skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a counter-story.

When I started my Phd in 2011, one professor, an absolute top player in the field and prof in a top tier university, revealed that he had patented a fully functional prototype a few years back, which allowed similar cheap non-stick measurement of glucose (i think this was on a principle similar to pulse oximetry rather than RF).

The patent was swiftly bought by a large pharmaceutical company and "buried", in order to protect sales of blood-sticks; by far the main source of profit in diabetic devices (his words).
Serbia's mistake was proposing this via law, instead of just forcing the population to track themselves with COVID check-ins and then tapping into the data:

https://theconversation.com/police-access-to-covid-check-in-...
It's slow. Apple especially is far far far behind everyone else when it comes to charging speeds. Tbf Apple wired charging speeds are still very slow compared to competition, but wireless is just abysmal.

And then of course a daily occurence - I lie down in bed, about 5% battery left, want to watch some youtube or whatever - now I can just plug in a cable and continue using my phone. With portless, how exactly am I supposed to do that? With the funny magsafe dongle that you need to be super careful not to detach as you hold the phone and which doesn't really stick on unless you use one of the approved cases? No thanks.
Contra:

> This is a profoundly stupid way to approach product design and standardisation. What happens in 5 years when someone wants to use a better connector? What if they’d picked USB 3 five years ago?

* https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/1441009296540676096

> But Apple has also argued that if the European Union had imposed a common charger in 2009, it would have restricted innovation that led to USB-C and Lightning connectors. In a statement, Apple said that although it welcomed the European Commission’s commitment to protecting the environment, it favored a solution that left the device side of the charging interface open for innovation.

* https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/23/business/european-union-a...

In 2009 we would have been stuck with micro-USB:

> These E.U. meddlers have indeed been clamoring for this legislation since 2009 — Apple didn’t pick that date out of the air. At the time, iPhones used 30-pin iPod USB 1 adapters and most other phones used adapters like Micro-USB and (gag) Mini-USB. You don’t have to be a computer engineer to look back at your lifetime and realize that computer plugs and adapters keep getting smaller and better. Do they really think no one is going to come up with an adapter better than USB-C? Ever?

* https://daringfireball.net/linked/2021/09/23/eu-usbc-mandate
I've seen, in other games, anti-cheats that spawn fake [player-specific] entities that if you attacked too much you would get hit with a ban.
It sounds like my boomer parents trying to lay the guilt trip on thick.
It’s not only ports, you can have ssd there for example.
China Declares Cryptocurrency Transactions Illegal
China’s central bank said all cryptocurrency-related transactions are illegal, reinforcing the country’s tough stance against digital rivals to government issued money.
I don't run Windows. I believe I was running Ubuntu at the time this was a problem, possibly Debian. This was a few years back.
Apple Lies About Epic Again
FYI: https://deepdrive.tech/
Albeit currently only rear wheel drive inhub.
> But I get the vibe that we won't be seeing a client I like anytime soon; or it'll be a very minimalistic client with no support for all the fancy modern features, in which case I'd likely get the same or better experience with IRC anyway.

I don't know if you're the Emacs type, but you might be interested in https://github.com/alphapapa/ement.el. It feels kind of like an upgraded IRC, with support for features like images and rich text, and it tries to be privacy-respecting (e.g. read receipts and typing notifications are enabled by default, to imitate Element, but optional).

It doesn't support E2EE natively, but E2EE works through the Pantalaimon proxy, so it can be used with E2EE rooms that way. (Or if you don't care about E2EE rooms, like me (I mostly don't), you can use it in unencrypted rooms without using Pantalaimon.)
Harp.js
Bitcoin price tumbles as China makes crypto transactions illegal
Natural coffee powder to increase metabolism speed and efficiency, reduce hunger
The executives at the companies responsible for the melamine-tainted baby formula scandal were executed. So were others:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-huarong-lai-idUSKBN...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-08-07/chinese-executive-exe...

