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Yes, because that regulation effort started ten years ago and led to less ewaste, something which we can all agree is good.

Remember the time each new phone model had a new charger?

And you had to replace the whole charger if the cable was broken?

That changed because ten years ago the EU forced the companies to change their way and I think it didn't stiffle innovation but made developing a good standard even more important which lead to usb C.

Of course it should be the default to keep it that way, but it seems companies need to have someone looking over their shoulders and regulate them to be sane.
I do somewhat agree that it is govt overreach.

I think a more appropriate tool would be launching an investigation into why they've stuck with lightning when everyone else (including their other products!) use USB-C. That should essentially prove there is no good reason, other than making money off licensing, without regard to damaging the environment or exploiting the consumer. So they should get a giant fine for it and stop doing it.

But I don't believe there is the legal framework for the EU to do that, so they're trying to get the outcome they want using the tools that they have.
Defensiveness or stress tolerance or problem solving are not objectivity
Fun fact: whether you agree or disagree with this premise, will prove this point right.
So successful people own expensive cars
Reading Antifragile always felt like he's got some interesting insights, some of which feel quite quackery ... and the constant pot shots are unnecessary to the point of distraction.

We get it, you don't like academics and The Establishment. But do you have to mention it every other paragraph like a teenage boy?

Guess nobody gave him the Kill Your Darlings writing advice.
The community is dying. I’ve been here since 2013. Lobste.rs is currently the place to be but it’s small and is only for programming topics.
You don't want your business logic to depend on anything other than interfaces that it "owns". The actual database access code would be an implementation of such an interface. In other words, the business logic specifies in abstract terms what it needs, and the code surrounding it provides that.
I have already started doing this. I use my phone for calling people, listening to music, reading books, and directions when I'm lost. I have given up Facebook. Twitter. Gmail. Google. And a bunch more besides. I hadn't realized how much the Google/Gmail ecosystem was affecting me, how it fed me news based on links and news based on what I'd clicked, and how that affected me. Since I have given these things, particularly the Google filter bubble, up, I am calmer and happier.
That's not to say that I am perfect, or perfectly calm, or anything like that. But I am significantly better than I was a year ago.
That makes sense. It's well hidden and a little awkward to use.
Even for non-fixed length expressions?
This seems the only reasonable way to do it except for terms deemed unenforceable (which is why you see a lot of boilerplate about severability)
The standard can be changed, it's just that manufacturers have to agree between themselves on the new standard. No involvement from the government is required.

They can make USB 4, 5,6, connector C, D,E,Z, whatever. That's fine. What's not cool, is creating proprietary connector and not letting anyone else use it.

Mind you they only have to agree on charging, not data transfer.

As to whether it's worth it: hard to tell, there comes a time in a technology's maturity where compliance with a common standard is more important than incremental innovation. The power sockets in your house are dtandard, and your power company and electrician are not allowed to innovate, because at some point we decided compatability was more important.
I believe there is one hole in little snitch.

Looking up 2020-01-31-user-kstrauser.example.com might cause a DNS lookup to go out, even though little snitch will block the subsequent web traffic to it.

I think umatrix helps with that.
The virology lab thing is a very popular conspiracy theory. Really the only evidence is that the virus started in the general viscinity of the lab, and that the lab was (somewhat vaguely, but not completely implausibly) suspected of doing bioweapons research.

It's worth rebutting. The nonsense is a little out of control.
Yep. I did not expect the voting to be so partisan, though.
Haha that’s right. But unlike Logan, we should make an effort to connect to the world, lest we lose ourself in his thoughts and obsession like he did!

Thanks for the comment. It genuinely made me smile. Always good to run into another Souls fan. I can’t quite explain why, but that franchise means a lot to me.
It's a good filter to cut through distracting BS that would otherwise bog you down.

If you're surviving and thriving, your worldview is not so bad.

A worldview is a paradigm of reality constructed over decades. It makes sense to require higher standards of evidence for apparent exceptions to the hard won rules eked out from decades of observation and insight.
I don't think that is likely.

More likely we follow the pattern we've had for the last 50-60 years; things we call "AI" stop being called "AI" after we understand how they work well enough.
That kind of implies those social groups all had full participation on the social platform and were then kicked off it, no? I don't think you've thought this analogy through fully.
I have the same box, with wall warts from my first cellphone in about 1998 until today.

Now tell me, how many of those wall warts are from Apple and don’t have a USB-Port or a fixed cable? Exactly 0.

Now tell me how many of the other manufacturer’s power adaptors have either a fixed cable or a non-USB port?

All wall warts that came with any Apple Phone or iPad I ever used are still usable because they are USB.
The ACLU advocates for the spread of misinformation (as they should). They have advocated successfully for white supremacist nutjobs to spread their hate in all sorts of places.

