skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I misunderstood the line of reasoning for the person I responded to. I originally interpreted it as standardization allows others to make the cables.
Moral Relativism
No. Include the UK/Ireland plug in that.
Which explains the downvotes I'm getting. I've apparently angered the cinephiles.

Edit: I'm bemused that my subjective personal preferences have made multiple people this upset.
Well... I agree with the spirit of the effort, but not the letter of it.

>>> From spring 2026, the obligation will extend to laptops

So this would force Apple to replace MagSafe with USB-C? How is that not killing innovation?

Standardisation should be a goal, but I just feel this particular effort is too specific and brings very little value to consumers. Why don't we standardise payment protocols instead? Or biometric identity verification? Or ID cards even (that the UK is allergic to)? I just feel the spirit of these efforts can be applied so much more successfully elsewhere.
qbittorrent + jackett. Click on however many pub trackers you want to search in jackett then set the search plugin on qbit to point to your jackett instance.
So do you prefer the Linux DE that looks and acts like Windows Vista or one of the 10 that looks and acts like Gnome 2?
SmartOS is literally disposable - it runs off a flash drive. Have you considered it for your use case?
Apple itself is using the USB-C connector on their Apple MacBooks and Apple iPads. Somehow it's "Apple" there?!

(Seriously, why am I constantly seeing these utterly ridiculous comments in Apple topics? Do you not think for half a second before writing something utterly misguided?)
Is this why Apple use USB-C on some of their iPads?
Interesting how sometimes it does not matter. You meet in spacetime. I would not have relationships with my wife, who is subjectively perfect, have we met earlier in our lives. We have discussed this on multiple occasions and the conclusion was definite.
While I don't agree with every little thing in the article, you took the key points and put your own explanations of them; yet you have ignored the elaborations the author provided where they touch your points too.
> Effectively, the UK let (mainly by omission, not intentionally) the solutions compete and then selected the most broadly used solution to standardise on.

We're down to two connectors here, one of which is only used by a single vendor; do you think that hasn't already happened?
Beware, there is a lot of actual safety equipment that goes into a MagSafe connector that probably isn’t in the knock-offs. Moving 5 A of current can cause a spark and start a fire right in your lap.

- http://www.righto.com/2013/06/teardown-and-exploration-of-ma...

- http://www.righto.com/2016/03/counterfeit-macbook-charger-te...
I misinterpreted the comment I responded to and had the reasoning backwards.
Found the spartan.
Tell HN: Twitter messed up my account, I think I’ll just let it go
Yesterday I wanted to see a tweet with a map, that was strangely marked as NSFW. Instead of the usual warning and show button, Twitter now asked that I fill in my birthdate in my profile. So I did, entering the year 2003. Not my actual birth year, i didn’t want to give my exact age.

Immediately after saving, I’m shown a page saying I’m under 13 and I’m not allowed to use Twitter (??? 2003 was 19 years ago). To reactivate my account, I was supposed to upload my ID and information from my guardians (???). This is the only page I’m allowed to access while logged in.

There is no way in hell I am uploading my ID to Twitter or any other social network, so I start contemplating just writing the account off. 14 years, thousands of tweets, links saved etc.

Now I get an email to click a link and I can get my account reinstated. I click the link, only reconfirm my name and phone number, click next, I see a page that “they are processing my request” and receive an email directly that my account was reinstated, but they deleted the tweets from before I was 13. I can still see my tweets, followers and who’s following me, but my avatar and bio are gone.

I now get that the problem was that I had tweets from when I was supposedly 5, but I really don’t understand why my account was disabled with the explanation that I am _now_ under 13 and why everything is now messed up? Also why there was no warning or a multi step process.

And why did they need my exact age in the beginning, if it’s only my input and they trust it - why didn’t they just keep the “Are you over 18?” button? Or save the input from the hundreds of times I had to click that. Oh, yes! ADS, they said there that they are going to use my age to personalize ads.

