skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For Type A chargers they are readily available online and can be testing using the approach mikepurvis wrote in a comment parallel to this. Or you can make yourself a clunky one as it’s just two wires.

I have seen them called “data blocker” or “secure charging cable” but what you want is one that is a female-to-male device so you can attach it to charging cables not just bricks.

Type C is harder. I have one from the early days of Type C that doesn’t do PD so in the end it’s only useful for phones. I haven’t seen one that does Power Delivery.
These abstractions were once configured for specific purposes (e.g. help Caesar expand his empire by incentivising newly conquered villages to feed the soldiers that will soon be conquering their neighbors), and the people who configured them died long ago, and we're just still following the old program.

We need to figure out how to reconfigure them. For instance, instead of the gold standard, let's back our money on permanently sequestered carbon. And once that problem is solved, we'll reconfigure it for the next thing.
New open source project: Model Validation Toolkit
I am utterly confused about the visions for the Metaverse. Would it be a parallel economy where people can find work, start businesses, buy and sell "3D" property, talk to audiences in an imaginary 3D world? Or probably some kind of a channel that substitutes in-person meetings and social life? In both ways it looks like a dangerous proposition where some arbitrary company defines your reality and the rules of life, the available forms of expression, the available actions, etc.
You can easily disprove your theory by using the number of vaccinated vs unvaccinated that were exposed. We are talking about severity and not spread, that is easily done.
Can it work with canvas based drag/drop apps? Would be very interested, if it can
"You have hyper-aphantasia". Makes sense as I'm a designer and can very easily visualise things, objects etc in my head.
Any genetic mutation which causes premature death of the host, or fails to be communicative will generally die off. Any mutation which keeps the host alive (or at least longer), or makes it easier to transmit the virus to another host, will keep the virus around. This type of behavior can be muted if there is an animal host that acts as a reservoir.
Web 3 has components of what he’s nostalgic about. Especially when you start using products such as Spooky Swap and Trader Joe. There’s no cookie notices, no ads, no dark patterns.

Too bad HN absolutely loathes crypto in general, because I do see a glimmer of hope in the wild wild West that is web 3
As far as I can tell, the issue is specifically about making false statements. Lieber was involved NIH funding, and as part of that had to disclose any foreign links, so being involved in thousand talents counts.

It’s unclear to me whether there would have been any issues or failure to obtain funding if Lieber had identified himself as associated with Wuhan University of Technology and with the Thousand Talents as the indictment claims he should have.

Of course the case has opened the doors for the ubiquitous “China bad” vs “China good” culture war
Not sure how an MBA helps here, but if all you are doing is straight compute, then yes, cloud is a waste of money. The benefit of cloud comes when you have a bunch of different teams with different optimal solutions such as nosql, sql, queue services, data processing pipelines, data warehouses, object storage, CDNs...
> and yes, I wanted the bump for including a link in the submission.

Wait so are you the originator of the link you posted or not?
If a cloud machine is idle is you can shut it down and stop paying for it.
There is a culture of gaslighting about it (JVM and similar); point out that you observe something being slow and it will be dismissed with "first, run the code several times to warm up the JIT, then carefully select the points where you time to make it look faster". For example this "Dijkstra path finding in C# is 15x slower than C++ version"[1], the question says "the C# algorithm takes 38ms to find a path. The C++ version takes just 2ms" and the accepted and much upvoted answer begins "First of all, you should run the FindPath method a couple of times before measuring, to give the C# runtime a chance to optimize the code. [...] Doing this gets the time down to about 17ms on my machine (from 38ms initially)."

So maybe if you want a keypress that responds quickly you should press that key a few times, wait for the editor to respond, delete it, then press it again and you'll see how fast it really is. Seems to me this is tied in with the "lightning fast" claims here and the sneering dismissals in the comments "that doesn't mean ANYTHING"; it's a secret message which means "not heavyweight laggy Java". It's the Python-to-Java's-boilerplate, the Agile-to-Big-Design-Up-Front, the Go-single-binary-to-Python-virtualenv, a calling card rather than a specific performance claim.

[1] https://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/152733/dijkst... (the answer is otherwise very detailed and interesting)
Literally the week I switched to BitWarden (per the advice of HN'ers) because LastPass seemed to have stopped caring. Either way BitWarden is near perfect and FOSS, so no reason to go back.
Further to other replies, you can dabble with Clojure using Babashka [1], a Clojure runtime compiled to native code that allows you to execute scripts without a full JVM.

It also has support for defining & running 'tasks', which makes it useful as a simple build system.

[1] https://babashka.org/
> They frankly did the world a favor and the world responded by assuming those poor African fucks are gonna dirty everyone with their disease.

Do you not get how viruses work? Many western nations has or had travel restrictions from other western nations.
I'm sorry that was your experience.

