skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why should it matter what kind of accessory it is used in?

I suspect you're misunderstanding what they mean by "audio accessory". They don't mean "a standard digital USB device that happens to do audio-related things". USB-C has a special-case allowance to drive analog audio signals through the port (to allow all-analog headphones and such) that has its own CC configuration.

>> Each CC gets its own distinct Rd (5.1 kΩ), and it is important that they are distinct.
> Why?

Because of the above; if the CCs use the same Rd, they're shorted together by definition, which isn't allowed to happen. Especially since the USB-C format uses the CC's to determine plug orientation.
Having a framework do metaprogramming, and using that framework is one thing. I think that they mean user-level metaprogramming. This is MUCH more evident in dynamic languages.
There hasn't been much of a market lately. On the largest cities centers, housing mostly does not sell.

The very small amount that sells is usually brought by rich people making unsound decisions (like betting they'll never have a month without a job on the next 30 years). People have been moving away from those centers and leaving housing there empty.
> If they dont, then that number is their bank account balance.

Given that not everyone's account balances are zero, plenty of people gamble for entertainment without going broke. I'm occasionally rational and enjoy playing craps. It is social, rolling dice is fun, and it gives a huge range of betting opportunities. I will also almost always play until I lose. The point is to have fun playing, and not to win money at a game where my EV is negative.

If I want to win money, I play poker. The problem with poker is that I'm not good enough to play games where I can win big (10s of thousands) money. The second problem is that playing winning poker is a grind and can be quite boring.
> Outside of the keyboard fiasco what else has Apple designed that’s so bad?

How about the first generation Pencil? To charge it you had to plug it in to your iPad.... it looked ridiculous and was very distracting. Thankfully, they fixed this in the second generation.
Middle class, the housing crisis is coming for you next
Popular hacking-related YouTube channel LiveOverflow has a nice discussion of the ban that addresses this very concern at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIdZ2oPyB1Y
What to do when faced with excellence
I recently finished writing a book about asynchronous circuit design
and set up the landing page for it [1]. It's my first crack at
modern-ish web technologies, using bootstrap for the front end and
making it serverless on AWS S3 with a couple of lambda functions
written in go for the back end [2] [3]. I'm getting to grips payment
processing and book printing but giving the ebook away free.

[1] http://www.delayinsensitive.com

[2] https://github.com/gueststar/s3quota

[3] https://github.com/gueststar/lumberjack
> that same pace causes natural born predators to bump into each other more, clashing more frequently, expending more resources/energy in empire defense.

And that's a problem in this case, because it's not like any of the predators in ad industry actually dies. They just deliver less money for the parties that employed/contracted them.

Advertising has a different dynamic than regular predation, because in a saturated market, effort of any party serves only to cancel out the efforts of every other party. It's a zero-sum game that can consume near-infinite amount of energy and resources. Now think of all the man hours, electricity, fossil fuels, papers, paints, toxic chemicals and human dignity - all wasted in a zero sum game - and tell me again that advertisers "expending more resources/energy in empire defense" is a good thing. It's the opposite - it'll eat our economy and kill us through side effects of all the resource wastage.
That's what I was thinking. I've recently gotten into hardware design myself as part of a hobby, and this is something I learned early on.

I'm sure they had good reasons to deviate from the reference (I assume they are experienced hardware designers over there), but I'd be very curious as to what those reasons were.
Fertility rates declining for several generations is not stabilization. It’s a bump in the road while humanity evolves resistance to whatever it is about modernity that causes us to have fewer children.
For non English keyboards, they let you toggle between different ‘alphabet’ sets. For Japanese keyboards, you can toggle them between hiragana and katakana, or full and half width characters.

There used to be an option for Chinese keyboards but I don’t remember what those were anymore.
> There are so many nice little touches in Rust that having nothing to do with it's "safe + low-level" USP.