And I think I am out, I see less benefits in keeping my account than ever.
Agree; to the expand on your points, even trying ultra simple prompt like [black circle on a white background] and then running the output through CLIP to get its text outputs. Then try to narrow the iterations between the two to be predictable and controlled by you.

Obviously understanding the code and data the model is based on is likely best path to better understanding what is going on; for example, last time I checked, Stable Diffusion was limited to 77 tokens.

Ultimately though, possible paths to understanding are like unlimited and just as creative as any other aspect of the topic.
Just a regular day in the EU. Can the EU pass law for all cars to use the same tyre dimensions? A set of EU approved haircuts would also be very welcome! /s
Micro-USB is not the same as Mini-USB. Mini-USB was introduced in 2000; Micro-USB was introduced in 2007.
> To put it in another way, try to design with realistic data.

Also known as "the design won't work in German". Seriously though this drives me nuts when I get a design with perfectly lined up, even amounts of text.
Generally they've been having an increasing number of embarrassing mistakes/problems/outages that they handle clunkily, and do not seem to be investing in the future of their service.
Maybe 90 percent of medicine dispensing is without issue and you fall into that category. The other 10 percent is where a pharmacist comes in. That being said, I don't need a pharmacist to review my 4 decade long prescription for inhalers.
It’s funny if the poster is actually complaining about grain. Digital compression, like the one that Netflix uses, will often clean up the image of grain as a secondary effect of the compression algo.

Essentially grain is a lot of detail that video compression algorithms have been taught to ignore/remove. H.264 was notorious for virtually removing all grain making it impossible to have authentic film grain on YouTube for years. (I work in advertising).

Exactly like you said - grain is a common first victim of video compression.

The other curious thing - modern movies that are shot on film / have grain actually get it removed during VFX stages. You have to do it so you can integrate CGI - grain is usually “sampled” first by the compositing software (The Foundry’s Nuke in 99% of occasions) and removed since the CGI image won’t have any grain from the CG renderer so you have to integrate it onto a denoised image. You then re add it at the end!

Using the same software you then re-add the sampled noise back onto the image, and since you’ve now integrated the CGI, the noise goes on top of everything helping it all get integrated.

Just saying this because you are right - using noise reduction to remove film grain for release is considered a sin (I myself would agree with the sentiment). Yet actually most films today will go through some denoise stage in VFX. Which is an interesting thing to think about - we actually remove the grain for a lot of the work then re add to keep the filmic texture.
USB C was designed to be the "last" physical connector, the whole point was standardisation. Now that the market has failed to deliver this, government steps in. In this case it's supporting an innovation. More "innovation" in connectors is what we're trying to avoid.
i guess the next question is of those 33 recorded instances (or 41.25 possible instances), how many people were around the two of them? if they were literally standing within arms reach of each other, but also within arms reach of a dozen other people, it may not be that interesting if they never connected. but if they were within 5 meters of each other, and there weren't anyone else within a 100 meters of the two of them, that would have been a pretty awful missed connection.
And let's not forget, that if you brought your DVD player with you, you could still play your DVD's no matter what region you were physically in.
Though the latter bit about the ‘size of economy’ is doubtful to me: the populations of top MMOs are in millions each, but surely the players don't spend the sums of their monthly rent and food bills in the games. This report from January 2021 puts the daily volume of transactions in WoW at about two million USD: https://massivelyop.com/2021/01/21/world-of-warcraft-players...

I eyeballed the rate for late-ish 2021 from this hastily found site, at 20 bucks per 200k gold—seemed to change little in the past year, so hopefully holds true for January 2021 as well:
https://www.playerauctions.com/market-price-tracker/wow/
In most cases, yes, people writing these comments are too young to remember era before Apple brought shining and light to their existence.
What disadvantage do you see with USB-C iPhones? I would love to share a cable with my laptop, phone, tablet and everything else
Ask HN: How to Invest in VC Companies?
I have some discretionary income I’d like to invest but many of the companies I’m interested in are still in VC stages. How can a non-accredited investor invest?
Using it on MacOS for years (not for system) and fairly recently for ZFS on root on Ubuntu.

