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Very little money. If companies can screw up their customers that cheap, they would rather not do data protection at all.
I will have at most 100 users generating an ID in a day (on the project I am using ULIDs with). The possibility of them having a conflict with generating the ULID is so low that I don't even consider it a concern.

So, "extreme condition" is one where someone could actually generate a conflict. A realm of production I don't work in. (maybe Twitter/Facebook would have this problem)

Therefore, I feel an easier to use/work with UID like ULID is both reasonable and preferable over other options.
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I grew up around wood working. Or really all kinds of working of everything from wood to metal to plastics. My dad was handy.

I left childhood with a decent understanding of how to build things. After moving out I started to miss it and took a job working an entry level job at a joinery. We made cabinetry, some furniture, doors, windows - even made flooring and custom trim in the mill. It was fun, and I learned a lot that I hadn’t as a kid.

I taught myself to program while working there and took a job doing that instead after a few years.

I missed it again and began buying tools around 8 years ago. At first I used hand tools only and build small projects. I’d focus on learning techniques at first, and tried to really nail down my understanding of the fundamentals. I learned to select not only the right wood for assorted projects, but how to do so based on factors like species and moisture content.

Eventually I had too many kids to have time to be productive with hand tools. I enjoyed the activity, but actually getting projects done became too hard. Since I make things my family uses, I decided to grab a table saw, planer, and jointer.

These are sort of the trifecta of woodworking productivity. You can machine milled lumber to spec very quickly and easily. Make a cut list, machine it, cut to length, and start building.

My most recent project was a bed frame. Even with nice lumber and quite a bit of it, the project came in around $1800 - at least half of what we were looking at if we ordered it.

Other recent projects have been bunk beds, a bench for our home entrance, shoe racks, a toy chest, and a kitchen island.

If I was starting over again I’d learn the fundamentals first and then not hesitate to invest in power tools after. Buy used and learn about basic maintenance. I had a sort of purist bent for a while which really just kept me from making stuff me and my family loved. Hand tools are fun, but so hard to work with quickly if you aren’t very skilled with them.

I highly recommend the hobby if you’re interested. It’s been a lifelong thing for me. Holding your own work in your hands is very grounding. Solving and working with physical problems is extremely engaging. For me, wood working and gardening are two productive activities that (not joking) really make me feel alive and connected to something. Programming is great, but it doesn’t do that.

My next project is a speargun to replace the one I currently dive with. I’m very excited to build it.
weird coincidence?
Mass ejection.

Updating with link: https://phys.org/news/2020-08-hubble-betelgeuse-mysterious-d...
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It's Canada, so HIPAA wouldn't apply. A Canadian equivalent, presumably, would have to apply.
What’s the difference in terms of impact to the users? Even if they are not selling “AznHisoka watched x minutes or y show on this date,” they are using it to influence your behavior through ads.
Those are not all the issues. For example, you can't get a usb-c hub to get more usb-c ports, they don't exist.
Hehe, my new work Lenovo laptop needs some kind of USB-C dongle for it to connect an external monitor. In the end, one needs two Lenovo chargers, the dongle and cables. Fun stuff. Plus the power supply to the monitor, of course.

I expected what you said, got something else altogether.
This effect is obvious for anyone who navigated before and after the age of personal GPS.

When you engage in the decision-making process, you learn. When you rely on something to make choices for you, you don't learn.
Oh man, this brings back memories. When I first got started in my career we developed on an IBM 370 and I spent a lot of time on 3270s. Eventually, though, we got our own VAX that we didn't have to share with the rest of the company and never looked back. Still, it took a while to adjust to the early EDT editor.
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RAII is great for transactions. In a proper robust design, commits should always be explicit and destructors only rollback uncommitted transactions. If your rollback can fail, well, then you have bigger issues.

There is now enough introspection in the language to actually implement implicit commit in a non exceptional path, but I think it would be a mistake.
> Can I run Google TV on any capable android device?

