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I know the 70lb of equipment seems extreme here, but the push to make phones smaller, lighter, water tight, etc. means there's no easy way around thale problem of getting these phones open.

If people were given general instructed about a heatgun and given wedges and such to pry up the screen... It would be a disaster. I don't think you can make sleek flag ship phones the way customers want without making their repair somewhat specialized and requiring specialized precision tools.

Of course the way Apple has done all this doesn't show a real commitment to right-to-repair. Of course they just want people to buy a new device, or at least pay a premium for Apple repair. But what would real commitment to right to repair look like? Probably replacement parts that aren't sold for a profit (I suppose a reasonable markup is fine) but also not requiring genuine parts. A car warranty isn't invalid if you use non manufacturer parts. Apple could publish specs and have a reasonable certification process for parts providers. They could still sell the full toolkits to anyone who wants to buy them so repair shops would have access to purpose-built tools to make their own repairs more reliable. I'm sure there's more they could do too.

They aren't really committed to this, but I think people have to recognize that device repair especially for flagships is no longer reasonably within reach for end user consumers withoitnrelevant experience. The best google-fu in the world isn't going to fill in for a lack of specialized tools and experience when a small mistake means a failed repair and broken phone.
The opposite in fact. As someone who buys second hand phones I want to know which parts are genuine and which aren’t.
> Apple can’t win here.

They can, very easily. Just don't be hostile to your users when designing the phone. Look at Nokia circa 2005.
The climate of the middle east was different thousands of years ago. Arabia and the Sahara were not deserts.
We had a computer at home when I was a kid and in retrospect I was surprised to realize how unusual that was. I imagine it gave me far more advantage than I think.
I would hesitate before trying to explain Colombian culture. I've been three times and I can only scratch the surface. But I spotted a homeless guy in Colombia once working to repair a water pipe leak that was spilling a bunch of water out onto the street. It's hard to find Americans with that kind of pride of place. But just about everybody carried themselves with dignity over there.
Red Hat/Fedora were the ones to develop and push both Wayland and Pipewire, and Fedora was the first distro to make both default. Ubuntu is merely following their lead.
Gitee to review all code by temporarily closing public open-source projects
More like "let me tell you what I want" lol
Mis-adventures in GatsbyJS
In some ways it does but my fellow keyboard hobbyists seem to have an infinite appetite for artificial scarcity. 99% of aluminum keyboard cases are barely distinguishable from one another but some of them cost a few thousand dollars while others cost $80. There are some with a better fit and finish but the higher in price you go the more rapidly the diminishing returns set in.

Occasionally there's some innovation and slowly we're seeing some of these innovations from individual designers get copied by companies more capable (and more importantly, willing) to mass produce things.
This is downstream of publish-or-perish.

My point is the people in charge of curriculum and education are all $200K+/yr tenured professors in the style of CS is Knuth and Knuth is CS and that's the end of the convo, so no great surprise that CS curricula are mostly weed-out classes mixed with mathematical theory classes, because the old generation will always tutor the new generation in its own image.

You have to notice that everyone in the author's list of notables is very interesting but has ZERO soft power and none of them are tenured profs or administrative department heads at uni.

My gut level guess of where this is all going by my grandkids generation is there are about 1000 framing carpenters for every 100 general contractors and about 1 structural engineer (your locale may vary, ours has weird snow load problems). So in my grandkids generation "front end" "UI" people will likely come from apprenticeships or 2-year community college at most, whereas you want a "back-end" guy who can do some architecture he's going to have a very technical 4-year, and every company will have maybe one programmer with a classic CS background who does architecture and algo optimization all day.

When I was a young guy, everyone who graduated with a CS degree had to write a language using lex and yacc, maybe not much of a language but you had to get something to compile at minimum. Now I enjoyed that class immensely and it was one of my favorites and I've never used any of the skills since then, but that class is kinda dumb if 95%+ of jobs now will be front end javascript level work.
You forgot "pump and dump" which is practically the essence of how crypto works in the real world. Also money laundering.
I figured (related to previous poster) that the lack of evidence of domesticated animals was a decent indicator that there were no big civs in the past interglacials
It's an excellent "reset" on pop science anthropology. Some of which, like that Rousseau and Hobbes oversimplified to support their philosophies should be fairly obvious as anthropological evidence mounts. Similarly, that hunter-gatherer and farmer are points on a spectrum.

We have choices about how we organize civilization. Neither Rousseau nor Hobbes depicted destiny, just choices.
Sometime in the mid-90s the local Microcenter had a deal on a $999 PC. IIR it was running Windows-95, but was otherwise a bare-minimum system. The "deal" was that the PC also had an ad infested border around the screen that ate up some non-trivial amount of the screen space.

The line to buy it would through nearly every aisle in the store, out the front door and down the block, for over a week. People were asking for forwards on their paychecks, taking out loans, selling cars, anything they could do to get a computer at this magic price point.

