skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Talking about zuck, I can say that without facebook/whatsapp I wouldn’t have kept in touch with old friends (nobody has the same email and phone number now). A few week ends ago I managed to organize a weekend out with some old friends and it was one of the best thing I’ve done in years. I highly recommend trying to get the old gang back together for a weekend or more if you can afford it. First step is to create a whatsapp group.
Not necessarily. You can design your system's security and then implement your features first. A good example would be "we know we need TLS, let's get a non TLS version up first and then add it before release".

Pretty typical imo
I can’t see how Apple can make a net profit on the repair itself at $69 for modern phones, so the profit motive/outcome must come from tilting people towards replacing a phone with a trade-in credit.

There is a sliver of the market who would rather replace their own battery on a 30 month old phone.

There is a gigantic wedge of the market who looks forward to their battery dying so they can get the swankiest new phone for just $39/month.
Sorry, but for You, Oil Trades at $250 a Barrel
I made a selfhosted wayback machine, to manage my thousands of mhtml、html、webachive。

https://hamsterbase.com/docs/what-is-hamsterbase.html
I used to hang out with a scrapper, and one time he cleaned out an old marine supply warehouse. lots of 60s-70s era mil spec parts. we went through the whole lot and separated out the gold. ended up with about 10 lbs of plated pins. paid out less than an oz I think.

if I hadn't scored a bunch of brass enclosures and old panel glasswork and indicators it totally wouldn't have been worth it.
Completely made up and false conundrum.

You can design devices that are easy to repair and still waterproof and sleek.

This is a made up target-conflict that is easily resolved by any trained industrial designer and engineer.
On Not Knowing
What? Let me get this clear: Apple provides no tools - you are OK with this. Apple provides optional tools, which are the ones they use - this "make[s] the process complicated and financially risky".

Is that what you are saying? Can you walk me through your logic because it's escaping me.

Objectively, it is a risky process to do without the right tools based on feedback from people who have actually done it on a regular basis; ref. the poster upthread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31457776
The worst thing about an aging society is how it contributes to ungovernability. It has been the plan of Republicans since the new deal to get pensioners to vote to eliminate social security, but it’s a hard trick to pull and they blew the last chance in the GW Bush years.

I was kinda shocked how Biden defeated Trump by out-OO ding Trump.
> what will he do

Who cares? I hope he enjoys it.
Lots of comments decrying the post-war massacres of French on the island.

Say you lead an impoverished country with no international patrons. You've just ejected slaving colonists from the island, but they do not recognize your independence.

What do you wake up each morning worrying about? Re-invasion. A local French population lobbying France to return and restore their property rights is not a minor inconvenience.

War is cruel, especially colonial war.
The author fails to mention MathML as an alternative choice. The options aren’t just MathJax and KaTeX, but also raw MathML. MathML gives you extremely fast rendering, more font choices, copy-paste, a11y, etc. out of the box. The only downside is that Chrome is lagging behind in implementation, for that they could use MathJaX as a polyfill—as MathJax understands and is able to transform MathML—and allow Safari and Firefox users the benefits of using browsers that can render math natively.
My problem with this process is that it's a low-volume, just-in-time system where you have to order the part, do the repair and send back your old part in a limited timeframe otherwise you are overcharged, not to mention the final step of having Apple support pair the new part to your phone to disable the warnings.

It's unnecessarily annoying and admin-heavy. Compare that to just buying a handful of batteries and keeping them "just in case" so you can then do the repair in your own time as needed. I currently do that but have to use grey-market parts as Apple won't sell them to me without the aforementioned restrictions.
Have you not even considered the possibility that it might be humanity's embracing of science (however half-heartedly) that has brought about the degradation of man's psyche?

Humanity flourished in the pre-scientific era, but as it abandoned all other belief systems, it found itself more and more able to destroy civilization, while less and less able to answer transcendent questions on the nature of truth, ethics, man, and purpose.
Adam Tooze does this for economics: https://adamtooze.substack.com/s/chartbook-top-links

It is paid however. He also has a unpaid one-topic-per-week Substack: https://adamtooze.substack.com

Chartbook is free, deep dive and Chartbook Top Links is paid and a weekly summarised econ news.
People have had that for years (including a sub-$100 device to copy the TrueTone ID for the screen and battery info for the battery).

Every small mall I can think of had a kiosk that would do it in an hour while you shopped. (Eastern MA, US.)

I’m just a consumer and have replaced 3 iPhone batteries myself and am doing a 4th later today.
Not trivially - see my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31458161
Five from Finland: Quantum Computing
New article outlines the characteristics of a 'longevity diet'
Babies Collapse Household Systems
After reading your comment, I looked up visual snow syndrome, and I think I have it, too. I guess not much one can do about it?
> but US influence doesn’t involve invading other countries or even threatening them into some form of submission

I’m sure Central and South America are glad to know now.
Only fifteen percent of American households had a computer in 1990.

