skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many "literal" things have happened recently that turned out to be far more nuanced?
I have the same model (I think) and love it. It’s no longer my primary personal laptop, but I stuck Zorin OS on it and my wife uses it now for work. The biggest drawback it has is the touchpad. It’s the model year before HP went with a “precision” touchpad in the Spectre, and it’s noticeably bad compared to more modern machines.
I suppose you are right now that i think about it more closely. If I’m present for the transaction and using the card, I’m using chip or NFC, so no one bothers to ask for the CVC. They know I have physical possession of the card and that it’s not a fake because NFC and chips are too hard to fake?
> A meat based diet for one.

Yup, without any doubt, because a society can not possibly work stone without eating meat. Just look at the the lack of stonework in the Hindu, Buddhist and Jain cultures. Oh, wait...
I should have been clearer. HP's mainstream business laptops never had the middle mouse button whilst their workstation laptops (such as your 8560W) have always had them.
They would have fared a lot better if … France didn’t saddle them with reparations for their independence … like what the entire article posted was about
Windows 10 is important because it reverts the changes in Windows 8 :) . In particular, you get again a nice program files menu at the left, instead of a slow change of a isolated all screen mode. (The tiles in the manu are a nice improvement from W7 to W10.)
Flint chips very easily though. I always assumed it was more for cutting meat. I guess I could see a really thick "hand axe" being used for very primitive wood carving.
people write that he is 14y old and that he is doing something wrong, thats why he is "burned out". I am 41 and have been a dev for over 20 years and I am also burned out... I still code professionally because thats the only thing I know but if I had a chance I would do something else. Nothing programming related. I am fed up with it. I used to be addicted to coding, I used to have side projects and coded all day long.. But today, it is just a pain in the ass. I switched my employer lately and it is even worse because I have to learn all new stuff. I thought it will be exciting, it was at first but now after few weeks it is all boring and I can't see it anymore.
The author negligently failed to mention the ~$25 refund you get when returning the old battery for recycling. The pricing is structured to incentivize part returns but the author was focused on what appears to be a hit piece and did not mention that.
The US clearly does indeed have significant power over France and Germany and is always vying for more.
Partnership Consultancies exist. But neither law firms nor standard consultancies typically have staff in on ownership.
Chomsky's specialist area is criticism of the US. You ask him about any random topic and he's going to bring up his special area of interest.

Chomsky having a pop at the US is like the socialist left or BLM in the US having a pop at Democrats. Yeah, in some grand sense they should be focusing on their common enemy, but on the other hand, someone has to remind people that "the best out of the two current options" isn't that great either or we'll never expand the options, as frustrating as that is when you are emotionally attached to another issue that hangs in the balance and you want a broad coalition to focus on.

"If you'd just shut up about racism/sexism/capitalism/war/jobs then we'd be able to totally sort out sexism/capitalism/war/jobs/racism, which is clearly more important!".
I don't have a problem at all with riders who follow the law with respect to noise. I'm sorry it wasn't clear. My problem is with people who modify their cycles to be louder because they feel that it is safer for themselves. In order to catch the attention of the, let's be generous, 1 in 5 car drivers who would not otherwise be aware of them, they blare noise that disrupts the peace of mind of literally hundreds or thousands of people who are not on the road.

Frankly I am baffled that anyone would actually argue for this. I honestly think there is something wrong with their empathy processing, or their hearing. Surely they must experience this themselves as pedestrians or sleepers? When their baby is woken or car alarms go off, they think "that hero just reduced traffic congestion". Weird.
At least some of these tools are name brand. For example, the torque screwdrivers are Wera Kraftform Micro ESD pre-set torque screwdrivers. Apple sells them cheaper than anyone else, as far as I can tell—which is quite curious. Surely if you ordered them in bulk you could beat Apple’s prices, but you can’t order a single set of the same screwdrivers for less than what Apple is charging. I’m also told this is the exact same brand Apple itself uses in their stores.

