skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, it's a bit weird to see the replies here. If anything I'd have expected that the very... glorifying? title of the article would get more comments like yours that would put things into perspective. Rossman is good at repairing electronics and his channel can be very useful, but it's very obvious he also likes the big audience that he gets from going full on anti-Apple. I'm not sure why people think Rossman would be immune to incentives.

And FWIW I've rarely seen outright accusations of character assassination on here, even against wildly cynical comments, insults or when wild allegations are made. So again it's weird that your pretty moderate/balanced take on a guy directly relevant to the article is getting so many of those.
Apple isn't the govt
How does that work? I'm not aware of any ASICs that understand SCION packet headers.
> Customers “uniformly” want it to “stay like it is."

I'm a customer and I don't.
Sure, but then it's less specific. Maybe I want to upload photos with EXIF to my Dropbox but without EXIF to Facebook. There's no way configure the OS or the browser that way.
One holds your saved games. The other connects you to local emergency services, the global economy, your financial assets, your government, your family, your education, and increasingly - your health care provider.

To suggest they should be treated the same is downright laughable.

Yes, the underlying technology is similar, but their importance and impact on society is orders of magnitude different.
This guy literally owns his own, successful repair shop business, outside of youtube channel.

He also shown he is not beholden to his channel by creating thousands of hours of niche content on electronics repair for electronics guys like me at a time when no other electronics channel was too successful (eevblog was just starting).

Going your way anybody successful is automatically discredited because he is beholden to his business, regardless to how he became successful or what he is saying.

I don't see people moaning that anything Elon Musk says cannot be trusted because he has invested a lot of money into SpaceX or Tesla and as such he is beholden to his businesses.
It seems to me that Dorodango is what some people should do instead of mudslinging on the interweb.
Apple subsidizing the cost of iPhones with revenue from elsewhere in their walled-garden ecosystem would arguably be even more anticompetitive. Apple's competitors don't have the ecosystem advantage that would allow them to generate revenue from other parts of their business. Apple would be able to drive down their iPhone prices, while mainlining exceptional quality, which would be very difficult to compete against.
I learned to program with Flash MX 2004. I had no idea what I was doing but within a day or so I had made some pretty cool stuff that I was proud of. Was hooked from then on.
Completely agree. He spews contempt, anger and vile, brings out the worst of people and this is what makes him very appealing. It’s a reality show. Same way how Reddit hooks people in to outrage and justice gifs.

With regards to arrogance, it’s difficult to see his arguments for R2R while he is showing off his desoldering skills for a 170 pin BGA.

If you want to promote R2R, look at iFixit and EFFs efforts. If HN thinks Rossmann is the hero we should be looking upto, I think we’ve stooped really far down.
Having a seven figure liquid wealth affords you the freedom to step away from a toxic job, relationship or other situation. Things that induce a high level of stress for most middle class families like a $5-10k repair bill become mere inconveniences. College costs for the kids are manageable, health crises can be navigated usually.

Earning a massive salary and spending every last dime is a far more stressful way to lead one's life and likely much less enjoyable save for some short lived hedonic rushes when purchasing that newest toy.
The cartridges are hardware, the game within is software. Although yes, sometimes. I mean some cartridges like Super FX (Starfox) or SA1 (Super Mario RPG) SNES cartridges include specific hardware accelerators.
Even if it was real, odds are it would’ve been planted for exactly the same purpose.
Show HN: Wg-easy] Easy to setup, all-in-one WireGuard and Management Web UI
This is an opinion piece, not a research paper. Jesus.
As I said in the next sentence, apple is going to make sure that no app Store looks like theirs. It's pretty easy to do it too. Make sure app stores are only available to install from the Apple app Store. That way apple can look for any possible imitations.

The dissuading stuff was not needed. I was just frustrated with the line that some users are not tech savvy so all users must be equally restricted. It just seems unnecessarily black and white
If Charles Manson had said murder was wrong, we might have doubted his sincerity but hardly the point of the actual statement.
You have to uncheck the inclusion of location data every single time though. Really annoying and easy to forget. It also requires you (naturally) to prohibit apps like WhatsApp from accessing your photo library.
Show HN: Sonia – dev-env up and running with a single cmd on any linux system
If I am reading the trend correctly, we will soon see Trust/Security/Assurance move into more of a GTM function for B2B product companies.
I went from 40 hours a week to 35 hours a week a few years ago.
... you can't buy lifetime with money. I got the chance and took it. No regrets.
Show HN: Unattach – free up your Google storage by removing Gmail attachments
Hello HackerNews!

I have a full-time job, but love building productivity tools in my spare time. Some time ago, my dad told me that his Gmail account was full and asked whether I could help. I built a simple app for him, and later decided to make it into a product. With the recent news that Google is discontinuing free storage for photos, more and more people are facing a similar problem.