People overestimate the speed of the spread of computers.

I didn't have a computer where I worked until 1994. And then, it was shared by eight people.

At my next job in 1995, I made them buy a computer for the office as a term of employment. At the time, I suggested that a laptop might be a good option, since the computer would be shared by three people. For the next two years, the sales guys made fun of me for wanting to put a computer, and for wanting one that fits on my lap.

I later heard that when I left, they sold the computer. I wonder how those blissfully computer-free sales guys are doing today.

When I worked for Westinghouse in 1996 was the first time I was in an office that has one computer per person. But not every department had computers at all. And most who did were just terminals hooked up to a Vax in accounting.

When I worked for a large regional media company in 1997, everyone had a computer. Only a couple of them had internet access, and that was only e-mail. This was during the days when so many people were getting AOL at home that it became uselessly bogged down by its own popularity.

1999: Everyone in the office had their own computer. Not everyone used them. But at least they all had internet access.

(OT: I'm sad that the macOS spell checker didn't know the word "Vax" just now)
Ah, the old "let me tell you what you want" ... arrogant much?
Basically yes, but I still find it unusual (having worked in the industry) if you were ever asked for it in a customer-present situation, because the whole point was that it was for not-present situations.

But then I find many things about payments unusual, like the longevity of mag-swipe in the US in the face of much better tech… I’m happy not to really be in that world any more :)
I agree that kerning is also a problem, and I also agree that it it can't practically be fixed.

However, even if it's theoretically possible to change the font size, would Github ever do so? My impression is that as an organization they place a high value on interface stability. Very little about how I interact with the site has ever changed.

I suppose that individual publishers might stick in a hack to increase the font size, but a bad default means that as a consumer, I'll be stuck looking at tiny math on Github for the vast majority of documents.
>You know people were swapping batteries long before this was available, right?

Ah, yes. That's the way it's always been done, let's not rock the boat, shall we?

>And that you don’t have to rent the official factory tools?

Wouldn't it be nice if the official mfg'er was a bit more helpful for some subsets of it's customers, though?

>Apple did a great thing by providing this option at a loss to themselves.

Praise Apple, how generous of them! Their profits have really been struggling and they didn't have to take this loss, but they did. Stellar folk.
A good linux alternative is VYM (view your mind). I always have one open to jot down my random ideas.
I do what I do, because I am. Action is the sum of character and the product of experience. A=Π(Ex ...) + C
44, same situation. this is not burnout. things will get even worse. you are just waking up and soon you will see things for what they really are. it’s not pretty. good luck.
The point is not to run off a watch battery. The point is that you can open and close a watch without affecting its waterproofing rating.
"The islands" is pretty broad! I would consider Crete in a different category from the islands in general, more similar to mainland Greece. It is geographically an island, but a large one, with a year-round population over 600,000. Infrastructure in the cities is comparable to mainland cities. Heraklion has about 200,000 residents and has the services you'd expect for a city of 200,000.

Many of the Aegean islands are a different story. Many have small, elderly, and dwindling year-round populations and economies that survive almost exclusively on summer tourism. Infrastructure and transportation varies quite a lot, especially in the off-season, and especially on the less populated islands. Although nowadays internet is pretty decent in the main towns. I'm not personally familiar with Corfu to say anything about it.
Involved in the industry since 1980, I am intrigued looking back how we just reinvent the same things but with different distractions - I'm thinking of things like the "natural language" program Savvy from Excalibur Technologies running on an Apple II with a CPM card back in 1982 (which I cannot even find referenced online), then the whole computer world got thoroughly distracted with the graphical user interface for a few decades (macOS, Windows) but with applications that hardly even matched the capability of Savvy. Savvy and programs with that level of functionality simply disappeared. Then the world got distracted with smart phones (iOS, Android), with apps really nothing more than portals through to large datacenter applications still with capabilities that hardly matched the capability of Savvy. I guess in a few decades we'll be distracted with Ray Kurzweil-esque red blood cell sized computers swimming in our blood (still with capabilities that will hardly match the capabilities of Savvy). It's as if humans really do not want functionality and capability as much as we want accessibility?
> Apple cracked down on unauthorized repairs by throwing warnings or even disabling features if you repair phones with non-“genuine” parts, though it walked some of that back after an outcry. And it put together a contract for indie repair shops that was reportedly so invasive, many refused to sign it.

From the article.
> If there was such a cult in the Tas Tepeler it might explain the graven vultures pictured ‘playing’ with human heads.

