skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This brings up an issue that Carl Malamud at public.resource.org has been fighting. The EU directive references a standard that costs $300 if you want a copy. You shouldn't have to pay to know your laws.

If the EU is going to reference a standard owned by somebody else, they should purchase a license that allows them to publicly post the entire standard (AFAIK, they haven't done that). Or they could pass laws that say any standards referenced by law lose their copyright status. This would be a type of eminent domain for intellectual property.
80 upvotes in <40 minutes for a text post with no substance? Doesnt seem organic.
the tidal wave of spam? interesting.

i am member of a group, public, 876 users as of right now, another openstreetmap india group and that one has 1350.

only the osm-in has some sort of "spam" where i see occasional crap thrown on but that gets flagged and removed quickly.

i don't know about telegram but my matrix account(s) are pretty public but i have basically never gotten a stray spam. as i said, one group has a "couple of spam messages occasionally" but i can "report" the user and check tickbox

"Ignore user
Check if you want to hide all current and future messages from this user." which should be good.
https://www.prevention.com/life/a36677874/firefly-vs-lightni...

What's the two species?

As someone who grew up in the northeast I called them lightning bugs as a kid.
I don’t like it.

What percentage of global e-waste are chargers?

Is this what we should spend our time and focus on?

What if in 10 years there is a better charging standard but it can’t be deployed because the EU locked in USB-C?
Hot-take, it was never NOT cool to blast open offices. Unless you're in middle management.
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Specific notes are their own MD files. I use Working Copy on my phone to push a commit, and use Git Desktop on my computer.
Many of the composers today who would have continued in the so-called classical tradition instead turned their talents towards movies, and some very exceptional orchestral music is scored for films around the world, despite that those names are often not widely known.
My Tesla is plastered with bugs any time I leave Chicago. I don’t doubt the insect populations are falling, but I don’t relate to all of these clean car claims. It must vary a lot within the Great Lakes region.
If a law gets made saying what MSTR is doing is illegal and they keep doing it, I'm pretty sure what to do involves the police, SEC, etc. Why would one think it's anyone else's problem?
I wonder what would be better in that case, redirecting light around to the dark side of the moon, or satellites that collect light, convert it to electricity, then beam it down to the moon as microwaves.
> in the same way that nobody wants to go to a wedding over Zoom, we don't want to build our product over Zoom.

It's absurd to compare a once-in-a-lifetime event to everyday work meetings.
The EU has reached agreement on the universal charger
My point is the more senior the less hands-on you become. Juniors are not reviewing other peoples PRs 70% of the time.
I blame Apple on this (as an iPhone user). If they had adopted USB-C sooner, or if they had invented something much better than USB-C, this regulation would never pass.

Right now, the charging speed of iPhone is way less than Android phone sold in China. Here most phones charge at 50W+, some at 120W, several times faster than iPhone. While the limitation is not because of Lightning, it is hard to maintain a straight face when Apple insists that they use Lightning because of technical advantage.
Unfortunately, yes.

Plausible, but at this stage, it smells like a scam.
Good grandparents are underrated!
> Signatures from activists, people in corrupt, poor, and developing countries

Speaking purely from a political perspective, this is a terrible argument. You're addressing the U.S. Congress. The letter this comment thread attaches to lists harms crypto brings on Americans. Your letter lists benefits accruing to non-Americans.

If I were a lobbyist for the original letter's writers, I'd line these two up and end my case. Benevolence has its place. But it's a strange bedfellow to financial deregulation.
Every country can grant compulsory licenses.

India does that a lot, and supplies the entire developing world with medicines.

Canada doesn’t have that much leverage. It often receives brand medications much later, and some cases medications aren’t marketed in Canada.

