skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bird vs Johnson/Jordan, possibly what is in that picture, is one of my all time favorite games.
If I look at the stats regarding manual car in Europe, most customer will select the automatic one. Even for high end sports car (most will have better shift performance with a robotic shifter, and will correctly bleep on downshift)
This is a general argument against all most forms of environmental or safety regulations.

If you believe calls to conscience and market forces alone are insufficient for issues like eWaste then regulation like right to repair is a tool to consider as a society.
As an American, I've seen it spelled both ways and I don't think it matters. People get too emotionally invested in these things. Languages evolve and for most of history there wasn't universally consistent spellings for many words.
The merge will absolutely happen, there are 12.6m ETH in the staking contract [1] that people want out of there and the only way to get it is to get to the next steps.

[1] https://etherscan.io/address/0x00000000219ab540356cBB839Cbe0...
I agree with most points in the article. But it has a narrow definition of success, very limited to the Silicon valley, may be the US. It is applicable to a very small population.
Actually, we paid for our own social security. I have paid a small fortune into social security in my lifetime.

I do agree that Medicare and Medicare are freebies, but probably necessary to maintain a civil society.
Variance in poker evens out over months, not a single session. A competent but not great player can definitely beat a pro in a single session.
I wouldn't offer anything for free, but more than once I have offered a 100% money-back satisfaction guarantee for the first week or two of a new contract. This has helped particularly clients that have not worked with a contractor before. The client is relieved of potential remorse or sunk cost, and I still get paid for all my work.
Yeah, the sea level rise thing is one explanation for why Sumerian is a language isolate. This YouTube series is a great deep dive into it all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2lJUOv0hLA&t=959s
Really appreciate the feedback, thanks! Yeah, I've been debating images for a while now...
If the point of a CS education is to prepare people to work in software (and that assertion is debatable!)

There's a lot of heavy lifting being done by that parenthetical. I don't think the point of a CS education is to prepare people to work in software. It's to teach them the theoretical groundings of computation and how to engage in abstract reasoning about it. It always felt a lot more similar to applied mathematics to me than anything else.

I sense an is/ought conflation from the author. I could agree that software engineering as a profession could benefit from more practitioners with a liberal arts background.

The thing is, I just don't know if that is necessary for more than a self selecting group. A liberal arts degree has more to do with going to a liberal arts institution with a common core curriculum that teaches one how to read, write, and interact critically with great books and history. I had such an undergraduate experience and I felt like a benefitted from it significantly.

It's hard to get into a good liberal arts college, just like it's hard to get into an Ivy League institution. I don't think one can democratize the intrinsically elitist aspects of a holistic liberal arts education because the vast majority of people are simply not interested in it and will never be. The only way I could see that changing is with a vast fundamental overhaul of the K-12 education system that actually prepares citizens from childhood to adulthood for such an education; in which case I think it is then perfectly fine and reasonable to expect the entire adult populous to be prepared to get such an education.

It seems like this is how it works in many European countries. But it's not how it works in the USA, where I live.
Notably missing (and disputed), Huawei also has an employee ownership structure:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei#Ownership

Edit: Found an ownership and governance explanation website from Huawei:

https://www.huawei.com/minisite/who-runs-huawei/en/
I don't remember and can't seem to find it. I remember people talking about the song more than the song itself, so it would be hard to recognize it. But the Jimmy Soul one makes the point well enough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EqFVWzOfN8
Ask HN: Like GitHub and Azure DevOps, what other companies cannibalize?
As both are owned by Microsoft, why do both Github and Azure Devops exist?

Are there other prominent examples you can think of where two virtually similar products exist from the same company? Google's myriad chat products come to mind, but I'm curious if there are others.
Oh, I see.

I think you are right.
Whoa whoa hold on. You can pay Apple to replace your battery. That’s been true for years. I’ve done it with multiple phones. We just had Apple replace the battery in my wife’s iPhone SE (the original version) and it’s working great.

The metaphorical tires are not welded on; you can keep an old phone going with a new battery.

But just like tires, if you insist on doing the work yourself, you’re going to need some special equipment.
Poor translation maybe too? See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31456645, "with no concerns about security" sounds quite different from "don't have to worry about security".
Thanks! Really glad you like it
Right. It’s the same here with hacker news people toting how proud they are of their website that only uses 2KB of JavaScript.

A lot of us ignore these people and happy produce websites that use jQuery and have 10MB of JavaScript and have iPhones that are hard to self repair, and live very happy and fulfilling lives.
Going to make a PR to add our company O(1) Labs. It’s very rare in that it’s VC-funded by prominent VCs, but still majority worker-owned and fully worker-governed.

The board is composed of workers, selected by workers on the basis of one person on vote, and we hold General Assemblies for workers to make and vote on proposals.
Kids travel for free in Germany if under 14 years and travelling with either (grand)parent - even in long distance trains.

