skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Translation: When the ox goes to the palace, he does not become a king. But the palace becomes a barn.
I think this is something of a rose tinted glasses nostalgic look.

I remember my iBook G4 took 30 screws to get into it and swap a hard drive.

Yes, it was “modular,” but it wasn’t specifically designed to be easily repaired.

There have been times when the systems were designed to be easy to change components like the disk and RAM in the original Core 2 Duo MacBooks, but these seem to be the exception, not the rule.

Let’s not forget the “no user serviceable parts” original Macintosh. Apple has never really been repair-oriented company, they just occasionally make products that are coincidentally easy to repair.
US homes tend to be built with lumber, not steel.
As you are about to find out with a president who is busy removing as many regulations as possible, consumer/worker/health/environment-protecting regulations are not the reason why physical goods are not made in the US anymore.
The chart you posted conveniently cut off april, which was higher than August.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/figures/mm7112e2-F1-l...
Switch 2's new "Game-Key Cards" are the worst of digital and physical
Maybe by the end. It turned into more of a gouda texture; more effort to cut vs how soft brie starts off. Maybe it was drying out.
That's an interesting take. When the environmentally unsustainable and
so far unprofitable "AI" gold-rush collapses the world will be left
with thousands of "models" kicking about, with widespread ability to
run locally. If LLMs do ever provide any genuine utility these will be
replicated at near zero cost across the globe. Then we'll see the boot
switch to the other foot, more of what you predict.... a vicious and
disgracefully hypocritical attempt to contain and erase that data to
stop anybody obtaining any value from it. At that point the
corporations will be magically all for safety and copyright again!
> The Deck is so transformative that if Microsoft were serious about XBOX at all, the next XBOX would be a handheld.

Or they’d realize that the Deck is successful because it’s open and bring Steam to the Xbox.
Doesn't the US already have the most progressive tax system in the world? If you want more public services the tax rate would need to increase at all levels but dramatically so at the middle to low end.
I don't know about other non-mac laptops. I agree the battery life isn't anything to write home about, but it's better than my corporate windows laptop. I blame Intel/AMD/Windows for killing off proper suspend modes.

But bulky? I have the Framework 13 and it's very well sized. Smaller and lighter than the 14" macbook pro and similar to my windows laptop.
> I am from the US and my understanding is that we are one of the only (if not the only) Western democracy that doesn't require photo ID for voting.

We are I think also the only one that both (1) has a significant number of eligible voters who do not have a photo ID and (2) in many states the party that controls the government and sets the rules for getting ID sets those rules to try to make it hard for people who tend to vote for the other party to get ID and make it easy for those who vote for their party to get ID.

> We do, however, need photo ID or at least a Social Security number for pretty much everything else (applying for loans, opening bank accounts, buying a house or car, starting a new job, getting married, etc).

There are a significant number of citizens who don't use credit, don't have bank accounts, don't have cars, work at off the record jobs that pay in cash or check (to cash a check all you need is someone you trust enough who has a bank account and then you can do a third party endorsement and let them cash it for you).
Trust me, he is a fantastic con man and thief. He made out well after gutting those establishments and leaving everyone else with the loss. He is not poor either, this is basically how they all do it: "The Buy, Borrow, and Die" strategy.

At the moment, he is pulling the biggest heist he has ever attempted with the help of his buddies in Congress and the American Oligarchy. They're going to try and separate everyone from everything they have.

Ride this out and buy nothing but food, bills, and gas.
Maybe a comparison to AWS Global Accelerator would be helpful to understand the "global" aspect. Having instances in multiple regions is just a starting point.
One could do worse than using Eco's Ur-Fascism[1] as the starting point. The man had personal experience and he could write (oh how he could write.) However, I'd expect that some would dismiss him as an inveterate lefty (he wasn't), so we're back on square one.

[1] https://archive.org/details/umberto-eco-ur-fascism/umberto-e...
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I am so happy that this is in my HN feed today.

I wish there was more stuff like this, both in my feed and in the world.
None, as they said.
And that's just what they'll openly admit to! Rest assured, they would absolutely not stop at no-fault divorce. They would undo all of the progress you mentioned, and likely more.
> A sixth, broadly Marxian sort of objection rejects the project of defining art as an unwitting (and confused) expression of a harmful ideology.

