skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The physical form factor of the “type C” connector is great but that a good example of how broken things are is that anyone can stick that type of connector on pretty much anything - might be usb 1, might just be power delivery, might be usb 3.2, might be real thunderbolt, might be thunderbolt-esque paie framed over usb 3.2 messages, this is before even getting into the wild world of hdmi 1.4 and display port over usb 3. This mess is assuming that the vendor implemented things correctly or is using a compliant controller chip, reality just gets even worse.

A simplistic interpretation:

Because the consortium wanted to get everyone on board, they allow pretty much any part of the spec to not be complied with. In theory there are various profiles the should be adopted but in practice that hasn’t happened.

What happens when I plug in a c-type plug? You just can’t say… and I mean you REALLY just can’t say. Will high power delivery and hdmi work (I’m looking at you broken Nintendo switch usb-c implementation), will you get thunderbolt packets wrapped over usb 3.2? Will you even get high speed? Is the cable active or passive? Will this cable give me high speed data? Will this >3ft cable give me high speed charging or just silently stay at 5v and ~1amp because the resistance on the middle pin is too high on that particular cable.

To placate many vendors who wanted to because to produce cheap crap and flood online stores, many parts of the spec do this all without active protocol handshaking and simply fail silently.
Darwin Was a Slacker and You Should Be Too – Science Connected
Complete nonsense. You can easily DoS a specific service by flooding it with rendezvous requests.
That is not in the passive voice. Strunk and White really has done a lot of harm.
That’s what fundamentalists keep claiming though: that preventing them from raping children and denying people their basic human rights is religious discrimination.
The code is there for you to make interactive versions.
I reduced my alcohol consumption -- slowly and over a couple of decades.

That's my it-works-on-my-machine.

I don't think quitting all at once would have worked...or rather it would have worked a bunch of times, because alcohol consumption is a social behavior to a significant degree, and my social context facilitated and expected alcohol consumption.

Until eventually it didn't.

And doesn't.

Good luck.
To be sure, but the point I was questioning was that A4 is too skinny for most use cases, that U.S. Letter was preferred in that regard. Adding 9% to the length of U.S. Letter doesn't seem to make it suddenly overly skinny.

Bad for origami though. Ditto with regard to A4. :-)
I know this is going to be controversial comment and I'm sad to say it... But quite frankly, I can safely say that just about every Indian developer that applied to my jobs and made it passed the initial filters STILL turned out to be a scammer of sorts. Either fake skills background listed; they must be getting away with it at least to some degree if I'm coming across it at this scale!!
Toyota patents plans for EV with manual transmission and clutch
I, personally, have seen much worse on 4chan than I have on Kiwifarms. If I read the Cloudflare blog post and didn't know which site it was referring to I would have put 95% of my money on it being 4chan over Kiwifarms.

I am not an omnipotent arbiter of what is bad or worse, this is my own subjective opinion. I just haven't seen anything on Kiwifarms that would call for such a response. It made it seem like we were hours away from people dying.

I guess as an example though:

> they rapidly take down any CSAM

I haven't seen that posted to Kiwifarms in the first place, regardless if 4chan has a quick response.
in postfix.conf, set header_checks = pcre:/etc/postfix/header_checks and in /etc/postfix/header_checks add:

/In-Reply-To:.*msgid-2948573294867@example.com/ REJECT reply-storm

However, blocking the whole thread that will originate is not as easy.
Maybe? The efforts being proposed to drive down emissions will have terribly harmful consequences on the poorest, and if the IPCC is wrong or even "just" exaggerating then the harms can easily outweigh the benefits.

I'd like to see us reduce dependency on fossil fuels simply because they're finite, but I also think the best way to do that is let the private sector get on with it in response to supply/demand signals. Trying to go beyond that involves massive state intervention and, historically, this has often gone terribly wrong. Especially so when motivated by science that turns out to be unreliable. Trofim Lysenko is the classic example but lobotomy is another.

Point is, that there's quite a lot of evidence that the narratives around climate change aren't just exaggerated but wildly exaggerated, and that all kinds of bad behaviors are being deployed to hide this fact. Climategate made that unambiguous because we can actually read emails where they're conspiring behind the scenes to cheat the scientific process, but there's lots of other examples of this happening that aren't from those emails. If they do it a few times and get away with it even when all their emails are leaked, why wouldn't they keep doing it? And why would we assume it was just one offs? Seems more likely to be a pattern of behavior and, again, we do see a heck of a lot of smoke when outsiders examine the (claimed to be) science.
I'll grant that words like inches, pounds and miles have more literary gravitas to them than centimetres, kilograms or kilometers, and it would be a shame to lose those former words completely, but arguing they make more "sense" is really pushing it. I literally have no "sense" of what a "stone" weighs, how deep a "fathom" or a "league" is, how much area a "rood" covers, or how much liquid makes up a fluid ounce, and I doubt I ever will. And they're just some of the more common units!
What would you consider to be “forcing”? Is it limited to physical violence?
Public conversations is part of the point of social media.
7.5p/KWh between 00:30 and 04:30 on Octopus Go [1]. Kia Niro EV has an efficiency of 276Wh/mile [2]. That's 2.72p/mile.

