skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Negotiating schedules is already an issue in most workplaces, as everyone is essentially close to overbooked. And the outcome of almost every meeting is the same whether it happens on a Friday or a Monday.
That's funny. The bloomberg article isn't paywalled for me, but the afr one is.
The economic relationship between New England and the UK had historically been adversarial up to this point in time. New England was in direct competition with the UK, as both regions were industrial and educated. The monarchy did everything in their power to starve New England of the resources and tradesmen they needed to succeed. This is in contrast to the rest of the USA, which was supplying raw resources for industry.

Trade needs to be fair and mutually beneficial.
With 2 cables at the same time it could well be a ship dragging an anchor
The question is not are embryos human, the question is whether they are independent human life with their own rights.

I don't think it is polemic to disagree on this point, but it rationally follows that if embryos are unique life forms, which are also human, then aborting them is murder.

Personally, I don't agree with that line of reasoning either, but the argument isn't in itself polemic.

Edit: I suppose I should add that I am not treating "human" as a collective noun, the way we might talk about bread or water. "A human" is not merely a little toe, for example.
Google also gives the option of fully remote work:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/blog.google/inside-google/life-...
All of this is not "no such thing as trust".

I too dread a little all the mischief that's going to happen while the world learns about this. But people don't have to uncritically believe "the evidence of their own eyes", even though that has been very useful corrective to many mistakes, and will I guess be less so now. Evidence doesn't work that way: people always have to interpret everything in terms of their understanding of the world, and they can get better at that in response to changes like this.
Congratulations on your launch!

The incident response space is brutally competitive and there are so many players all providing the same functionality.

I think the main problem you would have with your customers is their inertia. If an enterprise has their tools and processes setup, even though you provide a better tool at a lower price point, it's not worth their time switching to a new provider if whatever they have is working just fine.
Windows on ARM supports that already[1]. The low traction is probably because of the (sorry) bad hardware. Windows branded ARM as the budget option so nobody wanted it. Then Apple came along and flipped the script.

[1]: https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2020/12/10/introdu...
Yes, there’s only so much work that you can get done in one day. A lot of time is also spent on things like social interaction. What a 4 day work week offers is more flexibility. ie it’ll allow for either more quiet days of work or allow people to compress their work week and have more time to relax
Religion is a very complicated and touchy subject - it means drastically different things to different people.
The more interconnected the global economy is, the more single points of failure there are. No thanks, I'd rather society be more resilient.
Increasing trade with Russia is the most effective way to avoid a war. When goods and services don't cross borders, armies will.
> > before you accept one of these things you should validate that it actually contains funds?

Where did you read that? I can't find it on the website.
> War and debt are bedfellows.

Because fiat enables them to be as much. If you can print money, you don't need public consent to go blow people out of the water, nor to justify obscene spending on the military. Every war the U.S. has been involved in since Vietnam has been a banker war, not a state war.

What's reductive and anti-intellectual is deluding people into believing that giving the government (or even worse, "economists" or central bankers) authority over their wealth is, somehow, going to multiply or protect it when we have ample examples to the contrary.

To your point, governments historically are evil and inflation is bad (it's arguably an inherent property of government as you're giving absolute power to the unproductive class). The idea that it's not (MMT) is the rationalization of a failed economic strategy that's put everyone's well-being in the crosshairs.

The idea that any of that is untrue is a result of unrelenting propaganda and indoctrination (or, in certain cases, someone who has directly benefited from the scheme). Any way you shake it, to think that what's happening isn't the result of malfeasance is denial, wholesale.

Mayer Rothschild codified the potential for this way of thinking with his Economic Inductance theory:

> Currency, or deposit loan accounts, has the required appearance of power that could be used to induce people into surrendering their real wealth in exchange for a promise of greater wealth (interests). When applied gradually, the public adapts to its presence and learns to tolerate its encroachment on their lives until the pressure (psychological via economic) becomes too great and they crack up, depending on their resilience capacity.

Flip on the television if you need insight into what people do when they "crack up."
Indeed. Maybe it's considered higher math where the GP lives, but I think I definitely learned basic concepts of quadratic functions by 8th grade...
> Loads of people [...]

Quotation needed. Outside of religious circles there's very little debate about this. Scientific consensus is that fetal viability is considered to begin at 23 or 24 weeks gestational age. That's long after the embryo stage.

Just to make communication easier; are you aware that there's a difference between embryo and fetus?

> You also don't have any definition with a clear line when this switch from non human to human happens.

I never proposed that a embryo is not human. But we can talk about the line dividing persons from non-persons, if you like.
How we fixed connection reset errors on Gov.uk Pay
So what I'm reading is that "we don't have to do it this way, there are better options", but are the better options actually being used and getting traction? Right now batteries are what we're using to store spare energy as far as i know (could be wrong for sure here though).

