skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"there's a million and 1 USB-C chargers from many different manufactures"

How many of these are compliant with specs? How would you know? If you fry your $1000 iPhone due to choosing incorrectly, will Apple refund you?
> anything you've used to convey that information can also make a copy of that information

That's true of a general purpose computing device, but sadly those are becoming rarer and rarer, at least as a percentage of all devices.

(I suppose in some technical sense the device conveying the information is necessarily making a copy of the information at least temporarily, but there is no need for that copy to be persistent or retrievable at the request of the user.)
The USB-C wall wart is pretty awesome, though. It charges the phone surprisingly fast if you're used to older tech. It's worth the upgrade. (You don't have to buy an Apple one, just one that supports USB-PD.)

https://www.usb.org/usb-charger-pd
You know how you only work for companies who pay you salary instead of companies who don't?

Aligned self interest is the engine of capitalism.

You don't care if society would be better of if you donate your time and skill to company X for free. You care that company Y will pay your for your time and skill and that's why you work company Y.

The good of society doesn't enter your calculus. Only the good of throwawaycities

Similarly the banks don't care what is optimal way to allocate capital for the good of society (apparently as decided by you).

They care about their self interest. Their business is providing loans so they provide loans to people most likely to repay those loans.

From the perspective of the bank, margin loans are the safest loans they can give because the collateral is fully liquid and under the control of the bank i.e. the moment the borrower crosses margin loan threshold, he gets margin call and the bank sells his stock to ensure the loan gets repaid.

Study the wildly successful economies of communist countries to see what happens when people think they know better that free market what should or should not be allowed in the economy.

So far good intentions have vastly inferior economical results than lightly regulated free market where, for example, participants decide what kind of loans they want to make.
We don’t need to write a test that tests this function as a whole, we can test the parts we care about independently.

What could possibly go wrong :)
I think this is actually a result of the WarnerMedia / Discover merger. In a different article they say that the new CEO wants to consolidate under a single streaming service. So they are likely just going to move the content into Discovery+ or HBOMax.
Hoo boy, Teenage Engineering is starting to get on my nerves. This is a neat piece of kit, but the specs on it pretty much relegate it to the "toy" category of their lineup. You're telling me people are going to use this 48kHz dongle as a portable DAC? You probably have a better output on your laptop. Pretty absurd. This thing is pretty much a physical iPhone app... that costs more than an iPhone.

What really pisses me off about this is the price. Yes, please dogpile me about how "specialty hardware like this doesn't exist", that totally excuses this thing's existence! Seriously though, you can buy a brand new Octatrack for this price (actual professional equipment). But if this thing isn't competing with the OT, what's it's purpose? Being a digital multitrack recorder? Feeling nice in your pocket? Just being smaller than it's competitors no matter the expense?

The more I look at this thing, the more it annoys me. Teenage Engineering has always been about shipping hipster audio products, but even their older stuff was fairly passable. As much as I despise the OP-1 (even moreso after it's price hike), it had a lot of cool ideas in it. It was an obvious labor of love. I can't make heads or tails of this TX-6. I genuinely don't know who would buy this. In my head, I'm watching bourgeoisie college students walking around San Francisco to make lo-fi hip hop from found sounds with this thing. That's it. I can't see anyone using this in a professional setting. The OP-Z is an actual joke in the pro audio community, but I've still seen people use it at shows. The Pocket Operator is little more than a cheap toy, but people have fun sketching rhythms on them and even using the later models as super lo-fi samplers. This is... nothing. I truly and honestly don't understand it.
Security engineers are basically expected to know everything. It's part of why I enjoy the work. But it's also impossible. "Understand the security implications of every nuanced technology decision" is not tractable, so we pick the ones we can and specialize.

POTS is rarely of interest to a security organization. You have very few levers to pull even if you do consider it a threat, since it's just fundamentally an awful system, and you can't tell people "don't use telephones". At best you can train people, but your concern is probably phishing via email.

Only a few people, at the company level, are at risk in terms of this sort of attack, compared to everyone being at risk (with regards to the company) from phishing emails.

So a lot of people just don't really think about it. Security engineers might hand wavingly say "phone numbers can be spoofed" but I'd bet the percentage of seceng that know how that works is very small.
Reading this from the perspective of a naive outside observer, I'm wondering (just thinking out loud) about the potential value of a hybrid approach of a) providing customers who know what they want a self-service API, b) supporting customers who just want their problems solved with consulting, and a+b) offering joint R&D scenarios in select circumstances that would progressively add support for novel workloads over time (like what's described here) in the pursuit of differentiation. Obviously this would be aligned with use cases that don't require immediate solutions/consulting. The resulting data might be worth it. And this all obviously depends on where ease-of-use sits, given that's basically NP-hard to resolve fully in this domain.
> Is it a proprietary plug on the charger end of the cord? If so, that makes a little more sense, though there are generics for it for a while now anyhow

Iphones come with a Lightning (proprietary) to USB-C (standard) cable but no USB-C (or any other) brick. So there shouldn't be anything proprietary needed to plug it in.
Again, it is impossible for schools to have no say in the moral education of children when children are spending about half their waking hours there. Children are sponges and they will learn what is right and wrong from the observation of the environment they're in; there's no realistic understanding of how children learn that indicates a way to turn that off.

