skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What exactly is genuinely innovative about the iPhone connector at this point? It's 10 years old, and the only selling point I can see it having over USB (even when it was new) was the rotational symmetry (which is now also possible with USB C, which is what's being mandated).
Ukraine troops break through Russian lines in Kherson
For Crystal, I wrote the IdleGC shard https://github.com/compumike/idle-gc to combat slow memory growth. Runs garbage collection when not servicing requests. Running in production on https://totalrealreturns.com/
I believe that most jurisdictions don't take kindly to private individuals/corporations jamming mobile phone signals, not least because it blocks the ability to make emergency calls. As we don't know what frequencies a cheater might use, or how powerful the antenna would be (and it only needs to produce a short signal once per match, potentially), any jamming would have to be very disruptive to be effective.

You're right, though, that professional chess events need to become (Faraday) cage matches. There may be existing structures which could work, but in the worst case the tournament organisers could purchase some portable Faraday tents, which are apparently a real thing[0].

I'm not sure if ultrasound would work as a communications medium, but I'm guessing that it wouldn't be safe to allow spectators to watch the match even through a mesh window. A camera feed (over a fibre-optic connection) from inside the tent could be provided, but spectators would have to be kept in a separate room, possibly with the same 30 minute delay that the online viewers are subject to.

[0] https://hollandshielding.com/EMI-RFI-shielded-Faraday-tent
This has been my experience exactly.

I really like how the pharmacist who knows literally nothing about me, my diagnosis, life circumstances, family history etc... is supposed to be "the last line of defense" against all those silly doctors writing prescriptions that will kill their patients. It almost seems like the doctor might be the right person to decide what medications would work for me.

If I didn't know better I might think that pharmacists inflate their importance to try and maintain their comfortable position with a nice salary for a job that a fancy soda machine could do.
The ever-expanding job of preserving the internet’s backpages
You missed their point. The EU "locked" devices into micro B but somehow they still managed to switch to USB-C when it became viable. How could they have switched if they were as "locked in" as you think?
it was the same sh*t when the first kindles with digitals books came out ... you don't "own" the book...

same goes with full-online games... you don't own the game, you just have the right to play on servers... when the server shuts down, you have nothing left

buying physical stuff may be the "old" way, but it's reliable stuff
There are some cases where utilizing retirement accounts do NOT provide as much of a benefit as you'd expect, for example - stocks are already "tax advantaged" in many cases, because you don't pay taxes until you sell. Index funds and ETFs are not quite as tax-advantaged as they have taxable events now and then. Bonds are almost entirely tax-disadvantaged.

So saving directly may be useful.

And over-saving can be a thing - renting forever because you don't want to save for the down payment on a similar house, for example.

But the advantage of years of growth can't be underestimated. And when you have nearly no money is the best time to put everything additional you get into savings, it's much harder to tone down your spend once it's started.

The idea of "retirement" is also a bit of a misconception - we should more be considering "financial security" - as you age you should be in a more and more secure position where you do NOT have to work as long; so instead of ceasing work at 64.5 years old, perhaps you start working less and less beginning in your late 50s.

Just because you didn't save when younger isn't a reason to not start now, however. You'll always be better off compared to spending all or more than you make.
Authors exist in an ecosystem where they make money based on the popularity of their work. It's an ecosystem more sensitive to public perception of the author than others.

But that means an author simply has to be more protective of their private lives than other professions. There's a reason so many in history have written under pseudonyms; the effect of losing your audience if the public discovers you don't fit the mould is not new.
> moderate contradictions and allow the human to decide

It's so much worse than that. The standard for side effects is pretty low and relies mostly on patient reports. So there ends up being a long tail of extremely rare or misattributed side effects.
> Cleaning lint out of a USB-C receptacle with a toothpick is safe, but sticking anything into a Lightning port could damage the springs.

Safe-ish because you can break off the inner plastic part. On USB-A this was a pretty common failure for me. On USB-C not yet
It would seem so. The connection is magnetic, so there's not a lot of wear. I only have the older macs (2012 / 2013), where the connector seems fairly securely attached to the case, instead of hanging off the motherboard. Don't know how the newer ones are.

I've never heard of anyone complaining about the connector wearing out or otherwise working less well after a while. What usually happens is that the cable frays around the connector, but I'd say that's not a connector problem, but rather thin plastic without enough tension relief.
Putin’s Military Solution?
ModernUO is the most advanced implementation of RunUO/ServUO, worth checking out if you're starting a new project that isn't based on the newest UO content.

https://github.com/modernuo/ModernUO
It's a version of the anthropic principle at work. For us to be having this conversation, the Beatles need to be uncanny
Even the ESP32 is a bit "like a computer" compared to most microcontrollers. It's usually used with its stock RTOS which has its own tasks for WiFi, HTTPS, etc. and has a filesystem. Your apps are separate modules inside the RTOS system which sticks around.