I certainly might be using the term "rare earth" imprecisely, but cobalt is used in most batteries and mining it is in fact detrimental to the environment. It's just much more localized pollution than releasing methane or carbon, which is for sure a win in the climate change fight.

You say storage cost is falling very fast, but again, what are the technologies being used backing up that storage you mention? I'm pretty sure it's batteries, but I'm totally open to facts saying otherwise.
>I wouldn't rely on them too much.

Yeah don't rely on free stuff like google workspace legacy ;)

But it's also a really good dns server.
I like the character of the voices, especially Male B. Sounds a little like Brokaw, maybe.

But yeah sometimes I'd have to regenerate before I got non-glitchy audio. Still though, very cool.
> Representing bot activity as less than 5% but using a sample size of 100, when you are claiming millions of active accounts, can't easily be seen as honest

The margin of error of a sample of a given size does not depend on the size of the universe from which the same is drawn; a sample size of 100 gives a too big of an MoE to support a claim of “less than 5%” at typically acceptable levels of confidence, but the size of the universe of accounts is irrelevant to it.
> In all my years, I haven't had a single Lightning connector fail on me. The solid metal where the contacts reside is just too robust to wear out or get damaged (unless you somehow step on it the right way or let it corrode).

I'm on my second phone where the Lightning connector barely works anymore. 'Thankfully' this one support Qi so I can charge wireless, but if I want to do a wired backup or upgrade I have to jiggle the cable like mad to get any kind of connection.

YMMV.
it was tongue in cheek because you insulted the bean counters :)

There’s not much more I can say because you’ve just outlined an operationally expensive strategy without appreciating the costs. I recommend spending some time in a big organisation, it’s hard to appreciate the enormity of the challenge in orchestrating people until you’ve witnessed it first hand.

Amazon, for example, has thousands of employees dedicated just to running systems to support the other employees! And that’s out of necessity, because third-parties cannot meet their needs — if a third-party could, Amazon would absolutely use them in a heartbeat (as they do already in many cases).

After my time at Amazon, I gleefully pay for 1Password for my org because the thought of what you outlined, in a growing org, would keep me up at night.
Another name for the API provided by "buffet" could have been "console" (combination of monitor+keyboard: read/write API).
Practically it's not. We have probably a dozen USB-C devices in our home and many more chargers of varying wattage scattered about, and the only time I've had to think about the cable was for my TB3 dock. In fact, I worry more about cable lengths to minimize clutter.
> For which application?

For this article the context is for use in browsers, and the main metric being measured is compression ratio.
>There are no chargers with micro-USB output port

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=microusb+AC+adapter&t=ffab&iar=ima...
You don't have to pirate windows, you have to buy Parallels, which then downloads and installs Arm windows onto your M1 - and Arm Windows will run x86 binaries.

I used this to run FPGA bitstream-creation software on my Mac Studio. Worked like a dream. I'm generally fine with running on the PC on the bookshelf and serving s/w via MS Remote Desktop, but having it on the machine itself is a bit more useful in terms of screen real-estate (3x 4K monitors on the Mac).
Lightning port, compared to USB C, is almost indestructible. There's no way you damage it by pulling cable sideways. Do the same with USB...
Apple should upgrade Lightning to fully support USB C protocol but leave connector as is. But we'll see how they respond to another senseless EU idea...
I was in Burbank recently and amused to find that Los Angeles has its own progressive DA they're trying to recall, George Gascón.
USB-C for laptop power ports seems to be incredibly flaky. :-( Let me share my ongoing horror story (excuse the verbosity):

I've got a barely 3-months old Lenovo X1 Carbon (Gen-9) work laptop. A week ago I noticed the battery draining while the power cord is plugged in! Nothing worked: reset via the pinhole at the back, trying out different chargers, BIOS update, charging while the OS (Linux) is shut down, "to eliminate 'rogue' applications". The battery just doesn't charge.

We've got premium support, so a Lenovo technician came two days later and replaced the motherboard. Great! The root cause: USB-C power port got short-circuited somehow. "This is a common problem with USB-C for power ports; I go around replacing 2 motherboards a week," the technician said.

Now, the laptop's new motherboard worked fine for a week ... and I woke up this morning to notice the laptop's battery not charging at all (yes, again!), while the power cord is plugged in. I call up Lenovo, and the support guy confirms: "the power port seems to be short-circuited again, this time let's replace both the motherboard and also the power adapter". FFS, tomorrow morning I have long-distance travel, and I'm left with this bloody brick. Speak of timing.

I want to think this is just plain bad luck, but the Lenovo support forums are full of similar problems, and two other colleagues independently confirmed the same issue. The Lenovo technician blamed this on USB-C. I wish they retained the more robust rectangular power port; but they're phasing them out to comply with EU regulation.
Applying good faith interpretation.

