skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It speaks volumes of any kind of technology when you can express novel ideas on top of very simple concepts. Sure, you could do that in any other language, but the fact that it's 5 lines of code eloquently shows what Erlang is optimised _for_. It's the perfect level of abstraction for client/server logic.

Not sure where I'm going with this, I just think there is some kind of mathematical beauty when you can express complex ideas with as few symbols as possible. Writing a Universal Server in Java would be like writing a differential equation using only the four basic mathematical operation. Is that really ideal?
> I do not doubt this at all, but I also have to imagine that vehicles are more aerodynamic than they were a decade ago.

They also mentioned their license plate. It's something I have observed as well - the great bug decline or die off. It speaks to food web being insecure.
No, this is not related to the site you mentioned, but it seems like a bad sign.
The problem is that for security with electricity the bits that provide the electric current should be female terminals (protected) while the ones that receive it male (you can touch them). Apple doesn't follow this and you can easily touch the charged ports of the charged device, which is not a problem since it's very low voltage, but in USB-C connectors that can reach up to 240Watts so that's a no-go.
This recently happened to me after my laptop and phone were stolen on vacation. Everything is in 1Password. I of course didn't have the recovery paper with me. I recently changed my iCloud password to be more secure, and luckily I remembered it. But I needed 2FA to log in still.

I had to go to an AT&T store, port my phone number to a different iPhone, restore from an iCloud backup using the SMS 2FA, and then I could finally log into 1Password for my passwords and MFA.

If I didn't have a memorable iCloud password this would have been impossible without the 1Password recovery paper.

Devices are often lost/stolen on vacation where the myriad layers of protection are extremely hard — if not impossible — to penetrate.
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A more reliable source would be a well-conducted survey. Or, honestly, having worked for one of the big shared hosting providers, by the numbers small sites outnumber big sites to a staggering degree. One could get a pretty representative sample of overall share by asking the huge providers what appears to run the sites hosted on their services by percentage.

I have no particular reason to doubt more than half of sites are run by PHP considering the portion of sites that are WordPress. However, I also have no particular reason to trust that 77% is an accurate proportion.
>Many if not most automakers, both foreign and domestic, already accept custom orders through their dealers.

Exactly. You can order whatever the hell you want from a dealer.

So many misinformed comments in these car threads, I'm skeptical people have any experience here.

And, in fact, many OEMs are moving in the opposite direction; they offer a couple trims, and that's what you get.
Won’t this increase waste as lightning is deprecated?
At the same time, it is starting to look like USB-C is still not going to be more robust than Lightning connectors. A vast improvement on micro USB, to be sure, but still. Recall that Lightning came out 12 years ago, and the alternative was micro-USB. It's so much better that we can actually debate it relative to USB-C today, which is high praise.
I agree its a very hard line to draw. But I think certain technology is more contagious and dangerous. For instance, a single person with a gun can inflict damage locally with dire consequences on his or her own personal safety in the process. But if someone has a virus (physical or digital), then it caries a kind of contagion that can disproportionately hurt many more people. That's why we can't equate something like deaths due to car accidents to pandemic deaths. A single car accident doesn't increase the risk of all car accidents. It's localized. But a single infection increases the risk of future infections due to contagion. Whether you think any technology falls into the dangerous contagious category or not is up for debate.
This is not correct so far as I can tell -- the amendment to directive 2014/53/EU [1] says

> Hand-held mobile phones, tablets, digital cameras, headphones, headsets, handheld videogame consoles and portable speakers, in so far as they are capable of being recharged via wired charging, shall:

> (a) be equipped with the USB Type-C receptacle, as described in the standard EN IEC 62680-1-3:2021 ‘Universal serial bus interfaces for data and power - Part 1-3: Common components - USB Type-C TM Cable and Connector Specification’, which should remain accessible and operational at all times;

To switch to a new charger type would require legislative action, not just industry experts changing their mind. That said, I actually strongly prefer this approach to allowing an industry self-regulating group to make these decision.

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/docsroom/documents/46755/attachments/4/...
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> They are welcome to change it going forward, they just have to agree and consolidate.

That's not how innovation works. What motivation would they have to change it if all your competitors will change it step? This only hurts consumers.
Experimentation can still happen by having 2 ports. Might not be practical for phones since they are so small these days but it being on phones wouldn't be necessary for testing a new universal standard. It could be tested on other larger devices.
Well, there's at least one good reason: I can use my MacBook charger to charge my iPhone without having to carry two cables around.
When I studied engineering, and later math and physics - the overwhelming consensus was that the TWO philosophy classes we had, were useless BS classes. Total waste of time. No "real-life" application.

