skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We have some good evidence of this already, because repairable devices do exist even though they don't represent the majority of the market, and the specs are... basically identical.

In 2018, Apple has a 7% market share for laptops [1]. Dell has twice that, and every Dell laptop I've had was easy to repair. Sure, you now have to remove a few skrews to change the battery, but it's built with servicability in mind and the service manual is in the official downloads. Parts are all over ebay, or you buy new from a reseller (which I've done in the past). I've heard the same from Lenovo owners (22% market share). I also don't think anyone but Apple does Activation locks.

As far as I can tell the majority of sold devices are repairable with easily sourced parts, partly because there is market pressure to be repairable (from enterprise IT). I really don't see why legislation would be nessesary in this instance.

1: https://fortunly.com/blog/lap-top-market-share/
Core 2 Duo is indeed ancient, but it's still being sold.
An ultra reliable query for scammy products is "1TB USB flash drive." This product does exist in legit versions for about $200, but almost all of the (relevant to the query; many are for smaller capacities) hits are scams in the $30-40 price range. I believe these are mostly lower capacity thumb drives that have been hacked to report 1TB; this tactic has high danger for data corruption.

The fact that these listings are so easily gamed is to me a sign of something seriously wrong at Amazon. I know from experience how hard the abuse problem is (it was my job for a couple years at Google), but this should be Amazon's bread and butter.
None of those things would've lasted if the users didn't use the things created. Flash enabled video in webpages, games in webpages all things users flocked too and enjoyed.
For the JSON case, it doesn't make sense to use an empty object as a sentinel, for sure. JSON parsers usually have their own sentinel for `null`. Lua has a lot of issues, but `nil` being not-present hasn't been an issue that has come up a lot in practice. If you have any specific cases where that has been an issue, would be interesting to hear about them.
Casio solved that problem 40 years ago with 4 screws and a rubberband.
It is what it is, the same with soldered ram in laptops. Cheaper manufacturing + worse repairability == bigger earnings per quarter

Two screws on each side of the battery so it doesn’t move and a back cover with screws would get you the same waterproofing as glue. Instead a broken glass back will get you 600€ of repair in an Apple Service Center
Chrome DevTools has a builtin feature to simulate various color deficiencies: https://twitter.com/mathias/status/1237393102635012101
You're going to be very hard pressed to find any data to support your view. GDP growth has basically nothing to do with quality of life. For that, on the economic side, you would look at median real GDP per capita adjusted for PPP. For example, [1]. Raw GDP growth could boost that over time, or it could all flow to a minority of people and leave the majority of the population worse off, or it could go hand in hand with price inflation and corresponding drop in PPP, or your population could be growing just as fast as your GDP, etc.

Consider also [2], which adjusts a common measure of general citizenry well-being for inequality. Japan routinely is in the top 5 on this list while countries with much higher GDP growth are not.

As a third point, keep in mind that HN and reddit favorite "life is best here country" Norway rarely tops 2% GDP growth, and a big chunk of that is attributable to oil exports. If your population is relatively stable and sufficiently developed, you really don't need GDP growth to improve quality of life, you just have to properly invest your GDP in the right places.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Quality_Index

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_inequalit...
You can be, to a degree. There is a long tail.

Targeting the top influencers would be too obvious. There are a lot of minor influencers that add up to quite a lot, being in total very important. Facebook knows who they are.
What was the cause of the bad experience?
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This was mentioned in the context of Linux desktop/mobile UI, but applies to Libreoffice quite well:

> Open source development can't do good user interfaces for the same reason wikipedia can't write a novel with a coherent plot. The limitations of the development model do not allow for this. The old adage "too many cooks spoil the soup" is not a warning about lack of nutrition, it's a warning that aesthetic issues do not survive committees. Peer review does not produce blockbuster movies, hit songs, or masterpiece paintings. It finds scientific facts, not beauty.

From http://landley.net/aboriginal/about.html#selfhost
Canada manages pretty well with a "porous southern land border with a country that has a major outbreak". I wonder what the difference is. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/i-crossed-...
There are still plenty of places with 1/10X programmers.
A lot of it is regulated at the state level or county level. Just like you need a business license to open a business. And pass a health inspection or fire inspection. The feds defer to the states on commerce inside the state.
Hmm, that sounds like your experience. I know a few cosmonauts and everyone’s different.

Some people just laugh at everything.
Yeah; they didn't cite a great source about how repaired laptops can meet the need, they just had sales figures. I buy that unused computers in closets could help, but it's not clear how many there are or how broken they are. Also, lots of laptops actually are repairable. Maybe this is Thinkpad owner bias, but I've been able to find replacement parts for pretty much everything that'd broken on a Thinkpad. But at $150 to repair compared to $350 for a new, in-stock Chromebook?
I’m having this idea —

Amazon should allow only bad reviews or reviews that speak negative points about a product.
In addition to that amazon should show only the number of purchases made.