That's not a super unusual setup for a microcontroller system, though those types of systems were often larger industrial systems running WindRiver VxWorks, etc. not cheap chips for your IoT lightbulbs. Even when using an RTOS my perception is the most common setup is that the RTOS is just compiled and linked into your firmware image like any other library.

It was a bit of a culture shock when I started using ESP32s because I can't buy STM32s anymore. I'm a bit of a control freak when it comes to embedded systems and I didn't like the idea of having someone else's code control so much of the chip, but it's the pragmatic choice.
My name has a dash “-“ due to the way my foreign birth certificate is written. I’m sure it’s not as annoying as an apostrophe, but goodness is it frustrating sometimes. For example, some hotels use lastname+room number for the wifi password. I never know if my last name has the dash or not. Sometimes it doesn’t work at all, so I’m not sure if the dash is being replaced by another character. Then there’s the problem of forms that don’t allow dashes in the last name field. Doesn’t sound like a problem until I’m filling out a form that’s meant to be legally binding in some way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_g...

According to these statistics USA has only almost 4 times as many guns as Canada, suggesting that to a large extent "people kill people".
> DVDs were regionally locked as well

It's easy nowadays to get a DVD/Bluray player that is multi-region, if only because of an aftermarket mod. E.g. I have a Samsung one that happily plays both media from any region.
With streamed digital copies, one can limit simultaneous playback. Simply "loaning" it in a service where you select who do you loan it to will add friction, and considering how any little friction (instead of torrenting or getting BR disks) is keeping people on streaming services anyway, it's unlikely it would move the needle too much.
With very few exceptions (Gab, et al), the Internet cannot handle Free Speech in 2022. Especially speech that contravenes the official government narratives - that gets brutally shut down. This will not end well.
I still have a small sack of those old chargers. Can't put them in the generic waste, nobody would buy them, and I've been too lazy to take them to the electronic waste recycling.
Certain NFT marketplaces have this characteristic.
You have to pay for an upgrade on Windows to even play a Bluray movie.
What is the deadline for the Indian government to respond? Is there a deadline?
It more or less unified a few notations that were already quite common or at least similar enough. There were two problems that it had:

- it was over-engineered because model driven architecture people at some point got involved and there was this whole meta model that they came up with and unleashed some design by committee style processes on. This resulted in complex tools and companies like Rational Rose emerging; which promptly got acquired by IBM because they love complex stuff and the need for consulting that provides. I always joke that the wrong people got way too excited about this for the wrong reasons.

- it coincided with the emergence of agile software processes, which de-emphasized the creation of a lot of up front design documentation, which is a waterfall thing to do. And there simply was no need for it over the course of a single sprint. Some companies still create diagrams to document stuff but mostly that serves very little purpose other than box ticking. But basically as companies switched to scrum, kanban, extreme programming, etc. they stopped using design tools and started using wikis, issue trackers, git, etc. These days the only design tools that are used are UI design tools like Figma. Software design mostly happens on white boards. That may or may not involve some box and arrow diagrams. Mostly those are talking points rather than detailed designs with little relevance beyond the meeting they are used in. With remote development now common; even whiteboards are not used that much any more.

UML design tools are awful for their intended use. They are documentation tools and using them usually is a form of process bureaucracy: somebody insists on having diagrams. Usually not a software engineer. They are not useful as a design tool. Using them is fiddly and simply too slow. I can draft something on a whiteboard or on a bit of paper in seconds that would take a lot of time to do in a design tool. Instead of writing class diagrams, I'll actually stub out the classes and almost immediately start refactoring and renaming things; which is something that that UML tools don't support.

Most UML diagrams state the bleeding obvious in either way too little detail or way too much detail. Neither is very useful. Complete waste of time creating these diagrams usually. But sometimes useful to impress the non technical people (We have stuff! It's amazing! Here's a pretty slide for you to look at.). I usually just wing it and maybe once a year sit down and do some boxes and arrows so I can put it in a slide.
Cloudflare Pages

https://pages.cloudflare.com/

I really didn't need much it turns out. Most things were old experiments, testing, fun that I let die.

I really just salvaged an old personal page of mine. Setup was super fast, tied to github, very nice features. It's not heroku by any means, but it works for what it is and I really enjoy the simplicity of the setup.
Great way to boost the efficiency of the internet economy. So many businesses / side projects with potential get abandoned too early IMO. This gives more of them a chance at a second life. Nice idea Falak
> Looking at merch from the music world, I believe there's a market for would pay for merch that's thoughtful and creative like a mini-book, custom playing cards or posters that do a deep dive on something that streamer is interested in.

