skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can buy used Chromebooks that clearly came from schools for $69 at retail and substantially less in container load quantities. At the same time, schools say they can’t buy Chromebooks. There’s a disconnect here - these devices are supported by Google longer than the schools are keeping them.

Schools need to stop trashing perfectly functional devices as e-waste and should make them available to other schools and cities.

I use my HP G4 11” Chromebooks every day for software development. They are certainly good enough for school work.

I support right to repair, of course, but this article can cause harm to that cause. It mentions overriding activation locks. That’s bypassing security measures on functional products, which is not truly repair.

Should the manufacturer have a process to factory reset low value equipment? Of course. Still, I wouldn’t want to conflate that with right of repair
> Would you still give Uber money if they were shooting up Lyft?

In the current context, no.

If street wars between rival ride sharing companies was the norm, then sure, maybe, along with everyone else. People are remarkably flexible when it comes to necessities.

Cabbies have been known to be racist as hell to black people for a long time, that didn't stop non-black people from taking taxis.

> The voluntary support of their subscribers.

Ah yes, and if they abuse others I'm sure their subscribers will withdraw their support, of course.

Curious, what's the ancap version of something like CPS?
Android phones have routinely fit bigger batteries in the same form factor with the same water/dust resistances with much higher reparability.

The over reliance on glue does not make apple devices more "integrated", it only makes them harder to repair.
I suppose you could although the print path might be discontinuous.

Think of printing an 8' long rectangle that is 2 layers high.

If you print diagonally, the cross section is always the same.

If you print on a level, you get the 8' length divided into smaller sections that are pieced together. The cross sections are not equal.
From experience I’d say it’s near impossible to combine the two roles.
Especially if the company is small there is just too much: “we just need to get this done yesterday”, but at this point I guess that’s startup life.
Yes you could argue that it’s about priorities and that’s true. However I do find that this only works when you don’t have people sick, on holiday or whatever. The ideal situation just breaks down way too quickly
Not a serious revenue source for anything that's not the Firefox browser, no.
I recommend macports package management system, similar in function to BSD ports collection. Superior to Homebrew, the johnny-come-lately PMS with all the penguinista-style hype that seems to lean towards binary installs, unlike roll your own from all source in macports. Homebrew also does not honor the default privileges of /usr/local, which is an annoying security flaw.
This rang true for me. Systems are more powerful than goals.

One example I can cite is that I've always struggled to keep a diary until recently, when I finally got into a groove and did it for six months straight, not missing a day. Then my wife moved my desk, the habit died, and a week later I had missed too many days and lost the motivation to keep going.
Yeah, what people mean when they say "the rich" is "richer than me".
I think the concern is less about “people with DIY skills making informed tradeoffs” and more about “sketchy repair places using poor quality or dangerous batteries”. Then somebody’s phone catches fire on a plane and becomes a PR trainwreck for the phone manufacturer.

I also support right to repair, but I think we should be realistic about the objections and concerns the opposition has.
Oops, my reply is above.
I thought fraud was on the bank for amounts over ~ $20 (which is why restaurants don't bother to check signatures/ID for typical purchases). They are on the hook for chargebacks and low-level fraud.
IMO this seems like more of a clarification of existing law than actually new law. The only ambiguity has been "legal tender for all debts", where the businesses' argument is that they can revoke an offer based on how someone intends to pay. As things currently stand, one would be in the right to go into a "cashless" store, consume an item that was for sale, say you forgot your credit card, and offer to settle up in cash.
i.e. that trackpad UX is great, but standard mouse UX is terrible?
> The problem isn't (always) giving a lot of change, it's being able to verify that the larger bills are genuine.

That should be fixed by changing the bills' design to be more resistant to counterfeiting, not by effectively making them useless because nobody accepts them anymore due to rampant fraud. Most currencies in developed countries don't have this weird counterfeiting problem that the US dollar apparently has when it comes to higher-valued denominations (with "higher" apparently starting at 50$), so that's some evidence that there must be a lot of room for improvement.
Do you also carry a table deepcopy with you? What about string.trim?