It's possible that there is a bottle neck in the system that is invisible, possibly intentionally by someone in the middle, to people higher up in the chain. This is a way for them to break that blockage, and put some spot light on it.

What this does now is create a specific marker 'Hacker News follow up' that cannot be swept under the rug. There will be eyes on this particular issue, both inside and outside the company.
I think at some point they changed the material.

I had never had a single cord fray on me except every single Apple supplied white cord for years, until suddenly I no longer had that problem. Don't know what changed but glad it did
Sure, our existing understanding and models for scale may not directly apply.

That doesn’t limit the creation of new models and new understanding. Just because scaling might be different doesn’t mean it’s impossible.

Our existing models did not exist at some point in the past.
Find that hard to believe too.

My laptop since 2017 has been a Dell Precision 5510, (Xeon 1505v6, 32G) running Arch and honestly it's not smooth in the slightest.

Granted, last time I used Teams was 2 years ago, maybe it improved a lot, but the UI lags so hard that it almost bugs out, along with pegging and entire CPU core, sometimes when the program has been on a call but is no longer... Teams should be sitting idle.
> Innovation, particularly disruptive and / or breakthrough innovation

We are talking about power cables here. Are you anticipating something major in this space? Is it reasonable to do so?
lol, no they just didn't implement the spec.
They can. For whatever reason, they're not.
> Then you could ask how many people can easily detect fake bills?

Most people can, unless the fake is high quality. There are a ton of easily checked security features that don't require any tool or network access. These bills do not have any of those.

> But either way, checks aren't credit even if you say it is...

It is a form of credit if you think about it.

It is a piece of paper that promises the payment of money from one person to another person... the technical term is "Negotiable Instrument" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negotiable_instrument).

If you are accepting the check, you are extending short term credit to the person who gives you the check... they are promising to pay the amount at a later date, even if that later date is only the few days that it takes for a cashed check to be settled. That is credit.
They're either risking their livelihood or they aren't
Here's how I see Apple: They will do anything to continue to grow. Including things that are seen as pro-consumer.

This is actually is a cost, as it's used to justify their continued domination.

The harm done shouldn't be examined purely in the sphere of the consumer .. it should be extended to society. The cost of Apple's continued success, is the probably failure of other smaller ventures. They stifle, and they dwarf most other commercial entities.

In another comment I mentioned that any set of user-positive functionality is underlain with a far more strategically important business benefit.

The only reason they do good is to continue to grow. Let's not kid ourselves.

And if we're talking space analogies, I'd argue it's actually closer to a black hole ..
Differentiable Finite State Machines
> Without understanding more about the technical details, this feels like unless a user is using an app to re-key immediately at the time of transfer that it's significantly less secure than normal cash.

We will have a security overview doc up soon, we ran out of time to have it ready today. Long story short, there are pending key rotation states and the latest holder can always re-key the note again. But it is indeed distinct from cash; we can't just state a note has value like governments do, by fiat.

We have to provide users with sufficient information to assess the veracity of that claim relative to the functions of Bitcoin and the information we provide on the note.

> But they have to do that here too, or is the assertion that they don't need to back up the user key necessarily?

Not necessarily; in the condition where a user is confident they are the only ones that can claim, they can place the notes in a safe the same way they might printed Bitcoin keys or Opendimes (I would recommend a fireproof safe).
> western society doesn't really believe in science at this point to save us, it believes in technology.

I'm afraid - not even in technology at this point.
> Since at latest 2004, a significant goal of the group has been the foundation of a Sunni Islamic state. Specifically, ISIL has sought to establish itself as a caliphate, an Islamic state led by a group of religious authorities under a supreme leader – the caliph – who is believed to be the successor to Prophet Muhammad.

Furthermore, it is worth studying the Arab Spring and what the underlying causes were: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring#Causes
The change has to have come earlier, my pre-Mariko Switch had no troubles charging from multiple phone, MacBook, tablet and 3rd party USB-C chargers.
Oh hell yes.

The concept that we do things based on our emotions will strike a certain type of individual as wrong, simply because they've become so used to looking at things like a machine.

To that person I say: you are doing it right now. You are doing things based on your emotion, and it doesn't always feel... good, but it is how humans work.

Humans are highly evolved organisms, and our emotions emerge from a vast collection of observations (both conscious and unconscious) made by our nervous system. Especially important is the unconscious aspects of emotion. We can often tell things are rotten before we can describe why.

Trusting our gut is underrated.
H1B visas holders next gen are the modern day slaves. The Children are forced to choose tech as their future. They cannot for example work in low tech that is not eligible for a visa/H1B
Yes, but it takes up the same volume as a macbook. The UK plug in this kit (or most any knock-off or adapter) also solves the problem. Still prefer battery life and carrying nothing extra, however.

https://www.apple.com/uk/shop/product/MD837ZM/A/apple-world-...
My interpretation of the MS insanity was that windows/ARM is currently exclusively licensed for Qualcomm chips or something similarly absurd?
I think you also need the CC pin or you aren't going to have PD fast charging. The pin is required to handshake a higher Voltage and Current outside of standard 5C1A.