There’s an alternative, though: head to Home Depot and buy and adjustable torque screwdriver for $60. It’ll have the same 10% tolerance rating. It won’t be ESD-safe—but does it really need to be for a one-off home repair? You could find something even cheaper on AliExpress, I’m sure.

Curiously, this program seems like a great deal for repair shops: for a bit over a thousand dollars, they can get the same tooling that Apple’s own stores use. It makes no sense for a consumer to buy or rent these tools from Apple, but a repair shop? $1,200 is a bargain to say you’re using the exact same tooling as Apple.
Getting arm twisted to buy is a bad thing of course. The core concern is not the availability of talent to do this but the supply chain of genuine parts, and authentication of successful repair thereafter. iFixit already provides several kits and could theoretically provide iPhone kits too - but if you are eventually forced to pay Apple a premium to validate that repair, then the repair pipeline goes waste.
Gotta love half-writeups like this. A better title for that blog post should be "Set up [gadget] with Raspberry Pi and radmon.org".
Since expansion (often into areas that don’t work) and corresponding contractions (when that which doesn’t work is found and then stops as it becomes unsustainable) happens in every system humans have ever tried that I’m aware of, what do you think is the alternative?
The level of bending my argument is worthy of a contortionist.

Lets keep the alpha bulleting

A. Global airline traffic has approximately tripled in the last couple of decades[1], so even if you're arguing that someone should have known when they moved there it's not the same amount of noise as when they moved in.

The individual I responded with the grievance moved to one of the areas a few years ago and the other less than 20 years ago. Please explain how your point relates to their position.

B. It's basically a "let them eat cake" argument. Property prices in high-noise areas are lower, but poor people also deserve to have their health.

And people with less money deserve to have choices. Also your argument is false because in most major conurbations with ready access to international air travel increases prices. Secondly the houses wouldn't exist without presence of an airport. Go to a 3rd world country and you will see shacks appear at the end of runways or near the airport built in the middle of nowhere

C. You're assuming that people are capable of making perfectly informed decisions before they move or buy property. You might know that the house is next to the train tracks, but you won't really know what affect waking up at 4am to screeching train noise will have on you until you settle in.

That's genuinely the worst argument I've ever heard and entirely based on a fictional supposition. Can you tell me honestly you know a person who thinks living on a train track doesn't involve noise? Honestly?

I live in a house constructed before WWI in a major European city. If we follow your reasoning it would be perfectly OK to heat all those houses with indoor stoves spewing unfiltered particulates into the air, with the resulting air pollution and fire risk.

In what logic pathway is that my reasoning? I genuinely would pay you to explain this because its beyond ridiculous. Please explain how that is analogous to my point (even in itself it is illogical and nonsensical, but that is beside the point).

After all if we wind back the clock that's what people who bought those houses initially expected, and if the default answer to how we could improve our collective living conditions was "you should have known about this when you bought it!" nothing would ever change.

A communist plea to collective action because they set themselves on fire on purpose but sold the water to pay for the food
Have you tried this version from this repo? It's more up to date. https://github.com/SunshineStream/Sunshine
> It's $100 for 3 more years of battery. If you can't handle that, buy a slightly cheaper phone or a refurb.

But tell me, where does it say on the iPhone box that the phone battery only lasts three years, give or take? How is a customer supposed to know what they need to 'handle'?

The battery is effectively a wear-item, where a very finite lifespan is an acceptable trade-off for better initial performance. However, designing the phone this way also makes the service an intended part of phone ownership, not merely a response to damage or accident.

Apple (alongside the other manufacturers, by this point) is double-dipping by designing a phone that effectively requires service and by being the only reasonable provider for that service.
> Clot retrievers and aneurysm closures for treatment of intracranial disease, and components for implantable drug delivery systems, are targeted areas of TiNi Alloy Company technology.

