skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The injuries usually have different causes though.

For car accidents there is usually human action or inaction at fault. It is possible for parts to be at fault but that's the minority of cases.

For phone injuries it is usually a faulty part at fault.

If someone sharpened their iPhone and went on a killing spree I don't think anyone would be asking which parts are inside.

Note that I support the right to repair. I just don't think this particular analogy is a good one.
I am a real believer in right to repair. But I wonder, if we are unable to achieve legislative results, what can be done to build hardware on open standards?
For the sake of argument, is there a limit to the number or kind of extra steps before you'd call it unusable? If "downloading VirtualBox and running a VM of an earlier MacOS version" became necessary at some point, would that be over the line?

I suspect there are corporate users who have policies that forbid running non-notarized software. That probably shouldn't apply to a game like Fortnite—most companies wouldn't consider it important, or perhaps even a positive, for their employees to be able to run Fortnite on their company laptops—but it would apply to other apps.
The core point your parent was trying to make is that Fortnite is not an open market. No one but Epic provides goods to the Epic store. Apple allowing third party developers is the distinction being made.
Apple has more products than an iPhone. In business you do not include the costs in that manner. Even without an iPhone, those costs exist and would be paid.
People clearly don't feel like there's anything they can do about the PRC, but BLM being a domestic matter (at least for USAiens) is something they might be able contribute to. Hong Kong is especially in trouble though, in practical terms. China cannot back down on the national security law if it wants to keep looking strong, both externally and to its own populous. So that makes for two scenarios.

1. Hong Kong loses its status as the gateway into China by being undifferentiated from the rest of China. This is the way it is likely going at the moment.

2. Hong Kong becomes independent and definitely is not a gateway to China, and actively hostile to boot. In addition it loses the cheapest route of supplies across the land border. It doesn't have enough land to support its large and dense population. This is particularly the case for fresh water.

Xinjiang is not better, being landlocked and with basically zero economic importance. At least it has some land though.
>This is not a console you play to entertain yourself, or even a PC for work: it is the foundation of modern life

OMFG. Is it just because I'm 56? Is it just because I've spent my entire adult life connected to the internet (barring a few early years where it was just Bitnet)? Is it because I helped start the biggest e-commerce company in the anglo/eurosphere? Is it that I spend all day in front of screens, connected to the entire goddam planet? Is it that I'm a grumpy old curmudgeon ?

The idea that the iPhone (or any network-connected portabl computing device) is the center of modern life just needs to die already.

If this pandemic didn't provide it already, just these few things are far more "central to modern life" than your goddam smartphone:

* a stable, diverse healthy food supply
* trash pickup
* a functioning, non-overloaded, sensibly priced and paid for healthcare system
* a mail/package distribution system
* fuel stations for your vehicle, if you have one
* investigative, non-suck-up journalism
* electricity (to charge your smartphone, naturally)

I could go on.

Your smartphone is not the center of your life. You have a variety of options for contemporary communication, and the fact that a bunch of you have decided that the most important one is the one that fits in your pocket and works anywhere there's a cell tower within range doesn't change the fact that it's the icing on top of the cake that is the rest of your life. It is totally amazing to be able to do what you can do with a contemporary smartphone, and no doubt they will get even more amazing.

But they are NOT the center of modern life, they are the black mirror-becoming-black hole sucking so many other components of human existence into their mundane, pedestrian and constrained vision of life.
> And if there were only two livable houses in the entire world, then that would be a completely reasonable position for someone to take.

There are more than two platforms out there. But even if there weren't, the fact that there's only N things in the world doesn't make your random claim on someone else's property any more valid. App Store is Apple's property. Build your own and host whoever you want there, but firstly you have to convince others that it is more valuable than the popular alternative. And if you fail to do that, it's not necessarily because the alternative is a monopoly, it may be and more likely is because your product is inferior.

> And that ignores the fact that it would be a serious problem if there were only two supermarkets that I could buy from.

Do you know the reason why it never happens though?

Your examples from the past just demonstrate that no monopoly exists without a government acting as a gatekeeper, like it was in the case of Bell and Union Pacific, and even then there was a place for successful competitors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Northern_Railway_(U.S.)

> So be careful about making analogies to the physical world when you're supporting Apple, because people might just take them at face value.

likewise, learn what you are advocating for, because mere quantity of stuff out there is never a justification for taking it over (and neither is your convenience), which my analogy was all about.
The stock price abides. They'll survive the damnation.
The TCO of an appliance includes warranty price, and the expected lifespan equals the warranty duration. If you use your apple appliance beyond 3 years, you are scavenging trash (good for you, but no expectation that the device will function). If $2500+ for 3 years of a laptop sounds bad to you, don't buy Apple.
The app store should be free as a complement to hardware sales.