The promo talks about Google TV on mobile Android, but I gather that’s a reskin of the Play Movies and TV app, not the Chromecast/SmartTV launcher experience.
There is: it's called CFET. You stack pMOS on top of nMOS.
Isn't the magic of USB-C Power Delivery that it can negotiate a voltage? Previous iterations of USB only operated at 5V and USB-C can operate anywhere from 5-20V.
Coincidence with what?
HIPAA = USA.

Ontario = Canada.

We have different, but similar rules.
There is no situation in which I’d rather have traditional USB ports on my devices, over USB-C
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Indeed, the latter corrupt ness is kind of a natural state of humanity in large enough groups that direct accountability isn’t feasible. Capitalism, including the rule of law that upholds it, is one fairly proven mechanism for addressing it (but it probably also relies on some culture of honesty to keep from collapsing back to corruption). Nonetheless, the Soviet Union lasted an extremely long time and I think people underestimate the effectiveness of industrialization. Industrialization meant the Soviet Union could last the better part of a century in spite of the problems you pointed out.

(Also, I think it’s a mistake to talk about the Soviet Union’s economy as purely parasitic on the market economies of the West... tons of science and engineering was done there and technology was developed. The Soviet Union’s system was super bad and shouldn’t be emulated but I think sometimes people go too far in saying how ineffective it was. It was effective enough to last a long time and provided a real scare to the West in terms of what system was more or less effective, at least for a decade or two... think the space race.)
There is no evidence that is going to be the case. I can still use bootcamp on legacy machines, I don’t see that changing with the T2.
Exactly! This has been my experience. I bought 3 different USB-C cables for my keyboard until I found one that let the keyboard work as the original did. I have a few usb-c cables that will charge my gopro and a few that won't. I like the form factor, but the standard itself is a mess.
This along with the ‘wandering’ videos are seemingly getting popular on youtube. Eg nippon wandering tv, rambalac. These colorized + hd historical videos are super fascinating. Love how AI has been the driving force for towards creating these
That's only a warning shot. If they are found to violate it again it will be much higher.

Last year HN was complaining that GDPR made high fines possible that would sink any company. Now it's not enough.
Yep, and their status page is nothing but a lie https://api.twitterstat.us/

"All systems operational" as of 14:10 UTC
Yeah, noticed similar with ActiveState yesterday. Went to download ActiveState TCL just to do a 1-off compile of SQLite on a windows box... and now they require people to create an account to even download TCL.

Instead, I just deleted the SQLite requirement and avoided the whole thing. The only way to win is not play their game. :(
I use rxvt-unicode which sets $TERM to "rxvt-unicode-256color," which is not recognized by a number of server to which I have to connect to from time to time.
I have an LG 4K monitor, a MacBook Pro, and Sony headphones that charge over USB-C, so in that scenario USB=C has been bliss.

But with older machines/monitors, I need a pile of adapters. Still, I like it-for the most part.

The worst thing about USB-C is the dock situation for laptops. None of them are perfect, and most of them are garbage. $200-300 is a bit hard to swallow when I've been buying Lenovo docks for $50 for the longest time, but today's laptops don't have the docking port on the bottom.
USB-C isn't going anywhere, USB 4 still uses that connector.
Gatekeeping is good, for things that actually matter.
Betelgeuse, the only star that I know of within the range to produce a supernova dangerous to us, has scientists looking at it closely. Mostly because it's a closeby giant and those are interesting.

I think most estimates range between 40'000 and 140'000 years until core hydrogen is exhausted. It's ejecta are unlikely to reach earth or cause harm (either radiation or otherwise). So while it lasts, you can enjoy reading a book under the light of a dying star at night for a few days.

Eta Carinae is another candidate but it's too far away and unlikely to outshine Venus significantly. It's also not due for some due. There is also the possibility it'll just collapse into a black hole with no fanfare or extra light emission, it'll just be gone one day.

