skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think anyone is objecting to the motives of the legislation, but rather that it’s unconventional for governments to directly stipulate a technology. Typically they set some parameters that their subjects must comply with. For example, they usually say something like “cars may not emit more than X PPM of carbon monoxide per liter of fuel” rather than “cars shall use technology Y”. It’s not that speculating a technology is outside of the government’s remit, but rather that it’s typically a bad way to make policy (politicians aren’t technologists, governments move slowly, etc).

In the particular case of USB-C, it’s a bit puzzling since it’s not actually an interoperable standard. For example, while the charger shape is the same, I can’t charge my laptop with my phone charger. Maybe the legislation accounts for this, but it’s a bit of a disappointing standard to cement.

> “legislation isn’t set in stone”

I suspect it’s an order of magnitude more difficult to change that legislation than it would be for the market to bring another standard. You might say, “if the Americans have some new fangled charger, the Europeans might demand change from their government”, but it’s pretty unlikely that anyone will invest on a new charger that they won’t be able to sell in Europe. For example, most phone manufacturers are unlikely to make a Euro-only variant, but will rather make a USB-C phone for the whole world, much like how Americans have to suffer through GDPR cookie notifications even though GDPR doesn’t apply to us.

Lastly, is interoperability even a problem? I remember the bad old days before USB and interoperability didn’t really exist because every adapter was proprietary and expensive, but I can’t remember the last time I had an issue. Similarly, are these chargers a major source of e-waste? And how much of that is this legislation going to change? Cords will still wear our and be thrown away whether they are USB-C or Thunderbolt.
And when that person does buy it for $50000, we are in the exact same situation, but now the missing money is $50000 rather than $2.
> Human trafficking is rife on Facebook

Even looking at HN’s reaction, which has a strong component rationalising for Facebook, it’s unsurprising that Facebook is itself divided on its responsibility to moderate. Even when we get to literal slavery.

A risk from this is contagion. The fish rots from the head down. But it’s been rotting for some time. Those people will, after Facebook, move on to other roles of influence.
The longer I lived in Japan, the more I realized that generalizations about Japan are naive/mistaken. And yes I know they come from enthusiasm and meant positively.
Author of the article here. Can't help but ask: Do you not believe that Bitcoin's blockchain sometimes allows powerful forms of financial tracking? Are you aware there's a whole industry that of companies designed to do exactly this?
Right, exactly. The name alone was enough.
Yep.

Things like Matlab and Mathematica end up in the $2k to $3k for commercial business, but just a few hundred for hobbyists.

I've been playing with a batteries included (like kitchen sink, but still tiny) Forth language (pretty rare as most Forths are focused on embedded) called 8th that is dirt cheap for a professional edition. I think it has a good price model as it is exactly what I'd be comfortable paying for something niche.
Exactly. Word-of-mouth advertising is not only free, but when someone personally recommends you, it's also the best.
i would love to buy an AMD GPU but price&&availability are just ridiculous and impossible
Every connector and moving part is a cost and failure point.
There is a reason why everything is moving in the other direction.
It’s going to be more expensive more bulky more flaky than the same components in a more integrated system.
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Correct, as I mentioned up-thread ketamine use has dangers.
> signalling in itself is more valuable than actual action or results

Apple privately threatening to ban Facebook is virtue signalling?
The European Union Wants a Universal Charger for Cell Phones and Other Devices
Actually Apple is moving a way from USB-C-only charger on the next gen laptops, because it does not provide enough power(to get even better charging speed). (Physical size limits that) So, maybe for phones it is enough in the future, but not for all devices.
It's helpful to find your first customer. Someone that believes in you and your skills. I'd be more than willing to be your first customer if you could provide some examples of your work.
If you're at the South Pole, you're in the New Zealand time zone, because resupply comes from New Zealand via McMurdo.
China's environmental track record stinks to high heaven (literally) and there's no doubt the country's leadership has been and is sacrificing public health for economic growth the same way the US did during industrialization. But the situation in Asia isn't as simple as China.

I live in Taiwan. While there's no doubt that some (and at times perhaps a lot) of the air pollution in Taiwan blows over from China, there are plenty of domestic sources of air pollution. Taichung has the fourth largest coal-fired power plant in the world, and the area between Taichung and Kaohsiung is home to many factories and industrial sources of pollution. Scooter usage is very high as well.

Taiwan is a democracy, getting closer to developed than developing, and a lot of younger people care about the environment. But without manufacturing and the pollution that comes with it, Taiwan doesn't have an economy.

Malaysia has a lot of air pollution. Some is industrial, but a lot comes from fires in Indonesia. A similar situation exists in Thailand. The northern part of the country, including Chiang Mai, has horrible seasonal pollution from agricultural fires in Myanmar and Laos. And of course many parts of India are infamous for pollution.