"A complement is a product that you usually buy together with another product. Gas and cars are complements. Computer hardware is a classic complement of computer operating systems. And babysitters are a complement of dinner at fine restaurants. In a small town, when the local five star restaurant has a two-for-one Valentine’s day special, the local babysitters double their rates. (Actually, the nine-year-olds get roped into early service.)

All else being equal, demand for a product increases when the prices of its complements decrease."

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/

also, people should be speaking of monopsony: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopsony
Compression is the correct term.

Using symbols to represent bigger concepts is a form of compression. The representation/memory of an animal in your mind is done using symbols rather than an actual animal.

This isn't speculation. A animal exists in reality as construction of millions of biological cells each in turn made up of billions of atoms. Depending on how big the animal is it could be more atoms that make up your brain. Therefore, for the animal to exist in your mind as a memory there Must be a form of information compression. You cannot fully hold an actualization of an animal in your mind because it is too big to exist in your mind. Your brain holds symbols of the animal.

What happens with a jpeg is the exact same concept as what happens in your memory. A jpeg is a symbolic representation of the actual picture. It is a form of lossy compression because details from the original picture are lost.
You're right, but you're not. Yes, Epic is trying to make money. But if Epic is allowed to open their own store it would be very good for small developers. Those things aren't mutually exclusive.
This may be controversial (or maybe not, this is HN and not reddit), but there's a question I've never seen answered.

I don't really care about how easy it is to repair my phone, or at least not as much as I care about using iOS. I knew if my iPhone were to break I'd have to take it to Apple, so I pay for Apple Care (like I pay for iCloud for my backups).

I don't feel like I've been swindled. I feel like I made the purchasing decisions that reflect my budget and concerns.

Similarly for laptops. I had a Macbook Pro that died from a burnt out reverse voltage protection diode (probably cost less than a penny). Apple quoted me the cost of the entire main board. My next laptop was not a Mac, it was a device that was easier to repair and upgrade because that reflected what I valued in a personal laptop.

Why should companies not be allowed to compete along this axis of features? Why do we need to kneecap one business model in favor of another, and limit engineers ability to make design decisions because that business model is not viable?

Surely the markets have spoken. Apple's customers don't care about having a right to repair. If they did, Apple would be selling machines that could be repaired by anyone.
That's what the car companies said would happen if independent mechanics were fully allowed.
These are some great suggestions, thank you.

I think that we are going to try for the Chromebooks. The iPad's work okay, just not great.

And yes, I know about circumventing the internet. I worked at a middle school and know all the in's and out's of that, because I couldn't stand the restrictions myself.
There is a balance to everything. I sleep better running on proven solutions. Keep it as simple as possible. Focus on what your customer needs most and make that part rock solid, even if its boring for the dev team.
Based on my repair experience back in China, I understand and support Apple doing this. My opinion is based on the personal experience I had before, and I support people with different opinions.

Back the days (and I still believe it's the case right now) in China there are a lot of phone repair shops ran by individuals or small businesses, and those shops are not certified by any programs, they "operate" by someone has skills to repair electronics. I was tricked by them multiple times.

The first time I was repairing my Nokia N95 with a broken screen (N95 has an exposed "soft" screen), I sent it in to one of those shops; a few hours later, I got a call with an estimated price, and I accepted. Until months later I realized the price they charged me almost doubled the price it supposed to be if I went to a Nokia office service center. I agree I had some fault on this one, but I'm not a pro-consumer that knows everything.

The second time I was repairing a SE M608. Based on the lesson from last time, I refused the price they gave to me and want to get another quote from SE certified repair center. Then the latter told me my phone's internal components was swapped and no longer the original one. I suppose that was done overnight in the repair shop after I refuse their price.

Not to mention my friend got working components in her phone "repaired".

Then I never go to independent or 3rd party repair shops anymore, no matter they're certified or not, because I don't trust them.

I know HN have lots of people know how to repair stuff or able to learn from iFixit, but that's not for everyone. I strongly support Apple put more control and audit to the IRP or ASP to make sure they don't trick their customers. On the other hand, I also think Apple should sell repair components directly on their website, so anyone can repair by themselves if they want to.
wouldn't that be a monopsony (only one buyer of your goods)
One of my previous co. used Kafka and hacked something similar together on an internal Retool dashboard + DynamoDB. This definitely makes a lot of sense!

Will this work with Celery (python) configured with RabbitMQ as the broker?
How fast did it go for your last use-case? Disabling all the consistency and durability storage features is dreadful, to say the least, but I'd definitely be open to trying it if it means I can get it done quicker.

