skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can only sell so many speakers to your customers. They're not disposable commodities that need annual refreshes. I'm not buying any more Sonos equipment. I was done five years ago.

Sonos is trying to deprecate their older models and introduce planned obsolescence. They had a program to brick your old equipment in exchange for rebates on newer models. That was totally wasteful and wanton, and the Internet called them out on it.

They have so many competitors now, including the tech giants which control streaming. Google is in a feud with them and could cut off access.

Sonos is in a very precarious spot.
The fact that the secret program he leaked was ultimately determined to be unlawful says he is vindicated and should be pardoned.

"A National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance program has been ruled unlawful, seven years after it was exposed by whistleblower Edward Snowden."

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54013527
No, suggests my experience. For me, after somehow squeezing through DiffEq, I met complex analysis, taught by the math department. I started the semester, got way behind, dropped it. Did that a second time. The third time my advisor wouldn't let me drop it, and I ended up with a gentleman's D (the only D in my life, aside from like handwriting in 3rd grade). The very next semester I took pretty much the exact same material from the EE department. I got it, I loved it, and aced it completely.

But 50 years later, I still have those gonna-flunk dreams.
Humans did too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrunken_head
> We should not be mass destroying usable devices

I'm fine with making companies pay for externalities of manufacturing, but if you own something, it's yours to do with as you wish.
As someone who has written academic papers and sometimes used such "fancy" words: consider that not everyone is a native english speaker. As a native catalan and spanish speaker, there are times where that "fancy" word is easier to come up with than the "standard" one (because "fancy" english words tend to be those that come from latin).

Your "ameliorate" example is a good one. In catalan, "millorar" is an extremely common verb meaning "to improve". Hence, I can easily see myself using it at some point, as rare as it may sound to you.

I'm not saying it is better to do it this way, what I'm saying is that instead of being so annoyed at the author trying to seem smart, maybe you can shrug it off as a quirk of those who are writing in a foreign language.
> There's an element of privilege in being able to afford a complete set of car seats for each car you drive

There's more of an element of privilige for regularly being able to drive more than 1 car (or indeed for being able to drive a car anyway)
The aftermarket for electronics is very cheap. They dont want to compete with their own/old products that cost 1/10 the price but for almost the same value.
Reddit is leaking.
> Show me potholes for miles in Lafayette, LA.

All you have to do is look.

https://tripnet.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/LA_Transporta...

53% of Lafayette roads are in "poor condition". 19% more are "mediocre". 12% of bridges are structurally deficient.

https://thecurrentla.com/2020/if-we-want-to-fix-lafayettes-r...

https://www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/news/article_430cb640-e...

> Show me all the people poisoned there from heavy rains.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2020/09/01/arou...

> Or all those people flooded out of their houses.

Really? Have you ever seen Louisiana? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Louisiana_floods

> Pick one and let's break it down.

We just did.
Sewers tend to have a design lifetime of 50 years, although things usually last longer. Expect to see a lot of sewer replacement projects in suburbs in the coming years. The good news is most of that can be done in pieces. The bad news is some municipalies don't have a good inventory of sewage infrastructure or a good plan to catalog it, so they don't do much proactive replacement, and reactive replacement of sewage infrastructure usually involves spills or backflows and is pretty gross.

It's a lot easier to find new money to build infrastructure to new residents than to find new money to rebuild aging infrastructure, of course. But, it's also easy to scale up or down infrastrucure maintenance to fit your budget for the most part. If you have a small budget, you clear problem pipes regularly, rather than replace them; if you have a large budget, you identify pipes that are becoming problematic before they cause problems and replace them, and build in redundancies when possible; somewhere in the middle, you replace the worst pipes when you can afford to, and clear the others. Few systems will outright fail and the city needs to be abandoned (but there was a story of one in the suburbs of St Louis in recent months... Although, again that was a long decline, not a sudden issue.)
No. As someone below said, which part of Apple's carbon neutral plan is this? Did you read the contract issued to the recycler?

EDIT: if you are down voting, I don't care. Demonstrate to everyone how much you value contract law over the environment.
Disney+ is already missing at least one Simpsons episode (the Michael Jackson one). A lot of jokes have also been censored or neutered, although some of those changes were already made to reruns before Disney+
It's unlikely. You're suggesting there's an even bigger bias but one which we've been unable to quantify scientifically to even a limited extent (compared to this study, which provides clear evidence)
Every time we have a conversation that touches on any serialization or configuration file format, it doesn’t take long for someone to pull out the flail and start beating on XML again.