Sorry to jump in half way and mostly uninformed, but maybe that's an early form of sky burial? Burial by carrion birds is still practiced today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_burial
If you can, I wonder if tried a period of separation, maybe 6 months? To test the waters. My gut instinct is you may find divorce is not what you wanted after all, just some time and space to realize that.
What are our lives for? There is no pre-established assignment given to us, but there is a wonderful project we can willingly take up if we'd like to, and it gives life great meaning every single day:

Do whatever we can to make the afterlife as good as possible.

And by afterlife, I don't mean heaven, or something imaginary like that. I mean the real, actual afterlife, the lives of people who live on after us.

Sure, we don't get to experience this afterlife ourselves, but it's fulfilling to try to make it great. Meantime, also try to improve our own lives, and have fun, and make some mistakes, and learn, and love.
> Maybe, but I really doubt that. I find it much more likely that it was a combination of luck and culture. (Or rather of a culture that had not yet been corrupted.)

I really think it was all the aftermath of WWII. That was such a catastrophic event with all that "never forget", that instead of going for war, peace was the better solution at any cost (for west and central Europe). Now as the remembrance is waning, military options become increasingly an option. The germans shipping heavy military equipment? Unthinkable 10 years ago.
Not really a fan of these listicles of boxes to check to get successful. That said there is one really great gem in there:

"You don't want to be in a career where people who have been doing it for two years can be as effective as people who have been doing it for twenty"

^ that is very good advice.
The closest we have to a Theory of Everything
> owning things is that it is usually zero-sum

The only thing I can think of to which this applies is collectables.

Land? No. There is an aspect of land ownership which is zero sum, but if all you want is land, it's always for sale, and the value of a given plot can be improved with labor and investment. The land the Empire State Building sits on would be very valuable just sitting on Manhattan Island, but is even more valuable with an iconic skyscraper on it.

Businesses? Absolutely not, they can be created for modest amounts of money at any time.

"Real capital" like equipment? Clearly not, every purchase is presumably profitable to the seller, meaning they get enough money to make another one for the next customer in line.
I think we can leave that up to the users of the software. If the users grant the developer that authority by running the software, and they're happy with the results, then who are we to say otherwise? True, we can decide not to use the software ourselves. But I don't think people like us that are savvy and contrarian enough to likely be affected by this pragmatic solution are the intended target users of this product anyway, at least not on the receiving end (sometimes called the "host" or "server"), where IIUC Wayland needs to be disabled.
So if the market already produces that kind of phone (and I assume has good aspects in variables you didn’t mention like reliability, battery life, performance, production costs, etc…) why do we need to force Apple to produce the same? Can’t consumers just buy the phone on the market that already suits their wants?
Just as the Porsche/Mercedes/BMW service manual is not shy about defining a service procedure that uses the best available tools, I’d expect the Apple service process to spot themselves the best available tools as well.

Shade tree mechanics find a workaround in both cases. If you make a mistake with the shade tree tools, it’s on you, not the manufacturer, which feels fair enough to me.
>Crucifying a company for offering to rent custom tools to work on products is insane.

You said it yourself - there are plenty of off-brand options that are far more affordable and easier to obtain that would result in the same fix. So it's insane to me Apple would charge a $1200 deposit and ship shit in pelican cases. They're being willfully obtuse, and it's obvious.
I like how every time there’s a post about being successful, no matter how many caveats and carefully worded it is, a bunch of defeatist, cynical, bitter, and jaded commentators instinctively react and misread what is said.
You can only describe a growing system as zero-sum by abusing the definition of the term.
I would definitely buy a manual if I could. Just more fun to drive. I think Honda civic’s lowest model might still have one. Not sure of anything else.
> Did you even research the program?

Yes, I did. I summarized my thoughts on it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31458161

I still stand by my opinion that this is malicious compliance to prevent formal Right To Repair legislation - not necessarily about the tooling (indeed, optionally providing tooling is a good move) but the fact that besides the problems mentioned in the linked comment, the actual selection of parts is minimal, hopefully for the time being.
The pick of $ and $$ as delimiters seems rushed, to be frank. Although I’m not a big fan of mixing LaTeX in Markdown, I understand that choice (alternatively you could go with ascii-math like syntax which mixes way better with Markdown IMO). But $ and $$ makes not a lot of sense other then LaTeX does it this way. It would have been easy e.g. to use $$ for inline math and $$$ + newline or ```math for block, and that would have gotten rid of many of the warts of mixing Markdown and LaTeX.

In my opinion the familiarity of $ and $$ is sacrificing a lot for not much benefit.
I don't think those comments reflect not being empathetic of their situation.

What they reflect is that now, the current narrative is biased, because we purposely leave outside of the story specific parts, and this can't be attributed to chance.
> I think the EU is generally better at designing it’s regulations to avoid exactly this problem.

The 73rd cookie banner I've closed today begs to differ.
Yes, but that just says be thankful if your former imperial master were British.

Not because they were nice (being better than Belgium doesn’t say much) but because they inadvertently taught their colonies how to govern themselves.

