skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't had to delve into the world of trying to find an appropriate USB-C cable until fairly recently. I didn't actually understand the situation thinking a replacement USB-C cable should just work.

Oh hell no and none of the packaging actually explains what features a cable supports, none of them actually explain what the cable is actually compatible with. The little android logo doesn't mean shit. Sure, you might be able to slowly charge your phone with a particular cable, but it doesn't mean it'll do anything else it's supposed to do.
Funny how seemingly unrelated stuff tells you something as fundamental as this about someone. I wonder what other deep secrets about our lives we're exposing that we're completely unaware of by just being ourselves.
If programmers do want to wrap structs in a typedef without using the "_t" suffix, the Vulkan API appears to have settled on upper-camel case:

typedef struct VkMemoryBarrier {
VkStructureType sType;
const void* pNext;
VkAccessFlags srcAccessMask;
VkAccessFlags dstAccessMask;
} VkMemoryBarrier;
Did any of the few people who read and liked it recommend it to somebody else. If no, why not.
"There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers." - Kurt Vonnegut [1]

[1] https://www.google.com/books/edition/Conversations_with_Kurt...
Have you looked at CO2 emitted per capita? Isn’t that a fairer metric? (I’m not saying that their emission is okay, but at least measure it per capita, and remember that the West likes to outsource the environmentally problematic parts of manufacturing to China, other parts of Asia)
I haven't! It was actually late last year I checked it out so I'll have to give it another shot.
SCP is probably the largest and most successful collaborative fiction project on the internet. It is presented as a series of database entries on SCPs, or "skips", which are anomalous objects, entities, or events that the SCP Foundation has contained or would like to contain if they could figure out how. It is largely horror themed. There are also "Tales" which are simply stories set in the SCP-verse.

Like anything, 90% of it is kinda crap, but that last 10% can be really really good.
I feel the same way! My partner also hadn't watched much Star Trek before. During the pandemic, we watched all of Enterprise, Voyager, and now into DS9 (I had watched TNG so much when I was younger I wanted to start with my less-watched series). The episodes are calm, and the competence of the characters is refreshing as well.
The worst thing is you cannot mute @everyone.
I'll believe it when I see it. In my experience, anything Unreal takes a long time to download, forever to build and then another eternity to cook the assets.
is this "long covid" or is it just the result of a year of physical inactivity?
haha I love n-gate! I have been checking it out every now and then!

I agree %100 with your observation as well.
All Americans I know take USA and America to be one and the same, so no complaints here.

As far as I know people from the southern continent call themselves sudanericanos or alternatively sulanericanos in their native languages. Again, in English there is no confusion about what the word America refers to. It may make a difference in Brazilian or South American Spanish, but that’s their problem, not an English problem.
I mean I like simple standards, but at what point do i have to start worrying about my mouse electrocuting me because my cat chewed the cable?
Oh, I misinterpreted it as the sun not causing skin cancer for anyone, but rather sunscreens.
Talc comes from the ground so sometimes there are veins of asbestos deposits interspersed. I think they screen out those sections with high asbestos contents but it might not be perfect enough so there might be trace contents.
Redundant headline
Completely true.

Also, the reason so much hardware doesn't have drivers for Linux until after many years, when it has been reverse-engineered.

So, it is both an advantage, and a hindrance.
I’m not terribly familiar but went through an e-prime phase back in college and still use it as a thinking tool.

I was interested in criticism as I don’t like most formal language rulesets but this content didn’t really give any insight as to e-prime’s flaws. Other than the author doesn’t like it.

I also find it useful as part of the “nonviolent communication” toolkit of trying to remove and work around ego as part of discussion and persuasion.
It is a massive collection of the notes of a fictional organization that finds Weird, Dangerous, Magical Shit and keeps it out of the lives and hands of normal people.

Wikipedia has a decent capsule summary of the fiction and its real-world history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCP_Foundation
I have an LG Ultrafine and an LG 24UD58-B. https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-24UD58-B-4k-uhd-led-monito...

The 24UD58-B isn't quite as good, but for $300, it's a lot cheaper than $700.
You have got to give people more than 6 minutes to respond with a counter-argument, especially if you want a thoughtful answer.
Some people can. I am one. I will burn if I don't ramp up to it, but I eventually get very brown and can stay out all day without burning.
tldr: most books do not sell many copies and or earn back their advances, and writing is a hell of a hard way to make a living
The Lindt bunny does look similar but I guess it's lower resolution ;-)
> I think it’s because I associate the back button as the counter to navigation through links, which the page flip gesture doesn’t feel like…

Again, each page on that book is an independent link that you're navigating to.