The algorithm I'm working with uses single-cores but is linear-time and in my experience is at least 10x-100x faster than the IO. Memory is actually the biggest problem with the method, which is why I need to use a database to back it to disk.
If I'd like to profile VCL subroutines, is valgrind the obvious tool to reach for?
"so we are “flying blind” to quote a U.S. senator. "

Quoting a US senator on technology is not exactly a strong argument. Like arguing about email security and quoting a senator on the technology committee saying he has never sent an email.

https://www.engadget.com/2015-03-09-lindsey-graham-never-sen...

In many cases senators are the least possible informed people on a topic, and are almost certainly not focused on the pure science of an issue. Quoting one of them pretty much means you are trying to sway me by using their position, not research.

Also, nothing that you quoted about 5G actually says it is unsafe. Saying that 2G and 3G are unsafe and that we don't know what 4G does, and that government doesn't want to investigate 5G, and that tumors of a certain type 'may be at least partially attributable' to cell phone radiation, and all of the other slights, all of that doesn't add up to 5G is unsafe.

This is the direct rebut to the article you linked, even from the same site.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/dont-fall-...

> On the strength of epidemiological evidence, cancer fears are dangerously misguided: While American cell-phone usage has grown from virtually zero in 1992 to virtually 100 percent by 2008, there has been no indication that glioma rates have increased proportionally in the same period—a nonrelationship replicated by numerous other studies.

About the author

> David Robert Grimes is a cancer researcher, physicist, and John Maddox Prize–winning science writer. He is based at Dublin City University and is a visiting researcher at the University of Oxford. He advises, across Europe, on the public understanding of science, particularly on vaccination policy and combatting cancer misinformation. His first book, The Irrational Ape: Why Flawed Logic Puts Us All at Risk, and How Critical Thinking Can Save the World, is now available from Simon & Schuster UK.
Stakes are lower. More time to achieve a certain net worth. Once I reach that threshold compounding growth takes over. Two centuries is more than enough to achieve this.
A much more recent quote from his website[0]:

14 September 2019 (Sex between an adult and a child is wrong)

Many years ago I posted that I could not see anything wrong about sex between an adult and a child, if the child accepted it.

Through personal conversations in recent years, I've learned to understand how sex with a child can harm per psychologically. This changed my mind about the matter: I think adults should not do that. I am grateful for the conversations that enabled me to understand why.

[0] https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#14_September...

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Stallman's former view on this was always wrong. But it is good to hear he has changed his mind, and I think to be fair to him, if one brings up his former views, one should also bring up his more recent disavowal of them.
Aquifers.
Easier to win 1 battle and set precedent for the next battles. Trying to fight 5 battles at once seems unwise.
The same UK had its CO2 emissions per capita peak in 1973 and lowered that number by over 45% since then.

Sure, some of that happened through offshoring, but still - it's nothing to sneer at.
I've been a fan of Harris in the past, but I've been getting sick of him lately. He's ridiculously pretentious, arrogant, and a massive asshole about communicating his ideas. He seems to come up with the most unpleasant argument possible. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised about him completely dismissing a respected viewpoint.

I don't know why I liked him before, except I was a young atheist, and I was angry. I guess now that I'm older the whole "I am very smart" shtick is no longer appealing.
No, they are stop hunting.
I think I am with Apple for this one.

It has always been a 30% cut, even when it launched.

Apple did not raise the cut when the iOS app market got bigger.

Apple pricing is not cost-based, it is value-based.

Why should their pricing be cost-based? Why should they try to do an Amazon by sucking all the air in the room?

If that value-based pricing strategy translates into billions earned, great for Apple.

It could also have translated into billions lost, if their app store had turned into a ghost town. I’m sure it happened to other platforms.

I can care less if Apple has high or low costs to maintain their platform. That’s their problem, not mine. If I buy something it is because I want it at that price. If the price point is above my perceived value, I will not buy and both Apple and Epic will lose revenue but again, that’s their problem.

Epic has the option not to use IAPs if that sales model is not profitable for them at any price point.
or choose both and compose with pipes! good for prototyping, maybe escalate to a single executable when the design stabilizes.
One of the more impressive things I've seen with electricity is watching a transmission line into a local neighborhood turn orange and stretch to drape itself across a pickup truck parked in the wrong spot. Took a minute to realize what I'd just watched.
a bunch of water and power right down the road in one direction, and a lot of population to attract to their gambling in the other?

Just a guess.
I have a single physical server for running all my virtual machines. ZFS is nice for everything else, and it just so happens that my database virtual machine takes up most of the SSD space on that computer. I guess I should have a dedicated machine if I really need to improve insert speeds though.
Yes, kind of like that. That’s basically the point of digital signatures (when they don’t have a bug to bypass them, like in this case).

