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I'm just surprised there are still a lot of mainstream accessories that aren't available in USB-C.

I bought a Logitech C920 webcam the other day (the most pouplar model)... and it's still only available in USB-A. If you want a Logitech webcam with USB-C, you've got to pay over twice as much for a model like their StreamCam.

I'm happy to use dongles for HDMI or Ethernet when I have to. But the fact that I still have to use dongles with brand-new devices that are still only made in USB-A seems ridiculous. At this rate, I don't see how we're ever going to move on.
I have the same Cosco car seat (use it for travel/flights). It is unusually thin because it has absolutely no side impact protection; I wouldn't recommend it for anyone's daily driver: It meets the basic regulatory requirements, but absolutely nothing more. If you side by side it with a Graco or similar, there's no comparison (the build quality is just outright bad).

Using one of the worst (legal) car seats on the market as a justification for why this is mistaken is misleading. If you look at any of the safer car seats they weigh more, are wider, and are wildly more popular. Parents are regularly dealing with this "three across" problem. I can easily imagine it being a consideration when looking at kid three (even with two we make different travel plans as a direct result of car seat issues).

The Cosco isn't a solution, just goes to show how poorly you can get away with making a car seat.
Your habit of "you haven't read", "you put words in my mouth" without substantiating either of them is pretty annoying.

If you perpetuate, support, or defend a system that knowingly creates an unequal outcome depending on the persons sex, you're a sexist. This isn't something that's undetermined, it's a fact. We know that if there's only leave for the mother, the mother is disadvantaged in the work place.

To take it really slow:

* Two people get a child, mother and father.

* The mother needs a couple of weeks after child birth to recuperate.

* The mother can take additional leave beyond that, the father can't take any leave at all.

* Whoops! Who's gonna work and who's gonna take care of the child now?!

This is a sexist system since it blatantly throws the responsibility of child-rearing on to the mother. Not granting fathers parental leave REQUIRES mothers to do it. And the only way this is accepted and seen as a default is because of traditional, sexist, gender roles where the mother is assumed to do the child-rearing.

The whole "it's more administration!" argument is just so pathetic that I won't bother commenting on it any more. Not even the most right-wing nut here in Sweden would try to argue that the administrative overhead is a significant problem. You also just skipped the actual point in my last paragraph - the question about proportionality.
The USB Consortium’s licensing strategy is to restrict what people can label with the USB logo, by holding trademark over that logo. You then have to work out an arrangement with them, in order for your hardware to proclaim itself as USB-compatible by using the logo. This is their “in” to ensure you’re doing USB correctly.

The Nintendo charging port is not labelled with a USB logo. It’s fundamentally not a USB-C port. It doesn’t make any claim to obey any standard. The USB Consortium was not involved; nor do they have a legal right to get involved, if Nintendo has no interest in putting that USB logo on their product.

Interestingly (to me), this seems to be a central point in Nintendo’s business model: they don’t do licensing fees, if they can at-all help it. They’re willing to break compatibility with some standard, if that’s what it takes to avoid having to pay someone a fee for every unit sold. That’s not exactly why the GameCube’s discs aren’t mini-DVDs (that’s more a DRM thing); but it is why none of their peripherals so far have had a Bluetooth logo on them, despite being in essence Bluetooth peripherals (but ones that sit in a separate Bluetooth “namespace” such that you need a customized Bluetooth driver to talk to them; presumably because putting those devices into the regular Bluetooth namespace would involve doing something that infringes on the Bluetooth Special Interest Group’s IP.) It’s also, way back when, why Nintendo dropped the deal with Sony to make the Nintendo PlayStation — they didn’t want to have to pay the licensing fees for printing CD-ROMs!
The loyalty system brought in 66% of AA's EBIT in 2017, and 51% of United's ... that's a lot of money
It's not magic when step down DC-DC converters take as much space as power negotiation crap and all that's really needed is single 20 volts. Look at new ATX standardization development with proposals to leave only 12 volts, dropping 5 and 3.3 - that's the right way to standardize on power delivery. What USB-C is doing is not standardization, but an attempt to undermine standardization to profit from selling expensive cables and locking people into brands, just as device manufacturers did with non standard ports for mobile phones in the past and were eventually fined for it and forced to use standardized USB power delivery.
There's a lot of interesting dynamics at play, though perhaps the most interesting is that of the airlines and their co-brand credit card partners.

The credit card partners will purchase huge blocks of frequent flier miles, up front for chase, to hand out to their customers to incentive purchases. These block deals are enormous, billions of dollars at a time.

As co-dependent as they are (and as prone to bankruptcy as US legacy airlines are) the card issuers have historically provided debtor-in-posession financing for the airlines [1].

