skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> UK is probably the safest but it’s also bulky and presents an unlikely kind of danger: it tends to lay with the pins upward when on the floor which is deadly when stepping on them in the dark.

A feature mentioned even in an article praising them as the best in the world (https://www.fastcompany.com/3032807/why-england-has-the-best...), linked elsewhere by dpeck (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21678124):

> It’s a truly brilliant design. The only caveat is that, as with Lego, the rugged, bottom-heavy design of a U.K. plug makes it an almost scientifically perfect caltrop.
WOW... This is a horribly misleading article and discussion. The silicon of the switching circuit PALES in comparison to the real magic here.

The wattage capability and size of these chargers is only possible because of US “power delivery”. These chargers are NOT hitting 30+ watts at 5V traditional USB voltage. Yes, there is another power and ground wire pair in the cable, but iirc they got smaller in diameter.

These devices are small and cool there because your device can charge at up to 20V now.

GAN didn’t outright make that happen on the source or sink side. It didn’t hurt, it’s cool, but the difference is smaller than they are implying by comparing a 5V device to a 20V device.

An article that goes on about fast charging and never says “20V” once is not telling you the full story.
> This is a rephrase of "only guilty people need to worry about privacy."

You're absolutely right. I should have explicitly clarified the implied scope (which seemed obvious to me from the thread): in customer service events between a contractually-bound client and vendor.
If it's a good quality charger it shouldn't be feeding the battery enough power to impact its lifetime.
There's no need to ponder the toxicity of gallium nitride and worry about your "sneaking suspicion" that it's toxic. It's in the "may cause skin irritation" level of toxicity, so really not worth worrying about.
https://www.ltschem.com/msds/GaN.pdf
> external study demonstrating that

I hope you understand the reticence of taking any statement coming from a Google employee defending Google with a grain of salt. You have defended Google in the past only to fall silent when presented with the actual study contradicting you. [0]

It not that you aren't/can't be right, just that the "source" suggests some bias and Google's track record does not work in their favor.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21509772
I've often said that complaining about something is a waste of good oxygen unless you have a plan on fixing it or changing it. Or at least have thought of a way to make things better
"Could it be X? I read in the Y that sometimes this happens with it"

If you want to add authority pick Y = Newspaper. If you think the person will respond better to you placing yourself societally lower, say 'online' and weaken your statement with something like "but who knows how true that is" etc.

The objective is to place the thought in their head but keep them believing they're putting the pieces together. You could even try "It's probably not Z, right? Like in that movie". There doesn't have to be a movie, no one will follow up.

This part is hard because you really need to read their reactions and make sure you come off not as a kook hypochondriac but as a bumbling layman who just happened upon the right thing.

Do it wrong and you'll be patronizing and insta-lose. Do it right and you'll get everything you want.

I employ this + being as non-threatening as possible (cheerful, less smart than, less powerful than) + minor groveling ("would you mind doing this anyway, I know you're probably right but it'll make me feel so much better").

I get pretty quick service everywhere, even where other people complain.

In general, though, this is last resort. Usually the fastest way to get good service is to rapidly and clearly comply with orders. Just like when you're debugging an issue, you've got a standard process, other professionals do too and letting them prune their search tree is important. You know that lingering feeling you have where you're like "maybe the DNS server is flaky, naaah it couldn't be"? That's what they're avoiding and giving that to them means you get bucketed it into "smooth interaction" which is superior to anything else because in the end, nothing works better than someone wanting to help you.
I bought a roll of cheap 5% window tint and put it over all device LEDs. It makes it dim enough to not impact sleep but still visible.

If you don't want to see the LED you can cover it with electrical tape.
Yes, just like you can recognize someone by their footsteps. Most likely you don't even need the IP.
Did I understand correctly that outlets contain a switch and are off by default and that the grounding pin switches them on when inserting the plug? That's great.
Yeah. Those pictures made this an uncomfortable read. Taboola and Outbrain straight to /dev/null thank you very much.
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Should customers also behave this way when the vendor's IVR system notifies them in the first few seconds of the call that the exact content of the call is going to be recorded by the vendor (presumably for all time)?

It cuts both ways.

EDIT: Just noticed the call recording angle is already discussed up-thread a bit; apologies for the dupe.
This may be completely unpopular opinion, but as a temporary user of pain killers I am thankful I was prescribed them. I was experiencing chronic and hard to diagnose pain. I was in a very dark and scary place and was constantly wondering how people without access to these medicines continue their will to live. I was having difficulty making it through a work day and as a desk worker I was able to tolerate them during the day.