I'm afraid you're just saying things because you want to say things and do not really understand what is going on with the history api in there. ;-)
That was more or less the plot of 2001
Here's an idea: How about we just ban Ransomware?
I used to be like that, but I started going outside for a 10 minute walk with a t shirt on every day. (I wore a wide brim hat.) Now, I never get sunburned. My skin doesn’t look any different but it stands up to sunlight a lot better. Ymmv
Or more like, you can put out your own fire by lighting several other houses on fire deliberately, and blaming them for the fires.
Very interesting observations! How did you stumble on this? :-)

IIUC (based on one of your blog comments), you typically need one “immediate” neighborhood and one “ring-like” neighborhood further away. The latter seems like it might likely require non-locality in a fundamental sense (which typically leads to both philosophical and practical problems, like how do you keep the non-locality in check to maintain approximate locality). Any thoughts on that?
the wealth is just transferred. not used.

You should be concerned about where society consumes resources. labor. concrete. gold. machine time. These things, in a given year, have limited supply.

You should not be very concerned about society consuming dollars - which is impossible to do (apart from burning it or fed decisions). Dollars are often a useful proxy for resources, but are not intrinsically linked. In the case of NFTs, the stock market, etc, they don’t consume as many resources as the large dollar figures would imply.

Yes there is some electricity use, I know. etc.

Point being, a wealth transfer does not consume resources. Carry on.
> The Empire of Korea has be defunct for 110 years (which is, sure, over 60, but it is weird to describe it that way.)

I figured it was extra defunct after Korea was liberated in 1945 and Korea's first president made sure the monarchy wasn't going to come back by seizing their assets. Before then I figure there was a vague possibility that things would bounce back in their direction, although I'm probably wrong about that since my knowledge comes mostly from interpretive signs and Wikipedia :)
> These days I plug in a cable and prey it functions as advertised (sometimes it's 50/50).

Are you preying on the folks at USB-IF?
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>Similarly while I'm vaccinated and thus my risk of hospitalization or death from COVID 19 is effectively 0, my three year old son is not.

When will you get your son vaccinated?
As has already been explained by others in this thread (e.g. [1]); we are still waiting for the Swedish tax authority to get back to us. We will be happy to publish a registration number when we are assigned one.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27289911
So Kakoune is like RPN (Reverse Polish Notation), and Vim is like Polish Notation then?

For sure any user of RPN would agree that it makes more sense to type the operation after the object. Not sure how that translates to modal text editing though.
Is the risk that malicious software can be split into multiple, obfuscated components?

Without such a silicon vulnerability the malicious process would need all its components within a single process/image?
There are lots of known carcinogens for which the dosage is important. For example... sunlight.

There's a reason the "this product contains a chemical known to the State of California to cause cancer" warning labels are a bit of a joke, after all.
My 9th grade English teacher required all work to be done in this style. I can't say that I enjoyed it but in retrospect I probably benefitted from the experience.
Skype for Business is licensed separately, from what I recall. Back when I was L1 I'd have to install Skype for Business from portal.office.com, because it wasn't installed as part of the standard Office2016/O365 package.
I'm not sure how you can survive without email. It's the standard method for electronic comms. Others will come and go but email will persist.
A friend of mine developed a shit free sunscreen.

It’s pretty good:

https://new-layer.com/collections/sunscreen
I recommend it, although it’s basically a quest/fantasy book at that point.

If you ever wondered what the deal with Enoch Root is, this book explains it. Quite well too, I think.

Also his idea of a purdah as an identifier is something I think society will eventually need to come up with to address what happens with new states of identity.
DC is can be better over a certain distance because AC loses a lot of energy to heat. the pacific intertie is DC.
I mean your cat could have chewed through your laptop cable previously.

Your mouse, if using USB-C, is only going to have the current it needs to run. So it'll be super low mw at 5v. Its not going to be doing 240w on it. USB power delivery isnt like your wall outlets, it asks and receives power depending on the need.
I love the choice of music. Very appropriate.
Ironic, because vim and neovim are specifically designed for programmers that spend more time reading than writing code. You can get to damn near any line in a massive project with just a couple key strokes.
The differences that actually matter are self explanatory: map is for all modes, imap for insert mode, nmap for normal mode and vmap for visual mode (& tmap for terminal mode in NeoVim). The rest can be safely ignored as far as I can tell.

