skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Clearly something happened (or didn't happen) which allowed phone manufacturers to ignore the existing micro usb mandate.

There was never a Micro-USB mandate, I've been replying to a bunch of comments around here that claim that such a mandate existed.

You can check for yourself, it was just a recommendation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_external_power_supply

> When would this mandate be changed? After the rest of the world has already moved on to Type D?

The EU has already passed multiple recommendations previously about mobile phone port standardization. They were all passed in a reasonable amount of time. Moreover, this mandate was also passed in a reasonable amount of time.

Therefore, I have reason to believe that future mandates regarding mobile phone port charging will also be passed in a reasonable amount of time.
Babbage and Brunel almost ran into each others in trains - Brunel coming back from a night out and Babbage running experiments:

https://moorsidepublications.com/2015/07/01/babbage-gets-inv...
UML was bound to OO design methodologies that really didn't work that well (any time you have a vaguely specified component with "manager" in its name it is likely someone was following one of them and, usually, an example of Conway's law). It was also bound to CASE tools that few could afford, fewer could master, and that I've never seen used well, so I couldn't say if they worked or not. And then, of course, Agile happened and designing anything became uncool and unpopular.

I hadn't thought to critique the visual design of UML but it is just about impossible to pick up a UML diagram after a year of doing other things and remember the particular semantics of them above the whiteboard box-and-arrow level. So I think you're right and there's probably opportunity for someone who loves that kind of thing there.

Also I thought I was the only one who thought use-case diagrams were absolutely absurd. At the employer where I saw UML and got actually pretty good but brief training on it, we had a VB plug-in for Rose that would extract the text from them into... a Word document.

That said, UML statecharts are pretty great, the tools for them look OK though I've never done statechart design that way, and I appreciate seeing a sequence diagram for nontrivial protocols/exchanges/calling conventions.
Yes most everyone says the symptoms need to be present in childhood as well. But apparently the structure of school and just being a little smart can mask the performance symptoms in childhood. Then once the structure is gone in adulthood and life becomes much harder and more complex, the big symptoms start to show up.
How are my USB-C chargers capable of charging lightning devices if they are USB-C? Can I buy a dongle for $90?
Photosonic AI Art Generator
Could be that I'm somehow an outlier, I suppose time will tell since they'll be around for a while and in literally everything.
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I wonder if Apple will just make them iPhones in 2024 portless and only chargeable via wireless to combat this
You are putting a lot of faith in people to do that diligence. Most people will take the “evidence” at face value. And yes, people do write scripts to generate material to defame or hurt others.
I write a fair amount for work, mostly dev related content. The idea of 1000 high-quality words a day for a month is terrifying.

The bit where he breaks down how these ghost writers actually need to write 1000 an hour to make a living shows how absurd and broken it all is.
Relevant to this discussion: Tesla only uses CCS in EU because it was mandated by law, just like USB-C now will be.
The U.S. dominates a large share of the development market. In 2021, it brought over 31.83% of the revenue share. So, working with American customers is worth considering if you are a business owner or a developer. Before starting a project, it’s wise to search what tools are demanded in the selected market.

So, what are the most popular programming languages in the USA?

- Python. It’s a great language for creating scalable web applications. Also, Python is beginner-friendly, with many tutorials and courses;
- Java. Perfect for e-commerce websites and financial platforms for enterprises, and Android applications;
- JavaScript. Devs work with it to deploy a website server and browser applications. Using a JavaScript runtime environment or so-called Node.js, one can write server and client-side scripts;
- C++. It’s widely used for desktop, mobile or web applications. Since it works well with the Unity engine, C++ serves as a base for VR and video games;
- Swift. Programmers use it to create iOS and macOS X applications for various Apple devices, like iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.

