skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's important to recognize that morality does not apply to any corporation. Corporations respond to incentives and disincentives, that's it. If we want to change the way a corporation behaves we need to arrange things so that its incentives align with our own.

People like to ascribe malice to Apple's history of making difficult-to-repair devices. I think that's wrong-headed. It's more appropriate to say that Apple had higher priorities such as miniaturization, performance, battery life, and ease of manufacture.

Now that the right to repair movement has been gaining steam and regulations are being drafted, Apple has been given the incentive to prioritize repairability. Thus they are responding to that incentive with the iPhone 16 (with its new battery adhesive), the repair kits, and the documentation they've provided. They likely also see the opportunity to get ahead of their competitors and tout repairability as a competitive advantage. I would not be surprised at all to see future models have even higher repairability scores with Apple aiming to become the market leader.

As for the serial numbering and activation of replacement parts: that also has a simple explanation that doesn't involve a nefarious lock-in plot. Witness the recent attacks in Lebanon. How were they carried out? By a supply-chain attack! This sort of capability represents more than a physical danger from explosives or chemical weapons, it's also a major cyber security and privacy threat. Supply-chain attacks via counterfeit, backdoored parts is a huge area of concern for Apple. The potential is there for the company to suffer severe reputational damage should a large-scale attack occur.
The work they are doing is not important and would have been done for free, had the inner circle not chased away most free contributors and staffed these positions with their friends.
5th ties directly with the japanese 3 pwns — should I try to find a more STEMmy* way to rephrase them?

On 9C and 9D: the prussian model used to be that when taking strategic decisions, the most junior officers would make the first proposals, and then they'd go around the room and finish with the most senior officers. This has the advantage that it allows for early brainstorming, and trains the juniors to think in terms of bigger pictures than their direct responsibilities, yet doesn't lead to "vetoing" or "inversions" because everyone understands the early steps get things out on the table, the middle winnows down to the efficient frontier, and after the Old Man speaks, the decision has been made.

EDIT: eg, in "Dances With Wolves" most (all?) of the Sioux councils end with someone authoritative declaring "wašté"

* on my charitable-to-bigcorp-hires model of "founder mode", over the weekend I came up with a much more STEMmy description: the founder is probably used to early startup reports, who are high impedance low Lyapunov exponent (it takes a fair amount of effort to convince them what the right goal is, but after that you can leave them alone and they'll execute to that goal), but the bigcorp hire may well be low impedance high Lyapunov exponent (you can't leave them alone, but small nudges keep them on course). Does this make more sense than the livestock analogy?
> Van Diesen, a software salesman, recently signed up to receive electricity from two providers that charge him the hourly price on the Dutch wholesale power market, rather than a fixed price that resets monthly or annually.

Didn't this kind of thing result in some people in Texas getting electricity bills for tens of thousands of dollars a few years ago?
We were waaaaay too big to fit in lambda layers. Our containers were 8GB when I left, and that was using all sorts of tricks on the host infra to share data between running containers.

The root of the problem was we had third party tools which were windows only.
Not all, and even that, leasing is a cost in their accounts, which is good. Those companies that have huge ammounts of benefits need huge costs to maintain a propper balance.
It is, but East London has had terrible air for years. Cars don't help, but there's lots of sources (City airport for starters)
Adding to this, in some countries he is already past the gray-area to what constitutes as computer fraud.

Pissing off the company, whose systems you accessed without authorization, is one way of getting to experience the full force of the justice system.
As Russian trolling goes, your attempt is quite frankly poorest I've seen so far.
Reminds me of how some people mocked me for having O'Reilly and such massive reference books when I started learning Python and Ruby. "But everything's online!" they claimed. Sure, but nothing's faster than browsing the index for what you're looking for and then skimming the section you're interested in, as opposed to going back and forth StackOverflow threads and random blogs.
Currently renovating my house and I again bought 400+ pages reference books of plumbing and electricity, largely sparring me the need to endure endless YouTube videos littered with skits, sponsorships etc. Just straight to the point, factual information.
This would be a valid response if first party parts were easily available to be bought directly from manufacturers.
ULEZ and similar scheme are not about vehicle size. They are about Euro-spec of the engine.

There is a very vocal opposition against those: big recent SUVs are compliant, but small old cars are not, which goes against how people perceive their respective emissions.