Exactly this. I generally get met with skepticism when talking about Rust for web dev, because so many people say "you don't need that performance" (which is itself pretty arguable if one cares at all about energy footprint), but it isn't just the performance that makes Rust such an attractive option.
Thnx. I watched the video now. But I maintain that a CEO will not do anything to deliberately hurt shareholder value. I believe Freak_NL's comment is correct (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20361619), they are trying to free up airport capacity from short flights to use it for long haul ones.
That would still be a significant cost (in lost tax receipts).
That is a valid position, but imo at odds with the implicit position of Go's creators. Arguably, the Mommy regime of Go's compiler is very much reflective of Go's creators' appraisal of the software maturity of its intended users.

Regarding the point in general, the notion of "broken windows" is applicable.

(Great github showcase, btw!)
On the RPi4 CC1 and CC2 are shorted, while the standard says there should be a resistor (2*5.1kΩ) between them, that's a huge difference.
i bought the rpi4 and the official charger and the combo works FWIW.

it's good to know that it just might not work with some cables though. probably saved a few hours of head scratching in the future for a few folks.
That's not actually true, the law states, "Without a reasonable excuse", so any reasonable excuse is fine. The idea you'd need to be "certified" to carry a knife is fiction to drive an agenda.
I don’t buy the psychological illusion argument.

A bunch of companies with good track records of availability are having issues with availability due to networking. This is happening during a time of high drama geopolitical/diplomatic conflict.

There’s other unusual events that fit in the geopolitical situation. US municipal governments are suddenly getting targeted with ransom ware. A Russian submarine cable “survey” nuclear submarine has a mysterious fire. There’s an uprising in Hong Kong.
Maybe. But Paypal and all the other fintech are still based on traditional banking with all its regulations and inefficiencies.
I doubt Libra, if it's ever actually launched, will escape those.
tl;dr:
1. Erroneous deposit appears in account
2. Soon after, the money is removed
3. Account holder makes a big fuss and falls out with paypal about it
But I suspect that the insurance doesn't cover using the vehicle as a gypsy cab.
Are there stats on what percentage of these trees are still alive?
UN report reveals systemic human rights violations in Venezuela
A lesser person would have been driven into therapy.

Careful there.
Well, “permanently” on human lifetime time scales perhaps. I’m just saying you probably can’t get forests to grow in places where they never occurred naturally pre-civilization.
This is going to be a really sticky issue for a consumer. Randomly not working with some subset of USB-C cables is the sort of thing you expect the engineering team to consider - and they missed it. How do you think the average enthusiast is going to figure out that their Pi4 no longer works because of the USB-C cable they're using? At best they'll decide the cable is faulty, use a different cable and probably bin the old one, at worst they'll just come to the conclusion the Pi is bricked and bin it.
I'm still in awe for his two part documentary on athletes named "Bob". https://youtu.be/lvh6NLqKRfs
Venezuelans Can No Longer Afford Beer, So They're Drinking Cheap Agave Liquor
Lied perhaps ... or somebody made a mistake. Support rep might just not have understood the information they were seeing on their screen. Why immediately say THEY LIED rather than, they were mistaken. I find it more fruitful in life not to assume bad faith from the outset.
That's untrue.

If the blade is under 3 inches (and isn't lockable) you're allowed to carry it.

If the blade is longer than 3 inches you need a valid reason to carry it.
The study specifically mentions that they considered land not used, including for growing crops (they did mention using land used for grazing, but since cattle has apparently a significant greenhouse impact, I guess it's fair game)
to be 100% sure it works - get the official charger.
I guess they think they can have better safety practices than places like Norway and California. Having seen how things are done in China, I wish them good luck with that.

https://electricrevs.com/2019/06/11/recent-explosions-shutdo...
Clojure and Deps.edn: A basic guide
I don't remember exactly, we had points and polygons in 4326 and were trying do things like distance/intersects/area. Count me in as eagerly awaiting full support of SRIDs.
This is better than nuclear? How?
No, this is untrue.