Try to buy Nuvigil in Canada, let us know how that leverage worked out for this drug.
The exposed wires make lightning easier to plug into a phone than USB-C: you don’t have to line up the lightning connector with its port as precisely as you do USB-C because the connector is slightly smaller than the port, whereas it is almost flush in USB-C.
The difference is that this is just a website that offers subdomains and not a TLD. co.uk and com.au operate very differently through a network of registrars and such. The same company that put restrictions on the .uk TLD also manages the co.uk domain in a similar fashion to other TLDs, for example.

You won't see co.uk ever expire because it's owned and manages by the same company that manages the TLD, but it's perfectly possible for eu.org to mess up their renewal and disappear from the internet. There's no direct connection between .org and the company managing these subdomains.

Calling American TLDs like com/net/org imperialism is too extreme. The internet was developed by Americans for American use and other countries were added to the domain system later. When com/net/org because available, the entire system was completely centralised on the USA so it's not that strange that other countries had to make do with just a national TLD. That's not some kind of attempt of the USA to enforce their rules on the world, that's just historical development. These days, all kinds of TLDs are available, including ones in non-Latin scripts. I don't ever see any .भारत domains on the web (and I wouldn't even know how to type it if I saw it) but it's an available TLD for anyone to use. There are even geographical TLDs like .frl (Fryslân) and .wien (Vienna) that go way overboard with the TLD concept imo.
Isn't the switch a notorious outlier and oddball with respect to its usb-c implementation though? I think it's more just that Nintendo screwed up one product than the standard is bad.
Following couple of short videos should interest you. How simple primitives can be used to build mechanisms. These are part of Erlang MOOC.

1. Joe talks about 'Turning Sequential Code Into Concurrent Code' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brklJ6yTH50&list=PLlML6SMLMR...

2. Next, 'Abstracting Patterns of Concurrency': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvtrxeh8ZA8&list=PLlML6SMLMR...
If those are the choices, I 100% move to Germany. California is a smoldering shell of corruption and handouts to buy votes from various demographics. Germany, despite the insane tax rate, actually uses their funds somewhat efficiently. BEFORE you go, I would absolutely establish residence in a state with no income tax like Florida... consult a tax accountant!

I can't speak on employment prospects, but with todays "work anywhere" rebellion, I'm sure you can find remote work if nothing else.

The mountainous parts of Germany are just plain beautiful. I would love the opportunity to move some place like that.
Edit: I removed this comment as the child-comments made good points.
I’m with a similar background (30s, Indian(having lived in India, USA, Denmark and now Netherlands) with an Austrian wife, who I met in the US. I have a kid.

I’d vote for Bavaria as well. But, I’m more curious to listen to why not Netherlands. Would you care for a chat over beer/coffee in the Amsterdam, Amstelveen area?

Email on my “about” section of HN profile.
I'd venture to guess everyone here knows what YouTube is even if they never use it. I wonder how many (even on this list) have seen a CRT?

(I'm guessing the answer is "more than I think...")
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An idea for the key file: this can also be something you can reproduce, like a text file with a sentence acting effectively as a 'second password'. Or some other thing that you can recreate from scratch.
A little clarification: "PHP is used by 77% of all websites we have scanned based on Alexa's top 10 million, even though we scan more sites." [1]

[1] https://w3techs.com/faq
> The problem with USB-C is that you can't just pick up a device cable and power brick and expect them to work together.

We clearly need more regulation.
Is this really what we as a society should spend our focus on?

What percentage of landfills are phone chargers?

0.01% maybe?
Please don't use Jet color scheme. Matplotlib uses excellent viridis by default. There's no reason not to use it. [0][1]

[0] https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/223315/why-use-col...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAoljeRJ3lU
> I figured they were just trying to find anything to bring in money and thought they'd pick up a local hourly "unskilled labor" job until they landed another developer opportunity.

Kind of. Need to pay the bills. Genuinely so burned out / emotionally destroyed that I'm genuinely questioning whether I want to do software anymore.

I find that when I can trick my mind into staying away from the negative I can engage in software and even enjoy it / have fun talking about it.

