skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So apparently, according to TFA, the DP capable cables are "SuperSpeed" and marked with an SS.

Learning just that one fact made it worth the click. I now know to just always look for SuperSpeed (or the SS marking) on any cable I buy.

If we could just all start calling them SuperSpeed cables, SuperSpeed10 for 10Gbps, and I assume we will eventually have SuperSpeed20, etc... that would be just fine by me! Honestly, better marketing IMO as well.

The time for the "USB" acronym has passed. Especially since the debacle of "USB3" and Gen1 Gen2 nonsense. "SuperSpeed", optionally followed by a number which indicates a data rate would be just lovely.
Not hard to achieve during unscheduled disassembly.

But the same report also notes:

"Nitrogen tetroxide with a water content in excess of 2.5 percent can accelerate titanium intergranular corrosion to the point of violent reaction."
Reddit discussion about sysadmins embracing automation (or not)
Not sure why it’s hyperbole - they never said all Midwesterners drank it, just that there were Midwesterners who drank it. And did you only drink water at home or from a bottle? If not, you can’t be sure you never drank Cargill polluted waters.
Clearly, that's a lightning bolt rather than a thunderbolt. Very very frightening.

Not to be confused with Apple's Lightning connector, of course...
You’re not free unless you’re free to choose bad decisions as well as good ones.

Freedom includes freedom to opt in to risk according to your personal risk tolerance.
> In contrast to the oil and tobacco industries, for instance, the bad practices documented here are not inherent to the products Cargill sells, and are, in fact, entirely avoidable.

On the contrary, there are strong philosophical arguments that selling meat and eggs, as Cargill does, is 'inherently' immoral.
Eh all metals like to burn, which is why so many are found as oxides in nature. For example, a "thermobaric lance" used to punch holes through reinforced walls is just a bunch of iron metal burning in excess oxygen, the colors in fireworks are diverse metals, etc. It's an example of "kinetically driven" versus "thermodynamically driven" in that metals all want to burn and give off tons of heat, but in everyday human circumstances the ambient temperature is cold enough to prevent the metaphorical ball from rolling down the hill.

It's rather surprising that any metals at all can withstand the remarkably unhappy oxidizers used in modern rocket fuels! Probably the metal part in contact is an oxide layer that's easily abraded by big chunks of crap.
Sure, one from last week: I needed to connect to an iSCSI target from a client's Mac. This has been easy to do on any Windows machine since at least Windows 7.

OS X? No support without 3rd-party software.
This is why I'm bearish on Kubernetes for most organizations. Not because it doesn't work great, but because its complexity is so high. I have this adage about not solving problems you don't have, but it's the same concept in the article. Kubernetes is for Google. And I guess Netflix could use kube. Amazon. Facebook, sure. But the complexity overhead is so enormous that you are probably causing more problems than you're solving, especially if you're already using something that works (since this is the same exact thing as rewriting the software from scratch, but for sysops).

Alas. New and shiny is a powerful temptation.
There is nothing brittle about it, you push values to the stack instead of passing them to a function (which just pushes them to the call stack). It actually ends up being far less brittle in practice because it is much easier to deal with edge cases and errors. You can break out of a loop much easier than returning different values and having those bubble up.
There is a program in some states that allows you a confidential state-run mail forwarding address for this purpose. You can then use it at the DMV and your state-run forwarding address gets leaked via public records.

Unfortunately, it requires that one ask permission to use the program and justify their request for privacy; apparently those that don’t have permanent documentation of their death threats are less entitled to privacy and safety.

The state as fail-deadly arbiter of privacy is an entirely abhorrent situation.
Is "washing" a term for "cyclical vomiting"? Everything about this article seems to be confusing causes.

I'd read this more as people who are likely to present these symptoms at some point in their lives, tend to self medicate - often well before the symptoms become obvious or recognized to the people tasked with diagnosing them.

These 9 people are clearly not representative of the number of chronic marijuana users out there. I very much doubt cannabis is causing this in any way.

It sounds like using cannabis got them to stop the vomiting habit, and started again when no longer medicated.
Is it? In countries with higher minimum wages, McDonald's uses kiosks for ordering. I'm guessing, but it feels like 1/3 of fast food staff mans the registers.
It's my right as a member of a democracy to call out when a company is doing something unethical with the hope of swaying the opinion of my peers against such business practices.

It's my privilege to do so on this platform.

This type of behavior is unethical which is an entirely different thing than illegal. I hope we can adjust regulations on the market to make such behavior illegal. I have this hope because I don't want to live in a society where an increasingly portion of the population is addicted.
when all they've done is gut the company of any long term viability for short term profitability.