I have met some amazing people that were tech leads during my career. Some of them titled as principal software engineers.

Sometimes it can be hard to find friendly and kind teams. But they do exist. I promise.
It sounds from this like the diminished efficacy is being compensated for by the reduced lethality of the new virus.
Nope, not being paid better here despite the 'need for talent', record profits and inflation. "Lucky" to get a 2.5% raise. YES yes I know the rhetoric, " just find a better job". No, not doing better; this year has seen more incidents for my team than ever before. Still operating on a shoestring budget, lacking in tools and coverage, and more and more piled on the plate. Things are not okay.
> It is possible that Omicron is just as severe and that the effect in the study is because a large percentage of the population had some immunity from a previous infection or vaccine.

All viruses are severe if you have no immune protection from them. A small number of people die from the cold every year. The only thing that matters is how severe the infection is given the immunity you have.
This is the kind of project that keeps me inspired. Well done!
You will NEVER get that experience back. Everything changed. The tech, the people, the culture. If you care about having quality conversations and non monetary value, you can cultivate it yourself. You can still hang out on topic specific forums, participate in webrings, make friends through shared interests.
most the large enterprise has a direct connection to THE internet
Thanks for the inspiring post. I have to start looking for a job so, I will try to consider applying to less commercial places with maybe less money.
This is good and bad. It's good if you have competent tech staff. Right now my org is battling for basic resources like gsuite and okta licenses for their new hires because the CFO is complaining. It's absurd.
If you are a small team and worried about cost, which everyone usual is, the best bet is not to use AWS at all and go with something like DigitalOcean or Hetzner where the pricing tends to come with less surprises.

And setting up two-factor authentication is far easier.
The people who had trouble drawing a bicycle from memory would presumably have no problem connecting the right parts if they had a bicycle in front of them, which suggests they are not accurately visualising a bicycle.
Perhaps, but this year been been objectively bad with regards to security issues even when fully patched.
Here's a refreshing read on some of the issues with solar specifically:

https://doomberg.substack.com/p/herbie-spoils-the-party
Think of how much of a better world we would live in if everyone respected the individual private choices of others (What drugs you want to consume, what medical procedures you want to take part in, who you are allowed to marry and fall in love with). Unfortunately both the Left and the Right salivate at the thought of using the government's monopoly on violence to control people depending on what they think is for the good of "society".
I'd like to see a news site in the style of the kind of cable bulletin board you saw a lot of from the 70s-90s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEP96kDKW44&list=PLu7_of-Pg8...
Great point. There'd be compelling reasons to stop poisoning ourselves ASAP even if we weren't boiling ourselves alive in the process.

Ontario phased out coal electricity for a mix of natural gas and renewables in the early-mid 2000s. Climate wasn't the primary motivator. Regular air pollution was. Smog has essentially disappeared from Toronto. I haven't had burning eyes and a scratchy throat on what would have once been bad summer days in almost two decades personally (atmospheric NO2 levels): https://files.ontario.ca/2086-figurea35-en.jpg Atmospheric mercury levels alone have fallen by 40%. I didn't even know so much Hg in the environment came from coal ash!

> An independent assessment conducted by Toronto Public Health in 2014 suggests that improvements in Ontario’s air quality have translated into significant health benefits for Ontario residents. Toronto Public Health found that improvements in Toronto’s air quality from 2000 to 2011 have reduced air pollution-related premature deaths by 23% (from 1,700 to 1,300 per year) and hospital admissions by 41% (from 6,000 to 3,550 per year) in Toronto alone.
This. The only person I would trust is a person that was a sysadmin for at least 10 years and decided to specialize in security for another 5 years. So you are looking at minimum of 15 years experience to be decent. Without deep sysadmin skills - I am at a loss of what they would contribute. You are going to update our firewall without understanding what CIDR notation is? You are going to create a VPC for the dev environment not knowing what a subnet mask is? You are going to monitor security with thousands of VMs with no cloud background? Security is a specialized specialized field. Not only that you need to be a bit of a bully. You are always fighting PMs for more time to vet things and patch things - all while being a cost center.

Why do we have so many security disasters? Because those people are rare unicorns, ridiculously expensive, with no way to show added value.
Starship weighs 1300+ metric tonnes. Accelerating to earth gravity, the cable will have a tension of 1.3 MN. On the other end the counterweight has to be of roughly equal mass by way of not being able to launch anything heavier (so prob. another starship), meaing that the barycentre will be roughly in the middle, and the counterweight applies a second 1.3 MN. The total tension the cable is under is going to be 2.6 MN, well outside any single cable today. Taking a comfortable velocity of 1 rpm, and calculating a radius, we get a cable 894 meters long. This is right in the comfort zone as far as difference in force over your body and disorientation from spinning are concerned. Our strongest cables, made of Aramid (which degrades too quickly because of radiation, but ignoring that) is going to be 58 cm and have a weight of 2.2 metric tonnes. Since we actually need twice the cable, it's actually 4.4 tonnes. A similar cable made of carbon fibre or another such element will give us a launch weight of 430+ tonnes (close to the mass of the ISS), which rules basically anything but polymer fibres out. The R&D funding that would have to go into developing the cabling and methods of shielding it and preventing MMOD, solar, or GCR degradation is astronomical. It's way cheaper to just make a special sleeping bag or two.
Sort of. Sometimes.

