skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But there's not much point having the right to repair if products are designed to be non-repairable and spare parts are unavailable.

A battery is a consumable and should be user-replaceable. It might be a bit fiddly, with tiny screws and fragile connectors, but shouldn't require heat guns and chemicals to remove adhesives...

(And if we're about to replace billions of vehicles with EVs, perhaps consuming the entire planet's supply of lithium, we should be thinking very carefully about how those batteries will be constructed, replaced, reused, recycled - and ensuring that we don't let capitalism create EVs that after a few years are almost as disposable as few-year-old iPhones...)
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Would the workers at Foxconn be better off if we took away their option to work at Foxconn? In general, if they thought that was their best option, it's hard for me to accept at that step an argument that providing them that option is making their life worse [than it would otherwise be]. Maybe there are a few more steps in the argument that make that position stronger?
I doubt I'll get it. I don't even get a discount on healthcare.gov. Mostly I'd like to see USA governed by its citizens rather than the rich. If they weren't rich anymore that might happen. Of course the point is that the rich won't allow this. The system will not fix the harms it was designed to create. If something like this went through it would probably take from the (5-1)% and give to the 0.1%.
You don't want to spend $300 to repair a $2000 laptop?

I'm still irritated that I have to spend more than $300 to buy a new laptop. It's a constant struggle to balance old man syndrome with reasonable sticker outrage.
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It seems to me China would generally be in favour of this. They're a large country with large internal consumption, and they would rather some of this money goes into their coffers than somewhere else.
Generally, fiscal paradise are small countries which have little to lose by lowering taxes (to local business), and a lot to gain by attracting revenues from bigger countries.

China's corporate taxes are much higher than 15%, so it's not like they would be directly affected by this. They might oppose the plan (I have no idea), but it's unlikely to be on an economical aspect of that's the case.
Then kindly reveal which Android devices are this crippled - not being able to install software the normal way, via ADB - so we can avoid them.

I also wonder: how can you develop on them? Android Studio would fail app deployment, the way you tell it.
Well, hand-wringing doesn't do any good. To me, it's a legitimate mystery, independent of how it should be I'm actually curious to understand why things are the way they are. We know people behave in reaction to incentives. So what are those incentives? How are they communicated? Why are they effective? I'm not sure what element of science it is (sociology? political science?) but it's an interesting problem - and certainly not unique to 21st century USA! I mean, these same questions are interesting to ask in many historical contexts when seemingly civilized, rational groups suddenly take a collective moral nosedive, to their own great detriment. Blacks not voting is a relatively mild case compared to the self-destructiveness of Germany in the 1930's or the USSR in the 40's-80's or the Cambodia of the 70's. There's plenty of other examples, too. Maybe if we can figure it out we can reduce the harm when it becomes an existential threat, as with climate change and WMD.
Just applied these filters - I think I'm going to like them. I definitely fall down the YouTube rabbit hole from time to time. Cheers.
I see this type of comment often when Fortran is mentioned, and it puzzles me. What are computers for? Mainly for games and websites, with scientific computation an obscure niche? I don’t think so. Computers are for modeling the climate, predicting the weather, simulating the economy, calculating the merger of galaxies, and designing airplanes. For any of these, the high-performing languages are Fortran, Julia, C, and C++. That’s it. Lisp, Erlang, and Smalltalk are wonderful languages, but not for this.
Yes another study reached similar conclusions over a year ago. It's good to have the results reproduced with a larger study.

https://feinstein.northwell.edu/news/the-latest/largest-covi...
This is not your feel-good story about a Twitter abuser getting their just deserts. Stephen Nolan is a pro-UK commentator in Northern Ireland. The “troll” criticized him saying that he was presenting a biased view with biased numbers of guests. That is the “defamation” here and the reason there is a settlement here is that people involved in these issues have had a long history of turning up dead.
> (arbitrary) limit of 130kph?

It's not realy arbitrary, it's the "Richtgeschwindigkeit" on most (all?) highways with higher speed limits (the speed which you are recommended to not go over by a large degree and where your tend to pay less if you get into an accident while going over it).

A bit above 130 km/h is a point at which the degree of death tend to noticeable increase in case of accidents, relevantly this includes the death of uninvolved 3rd parties.