Supernovae usually come from very bright stars, those are easily detectable and visible. From what I remember, there aren't any candidates even close to us that are about to expire minus Betelgeuse, which isn't aiming it's poles at us and won't do much harm.

I would like to add that in the even we could predict that a supernova is about to wipe us out, there isn't anything we could do. Any nearby object we could use as shelter, such as Venus, Mars, the Jupiter Moons etc would likely be just as affected if not more (Jupiter's magnetic field will likely make a Supernova hit more deadly IMO). It would be over within the span of a few days and nobody will survive. Just lean back and enjoy the show, tbh.
related; "best practice" < "good practice"
> Aha - you may find that your Switch CANNOT in fact share a charge - Nintendo's port is not necessarily safe to use with anything but its supplied charger. And I've just learned this lesson with a $60 bill from Nintendo repair after the port went pop and couldn't charge the device. I only have reputable chargers in the house from Apple and one from Anker aside from the Nintendo's own.

It has worked reliably with pretty much every charger I threw at it so this sounds like one of those urban myths.
In fact, I bought fairly expensive ones but I think what I got were fakes. (Thanks amazon). I subsequently found a vendor that I get reliable parts from -- but the point remains that regardless of how good those strips are, the shelves will outlive them.
The voting records in USA disagree with you.

To be clear, I have no trouble discussing the fiscally liberal portion of my viewpoints.

I don't want this to get derailed into liberal-vs-conservative views. My main point is that commonly held beliefs are suppressed on Reddit, I suspect for advertising.
Up in Europe. How is this news?
USB 4 is using USB C connector.
It's not about customer data. They collected data about the health of their employees to an unlawful extent.
This is such a terrible design decision.
Cross-chain swaps are an extremely rare, very power user move. If you discount them you're still left with the vast majority of transactions on the chain. I would guess over 99.9999% Most people who want a cross-chain trade just use an exchange like Coinbase.

But even if we decide to include cross-chain swaps, its not untraceable at all. You still need to verify hashes match up, its just an extra hop to have an oracle look on the other chain.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24646620
My guess is most people have no idea what a walled garden is.
It's honestly such a complete joke it's not even funny anymore. My USB-C MacBook Pro with it's pathetic two ports that my work bought for me is now old enough that the battery is starting to fail and we're still in a world where this single cable for power, screen and ports just doesn't seem to really exist.

I'm starting to be convinced the port is fundamentally flawed, dongles with multiple ports are never reliable enough to keep a drive mounted for any heavy work, HDMI glitches out. Doesn't matter what dongle I try they all have some sort of thing wrong with them.

The only dongle that works reliably enough to do light video editing with a drive is the $20 Apple single USB-C to A adapter, which converts one of your single USB-C ports to a single USB-A port.

The fact that Apple hasn't released a usb-c hub speaks volumes, lets be honest they could charge $500 for it and people would still defend and buy it. But I feel the reason they haven't it because the technology fundamentally doesn't deliver on this promise and it would be just as unreliable as the 3rd party ones.
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Ok, I'll not argue about that even if I still think the topic is arguable.

Anyways in case you are right it probably makes GPs point even stronger: when established religions are chased away quasi-religions - and often extremely dangerous ones - take their place.
I'm in the UK, and the situation is not dissimilar - indeed I posit that it is true for most developed countries.
Ya, but the OP wasn't just complaining about the connector. Rather, he was also commenting on the various standards that use that connector.

And FYI, I hear it is to be called "USB4", not "USB 4". Why? Because reasons.
USB-C is the form factor. USB 4 is one of the protocols that works using the USB-C connector.
Huge service outages are news
Yup, looks like it's come back up now. Was down here in the UK for ~10 minutes, I think.
The iPod Nano in our house is my old iPhone 4. Not that anyone actually uses it regularly except me a few times a year when I want music while I poke around the garden/yard.
>USB-C charging is truly revolutionary.

