skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon seems to encourage this. I ordered a pair of cheap wireless headphones that were highly rated. I get them and they are crap. But, included in the package is a flyer offering an Amazon gift card for more than I paid for the headphones if I gave a 5-star review. My integrity is worth way more to me that that. So I leave a one-star review with a picture of the flyer, hopefully someone else will see that and realize the reviews are fake. Amazon rejected my review because it didn't meet their guidelines since it mentioned "Reviews given in exchange for cash, discounts."
I always thought Fair Trading was the version for individuals
Sure, sure but why did the costs go up? You can blame a price increase on everyone else but that does not answer the question.
Sadly, generative AI will probably render this clever heuristic ineffective (at least at savvier establishments).
> GCC has a bit richer history in the embedded space

Yeah as someone who works in the embedded space, I do wish that LLVM had more microcontroller support. Maybe one day! It was weirdly hard to get up and running with the STM32L4 and LLVM, whereas GCC was easy as, just for a recent example. Apparently I can pay ARM for a specific LLVM implementation?
I think it comes from the world of cryptocurrency: "Not your keys, not your coins". Really, it can be extended to a lot of troublesome issues in computing. Like cloud computing: "Not your metal, not your machine" and storage: "Not your drive, not your data". Or E-mail hosting: "Not your domain, not your... well I can't figure out a clever phrase there but you get the point." We delegate so much important stuff to faceless, opaque corporations, and then act all "Shocked Pikachu" when we realize our stuff really isn't ours.
This policy is to prevent people from selling their laptop to someone (who sets up an account with Find My Mac) and then stealing it back and requesting Apple to make it theirs again.
Fair point.

I must point out that in the original article, the author lost their MacBook and then complained it was locked after it was returned. (It would be analogous to getting it stolen then having the thief reactivate the lock.)
I think, because it kinda was[1], then it was not[2].

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36994214

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37149349
To those not in the know, a stock ticker looks like a price tag.
The First ECG Machine Used Buckets of Saline Solution and Telephone Wire (2021)
> Unfortunately, writing a compiler creates a living thing.

> I didn't realize this going into it. I wasn't asking for a baby.

> It was a complete surprise to me, after 20-odd years of industry experience, that even writing a simple interpreter would produce a lifetime of work.

https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rich-programmer-foo...
Interesting there are a Lots of Iceland posts on hacker news. Im guessing tons of tech people from all over the world have visited and fell in love with Iceland too!

Though heads up going there to see the northern lights is all about luck unless you stay for weeks to months. Be cool see the lights and this active volcano in the opposite direction of each other :)
Ratings should always be on a curve for the rater, and on a 10 point scale, with no official meaning attached to the number of stars. If you rate everything 10 stars, you just gave everything 5 stars. If you want your 10 stars to mean 10 stars, you need to rate a bell curve of other stuff too.

(you might say "but if I only select the best places, and the ratings are always confirmed, that would be downvoting them." No, it wouldn't, that's exactly the type of situation that Gaussians know how to handle. Whatever is the average rating and whatever is the excellent rating will emerge from the collective.)

if you wish to attack my plan, I'll only listen if you offer a defense of the status quo, or offer a better improvement plan.
I'm curious how Talkback/Narrator handles this same content, but as a standard text file. I suspect it's still bad, but something about the weird HTML shenanigans being played might be messing up the screen readers.
How many people work in the “office of the ceo” in a company like Apple or Amazon? Does he have like 5 assistants that cover different areas or is this a fully staffed org with 30+ people around the world?
Since we're splitting hairs now, GP said "try allowing as much free speech as possible." You've pointed out some times he's failed. That doesn't contradict whether GP thinks he's trying.
What we really need to happen here is for them to lose the case (to avoid setting an absurd precedent) but for zero damages to be awarded due to the exigent circumstances of the pandemic.

That would really be the best outcome that reflects good spirits.
> Tandy never sealed the screw holes to its computers again

Good that they actually fixed it when he complained!

They also apparently sold a terrific "technical reference manual" that explained the hardware design and operation in detail and also included a parts list and schematics:

https://www.trs-80.com/wordpress/publications/manuals-servic...

I believe Apple used to provide schematics for its early machines as well.
It’s designed as a platform, not specifically a reader.

> It's not just an e-book reader. With Librum, you can manage your own online library and access it from any device anytime, anywhere.

Different strokes for different folks as you seem to already have a solution to sync your own library.
A user being denied access to a resource they own is a security issue. It has a name: denial of service (attack).
The Magic of a Crooked Sixpence
Sort of, in some places. In the USA identity theft, including getting gov documents is pretty common.
It is federated in the same way matrix or mastodon are. You join a server and it can talk to other servers. If the server you are on shuts down you won't be able to login and make posts no matter how many agreements have been signed between different servers. It also uses the hardware of the server you are on.

