skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the moment only .obj, but .gtlf/.glb and .fbx are planned!
The future of freelancing looks very bright
Do you have any source on that battery price? I could see a dodgy battery from AliExpress that’s likely a reject from official production lines or a knockoff maybe being that cheap, but high quality OEM surely costs more.

That was how it generally worked with laptop batteries, anyway — the dirt cheap ones were massive gambles that in the worst case could cause stability issues with the laptop and usually had capacities and cycle counts way under what was advertised. You generally had to go up to prices about halfway between the dirt cheap stuff and OEM to have a chance at getting a decent product, but even then nothing was as reliably solid as OEM.
I'd expect every new laptop to have at least one Usb-c on both sides by now.

It'd be great if they could make an extension with more than one port on it, they're wide enough for more.
My circa 2000 aluminum bike (Cannondale CAAD 4) is my only reference point. It is definitely harsher than my circa '98 titanium Litespeed or my 2005 steel Surly Pacer.
> Apple did a great thing by providing this option at a loss to themselves.

Apple is no saint. Right to repair became popular and it's getting law.

If it's at a loss, it's a consequence because they made repair hard.
State of ex situ conservation of landrace groups of 25 major crops
Are you trolling?

For one thing, you can pry Tkinter from my cold dead hands. For another, I used array just last week.

This whole "no one is using it so throw it away" culture is part of the improving-to-death of the modern Python ecosystem. I think it must come from the Python 3 fiasco. It's become fashionable in a subset of Python community to aggressively deprecate working code.
Prometheus (Lucifer) stole the fire of the Gods (Elohim) to give to primitive man. Now as we are mesmerized by our glowing black rectangles (e.g. iphones) there is Hell to pay. Mephistopheles is always a master of the art of the deal and like Prometheus we will get our due. He his liver devoured in the lonely Caucuses crags only to regenerate each day, us our hearts torn asunder by the alienation of modernity. In 1990 at CERN the
capstone was laid atop the pyramid of the ages. The internet became a world wide web. In 2001, with 9/11 the spider started his work in earnest. The capstone was gilded. An Odessy in cyberspace, with ever greater HALs (Human Abstraction Levers).

The world's a stage. Laugh and ridicule if you want but even the audience are players.
Interesting, thanks! Seems like a solid model.
"No wonder he likes Musk so much. It's basically the same modus operandi."

Both SpaceX and Tesla got helluva lot of traction. The US now depends on the Falcon/Dragon combo to get American astronauts into the orbit, a task which Boeing so far failed to accomplish. And the Ukrainian artillery is pounding Russian targets to pulp with use of Starlink

How this is basically the same as Loopt, I cannot see.
> The adhesive they use to bind the screen to the body has gotten consistently tougher over the years... Unless they ditch the adhesive...

We talk about this adhesive as if it's easily replaced with some screws, but I wonder if that's really true anymore. I can imagine that as devices and their tolerances get smaller that simply screwing something together might actually make the device a lot more delicate. Do you know if this is the case here?
I miss the days when everything was simple ASCII Text :)
I'm familiar with two freelancing maxims

- Never work for free

- Charge more
You could argue he was Austrian, because Croatia was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the time and he attended the University of Graz, Austria. I guess many people would like to call him a fellow countryman.
This kind of rent seeking is exactly why I bought a Sany excavator recently, rather than replace my old Bobcat with a newer model.

While the existence of an onboard computer bothers me, the rest of my new machine is made with relatively inexpensive and readily available parts. In contrast, US manufacturers usually use proprietary parts that cost far more than they should. Over the course of the lifetime of the machine, I expect to pay half the parts maintenance cost as compares with more US-centric machines.

