skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of all the things to complain about, fire inspections should be near the bottom of the list. All of those regulations were written in blood. I'm sympathetic to the problem of established businesses lobbying governments for more regulations to impede the rise of competitors, but that's not the origin of all regulation. Many rules exist for damn good reasons.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24663718
Ask HN: What's today's equivalent of Bell Labs/Xerox PARC? Are there any in EU?
Some come to mind:

- Google X

- Microsoft Research

- Autodesk Open Innovation

- OpenAI (although an outlier in this list)

I wonder: are there any companies who do long shot, interesting innovation projects in seperated R&D department?

I'd especially be interested which ones are the most exciting in Europe!
I'm surprised Apple didn't perma-Activation Lock the phones after sending them off. They do that with the demo phones in the stores, although that might be a MDM policy or something.
The irony of course is that it leads to more situations where there are too many laws to track. Not saying your comment is wrong or anything, it’s just a funny side effect.
Recycling is better for your brand than the environment. Reuse dilutes your brand and reduces sales.
They should both be pardoned. They committed no crime. The public has the right to know what their governments are doing using their money.
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How different things could be if municipalities could run deficits?

Municipal bonds are almost like student loans in the US.
> As far as I understand the NPOSL-3.0, cloud vendors would definitely count as for-profit, and therefore not be allowed to use the software

The NPOSL doesn’t prohibit for profit licensees, it includes a declaration that the licensor is a nonprofit, which may (where true) in some jurisdictions increase the effectiveness of warranty disclaimers.

For-profit entities can use NPOSL software freely.
> it sounds strangely racially charged.

I have never heard this term, and a google search does not provide an accurate context. Your comment is very much contributing, as an earnest question, despite the downvotes.
If a company pays a contractor a certain $ value to destroy/recycle equipment such that it cannot be used again, but that contractor turns around and resells it, why shouldn't the company sue for breach of contract?

If Apple wanted to resell and have those devices reused, it could have done that itself and kept some of that value. Contractor was breaking its contract pretty clearly.

Whether or not things should be reused / resold is a separate point.
They say they're made from vegetable material (for the containers, I think) and wood for the window, but I don't know what that actually means, of course.
Don't know about France, but in Germany similar rules were of course introduced for the usual pretend reasons of child porn and terrorism. A short time later, minor crime investigations and then civil matters were added as reasons to access ISP data. So even if the law currently isn't used like that, it very soon will be and that was most probably always the intent. In Germany, accesses for copyright prosecution far outnumbered everything else, serious crime was only ever a very minor amount.
I looked into the Feather for a bit, but my experience with the Pi is much stronger, so I felt more comfortable working with that after I determined the battery I'd need to power it wouldn't be too heavy to lift.
I'd assume to avoid the competition -- they absolutely know the numbers on revenue per device and can guess at services revenue from low cost devices. It's way lower than selling new phones.

If one were charitable, perhaps they couldn't be refurbed to Apple's standard. I don't believe they deserve the benefit of doubt there.
But, but...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24636166
(Apple’s T2 security chip jailbreak)
I know Apple will not re-sell devices obtained in a buyback/trade-in deal, but being confronted with the reality of it like this makes me think.

After boiling off the pragmatic trade offs, I'm left being slightly baffled by discounts Apple has decided are still economic with a trade-in.
Either the margins are that big that it is worth the points with consumers, or there is actually an equal advantage to the discount in removing a perfectly fine device from the second hand market.

The economics of "platform-providers" are very interesting and quite relevant.
There is no general answer. The judge decides and instructs the parties how to proceed. Contracts in Anglo-Saxon countries are usually much larger and regulate many more eventualities than one is used to in Europe. It is then usually a matter of presenting evidence in the sense of the specific wording of the contract.
He was going to keep writing but the loftmate unplugged his power.
Reading between the lines in Wikipedia, it seems like they were forced into a pretty hard pivot in recent years. I think people were pressuring the founder/CEO to switch to a different revenue model, and then he stepped down shortly thereafter.

It's hard to compete in this area for sure. I want a no-cloud, LAN not WAN speaker, but I think economics forces them to do the "Big Tech" thing ... That business model works :-/

It does seem like another instance where the markets are "broken" (or maybe not, I guess most people just like giving up their data, and they don't have subscription fatigue)

Looking at the last data point, I feel like they'll be incentivized to do more of this kind of stuff to improve the business.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonos

In March 2016, CEO John MacFarlane announced the company's shift to streaming music services and voice control instead of local playback, and laid off some employees.[25]

In July 2016, the company opened its first Sonos Store in SoHo.[26]

In September 2016, the company announced that its products would become available at the Apple Store.[27]

In January 2017, MacFarlane announced via the company's blog that he would be stepping down from his role as CEO, and that he would be succeeded in this position by former COO Patrick Spence.[28]

...