That said I agree with you, travelling with kids is more convenient if done by car.
1. So: force natives out, settle the land with military officers and other not-collonists-only-in-name, fix some polls and call it Crimean agency.

Tell me: in 1941, did the Baltic States enter the Soviet Union willingly (via democratic votes of coincidentally brand new Soviet-aligned governments) or did it happen due to Soviet military coercion, threats and ultimatums? Was it a settled issue in 1945-1953[1]? In 1989[2]? How about now? Same question about Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Romania.

2. Finding it really hard not to see this as victim blaming. Do you believe cutting off the water supply to Crimea was what prompted a military invasion that targeted Kiyv, among other targets? Should Ukraine have absorbed the infrastructure costs, maintenance, etc. to keep the water supply operational for a, your words 'settled issue'? Since it would then be an international matter, the water supply question would be governed by treaties, yes? Again, at the very least, there are costs involved in keeping the water flowing. Unless you feel this is a situation where Russia can take what ever it wants and get paid for it. A sort of Bullying as a Service, if you will.

3. First of all: what if Russia's the pawn? Secondly: did the US organize the 2003 Tuzla Island incident, where Russia tried to annex Ukraine's island in the Kerch strait? Might this be a pattern that's not solely the interest of the US military-industrial complex?

4. Whataboutism. Or, as the Soviets used to say: "Oh yeah? And you're lynching negroes in the US!".[3]

5. Since you are equivocating the Soviet Union and Russia, the US is objectively more benign. To paraphrase your point: you are making the same mistake that most US "anti-imperialists" make by seeing it as the most active and subversive force in human history. In terms of repressiveness and meddling in foreign countries (coups, revolutions), Russian and Soviet history is hard to beat. Bucha in 2022 is what my great grandparents and grandparents had to live through when the Soviets occupied our country. The equivocation is justified.

6. It takes two to tango, but it's hard to listen to the crowd shouting about how you should start dancing when the other side has just left the floor and stabbed your mother in plain sight of everyone.

Fascinating how you agreed that the Russian narrative is completely ridiculous and then ended with another whataboutism about the US.

1- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Soviet_partisans#During_S...
2- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Way
3- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes
For all the stupid things that apple does to their devices, they can surely find a way to remove a cover. The truth is that almost every phone manufacturer would rather your phone reach end of life so that you can take a mini loan for another one.
It’s ergonomic because of the triangular shape!
The ring rotates along with the bottle cap while you are opening or closing it.
Don't law firms, like software companies, usually have a small inner circle of founders and key staff who make the decisions and keep most of the profits?

And don't law firms treat the average staff lawyer worse than software companies treat the average developer?
> how many are doing what their PM told them do to, at the command of ever higher ups?

There will always be sociopaths. The problem is the skilled people who can rationalize enabling them.
I think it's exactly this. IIRC the most notable change was a requirement of TPM module to have win11
>... He is a very old man. Not to demean him but he is not what he once was.

He is respectfully old, but this only underscores how remarkable he is, how true to his life-long commitment of exposing the imperialist narratives and giving voice to the oppressed.

However, I guess, russia's war against Ukraine presented a tough topic for him. He is undoubtedly anti-war and in support of people who suffer. Yet he cannot detach this from the fact that indeed the USA, EU, and NATO are in helping position to Ukraine.

This by extension put Mr. Chomsky at odds with Ukraine's struggle, thus all the narratives so familiar from russian propaganda to justify this stance. But by all means, he's not a russia's or putin's proxy. Sadly and predictably, his views are readily weaved into this propaganda, while his name and work is largely irrelevant to most of the russia population.

Ukraine remains the land where Chomsky's father was born. And the present reality is that this land is still being blown and burned on the orders of russia criminal leadership, who gives a damn about Mr. Chomsky's life-long commitment.

In this case the Ukrainian people, their language and culture are the oppressed, historically! So I believe, Mr. Chomsky is on Ukraine's people side too ... just in the depths and breadth of his heart.

Ukraine did not start this war, russia did. Now Ukraine needs every bit of support to withstand and hopefully prevail in this struggle to survive as people and the nation!
Search for Beriberi. This is a condition caused by a malnutrition. The end result is onset of an acquired mitochondrial dysfunction which leads to some degree of a neurological damage.

There are various possible causes for acquiring a mitochondrial dysfunction beyond the malnutrition. The good news is that it can treated if it is not caused by a genetic defect.

The treatment is similar to treating Beriberi, regardless of the original cause. The unpleasant part is that it takes some time and patience ranging from months to years.
> The repair kit described here is not mandatory for anyone to rent to be able to buy the parts.

Is this the case? Is Apple allowing people to just buy the parts separately, or do they make you get the whole kit?
If I may add a little to this:

I am a native English speaker living in the USA.