Is it? I guess it's nice that I can charge my phone with my laptop charger, but it has the same issue as usb-c data where everything physically fits but are incompatible. eg. having to worry about whether a aftermarket charger provides enough voltage/current to charge your laptop.
The thing I don’t get about these ransomware attacks is that bitcoin isn’t actually anonymous. On the contrary, it’s highly traceable. So we know what entities (exchanges) are conspiring with these criminals. Why isn’t the FBI going full untouchables on them? Granted if they are in China/Russia there are limits, but even there, we have tools.
This was their employees' data, not their customers.
For me, that just shows "Something went wrong" and doesn't load the tweet content.

Tried reloading the page a few times, same problem.
I stand, incredibly, corrected.
Yeah, but try explaining to your non-technical friend with two monitors why connecting their laptop to both via USB C works, but their phone only gives video output on one.

There are at least 5 ways to transfer video over USB C: Straight USB, HDMI alternate mode, DisplayPort alternate mode, MHL alternate mode, and Thunderbolt. Then it's also possible for an alternate mode to only use a subset of the available lanes, the lane count doesn't match the lanes available in the "real" connector, and the protocols have multiple versions.

Labeling all of that as "USB C" is a massive mistake.
First of all—
Google is not an unbiased search engine. The leaders of google were exposed as promoting an anti-conservative election agenda in the 2016 USA elections. If I am seeking a less than intentionally biased search algorithm, I don’t use google. Google is a manipulated search engine, which promotes search results in alignment with the politically correct agenda.

There are tons of studies and study-reviews on the topic. It is a fascinating area of sociological research.

Here’s an interesting review— however, the issue is that it seems this reviewer has a bias whereby they’re trying to prove diversity doesn’t reduce social cohesion.

That said, it’s still an interesting review.

https://thealternativehypothesis.org/index.php/2018/08/10/et...
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> Let's be clear: What Coinbase is saying is, we the founders, who set the company's mission, and are doing so with a clear political view (rooted in libertarianism and so forth), are allowed to use the company to further our political ends.

One hundred percent this. There is a reason Coinbase is one of the few companies to take a stance like this.

The company's foundational value is literally based on the notion of state-free finance. They have no incentive to do anything to allow their company to be steered into engaging with conventional politics. In fact, they benefit from taking strong stances that maintain the status quo if the status quo furthers their own mission.

So, yeah, Coinbase is indeed very mission oriented.
> Because your response doesn’t address any of the issues brought up in the article.

Not the issues, but it addresses the gist of it.

For that person (and me) it has simplified things. If simplifying your life is part of the measurement, it has for some folks.
Micro-USB was better. Especially since there are still so many existing devices that used micro-USB ports.
I think you can't ignore the side issue that even if you work in a US tech company with better than typical female representation almost all the female engineers are immigrants who come from other cultures that have stronger emphasis on academic achievement.

Saying you got to 40% women is not quite the same thing if 95% of the female engineers on the team immigrated from India, Russia, China, South Korea, etc.. You got yourself a decently diverse team but it doesn't hide the fact that US culture + education system has a major issue with discouraging women growing up in the US from entering some of these fields.
It's certainly less common in Europe as well but not unheard of. I feel like we're slowly going towards the US, with the UK leading the way, but we're still quite far away.
Ah yeah, who doesn't do this everyday? I've written like... five of these today alone...

Honestly, you'll find those "for me it's SUPER stressful"-cases everywhere, but it will not touch 99.99% of the other people.
Exactly, any regulatory decision large or small usually has a ton of research and thought behind it. An interesting episode of planetmoney goes over the history of how to quantify harm/ a human life vs the cost of protective measures. https://www.npr.org/2020/04/15/835571843/episode-991-lives-v...

