skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, it's the difference between having to plug in at least 5 things when I set my laptop down at my desk (or use a very specific dock that only works with a single size and model of laptop) to just plugging USB C in and having my laptop charge and function with every device. This is worth the price of admission, though the decision was made for me by Apple.

Beyond that, the additional wattage that USB C PD provides means that I can charge my iPhone and iPad significantly faster than even with Apple's "fast" 12W charger previously. This is really nice when I am traveling or just forgot to charge my iPhone.

In addition, now that more devices are coming with USB C support, I can charge everything from my laptop to my Bose headphones with the same cable and charger, which would have not been possible before.
But you don't need advanced materials and technologies. You don't need steel. You don't need ball bearings.

Archimedes could have built a velocipede, using mostly wood, same tech as ox-driven carts, just the wheels being lighter and more narrow since the load is much less, and it would have worked fine.

I'm just not sure about road surface quality back then. I suspect that was a bigger limiting factor.

Also, bikes are kind of a city thing. On the country side, horses work just fine.
All these things I am missing, yet they haven't put a dent into any immigration numbers I was able to find [1]. In fact, "The number of people who became U.S. citizens reached a five-year high in fiscal 2018" [2]. As for the increased deportations: "In 2017, the Trump administration deported 295,000 immigrants, the lowest total since 2006." [3]

So to answer your question, in the event of another Trump victory, I expect immigration to the US to continue at near-record rates, while they continue to be called xenophobic.

[1] https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/yearbook/2017/tab...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/number-of-people-...

[3] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/17/key-finding...
This has been my experience when I was growing up, and when I was a student. Food these days is insanely cheap if you aren't going for specific tastes, or if you're good at cooking.

I'm much wealthier now, so I spend much more on food because I can, but if you're really frugal, you can keep your expenses extremely low by simply avoiding expensive ingredients. For example, a single red bell pepper costs $1.50, which is insanely expensive compared to chicken, beans, rice, or carrots, based on the nutritional value. Of course, fresh vegetables are nice, but fresh vegetables any time of the year are very modern invention, thus expensive, and you can easily do without them.
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It looks like you’re both arguing for the same thing: a higher federal minimum wage.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted, because the quality has 100% tanked over the last few years. I agree that there may be some selection bias between us, but it's at least got some of my normie non-technical friends commenting about it, so it's not completely without merit. I have a couple of theories, one of them is also a warning.

First, I think search results at Google have gotten worse because people are not actually good at finding the best example of what they're looking for. People go with whatever query result exceeds some minimum threshold. This means when Google looks at what people "land on" (e.g. something like the last link of 5 they clicked from the search page, and then which they spend the most time on according to that page's Google Analytics or whatever), they aren't optimizing for what's best, they're optimizing for what is the minimum acceptable result. And so what's happening is years and years of cumulative "Well, I suppose that's good enough" culminating in a perceptible drop in search result quality overall.

Second, Google has clearly been giving greater weight to results that are more recent. You'd think this would improve the quality of the results which "survive the test of time" but again, Google isn't optimizing for "best" results, they're optimizing for "the result which sucks the least among the top 3-5 actual non-ad results people might manage to look at before they are satisfied". So this has the effect of crowding out older results which are actually better, but which don't get shown as much because newer results have temporal weight.

My warning is this, too, which you've surely noticed: Google search has created a "consciousness" of the internet, and in the 90s it used to be that digitizing something was kind of like "it'll be here forever" and for some reason people still today think putting something online gives it some kind of temporal longevity, which it absolutely does not have. I did a big research project at the end of the last decade, and I was looking for links specifically from the turn of the century. And even in 2009, they were incredibly hard to find, and suffered immensely from bitrot, with links not working, and leaning heavily on archive.org. Google has been and is amplifying this tremendously, by twiddling the knob to give more recent results a positive weight in search. Google makes a shitload of money from mass media content companies (e.g. Buzzfeed) and whatever other sources meet the minimum-acceptable-threshold for some query, versus linking to some old university or personal blog site which has no ads whatsoever. So the span of accessible knowledge has greatly shrunk over the last few years. Not only has the playing field of mass media and social media companies shrunk, but the older stuff isn't even accessible anymore. So we're being forced once more into a "television" kind of attention span, by Google, because of ads.
> The alternatives are not good. Cast iron? Too heavy and too brittle. Wrought iron? Maybe, but not that great. Lead? Too soft. Brass? Could work, but expensive. A king's kid might have had a brass bicycle.

