skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They put out a $130 (!) charger that charges both phones (or anything else on Qi, including some of their wireless headphones) and watches[0], yet that uses their proprietary Lightning cable, not USB-C, so if you bring a tablet/laptop, you're still stuck needing to bring a second cable and possibly a second charger with you.

[0] https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MHXF3AM/A/magsafe-duo-cha...
Right, but you can hear the spatial audio feature (the parent comment didn't say they were just talking about lossless.)
If you think the US and EU could completely stop burning coal, oil, and gas in a few years (less than 10?), you must know something no one else knows, or this plan involves a lot of dead people. But I'd love to hear more about it.
> Those regulations are going to create as much cost on humans as leaving it to people like yourself who care.

Humans optimise for short term gain, generally perceived gain over others, and rationalise this over large nebulous things like climate change, environmental health etc. They don't count externalities without being made to. And that's individuals. Companies are downright sociopathic and will happily defecate in their own back yard if they can make a dime out of it.

As a result we can already see what happens when people are left to choose themselves or the environment, they choose their own short term relative gain over the long term prospects of the whole species (before we even look at other species).

> Fixing the problem is up to you.

Yes, in a democracy it is, which is why I vote for political parties which will bring in regulations.
Casual sexism this isn't. Plenty of people switch between he and she as defaults.
Yes spatial audio - you can definitely hear the difference.
Funny that adding a feature (lossless) to Music backfires for Apple, because physical laws and Bluetooth standards prevent it from working with their wireless headphones.
Michael from Stripe here (the interviewee).

While it’s true we are always hiring, this wasn’t meant to be a recruiting piece—it’s a personal interview Ken (the author) asked me to do based on demand from his readers.

It’s fair to say this is how we want product building to work, and we certainly don’t always live up to it. But I do think it’s broadly reflective of the operating model our product managers, engineers, etc. aspire to and what we hold ourselves accountable to. Do we fall short of our own aspirations regularly? Absolutely.
Not when the headphones also have a wire which doesn't support this.
I didn't say they shouldn't control the copyright.

I said we shouldn't uncritically allow massive copyright holders to both produce and distribute their media.
Fully support this, as PoW protocols - from an efficient market perspective - consume as much as they are currently worth to mine, which would mean that if we believe that the value of BTC will go up (in line with past increases, for orders of magnitude) then also the consumption of power will go up just as much.

When BTC hits 250K per coin next year, expect 5x as much energy consumption to what it does use today. At 1M per coin we can expect 20x as much power consumption.

Highly unlikely that taxation can resolve this as global economy simply forces the miners to places where energy is cheap and abundant. And countries will view this as a competitive advantage as now there is a simple way to convert power directly into money. Many cases have shown that poor countries will use their environment to gain an upper hand and pull their country out of poverty. Sadly the impact to the environment is global.
The gold really lets you hear how much over the kill can be.
Yeah this is very clearly on the ad-blocker.

I think TeeSpring has the right idea - they're checking that GA is loaded, if it is, then do stuff with it, if it's not, then don't.

I don't understand how a website can and should be expected to adapt to a browser plugin changing the APIs they depend on out from underneath them.
Strangely enough, Apple's most advanced ear pods/headphones and the like change the audio you hear as you move your head. Kind of gimmicky, but they do technically have a way to render spatial audio even though they only have two speakers.
Listening to music vs participating on conference calls are separate use cases. You do not need high bandwidth Bluetooth or some other wireless standard for conference call audio.
The distribution argument would be true if pay per view was the dominant form, but subscriptions are. And in the studio days, how many people didn't have access to at least one theatre of each in range? I might be mistaken but I don't think that limited film choice in rural areas was the main concern back then.

Now we have subscriptions. It would be as crazy as it sounds, we are almost at the point where a preference of Picard over Kirk could have an effect on which toilet paper you end up buying.

But I agree in so far as that it is far from as bad as it could be if they tightened down on unsubscribe/resubscribe (which I think will inevitably happen one day). Still, I've been to that party that end with one room full of "Amazons", one room full of "Neflixers" and those left over wondering what they all talk about.
I have found a few of his essays very good, indeed expressing things I haven't seen anywhere else. I think he has provided very good advice to young people at times.

The vast majority I would say that he is trying to retcon his huge success and the success of some businesses he has been associated with into a coherent worldview. I believe that in 'Hackers and Painters' he actually goes through some back-of-envelope calculations that show that the money he made when Yahoo bought Viaweb corresponded closely to the real value he had created, in some sense.

It is baffling to me why he isn't able to say "I got lucky - I worked hard and created something very valuable, but I was also in the right place at the right time." Clearly there were special factors at play selling an e-commerce platform to Yahoo in 1998. He's also done intelligent and pro-social things with both his money and his time since then it appears. I don't know what the shame is in saying "I won a lottery - but I have tried to do the right thing with my good fortune."