I constantly feel belittled, undermined, and shunned by the technically literate - especially the hyper technically literate - because of the exact negativity you’re talking about. I can only imagine the level of shock someone who hasn’t built up calluses to the mentality would feel.

The negativity is most often this kind of discourse. How gizmo x wont possibly fly because of some rules and general ideas, and how this person’s other gizmo is really the bar to meet, and everything else is not worth their time.

I cannot impart to you how terrible I felt for months thinking that I was such a bad engineer that I couldn’t stand up a simple web server on a droplet. I felt like “it’s just so easy and obvious” and I gave up multiple times.

This may be crusty software by some people’s standards, but I challenge those same people to put down their high projects, spend 10 minutes writing an issue, or even a weekend with a PR, and dropping this whole schtick of “lol look at the bad developers doing bad things.”

This comes off as damning and condemning, and it is by intent, but it’s also a cry for help.

If you are technically literate enough to identify issues in something technical.. be the person that shares that understanding freely, instead of holding it like a bar of achievement.
I agree. Tech isn't coming to save anyone, whether it's space tech, computers, "Web 3" bullshit, etc. These are all grifts. The only salvation can be found in oneself. The universe is a cold, dark, harsh place, and we're the exception, not the rule. Prepare accordingly.
Around by us in a city in the UK i'm unaware of any house that has been knocked down and rebuilt except for situations where a large house is knocked down and replaced by flats. For someone to knock down their own house to re-use the plot for a new (single occupancy) house is just not how we do things here.

But saying that, we do tend to build houses with materials like bricks which are designed to last hundreds of years, and this is not necessarily how it's done elsewhere. We tend to renovate rather that demolish and rebuild. Our home for example is 110 years old, and is in a street of similar age houses. There are some missing ones down a neighbouring street, but I believe these were destroyed by bombing in WW2.
I have been using TeamViewer for this specific case, helping out (usually older) people with their computer issues.

I have struggled with this very same problem, and finally using some short url for downloads. Helps a little bit.

But one funny story related to this:
I was helping one gentleman and i told him on the phone that he should go to "www dot teamviewer dot com" . He had not used that before and his English skills were non-existent.

He had trouble finding Download -button from the site and that time Teamviewer.com had young female model stock photo there. I asked him - to confirm that he is on the right website - like "Do you see there that brown haired cute girl?". He answered: "Yes, and few blondes.".

I asked him to read address line for me and it was "teenviewer.com".

After few corrections to the url we finally got Teamviewer installed.
> Would Ukrainians really want it

Yes.
Unexpected Treasures Found in Curious Places
These ads show not only how much we progressed in terms of technology but also as being a society with less prejudice and misogyny. Take a look at the role of women on those photos. Disgusting!
You'll probably see this on water bottles as well.
Fission is grossly uncompetitive. That's why there's never been a single merchant fission power plant built anywhere in the world.
DirectPV – A CSI Driver for Direct Attached Storage
This is really great news. Pipewire made great progress in the last few years. It solves a lot of problems I had with Bluetooth headsets in PulseAudio.
Given that the main point of using LaTeX in Markdown is familiarity of users, using $ and $$ is actually the ONLY proper choice. But yeah, it leads to problems, which is why I would not use Markdown in the first place, but some Markdown inspired format which mixes better with $ and $$.
Tim Cook was to Jobs what Ballmer was to Gates.

Altho unlike Ballmer he was lucky that a new platform didn't emerge and so he could comfortably sit on the lead provided by his friend. And not only sit but also extend, like a coach establishing good running game once your QB puts you up 14-0.

You still gotta manage the game tho. Tim Cook has been an amazing game manager.
Does “ 17 Ways to Run Containers on AWS” count?

https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/the-17-ways-to-run-contai...
API to Take Screenshots of Webpages
Ask for no, don’t ask for yes
Agreed. The one part of this repair that Apple seems to have made purposely difficult is that you have to call them and "register" or whatever your new battery to your device. They hold the keys and refuse to activate the new part for any reason.
Politicians? The shock value of seeing all that lab-grade equipment contributes to their narrative of “repair is unsafe”.
Fair enough, I must’ve confused it with a different post in this thread as some are talking about murdering the bikers.
14. Become part of the transnational establishment power structure that runs global commerce and arms trading.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/photos-from-one-of-the-mos...
Be careful about what you are considering throwing away. I'm a bit older and when people ask me why I'm not married I reply simply that all the best women were snapped up in their 20's.
I actually want to go back to just physically possessing bullion. Nobody has convinced me central bankers won't eventually abuse digital currencies as badly as they do fiat ones.

We need a deflationary currency. We need one that has very little electrical overhead. We need one that isn't succeptible to a 51% attack. It'd be ideal if it was decentralized. If someone can solve all those hurdles, I might consider crypto.
Boeing finally docks a capsule to the space station
I suspect some statistical weirdness going on in the precise formulation of the survey question.