You're not allowed to carry a hard fruit in a bag with the intention of using it as a self defence weapon. But if you go shopping and happen to have it on you when you're attacked you're allowed to use it to defend yourself. (And you don't need to wait for the attacker to land the first blow, you're allowed the first strike if you're genuinely trying to defend yourself).

EDIT: also, you seem to misunderstand the purpose of English arrests. Of course if you stab an animal to death you're going to get arrested. The arrest allows the police to question you, and it _protects your rights_ -- you get a free lawyer for that interview; they have 24 hours to charge or release you etc.
I have their card(as it was free withdrawal but now it's restricted to certain hours).

Anyone know of any decent babks over here? One I can withdraw cash without paying at a lot of locations would be preferable -.-
TIL; there are different types of USB-C cables with functional differences.

How do you know what type the cable is? Is is possible to detect it visually?
Those immigrants haven’t started the evolutionary process in question, since they have, by definition, only been exposed to a modern developed economy for one or two generations.
But if you want to power a cluster from a single beefier usbc power pack
That makes sense from an evolutionary/ biological perspective- it’s like contraceptives appear to nature like a filter - a global pandemic, an extinction event of sorts. So those who nevertheless have more children - ipso facto- pass down their trait of having larger families despite the availability of a baby pill. Fascinating hypothesis. My next question would be if there is a biological link to religion and fertility.
French lawmakers approve 3% tax on online giants
I'm a seller and I actually like the buyer protection, because it emboldens people to buy a product from a small and relatively unknown seller. Customers also don't have to give me any of their personal or financial information except for where to mail their package.

Now, an aspect of running even a small business is that I have some cash on hand, and a profit margin to cover the cost of eating one or two disputes if necessary. If a $100 sale goes down the toilet, I don't lose $100, but only my original cost of goods.

Where I read about horror stories is individual sellers who are selling things like a second hand electric guitar. In those cases, the buyer and seller are probably both not swimming in cash, so having their money tied up in a dispute is in fact painful. And that entire economy is rife with fraud and outright theft. Also, electric guitars are a case where there is extensive room for dispute about the provenance and condition of each piece. This gives the buyer an easy way to claim "item not as described."

In my view the hot business model for using the small payment services is selling an inexpensive physical good with a generous mark-up.
Ha! Yes.
Heads up - Your naked subdomain redirect to www doesn't seem to be working. If I go to www directly, I don't get the timeout.
In my experience its entitlement not incompetence that's identified as asshole behavior. Oh this person did half the work and bypassed all code review and automated testing and merged their code using admin privileges. Now somethings not working, can you take a look? I'm sorry, are you not capable of handling this? Why are you being so uncooperative?

Never attribute to incompetence that which is obviously malice.
> Get mugged while asleep.

The overnight trains here (Scotland) have lockable cabins and lockers for those that choose to use the reclining seats. Not that crime is a problem anyway.

> Also, train with a small child

Travelling by plane with a small child seems equally irritating.

60kmh is pitifully slow. It certainly explains why plane is actually faster where you are. In the Blue Banana [1] high speed rail is a reality. The airlines have stakes in it, and discontinued regional flights for that reason.

The trains are cruising at 300kmh within 5 minutes of leaving the station.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Banana
Weird. I visited this url earlier today and took me to a godaddy parking page. Maybe I mistyped or tried the .com.
This is where svg might shine, but for the emoji use case (presumably a non serious use case) this approx time would be fine
I believe the original plan was the opposite - one port and one cable type that can do everything - 100W of power, 5K video, USB devices, analog audio, Ethernet and more.

But it was naive to think that manufacturers will ship a $30 cable for a phone charger when a cheaper hack will do.

At least there should have been mandatory color coding of the "full" and "limited" ports and cables, just as USB 3 ports were blue to distinguish them from older versions.
Wikipedia co-founder slams the ‘appalling’ internet
If the blade is under 3" and isn't a locking blade you don't need a reason. If the blade is longer than 3" you need a reason. "I'm taking this bottle of wine to my friend's house and they don't have a corkscrew" would be fine.
Because it is good to have options, and we don't need compiler monocultures.
Usb PD + type C is hard. You have to read specs for days just to get a basic idea of the logic governing the negotiation protocol.