Well that still leaves wood.
That's like saying you can't just buy a harbor freight engine and expect the carb to be properly tuned. 99% of people are going to have no problem with how it performs as configured right out of the box.
Colab? I don't think that google's position is held in power by that.
The only thing we have is job skill management while working for others. Careers have become just that. And the shiny tech goes well on resumes, and the managers probably don't mind it if he's been allowed to put thousands of dollars of company resources to do it. Odds are that the management wants to sell it as being based on the cool new tech to help justify the project, aka we couldn't accomplish this with old tools, or we're staying up with the ecosystem. The point is that there are a lot of decisions that don't propagate down the chain.
country A that has the best tech, has a stable political climate, does not push too much, has a good price, or country B, who has inferior tech, a "maximum pressure" president and asks too much.

The identity of country A and country B in all of the attributes you mention has fluctuated over the years, and through different contexts.
Show HN: Build habits by using the same addictive powers of social media
After reading the title I thought it would be about Europa Universalis 4 and all their outrageously priced DLCs.
Even better! So you'd basically need a 10Gbps connection. I highly doubt many macbook air users have a 10Gbps connection, and are connected with a thunderbolt -> ethernet. I also doubt you'll find many cloud providers that can saturate that anyway.
MIT Science Reporter–“Computer for Apollo” (1965)
> Just because user X can't create a new product does not mean that we should place sanctions on company Y. (…) in this post you just illogically connect a bunch of dots.

That is an insane extrapolation, and the reason I don’t want to continue the conversation with you: you’re answering points I’m not making. I haven’t even hinted at sanctions; I have no idea where you’re getting that from.

> But a fact is still no one is forcing you to use these products

And I don’t use them. I hoped that by continuing to mention non-technical users you’d get it, but this was never about me. You keep bringing up that argument, but read what you replied to in the first post — I recounted the experience of non-technical people I know, not my experience. Stop telling me I have a choice; the point is not us, it’s non-technical users who don’t have the knowledge to make informed choices!

> That sounds like a rationality of a completely one-sided biased individual in itself, respectfully.

Believe what you want. I just don’t want to keep wasting my night arguing with someone that started a discussion but refuses to address the points originally made. Why reply, then?

Maybe I’m not explaining myself well enough, or in the correct way for you to understand, or maybe you’re the one not grasping what I mean. It doesn’t really matter where the problem lies, just that it’s clearly not working.

Maybe if we ever meet in person we can resume this conversation, but tonight it’s not being productive, so I genuinely wish you a good week and sign out here.
OMG thank you!
How much you care isn't as important as how effective you are at running the organization. That seems like a counter-productive optimization. Let's say we have two charities: one that is run by 'bleeding-heart' passionista's who live in near poverty themselves, or one run by master marketeers and logistic experts who collect sustainable and fair wages. Which do you donate to and why? Which one will actually solve the problems you want them to solve?
Neither of those is necessary for a basic bicycle. A wooden frame with a fixed gear ration and chain or belt would work just fine for moderate riding
I post to Medium for the same reason I post videos to Youtube: Platform + audience.

Turns out my audience would rather have me post on Medium than on my personal blog:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20444875
There are counterexamples, though: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16347083
If “drawing attention to remedies that rely on [one’s] agency” is victim blaming, then I’m all for it.
helo everyone!

I built an app to help people build habits by leveraging the same addictive powers of social media.

Any feedback is appreciated!
I don't think that's too much to ask. If I spend more than an extra £10 my phone company will start sending me messages. Plenty of families would be financially crippled by an unexpected £3000 bill.
Which begs the question, if adblock makes advertising based models go the way of the dodo, what happens to search?
Why does everyone assume Google is automated? A single website containing a small amount of knowledge or even a leaked archive of Diebold emails will show lower on Google search results than a web forum or some listicle.

The real web crawlers are people who surf the web, Google likely takes information from analytics and outbound link tracking to determine the most popular (not the most informational) website.
Medium basically killed the incentives to publish outside their paywall. For most people, free hosting isn't enough.

But posting within their paywall is generally a pretty good deal.

Medium gives you some small amount of revenue. $50 to $200 is common, but I've had several authors in publications I run make $3000 or more for a single article.

Medium also tries to promote the best articles to people who care about the topic you're writing on but who might not have any idea who you are. They do a pretty good job of this. New writers might get an audience of a few hundred readers they wouldn't get otherwise. Committed Medium authors seem to get audiences of a few thousand people for each article.

And the author isn't giving up much for those two benefits. They get to keep their copyright and could publish anywhere else. The article still qualifies for SEO even though it's behind a (metered) paywall. Authors have a "friend" link that bypasses the paywall altogether.
Thanks. That seems particularly shameless. We've edited the title above.
They should offer DRM-free options, and Linux options as well. And no more of that exclusive nonsense.
There is more: bad roads, lack of traffic law enforcement, weird liability laws that make fatalities more appealing than injuries, lack of liability at all in many cases, etc...
And maybe that next-gen professionals' social network can be the first open and free one?

