skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it boils down to "as long as the USB-C is provided"

Can you provide a source? AFAIK you can have a device without USB-C and only wireless charging.
Talk about a file format that history has passed by.

It's arguable that the compression is really better than ordinary JPEG but it is dramatically slower to encode and decode.

Add the conflicts over patents and it was dead in the water.
Abramovich's telecom company Truphone, once worth 500m dollars, will sell for $1
I have worked as a manufacturing/process engineer in the semiconductor industry (~10 years) and a programmer (~20 years). I have had frequent cause to use software which did math (beyond arithmetic and basic algebra), but seldom if ever needed to do it myself. I suppose the argument for learning how to do it yourself is that you have a better intuition about what the computer is doing for you, and thus can spot when something is wrong.

The problem is that "it helps you think better" applies to lots of things, like being fluent in a second language, understanding ancient history in depth, studying great literature, etc. We don't require them, beyond an introductory class or two.

We also have the ratio between calculus and statistics entirely wrong, with much more of the latter required in most engineering degree programs, whereas the latter is much more often going to come up in work (and the rest of life).
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1) I bet a far fewer percentage of people use Shakespeare, Steinbeck, or any other literature in their jobs. Is this an argument for eliminating literature from the curriculum? Why or why not?

At least in Germany, school is for getting general education and university/tertiary education is for specializing in the area that you chose as your degree course. So, in my opinion it indeed makes sense to make this non-compulsory at the university level if you don't choose a humanities degree course where this is subject matter.
As far as I'm aware it is actually free for both agent and cloud. What do they have now is more than enough to understand the root of the issue.

It is ok to pay in the future for SSO.

My concern is not money at that moment, but the foot print on production system as data will be stored and queried next to prod with recently introduced anomaly advisor on top.
I have an old SFF Dell OptiPlex at my mothers house in another country. It isn't on 24/7 as I have it set to power on automagically weekly so it is up during my scheduled backup window. If I need it any other time a simple phone call to my mother and she can hit the power button. Then I can just access it thanks to WireGuard.

The setup is simple, it runs Debian with four drives. The OS and primary data is RAID1 then two independent drives that a script automatically keeps everything in sync so I have three copies of everything over four drives.

I also have two USB flash drives with it (but not connected) that have an identical OS setup on so should the local system drives die I can ask my mother to pop in the USB and boot it up and still access the 2nd and 3rd backup drives. It all works when I have tested it out although never needed to actually use it.

This isn't for multimedia of course just my really important stuff such as 2FA recovery keys, scans of passports and legal paperwork, etc. As it is only a few GB I don't bother to delete anything ever, I only ever add so even if I rescan in stuff it doesn't replace the old copy.

It is all encrypted on my end first so even if someone steals the machine the data is as safe as it is anywhere else.

Is it perfect? Nah but it is more than good enough and hasn't failed me. I also have local backups of course, this is really my last resort kind of thing.
I’ve also found wireless charging to be inconsistent at best, especially with a case. Half the time I come back and I didn’t place my phone in exactly the right place. Maybe it’s the quality of my chargers, but until I can buy a random charger on Amazon and assume it to be as reliable as an equivalent cable, I don’t think we can give up the cables.(fwiw my current charger is name brand)
I had a similar problem once. I normally use the dvorak layout but was on a qwerty keyboard. I don't remember exactly why, but I had to muscle-memory type the password as if the keyboard was dvorak and manually remap the characters using an image of a dovrak layout on top of a qwerty keyboard.
> Honestly I think similarity is a bit of a red herring. The most interesting question is whether there are other beings we can communicate with in any sense of the word

Much the same thing, as I read it: I think the GP meant "similar" in the sense of "alike us in that it even does 'communicate' in any sense in the first place".
Well, this article is a hypothetical, but fire-proof safes are, like anything with "proof" in the name, not fire-proof, merely fire-resistant. It's theoretically possible for a lightning to strike in the worst possible place and trigger an unusually hot fire, one that exceeds the maximum tolerance for your safe. House fires can apparently hit 1500F, and if you've cheaped out on your safe then you might be in trouble (e.g., the Amazon Basics Fire Safe "can protect your belongings at 1200 F for 20 minutes").
I buy best-selling cable packs costing a few euros per unit on Amazon. They charge and connect anything I own that has a USB-C plug.
The AuthaGraphic world map projection
In that case, fusion will never be solved, and any money spent toward that goal is money wasted.
The moon's modified USB-C will be known as Luna-C.
Holloman High Speed Test Track sets record in 30-plus years with reusable sled
Some Lightning devices use both sides to get USB3 speeds. I really have no idea why Apple have left other devices at USB2 performance. It doesn't make an awful lot of sense to me.
> It's usable on all platforms except iPhones and Apple TV where we're forced to use HLS at higher Latencies for now and hopefully later also DASH or LL-HLS once that's reliably usable.

