worked. It simply read the file, removed that line, and hashed the rest of the file data to generate the hash for comparison.

This was just to stop programmers changing the code without submitting it to a secondary system for validation/tracking (easy to work around, but that shows intent to bypass policies when we see it in the repo).
The flip side is 12 people could run Instagram before acquisition.
I found the company helping farmers in Africa collectively build/buy silos the most surprising of these projects. As someone who spent much of my childhood in the Midwest I took for granted that silos and even co-ops would be a resource farmers would have.
i guess it depends on how familiar you are with the lambda calculus and the various "tricks" for representing data as lambdas.

from a quick look at the relevant section, it seems to be using [Scott-encoded natural numbers](https://fermat.github.io/document/talks/lam.pdf). i think describing it as "leaving S and Z up to some implementation" sells it short! the (quite beautiful) idea is roughly that you represent a number by a [fold/reduce]-like function that'll iterate the function you pass it (`s`) the appropriate amount of times, starting from an initial value (`z`).
This is incredibly simplistic, and to say "this obviously comes from a misunderstaning of economics" seems ironic, to say the least.

You're completely ignoring price signalling for a start, which provide information to consumers about price elasticity. You're ignoring asymmetries between producers and consumers, which hide information from consumers about price elasticity (and thus affect what people are "willing to pay"). You're ignoring things like decoy effects, in which manufacturers deliberately offer extra items at different price points because of the known impact on consumer psychology. Basically, you write as if consumers are driven by a rational and fully informed decision making process, when we know with absolute certainty that this is not the case, and that manufacturers/sellers have considerable ability to shift "what people are willing to pay for it".

Also, vastly more people buy those Android phones than iPhones, which makes it less clear if the market has failed to "make something compelling" to compete with iOS, or if there is a subset of the population willing to pay a premium for specific perceived benefits, real or otherwise, in the case of iOS devices.
I'm sorry to hear you feel afraid to learn more software development, but i think these concerns are largely unfounded. First of all, dependencies don't break just because they are unmaintained. If it worked ten years ago, it should still work now. For particularly complicated dependencies, there's a likelihood that they have bugs. But if they are popular, these bugs are often either things you probably won't ever come across or can work around if you do.

Finally, the beauty of open source software is that you can fix things yourself! Found a package from 10 years ago that works 99% of the time, but you just need to fix one thing or add one tiny feature? Not a problem, you fork the repo and add what you need.
Hah! Try node.js for anything non-trivial and shudder.
Well, at least he didn't create emacs. ;)
With regards to tech, I run a digital learning pod for kids ages 3-9 and we have a lot of families in product, hardware, software, machine learning and education in our group so we pooled together our knowledge and tried a bunch of different combinations to find what worked best for our group.

My priorities as an educator were for the kids to be able to jump up, lay down and whisper across the room. I also wanted to make sure the devices were safe (for small ears) etc. I wanted the kids to feel as much as possible like they were in the room with me. I didn't want to create an experience where kids had to sit still at their desk or strain to see or hear.

As a teacher, I prefer when kids use a mac laptop because when they screen share or use an app their image does not disappear (which gives less of an in-person feel). I like that they can open multiple windows, so for example, I can be showing them one app, while they're working independently - and I can see their face when they're trying to work independently. Otherwise it makes me feel less like I know what's going on with them.

The big downside with the chromebook is that it doesn't support a lot of amazing apps which are so great for learning, especially at a time when giving kids a fun app they can use independently is a big support to the whole family.

As much as I like a laptop, a lot of our parents prefer the ipad, however, because kids are a bit more free to move about the house. Also, it's considerably less expensive, which makes it easier for all of us to help keep access to our group equitable. We do our best to sponsor any child who can't afford our group but wants to join and we're trying to make this as scaleable as possible so we can offer it to more families everywhere.

Ultimately, this is the winning combo we went with.

Ipad (most recent version or possible)

Wide lens (so kids can move around)
https://www.amazon.com/Xenvo-iPhone-Camera-Lens-Clip

Airpod pro (by far the best for sound and most comfortable)
https://www.apple.com/airpods-pro

Ipad stand (so kids aren't constantly looking down)
https://www.amazon.com/Gooseneck-Tablet-Mount-Holder-Bed/dp/...

Hope this is helpful. Let me know if you have any more questions about our findings:)
And at the same time this system allows for a few people or person to do amazing things rather than build from the ground up.