skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s nowhere near perfect information because we’re limited. We have no idea what an early decision will mean later in the game. If anything it’s a game where the truth emerges slowly as options reduce to those that fit in our brain.

However, it is a closed system and all participants are visible, whereas poker has hidden surprises. It still has known rules. In real life (eg business, investing) the game rules are vague guidelines and you have power laws and pandemics that resemble chaos far more than any game.
What do you mean by “de facto support of Russia?”

A necessary consequence of the logic of opposing interventionist US foreign policy is acknowledging that there will be no “Team America: World Police” to help countries like Ukraine in regional conflicts. There’s nothing ideologically inconsistent about it.

You can’t micro-focus on a single incident. Maybe we are doing the right thing by arming the Ukrainians. But maybe we’re not. We thought we were doing the right thing arming Afghan freedom fighters against the Soviet Union. Look how that turned out. The US was ready to oppose the independence of my home country, to support western-aligned Pakistan against Soviet-aligned India: https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/kissinger-nixon-tape-declass.... There is a long track record of global powers intervening in regional wars that we can evaluate to see if on the whole the policy is a good one.
I'm curious as to how you dismiss the first pattern, specifically, Russia's treatment of indigenous Crimean Tatars as well as the laughable 2014 "referendum"
ObXkcd: https://xkcd.com/794/
Great! Now, why don't we have nitinol engines everywhere?
A equivalent MacBook Air would outdo this configuration with an equivalent configuration based on the price

People who need 32 GB of RAM are where you do mobile development for multiple phones. I don’t think the price can be judged. If the RAm is ddr5 or if the SSD is very fast or how it behaves in real world developer workflows is much more important.
I found the lack of swappable batteries somewhat irritating at first. But these days, for the relatively few times when I run low on juice I'd rather just use an external battery pack than carry a bulkier phone around all the time. And as you say, with inductive charging, there are pretty unobtrusive options.
Edit: I should say coincide with a decline not caused a decline, as the casual relationship is not definitive.
People on the left should stand up for the people getting their homes bombed. It shouldn’t matter if it is America bombing Afghans or Russia bombing Ukrainians. Unfortunately some people will only stand up for one or the other.
Hey, thanks for the corrections and clarifications!

> anyone who learned programming could see that html/xml/rxml was not a programming language but sophisticated markup.

Leaving aside the "pike" tag, I guess I agree... my original statement was based on the path dependence of having written my first ever production application "in" RXML. ;)
Whoa, those are super interesting suggestions, thanks for the feedback! Never considered getting a head start with non-English curation, good thinking.

Re the research, I've actually been toying the idea of doing a paid version of the newsletter that analyzes/summarizes the latest scholarly research (most of which is behind a paywall).
> arithmetic with Roman numerals is just the start!

Arabic, I think you mean. Arithmetic with Roman numerals is awful.
Unfortunately doesn't seem like many, as most apps use some sort of toolkit, and generally most support either only X11 or X11 and Wayland, supporting only Wayland isn't popular.

Though people who want to avoid using toolkits would probably do that, as Wayland's API is much more sane for apps.

However for example Waydroid only supports running on Wayland, and somehow nobody has created a reverse XWayland yet (People that ask for this get constantly redirected to nested compositors which is absolutely the wrong thing, a proper reverse XWayland would seemlessly integrate the apps like Xwayland does, and you could drag them, transparency would work, and https://wayland.app/protocols/xdg-shell#xdg_surface:request:... would be converted to _GTK_FRAME_EXTENTS, etc)
I have this condition called visual snow syndrome, a neurological condition which causes my tinnitus. Symptoms are always there, but luckily, mine are mild. The tinnitus is the most noticeable though unless I'm listening to music.
like last year or a few years ago, laptops from dell/hp would come in a "dos" version but that is becoming increasingly hard these days.