But I don't think many serious critiques of "this is not art" claims invoke Marxism. The Marxist perspective generalises the idea that art is incredibly difficult to define, but doesn't originate it.
Better not pay them anything and they can go work in an even worse sweatshop, right?

Or can hire some child labor in Florida since they already changed the laws there.
Having used old thinkpads I just don't really understand the appeal, especially with how poor old LCDs look. The trackpads are tiny, the battery life is abysmal, they're heavy and like an inch thick.
Is someone looking to acquire SiFive?
the confusion was caused by you using the term fiancée, which is the female form. the male form is fiancé
Stellar book. Can't recommend it enough. Wanted to chime in on how good this book is.
Yes, but the piece is specifically composed to be played "as slowly as possible" fwiw.
Well, if I had to guess based on my own personal experience, it's easy to simply be... forgotten. Nobody asks you to do anything, and you don't have the will to do anything of your own accord because everything you want feels hopelessly out of reach.
My cat is a reasonable alternative to the current potus. Sometimes, the people get what they deserve.
Most of the times I've heard of it happening it's someone who's net worth is well below the threshold for this (indeed well below the threshold where they actually need to pay any income tax to the US government), but because of the headache of needing to file the paperwork and the fact that a lot of banks don't want to deal with US citizens due to extra requirements imposed on them by the US government (via its financial system).
My background is very similar. Grew up in a small, poor mountain town that once boomed with industry but today is crumbling to dust as the population becomes increasingly elderly and young people either leave for greener pastures or abuse substances in order to escape their reality and succumb to addiction.

The industry that once fueled the town is long gone and isn’t ever coming back, and as you say even if a new industry moved in the jobs it’d open up would be so grueling and abusive that it wouldn’t be a net improvement to anybody’s lives, thanks to all the worker protections stripped away over the years.

It’s not enough to “just” make jobs available. They need to be good jobs with proper protections and support that allow people to thrive.
"You don't need to pass an IQ test to be in the Senate."
We negotiated those deals, we aren’t the victims. Now we don’t like how a deal turned out so instead of renegotiating we are throwing a temper tantrum like we weren’t the ones who suggested it in the first place. It’s embarrassing to be represented like that, and it won’t work! We will wind up weaker than we started, I hope they prove me wrong.
Do you honestly believe that there are significant numbers of US citizens lining up to take up low-margin manufacturing work as is currently done in China or elsewhere?

Chinese manufacturing workers live on a $25k/y income ($15k without adjusting for purchasing parity!). Do you beliefe that raising prices on goods by 30%ish is enough to make those jobs attractive to US citizens?

What sectors would you suggest primarily sourcing domestic manufacturing workers from, and would you agree that just doing that is going to lead to further cost increase for the average consumer?

In my view, the current tariff approach is a rather naive attempt at improving national self-sufficiency at the cost of the average citizen, and the administrations explicit statements and goals make this pretty clear-- shifting government income from taxes to tariffs is a very obvious losing move for the vast majority of people that spend most of their income.

US economy right now is heavily biased towards providing services and high-tech goods because that is the most valuable use of its citizens according to market dynamics. Managing the economy in a "I know better than the market way" certainly did not work out for the soviets...

Sometimes I feel that people construct elaborate theories of how Trumps policies will end up beneficial for the average citizen, despite clear, explicit descriptions of how that is not the goal and historical precedent of acting directly against working-class interests (i.e. raising estate tax exemptions above literal 1%er-thresholds).
Nah, they just went down the Wikipedia list of places that trade with the US. This is how Réunion winds up on there, despite being actually part of France.
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The real pain will hit the working class harder, but the nominal pain will hit the capital class harder. Historically, this is how inequality unwinds. See: recessions, World War II. Let's hope to god that this is "just" a recession and doesn't cook into World War III.
Your response is such a perfect example of why the "data science" movement is a cancer on actual science. So many graduate from programs and boot camps (or just read blog posts) that teach them all the technical mechanics of working with data, but nothing about actual science.
FWIW RimWorld on steam is DRM free. You can copy it and launch it without steam.
“I came up with the idea of putting my little knights to sleep. I separated their legs and jaws from their abdomens, and then put them back in place with the help of thin wires. This way I could dress the beetles in costumes, knee-high boots, and put swords in their hands.”

Impressive stop-motion photography, especially for 1912. If the title didn’t grab you, give it 60 seconds of your time.
if what you mean by anti-democracy, is government oppression, then the left and right both use this equally.

there is only one continuum: liberty from government oppression, or lack thereof.