Each programming language has its own ups and downs that may disrupt your work. Discover other languages in high demand together with their advantages here:
I agree with this. I moved across country when I was 16 and have been able to regain friendships that would have been lost otherwise. However lately it seems to be 80% adds and unrelated videos. Often if I seek someone out I find they have been putting a bunch of stuff up there that I missed. It has made me much less interested in the Facebook product.

On the other hand, we have an Oculus and I'm quite enjoying some of the "metaverse" worlds in Horizons. I think I'm firmly in the minority there.
Car tire sizes are designed for specific wheel sizes (diameter and width), which in turn are manufactured on criteria such as arch sizes, break disc and caliper clearance requirements, engine power, steering mechanism and suspension setup (for offset) and of course looks. Car wheels are interchangeable to an extent but you have to maintain same diameter to keep speed measurement accurate, so bigger wheel results in thinner tires for summer for example, and smaller, cheaper and uglier wheels for winter season where you risk curb damage, but then smaller wheel - taller tire. We would have to give up the massive car choice amounts we have to standardise here so I'd say not a great analogy.
If I only watched YT on the browser sure. But I mainly get it so I can go without ads on mobile and on my TV. Yes I know there are apps like Vanced but I personally find it worth it not have to always look for workarounds.
Clicking that link in Firefox prompts me to download a font. LOL
Oh gee, how is this possible given the iron fist with which the Schedule 2 supply and prescription supply chain is managed?

Surely something so tightly vontrolled such that one can't even fill a prescription out of state, and for which there is chain of custody tracked slong every logistical link should not be prone to such mismatch in local consumption rates!

Central planning and regulation is supposed to be more efficient isn't it?

/s
So what if you made a razor blade of something like the monocrystaline nickel alloy used to make jet turbine blades? Would they never dull from cutting soft material such as hair?
Not the OP of the comment, but seemingly a common point of view that the most noble (and in some cases only valid?) pursuit of the human species is science/technology. I do find it interesting of the comparison between "mediocre sports athlete" and "best scientist" from the lens of aid to humanity. One could make an equally valid argument that a mediocre sports athlete brings more immediate utility to people in terms of entertainment, inspired hope, economic spend. In short, value is relative. Being a mediocre professional athlete is still a tremendous achievement. If your goal is to be remembered, you must appeal to the masses. Doesn't mean our species is stupid, it just means we are social.
Um... What portion of your budget are you going to have to spend to buy a couple USB-C cables? Like if you really need, I can probably send you one or two because otherwise I'd just throw them away.
Note that the person asking the question runs a project to monetize OS (open source) libraries. On their homepage it says "Monetizing an Open-Source Library to earn a salary is very hard - donations just don't cut it."
zSeries machines also run Linux virtual machines extremely well (e.g. the internal throughput between VMs is crazy good). Just because Linux becomes popular doesn't mean zSeries stops being relevant to the kinds of corporations it's intended for.
I just did a battery replacement on a 2017 MBP. While there were a lot of screws needing to be removed and lots of lifting/prying to get to cables, half the laptop did not need to be replaced.

Now, if you said the keyboard...
Anecdotal evidence: I have had to replace a device because of a failed USB-C port, but I have never had to replace a device because of a failed Lightning port. I know, it's one data point, but there it is.
Good Article. No question the events in Ukraine coincide with Nord Streak 2 about to go online.

The amount of war time propaganda on the Ukraine conflict has hit overdrive status and I would expect this article to “disappear” quickly.

There is little room to discuss the larger geopolitic situation. Instead a simplified narrative of

“Putin is an evil dictator invading a peaceful democracy and must be stopped at all costs”

And

“Ukraine is winning and will reclaim all territory including Crimea!!”

Is all that is allowed.
I moved to Railway. My little bot barely consumes any resources, so it's free :)
Except lightning also still operates at USB 2.0 speeds - so if you don't want to trust Apple with your data in iCloud backups (which as it's not E2EE encrypted is foolhardy, plus you have to pay for a higher tier for any phone with more than 5GB of personal data) it takes an absolute age.
Except if your player wasn't conpatible with your TV of course.

