skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found the beginning of this perplexing:

> The strange thing about academics, which always fascinates me, is that they believe they're completely immune to status considerations and consider themselves to be more or less monks. In reality, of course, academics are the most status-conscious people in the world. Take away a parking space from an academic and see how long he stays.

One, even monks worried about status (though perhaps in different terms). Two, I think academics are generally perfectly self-aware about their relationship with status, and I don't think they are significantly different from other professions. I don't think it usually hinges on parking spaces though.
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One interesting factoid is that for a very long time cardboard was far too heavy to ship in bulk, so cardboard industries sprung up all over the world, and many of them were the foundations of very large fortunes.

One cardboard scion just bought a forest in Austria for $108MM https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-06-08/the-story...
It seems like the prices are lower so I go there more often now.
I really like the Lightning connector, it's by far my favorite connector.

It does seem like with USB C both the plug and the port are fragile. The plug can easily be crushed and the port, like Micro USB, has the weird plastic tab with pins that can be smashed. That being said the only mechanical failures I ever witnessed with a Micro USB Port were when a cable was forced in the wrong way, I would definitely chalk those up to the user (ex-mother-in-law) being a supreme idiot and not necessarily a flaw in the port.

> Lighting also does a nice "click" when connected.

All of the USB C Cables and devices I own give a very nice thunk when plugged-in, almost like going over a speed bump in a car. There's no question that a connection is made.

I think the biggest issue over all is dodgy cables and I had my fair share of those with Lightning and Micro USB. I've only bought ISB C cables off Benson Leung's recommended lists so I have yet to get a bad one yet though I have no doubt the problem is as bad or worse than with Micro USB.
Yea, payback period of ~4 months seems like a no brainier to me.
What a great talk, thanks for sharing!
The thing you are describing isn’t a journalist.
>New Tesla software to offer 'full' suicide, Musk says
I see that laptops don't come with HDMI output anymore. How many monitors have USB-C inputs?
People got really mad when Apple decided not to put USB-C on the latest iPhones. Now that's looking to have been a pretty wise choice.
Pretty sure llgo is dead in the water.
Offering a plan that only gives access to a few sites isn't dramatically cheaper for the ISP than offering full access. So the primary way the ISPs would offer a Netflix only deal for cheaper is if Netflix paid them to do so, leading Netflix to cost more or offer worse content.
It'd be a neat idea if done well, most attempts at intentionally planned communities like that wind up being pretty fragile.

It'd also ideally need a ton of parking though which brings a hard compromise between making a nice walkable pleasant park area and having enough parking that your reinvigorated area doesn't become too congested. On top of that most malls are way too large even for that, it'd be hard to build out enough shops to make the mall not feel super empty.
I was a huge fan of LotR as a kid. Then I started to notice Tolkien's attitudes about race, class, and sex seeping into it, and it lost a lot of its appeal. If Thiel's into it, that's the final nail in the coffin. This quote from John Rogers seems apropos.

“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
When I was a kid, we simply didn't have dessert after meals. Ever. Everyone was skinny.
Can you disguise other components to look like resistors?
I'm going to pretend this is a real question asked in good faith in case it is.

At present the internet is more or less a neutral marketplace in which everyone pays their way to get packets from source to destination. Much of America is served by only one to two members of a small group of huge isps who have more to gain from bilking me and you than from competing with each other.

If we let a cartel of isp who are the only way you can get internet access in a reasonable fashion decide who is allowed to do business on the internet and in what fashion you will find that your basic package ends up costing more than your present open internet and any perceived discount whatsoever is outweighed by the money that people like netflix pay per subscriber for access and must necessarily recoup by charging you for.

If the media companies even let players like netflix survive instead of slowly strangling them this sucks for you and netflix but as for future players they aren't part of the in group that is allowed to do business at a reasonable rate and they just never get off the ground.

The system you are ok with would have strangled kids like youtube and netflix in their cribs.

The basic economics of it is allowing them to decide what is served and at what individualized price changes the economics of the cost of internet companies serving customers from what a competitive market can charge (internet backend) to the most a market can bear under a monopoly (the last mile).
You're missing the most horrible capability of this mine - when it sees its target, it could start chasing it
> tons of WW2 drama portraying Japan as evil

Well if I look at Japanese history in China in WWII and before , that portrayal might actually be justified. Especially given Japans stance on it, where museums in the country conveniently leave out Japans actions in China at that time. Coming from Germany that attitude seems… dishonest at least.
Maybe, not what I think of when I read 'convert to residential' though.
Don't think that unwinding and freeing oneself of human mortality necessarily have anything to do with each other. I don't have any problem with human morality whatsoever. I doubt many atheists do. But one still needs to have balance in their life. Sam Altman even once said that many people work so hard precisely because they want to get away from the meaninglessness of everything, in a way. That is the exact opposite of unwinding.