Fake (paid) reviewers usually write good about the product to support sales

As a user after reading the description of the product i would be interested to know where the product fails.

With this model, fake reviewers will have to write fake bad reviews on other rival products which is expensive to do and easier to spot them based on patterns.
No issue with the content, just a meta fyi/?.
I worked on this at Amazon a long time ago. One of the goals was to identify and consolidate items that were the same but where sellers intentionally (or accidentally) had split the listing. Amazon has lots of internal metrics showing how correctly matching listings reduces prices for customers and increases sales. Something like 5-7 listings was enough to find a market minimum.

The achilles heal for sellers is that their listings ultimately need to show up When searching for unique information specific to a particular product. They’ll often try to hide that in an unrelated field or in the description. Usually a seller uses the same “trick” for all their listings.
I don't think we should make any such assumption. What this looks like to me is that researchers have seen a couple different ways to trigger something that might be the same mechanism, but the overall way it works is still enough of a mystery that it's hard to say what the overlap is.
Have you looked at Keycloak like the article suggests? Always thought a SaaS around keycloak would be a good idea.
US tech startups accelerate hiring abroad in push to distribute workforce
Computer Programmers are almost all male in Belarus, but QA, Graphics Designers, Data Science, etc roles are very often female, which makes for a rather decent 70/30 gender distribution in headcount (2020 PVT numbers).
Responding to one of Carmack's follow-up tweets (https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1302652989610618882):

> Yes, it can be very impressive watching people using the power tools to maximum advantage, and sometimes is can be a dramatic win, but I usually think that it adds up to... a few minutes saved a day?

I think measuring the gains of text editing features in terms of time is a distraction. Expressive editing features take something tedious and make it effortless. It makes it easy to do something that I'd normally put off.

But the reason text editing features end up not being that important is that if the task is mission critical, you'll end up just soldiering through, even if it's tedious. Therefore it's an incremental benefit not a revolutionary one.

I like text editing features because I personally like being organized, not because I feel like it makes me a more effective programmer. It lets me indulge myself in keeping code organized without that becoming a time sink.
China = modern CCP

Vladivostok was never part of any inherited territory dispute which CCP inherited from ROC who inherited from Qin. Settling border disputes is not analogous to ceding sovereignty, i.e. CCP has no issues settling 12/14 border disputes, most with more Chinese land concessions. But when it comes to core sovereignty issues like Tibet, XJ, HK, Taiwan, part of the century of humiliation narrative hole CCP has dug itself into, they do not compromise on or at least have sunk too much political legitimacy in the last 50 years to ever renege on. Historic exceptions being Mongolia and 11dash down to 9dash in the 50s, when CCP was an infant. Contemporary loose end is pretty much Arunachal Pradesh which CCP is willing to package swap for Aksai China with India which will also resolve Bhutan border.
Then again a wrong system leading to a habit that does not align with your inner heart is worse than useless.

As anecdata I had a 400+ day chain going on https://750words.com/ ( a nice single person startup btw) but once I missed a few days I felt tremendously happy.

I realized that I was not getting anywhere (my writing still stinks to high heaven) and that my goals did not match with the habit.

Life is too short to make wrong habits.
People who read this would probably be interested in one laptop per child, which was a nonprofit effort to provide $100 laptops to students throughout the third world. There is no need to buy cheaper used laptops when the laptops can just be manufactured more cheaply to begin with. A lot of what people are spending their money on is the software like that of the operating system which is not strictly necessary for young students. The actual components of a barebones computer are dirt cheap.
Seeing how aggressively all the Big Co. optimize for more profits, wouldn't the reason be something like "Doing this at scale isn't worth the effort"
I'm just curious because I didn't find this supposed ad campaign within a few minutes of searching, so to me it seems like it might never have been an official thing at all.
Suspicious0bservers proven right?
TLDR: Some rich guys like to show off in front of attractive girls. Obviously, the market will provide. The girls are not idiots, so they will attempt to take advantage of their proximity to money. But usually, that's not working too well.

BTW, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't enjoy that kind of attention. The whole concept of buying drinks for girls has never appeared to me, because isn't that kind of a self-generated proof that your character is too boring?
I saw him tearing people down in 2015-ish. And for much less than this.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTiL1q9YbrVam5nP2xzFTWQ
If firefox had a setting, maybe per-site, to prevent text boxes from "helpful" editing key overrides it would be wonderful.

I have to use a web application that uses CKEditor for text boxes.