In August 2018, Sonos went public, trading on the NASDAQ under the symbol SONO.[30]

In November 2019, Sonos acquires Snips SAS, a privacy-focused AI voice platform for connected devices with the goal to bring a music-specific assistant to its devices.[3]

In June 2020, Sonos announced plans to lay off 12% of its workforce, close its New York store and six of its offices, and cut its top executives' pay by 20% for three to six months, in response to the economic disruptions caused by the COVID pandemic.[32]
Very true. Also it's difficult to judge whether “more good than harm comes of it”. I mean: I work in cancer research but maybe it would be better for the world if I didn't and somebody smarter would take my place
> And we continue to have roads and sewers and so forth.

Crumbling ones that don't receive all of the needed maintenance, yes. Potholes for miles, yes. Rail that breaks down daily, yes. Water systems that are one bad rain away from poisoning everyone or flooding a million people out of their homes, yes.

> They can't point to one city or town and say this city is no more because they couldn't afford their infrastructure.

Literally every city I look at can't afford upkeep on its infrastructure. They sidestep this by just not paying for all of the needed maintenance and only ever dealing with the worst emergencies using state and federal emergency grants. That's very much not the same thing as everything being peachy.

> In that time we haven't really seen any municipality go bankrupt

Only half of states even allow municipal bankruptcy by law, and _many_ cities require more money to come in from outside than they are able to generate themselves.
This is why I always liked the idea of automatic sunsetting of laws. If it worked as expected, pass it through again. If it had loopholes, patch and reissue (better than applying patch to patch to patch). If it didn't have the effect you wanted, let it slip by. It is always beneficial to review your work and analyze it. There needs to be a good mechanism for this to happen within a government and automatic sunsetting forces this issue on lawmakers. Of course, there are other things that can help too.
COVID-19 Lockdowns May Have Had Little Effect on Virus Spread
Could be a myriad of issues. In 10 years the People's Republic of China was able to construct, at a fraction of the cost per km, 16,000 miles of fully connected high speed rail compared to the California High Speed rail project that completed 100 miles in the same period of time.

I think its a total institutional failure - and neither Republican or Democrat have a solution.

From my personal perspective, China seems to be much more capitalist than the United States. And we have embraced extreme regulation preventing us from doing anything at all.
Precisely - I ignored it out of convenience. OxyContin could grow on trees for all I care - it doesn't matter who made it, and that property doesn't do anything to strengthen or diminish my argument.

To make the argument you're making, you would have to prove that it doesn't need to exist and was fraudulently made and promoted to deceive, not to help. The problem is that the thing exists, it has a necessary purpose for existing, and by existing it makes the world better for millions of people.
Escalator and elevator refurbishment projects are extremely lengthy because most of the replacement parts needed to overhaul old escalators/elevators are no longer stock items and need to be custom made. In the worst case, parts may need to be reverse-engineered, re-designed to be compatible with current materials and manufacturing processes, prototyped, tested, and made through limited-run production.

If an escalator/elevator is shut down for a few months (or years) due to refurbishment, it's because worn, but vital, parts of it have been removed for use as reference materials so replacements can be made. It is also possible that vital parts could be too worn for the escalator/elevator to operate safely until new parts have been made and installed.

I'll also point out that published information on the Runnymede project indicates that the current round of construction started at the end of 2018, involved the addition of three underground elevator shafts, and is expected to be completed at the end of 2020[0]. Unless you are referring to earlier work, your '5-7 year' timeline to 'clean an escalator' is a vast exaggeration.

[0] http://ttc.ca/Service_Advisories/Construction/Runnymede_EA.j...
Ah, I've been thinking about this, what we need to ban is this:

* The creation of products or services derived from the collection of users private information.

I don't expect Garmin to not track their users, that's basically the feature we bought when we buy their watches. Sonos/Samsung/Facebook/Google, who-ever, should be allowed to collect data on their users, BUT they should NOT be allowed to turn that data into a product that is resold to third parties.

For most companies that would mean the end of data collection, while not preventing those companies who use the data for creating meaningful services to do so.
One great thing about mindustry is you can play on mobile. Shapez says “mobile coming soon” and Factorio would be just about impossible to play mobile
Can you elaborate?