I think if you asked Jamie Zawinski, who I think was no less technically skilled, nor less purposeful about working on interesting and important things (nor, tbh, any worse at writing thoughtful essays), he would readily admit to having been extremely lucky. I don't know what the difference is between these two personalities. I think I'd rather be jwz in similar circumstances.
Hi I am in the same boat as OP. I have an MVP but essentially not able to connect to Enterprises. Any tips or advice that helps me navigate this would help me immensely. Could you contact me via email. Appreciate your help.
I get the sense that the only reason this happened is because amp sites were returning less advertising revenue for sites implementing it vs regular web. If the money was the same or better then I can't assume it would have ended up this way.
LDAC isn't lossless. The 'Hi-Resolution' ALAC files would all be lossy over it, and honestly anything else above 44.1khz that doesn't have a near flawless bluetooth connection.
Which song on which album?

I'm asking because I literally want to listen to it in a mono context and experience what bad things happen as a result.
Then offer a counter solution, that you think is better and defend it.

Don't just sit around making the same useless attacks against other people's arguments.

Instead, offer a different proposal and explain why it is better.
Many thanks, it worked.
At one level, it would be nice if all the subscription streaming services, a la carte content, and live TV could be accessed from a single subscription portal. But I suspect that most people wouldn't be willing to pay the $200 (or whatever) per month that such a service would probably cost. (And that's not an outlandish number; that's only about 2x what cable costs in a lot of places in the US.)
It’s honestly been one of the smartest choices we’ve made. We’ve been running it for four or five years now. It powers high throughput systems and those systems are classified as critical (if they go down, most of the product goes down.) Not a single regret.

New hires new to Elixir have spun up on it very quickly, in my opinion what a team needs is one or two people experienced in Elixir to give some initial guidance but you don’t need a staff of experienced Elixir engineers to do great work. I have not found it a hard language to teach.

Personally I’ve found the library ecosystem very strong, and writing our own libraries has not been hard. It’s important to note that interop with Erlang is quite good, so you have access to decades of library development from the Erlang ecosystem in addition to libraries written in Elixir.

The basic elements you’re given out of the box for handling fault tolerance and concurrency are graceful and intuitive. The performance has also deeply impressed us.

On a personal level, it’s also the most enjoyable language I’ve worked in and I’ve had very good experiences with the community. I find the tooling very good, including the VSCode extension (I have contributed a few features) but the default dialyzer setting definitely does hog the CPU on first build. I disabled it since we don’t get much out of it.

I’ve built and run software in production in a lot of different languages over the last 15 years. Nothing has compared to Elixir, not even close.

YMMV, I’m not here to refute the experiences of others, I’m just here to say for us it’s been an incredible experience. Absolute joy to use.
Yes, but the difference is that OOP can scale indefinitely but FP cannot.

If you don't co-locate related state and logic, ensuring that each piece of state reaches the correct components becomes a logistical nightmare at scale (either needs to traverse many intermediate components or needs to be exposed globally to all components).

If you don't allow components to mutate state locally, you need a strategy to distribute all your data directly from external stores to the correct components and also a strategy to send state updates back to the relevant stores. When you have multiple components which share some of the same data, this is impossible to do in an efficient and reliable way because of the latency between the external store and the components (components risk overwriting each other's data by sending conflicting updates, for example).

It's a logistical nightmare, because, without co-locating state with logic in some components, you cannot control how state updates are combined and then applied onto the external store. Components have no awareness of each other so they cannot coordinate. Every read and write has to go through the external store which is both inefficient and unreliable when you factor in latency. (The idea of caching violates FP principles).

The advantage of co-located state is that it can be updated synchronously without any latency so there is no possibility of conflicts.
Moral arguments (ones that offer only should and should not with some supporting evidence but no actual solution) are going to be dismissed more regularly because while they may offer perspective, they offer very little value beyond that. That makes them fairly non-actionable.

Choose an argument which requires you to offer a viable and compatible alternative and you'll probably get a lot more ears.
City pays $350k after suing “hackers” for opening Dropbox link it sent them
Every time this term comes up here, I have to think this is about Halide [1].

[1] https://halide-lang.org/
The guy works for the Long Now Foundation. He doesn't care if his articles take a couple of microcenturies to read.
The desire for energy is near limitless - PoW simply bends the curve upward. As the price of BTC increases, the drive for less costly energy slackens off.

