skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What protects the companies and freelancers who write these insecure systems from liability? Is it just a blanket “we are not liable” clause in every contract?
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Does the usual Ctrl+F GUI support filtering down to links only?
>I have never seen any cable, even under great stress, fall apart like that. It was an obvious chemical change, not physical stress.

I dug out some old cables from the end of the featurephone era and noticed that the USB data cables had chemical disintegration, like the plasticizer up and left the synthetic rubber or whatever it's made out of. This left the outside crumbling off. I really do wonder what they were made out of and why it does this. Similarly the rubberized coatings so popular on mp3 players of the late 90's, early 2000's do this as well.

To contrast I have 30+ year old NEMA connector cables (kind for server/desktop PSU's) with zero signs of wear, maybe they got a little stiffer over the years but no cracking. I have also used extension cords this old and again, none of this chemical degradation. I think lead stabilizers were used in outdoor cables and this is why they hold up better, and also carry lead warnings sometimes on the cables?
Yes, exactly! Also, a lot of the design work is done by the manufacturer (Flextronics) and the semiconductor company. Apple has different charger designs (that look identical outside) so they can play off different companies against each other.
Gladly. Perhaps you could link some of them?
Thanks for the link, really interesting
Time to make a new fan standard which everyone will use.
My comment is tabloid-level and I'm not a psychologist. That disclaimed, it wouldn't surprise me if Elon Musk is a psychopath; it sounds like his father's personality would not benefit a child's mental health https://www.thelist.com/406823/what-we-know-about-elon-musks...
They need to figure out ISRU for Starship methane refueling on Mars, but I don't think it will be ready for the cargo launches. Probably can expect it to be deployed before the first Mars crew launches though
With the level of complexity involved, I’d bet a homegrown solution would cost more than the keyboard Apple makes.
I'm extremely careful with my Macbook magsafe charging cables. But in ten years I've had three fray into uselessness.

My current cable has black electrical tape at both the charger block and connector ends. No matter how carefully one loops these things before putting them in a bag, the rubbery material eventually abrades and cracks.

In contrast, I used Powerbooks for 15+ years and never had a single cable go bad.
Does anyone know of a teardown like this for more recent chargers (ie. the "top rated Amazon chargers" or "Best Buy Specials")?
What was the context for having the occasion to speak to Hosien? Can you offer more specifics about what he told you?
Elon wasn’t helping anyone, he was clamoring for attention. He then made viscous and immature smears against someone actually helping. It’s incredible that someone would defend Musk on this.
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Knuth on Dijkstra (2014)
Starbase Factory Tour with Elon Musk [Part 1]
ADB, fin firms draw plan to close Asia coal-fired power plants
Those are not contradiction. He is the CEO of tesla because he feel like he has to otherwise tesla will die.
I’m pretty sure the deposit on the canisters is at least 4 EUR, and no one who is taking the trouble to fizz their own water and get replacements at the service desk would just chuck an empty one.
> Let's just be honest about what we're asking for here - we want companies to consider the needs of marginalized groups, for its own sake because it's the right thing to do.

Precisely! "Right is right, even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it." [1]

[1] G. K. Chesterton, _Illustrated London News_, May 11, 1907
> But taken by itself, the principle of action and reaction also fails to explain the lower pressure atop the wing

What? The pressure is lower on top of the wing and higher below because the air is being pushed downwards by the wing. I will happily explain this to any second-grade classrooms you find yourself having trouble with.
There's no difference with the Delta variant though. Also, let's not even start on Lambda variant! I guess Google execs are praying that it doesn't become the dominant one in America soon!
How Artists Lost Their Courage
You don't have to be callous to be a psycopath. And you don't need to be a psycopath to be callous. If you think someone is an a-hole, call the person an a-hole. Please leave diagnostics for professionals.

Musk said he is in the asperger spectrum. Among other things, it generally makes you not care what other think about you. And may lead to behaviour that is "acted" because all social interactions may be a difficult exercise.

Humans are complex and deep. And sometimes awful. There are more dimensions to a person than a good/bad guy or psycho/normal.

And with asperger - neurological diversity expands this space in ways it makes it very hard for neurotypicals to intuitively tell what the hell is going on.

Nobody is excused for bad manners. But not having any would not make person a psychopath.
So what you are saying is, they are holding it wrong?
Sure, if you treat almost anything with kids gloves it will last forever. But that isn't how people use the product. The reality is, the cords from apple are the only ones I've seen break like that.
Amazon can restore good will with me by fixing their shitty vesting schedule. But it’s probably shitty because even highly compensated engineers figure out that working there is too shitty to tolerate so they had to lock them in with backloaded vesting.
Where do they teach this "people do things because they're dumb, I'm special I see the truth" thing? Let me sign up.
Thanks for the previous work. I was most interested in your prose about the old, recalled Apple charger, where design suggested to you someone at Apple was told ~“be sure these never can come out again.”

