skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Schuko and Europlug have the same safety features as the British one:

- the same shutters prevent screwdrivers

- A plug half in isn't an issue because the sockets are recessed (but as an additional measure the Europlug has the half-way isolation like the British plug)

The only real advantage of the British plug over Schuko is the fuse (a debatable feature) and the known polarity (Schuko and Europlug don't differentiate between live and neutral).

Nice features that the Schuko variant has that the British plug is missing:

- Ground connection is exposed in the socket, giving you an obvious way to reliably ground yourself (useful when working with electronics)

- Recessed socket design allows plugs that barely stick out (those are not the norm, but are available for use behind furniture etc)

- You have Schuko for "serious" use (ground wire, high current) and Europlug for things that don't need either, with Europlug fitting in Schuko outlets. This gives extension cords more flexibility, many have a mix of Schuko and Europlug outlets to fit more plugs in the same space.
Because you are probably on the autism spectrum. Get tested or do a self diagnose.
The details you dismissed established it wasn't accidentally hard coded. And Microsoft admitted it was intentional.[1]

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-doubles-down-on-its-...
I hate working. There is nothing I want more than to NOT work, which for me means choosing what to do (including nothing) as much as possible.

As many people planning FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early), I've been working pretty hard - hah! - to maximize my income and meet my goals.

But this is different than the eternal idleness being advocated by some. If you never save enough to be idle, and still expect to consume at normal levels, you are essentially asking others to work for you. Imagine being idle but still playing games, watching TV, reading books; someone had to make the game, film the TV show and write the book, i.e. work, to enable your leisure.

If those working to maintain everybody else agree to arrangement, then it's all ok... This is generally not the case, though.
Wait, where do you get all those ads? I might be blind but I don't see any in my CX. Unless you count the "recommendation service".
The bankers I'm very sure want a return as it's easier to squeeze those additional unpaid long hours out of staff when they're working in the office.
How to Onboard New Team Members to Be Productive in Existing Projects
> what i mean, is focus first on how to use primitives and what they promise

These sorts of "provable security" textbooks (like the one in the article) try and do that. They emphasise less the exact inner workings of algorithms, and more on what they supposedly achieve. Various kinds of security proofs are possible. This school of thought in cryptography does also allow you to argue fairly convincingly that some concrete ciphers are secure. So it can talk about both the inner workings of ciphers as well as what security properties they achieve.

The "provable security" approach seems to be in line with your suggestion. In fact, it was the framework under which Zero Knowledge Proofs were developed. Not every cryptographer knows about that though, so I'm not sure if you were aware...
Stop sharing wikipedia. It is almost as bad as the mainstream media. Total garbage
Plotapi (https://plotapi.com) has its 20% off sale running... it's independent :) focus is on creating beautiful and interactive visualisations
My "anecdote" isn't "pretty meaningless". The bank I worked for didn't spend hundreds of millions of pounds on a whim. They spent the money with the aim of saving more money by outsourcing technology work to India.

It failed, and it failed miserably, and my former employer learnt a very expensive lesson. My colleagues in other investment banks reported similar stories in the 00s. That's far more than one data point.

Investment banks are not like other companies. They particularly enjoy writing their own code and systems, so when they tried to outsource and discovered that they weren't correct, or on time, they brought it all back in house.

> you just need to look at the revenue of Indian outsourcing companies, it keeps going up.

That's "pretty meaningless" without any data backing it - what's driving that revenue? Does Wipro, for example, publish its revenue figures for its IT outsourcing arm, and break that down further with key indicators? I can say with some confidence, that Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Citigroup, won't be the "drivers" of that revenue, and that's what the original article in this thread was talking about.
The better word is "quicker". Faster = bandwidth. Quicker = latency. 56k connections can have good latency, depending on packet size.
US Bureau of Industry and Security Amended Entity List [pdf]
"The Entity List (supplement no. 4 to part 744 of the EAR) identifies entities for which
there is reasonable cause to believe, based on specific and articulable facts, that the entities have been involved, are involved, or pose a significant risk of being or becoming involved in activities contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States."
> The only app I use that is still not available is HBO Max.

That’s a biggie. Isn’t it available on the AppleTV app?

For myself, I only use my AppleTV (device), for streaming. I have an LG, but am not a fan of the weird WebOS UI, so I just leave it connected to the AppleTV.
They can market it for home, but that doesn't mean it's practical or useful in the real world
Why? It's just an instant message.
I concur. This removed the auto play trailers on my parent’s TV.
I think consoles are the best option if you want at least sometimes play some games. They sell so much of them that the application developers support them for a long, long time - the 2013 PS4 is still being sold and will still be supported for at least few years.
Well, the bible has a lot of stories which shall not be teach to children.
The Gender Gap in Censorship Support
Damn settlers and their air conditioned cars, those natives never stood a chance :D
I did cofund some years ago with 3 people and now I go solo at https://planningpokeronline.com/ (a scrum planning poker tool with $10k MRR)

These are the main advantages I found in go going solo (for my specific case):

- Less costs, this is critical at the beggining, paying 4 salaries with the early income is not the same than paying 1.