In general:
- any EV or hybrid is OK
- petrol cars are OK if they're not too old (depending on Euro rating of the engine, I also have a 22 yo compliant petrol car, though a car from the same year could be non-compliant if the engine has a lower Euro rating)
- diesel cars need to be recent (in general equipped with DPF and other emission-control equipment that's become mandatory to pass more recent Euro-specs)
So it's up to management to fill my time with work. If I finish my work in 4 hours, then it's not my problem.
stumbled on the builder's blog, then wobaka earlier this week.

this guy is on a roll!

btw, the 'book demo' CTA on wobaka, should go to one of these forms.
Majority of people who can’t afford rent in London don’t live in London. The massive subsidies that certain people get, which leads to massive opportunities for their kids and their future career, are all because of where they were born
Indirect = Polite
It's not hard. It's just a bit more work - enough that it starts requiring a professional to be involved (graphics design, photography, coordinating print), whereas traditional menus can be half-assed[0] by anyone with passing familiarity with Word and access to the office printer.

In contrast, the digital menus usually come as a solution, packaged with a promise of some juicy business analytics, so the restaurant only needs to sign the contract and send over some files - that's even less work than regular paper menus.

So no surprise they're jumping to "high tech" - they're really outsourcing menus to a marketing company.

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[0] - I don't know how things are at the very highest tier of restaurants for the rich, but for those accessible to less rich, it seems the higher-end the restaurant is, the worse the menu is. Bad design, typos, etc. I suppose having an established reputation allows them to get careless about the minor details.
> In that case then the definition of privacy needs to change because to me privacy is a binary state. Either I have it or I don't.

That seems a little, well, binary.

I don't have (nor want) a lot of privacy from my partner. I have a lot more from my boss, who clearly doesn't need to know about the pimple on my ass. He also doesn't need to know my car registration, which the government does, or parts of the government. You need to look at your threat model and understand what it is you want to protect and from whom. "Privacy" is a bit more complex than on/off.

I agree, the backdoor is a poorly thought out idea, it's an authoritarian fantasy which (like many authoritarian fantasies) doesn't take into account the practicality of the idea or the second order consequences. That back door will indeed be a target, so the people of the EU have to worry about not only their own governments misusing the data but (as you say) other powers finding ways in as well.

On the corporate side, the threat model is different - companies don't want the expense of doing security well and they have a profit motive of being able to sell data. This treasure trove could also be useful to foreign actors, or those (like Cambridge Analytica) who would use it for domestic political aims. EU citizens are relatively well protected from this type of threat at the moment, US citizens not so much.

Should weakness in one mean you don't listen to anything out of the EU when it comes to privacy? Again I think that's too binary. The EU has some great ideas and laws about protecting us from the excesses of corporate data hoarding, those should be celebrated, just as we excoriate them on attempts to create a state panopticon.
idk, don't you find jailing people for crimes they have not committed (but likely to I guess) a bit... insane?
Yet the importance of thoughtful urban planning is often underestimated
They are, https://selfservicerepair.com/home
This was so good. Never thought things so trivial can be made into such attacks.
Tech jobs, especially in California, usually hire you for all your time. If your work requires overtime, you work overtime without getting paid overtime. This is called an “exempt” job.

So the times you’re off on the weekends doing no work is valuable to the company because you’re recharging your mind and possibly also thinking about problems subconsciously.

I went to check my job offer, and it doesn’t mention anything about 40 hour weeks or 8 hour days.
They actually had a Dragon at the time they wrote that.
A waiter is not tracking your whole browsing data together with their 36763 partners (click here for the full list).
That’s usually associated with brake dust inhaled while on the Tube
While I believe the real estate issue to be part of the reason, I think there's also an aspect of control involved. WFH leads to increased personal autonomy and agency. Having too many high agency individuals is bad for the existing hegemony.
Fair - I was trying to pick a US academic and US sports reference but my lack of US knowledge betrayed me :)
The waiter inputs your order to their point-of-sale system, which can do similar things as an online menu. If you pay with credit card, it's tied to your identity and will be used for targeting ads.
It’s almost like that should be described as “related” instead of simply presented as the source of the upthread claim.

Oh, wait, it was...
In some situations qt5ct was the problem at certain points in the past. In this case that trick won't work either.

The Cinnamon desktop package is functional in 24.04 LTS for "reasons" yet to be identified.

Thanks for trying to help though =3
Gotcha, thanks. I was utterly confused by this.

> I think many people want to be able to follow some sort of broad guideline in life and it frequently causes those to arrive at meaningless conclusions.

But it's just that, a broad guideline.

I think that only few people would not intuitively understand that seven types of fresh vegetables in a box is not the same as some meaty goo made from seven unpronouncable industrial ingredients with E-numbers attached.

HN types seem to like to nitpick a broader point by conjuring up edge cases.
Yeah, but he was covering a new shaped called Scutoid.
Understandable in this case. But if the playground is of a developed nation (like US, Canada, Singapore, etc.) then unlikely that kids would be playing.

