skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Details and resolutions, that must be a joke in 2021.

> Co-financed by the European Union

very nice to see where taxes go.
I'm also curious about this. 99% of Ethernet cables i've come across had "CAT5e" (or another cat) spelled out on the cable's coat, and that proved useful. With USB, on the other hand...
> I find it hilarious that we spend multiple thousands of dollars on sleek, elegant hardware and then hook up chunky plastic dongles to overcome their bad hardware interfaces.

I don't understand how anyone can come up with that conclusion. I mean, your "cheap plastic dongles" jab is actually a testament to the extent of how superb it's interoperability is. I mean, you're for some reason complaining that we are free to even plug in "cheap plastic dongles" to a high-end device when in reality this means that we can even plug in the cheapest "plastic dongles" and expect it to work. How is this a bad thing?

Back to the "cheap plastic dongles" complain, I do use one from time to time, and the reason is quite simple: I had USB-A devices which I use for years but I also have a couple of laptops which only pack USB-C ports. Should I throw away perfectly good hardware just because a random guy on the internet dislikes cheap plastic dongles? Should I base my purchasing decisions on whether a laptop supports legacy ports? Or should I just spend $10 on a dongle intended to be used occasionally and stop worrying about inane details?

Those who prefer spending their time on relevant things don't even realize that complaining about the proper etiquete of pairing peripherals with computers is a reason for anyone to waste their time. Why do you?
Idk, I remember some good things that I was surely missing in 5, and little less in 6. Upgrades were a little bumpy, but after that phase it all felt much better.
The 13-word snippet you posted has more character development than the entire TBP series combined.
Samoa also recently (2009) changed to driving on the left side of the road to align with NZ/Australia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_in_Samoa#Change_from...
Why is it that nobody seems to be able to spell the word "fuchsia"?
CodeSod: A Dash of SQL
> All this stuff was pretty interesting to me so when OpenSolaris was released later, I had to take a look and see what they did. And it was a big clunky looking thing.

SunOS was running on 20 processor (née core) systems as early as 1993:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun4d#SPARCcenter_2000

* https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/289692

* https://www.manualslib.com/manual/1731798/Sun-Microsystems-S...

So I'm curious to know if there was any refactoring at some point, or whether this was 'just' the best that could be done when they first wrote it, and then they left/were stuck with it. Certainly Linux would have had the advantage of more years of research when it finally got around to solving the same problem.
How much time did you spend on researching what USB-C cable you should buy? :)

Also, does it have data? At 2.0 speeds? At 3.1 speeds?
The particulate output of these pales in comparison to the coal plants though. Reminds me of when China clamped down on street vendors who used open fires while ignoring the steel plants down the road.
I think your mixing actually complying with the rules and promising to abide by the rules.

In your quote Cook said "if they abided by the rules" but in the Sweeney letter you linked to he said "Epic promises that it will adhere to Apple’s guidelines". Sweeney didn't say they actually did it.

Also, the daringfireball article includes the letter you linked to and covered this topic.
Well, with that attitude at least you can never be proven wrong, which must be nice and certainly isn't revealing about the logic of your position
It wasn’t the goal of implementing DST so they reverted it

Weighing the utility of the unexpected outcome simply wasn’t part of the equation, easy for me to perceive.
> With Google's eventual transition to Fuschia OS

I still have yet to see even the most remotely reliable source that indicates Fuschia is actually going to replace Android.

Reminds me of when people were so absolutely sure that Android and ChromeOS were going to be merged.

Never happened.

I really wish people would stop repeating hare brained tech blog gossip and speculation as confirmed roadmaps.
Regenerative agriculture uses livestock to increase viability of soil. If used correctly theyre already a sustainable ag tool that uses waste and grazing as a benefit to plant production and carbon sequestration, not just a meat generation source. Lab meat will become less efficient at high scale not more efficient according to the history of previous biotech scale up attempts, most of which use more viable organisms than animal cell culture.
This thing right here makes me unconfortable. I don't want Microsoft signatures or any other company for what matter to be involved in my boot process.