Ftfy

Edit: most the time short or long term stability isn't provided by such moves.
Yeah, there is. In the oil industry (actually many jobs in the industry) there’s a job where you need only add and subtract, work odd hours, put yourself in no greater danger than delivering pizza except that you’ll pull $280k/year if you’re lazy and $320k+ if you’re trying hard.
You don't say what you're going back to school for or what you plan on taking when you get there, so my answer might be a bit different with that information. But even if you didn't pay all that much attention the first time, it won't take you a year or two to brush up on high school math. You should be fine with a month of nights and weekends with a problem book. You'll probably want to get something like a Precalculus Problem Solver or Schaum's Outline and just do all of the exercises, or look for a textbook with full solutions. Give each problem a good try, don't beat yourself up if you don't come up with the answer, but make sure you understand the solution. You could probably ask on the forums on the Art of Problem Solving if you're really stumped. Good luck!
Yeah, add feathers and it'll almost look like a chicken. The question is if that's just the illustrator's bias, or if they actually did look like that.
Can you please not snark or post unsubstantive comments here? We're trying for a bit better than that. If you know more, it would be great to share some of what you know so we all can learn something. Alternatively, it's always ok not to post.

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Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the guidelines yourself. That doesn't help and only makes this place worse.

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The information would "appear" to be processed "faster" to the digital system merely because the digital system would have no memory of there being a moment in between its current state and the next computed state. Even supposing that it's possible for there to be a subjective experience of a computer: this goes in to physical time and psychological time and whether the two bear a strict relation, as well as the relative nature of time in physical space.

On the first topic, if you can stomach having to reformat a PDF, the "No Free Lunch in Machine Learning" guy wrote a paper on thermodynamics and psychological time:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226069884_Memory_sy...

On the second one... I think it's more interesting to think if there's a theory of relativity for computation. Imagine if two systems were updating one another's state but were separated by physical distance. Wouldn't you have to hold the state of one to only update when it a receives a message from the other, for the systems to "experience" instantaneous communication? That would mean there would be a third system for whom time would have to pass to transfer the message and compute it in such a way that the amount of updating required for the receiving systems are minimal.

Maybe we have to guarantee that at least one system has to experience time more slowly than the others, to compute the information necessary for instanaeity to be true for the communicating systems.
Finding all crime is not the goal.

As the KGB saying goes, "Everyone has committed a crime, it's about who we decide to prosecute".
Why would you ever want errors to reported while they are happening, instead of at the end of the month?
They replaced it in 2006 with an algorithm that gives approximately-similar results but is significantly faster to compute. The replacement algorithm is the number that's been reported in the toolbar, and what Google claims as PageRank (it even has a similar name, and so Google's claim isn't technically incorrect). Both algorithms are O(N log N) but the replacement has a much smaller constant on the log N factor, because it does away with the need to iterate until the algorithm converges. That's fairly important as the web grew from ~1-10M pages to 150B+.
Then there's also OnePlus Dash charge, which looks like a USB power brick with a USB-C cable. However the phone negotiates higher voltage with special circuitry in the adapter, so that kind of takes away from the 'Universal' in 'USB'. At least I now know that it might maybe work with a superspeed cable.
64kbps was a limitation of old analog phone lines, which were pretty noisy and also also operated at a pretty low frequency (they only allowed up to a certain frequency, anything beyond was clipped on old analog lines). In practice, dont know that I saw anything beyond 56k. And you could only get that on a clean line, near a switching station. My self, not sure I ever saw much beyond 48k, maybe occasionally 52k, but dont think I ever saw a dialup connection hit the full 56k.

Higher speeds werent possible until moving to digital lines (64k for IDSN, single line, 128k for dual). DSL upped the anty, pushing to 1-3 Mbps in my area. Cable really pushed it when I could get 15 Mbps vs best available DSL in my area at around 3 Mbps.

Today, I have around 200 Mbps over cable (gigabit is available), best DSL in the area is still around 25 Mbps. Fiber is not available yet, but AT&T is running fiber, but 2 years in, still not an option and they haven't published pricing/speeds for the area.
Reminded me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanentize_the_eschaton
Please don't get involved in tedious personal spats on HN. I know it's hard to resist sometimes, but it's necessary.

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Long ago I read something that questioned why we get so angry (or whatever emotion) that we kill insects like that so easily. Why end its life? I don't remember where I read it, but decades later I still think of that whenever I either kill a bug or think of killing one. I'm not claiming to be a saint or anything, and I'll still go on a rampage with a fly-swatter.

Last night I was sitting outside reading, and something touched my skin in the wrong way I guess, and I instinctively looked around and reached down and smashed it, like in a split second. It was a millimeter long green baby grasshopper-looking thing. I was alone, but I apologized (to nobody) for killing it.
Appreciate your comment, but I've been posting here in various capacities for about a decade and employed in tech for about twice that long.