I love programming. I fucking HATE the people I have to deal with to get to do that activity and be paid for it. If you're a PM or other manager reading this I'm sorry. Your kind have destroyed me mentally and emotionally because it was too hard to be kind.
Standardization of metering devices used in commerce is directly in the purview of Weights and Measures regulation.

For example, NIST Weights and Measures division regulates the nozzle on the dispenser used for gasoline in the US.

> Each retail dispensing device from which fuel products are sold shall be equipped with a nozzle spout having a diameter that conforms with the latest version of SAE J285, “Dispenser Nozzle Spouts for Liquid Fuel Intended for Use with Spark-Ignition and Compression Ignition Engines.”

https://www.nist.gov/system/files/documents/2019/12/06/00-20...

A metering devices that dispenses electrical power is no different. https://www.nist.gov/pml/weights-and-measures/legal-metrolog...
the more public group that i am in, i leave "mentions and keywords only" notifications on so it does not bother me with every buzz. that way, only groups that i know are "relevant" can notify me, these groups i can browse later when i get the time
> What is the life of a yubikey? Do they degrade over time horizons?

I don't think it's an issue in practice, certainly not for someone using them as they were intended, even heavily, but in theory a JavaCard implementation (like most of the smart card ecosystem, Yubikeys are still JC devices as far as I know) could "wear out" from use because of the way they work internally[1].

I've never personally seen that happen, and all of my Yubikeys still work, even the ones I bought over 10 years ago which were used far more heavily (20-30 ssh/gpg/piv operations per hour, every day, for years) than most people would use a FIDO key.

I've only managed to break other manufacturers smart cards by severely misusing them (as a USB-connected Linux HWRNG, I doubt the RNG command was designed to be called every few seconds for years).

[1] The JavaCard standard requires certain (all? I can't remember, it's been a while) objects in applet code to be written to persistent storage (meaning flash/eeprom), which has endurance limits. In practice they're not expected to be treated as permanent storage devices, if a card fails it's supposed to be replaced with another, revoke the old key pairs, register the new ones, etc.
> the “thing you know” could also be at risk. I realize this the older I get.

Years ago, when I was in university, I had a couple of machines in my room running FreeBSD with full-disk encryption. These machines were powered on for a few months without reboots until one day when the power went out.

Having not typed in the password in months, and at the time using the kind of passwords consisting of long word with a lot of numeric and symbolic substitutions, I was unable to decrypt the disks of my machines.

I lost a fair bit of data that day, but it taught me a valuable lesson.

These days, any passwords that I use for full disk encryption I make sure to

1. Regularly use. Meaning I’ll reboot machines and retype the passwords on a regular basis. Likewise, I connect external encrypted disks on a regular basis and decrypt them with their passwords.

2. Use pass phrases with many words but without any numbers or special characters. See also https://github.com/ctsrc/Pgen

(For websites etc I use a password manager.)
> I'll spend the next 20 years realising I have the wrong white phone charging cable with me

> I still won't trust random USB-C cables

> I still won't trust random USB-C chargers

My answer to all three of these is the same: Why? My phone charges with every crappy USB cable and charger. Heck, my laptop will trickle charge [!] off a crappy cable on a crappy airline USB-C port.

There's one place where I'm very careful about USB-C: keeping the specific USB-C cables with my laptop with the chargers themselves, just in case I need the Thunderbolt capability. The TB monitor I bought has a specific cable that stays attached to it.

From looking on AliExpress the last few weeks, TB 100W cables appear to be getting commoditized. It's likely this worry I have about keeping laptop C cables straight won't be a big issue for much longer.

[!] Amusingly, my laptop won't actually charge off the _standard_ A/C plugs on most airplanes because the 100W charger blows a soft fuse that requires unplugging and replugging the A/C adapter!
MyRadar on iOS will give you short-term rain warnings.
Yeah, because gaslighting is DEFINITELY not a thing.
I wonder why this is. It would pretty trivial to implement because everyone is using the same sources for radar and storm velocity/vector.