Maybe so, but all of that stuff is expensive to produce and create, music has big publishing companies that build this stuff.
Apple is just going to remove all ports.

Keep complaining and they're going to remove screens next to be super super duper innovative.
Actually never crossed my mind it could be a sickness-related. I just thought it as a sort of "too many possibilities saturation" or too quick loss of interest. So I decided to ask like-minded people like you here, at least from the same more or less background. Will make the online test, though...
Wireless charging is always secondary option after or before the physical port wears out.
Happened a while ago, you have to go out of your way to find (new) android phones with Micro-B.
I'm an software engineer, not a designer, but I also was left with a bitter taste.

Re >> The other does as many drafts and explorations as possible within the time allotted, then shares their favorite options.

It's good to ideate, but I've found that it's common for junior designers to ideate too much. For example, I had a designer come back with some designs that they felt really excited about, but they all were tied into a new company logo concept and I was like "No, we're not changing our logo. Your logo looks great, and if you/this logo had been included when we first picked something we might have gone with it, but we're asking you to design these XYZ pages, not re-do our startup branding".
I moved a Go app with 20k users/mo from heroku to render.

1. It took about 1 week due to lack of render documentation for Docker and buildpacks. I posted on the render help forum and contacted their support which did respond but were not the most helpful. I ended up finding a single example buildpack file in a render blog post which shed light on how to structure their build system. If I had not found it I dont think I would have been able to get it to work.

2. I don’t have experience with 3rd party deployment frameworks.

3. Learned how to use Docker in order to utilize Renders blueprint feature which would automatically link a redis instance to my hosted app.

4. $0 to $0

Render has a similar interface to Heroku but some missing features and bugs a few of which I’ve found are:
No newline/special character support in environment variables.
Applications cannot get the public hostname from calling the standard call in the programming language’s library like hostname(). Unlike Heroku where a publicaly reachable host is return, render returns an internal hostname is returned instead.
> I am however sure about stimulant drugs being a shockingly effective productivity booster when properly dosed though. As the comment I’m replying to notes, it’s trivially easy to walk into a psychiatrist’s office and get an ADHD diagnosis and that’s the safest and most legal way to get them.

I might well be over sensitive to this topic, so my bad if I overstepped.

Getting the diagnosis and getting medication has been such a huge relief, it's been quite emotional.

The way I read GP's comment is that he's implying that if you have a productivity problem and cannot cut it otherwise, take the easy route, get an ADHD diagnosis (which he believes is not really a chemical imbalance) and cure your bad productivity with stimulants instead of effort.

Labelling someone not trying hard enough or not cutting it 'cause you're not smart enough, or being a loser cause you need to take meds etc. etc. is exactly the kind of stigmatization people with ADHD might face.

Again, my interpretation. I hope I am wrong.
I actually think that your comment is probably saying something similar to the above. It potentially is about 1 in 100 as you state, but the timing of it makes it far less likely for 1 in 100 to work out because both people may not actually be mentally or emotionally ready to settle into a monogamous relationship. At least, my own experience has led me to that sort of a worldview.

I've had relationships not work out for varying reasons, including going on vacation 'at the wrong time', or someone's ex visiting the city and making her feel like she can't 'move on' at the moment, stuff like that.

And I went through my own dating phase in which I was less mature and not ready to settle down with many of the people I met. Quite a few of them were perfectly great women with whom I likely could have lasted in a long-term relationship (of course, we can never really know). As I see it, the timing wasn't right, either for me (mostly for me) or for them. It was only after a few years of this that I was in the right mindset to stay with the person I happened to be dating at the time. Sure, that probably doesn't sound great, and I probably won't discuss this at length with my wife, but it's the way I view the world. I'd wager that something like 80% of the people I went on more than three dates with were 'compatible' enough that I'd pursue a relationship with them, but it only worked out long-term with the last one because we were both in the same mindset to give an earnest effort at making our relationship work at the same place and same time.

So, using dumb analogy math, 1/X (compatible person) chance times 1/Y (right timing, maturity, life experience, etc.), it works out to a lower probability 1/(X*Y).
Narrow roads aren’t limiting driver speed, and yet they’re used specifically by traffic planners to limit driver speed — with full knowledge that some drivers will disregard all limits.

Compliant USB-PD devices honor those cable limits. Non-compliant devices do not, but ignoring them does not negate their definition as limits.
I benefited only because I bought a USB-C iDevice. Apple introduced USB-C support in some of its devices not because they wanted to but only because they realised that regulation would force them to in the future. Now that the regulation is in effect, Apple will be forced to drop support for its proprietary lightening cable and switch to supporting USB-C standards for all its devices. That's a huge win for consumers and the industry too.
Unfortunately this HN forum is not conducive to long exchanges. (I
probably won't read further replies as they slip off the bottom of my
workflow here). I appreciate your reply and willingness to have a good
banter.