Software features are not the only way that manufacturers have been extracting unjustifiable profit. Right to repair laws are the only way to rectify this situation, because I fully expect Sany to start heading in the same direction after they have further established themselves in the marketplace. In my experience, it seems that every corporation eventually turns to boiling their customers like frogs.
Not to mention that poker is a game that rewards you for not getting caught lying. Fine for a game, but a problem if you're trying to draw life lessons from it.
Great news for the Australian Government. Independents are representing more of the composition and will enable Labor to push harder on an ICAC and Climate Change.

For example, Labor's NBN original proposal would have been great. However, after the Liberal party gained power, Fibre NBN was reduced to a Mixed Technology Model where Fibre and 40 year old copper lines would be used in conjunction. Completely shortsighted and has been plagued with issues.

There's speculation that Rupert Murdoch campaigned to kill Fibre internet so that Netflix and platforms couldn't eat into his services such as Foxtel. Decisions like this have become completely normalised. Business moguls (or "mates") are constantly put before good policy.

Now, Australia has recorded its worst ever score on a key measure of corruption after a long-term decline equal to that of authoritarian Hungary.

This new government is a welcomed change!
That's somewhat a quirk of your displacement taxes resulting in tiny engines.

When the choice is between a CVT or automatic that has to be dragged kicking and screaming into the upper RPM ranges (because how else are you gonna get acceptable performance out of a tiny engine) and a clutch pedal many people choose the clutch pedal.
Whoa.

Yes, at least date we do. Not necessarily marry, not necessarily spend a Sunday with, but date sure.

For centuries high status men have mated with younger women.

You sound bitter and resentful.
I have a "Sirius" question for you too. Do you know that "clanging" is associated with mental illness?

"Clanging is a pattern of speech in which sounds rather [than] meaningful relationships appear to govern word choice, so that the intelligibility of the speech is impaired and redundant words are introduced."

https://text-id.123dok.com/document/oy806p4q-language-disord...
Presumably growing indoors gives them a 365 day/yr operation, which wouldnt be possible otherwise in New Jersey. Most outdoor grown strawberries in the US come from California, and even there, the season isnt all year.
If you ruin the planet it's not your private business anymore.
Here’s the video showing how to disassemble a modern Thinkpad to replace the battery. You might notice that it looks a fair bit like the video to replace the battery on a modern phone: https://youtu.be/lpMGVM8lPTU&t=1m10s

(Also interesting that it doesn't appear that Lenovo even sells the battery [though several 3rd party suppliers do]: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/d/compatibilityfinder?accessory... )
> Can’t consumers just buy the phone on the market that already suits their wants?

It sounds straightforward but actually isn't. In a perfect world with unlimited resources and no dangers of pollution etc it would undoubtedly be a clear yes, but in reality the consequences of all sides have to be evaluated to decide this.
Sure, the "individual self-service" program doesn't officially have a purchase option. There are other programs that are part of the same initiative though:

In the past three years, Apple has nearly doubled the number of service locations with access to Apple genuine parts, tools, and training, including more than 2,800 Independent Repair Providers.
I m shocked
But who's actually being converted by that? No one with any sense, and the rest were already fanboys.
Reading this article and the comments here makes me quite sad.

1. The repair kit described here is not mandatory for anyone to rent to be able to buy the parts. You can just buy the parts alone and use whatever tools you want. If you attempt your own repair, you should use the simple ifixit style tools, and understand the higher risk of damage you are taking.

2. The kit described in the article seems very decent for any kind of independent repair shop. They will probably already have pretty much the same setup.

3. Right to repair is about access to documentation and parts. Nobody epects anyone to make it easy for the user to replace 512 pin BGA part. Right to repair does not mean that it should be easy to repair something, just that there shouldn't be artificial obstacles and that there should be supply of documentation and parts.

4. Repairability is still an important topic and with discussing, but it is a separate issue from right to repair. E.g. I think phone makers could make replacing batteries much easier and that it would be a much smaller design compromise than some people like to claim. But that is a different topic from the baseline of right to repair.

To me this seems like Apple has a good basic right to repair offering both for individuals and independent shops. This article is bad for the right to repair movement, because it doesn't understand what it is asking for.