- Faster developing. If you combine several skills, the discussions are only in your mind (from your CTO mind to your CMO mind, passing throug your CEO mind,etc.) , you don't need to arrange meetings to talk between your different minds.

- More freedom. You can work when you want, and have days off when you want. You don't need to coordinate with anyone. Maybe with your life partner but thats anotther story :)

- You learn even more. IF you cofund you may tend to don't pay attention to the things that don't fall in your domain. When going solo you learn about everything: taxes, invoices, developemnt, design, marketing, etc.

For me the cons of going solo is that you lack expertise in other fields that a cofunder could fill.

My personal suggestion to everyone starting a startup is to identify the main pilars of the business
and then find a founder for each pilar.

For example, for an online food store, the pilars would be 2: Digital (marketing and site development) and Food logistics (buy, store and sell food). Then, the founders could be: an expirienced CTO, and an expirienced Chief from food industry.

In my case, the scrum's "Planning Poker Online" app, there is only one pilar: Digital. As the app is a 100% automated SASS and the users are Digital people like me.

I hope this helps someone, :)
BCH allegedly has a billion dollars of daily transactions and is worth about 1% of officially-forked bitcoin: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin-cash/
Absolutely. The device is an Epson Moverio. I see through a quick search that the FoV should be 23°. And mind you, in some conditions the characters at the borders can lose focus or gain artefacts.

The display could sure gain from extra lines (a resolution of 1280x960, instead of 1280x720, could be optimal to my estimation) without causing visual issues, but potential visual issues with the left and right extremes are already evident.
In one sense, social skills are incredibly complex, it has been argued that the actual reason we grew such large brains was to make complex societies possible, not to solve practical problems.

On the other hand, social skills come naturally to most people, like learning to walk or talk, so normally it takes no effort at all. But because it's natural and innate, if you're not wired for it, you can imagine how hard it would be to learn to walk - I mean it took until very recently until we managed to build walking machines.

As to advice, the only way to learn is exposure. Spend a lot of time with people and try to mimic their behaviour.
ML learning has rapid and explicit feedback. Fast feedback lets you iterate and build upon what you have learned.

Social skill learning fewer opportunities to 'practice' and the signals are often littered with high false positives (due to social niceness) or false negatives (external factors like the person was just having a bad day), so therefore its very difficult to build an accurate mental model.
I'm aware, but Schuko != Europlug (despite being a plug used in many Euro countries), does not have shutters on the live/neutral opened by Earth contact, and (partly consequently) can often be trivially (mis)used not Earthing a device which should be.
In my experience as a developer, nearly any time I behave "lazily" (holiday, long weekend, time off work without thinking about it), or even just in the middle of a WFH day go for a walk, swim, other leisure activity, get ahead on 10 mins worth of chores etc, then I tend to solve a tricky technical problem , or learn something / understand it much better. The times where coding work gets pushed aside for a while often lead to to better coding output, results even viewable that same week. Sometimes at home I'll have a day when I'm not really into it, distracted by other stuff, so I go and do something else, then later my conscience says "Hmm that wasn't really a full day of work , you might need to make some up", but at the same time "Wow what a productive day, turns out not tiring yourself out actually delivers more value to your employer". It is said that 27 hours a week is optimal in tech, less than that you could get more done, but more than that you add no extra value, over 40 you produce negative value/bugs. So , moral = some idleness is ironically actually better for productivity !
The video demo looks great to me. Conveys what farplay does really well.
This is the dilemma. Constant use is out of the question, which leaves occasional use. Occasional use doesn’t seem sufficient to bring about these positive thought patterns with regularity.
Ask HN: Which emerging technologies or ideas are you betting on?
For me it would be