I saw one model that had a inr 3000/$38 bump over the dos version which i don't want to pay when i am only going to buy a linux laptop but i dont see any in indian markets like the framework. they are comparable to xps line of dell which is like 3 times their cheapest inspiron series.
I want dell inspiron class linux laptop, is it that hard?(currently sporting a dell e7440 + kde neon)
Good question:

1. Many countries are dumping old military equipment on ukraine and re-stocking with new. (Profit for the military equipment providers)

2. The gas bans mean US based LNG is going to be transported to Europe as alternate gas source (profits for providers and transporters)

The exonomy will be hurt in some ways (mostly impacting regular people) but it will benefit quite a few buisness sectora (on the expense of others)
> if there’s an organized “rational left” movement

They call those people "radical right wing extremists" and "Nazis"

You'll have to get out of the "left" far enough to see the rest of the spectrum first. That's hard right now.
It's $100 for 3 more years of battery. If you can't handle that, buy a slightly cheaper phone or a refurb.

The alternative id far worse -- phones that get thrown away after a year or two because they don't get OS updates or they just break.
This is probably closer to the truth. We don’t notice the benefits of modern society and institutions because they are the water that we swim in, they have “always” existed since we were born into them. We are blissfully unaware that a few short centuries ago people often behaved in much more depraved ways as soon as they were far enough away from the tenuous rule of law. I believe the reasons why it took us a hundred thousand years to escape a subsistence lifestyle were more to do with man’s inhumanity to man than it was a reluctance to leave some imagined eden.

A George Carlin quote comes to mind:

Think of how stupid the average person is and then realize that half of them are stupider than that.
1. confusing price and value.

2. misstating the necessary criteria / mechanism of ZMC.

You're correct in that the marginal cost, and hence market price of information, trends to zero.
> If you've ever been to São Paulo you'd see that some of the best neighbourhoods developed after the 50s in the south zone are very close to the airport.

... developed because there was an airport

> , you can't blame people that expanded the city there when land became scarce.

I mean you act like property and space are confusing concepts. You moved there because of convenience and value; imparted partially because of the presence of an airport.

> are you gonna blame all those hundreds of thousands of people?

If you sell Widgets and 100k people buy that widget voluntarily, technically yes, you can "blame" those 100k people for buying that widget. Conversely it is unlikely those 100k are going to blame the Widgets for ruining their lives because they know exactly what they are buying when they bought it.

You moved into the area in full knowledge of what to expect.

In many ways this is a perfect example of entitlement.
I think you're missing that what is now being fought over is whether USA should have control over Ukraine or whether Russia should.

I think you can be an anti-imperialist and not have a strong preference for neither USA nor Russia controlling Ukraine.

And you can be against the war, and against imperialism and so naturally be against arming Ukraine to keep the war going and becoming even more vile and bloody.
Now, Forth Metting in Spanish and portuguese from Forth2020 group, welcome all
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If you're a westerner who wants to understand the cultural context of the war, I can't but recommend Kamil Galeev mega-threads [1], and this one especially: War of memes [2]. You probably will be able to understand why NATO has little role here, and why we (Ukrainians) are demolishing Pushkin statues after Feb 2022.

You can ignore that noise coming from "experts" like Noam.

[1] https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1498377757536968711

[2] https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1516162437455654913
It depends on whether a flavor burst is worth it for you.

I’ve not had any strawberries in the US supermarkets that were truly ripe and sweet.

Unlike most of Europe and Asia, we’re cursed with interstate agriculture and produce optimized for shipping cross-country for long distances.

To get somewhat close means going strawberry picking.
Do you mean to suggest they’d be better off as slaves?
Ooh, "to the last Ukrainian", man what a zinger, har har. It can't be that Ukrainians are begging to be sent weapons to defend themselves from literal genocide and the US is the good guy in the story. That would just blow up Chomsky's Formula For All Global Affairs: US Bad. And since US cannot be good by definition, Ukrainians should just accept their country, language and culture being erased, like don't they know something something spheres of influence and some guy promised no NATO enlargement (actually not, but don't look into that because remember, US Bad).
> I still don't understand why Windows 11 exists in the first place.