At the time DVD started prolifering more and more player and TVs had full support for NTSC, PAL and SECAM, but you could still be stuck with some hardware only supporting standard and your DVDs would be black and white or scrambled on the display side.
hey, is this related to god of war ragnarok
Yes, have you ever visited the United States? Their AC wall plugs are extremely bad. They wiggle out all the time and expose hot connectors before falling out. You can literally shock yourself by partially unplugging a wall connector and putting your finger on exposed connectors.
Yes, I have been using it for the bulk storage part of my desktop for the last 7 years, in a 3-drive RAID-Z configuration. I don't think any of the drives in the pool are the originals, as they have been swapped out for larger models as and when they started showing errors, with a scrub happening once a month. I have OS, swap, /home, /var, /tmp and ZFS log on an NVME drive separate - the ZFS pool is only used for the large stuff.

Separately, at work I managed to persuade them to configure our two new servers with ZFS, each with 168 drives for a total (after RAID) of 1.5PB each. Works like a charm, and is quite happy to saturate a 10Gb ethernet connection when accessing from another server, with transparent compression turned on. I would not hesitate to recommend ZFS to anyone.
The title makes it sound like they've bought something which they haven't done. They already own all of Red Hat.
Well, I can pick up a piece of paper with classes, or a sequence diagram and external systems, and then tell the story from many perspectives to another person.

"This depends on that, this calls that, and then calls that external system via this interface..." and so on.

With a only text I would find that much harder to communicate. That's why I find diagrams much better - you can just jump in at any point and explain things in any order you like, usually with the aid of a pointing finger :-)
EU knows best. Just look how well making everyone click to accept cookies worked out.

And “empower consumers to make more sustainable choices“. typical gov speak. If I was Apple I’d build in a lightning to usb-c adapter to the bottom and add a chin to the phone that resembled the older Pixels and engrave on it EU mandated.
I wasn't aware of that, thanks!

Replying to sibling: that 30-pin connector predates the Memorandum. It's exactly such chargers that the EU wanted to regulate at the time. Every company had their own incompatible charger.
I can't find the exact names right now, but from the Impact Assessment report[1] they did stakeholder surveys, which included 121 stakeholders of which 23% were private companies. In addition to that they did targeted interviews with 7 manufacturers associations and 17 manufacturers.

[1]: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=SWD%3A20... (Annex 2)
DVC and Hydra Integration
World of Text Infinite Canvas
Except the free tier on iCloud is miniscule so you're forced to stump up cash if you actually want to backup.

Plus iCloud is stubbornly not E2EE.
Are you comparing Heroku to EC2 and other non-managed parts of AWS? Because for most parts Heroku and AWS is two different offerings. There are two main reasons to use Heroku: they manage it and they provide easy tools for configuration. Even if AWS provide similar managed services I would assume it is as the rest as AWS: a pain to configure. I use many AWS services and not only it is required to have a PhD in AWS to understand basic tasks but the risk of doing something wrong is high. Take IAM for example. Or just setting up a static website with S3, Cloudfront and Route 53 - what a mess. Not saying that AWS isn't great for many things or for companies wanting more control (and with resources to manage it), but comparing it to Heroku is for most parts not a valid comparison.
UML always seemed to me to be a solution seeking a problem. I never had a problem with someone drawing a bunch of circles, boxes, and arrows on a whiteboard (that would not be erased until the project was done). That approach tended to have more detail where needed and less where not needed.
Functions and macros could help making a DSL, which is suitable for convenient data definition. It could be helpful in more ways than just allowing simpler parsing.
> The real danger is that your prototype will work well enough

I don't consider that a "danger", I consider it a good outcome.
> healthcare, education, etc and comparing them to the US median income which famously doesn't
> Seems fair to take that from the US median income so we are comparing apples with apples

No, because it's a choice.

Many people don't go to university etc and do just fine.