Other cases of the ACLU advocating for misinformation:

1. Lovell v. Griffin -- ACLU advocated for Jehovah's witnesses to spread published misinformation on city streets without any governmental intervention or approval needed.

2. Terminiello v. Chicago -- ACLU advocated on behalf of preacher who used falsehoods about Jews to stir anti-semitism

3. New York Times v. Sullivan -- ACLU advocated on behalf of the New York Times claiming they should be allowed to publish falsehoods, even if they constituted libel against an individual, unless those falsehoods were published with an actual intent to libel.

4. Prune Yard Shopping Center v. Robins -- particularly important. In this case, ACLU argued that even private property owners must allow free speech, when their property is basically public. Thus, facebook, like a mall, would be forced to allow all speech without restraint.

So thank you for supporting the ACLU, but your support and your belief that facebook ought to restrict speech is incredibly at odds. That's like me contributing to the Trump campaign while thinking he's a buffoon. But, whatever.
I read the comment as that they are surprised that the government is pushing back instead of legitimizing bad behavior.

Likely explanation is the wealthy and powerful have a personal interest here. Consider the security nightmare that phone tacking poses for high wealth individuals.
If we're talking about weight loss, low carb does indeed work for everyone, just not everyone can stick with it, because the link between brain and gut is complex and strong, physical activity levels vary which impacts the speed of progress, etc.

It is a fact that there is no process by which someone eats less than 20 g of carbs per day and does not lose weight.
Bay Area parent here. This has been a rough cold and flu season. Schools send regular notices to families reminding people to keep their kids home if they’re showing signs of illness: fever, runny nose, coughing, etc. This is a good reminder to follow that guidance! Many kids have infant siblings or older relatives at home who are vulnerable.

It’s hard, I realize. In this country a lot of people rely on schools as a form of day care — that’s a whole different conversation. Hopefully as more data comes in we’ll find this particular virus to be mild. But either way, let’s all try and do our part to keep everyone healthy.
It feels like we are saturated by messengers and social networks. Twitter, fb, slack, discord, matrix, signal, whatsapp, wechat, telegram... I am not sure what decentralization could bring there.
Wikipedia says that then the fourth one needs "to be driven" to stay perpendicular with the 1rst one (otherwise a "double-gimbal lock" would still be possible, I guess ?). And this "active driving" is likely to complicate the design even more ?
You can always not connect the data wires to the port.
Small quibble, I really like inverting the (business logic) –> (persistence) dependency. That way your business logic drives everything, which aligns with your point about the app being "logic with an HTTP interface." Agree wholeheartedly with the rest.
You would need to do that for every domain firefox talks too, which will quickly get annoying, as stated in the original comment:

Safari and Chrome want to talk to all kinds of things on TCP/80 and 443, so you pretty quickly say they're allowed to make any 80 or 443 connection they want without further pestering you
Although the author was clearly trying for fair "equivalence" claims, I found that his best effort at this fell short:

> As researcher Dan Kahan has demonstrated, liberals are less likely to accept expert consensus on the possibility of safe storage of nuclear waste or on the effects of concealed-carry gun laws.

There's the very big question of what "less likely to accept" really means. Presented with good evidence of the above two points, I (believe) I would say "well, I accept X, Y and Z, but my objections to this were not limited to those points, and I still object to expanding these because <orthogonal reasons>".

That's quite different from saying "that's fake news! it's all a bunch of crap! i'm not listening to any of that!"

Studies that fail to differentiate between these two responses to "facts that don't fit their worldview" are somewhat pointless.
How does a virus leaking from a laboratory even approach the ridiculousness of a 9/11 conspiracy theory when cases of e.g. SARS have been confirmed to have leaked from labs just like this one?

This article just establishes strong indicators that the virus was under research at the lab - that alone is perfectly plausible and requires no conspiracy. You don't have to take all the facts in the article at face value but the basic idea is plausible.
I will extend your sentiment and suggest that the time-sucking nature of the internet can be weaponized by nefarious actors as part of a multi-pronged approach to neuter the capacity for growth of a nation.

I think about reddit. Questions get asked on askreddit that pander to the common denominator opinions.

If you can use up a fraction of idleness of a nation, you reduce productivity and the potential of individuals to actualize their lives.
> If it’s part of your ideological community’s worldview that unnatural things are unhealthful, factual information about a scientific consensus on the safety of vaccines or GMOs feels like a personal attack.

There's nothing unnatural about genetic manipulation. Nature modifies genes at every level from base pairs to whole chromosome-sets, far more promiscuously than us humans.

You learn all about this if you study biology in college. Arguably, you learn nothing but.
Why do we need to try to streamline C++ here? What's behind the urge to "cut out the fat"? Would doing this make C++ an even better performing language? What's the upside of gutting the language?