1. Clojure
2. Decentralised Applications
3. Quantum Computing
4. Generative AI, Interpretable ML
5. AR/VR
To a Young Extremist (2014)
Kaspersky director: Apple's Pegasus lawsuit 'declaration of war'
Established market player can go below cost also. But they choose not to. They have plenty of inefficiency built in due to legacy baggages like less productive older workers or unions. The competition from startups are welcome boon to destroy older players way of doing things. I won't expect the traditional player to die out. In America you can still find mom and pop shops even though 90+% decimated by the big boxes like Walmart or Amazon. NY Yellow bacs still surviving and to large extend has improved significantly their customer services after Uber and Lyft established themselves. Nokia is also a good example where they didn't opt for better UI and OS after decades of dominance though people usually wont recognized Apple as "startup" in mobile market back then.
Given that modern TVs like to phone home a lot, and have microphones and cameras. I think an open source solution would be really nice to have.
That's an interesting point. I hadn't realised Hammock drive development is such a double edged sword. From this point of view, it also doesn't consider programming as a hobby - aimless tinkering and exploring without any particular problem to solve.
Thank you for answering. I‘m currently looking for something like a „sparring partner“ to talk about what they are doing as well as what I am doing since where I work no one does anything related to Deep Learning or Image Segmentation unfortunately. Wish you the best!
When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page
Check out Google Maps, but with JavaScript turned off. I use NoScript for this...
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I write outstanding articles with AI
> But 18 years of human interaction and I'm still missing out on social skills apparently. It's like everyone else has a degree in all these unwritten rules that I'm just supposed to know.

It's very hard to answer your question due to a lack of context. Maybe, you just need more practice. I also wasn't very good at social interactions but got a lot better once I was a cab driver for a few years during my studies. But maybe your brain is relatively better at other things than social interactions. For example, it is known that people who score high on the autism spectrum have trouble reading emotions. You are probably the best person to judge which of these suggestions is more likely or whether something else causes you missing out on social skills. If you find that missing out on social interactions have a negative impact on your life and you don't think that you can fix it yourself, then consider talking to a therapist.
Ink is amazing: it's modular and is getting close to modern programming languages in terms of tooling. AFAIK all the others are still distributed as monolithic applications.

Ink has an IDE that exports to web, but there are also libraries for C# and JS that can be embedded in other programs, a Unity plugin and a VSCode language server.

inkJam 2021 happened recently: https://itch.io/jam/inkjam-2021
Almost everything in NA is build for cars. E-Bikes will do a bit better but it's still a shitty place to ride a bike. I sincerely hope US will fix and modernise their infrastructure, but the reliance on cars is so big, I don't see this happening any time soon.
I think this can be related to what Mel Conway stated in his famous "How Committees Invent?"

> Let us first examine the tendency to overpopulate a
design effort. It is a natural temptation of the initial designer-the one whose preliminary design concepts influence the organization of the design effort-to delegate
tasks when the apparent complexity of the system approaches his limits of comprehension. This is the turning
point in the course of the design. Either he struggles to
reduce the system to comprehensibility and wins, or else he
loses control of it. The outcome is almost predictable if
there is schedule pressure and a budget to be managed.
I remember this board as the créme de la créme of consumer PC hardware, almost a fabled myth or unicorn of motherboards. Few were the go-getters who ventured into that segment.
How To Be Idle and the Idler magazine might tickle your fancy if you like this theme. I enjoyed both greatly.

The Protestant worker ethic, work hard and be closer to God, has a lot to answer for, both good and bad.

We’ve linked our worth to our consumable output. We’re worried if AI can become human yet we’ve met the machines halfway.
It’s not for people that won’t put more than 2 seconds of work into something. It’s a discount service.

That line could easily be a decoy to ward off problem customers who don’t know how to use APIs, read specs, etc and would be high customer service load.
The UK plug is honestly one of the best things the UK has ever done. It's reliable, hard to pull out via the cable, running at a sensible voltage, and they just feel so sturdy. Rectangular contacts also hold a grip much better than round ones (in America and friends).

I've heard horror stories about American plug sockets. It's just way too easy to shock yourself. And then you have all the other weirdness, like 240V on the grid being stepped down for 120V for appliances. Wouldn't it be easier (and more energy-efficient), to use 240V instead of stepping it down and having to pull more current at the appliance level to make up for the voltage?
> It is said that 27 hours a week is optimal in tech, less than that you could get more done, but more than that you add no extra value, over 40 you produce negative value/bugs.

That's probably true for typical people. There are exceptions like John Carmack and Jon Blow, who can code for 10-12 hours a day and who are running a mini-crusade on Twitter against generalizations like that. In general, I think you're right though - if you're such exception, it should be fairly obvious to you that you're exceptional in this regard and the rule does not apply to you.
Well, you proposed converting SQL architecture to NoSQL with the goal of adding caching. So how would you add caching in the NoSQL case? What prevents you from doing the same with SQL?
I made a really rough script that does a bunch of transformations on bibtex files to have them be ready for use in academic papers:

1. Shorten author lists to 10 authors
2. Abbreviate journal names
3. Remove unneeded IDs and replace with doi links
4. Remove unneeded tags (file, abstract)

https://gist.github.com/joebentley/6e3e4198ea427545738a82021...
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Thanks for sharing this. It really put things in perspective.
The worst part is we are getting busier in useless things. We could easily cut off half of the workforce without losing any quality or quantity in the worldwide made products and services.
>I got a generic picture of the milky way for any prompt I tried ("rocks", "trees").