The bottom line is that Asia is the world's factory and home to many natural resources that have severe environmental consequences when exploited. Asian countries want to develop and the only realistic paths to economic growth are paved with pollution.

Living here has made it clear to me that for all of the talk about reshoring manufacturing in the US, it isn't going to happen, not just for economic reasons, but because there's no way Americans will be willing to sacrifice the clean(er) air and water they have today.

Pollution in Asia is a big problem but the West, because of its consumption that drives industrial activity in Asia, is reasonably as much a cause of the problem as the people in Asia are.
Even if a cryptocurrency pays out staking rewards, you still have a negative-sum game, because all of those rewards come from other people buying in.
That’s why I didn’t attribute the quote. I’m quite aware that the attribution is probably B.S.

There’s no question that the attitude was prevalent, though; whether or not Gates said anything like it.

“Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet.”

—Abraham Lincoln
Patches that are applied to the code that is uploaded to a package repository, but which are not committed to the source repository.
Where could someone go to get a reliable list of suspicious phrases like that one? Granted, I don't know if I want to know...
I would imagine it'd be a win for phone SoC-based SBC makers.
I was looking to see why they didn't go with AMD CPUs and the only answer that I could find in my relatively brief search was that it was due to the chip shortage.

Is that true?
> The proposals only cover devices using wired, not wireless, chargers
> it's not clear what specifically within social media constitutes harm

Honestly, I think it's just the fact that it's a website that allows you to constantly be exposed to different things that are interesting and stimulating. You can remove upvotes, scrolling, all you want, but you'll still have the IV drip of novel content. Constant exposure to novelty is harmful, I think. We weren't designed to have our minds blown every 5 minutes.

Spend a few hours a day having your brain washed with memes and fascinating articles (or at least the titles), and your brain will re-calibrate to this as the new normal, and anything less stimulating (reading books etc.) will feel boring. Constant novelty makes the world seem unstable and makes me feel flighty and anxious compared to more mundane activities, so the mental health connection is no surprise.

Hacker News is less stimulating than other social media because it's text-based, it's about more serious topics, it's well moderated, and it doesn't abuse addictive techniques like infinite scrolling. However, I bet many people here will attest that they sometimes close HN only to open it right back up again. Closing a website only to open it immediately because you are bored is a sign that you subconsciously believe the website is one of the only interesting things you can do. Either your brain is right, and everything besides HN, reddit, Twitter, etc. is actually boring, or these things are just so artificially stimulating that using them causes everything else to feel boring in comparison. I'll let you decide which you think sounds more accurate.
Hello, I am Moses.

Those damned stone tablets could have been iPads, they sure were heavy.
I agree with the EU on this one. I hate having so many slightly different cables and adapters.
In both cases, the government is not regulating the behavior of the company.
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I think everything should be allowed, but we should do a better job of making people pay for what they use by pricing the externalities into the consumption of a product. Once those price signals are in place then you let people make their own decisions.
This particular company simply made USB-C cables with massive overmolded pokeyokes that ensured they could only be inserted in the proper orientation--which works great until some poor bastard comes along and tries to assemble the thing with the cable he brought from home. Oh well, not my problem anymore.
I was sortof idly wondering the other day if anyone had "done" holiday calendar calculations in an easy library yet, or if emacs was still the best source.

This argues emacs calendar is the gold standard implementation.
Then you have either a very old contract or one of the special no roaming ones.
I’ve got my first customers over friends and family. Back then there weren't to many people doing websites, I wasn’t all that expensive either (mainly because I was young and didn’t know hat to charge).

I later tried online forums where people where searching for programmers and had extremely mixed results but even back then there was competition from India that was cheeper. I did have a couple of jobs troubleshooting problems that the Indian programers “didn’t notice” and weren't interested in fixing after “finishing” the job (sort of understandable, do the minimum required and move on when you are the cheapest and don’t care about developing customer relations).

Overall you have a couple of points you can compete on. Price, speed, quality and availability/convenience. If you find your customers locally you’ll have availability/convenience covered. You will probably have to compete on price to begin with and you might want to make sure your customers know they are getting a special to build up your portfolio. Speed and quality are something you will have to prove yourself on and you don’t have a lot of control over however your customers see you will be how they recommend you (or not) to others that are searching for somebody.

Depending on if you more IT or design savvy you might want to expand your competences in one direction and build contacts in the other.

P.S.: I quit the self employment racket after a while but one of my friends still works like this nearly 20 years later.
I grew up in the countryside. I'm sure your farm is very difficult to live on, but I'm not so sure it's a general thing.