I am not talking about HN's reaction, but the wider pattern of calls from high levels to investigate and break up Alphabet. It is functionally the same as AT&T and Time Warner - using the threat of antitrust and other powers of the FTC to get favorable treatment and harm adversaries. It is new and dangerous.
To actually answer your question: Barrier of Entry.
I think parents need to understand that you can't give children a credit card, or credit-card like power.

I was 14 before I was given access to a credit card.. and was given a dire warning about when it could and should be used.

If parents can't lock out purchases so they have to physically approve each purchase, then yes, they should be able to get refunds and penalties... But if they give their children the password to buy/download apps unsupervised, they need to understand the consequences (and really, how the heck do you not realize that unlimited purchasing power on an app store is a possibility?)

The first story in this article is about a kid with "the mental development of a 7 year old"... Well.... I wouldn't give MY 7 year old a credit card! Supervise your children! If it's too much work to monitor their purchases and approve each one, complain to the platform for more control. It would take Apple, Google, Steam, etc. <120 hours of work to implement a "Monthly budget" system if people demanded it.

Btw, how do you miss that 3,200 pounds is spent over 3-4 months, if that clears out your bank account? I'd agree that 14 days is a bit short for a refund period, but asking for 4 months to return digital goods that have been thoroughly used by that point..... might as well shut down all the game studios...
Unless you're a very average person, I'd argue it does.
It's not fair to lump all video games into one category and then malign them. Video games consist of a wide variety of forms and business models. Even the ones that people will think are exploitative, other people enjoy playing them and it forms part of their social life, a way to unwind and relax in short bursts.
My monitor has HDMI ports, but doesn't run full-resolution through it, because HDMI doesn't support that throughput.

So I'm not sure having HDMI is better or worse. I would prefer having slightly cheaper monitor, if anyway I'm going to buy proper DisplayPort cable.
His wife isn't cutting hair, she's selling required snake oil "education" and debt to others. They say one thing, regulations are bad, but profit off of them. They don't need to be in the business... But it's profitable. They haven't and don't fight the regulation that profits them. They are modern day Pharisees.
Hah - I had to look it up (answer:Cargill). FWIW, it's good salt.
Could you please not post in the flamewar style to HN? It leads to degraded discussion, we're trying for a bit better than that, and I'm sure you can make your substantive points without it.

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At the end of the day it's all just energy.
Consumers will abuse this, there is already proof of this with cardholders calling in to credit card companies claiming they didn't make the purchase and their credit card was stolen.

Further reading on the topic can be found by researching, 'friendly fraud'.

Easiest present day solution, use one time burner cards or set limit cards.

http://privacy.com , no fees, works within the USA, similar services throughout the world.
Does this have a package management system? In my opinion, npm is the main benefit of node servers (although it's also the main weakness as far as security is concerned).

If there's no package management capability, then do people have to manage dependencies themselves?

Or if there is one, how is it more secure/trust-worthy than npm?
One simple way it can snowball is by affecting who gets cancer due to some radiation being or not being absorbed.
> Is there some sort of conservation of energy law, but for information?

Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bekenstein_bound

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremermann%27s_limit
I appreciate you replying to that poster. I don't think of it as feeding the trolls, but performing a public service. That kind of disinformative and malicious content is infectious, and it's been to everyone's detriment that it's been allow to fester in so any corners of the internet. It deserved to be called out for being morally and factually wrong.
This part at the end was intriguing...

> Cables 2-6 are required by the USB specification to include an electronic marker chip which contains vital information about the cable. The host should be able to read that eMarker, and identify what its data and power capabilities are. If the host sees that the user is attempting to use DisplayPort Alternate Mode with the wrong cable, rather than a silent failure (ie, the external display doesn't light up), the OS should tell the user via a notification they may be using the wrong cable, and educate the user about cables with the right logo.

But how is the host OS going to notify me that the cable is the wrong kind of cable to support display output, if it doesn't even know that I'm trying to connect a monitor on the other side? Can I fallback to legacy USB2 speed to identify the peripheral and then decide a higher speed cable is required?Would it have to be based on the user action of trying to toggle the primary display (i.e. Windows-P), triggering a prompt assuming a monitor was connected and that the cable is the wrong type?

Perhaps rather than the host trying to guess that, it would be better for the peripheral to detect on its side that the cable is the wrong type, and then displaying a very helpful full-screen slide explaining the issue. In the case of a monitor, it could even include a QR code to scan with your phone to bring up further documentation, complete with Amazon affiliate links to buy a better cable, you know, because you know, monetize all the things.
I appreciate your response, but holy hell how is anyone supposed to memorize all that to buy a damn laptop or phone charger
> It would take Apple, Google, Steam, etc. <120 hours of work to implement a "Monthly budget" system if people demanded it.