I don't understand the impulse here. Yes, the semantics of C++ are more elegant than the syntax. But that doesn't mean that the syntax is actually cumbersome.
A 9 yo kid breaking powerlifting records
That page looks to have been removed after Allscripts bought them. Part of the deferred prosecution agreement is that PF will have to have information about the prosecution on their website, so I'm looking forward to that.
Fortunately I don't live there and I am neither of these 2 categories.

Hint: read "you" as the generic taxpayer. As I said, it is not an attack to a person, but a comment on taxpayer mentality that tax have to be paid, so the only thing to be cared of is what the tax money is spent on: not true, this is what I am trying to say. It is a false dilemma.
Previous discussion (now both entries are on the frontpage): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22202110
Was curious if this was true. Looked at the front page of papers from day 1 after the election, and couldn’t find a single mention of Russia.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/10/business/media/trumps-vic...
Fines don't have to be toothless.
Excellent initiative, I am anxious to be part of this project
I don't have time to work on this, but I highly recommend looking at using the erlang Virtual machine as your exokernel environment.
Didn’t they test this with toothbrushes on mythbusters? I have long believed toilets spray germs around. If you flush with your arm directly above you will feel fine droplets hit it. Those same droplets would also hit the ground outside the toilet. The next person who walks through the bathroom will spread those germs across the floor and on to other surfaces. I keep my toothbrush in a drawer.
A lot of people believe their side is smarter. Try to prove them wrong and they'll take it as a personal attack etc etc see the original article
This is strictly about charging, so a phone that uses USB for charging only, and does synchronization etc wirelessly, should still be compliant.
Which will be captured by a bunch of manufacturers who like to innovate on "cheapest / crappiest" and who will outvotes the one manufacturer who actually innovates on "best"...

As a customer, I'd like to keep the option for "best."
That's an emacs-ism, it's used for M-a and M-e, go to beginning and end of sentence.

I've adopted the convention myself, because of the utility. It isn't typographically sound, but typing is not typography.
Maintaining Lil'Snitch's access list whenever apps get updated reminded me that it goes against the reason why I started using MacOS in the first place. It was especially hard to justify when someone else is casually browsing on one my machines and a new connection request pops up.
The iPhone doesn't use USB-C at the moment in no small part because a large segment of Apple's customers would throw an incredible fit if they were asked to switch connectors "again," this "soon" after the switch from the original 30-pin connector to the Lightning. There were customers pissy about that for years and years. And there are still people real salty about them moving their laptops to USB-C charging rather than keeping the proprietary MagSafe. (There are, of course, also people salty about them getting rid of all other ports on laptops, which is more defensible, although it's still mildly ironic that the first laptops Apple shipped in the company's entire history that have zero proprietary connectors on them have made people so unhappy with the connectors.)

Standardization and open standards are big deals to the kind of person who reads Hacker News, but I can absolutely guarantee you that if/when the iPhone actually moves to USB-C, we will be flooded with hot takes about how that shift is just another money-grubbing move by Greedy Evil Apple to make us all have to buy new cables and/or dongles.
I'd love it if they required the de-redaction of some of the individuals involved. I think that could prove entirely enlightening to some of the _real_ motivations at play.
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What's the history there?
I find this hard to believe to be honest.
HN is owned by a Silicon Valley venture capital investment firm. If anything they lean liberal/libertarian (which indeed can be a bit woke on social aspects, but certainly not when it comes to capital).
Sergey Brin, Co-Founder of Google
Yes, that's definitely where things should be going. Definitely interested, though I don't have too much time to dedicate for an open source project.
Here in NZ when we switched to metric nothing changed, 2x4s (well we call the 4x2s) were never quite 2x4, and 50x100s (the metric replacement) are close enough (but still not quite) that nothing really changed
>A human being’s very sense of self is intimately tied up with his or her identity group’s status and beliefs. Unsurprisingly, then, people respond automatically and defensively to information that threatens their ideological worldview. We respond with rationalization and selective assessment of evidence — that is, we engage in confirmation bias, giving credit to expert testimony we like and find reasons to reject the rest.

>Political scientists Charles Taber and Milton Lodge experimentally confirmed the existence of this automatic response. They found that partisan subjects, when presented with photos of politicians, produce an affective “like/dislike” response that precedes any sort of conscious, factual assessment as to who is pictured.

>In ideologically charged situations, one’s prejudices end up affecting one’s factual beliefs. Insofar as you define yourself in terms of your cultural affiliations, information that threatens your belief system — say, information about the negative effects of industrial production on the environment — can threaten your sense of identity itself. If it’s part of your ideological community’s worldview that unnatural things are unhealthful, factual information about a scientific consensus on the safety of vaccines or GMOs feels like a personal attack.