So collaboration is the best-case scenario, because the alternative is a fight. I dislike that this law seems crafted to say "Yes, a fight is the correct approach." That puts children in the middle of an adversarial situation and is therefore unwise.
> 1. Bitcoin Lightning is not Bitcoin and is in fact a centralized by design layer 2 system

Yes, but I personally have node equipment sitting in my closet waiting to be setup. (time constraints) It's not so centralized that it's obviously destined to be controlled by Governments and Corporations. I would put proof of stake down as being much more controllable by monied interest.

> 2. Monero and the other privacy coins are getting delisted and banned from exchanges due to increasing regulations.

That's sad, but it leads me to two thoughts. One, I'm glad I don't live in the UK or EU, and I think it's gross that something like that happens without the input of the people. Not that I'd put it entirely past the US to do this either (sigh). Two, hopefully Uniswap and other decentralized exchanges will allow for people to swap into privacy coins without a regulated exchange, but I agree there are probably numerous ways to penalize or track the entrance and exit thereof.

I think really this comes down to getting off exchanges asap and trying to actually use the currency. My local community has a group that actively uses the currencies for exchange, but who knows how strongly that would survive if the currencies couldn't off ramp to fiat.
> I’m okay with spending some amount of time

If this "some time around" is more than a few, stick to Ubuntu. I wouldn't use a system I just learned to build as my main workstation. You can still keep a separate distro a learn a the same time.
Co-incidentally the first graph looks like a pair of 'hand-horns'.
Lies. I literally never spray alkyl benzyl ammonium chlorides in the air to "purify" it.

This "air purifier" is run-of-the-mill alkyl benzyl ammonium chloride cleaner mixed with Therabreath (chlorine dioxide).
Vague geopolitical considerations are very secondary and policy dependent compared to the real and abrupt chaos which will ensue if TSMC is taken out.
"which requires crossing a major bridge." - The biologist quoted in your linked article believes the bear likely swam across the canal.
The Yamaha DX7, the quintessential digital-replacing-analog synth, cost $2k USD in 1983, not $4-5k. I can't speak for what that cost in Euros (which didn't exist yet) or with import tariffs in an unspecified country. Today you can get one used for $500 USD. And while analog is and was more expensive, today you can get a Behringer Deep Mind 12 for $900 USD new and it sounds fantastic.

Meanwhile, Teenage Engineering is selling a tiny digital synth for $1,200, which has less functionality than iPad. I find it hard to take serious as anything other than a design object but YMMV.

https://meganlavengood.com/the-yamaha-dx7-in-synthesizer-his...

https://www.amazon.com/engineering-Portable-Synthesizer-Cont...
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Not if u pay a majority of them a tiny sum.
Griffin is super rad!
If three large shareholders came in with a similar agenda but did not disclose group status, the SEC would investigate. First, the SEC would request that they turn over communications records. 99.9% of the time, they would. If they didn’t, the SEC would seek a warrant.
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It's a personal decision and can go either way, and depends on your cash flow and risk tolerance, and goals.

There are many ways to look at it, and the financial aspects aren't always the most important ones. If you have higher debt (credit card, etc) you probably want to pay those off first.

You may want to have ready cash available (stocks, ETFs, etc can be sold) - but once you put money back into your mortgage it can be hard to get it back out (HELOCs can affect this).

You may find you're not good with savings, and paying extra "forces" you to save (people do this with taxes all the time, preferring to get a large refund as a "windfall" vs having some amount of money extra each paycheck).

And it can all change AGAIN from a cash flow perspective - if you have a few years left on a ten year mortgage paying it down faster gets you to the point where you have no mortgage payment faster - that may not matter to you as much if you're 29 years left on a 30 year mortgage.

Also paying down debt is a certainty, but ETF returns could do anything (we have had ten year periods of negative returns in the past). Conversely, inflation makes your debt load lesser, assuming your income inflates at some point.
Seriously, for the vast majority of people, the number of legitimately urgent calls from strangers is going to be vanishingly small. Why even bother answering?

Credit card fraud is not urgent unless maybe you know your card has been deactivated. They can leave a quick message if your relative is in the hospital or whatever.
These "tallest buildings" usually are not mass-available apartment buildings - they are mostly office buildings and house few, exclusive apartments. Once you pack thousands of people into flats in such buildings, the appeal shrinks, quickly.
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> In general, the conflation of "chords" and "harmony" can be just little sticky, because one implies something the instrument is doing, and the other what the composer/band does.