> The UEFI firmware invokes a piece of code called "shim" (which is stored in the EFI System Partition — the "ESP" — of your system), that more or less is just a list of certificates compiled into code form. The shim is signed with the aforementioned Microsoft key, that is built into all PCs/laptops.
Indeed, the future of their business model is at stake. If Epic succeeds and many more try to circumvent paying 30% to Apple, then they will feel it.
Endpoint == instance of phoenix webserver. Changing things in the endpoint gives you WAF-like control and you can do some early footwork here and store useful data in conn[:private] for you to use later in the modules called in your router

You can have multiple routers. I just built a thing where foo.com uses one router for the main site and *.foo.com is something else.
Highly recommend the Crown episode ‘The Fog’ that goes into how bad it once was in London.
Is it because you move your phone while it's charging a lot more than you move your laptop?
> Cook said that Apple was not thinking about money at all, and Fortnite's revenue was not a consideration.

That's a bald faced lie. Of course it is about the money.
Antibiotics don't help with viruses or resistant bacteria. In live animals the antibiotics are applied on top of the immune system.
Almost all UEFI firmware allows replacing the default public keys with your own, and then you can sign everything yourself with private keys only you possess.
I don't think it's explained in the article, but why was spotifyd chosen instead of cast or airplay "middleware"?

Surely cast and airplay work with Spotify while delivering equal sound?

Either way, amazing work and looks fantastic in wood.
Is Firefox Headed Towards a Decline? (2010)
Just change the network ID and any EVMs work

Avalanche is no different
> how many megadeaths you are willing to cause through war and famine

This is a strange way to describe moving towards a more sustainable [cheaper and healthier] diet.
>>I use the same USB plug everywhere,

>That's because of EU regulation.

Patently untrue: the Micro USB has won over proprietary connectors before the EU regulation, thanks to being cheaper than ever-changing charging & data cables that used to be the norm. That in turn was possible through large volume, and also through well designed standard; it was the third iteration of the plug - after original full sized A/B, and after the somewhat underwhelming Mini USB.

In particular the Micro USB was specced for quite good reliability - including 10,000 plug-unplug cycles, which is quite high for consumer grade hardware, and that was made possible thanks to the sheer experience amassed over years by the USB consortium. Not by regulator's fiat.

That currently USB-C is ruling the market is again thanks to USB consortium's active push, together with large volume of all sorts of devices using it.
Isn't the "luck" in that case the spirit of having a competitive market?

In an effort to stifle off regulation, the self-interest of giant corporations are aligned with their otherwise powerless developers - even if coincidentally.

If the duopoly wasn't under scrutiny, this "luck" would have run out as there would be no real viable competition.
>Authentication of boot loaders is done via cryptographic signatures [...] the cryptographic certificates that may be used to validate these signatures are then signed by Microsoft

This is what concerns me. While Microsoft are indeed dominant, surely them signing these is a conflict of interest? Why can't there be an external body that signs these, including those for Microsoft?
Replacing batteries for MBAs and MBPs are completely different experiences.

I did the same with an MBA, replacing its battery in less than an hour by virtue of the battery not being glued to the case, nor having to worry about hidden clips built into the case, nor having to carefully dig out the guts of the system and putting them back together.

The MBP is in a totally different class -- as iFixit shows, you don't start removing the battery until step 51! And they're not kidding: to get to the battery, you have to do things like remove the trackpad assembly and pry out the logic board assembly.

Sure, you can amortize the 1-3 hours of labor over years of device ownership, but at every step, you're dealing with delicate parts, putting you in danger of turning your expensive, trusty daily driver into a brick.