I am thankful my doctor was so willing to prescribe them for me. Looking back on the experience in hindsight I would have preferred to stay on them longer instead of transitioning to other medicines during physical therapy. There was a lot of suffering during that time.
The intellectual-web: an emergent online culture
I believe the point was that GaN semiconductors make these chargers more compact, cooler, and lighter than their silicon competitors.
I would do similar but include the commit timestamp and/or words from the subject to help locate the code if the commit id can't be retrieved.

Rebasing and other means of moving patches (email etc, adding signed-off-by) can cause the original commit id to become invalid, and eventually unretrievable.
It should add evasive mode so things like openvas and masscan use brower user agents and obfuscate payloads where possible to foil detective capabilities of the target. You don't want to do that in a vuln scan (scanner allowed), but you (and real attackers) will do that to evade detection.
I use a dark, but not black, colored electrical tape to kill the brightness of any leds in my bedroom, or that I take with me when I travel. Black will kill the light entirely, but other colors will permit you to see the state of the led underneath.
it’s useful for google to demote wikipedia in favor of showing more diverse results. wikipedia is very very very easy for you to just search directly before turning to google
Picking and placing items into these cubbies at a rate of 12/minute for 10 hours... tracking performance down to the individual item placed... Obviously this is not really a job fit for for a human.

How long until robots can reliably do the stowing for the majority of items?

Or to alter the problem, why not require packaging to conform to certain standards such that robots can do the job today?

$16/hr - let’s say $24/hr fully loaded - placing 600 items in a hour would be a marginal cost for this stocking task of $0.04/item.

If Amazon was willing to tolerate $0.05/item for this particular task along the pipeline, that would translate to 8/minute items shelved instead of 10/min. $0.06/item comes out to 6.66/min (again assuming a fully loaded cost of $24/hr).

Adding just $0.02 of packaging obviously cannot eliminate this job, so automation which required certain packaging would be quite wasteful.

What I don’t quite understand is why the job has to be so breakneck. I wonder if they are limited by the number of humans who can be in the plant at once, meaning it’s not a question of hiring more humans. Or perhaps part of the issue with breaks is if they are limited by law to how many unpaid breaks an hourly worker can take? Otherwise I can’t see why they would care about breaks as long as their algorithm can capacity plan by adjusting for your average break-rate.

The only reasonable explanation is they have an expensive asset (their fulfillment plant) where the humans are the gating factor to the total output (deliveries) and an equation where at some point adding more humans actually decreases total output.

None of this is to excuse creating a system which requires humans to perform tasks in this manner though.

Amazon ships ~600 million packages per year, so assuming a human touches each item 10 times on the way in and out, spending an extra $0.10/package makes those human’s jobs significantly more tolerable, that’s only $60 million on Net Income of $10 billion...

But again that calculation only works if shipment volume can be maintained with more humans doing slightly less work each. If shipment volume falls a corresponding amount because stocking goes from 12/min -> 10/min (16.66%) then Amazon loses an extraordinary amount of money.
I would argue that the obligation should rather lie in finding the cause of the pain, and working on fixing that, rather than fixing the symptoms
I came here wondering if someone had finally created a ML version so you could choose your answer from AI or meat popcicle responses.
Easter egg inside that metaphor:

One day some Spanish anarchists built a functioning helicopter. Upon seeing it fly, the Wright brothers immediately teamed up with the auto industry and shot up everyone in the testing facility. Then the Wright brothers intoned:

Not invented here.

That was found crossed out in one of William Blum's manuscripts with these words written in red ink: "too inside baseball."
If it’s not visible to the original author and his/her primary audience then is it actually hypocrisy?

Or an unfortunate case in point (irony)?
I never understood why the whales needed to see outside their tank.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geared_turbofan
(FWIW, cybernetics attempts to model large complex systems.)

> I don't see that these self-referential models are so exclusive to modeling economics.

Each of the OP's examples are non-adversarial.

> reach consciousness with computers, go to Mars, design our genes, achieve immortality, colonize the universe, find the "god's particle",

There's no opponent (according to modern scientific rational materialism) in any of those endeavors.

If you were to develop a working model of economics it would behoove your opponents to alter their behavior in ways that invalidated your model.
The costs of advertising are ultimately paid by consumers who buy advertised products. If money is wasted by paying bots to watch ads, you can expect consumers to pay a bit more since it drives up the cost.
> (In classic mechanics, particularly, there is an unusual symmetry to position and velocity, such that the laws of mechanics look roughly a rotation x -> v, v -> -x, which is why this works so well.)

In fact, every symplectic manifold locally looks like this (Darboux's theorem).
Maybe optimizing their ad impressions for folks like you doesn’t justify the engineering costs to implement it.