Volunteers have to have somewhat cushy lives to be able to give their time and expertise for free. Stallman was willing to live by his ideals. He was also intermittently homeless while doing so.

These ideas of "We can rebuild it. We can make it better. We can also do it for free!" tend to be unrealistic fantasies.
Or you just raise the minimum wage. We arrived at this point because those with money use it to influence government to their exclusive benefit.
That's a problem with their anti-fraud not a problem with missing a shopping cart. And that's probably been fixed.

iTunes, Apple App Store, Google Play Store, even Amazon Kindle book store, all are missing carts. Because a one-click buy is way easier to navigate than adding to cart, going to cart, and then finally checking out.
My Samsung phone came with a very thin USB-C cable that only supports USB 2.0 speeds. I think that's following the standard.
Ethiopia's leader keeps flicking the internet kill switch
I know! As someone with 500+ contacts to high powered professionals I'm inundated with a huge amount of humble brag posts!
If I use Medium does that mean I can't also publish the same articles on dev.to and elsewhere?
Why would you ever use a credit card over a debit card???

With debit you spend the money you own.

With credit you take debt.
On every single payment.
You are taking debt.
Only at the end of the month you pay your debt.

If you spent too much, (by accident) you now have to pay overdraft interest.

With debit you spend the actual money you own.

If a purchase (fraudulent or not) exceeds your current balance, the payment won’t process.

But that is a good thing.

You shouldn’t be buying things you don’t have the money for anyway...
OK but I'm saying I wasn't miserable and it was a better job than working retail to me.

I agree it would be great to divide resources and labor in a more intelligent way I'm very open to ideas, but for now the reality is that some jobs are shitty and some are far better. And all the perks and benefits tend to come through hard to attain and coveted jobs. In my opinion you can't just create a system of equality, true equality will never exist. So why not just let it play out naturally? Drawing a line and effectively taking from people higher up is an astonishingly difficult line to draw and the overhead from a change like that could be devastating in itself, especially considering how Govt's are run in general.
Well, when Amazon warehouses in the United States are not up to code and burn to the ground, killing hundreds, the analogy will be pretty apt.
The gambling industry got into the gaming industry. You are looking at the result: Children are gambling.
You can have multiple identities in chrome[0], even guest identities.

[0] https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2364824
We can't prove that vaccines don't cause autism. We can't prove that vaccines don't cause earthquakes. So they are similar. In both cases we only can show that the correlation is so small that we can't reject the null hypothesis. So the correct answer is an informal "Nah" instead of a formal "No".

> It may be enjoyable to mock lesser intelligent people,

No. But if you want to discuss epistemology, let's start with an easy example were we all agree that is false in spite there is no hard evidence. Sorry if it looked as a mock, but it was not my intention.

There are zealots and ridiculous claims in both sides, but at the end of the day smallpox is eradicated, polio is cornered (I hope to see the eradication day), meleases is reduced to very small levels (eradication looks more difficult). All of them used to kill a lot of people.
A lot of the discussion here is about materials and manufacturing, which certainly wasn't available until the late 19th century to make and produce bicycles.

But the real title of the article should have been, and the real unanswered question, is "Why did we wait so long for the draisine?" An all-wood two-wheeled single-track vehicle that was just kicked along like a scooter. This was invented in 1817, and the article postulates that cultural reasons kept it from being invented in the classical or medieval times, and even in the Renaissance where ideas for human-powered carriages were floated, no one came up with a draisine because of cultural reasons.

That's an insufficient explanation, I think. What other reasons could have kept the draisine from being invented in classical Greece, or medieval Germany, or any other time and place before the 19th century? Technological arguments fall flat as the original draisine didn't use any tech that hadn't existed for millennia.
As a european my question is exactly the opposite, why would you ever use a credit card if you can just pay directly with the money you have?

The concept just seems to bizzare as someone who has grown up with their country specific bank cards - getting a credit card or even a visa/mastercard debit card is something fairly unusual.

I do realize you american people have to build a credit score and there's cashback schemes. Very different cultures I guess
If a device has an HDMI port I know I can use that to connect a display. I don't know details like the supported resolutions, but at least I know that's a supported use case.

If I notice that a device has a USB-C port all I really learned is that it has a USB-C port. Who knows what it does.
Even better, why not just make incompatible cables impossible to intermix by, say, using different ports?
Who Do We Worship When We Kill God?
...aren't most exhibits/conferences like this? All my trade shows events are at least this grueling, and I no longer work in major IT.
> I would definitely be hooked on that particular game and still throwing money out for -- not much but a faster reward-cycle.