Most of the action in chargers right now is in 30 watt USB-C. Everyone wants the fasted charge possible.

New iPhones can apparently consume 22 watts plus (via usb-c to lightning and macs and iPads (I believe) can pull the full 30 over an appropriate usb-c.

As a result, when shopping for USB-C chargers, or power strips containing USB-C, I study the supply carefully to make sure they provide this or if not I’ll be happy enough consuming a standard wall plug with a 30W adapter.

These adapters seem to have shrunk in the past two years due to GaN, or Galium Nitride instead of silicon. (I have not read what this means exactly but it is in the marketing copy)

One of the bigger electronics accessory names was the first, but now you see no-name brands offering GaN as well.

To my knowledge, Apple has not introduced GaN-based power adapters but I could be wrong.

Regardless, it would be very interesting to read a study of yours of 30W chargers in this class.

For example, this no name brand is selling two for $20, a very low price point: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B098J6LN4Q/

Versus Anker and the other big names which have similar, higher priced versions.

I’m presuming the cheap one linked above is likely to set my home on fire. But maybe not? You would be the one to speculate.

I’d be happy to fund a portion of the purchases needed for such an article. My email is in my profile.
Prices?
> It's okay now since it's divorced from the hokey red hats and low status swine who just happen to make slightly different consumer choices than you.

I'm an unapologetic trump supporter, so I guess I'm the low status swine.

China is an evil country because it supports an evil ideology, communism. There is no redemption for it other than to end the CCP and establish new good governance.
I'm not sure this is accurate; on both classic magsafe adapters (mid 2012) and 2019 adapters, I've not had an adapter fray, and both my 2012 and 2019 MacBook Airs are getting daily all-day use (and because I and my friend are clumsy, weekly coffee baths). A quick search for Apple magsafe pvc removal suggests (from Greenpeace's own site) that the change you are commenting on was done in 2009.

The original cables for both survived just fine for their entire life time, and the 2012 machine travelled all across the globe, and the 2019 even more so in a shorter amount of time, again, with very active and heavy use.

I don't think this is a widespread issue, and sounds isolated.
https://dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/

'dwheeler is now the Linux Foundation's Director of Open Source Supply Chain Security.
> and encryption to protect confidentiality

Probably the hardest part about this. Private networks with private domains. Who runs the private CA, updates DNS records, issues certs, revokes, keeps the keys secure, embeds the keychain in every container's cert stack, and enforces validation?

That is a shit-ton of stuff to set up (and potentially screw up) which will take a small team probably months to complete. How many teams are actually going to do this, versus just terminating at the load balancer and everything in the cluster running plaintext?
Perhaps because some wealthy individuals with outsized influence+power are becoming so out of touch with the present they might cause outsized harm.
wp got hacked is my guess
Jury’s still out but I’m not convinced this is a software limitation. It is possible that Apple’s previous implementation of a Secure Enclave couldn’t electrically work with any external handshake.
Because he retroactively sued the founders and got himself named a founder, he was an early investor but uninvolved I. The first prototype.
Leadership, yes, I agree. It doesn’t make any sense for say, the CEO of Geico to act this way. But for someone that is trying to bring to life a nearly impossible vision, I think there is a time and a place for this. Tough love.
My memory is weird!

As I was reading this link, i suddenly thought of the movie 'Top Gun' - which I have'nt watched or discussed this decade!!

And then a few minutes later, it dawned on me!

There is this character called 'Goose'!
Another former exec describes the time when Musk moved his desk to the factory floor to signal the importance of the Model S production crunch, and personally oversee it. However, he was so annoyed by the mandatory honking that factory floor trucks are required to do when approaching a corner, so he swiftly banned that practice…

The anecdotes seem to have no end.
This is very good advice.

Of particular note - if you're solving a consumer or business problem that isn't of itself 'technology' - then almost assuredly your 'implementation' is next to worthless until it's mature.

The entire problem lies in the overall user experience, and the customer development channels.

Technical ability is a nice asset, but in most situations it's just labour, like the ability to use a hammer and saw effectively - it's kind of a commodity.

#1 is good as well, thanks to the author, these are important lessons.
Younger people can't predict the future either and optimism doesn't predict the future either.