Viruses evolve according to evolutionary pressures. I'm surprised we don't see Covid mutations that invalidate PCR tests - perhaps it's too soon, or even, who knows, maybe they are there and we don't know?

The common trope is that if the virus is too deadly, then it doesn't have a chance to find new hosts. This is kind-of what happened to "SARS-1" - it tended to kill its hosts before they could pass it on.

Unfortunately, this is only a weak effect in Covid. Most of the spread happens well before people are very ill; in terminal stages of severe Covid, many people in fact would test negative for virus presence. So there is little evolutionary pressure on the virus to be less deadly - by the time it kills people, we are spent vessels from its point of view.

I suppose a mutation that makes it completely benign would be beneficial, as current rules on self-isolation curb the spread of strains causing symptomatic disease.

There are pressures that make it more deadly: a mutation leading to higher viral load is both more deadly and more transmissible. So unless the transmissibility increases too much (and virus is way too deadly), we might even expect the virus to become more deadly. This hasn't happened yet, thankfully.

An example I used elsewhere was the introduction of Myxomatosis in Australia, to control the invasive rabbit population. Over time, the local strain evolved to be more deadly, but with a longer incubation periods. This way, bunnies had more time to pass the virus around, then once that job was done, the virus was happy to kill them off.

On the flipside (and very long timescales), since some people appear to be genetically more resistant to the virus, you can expect natural selection to do its job. But since overall death rate from Covid is low-ish (no more than 1%, you'd say, and skewed towards older, non-reproducing individuals) this would take a long time.

Another hope is that, if the disease is less serious in children, perhaps immunity it built up during the usual period of childhood infections. There is another coronavirus, which causes a mild cold in children, but can be very serious in adults (apologies, I can't remember what it's called). Thankfully, a single infection gives more-or-less complete lifetime protection - so most people have it as children and never worry about it again.

In either of these cases, we're talking about generational timescales.
These businesses ranged from "Mom and Pop" to about 50 employees. There'd be a domain controller, Exchange server, file server, PBX, SQL server, and application servers for 2-3 line of business apps.

It seems very clear to me that these kinds of businesses are much better served by cloud. No one of them is that valuable of a customer, but there are so many.

Companies that are large enough to have an IT department with multiple highly skilled professionals onsite, or who could even contemplate doing a real data center (most "on prem" is in a closet), I agree is a different calculation.
I subscribe to a weekly news magazine, it comes through the door on a Friday, and I read it on Saturday morning.

There's very little news that I need to change my approach to the day for.
Some people see words or numbers in their heads as shapes (that have no resemblance to how they're drawn). Would it be that surprising that the opposite could also be true? That they literally just have a storage location for words/letters and that's all they "see". They don't have a shape per se but they, "know them when they see (or write) them."

You probably use this same cognitive feature when writing/reading but you don't even realize you're doing it. Here's a simple example: When you read some text with parentheses do you "speak" "open paren" in your mind? What about when you add parentheses around some text? I certainly don't! That's because we perceive punctuation as a completely different thing (in our minds). We just, "know" that a comma or period can indicate a pause (and a good moment to take a breath).

Would it be that surprising if there's some people out there who read and write everything using the same mental mechanism that the rest of us use for punctuation?
gjsman addressed the issue of severity very well, so I'll just comment on tradeoffs.

The adaptations that affect severity and those that affect transmissibility generally seem to be different. These are two axes on which a new variant can very in either way. The most successful new variants will tend to be highly transmissible (for obvious reasons) but also tend to be lower severity for the reasons gjsman gave in a sibling comment.

That's only a tendency though, evolution will throw up variants on all sorts of different points on the transmissibility and severity scales and may the most successful virus win. Yes high severity variants will tend to kill off their victims sooner, but if also highly infectious that might overcome that effect. In any case killing off victims still leaves a trail of devastation. It can take a while for all of this to play out.
I can only imagine very vaguely and for just 1/2 seconds, is this it?
It depends on what you call severity.

If severity means the host dies quickly rather than slowly, there's obviously selection pressure and that mutation will die off relatively quickly vs the rest, since it won't have as many chances to spread as the less severe strain. E.g. SARS/MERS.

