skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
High powered vehicles don't have a tendency to cause anything.

Driver input causes sudden acceleration. Having access to more power is not an inherently dangerous thing. Poor driving ability is a dangerous thing - though I agree that more power can compound that danger.

I drive a 480bhp 1800kg car. It takes active involvement from me in multiple steps to "take off" or 'suddenly' accelerate, and when it does so, the whole car is configured to _increase_ its stability as its speed increases.

That said, if I were to aggressively accelerate when the road conditions are in excess of what the stability aids (and my fallible human skillset) can counter - which from experience is a high bar for modern DSC (oil, ice) - then I would crash and power would be a contributory factor. But from experience I can say that a small front wheel drive car will have 'let go' far sooner under those same conditions.

High-powered cars, by virtue of their expense, tend to have more comprehensive and capable driver assistance features both tech and mech (you're not going to find a limited slip differential on a budget super mini car)

Under-powered cars have trouble effectively matching carriageway and motorway speed in the short slip roads that are common in the UK. A 1 litre, >80bhp car is fine for city/town and village driving. It is not an appropriate vehicle for motorway or NSL carriageway driving. Anything that has no ability to out-accelerate a HGV maintaining cruise speed to join a motorway has no business being on the motorway.
Terrifying but intriguing idea. China's one-child policy led to widespread female infanticide and a generation of missing girls. What would prevent some similar unintended consequence in Europe?
Every time this comes up, I wish we talked more about shortening the workdays as opposed to having fewer of them.

I don't mind working 5/7 days. I do mind long days and overtime.
It seems like all that's mandated is that a USB-C charger would be compatible. You can still run a proprietary protocol on top of it if you wanted or use a hybrid, proprietary connector as long as a standard USB-C charger would still work.
As a European, I'm very happy.

USB-A has been with us for over 20 years. It's only disappearing because of USB-C, and USB-C seems to have room to grow. I wouldn't be surprised if it will still be the most popular connector in 2035, and not just because "legislation stops innovation".

Making sure there are no weird exceptions to a very good port is reasonable and good.
Minister Akar’s message on the operation to Syria: No one should come up against us or try to prevent us
> - Portless phone would be very unpopular (no fast charging), USB-C would be very popular. Apple would not choose to be unpopular just to watch the world hate them.

The same Apple which removed headphone jack so they can sell more dongles and wireless headphones?

I can see them making portless phone just out of pure spite (maybe having cheaper version with port and not selling that in EU).
Doesn't seem to work on firefox mobile. Also breaks the back button.
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It's total comp. So salary plus bonus. It's high but I've seen higher at JPM in terms of total comp at VP level. If we're talking pure salary then yes £190k is base for a seasoned ED.
You own that copy of the book, you do not own the copyright (the right to copy) for the book
I have a M1 Macbook Pro with 16 GB RAM, and qemu ballons in RAM when I try to stand up our backend microservice stack locally - it uses RAM until there's none left, and falls over. My teammates running Linux report ~30mb of RAM usage by the Docker processes to run the same containers.
I am unsure about the speicfics but Handshake appears to burn the money paid. So that's fine.

However most of the potential token supply (like 50%) was premined/airdropped to ssh keys of Github users with >15 followers.
But if we don't, where will the next generation of birds drop their bagels?

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/nov/06/cern-big-ban...

(Old physics meme :-) )
USB-C will be mandatory for phones sold in the EU ‘by autumn 2024’
8GB is less than phones are starting to be.
I can't believe people go to a dealer and are willing to drop $30k+ on a new vehicle that isn't to their exact spec just to drive away that day with something new. There usually aren't too many options on cars -- color, wheel design, a few packages. If I'm spending that much money on something, I'd want exactly what I want. I've even flown to a dealer a few hundred miles away to buy the exact car I want and drove it home.
I’m pretty sure there remains a discrepancy between the predicted mass of the Higgs boson and the measured mass in experiments. Is this resolved then?

I was under the impression that this was a smoking gun for something being off with the theory, a bit like the ultraviolet catastrophe that led to QM or the orbital aberration that was resolved by GR.
Because there is not a business incentive for there to be one and businesses are the dominant party in the exchange.
Apple Announces M2 SoC: Apple Silicon for Macs Updated for 2022
Lightning is a far superior plug than usb-c (don’t tell me about data transfer, I don’t care, I care about the durability and ease of plugging of the plug itself), I have MANY lightning cables (that I will have to throw away, how is that good for e-waste?), and in a more general sense the law basically forbids evolution. I am livid that they’d do something like that instead of working on actual stuff like forbidding mining which actually actively harms the environment, and depletes primary resources for idiotic reasons.
Company performance is exactly defined by employee input from the start. Later on people can coast on input from past employees, sure.

But the company in the end is a result of the aggregation of all current and past employee input
This article sounds like it's written by a kid crying because he didn't get the extra candy he demanded.

