skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CIA is lying and WPO is lying.This creates just healty paranoia. Trust but verify.
At least with Samsung you can turn fast charging off. That's what I do most of the time. I only fast charge if I need it fast.
> Why? There's a lot of JS to load to make that work. If you never need to do a search (e.g. from a Google search) it would be a potential waste.

Confused by what this comment is meant to say exactly, but just in case its not known already, seems this situation is what the autofocus attribute is for @ https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_att..., no JS needed
Litz wire doesn't increase the durability as such, merely reduces skin effect in RF applications. Sennheiser used to sell steel cables for their professional headphones. Now those are durable. I ran over mine with my chair about 50 times a day and the cable was still going after 10 years.
Sorry, but your comment is just nonsense. :( GPS time doesn't include leapseconds: It's effectively TAI with a different offset.

GPS indeed has to correct for all sorts of orbital stuff, but that is done with equations on top of a stable atomic timebase. (And it has to be that way-- each satellite's orbital parameters are different).
Exactly why I left a job and abandoned a $10k retention bonus. The work was interesting and fun, but approaching zero users.
Yet another justification for not giving a flying f about the present and near future...
Yeah, I don't get this criticism - obviously he could have gotten rid of whatever safety measures he wanted. Maybe people would have quit or there would have been issues with safety inspections down the line, but he clearly could've done it.

Instead, he pushed to try to get rid of them, but ultimately listened to people who had more expertise than him. This is a good thing for a CEO to do - ask hard, big picture questions about the way things are being done, but ultimately accept the answers of the experts you've hired.
>It wasn’t funny to call a guy trying to rescue trapped children a “pedo”

That guy first told Elon to stick his small submarine up his own ass, so maybe he shouldn't have told "a guy trying to rescue trapped children" to sodomize himself with a very large object?
Would pay to see a Ting electrical system sensor torn down.

https://www.tingfire.com/
My wife used to burn through cables. Now, the first thing I do when I get a new Apple device is add strain relieve. I don’t remember where I learned it, but I use the springs out of empty “click pens” (think Bic). When a pen runs dry, I take the spring out and save it in a small container in the “packet drawer.” When I get a new cable, I wind a spring around each end. It has the added bonus of making the cables easily distinguishable as belonging to us.
I actually think that while this charger is acceptable, it is pretty disappointing from Apple.

A neat design wouldn't use a bridge rectifier on the input side - it would use synchronous rectification (more efficient, substantially smaller because no big passives are required for input smoothing, and nicer on the electrical grid because it's actually possible to design it to deliberately absorb harmonics generated by other devices in your home).

Next step would be to use a much higher switching rate (eg. 3Mhz). Use some high performance MOSFETs to reduce switching losses. Suddenly that transformer becomes the size of a grain of rice and the capacitors can all be surface mount. The whole thing can now be lighter, smaller, cheaper, and less environmentally impactful while maintaining the same performance.

Apples design here was electrically boring and very much not pushing the envelope of what is possible.
If this is true, the watershed moment was actually the introduction of the television. Multiple generations have grown up glued to it and influenced by it. Before that it was radio. But each time a new technology vies for our attention, it does it differently, and a new successor comes up that changes things yet again. It is most likely that we cannot predict what the future holds from all these changes as each time it has a slightly different form and effects.

I predict the next one is a contact lens with a ticker-tape of entertaining information, and machine-learning driven "ad placements" which are phrases/sentence structure designed to call one's mind to a product's slogan without directly printing it.
As far as reliability goes, I do see a lot more frays in Apple cables (though not ones that remain exclusively in my care) than others, but part of the reason is that other cables seem to have a weirdly-high rate of mysterious failures in absence of evident physical damage. They just die after 6-24 months. Maybe they'd fray eventually too, but they crap out before it happens. I don't get it. The only Apple cables I've seen do anything similar are usb(-a/-c)-to-lightning charging cables (and I suspect I just need to rubbing-alcohol the contacts on the lightning-plug ends on those, to solve the problem)
This is terribly written. Weasel words, loaded questions, and vague ad-hominems everywhere. I truly cannot find any actual data, reasoning, or argumentation anywhere in the text.

It is beyond me why this author, clearly an intellectual serf, thinks that other people should be consuming his opinions.
Yes, but he is also building a massive friggin reusable rocket and has built rocket boosters that land. He is emotional because he cares about changing the world for the better. He is a weird dude that has a weird sense of humor. Jumping down his throat for bad jokes seems like it actively hinders human kind's progress.
VergeSense (YC S17) Is Hiring Multiple Roles (Full-Stack, Firmware, Product)
So you're saying without dependent types you can express in a type a function that will return double each element in the list thus removing the need to test the function?