Any news on this?
I'm actually surprised that this kit costs only $1200. Seems low for a bunch of very specialized tools and a presumably very small production run.
They’d probably say “as long as they don’t debase the denarius we should be ok” good thing we learned that lesson.
> "this endless need to prostrate yourself and attribute everything to luck is silly and harmful"

...you're saying it in your post that everyone is saying it.
At the same time, it means Americans often complain about EU regulations as being too vague as overly specific ones are too prone to workarounds. See much of the discussion about GDPR where it's clear many of the complainers just want to task their lawyers to find the right magic loophole clause to put in their ToS to avoid doing any of it, and get frustrated when the law is intended to avoid that exact behaviour
Ask HN: Why humans do what they do?
This question is needed to be answered for doing some discussions about should the CS be 8-th of the Liberal Art [1]. Also this is the questions which I am fond of for years and years, one of my favorite ones if not the favorite. So:

Why are you doing what you are doing?

I have already gathered 2 not bad answers: Lust and Because I Can. Please can you enrich my understanding of such a crucial question of human being with some more great answers or some cool philosopher's works I haven't been introduced to?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31437375
And they also seek to influence the U.S. out of self-interest. That doesn’t make the U.S. a puppet state, nor are they puppet states.
>A less charitable interpretation is "virtue signaling".

It wasn't like that before. Especially for Apple. It used to be borderline Marketing. If you could call it that. But Apple never did any of that. Steve doesn't even want his donation to be known. Somehow Apple went from one end of the Spectrum to the leader in "virtue signaling".
No, my point was that you don’t need the official repair kit at all if you’re willing to improvise like we’ve been doing forever. The author of this article is being dramatic to try to make a point.

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

Honestly I don’t see any problems with any of this. A $70 replacement battery option for my $1200 iPhone that I’m owning for 3-4 years seems entirely reasonable. Renting the professional level gear as an option if I want it. For $49 is an unbelievable gesture of goodwill. Are you really demanding that Apple sell batteries for $5?

At this point, I’m not convinced the HN crowd would be happy with any solution any company could offer, aside from making phones twice as big and using screws and offering $5 batteries for these $1200 phones just in case someone needs to replace the battery after 3 years.
Probably the best usability wise would be text that flowed around the window constraints as in here, but paginated instead of reflowing.
I'm not saying otherwise. I was replying to a specific comment that I did not interpret to be referring to a specific real health system.
Teach chess in the infancy and poker when adolescent.
Amazing how if you scare people constantly, it can take over 2 years to start asking the right questions.
Spellcheck works (and often fails) at the level of individual words. Grammar checkers involve more extensive sets of relationships, typically at the level of a sentence, but are still limited to parts-of-speech agreement, relationships, tenses, and the like.

GPT-3 is constructing entire narratives from prompts. It operates at the level of multiple sentences and paragraphs, to the scope of an entire essay itself. Based on a provided prompt, it generates an essay.

By your same logic, an instructor assigning a class essay would be considered the author of those essays as that instructor had generated the prompt.

Moreover, as a matter of pedagogy, where a course either assigns group work (such that multiple students are contributing to an essay), or requires drafts and reviews with an instructor, TA, or other students as part of the overall essay-writing assignment, those become acknowledge parts of the process. In the case of the draft / review / revise cycle, it would seem that that is one way of putting a check on AI-generated essays, at least for now, as though generators can follow prompts, they're rather more limited in taking criticism well, and adapting to it.
The analogy doesn’t work because the edges in chess are huge and the edges in poker are tiny. Many of the best situations in poker are 80-20 advantages. How good of a chess player do you have to be to have a 20% chance against Magnus?
The Defy weight over 8oz, a huge compromise. It's too heavy for the average personn to handle comfortably.
There is a big difference between acknowledging there will be no Team America: World Police to help Ukraine in its regional conflict (currently the bipartisan position of the US government, as well as commentators of all stripes) and various individuals explaining that actually, Putin has been annexing parts of neighbouring countries not associated with NATO in self defence against NATO imperialism and Ukrainians mostly preferring closer economic and political ties with Western Europe to Russia is US imperialism (unlike Russia invading to enforce Putin's preference for closer economic and political ties!) and what about Ukraine having neo-Nazis etc etc...
I’ve been shocked at the night and day attitude between the US and Estonia. The US definitely over-tests and Estonia just waits to see if you die and they don’t have to worry about it.
Being prepared for disappointment is perpetually sage advice to the young.