And just like you - the most annoying thing in the world - j I get: control-b is bold instead of back one character (one of my most commonly used keystrokes)

The other annoying one is control-k pops up a link dialog.

I tried to figure out how to override or disable it, but never got very far.
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That was a "Microsoft engineer", not any official stance or statement.
From which side? The obvious alternative for consumers is to go back to curation, which is what brick and mortar retailers have done since forever. Costco, for example, has a giant team of people that test, verify, and give approval on the few products that go on shelves so that shoppers know they are getting something legitimate and of reasonable quality.

On the marketplace seller side I haven't come across anything that really strikes me as a better alternative. Review culture is pretty ingrained at this point.
Check out browsergap https://github.com/dosyago/BrowserFace
"Women in this world were living props in a carefully scripted theatre that created real financial value for men – the promoters who set up the scene, the nightclub-owners who raked in the bar bills, the wannabe billionaires who used the environment to network. The women’s motivation was harder to pinpoint."

Hypergamy, status, intoxicants.
This. They are if nothing else very good at data analysis, and when you have achieved market dominance it is more profitable to hide the problem, attack people pointing out the problem, and buy out any one trying to solve the problem than to fix it yourself. They could fill every order today with a box of straw and see no impact at all to their bottom line.

What alternative do people have here in the US? Go to an actual store? I just went to a local Home Depot to buy a power tool. The store was basically stock out on the thing I wanted from every available manufacturer, of which there are 5-6 Home Depot carries. But I could go on the Home Depot website and get any of them. Amazon destroyed physical retail, and now sits on the rubble and collects rent. The supreme irony is that Amazon is now ... opening physical locations. They built their empire on the notion that a storefront is a quaint anachronism of the undigital dark ages, why would they do that?
Emigrating from Belarus to Poland is easy. Even if one of your grandparents has Polish origins you can get easily equivalent of USA green card. Polish governament is working on new law to make it even easier and available more broadly. Given Poland borders before World War II were covering huge part of today Belarus a lot of people can take of the advantage.

Regular work permit for IT proffesional is also rubber stamp. Nothing compared to cruel H1B.

I guess same as after Ukraine revolution, a lot of Belarusians will end up in Poland.
As if one's ability to blend depended on one's skin color alone, and that wasn't trumped by culture and language.
I don’t see why. Nvidia could keep new ARM CPUs away from Apple, but Apple has a perpetual license to the architecture, so Nvidia can’t forbid Apple from using the existing designs, from creating their own implementation of the ARM architecture, or from extending (possibly also from removing instructions) the instruction set to whatever they want.
Smartphones are power hungry. In order to keep them running for more than a few minutes they need high capacity batteries. In order to put suitably high capacity batteries in smartphones that fit in pockets manufacturers have gone to lithium polymer batteries. In order to get the most capacity out of the available volume manufacturers have done away with hard puncture resistant casings on the batteries, letting the phone chassis be the protective shell. Without a protective shell no insurance underwriter or regulatory body is going to approve the batteries as user serviceable.

You could make a LiPoly battery with a hard user serviceable hard shell but it would have far less capacity than a glued in battery. Not only would the volume of the hard case take away from electrical storage volume but there needs to be free space for the electrolyte material to expand when it heats up. Batteries heat up when charging and discharging in addition to heat absorbed from components like a phone's internal circuitry. Without expansion space the battery is just a small bomb.

Older cell phones and smartphones had far less power draw than modern smartphones. The old Nokia BL-4 batteries were around 800 mAh. The original iPhone's battery was almost twice the capacity and a modern iPhone is 3-4 times that capacity. Smartphones would weigh twice as much and easily be twice as thick if they had replaceable batteries with the same capacity as their non-replaceable ones. While you might be fine with phones being thicker most buyers would rather have the thinner and lighter phone if the extra weight and bulk didn't offer any extra run time. They definitely wouldn't go for phones that had a quarter of the run time because they could replace the battery themselves.

It's not a conspiracy, it's just battery technology and physics. Also concerns about safety by way of insurance liability.
Also, check out

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24091707
Firefox has a bunch of setting like deleting cookies and history on close that can be configured. I find that hard to use as a daily driver. For me, Firefox containers and uBlock origin works well enough.

If you do want to do some auto config thing, I think it’s possible. Owasp ZAP has a button that auto configs a session with a whole bunch of features changed. It might be worth looking into how they do that. There is command line flags.
I’m referring to nuclear capacity and abilities. I do not foresee the next War to be like the ones of old. Two+ massive powers competing will play ‘chicken’ until someone makes the wrong move.