Do you think that's an inherently bad thing? Maybe it was for you at the time but I feel like the ability to reliably turn money into entertainment (in this case "a faster reward-cycle") is a great thing to have available to people who already have their basic needs met.
There was the design intent, and then there was the final standard.

The USB-IF is composed of manufacturers that wanted to be able to cheap out on cables; so of course they made all the expensive features optional, at the expense of anything USB-C was designed to accomplish.

In an alternate world where USB-IF was headed by a benevolent-dictator-for-life, USB-C wouldn't have any optional features. (It'd also be in nearly nothing, because no manufacturer would want to pay the BOM costs of supporting it.)
And let's not forget the pneumatic tire; Wikipedia suggests they were invented 1847-1888. (It says they were invented to help make bicycles/tricycles comfortable.)

If anyone thinks these tires aren't important, then why are almost all vehicle tires still pneumatic?
I saw someone mention this a while ago and at first I thought it was stupid but over time I've come to agree:

Asymetric internet connections should be forbidden. They assume that users consume more than they create, and the internet should be a place where everyone has equal footing. In addition, IPv6 firewalls in routers should either be disabled by default or have a forced API to selectively disable them [^1]. (IPv4 for the "decentralized internet" is pretty much a lost cause because of NAT). In my opinion, this should be a part of net neutrality. The current definition of what constitutes "internet" is far too loose.

Many applications of decentralized hosting of websites or other content is much harder because most people have a very shitty upstream. If you could use all smartphones around the world that are currently connected to WiFi and an outlet, you could host whole websites (or at least chunked static content) over those. Currently, this is unrealistic because you can't NAT punch for every 100kb chunk and you won't get any good speeds.

[^1] My router by defaults blocks all incoming IPv6 connections to devices
I just tried StackBit this weekend. It's still in beta, but it's pretty slick

https://www.stackbit.com/
"The precision of keeping all those threads perfectly spaced is one thing"

Making the first precision screw requires a "screw originating machine".[1][2] This is a special-purpose device which can make a better screw than the ones used in building it. Then you can install the first precision screw in a lathe and make more screws in harder metals. This is how precision is bootstrapped.

[1] https://chestofbooks.com/home-improvement/workshop/Turning-M...
[2] http://collection.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects/co46546/tool-...
Previously yes, since a high number of retail jobs (i.e. stacking shelves, sorting inventory, etc.) were all done in the core part of the urban area (i.e. think Target or BestBuy directly in the downtown area). With Amazon Fulfillment, the "retail-like" jobs (sorting inventory) can be done where the employee actually can relocate to the periphery and have a traffic free commute. And delivery drivers will be returning the fufillment center so will naturally be returning to the periphery at the end of their shifts.
Yeah... I am wondering what most outraged people think other warehouse jobs pay and how they treat their employees.
I don't see how 2.a would stand in a courtroom.

What is 'good faith' and 'otherwise objectionable' in this context? Is removing all content from a religious group afforded in this definition, as long as the provider considers it objectionable?

'whether or not such material is constitutionally protected' has almost no meaning because almost all speech is protected.

Another interesting point is, while it's allowable by the law to restrict content you deem objectionable, is it allowable to promote content you prefer over other content? Or de-promote the content but not remove it?

Is it acceptable to remove religious content with no explanation as to why? Is it acceptable to ban or demonetize a religious group without explanation?
Don't buy this article at all. The only thing a cash donation can be stretched into is salary for the "non-profit workers".
Leather belt drives were used for early motorcycles (1890s-1910s) even while the roller-chain was already in wide use for bicycles.
the Ancient Greeks and Romans could have attached paddles to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolipile and basically get something like that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddle_steamer

That is why i wondering what should i attach to what to get a [preferably cold] fusion :)
linux, larger ecosystem, more driver support
Survey of container-optimized init process (PID 1) replacements
Being from the same vintage as Gibson, I can assure you, tvs in those days gave us grey static.
GRIIIIIIIIIFFFFITH! (Cue berserk soundtrack)

But for real, interesting read. Thanks for linking that.

Would love to see some applications of such a thing.
Seriously, they could have made NVME standard, charged more, and boasted about the incredible speed boost it provides. They could have even given it a cute name like NowDrive or something.
Oh well it can’t be because they want to have a home or eat food or anything. No, they must’ve just run out of NodeJS consulting gigs and they’re looking to mix it up a bit.
Donating excess food is fine! The problem addressed in the article is people going out to a store and buying random canned food for the sole purpose of donating it.
Horse-and-carriage type roads were very particular. The middle was very soft and the grooves were quite narrow. You just cannot see them anywhere nowadays. I bicycled from Finland to Yugoslavia in 1971 often trying to ride on those kind of roads. Occasionally I used old Roman Empire roads. They were "paved" but made of big slippery plates and even more difficult to ride on.