[1] https://www.globalcapital.com/article/k6bkccj1mshy/delta-rec...
Who has the rights to StackOverflow answers? Authors or the Platform? ... I wonder if it's in the terms of service...
My old 2005 Impala has less rear seat space than my 2014 Accord, so I'd swear the opposite of your experience. Maybe Hondas have more rear seat space than Chevys?
> and also works well against better privacy technologies such as Zcash.

It's not even worth responding to this person.

I'm not sure there is an educational moment with people like this.

For the record, to anyone passing by, I and many others view things in the opposite way. Zcash is less private, it operates in two states with the default state being just like bitcoin, with a separate state having opt-in privacy. Many/most Zcash users think they are using the opt-in state by default which is unfortunate. The Zcash opt-in state is not as anonymous as Monero and is easier to deanonymize and harder to use best practices to thwart. Zcash is developed and run by a US based company which can be much more easily coerced than a distributed team like Monero has doing open source work that collectively funds development when necessary. Zcash organization has budget for advertisement. It is suspicious that Zcash followers present an alternate reality so opposite to this that it is gaslighting, and does exactly what people are worried a centralized VC backed US based company would do.
> if I only do things for my kids instead of watching them do it themselves, then I will always be the one doing.

Honestly, if I had a dollar for every time a student (this is a college) who was unable to function in a classroom or public space, because their parents either bulldozed every obstacle, or (and this happens more than you'd think) did their actual homework for them starting at an early age, I'd have like $200.

I know it doesn't sound like a lot.

But, there are a number of parents who prescribe to the parenting tradition of - the child should never meet an obstacle, for fear of their self-esteem. This includes homework, negative feedback, or any extra-curricular the child is not immediately amazing at.

By the time these kids get to me, they are literally unable to function as adults in a public space.
Don't worry, _______ will provide.

Of course the Prussian cabal has been secretly controlling our schools for as long as Prussia has been a country, but effectively? And I don't see voucher schools in my state offering radically different education, but rather, just doing the same thing with better discipline and fewer special needs kids.

Most children in Denmark attend public schools. They have a limited number of private schools, backed up by the public school system, just like I described above.
Great !

I will investigate that point and my form that seems not to work properly.

Thanks, most helpful answer until now !
> Airline standards are the direct consequences of vote with your wallet. No matter what some claim, 99.999% of people will buy the cheapest ticket possible.

For the airline industry, yes. This isn't true in all industries.
What Angels Can Teach Us About Being Human
Tell that to switch owners who have had thier devices fried by incomparable chargers. Tell that to the devices that claim "not charging" unless plugged into chargers with specific features. Usb c is a compatability mess. I would not assume backwards compatability to be universal.
There's a simpler but similar problem with HDMI cables now. Over the years new versions of HDMI keep coming out with higher bandwidth to support higher resolutions. But there's no way to look at a cable and tell what HDMI version it supports. These days HDMI 2.0 is minimal but you want HDMI 2.1 if you want to support HDR10 or anything over 4K@60. There's also a bunch of side features in HDMI (like CEC) that are not reliably implemented.
Does get you put on the sucker list
I contracted for 4 companies at the same time. Not seeing a problem here. If the employee is
1) not using the IP of either company at each job
2) accomplishing his objectives at each company

Where is the harm here? If you are a FTE what is the implication that you can’t work elsewhere as well? Is it in the employment agreement? If so I would say that seems illegal.
HN != HN

Last year you read comments from people who said one thing, now you read a comment saying the opposite. That does not mean that HN has shifted. There are a lot of individuals on this platform with individual opinions.
It's closer to 11% with the large model. I assume it would be the hutter prize leader if the prizes' challenge were large enough to amortize the model.
> And how exactly are you going to keep track of which cable is which?

it's really not that hard. for travel, I have three identical cables that work with all my portable devices. for devices that spend their whole lives in one place, I use the cable it came with.
Stupid question - would it be sane to get involved in this stuff without having a means of transporting large objects?

Every time i look into wood related work, be it home repair or artsy stuff, everything is huge. I have a Prius. I'm not too thrilled at the idea of buying a 2nd car (truck), and i don't want to drive only a truck.. so how am i to get the supplies?

Sounds like a silly question, but yea - things are just big. And i always thought i can't bother if i don't have a truck. Especially with the ~$70 overhead on shipping i see from lowes, home depot, etc. And i'm not aware of any local (wood) places that deliver.

Am i missing anything obvious?
The other important bicycle qualifier is "in good weather".

Bicycles are not that great during a rainstorm, for example. At least from my point of view; I know some people who really enjoy being rained on and don't mind biking in the rain.

Similarly, I suspect most people would treat June-August in Florida as not "good weather" for bicycling, but some would consider it ok.
Google Play Policies: Startups accuse 'gatekeeper' Google of not playing fair
Until they manage to get Ethernet through that cable without a converter - it's no bueno.