1. 1080p is plenty for videoconferencing. We're not filming a movie, are we?

2. you're given the option to use a far more competent camera if you'd like

3. provided you don't absolutely _need_ the clamp for this to work (I don't know), you could position the camera in a much better place than in the "up your nose" position.

This is a nice feature. Why is that dude crying?
No worries, there are also millions of iPhones with Lightning ports for them to be used with. (:
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The idea's nice. I'll still have about 30 unusable micro-USB chargers lying around, though.
We have 5 apple devices and 3 lightning cables remaining. I have some 18-20 usb-c cables lying around.
It's still not a great spec if it's so complex that you can screw it up. I understand the complexity for data, but for power I wish it was as simple as power & ground wires and that's it.

Compare that with USB-A where even cheap Chinese cables from the lowest bidder usually work (work well enough at least - you might get voltage drop but it will still charge if you leave it on long enough) because the spec is so simple that even the worst manufacturers manage to do a good enough job, and it's something you can trivially DIY if you need to.

Now compare that with USB-C. So many moving parts that can go wrong and so much corners that can be cut by unscrupulous manufacturers. Not to mention that even the most expensive devices (Apple) don't give you any visibility on what type of cable/charger/etc you have even though that information is technically available to the device (that's how it negotiates power delivery) which is extremely confusing even to tech-savvy people.
We use an "embedded model" with separate teams. I run an SRE organization with 10 individuals. At any given moment 3-4 are embedded on teams pursuing some objective. The rest are doing incident response and SRE specific projects from the big pile of sprint work.

We did this because in our case most development problems didn't have a reliability dimension. We build mathematical models. Do I need an SRE involved in the discussion of switching from one statistical approach to another? In most cases no. But when that team deems themselves limited by their current walled garden and want to explore/operationalize new technology then we need an embedded SRE to facilitate that.
There is little to no incentive to stop tiktok streamers and vapid tech fans throwing out their 6 month old devices and upgrading. But it's a start.

Whilst important, we have done much better to FORCE the industry to provide security support and updates as part of the sale of devices for a minimum of 5 years on all products.
This is one of the biggest insurmountable reasons I see for people who don't even want to, to have to upgrade because of the locked down nature of phones/watches/washing-machines/hoovers/etc...

Although I doubt it'll be the EU project to push through something so bold that will have enough of an impact.
We're actually super fortunate that the development of deepfake technologies have been done relatively out in the open, with source codes, concepts, and pre-trained models often being readily shared. This allows for a broader based understanding of what is possible, and then hopefully develop ways for folks to inoculate themselves, or at least have some societal-level resistance to being hoodwinked by them. If this tech was only developed in secret, and was being used in a targeted manner, who knows what kind of large-scale manipulations would be being undertaken.
Having morals when the other side doesn't is the best possible reason to be on different sides.
I see a lot of people decrying its existence, but maybe this tool can help combating deepfakes?
What, does buying a more expensive car give you access to a different set of traffic laws? My 106HP Yaris is more than capable of breaking the speed limit and coming off a stop fast enough to slam me back in the seat.
Definitely useful for scammers.
Skeuomorphic was quite the buzzword back near the dawn of the iPhone
Sure, doesn't still mean we should stagnate and be forced to use tech that is basically obsolete for a modern world's requirements.
And how am I supposed to know that when looking at a device that has a USB-C port for charging, and the instructions on the charger [0] say "Nintendo Switch can be charged by plugging the AC adapter into the console's USB Type-C connector."

[0] https://store.nintendo.co.uk/en_gb/-nintendo-switch-power-ad...
Great until you have some "sales rep" in a supermarket dealing with a Karen who's device won't charge fast enough off a 10W USBC charger that fundamentally isn't the same as a 60W one.
Most certainly.
Depending on the type of world we're in, it might also have freed people to pursue more fulfilling calls.
On the flipside, it might have removed multiple jobs for people who may have had entirely satisfactory lives.

It might have been a important plant and the damages done when it breaks down and the surrounding society discovers they both cannot do without it nor rebuild/recover from it may be far worse than the "cost" of running it at a higher degree of manual operation.
Maybe it should be the other way around, rather than putting the error on peoples expectation of what a free service can do, put the error on the operators expectation what kind of free services they can run?

If you can't run a service without arbitrarily banning people (and inadvertently affecting their livelihood [ignoring the question if people should put their livelihood up to a free service in the first place]), maybe you need to adjust the service you're offering people?

There is no requirement for them to run it fully autonomously, because obviously, they are unable to do so without punishing some of their users without any recurse. That's probably a sign it's really hard to run it autonomously, and they need to do something else.

If you don't want your free service to be a cost center, then maybe change it to not be?
What's interesting is that nearly all of my recent electronics purchases have used USB-C.