Interesting, since it was Apple who designed & built both the original HLS and the LL extensions. What's currently preventing LL from being usable there?
A computer is a box of binary silicon switches which serves as a logic playback device. This is all it does.

It's a useful tool to be sure but it is about as intelligent as a hammer.

Until we can logically define "intelligence", we have no way to program a computer to reproduce it. Stuffing more and more switches and logic into the box and hoping that somehow real "intelligence" will just pop out is pure cult fantasy.
This is a common setup to build empathy so doesn't always mean "the following is a hypothetical thought exercise", such as "Imagine you find your self in the same situation as me, your house struck by lightning..."
Their web interface should use the <video> and <audio> HTML element pointing to an URL any noscript/basic (x)html browsers could pass to an internal or external media player. In case of non-live streaming, in the URL, seeking should be provided by standard URL fields (total time/and start time/maybe speed x0.25 for fancy), that to allow independent media players to know how to seek. I think apple HLS has standardized that.
WeatherKit, Apple’s Dark Sky replacement, will allow for Android and web apps
My last job (America’s Test Kitchen in case they’re hiring) did/does 4.5 day work weeks. Friday afternoons off. Zero loss of productivity. For me it was a built in zero-guilt place to schedule my dentist appointments, rare in-person tasks at the bank, take cats to the vet, etc.

Of course, 4.0 days would be even better!
Emergency braking in space
I'm not sure they are clear what they are solving. The statement says:

"European consumers were frustrated long with multiple chargers piling up with every new device"

This was solved by companies no longer providing chargers with new devices. When you buy a new phone, you use your existing charger, only buying a new one when you actually need it.

If you buy a new iPhone, you get a cable that plugs into a USB-C charger.

If USB-C is mandated on the phone end:

* I'll spend the next 20 years realising I have the wrong white phone charging cable with me
* I still won't trust random USB-C cables
* I still won't trust random USB-C chargers

But - let's just do it. Maybe in 40 years it'll have seemed worth it.
That is good because I think as late as three years ago there was still at least one "laptop" (possibly more, only one I have heard of) which were heavy desktop replacement that required two power bricks during some gaming.
No, it's just that; embryo selection. It's not an euphemism for what you wrote because an embryo is not a child and you cannot murder an embryo.

From Wikipedia: "A child (plural children) is a human being between the stages of birth and puberty [...]"

You are also conflating the abortion of an embryo with murder; only human persons can be murdered, embryos are not persons, therefore no murder.

I sincerely ask you to cut down the polemics here on HN. It does not lead to fruitful (no pun intended) discussions.
"If a tree falls on your head in the forest, but I can't hear you scream, do I care" kind of thing? ;-)
The article mentions planting natives and leaving leaf litter for the insects to nest in. Anecdotally, that works extremely well. My neighbor always leaves his leaves under the trees (gums), and I'd noticed his yard always has a prolific firefly population. Two years ago, after I started to get interested in native plants, I started doing the same thing, and this year for the first time ever I have lightning bugs as well!

I've also seen a plethora of other native bugs that I've never seen before, but that could just be due to the fact that I wasn't really very interested in them before.
It can also reduce fraud reports -- if a transaction was authenticated with 2FA then it's less likely the fraud claim is legit and more likely it can be tossed.
How is tesla's connector nicer?
Depends on how desperate you are and/or how lucrative this potential offer is. If you are desperate, then go for it, you are already mostly there. If the offer is lucrative/great company, go for it.
That would be foolish, wireless charging is far too slow to replace cables anytime soon.
Passkey works on non-Apple devices by showing a QR code on that device, having the iPhone scan it, then a BLE connection being established to allow the phone to remotely sign webauthn requests. I only mention ‘switching ecosystems’ in the sense of moving between Apple and Android mobile devices.
Cars within a particular period mostly have the same overall design just like today. There will always be exceptions of course, however take a look at some models from 1966 (Ad heavy site, sorry)

https://www.ranker.com/list/list-of-all-cars-made-in-1966/re...

I feel like you see one car from 1966 then notice how most cars today are similar, and use that difference.
> That's not how innovation works

Yes, exactly, this is how standardization works.

Who cares about innovation in charging plugs form factor?

Innovations should be innovative enough to get around the plug.

Light bulbs have been the same for at least 80 years and it didn't stop innovation.

Why do people are so scared about things that are only hypothetical, while this solves a real issue?
Good old Michigan Tech, where the odds are good but goods are odd.
Unfortunately the Internet is rife with poor sarcasm and misleading titles.
You should consider the actual job will be just as tedious.
>it wouldn’t work that way if everyone approached dealerships like that

Of course it would. Dealers have some flexibility in their margins. Just like you, they have a price below which they will not make a deal. If you offer too low a price they will simply say no.