XML might not be the best format for everything, and I for one am glad to use other formats for simple structured data. But when it comes to representing complex content, there is no other format that even comes close to being as useful and usable.

* All digital publishing of ebooks uses XML inside ZIP files.

* All contemporary mainstream word processors (Word, LibreOffice) use XML inside of ZIP as the basic file format.

* Automatic customized conversion processes from Word to InDesign or from InDesign to EPUB use XML at the heart.

* Let’s not forget the web itself, which is still mostly SGML in the form of HTML. Not XML per se, but only different in the details.

Not only is XML the only practical serialization format for working with publication content, but the presence of mature schema tooling is intrinsic to making publication automation robust in a given context.

I’m very glad for JSON and JSON schema in the domain of APIs. But in the domain of content data, it’s all XML.

Every serialization format has a domain for which it is most appropriate (whether or not it is the best choice in that domain.)

I’m really liking the shape of nested text for the domains in which I would have used YAML.
I'm pretty surprised considering what the fashion industry is to France.
Ironically the link you provided is like a cancer itself
No, no one should own a yubikey.

It's an entirely useless device. All you need is a pw manager that saves you from non-malware attacks (email compromise aside). Yubikey cannot save you from persistent malware, which makes it useless in almost all scenarios. The only hardware device that makes sense is the one with a screen (like trezor). Simple click-to-use devices carry no protections that you wouldn't otherwise get with a pw manager.
If you’re really that worried about it, save it in a joint taxable account. That way you’re “just” gambling away the preferential tax treatment (substantial) of 529 because you’re pretty sure you’d take the 10% penalty when it blows up. That’s much more equal bet than not saving.
I’ve already explained why the incentives don’t exist in the Android store.

Do you know what a paid exclusive is?
> "How have they blown it?"

this kind of negative press does filter out into consumer choices over time. and as @fivre pointed out, they're getting squeezed out by better-capitalized monopolists, losing market- and mind-share to the likes of apple, amazon and google. sonos doesn't have the capital to compete, and lost their first-mover advantage by stagnating rather than leading the market.

(i also block everything but streaming connections for my sonos at the router.)
Why not just make a github repo with a list of these in markdown?

All this javascript and html fluff is not necessary.
Is it, though? If the instructions in your "How to start?" section don't work, that feels more like a bug. I went through all the exercises and didn't find a point where this was relevant.

Currently, the initial HEAD actually contains the solution for a future exercise. It was also created by a different user than the rest of the exercises.

Maybe the detached HEAD should contain a README with instructions like "You are in detached HEAD mode, reach the master branch to continue"
How so, besides this
In a functioning society, Apple would be the one paying a fine for ordering the destruction of 100k devices that were easily refurbishable, not the company (admittedly in gross violation of contract) that took the matter into their own hands.
It’s not really “artificially limiting” the conversation to one aspect so much as it is logically limiting the conversation to the only truly pertinent aspect. “After they’ve been shipped to a facility to have them destroyed” is way too late to talk about if maybe they ought to have been reused instead.
From the author's follow-up article [1]:

How is this possible? Some of my planner colleagues will say it is density, but I've long rejected that simplistic
explanation. There is a lot more to it than a simple division problem.

He goes on to explain that the poorer areas tend to have smaller houses and narrower streets built on higher ground, all of which leads to lower maintenance costs. They were built with more frugality and risk aversion than the more affluent areas. This supports the thesis that Lafayette's predicament stems from extravagant infrastructure in affluent areas that wouldn't have been built without subsidies.

[1] https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/10/poor-neighborh...
In publications perhaps. I remember regularly seeing 3€50 in Greece I think and 3,50 € in Italy. Writing it differently and would look off or pretentious on a menu.
Digg, MySpace and Friendster weren't "over in a heartbeat". It took decay and lack of care with the platform, plus strong competition with strong venture capital funding. Plus, they were never as dominant or as entrenched as Reddit is.

Reddit is not going away just because you dislike it.
Live streaming video usually has a latency of 6 to 30 seconds, so in that context anything below a second is very low latency

Edit: the topic of my bachelor's thesis included low latency live streaming, so I hope I have at least some knowledge :)
Can you provide the actual numbers for comparison
Interesting presentation could also embed the relevant code in the pages
Depends on which suburbs you’re referring to. The north shore, full of old suburbs, has awful roads. Most of the side streets are un-maintained original cobblestone. It’s like driving on a wave pool.
Oh interesting I didn't know... when was that?
As others have said, some could be to control the supply of used devices to sell newer devices.

