skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a different definition of Right to Repair entirely. iFixit and others fall into this definition, while people like Louis Rossmann believe R2R simply means Right to Repair, and not Right to a Repairable Design. This is another issue with R2R - some define it as just getting parts and tools; others as mandatory design guidelines and requirements.

Pay attention carefully and watch different videos about what R2R means. There's a significant schism in the R2R movement over whether R2R means repairable design or not. The most successful branch legislatively (New York, Rossmann, EU proposals) says that it does not include repairable design; and that Right to Repair only encompasses the right to have manuals and parts, not that the manufacturer has to make specific design choices (other than, like, USB-C but that's not repair-related).

Edit: Another issue that comes up is how granular is a "part". Louis Rossmann sees a part as being on the level of a specific microchip and is upset he can't order parts at that level of granularity. Apple, and other R2R activists, view a part as a much larger finished item, such as a PCB or a Battery (rather than, say, the specific resistor on the inside of a Battery). Legislators for R2R in EU currently are trying to define R2R as being "if the manufacturer sells a part, they must sell it to everyone," not "the manufacturer must individually sell all pieces of a product until they are no longer divisible" - but the Louis Rossmann crowd views as being insufficient R2R. So... another loose R2R schism.
Saying "can not possibly exist" is just a bad way to start an argument. No one is arguing that absolutely no changes to the grid shall take place. New power plants will be built as needed to handle future loads.

The loads will be handled in the same way massive city growth has always been handled; through market-based pricing strategies and development of new production.

Europe is undergoing major geopolitical conflict, adding unique and massive stress to the system. European will cope and adapt.
> And almost everyone is hiring by committee now. Because if the committee hires the wrong person, nobody hires the wrong person.

At least in some cases, it's a reaction to some managers having made hiring decisions perceived by leadership as mistakes. Impersonal and bureaucratic as it might be, to the extent it keeps the bar higher I think it's a good thing.
My recent gripe with CMake: the language toolchain is still a singleton. You can't easily use multiple C++ compilers in the same build. This doesn't feel like a language limitation.

I also never got why we need DSLs for build systems. It seems like Turing completeness is often inevitable, no matter if people don't like it. There is no reason that a build file couldn't be mostly declarative with a general-purpose programming language though.
This article is discussing the scripting language of CMake (the code that describes the build) not the program that it builds.

But to your question, the answer is kinda. There is support for a few other languages built in (off the top of my head, Ada and Fortran I believe) and you can provide a custom backend as well for your own language support but most people just use add_external_command
Why would you need a dedicated chip for any of that?
It's not "immunity debt" but rather that immunity for seasonal diseases is not permanent - you lose it if you don't use it, basically, with "refresh period" about the same length as the disease cycle.

I don't have citations handy, it's just something I've seen mentioned here and there some months ago, as a possible explanation why after 2 years of lockdowns, many more people seem to catch the common seasonal diseases.
#dadjokes #swooosh
> “We’ve got safety measures, security measures that we’ve put in place by store location. I think local law enforcement being staffed and being a good partner is part of that equation, and that’s normally how we approach it,” McMillon said.

They get to use the public police force as private security? Why can't I hire a police officer to guard my house at night, instead of me locking my door?
The problem is developers, especially open source ones, discount the value of design and user interfaces. There are often no OSS designers, because the same culture around OSS development is not there in those designer circles, so this is why you see most OSS be terrible from a user interface and experience standpoint.
They're not exactly hard to find, or secret. They are, however, subjective; you may think it's funny to throw male chicks alive into a meatgrinder, or to cull a entire facility's worth of unsalable pigs by turning up the heat.
Isn’t solar the cheapest energy per KwH? A sunny place like Arizona with tons of empty space should be able to cheaply deploy lots of energy.
Replace the whole wheel. You don't need any tools (except those that supplied with the car itself).

There're plenty of perfectly serviceable cars. You might be too rich to care about it, but I live in a third-world country and there're lots of people who do self-service for some repairs and procedures. It's not hard and it doesn't require costly tools. Especially with modern resources when you can download service manuals and watch youtube videos its easier than ever. You only need a will (or necessity).
The problem is, none of that has lead to any actual treatments. It's sort of nice to know that gene 1 leads to depression at x% rate. Or gene 2 means people get dementia sooner. But until there is a pill to prevent or treat that we are no where. Until then, you need to do more, not less experimentation.

I guess this is the difference between scientific progress and medical progress. We have made very little of the latter in these fields.
I feel bad for Smule, which is a pretty awesome app. This features seems to offer much of that capability natively (minus the community.)
not sustainable for a long period of time.