Parts. Documentation. No artificial obstacles.
And it's happened a couple of times since the 90s.
Corolla comes in a hatchback with a manual.
I'm not saying people should be keeping stock on-hand. I'm saying that their current system is clearly malicious compliance as all that admin also costs them more, so the only reason I can see is extra annoyance to make self-repair less attractive (and prevent third-party shops from using this program as a source of genuine parts).

> Returning cores for a price rebate is a totally standard industry practice.

Depends for what. A worn down (or outright destroyed, if you screwed up and couldn't get it out intact) battery has zero value beyond its raw materials, which are much less than the cost of shipping it back (the eco-friendly option here is to drop it off at a local recycler which will collect and ship them in bulk).
I live close (enough) to Davis. How can I get magic seeds from them that will give me flavorable fruit?
People don't like change and not everyone has noticeable issues typing on standard keyboards. Once you do make the switch though the benefits become obvious.
This is perhaps not the perfect moment in time to try to start a business where a large share of your compensation is in equity/ownership.
Pretty much every compact/subcompact still has a manual option.

If you want a crossover I think the only new one that still has a manual is the Crosstrek.
My 6-year-old got a Nitinol device put into his heart to close a hole. They could make it small for insertion in a vein (artery?), then expand when it was in place.
Okay I will not post these anymore. I might share the summarization algorithm I wrote that enables me to create these quickly, though. Thanks for helping me understand the ethos of curiosity and the diffs as the underlying principles.
thou beeing german, i still use the us-layout and avoid umlauts when dealing with computers. some deep habits
But where does that structure conversion code go? Into a support dynamically linked library?
Isn’t it the point of software like this, to connect through firewalls? Never saw an option like this in TeamViewer or AnyDesk.
I found the contrast between zero known published game and the claims of iOS and android targets for a 10 year old language to be... interesting.

But you can see some more for yourself, including screen shots of the author's unreleased game:

https://github.com/aardappel/lobster/issues/136

I think what lobster really needs at this point is a page that prominently displays better examples of possible and real end-products somewhere.

raylib example:

https://itch.io/games/made-with-raylib
You can pick a religion or political party. Those seem to be popular for providing belonging to people here.
No.

If you can't get customers - real, honest to god, paying customers - as a freelancer without offering a free trial, you don't have enough of a network to be a successful freelancer.
Not having easily replaceable batteries (and pardon me but I don’t consider requiring 79 lbs of equipment and a 1200$ deposit “easy”) in modern phones is akin to selling cars with the tires welded on.

It is ridiculous, consumer hostile, and wasteful.

Batteries are consumable, they should not be a reason to throw the phone away once they stopped working.

You don’t throw your house away when the garbage bag is full or when the tap starts leaking. These are things you’re expected to replace and it can easily be done with simple tools.

Phones shouldn’t be any different when it comes to their parts, especially consumable ones.
The operation's name is "popcount", there's an asm (i86?) instruction "POPCNT".

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffcm&q=popcount&ia=web
Igalia has plenty of mentions here in HN
So just for reference, OWL is using Bigarray under the hood for dense array. OWL seems to be doing all the things right, great deal of modularity and abstractions but compiling everything down to the most efficient representations.
Yes, it sounds like there are multiple disconnected infection clusters, with the assumption of a similar mode of transmission in each. (I’m obviously inferring this based on limited thin evidence.)

Consider a hypothetical autocratic regime with a history of criminalizing sexuality, committing human rights violations, and researching biological weapons. If their military felt it was time to deploy an airborne virus within enemy population centers, wouldn’t it make sense to do so simultaneously? And why wouldn’t this regime release it in a class of location that create plausible deniability, maligns a population historically persecuted by the regime, and foments societal conflict in the enemy?