It could also be that the devices were some degree of defective, and Apple didn't want bad devices out there that could hurt its reputation.
You can get a DRM-free version from itch.io [1]. There is also a statement regarding MacOS, which reads:

> Mac users: I currently don't do builds for your OS since it got much harder with the recent policy changes from apple. Feel free to make a PR!

[1]: https://tobspr.itch.io/shapezio
I do wonder if they actually take your location.

I know in iOS a bunch of non-obvious APIs are attached to location permissions. Including access to your current WiFi network name, which would be used by Sonos to configure your speaker during setup.
The things you enjoy at the early stages of academe are not the things you do as you stay longer. Academic promotion exhausts the older/wiser people with teaching/supervising/admin work instead of using their accumulated knowledge to create new things. Of course, some students might be less naive and are actually aiming for positions per se. But I was one of those types who just wants to solve technical problems and get technical work done.
Point of order: grocery price rises are due to the pandemic, in part due to the cost of protecting agricultural temporary workers from COVID-19. World harvests of many crops have also not been good this year[0], which has also increased prices.

[0] http://www.fao.org/3/ca9803en/ca9803en.pdf
There's an assumption there that its not possible to design and build things that can be adapative and function across a much longer timespan than a modern big box store's typical lifetime.

There's also an assumption that the cost of have an imperfectly adapated building is higher than the cost of multiple building efforts over time. Since both costs are rather variable, it's hard to assess if that is true.

Claiming that private entities are immune (or at least, less susceptible) to the same problems of temporal discounting that clearly affects both individuals and many north American governments seems without foundation to me. There are many incentives in play for private entities to favor short term gain over long term gain, and significant evidence that this affects their behavior just as much as it affects individuals and governments.

I don't agree that it's straightforward to compare "net present value". Go and visit the WPA constructions at many national parks. Nobody would agree to them being built today, so even if you could establish the cost to rebuild them, the fact that there's no way we would ever end up replacing them makes it extremely hard to establish their value to us as a society.

But I don't want to defend those old energy inefficient, hard-to-maintain structures to much. I'm thinking more about what their construction actually represented in terms of a society's willingess to invest (inefficiently!) in the future, and in a more-than-barebones aesthetic.
> The growth Ponzi scheme hypothesis says that the source of America's infrastructure problems is subsidies from higher levels of governments (e.g., federal) to lower levels (e.g., cities) for infrastructure.

This is pretty clearly false; the main cause of infrastructure maintenance neglect is that politicians, like many leaders in other fields, get more career boost from new projects than making sure existing things are maintained. That's true from top to bottom.

There's policy contributions (e.g., California Prop. 13 makes local jurisdictions dependent on development fees and other growth-related revenue because property taxes are limited to a low nominal level and decline in real terms as property is held because of the limitations on assessed value increases to significantly below the historical average rate of inflation), but new-project subsidies aren't a root cause but a symptom of the cause which would exist even without the subsidies.
They are still committed to Indycar, Le Mans and FIA World Endurance but is all done from the US while the F1 program was more costly to run and also used engineering resources based in Japan.
> The most important skill in this area is ability to compose differential equation from the description of the problem.

This is called "modeling", and together with analysis and simulation is one of the three main parts of the theory. Where did you study differential equations? From my experience, it is typically taught that way, at least in the european universities that I know. Even in the most hard-core mathematics departments they may focus strongly on the analysis part (existence, uniqueness, regularity) to the detriment of a bit of modeling or simulation; but I have never seen those hidden. The "algebraic" solution of the equations is a fringe subject that is most often omitted, (except when it leads to a simple analysis, e.g. linear equations).
Half a Million Sharks Could Be Killed to Make a Global Covid Vaccine
The UK will be gone soon but Ireland is still a member.
Based on the article it seems like they got the number from IMEI activations or something along those lines, not via phoning home to Apple-ran services (since then they could have gotten iPad numbers as well)

> While some devices like Wi-Fi iPads won’t show up on carrier networks, which Apple says makes the total number of stolen products higher.
In Putin Russia, freedom has you!
Honestly just curious, but how can you describe them as complete scumbags but still have "nothing but respect for these guys"? Is it just a platitude or do you really respect them even though they are bad people?
They don’t mention cost compared to glass?
Interesting, I'll be sure to try it out.