The main selling point? It had a modem and people could see what this "internet" business was all about for the first time.
Finally, a important and useful,post on Hacker News!
Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/3/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.feoh.org%2Fp...

See also- related discussion: https://lobste.rs/s/ffom33/mis_adventures_gatsbyjs

> altano writes:

> The experience of using GatsbyJS is a nightmare. Errors are truly impossible to debug. Plug-in documentation is always lacking to the point where I have to read the source. All the integration points are unbelievably complicated. GraphQL is a terrible abstraction layer for a small personal site. It’s lots of great ideas in theory but absolutely awful in practice.

> I’m waiting for Astro to be done enough for me to rebuild my site in it so I can deliver a near-zero JS site (other than the theme switcher).

> I haven’t liked a static site generator since Metalsmith.
There is some discussion that you might find interesting, concerning the Tatars, in the thread for this article in the Chomsky subreddit.
Also, keep in mind the price of oil in 4q 2019 was roughly $ 60/bbl. This article is looking at spot market increases to make a narrative about refineries when the important bit is the 100% or so increase in one year in the non-spot/longer term market.
> Around 15% of the world’s population suffers from tinnitus

As someone who has had chronic and constant tinnitus for nearly two decades I find this claim pretty questionable, or at least not clearly articulated (following through to the linked Lancet article didn't help much). Whenever I mention this fact in conversation people seem horrified, and in the sample "nearly everyone I have known for years" never encountered anyone who replies with "oh yea, same here".

I'm assuming that 15% of the world's population does not suffer from constant/chronic tinnitus, but I would also expect far greater than 15% has ever had tinnitus, so I'm not sure what this number means. The linked Lancet article didn't offer much help and mostly references a handbook that doesn't appear to be trivially findable online.

Curious if anyone has discovered some clarification around this?
The ethics sections for ML papers almost always seem extremely superfluous. It's like asking a CPU designer to talk about the danger that their CPU can run code for computing firing trajectories. It's a paper about providing memory to ML models, it'll have all the possible applications that require memory, what else does one need?
ripgrep has the -M option that will help here.
Do \left and \right work for parens?
Most likely, you compile the support functions into another .o, and statically link it with the modified 123.o.
What was the other path to take? Let him take most of Ukraine and let the europeans keep sucking the Russian teat and stay weak?
I dunno, they’re still there, they’re just not the only people?
The history of Soviet Union is basically one Georgian followed by three Ukrainians.
We weren’t well off either, but my dad was able to get a decent deal when our neighbor upgraded. It was put into my room for lack of space - and the rest is history.
It would be cool to additionally match this with blood glucose levels. It may give some good hints.

For example, if tinnitus gets worse while blood pressure and glucose both go up (without eating) then it may be a hint of an underlying metabolic problem.

To confirm this further, you can then eat 15 g of sugar and see what happens next. If tinnitus improves then the hypothesis of metabolic underlying problem becomes very, very probable.
It's not complicated.

- Go to an Apple Store and have them replace it for you.
- Go to a third party repair store at your own risk
- Do it yourself in the official Apple recommended way

I'm not sure what people want. It used to be easier until the iPhone 6S, starting from the iPhone 7 in 2017 Apple started gluing the screens to make them waterproof. That's the complicating part. I'm pretty sure 99% of the customers would rather have the phone to be waterproof then easier to repair.

Apple can't win here it seems.
‘Elon Musk’s Crash Course’: 3 key arguments from the Tesla documentary
Interesting how the discussion weighted to the tools part where the real kicker is: You have to greenlight the battery online. Seriously, none of you is bothered by this?
I’ve freelanced off and on for 10+ years. You are 100% correct that this is terrible advice!

I think it would be hard to compile a complete list of reasons why it’s terrible advice. I’ll add a couple though.

People do not value what they don’t pay for. People perceive greater value the more they pay for something. By positioning yourself at 0 you immediately create the worst possible value perception for yourself.

For a bunch of reasons, customers that pay more are almost invariably better quality customers. They are more likely to be able to tell you what they want, or at least work with you well to define requirements. They have more realistic timeframes and expectations. You do not want to work for people who want to get something for nothing or have so little understanding of what they’re after that paying you is a perceived risk.

A free trial is desperation. Be confident, value yourself and your time!
Nah, we were checking who's got the most sturdy phone one night at a bar.
Law firms are not co-ops. They are partnerships where a small number own and control the company.
> there's at least a chance for the public to catch onto shady looking behavior that manipulates the price of an asset

but can we do anything about it even if you catch the behavior? other than old-school regulation and litigation? and eventually add checks and balances

> You can't even find out a definitive answer as to how many shares of a stock currently exist

maybe there are better models of stock exchanges? (hopefully looking at Europe, or at least in the past)
> Hint, it is cheaper to make your house warm than it is to keep it cool

This is a strange hint given that it's false, and this is easily looked up.

https://www.raleighheatingandair.com/blog/is-a-heat-pump-mor...