Apparently the value sits at $10 million USD/ life now. If you take 57 babby * 10M / $200 / car seat = 2.8M car seats. There's apparently 3.7M babbies born in the US/ year. So I think if you accept these numbers it does still make sense.
I have a 2018 Switch and it works well with all chargers I've tested so far (mostly Apple and Lenovo besides the one that came with the Swift). My guess is that the problems that existed in the original hardware were fixed in a subsequent hardware revision.
It gets even better when you find out you can get a HDMI/Power dock that works with Switch, laptop, phone and can provide video and charge them all without having to carry 15 cables with you.

Can it be confusing? Yes. But it's a hellova improvement from bunch of disjoint cable standards we had before.
To paraphrase Winston Churchill: USB-C is the worst form of interface, except for all the others that have been tried.

My pet peeve is nomenclature of USB versions: 3.2 Gen 1, Gen 2, 2x2, USB 4 Gen {2,3}x(1,2}.
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I think it's fine to point out the Thunderbolt mess, or the PD vs non-PD devices (although non-PD is becoming exceedingly rare as far as I can tell at least for "larger" devices), but using the Nintendo Switch seems like a bad example in my opinion, since it explicitly does not follow all USB standards, especially in fact on charging.
Same here, it's something wider than just this tweet. I get the same on the timeline.

Link preview in slack works, however. Here's the tweet text:

"A friend of a friend at Google interviewed at Facebook right as the virus hit. Accepted new job in March. Didn’t quit old job. Apparently does both jobs at home in 55 hours/week. Neither company knows yet. Might have reversed the co’s, not sure. I have so many thoughts on this."
> Play TV

Play Movies & TV (the Android app and service for purchased video content), has been around for a while, but it's just been rebranded as Google TV.
twitter seems to be over capacity at the moment I got an error message to try again in a moment.

weird, as it was just working a second ago before the errors started piling up
I read this [0] just yesterday, and section 5 is acutely relevant here. I also liked the Halley comment in the discussion [1].

But yes, fuck cancer.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24637930

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24640599
Nintendo says you shouldn't use anything except 1st party cables with the Switch. There were articles a couple of years ago talking about Switches being bricked.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/08/heres-why-nintendo-sw...
100% agree with you on how convenient USB-C can make things. Being able to carry one 60-90w brick with multiple USB-C PD outputs and charge pretty much all of my devices off of it is amazing.

On the other hand, I would say that all of us here on HN probably aren't the target audience for this article. Collectively, I'd say HN readers are likely to understand that different USB-C bricks, cables, and devices are going to support different things and research our purchases accordingly. The article seems to be more targeted at people who will grab a $3.50 gas station cable and expect it to charge their phone at 18w and laptop at 65w.
Same connector, but different standards. We will likely still have to buy new cables/devices to take advantage of the new features.
Chris came up with the idea for Frank when he made “The Biz” on the ZX Spectrum, too.
How about you read the Nintendo docs & warranty before throwing one of your myths around. It’s a well known thing combined with their controller.
So much complexity. Just standardize __attribute__((cleanup)) which is already being used by a load of software, is available already in GCC and Clang, and does everything that anyone wants.
Hated school until I decided to go back. When that happened, I started getting straight As
On 1, we used typed-up worksheets that didn't have different styling. And even then, on occasion we had to write the "x" as part of an answer, or the teacher on the blackboard while teaching, which was more what I was thinking of anyway.

On 3, I think you misunderstood my point - in 2, we learned dot (the symbol) is multiplication, never touching on dot product because that was a good year or two later, then at that point were corrected to it not being what we first learned.
The T2 isn’t used in the iPhone or iOS devices.
Thanks. If I say "petroleum" would that cover all types of dinosaur juice?

(I only want to cover the liquids, not coal or wood)
Pneumonia can do very similar stuff. It is not widely known because of antibiotics usage, but even if treated it hits your lungs really hard and you can take up to a year before recovering.

A family member had the misfortune of getting one twice (at a distance of many, many years), and it took quite a while to recover.
Thanks for the link, based on the reading I think I was walking whether there was a quantum advantage and it’s magnitude, although the quantum supremacy aspect is interesting too.
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