And that literally exists. Most charge wire don't have full 24 line. (Unless it is specifically marked as USB3 compatible)
> no one was casually streaming 4k with a webcam feed

aren't most webcams on laptops firmly in the 720p-1080p territory? I know most people receive 480p streams.

I'll grant you that 10 way calls were much less common then, but even now Teams only shows 4(?) of them depending on UI layout.
There may be limits to that philosophy (or any philosophy for that matter). There are no doubt inequalities in China. I just don't think the Xinjiang issue is representative of the problem you're thinking of, because the issue is heavily politicized by western mainstream media and governments, leaving out or mispresenting important facts (as is usually the case with China reporting), and/or representing allegations as final and proven facts even in the absence of evidence.
The trad thing is that your old clothes become your casual clothes, mostly. Except athletic clothes—but half those are dress or business-casual now, anyway, like OCBDs and polos—most of our modern athletic clothes counted as underwear, before, if they existed at all. And it doesn't really work for full-on formal wear like dinner jackets or morning dress.

A bunch of suiting trends come from this. Suit jacket with ruined pants? Now it's a blazer, so, casual wear. Handmedown worn 3-button suit that you're wearing casually at college, with the top button pretty much permanently unbuttoned? You've just invented the 2-roll-3 jacket style. And so on.

We've replaced this behavior with simply having all our clothes be disposable-cheap. Mending a hole and adding patches to keep wearing something's not really worth it when it cost $20 to begin with.
The problem with your formulation is that there is no limiting principle. Perversely, the government could rule that a pregnant person is a metering device for gestation and establish standards.
Could we bubble the hydrogen through the liquid?
Which USB wall outlets are you using? The only one I've found that supports PD and 30W is from Leviton.
We had a similar high-pressure close-now kind of pest salesman who showed up. He talked about how there were spiders in our doorway and his company would spray and remove them all. I just told him "I like my spiders" and shut the door in his face. Good riddance.
Interestingly, the availability of Rosetta for Linux suggests a much cleaner solution for FPGA development. :)
Well, no, doesn't apple make 1/3 of their money on cables and dongles? that's like the whole point. It's not some sticky customer issue that they just can't work out, it's clearly a straight profit decision and the customer comes last in that matrix.
It's technically pirating because the license of Windows for ARM does not allow end users to run it on arbitrary hardware or virtualize it. I have doubts that they'd ever actually enforce those terms though.
It failed on first search with a full traceback. You might want to turn debug off in production.
Even capitalistic authors (e.g. Adam Smith) distinguish land ownership and capital ownership. So the fact that land ownership had special status in history does not say much about 'regular' private property.

There is no practical difference between personal property and private property. If i have lathe in my workshop that i use just for hobby purposes, then it is personal property. If i started business, put that lathe in that business and use it for work, then it is private property / capital. But in both cases it is the same lathe that someone has to produce, someone has to pay for it, someone has to maintain it and can be bought and sold on open market.
I have not ITT mentioned Iraq. Supporting the enemies of one's enemy is fairly common, although again that's not something I've done here. My enemy, and that of all ethical Americans, is the USA military-industrial complex. No one in Russia or China or wherever is their enemy. People overseas are just resources for them, grist for their blood-mill. Soon enough we may find that we too have been reclassified into resources.
At this point it would be a better question to ask who DOES accept checks. In the US, most grocery stores still accept them, but I don't know of any other stores that do.
Your logic is unfortunately being cast into the reason-devoid abyss of HN commenters consistently overestimating the value of the lone wolf, "competent" Linux admin.

Say you don't understand opportunity cost in software development without saying it.

I won't delve too deeply on the obvious: most "competent Linux sysadmins" have a very over-inflated sense of their own skill set, and tend make for toxic team members.

Most software development shops are in the business of developing their particular software, not deploying and self-managing DVCS, much less hosting, monitoring etc...

Sure, could one person set up a Git/GitLab system? Absolutely. Can they operationalize it effectively? Not really... the bus problem is a thing and anyone that thinks tying the entirety of a system's uptime to one individual is an operational improvement over GitHub's outage SLA is deluding themselves.
Yep, I think this is how I did with eu.org
I do think it will help more than leaving it to the cosmologists.
Out of interest how are they going to stop you from not allowing weeds/flowers to grow?
use a 10$ adapter of one inch size then?
I think it’s very hard to reverse engineer all the parts of m1. Such projects are fun research, but they won’t be able to use the full m1 potential. The software must be optimized as well.