“ If the button is pushed, there's no running away
There'll be no one to save with the world in a grave”

-Barry McGuire ‘Eve of Destruction’
I'm sure not all the ultrarich are like this, but so often I can't get over how truly awful these people are, especially for a man who made his Midas fortune in something that has no net benefit to society (yeah, yeah, liquidity liquidity, blah, blah, still think it's total BS that high frequency traders are anything but leaches on capital markets).
I knew about Fennel, but did not know about Lumen. Thanks for the pointer!

edit: Looking at the git history is very educational for how to bootstrap a self hosting system like this. Fascinating.
Of course it comes attached with a whole philosophy... Sometimes it's good to let go.
For Mozilla there's probably no Google-free future.

But for an independent Firefox foundation? Perhaps. We were never allowed to directly donate to Firefox to know the answer.
cool blog; author Ben Kuhn founded the Harvard Effective Altruism group, and wrote an amusing bit about "giving games"... etc
Except the only people branding BLM as Marxist extremists are their opponents, whereas the Nazis were actually Nazis.
Caveat Emptor - Buyer Beware

Nothing new under the sun.
Right to repair and user-replaceable batteries have nothing to do with each other whatsoever.

This misconception comes up every week on HN. I don't know where it came from, but I wish it would go back there.

Right to repair is important! Farmers have been suing John Deere to make it legal to replace the controllers in their tractors with an open-source board, because the company sells tractors with a license that requires farmers to use their 'authorized' repair networks.

Car companies get into this same game, and pushback is important: the playing field for repair should be level, when you buy a physical object, you should own it, and so on; all of this is good. Apple has lobbied against this sort of legislation, and shame on them.

But from where on Earth do you derive the right to repair your tablet easily and without any specialized tools from this?

How does that follow? What right do you have to demand that things be manufactured in a particular way?

I don't want my tablet's battery to be user replaceable! not as much as I want it to be thin, and solid, and resistant to splashes.

It's great that you want to buy those things. I don't. We should both fight for the right to be legally allowed to repair our gizmos, for the right of third parties to do that work, and even demand that companies which sell a manufactured good also sell the consumable components of that good, for some reasonable period after commencing manufacture.

And we should stay out of each other's way on matters of personal preference, such as whether batteries are glued in place or kept in a bay behind a door.
Ask HN: Any devs interested in exchanging help/labor?
Examples:
x hours of frontend work for backend work

Setting up AWS infrastructure for single page application

Database migration for ansible scripts, etc
I reach for my physical calculator that is always with me. Seems weird as it's less convenient that using spotlight in the moment and larger than my iphone 11. Just never got out of the habit.
NetworkManager is the one exception I'm aware of here, but I don't think any server distros use it. Using NM is also the best option for configuring desktop environments, so I wouldn't bother disabling its resolv.conf management functionality.
That's not "schizophrenic". He dislikes China insofar as it harms US economic interests, not based on their internal policies. It's fully aligned with his motto of "America first" - first means before everyone, including the Uighurs.

Frankly, it doesn't even strike me as that different from previous administrations (it's not like the US particularly cared about what happened to the East Timorese, for example), he mostly just seems more short-sighted, by focusing on money rather than power.
yes information needs integration which depends on the integration speed of the recipient. let's wait 40 years, future generations will become capable of handling parallel streams of wiki updates without breaking a sweat
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23661127
The trick the various Russian governments pull is to make sure the general populous is too busy surviving to be able to worry about let alone mount an offensive against the regime.
It's upsetting that this article is flagged. Is there no room for discussion of alternative views? Censorship is not the answer.

Funnily enough, it may actually harm the BLM movement. If there is no push back on protesters, they can keep escalating without fearing any consequences.

Ultimately, protests will get so big it will be impossible to censor them into a positive narrative.

In a couple months, say by Nov. 3rd, the protests could be so out of control as to tip the election. You're making your own bed.
What worldview? This is purely objective point.

If you have 5% of AMZN, Besos has 95%, I have none and AMZN stock doubles in value, you can easily calculate the outcome in terms of dollar gains and how much inequality had risen.
There's a Spanish proverb, “Cria cuervos y te sacarán los ojos”, “Raise crows and they will poke your eyes out.”

How many entrepreneurs and companies fell for the "law and order" discourse every authoritarian uses to gain power?
Yes and FB/Twitter != “the Internet” or even “social media.”

They happen to just own the largest scale implementation of that medium, much like a publishing house.
It's an old article. From my point of view I'm interested in hearing the story of the developers tasked to work on this kind of thing. Do they know what they're building and do it anyway because their manager told them to? Or are they kept in the dark and each build a small part so they can't tell what it's going to be? Or does the company estimate which teams would be ok with building something a little shifty and give it to them?

I'd be especially interested to hear any insider perspectives, from any $bigcorp