Really? What will stop it? Regulation maybe?

Remember --- they have an *unlimited* supply of money --- they just print/mint the stuff at will. Nothing currently in place to stop them.

Over the course of 8 years, Tether has gone from $0 to over $65 trillion --- all minted out of recycled electrons. $65 trillion is a lot of marketplace influence --- and there is plenty more where that came from.
Mitigating that environmental impact is what makes rare earth mining so costly. China is quickly learning that environmental remediation [1] is much more expensive and their appetite for destroying their environment for profit is quickly disappearing, especially as the middle class grows and moves up Maslow’s hierarchy.

From the article:

> “The rare earth industry is a pillar industry here in Ganzhou and we must keep it running, but there’s still more to do to figure out a truly environmentally friendly method to pursue sustainable growth,” Zhang Guanjun, deputy director of the public relations department of the Ganzhou Party Committee, said in an interview. “Ironically, because the prices of rare earths have been so low for a long period of time, the profits from selling these resources are nothing compared to the amount needed to repair the damage.”

[1] https://e360.yale.edu/features/china-wrestles-with-the-toxic...
Let's say 'Good architects are fun killers' - but really there is still a lot of fun to be had - and if not maybe one should move to a more mentally challenging job haha.
South Park has a perfect scene about that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3AM00DH0Zo
Conservatives don't care about saving money, or efficiency, or even freedom.

They care about power.

So here's the flaw: They label things "bloat" without explaining WHY it is bloat. They just wave their hands and say "BLOAT! BE OUTRAGED!"

What is a proper level of administration?

Where are other systems with more or less and how do they perform compared to UNC?

They claim "At NC State, in 2020-21, no less than $131 million more was spent on administrative (i.e., non-teaching) positions than on teaching ones."

Where? How? Why? Who?

They can show, but don't. That's suspicious. Especially with the adjectives they use elsewhere in the article.

For all we know the entire budget of the library ($43 million) counts as "administrative".

There is a grand total of ONE (1) hyperlink in that article: TO A WEBSITE WHERE THEY'RE SELLING A BOOK.

It's bullshit.

Anyone who falls for it is fucking stupid.

Here is access to more actual data in one hyperlink than they presented in their screed:

https://budget.ncsu.edu/budgetcentral/

This is 0% about money or bloat or whatever as they frame it, and 100% about being angry that they're not allowed to ridicule transsexuals in public anymore without being "cAnCeLlEd".
"The fatigue/fear is reasonable, but it does not matter -- the world will not stop for you or anyone."
It's not about stopping specific technology from advancing. HN is just source of news and discussion. Imagine if HN active threads were about technology or something that you are not excited about. Would you not feel tired of seeing every 2nd/3rd post about the same topic that you are not interested in?
Ask HN: How Federatable is the Fediverse?
How sturdy is federation actually in the fediverse?

At what point does it become practically impossible to federate a new instance into the existing verse?

If it's "never", how do you ensure that you're federated "enough" to be findable and/or to find what you want to?

Is it like adding a node/network/PoP to the internet - so long as you're connecting to something connected, you're now connected (an "all roads lead to Rome" scenario)?

Or is there a minimum number of connections you need to make to be considered "federated"?

Do enclaves or isolated pockets of federation exist (maybe akin to galaxies inside the universe - you know the others exist, maybe even can see them from a distance, but cannot communicate with them)?

Maybe I don't understand the federation model well enough (very possible/likely), and maybe this question doesn't make sense to someone well-versed in the topic - if so, please explain what I'm missing so I understand better :)

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(Originally started as a comment on another post - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33834361
Distributions of human skill that we can measure tend to be on long-tailed power scale distributions. Chess is one of the most obvious examples of this. Chess world champions tend to be just dramatically better than the 2nd best players in the world. One early 20th century world champion (Emanuel Lasker) retained (and actively defended) his title for 27 years! And he was also a research mathematician (who made some significant discoveries) and more 'on the side'.

And while that exact stretch remains unbroken, similar levels of dominance in the game are typical. Kasparov was world champion for 15 years. And in current times Magnus Carlsen has been world champion for about a decade, and #1 in the world (by a wide margin) for years beyond that.

On things we can't measure, one can observe facts like the open problem that Einstein would go on to solve (in his twenties, while working at a patent office) was being dug into by countless brilliant minds, to no avail, since Einstein was 8 years old! And his work after that point makes it clear it wasn't just a freak coincidence.