To me, that was very disheartening. Philosophy is the foundation of all academia, and will work as a basis for all things both in your academic life, and life in general.

But that was very much a product of the "If it's not math/engineering/hard science, then it must be a wishy-washy nonsense without real-life applications"

Which is also what a lot of technocrats seem to believe. Whether or not something is "useful", depends on how you look at it, and apply it.

I'm sure a lot of STEM students would greatly benefit having some liberal arts classes (or similar). If nothing for making you a more well-rounded person.
This stuff shouldn't be used for attention at all to be honest. That's also why most browsers these days disable notification requests silently by default, so you can opt into them manually if you really wish to do so.

I would accept a compromise like "you get to ask for permission if you install the program as a web app through the menu" or something similar.

I'm all for trying to end the shit blog spam and adware that only abuse the notification permission, but I also want to be able to use this tech myself. Notifications on Android and presumably iOS are a solved problem, I don't see why web applications would need to be different.
Yeah, 100% working on the artifacts. I also agree on the stiltedness, not sure how to go about fixing it yet.
Reminds me of the free .tk domains. It attracted so much spam and malware that Facebook ended up banning the tld.

This is why we can't have nice things.
I’m dense, so I’m not following this at all. Let’s say there are 2 people at a company doing similar jobs.

Person A gets their work done in 40 hours a week.

Person B gets the equivalent of Person A’s work done (plus a little extra) in 32 hours a week.

Do you think that Person A should earn more money?
I understood that the UK trial is without paycut. So full pay for 32 hours assuming hourly workers.

Whereas in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Scandinavian countries, etc. they typically accept 32 or 24 hours but with a proportional pay cut.
> Between the start of the pandemic in March 2020 and last December

They're counting from the start of the pandemic. You'd need a different dataset to conclude much of anything about vaccination effects.
Over time the number of single humans that have the power to wipe out a sizeable portion of life on Earth (which is almost certainly non-zero already) will almost certainly increase due to advances in technology and dissemination of information.

Do we aim for security through obscurity or work out how to deal with that increasingly terrifying reality? I think at some point we will be forced to do latter.
I can imagine more scenarios other than "bad actors" (scammers and such) for this software...

For example: what about using this in an interview for a remote job (possibly intercontinental)? It could tip the balance in some situations (due to biases). For example, beating ageism by projecting a 25 years old version of ourselves. Or removing a tatoo or birth defect (and possibly other changes too, you can imagine).
Why have a blog? (2020)
If you build a product no matter what you have to be honest to yourself and imho most of the neural voices from azure sound better than your example. They may miss some of the tempre of your voices but the tempre comes from the examples you fed it... tbh it's not much better than doing it yourself with something like https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts
This is available in the updated weather app in iOS 16. Each tile of information is clickable with nice hourly graphs. For example, clicking on the UV Index tile will now show an hourly graph of the UV Index, and lets you cycle across each day through the week.
and that you can write on it. Super cool for documenting technical stuff with diagrams etc..
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CGP Grey explains: https://youtu.be/JEYh5WACqEk
If you mean at the highest levels of sport though, great genetics will completely overwhelm whatever work the less genetically gifted are doing.

This to me is the real problem with over specialization. You have less than gifted parents living out their athletic dreams through their kids but if the parent wasn't that good at the sport there will be correlation with the kid not being that good.

Kids shouldn't specialize in sports too young because there is such a great chance they are not in the right sport at 11.
Every day there are several major crashes where a car is totaled: cannot be fixed and so the person needs a new one now. There are also a lot of people who wait until their old car breaks completely before deciding to get a new one (the car may or may not be repairable, many people give up on a perfectly good car). Both of these cases are high profit margin I need a car now I'll take what I can get.

Someone who is willing to order a car and wait is more likely to look for a better deal if they can get it.
Keep OTP recovery codes in a separate online account (rarely used) with a strong password you can memorize. This lets you recover accounts even if all your devices are gone.
Hmm, when I demoed around, people pretty much unanimously picked the voice as the best-sounding one.
My neighbour bought a 2017 Cadillac Escalade V8 supercharged during the pandemic that gets 7.1L/100km (33MPG) on the highway due to displacement on demand and they live in the country so it has worked out well for them as they need the 4x4 and the space of the vehicle. I was annoyed since that's better consumption than my 4 cylinder econo-box.
Both are equally bad, for different reasons. As a user, one might be more worried of having their identity tied to their Facebook account (and therefore advertising/tracking), than about their government spying on them.