Personally, given the implications, I’m hoping this warfare proves to be more informational than biological.
Apple's position seems to be that most people don't need the tools at all - 80% of the US lives within 20 minutes of an AASP, and frankly rural people know fine well they need to drive further to reach services like this (it used to take us more than 20 minutes to get to a post office).

The big wins are that the parts are available to customers and the tooling is available to third-party service providers. Being able to rent the tooling yourself is meant to cover the edge-cases.
I guess it's only bulkier because it's made up of several user-replaceable components.

The Fairphone 2 is a lot smaller and lighter than the FP3, though. My boss has a FP2 and my FP3 is really quite a monster compared to his.

Regarding buying one: Only us Europeans can actually do that since it's not available anywhere else.
Is there any good solution to this? An easily repairable phone that is also waterproof?
But the left is NOT opposing military intervention (or escalation), it’s promoting it in response to Russia’s invasion.

And I’m not sure I understand the jump from “i oppose X” to “the US must get involved with X”.

Noam Chomsky is critical of Russia’s invasion, just like you.

But doing “something” is an entirely separate decision. People seem to be operating with the default of “if there is a problem, the US has an obligation to fix it”

It’s that mentality that has gotten us into so much trouble over the past 60-70 years.

My opinion is the default is “we do nothing”, and anything more needs justification and a careful analysis to ensure we don’t make things worse (which has been the outcome of almost every intervention since WW2).
Famous words of my scoutmaster.
ITT, “technologists” who don’t understand “normals”.

The most important line in the article:

> I’d never successfully repaired a phone — and my wife has never let me live down the one time I broke her Samsung Galaxy while using a hair dryer to replace the screen.

Every crack and snide remark about Apple’s motivations, both in the article and in this thread, pretend that remark doesn’t describe almost everyone. It’s certainly the most plausible explanation and motivation for every aspect the author ascribes as bad intent by someone trying to help him do a good job when he doesn’t want to do a good job.

It’s not just phone batteries, it’s spark plugs, compressors … nobody knows how to repair anything … and they generally don’t want to. They (a) don’t want to think about it when it works, and then (b) don’t want to have to do anything when it doesn’t.

Apple’s process was built for normals. Their designs make the devices inconceivably reliable relative to the past, and then they take responsibility to deal with those choices at the repair step. Regardless what normals say if you poll them, that’s what normals actually want.
The freed slaves were no indigenous population, they were as much colonists as the white frenchmen, so colonial narrative does not make sense. It was slave revolt, not anti-colonial revolt. Their land property rights were any more legitimate than land property rights of white frenchmen (especially those who were not slave-owners).
> Mathematics is a language, but then why are you saying there was no Mathematics before Pythagoras? Obviously Pythagoras didn’t invent language!

He did invent the language. When Pythagoras used to teach some folks the division (mathematical operation required for Trigonometry which is required for building Egyptian Pyramids) he faced with un-understanding of "why we should learn this silly useless numbers?" Then Pythagoras has invented a music (consonance and dissonance at least) and everyone started to learn Math because most of us can hear that numbers which may lead to either consonance or dissonance.

> you are conflating the ability to exploit nature with the ability to understand it.

Yes you are right, I do not see how can you understand Physics/Nature without exploiting anything. And if you are enough successful to exploit something so why not to claim that I have gained some understanding.

> There would be no physics without humans inventing it just like there would be no language without humans inventing it.

I think two instances of "humans" word are extra, that words don't add anything into the discussion of some mathematical and physical concepts.

And I keep staying on my opinion that: if one fly can do something complicated in controllable experiments set by human (kind of pull this rope and get some sugar) and another fly can learn this queue of actions from the trained fly, that means that after the experiment both flies share some physical knowledge about Nature.
Looking at the front page of the NYT right now and I don't see anything like what you are claiming. In fact their top article today is a long-form investigative piece into Haiti's debt to France.