I love it but two problem I ran into on Ubuntu:

1. Docker failed bcs of the custom implementation in Ubuntu (Don't remeber the specifics).

2. I repeatedly run into the problem that rpool (root) or bpool are supposedly full and automatic snapshots break.

I hope those problems get fixed soon.
That was a leaked Blu-ray Processing Key that was quickly revoked - but the industry was livid that it was allowed to propagate before they could revoke it (which takes 90 days). This means, ultimately, that if you have a player that hasn't had a Blu-ray Disc made since 2008 inserted into it, and are trying to decrypt a disc made before ~2008, then maybe with the right tools you could. It's a shallow victory meaningless nowadays.

[Even then, a Processing Key isn't nearly as interesting as a Device Key, plenty of which have been leaked since without much attention. Blu-ray has so many keys...]
Lightening cables have currently seen a price fall as Apple introduced USB-C devices. Yes, it's an automatic win for us consumers when regulation creates industry standard and fosters competition as that gives us the option to buy a product from multiple vendor. When something is standardised it is better for the whole industry, and especially for us consumers as it means we are not forced to buy something whose design and manufacturing is dictated by a single company. With lightening cables, Apple dictated the design and manufacturing terms and thus had an influence on its price even for non-Apple branded cables. With USB-C as a standard it can no longer do so.
The best anti-piracy tool of all time was old Netflix. Then they had to go and screw it up. Yearrrrgh!
They've suspended operations. They have owned manufacturing facilities and sales outlets there and this is probably costing them a fortune.
>Miss America is famous,

Is Miss America even famous these days? I sure couldn't name one--though perhaps I'd recognize names from years past.

I tend to agree that if you go back a number of decades more local people were probably fairly well-known locally but I'm not sure I'd put the top guy at the Elks Lodge in the "famous" category. Draw a small enough circle in geography or niche interest and a lot of people are notable to some degree.
> there are plenty of well-funded anti-gun lobbying groups who fund lawsuits against the gun industry.

Well funded by people for selfless political reasons, not by large corporations: as the parent comment says, the situation with USA gun control is the exact opposite of MPAA-related entities suing citizens.
I agree. What happens if companies want to make something better or technology improves? The way the legislation is written, will help consumers in the short-term but could stifle innovation in the long-term. Imagine if the EU had mandated DC power ports or CD-ROM drives two decades ago.

It took this long for the EU to pass common standard legislation after talking about it for years. I can't imagine they will be any faster in updating it if USB-C becomes outdated.
Last year, I bought a blu-ray player and two blu-rays to see if buying the media was worth it. At the very least, I'd have alternatives in case power goes out for an extended time. One of the blu-rays I bought was It's a Wonderful Life.

At the penultimate scene, with the bell ringing on the tree when George is back home with his family, the blu-ray just stopped, glitched out, and I could not get it to play properly. Something to do with firmware and others were experiencing similar issues.

I tried! It's incredible that even when you follow all the rules, you still get the shaft.

Never again.
If you want to be remembered in history, it’s much easier to be a mediocre sports athlete than to be the best scientist who actually helps humanity. We are a ridiculously stupid species
I don't know if this is exactly the same thing, but this ruling from the EU, coming from reselling oracle licenses, comes to mind: https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/201...
I'd just be happy if I came across more "senior" "web" designers that actually understand UX. All of the ones I've come across wouldn't know how a checkout workflow works in practice and will happily remove necessary fields, information, or steps because it doesn't look pretty.