In India, personal data is not yet taken seriously with both educated and un-educated people. It would take some time but I believe this realisation will come over time in people.
Downplaying how much Apple fought to prevent R2R around the world.

Meanwhile Steam chose to make the Steam Deck as reparable as possible then revised it to be even easier.

Both of these options exist, but Apple is one of the greediest companies in the world.
Yeah you probably need sci Fi anti gravity type device to make something like this possible.
You can buy a third party battery it’ll just say “you have a third party battery” in the settings
There's a whole industry of food photography and even creating durable fake food to sit on the counter to advertise dishes. Seeing is believing .. and advertising. Can also convey more detail about what's in something and how much you get.

I have a soft spot for cafeteria-style "point to order" systems myself, especially when there's a language barrier. But that does impose a certain industrial feel on an establishment.
I think it's a longer term play.
Step 1) Establish a large enough non-windows userbase with great compatibility tools
Step 2) Studios and especially game engine developers notice linux install base
Step 3) Some tangible benefit to running natively, if only stability, pops up and the userbase is now large enough to care about it
Step 4) Engines, and then games get better native support
BFBS: BF Blockchain Solutions
BFF: BF for Finance
Besides, for anyone completely lost in a restaurant with unfamiliar dishes (on holiday perhaps) the age-old solution is to simply ask the waiter for recommendations, or point at another diner's dish if that looks good. Or just choose the dish of the day — it's usually the best option anyway if you picked a decent restaurant.
I am glad to put engineers in quotes because many people here and elsewhere will use that word with a straight face while also believing that you can call yourself that while learning your job from watching youtube vids and pasting code you don't understand. We need to stop using the word "engineer" for "software developer".

I shall watch the downvotes come from these so called "engineers".
I would expect the most expensive part to be printing and laminating those menus, which will also be longer due to the space used on images. Then they need to be cleaned, possibly updated, and will still go bad over time.
It is an odd omission that while she remarks on a rise of noun compounding in technical discourse, she doesn't mention that it has long been a noted tendency in American English, presumably a result of German immigrant influence.
Production of high quality syngas from argon plasma gasification of plastic
How THM Delhi Stole the Work of a Student
In my company we decided to go to the office 1 day every week. It´s completely optional and most of the people come. For us, that day is almost 100% lost. You spend the morning in some calls, dailies and things like that, and ofcourse taking some coffees and talking to people that you didnt see in 1 week. I even send myself notes for the next days when i work from home where im more productive.
> Am I?

I mean, yeah.. You've even done it again. Outlining situations with perfect service. That's great, now think about the original problem statement where service becomes a bottle neck, and no "if you want great fast service just go elsewhere" is not an elegant solution, sorry.
The King isn't anywhere near being the richest person living in London. It's also a strange example to choose. I mean Joe Biden is richer than the average DC native, but what does that tell you exactly?

London is a very international city, and the wealthy people who own property in the central areas come from all over the place.
What you are describing would be totally fine, if corporations would not be able to spend money on branding and/or humans were not susceptible to that.
That's true but people still do it for well documented stuff like Vue, Svelte and the R that shall not be named. Two wrongs that don't make a right
On seeing "12V for 60 seconds" in the video, I assumed it was just a heat thing - if the adhesive strip is a low-ish resistance, you could heat it up by applying current, with a more standard adhesive. Which makes me wonder if that simpler approach has been considered?
Random question related to the photos of the phone's motherboard: Why does the PCB have so many holes in it? It looks very unusual. There's quite a large area with nothing but holes.
I guess it's an issue when we dislike two things just as much :P
People will find a way to be nostalgic about anything I guess.

"There's something special about having a wire attached to your phone."

"There's something special about greeting a lift operator."

"There's something special about hand-washing clothes."
you mean you guessed the systematically generated password, right?
Are you sure you're not overlooking the fact that the use case you describe is exactly what was intended by the engineers who designed this airship?

Its portable, and meant to be brought into a cave, for the case where caverns and halls are found, and need to be further explored safely.

> the one time when this would be helpful is when you enter a space with an extremely high ceiling

Yes, that is the intended use case.
Depends what you’re making. And there’s a lot of non UI technical work.
> global cabal

Is that what we are calling business now? As if industry players don't buy media outlets precisely to push their narratives (look at tech outlets, crypto outlets, pharma etc). How is this a "cabal"? It's cheaper to just talk to your friend who owns business insider and also invests in the same RE funds to ask "journalists" to research on the topic.

Also, plenty midmanagement in many industries love RTO: it's harder to justify their roles (and what they got promoted for) unless they have bags of flesh to oversee. It's not a cabal of midmanagement. It's just midmanagement slow pushing for RTO internally.
> Walking is fine as well, though. No real reason to play off walking and cycling against each other.