Unattach (https://unattach.app) is a desktop app for downloading and/or removing Gmail attachments from many emails at once. You can use it to free up your Google storage, which is shared between Gmail, Photos and other Google apps. For most people, using Unattach is cheaper than buying more Google storage; for tech-savvy users, it’s free.

The hardest thing about Unattach has been balancing user trust and commercial potential. The app requires edit permissions to the user’s Gmail account in order to remove attachments. Therefore, it is important to establish trust between myself and the user. Many users felt significantly more at ease if they could build the app from source (or at least knowing that they could), in addition to the app being certified by Google. On the other hand, the more revenue I receive from the app, the more incentive I have to continue supporting it.

The model I ended up with involves sharing the source code (under a restricted Shared Source license: https://github.com/rokstrnisa/unattach), so tech-savvy users can build and run it for free, and offering pre-built installers for a fee. That is, the software is free and the source is shared (though it's not “open source”), and users pay for the convenience of installers. The model has been working reasonably well.

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> Does GPL ever work this way?

it works very well for Qt
I find it funny, and also sad that it took a huge data breach showing the public exactly what was going on for Amazon to do something about it.

They don't really care about this because they get their cut from the sales and go on their merry way.

Maybe if they see sales take enough of a hit from people mis-trusting Amazon they might take a more serious stance on fake reviews.
I always used to get 'student prime' nags on UK amazon, until I got prime a few months back.
Interesting tidbit about lunar orbits: due to mass concentrations in the lunar subsurface, there are only 4 stable low lunar orbits.
> Just open youtube.com in a private window and you'll understand

Eh it doesn't work like that. Youtube is actually very good at reliably determining it's you who's in that private window and Youtube is even known to track you with WebGL fingerprinting tactics to determine it's the same device. Doing things like spoofing your IP and useragent and using private mode browsing doesn't work.

(I still get recommendations in incognito windows for videos I recently played no matter how much I tweak Firefox and mess with the browser to defeat tracking!)

Edit: Since Youtube fingerprints your device with WebGL[0], it builds a shadow profile tied to that device, so that even in incognito/private sessions, you will get recommended videos that you recently watched, despite the anecdotal claims of others that they don't encounter this.

The only way to defeat that is to use an entirely separate device on a separate network that has a different fingerprint.

[0] https://jonatron.github.io/webgl-fingerprinting/
I’ll second this - I work in ai and have been pretty disappointed by many of his interviews. I also hardly think that ‘humility’ comes to mind as OP suggests, he argues (often incorrectly) with guests on some of the most trivial facts. It’s one thing to not be an expert and ask poor questions due to lack of knowledge, it’s another to pretend to be all knowledgeable and still make baffling arguments.
Who would want to fly over Belarus now?
Average salary for a hitman is actually over twice that:
https://www.simplyhired.com/salaries-k-hitman-jobs.html
Punting responsibility to users is well and good until (for example) their IoT devices start doing damage under the control of Mirai. I’m not saying that a patrician approach is the only solution, but we are not each our own perfectly isolated islands.
> without a good recommendation from someone I personally know.

I’ve always thought there’s a big opportunity here for principle component analysis or other dimension reduction. The reviews you see could be filtered down to people who have reviewed other things similarly to you, like how Netflix gives different ratings for the same show depending on what else you’ve watched.

It’s almost like establishing trust. If someone has rated that USB hub 5 stars, you probably don’t want their opinion on a restaurant either. It would also give a real incentive to leave honest reviews, which would help collect data from the massive group that currently just doesn’t care.
It depends on the person of course,but I think also in circumstance.

If I want to tinker or aimlessly play with something,sure,artificial deadlines may not suit me.

But if I want to even remotely accomplish an actual goal,or build something,or even learn something concrete,I positively need a firm and ideally external and enforced deadline - otherwise I'll meander,change scope and direction,redo from scratch,try a different tool / framework / system / method /whatever...and generally never ever finish
The original quote is: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". ~Arthur C. Clarke
Not really.

Apple currently has the market power to keep Facebook and other similar scum at bay if they chose to (unfortunately, they're not doing anywhere near enough on this front).

Opening the floodgates to alternate stores would simply mean every mainstream service out there would require you to use that alternate store (isolated from Apple's enforcement) where all kinds of nastiness is permitted.
Wait, so you're saying that a majority of players can override any other player's entire RAM? That sounds like an amazing paradise for hackers and griefers :D
It would more be like if food safety inspections were optional, but only restaurants that opt in would be allowed to show a sign they were inspected either physically or on their web page. It would be trivial to be able to check for this. Door dash would show a sign saying which restaurant is safe to avoid being sued after an incident.

