skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't share a sad story, like many do here. I'm in my 40s,I have a wife and two kids, and I am not feeling alone, strange, alien or depressed.

I even haven't felt alone when I was actually alone. I am always busy doing something or thinking about something.

Living in a relatively poor country, being from a relatively poor family I had and still have to fight for a better future for me and my kids. That only and I am too busy to feel depressed. Add to that relations with friends and family, various hobbies and I've booked my time for the next 100 years.

Why do I share this? Because I think it will help people who feel depressed, sad, lonely to have activity, being it a job, a hobby or volunteering for something. That lets them less time to be sad and involves them with many other people, thus making them less sad or alone.

Of course, too much activity, too many social contacts can have other negative effects, so you have to find a balance.
That stopped being an issue for most people a while ago. The latest gen phones last all day under reasonably heavy usage and charge within a few minutes on a wall charger.
I'm surprised. I didn't read or hear what Noam Chomsky says, but judging by his points brought up by the article, he is just repeating Putin's propaganda. He even uses their methods of changing topic from an uncomfortable one to a "US is no better then Russia".

I'm surprised, because I thought that Chomsky was mostly intelligent person. I've heard that he had very strange political views, but to just repeat Putin seems to manifest his lack of an ability to think for himself.
I prefer the $ $ way, as it makes it possible to do inline equations, while keeping the source easily readable.
ahh good to know, thanks!
I've fine tuned transformers on CPUs before for weird reasons. Sometimes the computer you have is what you make do with.
What do you think the future holds for the World?
I guess I am a pessimist.

I don't see alternative energy succeeding.

I see social and institutional values continuing to degrade.

I don't see further technological innovation comparable to the period from 1790 to 1990.

An aging society in a degraded world with bankrupt social values can not persist indefinitely based on ponzi schemes and other more sophisticated financial shell games.

Bottom line, energy, physics, resources matter.

Why life is here on planet earth matters.

When biological life becomes cut of from its roots in a natural ecosystem it is only a matter of time before decay sets in.

Without running a fitness race life becomes degraded and aimless.

The future holds societal collapse.

Not necessarily due to a buzz word cause (for example climate change) but because of technology itself and its influence on the psyche of man.
So I wonder why they obfuscated the executable name rather than adding the required manifest properties. I get that the overall negativity of this thread led me to look at this with extra scrutiny, but wouldn't the unknown word "putes" in the executable name make anyone suspicious?
Ridiculously schematic thinking. Have you considered that "the west" might be composed of more than one train of thought and motive? Who is this "they" doing the pretending here?

Very black & white, binary thinking.
I suspect the battery arrived in "cut-off" mode. This is a mode which reduces battery drain specifically during the period between manufacture and customer use. In this mode the battery pack control circuit (inside the battery pack) keeps the battery terminals disconnected (no voltage on the output) until it receives a signal from a control unit (or microcontroller) in the device. Once the charging cable is connected to the phone it powers on control unit which essentially turns the battery on, and it's normal operation from there.

Using battery cutoff mode reduces the discharge rate especially during shipping/logistics periods, where the battery may be in transit for mouths or sitting on a shelf for a long time.

If the battery Apple shipped was the same OEM part, they probably just ship all of them from the battery factory in cut off mode--no special process for the batteries allocated for these repair kits.
They didn't 'conveniently' forget; it's mentioned and accounted for in the article:

> $49 to rent Apple’s tools for a week, more than wiping out any refund I might get for returning the old used part.
Yea I messed up the original title. This post is semi-satire. Like it proposes a solution to a problem but it is simplified so much that it is wrong.
I'm pretty sure ReProvision is not maintained anymore. AltStore with AltServer (unjailbroken) or AltDaemon (jailbroken) is the way to go.
My counter used an ATTiny. That was overkill for counting, likely.

I'm guessing an ESP of any stripe would be a low bar for measuring and networking a tube up.
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> Agreed - I'm not sure why we assume that a modern smartphone is designed to be completely taken apart and reassembled with a standard toolkit.

The point is that they chose to do it that way because it makes them more money, not because their technology is too advanced to let the user easily change their battery.
If companies designed their product in a way that you can exchange parts that often break (batteries) and make generally easy then we would at least slow down the growth of the e-waste problem.

But of course it's not our problem because we like to externalize the costs. Here in Europe we ship our electronic waste mostly to Africa where it is a huge health hazard.[0]

[0] https://www.spiegel.de/international/tomorrow/electronic-was...
What I've seen from Chomsky so far didn't actually seem to really reflect what I saw in this letter.

He was mainly doing what Chomsky always does which is point out the crimes and hypocrisies of various western governments.

But he's always been fairly consistently against authoritarian governments and dictators. I'll have to go digging to see exactly what this letter is responding to.

