skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple's argument behind keeping the lightning connector is that it offers a superior standard of waterproofing than the USB-C can provide. The iPad and MacBook, to my knowledge, don't make any claims about being waterproof.

(Not to say anything about the veracity of the waterproof argument, just that they make it)
Too many get caught up in the "USB-C" connector, and forget about the modes and power delivery. That said, AFAICT the May 2022 revision states (pg 6):

"the devices should incorporate the USB Power Delivery (USB PD) standard (as described in the European standard EN IEC 62680-1-2:2021) and ensure that any additional charging protocols allow for full USB PD functionality (new annex Ia, part I)."

Then the referenced: "EN IEC 62680-1-2:2021" standard specifies

"To facilitate optimum charging, the specification defines two mechanisms a USB Charger can advertise for the Device to use:
1. A list of fixed voltages each with a maximum current.
2. A list of programmable voltage ranges each with a maximum current (PPS). The Device requests a voltage (in 20 mV increments) that is within the advertised range and a maximum current."

But those regs get over my head quickly, so someone else may have better luck interpreting them.
If after 5 rounds of interviews they are still not sure what to do personally I wouldn't want to join them: it sounds like the leadership lacks decisiveness and/or that they are plagued by internal politics, not to mention their own confession that the previous rounds were badly designed (i.e. they don't now what they are looking for). but as others have commented it depends on how much you want this job.

Or maybe they pushed the code you wrote in your previous round to prod and got an issue so now they need you to fix it ;)
I was nearly 40 years old before I saw fireflies for the first time. I was sent back east to Washington DC for a conference. One evening I was wandering near one of the monuments when these tiny points of light started lighting up. I couldn’t figure out what they were until I got close enough and realized they were insects. That was also the trip where I first saw lightning, so it was a very enlightening trip ;-) My children still have never seen fireflies (or lightning), so I hope they stick around long enough till we can go east someday and see them.
Bank closing office and trashing box is a bigger risk.
My bank doesn't use TOTP but rather the Swedish BankID system for 2FA
In some instances i could remember the password in others... now, i just created a new account if i did think i would need the service. Overall, even if i did not gain ANY of this accounts back it wouldnt really harm my life. I would have to recreate some stuff from memory, find some other providers, all things considered it would have been more of an inconvenience than a real problem.
It also occasionally has React(?) elements fail to render when you go into theatre mode

You can't move the error message without tinkering with the dom in dev tools. Really would be nice if they could focus on the cool stuff in between milking viewers for cash haha
What is the fascination with pendrives? Can't it be a piece of paper?
Having a car manufacturer dictate where you plug in is bad, actually.
And I don't in certain cases (even when I'd like to).

But it's getting increasingly hard to opt out of 2fa on some services.
> Of course, the first thing that comes to mind is what happens if better solutions are found. Will EU block innovation?

Previously the EU had a (non-compulsory) rule on micro A as the charging standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_external_power_supply

Plus they leave the door open for a wireless alternative.
>> 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.

Heck, if you're over 30 you remember this. The problem though is that you remembered those numbers because you dialled them frequently from memory (and, at least in my location, landline numbers were much shorter than cell phone numbers). If you're not doing this on your smartphone you're never going to be able to remember the numbers. e.g. I can remember all of my childhood friends home phone numbers. I can't remember my partners cell phone number.

I recently considered getting an analogue phone book and noting down all the numbers in my smartphone contacts book just in case I ever lost access to the digital version.
I'm really excited to see what could be done with this! I think the primary benefits of this being released are two fold:

1) It will give security researchers more freely available technology to work with in order to try and fight the malicious use of deepfakes. (I saw some interesting comments in this thread about TPM. It'd be interesting to see what other solutions are out there.)

2) It would raise the overall awareness of the general population about the existence and advancements that deepfake technology has made. I would argue that a small subset of the overall population know what the term "deepfake" means, and even fewer are aware at how far it has progressed in only a few short years. (I'm not super well versed in the topic myself, I just know that I've heard a lot of progress has been made.)

I think that since this tech is already actively being used by bad actors, the best course of action that we can take until at least a somewhat good counter to it has been adopted (and then quickly defeated) is to make as many people aware that this is something that could affect them, or their families. That this is something that could be used to get someone fired, or hurt, or killed. I think that the more that people are aware of its existence, the less impactful the overall effect of deepfakes becomes. People learn to look twice before making a call on something, because of how easy it has become to fake audio and video.
Belgium is missing as well, by law you are allowed to choose a 4d work-week and many, many people do it, including myself :-).
>So many people will be underwater on their car loans.