Little confession: I have no idea what e.g. the difference between "nmap" and "nnoremap" is. But after years of randomly mixing them in hundreds of bindings without a noticeable difference it doesn't seem to matter. Just use map, nmap, imap and vmap, avoid duplicates and everything will be fine imho.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27290489.
There’s two possibilities:

(1) He’s a proud rapist who is actively legitimizing and normalizing rape.

(2) He thinks its cool to pretend to be a rapist and normalize rape, even though he isn’t himself a rapist.

While there’s a big difference if you are, say, prosecuting rape, both are reasonable grounds on which someone might decide not to support a creator’s output.
Shell ordered to deepen carbon emissions cuts in 'historic' climate case
"I've been smoking cigarattes for the past year and nothing bad has happened to me, i guess they are perfectly healthy"
Say the two phrases out loud and the reason becomes obvious. The second doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue.
Does it require 240 watts?
It always feels really nice knowing that people are getting excited by your work. Thanks for the shoutout!

(I'm tjdevries)

Happy to answer any nvim questions while I'm here.
How convenient for Apple. Now they finally have a good argument to keep forbidding JIT compilation and side-loading.
French has something a bit like that: we don't say "I'm hungry" but "I have hunger", or "I'm scared" but "I have fear". I'm not sure if there's a rule on when to use which though.
There's a book about this - "There is no Anti-Memetics Division", written by qntm.
Thanks - yeah that is a real flaw.

Obfuscated malware where the malicious part is not obvious; it's distributed and requires a separate process/image.

Curious to see if some smart Apple-ers can invent a fix for this, though it seems like "no way" given the vulnerability.
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> But she is in fact vaccinated and wants to continue to wear a mask because she has many health problems.

Does she know that a mask, by itself, offers effectively no protection from being infected by covid-19?
It wouldn't be 10% of the population, though, right? It would only be 10% of the people who caught a case of the flu bad enough to be hospitalized or outpatient-treated?
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A radical idea but please hear me out: A new Stargate series that is not a reboot, not a remake, not set in an alternate timeline, not set far in the past or future, but rather a continuation of the story we know!
If you close up on the UIs of any Belter ship all the screens are translated into Belter. When the Roci gets a ship directly in it's sights, the targeting system will signal "Hammer Lock". The Belter ships say "Hamma Lok".
Do you have any insight on why PID controllers are used for this application? PID assumes a system with a continuous control input, but water boilers usually have an on/off switch. Is the input something like a PWM value?

My temperature controlled kettle does a way-more-than-optimal amount of switching when it's near the setpoint. That's consistent with using a PID controller into a PWM input.

Maybe there is a market opportunity for a water boiler that uses control techniques better suited to on/off inputs :)
That explains a lot. I often have a syntax highlighting quirk where it thinks that a fold has an open quotation mark in it. And will highlight everything below the fold as if it's a part of a string. I unfold, and clears it all up. but it's annoying in the moment.

I look forward to all of this
Sorry, so what happened was #foo was made invite only (+i), moderated (+m), and throttled (+f), so anyone who is in #foo is silenced and can't chat. Simultaneously, everyone was added to ##foo which is neither moderated nor invite-only. Freenode will grant operator access to #foo if you can prove that you're the official person for #foo, somehow. (I don't know the process). Once you have proven that, the new operator can change the modes again and make it open to everyone (or not).

Last night, hundreds of channels were effectively closed by muting everyone and making the channels invite-only and kicking everyone over to the ##foo unofficial channels.

> Why not kick them?

No idea.
> When that happens, declare victory and leave the conversation.

I think this is almost always the “winning move” when dealing with intellectual, yet idiot types.
Wow thanks!

btw I'm tj :]
I don't think the non-USB-c cables have any more safety features to prevent that. I'd be surprised if the USB-C ones do.
Big budget content is usually the worst. There were many pieces of indie media that had heart and shoestring budgets, that have been pushed out the market.
Unravelling `Async` and `Await`
I think there's a difference between asking applications to implement the accessibility APIs themselves and asking applications to use accessibility APIs provided by the OS.