For me Windows 11 helped to make decision to finally switch to Linux. I always have been a Windows user, since Windows 95.

Everything has to end some time, I guess.
I built one of these back during the january omicron wave (us). Mostly out of 'why not' boredom because I already had a box fan, a roll of duct tape, and a near infinite supply of cardboard from amazon, just had to buy four filters from home depot.

Six months later I have to replace the filters because they are a thick dusty grey. Went from looking like white paper with blue flecks in it to looking like grey jersey/t-shirt fabric. If even a tenth of what it caught was otherwise destined for my lungs then this was a big win.
Those phones had smaller batteries/phone ratio due to the extra casing, which creates the waste of throwing away an extra (smaller) battery.
What you mention regarding the king trying to regulate the situation is not in contradiction with France simply being more concerned with human rights than other countries.

Do we know how slaves were treated in other areas ( Africa, the Middle East, South America,...)? I find it hard to believe they were any better. The fact that they tried to improve the slave's conditions doesn't prove they were a particularly cruel country for the time.

More slaves were brought to the Middle East than to America, Where are those slave's descendants? Why didn't they revolt?
I don't agree with the parent poster at all (see other comments) but it's fair to point out that certain sectors of the "western" economies are doing quite well out of this. In particular petrochemical companies and arms manufacturers.

A Marxist analysis would see the whole thing as a conflict between competing spheres and sectors of the international capitalist class that has broken out into open violent conflict. Contradictions in interests that were not resolvable by statecraft or other means are now being "resolved" through wholesale destruction.

Which is disturbingly similar to WWI.
No it's the GUI version. Last updated in 2002.
You misread the article. Apple is renting out the tools for $49 and a $1200 deposit. Apple is doing this at a loss; the tools cost more than $49 to ship, let alone rent, and probably way more than $1200 to buy.

That's weird.

Apple is also charging $69 for a $5 battery -- their normal repair fee. That's unfair.

Apple set up a bizarre, convoluted process, on which both Apple and the customer lose money.
> You should check that the incomming traffic can see you and has enough time and space to stop and then you should cross in a manner which makes it easy to predict what are you doing.

You don't know if oncoming traffic sees you, so unless you see them actively stopping, is is not safe to step out in front of them (you still have to watche like a hawk), even if they have enough room to stop. This "asserting your right of way" is the it to which the commentor is presumably referring.

The vast majority of days drivers are not looking and/or do not care and will not yield. I've been yelled at by drovers for crossing with the pedestrian light, I've had an entire light's worth of cars make a right turn at speed through a pedestrian lights and had to act like I was going to jump in front of them to get one to slam on their brakes.

"Right of way" for pedestrians won't mean anything until people start getting tickets regularly for violating it. Asserting right of way is dangerous and you are better off assuming cars never see you and will not stop.
Interesting question, pike has a stable C API for creating C modules

Step by step instructions
https://pike.lysator.liu.se/docs/cmod-step-by-step/

What is CMOD?
http://wiki.gotpike.org/index.pike?page=PikeDevel/C%20Module...

Calling pike functions from within C/CMOD code
http://wiki.gotpike.org/index.pike?page=PikeDevel/C%20Module...

example
https://github.com/pikelang/Pike/blob/master/src/modules/Ino...

I guess it is more of packaging issue of using pike in that manner, perhaps this is something for the pikers to explore. Could be a great way to revitalize the language, the world could need a embeddable strictly typed C like dynamic language.
Ok I will ask something controversial to the enthusiasts.

I love the tactil feedback and key travel but I absolutely hate the sound of mechanical switches (or any loud sound for that matter).

Is there a technical solution out there to have a keyboard with good feedback and travel but near silent?
> As I said earlier, I ride with stock pipes. The noise levels of exhaust pipes are regulated by the state of California where I reside, and exhausts must be approved by the state.