Can you clarify what you mean? A car is a rapidly depreciating asset; being underwater is the norm. It's only been during the pandemic that used vehicle prices have outstripped loan values.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31641470
I literally have 2 laptops, 1 tablet and 1 desktop computer at home that friends/family gave to me because they were about to throw it away. Why? Because they were too slow, ie, for some reason windows was something something. After an OS reinstall, I'll give them away to whomever need them.

I wish people didn't throw working hardware in the bin, but in my country (France) and social circles (middle class), people definitely do.
What if it's only held in by the case itself and not a clip? Then I'd disconnect it simply by opening the device?
This is incorrect. The AWS example is Polly Neural Matthew voice which costs $16, not $4.
Neural Matthew: https://unreal-tts-live-demo.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/aws/...
Standard Matthew: https://unreal-tts-live-demo.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/aws/...
The problem with this technique is that if it's generated algorithmically with no "randomness" to it, someone else can figure it out.

You might be doing everything right, but perhaps your vendor's database gets breached, and your plaintext password for Adobe gets posted on the darkweb. So if someone sees that your plaintext password is "1a2s3d4fAdobe5g6h!", they might then infer how you "construct" your password, and then go try logging into your Amazon account with the same email address and "1a2s3d4fAmazon5g6h!" as the password.
This makes sense and understand what you're saying. But the idea of having a full extra day where I don't have to open the laptop and can instead concentrate totally on myself is much more important than a decompression day at work.
It’s a lot smaller, locks into the car while charging, and doesn’t have an extra flap you have to open when using DC fast charging.
> As practiced though, I really don’t know who benefits from our standups anymore.

It's not for you, this is why it sucks. Standup could be better but it's not designed with concern for all participants, or at least it takes effort and empathy to run one this way. If doing it well was easy developers would all be tripping over their dicks to give standup updates.

tl;dr: stick not as effective as carrot, but stick is cheaper / easier / simpler so stick is the only option
Agreed, and I’m surprised no one else is saying it.

It activates the “I was just assaulted” empathy regions of my brain. Seeing that it was fake was like, oh, not assaulted, just lying for literary effect. Okay.

Like everyone else, I’m glad they’re ok, and didn’t have to suffer through this.
Only for decisions people can make though. If the option I really need is only available bundled with a bunch of other high priced options my decision is more informed, but it didn't change.

OTOH, it isn't possible for a dealer to keep all possible combinations of options on the lot. Even the largest dealers don't have that much lot space for one model (much less all models). This is why there are so many bundles: you chose package A,B,C and then color. However if people are ordering they may give the nod to a manufacture that allows them to unbundle choices, and this competition may force them to make lots of different options and thus lose the profit margin on lots of options that maybe people didn't want but it came with an option they demanded.
2 is a big point. This is supposedly about e-waste, but will force everyone to trash all their old cables and accessories even faster now.
I don't know how you or your friends/parents store important documents but everyone in my bubble has multiple document binders with critical paperwork to keep. Adding a single paper to them is no problem, and the paper is not lost. Stuff is never removed from those binders, just new ones added.
I would highly prefer the watch didn't charge that way; it takes FOREVER.
Ah, the old synergy effect, a corporate executive's best friend.
The 11 was never a big seller though. I loved my 11 inch, but rarely every saw someone else with one. The 13 is the true hit.
Your question presumes that my opinion on this matters but that's not how employment works. Employment is governed by contract law/labor law. To reduce your example to absurdity: Person 'A' gets their work done in 40 hours a week and person B in one minute, do you think person 'A' should get more money?

Clearly, the answer is yes because the claim on the life of person 'A' is a much higher one than the claim on the life of person 'B'. And you could argue the opposite just as easily: Person 'B' should get more money because they've figured out a way to be much more productive that might scale to others, and besides, sometimes getting something done in one minute has immense value and getting the same thing done in a week has none. But in practice neither of these things will happen. There isn't really a free market when it comes to jobs, employers hold most of the power and the differences between employees for most jobs do not exceed the normal bandwidth available for compensation, almost nobody except a lucky few contractors get paid by the value they create for the company.

So what will happen instead is that employers will set a certain hourly rate for a certain kind of job with some leeway to incentivize people to come and work for them or stay and hopefully a career path so they can migrate into better positions if they perform well. This arrangement will be formalized using an employment contract which together with applicable law will govern the relationship. This is not without problems but in the end it is what we have as a solution. Whether your colleague (who gets their job done in 32 hours) and you (who work 40 hours) have different pay depends on who is in control of the relationship: if the employees have control then they might be able to get paid by the value they contribute but this is extremely rare for salaried employees. The alternative, an hourly wage is much more common.