And yeah I actually found the first couple of hours actually more fun than Factorio (at least once you know how Factorio works) because you get started much faster. But yeah, Shapez loses steam a lot faster too, while Factorio keeps ramping up.

I think the main problem of Shapez is not so much that there aren't logic or wires though, it's that (with the exception of blueprints) you only build disposable components. In Factorio with the exception of science packs every production artifact can be useful on its own which means that you build to build to build to build... Whereas in shapez once you're done making your "blue stars in red squares with a purple circular corner" factory then you can forget about it completely.
This sounds true until you hear the Sackler family speak, after that it’s clear they fundamentally detest other people and don’t care about the harm they cause. They wanted money that’s where the analysis stops.
They are usable in the market they were sold in and the environment is better protected if their disposal is done in a professional manner which includes accounting for disposition of any hazardous materials.

By sending to a "country of need" we immediately run the risk that end up in the countryside or disposed of improperly and that unless you just happen to land in a country with sufficient infrastructure to even support the devices they just end up as curiosities.

It is very easy to be altruistic when no analysis is involved in determining the true cost of such actions. As in, many ideas sound great on paper but are so unfeasible to actually worse than doing nothing.
> So, a differential equation must be solved not for a parameter, say x, but for a whole function.

Loved that line!
I think it's good for voters to learn about alternative voting systems so that they can push for reforms, but I also think that the mathematical differences between non-FPTP systems are less important than the other factors that distinguish them.

For example, FPTP has advantages in terms of being easy to count with paper ballots (avoiding the problem of voting machines that citizens can't inspect), and being easy for the voter to mark their ballot. Other important dimensions to consider for alternative voting systems are how easily opponents of reforms will be able to campaign against the change[0][1], and whether the reform, if adopted, might later be abandoned[2], resulting in one step forwards and two steps back.

With that in mind, the best strategy for reform might be to "tweak" the counting process of FPTP, but keeping the same ballots and districts. The tweak would be that after the votes for each candidate are totalled, the candidate with the lowest number of votes gets to assign their votes to another candidate, and repeating this process until one candidate has a majority. This is such a small change (and, it could be claimed, an obvious increase in fairness, because fewer votes are "wasted") that a party could argue that it doesn't require a referendum to provide a specific mandate for it, assuming it was in their manifesto.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_United_Kingdom_Alternativ...

[1] https://theprovince.com/opinion/columnists/mike-smyth-libera...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Burlington_mayoral_electi...
Clearly I must have misunderstood something, then. Reddit's suppression is obviously an anomaly, and in actuality the POTUS and his followers are dictating the boundaries of acceptable speech via their domination of academia, the media, and tech giants.
I've coined Euroenglish back in the 90's. It sounds much more funny than this.
> "And yes, this harmed America by undermining the trust that those countries had in it"

That seems unlikely. At the international level, it's well understood that alliances aren't permanent as de Gaulle's famous quote "[Nations have] no friends, only interests." illustrates. For example, Russia, Japan, and the US were allies during the First World War but were on opposing sides in the Second.
While I agree with the strong towns assesment overrall, I think this analysis may rely on some assumptions on the distribution of wealth and tax revenue within a population. Ultimately the "once per generation expense" in all of these towns was funded once per generation in the past. This money came from the federal government, and not the local tax payer - ultimately with the federal government taking on long-term debt to fund it.

While this seems like a ponzi scheme of perpetual growth, there is nothing that would prevent the federal government ( or the local government ) from repeating this exercise to rebuild the infrastructure. If we can't redo this exercise it means that

- Despite economic growth, the cost of replacing existing infrastructure is higher than it was a generation ago e.g. Cost disease: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol%27s_cost_disease

- The balance of payments in the economy is not well calibrated on a generational scale, profitable economic activity is not attributed on a local scale with free cash flows diverted elsewhere by rentiers/global financial flows e.g. a factory in annaheim california sees all profits recognized in Delaware/Ireland. The federal government/central bank may have more capability to provide local governments with finances than we would expect in such a scenario by rebalancing payments.

- The current US city landscape has real long-term economic costs that drain capital on unprofitable activities, immediate pivots in city planning are required to avoid economic fallout.

I suspect a little bit of all three options are at play, but I would be curious for more exploration on items 1&2. A great irony of the modern world is that the City of Flynn borders several pipe manufacturers.
To be clear, they were 'destroying' them to salvage reusable parts to move downstream to refurbishing shops to use to refurbish Apple devices, according to the article.
Is the cost of demolishing and rebuilding it so much higher than building it from scratch?