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.

There is some nuance you are missing here. Mandating some design decisions, such as "user replaceable batteries" limits the products that make be made and sold and unfairly adversely affects users with different priorities (such as water proofness, durability or bulk.)

However, there are design decisions that we should outlaw because they impose an unreasonable burden on repairability. I think it is reasonable to prohibit companies from attempting to detect non-OEM or refurbished components and bricking devices. I think it is also reasonable to prohibit companies from usong IP laws to legally attack refurbished component suppliers and third party repair services.

I think pressure to make devices more repairable could he accomplished by mandatinf inclusion of standardized repairabilitu scores so the consumera have better information available when making purchasinf decisions.
From what I can tell, PathQuery is also clever in how queries express the shape of the returned data, which we in GROQ call projection. For example, in GROQ you can do:

*[type == "user"] {
id, name,
"slug": id + "-" + lower(name),
"photos": photos[] {
url, width, height
} | order(position),
"newestComment": *[_type == "comment" && author == ^.id] | order(createdAt desc)[0] {
id, body
}
}

PathQuery seems to give you similar tools in transforming data as part of your pipeline, which I think is how query languages should be like.
> Not that it matters to anyone, but the Plantation of Ulster would likely be considered a war crime under article 49 of the 4th Geneva Convention.

Well, probably not, given that none of the states who were, or whose territory was, involved were parties to Geneva Convention (IV) of 1949 at the time.
I should have been clearer. IBM acquired RedHat in 2020 (https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/ibm-closes-la...), and it looks like it will be a significant part of their business going forward. It's a really interesting proposition, given IBM's push for open source in enterprise systems (https://www.ibm.com/opensource/).
I know this sounds snarky but it is true -- when i've spoken to three separate small business lawyers on what is required i received three different answers, with about 70% overlap across the three. I actually wonder if there is any right answer for a small business on a budget.
I just moved to the apartment upstairs because it has a familiar floor-plan, is renovated, and has a slightly better view.
Apologies for the source of this, I couldn’t find a neutral organization hosting the excerpt.
https://mises.org/library/broken-window
In short - the $3 billion would be spent on improving the local economy of those individuals who would otherwise retain the money. Technically nothing is being destroyed, but the point of the article stands.
Why is that a problem?

Looks like the issue is not that "I want to get rid of poverty" but rather "I want to get rid of rich people".
It's not easy to spot malware, even if you have the source. For example Zoom can capture your screen, start applications, capture mic and camera, and allows remote control of your desktop. Why wouldn't it be blocked as malware even if you could automatically inspect the source?
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>For one, it creates a negative incentive for the regulatory roles. Now people will seek to be head of the SEC just so they can score a specific job after. Incentives are misaligned.

I just don't see the misalignment in incentives. Everyone is thinking about their compensation next job, and it is only a problem if being bad at your current job somehow makes you more attractive to your next employer.

Unlike the private sector, there shouldn't be any insider information to protect. The SEC should be transparent about the law.
I've been using Linux for 7 years. It has never been better than it is now and every year the alternatives look worse and worse. I honestly get sick every time I try to use Windows. The ads and dark patterns are glaringly apparent once you are used to Linux desktops.
The methodology of arriving st the conclusion in the title is flawed. Polling people "would you want to pay the government extra money to fight climate change" tells you a more nuanced story than "people won't put their money where their mouth is."

Americans in particular, and people in general, don't trust their government to mediate solutions to problems. If you gave a more concrete solution rather than just "we are gonna effectively raise your taxes and do what we say with the money, efficiently and effectively, promise" I'm sure you'd get a lot more support. But people that pay into social security and then watch that fund get plundered and be on the verge of bankruptcy, asking those people if they'd give the government money so they can manage a fund directed solely at solving a problem and then being surprised when the answer is "no," to attribute that to not actually caring and only paying lip service to the problem is quite a leap.
Scam works well since it is assisted by HN truncating the link. Then assisted by Apple because when i long press to see URL on iPhone it loads the website preview before i can see if it’s safe to click.
The idea of counting to 12 by pointing to knuckles is something I hadn't encountered before, and really neat.