Edit: Besides that, a subsidy is a cushion. That's what I was talking about. That doesn't merit this response.
Good point, funny and goes along with user name. 10/10 would read again.
I guess this is what I do for email addresses. I own my own domain, and use a unique address for each login and form, so if one leaks the address to spammers, I know which one it came from.
The Blitz.js documentation discusses some problems with deploying an RDBMS-backed app to Vercel. Have you encountered any of these? https://blitzjs.com/docs/deploy-vercel
On the other hand I'm much more comfortable buying a 500$+ phone from OnePlus that gets updated for 5 years. Maybe it can turn out to be good for both sides with manufacturers selling more high-end devices. (Rather than designing and selling cheaper but many low-end throwaway devices)
>> Apple is acting like a Government, Apple is ruling like a Government, but Apple has none of the oversight or accountability we'd demand from any reasonable Government.

You just listed how Apple is not acting like a government: they’re retaliating. I don’t understand how you can say “Apple’s retaliatory and discriminatory practices in choosing who to do business with is the touchstone of government” at the same time you list four perfectly good examples of a government entity not being able to do exactly what you say is the touchstone of a government.

You’re wrong. Apple is a private company. Doing business with people you want to do business with, and not doing business with people you don’t want to do business with (barring certain discriminatory practices), is literally what distinguishes private companies from government entities. If you want to argue that the App Store or iPhones or iMacs or MacBooks are somehow critical public infrastructure that should be governed by, apparently, common carrier laws then you should do that directly.
Instagram is also actively used to sell hard drugs

It's fair to say that their moderation sucks
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Does this mean the iPhone going powerless (EDIT: portless) would render the rule moot?
Epic is appealing the decision. Sweeney is promising to follow the rules but is also trying to take Apple down. Definitely duplicitous. Apple does not have to let Epic back in.
Google sues Indian antitrust watchdog following damning report leak
You may not care whether you're "The #1 Tech Resource For People Who Replace Components In Chest-Freezers In Butcher Shops", but if you are, then the other people who replace components in chest-freezers in butcher shops are going to be looking for you.
The fact is Lightning is so widely used in practice that force deprecating it would drive an awful lot of kit into land fills.

If it was one of the dozen or so variations of little USB with 2% or 3% market share each you'd have a point, but those have mostly gone already.

I don't expect Lightning to be around forever, but then I don't expect USB-C to be around forever either. Some day it will be super-ceded - should be super-ceded.

Apple has shown remarkable consistency and discipline in managing it's connector designs. Far, far more so than any other manufacturer I can think of. They were also at the forefront of adopting USB-C in the first place and spearheaded making it so popular.
Just a reminder, it's very similar to: https://github.com/vercel/nextjs-subscription-payments

( he mentioned it in the Readme too)
Huh, I thought BIOS/MBR required /boot to be on a partition at the beginning of the MBR and nowhere else, whereas UEFI allows it to be anywhere on the disk as long as its labeled with ESP.

So with UEFI, you just label /boot on USB as ESP. How does it work with BIOS/MBR?
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You embossed a letter because you knew how to emboss. I could look up the braille alphabet for the letter faster than I could learn how to, and actually, emboss the letter itself. You don’t even need to look it up. Braille Neue is a great font that prints the roman letters with the braille locations you can then emboss. Since braille is a letter for letter transcription of English, again, what is the utility to the blind for widespread learning by the sighted? It isn’t sign language, which is a distinct language used by the hearing impaired to communicate. It is literally just a 3d font.
smartphones are critical to living life in most developed countries. it's the same level of utility as electricity at this point. I don't see anything wrong with requiring a standard port.
> what makes Facebook special in this chain such that it is their responsibility to perform the filtering

Distribution. Each step until Facebook doesn't involve sharing with others, it's between you and a machine until that
So, it's the latter. They will have another excuse to increase the prices further. "We had to spend $BILLIONS to change the design of the iPhone, so this is why the new iPhone EU Edition is going to be 1400€".

This is the kind of thing that really makes me understand Brexit.
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Packaging small quantities of fresh produce in plastic was a common practice at Trader Joe's and it always annoyed me. Not sure if this is still true.
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True. You could also make the argument that journalism has declined because people will click on anything.
At worst, they can block sales across the Union. Somehow I don't think Cook would risk losing their second-largest market on a triviality like this, but who knows.
Right, thanks for pointing this out. I don't know how this happened. I'll remove this one and make a new post.
You can certainly charge an iPhone using an android charger.
USB C is a huge mess. I have at least 3 types of USB c cables. Standard USB C cables, Cables that can charge my MacBook Pro, and cables that can hook my pro to a dock. I understand the differences but try explaining the differences to your parents.
The difference is that browser makers don't make money off the web, while Facebook makes money off of Instagram.
You should read up on the An0m phone.
I wasn't aiming for anything but GP seemingly was:

> We should redefine noon to the time when the local sun is most directly overhead.