Latest petrol price averages £1.6933/litre [3]. That makes an ICE car cheaper only if it can acheive 280mpg. ( (169.33/2.72) * 4.5 ). My Prius averages 55mpg. That makes my Prius 5 times as expensive to run as an EV right now.

1. https://octopus.energy/go/

2. https://ev-database.uk/car/1666/Kia-Niro-EV

3. https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/advice/fuel-watch/
Move location, that’s what I did.
Ahh, thanks for putting this into perspective!
I was as pro COVID vaccine as anyone but this is the definition of gaslighting. You couldn't go to school or work without a vaccine. You couldn't enter an airplane or hospital. Doctors were even talking about not treating the unvaccinated.
> It seems relevant that the most shocking story they could put together was about someone who found the AirTag and got a protection order against their stalker.

An AirTag has already been used to track down and murder someone: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/06/15/woman-...
I agree, this sounds like a completely normal process of finding and fixing bugs.

The stack trace tells you where the error is occurring, your intuition leads you to the relevant caller function that you should test, stack trace or logs should lead you to the offending parameters (i.e. the weird name).

With these three pieces of information you can write a failing test and implement a patch.

I don't consider this approach to be "TDD", just "software development with good test coverage".
No, that's not true. The first hop (last from the service's PoV) is basically randomly selected. Unless you restrict it, there will be thousands of possible IPs.
People are weird, aren't they (we)? We all feel all mighty and rational and smart while doing this dumb shit all the time, due to some evolutionary group herding mentality advantage and god knows what else down there in our subconsiousness.

Its all fun and games till elections come and then you feel like a sore thumb in the sea of idiocy... or not.
I ask only for a VERY SIMPLE thing: any damn car and charger equipped with a standard data bus and relevant open and public and standard API to talk. Negotiating needs and options of both sides.

That means I can plug the car in the garage and it talk to my p.v. inverter eating as much energy as it can when the Sun shine and stopping when Sun is not there with user-configurable simple and quick to set parameter: target SOC and target time. Like "I want a minimum SOC for this time". Than car and p.v. do their best to maximize self consumption high voltage DC to inverter MPPT to maximize efficiency as a bonus. Plus since there are anyway to DC wires and also two/more AC wires and the car have an inverter anyway offering energy to the home as needed, with a minimum SOC for when the home is on grid, another for when the grid fail.

Most hybrid/battery inverter already do that since years. There is no &$&%%( reason why cars with their large batteries and naturally limited service life can't do the same.

If an OEM do that, even before have a public standard, witch means needing to change/add an inverter, I'll buy the car ASAP. If not I'll wait until diesel reach 5-6€/liter or became so scarce I can't keep using it. Sorry but there is a limit of CRAPPY and alpha-alike quality crap to be imposed on people because those who design and sell the aforementioned crap do not use it on their own so do not realize what's needed and what's not.
Sure, tube based transmitters had been, in a lab, "worked out". But we're talking about 20 years before commercial use really happened:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_radio#The_first_vac...

Radio existed (as you say) before the tube, but it took time to get the tube into real-world use. I guess this is somewhat like computing ; computing has existed in many forms, mechanical through to IC designs we have now.

But quantum? It's in a lab, and real-world applications are being worked out.

Paralleling back to radio again, people knew tubes would be useful, but it took 20+ years to make them mass producible, and make tubes usable, and redesign radios to use them. This, to me, sounds like quantum computing.

We can think of things I suppose to use them for (perhaps I was hasty on this point in my prior post), but we aren't there yet. And really, looking at the tube -- did anyone think they'd be used to make massive computers even?

I bet quantum computing will be the same way -- uses we're not aware of now.
>The swatting of the discussed people is a completely unrelated coincidence.

yeah, because it's so difficult to just SWAT someone and claim you're someone you're not? The MTG swatter literally used text-to-speech and said roughly "I'm from Kiwifarms and this is my username: ...". why would anyone go to the trouble of disguising their voice only to tell police who they really are? Null made it very clear that he cooperates with law enforcement if illegal content is put on the site. if it was actually that user, he'd be in a jail cell by now. there was no discussion of anything like this in any thread prior to the attack. it's so obviously a hoax.

why do people have such a fucking blind spot about this? it's the 911 equivalent of a phishing email with a forged sender address. it's trivial.
> Have you actually browsed them? When this thing hit the front page of HN I checked it out and while they say a lot of nasty stuff about people there I couldn't find an occurrence of organising online or offline harassment.