I hope you don't seriously consider the oligopoly of two parties and small circle of connected elites, dependent on financial backing from ultra high net worth oligarchs, corporations, special lobbying groups - a democracy. This is not democracy, it is plutocracy (the power of capital/rich)
> support embezzling for personal gain as long as they don't get caught

If you think this is a strictly right-wing characteristic you are hopelessly partisan.
It most certainly can, though you would have to push interest rates much higher than normal to kill demand enough to have an effect.
That's like burning your house down to cook a steak.
> The slowest possible piece would have a fermata with an infinity sign over the first note, and that's it.

That piece has already been written. It's called ॐ.
> Increased demand for Treasuries pushes their prices up and yields down, effectively lowering interest rates.

> What are the flaws in this thinking?

Not sure why international investors would want to buy more t-bonds when the country issuing them is starting a trade war and their money could effectively be locked abroad.
Does C3's compiler utilise the highly optimized C compilers like clang and gcc similar to Vlang and Nim?
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Didn't stop the Fed last time, when inflation was due to market control letting companies pick their own price (also not "real" inflation).
Of course you realize that the more coding an AI does, the better it gets. So you are basically destroying remote jobs while you are aggregating them. In the long run, this means your aggregator app won't have any jobs to list. I suggest allowing for null data in your app so it doesn't crash.
US does produce olive oil, particularly in states like California, Arizona, Texas, Georgia, Florida, Oregon, and Hawaii. So you do have a few options:

1. Support local producers. There are high-quality olive oils made right here in the US that might surprise you.
2. Work with Tunisia manufacturers to move their production to the US
3. If you don't want to support local producers, pay extra and enjoy your Tunisia olive oil as much as you want
4. If politics is the real issue for you, move to Tunisia, there is no "orange man" there

That said, refusing to support local production out of principle isn’t really a solution.
US sales tax is *significantly* lower than VAT, varies by state (allowing for all kinds of loopholes), and applies to fewer categories of products and services sold. No point arguing this, VAT is a protectionist and anti-competitive tax and the US has a right to challenge it.

Why are you arguing this point? It’s de-facto cheaper and easier for European companies to compete in the American markets, than the other way around.
or even just keeping the ports on a separate PCB would be a help so you dont have to replace the whole motherboard when the usb port breaks

i bought maybe 5 differnet thinkpads over the years and never had an issue with the old charging port. with the last usb-c thinkpad i got i had to buy 2 new chargers and both of those i repaired a few times as well. the connector just wiggles around too much and the cables are also too rigid so when it gets snagged on something the connector ends up bending in the port before the cable bends.

in the end i just got rid of it before the actual port on the motherboard got completely damaged
Nope. It's true that free trade WAS hugely beneficial to the US economy as a whole. Now free trade is hurting USA economy and that's why USA play against the rules they were promoting for so long.
It doesn't matter how many people do it as a hobby. Making a repair easier makes professional repair/upgrade cheaper, enabling poorer people to do it, thus decreasing the overall waste dramatically.
First we're not allowed to call the detention camps "concentration camps" because there aren't ovens, now we can't call them "disappearances" because they're not getting thrown out of helicopters. Forget that people are getting shipped to a foreign torture slave camp from which nobody has been released with, and with no due process.

I think this language policing may be because people don't want to allow opposition to these things, rather than out of honor for the dead. The way to honor the dead is to prevent the circumstances of their deaths from happening again.

Which is exactly why we must stand up against the disappearances, the camps, the collaborators, the secret police.
Not even the loudest voices. Biden said "fund the police" at a State of the Union address. The people with the most power and influence within the left wing of US politics are not in support of defunding the police.
I think you can basically make the same argument for programming directly in machine code since programming languages are already abstractions.
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And I say this with all sincerity: I'm also disappointed in my friends continually voting for Democratic candidates after Obama, as it's clear the DNC will do nothing as long as they can rely on these votes. They put up losing and awful candidates while supposedly our democracy depends on it.

If I were to cut them off as friends for being part of the problem, that sounds unreasonable right?
They'll do damage and you missed your hiring shot. Your perspective is a macro view of things, but the damage is micro. We are descendents of people who gained immunity to devastating diseases, so good for our generation, but it's not like the diseases were a neutral fact.
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Historical reasons.