When I see the Sacklers laughing all the way to the bank despite having probably caused more American deaths than Hitler, Tojo and Bin Laden combined, there is something to be said about the Chinese method.
If we fixed everything else then this wouldn't be hard to solve.

Have the machine generate a TOTP which you compare to the same code generated on a phone/second device.

To prevent or at least make nearly impossible a MITM of this, the TOTP is calculated by the TPM and only while the network card(s) are off.
The journey of documenting a Socket.IO API
That is a good point,i totally missed that
I still disagree. There’s a lot more cooperation with the US and Canada in Canada on both of those fronts. Small US military contingents train in Canada with our military and vice versa. Furthermore the United States has provided intelligence information multiple time now that have stopped terrorist attempts in Canada. I don’t believe there’s a similar depth of cooperation with the UK — what could the UK even provide to Canada that the US doesn’t already.

Furthermore we’re integrated with the US in ways that we aren’t with the UK, Canadians can stay in the US visa free for six months and when a Canadian enters the US by air they use the US immigration line, whereas UK citizens would not. There’s also freer movement between Canada and the US in that designated professional classes can get NT work visas easy and can be continually renewed with no limitations.

The Canadian UK relationship is just about tradition, and us being polite. At the end of the day, in modern times, countries like Japan or Germany have more sway in Canada simply because we invest and trade more with them. I know some British really want to believe it’s possible to bring back the empire, but it’s really not, Canada is a completely different country now from what it was 80 years ago.
We have services across a lot of cloud providers, Google and Azure for a variety off things, Digital Ocean for some and the main stuff on AWS. I'd love it if a service such as Vantage could track them all, I can only find solutions for AWS.
The Golden Age of HR
I develop apps for iOS and Apples wireless debugging tools are extremely unreliable and slow
Does it void your warranty, though?
Any mechanical keyboard supporting QMK is fully reprogrammable, so you can either choose one with sufficient keys, or enable one of various options to double-up particular keys.

I have an ErgoDash, which has several thumb keys on each side — the size of your hands would determine how many are practical for frequent use.

My squeezed-in left arrow key serves as Alt when I hold it down, and Enter is Ctrl if I hold that down.
The question is: can your four year old use it, not lose it, and not break it every other minute. Because they break _headphones_ fairly often.
I doubt it. Especially since the games where cheaters are most rampant are f2p.
Already in the mail!
Unsubstantiated? For years Android has been improving its security and app isolation.

AOSP by default is effectively more secure than any Linux distro on a laptop by default for a couple of reasons one being that on android every app runs as its own UID. On Linux that's only sometimes the case for daemons, and almost never the case for user programs.
Their economy is only of the major economies that has come unscathed (in terms of real growth) through the pandemic. My guess is that is why they feel emboldened to do these major moves. Also I think they foresee a major contraction in asset prices when global monetary polices starts tightening and are trying to get ahead of that.
If your static websites are hosted on Netlify, they have their own forms feature. You just need to add a tag to your existing form HTML to have responses show up on your console. This is free, even if you want to hook it up to a custom domain. They even have some basic spam filtering on their free option. I use it for my personal site, works fine.
Atoms still matter, and there are blue-collar manufacturing skills the US has lost to China, and most of the low-cost labor alternative locales never had in the first place.
I think Azure suffers in the same way as MS development tools generally, they are racing to try and make so many new things that their "legendary" backwards compatibility feels more like neglect than support. Sure, Webforms still works (which is nice, 1000s of companies have legacy apps) but they still haven't fixed the problem that nuget installs reformats web.config even if it doesn't change it, meaning you have to delete all the redirects, get VS to add them back in and only then do you see the actual changes.

I would see that as a "Major" bug because it is so unecessary and been there so long. MS's attitude? Bit too hard to fix, just use dotnet core instead, like we can all just do that with our legacy production apps!