The issue is clearly a tragedy of the commons - the cost (higher air pollution/higher energy costs) is socialized, while the profits are centralized. So the maximization function is cheap >>> anything else. Why wouldn't we expect more and larger coal plants versus research into fusion reactors?
I really wish the UN could get together and implement a global treaty on a revenue neutral carbon tax. The only reason energy is as cheap as it is right now is because we're not properly pricing in the externalities of environmental damage.

This would immediately make unproductive energy use (cough POW crypto cough) a lot less profitable, without the government having to come in and set prices and regs for every little thing.
Thanks for this comment.

I've tried the Razer Hammerheads and the ANC is terrible. But will give the other two a go. Cheers.
I wouldn't say OP recommended banning anything 'arbitrary'. It was very relevant to the discussion to state that the ban should be on proof-of-work currencies.

Here's my issue. There is such a thing as too-late in environmental matters. Once it's too late, it's a fire that sustains itself. Therefore, acting quickly matters. Addressing the source directly is obviously the superior solution. But I just don't see it happening at a fast enough rate. I see nuclear power in the same way. Yes, it's a little bit of trading one problem for the next, but it's a very necessary stop gap to buy us time.
I have this problem too. Every time I want to order something from a new place I have to work out what out of 50 domains actually needs to load in uMatrix. The funniest one is the garage. When I book a time for service I get a confirmation but when I show up at the garage on the date/time booked, they can't find a thing in the system. Or sometimes they just find an empty booking that doesn't even have my cars registration number. I bet it's connected to uMatrix blocking some part of the transaction.
I read this paper pretty recently, and I was interested in how they handled dashing, since arc length parameterizations are one of the harder problems with Bezier curves (useful for making even steps along the length of the curve, rather than in the parametric domain). I implemented their suggestion of Juettler's "vegetarian" reparameterization for arc length [1] but was pretty disappointed in the results. The arc length steps were visibly different for quads of any "reasonable" size (i.e. not tiny). That led me to some followup work [2] which offers a method for a piecewise reparameterization - much much better results even with just 4 or 5 pieces. Figured I'd pass along the experience for any future interested readers.

[1] Juettler et al. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01678...

[2] Costantini et al. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.90....
Thanks for the correction, you're absolutely right about the ebook market share.

Notwithstanding that, I think the general point is that this is a vertical acquisition completely unrelated to that market, in which Amazon has nowhere close to that kind of market share.

Keep in mind that nobody here is arguing that we ought to have a free-for-all in acquisitions and do away with the FTC entirely. It's just that the FTC doesn't operate off of knee-jerk reactions to absolute dollar amount market valuations. Instead, the level of analysis is one that's more in line with what the GP commenter has been arguing.
Product announcements are posted here all the time.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the issue with hydrogen the supply chain? I believe the overwhelming majority of hydrogen is currently produced from fossil fuels.

> As of 2020, the majority of hydrogen (∼95%) is produced from fossil fuels by steam reforming of natural gas, partial oxidation of methane, and coal gasification. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_production
I will never go back to untangling and getting my headphones snagged.
You need to read what I said. What I said is this. California is displaying downward trends.

If the population growth is trending downward that means the growth of intelligent people should also by logic be trending downwards. This is 100 percent brain drain.

Let me explain it to you so you can understand. If this trend continues it will eventually become net population decrease. Which means a net loss of intelligent people.

I haven't shifted points. You think I'm shifting points because you are misinterpreting everything I say and I am re clarifying it for you so your brain can comprehend. But your brain is registering this as me shifting topics.

Literally read the thread. You asked me if I'm debating if California is in an economic downturn... And if you look at the entire damn thread... I never said California was in an economic downturn. You assumed this is what I'm saying because you're the one with bias here. I corrected your mistake.

You want citations for things that have been Frontline news and evident for every normal person living in this state? The initial YouTube video was CNBC, which you disregarded as bad because of "YouTube". So I guess journalism in the form of a video is illegitimate for you... I guess written articles are more factual for some illogical reason? Fine. Here you go.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2021-04-27/...

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-12-21/californ...

https://calmatters.org/commentary/2021/05/california-populat...

https://www.ppic.org/blog/californias-stalled-population-gro...

https://abc7.com/california-population-decline-congressional...

https://qz.com/1599150/californias-population-could-start-sh...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/31/why-calif...

https://www.kqed.org/news/11872755/california-reports-first-...

https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/California-to-l...

Now I could cite the raw statistics these articles derive their info from. But I felt legitimate news organizations are enough and easier then a raw statistical paper. Let's not get overly pedantic. Do you really want to argue against sfchronicle, quartz, CNBC and the Washington post? I hope to God you're not that type of person.

I also hope this was "productive" for you. My definition of productive means imparting new knowledge onto someone less knowledgeable than me. But for some people "productive" means not admitting when they are wrong, refusing to look at raw evidence, and running away from a discussion where they are incorrect.