You could even start your own carrier just like you could set up your own Mastodon server. Of course there would be far more regulations, but it is technically possible.
Yeah if you called up every OTC trade desk and market maker at every investment firm and told them you'd pay 50% above market for 51% of shares of some company.

They'll charge a handsome fee, but they could probably get it done.
Only those with 4 (four) photodiodes. Add another one and you are scot free! This doesn't do anything to make the world any better, but here we are.
> I’m a happy gke user && Which I’m happy for them to keep on their side of the street.

100% agreement

iirc, there was a time where I thought they were doing some consolidation things with how they run the control plane, then at some point my cluster updates had a warning related to control plane unavailability during an update, this was on a single node cluster

I get what you are saying though, there's probably some magic going on somewhere, but after many years on GKE, I don't really think about it.
Just look for the review to summarize what it said at the end
The power of default apps is significant. Google got slapped for just that in the EU and there is a browser selection screen on setup.
There are two kinds of people in the world; people who believe "anti-theft" is a reasonable justification for this, and people who believe that this is just another tired "trade freedom for security" argument.

You'll rarely convince either side to change their mind on this. Its an issue that pokes at a really deep element of personal philosophy.

Here's my argument from the opposite side to try, however: Asking about how you can retain the anti-theft capability isn't relevant to the discussion, because sacrificing freedom for that, especially to the degree Apple does, is not worth any trade-off. This is the same right to repair issue that HackerNews, generally, derides John Deere for; the main difference, beyond Apple's psy-op level marketing, is that Apple hasn't pushed exploitation of this control as hard. But: They absolutely, undeniably do exploit many of the people within their system of control, not just indirectly ("the control is exploitation" is kind of a dumb argument), but very directly, between extremely high upfront costs, high repair fees, cryptographically refusing to allow third party parts, etc. Additionally: their self-control in pushing further exploitation is almost definitely a product of market success, because in the mega-capitalist system Apple lives in benevolence may be the result of culture or leadership, but it is allowed by market success, and denied during market failure.

A lot of that boils down to the original thesis; very fundamental personal philosophy. I don't believe, personally, that it is ethical for individuals or companies to do something unethical (non-negotiably asserting significant control over physical goods they sell) because it enables something ethical (reducing incidents of theft).

That might be controversial, which is fine. I think a point of that which is likely even more controversial is the argument that even asserting control over devices in isolation is unethical. I hope it isn't controversial, but I feel like it might be simply given the way the world is turning. That's a different topic of discussion; but in short, I think there's a strong argument that restricting freedom to independently modify and repair physical goods you purchase is a form of classism. Additionally, to turn the dial to 11 on this, that this assertion of central control has a very real, negative impact on national security.
> the carrier has no recourse to change that on their iOS devices they are selling to their customers

They can just not sell those devices? I find this argument pretty twisted. It’s also based on a false premise. Verizon is also free to implement whatever they want on top of their @vtext.com endpoint.
An Algorithm to Write an Assignment
One strategy I use is to focus on negative reviews. Read as many and see what things they are complaining about.

Something you can see patterns of petty complains, and other times you can detect bigger issues that may make you look elsewhere instead
Book notes: A Philosophy of Software Design (2021)
That is also why Airbnb as a company is doing Ok, but not great. In other words, a terrible investment.
Wikipedia thinks he has a Bachelors from Stanford[1]. That said, I love his videos too. I started with The Essence of Linear Algebra[2], which is just fantastic and really shaped my intuition for the topic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3Blue1Brown

[2] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2x...
Now deploy a DB per customer and you have scaling sorted.
Same with me. Amazon rejected my review that was similar to yours, so I blogged about it instead: https://honeypot.net/post/amazon-seller-tried-to-bribe-me/

If it happens again, I'll go straight to blogging without bothering to report it to Amazon. I may not have that many readers, but it's more than the zero that I'd have through a rejected Amazon review.
> The laptop could come with a USB-C "master key" on the box

Or simply with a unique private key, printed inside a tamper proof envelope? You can at least backup the private key to somewhere safe, if you want.

Many people will lose the key (that's ok, not worse than the current situation), but at least those who care won't.
> The bankers were dubious. Everyone knew that computers were large and expensive, the domain of big business. “The banker asked me, ‘Well, how many of these do you think you'll sell?'” Roberts remembered later.

It's so weird reading this thinking that bankers used to actually consider funding such ventures.

> For a second, Roberts thought that this was the end of MITS. Instead, the banker sighed and signed off on the loan.