VS is also pretty cool function-wise but still too many lockups, cache corruption causing strange compiler errors and files left locked after exiting but instead of doubling-down and refactoring the core code to work properly (I think that is a "thing"), instead they kind of start using VSCode instead even though it doesn't have half the functionality of VS but don't make VS become the thing of beauty it is supposed to be.
We recently moved to wireless charging to reduce the number of cables that break and have to be replaced.

I don’t need the port to be removed, but I doubt I would regularly use USB-C. It is more difficult to plug in than lightning, and will still suffer from the same cable issues.
Is that trauma survivor book helping with coping with lisp ? Asking for a friend.

:)
Why These Children Fell into Endless Sleep
Yes, as carefully orchestrated by the Croatian government, who got its EU/Nato friends to make everything maximally hard for the Serbian people and economy.

Or, at least, that's how I assume the narrative goes?
I agree portless move feels inevitable but I think we're quite some way away from that for the reasons you mentioned.

There seems to be little benefit in the jump right now; the phones are already waterproof, they already make money from the accessories, they will only anger a lot of people who still use the cable. It feels like right now portless doesn't bring that much positives over the negatives for them.

As for USB-C, I found it weird in their presentation how much they talked it up for their iPad mini, but don't want to use it on the iPhone. If EU push them into a corner they may just pay the fines year after year instead of changing, they can afford it.
Chat is for conversations it should be a back and forth, if you don't like that choose a method of communication that isn't a conversation.
Machine learning uncovers 'genes of importance' in agriculture and medicine
I was under the impression that the EU did force a change in 2009, and that is part of the reason micro-usb -> usb-A became the defacto standard for Android, and that Apple was forced to ship it's phone chargers with detachable leads for this reason.

That's something that Apple users would have benefitted from, when apple changed to their newer proprietary cable, since they'd only need to swap the cable. Plus the general benefit of the market interoperability that provides lots of cheap 3rd party USB chargers for cars and such like.

edit: looks like they got a voluntary agreement, not an actual law, and Apple was one of the signatories, and it was in place up until in 2014 in various guises:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_external_power_supply
Bitcoin and ethereum sink as China intensifies crackdown on cryptocurrencies
Show HN: Wsbdd – Wei Stakes by Decentralized Degenerates
Hi HN! These last couple weeks I've been working on what I believe is a really cool idea and think I'm finally ready to show you guys. WSBDD is a fully blockchain based web application, a single static page built using vanilla JS (you need MetaMask installed to interact with it). It allows you to place and schedule arbitrary bets over the contents of any website. It uses Provable's smart oracle[1] to query and extract results from the Internet, which then gets posted to the blockchain and used to determine the bet's winners and award their share of the loser's pool. If you feel like trying your luck, I've created a starting bet on the S&P's 500 price (decimals excluded) on October 9. You can place your bet up until next week's Friday (October 2nd) when the market closes. The website also includes links to the source code[2] and the verified smart contract's code[3].

I'd love to hear some feedback from you! I'm currently trying to think of the best way to handle the discoverability of bets. Right now I have a super simple section showing the last 10 created bets, but it's something I think could be considerably improved.

Also, I am not a big fan of the state of frontend development at the moment, so I decided that it would be a fun exercise to forgo any frameworks and see how far I can push things with plain old JS. I'm relatively happy with the results, but as you can probably tell I'm not a designer or anything of the sort, so any quick tips on that end are super appreciated. I'm now gonna start working on cleaning up the frontend, hoping this gets some discussion going!

[1] https://provable.xyz

[2] https://github.com/nicolas-siplis/wsbdd

[3] https://etherscan.io/address/0xbB2Dfc930A209Aa32E49f0b49264b...
EU legislators are well-aware that legislating a technical solution is a bad idea, this whole time they tried to get this done through a simple memorandum of understanding where the manufacturers would do it voluntarily and that would let the industry evolve naturally as they pleased, as long as they moved somewhat in lock-step. But Apple refused to adopt what the rest of the industry did and now they're moving to legislate it. Apple brought this upon themselves by being arrogant and selfish.
As use goes up serverless gets more expensive.