> No one forces them to drive faster (

Yes, but other people drive fast and potentially into you, I have seen more then just one or two near accidents because of people driving noticeable above 160 km/h on highway areas where it was allowed but not recommendable due to the amount of traffic. And I don't drive a lot.

I also can forward the opinion my Dad has on this (who frequently needs to do multiple day trips spawning 300-500km/h and drives a car which can go ~200km/h). I don't remember the exact wording but it was basically something along side of:

A speed limit makes sense but 130 km/h is to low. Way to many drivers are way to bad on judging when the traffic allows you to go 180 km/h and when it is dangerous. To many people think that because there is no tempo limit they can go with 180 or more on a non empty highway and I have seen and been involved in way to many nearly accidents which likely would have been deadly (if they would have happened) which involved people going at such high speeds. I mean sure if the highway is empty and dry and I'm not sleepy then going with 180 km/h or even more can be quite fun, but I which people would only do so if the highway is empty and dry. [And then he went on, about people being even worse at estimating safe speeds if rain, fog or snow is involved and how he was more then once nearly killed by someone going way to fast under such conditions.]

(now back to my opinion): IMHO going fast is fun, but the highway is not meant to be fun it's meant to allow safe driving and going with really high speeds in the wrong situations you are not just endangering yourself. Anyway, idk if a cap at 130 is the right thing and there are also other factors like the environmental damage because of the ware of the rubber wheels, noise etc.
And that’s before Windows Defender falsely identifies your executable as a random threat and moves it to quarantine without asking. Who do you have to bribe to prevent that?
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I think most production cars cannot sustain that - to say nothing of their tyres.
I guess most top out somewhere around 200-225 kph (124-140 mph). And tyres even sooner - 160-180 kph is my guess.
I thought part of the plan is that non-complying countries get sanctions/tarrifs applied so your plan wouldn't be viable?
Awe is an interesting one to me. I think it could possibly be broken down into types of awe for more leverage. Similar to the way others have attempted to enumerate additional human sense capabilities.

It'd be cool to generate some "awe practices" which would be more like frameworks with which to generate awe. I imagine the more subjectively-open, the better. One person's Carl Sagan Cosmos-style Awe, for example, is probably another person's nightmare (I can share from personal experience in relating my own awe to others).
Pffft...you got it wrong. "Zem planez have been remotely radioed in!"
> But importantly, unlike profits, it's usually clear to which country a sale belongs to.

Is it? If I order something from another country, does the sale belong to the sending country or the receiving country?
they buy data under the stupid assumption that you gave it to whoever therefore its been legally made free game.
As of 1.9 :) https://www.igvita.com/2009/02/04/ruby-19-internals-ordered-...
As an employer, how do I prevent this.

Hell no is my visceral response (both initial and final).

I employ people and must act to keep their trust. I wouldn't want this, ever, and most people I have spoken with agree.
Safari has been doing this for years. The justification is partly because it makes the domain more obvious, especially on a mobile device where you have limited screen width. https://www.netflix.com.evilcorp.com would simply show up as evilcorp.com if only the domain is shown.
I remember repairing Acer computers back around 1994 when I was in High School (like these https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mChPlLDjtqg/WVJVkMm33rI/AAAAAAAAA... )

They were So bad... I remember they had "clips" instead of screws to remove the case.
Folk wisdom on visual programming
apologies for what is a typical beside-the-point-snipe, but is anyone else puzzled at the persistence of the [at] [dot] email dodge? surely spam scrapers added that one to their regexes eons ago
Thanks for this. That paper led me down a rabbit hole and I ended up with this:

Evidence of positive selection on a class I ADH locus

It seems unlikely that the selection was recent and associated with alcoholism, the modern phenotypic manifestation of the polymorphism.... Mycotoxins, from toxin-producing fungi found in moldy rice, can be converted by the host ALDH enzymes from protoxin to toxin, and the effects of mycotoxins can be further potentiated by ethanol. If the incidence of hepatic disease found in many East Asians, especially JPN, is related to the consumption of mycotoxins, then individuals carrying the deficient ALDH22 variant with lowered alcohol consumption would be selectively favored.*[1]

So it sounds like it isn't alcoholism that is being selected against, but instead resistance to mouldy rice born infections, which is correlated with this gene. That explains the geographic distribution quite well, too.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1821113/
Can't a person be upset about both? Why do you need to present a distraction here?
FWIW this is exactly the reasoning behind shifting Servo to VR (where it lived until the VR program was also cancelled), with the idea it could target somewhat bespoke environments where developers could design around any missing functionality.