If you can do that, that's awesome, but I'm not seeing how.
> It seems we need to find a completely new means of propulsion (or offsetting with carbon capture) before we could have a green space industry.

Space elevators would be a cool solution, but they are in the realm of science fiction for now. So deploying at least some carbon capture solutions before space industry begins to scale actively is a good idea
It's not an automated account, just me looking for freelance work for myself and sometimes helping my team find bigger gigs (there definitely is a demand so why not try to meet it?)
`npm yeet malcious-package`
There was "pedo guy", there was cacophony to his wife about the loss of a child, now yelling at employees.
Can't be isolated incidents I would think.
Yes, certainly, but it also implies one has sufficient demand to make back the cost.
TE devices are SPECTACULARLY inefficient. Carnot's Law applies and the thermal tolerance of all TE material are limited. You are lucky to get 5% on a good day. You still still a heat source and cold sink just like ALL OTHER heat engines and the efficiency is limited by the difference in temperature. There is no cheating. There is no magic.

Selenium is moderately available but it is toxic waste when you need to replace it (all things have finite lifespans) and then need to dispose of the discard.
How about if you remove their bitcoin and doge earnings.
Do you know what the big difference for companies to cram enough hardware into the same space to support 20W power like Anker [1] Is this just incremental improvements or is there a technological breakthrough that's enabled this?

[1] https://us.anker.com/pages/uai2020
It could just as easily be environment causing corrosion

Very strange victim blaming going on in this thread, nobody has even attempted suggesting how to avoid it
I have a Freestyle 2 and the Freestyle Edge (the blue version). I completely understand what you are talking about.

Freestyle 2 (blue) is good. Feels good, bluetooth just works, battery life is great. Non mechanical, but if you like Apple Keyboards that shouldn't matter. Also no backlight if it matters.

The Edge has survived multiple coffee spills (although the backlight on the "2" key doesn't work anymore, after the last one).

Left it to dry and sunlight warped one of the spacebar caps. Those keys are custom and so impossible to find. Tried 3d Printing one but it wasn't really usable. Contacted Kinesis support fully expecting them to say that it's no longer supported... not only it is supported, but they mailed me a new spacebar keycap, for free.

So yeah. The Edge is pricey, non-removable switches unfortunately. Doesn't come with palm rests but it really, really should. Great onboard software(again, only the Edge). And great support, to the point that I'm here advertising for them for free.

Also split keyboards in general are great since you can have all sorts of stuff in between them :)

The Touch ID issue was solved with the Apple Watch. I'm not going back to Apple Keyboards. Really trying to avoid the custom keyboard rabbit hole too :)
Anecdata, on my last MagSafe system, I went through 2 units that failed within the first year but the 3rd one lived for several years.

I didn’t change my habits at all.

Which makes me suspect they changed the formula.
There was a couple year span on Reddit where you'd see a couple of really positive Bill Gates posts each day. At a glance it seemed organic, but people were always in the comments suggesting it was great PR. Seems like they were probably right.
It’s not just views on Amazon as a company to do business with. Attitudes around these parts have soured on Amazon as a company to work for too.
Plenty of open source projects receive funding for their work. Just running ads on your site to defray hosting expenses can be enough to get you classified as a commercial service these days.
A year to learn, a year to earn, a year to yearn is how I’ve heard the cycle explained.
> These people and their products (and their communication channels) need to be turned off ASAP for everyone else's sanity and self-preservation

But they can't be because enough people don't share your worldview. Do you believe private communication is a human right? Well then you can't stop them communicating either. How would we achieve a world where these products and services could be universally banned immediately?

You are right, the problem is ethics. The problem is that it's not universally criminal to attack other countries' wealth.

If it came out that this group ran their infrastructure on IBM cloud, and you still worked at IBM, what would you do? It seems you think that the generation of wealth for IBM's shareholders is more important stopping genocide therefore it's okay to be complicit. So you seem to have some general notion of ethical total harm.

> The idea that terrorism (and black hat hacking is absolutely a form of terrorism) is a useful way to change corporate behavior is so ill-informed that it's pathetic.

It does change behavior, though, whether you like it or not.
Aren't investors known to miss far more (10 to 1 or more) than hit, and just rely on those successes to cover the losses?
Pinion – Nice-looking interactive diagrams for KiCAD PCBs
The BATF radicalized people too - Timothy McVeigh credits Waco for his attack (and well was also pretty close to begin with but still radicalizing). Are we to dissolve them then?
The real question is the magnitude - without that the premise and logic are fundamentally deeply flawed.
Because he calls himself a founder and Tesla calls him a founder. Basically a Ray Kroc situation.
As if. If Apple ever brings FaceID to macs, it will be with the webcam of their own monitor and nothing else.
There were two founders originally, Eberhard and Tarpenning. Musk was just a investor.