This isn't rocket science; buyers and sellers come together at an acceptable price.
Wow, what an uncharitable view you have on people with a different opinion than your own. Quite stunning, actually.
“Since 1996” seems very stable for a free URL shortener, if true.

Edit: but I agree with your main point, .eu.org isn’t a real TLD as they make out in the title.
i build a few systems when the to good to be true second hand offerings in my area added up to a complete system. They never lasted for very long but it was hilarious. Thinking about it I want to do a synergy setup with 2x4 monitors.
You need an e-mail address to arrange contractors

No. People have been trained to think they need an e-mail address for real-life things, but they don't.

I had a roof replaced in my last place, which involved multiple contractors and insurance companies. No e-mail. No text messaging involved.

I recently moved to a new city, and setting up utilities, dry cleaning service, parking garage, etc... probably involved a dozen new accounts. I gave my e-mail address to none of them. Depending on the disposition of the provider, I either told them I hadn't set up e-mail yet since I moved, or just a flat "no."

you need your contact list to reach out to friends for help

If you're over 40, you can remember the days when it was perfectly ordinary to remember the phone numbers for dozens and dozens of people and businesses. These days, we've allowed computers to think and remember for us (hello, Stackoverflow!) so we don't have to. Memory is a normal skill that many people have lost or neglected.

you need access to your bank accounts

That's why it's important to have your bank accounts with an actual bank, with actual branches, and actual human beings to help you when human being things go wrong in the real world.

your cloud-stored scans of your ID cards

I can't even wrap my brain around why you'd trust information this important to a rental computer a thousand miles away.

"Everything digital" is a marketing tool. In reality, it only works when it works. When things go wrong, digital shows its fragility.
I think (?) the audience for this site is global, so you can't really say "National" weather service. Darksky works around the world (though I presume not truly everywhere). Glad to hear they are extending non proprietary access to their Weather Kit, that's an encouraging move.
I worked with a guy from Germany about 20 years ago, before it was as easy find this sort of information online. I asked him if they had fireflies in Germany and he kind of scoffed and told me "Of course we have them over there!"

He didn't know, at the time, that they were extremely rare starting somewhere west of the Mississippi river.
To be fair you could have gathered the requirements and proposed your solution, wait for the approvals and then start the coding work instead of working on the solution.
Yes, he certainly escalated to mournful self pity and casting himself as the victim then pivoted to shilling quite quickly, I agree. Of course you can critique: that's exactly what you and I are both doing right now. You don't have to ask me for permission.
I completely missed that part. What I don't understand is then why Apple doesn't open source their solution if they think they are superior and they care about the environment. Same with lighting.
The AWS example is $4 per million char. The starter of this service is $7.92. And the cheapest option is $2 per million which is 2x cheaper, not 8x. Yes the AWS (and google) neural voices are $16 but then the front page voice sampled is not from the neural AWS Polly but standard (Matthew IIRC).

Shady, really shady. It's a shame, I would not mind a good competitor to Polly/Google.
Thank goodness. I am so tired of juggling a mix of USB and lightening cables, headphones, adapters. Lightening was an innovation at the time but this is a perfect use of regulation, to force standards and reduce waste. I will make sure my next iphone is usb-c.
Curiousity can have many shapes. Being curious about 100,000 smaller questions is no better or worse than being curious about one big one. A lack of curiousity here would have been to sinply say all this money shouldnt be spent on research at all.

My read of the article was more a call for considering the practical uses of tge research. If we don't know what $100B worth of LHC will discover, why wouldnt we instead fund tens of thousands of smaller projects that often have very practical real world goals?
To clarify: Magsafe 2 was introduced in 2012. You missed the original Magsafe _and_ Magsafe 2. Old adapters (but not the oldest) will work with the latest Macbooks.
It varies from company to company and role to role.
My "commute" is 5 mins each way. Would love to try out a 4-day week.
I think the question whether to build a new collider deserves more than a simple "yes" and "no". Indeed, it looks as if particle physics right now is a bit in a dead end, there are no obvious and imminent discoveries to be expected from such an instrument. And with the enormous amount of money it would require, a lot of other experiments could be financed, which short term are much more likely to advance science. On the other side, I unless there is evidence that we cannot discover any more by building a new collider, we shouldn't just stop research into that direction. We don't know what lies there and might be missing the true discoveries to be made. Also, these colliders do finance a lot of science around them. Just designing and building them fills plenty of thesises and papers. A lot of adjacent science is involved. Detector design, data processing just to name a few. The web we are using has been invented at CERN :)

Consequently, the cost trade-off isn't as clear-cut as the article might make it sound. Which for me leads to the obvious answer: yes, we should build another, larger collider. But probably not right now. There should be plenty of funding for the current one and also quite a bit of theoretical preparation before it is getting planned/built. In this time, other projects should get priority funding. But eventually, we should build another collider. We should never stop researching.
Boring? That's a funny assumption. The presence of politics is required for work to be fun? Sounds like a nightmare to me.