They don’t treat concatenated malicious files as safe, they trust that files signed by MS are safe. You aren’t supposed to be able to concatenate a file and still have the signature check out. That’s the bug.

If you want a good reason why, ask McAfee about the time that they incorrectly detected svchost.exe as a virus and made every customer’s windows machine around the world unbootable.
Fun idea. GPT @ Home :D. Scatter of the inputs would be very cheap as they are tiny LongTensors (sequences of indices), but the Gather of the gradients seems like a bottleneck. These models can be quite large. Maybe each worker only communicates back some sparse or potentially precision-reduced gradients? In the limit, I recall papers that were able to only communicate one bit per dimension. May also be possible to further reduce the number of weights by weight sharing, or e.g. with HyperNetworks.
Hey author, why did you use the words "touchless" and "contactless" when it's not true and not even relevant to the technology being used?

There's something strange going on here, like this article was written by AI or something. It's using words out of context, or just making plainly/obviously false statements.
This is a red herring, here is the definition of democracy:
"a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives."

The US clearly fits in here. The US is not a direct democracy, but neither is any other country in the world, including Switzerland that perhaps is the one I know of that comes closest.
The point still stands that storing energy in chemical batteries for CA-levels of usage does not math out.
Oh, definitely. The point is they are both more common compared to the opposite opinions.
Wouldn't we see those effects on the animals and plants that live around the power lines?
> Most (if not all) of the restrictions on the App Store exist to protect users from app developers who prioritize their own greed over the rights of privacy and safety that Apple promises the users of the App Store.

If Apple was about user protection then one would expect there to be a way for users to opt out of their safety sandbox if it didn't fit users needs.

Their OS and store restrictions are about monetising the ecosystem as much as anything else, calling developers who try to circumvent the apple tax greedy while pretending Apple is doing this purely for user experience is some cognitive dissonance.
No need to kill yourself, we would just come up with some way to delete sentience from our minds or something, so we become simpler, happier machines.
So, I’m feeling the swindled part just a little bit. I had an iPhone 8+. Had a charging issue, apple care replaced it free of charge.

The refurbish iPhone I got, lasted ~100 days before the screen broke. Had to get a new phone. Now maybe I could have gotten apple care on that refurbished phone, but it was new and I didn’t expect to have issues like that
The mysterious history of the MIT License
All good. But iOS has a marginal cost of essentially zero. So its presence (or absence) has effectively no impact on the marginal cost of an iPhone.
so the federal government is building these cities?
I won 4 Twitter contests a day (every day for 9 months straight) (2015)
The problem here is K8s, to be honest. Microservices as an architecture has become synonymous with K8s deployment. K8s is overkill for anything that is smaller than, say, Twitter.

But it's cool, so everyone wants to use it, so suddenly we get bullshit like TFA.

It's like Agile. Agile has some great ideas. But now when people say "agile" they mean Scrum. And Scrum is so badly implemented in most places, used as an excuse to do all the things that the Agile Manifesto tried to warn us about in the first place. We end up at shittily-organised micro-waterfalls and everything is crap, but somehow that's "Agile".

Same for microservices. There's some good ideas there, but most of the time it's implemented so badly, increasing complexity and reducing managability. We end up with thousands of lines of spaghetti YAML organising god-knows-how-many of instances of god-knows-what when all we needed was a simple webserver, file store and database. And somehow that's "better".
> 30 minutes north of san franscisco...

California won't allow building a park bench there, much less a new major city.
Thanks! I'll have to try at least one run of this thin Cat6.
Treo’s were extremely relevant! It was a device that early adopters loved and inspired Apple to make the iPhone which “crossed the chasm” into the mainstream. (Read “Crossing the Chasm” to learn about early tech and its influence)

There are no competitors on the iPhone. The iPhone isn’t the anti-competitive issue, the App Store is! No one has a market share but Apple on that front.
Inside New Zealand's Quarantine Hotels
Industrial agriculture has plenty more problems than just cow farts and carbon dioxide released from disturbed soil. Still on the vein of CO₂ emissions there's the large amounts of industrial machinery, vehicles and other such things that are powered by fossil fuels and release large amounts of CO₂.

Then on the vein of soils, we're actually running out of arable soil. Soil erosion is a huge problem around the world and industrial farming is a large part of the problem. Farm plots are never left to fallow and replenish, all nutrients and organic matter are stripped out and replaced with liquid chemical fertilizers, that run off the fields and pollute waterways.

Not to mention, fertilizers, globally, phosphate reserves are beginning to deplete. At some point in the next 50-100 years, we'll have come close to completely running out. Industrial agriculture is heavily dependent on phosphorous.

https://foodprint.org/issues/how-industrial-agriculture-affe...

https://www.nrdc.org/stories/industrial-agricultural-polluti...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_phosphorus
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