skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can’t overstate this enough, DONT HOLD DOLLARS. Currency is intentionally lossy so you invest it in productive assets. You’re pointing to a feature and yelling bug because you don’t seem to understand how it’s meant to work. Wages kept pace so earn rate remained constant or better and if you invested instead of throwing dollar bills under your mattress you’d have done incredibly well as the S&P has had a historical 7% geometric return.

Finally, all the popular stable coins are literally indexed to the US dollar, so you can’t say USDC/USDT is great then whine about the USD right?
I have used it for a monitoring solution that we developed in-house and rented to outside customers. In retrospect we could have used PostgreSQL too, and would have easier time. Hacing someone enforce schema on us wouldn't hurt either. But apart from a few gotchas (like not releasing storage on deletes - this should be fixed now) it worked quite well, so I am not in the hate camp (as opposed to HBase). I did however learn to appreciate strictness of SQL and would need very strong reasons to pick anything else than relational DB for future projects.
The Good Food Institute is working on exactly that:

https://www.gfi.org/donate

They are a non-profit that are advocating and researching clean meat and plant-based alternatives. I recommend this 75 minute interview with it's director if you want to understand why is it such an important and effective cause:

https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/bruce-friedrich-good...
Trading is all about trust.

This represents an odd level of trust. The user trusts Circle and Coinbase enough to purchase USDC at facevalue. The user doesn't trust Circle or Coinbase enough to keep private transaction histories.

I understand the position of fully trusting the third party (Visa, Paypal, Stripe) when combined with legal protections. I understand the position of fully distrusting third parties (bitcoin, etc). I do not understand why someone would prefer this mixed level of trust.
What makes you think Google chargers are any better ?

I would be surprised if there wasn't a single factory providing the same chargers with different stickers for at least a dozen of brands, including Google.
Companies are on the hook if their hiring algorithms are biased
Perhaps this is another answer to these environmental concerns?

https://medium.com/poa-network/poa-network-partners-with-mak...
If this is unhelpful information, please let me know. Please take everything with a grain of salt.

I found r/electronics and r/AskElectronics helpful for electronics questions but the best help I got was from asking engineers directly, whether electrical/mechanical/industrial.

If you're near a big city, I highly recommend hardware meetups or makerspaces.

I also found Bunnie Huang's The Hardware Hacker great.

Packaging if you mean the box should be easy once you're working with a Chinese factory. They usually have a relationship with packaging suppliers and can get great custom packaging for you with steep discounts with at least a 1000 MOQ (minimum order quantity).

Electronics manufacturing is a lot harder depending on what you're trying to build. One of my clients sells millions of dollars worth of electronics without an engineer on his team though, so I'm guessing it's not rocket science. If he did have an engineer on his team, I'm sure he would save a lot when it comes to quality products and QC though.

If I had to build an electronics product today I would get a working prototype. If I could build the working prototype myself, I would build the first 100 myself. If you can order all the parts and put it all together to test the market, I would. If I can confirm/prove demand, then I would talk to factories. Factories could help discuss what parts cost what and what manufacturing process might be best etc. In order to talk to factories, I would talk or find a sourcing agent. Or best might be an expensive consultant to hold your hand through it, a technical co-founder, or a mentor.

I tried to build a hardware product 2 or 3 years ago, a wireless portable charger. I never went through with it because of feature creep and I was poor and stupid. I could easily build it today though because many of them already exist. It would be as simple as finding a factory and making an order. For the portable wireless chargers, it was just sticking two existing parts together with a new circuit board. I think anyway since I'm not an engineer. That's how I built my prototype- I took things apart and put them back together. If you're not building anything too innovative, you could see if you can build what you want with existing parts as well instead of custom.

I'm sure I'm missing some things like expensive certifications ($10k?) or manufacturing problems but I think you can definitely test and there is a great hardware hacker community out there somewhere. Last but not least, I could be wrong but I would presume a 1000 MOQ for a hardware product. Some of my client's factories quoted him 10,000 MOQ. At a cheap price of $10/unit that is $10,000 to $100,000. These were for existing designs/products that the factory already made. Some of his other products had a $30+/unit cost. If you need a custom mold for your product, it might cost you $1k+. Last they may steal your intellectual property.
Partnering to make repair parts available is a good step but modern phone design makes accessing the phones internals very difficult.

I had a Moto X4 that suddenly stopped turning on or pulling charge when plugged in. I suspected the battery so I went to pull the phone apart. Here's ifixit's guide to replacing the battery on a Moto X [0].

Modern phones don't have screws, they use clips and glue. Waterproofing adhesive is popular on waterproof phones, maybe there isn't another way to seal a phone, but that just looking at a phones internals will break the water proofing. The battery on a Moto X is accessed from the screen side, removing the screen requires a heat gun, cutting and prying on a fragile screen.