And LuaRocks is a trash fire that doesn't integrate well with Lua's primary role as an embedded plugin engine and leaves you to waste your time in endless discovery of a slew of unmaintained packages that all do the same thing in different ways and with different bugs. Want to collaborate? I hope everyone is familiar with "classy" and not "oops" or "objectlua" or "Luaoop" or "lobject" or "classyng" or "klesi" or "halo" or "lua-c3class" or "pool" or "middleclass" or "Sunclass" or any other module that implements one of the half dozen official recommendations for faking classes with metatables or closures. It also becomes a huge "left-pad" risk.
> which is a good thing

Well, no offense, but things aren't that Manichean in my book. There are upsides and downsides to urbanisation. Obviously, public transport is an up in most cases, but there are also a lot of downsides.
Title is very click baity, this is just another kv store, completely unrelated to ZFS.
I lived in Paris for 5 months in 2006 and I loved it. Took the subway everyone and had no problem with homeless people (at least no more than with other major American east coast cities). Did get targeted by scammers once. I thought the subway system was great and the city was beautiful.
Because there are certain cases in C11 where padding can be legally observed because it is defined to be set to zero–brace initialization, for example. It is unclear what happens in this case when you do anything with the memory other than read it (for example, storing to a structure member, based on the current reading of the standard, may make padding indeterminate again–plus, is "memcpy" a "read"?). See here for some of the questions raised: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1793.pdf
I think you are right for deep work, but in my opinion it's getting to deep work that is the problem most people face. Having a deep work switch would be life changing.

Once I get into a deep work state, the ability to hold and reason about more of the problem would definitely be helpful.
I should rephrase. It’s not the ratio of Karens it’s the quantity of people with legitimate gripes. Flood with all caps as much as you want, Bob in Ohio who couldn’t get them on the phone when his product caught on fire and burned down his garage is going to have me asking a lot of questions.
"We" as a democratic society that can make new rules.
Sellers "sell" an item with a random person's address somewhere in the world. This allows them to make reviews without it being suspect that 100's of reviews have come from purchases shipped to the same address. In the past it seemed that Amazon cared more about items having a high rating than fixing these issues, but with the recent negative press it may have become positive EV for Amazon to start enforcing at least legitimacy around reviews.
The market disagrees — when I was sending out teams of people to buy laptops at retail during peak COVID crazy, those devices were in stock all over.

Chromebook is awesome from a management perspective, but you need to buy Neverware to chrome-ify the boneyard stuff, and you still need to deal with batteries, power supplies, etc.
You can transparently run homebrew as a dedicated user, prevent it from accessing your home directory, and only give /usr/local permissions to that user.

https://github.com/lunixbochs/meta/tree/master/utils/brew_al...

I have been doing this for years. The only thing it breaks for me is casks that try to install applications, and I don't mind.
Is it sector related, or referring to individuals? Personally I can see the wealthy and liquid-capital types being the top arm of the K whereas the middle and lower classes, as well as all those with small and family run businesses declining on the bottom arm of the K.
I'm just saying to verify what your provider tells you.
Agreed. Current US prisons are fucking awful. Treating people like animals isn't going to inspire them to be better. Drastic reform is necessary.
It is interesting that the hand drawn retro-projector slides have been replaced with computer graphic ones. It reminded me of the upgrades in the original Star Trek series for the Blue Ray release.
I used to buy things by going to amazon, searching for the type of product I want, and then picking one based on user review. For ten years or so this worked very well and I didn't even consider buying things from anyone else.

Now the reviews and rating are meaningless noise and I have to pick out a product to buy by looking elsewhere, which also typically results in me buying things elsewhere.
Is the continued forced closure of so many businesses unconstitutional?
I'm not a lawyer, and the individuals I've spoken to about this topic are as ignorant of this subject as I am.

I live in San Francisco, where businesses I used to use everyday have been forced to close against their will for nearly 7 months. Is this not a breach of constitutional rights? If it isn't, why not?
What if the corner repair store does it? It's still the user's problem, but this time it's just because they went to a non-Apple store/non-Apple certified store. If the battery is defective, that becomes Apple's problem when it swells, starts smoking, or has 50% capacity within a year.
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Not you but 1 percent of the 1 percent
It's not enough to just have the direction be right. The markets are up, sure, so yes all my STEM friends are also "up" in a strictly directional sense with respect specifically to their bank/brokerage assets.

The gist of it is that if the stock market goes up X% and generates a billion dollars of capital gains, the percentage of that billion that Joe Schmoe gets is vanishingly small compared to Buffet or Bezos or Gates. Sure everyone is up, but most of the gains went to those that already have the most (by definition, since that's how capital gains works, yknow).
Why put anything in it?
I accept the downvotes but I still feel like "by-the-gut" parenting has serious downsides that shouldn't be overlooked.

It's possible being homosexual and raised in a conservative household has influenced that opinion, though.
I’m still not getting it :-(

What’s the harm in printing at the normal angle and moving the belt as needed?
Then subscribe to a paid plan and get more than that?
Not well known Masterworks - all different all strange tales in different genres and stories well told.

Our Fair City podcast
The Lost Cat podcast.
The Mabel podcast
The SHWEP podcast
The House of Sunshine podcast
We're Alive podcast

If you're ready for a challenge - The book of the new sun audiobooks. Deep, intense and multiple listens would be required for understanding - but very rewarding.
Then you restart, and /etc/resolv.conf is different again? Despite resolvd being disabled(??)
Keys having an expected layout in memory is not a problem, nor is being able to dump encryption keys from process memory if you have access to it. That's the security model these processes operate in.