I'm waiting for a single chip solution that will take upon the pain of dealing with Type-C for me.

Besides the complexity of the spec itself, another "landmine" in dealing with Type C + PD is the divergence of different PD implementations, proprietary extensions from big brands, and... DRMed power supplies along with devices with DRMed PD devices... Yes, the electricity is now copyrighted too.
I'd agree (and that's what I did) except here I'd suggest "maybe wait until they solve the core overheating issue".

Mine is idling at 64°C now that I took off the official cover; with the cover on, it was idling just below the CPU throttling point of 80°C, which meant that almost any computation caused it to start intermittently locking up.
Deaths and injuries don’t slow Uber Eats’ rapid expansion in Mexico
A Kubernetes Node.

An elastic search for whatever you fancy searching
As someone pointed out in another thread, a campaign already exists at https://www.trilliontreecampaign.org. That said, this isn't providing the information that I'm looking for.
What a garbage article. Clearly misses decades of research on the impact of education and poverty and fertility.
After reading the interview, it sounds like a lot of scare mongering about bias without actually identifying specific things that are wrong with specific examples. Sure, it's nice to be looking for these issues, but people obviously have different opinions on what biases produce poor results and if biases are actually necessary and helpful.
Part of the problem is an a--hole is surrounded by a zone of disaster and chaos of their own creation, which makes them all the more indispensable. A--holes do not groom successors, they burn competitors (which everyone else is).
Language != Implementation.

And yes, there are Go interpreters as well.

https://github.com/go-interpreter
Planting trees isn't a viable (complete) solution though for various reasons.

- Healthy forest has 40-60 trees per acre

This means you need 31,250,000~ square miles which is 15.87% of the Earth's landmass.

- You need adequate rainfall where you plant the trees

- For the healthiest trees, and best carbon sequestration, you also need to 'seed' the mycorrhizal networks that work in cooperation with tree roots.

- You'd have to pick appropriate species for appropriate areas

- Mature trees, the vast majority of the time, sequester far more than younger trees

- There is considerable variation in the amount of carbon various trees can sequester in a given time

Some land that actually used to sustain decent tree populations, is now nearly barren. A good example of this is Iceland. When the first settlers reached Iceland in the latter half of the 9th century, forests covered between 25 and 40% of the landscape (nearly 10-16k square miles), it is now around 0.5% with active efforts to reintroduce trees with the reintroduction going very slow. This year they are attempting to plant around 4 million trees but a fraction of those will likely survive.
Utilizing algorithmic-only customer support seems far more impactful than those technologies, from a customer standpoint.

As Google and PayPal have shown, it's generally a cluster$&#* (at best), even with state of the art technologies.

Furthermore, it provides a fundamental shift in the power dynamic by removing the possibility of whistleblowers and ethical counterpressure. You literally have management as the sole arbiter of algorithmic settings, with (currently) no legal disclosure requirements as to any internals.

That seems pretty screwed up from a free-market, transparency perspective.
If they already have the parking capacity and use it for rental cars and then realize people just want to sit in box I don’t see anything particularly bad about buying cheaper, more practical boxes for that purpose instead of buying more expensive impractical boxes?
I got a series 4 watch as a father's day gift and went swimming the following weekend. My watch went insane (it tried to dial 911 about 5 times and wouldn't accept any input to try to stop it) and then died. I took it to my local Apple store and they were rather stern about too much water and it probably being my fault, but sent it off to the repair center anyway. But... Apple sent a replacement via FedEx that arrived less than 48 hours later.
Only if they pretend that you're interacting with real people. An IVR is often bad customer service but it's clear what you're dealing with.
This seems really interesting, and it obviously is important to be done. Something to note is that you'll likely need to buy up land to make sure it is secure when trees are planted. If you plan to buy swathes of land out of country, how do you deal with tree poachers? Probably your best bet is to buy in-country land and plant trees there. Perhaps do some research on what trees are more effective for carbon fixing.