Our difference is that "artists" are driven by complex psychological
and spiritual motives, way beyond money, which is a necessary but
insufficient component of the artistic life. Some commenters don't
like it when I say you're an accomplished craftsman but not a "real"
artist if your preoccupation is with money. I can understand why that
hurts, especially if one is besieged by brutal, empty capitalism and
looming AI predating on your soul.

But I stand by this. And most of Art-history and the philosophy of art
bears me out. And my point is that the artist who sacrifices
(prostitutes) themselves on that altar of anomie and alienation is an
accomplice in their misery - however strong the need to "put bread on
the table". We are more than this.
You're right -- I was unaware that micro usb was mandated a decade ago, so it doesn't seem like the mandate was doing much in the first place.
Sorry, I fail to see how reputational injury is anti-democratic. It is the people who decide if various attributes make a virtuous reputation. If anything, it can be more democratic than the law (with all of the unfortunate consequences that entails... The reason we bind force with rule of law and not rule of democracy directly is that we know the danger of the mob).
It's not much scarier than encouraging fertility via the religious apparatus or just traditional social norms
The very Adam Smith even have said that capitalism only work in well-defined markets. I don’t see how a more-or-less democratically elected entity would have a negative effect on competition by upholding some consumer-centric rules.
Same here. My use case was simple — a bunch of static pages — so render.com isn’t even charging me.
Location: Ontario, Canada
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Most of my professional code has been in C# and JavaScript. The bulk of my experience was at a business process outsourcer (10 years), where I wrote approx. 400k new lines of code over ~15 projects, almost all internal tools for the business. I'm a solid intermediate developer--not quite senior, since I lack experience on a many-developer team, though I'm excited to change that!

I recently took a sabbatical which became a detour through functional programming (Haskell) and some comp sci theory, and earlier this year I started digging into Rust. I'm seeing the power in the single-owner memory model with functional influences, and would jump at any opportunity to write some Rust or Haskell for real things, though my professional experience is all in imperative languages and I'm mainly in the running for those jobs.

My GitHub is here: https://github.com/jasonincanada. I've set up the pinned repositories so that it conveys a mixture of practical and theoretical efforts. The kattis repo in particular has some of my more advanced code, and there's some C#/LINQ and Python/React code as well to demo my use of more common/practical languages.

My LinkedIn is here and goes into detail about my professional projects: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-hooper-950660b9/

I do have a resume in the traditional format; please feel free to contact me if you'd like a copy. Email: nirgle@gmail.com

Thanks for your consideration!
You purchased a license to view the media content. I don't agree with this philosophy, I see it as a variant of "right to repair" that we should call "right to own", but that's the way it is for now.
> I am hoping for my next car to be chargeable through a USB-C port too! /s

I’m aware of your sarcasm, but it did bother me that my Tesla used a proprietary port that made it more difficult to use other charging locations, such as the charger next to my apartment. Electric vehicle charging ports need standardization as well.

Perhaps having these laws standardizing ports will set the groundwork for a more robust standard in the future. I don’t think there’s ever going to be a perfect solution since there are so many differing opinions, but I do believe this is a good start.
Superior how exactly? It's not clear that its properties plus royalty costs outweigh the alternative royalty free standard.
I've concluded that the benefits significantly outweigh the, imo, fairly remote risks. It's that simple.
Like the law regulating every power cord attached to every AC powered device ever?
I wonder: If film grain never existed, would we invent it? If we had originally developed film technology where everything looked completely clean, would anyone have thought "Hey I've got a great idea, let's figure out how to make this look grainy"?
Now that would be funny.
> No body could cheat on their spouse

Nobody could cheat secretly. They'd still cheat. The framing story in my favourite comic issue "Winter's Tale" has more or less exactly this be scenario, "I was going to tell you" he says. The people in Winter's Tale and most of that run (Gaiman's Golden Age of Miracleman) live in a utopia, but they're still people and they still cheat and lie. The larger point of the story is that children won't fill a hole in your heart.
Hacking CD/DVD/Blu-ray Optical Pickup Unit (OPU) for Fun and Research [video]
I don't know, did government mandating electricity plugs standards stifle innovation?
In London security will sometimes specifically ask if you or anyone else has made repairs or modifications to any electronics. Depending on how honestly you answer, this could still be a hassle.
Buy pricing also acts as an anchor vs the other options.
This happens a lot in pricing; something seems excessively costly just to make the option next to it seem reasonable. Ski resorts do this all the time. The daily lift rate at Whistler in Canada is around 200CAD but a seasons ticket is 1700. It makes the seasons pass seem, almost reasonable.