Having worked with people in totalitarian countries, it's surprising how much protesting people can do in plain sight. Until the regime decides they went too far, and it won't matter what proofs or chats they have on their devices, they'll just randomly arrest a bunch of people and release them after a week of horrible prison conditions. It's usually good enough to scare everyone.

I use Signal 95% of the time, but I understand the appeal of Telegram. The UX is better, it allows pseudonyms, has huge communities in group chats. In a sense, it feels more private than Signal because of the pseudonyms. And for people in non-Western countries, well, Telegram might seem like the only option.
That doesn't show you are getting vastly improved crash safety.

Only looking at injury data in the real world would show that.

It's my understanding new cars are not significantly safer than cars from 10 years ago.
> I've been hearing this about new technologies also since the 90s - going to make programmers obsolete/need less programmers. What ends up happening is what's required expands. I'm sure there's some quippy law here.

We used to have manual QA now most of the testing is done via automation, there used to sys admins handling all the servers now its all cloud which can be handled by programmers/dev ops people.

Maybe in the future we will have code as a service where most of the code is written automatically while few programmers oversee it.
The ripple effects from the chip shortage will be felt for years … nearly all new cars are already “spoken for” and consumers will still be paying MSRP & MSRP+ for 12-18 months. What happens to used car prices over the coming 2-3 years will be fascinating. So many people will be underwater on their car loans.
I wonder if writing (bad?) software can also be toil.

Like if I need to change the spelling or add a new configuration setting and I need to make sure to use the same spelling in three places because they are all "stringly(sic) typed", is that toil?
I disagree. The moral responsibility really rests on the person who uses the tool.

For instance, I once cheated by using gcc/godbolt to generate assembly output for a class from C code. By this logic, Richard Stallman should be blamed for my misconduct.

There are any number of reasons for supplanting another face onto your own, many of which are simply good fun. If you choose to use this for scamming or perverted reasons, so be it.

Moral posturing aside, perhaps there could be an invisible watermark or something included by default to easily identify less technically inclined actors as users of this tool.
In our org, we have SRE who handle platform and SRE who are embedded on product teams, but all report up through the SRE org. One of the goals is to spread more infrastructure knowledge to the engineering teams to reduce their dependence on SRE so that SRE is mostly doing platform work and special infra-intense projects.

I’m not saying this is the one true way or even a particularly good way, and I agree about the identity crisis (same as with DevOps half a decade ago).
I was shocked when I saw them on holiday in Slovakia once. I really thought they were a USA or a jungle thing, had no idea we had them in Europe.
I always enjoy seeing the “Apple doesn’t want to give up the money” takes.

How much money does Apple make from their licensing? Point me to even one estimate that shows me the money that Apple makes on the Lightning port licensing, and what fraction of its overall profit, loss, or even revenue, that the Lightning licensing comprises.
When has a large corporation become more efficient with their spending to that degree? From the figures being thrown around, if their profits from the USA suddenly dropped by 90%, that isn’t just becoming more efficient, that is having to severely contract.
I don't think it's fees. Relative to what they earn directly from customers, fees are a pittance. I figure they have exactly two reasons, both plausible, to be reluctant to switch the phone over to USB-C.

The first is size -- lightning is thinner than USB. But other phones have USB-C, so this is probably not that big a hassle.

The second is their customers. For every customer that wants USB-C on their new phone, a dozen more want all their existing accessories and cables to continue to work when they upgrade their phone.
> "No funny cables, why don't you try wireless charging of your liking if USB-C doesn't cut it for you?".

it boils down to "as long as the USB-C is provided"

anyway electric plugs have been a standard for decades, better options to supply energy have come out, the plugs have stayed the same.

I don't understand the FOMO.
A great reminder and the author's algorithm takes that into account in the article
What does work together mean in this case, it’s not like we’re talking Ethernet where these devices are communicating to each other. Like I can’t use an android charger? Lightning to usb-c cables are pretty much standard. It seems like in the short term anyways this increases e-waste as all my old Lightning chargers become deprecated.
Shoulders along highways are also often full of debris (stones, glass, metal, etc.) and other miscellaneous road garbage which make them less than optimal cycling surfaces.
Colliders already use superconducting magnets
There's this thing called Brussels effect where manufacturers pick to default to EU requirements instead of having different supply chains unless they absolutely have to.

EU don't like the idea of manufacturers locking down their users through different standards. EU is a densely populated place with limited natural resources and free space, therefore cables piling up or 10 different types of charging stations are problems that EU cannot afford. EU trash being shipped to poorer countries is already a serious problem for example.