The future might be terrible.
I have another form of this: I constantly think people are playing/fucking with me and behing dishonest just to make me feel good, and anyone that tries to tell me otherwise just fits perfectly in my lenses. I don't try to do it though and try to be nice and honest
No, there are places dedicated to preserving and making available heirloom seeds.

Southern Exposure Seed Exchange: https://www.southernexposure.com/

Seed Savers Exchange https://www.seedsavers.org/

Open Source Seed Initiative partners with multiple seed exchanges: https://osseeds.org/
>Other people form their opinion based on 1), 2), 3)

Not just opinion but mental disease diagnoses.
The Netflix documentary about Bill Gates... Watch that. It's a very fine piece of propaganda and what makes it work. Excellent study material if you are interested in what makes people believe something.
Is a pile of manure visual pollution too? But intentional or not it makes the point that visual pollution is pretty arbitrarily defined.
I don't even think it's an actual article. Just skimming thru it, it looks like a salad of emotionally charged keywords with referral links to affiliated sites. Something a well tuned GPT model could write.
Since you mentioned VW, I just looked up the figures for German exports, and the largest destination for German car parts is China.

China imports about $9 billion in German car parts each year. That's in addition to about $17 billion worth of cars exported from Germany to China each year, making China the 3rd largest export market for German cars.
Ruthless brilliant maniacal tyrant.

For more context, there's this famous story: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...
Totally serious question: if Musk is so bad at engineering, to the extent that he's supposedly (?) not just making bad calls himself but also sabotaging the ability of those under him to make good calls, how has he ended up in charge of two companies that have both found (contemporarily) unprecedented success at scale in markets that have been absolutely dominated by huge incumbents for many decades? Tesla and SpaceX both seem to (at the very least) require a facility for making good technical decisions at a relatively high level, whether it's Musk or someone else.

Is he just astronomically lucky? Or such an incredible bully that he bends the very fabric of reality to his will? It's one (valid) thing to criticize his persona[lity], but his results seem rather more difficult to argue with.
it's hard to take the idea of longtermism seriously when it makes a basic mistake of treating its far future (10^58 people living in a computer simulation) as virtually certain. it has no concept of stochastically discounting this future among infinitely many into the present, let alone today's value of all those potential future beings(?), to arrive at a reasonable weighting on present decisions.

with that said, i do really dislike the focus on "climate change" as mediopolitically-mediated existential risk, as it's too abstract and it's potentially devastating effects also poorly discounted into the present. instead, let's rather focus more on pollution, especially of the air, ground, and water, which are palpable and immediate threats to lives, solutions to which will also intersect with the longer term problems implicated by climate change. pollution is a real risk today and into every far future, which is why it's worth pursuing now, rather than a single strand of future possibility.
I wouldn't be surprised if that oils and bacteria, and if that's dependent on particular user's hand microbiota. Apple should and could test it on users who report fraying, IMHO.
Mine mbpro USB-C charger cable is just turned to yellow after a year of use. I'm going to add some shrinkwrap before it turns to goo, hopefully it'll work this time.
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Glyphosate doesn't kill humans like it does plants but it does alter human physiology. It causes cell walls to become permeably all over the body. That includes intestines (some suspect IBS and may be linked to it), the blood-brain barrier (suspected of possible links to brain cancers, mental illness, etc.), and many, many others. Membranes that are never supposed to be impermeable become leaky.
interfere with creating a union? believe it or not, jail
It's not that working in automotive industry is a lit more exciting than working for adtech. Also taking in the account that not only the compensation, but also the culture in SV companies is more developer-friendly.
If you want to upset the wealthy, institute a wealth tax (and redistribute as UBI).

If you want to decrease asset prices, tax them (without loopholes) and see their valuation drop real fast, or slow - depending on tax rate.

Just remember to equitably distribute a part of proceeds so you're helping, not hurting the poor.
I actually use them for a special cause. I use them for solving for the specific parameters that make each type 1 diabetes patient individual and unique. Once the parameters are solved for, we can make a "virtual patient" and do simulations of the patients, and we can do further optimizations and fine tuning.

We also use the parameters for artificial pancreas systems, in order to give personalized and optimized insulin dosages for each patient, using those same exact parameters. In this case, we use a controller (model predictive control) and plug in the individualized parameters into the controller interface for each individual patient. The system is interfaced with a mobile device, an insulin pump, and a continuous glucose monitor. The mobile device sends data from the insulin pump and continuous glucose monitor to the controller (input) and retrieves data from the controller (output) via the mobile device. Via the output, commands are issued to the insulin pump regarding insulin dosing.
Except non-immigrants and immigrant americans both have higher birth rates, even if immigrant's are higher.
I would agree with smart glasses. So many people wear glasses, lenses or contact lenses which means adoption can happen pretty easily once a good product comes out. Maybe peaked caps (to hold the camera) and glasses combined or something.
And truly the vast majority of employers just don't want to layoff or fire if that don't have to.