That just happens to be the first link I found, everyone will tell you the same thing. A degree of cooling is about five times as efficient as a degree of heating.

It's easy to see why. A heat pump gets its heat from either the ground or the air, either way this has to be amplified considerably because they are colder than the comfortable temperature.

Heat pumps running backward, air conditioners if you will, merely concentrate the heat and expel it.

Making matters worse, the amount colder than ideal which cold climates get is far lower than the amount hotter which hot climates achieve.

Making matters even worse than that, cold climates such as the Midwest still require air conditioning, just not for as many months.

Bottom line: Texas is cheaper to keep at a given interior temperature than Ohio. It isn't even close.
That’s an underappreciated technique, and I’m not sure why. Someone once remarked (verbally) in the context of a code review that they would need to run the code to fully understand it, to which I replied “Why don’t you?” The look on their face was priceless, first confusion, then enlightenment. There’s no law or invisible wall that prevents you from leaving that web-based diff viewer.
Automatic transmissions now have 8, 9 or 10 gears which means that engines can spend more time in efficient parts of their range; I don't think people would put up with a manual transmission with that many gears. Newer automatic transmissions also have better control of lock-up, so that you're spending less time with torque-converter losses.
There’s also very little chance that those tools cost only $1200. If they were knockoffs from China then maybe, but just the two pelican cases can cost as much as that depending on the model
That's very much not true about heaters. The most common systems in the US are gas, heat pumps, and oil. Resistive heat is nearly always an emergency backup in places that get meaningfully cold for any amount of time.
I'll admit I got to the same phrase and violently closed the tab. Something about newspeak revolts me, once I see the "message" promulgated, I just cant take the author seriously anymore.
In the late 80s, I (a teenager at the time) was discussing the topic of airplanes being flown by computers. I was convinced that computers would be able to fly airplanes within my lifetime, and would even replace pilots in figher planes at some point. For me, this was 'obnoxiously obvious'.

The first time, I discussed it with an engineer/hobbyist pilot. He claimed that flying an airplane was an impossible task for a computer. His argument was from chaos theory; a computer would never be able to calculate all the variables involved in turbulent airflow, so they would not be able to fly an airplane. Clearly, he ignored that humans do not do those calculations either, but I was unable to make my point.

The second time, it was a former figher pilot, then airline pilot. He did not in principle object to a computer flying an airplane, but he completely dismissed the possibility of a computer flying a fighter plane into combat.

Both are now retired. I still think it is obnoxiously obvious that computers can fly planes, and that within my lifetime, even fighters will be unmanned. Clearly, there is more evidence now, but I think that today, the evidence from the 80s would have been considered sufficient by most people my age or younger.

(Now, I'm almost 50, and maybe this time I'm the one being obnoxious, as indicated by my previous post being downvoted.)
From my perspective as someone currently forming a startup co-op: It simply takes longer. You cannot go it alone and it requires a community effort. Democracy is harder than autocracy (which most companies are, by default). Bank loans and more require collateral from an individual, which a co-operative by design deflects against (so there's co-operative friendly lenders).

I'm hoping the trend goes in a different direction for tech companies and they see that there's an alternative - but the fundamentals of co-operatives won't (and shouldn't!) change.
>What's the financial incentive for a company to actually enforce "insider trading" rules to its employees?

E.g. for Coinbase/Binance the financial incentive is that users might invest less in their offerings if they consistently do worse when participating there compared to initial offerings elsewhere or simply due to seeing proof of it. Similar/related rules might disincentivize insider trading for the projects themselves if insider trading is harmful in the first place which I am not sure of. If it is, and the common arguments that it leads to less outside investments are true then that should at least partially incentivize long-term thinking projects against it. Further, Coinbase/Binance have the incentive to dissuade projects from taking advantage of the information and as far as I know indeed try to though I guess their success is mixed.
this seems remarkably efficient https://youtu.be/3MfTJVAtx6w?t=255
Keeps the fan clean and extends its life.
Put some potential users of the product in the room. Show them mockups. Iterate. Get user feedback. Repeat.
No I think you completely misunderstand the point of the statement. Its not about that the ideas or thoughts are truly free or original. That part is irrelevant, and if anything, almost assuredly false: even the most successful will admit to this.

No no, the second part of the statement, "the courage of their convictions", that is the rare part.

New ideas are common and most are just laying around in the ether to be picked up or put down at ones leisure. Only novices or fools think they're the first person to pick up a given lane of reason.

Its only the true imbeciles who decide to jump off a cliff and risk it all on an internal belief that they've 'got it right' with whatever they're doing that make it. There are plenty of cowards with ideas who never make it. Those aren't the people we're talking about.