[0]: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Motorola+Moto+X4+Battery+Replac...
The "Ask a friend" social media thing is really obnoxious.
just tried C++ after some time and was set back by:

* no []= operator in custom maps

* no enum printing

* no backtrace

* other random desasters

At least they don't work without jumping through some hoops in all of your code. So for me c++ is about as fixable/appealing as Fortran.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3342726/c-print-out-enum...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/691719/c-display-stack-t...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3581981/overloading-the-...
I don't like it either.

Yet, we not liking it won't change anything. In general, the public like this stile, so journalists will write this way.

You are better searching for media that fits your stile better.
Can the phone not monitor incoming current voltage look for things like AC on the charging signal, and disconnect the charging port if it detects those things? I know that it could, but it seems that instead of actually measuring, they’re assuming that all non-certified chargers are bad.
In this case USDC isn't a store of value. The USD backing USDC stores the value. USDC is just a token for a USD.
All my mobile devices...5 Android phones, a Kindle, and everything else I own use Micro-USB. I haven't needed anything else for the past 10 years.
Is anyone else not impressed with modern phones? They all seem like the same as last year but with more arbitrary restrictions and a higher price tag.
Except you can't send between the two. Isn't that so silly?

You can send USDC to/from any wallet that implements it.

This is a benefit of the blockchain, a protocol for money.
We are already seeing exokernel concepts. On a Linix machine, most 3D graphics is handled in the userspace GL library. The kernel driver handles modesetting, manages memory, and arranges for the userspace library to be able to directly submit command buffers to the GPU via memory mapped areas. DPDK works the same way. The NIC ring buffer is mapped directly into the userspace process, which can then perform packet I/O without calling into the kernel.
What a strawman. Inflation BAAAAAD, right guys?

C'mon. We all know why the Fed targets a relatively consistent rate of inflation. It's because deflation suppresses consumer spending. Not what you want in a consumer economy.
He basically stepped down from active management with the birth of his second child. (Ballmer became CEO in Jan 2000).
Organs were widely used in chapels and then churches from the 9th Century onwards. Bach was working in a musical and technological context that was already centuries old.

Meanwhile Hillsong is repackaged millennial pop/country/hints-of-EDM with all rough edges sanded down to a glossy frictionless finish. It's slick and corporate and essentially parasitic on popular music stylings, visual imagery, and performance tropes.

There's nothing nerdy or edgy about it (unless you include some of the criminal allegations that surround Hillsong - which everyone probably should).

So I think comparing it to the output of a technical genius like Bach is pushing the truth envelope a little too far to be completely convincing.
The other 900lb gorilla in the contemporary Christian music world today is Bethel Church, in Redding CA. They've put out as much if not more of than Hillsong in terms of the music played in contemporary churches these days. Too bad their great music hides some "interesting" theology, IMHO.
> The benchmarks game is just that: a game.

The name "benchmarks game" signifies nothing more than the fact that programmers contribute programs that compete (but try to remain comparable) for fun not money.

It's what you make of it.

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

> Go programs are prohibited from doing certain optimizations that are permissible for C++ programs

Which programs? Which "certain optimizations"?
I think OP was contrasting the condition prior to USB being adopted by cell phone manufacturers, when every manufacturer had their own connectors (yes plural, and it’s not even right to say “cables” since they weren’t even standardized on USB or 5V and the cable was often hard-wired to the wall wart). It was hell, and it largely ended when an EU directives aimed at reducing e-waste encouraged standardization and the whole market switched to USB (either mini or micro, but mostly micro).

This wasn’t the first regulation to have an effect, but it had the largest impact iirc (2009):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_external_power_supply
There are two places where "the biggest" trumps all notion of practicality: china and dubai. This is about "national pride", aka freud.
More likely they make you pay to license the "new standard".

(You could say you're paying to have your implementation certified, I don't know how they will do that. I think that Google won't want to be permanently in the business of making their own exclusive brand/line of wireless phone chargers.)
It was the style of celebrity cameos that made things worse. In recent years, the cameos served more to showcase the celebrity, in ways that didn't contribute to the show, rather that utilizing the talents of the celebrity to make a good show, like they did in the past.

You only need to look at the Lady Gaga episode, the worst-rated episode by far (and for good reason) and compare it to any cameo in the first 9 seasons, and a good number of cameos in the next 10.
"Indexing isn't counting" is not a fact; it is a language implementation choice inherited from C. It may be a useful choice for systems programming but it is not necessarily the best choice for every language.
It is more specifically the case that the idea of free speech as a prized element of a society is under threat, than the actual practice of free speech. We need to be mindful of separate things: actual individual free speech events happening, laws about speech, and society's consideration of free speech as a virtue aren't all the same "free speech" thing.