Wow, I'm green with intergenerational envy. Sounds like a parallel universe where people were not worthless cogs in a big machine.
I've worked in laptop repair for various brands before (Acer, Dell, Compaq). Whenever people ask my advice I always recommend they buy a laptop extended warranty, and I buy it myself. It usually pays for itself on the first service call.

That said, a thousand Euros to replace a battery is ludicrous. No consumer should be charged that, warranty or no.

For reference, I recently got a second hand recent ThinkPad with a dud battery and bought the genuine replacement battery for AU$200 (€123) and could replace it myself as it's an FRU.

Apple should not be charging literally an entire order of magnitude more for the same part, regardless of the service cost.
I once gave an Airbnb 4 stars because I was annoyed they had no way to make coffee, even though it was basically a hotel being run as an Airbnb. Like, not even a cheap Keurig in the lobby

They DMed me and told me that was bullshit and if I wanted coffee, I should've filtered by that amenity

Which is amazing because coffee is so expected you can't even search by it
> I dislike C#. Too much ceremony for me. I want type safety without a ton of boilerplate. Is there any compiled language that offers this? Or languages built for the web?

Scala might be what you're looking for. (Or Haskell, but that's a bigger leap). You can write code that looks like Python/Ruby (some libraries are quite symbol-heavy, but you don't have to use them; check out lihaoyi's libraries for some Python-inspired simple interfaces), but everything's fully typed. And it has an excellent JavaScript backend that integrates with typescript/definitelytyped for using web libraries.
> If the kid wants to be a little 1940s freak, let him be that as long as he doesn't hurt anyone.

My personal philosophy is not only should we let people be wildly different, we should encourage it. It's nice to have different experiments running. I don't trust the average opinion to have arrived at the correct answers for anything. Maybe this kid will figure out something important from his lifestyle, and share it with us.

I similarly like nationalism because it helps preserve distinct cultures, despite having some drawbacks. The more distinct cultures, the better, IMO.

If the main criticism of this kid is "he should be more like everyone else"...I just fundamentally disagree. He should not. I wish more people would make their own choices, and quit trying to achieve what everyone else says they ought to.
Without paywall:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/other/tsa-self-screening-is...
https://support.apple.com/mac/repair

It costs $249 for a 2019 15" MBP battery (not 15', not sure they ever made them that big, GP's laptop may be special). GP's issue is that Apple, per their story, wanted to replace the keyboard and trackpad as well and wanted to charge more on top of the battery replacement.
Copyright can sometimes cover the characters in a fictional work, so that another author using those characters in a different story can be an infringement.

In the US there are a couple of things courts look at when deciding if a character can be copyrighted. One is how well delineated the character is. Another is whether the story is about the character or the character is just a means to move the story forward.

Wikipedia has decent coverage of this here [1] if you want more detail.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_protection_for_fic...
> every word you write in the source code will result in some predetermined machine instructions being executed

Not strictly.. I wrote a partially optimizing Forth compiler that could combine compiled words when building new words that used them from the interpreter, analyze the generated assembly for unnecessary stack movement of arguments, and eliminate the stack movement and if necessary emit MOV instructions to fixup the output results into the correct input registers.

This was not terribly difficult. The harder part was susequently decoding the concatenated x86 instruction streams to do this type of analysis, but once the PUSH and POP trains were spotted, they were super easy to just eliminate.

With careful coding of the assembly words, you could guarantee that common expressions never needed any MOV fixups and could just pass results that were sitting directly in the registers.
I 100% agree in a smaller company personal agency is huge. Setting the issue of scaling aside, it's very difficult finding people who just get sh*t done and problem solve, no matter what and where in the org. A big part is this has to be built into the org from inception. The other part is that training and encouragement must come from the top. I think more people can grow into having greater agency, but most don't because they tried and got no support and failed, or they actually succeeded but weren't rewarded and decided the juice wasn't worth the squeeze.
If someone is experienced at using CAD software and they can't navigate their way around a CAD software's UI then that software has a bad UI.

Anyone new to CAD software is going to have a difficult time navigating all of the tools it offers.
So the alternative is for management to be surrounded by "yes" people?
Perhaps this will provide the incentive J.R.R. Tolkien needs to write some more books.
cancer being on the rise
It's never OK to prevent a purchaser from doing something with the item he purchased. If I buy something from a company, I should be able to take it apart, learn about it, fix it, resell it, or throw it in the trash, all without begging the manufacturer for permission. We should not normalize this practice of manufacturers having these "tethers" into the products they sell.
I know I'm not adding anything new but I just wanted to chime in and say I've had the exact same experience as another data point for how widespread it seems to be.
I think where you are off track is that you don't realize that the Floyd protests were headed by people working directly with the spooks, just like the J6 protests. Perhaps why spooks get involved, to derail these things.