Good to hear that in the US only Tesla was the outlier and the industry acted responsibly but unless regulated you can't guarantee that it will be like that or stay like that.

Businesses love to lock down their users, Tesla chargers are a major selling point for Tesla and from EU perspective having multiple charging networks that cannot be made interoperable without a substantial modifications is a no-no.
> I'm not at all a fan of "code is law".

You can always not use two factor auth.
How? The original battery provides power while you're soldering on the backup and the backup is solidly soldered on while you swap out the original. How could you be so clumsy you rip out a solder joint?
You can’t clone a yubikey
>If I'm correct, the key indicator will be right wing governments around the globe being paid off to allow the abuse to continue and their media going on the attack.

>Communist computer scientists, what do they know? They just want to keep the poor white men from getting rich because of political correctness etc. etc. Anyone seen any signs of that yet?

This strikes me as a rather wrong-headed take. What I've actually seen happen is several statist types propose creating a centralized (government controlled and monitored) digital currency in response to the rise of cryptocurrencies. China's e-CNY is the most obvious example, but there have been similar proposals from politicians and bureaucrats in the US, EU, and elsewhere, with the idea being that the governments can track financial activity even more closely than they already can.

FWIW, I'm pretty anti-crypto and think there are better alternatives for 99% of the things I see crypto proposed as a solution for.
> It is possible that your provider is recompressing images to save bandwidth.

With the ubiquity of HTTPS nowadays, I don't think doing this is very feasible.
USB-C is still copyrighted so it's really just forcing customers to pay for proprietary connectors?

This also bans cheap phones like these https://www.androidpolice.com/nokias-newest-android-go-phone...
I'd say instead that there's no guaranteed way. There are likely markers though. For example if you navigate the website and get a cookie set with name "..._laravel", you can safely assume it's a PHP app for stats purposes. There are also more subtle things like the format of csrf, format of error responses, behaviour for weird data passed in (especially name[]=value), etc.
About your MacBook fans squealing: I had the same problem with my 2012 MacBook Pro. It turned out that the grilles through which the fans blow out the hot air were completely clogged up with dust and the Macbook would overheat.

I cleaned both and now the fans rarely spin up to full speed, because the hot air can actually leave the case again.

See this guide (the guide does not show cleaning the grille, but that is the important part).

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/How+to+clean+your+MacBooks+fan+...
Also, according to the Wiki article that cainxinth mentioned, more aerodynamic vehicles are apparently worse for flying insects. It seems somewhat counter-intuitive, but perhaps the more boxy vehicles push the insects away before they can be crushed.
Not until you go to seek your great perhaps.
>Every vehicle for sale should have the price listed on it.

They do. It's called MSRP. You can walk into any dealer in Canada (and presumably the US) and pay it. The price is on the website or the car window.

Why do you care if other people are able to haggle for a better deal?
I agree that raising awareness that tools like this are possible is important and that sufficiently advanced actors can do this anyway, however I don't think in this case releasing pre-trained weights to the general public is responsible. This could probably be used to help bypass crypto exchange KYC for moneylaundering purposes. I'm not sure what the best access model is - email us with a good reason to get access to the weights perhaps - but what alarms me is there seems to be no consideration for misuse or responsible release at all.
>Now that restrictions are more or less gone, I'm glad to be working in the office again.

In the US, COVID cases are five times higher than this time last year, and the CDC estimates that 1 in 5 will result in long COVID.
I wish whatsapp had this feature, some clients seem to only send audio messages, it's terrible when I want to get some information, then I have to check a few audio to find what I want, instead of searching for a keyword.
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> Will EU block innovation?

It already has. Tesla's connector is nicer (you can call that subjective but it isn't) and the supercharging network in the US is deploying the clunky standard sort of connector as well.

If EU legislation were universal, that would preclude any future where the superior connector is licensed and takes over from the crappy designed-by-committee alternative, because Tesla would be forced to stop manufacturing it.

Legislators deciding who gets to be VHS and who has to be Betamax is bad, actually.
Is taking the Monday or Friday off better?

I’ve always found Monday is a slow day for me to reload everything back into my working memory and get back into flow.

I wonder if this is why Monday meetings are good. So that everyone can be reinvigorated for the week ahead.
Apple gets paid when other companies make lightning products.
Interesting, I may be out of date then. Previously all the RED proposals called for a common charger, but did not directly specify the charger required.

It seems like wireless charging still falls into that category (they require some form of interoperability by 2026, but do not state the exact form).
Not a fan of this. I really like lightning. What happens when we have a new USB or connector standard?