If you think restaurants and food safety is a good analogy it’s not a good argument for Apple in my opinion.
If Microsoft Designed macOS (Concept)
I'm looking for code that will execute the same on all CPU/GPUs, I found this one so far:

float rand_from_seed(inout uint seed) {
int k;
int s = int(seed);
if (s == 0)
s = 305420679;
k = s / 127773;
s = 16807 \* (s - k \* 127773) - 2836 \* k;
if (s < 0)
s += 2147483647;
seed = uint(s);
return float(seed % uint(65536)) / 65535.0;
}

Any one know if the methods in this article will work too?
I have sub his channel years before the R2R stuff.

One thing that can be said about him is that he supports R2R fro a selfish reason of being able to keep his business afloat.

> Somewhere along the way -- maybe after Apple had customs block some of his imports, or maybe after he started getting those fat YouTube checks -- he turned from an Apple repair guy to an anti-Apple advocate in virtually every dimension. (...)

WHO CARES? Who cares? I want my phone to be sum of more then 1 parts. I don't care if Rossman kicks puppies for fun. I don't give a fuck about that. I don't care if someone is supporting R2R because their turtle choked on an apple. Its as irrelevant as this example.

What I care about is clear pattern of slow creep of anti-consumer practices lately serialisation of parts is abhorrent. Before that - parts exclusively sold to the makes of the phones, design choices made with intention of making repairs harder.

And this is not only scourge of phones, if car manufactures could they would be renting you cars. If they could the car computers would lock your car till you pay them to fix 0x4525828 error.
> Repairability? Other concerns, things that change the day-to-day use of the device, should weigh more.

I don't think repariability is something you need to put effort into build into a product, it's something you put effort into taking out of a product. Apple's engineers definitely have things like what Louis uses for his repairs: board views, schematics, diagnostics software. Louis gets these things from illegal vendors in other countries who obtain them from Apple workers. If Apple just sold these things to him he'd be willing to pay but that's not in Apple's best interest.

Also, Apple prevents Louis from buying replacement parts because they make their vendors agree to never sell the components they use to anyone but apple.

> Other concerns, things that change the day-to-day use of the device, should weigh more.

This avoids another massive externality: recycling and the environment. Right now Apple's recycling program takes old mostly working systems and shreds them. There's a reason we should: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle in that order.

> So maybe only these component failures are left. Reverting to the old methods of replaceable components would likely re-introduce a massive class of problems that have by and large been eliminated.

The macbook repair community was at one point fixing a very common issue by replacing a component with a slightly higher spec part. The difference was 1/1000 th of a cent to 2/1000 th of a cent in cost or something like that. Multiple iterations of macbooks came out with this flaw until Apple employed a similar fix.

I think another thing that's important to look at is how other industries handle similar things. If you found something that was:

1. In a different industry.

2. Had a similar experience ruining issue.

3. Said issue was resolved by a consumer.

4. Rather than ignoring the issue for years they very quickly create a patch that takes the feedback from the end user.

We could then conclude that this adversarial relationship between repair professionals is: not required to run a profitable business, can lead to better products, and can make everyone happy.

I happen to have one such example:

- https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times...

- https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/03/developers-to-update-...

We can conclude then that Apple explicitly does not do this out of their own will. Apple doesn't have a hardware bug bounty. Apple does not acknowledge when a community member derives a fix for their product that works better then them.

I couldn't begin to imagine why Apple doesn't behave more like this. It just seems to make more sense for everyone.
Lots of talk about speed and size, has anyone noticed any cool aspects of the UI or basic OS metaphors? It looks pretty conventional to me, but in a little project sometimes fun ideas get put in places you wouldn't notice...

(Really I'd like to see something with the same kind of weird and divergent ideas as TempleOS but in a more accessible package)
Just as we’ve seen with Israel and China, the bullied have a tendency to become the aggressors. It could have gone differently had we not decided to back the bad guys of ww2.(Germany and Japan)
Give us your best-of list then lad!
I have a theory that how good someone is at something (soccer, the piano, programming) is directly tied to what they can put into their subconscious brain. The more that you can do subconsciously the better you are.

I realized this after thinking about skills like dribbling in basketball where first you get plain dribbling into your subconscious, then more complex dribbling, then entire moves.

Athletes always talk about when “the game started slowing down” and I always wondered if this was pushing a lot of faculties into their subconscious so they could operate at that speed.
Prince Charles: Small farms have a role to play in our sustainable future
There's third party services that performs reverse lookup of bad reviews to find the buyer identity and contact info. The whole purpose is to circumvent the Amazon customer contact process.