If you have 20 connections per month, you have to pay for the VM or container running all month even though it's getting no traffic 99% the time.

If you have many millions of connections a month and the service is always on and responding, non-serverless will be much cheaper.

You could draw a curve of where those two points intersect for each cloud platform. I wonder if anyone has done that. Would be a nice visual.

Another drawback of serverless is that it is new so the tooling around it is not as mature as VMs or containers. Stuff like debugging can be pretty rough.
I don't see why they wouldn't allow changing the standard in a 5-10 years like it did with micro-usb to usb-c.
Is that really the case? Or were they just not such a big target before when everyone was spending most of their time in a windows desktop. Maybe they just got away with it more easily in the past.
The app works well and is very useful but…what are the sources of these “free songs”?
I'm sorry, but as someone who literally learned about Grain's existence by opening that link, I agree with parent comment.

The bullet points the homepage features are as follows:

- "A modern web staple."

Which means nothing.

- "Grain is a new language that puts academic language features to work."

Also claimed by most new languages and runtimes, and also an empty sentence.

- "Powered by WebAssembly. Enter the future. Grain compiles directly to WebAssembly, taking full advantage of its speed and efficiency."

This is the first meaningful and informative point. It's nice to know it compiles to WASM, but this is neither unique, nor (by itself) a compelling point.

- "Sensible Types. No runtime type errors, ever. Every bit of Grain you write is thoroughly sifted for type errors, with no need for type annotations."

Type-safe languages with type inference aren't exactly new, many popular languages could make an identical claim.

- "Functional Yet Flexible. Grain has its roots in functional programming, but is flexible enough to accommodate different programming styles for various applications."

Not really sure what this is supposed to mean. Wouldn't the same sentence apply word for word to, say, Rust, Elixir or Javascript?

Again, please understand that this is not an indictment of Grain itself. I know literally nothing about it, it could be the world's best programming language for all I know. But from the perspective of a developer that doesn't know anything about Grain, the homepage doesn't do a good job at convincing me to try it out.
> Problem is that hibernation is slooow

It isn't. It can add just some seconds (probably less than 5 on fast SSDs, even less if you don't have too much RAM). If people can't wait this little they need to have their lives / jobs / mental health fixed rather than add more orders of complexity (with according increase in problems) into the computers.
I hate it too. I’m not just saying that, I ran Linux as my only desktop for 3 years and exclusively AOSP phones for over 4.

Ultimately, however, some of us have stuff to do and can’t spend our entire time tinkering to maintain basic functionality. There are only so many hours in a day.
The bit of dispute resolution where the money is sent isn't the hard bit -- it's actually doing the resolution. Bitcoin doesn't help with that at all.
“Thirdly, early adopters mine or buy large proportions of the total supply at negligible costs while late adopters mine or buy negligible proportions at large costs. It follows that holders immediately have every incentive to get as many people to buy after them. Like stocks? Like stocks, but without the dividends or anything tangible in the real world. Congratulations, you got yourself a pyramid scheme.” —
https://www.cynicusrex.com/file/cryptocultscience.html

This podcast, after the first half, really goes into depth why all contemporary crypto“currencies” are inherently flawed: https://anchor.fm/when-the-music-stops/episodes/Nano--Digita....

Another good article: https://defector.com/cryptocurrency-bad-and-weird/.
My experiences has been generally positive too.

One thing I do find is that although their documentation is now open-source, it can still take a long time to get changes reviewed and merged (if at all). I waited about 3 months once for a simple change to documentation that was clearly wrong and by the time they looked at it, the docs had been re-factored.