Batteries are a wear item, guaranteed to have to be replaced. Apple's managers, designers, and engineers could show more empathy for their customers by making it easier and less risky to replace their wear items.
I’ll check back when they offer mobile support
The other major alternative is diet from aquaculture, which has better fresh water and land use than vegetarianism.

What we need to do is make the externalities created by farming part of the food price, including the pollution they create. The artificial fertilizers, the fossil fuels, the energy costs, water pollution, eutrophication, the destruction of biodiversity and land usage. All of it need to be part of the price so that it incentivize a change in the dietary culture towards more sustainable production.

Getting people to change their culture is the hard part. Convincing people to eat less meat is like convincing a vegetarian to eat more molluscs. Almost impossible.
Why these Facebook research scandals are different
> We changed the dietary habits...

No, we allowed people to change their own dietary habits and they chose to do so.

> There's no reason we couldn't change them back.

There is a reason: The probability that they would respond with violence that would spiral into a massive humanitarian crisis.

Remember that the Syrian civil war was kicked off in large part by the prices of food in the Arab world putting pressure on pre-existing fault lines.

> Going back to a mostly vegetarian food supply would liberate so much land mass that you would have fewer issues feeding the world.

You're not wrong about the destination...but the path to get there matters if you want to avoid making things worse. Also, there is a massive difference between freeing up the alfalfa fields of California and the grazing lands of Afghanistan or Pakistan.
A demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wueLXCbm_KY
A lot of the game moved to bonus calculation. Playing a spread sheet so to speak. What happened with units and the map was secondary.

The Civilization board game was similarly boring. Most of the time there were no wars, and everybody was just trading and dealing with disasters and barbarians.
The further the cloud technologies go the less reliable they are becoming. More users also mean more automated and inapropriate bans and less chance to get through to support. Good time to invest in hard-drive manufacturers ;D
I think the whole discussion is missing the mark, so much so that I personally tend to believe that is the point. Your electronics spies on you, that's just how it is. The important question is if the data gathered could possibly hurt you now or in the future. We can only speculate on what thoughts and opinions become dangerous in the future. So with that said I would look at the problem from the perspective of "can this hurtful data be accessed by someone with reach to reach me". All the way from targeted advertisements to someone kicking in your door. That only leaves one answer as far as I can tell: Chinese phones are safer for everyone not inside China or maybe in one or two other countries. Using US electronics or software on the other hand and you can be reached in pretty much all the countries left out above.
Possibly this demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wueLXCbm_KY
This begs the question:

Are leaders actually more likely to have tried psychedelics?

I know lots of regular people who've dropped acid as well.
After taking over the process #1, Lennart Poettering decided to go deeper and take over kernel, initrd and bootloader.

I sometimes wonder whether he is on the NSA payroll. Lennart Poettering and Moxie Marlinspike are two people NSA should really strive to buy and/or intimidate.
Chinese cuisine already includes jellyfish. A bit bland, but not bad, and surprisingly good texture. Make them more tasty and you might be onto something. No idea bout nutritional value though.
The checks I've seen when I have explored the possibility of doing this (in an explicitly legal way, I had permission) were easily bypassable client-side. It's not generally a good idea to assume the heaviest option was picked when a simpler one could also have been picked.
A Valuation of Twitter's Stock
Because wagyu is a daily protein source for the majority of earth's population and therefore an important reduction target?
Live like you are poor, read https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/12/richest-10-percent-ca...
In Elixir you'd use Oban instead of sidkiq and you get more performance and it scales out horizontally with your app. Each new instance of your app is essentially a new sideqik server as a bonus

edit: > BEAM, OTP, concurrency, this whole thing is solved with the current fashion of devops teams and kubernetes.

This is a hilarious statement which I hope is satire
Because the supply chain for electronics manufacturing, and many other classes of products, is hard to replicate.

Large multinational corporations would love to shift production to Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia or India, where labor is now cheaper than China, but there are logistics obstacles. Apple now manufactures some phones in India, but mostly older models.
People have statistically calculated the loss of years to be lived due to monthly exposure to such conditions.