And, of course, if you can find a way to make an economy around buying trees without destroying them, you'll have the most success. I've been trying to think of a good way to make an economy around that, but haven't come up with anything good. Maybe eco-tourism is the best option?

Send me a message, I'd be glad to chat more about this.
Show HN: Are you looking for a Co-founder or some help for your side project?
VERSION 1 is now public

You can view it at: https://spfound.netlify.com

Hey HN

For the past year, I have been experimenting and creating new projects to release to the community. However, I felt that I kept trying to do jobs that I couldn't really do. So I decided to try and get some help but kept finding it so difficult to find anyone who could help me. I also found that there was no central location, where I could easily get help for my projects. So I decided to build SPFound, a central location where users can post their projects that they need help with and explain what help they need so that other users that come onto the site, who are looking to help others can simply choose a project and contact the Project creator.

Now, this is version 1 of the site, meaning that site is not yet fully complete with all the feature I want to integrate, but has all the core features built and is functional to start using.

Here are some of the features I wish to integrate.

Upcoming Features:
- Contact forum
- CMS ( so that users can create, edit, and delete a post)
- User Accounts
- Better looking form
- search
- User Profiles
- Sharing (so users can share the projects that need help to other people)

If you have any more ideas that you think would improve the site, please leave a comment, I will be sure to read and respond to them all.
Seriously. Considering what a cluster the spec is and the budgetary goals for a project like the Pi, this feels really harsh. The focus is on the mistake and how trivial it was without any thought of why or how.

Pointing out mistakes can be done without being such a jerk about it.
Hunting Huawei’s Hidden Back Doors
OTOH I would guess it doesn't allow a trailing comma (same problem as JSON...) so you end up with weird ugly formatting conventions
Or perceived as attractive, as ‘studied’ if you think of peacock feathers. Probably only to be studied in hindsight depending on evolutionary success...
> PayPal needs to end IMO

You say that but it's literally the only way to counter scamming sellers on the internet. PayPal needs to stay, at least until there are viable competitors.
PayPal exists, by design, in a legal gray area where they do almost everything that a bank does, but aren't legally a bank and thus avoid all the regulations and liabilities of the banking industry. Removing funds from your account sent in error (something normal banks do) and not telling you why is fully within the realm of a non regulated money transfer service. Use fed wire transfers next time. They're irreversible.
Completely expected. As a developer that has been forced to integrate with PayPal numerous times I'm not surprised the customer service side is as abysmal as the developer side. Terrible service, run-arounds, just shitting all over the bed in general. Don't even get me started on their fraud resolution.

They are simply the biggest name in the business and have been around the longest. There is absolutely no other reason they deserve the market share they have.
Memes Are the New Pop Stars: How TikTok Became the Future of the Music Industry
You seem to be spot on. According to ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) the carbon footprint of a flight from Malaga -> Amsterdam for 1 person is about 0.161t (metric ton) [1]. One carbon credit gives you the right to release 1t carbon dioxide and according to the NYT (2019) one 1 carbon credit is worth no more than $30 [2]. So, in taking the plane you release 0.16t, but you can prevent the release of up to $300/$30 = 10t with the money you save.

So sure, the train releases less CO2, but if you instead fly and buy carbon credits you prevent 62 times your carbon footprint from the plane ever being released into the atmosphere. But I'm starting to wonder, does my math really check out here? These numbers seem kinda absurd.

1: https://www.icao.int/environmental-protection/CarbonOffset/P...

2: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/02/climate/prici...

EDIT: I made some edits to a better source, my inital source reported a flight would release 0.4t when in reality it's closer to 0.2
My wife and several of our friends are using venmo for transferring money and seem to like the app.