They need to learn to embrace the Amazon Turk and have the right people review documentation edits. Should be able to quickly check a proposed change and then just merge it.
Yep, because you can't save all open tabs as bookmarks
The Downward Spiral of Digital Beggars
That's just misconfigured then. The system sends a signal to the OS. The OS is then free to do whatever. If you have configured to screenlock then it will screenlock.
That's not the problem. I did GUI programming for a decade before switching to web.

The reason that people write GUI apps in Electron instead of Qt/Gtk is because the latter is so far behind technologically that it feels like ancient technology. Electron has GPU-accelerated, declarative graphics in CSS, it has React, it has the web inspector, it has a scripting language with an extremely good JIT.

Qt/Gtk has not adapted to the state of the art, it has stayed static while the world has moved on. It's now 20 years out of date. That is why people use Electron.
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It's interesting how comments tend to be held to much higher standards on HN than the submissions themselves. I wonder if that's purely because there's no downvote button for submissions or if there are other reasons.
Maybe, these things have a tendency to get political and hard to change. The more people involved the harder it is to change. The US is still not using the metric system because it's too big. Legislation like this can get stuck. I'm not sure it will but there is a high risk.
The Windows archive bit is evil and must be stopped
Legislation like this already allows all people in the EU to reuse standardized chargers.

This is one of the (now) small things I appreciate every single day since I only have to manage ~2 usb connector types instead of 10+ proprietory ones.
- Efficiency of wireless charging first of all, and I consider this to be a pretty firm reason against when there is no real benefit from wireless (nightly charging). I do recognize the added benefit from wireless charging in certain not so common situations, but not enough to justify making it the only option.

- I have been involved in project that included wireless chargers for phones used by automotive OEMs, and those can be pretty hard to qualify. On one design we had the type and level of radiation that is considered potentially harmful for pacemakers. And having in mind a lot of people would be buying these chargers from unknown and uncertified sources (cheapest one from Wish for e.g.) it makes me dislike them even more. Yes wired dodgy chargers can be bad, but the scope of failures is smaller.

- 3rd reason as I noted is a personal one, I just don't trust wireless as I do wires when it comes to data transfer (physical robustness), and I prefer to use the wired way when it's a reasonable option. This is rooted in the ethernet vs WiFi choice. But this is debatable.
Also current speed difference in transfer.
Considering large portions of Belgrade are still in ruins to this day due to NATO bombings, it's hard to escape the constant reminders of what "foreign powers" have already done to them.
Firebird 4 port for FreeBSD is released
For anyone saying "we shouldn't force companies on a specific connector": This legislation started over 10 years ago. Back then Apple said "we need a bit of time to figure out a good way forward. Could you please give it?" and then EU said "Yeah, okay. We trust you will use it wisely." 10 years fast forward: Nothing happened.

Maybe this is a good lesson for industries to not try to play games with legislators if you cannot live with the consequences.
> That doesn't mean they were equivalent to abuses that occurred in the Soviet Union

According to Americans, of course.

But according to large part of the rest of the World, it's wasn't different and it might even have been much worse.

Ask Nicaragua or Chile or, more recently, Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo prisoners.

USSR didn't finance fascist bomb attacks that killed hundreds of innocent people in my country, but CIA did.

Truth is "they were fleeing from USSR to USA because USA is a much better place" is actually a belief bias.
You must realize that in the developed world, we already track ourselves by virtue of using credit cards at every business we visit.

How is tapping into that any more difficult than a COVID app? The three major credit rating agencies already have complete knowledge of every place I visit, and every single thing I buy.

They will happily sell this information in aggregate to any Tom, Dick, or Harry who wants it, and hand over every detail in response to a police warrant.
> And of course we’re always hiring engineers. If you have an interviewing.io account, you can take a look.)

Wait, you need to have an account just to see their open jobs? That seems like more of an antipattern than anything you could put in a job description.
No, because for macs it’s a bug, while for dells it’s literally the engineered behaviour of the device
Have you tried closing the browser, reopen it and immediately hit the home button?
Which nation is being ruled by science? And which scientist?