>THE RANSOM - For generations, Haitians were forced to pay France for their freedom. How much was a mystery — until now. The Times scoured centuries-old documents to find out.
The world will be fine. Even better once the cancerous growth of humans is self-removed. It won’t be the same as pre-humans, but it’s always changing anyway.
This is amazing! I've been looking for something just like this for a while.
It's $49 to have Apple ship two Pelican cases of tools to you, to have you use them for the week, then to ship them back to Apple and (presumably) to have someone inventory them to make sure there's nothing missing and that they're reading to ship out to the next person.

You think Apple is making money on that?
I want to counter the prevailing negativity in this thread. I admire the pragmatism of this project. The developers are clearly willing to work hard to achieve what they value, such as producing a single self-contained executable on Windows. But they're also unafraid to take pragmatic shortcuts where they feel that it's OK to do so.

I wonder if the fact that the original author comes from the largest non-English-speaking population in the world [1], a population large enough to have its own distinct software development culture, is relevant. I'm guessing that they don't routinely participate in our English-speaking software development communities. If that's so, then they're not exposed to our norms or the constant negativity of our online discourse. Perhaps that's liberating. Perhaps we need more independent cultures, doing their own thing with no regard for what we think. In any case, for me, software developed in China, such as this project and Zoom (particularly the Windows client), provides an interesting peek into what Jimmy Maher called a mirror world [2]. It may trigger our natural discomfort with foreignness, but some of the differences from the typical American commercial software culture, such as a continued willingness to develop bloat-free native Windows apps, are refreshing.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31457771

[2]: https://www.filfre.net/2017/06/tales-of-the-mirror-world-par...

Edit: If anyone thinks what I said is offensive, please let me know, either publicly or privately. I tried to approach a delicate topic without offending, but I'm not sure if I succeeded.
Is it IBM? :)
I see your point, but at the end of the day, when it really is two imperialist powers, USA vs Russia actually calling the shots, does it matter that western intellectuals aren't acknowledging the Ukrainian perspective? From my outside perspective, the Ukrainain perspective isn't what people focus on, simply because Ukrainians have no choice, or rather, there is only a singular choice. And they are entirely dependent on the whims of the two imperialist powers fighting a proxy war with Ukrainain blood.

American politicians couldn't care less about the actual Ukrainian people. This is about either crippling Russia and scoring the political points to say they did it, or securing money either for their personal coffers or feeding their local Military Industrial Complex.

I personally think that the Ukrainian perspective matters, but we(westerners) won't care until it's too late. Tangentially related, our most recent home grown white supremacist shooter was inspired at least in part by Azov battalion, he wore a black sun patch and lifted several parts of his manifesto from Brendan Tarrant directly, another neo Nazi that actually spent time in Ukraine, with the Azov battalion being an inspiration. I imagine Russia will also be facing internal unrest for generations for what's happening in Ukraine. Maybe this is their Chernobyl moment.
It was what everyone said they wanted until they got it and it was Vladimir Putin making all the money and using it to fund wars.
Use and process have to be disclosed as part of the patent, so preemptive actions are hard.
I have two kids and actually do what the article concludes with: teach them both types of games (in my case, replacing Poker with Hearthstone and the card game Coup). I’d also recommend Lichess as it is always easy for the kids to find a game and there are some variations to keep them interested in continued play.

Games are really fascinating. I see two elements: 1) making something easy into something hard (by limiting a person’s options), and 2) making something hard into something easy (by proportionally increasing difficulty to the near-max of a player’s current ability).

Example:

1) try to put a ball in a net, but you can only use your feet.

2) split into teams and compete against similar skill level

A good game narrows the scope of your options while having a built-in leveling-up system (self or other play is a great way to do that).
The flip side is that you know now that it was a mistake. Would you still be happy today if you hadn’t left, but without knowing it was the right choice?

Happiness is a fickle thing.
Right, being alone is not the same as being lonely. I guess you realize that, but you did not explicitly state it. I keep hearing the Beatles song in my head now. Elenor Rigby.