If I say "vegetables save you from cancer" that implies a causation, wouldn't you agree? Just because it does not explicitly say "cause" it still very clearly says "if you do X, Y will happen". Why do you think this is not applicable?
This has been bugging me quite a bit recently. The model I keep coming back to is some giant cellular automata embedded in a some sort of higher dimensional compute structure —- perhaps what we call the “big bang” was the randomly initialized start state, and everything since has been its update algorithm ticking along with an encoding of what we call “physics”. This plays interestingly with things like quantum mechanics - perhaps they’re the underlying implementation of “Math.random()” and things like entanglement are implementation details leaking through. Similarly, perhaps wave/particle duality is the result of some sort of legacy code built to deal with light as particles that got shoehorned into the current implementation’s wave-based approach (easer to simulate at-scale), and it only gets activated when the results are under observation!

It, like every proposed answer to the existential question, is both unverifiable and unrefutable, making pondering it somewhat pointless. Though it is good to know even our proposed higher-dimensional overlords haven’t solved the problem of leaky abstractions!
I am poorly adjusted, if that makes me insane, then I take it as a compliment.

"The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does. They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted." - Aldous Huxley
From the report:

> Despite simulating a number of hypothetical scenarios, we were unable to identify any
progressive sequence of failures that could have taken place on September 11, 2001, and caused
a total collapse of the building, let alone the observed straight-down collapse with approximately
2.5 seconds of free fall and minimal differential movement of the exterior.

Here's how:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQPWpY24B0Q
Fully agree. Apple has always been anti-environmental in just about every design decision they make.

Soldered SSDs? Proprietary connectors that change every couple of years? Lack of ability to take old mobile devices and run recent open-source OSes on them? Non-user-replaceable batteries? Everything about the ecosystem is designed to get people to buy new devices every 2 years.

I don't own any Apple devices. I just upgraded my desktop computer's SSD from 2TB to 4TB for a grand total of $400 and nothing more in manufacturing impact than the SSD itself and a cardboard box for shipping. I have a PC case with modern internals but a 10-year-old power supply and a 15-year-old case. How's that for NOT creating unnecessary trash on the planet?

With Apple I would have had to trash the PC and buy a new one because they solder the goddamn SSDs to the motherboard.
But in situ actually MEANS something.

Elucidate is unnecessary but not terrible - at least it's used in everyday writing. If I had my druthers, I would ask for a less cumbersome word to be used. Still, I think most reasonably educated people would know what it means without missing a beat.

Words like ameliorate are just wrong. Just absolutely wrong.
Not if it's legal for the addict (because mental health issue not criminal), but a crime for the pusher/distributor (because you're taking advantage of those w/ addiction tendencies).
I am a master's student, I think many times about academia vs industry for "research". Academia has a great advantage over industry: freedom, never dismiss it.
> The iPhone maker found 18% of devices shipped to GEEP were active on wireless carrier networks.

I'm sure other 'recyclers' played the same game, but this vendor was dumb enough to sell whole units with the logic boards or other remotely identifiable serialized parts.

Even a broken logic board has value, but the recycler should've destroyed the serialized parts before sending them off.
It is Reddit, Inc.'s house.
iOS 14: No longer charging
NewPipe 0.20.0 Released
Read your Twitter timeline in the terminal, using Nitter RSS feeds
If you sign up for the Advanced Protection Program, Google will allow you to use a security key without allowing SMS recovery.
Soul Not Found
Indeed, Marohn (the author of TFA) has been attacked by other members of the civil engineering profession for his criticisms of it (going against established "dogma" as he puts it).

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/3/18/what-happens-w...
> The drug may well have made bearable the last months of millions of people.

If you think that is a fair trade-off, how many deaths would you consider acceptable to gain the pain relief benefit? As an exercise, try calculating an exact number and then comparing that to actual deaths from the opioid epidemic.
That is an excellent idea.

For some people just getting the experience of going to a job (as well as a resume line) would really help them, and... we need some stuff done for sure in the US.
This is what keeps the federal government and federal politicians so powerful, most areas need federal funds to keep up with these expenses.
Ask HN: What's missing in the news about Startups and Silicon Valley?
It seems to me a lot of startup news on popular sites are either press releases about funding, tech dirt, or news about venture funds. Is there anything you'd like to know about startups that is not usually covered?
Sonos uses location data because it allows you to control nearby speakers.