Or if the legal system assigned liability to them until they did. :)
Why suffering setbacks could make you more successful
> featureless editors like … Emacs

Org Mode

Magit

eshell

AUCTeX

SLIME

Gnus

notmuch

Calc

EWW

Simple Emacs Spreadsheet

ERC

TRAMP

Methinks we have different definitions of the word 'featureless.'
Kubernetes, Etcd and Disk Throughput
Recreating the Fool's Mate Chess Move with CSS Grid
No religious flamewar please.

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I would love to know this because then Chrome is being booted too. I didn't sign up for them to be so invasive.
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I'm well aware; my day job often involves dealing with such reports.

I'm also aware that if you err on the side of protecting children when it comes to disputes with bottom feeders like Supercell and King their ilk, the collateral damage will mean we have fewer companies like Supercell. I consider that a feature, not a bug. :)

A few people getting refunds for gems for a shitty mobile game they don't 100% deserve is a price I'm happy to pay. Business models are not inherently viable, and as a society, we don't need to protect this one.

We don't NEED to find the right set of laws to let abusive freemium games survive while also protecting the vulnerable, because only one of those two conflicting goals is actually desirable.
I was about to say this won't help at all with the microtransaction problem detailed in the article, but then I read your link and found this more complete (although confusing) description of the exemption you name:

>single transactions must be less than €30, up to a maximum of €100 or five transactions

It's the "or" there that I don't quite understand. Does this mean that any 5 transactions can be made without 2FA as long as their cumulative total is less than €100? If so, does the system ask for 2FA after surpassing the €100 limit? Or does this mean that 5 transactions can be made as long as each is under €30?

While probably helpful to families and individuals who face these sorts of issues, the explanation of the law could certainly be clearer here...
https://yacy.net/en/index.html
The only way it's going to get there is if you keep feeding it. Much like Google :)
Airliners claim this safety by recording their fatalities "per departure." Which gives cars, which are relatively short distance vehicles obviously, a huge disadvantage.

People often repeat this claim online without clarifying that airlines measure by number of departures.

I haven't done a fair comparison where the same metric was used (say, fatalities per mile traveled in both transport types) but it would be interesting to see one. I'm sure airliners would still come out on top against cars, but the ratio would be different. Then if we extend this fair comparison to space, the amount of miles traveled gets rather large, so that would be interesting to see as well.
15 years experience, full-stack JS engineer, looking to relocate to Seattle.

Applying to big tech but would be interested in smaller companies.

Visa/Relocation required.

Location: QLD, Australia

Remote: Yes

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I don't think so. I use both and there are use cases for both, but the bicycle is generally safer and faster.
If anyone wants to learn more about the Apollo Guidance Computer, this talk[1] from 34C3 will teach you everything you wanted to know and more.

The AGC had some really fascinating features for the time, including a cooperative multitasking system, interrupt driven IO, and even a virtual machine for doing linear algebra!

[1]https://youtu.be/xx7Lfh5SKUQ
Well, then the USA was "third world" long before in-app purchases. When you give someone your debit/CC info, they can basically pull infinitely from your account at any point in the future thus you have to remain eternally vigilant because you once gave someone $5. Which you didn't even do. You gave them the key to your account and trusted them to only take $5, that's how crazy our system is.

Better financial tools/primitives would have gone a long way to prevent the issue in the article which most Americans don't have. I shouldn't need my bank to hopefully create a "virtual card" feature (it doesn't). It should've been ubiquitous 20+ years ago.

This is one reason I use Paypal: I can see a list of organizations authorized to take money out of my account. My bank account and credit cards? I have no fucking idea who might show up next month. Maybe that thing I "canceled" on their website four months ago?

Or I use bitcoin because it's basically cash.
Please keep regional slurs off HN. Imagine being an HN reader in Alabama and running into this.

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Using Facial Recognition to Help Find Lost Dogs
That is not true.

The Chinese government has been actively monitoring [0] all popular online messaging platforms, and shutting down any opinion that is considered by the government anti-government.

There is also some new network security law [1] that enforces companies, from ISP to website operators, to self-censor, and to pinpoint every action from every user, such that officials could collect the data as they wish [2].

The whole process is already well organized and somewhat automated. Now that the social credit score system is being deployed to more major cities, the threat of free speech is climbing to the next level.

You may say they don't fear. But I argue that many Chinese citizens don't even realize why they feel very uncomfortable and insecure to talk about politics. They think people who voice out are stupid.
The reason deep down, is fear.

[0]: https://twitter.com/0xDUDE/status/1101909112131080192

[1]: http://www.hk-lawyer.org/content/china-passes-network-securi...

[2]: https://www.zdnet.com/article/chinas-cybersecurity-law-updat...
Makes sense. Thanks for the correction.