The picture is just really zoomed out. That's how awesome it is - it shows you ALL rocks and trees.

/s
Oof, I forgot what thread I was in, because I just meant the buffer size, not the round-trip latency or not even the one-way latency to audio output. Not sure why I said "latency" as that's plain wrong, especially when we're talking from capture in this case.

It's just that I'm more focused on soft synths, and I can get a clean signal out of 64-samples buffers. Granted, that's not what I'd use with any realistic processing (for instance, I use Reaper at 128spl@48k).

While I haven't measured end-to-end yet, I do hope it stays below 20ms. I'm working on a synth-powered rhythm game, and the whole reason I chose to stick with plain WASAPI was to avoid requiring users to install extra drivers and because of Windows 10's low latency stack, with its advertised 0ms capture and 1.3ms output overhead on top of application and driver buffers.

Update: I ran RTL on the budget 2012 desktop and got worse results than I expected at 18ms@128spl for shared-mode WASAPI [1]. For some reason, I couldn't select smaller buffers. On the same hardware, exclusive-mode WASAPI managed 12.25ms@128spl, and ASIO4ALL managed 12.5ms@64spl and 15.1ms@128spl.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/xq9xiNh.png
I am thankful for this community helping largely stay off normal news sources and providing me with healthy discussion to jog my brain in some long ass Austrian lockdowns.

Thanks everyone & HN staff
I can relate as I am an immigrant as well. I do not know if it is me getting older or the fact this year was especially eventful ( new title, first baby ), but, despite all the stuff going on in the world today, I feel especially thankful.

It is funny, because only few years ago I was more cynical about it and reduced all holidays to the 'feast' part.
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Correct, yet these were not "a thing" 500 years ago, not even 5000,try double that and then then "maybe"
> The only real advantage of the British plug over Schuko is the fuse (a debatable feature)

Could I ask why a fuse is debatable? Seems like quite a basic security feature. There's a good video[0] on the design of UK plugs if you're interested.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEfP1OKKz_Q
The variety here with no clear benefits/market niche for each shows how wasteful we humans are with our innovation efforts.

I'm sure many human-lifetimes went into developing and deploying every type of plug and socket there. Could those human lifetimes have been better spent inventing something actually new rather than something pretty much the same as a neighbour was also inventing?
It seems like you are responding to the the title and not the content of the article. The kira stores that the CAIT ostensibly represntas are not the ones facing ruin here. It's the distributors who sell to the kiranas that are losing out to Jio.
If you prefer shouting up the stairs through multiple doors over whatever it is they're doing, that's your prerogative of course.
Because adults don't cycle for exercise, they cycle to get somewhere, preferably not being sweaty and out of breath.
https://earthshotprize.org/
A problem in Australia is the risk of climate change induced fires burning down all the trees.
I live in Amsterdam. Since the council banned scooters in the bike lanes, we're now plagued by the silent menace of e-bikes whipping past at 25km an hour. I really dislike them.
"So why not ? They'd control one more link in the supply chain."

Because operating a nuclear reactor is a whole different thing, than operating a chip plant and you usually want to focus your energy, not spread it out. And when the goal is, to just have blackout save energy for your chip plant, then there are way cheaper, riskfree and faster solutions, like batteries, or gas generators.
> as many of those areas are heavily restricted and deregulation would allow people to build.

Thank You that make some sense.

>The available option for "left" in the US is the Democrat party.

And thanks for the explanation, I always knew it was different between left from EUR and left in US. But your explanation put it in much better prospective.
Hmm, I think it’s hard to find a way to deal with perpetual leisure because we are aware it (the leisure) is a temporary state.

Maybe if I were guaranteed leisure for the rest of my life I would find it easier to figure out what to do with myself.
If it weren't true, there wouldn't be laws against predatory pricing.
> Unless you count the "recommendation service"

Which will never turn on if you don't agree to the terms & conditions. So far, I've been able to avoid things like ads, but every time the TV pops up with an update I get the Fear.

I do not want ads or voice commands on my devices. Especially not given I paid a premium :/.
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It is quite strange how you could quite easily plug a 120V light bulb into a 240V socket (or vice versa). I feel like there should be more protection around that.
Does it fix incorrect Unicode chars? I've had a huge problem with that recently when for some reason Kbibtex insisted on converting {\"O} into Ö. I believe Jabref fixed it but I've made very bad experiences with Jabref in the past and would prefer not to use it.
What? The content of your screen is personal data. There could be anything on that - name, address, passwords, photos of your living room, nudes...
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