The only thing that really bothers me about the mandatory sign-in thing (which is new ... there was no reason to sign in for the first 15 years of the product) is that their password flow sucks and I end up having to look up the password in my password manager and type it in. Would be much better if I could simply authorize new clients using my web browser, they way you do it with Amazon Prime Video on a new TV.
> as he actively tells people to directly go to non-https, that shouldn't be an issue for his audience

Actually it should be but they are uneducated.

> if you're so concerned you can mirror his content to a https site.

That is a poor attitude. In a scenario where that fixed things it would only fix them for one person.
Honestly a little surprised you need a permit for the standard engine power stuff. It's been ages since I've been involved with the hobby but we used to not need one until we stepped above E class.

Bigger stuff is fun but also hits the pocketbook a little bit more.
None. As I told to a judge in a criminal case I was asked to testify: if you want I can swear with a hand on the Bible or promise I will tell only the truth, but I don't believe in any of these. You can trust my word or not, these are the only options. No matter how many codes you have in place, there is no way to guarantee they will be respected by everybody at all times. That does not mean I ever did something wrong by intention in any job that I had, but this is coming from my principles of life, not because laws or codes.
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As much as I advocate structure, I’ve never gone down there path of formalizing any sort of sharing of personal info, even about songs.

However, as a lead I think it’s important to set an example by voluntarily sharing at least some of my personal life. It opens the space for others who need to vent. Not everyone on my team does- some just need to hear that others are people too, and some are probably just indifferent.

I do have bounds though- I never share inter personal conflicts except with happy endings or as amusing anecdotes (such as my young daughter refusing to wear anything but her princess costume), and while I try to encourage people to share news of life’s tragedies and triumphs, team calls are not group therapy. I’ll happily talk more with people 1-1 about real problems (tragically one of my team members spouse passed recently. We talked about her and their journey multiple times), but other than news of her illness and passing we didn’t talk much about it publicly.
Sonos have had me curious for a while. I often use in-home small bluetooth speakers and frankly i'm happy enough with them - i just want more of them, with more power.

So for louder, phone connected speakers would you still recommend Sonos? Ie i'm not sure i need the idea of multiple rooms playing the same thing. I'd love it, but my wife wouldn't hah. However i do want (decent) quality speakers in all rooms that i can play music on, and i'm largely satisfied with the bluetooth-phone experience. I'm just not satisfied with my tiny bluetooth speaker quality or sound level.

Any opinion of if i should look into Sonos? Or would cheaper bluetooth speakers fit better?

(edit: Sidenote, the voice assistant option is a downside for me. Otherwise i'd probably own a few Apple HomePods)
I 100% agree he did. I 100% agree that this counts as a service to people in those countries.

My point was that those things do nothing to add to the lore that he is an American patriot that defended American constitutional rights. The question of should he receive a pardon by a US President should should put significantly more weight in the service he did to Americans compared to the service he did to other people.

I don’t mean to come off as xenophobic or nationalist. However, the title American Patriot is earned for services given to Americans and the United States itself.

Patriot definition: a person who vigorously supports their country and is prepared to defend it against enemies or detractors.
Only superficially familiar with WebRTC - what does this thing do to get the claimed 'low latency'?
Cloudflare CEO responds to automated enforcement action within 1h on a weekend
Reuse might dilute some brands, for others it’s a key strength which drives sales.

I can’t name a tech company this applies to though, which is a shame.
Hey I know this guy! Nice work, John.

YITBOS
But that’s just cargo cutting statistics, mistaking correlation for causation.

If a person doesn’t have money and therefore buys a used phone and doesn’t spend on services, forcing them to buy a new phone won’t make them magically have money for services.
You're right but the thing you're talking about isn't life. It's a precursor to life. Life would stick around but the precursor wouldn't. It's like a hot flash in a pan starting a more sustainable housefire. The flash is gone by the time the fire is raging.
I agree with your point and disagree with parent. Fires are natural and are needed.

But I remember reading (somewhere) part of the reason Australia became arid is repeated mass burning by Aboriginal people. Anyone know how true that really is (or is not)?
Apparently if you dump glass into the ocean, within 10 years it looks like those decorative pebbles so it's actually a pretty good way of dealing with it.
Outlier is a bit of a strong word. Ruby and many others[0] implement it the same way. Personally, I think the way Ruby does it is the most intuitive. The % operator is a modulo, and there is a separate method for remainder. Even though I prefer this way, I'm dismayed that there are multiple ways of doing it. Like so many things created by humanity, we just can't ever seem to take one definition and stick to it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulo_operation#In_programmin...