After Eberhard left he sued Tesla for trying to rewrite history. Then he settled with agreement that Musk and two others (Straubel and Wright) were added to the list of founders. Money solves these things. Now Musk is now officially a Founder.
Do you ever encounter chargers that are AC-coupled (like, a transformer at the input), or do they generally all work fine from a DC supply?
Do they have a version for ordinary web app servers?
Emacs Lisp has macros which are a lot more elegant (not to mention powerful) than Python decorators which comparatively, are nothing more than a kludge.
can't believe that this is still an issue. Apple Magsafe chargers are great and aestherically pleasing if you never move around and your Macbook is glued to desk all the time. But like most mobile MacBook users, I had similar problems with fraying Magsafe 2 charger cables for my rMacBook Pro from 2012 (non-USB) -- they had to be replaced almost every year, which was insane. One of them also died in flame -- which the Genius quietly replacef (for free) -- but the majority died unceremoniously due to similar fraying cable issues up until 2019. The Magsafe chargers had the lowest user ratings on Apple store website until the company decided to remove all user reviews a couple of years ago.

Needlessly I really had to part away from Apple products -- the first two years were covered by Amex's extended warranty, but after that the yearly "upkeep cost" started going up -- as there were also other issues with faulty GPU and bluetooth/wifi -- and continued until a couple of years ago (largely as a backup laptop).
I would like to see a picture of that circuit, not just a diagram. I've used this trick to good effect, and also used another trick: to use the circuit board as a balancing resistor. Just make the track a little bit longer for instance by routing the wires less than efficiently or by putting a little wavy line in it and you have a very low resistance resistor just perfect for balancing out the differences in diode switch speed and bias voltage.

In electronics not everything is what it seems to be at first glance. For an encore check out pcb fuses, coils and even capacitors.
Oh Thank You. I will look into it.
Try again sometime on a homemade burger with a homegrown or farmers market heirloom tomato! Divine.
> Well, just crunch the numbers: 0.00000000001 percent of 1023 people is 10 billion people, which is ten times greater than 1 billion people. This means that if you want to do the most good, you should focus on these far-future people rather than on helping those in extreme poverty today. As the FHI longtermists Hilary Greaves and Will MacAskill—the latter of whom is said to have cofounded the Effective Altruism movement with Toby Ord—write, “for the purposes of evaluating actions, we can in the first instance often simply ignore all the effects contained in the first 100 (or even 1,000) years, focussing primarily on the further-future effects. Short-run effects act as little more than tie-breakers.”

This seems ludicrous as a decision-making guideline. Why should anyone's confidence in what anything will be like in a thousand years be large? Multiply that "I'm helping billions of future people" by a "I have a one in a billion shot of actually predicting out past a thousand years correctly" instead of something like "1%" and suddenly your "short term effect tie-breaker" should return to being the dominant term in your equation.

Is this an inaccurate representation or is it really that much of a faith-based religious thing?

EDIT: it also takes you to potentially all sorts of weird places around murder/birth control/abortion. If someone is murdered before they have children, the murderer cut off their life plus untold future generations. If they use birth control or abortion to avoid having kids, they've still cut off untold future generations. The "one" aspect of that becomes insignificant if you reason about a long enough timeline purely in terms of "future potential"... I don't get it at all. Not even the extremely religious place THAT extreme a value on hypothetical potential life.
a world class performer who doesn't have some "field" where anger and profanity are permitted

That "field" should never be in front of, or directed at, subordinates. The best people have peers (or walls, or chairs) to vent their frustration at.
He has done a good job and intentional job of making it seem like he was - and both original founders left soon after he started making active moves as an investor.

I've been a big fan but this series of videos is tempering my understanding:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-FGwDDc-s8
I've been observing one thing about Musk...

He seems to not have a surgically precise thinking at all times like some smart people do, but he is always right in the stochastic sense if you will, over longer periods of time, he tends to be exactly right.

(And I agree that he can be despicable at times. To me the "pedo" thing is unforgivable.)
Please take some time to read the hacker news community guidelines.
Musk and Jobs were both extremely mean and degrading to employees. How do we reconcile the revolutionary nature of their products with the terrible behavior of their childish CEOs? Is it really that hard to calmly criticize? Maybe the stress of these duties drives susceptible personalities into berating and belittling?
One option would be to try to doxx them, either as part of a criminal investigation or via private investigators. I bet these groups would be much less effective if their identities were publicly known. There's a reason they're not public.
> The clincher is that regulations, taxes or outright prohibitions of cryptocurrencies will be enforced with violence.

Hence my references to anarchy. All governments are the definers of legitimate force and to whom their local monopoly of it can be deputised.

> Are freedoms granted by government?

Yes.