Yeah you can leave this conversation if you feel it isn't "productive." Go. Leave.
Also see Ethereum is green: https://our.status.im/ethereum-is-green/
It was mostly a joke, but there is still a focusing effect for sources that are off-axis, so it'd really depend on direction and shape of the foil hat. e.g. if it covered a lot of the back of the head but left the face open, like a crash helmet, the main axis wouldn't be straight down, for a tinfoil cap it would be.
How is this different than corporate conglomerates formed by previous generations?
Yes, after applying the solution provided by yabones everything seems to work. Thanks anyhow :)
If you're skilled enough to do that (and not get caught) and that ethically compromised, there are easier (and legal!) ways to make money.
Remember kids, the best way to rob a bank is to buy one.
There's more here than just that it's what people can afford. There's a mystique to remaking an old house and keeping/improving the character that's there. You're able to have something with character but also something that is your own. On top of that, networks like HGTV glamorize the process and make it seem doable. But because of HGTV, the updates to the older houses are not small. Generally, they're updating the kitchen or other large projects, partially because of the old owners neglect or because of changing tastes.
> Is not what was being proposed in the free-market fundamentalist post I was replying to.

A carbon tax with a dividend is the free-market fundamentalist proposal. Markets require externalities to be priced and a dividend is the most economically efficient use of the revenue so generated.

> But there might be if it's merely "burning energy for a new financial product", society might decide that it's not worth the carbon to have that around, regardless of tax, but that aluminium is a useful physical product.

The way of determining which is pricing. If society values "new financial product" more than the cost of the energy, including the carbon tax, then it gets produced. If the carbon tax increases energy costs to the point that "new financial product" isn't viable in the market, it doesn't. Or it switches to non-carbon electrical generation at which point you can't blame them for climate change anymore and they're expediting the transition to renewable energy by financing the creation of generating capacity and increasing economies of scale.
Musk might have a lot of chronic, but it's not stress.
We're working on getting our products in recycled aluminium tubes. Chalk balls have been proven not to work in terms of reducing dust in gyms, link to the research is on our blog.
"The Big Scary Scare Quotes Rich That We Should Be Eating"? No, that's not exclusively who I mean.
But as I mentioned, its not adversarial to begin with. Most tax compliance - although much more obscure and less used - is telling the IRS in advance how little you will pay.

From an 83(b) election on an arbitrarily short vesting schedule you made for yourself for discounted assets, to Advance Pricing Agreements which you pay for, to Private Letter Rulings, to tax-exempt status for your non-profits. It just isn't the same experience with that agency.
New report details the M1 successors that will appear in the next Macs
Organized crime is as big as a country.
Uber Engineering Tricks of the Trade: Tuning JVM Memory for Large-Scale Services
No? Youtube's use of compute power serves a purpose that is not quite literally wasting energy for the sake of it.
By the way, about that "dispatch an action containing the final results when the form is complete" — what is the Correct Way™ to do this, if there may be several instances of the form? They should produce different actions so that different pieces of state would be updated.
1. We can work on more than one thing at a time and I’d be quite surprised if the original poster didn’t want to do something about those companies, too.

2. For all their many flaws, those industries also provide something of value. If they shut down tomorrow, people would miss having cars, pesticides, fuels, medications, etc. but if every cryptocurrency suddenly halted tomorrow nobody outside of a few speculators would find their daily life any different. That doesn’t mean that those externalities aren’t real and don’t require action but they’re widespread because there is some kind of real value to society and you’d need a transition plan to avoid disrupting a lot of processes.
How viable is it to extract from water via solar power?
http://archive.is/Lq3eq
The suggestion in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27195167 worked for me.
> If that's the case, who's the arbiter of what's "too much" power for a use case?

The difference is that Facebook’s energy use potential is limited and gets better with improved computer tech.

There is a limit to how much analysis you can do. As you get more efficient hardware, the energy use would go down. Facebook also invests a lot of effort in optimizing their code to run more efficiently.

With proof of work crypto, the only limit is the price of crypto. Despite any efficiency gains, you can always expect the energy use to scale with the price of crypto. For example, a 10x more efficient miner, won’t cause 10x less energy use, it may actually increase energy use as more people mine with higher rate electricity.

There is a chance that we develop a situation that the most monetarily efficient thing you could do with electricity is to mine proof of work crypto. If that becomes the case, then even a carbon tax won’t help because proof-of-work crypto can easily pay the tax compared to all the other uses of electricity.
Agree. Wasting energy on bitcoin isn't the problem, energy production causing earth to heat up is the problem.

I can think of many things equally or similarly energy wasteful as Bitcoin.