Likewise, healthcare is a choice: some people don't want that (ex: DNR)

You want to push your values, and say impose higher education, but the way I look at it, since the people with the more education are generally at the top of the "foodchain" in the EU, I only see that as them voting for themselves a right to paid education, in theory accessible to the poor/immigrants etc but in practice that is mostly used by those at the top of the foodchain themselves, yet and subsidized by the rest of the population.

I'm not a big fan.

> Look - your point that people in USA have more money is mostly true. But when you add in the extras you have to pay

You don't have to pay for them - it's OPTIONAL. That's freedom.
I have (an extremely boring, but quite hands-on) video about various ways of ClickHouse optimizations on top of external storage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK2BsaaaOCA (starting from around 40:00).
Ohh my poor Cassandra. Prophecy and foresight are so cheap. Everyone
already knows where we are heading, even those in the deepest
denial. The Gods only stipulated that nobody would believe you. For
what is to be done, belief is maybe not so important.
The problem is not the tools. The tools are just fine. The problem is the scope of the resulting scaffolds, and the diversity of their target spaces.

I primarily work in Python, so that is my reference. Django provides its own scaffolding tool, but it is too opinionated. Flask provides no scaffolding. Framework specific tools are rarely sufficient to meet the needs of an organization. Regardless of language and framework, choices must be made, and when you have a team of any size, everyone needs to agree on the same standards. We all know this.

If one limits a scaffold to the lowest common denominator, the base standards of an organization: directory structure, configuration, CI/CD, testing, library management, documentation, linting, packaging, container configuration, i.e., everything that precedes actual functionality, scaffolding is not hard, and is very helpful.

But as soon as one tries to drill down into specific functionality that is not common to all projects, then scaffolding quickly becomes difficult and unwieldy.

IMO, the key is to not think of scaffolding as a tool to speed development, but as a tool to enforce those standards of an organization that are common to all projects in a given language/framework. Resist the temptation to go further. If your scaffold needs more than a half dozen or so inputs, then you are probably expecting too much of it.
Study shows role of genomic changes in brain cells in Alzheimer’s disease
Tell HN: Plausible Analytics is getting greedy
Here's Plausible.io pricing history for their lowest tier (as far as I can recall)

- $4/month (on launch)

- $5/month (a year ago)

- $6/month (8 months ago)

- $8/month (2 months ago)

- $9/month (current)

I understand there’s inflation and so on, but upping prices by double-digit % every couple months is just greediness
Lord, please grant me the confidence of this HN poster.
That's when they moved to Micro-USB. This is the next step. But yeah, I'd imagine the same companies voiced their opinions this time around, along with others.
Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33072030

And the brief itself! https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-293/242292/2022...
Or it may be because the people and groups they made fun of over the years have clowned themselves by doing the very thing they were mocked for. "NotTheBee" exists for a good reason.

Also how being ridiculed for falling for a satire article not instructive about checking sources? It's not like The Bee is an obscure propaganda state operated website.
Link to the brief: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-293/242292/2022...
We've never said that Google is "shadowbanned" in China before, nor any other site filtered by the great firewall.
> it is indeed quite simple to reproduce ... with a local hidden variable theory

This is not the whole truth. Bell's inequality assumes a few reasonable assumptions for hidden variable theories besides locality (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bell-theorem/) and it is true that sacrificing these assumptions can yield a local hidden theory consistent with Bell's inequality / CHSH inequality violations.

But the whole point of these assumptions is that we want them. Bell's inequality is the definitive experimental test that a standard classical theory is not waiting in the wings for us, and those assumptions are central to classical mechanics.

The issue with a theory that sacrifices things like parameter independence or similar is that they will remain mathematical curiosities, much like interpretations of quantum mechanics, because there is no way to test them. And they'd be stranger than quantum mechanics, so you don't get any relief either.

So, yes, you can do this. But it has no practical value. This is not the experiment's fault in any way.