Some other western leftists do sound like this, though. Yanis Varoufakis did an annoying interview for example.
I want to buy a $70 battery and be done. The iPhone should be designed to facilitate that.

The outrage is not against these tools. The outrage is against Apple acting like this is a reasonable way to give people the right to repair.
You could try to understand what people on the ground think instead of what warmongering media tells you: https://youtu.be/i1I8SZeXGFo

Then, you would understand more what Chomsky is saying.
Actually it’s the purpose of the side pushing for this. They want this to be put in practice before it’s officially shut down by the court.
He is a very old man. Not to demean him but he is not what he once was.
I have heard a saying of a boxing coach "Boxing is not chess. You need to think here."
I was really hoping Chomsky would offer a point of view less firmly entrenched in the politics of 20th century economic imperialism, because he’s normally very insightful.

But it does seem like in his own way he adopted a belief in American supremacy. The US is powerful, and unprecedentedly so (especially throughout the 90s), but they don’t control all world politics.
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> I find this to be a uniquely western culture issue, compared to eastern asian cultures and indian subcontinent

'Western Asia' also exists and very much the same as the rest of Asian cultures in terms of multi-generational extended families.
I think maybe you have somewhat idealized conception of the state of Ukraine before the invasion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Ukraine

Both Ukraine and Russia have been dominated by a set of oligarchs since the fall of the Soviet Union, who have amassed an extreme amount of wealth and therefore, because of weak laws and bribery, control their respective countries to an extreme degree.

I don't see why anyone on the left, should prefer one of the sets of oligarchs to the other.
Wimbledon stripped of ranking points after banning Russians and Belarusians
I look forward to seeing the new phones being sold in the EU complete with #0 Pozidriv screws as fasteners; ought to be hilarious.
Right, but the efficiency on that is what, 8%? Can we come up with a better model?
" Why engage with someone when you can just discredit them for not providing a link to a study with a title and abstract that you won't actually use to re-evaluate your own position?"

You are right, however when people are parroting their "opinions and own researches" on some more important topics like Covid-19 I guess you should not engage with someone without any source.
Too bad there's a requirement for metal. I had tensorflow running on a raspberry pi 3 a few years ago doing inference for a chat bot.
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The US is worse for it than a lot of other western countries tho. Unless you’re religious, that is
And you won't believe what it takes to make a 100 gram silicon wafer.
Treatment of slaves was so bad in Haiti that King Louis XIV of France passed the Code Noir in 1685 which limited offenses to only simple…

- Beatings

- Brandings

- Cutting of ears

- Cutting of hamstrings

- Not selling you away from your children and wife (if you were permitted to be married)

- Death sentences (addition)

Source: https://revolution.chnm.org/d/335/

“When slaves left the plantations or disobeyed their masters, they were subject to whipping or to more extreme torture such as castration or burning, the punishment being both a personal lesson and a warning for other slaves. King Louis XIV of France passed the Code Noir in 1685 in an attempt to regulate such violence and the treatment of slaves in general in the colony, but masters openly and consistently broke the code. During the 18th century, local legislation reversed parts of it.”
Sickening is an odd word to choose. People have aesthetic preferences about all sorts of things, and they're often prepared to pay more to satisfy their tastes. What's bad about that?
#14 have the Fed print ungodly amounts of money so you can easily raise capital for your dumb startup idea.
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I played IRL with M&Ms as a kid.
How many programmers are making those decisions on their own and how many are doing what their PM told them do to, at the command of ever higher ups? It's a weird trend to blame all tech outcomes on programmers who often have the least amount of control over what the systems the build are intended to do.
The Corneish Zen is probably the closest thing right now, and the current run is open for orders for 3 more days. https://lowprokb.ca/products/corne-ish-zen
If the repair cost in-store is the same as the cost of a shipped replacement battery then there was no point to this entire thing in the first place.
They suggest this for inline using combination of the code back tick and dollar syntaxes:

Inline math: $`a^2 + b^2 = c^2`$.
It is because they don't need the community's help. They have a huge kernel team, and do all their own backporting.
The RHEL 5.14 kernel is quite different from the vanilla 5.14 kernel, making the community's help not that useful.
But, unfortunately, very slow.

https://youtu.be/tFrh9hKMS6Y
... I have no such "idealized conception."

Jeez, it's almost like one could be opposed to both autocracies and still support resistance against the Russian state. Like the actual left (or what's left of it) in Ukraine (and Russia) are.

A good resource is https://lefteast.org/
Time to reboot the host and power-up the VM.

Usually the time to pause the guest (ie halt it and dump memory to the disk) and resume exceeds standard shutdown/startup times.

Though in this case I think they treat a router OS update as a firmware.

I didn't saw a Linux based OS on a hardware for a long time, but at least in VMs current distros start up pretty fast, while *BSD based VMs take a little more time to init, though everything start in less than a minute.
Interesting, OK! I've never heard "traveler" take on that meaning before.