This is a MUD, which stands for "multiple user dungeon"; what's more useful is that it's based on a form of game called a "text adventure". Once upon a time back in the eighties these were some of the biggest sellers of the game industry! They would present a small world to explore, often a mostly-abandoned one because that's easier to do. You'd wander around, map the world (usually on paper, by hand! [1]), and discover creatures, characters, and items sitting around it, waiting for you to interact with them.

A lot of them were in the form of exploring some kind of dungeon; D&D was popular among nerds, and "what if the computer did all the record-keeping" was a popular thing to explore. Which explains why this is a "multiple-user dungeon" even if nothing in it is described as dank, underground rooms full of monsters and treasures.

Directions are given as compass directions because that's the very first text adventure did ("Colossal Caves"), and nobody ever found anything better - a few games tried forwards/left/right/back but it was very confusing to keep track of which way you were pointing.

In practice a lot of muds really ended up more like chat servers with a sense of place; instead of being in a "channel" with other people, you're in a "room", which might have a "bulletin board" on it for less-ephemeral discussions than the general chatter among players. There might be monsters to fight and puzzles to solve somewhere off in the map but nobody engaged with them. Instead they just hang out and chat, and roleplay.

1: something like this: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52c9d908e4b0e8... - except probably with a lot more erasures and corrections.
Considering there's nothing stopping him really, what does "trying" mean exactly?
Lost keys is the most probable explanation, considering it was near worthless for a good chunk of its start. They likely didn't have backups or shrugged and moved on.
Yeah sorry, I answered to the wrong comment :-).

But still, I have this feeling that many people who would be competent to own their domain just don't do it. And they could give an email to their family, too. And help friends setup theirs.

I'm not completely sure that the issue is "it's too hard". To me, it's like password managers. Sure, it's too hard for some people. But most people just can't be arsed to use a password manager, though they would be totally competent.

"It's too hard" is, in my experience, often an excuse to be lazy.
Yea but what happens if you eat it???
https://pr.pico.sh/ and https://github.com/picosh/git-pr :-)
I am not. If we continue to sit on our hands talk down about "most people" aren't interested in XYZ, we are the problem.

Armchair dipshits like to slag on Louis Rossmann, but did lead repair sessions where he would teach people how to do hot air pcb rework. Dude walks the talk and empowers people.

You are missing my point.
Rest assured: Those 33% of women who say abortion should be "Illegal in all/most cases," would instantly carve out an exception for themselves if their own lives or livelihoods were in jeopardy from a pregnancy.
can you make them automatically trigger on scroll if you get close to its section?
I’m neither an epidemiologist nor a statistician (just a mathematician pretending to be a coder and/or butterfly), but I do not believe there are no mathematical tools to mitigate the statistical impact of comorbidities and accidental misreporting.

To contextualize this: my position is “weak signals are possible even with noisy data”; I read your response as “but the data is really noisy,” which, sure, agreed; the user I was responding to seems closer to the solipsistic position “there is effectively no data at all.”
> We should mostly make in the country the industrial products we consume.

You state this as fact that we should all agree on. Why should we do this? Why not rely on our allies and friends to do what they do well, while we continue to do what we do well? Is trade not the basis of peace? If we stand alone, we must ask why we must.
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The real challenge, for humans as well, is to code an efficient solution. Which probably requires solving the first part.
I’ve mentioned this on HN before and I agree. Going backwards will not result in the US going upwards, doing the things that made the US successful until are not the same things that will make the US successful in the future.

Many factory blue collar jobs left the US two decades ago and most of those aren’t coming back yet somehow Trump is infatuated with this idea too.
> It doesn’t raise prices of domestic goods and actually increases demand for domestic goods.

But domestic producers will surely increase their prices to match their foreign competitors’ tariffed prices.
I don't have any personal experience running Switch games on the Steam Deck, but I do have experience trying to use the Switch Pro controllers. I think they may work fine for some people now, but I have never been able to have them have a stable wireless connection. But when the connection was established, the accelerometers worked fine. (I gave up and just bought some XBox controllers.)

I'm sure the emulators accept the Steam Deck's own accelerometer inputs for when you're in a non-detached mode, and tilting the screen to aim.

The super-mega-motion control games might not work, but part of what I mean by "works better" is that the Steam Deck can generally emulate with more power than the Switch itself, e.g., you can get a Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom setup with a better framerate than the switch itself, so, depends on what you want more. I don't have a lot of motion control games.