Kinda surprised base-12 didn't end up dominating. Having so many factors would have made division so much more convenient for mental math, and it is only 2 extra characters to remember.
I agree. We have a security score at work and mine had been zero for a long time. I realized that you need to report the emails as spam or phishing and not just ignore/delete like I usually do.
Although hot summers are not that unusual there.
You might be able to. Personally I can't raise my ring finger without my little/pinkie finger also being raised.

Also, some numbers in finger binary are liable to get you punched if shown the wrong way round.
User replaceable means you can replace it during warranty and have the OEM repair/replace it if you broke anything while replacing it.
yeah but this guy was already counting 80000+ domains, that is at least the same amount of money, or is there some deal if you buy a large number of domains?
I don't think that works, as I had an app hosted on GitHub, a signed one actually, and it was still showing the SmartScreen warning at first. It took a few days to go away.
Well that's actually pretty concerning, and it only shows how broken these "security" "features" really are.
Lobbyists is exactly what I pay them for.

But other than that, a quarter million sounds huge, but that's not huge for a big, heavily-government-involved national non-profit.

For my own benefit, they orchestrate the classes and testing that I used to get my license, publish excellent reference materials, etc. I'm no longer in tornado country, but in earthquake country and a bigger city, the many different HAM activities are nice to know about.
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Just because other parts of the streets are "less safe" (in given statistics) doesn't mean you can't or should not improve the situations in other places if it's simple, straight forward and with little drawbacks.

(Which is what IMHO it the more important part in the discussion, is a cap of 130 km/h to low? Should it be 160 km/h?)

As a side note the statistics about accidents is not the relevant one in this discussion. The relevant on would be deadly accidents on highway vs. city vs. country side as well as deadly accidents on highway involving speeds > 130km/h and not involving speeds > 130 km/h.

And yes, if we look at deadly accidents of PKWs (~= normal car, i.e. not bus, truck, bike, etc.) then our country side streets are basically death traps.. But then if we consider they in Germany country side streets are often: Less maintained, seamed with trees, areas where wild animals might cross, used by drunk people going home at 3am, used by farming vehicles, used by people and bicycles, etc. it's not that surprising. And honestly there are a lot of country side roads where due to the road being worn down the maximal speed allowed is completely ridiculous.

Edit: Uhm, How did someone one a bicycle die in a traffic accident on a highway? ??
> Putting a human in the loop for our otherwise fully automated release process is a non-starter.

I don't follow.

The purpose of storing keys in hardware is to irreversibly protect the key.

If you then wish to be silly and hardcode the PIN to the hardware in your release scripts, then that is your prerogative.

If its the cost of an HSM you're alluding to, even that is a non-issue with a Yubikey or Nitrokey.
German here.

> What kind of virtue signalling is it that demands this (arbitrary) limit of 130km/h?

A lack of a speed limit (in an industrialized country) is uniquely German phenomena. By introducing a speed limit many consequences follow that i generally agree with, such as reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, lower maintenance cost of roads (although putting goods on trains would do a more), discouragement of buying cars that go significantly above the speed limit, making traveling smoother for people currently driving below the future speed limit, making cars less attractive compared to trains for intercity travel.

The point is that national irrationality (or more politically correct Culture-bound syndrome) cause ineffeciency, whether we are talking about South Korean fan death or the percieved need to be allowed to drive as fast as you want both does unnecessary harm. We know it's unnecessary because every other (comparable?) country can do without.
>Black and Asian are races. Discrimination based on race violates the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and is illegal.

Yes and it wasn't illegal for a long time so what's your point here?

>In 2020 the Supreme Court ruled that the CRA64 also covered sexual orientation and gender identity, making discrimination based on being homosexual and transgender illegal.

Thanks for agreeing that you can add protections to different classes.

> And, in my opinion, it is actually GOOD to discriminate against people for those reasons.

No it's not "good" to discriminate in the way you're referring to it by shutting down what they say. It's good to present your differing opinion and put it out there so people can decide whether they agree. A lot people really thought discriminating based on skin color was "good" too.
This is an interesting comment because I generally agree with your arguments (e.g. that electric is better, so what's the point limiting them), but you draw a different conclusion, namely that there should simply not be a limit, while also not saying that there should be a limit for combustion engines even though you just argued against those.
I don’t get this. What do moles have to do with dimensionless values?
As others have said, you'll find it hard to find a serious definition of happiness that involves permanence.