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I definitely do think there are plenty who are "that much" smarter than average, but I don't think they need to be paid to succeed. Nor do I think one having an official affirmation that he is a "genius" is conducive to clear-headedness. It naturally drives a sense of entitlement, and can be detrimental to actually putting in the work necessary to make things happen. All the potential in the world is irrelevant without a corresponding work ethic.
> Patronising is thinking you know you don’t want kids without having them. You don’t. You have no idea what it’s like.

In this example, who exactly am I being patronizing toward? Myself?
Sigh, AirTags could be super useful. We can never have nice things.
Plus, most of that money is probably intended to focus on building landing pads since that's still NASA's biggest "unknown" risk factor regarding bringing large amounts of cargo down to the lunar surface.

It isn't really clear if a large lander like Starship would be at risk of digging itself into a hole (and potentially tossing regolith into an orbit such that it comes around and hits the lander or surrounding infrastructure) if it landed using its main thrusters. For now the HLS design includes separate landing thrusters higher up, but since those add more complexity they're probably fairly interested in exploring other possibilities.
Most people don't see the EU as weak, just ineffectual. But it was definitely the EU that got them to do all this.
Correct - the "everyone" is mainly NYT and some politicians. There are some questions there as it's a bit sketchy why they're treating him with such kid gloves.
I was more referring to "NIMBYism" or suburbification than purely political parties; both deep red and deep blue "cities" vote heavily NIMBY when they get the chance, and some of that may be that many of the people living in said cities wish they could live more suburbanly or more rurally, and try to make the city as much as such.
Not sure what you mean. The day Stable Diffusion released I downloaded the officially released model and ran it on my consumer GPU which I already own for gaming. I can use it infinitely and without restriction. That is significantly more free and open than having to sign up for a website which requires me to agree to their terms of service, rate limits me, and will eventually start charging me for access.
Seismic activity
These aren't the same beast, though.

A lot of car tools are specialty tools than can only be used on other cars. And they are big because cars are big. It is hard for a library to stock some of these tools, too. People often have a few car tools, though: A jack, wrenches, and things like that. You know, the ones that are easier to store in an apartment closet and can be used for other things. Some libraries rent these.

Phone tools are closer to the car tools that people have. Even small libraries can rent them and you can store them in your desk. You'll probably be able to use some on other electronics or at least other phones. You'll probably let family borrow them. Some of the tools are already affordable, too. The things you can't do, you can pay someone for. And they can probably work out of a kiosk.

I'd actually argue that right to repair is hard, though - just not for the reasons stated. It is easier to unscrew something than to unglue it. We don't design for ease repairs. Ease of manufacturing has been winning out.
Love the idea. Ballpark revenue/profit?
> Compared to previous years or decades (or centuries) there is a markedly higher percentage of children/young adults who "self-identify as 'trans'", often clustered and in waves.

I don't see how you could usefully extrapolate a "real" baseline rate based on what prior generations did. Atypical sexual/gender identities have been taboo for almost the entirety of human civilization, and only as these taboos are now being lifted are people able to express these traits without fear of horrific repercussions.
You just articulated why I kept getting really obsessed with, then extremely pissed off at Rimworld. It also didn't make much sense to my why you could build all this advanced future tech in-game but then needed to tame alpacas to leave your settlement...
You might want to check on birth rates ~2 centuries ago, when (at least in the U.S.) belief in a literal burning-fires-of-hell afterlife was far more common than it is today.
Do you have any resources to claim that more advanced technological devices require an order of magnitude more animals to experiment on?

How does this justify sloppy stuff like wrong vertebra, injecting random gels, not euthanizing when undue suffering occurs, incorrect experimental parameters (Eg wrong chip sizes)?
What happens when the mass is struggling and has a lot of free time because everything has been automated? The billionaires seem to not have planned more than one step ahead.
What worked for me was disabling the feature of keeping the TCP connections alive. No idea if it's covered by 'networkoversleep', but this is as deep as I've went, considering I've then received a warning that "Find my Mac" will stop working after this toggle.
"One of us! One of us!"

Congrats! What a fun and delightful thing. Props to you, and here's to many more enjoyable programs. Thanks for bringing a little humor to my day.
> So one day it may be used for a cardiac procedure, the next day some kind of skin drug

Our IACUC will not allow this. The general policy from the Guide to Animal Care (NIH document which governs PHS funded research in the US) is in fact that an individual animal should not be exposed to multiple distressful procedures unless scientifically necessary. My understanding is that European animal committees have more of a minimize-the total-number-of-animals attitude, but that doesn't fly in the States anymore, at least on the research side.
I suspect much of it comes from the original ASCII for a dwarf: @

Which kinda looks like it's facing right ... (depending on the font)
Here's to many more joyful moments! Congrats!
Yeah, even if executed well, who is this for?