A graphics application should be able to submit draw calls or queues to a OS subsystem that, for example, generates a comparable audio space, performs colorspace/size transformations for improving visibility, etc. Developers should just be responsible for plugging in to these systems, and the systems themselves should be as standardized as OpenGL, Vulkan, DirectX.
maybe times have changed, but before I got a VPN, I used to get copyright notices all the time. I didn't notice for a few years because they went to an @comcast.com email address that I never checked. when I finally looked, I saw pages and pages of sternly written emails. if freely torrenting movies for years isn't enough to get disconnected, I dunno what is.
Low marginal costs presents an economic conundrum in general: it's expensive to produce material and yet cheap to distribute it, so how do you fairly divvy up the cost? If each viewer only paid the marginal cost ($0.01), it no longer makes sense to invest in production; and in the success case, once the production money is recouped, one could certainly argue that charging $9.99 for a $0.01 stream is difficult to distinguish from price-gouging (or more formally, "rent-seeking" [0]).

One answer to this is "club goods" [1]: bundle large collections of content together for a fixed price so that per-unit access is zero-cost, but every participant pays their share of the whole; this is the model of both cable packages and streaming services. It's hardly perfect (especially in that it centralizes both data and power), but it's arguably a better win-win than arbitrary unit prices.

I do think it's shady that vendors are allowed to sell content using "buy" and "ownership" metaphors of physical goods, when in fact it's a limited license that can change or disappear at any time. I'd love to see some regulation in this space, to the effect that content can only be labeled "buy"/"own"/etc if the content is DRM-free and carries a permissive license for backups, remixing, transforming, etc.

And of course, there's an excellent case for reforming copyright laws more generally, such that content that has already had plenty of time to recoup its costs enters the public domain. I think the original duration (14 years) struck a reasonable balance; and on a cultural level, there's a great deal of value in each generation having unlimited access to the previous (still-living) generation's culture, in addition to culture of dead antiquity.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_good
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Yeah, which I guess beckons my other question: what makes something indigenous considering how frequently changes are produced gradually by cultural exchange, gradual migrations, etc?
> Now they finally have a good argument to keep forbidding JIT compilation and side-loading.

The argument was there the entire time. Some people just buried their heads in the sand though.
I don't use email for daily friends-family communication (doesn't have any of the needs I listed in OC) so I agree texting is the ideal tool for them. But for work communications? Chat has zero formatting anyway, even in comparison to text-only email. And while threading depends on the used client, it's more eye candy than a real need, if email search works (which it should).
5A, 50V

Good luck.

USB port just isn't physically ready for this. This is going to end with some spectacular fireworks once you factor in cheap Chinese engineering for cables, ports and chargers.
i would love if my macbook stayed on and computed when i closed the lid. behavior is pretty inconsistent no matter what settings i check in control panel. sometimes i close the lid and it holds its ssh connections, sometimes it drops them and i don't know why.
Vim uses both models, it uses the object-action model in visual mode.
Nope, that's not it :(
If the character is a professional software operator, someone like a programmer who spent years on his Emacs setup, then it actually might be realistic.
I'm not referring the technology itself. That's actually quite useful with real-world applications that may be worth investing in. The ticketing use case and also Gamestop's rumored use of NFT for reselling digital game licenses are actually awesome ideas. I'd invest in companies using this technology provided they had a valid business case for it and aren't just chasing the hype.

The craziness i'm pointing out is the apparent sale/purchase of NFT tokens for lackluster pieces of digital art at insane amounts. You aren't really investing in the technology in this case, you're investing in that piece of art. It confers no proven legal privileges, meaningful ownership or protection from being copied. It just gives you the ability to prove to someone that at a specific point in time you made a token for that bitstring or bought it from someone who did. Would these pieces fetch the similar prices on the art market right now where you can actually buy real proven legal rights/ownership of the piece? I highly doubt it.
vaccines are supposed to have years of testing to prove they are truly safe in the long term.
your own link says pfizer is trying to extend the emergency use authorization to apply to younger people, nothing about completing approvals. true FDA approval is still years away.
Thank you for the nice work!
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Oh man this brings back memories. Remember when Microsoft used to hardcode acid compliance into IE even though Trident didn’t support half those features in on any other website?
I believe integrating visual mode into your usage flow can help with this a lot.
There are a lot of comments in this thread and the first page contains only the first subthread. To read the rest you need to click More at the bottom of the page, or like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27289924&p=2

(Sorry for the interruption. Comments like this will go away eventually.)
Aw - that was what I was worried about - without updatable microcode :nuke:.
This is just more "Lost Cause" tripe. If you think the Civil War was about "states rights" etc etc, read the Confederate Constitution.

“In all such territory the institution of negro slavery, as it now exists in the Confederate States, shall be recognized and protected by Congress and by the Territorial government; and the inhabitants of the several Confederate States and Territories shall have the right to take to such Territory any slaves lawfully held by them in any of the States or Territories of the Confederate States.”