Of course, one can attempt to be intensely spiritual and live their life like a monk or a yogi master; if such mental states are real and attainable then one would be without any entertainment all the time. However I doubt that would be practical for most human beings (also not sure how many people have truly achieved it historically instead of just leaving false records behind), and even if one achieves such a state, how much good can you do for the society if your existence is so remote from it already?

EDIT: I also agree that being stoic and a kind of "detached" as you mentioned in the followup explanation helps a lot. But there is a certain limit to that and one has to also be connected to the secular life in a sense.
They might hire you as one of their risk-averse financial advisers/asset managers next ;-)
If South & North Koreans were as ethnically, culturally and religiously distinct as Arabs & Jews that example would be more apt.
Good guy bank just trying to protect customers from fraud.

edit: downvoted by cryptodorks mad about their losses ;)
Ok, but what if you are very busy and you don't have time for that.
> But TBH they probably do it because cash advance has a higher APR.

Which seems reasonable to me — if someone is at the point they need to borrow cash from a credit card, they’re probably a higher risk of default.
What if you are too busy for that?
Please. Stop. You write with letters. Wars are waged writing letters. Also thinking is a tool of war. Therefore stop, don't trouble yourself, and be at peace.
Makes me wonder why manufacturers don't have a USB permission scheme like they have for apps. It would be nice to give a USB device only certain permissions like charging.
Facebook has been using it internally for a long time. It would make no sense for them to rename the tool for open-source release just because a naming conflict exists, unless you'd prefer they just not release it at all?
Helm vs. Kapitan vs. Kustomize
OTOH literally everyone I know with the new MBP has this problem. They used to be able to use the HDMI port, but now they need a smattering of adapters for HDMI and minidisplayport. They also have trouble with the adapter not working when hotswapping ethernet cables
Reading Calvin and Hobbes and seeing what he did with cardboard boxes made them even neater to young me.
Those are actual items.

This is more similar to buying pre-paid credit cards or a money order with a credit card. It has been 5 years since I worked retail, however most places didn't allow that. Debit cars were fine because they were cash backed, and the bank (and everyone else involved) had a bit less fraud and things to deal with.

These sorts of restrictions are nothing new. Though this restriction might be limited to Wells Fargo right now, I'd not be surprised if this becomes standard much like the examples I listed above.
Interestingly, it can be done even with a single sensor. We can map object’s 3D positions with just one eye. The brain uses the relative motion of various object in the scene due to forward motion induced parallax and other clues such as object size. It’s possible to drive with one eye covered, but might as well use multiple sensors if available.

See “Depth Perception” at [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_perception
That seems like it would reduce your odds of getting robbed, but increase your odds of being shot. I am not sure if that's a great trade-off, but worth considering.
I remember arguing with people when Type-C was new; they told me it would change the world, I told them it would never work.

The problem is... they made everything optional, and thus when a user sees a Type-C port, they have no idea what to expect. Will it work with a device that requires Thunderbolt? Will it drive a DisplayPort monitor? Will this charger charge their laptop? Will this charger charge their phone?

The answer to any of those questions is "it depends". Many Type C ports do DisplayPort. Many don't. Many Type C chargers will charge something that needs 5V, but not something that needs a higher voltage. The end result is that you end up with thousands of devices with the same physical connector that can't actually operate with each other.

My favorite USB C device is Wacom's Intuos Pro pen tablet thingie. It has 3 Type C ports and needs DisplayPort input, USB 2.0, and 20V power. So there is not a computer in the world that you can plug it into with one cable, because I've never seen a computer that can output 20V over Type C. To get around that it, it has three ports and ships with a power brick... so you have two Type C cables going into it at a minimum. So close... if only they would accept 5V power. (I did some measurements and it uses only a tiny amount of power that is well under what can be supplied with 5V, but they appear to have reused the power delivery subsystem from their nearly-identical laptops, which do really need a lot of power to charge the battery.)

I don't see the situation improving. When you have 3 versions of power delivery and at least 4 "alternate modes" to implement, nobody is ever going to implement them all. So people will always be connecting Type C peripherals to Type C computers and being disappointed. And there is no way for the user to predict what works, because it's not like anyone shares specifications of what's required ("this monitor needs 20V and DisplayPort Alternate Mode") ("this computer can supply 100W, and implements USB 3.1, DisplayPort Alternate Mode and HDMI Alternate Mode").