I was assuming the poster spoke of Romani people (or "gypsies", but this is a racial slur) and it was clearly out of context.
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Good to hear. Today I used my 2010 scandium Kona for the first time this year. Has a creaking noise I need to track down.
"Fellow traveler" is a term for a sympathizer of a cause (generally communism) who is not a bona fide party member

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fellow_traveller
Parent commented on the crazy design screws, and I think it’s an important point.

We didn’t end up in the current situation with Apple innocently improving its technology and the lack of repairability being an unexpected side effect of the advancements. They pretty much always straddled the line of making their own repair job doable while having self repairs as hard as possible.

I really don’t think customer safety was their primary motivation.
I disagree with your disagreement.

Why do humans need/invent computation, hosting, cryptocurrencies and AI?

I can’t fathom any data center remaining online for more than a few weeks/months if all humans keeping it running magically disappeared.
I do not think a lot of 12 year olds are going to put down a $1200 deposit. Nor will a lot of parents put down a $1200 deposit so their 12 year old can mess with their $1000 phone.

But I dunno… maybe?
Honestly, this actually looks cool. Even I would feel like a professional with these behemoths. I'd definitely assume the risk.
https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/updates.html

> Installing updates

> Updates can be installed from the web interface, by going to System ‣ Firmware ‣ Updates. On this page, you can click Check for updates to search for updates. If they are available, a button will appear to install them.
To be clear, it was a very low-traffic (both car and foot) location - neither would expect to encounter each other almost ever. I thought the decision to not encourage pedestrians into a false sense of security was a sensible one.
> This is a good opportunity to suss out which of your "anti-imperialist" friends are anti-imperialist, and which are actually just anti-US-imperialist.

This opportunity has existed for some time. It’s clear to me at least where most Americans stand on this matter. I watched an In Depth with Chomsky on C-SPAN about a month back when in my opinion he summarized the position succinctly: America is willing to fight Russia and the invasion with every last Ukrainian.
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Strangely enough too, Haiti did not turn into a paradise once the slaughter ended.
So is this an implicit admission that what passes for "politics" is not conducive to a functioning organization?
boycott Apple then
Teach them both. My son learned chess when he was around five, and we play every now an then, and he plays online as well with his mates.

Since he turned fourteen he's been invited to our poker games with friends as well. To be fair, he never gambles with his own money, as I provide his buy in, and he just keeps what he makes or loses it all.

There's more to casual games of poker than just gambling, strategy and luck though. There's chat, shit talking, socialising and bonding. I figure I'm just teaching him how to adult.
OK, I had no idea about that. I thought you spoke of Romani people, or travelers!
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Why not just buy a ovine that uses removable batteries to begin with?
Haiti, Zimbabwe, South Africa. It plays out more or less the same way over and over again.
Get the real explanation for why russia is attacking the ukraine (same as monroe doctrine of the US):

John J. Mearsheimer, Professor of political science.

https://youtu.be/JrMiSQAGOS4

How the US created putin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X7Ng75e5gQ
One thing I don’t understand is why don’t people just buy a phone with removable batteries to begin with?

Or buy a morphine power back or equivalent. If Apple made an equivalent would that be sufficient?
My first PC came with LotusSmartsuite on CD-ROM. At the time I dreamed that the office suite area was full of competition and vendors would implement features all the time continuously improving their offers. It probably was actually like that at the time (1997). Soon monopoly turned on.

We are seeing a new resurgence now. There is some competition. Even on the FLOSS space, LibreOffice must show it is better than OnlyOffice. But it is very far from how things looked like in mid 90's when office suite vendor really had to include useful and differentiated software.
Stocks will always be there so not really important to pay too much attention to it. On some days, it will go up and on some days it will go down, in the long-run what will really make a difference in our lives is our consistent efforts instead of whatever happens in the stock market.
how do you deal with the insane double standard?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_Thi_Kim_Phuc#/media/File:...
I'm not advocating against russophobia per se, but americanophobia seems similarly legitimate
Thats cool! Not gonna lie though, I was a little disappointed that it isn't about rocks from Krypton ;)

The whole area seems to be some sort of ancient "thing" that I guess is pretty much lost to time now - definitely interesting!
There is no comparable gas pipeline infrastructure to those countries, that's the problem for Russia.
“He finally” means the final letter of he. “Agreeable” means nice. “Penetrates” means put the e in nice. “Person (relatively)” means a relative, i.e. niece. Clues are basically always partitioned by the definition of the thing, and how to construct the thing. When the two agree you can be confidant you’ve got the right answer.
Power banks are pretty small these days. If you have magnetic inductive charging capabilities on your phone, you can even just snap them on and keep going. Otherwise, get a power bank that has a small cable built in.
Since the crippling of unions and the deregulation of many economic sectors under Reagan, now ossified by the Citizens United decision, I could replace "Ukraine and Russia" with "Democrats and Republicans" and say (almost) exactly the same words about the US.
When the war was over the remaining white population was systematically massacred. Originally they were going to spare women and children, but they reasoned they could bring white men into the world, and killed them as well [0]. Quoting from the article:

> Before his departure from a city, Dessalines would proclaim an amnesty for all the whites who had survived in hiding during the massacre. When these people left their hiding place however, most (French) were killed as well.