I’m not sure where you are, but I imagine that folks like you are a very tiny percentage of the market.
There is. However, opioids also treat psychological pain and inhibit anger and rage - these are some of the unspoken reasons people from abusive backgrounds become so easily dependent on opioids.

Note that dependence here is distinct from addiction.
I kind of take issue with the fact that this works, maybe not in your foreign language example but in general. I shouldn't have to learn the terminology of HVAC services or plumbing services or any service that I have no intention of learning more about to get better service. Every customer regardless of their knowledge of the service they are using should get a competent response without having to learn anything about that profession. That is the whole point of having a professional there working for you afterall.
And indeed, reasonable people can disagree on the extent of what is safe to assume and what is not, and can discuss the nature of their belief in the reasonability of those various levels of assumption.

It turns out that if you abide by those linked rules, casual friendly discussions (things that are nonessential, for the most part) are pretty much ruled out. I find myself more often communicating with people who I have no explicit business or goal with, in social settings, and abiding by rules for cooperation on a team/task would make me a very boring person to speak to, indeed.
I've been reading this on and off over the last few months. I just want to say that the linear algebra material is excellent and really helpful. It's conversational and yet it's pitched at the style/standard of linear algebra you'd get if you were taking it as an introductory course in a pure math sequence (i.e. abstract vector spaces and linear transformations, matrices and vectors of coordinates only enter when you have a basis, etc), and yet it stays focused on the core important topics; other linear algebra courses I've been working on have got a bit too theoretical/fancy too early (e.g. quotient spaces and rings and ideals and vector spaces over finite fields), when I felt like I should be focusing more on eigenvectors and orthonormal bases and more basic stuff like that, as PIM does.
I asked a year ago When could we expect GaN to be more widely available and it seems the answer is still true as of today.

GaN mosfet costs 10x more [1] than a silicon one of similar power rating. And the multiples gets wider at 15x for 1K units.

I doubt we will see Apple include a GaN charger as default for quite some time.

[1]: IPAW60R380CEXKSA1 (silicon) costs $1.26, IGT60R190D1SATMA1 (GaN) costs $13.
If there is demand for housing, we would expect people to be finding land and building housing unless there are policies that prevent this (and/or long commutes that people don't want to suffer) or higher-value opportunities.

If the city wanted residential areas (over commercial tax revenue giants), the city should have zoned residential.

The people elect city leaders. The people all want affordable housing.

With $4.5b from corporations and nowhere to build but out or up, high rise residential is the most likely outcome. (Which is typical for dense urban areas that have prioritized and attracted corporate tax revenue over affordable housing)

... Effing scooter bros with their scooters and their gold rush money and their tiny houses.

[Edit: more than] One company says "I will pay you $10,000 to leave the Bay Area / Silicon Valley" Because there's a lot of tech talent (because universities and opportunities) but ridiculously high expenses.

What an effectual headline from NY.
Canix (YC S19) Is Hiring – Bringing Clarity to the Cannabis Industry
This is essentially impossible though.

It sounds good but I don't see most ISPs caring.
But how does one go about getting traffic to such a sham site? In terms of SEO, hihg traffic keywords are very competitive, and advertising such as Google or Facebook is expensive. If one were to copy the template and puts ads on it, it's not like they would start making thousands of dollars a day.
Like most of quantum chemistry, I imagine the Standard Model works just fine for simulating superconductivity to whatever degree of accuracy we (practically) need. The issue is finding an algorithm that can efficiently perform the calculation itself. I don't know much about condensed matter physics, but I know that for my own research in the past, something called the fermion sign problem (NP-hard) made accurate quantum chemical calculations extremely difficult.
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I really dislike when someone draws a rainbow with the colors in random order. (I'd dislike if they use the reverse order, but I never remember, so I have to forgive this.)
The grounding pin also makes electrical contact first, and plugs have a built in fuse as well.
search is not close to being a natural monopoly. you are vastly underestimating how strong google’s execution has been. perhaps because you need to convince yourself that you could compete, “if only” ...
Wouldn’t they be blocked from the App Store?
>Lee Snover, the chairwoman of the county Republicans, said >her anxiety began to pick up at 9:30 p.m. on Nov. 5. She >had trouble getting someone from the election office on >the phone. When she eventually got through, she said: “I’m >coming down there and you better let me in.”

>With clearly faulty results in at least the judge’s >election, officials began counting the paper backup >ballots generated by the same machines. The paper ballots >showed Mr. Kassis winning narrowly, 26,142 to 25,137, over >his opponent, the Republican Victor Scomillio.