The demonstrative proof is that everyone is free to take an idea and try and fly with it by jumping off a cliff. The rarity is that almost no one does it. The selection bias is that we only acknowledge those who do fly and not the pile of bodies at the bottom of the cliff.
> If it was, say $40 more or even $100 and was marketed as being repairable, I bet a lot of people would buy it.

Not all the costs are denominated in dollars.

You want a small phone with little wasted volume and waterproofness, you're using adhesive everywhere. There's not room for O-ring seals and flanges and fittings.

My phone being small makes it more practical.

My phone being waterproof makes it less likely to need repair.
I don't know about your specific use case but my switch to Pipewire (on Ubuntu, to be fair) was quite easy to pull off. Stop+disable/uninstall PulseAudio, install Pipewire + Wireplumber + pipewire-pulse + whatever else you need, enable the necessary services by default on login and you're mostly done.

My switch to Manjaro has only left me with one annoyance and that's that it doesn't remember the default sink for some reason. So far the 2 second clicks haven't been annoying enough for me to invest time into fixing that, but one day I'll probably find that darn broken setting...
Maybe we are both partially right:

"I'm not so sure that would be reliable. Well, I guess that was pretty readable."
Is there anyway to request for a cross walk or a light in Berlin. There is a street near my house, would like to apply if it is straight forward
But in terms of getting a company off the ground right now, you'll have difficulty getting financing and as companies start off they generally have no or limited profits to distribute. In times when financing is easy, perhaps that's no big deal -- get easy access to capital to pay a liquid salary, and then give people equity for a share in future profits.

Right now, however, I would be very wary of starting a company, especially if you're planning on starting a type company that limits your ability to seek investment.
As someone who just owned a manual Mini Cooper for about 18 years, I recommend that. The manual combined with the way the Mini is designed, with the wheels pushed way out to the corners, firm suspension and incredibly responsive steering, is a real joy. It's a feeling of complete control of the car and constant awareness of exactly where all four corners of the car are. So easy to parallel park these older Minis, too, before they kept making them larger and larger.

Hard to find this in any current cars, especially affordable ones.
Eh, your economics have some issues here. Back then people were extremely stressed about spending that much. At least where I lived people could not spend that much, and a lot of computers that were bought were with financing.

On of the big things that has changed is the massive increase in housing costs and rents causing all kinds of economic issues.
I remember painting abstract primate pictures with MacPaint when I was quite young. I was sad when we got the new computer because I think MacPaint didn’t make the transition to system 7 or something, and my dad told me we couldn’t open the files.

We also had a IIci. It came out I’m 89, and I was shocked to learn how insanely expensive it was at launch - $6000… $14k adjusted for inflation.
It has the same creator as React as well (Jordan Walke)
Ask HN: Which do you read first?
Do you read the link first and come back to HN comments or you do the reverse?
Call-out: we're also talking about mostly un-networked computers here.

1989 is the very beginning of "the Internet might be useful for general purposes by non-scientists." And incidentally, the same year BGP was dreamed up. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_(internet_service_...

So most computers were running boxed retail software with extremely limited hard drive data space (if present at all).
Uh these machines come straight from shenzhen
Sometimes I really wonder why I even bother writing what I write, when sooo many replies completely ignore it and/or go off on some other idea not even bothering to even acknowledge mine.

> let’s not pretend that demographic shifts don’t exist

Who does??? What is this baseless insinuation? You create your own strawman to argue against, please don't do that. You don't even bother to explain why you suddenly come up with "demographic shift". Just another random thing.

For another example, I wrote

> history never is justification, but it can help with an explanation

so what is your point?

I repeat what I wrote, and, in addition, I strongly object to your simplistic buzzwords and fuzzy statements. For example, "you can compare European countries that embrace or refuse immigration and refugees." -- which countries do that so completely? What exactly is the difference? It takes some thorough investigation to say anything useful, you don't even try, not a single word, only innuendo as if you said something concrete and obvious.

> None of this justifies murder or racial abuse.

Hungary does murder???

Now I've about had enough of this kind of reply.
Update: working on a browser extension :)

https://i.imgur.com/0LwWzum.png
This analogy only supports Apple's method? Car shops have a lift for easy access to the car and machines for balancing your tires. Very expensive equipment that almost no one has, which also goes for the tools for replacing an iPhone battery.

Also Apple is not "consumer hostile", come on. That's a ridiculous accusation.
My mid-80s starting salary out of college with a BA was $25K - pretty good at the time and order $70K today. That $3K in the 80s would be 1/8th of my annual salary. Most people would consider that a very large expenditure and not something they could find digging under the couch cushions and breaking piggy banks.
"bankrupt social values"

Can you elaborate on this? I'm not sure the current age is any more bankrupt than societies throughout history, and in many ways it's very obviously far better.