It failed. I look forward to USB Type D that has a more durable connector and doesn't allow "optional" extensions. Maybe that will work. But for now, it looks like I will be struggling with upside-down Type A connectors for the next ten years. Sigh.
BDSM is about social hierarchy - dominance and submission. This is completely different from non-social concept of accepting suffering in the short term for a payoff later.
To be totally fair, and I know I’m a data point of one, I bought some crypto currency on my credit card (about $75 worth) because I don’t really trust any of these exchanges not to screw up and leak my info, or screw up and charge me improperly. And it’s a lot easier to report a fraudulent credit card charge than get your money back. In fact, this follows my pattern of “buy everything on my credit card unless the merchant absolutely refuses to accept credit”.
If you frequently stop contacting people and are remorseful but can't get yourself to take action (it sounds like you have this issue) and have had problems "escaping" other situations (thinking of suicide or just leaving the country, etc.); try to reframe your situation.

There's a couple of ways to think about this:
1. What's the worst thing that could happen to you if you disappoint someone?...really, there's not much. Also, worse-case scenario to anything in life is you get punished with jail and/or fines. You are in control of your destiny in these cases. Don't think that there's no way out...there's always a way out. You sound like someone that likes challenges - think of this as a challenge that you have to solve. In the end; for what you have invested, what's another $5k (for a good accountant and/or house-keeping of documents) if it solves your headaches and you can stay in Japan? Try to find a mentor or someone who has been in similar situations to you.

The "escape problems" that you suffer from are caused by anxiety and/or depression. It will take a while to train your brain to think differently and come to recognize these situations as they happen. Try to do a bit of retrospective analysis of how you got to your current predicament and what you could've done differently. This will help you avoid similar pitfalls in the future. Try to plan your days out, then your weeks, then even months or years. This will help you prepare for issues that might arise and prevent new problems from creeping in. Make sure you make time for introspective analysis on a daily basis...and try not to put off anything on your "to-do" list for longer than a day or two. You'll feel much better for it.

Lastly, exercise and meditation will help you a lot.
Good luck and know you're not alone in these problems!
Fan death is ridiculous but it's often used as a face-saving measure for families that have to deal with a suicide or an alcohol poisoning related death.
Very true! There's also potential side-channel attacks regarding noise in the power supply (example: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.00932.pdf), so it's definitely not a guarantee of safety.

Best to open it up for inspection, then destroy it. There's not a lot of room inside the body, by the looks of it, but there could still be plenty of fun stuff hidden in there anyway.

Thinking logically though: due to the public nature of the release, it might actually just be a fan..
Type-C offers charge rates up to 100W, which means the voltage is ramped to 20V.

There is an entire protocol to negotiate power delivery (including who charges who) http://www.usb.org/developers/powerdelivery/
When prepared well (I had the same burger from the same chef) the impossible burger is pretty burger like, though...more fibrous/long grained. When cooked anything above 'medium rare' they're no better or worse than any veggie patty.
Congrats, Emil and team! I'm most excited for this as an extensible platform for further desktop tools, built on FB's robust stack of front-end tech.

Although I must admit, I'm disappointed that they didn't use react-native-web to build this app in a cross-platform way. I agree Electron is a good choice for the current landscape, but I'm hopeful that we will be able to move past it. If Sonar was implemented with React Native's layout API, it would be easily portable to projects like react-native-macos, React Native on Windows, or projects like Proton Native, once it matures and stabilizes.

Of course Emil knows this, because he is one of the primary maintainers of Yoga, the cross-platform flexbox implementation in React Native. This is one of the primary technologies that will allow us to move away from Electron one day, if people would just stop using CSS!
Assembly also lacks features.
I think you are correct. After all, many credit cards have a cash advance feature that will allow you to borrow money to get money.

Similar restrictions are commonplace for things like money orders, western union, and prepaid credit cards.
>By that logic they should ban gift cards and in-game currency too.

Except that it doesn't because people aren't buying $10,000+ in gift cards on the hope that they will increase in value and then defaulting on their CC payments because said gift cards crashed.

When trying to solve a problem you have to focus on the actual problem at hand, not philosophical musings.
There's usually a lot more involved in charging a device, not to mention that USB-C can charge at 20V instead of just 5V. Charging speed is often based on current, but you also want to make sure you don't discharge too much current too quickly for various reasons (such as the battery capacity, and to prevent surges, etc). If you're curious, there are teardowns that go over chargers that discuss everything involved.
Thanks for this, which one specifically? My 5 year old watches cardboard project videos on YouTube and loves building. We even got him a hot glue gun which he uses on his own, after a couple of burns he’s very adept with it. Yes I tried to dissuade him but he’s very persistent!
Yeah, unfortunately that is quintessentially apple-y. Even the charging cable has seen endless unnecessary permutation, all proprietary and all expensive as hell. And mostly pointless. It's two wires. Two wires that carry a constant DC charge. Why so complicated?