But who is threatening the virtue? Who is The Real Threat To Freedom Here! I think it's actually just various people in various political groups, from progressive students at universities to people with actual power like NY States's Cuomo with his radical anti-BDS laws and executive orders.
It's an improvement over writing csv files to disk.

This is not a high bar.
Save/invest your $. Tech is Logan's Run....age is red flag. If you dont have your own profitable startup in the next 5-10 years, you may want to start investing in another career path that values older people more.
While the method of birth control is a hugely personal choice and thus not "one size fits all", IUDs, where usable, don't require the same routine, regular access to the healthcare system as other methods. The level of FUD surrounding them (as well as RU-486) is ghastly, and the fact that parents can opt their children out of sex eduction is abhorrent.

Yes, people should be allowed to make their own decision on whether or not to have a child, but it should be an informed, considered decision, including the cost of supporting a child for their whole life, and not "oh no, the rhythm or pull-out method didn't work, ah well, let's just keep it".
Off-topic, but there's a meme on HN that startup equity should be considered "a lottery ticket" (as though you couldn't actively make it into a winner.) As a cute exercise (not too serious) based on your comment, I divided California's $23.8 billion in startup investment in 2017[1] by its population in 2017[2], which is 39.54 million, and got... $601.

(Of course the entities buying these tickets are not necessarily "Californians", just thought this was an interesting take on "per-Capita" investment in a different sort of lottery ticket. It is also funding amounts, rather than opportunity costs people "invest" in these companies by working for reduced or no salary in exchanged for equity - which is the "cost" of the lottery ticket people usually talk about on HN. I just found the resulting number in this exercise really interesting and thought I'd share.)

[1] https://tech.co/10-best-states-startup-funding-ranked-2017-0...

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=california+population+2017&o...
I have to agree. Basic search and replace queries are very readable in Mongo and very easily constructable.
Imo the advantage of SQL queries shows the best when having to do complex aggregation in Mongo.
I had one and every single person that tried it had issues with it in the first few minutes. A hackathon is one thing, but it didn't work even close to well enough to be a mainstream consumer product.
We raised so much I am at 2% + warrants in ownership. Again a bunch of the issues stem from my partner who went pedal to metal and blew through millions.
there is no maths curriculum. in the first year we do some projects that require sorting efficiently (i picked up a text book and taught myself O notation, and introductory algorithms and data structures content through a ocw course). There is also a networking project that exposes us to graphs and graph traversal algorithms.

i do have a solid maths background from previous studies, but i dont use much of it on an average day.
Another precursor to logarithms was prosthaphaeresis[1], based on trigonometric functions. Of course, like the quarter-square method, this required lookup tables, not a nifty device. But even with logarithms, log tables were pretty commonly used as well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosthaphaeresis
Ah, I was under the impression that he had stepped down in 2008. But that was probably from any activity at Microsoft and 2000 was when he relinquished the CEO title. Thank you for clarifying that. It does sound like that may be more closely related than I thought.
Try going to a Pizzeria and say "Pizza Margherita, with extra Zejeako please". Should they just give you a Pizza Margherita because they don't know what Zejeako is? Or should they tell you they can't do it?

> Facebook should back this out.

They won't. They knew what would happen and did it anyway.
There's a similar phenomenon in play in the US. Foliage is not as beautiful this fall because of all the rain that we got this summer: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/10/23/fall-f...
But would a lawyer ever advise against forming an LLC for a side project that might have liabilities, or just advise on the best language and jurisdiction? To me there is a big difference between "if you really screw up, they could try to pierce the veil and go after you personally" and "if you do everything right and your business still fails, you're automatically personally liable."
I bought one on eBay a couple years ago! Managed to get it to boot a couple times (still even had the previous owner's data on it), but then it stopped working. When I started taking it apart I found the plastic was so old and brittle it would fall apart if I just barely flexed it. I disassembled it into its components and put them all in a box which is in a closet somewhere. Someday, I'll find a way to adapt the keyboard to make it work with modern hardware and use it in some sort of cyberdeck-like custom build [0].

[0] https://imgur.com/a/h2kR0Gs
I've been playing in worship groups for +20 years now and I'm currently leading the youth band in a very small church and here are two things that I've been noting recently:

Hillsong's music and most "mainstream" music that come from white english-spoken megachurches have lyrics that talk about "grace","love" and "God accepting you as you are". While the themes on worship music coming from South America (and I think black churches in US too) are more about "Joy", "Freedom" and "God, the mighty warrior defeating his enemies and delivering his people". I found that really interesting.

The other thing is that even while Hillsong's and similar music is very shallow and simplistic, it is becoming increasingly difficult to perform with simple, cheap instruments. So small and poor bands like ours lose appeal against the ones in megachurches with lots of instruments, talent-pool and technology.