This, combined with the currency controls that China implements are, for example, an interesting manifestation of how the Chinese people literally sacrifice their lives and purchasing power to improve their economy, become globally competitive, and make their ‘leaders’ wealthy. The average person there does not know that they are doing this, but the leadership has this option in a totalitarian government that other states do not.
Haha, no shit. OMG those are some seriously deluded people, from all walks of life.

How about that even worse trial in Iceland where they trialed public sector employees, who barely make any difference whether they show or not?
The question of whether ivermectin treats Covid19 in humans is utterly independent of vaccines, HCQ, the state of modern science, whether ivermectin treats other diseases, ivermectin's use in animals, politics, any corrupt ivermectin studies (if you ignore them), and the price of cheese on the moon.

I have learned there are many idiots among us. Many, many idiots.
Extreme Volcanism Did Not Cause the Late Cretaceous Extinction
> We're already exploring optimistic UI on the server, where we can front-run database transactions with Channels, reflect the optimistic change on the client, and reconcile when database transactions propagate

How far is this away, roughly? It's literally the sole feature I need to make the switch to literally any new (to me) web framework right now.
Is Rust `str` builtin?

I thought it was just a `struct str([u8]);` (a dynamically-sized type).
Storytelling That Moves People (2003)
My experience with Switzerland was an amazing experience in what goverment could be.

Like, the biggest culture shock was how it wasnt adversarial. My extremely low bar was just hoping I wasn't fighting intentionally onerous or ignorant bad laws. But Switzerland offers very high bar in this sector, one of collaboration and help!

In other day to day areas there is a lot of red tape. But in fintech and crypto protocols they are doing great things at the right time.

I’ve always contended that public resources could be spent on simply making better smart contracts for the industry to optionally use, as opposed to state actors still incoherently ranting about "regulating crypto" 10 years in, while achieving no consumer or investor protection with any regulatory action or proposal. Consumers and investors can weigh and vet projects more easily partially based on its use of vetted contracts from the state. Thats crazy talk here in the US right now, but not in Switzerland.
Entirely agree with your point. However, i would point out that there's many other sources of waste that can be easily avoided:

- food waste and related food wrapping waste

- planned obsolescence (TVs, cars, washing machines, and just about every product out there)

- car-oriented architecture in the cities, where public transportation is an afterthought

- energy waste due to personal infrastructure/tooling (cooking/washing/heating infra, personal TV vs shared screening rooms, etc)

- war and social control: what's the environmental cost (transportation, manufacture of mechanical/chemical weapons) of repression (of, say an environmental protest like the anti-COP21 movement)? what about an outright war on a foreign nation?

These are just examples, but environmental concerns are rather "easy" to tackle given proper political will. The problem is people concerned with the coming ecological apocalypse are either ignored, silenced, bullied, mutilated or murdered by Nation States and multinationals.
I know what I should expect if I am paying a cable $5 vs $40.

Just because tip of the cable is looking like USB-C, you shouldn't expect it to support HDMI etc.

Most people are not looking for full set of USB-C features. Most people are just looking to charge their device.

I don't remember last time I wired up my phone to my computer for any data transfer, and I am a nerd who reads HN. Think about the average folk.

If we go further, a big chunk of people, don't even use anything like a file manager.

In short, biggest reason we have cables around these days is; To Charge Up. That's it.
It would be a very strange way to describe encouraging people to choose a more sustainable diet with writings like https://veganmuslims.com/dont-kill-an-animal-this-eid

It is a pretty normal way to describe trying to force dietary change on entire nations who are very attached to their cultures and traditions. https://www.palaisamani.com/eid-al-adha-el-rituals-in-morocc...
Situations like these are where wearing outdoor N95 masks should be normalized for peoples health.
Curated playlists should be your jam then, find an artist/DJ you like the taste and follow their curations.