However, if you are arguing that you can have a local hidden variable theory that satisfies all of Bell's assumptions and violates the inequality, then you have some severe issues in your argument somewhere, because it is categorically impossible.

> 60 lines of numpy code

In the event you are arguing for a local hidden variable theory that satisfies all of Bell's other criteria: firstly, there is no guarantee the simulation has any fidelity to the real world at all.

Thankfully, you don't have to settle for simulation. I was fortunate to take 180Q at UCLA, an undergraduate class where we were required to derive the CHSH inequality and perform simple experimental violations by ourselves. The tools needed to run a simple test are commercially available and affordable - you can do it yourself at home.

I was able to achieve experimental violation when I did so back in 2015/2016, and documented the results here:

https://github.com/AkshatM/Physics180Q/blob/master/Final%20P...

Of course, if you are arguing we can sacrifice an assumption of Bell's besides locality, then the above is moot. But it would still be rather pointless.
Thanks for taking the time to write this, it's fascinating.
Yes, but are we now stuck with the USB-C connector head? Is a smaller form factor now impossbile?
I think the article is supposed to be fairly sarcastic in nature. At least, that's how I read it
There would have been another opportunity with someone else that you would have fancied as much or even more.
But worse from a data transfer standpoint - still USB 2.0 speeds.

The cynic in me would think it's to force people to pay for iCloud storage instead of having to plug their phone into their computer for several hours to backup locally.
When I was a kid, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen was found in the "True Stories" section of my local VHS rental.

Also took child-me far too long to realise the "Famous Historian" scene and the witch/duck trial in Monty Python and the Holy Grail wasn't supposed to be real.
This mandate was conceived in 2018: https://ec.europa.eu/docsroom/documents/46756/attachments/2/...

I think 4 years is a reasonable time frame. Especially considering they weren't sitting around doing nothing for 4 years, most of it was research and surveys
Which world would you prefer? A world where not a single crime would go unpunshied, and hence serious crime would probably disappear forever, but with the risk of the Government or criminals (would they still exist??) abusing the data for their own advantage? Or a world as we have today where a lot of crime happens everywhere and where a criminal just needs to be smart enough to never get caught? I am not sure the answer is as straightforward as everyone seems to think here. I think I would be willing to at least run an experiment about this (perhaps China is already doing it).
Apple did release a micro USB -> lightning adapter for 19 €, which I believe was to ”comply” with the rules
Why would you think so? To replace Gas for electricity for instance it seems to suffice to double wind and maybe quadruple solar. That is totally doable.

Everything on top would help reduce heating use of gas.

The major issue is that until then we are back to burning coal which is cheap but environmentally much worse than gas.

Last, your point on a negotiating end of the war is weird. Russia blew up their own pipelines. We are never going back to Russian gas in Germany in the near future. This war will be won on the battle field.
Battery Life
If film grain never existed, would we invent it?

Yes, but it wouldn't be used across an entire film. Likely just in flashbacks and other dramatic scenes, the way it's applied to digital productions today.

Similar to how in the 2000's, hipster bands added photographic pops and crackle to their tracks as an artistic measure.
Taking things seriously and taking socially reprehensible and authoritarian positions? Sounds like confession through projection.
> There are more important things than whether your $10 Hercules purchase still works in 20 years.

How you handle the small things is how you handle everything. I'm glad to see something breaking their trance. Let's hope they keep going!
Oso Cloud Is Generally Available
It annoys me that apostrophe and English closing single quotation mark are the same character in Unicode. I'm tempted to use ' for apostophe so that the quotation marks (‘...’) match up properly.
It's possible to block TV ads: https://next.taiv.tv. Taiv is a startup for bars and restaurants that uses a model which basically detects when there are sudden color shifts and lets them insert their own ads or get paid to insert someone else's ads.

Although I don't know how you'd block print ads unless you had some kind of AR headset that blacked them out.
So you can't just own a security camera now. Gotcha.