If you are objective, you are not threatened by surprising new information, even if it might have some negative implications that jump to mind. You evaluate it against every other relevant information source you have on the topic, sometimes requiring more complex chains of information, and assign a level of trust to the new info.
When a technology matures, at some point standartisation becomes more important than innovation.

Power distribution, wall sockets and fire safety, fire hydrant connections were all unregulated and subject to innovation at some point. A fire engine from a different city could not connect to your water supply. At some point we decided that it wont do. We are gradually arriving to that point in software.
Law enforcement has more tools for mass surveillance than ever before. The Stazi could only dream of what we have built. But it's not the job of tech companies to make policing easy, and it's not in the best interest of a free people to give their government too much power. Please look at the history of the FBI for examples.
Thanks! Are you suggesting business logic depends on persistence or persistence depends on business logic? How is the second option possible?
Only in the US - except for gallons/fluid ounces - those genuinely are US only
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> I didn't want systemd

I'm talking about this feature that is the subject of the article, not systemd in general.

> [citation needed]

I'm discussing possible reasons why a distro might choose to trust systemd. Perhaps I should have said, "The distro believes that...." Whether systemd does or does not do this is debatable, but it certainly seems possible, which is the entirety of my claim. (Also, I'm tentatively concluding that this is not the reason why distros are okay with this particular change.)
The headlines are shown to only a subset of people: those who choose to visit the site.
also bear in mind that support for discriminated unions is what made typescript work nicely with redux actions - that is be able to strongly type actions/reducers/dispatch functions.

One thing I love about typescript is they care more for the actual JS/library ecosystem as-is, and don't design a language for an ecosystem that should-be.
If you think this legislation will solve the problem, you're misunderstanding the situation broadly.

'Those days' of 'many connectors' will not go away, they'll just be another layer of weird multifaceted connectors, confusion, and lawsuits with respect to the actual meaning of the legislation.

With respect to sustainability, even perfectly formulated legislation will have zero impact on the amount we recycle.
Why would you use SCSI to charge a phone? It'd be a standardized power connector, probably like those small round ones that are used for all sorts of household appliances.

Similarly, your projector is already using a standardized power cable: The one that goes into your wall socket.

For cables that don't terminate with a regular 2/3 prong on the other end, there are a few standardized shapes there too. My monitors and PC PSUs all take the same sort of connector on the non-wall-socket end even if they pull different amperages.
mysql `utf8` is only 3 byte -- you have to specify something different that `utf8` to get full utf8 https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/charset-unicode-sets...
He is a method actor. I’ve seen him remarkably civil in small groups when that’s what he’s incented or inclined to be.
If they take the C out of C++

Call it ++

Basically get rid of everything that the legacy of C brings.

If you want those things you probably should be coding C.

Get rid of the headers .h etc. Build that from the source .pp files

Make a standard package library that works properly on all platforms.

Standardize the internal symbols.

Make templates / everything easier to use, make standard internal map and vector types.

Change auto to var.

Kinda like the way go did it.

Sorry, too late!
This is technically true but the odds of a fine being levied which is high enough to register on huge companies like this is exceedingly low, especially since everyone involved in that decision could walk away from a bankruptcy and still be fabulously rich. Punishing shareholders has a lot of collateral damage but personal liability has almost none.
They can innovate to their heart's content, so long as the connector is compatible, and the legacy charging protocol still works. So e.g. if USB-C is the standard, Apple could still use Thunderbolt 3.
Well that's not what I'm saying: I thought that it would be more centrists of all stripes vs fringes on both sides.

I did not think it was a 'sides' issue.
The amount of material needed to produce a dose of LSD is so tiny that even if every liver cell involved died, no one would ever notice.
Yes, I can see it too the coroutines in C++20 is a nice step in that direction.
> One thing I found annoying was that it insisted on two spaces after a period.

GNU Emacs' manual has a good explanation:

The sentence commands assume that you follow the American typist's convention of putting two spaces at the end of a sentence. It is useful to follow this convention, because it allows the Emacs sentence commands to distinguish between periods that end a sentence and periods that indicate abbreviations.
The very obvious takeaway is to not expect free services to be available indefinitely.
I think the number is far too high, in my experience partisan people sober up remarkably quickly once their ass is on the line.
Yeah, and once the EU defined 5Watt Qi as THE wireless charging standard we’ll be stuck with that for a decade.
Can’t find a reference, but i think it does. I used in the past year for that purpose exactly.

Also, checkout typing.io which has lessons based on open source code.
This paper is not yet peer reviewed. I'm sure this claim will be studied exhaustively in the coming days/weeks.