Lots of things don't taste as you'd expect from their names -- monkfish is the first that springs to mind. I mean, sure, they're fish-flavoured, but ...

Mangosteens (my favourite fruit) are not at all like mangoes, kiwifruit taste more like a gooseberry than a chicken, dragonfruits are pleasantly delicate but way more bland than the fiery name suggests, and so on.

If you don't like the surprise of the fruit from strawberry tree not tasting like a strawberry, then the tree tomato (tamarillo) will really annoy you. : )
Articles like this are kind of the point of this war: people exchanging views in a respectful ways in written form is a freedom we have that is currently denied to many Russians and that Ukrainians are fighting to preserve in their own country, which has been invaded.

IMHO the reason Chomsky's views are disappointing is that he in effect picks the oppression of Ukrainians by Russians as a lesser evil compared to them fighting for their freedom. War is ugly and Chomsky is of course a life long pacifist. So that isn't a surprising point of view. But you'd hope he'd value his own freedoms a bit higher. To deny that freedom to others is the bit that disappoints.
"In your interview to Jeremy Scahill at The Intercept from April 14, 2022 you claimed: “The fact of the matter is Crimea is off the table. We may not like it. Crimeans apparently do like it.” We wish to bring to your attention several historical facts:"

It then mentions the Budapest memorandum which has nothing to do with whether the people living in Crimea like it or not. Then it mentions that "Crimeans" is not a thing, it is clear that by "Crimeans" Chomsky meant the people living in Crimea. Then he mentions that Crimean Tatars are the indigenous people of Crimea, which while I expect it to be considered as true by most people, I do not think that it really matters, after all nobody really cares about the Anatolian Greeks in Turkey. It then mentions that the referendum was held at gunpoint, which I am not sure what it is supposed to mean, could they not vote whatever they wanted in it? As for whether it was declared invalid by the UN assembly, this is irrelevant as to whether the people living in Crimea like it or not.

"In contrast, we argue that prosecuting Putin for the war crimes that are being deliberately committed in Ukraine would set an international precedent for the world leaders attempting to do the same in the future."

This open letter does not try to justify this argument. I would claim that it is false, just consider the various attempts to charge various fighters (in Iraq and other places) against the US with war crimes while at the same time the US refuses to do the same for its own solders.

"Unconditional surrender and then elimination of Ukrainians off the face of the Earth (see above)?"

Here they try to imply that the objective is to kill every Ukrainian while not explicitly mentioning it, while it seems that the goal is to instead eliminate the idea of Ukrainian separatism. (kinda like Spain and Catalonia)

"If you truly value Ukrainian lives as you claim to, we would like to kindly ask you to refrain from adding further fuel to the Russian war machine"

This open letter does not try to justify why they think that providing military assistance to Ukraine will lead to less deaths compared to what Chomsky thinks.