Sorry, my bad. I misread. I think this is perfectly adequate and I never have problems with motorcyclists who follow the law. I take back everything negative I said with respect to you. It was a misreading.
Furthermore, according to Apple technicians, these are the actual tools they have always used every day in Apple stores, but the author is framing it as though Apple went out of their way to make difficult tools for consumers - by giving them exactly what they were asking for, the actual tools.

The author complains that after renting the tools and buying the battery, it’s more expensive than having Apple do it. So? Is Apple supposed to ship $1200 in tools to you for free without a hold (incentivizing theft), or sell parts for cheaper than they sell them to their own stores (the prices are the same as to their stores and service providers)? Repairing anything is expensive if you don’t have the tools or don’t want to buy the tools and reuse them.

iFixIt should (frankly) denounce the article as it will almost certainly be used by Apple in a future court case to argue that Right To Repair activists are “extreme.”
There are a class of people for which money is more of a scoreboard which I think is what you are getting at here.

I think for most rich people, having a lot of money means, as ironic as it sounds, not having to think about money.

Growing up fairly middle class and eventually making a lot of money once I made it out on my own, the types of tortured price comparison shopping & concerns that my parents made (and I did my first 5 years of career) are just not something I worry about.

Being able to just go to a grocery store and fill the basket/cart until I have everything I want (NOT need, and without checking every items price and cross checking every price option for every items competitors), and then pay whatever it rings up to.

Doing weird as it sounds things like - cross shopping a $40k & $120k car because, well, they both sort of hit different parts of my interest lists.. and maybe I just keep my current car + add the $40k, vs trading in towards the $120k.. or really.. who cares, just buy the $120k car anyway.

Being able to knowingly overpay for home repair/renovation contractors because they give you a much higher level of confidence, communication and convenience. We got 3 bids, the guy who was 2x the price of the other guys was just such a professional we decided to go with him. He was like dealing with a professional tech/bank project manager rather than a squirrel guy you can't get hold of.. He started on time, finished days early, went not a penny over budget and gave us start&end of day updates with plans of attack for the next day.

Meanwhile some of our friends who did not have budget to pick the highest bidder had contractors disappearing to do work on other houses, had to call their contractor daily to force him to show up, had guy starting the work day at 2pm and then taking an hour lunch break, and every other crazy home renovation story you hear where 2 weeks of work takes 3 months.

So for those outside the billionaire class, being rich mostly means not having to deal with the inconveniences of being on a budget.
Looking at https://selfservicerepair.com/home, it doesn’t look as if it requires it, but I couldn’t fully check, as you have to enter a valid IMEI fairly early in the sales process, and I don’t have qualifying hardware.

Also, their manuals assume you have the necessary hardware (makes sense to me, but means Apple won’t help you do repairs without that hardware)
No, you just need to pay close attention and actually understand his words.

Take for example the Bosnian war. People are quick to misrepresent Chomskys views as supporting the Serbs position. He just was against actions which would escalate the conflict. And he was correct. NATO involvement spurred genocide.

His points on Ukraine are nuanced. Ukrainians hate it because they want everyone to just whole-sale support them. True support of Ukraine is pushing for peace. Arming Ukraine is akin to someone encouraging a little kid to fight an older bully. All we will accomplish is the eventual hurt of the kid.
Australia Liberal/National government voted out
Ah yes, agreed, then that does indeed seem like to optimal solution here.
The article says it is a tourist trap now with over a million visitors a year.
Got ‘em!!!

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# oopsie
I’m about to tear into my 13 year old’s iPhone X and replace the battery when the $25 package arrives from Amazon later today.

You bet he’s going to be there watching and seeing what’s inside the phone. (It’s not that we’re doing exploratory surgery for fun and just want to see what’s inside. It’s driven by the need to repair his phone, but has a side effect of cool.)
Professional tools to get the job done, like they are used in any halfway decent repair shop.

The author seems to confuse right to repair with sloppy, microwave-utilizing home repairs using a $20 kit from ebay.

