skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are the costs to add a USB PD module to an electronic device?
https://hackaday.com/2021/04/21/easy-usb‑c-power-for-all-you...

- [ ] Create an industry standard interface for charging and using [power tool,] battery packs; and adapters
Spyware Watchdog
Severell Web Framework – Hello World
I don't think this is accurate. [0] and [1] have 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Graphics benchmark tested on both the M1 and the 4800U in the Lenovo Yoga Slim-7-14ARE and the M1's GPU stomps the Vega 8 R4000. It outscores even the Ryzen 5000 series iGPU.

I've seen no evidence that the M1's GPU is anything but best in class for integrated graphics.

[0] https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-M1-GPU-GPU-Benchmarks-an...
[1] https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-RX-Vega-8-Ryzen-400...
> What's the legal basis of this lawsuit? Are they violating some sort of law? Are they not violating any law, but just doing "bad"? The article isn't clear.

Apparently the are not violating the law, but they will soon violate 'obligagtions'. From the WSJ...

'The court said that Shell wasn’t in breach of its obligation to reduce carbon emissions, but that there was an “imminent breach” and therefore set the reduction requirement. It said its ruling covered the emissions of the company’s own operations and also those of its suppliers and customers.'
Open source firmware, vs "Open Firmware". The oxide.computer web page mentions open source firmware.

Secure boot chain

Our boot flow is secure by default. Our firmware is open source and attestable.

There is a link to "Explore Repos." Is coreboot the open source firmware?

https://github.com/oxidecomputer/coreboot

Open Firmware is different than coreboot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware
I think it would more play in the space of a NetApp/Cisco FlexPod or VCE's Vblock, but what those customers are really purchasing is the certified validation of core enterprise apps on a particular hardware/software stack, as well as the massive engineering and support organizations that those companies can bring to bear to validate firmware upgrade and to swoop in in the event of an issue. You also seem to get a LOT more flexibility.

I am not a hater in the least but I really am failing to understand what is unique about this offering. It seems like you have no options regarding the internals, and so scaling compute separately from storage doesn't seem possible. I also am very suspect about offerings like this that have not yet released a second version of their key parts. Everyone says that they are going to be backwards compatible, but then the reality of managing heterogenous generations of gear in a homogenous fashion strikes and you get weird behavior all around.

Long story short, I would love to know what a customer of this scale of physical infrastructure is getting with Oxide that they would not be better served by going to one of the major vendors.
It was clear the pandemic was over when Israel (and others) went from saving lives to killing people. That juxtaposition made the killing especially heinous.

Congrats on being the first to resume state violence after the pandemic, I guess.
There definitely is a point. I've witnessed too many biologists who decided to get into data analysis struggle with UNIX. I think https://missing.csail.mit.edu is more of an answer. Most graduate programs just assume you'd pick it up on your own, but the majority doesn't.
On a Mac TPB + a decent VPN + BiglyBT = trivially easy torrenting. I have certainly never encountered any of the hardships you describe.

I have been using that same setup for… 10+ years? With BiglyBT replacing Vuze after Vuze was purchased and turned in to garbage.
How could they possibly argue any sort of plausible deniability?

If DMCA notices are automated, and the automation is producing false positives, then they should still be held 100% liable. Fix your automation or remove it entirely. The potential ramifications of a false positive (Massive fines, getting banned from your ISP when they're the only option in town, and more) are too severe to allow any number of them greater than zero.

EDIT: And I think the penalty for a false DMCA takedown request needs to be gargantuan. Seven figures, minimum. DMCA trolling should not be profitable.
> My rationale is simply that more dollars to go around means that one dollar is worth less. Simple logic, rather than fancy economics, I guess.

You're looking at the total supply (which is true in the long term, since those dollars have to be spent eventually). However, inflation in the short term has much more to do with velocity and actual spending - if all of that money just sits in bank accounts, there will be no inflation.

So looking at the money supply in isolation will tell you nothing about the actual inflation. It's about what's happening to that money.
I mean this is just saying a normal laptop screen that's 200+dpi. Nothing else fancy here because the further away you are from the screen the easier it gets to achieve the "can't see the dots" effect."
Neither if your scenarios are accurate. He is a sweet taker that convinces women to sleep with him, there is no coercion or force. Honestly, I respect how much of a good time he is having.
This is way more about a drop in rents than anything else, obviously. Rents are super low nationwide right now, as folks abandoned high-rent areas in the pandemic. Meanwhile the housing market is very long-term oriented, and reasonably rational.
I've got something that's most of the way there and imho quite adequate: a 5k2k, at 5120x2160.