Headphones, thermal printer, neck-cooler, rechargable screwdriver - all USB-C.

What's weird are the few things which don't. Amazon Alexa use a barrel charger. Brand new HP printer has the old square style USB plug. Pulse Oximeter user micro-USB.

So C is certainly getting there. Appearing in cheap and expensive products. And, I'm happy to say, works well. Just needs a few laggards to update!
A screen with double the resolution and twice the framrate should be indistinguishable. Moreover if you pop the case on the camera and replace the sensor with something fed by display port (probably need an fpga to convert display port to lvds, spi,ic2 or whatever those sensors use, at speed) that should work too.
What innovations are ruled out by mandatory use of the USB-C connector? It supports more power and data than a mobile device is ever really likely to need.

All that's left is the physical form factor and I'm not sure there's a lot of room for improvement there, especially enough to justify the tons of electronic waste.
I'll always root for new fundamental tools, even toy examples. That's how broader change happens.
Thats a very strange statement to make.

Should complex things not have a spec?
Isn't JSX essentially syntax sugar for function calls (to a specific "create element" function), and therefore bound to code/rendering mix regardless of React? I see JSX syntax as fancy JS expressions. It seems like everything the parent said could apply to any use of JSX, except for the attribute naming issue.

The "opposite" approach being using a template language like the one in Svelte or Angular… or like PHP (or Velocity, or Jinja) (for me JSX is not a template syntax at all).

I think template languages are also prone to rendering / logic mix, I don't know what is an elegant solution to this problem apart from getting used to this reality. Maybe something like QML, using data models, instead of having a for loop to render lists for instance.
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Ask HN: What do companies acquire and shutdown a startup?
I've seen repeated times, companies acquiring good startups for a large amount of cash and later shutdown the startup. I'm curious why this happens, if you intend to acquire them why shut them down.
Dark Sky augmented their data with user reports and sensor data inside of the phones. There was a time during the summer of 2019 where I was able to impress friends by accurately predicting when rain would start and stop down to the minute based on the rain notifications I would get.

When Apple bought them and shut down the Android app they threw away all the data Android users were giving them and Dark Sky became almost exactly the same as every other weather API.
Steam also made every game an effective demo with their return policy
> Qi

What a complete waste of energy would that be
I've locked myself out of my digital life
thankfully, life isn’t about maximizing productivity.
While it's an interesting discussion, would you ask the same question to a knife or sword maker? Your tone in this and the AMA thread is combative, and wouldn't lead to a productive discussion.

It would be much more interesting to discuss the technical merits of this project than any particular moral concerns you might have, especially on this forum.
Because for those other subjects it's often correct, so it would be to knock in an open door.

Math has a much stronger claim to be generically useful. Related fields, such as physics may in fact be seen something worth studing more because it teaches you how to apply math, than for the likelihood that you may end up in a job that requires the physics itself.

My own experience is that math/stats is by far the most useful (non language) topic I studied in school/university, even more so that Computer Science (and I work in IT).
Sclerotic - def’n:

Definition of sclerotic (Entry 1 of 2)

1a medical : of, relating to, or affected with sclerosis

sclerotic arteries

sclerotic bone lesions

====> b : grown rigid or unresponsive especially with age : unable or reluctant to adapt or compromise

a sclerotic system/bureaucracy

the country's sclerotic economy

The upheaval in Egypt, Libya, Bahrain and elsewhere is driven by popular revulsion with sclerotic, corrupt leadership. — Rachel Bronson

2 anatomy : being or relating to the sclera

the sclerotic coat of the eye
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but it wasn't removed in 2022.

and why keep it then on all of their computers? because it's useful.

it's nice to have bt headphones while i am biking, but i surely dont need it on a 6h train ride. it's just another thing to keep charged and it has happened that i needed it right after it went empty. perhaps i should by 2 pairs?

just because a lot of people stopped vocally moaning about it, doesn't mean it's not gonna be missed. magsafe came back from the dead, this will one day too :}
It's not permanent, but it probably will happen again. Gas prices are volatile.
And did this discovery generalise to datasets from other hospitals?
Because then prices go up and the poor especially are hurt. Governments also get less revenue so are less able to assist the poor.
There are many ways: in past it was mostly nets and people walking around field and making noise when flock come close. Now it is combination of automatic noise guns installed inside the vineyard and even computer vision systems that aim flocks with laser pointers.
I'm not familiar with how 'tax men' work in the US, but in countries i'm familiar with government officials do not dictate file formats, and all communication is done in formats that are open standards. In the slim chance that some bureaucrat would continue to insist on using .xls or .xlsx, I'd probably ship him an exported file from LibreOffice, and say that it's the best I can do. And then again, being a proponent of Free Software and open standards, I'd probably refuse using a proprietary format. So far, I had some luck in avoiding using microsoft office file formats in the past 15 years of entrepreneurship.
For propaganda purposes, the deepfake needs to be neither real-time, deep, nor fake, nor does it need to exist at all. A false message with zero supporting evidence repeated endlessly by high-profile influencers is a million times more effective than a single bombshell video ignored by mainstream media.
I wouldn't stand on the hill of this is obsolete tech, there should be more devices built with power efficiency from the ground up as well as less focus on the USBC charges your phone faster. This is more about usbc will charge every device you have in a few years so no reaching for custom chargers. Usbc->X cables however are another matter nothing is stopping HP making a custom usbc->HP port for their laptops for instance
So no more innovation either ? if we can't move out of existing tech because they're still in production
I wish USB-C was more robust, or at least had the option of being more robust. I miss not being scared of accidentally stepping on my laptop charge connector and crushing it flat. I'd pay good money for a type-C un-flattener.
> It’s obvious that the relationship is not as simple as one input, one output.