As for an eGPU user - the issue with eGPU is the cost of setup, but Thunderbolt docks are also stupid expensive(above $200 for one). I built my eGPU setup for $350(PowerColor+RX550), as a good Thunderbolt dock is in the range of $300.
Wonder which one will have "exclusive ownership" of any created IP?

If the roles are very different, it could be clear cut. If the roles have substantial overlap though...
Also the so-called "killer app" for USB-C - the HDMI output - just doesn't work on all devices, and there's barely any way of knowing beforehand.
I don't actually own a Switch, but my partner and I both charge our laptops (mine a Dell XPS, hers a MacBook) from the same after-market USB-C charging bricks. I don't love that it's like this, but basically the product page just lists every known-to-work device, including Nintendo Switch:

https://www.amazon.ca/Charger-Adapter-Replacement-Thinkpad-M...

Now, I'm a cheapskate, so most of my electronics are older devices, and as a consequence we still also have various other cables kicking around— Lightning for both our iPhones and wireless earbuds, Micro USB for Kindle and PS4 controllers, even Mini USB for a few random devices.

But as far as USB-C, I would attribute the current mess to growing pains. For a few more years, charger pages will explicit list the products they work with, and eventually it will settle down to a list of must-work-with products for all chargers, and any new products with be tested to ensure that they work in the same ways as one or more of the items on that list of known-working products. Didn't HDMI have pretty much this exact issue with EDID and other chaos, until everyone basically agreed that whatever Sony was doing was the right thing and they'd copy them?

The main losers here are people trying to do new ground-up implementations, since they can't just work from the standard; they also need expensive consultants to tell them the precise subset of the standard is the actual part they can depend on. But for end users, the trend is toward an overall state of reasonable compatibility, with non-working devices quickly acquiring a reputation as such and being shunned out of the marketplace.
The problem is everyone is trying to make USB-C everything while completely ignoring price points. Nobody wants a fucking $100 cable that's going to wear out for basic fuck-it purposes. So you start to create production segmentation. Then it couples into directly shit like Microsoft refusing to implement PD in Surface Books because they do not trust on the market cables to safely handle the 100W they need without catching fire and there's no way to verify.
Or do you what other vendors do and "fork" PD so that you can make sure both devices are yours strictly.

Sadly it seems there is a march to making cables even more expensive to duck tape on more solutions.
it's funny, because for me USB-C is not a thing in my life, everything I use is basically standard usb (mouse, keyboard, stick) - and for headphones i still use the jack.
Win 10 v2004 and Chrome viewer works. Also saw first 2 pages listed on github before I hit download.
Charging is fine, the issue is using under wattage 3rd party docks or using a bad charger for the dock while playing, as it pull more power when it is in dock mode.

Charging it has never been an issue for anyone and this is the first I heard being a charging issue
That would also be good. The possibility that a USB-C device might support some extended standard, for video or high bandwidth or high power and so on, has been abused for marketing purposes, and now this is damaging the public perception of USB-C

There would still be surprises when you plug in the wrong kind of cable, unfortunately, even if the device is honestly described
It depends, for example I have to get approval for any second jobs to my employer. This is certainly in part for competition reasons, but it's also so they can ensure that I'm not materially increasing my risk of burn-out, which would cost them (and I think they have a legal obligation to ensure I'm remaining healthy within their scope, though I'm not sure where the boundaries of that lie.)

So if I said I was doing 5 hours or so per week for something else unrelated to my company, it'd probably be fine. If I instead was doing 30, there'd be cause to not give me approval, or step me down to reduced hours with them, or similar.
ADB and PS/2 didn't look the same. Yes, small circles but IIRC ADB is 4 pins, PS/2 is 6 - and neither could be plugged to the other.
I think you're making a good point. Their departments are incentivizing catching "Bad guys" not following the rules. So we can only ever expect them to optimize for catching more bad guys.
>> Colourisation does not bring us closer to the past; it increases the gap between now and then. It does not enable immediacy; it creates difference.

> This really makes me wonder. How does it increase the gap, in comparison to B&W pictures? How is the difference not there already? And why is that bad?

Probably because the colorization can be misleading. With a B&W images, it's clear the color data is missing. With a colorized photo, a red building could be shown as blue or gray, and someone could leave with the false understanding the the building was really a different color than it actually was.
Why Apache Kafka as a black box won't make you any friends
I have never spent a loyalty point in my life. Am I a sucker, or am I a smart consumer who has thrown off the shackles that the marketing department has tried to put on me?
Don't they have IP rights over port design ?
There's more to it than that: Loyalty systems do bring in a lot of profit for most airlines. SWA for example made 42% of it's 2017 EBIT on Loyalty.