I don't know if either of the protests accomplished anything, as populist causes.

It's still a 50/50 what Floyd actually died from, since there were multiple contributing medical factors. Billions in economic damages from the looting/shut downs during the protests in these cities, something like 20+ were killed during the riots. The police are still funded.

Despite his rhetoric, in hindsight, Trump was politically savvy enough not to take the bait and send in the army to restore order. Which Miley was Chomping at the Bit to refuse. Trump would be in a prison cell today at best.

The J6 protest, turned into riot and delegitimized Trumps legitimate claims of election irregularities. No meaningful signature check has been done to this day.

Trump is currently beating Biden in polls, so he might be back.
Here's a direct link without the frame stuff if you want to try that:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230719135333if_/http://no-ht.m...
> It's reasonable to surmise that they always intended to become an official work.

Realistically, that was never going to happen either.

It is exceedingly uncommon for any media franchise to accept story submissions "on spec", even in franchises which are less author-focused like films or TV series. For a literary series like LotR? Forget it. You might as well ask the Pope if you can write a new book of the Bible.

(This isn't to say that licensed works aren't a thing -- far from it! But they're almost always commissioned by the owner of the franchise, not on spec. There's rarely any lack of authors willing to write for a high-profile franchise.)
The other option being… webassembly? convince WHATWG members to change their browsers?
> if you wish to attack my plan, I'll only listen if you offer a defense of the status quo, or offer a better improvement plan.

Sorry but you don't get to set the terms of your own critique. If you refuse to listen then that impugns your character, but it doesn't make the critique invalid.

You method is flawed because some people only leave reviews when they good service or only when they get bad service. Everyone has a different reason why they do things, and what motivates them to do things. This will only work if you force people to leave reviews, and in that case your chances of getting a legitimate rating is much smaller.

You system would be better suited to de-rate the importance of people who leave a lot of reviews that are consistently skewed towards one end, but apply such a system to everyone is not going to make the results more fair.
Did this happen right underneath the town? Is the town okay?

IIRC, I remember news some weeks back that a fissure was opening in the town roads and steam was billowing up from it. Did the volcano literally sprout from the town center?
I could imagine transmissive at the belly button to work out with decent design effort, or maybe around the ear.
Nostrils seem unlikely to be comfortable, but would probably work fine.
I don't have time today to write a complete reply, but I hope to do so soon. Meanwhile, here are a couple of partial responses:

Why is the frame of reference of the wind the "right one"?

There isn't a right one in the sense of being the only one giving the right answer, it's just by far the easiest one to work with, and then you can convert the result to any other inertial frame via the Galilean transformations [1]. In the frame in which the wind speed is zero (and only in that frame) you can calculate the path of the glider while turning by using the well-known solution for uniform circular motion [2], in which the centripetal force is always perpendicular to the direction of motion, and the speed of the moving object is constant.

The difference between the solution in that frame and the ground frame is nothing more than the difference between drawing a semicircle on a piece of paper, and going through the same motions on a piece of paper that is moving.

It's easy for me to intuitively understand that there's a source of energy at this windspeed gradient but it's hard for me to understand that this technique can extract it.

The turning glider exerts a force on the airmass it is turning in (Newton's third law), which is itself accelerated, in a direction that lessens the difference in speed between the two airmasses.

Your middle question will take more time to address, and I plan to come back to it tomorrow.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galilean_transformation

[2] https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/University_Physics/B...
Is it useful to challenge you to look at one of these patents and actually try to build the thing? They don't even specify the wavelength of LEDs you should use, instead preferring to claim all imaginable wavelengths. They describe (and claim) what are very complicated digital signal processing algorithms in a few highly opaque paragraphs.

Sorry, nothing was forcibly publicly disclosed here. These guys got patent protection, the public got nothing.
Habeas corpus. It's a really simple principle of justice and a test of self rule. It's disappointing to see the Russian people cede power to such corrupt rule.
I don't think electronic interference is the problem. Cellphone towers and electronics operate at GHz and MHz, which are different frequencies than brainwaves. Interference seems to typically be labeled by a "Signal to Interference" ratio rather than signal to noise. From my understanding, noise is still inherently present even in a faraday cage, through things like thermal noise and amplifier noise, which is why the poster mentioned you still have to perform signal processing over very long intervals to remove noise.
I wonder if this goes against github's "no automated starring" policy [0] (that people have been banned for in the past). Maybe "coordinated inauthentic activity" ?

Either way, feels sleazy.

[0] https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/acceptable-use-polici...
> I have no doubt we will see them attempting to aggressively exercise these in future years to shut down alternatives to Vision Pro in the future.

Do you have examples where apple has aggressively used patents offensively like this?
no thanks, don't want low quality ai generated content poisoning my feed