I know for a fact 30M commodore 64s were sold in the 80s in the USA. Not all commodores, not all home computers, just the classic model C64, 30M units sold. That's in a country that used to only have 250M people, so in theory 12% of Americans as of 1990 had purchased one specific model, the C64, leaving only 3% for all other models combined, which seems very unlikely.

Some of those probably went to schools not homes, although schools were owned by Apple II in those days...

My suspicion is many of those were unused in basements and closets, or the question was phrased weirdly like "have you purchased a computer in the last three years" or "used a home computer in the last month" or they defined "home computer" to be "not an IBM (office) or Apple (school) product" or something like that.
Long-hypothesized 'next generation wonder material' created for first time
IMO chess is better for kids. And I say this as someone who played competitively as a kid, later who made a living playing poker for a year or so (then decided the lifestyle and stress wasn't for me).

Poker is 100% connected to the money part. It also punishes good play and rewards bad play way too often. A kid who grows up playing poker will just grow up cynical and probably become a gambler. There's other games with imperfect information and random elements that are more fun and less gamble-y.

And chess is great because it's a game of perfect information that rewards good play but has enough combinations to still be interesting, at least until you get to a level where everyone is simply drilling opening combinations and training with AI assistance...

Also, we're in an age where video games are mainstream: tons of them are in the educational but fun category and can teach kids stuff...
>You can design devices that are easy to repair and still waterproof and sleek.

[citation needed]
> Although employee shareholders receive dividends, their shares do not entitle them to any direct influence in management decisions, but enables them to vote for members of the 115-person Representatives' Commission [which governs the company] from a pre-selected list of candidates.

Who chooses the pre-selected candidates?
What spectrum? Are you implying I’m autistic? Do you think in todays world this is acceptable?
Anecdotally, I remember being excited for my dad to get a computer around 1994 or 1995, and it was a Mac IIci. A bunch of people I know got computers around then or within the next couple years, but before that it wasn't much of a thing. One of my earliest computer memories was using ClarisWorks Paint and spending (what seemed like) hours drawing a scarecrow while my parents watched, and then the computer crashed and it was all lost.

My mom had a word processor around then as well (can't remember which came first), a single purpose device for writing with a keyboard, a CRT monitor, and a printer. Looked somewhat like this[0] but I can't remember whether it was the same brand or not.

0. https://i.imgur.com/Wx6eKZE.jpeg
This is a rather narrow view.

Nobody markets the difficulty of repair, they market waterproof phones, that survive being dropped in the sink or toilet or pool, or whatever.

When it comes time to buy a new battery, and the option is a $70 replacement service or 10x that for a new phone, will a $45 manual repair with a screwdriver really drive more people to replace the battery instead of buy a new phone?

The idea that these processes are all driven to make people buy new phones instead of replacing batteries doesn't make much sense to me. The numbers don't really show that.

And when we consider the value of being able to drop a phone in water and not have to replace it, that's pretty damn high and probably saves a ton of phones early compared to the people that were willing to do a $45 battery replacement but not a $70 replacement and instead opt for a new phone entirely.
Related submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31456918 (not sure whether any of them can be counted as startup)
Almost certainly it will be more expensive than renewables + storage (note the importance of hydrogen there.)

The cost of renewables + storage to provide "synthetic baseload" is likely less than fission. And DT fusion is likely more expensive than fission.

https://model.energy/
I completely disagree. I think the future is likely quite bright, at least for humans living outside of Africa. If you're African or not human I'm not as optimistic.

Alternative energy is almost guaranteed to succeed. It's cheaper than every other type of energy, even with batteries, so why would anybody build anything else?

It looks like the world is on track for climate change of 2.5 degrees C. That's going to really suck, but it's not the civilization ending disaster than the 6 degrees we would have had if we hadn't done anything.

American hegemony is probably going to decline, but so what? The Dutch empire collapsed 300 years ago and yet today the Netherlands is one of the best places in the world to live.

Wars of aggression are pretty much done -- Ukraine is the exception that proves the rule. Civil wars are often nastier than wars of aggression and they continue, but it seems reasonable to suppose that Ukraine might be the last major war of territorial aggression.

Progress is occurring, and in general it requires fewer resources rather than more. The iPhone 12 is better than the iPhone 11, but it requires fewer resources. Software is eating the world, and it's not material. But the best example is the F-150 Lightning. You can buy that truck for $40,000 and over the lifetime of the truck save close to $100,000 in fuel costs, and several hundred fewer tons of CO2.
Yes. The interoperability is a major point and is not really addressed as a Web3 benefit as much as it should be. Take the IPFS protocol. A single hash can link to a resource understood by an infinite number of distributed systems. This idea of Web3 consensus, infinite scalability is what Web3 means to me.
Detect and kill cyberattacks in less than a second