Yes. It's easy to say "if we assume everything is linear...". Justifying that assumption and demonstrating that it's valid is another, significantly more difficult, thing entirely.
Power and ground wires alone don't cut it sadly when you're dealing with much higher wattages. There needs to be a level of negotiation between the host and the charger to decide on a specific power (current & voltage) that both can support.

In USB-A this was accomplished through a hodge-podge of different resistances applied across data lines, not officially part of the standard but just done by manufacturers. USB-C is a huge improvement on this.

I do agree however that the cable-labelling situation is awful. Maybe some kinda tier system could help. Every charger, cable and device could have a class. The charging rate is the lowest of the three. E.g. a "Class 5 cable will charge up to 200 watts and has a pink end". If you pair that with a Class 2 charger (say, 50 watts) and a class 3 laptop (100 watts) you'll be limited to charging your laptop at 50 watts.
Everybody who is frenetically celebrating this as the end of the manufacturer-specific power brick, does simply not know that USB-C is not USB-C. There is no single USB-C.

USB-C is a bunch of specifications that may can be combined or may not. USB-C is only the physical connector. USB-C PD (Power delivery) does support many different modes. There are at least 11 different modes with at least 4 of them are optional. I haven't read the latest version of the specification, but I would bet that there are optionally also some implementation-specific options aka manufacturer-specific. All that combined with the many different cable definitions for the different use cases, makes it for the average consumer a nightmare.
KPIs can be change continuously so that's why I'm baffled by this trend. Companies can just say - we measure only by KPIs, work whenever you want. Something like this signals a much better workspace than four-days workweek, since the latter still measures time instead of output.
That was easily my commute when I was working in London. I'd drive to the train station, take the train into London, then the tube within London and walk the last 10 minutes to the office. On a normal day it would take 1h40 each way. On a bad day it could be much longer.

That's nearly 17 hours over a 5 day week assuming no problems.
This may vary by country. A large proportion, maybe even all, of the Ford dealers in the UK are owned by Ford itself. The only Ford dealers that I have had contact with in France are still separate companies.
The contribution graph is definitely something I wouldn't put too much faith in considering there are lot's of projects out there specifically made for drawing pictures in them.

https://github.com/blaise-io/contribution as an example
I'm not sure it's markdown specifically, seems to be a homegrown markup language, made by Joe himself. Here is the "renderer" part of the website: https://joearms.github.io/src/expander.js

> expander.js - a markup parser

> Hopefully the last JS I every write

> Very few regular expressions were used in the construction of this program

> No libraries were were used in the construction of this program

> All faults are mine and mine alone

> Appears to work :-)

Points to https://github.com/joearms/bookmaker which doesn't seem to exist anymore.
It's not restricting to only USB-C. You can go beyond that with new innovations, but you need to maintain compatibly with it.
Those 3-5 years at Apple could be lucrative for you. Go for it!
I don't know. The aliens could be some type of insect with entire classes of workers that can never stop working.

Maybe they think about how to justify their working arrangements to us humans.
There is also a difference between learning math and understanding math. I was taught the basics of matrix multiplication, finding determinants, solving linear systems of equations and all the stuff in high school. I was half way to my Masters before I really understood what all those things actually where, how they related to different things and all the ways they could be used to actually solve real world problems.
I want to like this, but I charge my iPhone with a cable that has lightning on one end and USB-C on the other, and I know from extensive direct experience that the lightning end is the better physical design.

Supporting this is tantamount to believing that there will never need to be a USB-D that improves upon USB-C, and I just can’t believe that.
You are not supposed to, but it seems to me that the blame is on Nintendo, not with USB-C.
> 2-6% productivity declines

That seems pretty good for a 20% decline in working hours! Unless I'm missing something?
What is meant by "solving fusion" if not making fusion an economically viable source of power?

And I didn't mean to suggest that available energy was the limitation on building LHC++, but rather that available economic surplus was.