The local sun is "most directly overhead" at a different time each day at any place (maybe with the exception of Arctic circles when it's not up at all).
Is that what your forest is? Mine isn't, nor are most of the ones I hike through. Even the patch that we started to let grow wild 15 years ago and have barely touched is simply thicker with saplings and ground cover, not a mess of brambles and sick trees.

There are different types of forests, of course - maybe yours has a different makeup of species than the ones near me.
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Welcome, you are.
When my browser doesn't run your javascript, and your 14 minute read transforms into one paragraph, it's your call as to whether that's a problem.
Yeah I’ve come to believe you need global hegemony to truly abolish the industrial animal slaughter industry. Same with bitcoin mining or slavery.
If one country doesn’t enforce the ban then everyone in the industry will move there and the mass animal slaughter gets to continue.
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I don't know if "if you had to get one of these 2 diseases, which would you rather?" is really a meaningful question across centuries. The main treatment for Spanish flu was aspirin (!), and many previously very deadly diseases are now trivially treatable with antibiotics. The question I was thinking about is more along the lines of "how terrible an event in world history is this", and I think there it is absolutely fair to look at absolute numbers, and absolutely expected that more terrible events will happen as population increases.
You have less data because the law is for roaming not for people who want a Polish data plan they can use all year in Italy.
I don't do this often, but when I do I appreciate how smooth it is and don't feel at all like I'm contorting a wrist or anything.

I do most of my window rearranging when I'm switching workflows or connecting an external monotor.
That's good, but also make it DRM-free. I don't want to label which cable fits which device when they all have the same physical connector.
There's definitely something to be said about assumptions here.

I knew all/most of the mentioned high level details regarding SecureBoot and the TPM. However, I would have assumed that a TPM-enabled linux distro would have authenticated everything up to the FDE password prompt at a minimum as not doing so would seem to completely defy the point! Turns out this assumption is wrong.
This reminds me a lot of the "Mirrorwalk" layout for the Twiddler chording keyboard: https://forum.tekgear.com/t/mirrorwalk-config-the-walking-la...

Each letter is a two-button chord, but in practice, each letter is an arpeggio because the Twiddler only sends a key event when you release a button. The layout is designed so that when writing English, there is a very high probability that the second button you press for a letter will be the first button you press for the next letter, so you can keep that button held down, press the second button, then release the first button to send the next letter. Your first three fingers (it doesn't use the pinky row) will "walk" around the three rows of the Twiddler.

This is kind of making me want to pull out my Twiddler again, I really haven't used it since I gave up on trying to run Illustrator on a Surface tablet instead of a Mac laptop.
Weird, I'm pasting the correct URL, https://blog.allegro.tech/2021/09/evolution-of-web-performan... but the domain is removed automatically when I view the link that actually gets posted.
Let's suppose this was even true, what would it matter?

There's this weird assumption in popular culture that somehow the moment near death contains more truth than other moments, as if right before passing we have some "ah!" moment. But the opposite seems far more reasonable: as we get closer to death our reasonings will become increasingly distorted.

For example, a common narrative is "on their death bed they had wished they had focused less on career and more on family." Of course that's what you'd think on your death bed! You're likely scared, feeling alone and wish there was someone with you. You also don't have to worry about rent, gaining the respect of your peers, what you're going to do with your free time, retirement etc.

The idea that the moment of death brings some sort of grand understanding only makes sense if you presuppose there is some grand sense behind it all. Otherwise it's just the final moment of a long process of physical, emotional and mental decline.
The good old days of pocket protectors, strong passwords, and web-browsers less complex than entire operating systems have clearly yielded to faraday colostomy bags and the proxy anus. And if we could save those millions of lives, think of all the extra data we'd have!
It'll be particularly hilarious, if everything on the phone (charging, audio, data) is wireless, but there's a USB-C port to nowhere sticking out one side.
IIRC, they have, in south korea. (that would be a refutation of both points)
Why is this so important to the EU? The stated purposes of this proposal are to reduce e-waste and improve consumer convenience, but it's easily argued that the actual impact of the proposal is the exact opposite.
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But it is rarely as surprising as actual truth. :D
It worked really well for SCART in the past
That was fixed ages ago, but still exists as a running inside joke.
What is powerful about it compared to standard financial tracking? What would less powerful financial tracking look like? Sounds like hyperbole to make it sound more exciting rather than an accurate description of the process.
I don't understand how BLM land maintenance is a justification for saying that there are heavy subsidies for the beef industry.

Are you contending that most beef interacts with BLM properties in some fashion?