Processes could conceivably put keys in memory in a non-standard way that is more difficult to write a tool to scan for, but the fact that they don't is not a problem, and even if they did it would not make it impossible to write a tool.
3-7 are "use pastels"
These are called perceptually uniform colormaps and are also useful for grayscale printing, as the scale will still be valid. This is now the default in Matplotlib (eg viridis, magma, etc)

https://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2014/10/16/how-bad-is-your-co...

I have found occasion to use Jet though, it's good for highlighting transitions between close values when the colour scale is large (but not large enough to use a log map).
I like the Pocket spam because it is a low key way to support the project.
Enforcement in Paris is getting more effective. A decade ago it was very rare to see them; now I seem to come across them about once a week.

I don’t think danger was a problem in Paris. They always work as teams of ~5 people and I’ve never heard of them being specifically assaulted (unlike, say, bus drivers, unfortunately).

In any case, London seem much better, both in terms of (perceived) safety and fare jumping. On the other hand, there are TfL agents everywhere (which is expensive, but you can’t jump the gates), and the fares are much higher.
los angeles is talking about making transit free[0] at the same time we just got apple transit pass support for iphone and apple watch[1].

while a lot of the pushback is from fearmongerers lashing out at the homeless on transit (which is a problem, but wider than transit, since mayor garcetti has been wholly ineffective for 7+ years at getting the homeless off the streets), i find that an ugly distraction from the real issue of "free" being too easily conflated with "worthless".

we all need skin in the game in the form of paying for our services to feel their worth and make better transit decisions. there's an argument to be made that a certain portion of transit benefits everyone, so everyone, in the form of taxes, should pay that portion (and only that portion). and sure, subsidize the disadvantaged for equal opportunities' sake, but don't make it free for everyone.

[0]: https://thesource.metro.net/2020/08/27/metro-to-study-and-co...
[1]: https://thesource.metro.net/2020/09/03/tap-is-now-on-iphone-...
It's a neologism being pushed by democrats meant to stick in people's minds as something that sounds true because you know if it's a graph it must be scientific.
You're right. I was thinking that "add-ons" like Pocket might be modularized enough so that removing those parts would be easy with every release, maybe even (semi-)automated. Like a "Firefox Light" version.

Maybe this could even be maintained by Mozilla, I would not care in that case. Just the bare core browser. You can always choose to install "the normal" Firefox if you want the "full experience", but for me a browser is just another tool, I don't need pocket and alike.
Long objects I think are the main draw in that this is one of the very few ways to make them at home. Whether it will work or not isn’t clear but it certainly is one of the cool things.

The continuous production is neat in that you might not want to print the same thing over and over. Say you are printing miniatures that you sell on Etsy. Order comes in, goes straight into the printer queue and all you have to do is toss it into a box and ship it when it’s done. Of course if you are producing thousands of identical objects then something like injection molding will be better. But if you are producing thousands of not quite identical objects, this would be a fantastic system.
As someone who is quite deep into this as hobby I have to agree. "endless" printing is a niche feature that would barely see any use. The reasons are:

1. Just look around you: Where do you see bigger than 300mm^3 (around the maximum size of common FDM printers) plastic objects? Barely any. Larger single-piece objects (or parts of them) are made from metal, wood etc.

2. To make things worse FDM parts are weaker than injection molded ones, your big parts will be very brittle.

3. FDM printing is inherently an unreliable process. There are lots of moving parts (the simplest FDM printer needs 4 motors, lots of belts, idlers, gears etc) and very tight tolerances (e.g. the print needs to begin 0.08-0.12mm above the printing plate; the whole priting plate needs to be very level and parallell to the printhead.). This is achievable at surprisingly low cost today (an entry level Creality printer is <200$), but it needs constant maintenance - meaning you need to adjust something around every 20-50 print hours. (I guess industry grade machines are better, but Creality is aiming for the hobbyist market.). So in practice your "endless" print will likely go wrong after a day or so making it useless.

4. If they dont go wrong slight misconfiguration or misalignment causes your prints to be ugly/faulty. And even a perfectly tuned FDM printer cannot reach the precision of an injection molded part. Just to get a picture heres a link that shows how many things can go wrong: https://www.simplify3d.com/support/print-quality-troubleshoo...

I am starting to think that FDM based printing is a dead end in the history of 3D printing (mainly because of reason #3). Likely the future is resin - a simple LCD resin printer has 1 moving part. But they need to solve the issue that most resins are nasty, toxic materials that you dont want to have around in your home.
Checkout neocities, i really fell in love with it.
It would still be lightweight and embeddable with common sense pure Lua functionality like classes and major utility methods like string.startswith/string.endswith/string.trim/string.split/table.deepcopy. You don't have to integrate a multiprocessing web server for different operating systems.