Like... we do need a way where the user can see a summary of their purchases (and adjust quantities) before paying for them. Also, limiting quantity to 9 because 10 is too wide is just... I have no words.
Do you also verify each line of the software that the script is installing?
How would it force apple to replace magsafe? All modern apple laptops can already charge from USB-C. Magsafe is just another option.
Apple better keep Lightning for Non-EU markets, it's is a vastly superior connector in every way. The most fragile part is at the cheap cable end instead of inside the device. There's no upside here for those of us with a half dozen lightning cables around the house and cars.
"Ban." The shadow in shadowban refers to the fact of the ban itself being hidden, whereas in this case the block is plainly visible to anyone affected.
Is ADHD really tied to switching hobbies and jobs frequently? I suffer from this too, but I always thought ADHD was the inability to focus in the short term. I can have great focus on daily tasks if I’m interested in them, but my problem is I lose the interest so frequently that I can’t seem to make the leap beyond intermediate competency in a hobby or career direction.
USB-C cables and ports are more fragile than Lightning cables and ports, unfortunately. USB-C is sort of the complement of Lightning: instead of a sturdy paddle on the cable end, it has a delicate paddle inside the port. It is very easy to break this paddle off. That happened almost immediately to my Nexus 5x, one of the first USB-C implementations. You can also easily break off the pins when you need to clean pocket lint out of the port, an extremely common problem for mobile phones.

Physically, Lightning is a much more robust solution.
I'm not a collector, but I hate vaxy faces. Which is also the reason I could spot CGI for years, until we had the ability to simulate even a pores of skin, but then again it were tuned to 11 and I could spot it again.
Its about time they recognized Zeilinger's work - he's been doing astonishing work clarifying and articulating the foundations of Quantum Mechanics for decades.
varchar - both syllables pronounced with the 'ar' sound as in bar (or car, far, mar, tar, etc.)
I spent a week working at the Inmos plant in Colorado Springs in 1989, thousands of miles from where I lived at the time. It turns out I drove past my wife's house every day that week. We didn't meet until 1996.
Because law makers actively experience the pain of having different chargers in their day to day lives.
> How is that not killing innovation?

It's not such a great innovation if it makes users life harder.
Is Apple currently using MagSafe? Both of the recent MacBooks in my household, from 2020 and 2021, have standard USB-C connections.
I know it is a joke, but even if you derive if from variable character, I wouldn't pronounce variable like "air". But I would say char and character are two different things. A character is a glyph, a char (pronounced like to char something) is a low level datatype.

And even then, English is full of cases where similar words are pronounced completely differently. Why is millimeter milli-meter, but calorimeter calo-rimmeter? Why is maintain pronounced main-tain or man-tain, but maintenance pronounced main-tennence? It doesn't have to make sense, that ship sailed a long time ago.
Macbooks support magsafe and USBc charging, i imagine thats sufficient to meet the requirement
Wow, that's really surprising and disappointing. Usually the disc is considered the ideal "canonical" way to watch the movie, but I guess not always. I think blu-ray.com has user reviews that are focused on the quality of the disc specifically, but I usually don't look at them. I looked at MI:1 and they talked a lot about the grain, but seemed to see it as a stylistic choice.

Film grain from pre-digital era movies is a divisive issue. All older movies originally had some amount of film grain from the analog film. Some people like it and want it there on purpose. Some people prefer the movie run through a de-noise filter. The pro-grain people claim this removes fine detail. The anti-grain people say why the hell would you want it there on purpose. Some modern movies even add film grain on purpose. See Disney's Luca as an example. I personally don't care for it but it usually doesn't bother me as long as it's not extreme.
It's certainly better than micro-USB, but agreed: Lightning is the superior design.

Who puts the weak point of the connector inside the more expensive of the two objects? That was a terrible design decision. Maybe Apple's patents prevented USB from doing a similar design, so they had to come up with one that was objectively slightly worse?
An interesting comment made in the Phoronix forums:

> My theory is that fixing the Spectre V2 vulnerability on a hardware level would lead to fundamental architecture changes that AMD is not willing to make, because it may add so much more complexity to the architecture or it may just be too unconvenient. They probably realized that optimizing the code paths that the Linux kernel utilizes on the default mitigations mode is faster, simpler and it may involve less deeper changes, while still being secure.