Maybe not directly related or as confusing, but also worth noting here I think is that you can play three notes sequentially and still call it a chord. It would be a "broken chord". And you can play just two notes simultaneously as a "harmonic interval".
This seems more like cost-cutting; the new WarnerMedia/CNN/Discovery entity doesn't want competing streaming services.

I'd imagine all of CNN and WarnerMedia programming moving onto Discovery+ shortly and that killing this division was part of "synergies".

Doesn't mean CNN+ was a roaring success, but it's just not enough time to tell if it was a flop.
> I want to calculate losses per day.

CNN+ lost $9.3M a day vs Quibi with $5.8M a day. [0]

[0] https://twitter.com/trungtphan/status/1517177312424316929
Well this is the big question share price way down at $3.3.
My opinion is that they wont make the cut of for the September release of the next Apple Watch with Blood Pressure and Glucose Monitor but may deliver the Core Body temp and maybe something else from there list of sensors. I Read they had positive human trails with CBT beating out other current methods.
With Apple having yearly watch releases a 23 September release of GM may leave Apple exposed to the competition who knows. The other unanswered questions is whether the Rockley Sensor is the same regardless and all the Sensing is done in software/AI algorithms which have yet to be finalised/developed/tuned ?
Also would Apple want to add this functionality through software or get us all to buy a new watch.
You don’t want to do this now, but there’s a reasonable world we end up in where either inflation hovers at 1%, like most the last 5 years (so you earn 2% by paying down a mortgage, vs -1% when putting it into a savings account), or interest rates stabilize at 10%, or both!

Also some people just hate having debt, and so they want to pay down debts as quickly as possible. Even if it’s “irrational” their goal is to pay down their mortgage in the least amount of time. It is better for them to pay down principal than enqueue future payments.
Yeah, that’s the rub, isn’t it. I would have asked the person you are replying to “what is that fabled institution?” (I still want to know though) - but the problem is two-fold: first, it’s not like I can just take my mortgage with me and change banks, and second, the banks seem to change hands, or they sell mortgages to other banks. So even if you do your due-diligence, (which I did I assure you, there was a reason I went with that bank, since it had a relationship with my employer and offered preferential rates), over last X years the bank went under new management and situation changed dramatically :(
> I wouldn’t say the energy use of non-proof of work chains is millions of times worse than existing traditional finance and web2 solutions. Probably comparable.

Then you would not know what you are talking about.

> Google might build some of their data centers up in Iceland, but that’s not the full picture.

No, they have dozens of data centers, on every continent, and all of them are in areas with cheap, carbon-neutral supply. You think that you are being smart by being dismissive about their effort, and the effort of dozens of companies who host their own infrastructure, but that condescension and lack of expertise is just one more example of why Crypto advocates are so unconvincing.
And when there's no way, you use libraries. Others also mentioned CSS4 solutions and other alternatives. It's really not that bad as the articles paints it (pun intended).
There are no trivial examples unable to output correct code in that comment.

Your attempts to discredit the language are just sad.
According to this logic scaling an image down would make it darker.
Amazon had releases of Corretto available on April 19th, Corretto 17 was released before 10am PDT, less than one hour after the announcement
> the market has spoken

No because "Anderson Cooper 360 without ads" isn't what they put on there, they put on the documentaries—not the pundits. Perhaps you don't like the pundits but the average CNN viewer does and I think might willing to pay $3/month for it.

In fact I was surprised that paying for CNN+ I couldn't even watch Anderson Cooper 360 with ads! All you get is a 10-minute per day preview live stream of CNN unless you can "login through your cable provider".
It is an oddly emotionally satisfying rationale and I reflexively agree.

But upon closer examination part of me wonders if this particular project was a victim of creation by committee, where there was only one person, who could make decisions and the rest were well-paid bobbleheads.

I have no doubt marketing did their research ( and as much as I hate ads, marketing people look for how things really are ), it is possible only some pieces filtered up and/or dissenting voices were just drowned out by 'why are you holding us up?' type of responses.

I am obviously speculating here, but elites ( however you define them ) are people too and subject to most of the same issues as most of us.
If he was simply a finance guy, then yes, it wouldn't make sense.

However he is into multiple businesses that are deeply embedded with politics and governments. Electric cars, space program contracts, telecommunications - all need the right kind of governments to succeed. Twitter has shown to have large effect in politics, it makes quite a bit of sense to own and control that thing if you like to own and control the government.