I've seen far too many corporate moves that were driven by executives looking to goose the stock price to believe that. You can argue that it's the executive's job to goose the stock price, and thus they "have to" lay off people in order to avoid taking as much of a financial hit in a recession or whatever, but that just gets us back to the original position: the company has a minimum amount of loyalty to me, and, in return, I have a minimum amount of loyalty to the company.
Go doesn't have coroutines-the-flow-control-construct. It has goroutines, which are lightweight preemptively scheduled threads. You can, on top of this thing, arrange for a bunch of goroutines only one of which is not blocked at a time, which is a bit like having coroutines, but probably involves more synchronization code than a typical implementation of coroutines-the-flow-control-construct.
"Disclaimer: The AURS is a satirical critique by political candidate David Alexander Bramante, in association with his campaign David Bramante for Governor 2021.

David is hoping to point out how dangerously close our society is to having a company like AURS exist, and a world where friends, family and neighbors are reporting each other to authorities. "

yep, fear-mongering, 'slippery slope' fallacious nonsense, masquerading as "satire". Just what's been missing in the world!
>It's definitely user related. My Apple cables last indefinitely—unless my wife gets ahold of them. Then? Look out.

I had a Belkin lightning nylon charge cable I used for years and it worked great, then my gf borrowed it for 2 days and "gorilla'd" the end. Since she had a habit of chewing through the regular cables in only a few months, I was curious to watch and see what she does different.

It was two things:

1. She uses the phone while charging frequently and has the cable kept taut, this strains the connector.

But more importantly

2. She yanks the phone off the charger by grabbing the cord and pulling the phone at an angle, this can destroy a worn cable in a matter of days.
I think it is pretty much the datasheet reference circuit so the people that designed the chip were already paid for that and that cost is in the bill o
Not Windows, but a lot of data in companies in managed by remote VM's.

Halt the comms and half of the industry in my province gets shut down in less than 10 minutes.
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Agreed that some kind of stripe would make this a lot easier. Save me testing directions and trying to judge which has more tension. I do the same thing with keyed plugs, though—if anything, I find it easier to accidentally introduce more twists in those, since I'm more likely to need to half-twist it one way or the other to get it oriented the right way.
The slave labor I am aware of currently is being used by the authorities
Nova does oversimplify things. Tho, I have yet to hear "golly gee whilikers" on it. Nova has become the science equivalent of 60 minutes, both of which are geared toward the public at large. Personally I find these programs entertaining, and if I want to go deeper I can always fire up a browser.
There do exist these things called "dwarf tomatoes". Also, a large pot and a few good cherry tomato seeds can blow away everything in a supermarket with little flavor bombs.

I have determinate dwarf tomato plants (3 feet tall max), which I grew from seed ($2.99), planted in old milk crates (free) lined with plastic from old bags (free) and filled from one huge bag of potting mix (~$20-30), and this gives me half a dozen plants that are superior to anything in a supermarket. I staked them with tree branches trimmed from my trees (free).

I have grown them in the actual ground many years, eliminating the cost of the potting mix, but after a few years, you need to let the soil lie fallow to avoid blights, so this year it's the milk crate planters.
Yes, because there’s no benefit to their business to invest time switching it to USB-C, and significant upsides to existing customers if they continue using Lightning.

What use case do you envision should be higher priority to Apple’s customers than being able to recharge their keyboard, trackpad, and phone from a single Lightning cable left plugged into their desktop computer’s USB port?
So under Marxism, people don't need to discuss how to coordinate their work? That does save a lot of time. No wonder the Soviet economy was so efficient.
I agree that for MagSafe cables this is really rare. Granted, I haven't had any issues with the USB-C cables ever since they switched to them when they came out with the Touch Bar MBP.

The lightning cables though... those things seem to break super easily. USB-C vs. USB seems to make no difference-- the strain relief is pretty terrible. Doesn't help that some of these cables get a lot of use (eg; for Apple CarPlay). I've found that it's usually the lightning end that goes not the other end. I wonder if switching the iPhone to USB-C might not help. But at this point it sounds like they're aiming for full wireless.
No one should ever put up with being treated like this at work. Please contact an employment attorney if you are and start planning your exit and documenting your experiences. You don’t have to suffer abuse in the workplace just because an executive thinks they have a “vision”.