And one of the fundamental reasons for that is that we (1) all recognize the value of our time and (2) have tried very hard to get away from labor that was paid 'by the piece', which was very common in the early industrial revolution days (and which is now returning through a backdoor as the 'gig economy').
That would be believable except Apple has been fighting the EU for years now over not implementing USB at all. Sure the charger has USB, but the phones they've release the last decade don't have a USB port themselves. Even when the industry leaders signed their agreements, Apple had to be the butt. I don't see how them shipping USB chargers with proprietary adapters at some point helps their case here. Apple didn't standardize anything at all here.
I've been looking for a van and I was told that Chevy full size vans are done in the same plant as an SUV. They do a 2 month cycle of vans, then a 4 month cycle of SUV. So if you order at the wrong time, it could be over 4 months to wait.
> That is luck not skill. Humans are not good drives and never can be.

This is a stretch. The better argument is that the best human reflexes can't react to others' stupidity with the speed and precision modern safety mechanisms can.
Maybe the interview diligence increases as it gets harder to fire people?
When I joined an east coast computer company in the mid-80s, ties all the time were already gone for a lot of engineering positions (though more senior engineers and managers still tended to wear them). Suits were pretty standard for marketing for marketing and other business roles.

Around the time you say, casual Fridays came in. The funny thing is the CEO got annoyed at one point because a lot of the engineers felt they need to underdress relative to the business people who were now dressing business casual on Fridays and increasingly most days.

I'd say that over the next couple decades, things got more and more casual to the point where ties, much less suits, are pretty uncommon in settings where not wearing one would have seemed out of place 25 years or so ago.

At trade shows, as I recall, at some point in the 90s, IBM booth staff showed up at one big show wearing branded polo shirts rather than suits. At which point, most everyone else went: If IBM isn't wearing suits, I guess we don't need to.
This is not correct. The proximity and amount of fissionable material is exactly what causes the chain reaction. Moderators moderate (control, reduce) the reaction in a nuclear power plant so that it can be throttled.

The corium (melted reactor core) underneath Fukushima is fissioning right now and releasing fatal amounts of radioactivity. Nuclear fuel rods are purposely designed to put a (sort of) efficient amount of fissionable material together in a (sort of) efficient configuration, originally called a pile.

Fuel pellets made of U-235 (and the rods they are stacked into) absolutely do fission on their own, and for a very long time. They're only removed from the reactor because the efficiency has gotten so low as to be nearly useless for power generation, not because they're safe.
See also: https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/22958614/insects-bees-butt...
Ah, one of those. Typically most people are happy to stop for 30-45 minutes every 300 miles of driving.

The only people I know who only stop to refuel and then carry on until they've basically driven 12 hours straight are just trying to flex, it's some masculine thing.

More and more vehicles are getting 100-150kW charging, which definitely pushes a full charge more into the 25-40 minutes range for 80kWh EVs.

I wonder if having smaller cars would help as well, American cars/"trucks" always seem so pointlessly oversized. If the number of single occupant trips in London in things like Minis makes me sad, then I don't even want to think about single occupant trips in F150s in America.
EDIT: OP clarified the Random feature uses previous submitted inputs. So, this was unintentional. It's just unlucky I hit that particular sample lol

The voices sound fine (some are worse than AWS, but some are indeed better). However, as a queer person, putting in sample texts like these[1] kinda put me off from your product no matter how good they are. IMO, that's absolutely uncalled for.

On a professional note, it's very immature( and silly even?) to use a product page to voice hostile idiosyncratic political opinions in general (regardless of whether I agree with them or not).

You're of course entitled to your opinions, and welcome to market your product however you want, though; I'm not trying to encroach on that.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/9zyZxtT
This is absolutely correct. I think the EU could have used its time and money focusing on more important problems.

The new legislation is the type of feel-good lawmaking that sounds good on paper but has no real impact on society.
signal and telegram are a no brainer when it comes to totalitarian regimes. i live in Kashmir which has historically and continues to hunt down dissidents with agility. i cannot imagine being tied to my "mobile number" when the government has that data by law, tying a telegram/signal account to it is a gone case by that point.

people who go with signal call it "better whatsapp without facebook tracking" but just like telegram, its Achilles heel is mobile number requirement. matrix has that from the start so its better in that respect. sure, matrix does not have "social graph" out of the box but in a "totalitarian regime", that is precisely what you want.

besides, you can set up your own matrix server, something whatsapp/telegram/signal simply cannot do so its 100% more secure in that sense
For that kind of power draw I think the proposal doesn't mandate anything anyway
The letter has some good and bad.