If his motives are purer, it also makes sense to try to improve the society with a portion of your wealth. You don't have to donate your money to the cancer society, you can engage in philanthropy through building something good instead.
It is correct. That is how a tender offer works.
When they made the download button send you to an interstitial page with ads and a countdown timer before starting the download, that felt eerily like those shady download sites.
I'm not sure I buy the manipulation line either. People seek out information that fits their overall world view. It's hard to grapple with anything that challenges your beliefs. Insofar as people engage with bullshit on Facebook its probably because they already believe a particular thing, or it fits their existing beliefs. I highly doubt that facebook posts are changing a lot of minds. I'm also skeptical that it spurs very many people to actions they wouldn't otherwise take.

A lot of the news articles talking about the effects of facebook focus on how many people "saw" a particular post. Given how those impressions are gathered, I'm no convinced that a significant percentage of those impressions resulted in people actually reading the post or even the headline, let alone that resulting in any real world outcomes.

I think the people that build social media applications want everyone to think that they have the power to shape discourse and outcomes, and newspapers who's ad revenue is undermined by social media also want us to believe social media is dangerous. Those two things do not make it true.
> Because it was cheap and he wants to support journalism.

Sure, WaPa does fantastic journalism- it's obvious that they must be supported for their lengthy history of great pieces.
That's hilarious. You really think that everyone, or even many people, know that phone numbers can be spoofed?
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To convince someone to buy a camera lens, you might first convince them to buy a camera.
In my view, yes, as it means you’re having to laboriously fetch all your data from the cloud rather than having it in L2 cache. Knowing stuff and being able to compute within the confines of your skull is useful.

If we’re to offload all of it, are we even human any more, or just shrews with calculators?
Qualifications: former professional penman, focusing specifically on American Penmanship from ~1860-1920. Spencerian script, and the Palmer method both fall into this time period.

> If you start doodling these figures when you're bored on zoom, your penmanship will magically improve

I find this sentiment common, particularly amongst people who learned penmanship "recently". It is incorrect.

A brief interlude--When I was in middle school I resisted learning cursive. My teachers would tell me that drawing little circles and lines would make my penmanship better. I asked why, but they didn't know. Their teachers told them it was true, so now they're telling me it's true.

Push pulls and oval drills will only improve your penmanship if:

1. You practice them "correctly"

2. Your write in a style that is applicable to the drills you've practiced

There's no magic. They are intended to specifically train a smoothness and control in arm movement writing. Those writing with their fingers will derive little benefit. In no way am I trying to discount progress you have made personally. My contention is that any person devoting sufficient time and intentionality to their handwriting practice will see some improvement, regardless of the methodology used. The crux of the issue is how much progress can/will you make.

Happy to answer any clarifying questions regarding cursive or penmanship.

Below are some of my favorite references in business penmanship.

[0] https://archive.org/details/ChampionMethodOfPracticalBusines...

[1] https://archive.org/details/armmovementmetho00zane

[2] https://archive.org/details/MillsModernBusinessPenmanship
Try this one

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30685921
Why would he take this loss? Why not wait it out and sell when it gets a bit higher again?
I can't read whatever WSJ is saying about this because of the paywall, but I under the impression it was a bit more complicated than other comments reveling in the failure of a mass media channel are indicating. AT&T spun off entertainment completely, then Discovery and Warners merged, but that left a single company running HBO Max, CNN+, and Discovery+, which is stupid. I believe they plan to consolidate those into a single service, probably using HBO branding, which is still by far the most reputable out of what they own. I don't think it means CNN content won't stream anywhere.

It's inevitable that more events like this will happen. Remember when CBS hilariously "re-merged" with Viacom and CBS All Access rebranded as Paramount+ and swallowed up PlutoTV and Nickelodeon? There wasn't much reason to keep the others around.

Peacock and AMC+ stand out right now as having no reason to exist on their own and seem ripe to merge with at least each other and probably with something else, too.
This got caught up in the Warner Media merger and CNN's executive leaving the company. Warner Media wants CNN to focus on hard journalism, and the CNN+ content of soft shows doesn't really fit with that. Plus, CNN+ never included the CNN cable channel since it would put at risk their main cash cow: distribution agreements to carry CNN. Warner Media wants to have HBO Max to be their big all encompassing streaming service, so I doubt they see a need for a separate CNN+ service anymore. The timing is interesting though, since was launched right before the merger closed. I wonder if the CNN folks just wanted to get this out the door before the new leadership took over. I do give credit to Warner Media execs for killing this early as soon as they decided on long term plans for the combined company.
My understanding is the old guard launched as the new guard (Discovery-Warner: http://cnn.com/2022/04/08/media/discovery-warner-media-merge...) was taking over. Probably should have waited to see how the new management wanted to play it, but likely the new team didn't have much say before everything closed. If I was to guess they are pulling it now because the numbers are terrible, but more importantly it needs to be rethought to fit into an HBO Max + Discovery + CNN mega service.