So that's a 1080p widescreen at a pixel ratio of 2, and maybe it's because my eyes aren't as young as they were, but that's perfect for me. Certainly renders any font I throw at it as crisp as you please.

It's the MSI Prestige, if you're curious.
I wonder if they used Monodraw[1] to create their diagrams?

Looks like they did!

[1]: https://monodraw.helftone.com
YCombinator is a tech company whose business model is investing. Seems like OpenAI could be the same.
I think it would be great to show the performance impact of these SDKs because it is one of the really important aspects of monitoring (being non-intrusive).
It's portable though. A mobile phone has far less processing power than a workstation or laptop (and some are nearly as expensive) but it's also a fraction of the size / weight / power consumption / heat output.
Activist investor ousts at least two Exxon directors
MS's parallel DeepSpeed ZeRO effort is also pretty striking considering their investment in OA.
Even community topics seem like 'not enough' of a filter on reddit.

I want a 'good' community, not just any 'community'.

Like is a sub about a semi competitive video game a bunch of try hards who are busy sneering at everyone's stats?

Or is it easy going?

Or is it full of memes / funny pics?

Are there even any active mods on the sub?

Just a topic doesn't seem like enough of a filter.
And everyone is so excited that Microsoft finally decided to graciously add a package manager to their flagship OS.
Why Is Amazon in Entertainment?
I've done this. It doesn't hurt. In fact I didn't feel anything besides the battery terminals.
Ok I rescind my previous comment then. This is amazing.
The author of this post must have free access to BookScan, or otherwise insanely deep pockets. It's really not cheap.

> Single ISBN report £90.00.
2 to 9 additional ISBNs in the same report £18 each
https://www.nielsenisbnstore.com/Home/BookScanLifeTimeReport

Anyone know a more affordable way to do this kind of market research?
I think the problem with REST is that these kinds of semantics discussions are helpful _if_ you go all in. Frankly, I've never seen anything more than toy apps that went all in. Most of the world wants JSON-RPC and is bending towards REST to be "correct." I suspect that giving in to RPC would be cleaner overall.

Until we build proper RPC composition (via lightweight monads, I'm sure) and let that sweep the world.
On this logic we should also ban Christmas lights
The mortgage interest deduction was and is a benefit for lenders. It's sole benefit is to increase the amount one can borrow by effectively lowering the cost of borrowing.

A solidly middle class benefit would be cash given to the middle class. A benefit for existing home owners selling their homes to middle class buyers is a cash benefit given to middle class buyers. A subsidy for borrowing money is a benefit for the person lending money.
Resistance to vaccine mandates is building. A powerful network is helping
Do you have an actual disagreement? A 14nm Intel chip might waste an extra 20 watts, but when you get into hundred watt territory it's fair to call that a GPU thing.
> Because there is no safe level of exposure to asbestos.

I think we are getting to the bottom of this :-)

The UK Health and Safety Executive state...

"The control limit for asbestos is 0.1 asbestos fibres per cubic centimetre of air (0.1 f/cm3). The control limit is not a 'safe' level and exposure from work activities involving asbestos must be reduced to as far below the control limit as possible."[1]

Maybe this is where the differences arise. The UK are comfortable with a minimum practical level where risks are very low, whereas the US state none at all.

Thank you for helping answer a question and not mindlessly clicking on down vote. HN is beginning to turn into Reddit rather than seeking inquisitive technical/scientific conversation.

[1] https://www.hse.gov.uk/asbestos/regulations.htm
> what the commenters here know that the USB-IF doesn't

The fact that in the real world, in 2021, it's still impossible to tell what standard a particular cable or device supports. I have several cables in my possession, and only through trial and error I can tell you which cable supports what, and I'm lucky enough that these cables are high-quality and fail "safely" but technically they don't have to.

Yes I know that technically the computer and USB-C controller knows which cable supports what, and yet so far no consumer-grade device has any kind of UI to tell me which cable supports what. I guess I can probably figure it out using the command line, but that would solve the problem for me but not the average non-technical user who just wants a cable that works.

In the old days, you could buy a USB-A to micro USB cable and have it work and charge your phone. You could buy an HDMI cable and have it work and send video to a monitor. With USB-C, you can't know which cable supports what until you've spent hours researching and understanding how USB-C works and the different alternate modes, and even then, cables might be mislabeled and you still can't be sure until you actually try it.

All the above is at least somewhat "safe" because the worst that can happen is that the device gets damaged, but if you suddenly start increasing power levels, non-compliant cables will start burning down houses.
It's difficult to know, but I'll copy one of my comments, with a few additions.

The problem is that (ignoring MA3) until the section "Predicting measurement results for the initial context" (inclusive) it is totally trivial if you have a background in Physics and Quantum Mechanics. It's not the usual model because it uses one (or two?) hidden variables, but it's easy to understand.