> Where does it stem from?

Game theory, economics, and the occasional threat of other people doing violence against the stuff they (the powerful) like.

> Who is entitled to the value you add to a marketplace?

Nobody, including the creator of that value. The creators of value are only rewarded with it because a system vastly bigger than any single human has temporarily settled on a local equilibrium where that is the motivation.

Entitlements only exists with respect to legal frameworks and with enforcement mechanisms, not by themselves.

> Is a market a zero sum game?

They can be, they can also be negative or positive sum games. Messing with currencies is often a negative, because it creates opportunities to defect that otherwise don’t exist.

I own a flat. It’s collecting rent. If the economy goes up and all else is equal, I collect more rent (more money in the system for fixed supply); if home construction increases, I collect less (more supply for fixed money in the system). This income is entirely due to what the government in charge of the area decides to motivate, not how much I put into maintaining the place. Similarly: the profitability of Nissan in the UK is determined by what sort of trade deal the UK and the EU have; Facebook, GDPR-style and safe harbour laws; SpaceX, national security laws; Saudi Aramco, global oil policy; and so on.

None of us stands alone (assuming nobody here has a von Neumann probe), and tax evasion is Nash-defection.
How can you honestly compare what I wrote to the handmaid's tale, in which women are forced to breed with men who are not even their husbands? There is no overlap between the two visions. Stop the strawmanning. There is literally nothing 'Christian' (your word, not mine) about men married to infertile women having mistresses. That's literally antithetical to the whole thing.

You talk about 'knowing your place in society' as if that's a bad thing. A lot of social problems today descend from the fact that large portions of the population have no place in society.
I’m a big believer in checklists, ever since my medical residency when I realized that not having a very clear, organized list of what I had and hadn’t done could lead to someone getting hurt.

My current todo list lives in Obsidian.MD which syncs via GitHub to my phone and computers.

Question: are there any ways in standard markdown to indicate a partially complete checkbox as illustrated in this post? I’ve not found anything. Seems like a “[/]“ would be a good way to indicate partial completion since an “[x]” (or another character) is usually checked box.
To people saying this is caused by use - this is irrelevant - people are upset because they use other comparable cables this way and don't have these problems nearly as often. I've noticed Apple usually has thinner cables - maybe it's that - frankly I'd prefer more robust ones.
you are right.
I recall reading an HN comment a while back where someone did check the data on the wire with one of those 'no-name cheap wifi home cameras' that claimed encryption for privacy and they did see scrambled stuff - so good.

But I also recall a recent comment (I think from a saas founder?) - where they don't claim E2E with thier service as it's using webrtc(?) that needs to decrypt at the relay (stun/turn?) server - then re-encrypt to deliver.

(Which is how I will be preferring ro deliver with webrtc so to avoid direct p2p and ipaddy leaking (trading a user to user privacy for trust in the server relay - good for my situation, not what I'd suggest for most other)

anyhow - that kind of thing would get tricky, is the soft wiregaurd? that is used to peek at the traffic - would (could) show encrypted stuff leaving my box - and give me a false sense of security if zoom was decrypting in the middle - I guess I'd need to find if the data was going p2p somehow. (still learning to be security professional)

we need some way to codify parts of your comment into law, and into people's understanding of the need to have encryption for data others get to play with. - There is a tinge of this in the hippa.
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This is nice, it uses latest/modern python3 features, thanks, I needed some use case to see how those feature are useful in real world...
Is concept of union perfect? No it is not.

But the point is that in a sufficiently large corporation people mean shit and the company has disproportionate power over individual employees.

For example, in a small town with one large company there might just not be any other jobs.

The whole point of unions is to discriminate against the employer, to provide some leverage to employees to not be completely treated like shit.

If you are sufficiently large company you need to take correspondingly large responsibility and costs of maintaining that workforce.

In my view Amazon falls into both "sufficiently large" category as well as history of being shitty employer.

It is not a one-sided process, Amazon has already had great many chances to show they can do better but they chose to not use those chances to correct their behavior.
I don’t buy it. Those folks throw fits because they provide enough value to their bosses (be it a company’s board or the NFL) that they can get away with it. Everyone else is expected to act professionally and keep their emotions on check. Outbursts of anger are not a sign of genius, but a sign that the person can’t easily be replaced.
My experience is that architectures usually last 2-3 employee tenures, the point is the original architect usually doesn't see the outcome of their work.
> I'm just careful not to twist them

This is the difficult part when the whole cable is a single solid color and the plug fits either direction. I have a Lightning cable in my car that only gets used hanging straight down from my dash-mounted iPhone, and I've noticed the device-end strain relief finally giving out from this after a few years.
The journalist is clearly a ball sucker...

Taiwanese does not "disagree". They are a clear other separated country.