I use my computer in a metal shop and my magsafe gathers iron filings, shorts itself and catches fire. I've gone through so many chargers. I've vowed that the next time it happens, I'm going to mill away part of this laptop's case and solder in a DC barrel jack. So much of apple design is about sleekness and cool factor, not actual robustness or effectiveness. I suppose this isn't the intended use case, but I feel like the use case apple has in mind is unrealistically safe and ideal. And rich.

I still like using a mac, as well as a windows machine and several linux distros. If you have a collection of tools in your tool shed, you want to have all sorts of different tools. Not just rows and rows of the same flat-head screwdriver.
Your last part there is wrong: as covered in many comments here, the A380 is still selling, in fact to the same carrier that's not renewing the leases on these early models. So it does still have a niche that it excels at; the problem is just that the early models have too much weight compared to current models.

This isn't about the A380 vs. other models, this is about old-A380 vs. new-A380. I was just asking why it wasn't feasible to retrofit the old ones to match the specs of the new ones, which these carriers do want and are buying. I could understand if we were talking about cars, where there's a well-tuned assembly line and it's almost never cost-effective to retrofit, and the unit cost is actually shockingly low when you consider the complexity and cost of components, but large aircraft aren't like cars. (Aircraft assembly plants make a few dozen a year, car plants make hundreds of thousands.)
There are many many single-connector dongles that act like docking stations. The docking stations in your link look really really big. It's easy to find something that does 2x USB-A, ethernet, HDMI, and power on Amazon, for $60-$70 dollars. This will let you have a single cable to plug into to get your monitor and everything.
Go in a scratch VM
Have you dealt with academics a lot, in their home University contexts?

(I never had to directly, but I've spoken enough with people who have. Nothing about that writing strikes me as strange, or even particularly controversial.)
Yet gold is a real thing which has real value and can be repossessed by creditors. Crypto is less like gold than futures trading.
I've always thought that the Lightning connector is intended to work as a structural element as well. If you look at iPhone docks[1], they rely on the rigid connector to hold the weight of the phone at an angle. I don't think USB-C is designed for this?

[1] https://i.imgur.com/LspYnWj.jpg
bcash is trash.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCOjCEth6xI
When you provided a credit line from a lender, your credit worthiness has already been evaluated - hence, being granted the credit line. Why should the lender being involved in deciding what you spend that credit on, provided it wasn't a part of the original contract (eg. a car loan), and you continue to make your payments?
In what alternative reality is San Francisco "car-friendly"? I get that the public transit isn't great, but that doesn't make a city where reserved spots run upwards of $400 a month and street parking involves constantly moving your car out of seemingly permanent temporary construction zones and dodging getting towed (and having your car damaged, etc) "car-friendly"
Could you clarify what "stated obligations" we have to refugees from violence who show up at our border?
> usb-c is on the 2015 chrome pixel laptop. 2 usb-c, 2 usb-b.

That'd be 2 USB-C and 2 USB-A and the 2018 ThinkPads have similar port selection. The 2017 X1 Carbon and Yoga already had.
That's terrific! Do you have photos or videos of your structures that you can share?
Rails 5.2 credentials are not secure
Automated DB migrations for continuous delivery
What are they charging the first time for that isn't "transport across the ISPs network"?
react-input-select has 640 (!) dependencies, all of which were added by the author in a commit named 'type fix'[1] which seems to have been ostensibly intended to fix a typo, and none of which seem to be required to actually use the library.

The only thing I can imagine is that the author somehow added their entire node_modules tree as dependencies. Maybe it was an ill-fated attempt at pinning?

[1]: https://github.com/rayescmata/react-input-select/commit/cd7b...
That's a tiny part of the USB 3.1 Power Delivery spec. The bulk of the issue lies in the negotiation between sink and source, which is fraught with complications.

PDF link: http://www.ti.com/lit/an/slva842/slva842.pdf
Germany Orders Daimler to Recall 774,000 Diesels in Europe
Their explanation does not agree with the (clickbait) headline. Rather, they say that VCs better evaluate pitches made by women, apparently by letting through fewer risks. Presumably the fix here is to vet proposals more diligently, in a gender-blind manner.
You can’t make that assumption at the end. These cables are as thin as they can possibly be to carry the maximum current they’re rated for. That maximum current could be 0.5A or it could be 5A. Try to pull 5A through a cable rated for 0.5A and you’re likely to burn the customer’s house down. You can’t really measure the resistance of the cable from one end. You can try to guess by watching for a voltage drop as you pull more current, but that’s extremely error prone. Because of this, all of the components are supposed to signal what they can handle, and if they don’t, they fall back to the minimum current known to work.