But the next section "Predicting measurement results for an arbitrary context" is totally unintelligible.

My guess is that the unintelligible part is hiding that when you measure a photon with a polarizer with an angle alpha, the other photon gets that information with an implicit faster than light communication. I have read it
three times and I gave up.

To convince the scientific community it will be good to implement this model and post it in github or something.

* One function that create a pair of entangled photons X and Y.

* One function f that takes the photon X and the angle alpha and says if it passed the filter.

* One function g that takes the photon Y and the angle beta and says if it passed the other filter.

Bonus points if f and g are the same functions (or the only change is a pi/2).

No cheating, like using alpha in g, or assuming that alpha is 0.

Run a Montecarlo simulation and show that it gets the expected result. It's like 30 lines of Python or Fortran or whatever.

Transforming this to an analytical calculation is easy, but in an analytical calculations is easier to hide a change of variables and another trick that "transmit" alpha from one detector to the other.
Can confirm, sucks if you're blind.
Aftermarket oxide rack running DragonFlyBSD, anyone ? ;)
It is E2EE, and the backups on Apple's servers are encrypted. However, if you also have iCloud Backup turned on, the encryption key is backed up plain-text [1][2], so the effect ("Apple is able to access them when subpeonaed" sic.) remains the same in those cases, but it can be configured/avoided.

[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303
[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/8nbgyu/messages_in_i...
I mean it is a good example to really hammer home that font designs heavily depend on how they're rendered because you get lots of people who say "well it's good for print and must therefore be good for digital" when fonts designed with anti-aliasing in mind exist and perform better.
The mx250 is not a "middle class DGPU" because there is no class below it. It's Nvidia's weakest dedicated graphics card they continue to sell, and it's a pretty terrible point of comparison. A better example would be the GTX 1060, a middle-class dedicated GPU that made it's way into many budget gaming laptops 7 years ago. It is faster than the M1's GPU.

The Mac has a very dedicated audience of video and design professionals who are going to be left empty-handed here, even if they double or triple the amount of GPU cores in the SOC.
I hardly see these sarcastic comments in HN, greatly appreciated! xD
There are tons of incentives for first time home buyers! They just aren't really marketed.

You can take out a mortgage against your own 401(k) for your first home.

You can use a VERY low down payment loan (like 0% in some cases) for your first home.

Tax rates are lower in many places for homeowners than renters -- in Boston and Somerville MA, this comes out to a pretty substantial tax credit.
I'm getting so sick of entrenched institutions and organizations acting like this. I know history and I know that is has always been like this to some degree but it seems that the level of centralization brought about our ability to rapidly communicate is causing us to revert more and more to entrenched powerful interests, and whereas before you could run away to somewhere new, a new town, a new country, a new frontier now you can't escape it.

The powerful multi-billionaires and oligarchs are the new fueduel Lords who are wheeling and dealing and playing their own little games not caring about the millions of people effected by their decisions.

We now see the guild is making a come back to ensure only those that toe the party line are allowed to profit from a business.

What can we do to fight it?
> if you checked it on the mobile screen, you will see a horizontal scrollable category list, Along with all Categories, there is a category for Fashion. There you will find subreddits related to Beauty.
It never occurred to me how hilarious the name "ResearchGate" is
Does there exist a device that you can plug in USB and HDMI cables and have it tell you what features, modes, etc that cable supports? Seems like having something like that wouldn't eliminate all the problems but would make them easier to deal with by quickly identifying that the cable you tested is or is not appropriate for the task at hand.

That aside, I'm looking forward to running my laundry room off of a dozen USB-C connectors hooked up in parallel.
I would love a mini version of this for homelabs.
It is not perfect, but Apple at least does this on every piece of hardware as it finishes assembly. Of course things slowly get out-of-spec from there, but at least they try.
Is there a better place you go for your hobbies them, or do you just google "<my hobby> forum" to find the best discussion boards for each topic individually?
You're presenting a ridiculous dilemma between phones that are controlled by the network, and phones that are controlled by the manufacturer. Turns out, there's a third option that you are handily ignoring, where phones are controlled by the owner.
Product data makes your business tools smarter
Ok, done. Many many many times.

12v can't exceed the resistance of human skin so it doesn't matter how much current capacity it has. You can hold onto those terminals all day.

It's settled science. If you doubt it, tests of this are all over YouTube. It's just true.