I love the lack of politics at work. It really makes it more pleasant-- almost an escape from an otherwise over-politically involved society. I can't turn on the news or open the browser (sometimes even IRC) without politics seeping in.

It allows me to stay focused on work, not on what people think about/how I might be judged on my non-work related opinions. Nor that there could be favoritism based on such things.

It levels the playing field.

There are numerous articles discussing any non-liberal voices resulting in people being let-go/fired at various California-based technology companies.
Excited to show off something that we've been working on: the Bitcoin Note. The Bitcoin Note is a cash instrument that is backed by Bitcoin via multisig. Each note is printed with beautiful, currency-grade elements that use secure printing techniques typically reserved for government documents like microtext, raised print and foil. More importantly, each note includes a secure NFC chip which is where a multisig lives that allows you to claim the Bitcoin at any time.

We were heavily inspired by OG Bitcoin physical money like Casascius coins, however, we wanted to created a design whereby (1) anyone can spend, gift and share the Bitcoin for years to come without having to worry a sophisticated attacker who extracts a private key from under a label or scratch off and (2) trust was minimized on that part of the printer (us).

This lead us to the design we landed on for the Bitcoin Note

1) An NFC chip readable by nearly all modern smartphones

2) A two part multisig where (1) we write an encrypted private key to the note (and don't keep a copy and (2) you write a user key to the note in plaintext and then load the note

3) We only release the decryption key when someone cuts the note and reports this via an authenticated and encrypted way to our server

4) The multisig reverts to only your key after a printed expiration date on the note

5) You can re-key the user key on the note you receive if you want to hold it for a long time

We believe that the result of this design achieves the goal of Bitcoin that's incredibly easy to use - like cash - but still preserves the important quality of self-custody. Take a look at http://bitcoinnote.com/ to learn more and reserve a spot in line for our release later this summer.
It's ambiguous; the word can be used not only for a hypothetical, but also a "put yourself in my shoes"
Regardless of how it's not uncommon these days, and even acceptable to some people, 5 rounds of interviews is insane. One round, possibly with several people, should be enough. If it's not enough, that means the wrong people were doing the interviews.

5 rounds is insane, and to me it's the mark of a severely dysfunctional company.

Don't even get me started on multiple choice personality tests taken by wannabe psychologists in HR, or the general idiocy that is whiteboard coding.
Well they asked everyone to agree on a standard 10 years ago, but that didn't happen (just because of Apple). So now they forcefully decided.
For those of you looking for an alternative, I'd recommend Windy[0][1][2]. It's UI can be slightly quirky but the weather models, features and visualisations are superb. If you're specifically after marine and wind forecasts, PredictWind[3] is about as good as it gets.

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They provide a USB-C charger already, and it's not magically faster than good quality third-party chargers. It's top-end, for sure, but not proprietary.
Things that change regularly get encrypted and backed up to the cloud.

The credentials for accessing those backups get encrypted and backed up at a relative's house.

So you almost never need to update the data at the relative's house. Although you might want to check they haven't lost it from time to time :)
A very utilitarian view. People aren’t all beings of pure logic, though. Some people have fun in their cars and use them for purposes other than pure transportation.
I've seen that happen when they are either

1 - Uncertain about something about you (I imagine technical aptitude), and want to rule out their concern
2 - There are 2 close candidates

Either way you should confirm that it is the final stage, confirm what they'd need to see to hire you and if you are feeling confident maybe use it to negotiate salary!

Sounds like you are close to getting the job though so I wouldn't dismiss it especially if you have no doubts about the company!
They may be considering you for a role slightly different. Or they want to like you, but aren’t confident about your technical skills yet. Do you want the job? You can always turn down an offer, you can’t evaluate an offer you don’t get.
Do you mind me thinking these reactions are kinda weird? I imagine I’d say ‘sure’ throw the disk on the shelf, and not worry about it any more until they show up years later to get their disk back.

Then it’ll either work or not, but spending any time worrying about what might -with some infinitisemally small chance- happen seems pointless.
I find this happening over the long term (3-5 years after adding) too, but I think of it as more of a feature than a bug. Anki significantly extends the amount of time concepts stay in my brain, but it's unrealisting for me to expect it to do so over a decade or more without my interacting with the source material outside of simply flashcard review.
statistic is important for democracy working. how can politicians display their strategy work, show some statistical analysis results.
The difference between $300k/head revenue companies and $2M/head revenue companies is far larger than amount of toil and efficiency measures/overhead. Most notably, there tends to be a fundamental difference in who they hire, how they hire them and how they compensate them. It might even make sense for $100k/year engineers to do more toil than $400k/year engineers.
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