> As far as I know, pretty much every CPU architecture that implements speculative execution is vulnerable to some version of Spectre, so note that this is not a fundametal flaw of AMD64.
Surely apple will still have usb-c on its laptop. And you would be able to charge through either magsafe or usb-c.

Just as you can with MS Surface.
Then people would actually have to take responsibility for their actions or agency.
The law itself. It is amending Directive 2014/53 which allowed dongles. The part which allowed dongles is made away by this new directive.

It's entire raison d'être of the law is to mandate that devices themselves and their charger share a common standard. So an example e.g. Annex 2a clarifies that:

> The requirements in points 2 and 3 below shall apply to the following categories or classes
of radio equipment [mobile phones, tablets, cameras, headsets, mice, etc, ...]

> [They shall] 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® Cable and Connector Specification’, which should remain accessible and operational at all times;
This post doesn't appear in that list, or do you mean it would have appeared there first before "succeeding" through the pool?
> By the time I had become involved in things, most of the nuance in the MDA text I quoted above had disappeared. It was largely taken as a given that only the most talented people in an organisation would be involved in the creation of PIMs; a cadre of second-class citizens would then have to engage in the drudgery of creating a PSM from a PIM; and no-one would need to worry about the code generated from the PSM.

>The deep flaws in this vision might be obvious to most readers, but the standardisation community, intentionally or not, trained itself over time to avoid thinking about them. The most glaring flaw is: where would "behaviour" (i.e. the nitty gritty details of what a program should do) be specified? UML class diagrams are fine for expressing program structure, but they don't tell you what a function should actually do.

Sounds like architecture astronauts: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architect...
If they really cared about charger durability they wouldn't have removed the supports from the cable joints until their first party cables regularly frayed apart at the cable ends.
They also have a migration guide and have even built some tooling around that process: https://render.com/docs/migrate-from-heroku
Have you tried writing to the large ISPs in India that seem to be blocking your website? You may want to do that while the current case is in progress. At the least, it would give you additional information to plan next moves. Perhaps, IFF can help determining the top ISPs that are blocking.

I wish you good luck in your case.
As a thought exercise: IMHO the limitation should be transfer speed, rather than size of assets.
Skaffold is my new favorite scaffolding. Language agnostic too!
I don't much care for this weird equivalency that a motion picture is "knowledge", but regardless should every bit of knowledge be offered and given freely? Given that I know where I was last night and you don't is it within your right to demand it from me? Is it enough you want to have that knowledge that requires you then get it?
He was expecting to waltz into Kyiv in a few days, decapitate the Ukrainian government (literally), not to have to wage an intense war of attrition. Of course he miscalculated because of piss-poor intelligence (the one thing the former USSR was usually good at), that doesn't make the original calculation irrational.

Now if he had sabotaged the Norway-Denmark-Poland Baltic Pipe, he would have achived the same objectives, preserved his own capital investment, and killed off a potential competitor to Russian gas. Sure, it would have been a direct attack against a NATO country, but so was the 2014 bombing of the Czech munition depot in Vrbětice.
I also moved my postgres/django backend to fly.io using their automated tool which worked flawlessly, and my frontend (sveltekit) went to vercel.

Both services have been flawless so far at a much better cost/value proposition.
It's not so much hyperfocus as the inability of the executive function to unswitch
> All it does is stifle future work on connectors

And that's exactly the point! Stop pretending you are special and use the same connector as anybody else.

If you really, really need a new connector:

1. propose a new standard;

2. make it retro-compatible with all the existing devices;

3. leave some slack for the next one who will need some more capabilities;

4. the parliament will declare your standard the new one.
That's a fantastic point actually. I wonder why they choose to use USB-C at all for any device, when Lightning is objectively better from a physical engineering standpoint.