That said, different people do tend to have different general attitudes toward life, positive or negative. I spent quite a few years in the negative camp, and there is far less utility in that than there is having a positive outlook. Much easier said than done, of course.
One of my clients has strict requirements for an automated build process, and we managed to use an EV code signing cert on a YubiKey w/ PIN - so it’s definitely possible with a little leg work.

After having gone through it, I agree with other posts that the main annoyance is the verification process and weeks of delays/back-and-forth. That, and the inconvenience of now having a single point of failure in the build process (unless multiple certs are purchased).
Thanks. you helped confirm I must have learned some early state of F77 in 76/7. Since F77 was 1978 and I left school in 78, it can't have been full standard. I was sure I remembered an ELSE so now I wonder if this is a mis-memory, or languages intercepted this somehow. (cards on an ICL 1900 system)
It was a metaphorical allusion, not a literal. Pascal's Wager is a very similar philosophical concept to the parent commenter's "why not choose" suggestion regarding climate change.
Regular code signing cert is often good enough.
I guess we're all just money on the table, eh?
I mean, I don't disagree that governments can spend their money in undesirable ways, but in general increasing government revenue is a good thing.

Maybe this bill doesn't stop oversized military spending, but it at least puts a damper on the race to the bottom of countries offering low taxes to gigantic corporations.
Frugality.
5th bullet of "Who is this library for?" at the top of the documentation [1] had me excited:

> you want to work with higher-level primitives (code points, graphames) when iterating text that do not break your text apart;

In reality grapheme clusters are implemented nowhere and are only in the glossary. I wanted to see how this handled the sprawling complexity that can beget.

Someone call me when a library can iterate in that form, which isn't written by committee.

[1]: https://ztdtext.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
FYI the heat wave in the pacific northwest of north america is due to what's called an omega disruption in the jet stream at that altitude, a phenomenon that is rare and projected to occur less frequently as the global average temperature warms, according to IPCC climate models. Lots of things can be attributed to anthropogenic climate change, that particular occurrence isn't one of them.
Ahh, hobbyking. I used to order RC and electronics stuff from them, back before off the shelf drones became common enough that regulations ramped way up.

Their checkout pipeline used to have a drop-down box for what percent of the orders value to declare on the customs documents. IIRC, the default value was 30%...

It was also always interesting seeing what machinations they were using when orders of LiPo batteries would get shipped. I had a very large battery order for a workshop I ran that was shipped from HK to the west coast via Fiji post - and by the postal tracking, took the long way around, and showed up with a surprising lack of stickers related to the contents.

They still have the best battery searcher in the business if you need to find pouch cells with specific dimensions.

Not surprised that regulators have been catching up with them.
Oh I do. Having driven in Germany for 6 months (and on periodic business trips) and the US for 30+ years, Germany is a dream from risk of accident, serious accident, and fatality risk compared to the US.
I got screwed over by HobbyKing who never let me cancel an order even though they were over a month late and still hadn’t shipped it.

I’m glad they got fined, they’re definitely shady.
"I have many friends that never traded before, and after they got their Robinhood account they feel comfortable enough to do it often."

This reminds me of the lamentations I sometimes hear about the "unbanked" or the "underbanked".

I always think: "lucky them ..."
When you say "It’s awful at order execution, so you get worst prices on things." What does "worst price" represent? How do you get a "Worst price" than anywhere else?
A www list of "Product name | Experiences installing Linux" would be really, really needed. The existing ones I know are very incomplete.

My last purchase experience was very successful (30 mins install including a compressed dd backup of the original hd contents. Before buying the product I had web-searched for other people's experiences), but it is absurd that one may have doubts about the process working (flawlessly, effortlessly...). It is like buying a car still wondering "will it work in my weather". This definitely should not happen.