Every other imperial government destroyed the ruling class and government with a heavy hand, with nothing to replace the destroyed knowledge and skills.
To be fair, it shouldn't be Apple's responsibility to advertise third-party options that they have no way of testing or assuring the quality of.
Yes there are silent tactile switches. They have dampeners on the stem that cushion the upstroke and the downstroke of the switch. An example of such a switch is the Gazzew Boba U4s.

The dampeners also cushion the bottom out of the keypress so they are a bit easier on the fingers if you are a heavy typist.

In order to deaden the sound further there are various foam products (poron, PE foam, silicon, polyphill) that can be used in the build. There are also mods that can be done like putting painters tape on the back of the PCB or straightening the stabiliser wires and lubing the stabilisers.

It also helps to select a case that doesn't suffer from acoustic resonance.

If you like tactility and silence it might be worth checking out keyboards with silent Topre switches like the HHKB. Although they are not considered a mechanical keyboard some people actually prefer them.
According to this article, Telstra, not Labor, is responsible for sabotaging the original NBN project.

https://www.afr.com/companies/telecommunications/row-intensi...

According to this article, the LNP coalition were the cause of the subsequent abandonment of FTTP:

https://delimiter.com.au/2013/09/07/fttp-dream-coalition-vic...
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The whole NBN thing was such a mess on both sides, from what I recall (I'm a resident, not a citizen).

CSIRO has been turned into a consulting company. I'm former NICTA/CSIRO/Data61, and I believe it will be a huge task to get that organization back on the right track.

There's almost no way anyone is getting out of Five Eyes.

Totally with you on EV. Though I think there is enough public interest that the capital is there to do it without a ton of government support.

R&D investment I've always found quite good, but we're now in health tech, which is a sector Australia supports.
I'm less worried about energy then I am about ecology. The oceans are being slowly poisoned and this continues to happen. They are big, but we can poison faster than they can self-clean. Eating too much of some wild caught fish, like tuna, is bad for you because you can get mercury poisoning. Why is there mercury in tuna? It's from burning coal. So there's that and the Corral reefs are dieing, fish stocks are declining, ocean chemistry is changing faster then most organisms can adapt.

Industrial agriculture is slowly eroding away the soil, while fertilizers poison the water (see above). This will eventually break.

Just those two things alone account for most of our food and we aren't doing anything in most cases, or enough in some cases, to change the course of these. So then what?
I worked a long-hours job for a few years and burned out. Rode my mountain bike every day for a year and then was ready to get back into it.
After 15 years, what is the tolerance situation like? I've been thinking of starting
I read the article.

What's the financial incentive for a company to actually enforce "insider trading" rules to its employees? In fact, what does "insider trading" even mean in this context? Shouldn't that be defined by a central authority?

When I read the title, it was, "No shit? What do you expect in an unregulated market by design?"

I realize that "lots of insider trading is obviously happening, naturally" is a big statement and unfalsifiabe, so going in the other direction is more logically sound.

On other hand, I can't help but feel it doesn't need to be proven. Unregulated economics is in the design! Maybe we just need more articles like this to prove the trend, but do we still feel the need to prove it? It reminds me of the way scientific consensus fought and eventually converged on "smoking causes lung cancer", even though that wasn't agreed upon at the beginning because monied interests disagreed. But it was like... well, you're burning toxic chemicals inside your lungs, it's in the design isn't it?!

Which take makes more sense currently?
Pixel art actually displayed nicer on CRT monitors, and DOS interfaces were pretty fast and keyboard optimized, and there wasn't an industry dedicated to spying on you. So not always for the better.
Well, yes - anatomically (and to a large degree, intellectually) we're probably indistinguishable from homo sapiens of 300k years ago.

In Yuval Noah Harari's book 'Sapiens - a Brief History of Humankind' he posits that there was a 'cognitive revolution' about 70k years ago, during which our cognitive & language capabilities moved beyond the purely physical observations, to the more abstract & metaphysical.

This allowed for a shedload of cultural changes -- larger societies, the birth of religions / mythologies, money, etc. All those abstract concepts that work when we all agree they exist even if they actually don't.

To your question - yes, we necessarily only have written history from civilisations that wrote things down (and those things survived), but it seems like there was an evolutionary change that meant we could finally leverage our one distinctly useful skill, coordinating large groups of people at scale, by getting us all to adopt a shared reality that didn't exist yet. (This kind of explains why we adopted agriculture, despite it clearly being a bad idea at the time.)
I remember buying an external 5GB hard drive for $4,999 with the first ProTools system back in 1991 (which itself cost much more than that). I was more amazed at having that much capacity than I am now buying yet another 4TB drive from Walmart for less than $100.
What hand-wringing? I even went out of my way to exclude the removal of agency implied by the term casting couch.