I left 1 star review for a product, and the seller tried continuously to solicit withdraw or revision of the review. I attempted to update the review calling out this behavior with screenshot of the email and Amazon wouldn't approve it. Ultimately, they replaced it with a product revision and immediately got another 20k reviews with near 5 star rating.

There's very little anonymity for buyers given all our digital crumbles. The entire digital economy's purpose is to track and identify you as a consumer. On top of this, how reviewers are paid via affiliates is the wrong incentive model. I'm not sure how this could be fixed, but I would be interested in a service that flipped the information asymmetry and gave me insight on the company selling the product and their trust worthiness. Company ownership would be icing on the cake since brands change hand so frequently (see example: https://toolguyd.com/tool-brands-corporate-affiliations/).
If there were two, or ten, food safety inspection groups, we could figure out which ones had trustworthy ratings. No need for end consumers to inspect every restaurant (every app) individually. That's what Epic is asking for - to have its own app store on iOS.
Concurrency vs. Parallelism
> Given the state of factory farming and our understanding of neurobiology, moral catastrophe is a perfectly reasonable assertion.

No I don't think it is reasonable at all.

> Animals suffer immensely,

Untrue. Eating chicken or cow meat does not require the animals suffer immensely.

Some farming, transport, and slaughter practices cause needless suffering. But others don't, they actually allow pretty decent lives for the animals.
Maybe it's time to start selling paperclips with an ebook (or any other digital goods) as a gift.
Most weak shots down the middle (by competent penalty takers that aren't a bag of nerves) are a conscious reaction to the keeper moving to the side the player hoped to slot his penalty.

If the keeper doesn't move, the ball is comfortably stroked/smashed past him on that side.
I'm getting "video unavailable". It looks like you missed a couple characters on the link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqAfzcJurMM

EDIT: I like this video better for actually seeing the process:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDSee1-4bUI
One of the last countries with existing government. Good job! The "journalist" was supporting west baked revolution to ruin and bring down this country to the level of other post soviet countries - which took this path before.

And there is no free speech here and other media.
1. India is most racist country https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2325502/Map-shows-w...

2. India is most corrupt country https://www.quora.com/Which-caste-is-looting-India/answers/2...
The Fishspear priority queue algorithm
Tether and Bitfinex Are Unacceptable: The Fundamental Divide
I don't think that Ryanair pilots are involved in diplomacy and want to risk their lifes for a foreign country.
That's the point, to rile up the population so much that the regime must either cave to whatever is being demanded of them or face an uprising.

Will it work? Very iffy - often the only thing worse than an autocratic regime is whatever fills the power vacuum its fall creates. Disorderly transfers of power are bad business.
This is unfair. He is a podcaster now that spans many disciplines. There is no way one can learn and be an expert at all of this.

Lex is a humble, open minded podcaster that tries to bring all sorts of topics on the table. Even uncomfortable ones like Anarchy and Religion. This is exactly what we need in times of a massive echo chambers of left and right.

I consider Lex to be one of the best, polite, and cordial interviewer that doesn’t inject too much of their personal agenda into the interviewee’s space (like Joe Rogan).

One of the best interviews was with Jim Keller where it gets a little confrontational and see how he deals with it.
You're exaggerating a bit. It's not completely objective, that's true, but...

"the retrial must be approved by the Director of Public Prosecutions, and the Court of Appeal must agree to quash the original acquittal due to "new and compelling evidence"".

I think this is reasonable - there's checks and balances in place to make sure that the evidence really is 'new and compelling'.

You're muddying the waters a bit with this 'better a hundred guilty go free' thing - you might as well not bother ever arresting someone then? Surely this should be tested at trial, which is exactly what will happen (it's not 'oh we found compelling new evidence so we're putting you in prison even though we found you not guilty before', it's 'we found compelling new evidence, so we're going to give a new jury the opportunity to hear the new evidence and decide if they also think you're not guilty')
Nice Start. Just other day, I was thinking about a feature that is missing here, and see if you can add it, is the possibilities of the blog and site to be alive long after someone dies, probably to the end of the internet. Even after their credit card stops etc. ( Probably for a one time fee, add tech that is distributed etc ).
Tech for disabled people is booming. So where’s the funding? – Rest of World
Belarus Military Forces Ryanair Jet Landing as Reporter Arrested
Except they don't make this chip - it's made by an external 3rd party. And that third party sells all revisions of this chip, except for the one used in MacBooks now. Rossman asserts that it's because Apple bound them contractually to do so - why would they sell every other revision openly to anyone with money, except for the one used in MacBooks?
Dev pays $99 each year for apple subscription. So until you make certain numbers, you are loosing money.
Giving the (somewhat silly) existence of all the colors of emoji, I think the best solution would be to have the software randomly pick a color every time one is displayed.

That's the best 'race doesn't matter' statement.