The radio also generate different playlists over time, the tracks in a song's/artist's radio will change and not be a static 30-odd tracks forever.
It was more clever than that. They tried to reverse-engineer the Great Firewall's block list by running queries from their Chinese office, so they could make a Chinese Censorship-compliant search engine that would work even outside the Great Firewall.

As for trust in Google, has anyone actually believed they are benevolent for the last decade or so?
Bigger tanks allow for economies of scale to make the product for less money, but there are lots of other things that can be streamlined in production.

A building with 10,000 vats and 50 workers. If you can reach that point and the factory has low opex and expected lifetime of 50 years: is that really still not considered "good enough"?
Information assymetry definitely skews things in employer's favour. Is there any reason the government doesn't require public salary disclosure?

They already do this for stock trading for example, via NBBO. Yet the two largest asset classes: salaries and real estate are entirely in the shadows, traded over the counter as if it's a meat market.
That doesn't really work in practice. All it does is raise the price of black market sims by a fixed, low dollar amount, that is irrelevant for criminal operations willing to spend thousands of dollars for secure coms.

Think about it: unless you distribute SIMs at the local police station, your last mile enforcement officer is just some guy in a kiosk making minimal wage. Assuming he is motivated by law to do his job right, and photocopy IDs etc., he's still untrained to spot fake ones, unwilling to make a ruckus if the customer face does not really match the ID etc.

All it takes is one rogue distributor or some homeless guy, and you will have thousands of SIMS that can't be traced. Then you have anonymous roaming sims for people willing to pay the data roaming fees.

It's a friction, not a silver bullet.
Charging a car over a 3.5mm headphone jack, that would certainly be worthy of a HN post ...
Calculus teaches us the nature of optima. Sometimes they're at one extreme. Sometimes the sweet spot is somewhere in the middle.

This is one extreme. The sweet spot is in the middle, using tap/hold keys on a more conventional keyboard as supported by QMK firmware. It's brilliant to keep your fingers near home row. It's dogmatic to not have the other keys even be there, or to force yourself to use one hand if you have two.

A finger of one hand holds a key to select a mode, a finger on the other hand taps a key using that mode. This mode selection layout should be mirror images for the two hands. The Matias one-handed keyboard established beyond a doubt that our brains are wired to support this.

I use custom modes for punctuation, exotic "control-xylophone" editor commands, and controlling my computer. And yes, a cat walking across my keyboard will rearrange the orbits of the planets. However, the decades I spent thrashing would have been all worth it just to realize I shouldn't have to reach so far from home row for shift and modifier keys.
A hack is to use a regular chromecast and a hdmi to rca/spdif adapter/splitter. Works pretty well and you can get them pretty cheap (in the ballpark of $20). But it will be more expensive than the chromecast audio unfortunatley
The use of anti-biotics as a growth agent is probably not taken in to account for the cost of doing our current meat business.

This is a big one, IMHO!
The cost of this will be for my children to deal with.

Also - a normal adult, not pursuing an athletic career need about 120g of meat protein A WEEK.
I don't know about Oban. I don't think it's bad design for the workers to be separate from your main app like in Sidekiq (they do 'require' the app but they are essentially separate from the servers).
Anyway making this point as a huge win for Elixir over Ruby seems really exaggerated to me.
Right, seems like I misremembered this part:

>The foundation will control the rights to the Qt Free Edition and ensure that current and future releases of Qt will be available for free software development at all times. All changes to the Qt Free Edition license will have to be approved by the KDE Free Qt Foundation which will consist of two members of Troll Tech AS as well as two members of the KDE project. One of the representatives of the KDE project will have a double vote to be used in case of a tie.

so they have full control (majority of the votes) over approving license changes but I guess that doesn't mean they can enact them on their own

https://kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqt_announcement/
You can have a large facility with 10,000 automated lines.
Made in the US is not a good thing as they spy even more than China. A good phone is open source and made outside China and Five eyes.