I manually guesstimate this all the time using PYKL3 (excellent radar app).
I disagree. My best bosses have been player/coaches. You usually only find this at smaller companies.
Which browser should we use?
Well, sure, I mean MS is a 2T company with 180K employees. So I wouldn't be too surprised if theirs sounds better than mine. The tortoise tts repo seems pretty random though. Are you trying to promote something of your own or something? haha
The compression method in UPX is much simpler (therefore smaller and faster), but the last time I saw it was over 10 years ago, something may have changed. But LZMA should provide better compression.

I want to make the decoder small enough to be used in compressed executables. Where decompression performance doesn't matter because LZMA is far from fast decompression, and small code without inlining makes it worse (but bearable).
Can we spend the spare day going to school to learn about all the new stuff since we left school, or stuff we've forgotten?
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Ahh ok. I didn't realize it was a Twitter thread. I guess I didn't actually look at the article title.
I think it is. Outrage sells. Crypto outrage sells even faster on HN.
How can you even compare Europe to US in software engineering context?

Europe on average has miserable salaries and crazy taxes.
Much of Europe is now cranking up defense spending in order to deter future Russian aggression, and comply with NATO treaties. That will take precedence over big science projects for the next few years.
I am sure it's fake, but I have now started wondering it's a bluff designed to make some prominent NFT/crypto scammers out themselves. Like if they'd try to get ahead of a scandal by issuing a press release or something.
I expect Apple to do away with the lightning port eventually and just ship MagSafe (the phone kind) chargers with their phones for a completely wireless phone with no holes at all. We aren’t there yet (many people still like wired headphone solutions vs Bluetooth), but maybe in 2-3 years?
> Of course, the first thing that comes to mind is what happens if better solutions are found. Will EU block innovation?

The EU has no problem with updating to improved standards. First there was USB-Mini-B, then USB-Micro-B, now USB-C. I would expect some different connector to replace it in a about a decade and 100% wireless in two decades roughly.
For this reason on long trips I travel with a laminated recovery password inside the zip of a ‘secret pocket’ in a belt.
And let's not forget the ever popular, ever spam filled domains managed by https://dot.tk

Like always, free domains often come with weird or shady requirements, I wouldn't rely on them too much. That said, they're great if you're not willing to spend money on a domain yet and just want to experiment.
> Work from home is a temporary thing that's going to be largely ending soon

Thanks in part to Elon Musk.
My experience with offshoring is that the language barrier is far less of a problem than the time zone barrier (hell, we have problems coordinating between east coast and west coast developers even within the united states).
Stop using GMail, use a real company with real customer support.

Even the cheapest, randomest local email provider from fasthosts to namecheap have people that will talk to yoy and fix problems.

Microsoft outlook has real support too.
>Before that incident i was contemplating about moving to a more modern bank which offers an app...

I use two tiny credit unions and each of them offers an app.
Tired of searching Slack, GitHub, and Google Drive separately? Do it all in SQL
"My wife's parents would be a huge help with our kids. They're natural and eager grandparents and they're great with our daughter."

This is absolutely priceless no matter where you live.
Germany will really struggle with an aging population in the next 10 years. Do you want you and your children to foot the bill? The heavy car culture in California is off-putting though.
1920x1080 isn't terrible for a webcam (something you typically use for video calls where the feed is often not nearly at that resolution). It's not the resolution that could use improvement, but the overall video quality.

If you need to shoot 4K for something, there are plenty of options out there. But I think a laptop camera would be better off advancing the current standard in terms of video quality than in resolution.
No stake in the game, but keep in mind that the time of day you're posting will have a biasing effect here (it's still 6-7am in CA)
What's the purpose of your smart phone? It's different than what you think!
You don't need to be. "We can't do anything about anything because the system is run by the billionaires and unless you are one, you have no power" narrative is not only false but also harmful.
They bought a highly speculative vehicle knowing that eventual government intervention was a risk. I feel sort of bad for the little guys who get wiped out thinking it actually had value, the big funds who institutionally should know the risks can eat cake.
Right. Unless you use a completely anonymous service payed by mailing cash in, you should be able to bootstrap your way back in, it just may take some time. I’ll say that a company whose daily business depends on some 2FA-protected service should ensure that they have redundant second factors stored at a different location.
Yaaay. More regulation. I'm so sick of governments regulating what's not theirs to begin with.