Now your tongue, perhaps...
they're not the same thing at all. Green house gases include CO2 and water vapor for example. GHGs are not pollutants at all, and pollutants don't cause global warming.
A doctorate is specifically an academic credential. A closer analogy would be "healer". Or if he claimed to be a doctor of engineering.
USB-C bashing threads represent the 'HN echo chamber' for me. :)

I understand the problems of different cables, I've run into them already. One cable can do Thunderbolt, the other cannot. One cable transmits 4K video signal, the others doesn't transmit anything. And so on.

However, it is sooooo much better than anything before because at least _most of the time_ stuff works. Chargers charge. Sometimes slower, sometimes faster, but things mostly work.
...it doesn't hurt. Dry skin isn't conductive enough to pass any significant current at 12V. But if you inserted electrodes into your fingers so the electricity conducted through your wet inner bits, you can be killed by a lot less than 12V across the heart.
How is that different from a VC that invests in tech startups? What, exactly, is YC’s tech?
It doesn't need to be eradicated. If it mutates slower, vaccinations and herd immunity would mean the symptoms experienced are mild and your resistance would build on that as time goes by being exposed to new variants which are only slowly mutating.
From "doesn't even start to compete" and "GPUs have always been the biggest power draw" I don't think they were comparing to integrated.
There should be a name for this "service anxiety". It's real.
i vaguely remember a project that was developing a file from hash application, the idea was to use an provided hash, and an arbitrary file to accompany a generated padding file that would be packed in so the whole torrent matched the hash.

at about the same time there was a practice of a running padfile, that you would ammend every time you retorrented so that the hash would change and make it hard to kludge out the distribution network by tracking known hashes.

in summary it think it is very possible to "forge" hash numbers and impersonate or obfusicate the content

hash collision is rare, intentional hash mimicry maybe is not so rare.
Plan9 on an oxide rack might get you close to an SSI work-a-like - but I think it's unlikely it'd be a practical use of the hw?
In reading the pali cannon I was struck by how the society the buddha lived in seemed so tolerant of different religions and thought. he was a bramin, he was an ascetic, he was able to leave and join these groups freely without suffering any consequences, and it didn't seem like others particularly cared if he were a bramin or an ascetic or following the teachings of some other holy man. Everyone he studied under basically levels with him that they are on the same quest, looking for a decent philosophy to subscribe to, sampling the field in the process and trying different things, engaging in discussions with people of different ideas. It read almost like the situation in western countries today, where people might try out different churches or take classes covering different religions freely, without societal judgement, or even have no strong religious convictions at all. The teachings described are basically cognitive behavioral therapy, but framed in the philosophical language they were using back then which was theological. It almost reads like the budhha was a depressed person in existential crisis until he had his moment of enlightenment, and the other teachers and followers he met along the way were similarly depressed people looking for a treatment in a world where there wasn't one.
‘Time to buy’ Bitcoin adverts banned in UK for being irresponsible
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Why the elevation constraint?

"The elevation of the room where the rack is installed must be below 10,005 feet (3,050 meters)."
This looks great. From a business perspective, I would be concerned that it would be hard to prevent companies like Dell from entering this space as a competitor quite rapidly.
>inspired by the Paris Agreement

So we’re just going to let China do the polluting? Maybe you didn’t know but the Paris Agreement exempted China from all standards.
You wouldn't have to pitch it initially as a replacement for your on-prem HPE/Dell. It could be pitched as a replacement for the hosted private cloud you have from IBM, Oracle, etc, that you're unhappy with.
I wouldn't have upvoted this if the others weren't sunk by an admin... so yeah, looks like it's gonna be noisy for a few more... just days I hope
I give all mice to the cats, whether dead or alive. Supervising a cat's treatment of a mouse is not something I will ever spend a second of my life doing. Enjoying how demented and evil cats naturally are, I have spent so far, in total, at least twenty minutes over 45 years doing.

I'm glad that cats are on our team.
May be instead of asking target market or audience, who are their competitors?

(Edit: Previous Discussions https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21682360 )

Also thinking if the Website is not finished? All the "Read More" actually hide very little information, if so why hide it? And doesn't seems to explain the company very well. Seems like we need to listen to their PodCast to find out what is going on. ( Edit: Found a Youtube Video about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvZA9n3e5pc )

>Get the most efficient power rating and network speeds of 100GBps without the pain of cable

100GBps would be impressive, 100Gbps would be ... not much?

A interesting thing is all the terminal like graphics are actually HTML/CSS and not images.
This explicitly did not happen with No Time to Die. https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/james-bond-film-no-tim...
Some smartphones have a feature to "enhance" the colours automatically. You should check if you have such a feature enabled.
Yes but things can be done (albeit hardly now).

If people realise and pressure legislation that govs and entities can't spy even through proxies(other government(agencies) and companies) then we should really see more progress in this regard.

This is also debated right now in US, though i feel it slipped a bit from the european radar