You wonder why the journalists don't write about this part of the story. They are not journalists. They are social activists who wants to influence society into becoming a certain way. They have an agenda and the agenda is to portray some groups in the most favourable light, and others as bloody heartless murderers.

Their agenda is to find the root cause of inequalities, and the root cause must always lie outside the victimized group, preferably in the form of exploitation by another group. More slaves made it to the Middle East from Africa than to America, but the NYTimes couldn't care less about them, or the countries they came from.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1804_Haiti_massacre
COVID was a minor speed bump, in the grand scheme of things. I’m not playing it down in a “it’s just the flu” Trump kind of way, but it was no worse than the Spanish flu or many past pandemics. It didn’t even cause a recession really, most of the economic issues we have at the moment are self inflicted.

We’re just not used to dealing with a disease like this. It was a serious problem, but the idea that it was any kind of existential threat is absurdly hyperbolic.

The Spanish flu was similarly dangerous and virulent, it’s impact was vastly greater, yet for most people it’s a forgotten historical footnote.
Ask HN: How is the experience being a SE living on a Greek island?
I am German and looking to move with my family to maybe Corfu or Crete! I know that the mainland is becoming more attractive (Athens in particular), but how is the experience on the islands?

- Internet speed

- Job safety (do you find enough remote jobs?)

- Developer communities

- Access to hardware in case something brakes

Would appreciate some insights!
Most languages don't encode purity in the type system, so they don't need an "escape hatch" - there's nothing to escape from.

Unlike `unsafePerformIO`, Koka's approach isn't really an "escape hatch" - effects are a safe, principled part of the language. And, if I understand them correctly, even though they're more ergonomic than monads, they also come with friction of their own (maybe needless to say, otherwise they couldn't be enforcing anything) - adding logging to a function will add the `console` effect to the function's type, which bubbles up to callers and might cause issues if any callers are declared as `total` (and indeed, that's the default for function type annotations). But at least, unlike Haskell, you wouldn't need to add `return` and `lift`s everywhere to fix things; and the changes you'll need to make to your signatures are usually quite a bit more straightforward I think.
I think, barring the USB-C issue which is more supportive of industry wide efforts to standardize and reduce e-waste, you cannot by any legal instrument force an equipment manufacturer to stick to certain parts or boiler plate designs, which can be seen as harming their competitiveness.

This argument can be construed by Apple lawyers as exerting unfavorable judicial bias to downgrade/bottleneck technical capabilities, which Apple would have otherwise provided to its customers & claim significant advantage over competition in offering their products.

EU or not, such regulation will be dead fish in water unless smartly crafted.
From the comments:

Note that no 5 MW engine was demonstrated in this video. It's just a figure that engineer guesstimated as a plausible combined power output of multiple stacked engines. Quote at 3:05.
I’m sure if you castrated a man and then burned a member of his family at the stake for stealing food, he’d probably revolt against you and have no qualms about killing your whole family including your children.

The treatment of Haitian slaves was so bad that the King issued the Code Noir. People don’t just rise up in revolt and risk their lives for fun.

Martin Luther King Jr said it best, “A riot is the language of the unheard.” So what then is a revolt?
History or present aren’t rationales for racial violence, but let’s not pretend that demographic shifts don’t exist or that they are not impacted by policy. On the extremes, you can look at Chinese Tibet or Palestine. For less extreme examples, you can compare European countries that embrace or refuse immigration and refugees.

The demographic composition of a country does change the norms and laws of the country.

None of this justifies murder or racial abuse.
>> I am deeply aware of the fact that I personally would not be where I am if I weren't born incredibly lucky.

>It's a pity that Sam's comment above was missing from the original post, and was added after this discussion on HN. It should have been point #1

Which translate into the following advice: choose your parents wisely.
Russian propaganda.
Obviously you didn’t read the article.
I feel you, I just don’t think it’s limited to this one issue. I too strongly identify with most, perhaps all of the left’s causes: universal human rights, fighting world poverty, peace, protecting the climate. The only problem is, the amount of intellectual laziness displayed by some of the louder advocates of that side political spectrum annoys me beyond belief. For those people, policies seem to be accepted or rejected purely on gut feel and symbolics, not honest analysis of the consequences or even whether they would actually help achieve the purported goal. I can’t be the only one who feels that way, so if there’s an organized “rational left” movement somewhere, please sign me up.