That is the organizing of harassment. That's what it looks like. People are very rarely dumb enough to post "I think we should commit a crime, who's with me" on the Internet.

Post enough slurs about queer people and somehow the harrasment happens without anyone having been explicitly told to do it.

Post enough slurs about Muslims and someone will eventually shoot up a mosque in New Zealand.
I am solidly not an anti-vaxer (I have them in my family and engaging with them is a distressing experience), but please cut out this "trust the science" angle.

The risk of death from covid itself varies a lot and varied a lot particularly depending on how overwhelmed hospitals were. Covid is not ebola or smallpox, the risk evaluation is much more subtle.

It's more about weighing aggregated low-probability side effects and unknown long-term health effects against overwhelming hospitals, damage caused by long Covid, and continued stress for society in general under quarantines and lockdowns.

Whether the right decisions were made will only be clear in hindsight and after a lot of study. That or we all turn into zombies.
I have a Mac, an iPad, an iPhone, an AppleTV and an Apple Watch.

If I’m on my iPad and playing something and put my AirPods Pro in my ear, sound automatically gets sent to my AirPods. The same happens with my Mac and iPhone. It doesn’t happen with the AppleTV since multiple people might be watching.

Also once I pair my headphones to one device on my account, it’s automatically paired to all of my devices. The initial pairing process for my phone and iPad is just open the case the first time and a pop up shows up.

On the other hand, if I’m on my iPad watching a movie and get a call on my phone, it switches over automatically. It then switches back when I go back to my iPad. If I take one AirPod out of my ear to gear someone, video pauses automatically on whichever device I’m using.

Then there are the little touches like being able to control headphone options like noise cancellation and special audio from my phone, iPad, or TV, seeing battery remaining and automatically being registered with Find My.
>> recently I've felt that I need to contribute more but I still find it hard to write comments without cringing at my own writing.

Why do you feel the need to contribute?

If you want to say something, by all means say it.

If you are not interested in a given topic, ignore it.

Just be yourself and focus on what matters to you.
A lot depends on ISO too of course, which is a probably underappreciated aspect of digital.

With 35mm film, you top out at about ISO 400 in B&W with standard chemistry although you can push things to about 1600 (though it shows). With color slides, the latter ISO 100 E6 films were pretty good. Grain and contrast started getting a lot worse much higher than that. Of course, Velvia 50 and Kodachrome 25 (which had about the same effective speed) were better.
That's far from "easy" - if it were so simple, people would be able to extort big money from drug markets for doing it.
Ironically, the whole argument can be summarised and partially dismissed from one of its lines:

> requirements have evolved.
> It was a good source of information that was omitted from the press regarding a recent case in the UK about terminal medical care

Was this information omitted because it was false or libelous, perhaps? How did you verify it was actually true?
The New Testament canon wasn't established before the 4th century AD, so not "mere decades" after Jesus' death (or "ascension" if you're a believer), but centuries after (although of course it didn't happen in a fortnight, it was a process that had started earlier). The wikipedia article about this is quite well documented: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_the_New_Testame...

You're right that different churches have been appearing continuously since the beginning of Christianity, but access to the text of the Bible in vernacular did fuel the Reformation. How could people build a "personal relationship" with God if they don't have direct access to his words?
The functionality to help track AirTags by reporting them to Apple could presumably be distinct from the functionality that detects if there is a new tag following you (for one, the latter wouldn't require reporting any device locations to Apple), so I don't see how the question requires a tautological answer.

Does the setting actually say "ignore AirTags", or does it say "help track other people's devices" or something else? Genuine question, as I don't have an iPhone.
>or because Apple drama brings many clicks?

Most likely this. There was a lot of controversy over a Foxconn factory a few years back, which assembled products for pretty much all big electronics companies. Most of the articles had "iPhone factory" in the headline.
If one doesn't maintain one's app, it won't matter what platform/target was used; it will eventually cease to function. This is why there is great benefit to adding a layer of abstraction underneath that someone else can maintain; all that is required is that the app be re-deployed with the latest upgrades and fixes.
With a more conventional sentence structure, the sentence would have answered the question "_who_ is concerned that the figure is wrong?" I'm not enough of a language lawyer in English to say whether this is truly a passive-voice sentence in the most technical of senses, but I think the ancestor post was getting at a valid, er, concern about the writing.
Powers of Ten was also a 1977 short film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0

(Duplicating my own comment from a few months ago.)
Do you believe that KiwiFarms is making a good faith effort to remove objectionable content to the same extent that mainstream social media platforms are? I think it's pretty clear that they're not, simply based on the prevalence of that content on KiwiFarms, and the relative lack of it elsewhere.
Just in case, here "Unicode routines" refer to Unicode encoding routines, not other more complex things like normalization. They are pretty regular but their automata would be relatively simple. (By the way, SIMD-accelerated regular expression parsing is indeed a thing [1], if anyone wondered.)