Oh you have a nice new fancy technology? Well it's illegal until you register with your first and last name, date of birth, social security number, send in a photo of your ID, and a photo of your face, and pay taxes on any significant usage of it, and we're going to make it as hard as possible to use privacy-centric versions of it...

The problem is, people vote for these nanny politicians. People have gotten too complacent and lazy. Nobody wants risk anymore. They want comfort. At the cost of as much freedom and liberty as it takes, just for life to feel safe and easy.

The older I get, the more libertarian I get. Or anarchist. I don't know yet.
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> Do you mean to say you're giving up on dev due to failures to land a new dev job...or you are trying to transition out of dev and not able to find a job in a new industry?

I genuinely don't know if I belong anymore. I want to say I'm still a software engineer but the impostor syndrome has overtaken me like a venom symbiote.

Maybe in some subconscious way I'm punishing myself for my failures by getting a "lower class" job? I hope it doesn't last forever but I am just so PTSD haggard from trying to prove myself in tech interviews. It hurts so bad to keep putting myself out there and getting denied.

I don't think it's a forever thing, but I also didn't expect to be in a multi-year career freefall. Overall it't not about what I want because I have no control over what happens. I can show up and try but ultimately success is not something I can dictate or manifest.
I would be careful with that 137GB 7zip file too. If you wanted to target crypto users with a 7zip 0day, this would be the way to do it.
I'm pretty sure a monad is just an endoid in the category of monofunctors?
Yes, I tried emulation and it basically doesn't work for me, I guess because of Java.
I've always found that charge works, sometimes it's not as fast as it can go, but it works.
I see where you're coming from but this kind of ends up being the worst of both worlds in some ways. I think the invaluable family support happens when you're down the street from grandma and grandpa and you've got a sick kid that needs somewhere to go while you're at work. It would be most ideal if the in-laws moved to Munich as well, although I realize that may not be a reasonable ask.
I noticed many people in this thread have the delusion perfect security can exist; perfect security is impossible; there are always drawbacks. You have a choice to make: it's either hard for you to unlock the relevant secret to the point of possibly being locked out yourself or: you make copies of secrets or use other redundances which makes the unlocking easier but the security lower.
In most cases the reasonable choice is to make it hard even for you to fully unlock all the secrets but not to the point that is nearly impossible because at the very least: you may want to have inheritance.
Pretty sure you're supposed to return a 403 in any case. It'd be a nicer easter egg when sending some nonsensical but carefully chosen arguments to said endpoints.
Sure it does, you just don't like it and attacked.
Yes, good point.. the keyfile is basically comparable to OTP, just that it is more flexible. In my case, it is indeed a file with specific format (keepass), but other systems ar emore open.
Both European and Eastern US timezones are at work so it's approaching peak time on HN, and this is a story involving a (potentially) huge crypto scandal. It doesn't surprise me that it's gained a bunch of attention.

Now I don't think the story itself is real, but I don't think it's made it to the frontpage by gaming HN with bots or something
Once you have printed out your master key, you might as well go back to writing passwords on a sticky note...
Don't forget random wall warts, random laptop power supplies, etc. All of these random DC power standards have been brutal for creating e-waste. I try to keep my power supplies organized and I have a few boxes full of them with various voltages, currents, etc.

The forcing function of laptops and other hardware needing to work off the common USB-C PD levels will drastically improve the situation. GaN tech is getting cheaper all the time, and the PD chips required to make all of this tech work are super cheap.

Eventually I hope we end up with USB-C-at-the-wall alongside power ports as a standard.
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