Reason 1: a 6 year old who would like more time with an overworked mother who can’t move from her job (yet) due to visa reasons.
It is sad that open source is all about foundations and positions now, not about software development.

Periodically you see "I am awesome and served on the Steering Council" posts on Stack Overflow.

Some of it from people who have never been on the bug tracker, who don't know or ignore the significant social and abuse of power issues in Python.

The PSF marketing completely ignores reality: Free developers have been crowded out, chased away, humiliated and libeled and replaced by a clique of true believers.

I would not advise anyone to spend significant resources to donate free work to Python. I'd also warn Microsoft employees who are potentially lured in to work on a JIT that they are up against ruthless politicians and should probably better work on C# and F# for their careers.
Turns out Poe's Law affects machines just as much!
Experiments with ChatGPT: Why AI Can't Replace Human Creativity
Absolutely disagree with this description of the job a waiter does.

A waiter orchestrates and coordinates the experience for the diners they are looking after.
They slow down orders to stop the kitchen getting overwhelmed.
They upsell on the menu in a way that is helpful and informative.
They understand the dietary requirements of guests.
They hold complex orders in their head and drop the right plate to the right person.
They know the flow of a table and engage or back off as appropriate.

Don't undervalue a role that can make a night out magical or a simple coffee memorable.
Some apps are brilliant though - Wetherspoon pubs in the UK (despite not at all being the height of dining) have an app that works really well, I don't think I've ordered at a person there for at least 5 years.
This has long been a kind of systematic public relations problem for the EU; generally, the fruits of EU regulation become, in the minds of the consumer, an example of corporate benevolence, with the EU's role being solely as a thing to blame when things go wrong.
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Show HN: I made all LLMs play Chess against each other (inc. o1 models)
a fun project where I made LLMs battle each other in chess using Next.js, openAi and Claude
In this case? Nope. This must be treated as willful design decision to open up API to entire public (including PII/phone-number leak as per design), even if they say they totally didn't meant that to happen. Government itself should then be notified to go after these guys for failing to do the most basic access controls.

I mean, come on! To treat this as a proper security vulnerability just gives too much leeway for these fast-and-loose businesses/systems. It will just encourage more such crap to proliferate.

I am with the author on this one, I am fairly certain the issue of this was raised internally already, probably multiple times. Fortunately for the business, their management did the right decision - focus on quick and easy features, security is a non-issue, we will just blame the hackers and have legal channels deal with them. I mean, you even have people here berating someone uncovering gross negligence for Google-backed company. Why would businesses bother with basic security when they can play the victim so damn easy?
Just curious, but how do you know that you are a "holder of the slow gene"?
I use most of the things as pages (miniflux, bluesky) and feel no need to install apps for them....
May I ask why people are using these desktop apps instead of Portainer and other web interfaces that run inside docker?
I'm sorry but I'm 100 % involved in a big open source project (rebuilding google maps).

Why would I spend time hosting an instance of mastodon ? I'm happy to pay for it.

Bluesky says it's 10 cents per user per year. Happy to pay for this.
> Designer-driven eutykhopoiesis!

compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudaemons#History

"riding herd" in STEM-speak: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control-Lyapunov_function#Cons...
It really is a difficult demographic for apple though. Not much money. Demand for as much bang as possible for the buck.
I really don't see why we should refrain from judging a corporation on its values. Morality applies to people, and corporations are (still) entirely driven by people. If Apple's C-suite and a couple activist shareholders wanted to make it an eco-friendly company, they surely could. Instead, Apple has spend many years lobbying against any kind of regulations around repairability.

> Apple had higher priorities such as miniaturization, performance, battery life, and ease of manufacture.

You forgot profit at the head of that list!
The way to not go to prison is pretty simple - don't attack people. Don't even know why we are debating this. Once you do, you clearly aren't fit to be in society, and things like "humane" no longer apply to you. Poor or minority status doesn't matter. There is nothing about those two things that compel a person to go on the assault.
It points to a deeper issue in the Browser Company imo. Clearly, an inexperienced dev wrote that api, a senior approved the PR and no one in the wider team picked it up. And that's a team building the fundamental unit of your digital experience. If they failed at something this basic, I would be terrified to know what else they are missing in terms of security
Ah yes the peak experience is having to wait 10 minutes and catch an extremely busy person's attention just so you can order.

Most of these ordering systems (at least the ones that have survived COVID) are pretty good websites now. I don't remember ever having to use a custom app. It's a far superior experience.

(Oh yeah and I guess you may be American and have a very different eating experience to the rest of the world where waiters don't live off the arbitrary generosity of customers.)
This is just a legal requirement in the EU. Nothing more. It doesn't make this archive useful.