What a badly faithed clickbait article. Expected more from The Verge.
I especially liked the line mocking the instruction to have sand available if the battery catches on fire. That’s a good idea.
> It's so silly that modern phones (from all manufacturers, really) need these giant kits

People have been replacing iPhone batteries long before this kit was available as an option.

99% or more of iPhone owners have no desire to replace their own batteries. Suggesting that Apple compromise the design of the iPhone just to cater to the rare customer who wants to swap batteries isn’t a realistic suggestion and I’m kind of baffled that so many HN commenters can’t understand that much.
Nope, it is called “stupid”. If significant paying customers (>10k) are using a feature, then it should not be removed.

If feature is a power or accessibility feature, then it should not be removed even if it is not used anywhere.
Yeah I had Lotus SmartSuite - I remember it had quite nice skeuomorphic design in a lot of areas.

You're probably right about the competition, Wordperfect was the market leader at one point, and Adobe also had FrameMaker - perhaps more of a Publisher competitor.
There are many possible suggestions, why did you pick that one?

Maybe the suggestion is that they would've eventually gained freedom, like all slaves in Western countries, and that in that alternate history, they would've fared better. After all, the black population in the USA is richer than the black population in Haiti.
As the letter states, what you’re effectively denying is Ukrainian self-determination and agency. Does the U.S. “control” France? Germany? Clearly not.
The link might be through sleep bruxism. The ear is very close to the jaw and I suppose that jaw tension might have an effect in the ear. TMD sufferers also frequently complain about tinnitus.
Is Apple going to sue you if you use a hair dryer, or merely decline to fix it for you for free when the battery expired after your 3yrar warranty anyway?
I came on board with the April 2017 contingent.

There was another group that showed up ~July/August 2018. Notable amongst those was the actor Wil Wheaton, who discovered Mastodon had trolls too, and left shortly after. (Mastodon's anti-abuse practices and tools evolved as a result. Sorry, Wil.)

There was a group of Indian users who came aboard following oppression of opposition groups in that country, a few years ago.

Musk's Twitter bid has initiated yet another.

There may be others, and there seems to be a general secular growth trend.

Retention amongst new adopters varies --- there's definitely a fall-off curve. But on balance, the trend for now seems to be growth, and the result is an evolution of participants rather than a static set.
...and which you don't know about until it's too late.
Love the format, love the writing style. Inline images would also be helpful, though I could understand wanting to keep a more minimal presentation.
I made minimal change to escape HTML in REST API using go reflection
stick around
I don't dismiss it by saying chomsky is right, i dismiss it by saying both sides are wrong. It is a very well known fact up to this point on history that all these referendums are processes to put legitimate stamps on big decisions the actuall people in power want to take.

The formula is simple, you make a narrative that devides to right and wrong. Then you spam people of the hell that will break loose if they do not vote for what you want. People vote it and then you say "hey! The people wanted it, not me!" If they don't vote it you just hold a second referendum.

I am not saying this is what happened there exactly, but referendums have become a joke in the 21st century.
https://knowledgebase.nomachine.com/AR02P00969 - and NoMachine seems to have decent support for Wayland.
He's a very well known and consistent anti-US-imperialist. I'll gladly accept evidence of his wider anti-imperialism.
Electrocapacitive switches are what I prefer. They are rubber domes and springs. Even more quiet but somewhat less "tactile" are the boba gum linear switches. They are the quietest mechanical keyswitch I've ever heard and aren't very expensive either.
Agreed with you until the last sentence. The Verge has great writing right alongside clickbait. It is just a coin flip.
Maybe for those that buy Apple as shinny UNIX instead of supporting Linux OEMs, for others there are plenty of market opportunities.
The wolf does eventually come though. The post war (1950-1990) era was the stage that cynicism and complacency developed.

1990-Present is the capstone.

What comes after? Do we tumble down the other side of our technological tower of Babble, pyramid of the ages? Or do we ascend to the heavens transcending humanity with a Novo Ordo Secularum? Here we sit for a moment at the apex of history with the all seeing eye of technology.