It's very possible that if they picked a niche besides VR that it could have worked, or could work still, but it doesn't feel like good odds...
I know nothing about patent law but this strikes me as false. I cannot be sued for turning on a radio in a vehicle that I bought or rented. I've never heard of a court thats accepted such frivolous claims either, nor of any law that asserts such.

The manufacturer of that radio can possibly be downstream sued, sure. That sounds at least plausible if they're assembling said radio without proper license for the parts. But simply using a radio in my car doesn't strike me as something enforceable nor legitimate in any way.

How do you figure a user downstream could be sued for not licensing a radio in a car they bought/rented? You're claiming we're all legitimate targets at this point in the eyes of the law (anyone using a radio in a car) so I'd like to understand this.
In fairness, a laptop only has a useful lifespan of 3-5 years anyway. The more questionable thing is spending $2k on a laptop in the first place.

The Blade Stealth ran me $1300, which I thought was reasonable for what I was getting. I don't expect it to last more than a few years, though.
Absolutely. Their front-end is phenomenal, even if their back-end is subpar.

It's to the point where I use Robinhood to look at market info, then open my actual brokerage app to execute the trade. Robinhood is lightyears ahead of traditional brokerages in terms of UX.
Nope. I am in the free market too and my "best alternative to negotiated agreement" (BATNA) is dog droppings, ergo I have a vested interest to level the freedom of the playing field.
Interesting to see numbers, but what percentage of US adults have no underlying medical condition?

Maybe somebody can find a source for that.

For now they might as well say none of those hospitalized were vampires. True, but also not meaningful.
They might have done this to extract instruments, and if you can extract one then maybe you can just subtract it from the main recording. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081030201607.h...
People can buy software defined radios and effectively already have that access.
I understand your detachment

For me there is a clear connection from flooding the system with cash and/or negative interest rates with hyper-financialization

"Dogecoin, created as a joke, is now in an S-1 as a material item" -> I consider this an hyper-financialization episode

The objective of the comment was to provide an simple explanation to a funny comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27702432

I also consider monetary policy one of the principal factors for so many services created around money and cashflows

Its gotten to the point that there are whole business models mounted around money and cashflow which bring negative value to the world

Although I understand the detachment I don't agree, because now the comment looks completely offtopic and tagent. I wish we could delete comments in these situations
> I'd love a system where you get an allocation of, say, 30 minutes per year (and it carries over if you don't use it up), but that's not feasible.

We have that limit, it is called mineral oil tax.
Can anyone confirm this information is actually shared? Last month, I went through a background check for a new position which used The Worknumber. Not all data was present & correct (a previous employer was acquired and that goofed some data). When I was asked by The Worknumber to correct it, they wanted a W2 and said (direct quote from web form):

"Please redact or conceal any compensation related information on any documentation you submit. It is not permissible (either by law and/or company policy) for <new company> to view such information as part of your background check."

So can the new company actually get access to the compensation information? Is that perhaps a state law?
I wonder what percentage of that 65% would claim to be against taxation that is regressive without realizing that corporate tax is exactly that.
My understanding is that there are a variety of significant factors that disproportionately affect marginalized people that make it harder to vote.

Systemically, we're dealing with a population that has been systemically marginalized. They're disproportionately imprisoned (and therefore stripped of their rights to vote), disproportionately targeted for less opportunities to vote (less ballot boxes per person, longer lines, etc), and their cultures around voting disproportionately targeted and excluded (sunday voting exclusion).

Similarly, it's also a population that disproportionately cannot afford to leave during a workday, during work hours, to stand in line for several hours to vote. That disproportionately cannot afford to participate in civic engagement, due to being unable to monetarily afford the documentation and cognitively afford the brain space to ensure they're registered in time, remember the ever-changing rules around voting, know which candidates to vote for, etc.