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
Leaving your computer unlocked usually also breaks policy (except if the policy is very much useless). The non-embarassing way would be to report the user leaving the computer unlocked, leading to disciplinary action and eventual dismissal. I think something slightly embarassing is the kinder option here.
Quite a fun program.

May pretend to be a national calculator of the 70s and see the result.
I guess it depends on what you consider "private jets". One that's exclusively used by some CEO or their family, 448 hours feels like a lot, but I don't know their typical travel schedule.

But for "private rentals" that you rent for a trip or something, I'd assume they get a lot more action than only being used 5% of the year.

Where's flueber, the app to book private jets? It sounds incredibly wasteful to only rent something out 5% of the year. Is maintenance a large issue?
No more so than watching hours and hours of cat videos, porn, InfoWars, Minecraft videos, whatever.
You people have built up a whole fantasy about the KiwiFarms... And its obvious when someone SWATs a person like Marjorie Taylor Greene claiming theyre from the KiwiFarms, that it's a false flag. The events CloudFlare refernces that show the site was a danger were a post from 4chan pretending to be a KiwiFarms user, and a post made a user that had previously only posted once in 2020, and then got banned 14 minutes (with 7 reports) after making threatening posts in the keffals thread, plainly another false flag trying to make the site look bad while there is a smear campaign against it. People attack and lie about the KiwiFarms because it hosts embarrassing information about them.
It's not actually early technology, it's been developed since the 80's. And if the underlying theories are unsound - if it doesn't even work in theory - then putting more money in won't make it magically viable.
It is not the amount of funding, it is the allocation that doomed R&D at big companies.

Forty years ago they were the best game in town for applied research (defining applied as, on success, having a fast track to commercialization). Later it became similar to the university research: on success, you write some articles, get company wows, but business people have no idea where to stick it and half heartedly throw a few applications at it to see if any stick. Most don't (e.g., deep blue, watson).

At this point large company R&D centers got passed over (by a lot) by VC- funded applied research and saw a (IMO well deserved) drop of funding.
It's not hard to feel bad for anyone getting censored/booted off the Internet. I see that "Gossithedog" lives in England, which - I reckon - makes it impossible for him to understand the value of free speech. The US is one of few countries on the planet where "freedom of speech" is a protected right (a list that doesn't include England).

We're collectively worse off when the pitchforks come out and the mob allowed to erode our hard-earned freedoms. It doesn't matter if it's Kiwi Farms or someone else, capitulating to the demands of the mob is a slippery slope that doesn't lead to progress.
I've read that 4chan works proactively with law enforcement, regularly notifying them as soon as possible. They don't have a "wait for a warrant" policy that neutral providers claim, they will eagerly submit and support LEOs. This might be why it has survived so long.

The common idea about the forum is that there is no moderation, but the truth is that the moderation is invisible. (The content is beyond the pale, and I don't support it which used to be needless to say)
Yes, an app is to be treated as a disposable thing with a shelf life of a few years at best. But on the other hand, so are many "advanced" web apps that rely on vendor-specific implementations of specs that may or may not survive (not to mention HTTPS, certificates and their significance to browser behavior…).

If you want something to live, be prepared to keep it up to date with the platform it's running on - regardless of what platform that is. The most stable platform to target is likely Win32, specially with Wine.

I'd expect a simple HTML static document to continue working mostly as intended for a long time, but anything interactive and/or advanced is likely to bit rot IMHO.
> app store requirements have evolved
What does that mean? That the forum operator doesn’t have moderation facilities that suits your tastes in what is and is not hate speech?

A forum dedicated to the principal and culture of free speech is designed to promote hate speech?
Nano-nonsense: 25 years of charlatanry (2010)
It also features in the 2018 spy drama Berlin Station.
CSAM on 4chan hasn’t been a thing for a decade. Shit 4chan even has a secret archive to help glowies find out who posted CP.
> If I’m on my iPad and playing something and put my AirPods Pro in my ear, sound automatically gets sent to my AirPods.

And for me apple decides to do these switches on its own without my input at times when I do not want this to happen. I have not found a way to disable this yet.
You're choosing one obvious hoax and ignoring piles of reports, from a large number of people, going back years with recurring issues that coincide with kf postings. It's not even worth linking - they're trivial to find on twitter for anyone interested.