Good because it advocates for more regulation and consumer protection, and points out some obvious concerns with crypto like energy expenditure in proof of work.

Bad because the letter misrepresents the technology and paints privacy as a purely criminal behavior, and suggests the entire technology sector is useless.

> Similarly, most public blockchain-based financial products are a disaster for financial privacy; the exceptions are a handful of emerging privacy-focused blockchain finance alternatives, and these are a gift to money-launderers.

Imagine this argument being applied to End-to-End Encryption. "Most chat messaging apps are a disaster for user privacy; except the ones that are privacy-focused and use E2EE, and those are a gift to terrorists and criminals."

There's lots of privacy preserving crypto tech: Monero, ZCash, TornadoCash, and soon Aztec. zk-SNARK and zk-STARK are recent advances here that dramatically change the future landscape. You can also use CEX as a mixer to provide soft anonymity, allowing regulators and IRS to track your finances, without revealing your accounts to the whole world.

> Blockchain technology cannot, and will not, have transaction reversal mechanisms because they are antithetical to its base design.

This is false. There is a lot of blockchain technology that has transaction reversal mechanisms. USDC and other centralized stablecoins can freeze and mint tokens. Optimistic rollups are built around the very design of transaction reversal. Many NFT projects give the contract owner ability to mint, burn, change metadata, and so on. The original DAO itself was drained and funds reverted by a hard fork, and yet ETH and ETC still continue to exist just fine.

> By its very design, blockchain technology, specifically so-called "public blockchains", are poorly suited for just about every purpose currently touted as a present or potential source of public benefit.

Bah! Perhaps some of the authors would like to shill their own private blockchain companies (Adjoint Inc).
> locks into the car while charging

The EU plug locks into the car while charging. Not sure why you think it doesn't.

There's also no obligation to have an extra flap, my Model 3 does not.
Yes, it will be crazy unused capacity at least for the first human landing and then some more. But once the system is better tested and refined, the latter of which NASA _is_ investing in Starship for (https://blog.jatan.space/p/moon-monday-issue-70), we will get massive returns, literally. There's also talk in the latest Planetary Science Decadal to evolve the CLPS model by setting up funding mechanisms to allow science community members to fly robotic payloads on such high-capacity Starship flights and really leverage its potential: https://blog.jatan.space/p/moon-monday-issue-74
> it's a complex number

AFAIR thats not quite accurate. Complex numbers are just the best representation. Altough, I can't seem to find the relevant article that I remember atm.
What you should not do is ask these questions here, where anyone of the company can read this and link it with you..

I would have been honest with them, tell them you didn't expect a 6th, ask them if they think you are close to getting the job, else it will be a waste of effort on your end.
Yes. Cars don't kill people, people kill people.
Are you saying they're rare west of the Mississippi or East of it? They were thick in the Midwest until recently.
> That's an incredibly privileged position

Often it is also position that was earned by hard work and delayed gratification. You make it sound like OP is in such position purely due to luck but he obviously made some right choices along the way.
Sure it would. The compliance costs and reduced volumes would significantly increase the cost of the AR-15. Johnny Crackhead doesn’t have $5k to buy his toy.

Back in the 90s when the assault weapons ban was in place, private sales prices for legal AR-15s were easily 3-5x more in 1995 dollars.

You regulate the legal sales to keep guns away from unqualified individuals. There such a glut of firearms on the market, a black market will spring up, so when those customers kill people, you go up the food chain and throw the black market arms dealers in prison where they belong.

Regulation works. There are people with NFA licenses who own Gatling guns, Tommy guns, BARs, etc. These are true firearms enthusiasts who don’t hurt anyone. Use a similar framework and get the crazy people away from firearms.
For me, six or more rounds of interviews for a tech position suggests that that they have management issues and no one is willing or able to make decisions. Just as likely, product direction is a mess.

I would politely decline but I guess it boils down to how badly you want this job.
Yeah I can’t believe that people think it’s possibly a desirable future for there to be no such thing as trust, and furthermore that we should accelerate our march in that direction. What an insane way to live.
This has made me think twice about using those banks (I'm thinking of Monzo etc.). I was already reconsidering anyway as all of these banks have been consistently reducing features and limiting usage (e.g. cash withdrawals) and generally making themselves worse than the 'real' banks.