I know the last thing I want is for some random person to sing the song we're all listening to given that most people can't sing.

I find myself usually telling the kids in the car to pipe down and let the artist sing.

So I'm really interested in understanding the demo for this feature.
What the fuck is wrong with you?

"You shouldn't be allowed to physically protect yourself to your surroundings or you lose the genius status. (or under some absolute physical restraint or suffering verifiable by everyone)."

We've already effectively given people life long resources for nothing more than exiting the correct vagina. And you seem to want to make it legal to effectively freely harass nerds.
Karaoke is where some other artist performs and records the song, without vocals, in the style of whoever popularized the song.

This Apple feature seems to be where the same popular recording gets used, which has vocals, and then some magic processing reduces the vocals.

There has always been software to sorta-kinda suppress vocals from existing recordings, but it usually ends up sounding like trash (artifacts of all sorts) compared to just having a karaoke band re-perform the song (although the talent and production quality can be dubious with the latter). Presumably the innovation here is not having vocal suppression sound so bad.

Aside: and then there are popular artists who release an instrumental version, or stems from which an instrumental version can be trivially created, but this is so extremely rare as to not even be on-topic for a conversation about broad availability.
You insinuate you have a high IQ and that is the only cogent critisms you can find here.
Good to know, thanks... I speak French so I might just go straight to the French support if I ever need them.
Hi, I'm open to suggestions on how. On an alternative store or something like that?

Google wont allow distribution via Google Play, and payment via third party I think.
https://dark.fi/
Extreme differences between those who answer a survey and those who don't is obviously always an area of concern. That said, under most circumstances, the alternative is you pretty much have to not bother with data (or do some qualitative research--e.g. interviews) or you have to go with what you have and maybe discuss potential areas of bias.
That reasoning would make sense but the most server limits on firearms are mostly applied to the least commonly used weapons for murders. For instance more than twice the number of people get murdered by knives in the US than rifles (rather broad category). Unless you're talking about quantity of deadly use vs non deadly use

Regardless i think it doesn't make sense to have a legal gray zone where it's legal but you can still be sued about it. Either make it illegal or certain behaviors illegal and sue for that but arbitrary lawsuits are not the answer

> https://www.statista.com/statistics/195325/murder-victims-in...
Stable Diffusion 1 vs. 2 – What you need to know
Two nit-picks:

1 - It's likely going to cost more than 100k per year per kid to send them off to college in ~18 years, even to a very cheap state school. The financial picture gets really complex, so talk to an advisor and not some random internet commenter. That said, our own financial advisor has us planning for ~1M total per kid for college, but we're very much on the high end here.

2 - I've helped a lot of family members pass away in the last few years. It's been abnormally high, but the world has been abnormal too. I've helped somewhat poor family and very very wealthy family pass. The one thing I've learned is that the last few years/months are not something you can save for.

Not that you can't have so much cash as to not pass it along. But that the swanky retirement home is not very swanky at the end of the day. One family member was in a memory care place that was costing ~20k / mo. Yes, really. They had very good pensions. But the thing is that the retirement/hospice is still just a job to the people there.

They aren't getting out of bed at 3am to change you, to pick you up, to bathe you. They put you in an ambulance in lieu of putting you back in a chair, because of lawsuits. They are doing the bare minimum that they have to. Trying to plan for your retirement care via lawyer is just never going to cover all the bases and little things that come up.

The only people that are going to be taking care of you when the end is near (and that can be for years of time), are the people that love you. Sure, your kids may hate you, but that's mostly on you. But people that do not love you are not going to take very good care of you at all. That doesn't mean kids for sure, it can be other people. But you've got to have people that love you close by you near the end.
It depends on how you count value.

Let's say you work from home and make your lunch. Previously you'd buy ready-to-eat lunch. While you still buy ingredients and pay for energy, you don't pay for someone to prepare it and then sell to you, prepare the housing of the eatery and so on. Effectively some GDP was lost. Next, let's say you grow some of your own veggies...
The biggest flaw is that every election would have at least one party, if not both, pushing for increasing the base income regardless of whether or not it makes sense.
For those that can't play it but would still like to experience the joys of its flavor of generative art, there's a YT channel that interprets it and puts a story and illustration to his playthroughs:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXX7Rp0iXj0nPwER_CwBD...
Show her how to loop through the print statement and she’ll be hooked forever!