Edit: Please do not take this post as a sign of support of any side. Rather it is just criticism of the specific open letter.
If you’re going to run a business replacing batteries, eating the $1,200 deposit loss and keeping the equipment seems a no-brainer.
Sri Lanka closes schools and limits work to combat fuel shortage
https://www.usworker.coop/home/
That's just the classic, the US is the only country that controls world foreign policy and everyone else just plays along.
Not downvoting, but it’s problematic on Linux when you hook up a second display at different scaling/resolution. Whenever I’m in Linux in my home office, I regret having 4K monitors that require scaling to be readable.
I don't quite see your point here.
Russians were killing Ukrainian civilians in territory they attacked and occupied, and presumably this is still happening on the territory they still hold. I definitely count that as genocide, I don't see how this situation can be more nuanced.
This is why David Sirlin made a poker variant which is fun to play at the dining room table

https://www.sirlin.net/articles/designing-pandante

And he did so by making more hands good so you don't want to fold all the time
Of course the U.S controls France and especially Germany, that's a common point of contention in European politics. That's a result of globalism, trade agreements and having the biggest military in the world.

Self-determination and agency is only available to those who have the means to fight for it. Ukraine has none, it has whatever the nations providing 10s of billions in military aid allow it to have.

Wishing for a fair world does not make it so.
Lithium battery lifetimes vary greatly on operating conditions, and degrade at a non linear rate.

It should be common knowledge by now that lithium batteries start showing performance losses around 700 charge cycles, and definitely by 1,000 charge cycles.
Kipling has a book of "just so" stories that I enjoyed as a child. I'm sure I'd find most of it more cringe as an adult. I think you're correct though that it fits the poster's usage.
wasn't there a java lotus suite later developed that died off very quickly? I recall running it on Solaris
> Surely that is the best definition possible?

Obviously the best one which has appeared in this topic.

> Defining is what humans do.

Some computer programs can do defining also, so I do not recommend you to go to some fields of an absurd.

> Perhaps asking why humans do what they do yields better answers?

I think the answer will be "because they can", but I have asked HN just. Let's see, what answers will this question yield? [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31457736
You’ve just never lived through a famine.
Instead of relying on this letter to guess at what Chomsky says, I suggest people actually read what he said. Here's the interview that the letter links to[1]. Chomsky says he wants Ukraine to be able to defend itself, but also wants there to be a diplomatic rather than military end to the war, and an effort to keep the war from escalating:

> I think that support for Ukraine’s effort to defend itself is legitimate. If it is, of course, it has to be carefully scaled, so that it actually improves their situation and doesn’t escalate the conflict, to lead to destruction of Ukraine and possibly beyond sanctions against the aggressor, or appropriate just as sanctions against Washington would have been appropriate when it invaded Iraq, or Afghanistan, or many other cases.
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> However, I still think it’s not quite the right question. The right question is: What is the best thing to do to save Ukraine from a grim fate, from further destruction? And that’s to move towards a negotiated settlement.

Chomsky is also quite critical of Russia:

> Well, two questions, points of fact: You’re quite right, that the overwhelming mass of the war crimes, the ones that we should be considering, are carried out by the Russians. That’s not in dispute. And they are major war crimes.

Saying that Chomsky isn't anti-imperialist because he disagrees with the method of ending the conflict in Ukraine reminds me of how people who opposed the war in Iraq were said to be friends of Saddam and against Iraqi people getting freedom and democracy. Whenever war fever grips the establishment, even disagreements on tactics coming from people who share the same general goals gets treated as abhorrent heresy.

It would be nice if open and honest debate was possible before we made major geopolitical decisions.

[1] https://theintercept.com/2022/04/14/russia-ukraine-noam-chom...
Okay, so to what end do you wish to employ this appeal to nuance? I ask because usually this is just a naive argument in favour of inaction. Of course inaction is an action in itself, with consequences that can be just as serious as those of actions. See e.g. Obama on Syria.
I think what you’re missing is a conversation with anyone who lives in a country bordering Russia in Eastern Europe.

Perhaps there is more nuance than “controlled by the USA vs controlled by Russia - equally bad?”
The author is Chinese. I found his post in Chinese forum 2 years ago. https://www.v2ex.com/t/712086?p=1

"... with no concerns about security" seems to be a bad maschine translation.

The Chinese version says "(you) don't have to worry about security".