I, for one, I'm embracing this and going for a rock-punk attitude for my little worship band.
I've also started experiencing that even though all actions are cleared and I can navigate away that sometimes those actions "didn't take" and I'd be cleaning up emails for the N-th time.
I think Kyle recently said that he's been making analyses a bit more formal, so even when he writes analyses, there's less of what we're used to.
But they can't be used over the internet without permission.

It could be argued that this requires permission as well since there will be 'know your customer' laws that surround buying and selling them, but to what extent they will require permission might remain to be seen.
all of the battery charging control is in the battery, not the charger. The charger just generates the EM field (in this case) or a supply on traditional cables.
I spoke to one... He basically said I am screwed as a company director I can't do anything against company interests or get sued :(
"at least 18 workers have died building this bridge"
Google Turns Over Identities of Bloggers on Benfica
iPhone XS Max vs. Pixel 3 XL Speed Test
for those who want to chat with other people who have applied: https://ycombinator.metachat.com
What if I want to save? Certainly seems kinda bad when my savings keeps losing value
What exactly would qualify a phone as user repairable? I'm guessing something could be repairable by users, but the costs of the tools are prohibitive. Would that be considered user repairable or would cost of materials and tools have to factor into the equation?
Architecture is the vessel for all of life and work and has a direct affect on the way we live, move, and think.
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Architecture is about all of life and this is why architects need to be more than engineers. They must be poets, philosophers, and lovers.
What do Swiss tunnels have to do with Chinese bridges?

And are you talking about unemployed people? How is that connected?
It looks like a repeat of the Liberty Dollar to me, and that whole affair ended with charges of money laundering, mail fraud, wire fraud, counterfeiting, and conspiracy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_dollar_(private_curren...
With a $13k deductible...

edit: Don't get me wrong, it's better than nothing. I'm on the exchanges myself. That said, a major illness is still going to be a massive financial hit even with subsidized premiums.
So did Google? Not trying to be trite here, but that's essentially exactly the point. They didn't want to let a sketchy charger brick the phone, so they disallowed sketchy chargers.

You could say that the phone should try to accept any charge and never break, but that's a nontrivial amount of electrical-engineering and expense involved in accepting basically any wattage/voltage that a sketchy charger may produce.
Re: 1 - that might be true, but you still probably wouldn't want to co-tenant a sandbox'd process with a total stranger. The overhead of a total Linux kernel is still larger than a unikernel-native application, so if you're a cloud provider, encouraging and using unikernel technology makes a lot of sense.

Re: 2 - this is managed by the hypervisor. SEL4 can be run as a hypervisor and has been formally verified to be correct [1]. Trusting a proven system like SEL4 is a far-cry from trusting Linux's isolation primitives because we can make hard-guarantees about the behavior.

Unikernels have the advantage that they are basically backwards-compatible (you can run any VM on the infrastructure you develop, even if that infrastructure is tuned for unikernel-native applications). With Unikernels, you can achieve VMs that are lighter than containers [2] thereby increasing your customer-per-server ratio.

[1] https://sel4.systems/Info/FAQ/proof.pml
[2] http://cnp.neclab.eu/projects/lightvm/lightvm.pdf
>I'd rather take a Nexus

Pixels, the ones bought from the google store (as opposed to retail channels), do allow you to unlock the bootloader, but that is still an implicit network permission check. You cannot get to the oem unlocking screen without turning on wifi, which is basically how it phones home to check if you are allowed to unlock it.
> A lot depends on the fraction of value non-producing population that the value producing population has to appease.

What does that mean in practice? Something to do with taxes and income distribution? Also, where could I find research supporting it?
Mind the Gaps: Overcoming Friction in Implementing Workplace AI
This is pure FUD. I don't know how you think wireless charging works, but it doesn't send current directly into the battery. The charge is received by an antenna in the phone, and the same protections that protect it from overcharging when you plug it into an outlet apply to wireless charging too. You just replaced a cord with the antenna.

If you can damage the phone that way, then the phone is defective.
I have been using selfhosted email for over 2 years now. mail in a box once setup I haven't done anything! other than occasional updates from the admin interface.
I will personally never use MongoDB because when they first started their philosophy was speed over durability, which is a bad look for a database.

Even though they have apparently fixed those problems, it will take them a long time to win that trust back.

Also so far Elasticsearch seems to solve all my document storage problems.
Yeah. Last phone I bought was in 2015, and I haven't felt a compelling need to upgrade since then.
> Motorola doesn't make any "rugged" devices currently

all of motorola's rugged phones are designed for firstnet (private, secure LTE for emergency responders). these are relatively repairable (removable battery, screws behind the battery) but i wouldn't hold my breath for consumer models.

https://www.motorolasolutions.com/en_us/products/lte-user-de...