Instead you're left with bullshit community essays like http://lua-users.org/wiki/SplitJoin which shows pages and pages of different user attempts for one extremely common function, many of which explicitly do not work!

Lua has its strengths, but faffing about refusing to just standardize the right way to do things is super user-hostile.
For once I'm on board with a

"PLEASE SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN"

excuse for getting a law passed.
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See the other comment: I would have hoped that removing "modules" like Pocket would be easy enough so it would be feasible to maintain a "Firefox Light" version.
Lets write again. I'm not advocating in anyway for using caps or for the opposite.

I'm used to caps, so my typing flow needs it. When I have used keyboards without caps, I feel them wrong. (same happens when I use a non querty keyboard). It's a personal feeling, so I will not remap it. If others want to remap, and they feel more productive, its ok. But not for me, because I know i'm more productive with it.

The point on my comment was about RSI and training.
using the keys properly reduces injuries. Proper forearm/hand alignment, balance of shift/ctrl key, balance of the space-key....

Example:

Uppercase "A": What keys do you use?

1) Left pinky in left-shift / Ring or middle finger in
"a"?

2) Left pinky in "a" / Right pinky in right shift?

Using 1) stress the hand/wrist/forearm, using 2) is quicker, and more natural and avoids stress. This has nothing to do with caps-lock.

Trained typewriter use 2. I usually recognize if a trained one in the 70s/80s by the "obsolete" usage of capslock.

Then are are people like you, that were also trained and do not use it. My phrasing was too strong and rude. Sorry for that. I haven't realize this was a hot topic.

My comment was not to advocate for caps-lock, but trying to advice on typing training, maybe it can help someone. That was the original intention, list actions to alleviate a common injury. Training was not only repetition of keys, but also use the right position and key combinations.
Ya, there is so much information on raising kids that is just pulled out of thin air. So I started pretty much ignoring anything I see online unless it is accompanied with studies that are done on largish sample sizes.
> So with that logic, why not just make it free for everyone?

Why, indeed? This is a logical conclusion.
That was a period during which Firefox had 2-4x the market share it has now.

> How is Google convincing their competitor to help them in an antitrust case?

I hear that they pay them 450 million dollars a year (out of 500 million dollars in revenue.) Are you looking for another reason?
Interesting concept. One of my favorite mutations in humans is a single nucleotide flip that confers 19% improvement in working memory capacity. Substantially underrated. Would only work on embryos, of course.
Sure.

Kids have more computing power and information access thru their phones than what any school district should be responsible for.

No school should expend any resources whatsoever trying to monitor, filter access. They can't win.

I'm on the fence about internet access thru their libraries. Public libraries placing their computers in plain view of everyone doesn't deter porn surfing and so forth. So I don't even know if it's a battle worth fighting.
> Would you buy an iPad that cost say $100 more, and was twice as thick, so that you could repair it? I don't know, but that's not for me to mandate.

Ironically, Apple products pioneered the "glue everything, fix nothing" mantra AND costed the $100 more that you're talking about.

AFAIK, before the iphone all phones had a swappable battery.
My local school district provides Lenovo chromebooks to all 2nd - 12th graders. They are easily repairable and Lenovo has a self maintainer program which allows the school district's technicians to become Lenovo certified and perform warranty service themselves. This means quicker turn around and reduced price from Lenovo since they don't have to pay for warranty repair labor.
An anecdote: I bought some seeds on amazon a few years back and they ended up coming from China with a customs declaration filled out as "bookmarks". I decided not to plant them.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/ACtC-3eNO55-KL0ynsmXLT8...
What does “encode” mean here? If it is supposed to contain the whole state in one chunk, the space of possible deterministic algorithms is too huge compared to the amount of dust, so it can't contain that. If it is supposed to find small chunks and rearrange them, it will not be using any information from the dust, and with same success encoder could use just any set of 0s and 1s. To circumvent finiteness of dust One could use digits of an irrational number or simple counting, but that is a very strange definition of existence. By that logic every possible history is just a number, so everything exists. The Important question is how to construct these numbers, find them in the sea of other meaningless numbers.

I think Stephen Wolfram's idea of computational irreducibility is very useful here.
It says that most computations (even very simple systems like some of cellular automata) cannot be replaced by other computations, and even to verify that a number represents result of a computation, one have to carry out that same computation. So the part of the book where states of the simulation are computed out of order is simply wrong, the latter state of the simulation could not have been computed without computing the intermediate states, and all the methods of computing that state were equivalent to the person living through that interval of time.