There is a certain scam in the fact that miles are a "kickback" for employees, but also keep in mind that third parties will pay vast amounts of money to participate in the miles ecosystem: Every co-branded credit card that is printed is 10-15 USD straight from the bank to the airline, without anybody having booked a flight yet..
Armstrong and Graham are the ones who are on the correct track here. I applaud their courage.
I don't really blame the people who question the efficacy of masks. Fauci said that they were deliberately downplaying how effective masks were because they didn't want people buying them up before healthcare personnel could get them. When the government admits they were lying, it shouldn't come as a suprise that people don't trust them.
I'm curious too. I'm very ignorant on programmable logic in general, but I have some hardware with both a large FPGA as well as what I believe is a CPLD powering part of an embedded network interface controller I'm trying to put some missing links together for.

I honestly need to stop buying old hardware before checking if someone uploaded a manual online :p
> we're still in a world where this single cable for power, screen and ports just doesn't seem to really exist

It does. I have a Macbook Pro that connects to two screens, a keyboard, mouse and ethernet via a single USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 cable. The fact that not all USB-C cables are Thunderbolt 3 cables is annoying, but at least they label them pretty clearly.
Are those people who buy cheap cables in the wrong?

Maybe I do need to buy those gold-plated cables.
Nice! 8.5 attractive and looking 10 years younger. Time to ask for a raise at my company! Oh wait!
I'm having a hard time believing that trend will spread to major airlines, I mean the entire point of the GDS is that it gives everyone a "level" playing field in terms of knowing how to price seats.

I mean its the same situation as every man-in-the-middle platform right? You have players who hate paying the middle guy, and try to spin off, but everyone else gets too much value to break off
Each port can accept or give power (at various voltages) potentially or act as data sink/source (determined on connection), or have alt modes.

Such device would be either quite "fun" to use, unless it had type C ports marked with dedicated functionality, so you'd have to be careful what device you plug to what port.

AFAIK there's no protocol to control other ports via PD from the port you'd connect to the "main" device (like your laptop). So the behavior would be all pretty random, or the ports would have to be fixed in function.
As far as I have been able to figure in 10 minutes, even the Nazis, who otherwise rolled back many women's rights, were unwilling to disenfranchise (german women had been enfranchised since 1918).

Not that having the vote practically mattered much: 1933 was irregular, and post-1933 votes were formalities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1933_German_federal_elec...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_German_parliamentary_elec...
I bought a Dell UltraSharp U2719D explicitly for use with my work-issued 2019 MBP and it’s worked a treat. Plug one cable in, the display lights up, laptop starts charging, USB devices attached to the monitor connect, just like that.

Since the only place I “dock up” is at home it’s been a perfect solution. This right here is where USB-C should be heading, not annoying docks you need to lug around.
"They didn’t call him Steve Job."

had to share that...
If serious, I'm wondering if you were in the Canadian Armed Forces reserves when I was (early 80s). We were still using 33s. Remember the 'chadless' tapes? Good times. But dusty.
irs will just process two w2 - why would they care?
>They hawk their credit cards so heavily on the flights that I almost feel bad for the flight attendants.

This really should be illegal along with advertisements on every screen on the aircraft that you can't turn off.

edit: either i got a downvote or the hackernews bot decided my discussions aren't up to snuff. more gaslighting from the mods.
In theory they are. In practise the lack of a test dataset - and the lack of access to their dataset - means it's virtually impossible for a third party to make any significant contribution to the data processing code.

Such an effort would have to start with them voluneering a test dataset and/or schema.

I have asked - https://github.com/MattIPv4/hacktoberfest-data/issues/5
what are they even on about? As if people will watch these videos and spread some conspiracy theory about how the tree was greener in the past?
That's very strange. It doesn't use cookies at all. I know because I built it :-)
Of course, that makes it totally acceptable now haha
> A number of years ago police in Ontario illegally arrested & detained protesters at the G20 summit. After years of litigation some people got a small amount of money, and no one was held responsible.

Not only was no one held responsible, the chief of police at the time is now our federal minister for public safety...
MA: > Oh yes. A lot of people have zero social media in tech. I look forward to the day I can delete all this bullshit .

I like this quote.

Isn't this kind of work the kind we should expect as more and more people are working remotely? More of them will choose to go with gig work / independent work in order to arbitrage if they can do it, particularly the good ones. If implemented correctly this could be a huge boon to workers, and will take some powers away from employers.
> Kitty should just identify as xterm like every other terminal written in the last 20 years.

You can do that by adding "term xterm-256color" to kitty.conf. The manual page warns against this but it seems to be mostly compatible. Kitty-specific extensions probably won't function remotely but it still serves as a nice portable terminal which can be configured with dotfiles.

The fact that the terminal is identified based on a TERM environment variable made sense if you want to support many hardware terminals which can't otherwise identify themselves and predate terminfo.

Maybe in the modern world applications could use an escape sequence to check for extensions on top of standard xterm?