EDIT: one trick I use, that some may find useful, to get corroborations about Linux running on a product: the Geekbench results browser. The Geekbench benchmark results are uploaded to browser.geekbench.com, and the 'Platform' column may contain 'Linux'.
So, for example,
https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q...
shows e.g. that a few days ago the benchmark was run on an Acer Aspire V5-552G using Ubuntu 14.04.2 etc... EDIT2: of course the information about which this page revolves is based on laptops which are locked under some conditions, so techniques like the one I mentioned are not full warranty - they guarantee that in some instances of the product Linux may work.
Tesla's goal is to build cars that last for a million miles. Electric motor technology is already there and they are also working on making the other parts of the car last a similar length of time. Also notice how the new model S looks very similar to the old model S. Having old cars look like the newer version is also part of getting people to use cars for a million miles/
Hi Andrew. I've been in the C level, advisory, and investor roles at early stage companies. I'm certainly not an expert compared to many who frequent HN, but I hope I can add a bit of value.

There's no need to give up a board seat. Normally your lead investors will be taking a seat, and it could cause you issues when you try to raise.

You want to recruit some advisors who can move the needle for you with complementary skills. Ideally you just pay them cash, however being early stage may mean offering equity instead. You can do this as a vested option purchase at fair valuation. You need to be clear on what you expect from them, and obviously they must also believe their effort is going to be worth their time.

Take a look at the FAST agreement to get a better idea of how to approach the situation.
https://fi.co/fast
You'd pay once you took the money out right?
> User-replaceable battery means that entire product categories like wireless earbuds e.g. Airpods cannot exist.

Acceptable, why turn an entire device into ewaste for a single component dying, especially one with a known limited service life, like a battery.

10 year warranties minimum on all electronics. Regardless of size and fragility. Any electronic device that can't last 10 years in service is unnecessarily contributing to ewaste and should not be allowed.

User replaceable batteries to avoid using battery life decay as a means to drive sells of "new" versions, something that causes e-waste.

To be honest, don't stop at batteries. Any component in a device that can not last 10 years while retaining atleast 75% of its "ability" must be user serviceable, no exceptions.

User serviceable is defined as any service a user can perform where the OEM will replace the device at no charge (not even shipping) if the device breaks during or because of the user servicing it during normal warranty.

Replacing a device under warranty resets the 10 year timer. To discourage OEMs halfassing it for 5 years and hoping for low warranty claims.

We can not allow companies to treat the earth like a garbage can.
> I'm all for right to repair, but that seems a bit excessive, no?

No. We need to be able to repair devices so that they continue to function for longer without throwing them away.
Do you though? Why is 156 anymore familiar than 9C? I can't imagine 156 things any more than I can 9C things.
Indeed, especially given the negligible amount of time this will add to a given commute, i.e. the majority of people's regular trips. Unless you drive from Munich to Hamburg at these speeds, but then you're just being a jerk to everyone who has to still live on this planet and should really be looking at the 300km/h trains. (Yes, they don't run every time they're scheduled for, but if more people put more money into the system, the system can improve.)
More like "Install a 2021 Rpi Running Linux into a 1989 laptop" but brilliant nonetheless.

I really like the idea of using the Pi 0 as a "coprocessor" for vintage machines and/or using the legacy machine as a terminal for the Pi.

You could potentially run X11 or VNC on the 286 also.

The Pi of course can act as a Wi-Fi and SSL proxy, etc..
> Or we just tax fuel at the price that it costs to take it back out of the air

Common we can't just tax fossil energy with a bigger amount of energy. That's not gonna solve anything.
When I do Astro app I found that you want accurate calculation you need fortran. Science spill over to other areas. In fact if you check around many languages and libraries use fortran for say matrix and many other manipulation. You use matrix nearly everywhere.

Btw, My first lecture in 1979 on computer science the lecturer asked exactly this question. What is the use? Why Fortean not dead by now? Why should anyone learn fortran … ba la ba la.

No chance but I wish he had taught me lisp and c instead of Basic … even if not fortran.
>but you can ban people who happen to be black for inciting violence with conspiracy theories.

You seem to be confused about what the double standard is. They are not being banned and neither are the several dictators using the platforms to promote violence.
Verisign did not take a risk by developing the dns system - network solutions did that.
Verisign maintains a perfect monopoly over the addition of records to a central database, with minimal operational costs. Their business is almost pure profit by operating a mandatory service with highly inflexible demand.
If they were forced to compete on providing access to a core internet infrastructure (e.g. allow competitors to also add records to the .com registry) the price would lower to the actual cost of providing the service, which for an update/add query, I suspect would be in the pennies.