It's refreshing to see Lee Snover had the principles to do the right thing.
Even better:

One way to work around this problem is to use a non-uniform spacing of the pulses, which is called staggering.
They do remove all binary blobs at least by the definition of the Free Software Foundation, who already recommed it:.

"The Purism Librem 5 cell phone is another exciting addition to the Giving Guide this year: we're giving it a tentative recommendation because the company has publicly committed to doing the right things for prioritizing user freedom and privacy."

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/ethical-tech-giving-guid...
You can do shorter in languages with functional constructs. For example Python:

sum(map(lambda x: x // 3 - 2, numbers))
For one-off runs it doesn't feel slow, but it gets more noticeable if you're running it in a loop or against a server you know is fast (i.e. local Go server), but consider this output as an example (running from an AWS server):

# time http google.com >/dev/null 2>&1
real 0m0.337s
user 0m0.259s
sys 0m0.036s

# time curlie google.com >/dev/null 2>&1
real 0m0.042s
user 0m0.011s
sys 0m0.005s

# time curl google.com >/dev/null 2>&1
real 0m0.039s
user 0m0.009s
sys 0m0.004s
Yes, exactly. The billing tools are awful, have always been awful, and will always be awful, but bad tooling can be worked around much more readily than bad bureaucracy.
That's just shitty customer service. Your front line guys are too incompetent to solve the problem and too stupid to offer one of the remedies you described so the customer escalates the problem, probably after multiple tries, and now gets even worse customer service. Yeah that company should be afraid of people collecting data and I hope the people that collect it do use it in a legal case or post it on the internet as that is exactly what a shitty company like that deserves. How can you ask people not to escalate when your customer service is such shit?
For Brits and visitors to our shores there's https://www.themu.co.uk/collections/muone and https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/muone/mu-two-next-gener...
The standard model is basically a description of the fundamental forces, and is usually talked about by particle physicists studying things like the Higgs, quarks, etc. In condensed matter (materials) the only relevant interactions are electromagnetism and quantum effects, strong and weak interactions play no role because of the length scales at play (angstroms to nm) and the energy scales (meV to eV). Superconductivity involves phonons (vibrations) and electrons, at least in BCS, so you will never really find anyone discussing the 'Standard model' and superconductivity because the former is fundamental, while superconducting materials require consideration of emergent and many-particle effects which come about by having so many particles in a solid. Not sure I cleared anything up but hope that helps.
Schuko/Europlug is a very good system.
Small note: I wouldn't count the serverless framework as cloud agnostic. Yes you can use the framework for all major clouds but you have to adjust your project for that. Serverless does not abstract the events, function context or other service APIs which would be needed if it would be really cloud agnostic = you can deploy your project to different providers without changes.
The Bank of England has an inflation calculator which goes back to 1210: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/in...

According to that site, £ 1 in 1330 would be £ 1056.57 in 2018. So the 1330 penny would be worth about £ 4.40375 today. That thatcher would make about £ 13.21 a day, and the tunic would cost £ 158.54, or about $205 in a currency we're more familiar with. For that to be "two weeks' wages" implies a yearly wage of about £ 3800, or $4900. (Of course as the linked site points out, that sort of income calculation doesn't account for non-monetary sources of consumption, which were non-negligible back then.)
The "charger" in this case is built into the phone, the thing we call a "charger" is really just a power supply for the actual charge controller.
Any of these fancy GaN chargers have USB-IF certification?
>Speaking as an automotive mechanic and a tradesman, nothing sounds more despicable than this half-ass attempt to "game" human interaction to save a few precious seconds in your day.

Doctors enjoy a higher reputation for "honesty and ethical standards" [1] and have the specter of medical malpractice if they yield a misdiagnosis, particularly if it's one that harms the patient. There is no equivalent for mechanics and frankly the public on average trusts mechanics far less than doctors. Auto mechanics got 32% in the high/very high trust category vs 67% for doctors in the latest Gallup poll. [1]

Anecdotally distrust of mechanics is such an issue I distinctly remember my youngest sister getting approached by car dealers from all over the city after she took auto shop in high school. She was told dealership repair shops needed women because some female customers simply didn't trust what they were being told by male repair shop representatives. Despite this apparent need the pay offered wasn't enough to entice her from just working at the O'Reilly Auto Parts down the street.

[1]

https://news.gallup.com/poll/1654/honesty-ethics-professions...
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Suppose it takes time to figure out and fix the cause of the pain, or is impossible to find the cause and/or fix it.
Cooperative ownership.
If you’re all right with my asking, where was the pain located, and from what cause?
You are right. But IIRC unplaced components was the only thing the ERC could detect :(
Not an electrical switch. The outlets contain a physical gate over live and neutral that is pushed open by the longer earth pin.