If severity means the host dies more often, but it still takes a long time to die, the selection pressure is much lower, and it will roughly spread the same as the less severe strain, all other things being the same. E.g. Spanish Flu.
He makes the first mistakes.
I think you should plan on getting it at some point. That’s what endemic means and that’s where we are. You’re just prolonging the inevitable.
Additionally, severe illness and deaths are a lagging indicator. Cases are going to wildly outpace those figures because of how transmissable this is, until they don't. Deaths especially often take months from onset.
Yawn. Another "hot take" article that's really just pandering to the HN/"true hacker" crowd that romanticizes anything pre-Google. It's a pretty shallow article that just regurgitates the same old "money makes things evil" rhetoric and slams the big Z cause it's low hanging fruit.

I'd be much more interested in something that highlights or talks about what _is_ better about web 2.0 than meme-ing about "old web good, new web bad". This is just click bait dressed up as anti-establishment / edge-lord blog spam.
Feels like this is not really a constructive critique of OPS argument. Indeed, it is merely them ensuring they can gain reach on the platforms they are critiquing, as opposed to screaming into the void as a Web 1.0 holdout.

See: https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/
Fun idea. I have a memory a website from years ago that was photos of writing on a whiteboard or fridge. I'm certain it wasn't accessible nor SEO-friendly though it was inadvertently mobile friendly.
> COVID clearly isn't going away at this point, so by all means try to replace it with something weaker!

Probably naive to think we could totally eradicate it within a couple of years, particularly as far as vaccine fearmongering is concerned. Would be nice to see it join Smallpox and Polio though.

That said, we've accepted an annual winter uptick in flu infections and we just tell people most vulnerable to get their yearly flu jab; less vulnerable folks can stay at home for a bit and manage the symptoms. If that's what we have to do for covid every winter then so be it.

I would still call that a victory overall.
It's not something you can count on; smallpox remained highly lethal across thousands of years. There's probably also a bit of an element of natural selection against humans involved; the people who died early of the Black Death may have been genetically more susceptible to it.
How are you handling international tax?
It’s kinda funny that project veritas released a clip showing CNN and media were going to start selling this issue (for profit) and now it’s happening...

https://www.projectveritas.com/news/part-1-cnn-director-admi...

> It [COVID] will taper off to a point that it's not a problem anymore. Climate change can take years, so they'll [CNN will] probably be able to milk that quite a bit…Climate change is going to be the next COVID thing for CNN…Fear sells

Some other factoids:

- 20,000 years ago an ice sheet covered a large portion of North America

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurentide_Ice_Sheet

- 10,000 years ago the Sierra was green

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-really-tu...

- generally, I agree with world is warming. Is that bad? I’m actually unsure. There’s a lot more data on this; it’ll definitely Impact our lives — but is there anything we can do about it? Seems like a trend going back tens of thousands of years.
I'm talking all that trouble for 1-2 minutes in front of the Vermeer so they could check it off their list. And then they were off.

Reminds me of people who (pre-pandemic) would compete for the most country stamps in their passports. They would never see many of the countries they visited, beyond the airport's passport control facility.
I actually need this too right now, but without a pricing page I just move along.

I'm bombarded by vendors every day trying to "recapture" a sale, as part of an automated sales pipeline process.

I rarely provide contact details prior to being able to:

1) understand the product, what it does, and whether it will work for me

2) understand the pricing and sla

3) understand the business continuity model

I'd rather have a more difficult solution (selenium) that I know the above three points about than to get sucked into yet another sales pipeline.
I'm of the age that I remember getting sucked in to the Second Life hype. MMORPGs were also becoming popular, and there was this narrative that "virtual worlds" were on a rocketship to the future. Universities and companies paid stupid amounts of money for digital real estate. Wired ran profiles of Second Life speculators who got rich in the bubble.

Now I guess we call virtual worlds "the metaverse" and think it'll be different because people have to buy an expensive and uncomfortable VR headset?
Sounds what you're complementing is not technologies, but rather just niche communities.

There's plenty of "no cookie notices, no ads, no dark patterns" on the normal web. My guess (from zero experience) is that there's more of it on the "web 2.0". There's just lots of other junk also.
Did you even read the article? This kind of misunderstand is exactly what it's addressing. L2's give instant confirmation, process 1000+ TPS, and cost far less than the L1 (ZK Rollups being a couple of cents per transaction), AND they are insanely more secure than Solana.

Solana is ok for now if you don't care about decentralization, but it barely handles more than a few thousand TPS without falling over or having degraded performance (as has happened twice in the last week!), and it can't scale much further with it's current structure.

A rollup centric system can scale to 14 million TPS by 2030 once a few core pieces of tech are released (see https://polynya.medium.com/conjecture-how-far-can-rollups-da...) on similar hardware to what Ethereum is running today (raspberry Pi's of 2030)