And then, this very same population is fully aware that the people who are in power have put in place the very same systemic oppression that makes their lives more difficult, and the very same system of civic engagement has produced the system of their oppression. There's a significant amount of cynicism that comes with that.
Its not just that a large concentration of CO2 dilutes oxygen- in high enough concentrations it can be toxic. 10% of athmospheric volume as CO2 is lethal in minutes- concebtrations over 30% are lethal in seconds, which is why in cases of CO2 poisoning at high concentrations victims will not appear to have been distressed- they quite simply did not have time to react. There are approximately 89 cases of CO2 poisoning in the US every year, about 2/3 of whom are themselves emergency rescue personell.
> I think the reason was mostly AMP.

Safari on both mobile and desktop started doing this years before AMP was a thing.
No re-test in Germany, it's already expensive enough with costs about 20x as high as in the US.

But there is a long lasting ongoing discussion if license renewals should be introduced, at least for people above a certain age limit (70 or 80).
>If you are a bond holder, and the Fed buys $1000 worth of bonds from you for $1000

Then what, do you just keep that $1000 in cash while inflation slowly eats away at it? No, you'll invest it in something else (eg. stocks), so now the market for that has an extra $1000 injected into it.
> Cost of education went up

If you need high education, you just take credit, and pay for it with your salary which is much higher than it was 30 years ago.

And if you think that you won't be able to pay for credit because it's not possible to find a decent job with liberal arts degree, then probably you don't need that education.

> Cost of housing went up

I suspect that's because construction workers are paid well now. So instead of studying classical literature in high school, maybe study bricklaying.

> Cost of healthcare went up

This is the issue, but "taxing the rich" won't solve it. It need to be properly regulated. The fact that insulin costs $100 has nothing to do with taxes for the rich people.

> Income went down

Seems like it is not true. There's a chart: inflation adjusted median household income.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N

It goes up.

> perception of paying 80% of my income to rent that's the problem

Man, I don't know your situation.

Sometimes people pay for something they shouldn't.

Like buying a shiny new car while old car only need occasional repairs, or buying top new iphones while cheapest android is 1/10 of that.

When I was young I rented a flat which costed me about 70% of income, while I could rent a room for 30% of my income, or a flat for 30% of income and two hours commute. But it didn't matter because I was young, and I would not do that now. If that's your case, you may need to reconsider your worldview. If it's not, than I don't really know your situation to comment on that.
> Income went down.

I'm having a hard time finding where in the chart that happened across the last 30 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_wages#/media/File:United_...
Everyone feels like a genius in a bull market. A pile of bread mold could make money in the stock market now. It won't last forever though.
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You should also care about your chance of a serious accident. Germany's motorway accident rate doesn't compare favourably with e.g. the UK or France, although it's a difficult comparison to make.
I don't really see the point to all of this. There will always be loopholes that allow multi-national companies to avoid tax to some extent.

Wouldn't it be simpler to just set corporate tax rates to zero, and instead raise taxes on income and -- especially -- capital gains? And the US already has a personal tax system where it doesn't matter where you earn income: if you're a US citizen, you have to consider US income taxes, period. So the problem where people try to push their personal income out of the country to avoid tax just doesn't crop up as much.
What do you mean when you say "democratized investing" ?

That people can get benefits from the stock markets? Or that investment/economic decisions van be made democratically?

Index funds rely on the the folks making the index to determine which stocks get bought -- who's on the s&P 500 is not a democratic process
You are making the assumption that the first 1000 people somehow had a better way to value the assets being trading than the next group that joins the trade. This is a fallacy as the market sets the prices on its own.

No by efficiency I mean the spread and incorporation of more information relating to the underlying asset, making it more closely match their fair value, and the resulting tightening of the spread and reduced volatility overall. See Efficient Market Hypothesis.

It is also worth noting that it is this same hypothesis that backs the "index funds are better than stock picking" argument.
Robbin’ Da Hood. The GameStop fiasco was unforgivable.
These are good hints for special cases, but when one buys a computer it must remain implied: it is owned not licensed, it is bought to be used according to need not according to the vendor's assumptions. It must be open - you want to install any OS, you can easily install any OS (and you surely must not be bound with the provided one). Strictly.
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