skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are plenty of non governmental standards. Some like openGL or http are driven by industry consortiums. Others like keurig/Nespresso generic pods, x86 chips, or cup holder sizes are driven by compatibility with wildly successful products.

Edit: usb-c is both the former and the latter. Macbooks and ipads had already switched, it seems likely the next iphone would have been usb-c anyway, or perhaps portless.
I was hoping to avoid being accused of being a Paul McCartney basher. I was bashing the author's silly argument, not Paul McCartney.
The one thing I’m missing in Caprover, and that would make me switch instantly, is I want to be able to feed it a docker-compose file to run a whole stack.

Now if a service has only a docker-compose file I have to pull it apart and start every service individually.
> If you ask me, we should simply delete the entire advertisement sector—influencers included—and start from scratch

The thing is Alphabet and Meta revenues are 95% ads. All the big players are either products to show ads or products to gather data to show more ads
PyTorch models to optimised C++ with 2x speedup
> Ask why would the scam capital of the world banned the legit site.

I thought only Reddit had excessive racism.

A comment so absurd it's not worth debating
Linode has predictable costs and simple human support.
Does your threat model include universal subsumation by state-corporate entities or are you just, sorta leaving that one on your children?
This is reasonable. However, I don't like being forced to also pay for their music streaming service because I already pay for (and prefer) a different service.
Even with Java 1.4 the obvious mapping of class diagrams to data structures made for terrible data structures. You end up with an interconnected maze of objects that is totally inefficient for the algorithms. The mess typically included redundant, bidirectional and cyclic links between objects and where an object's only purpose is to be a list of another type of object, someone ends up writing a more limited wrapper around std::list/Collection/whatever.

Managers were overly fond of the class diagrams because they could understand them. And dividing work between programmers by class rather than by logical feature somehow made sense to them. I recall one manager spending way too much time arranging to print a huge UML diagram across multiple sheets of A4, taping it to the wall and then annotating it constantly by hand.

But knowing it can still be useful for simple sketches. Similarly dynamic dispatch is a really useful tool for particular cases when programming – used alongside other non-OO techniques. Our industry follows fads and fashions to an amazing extent but when things fall out of favour the baby goes out with the bathwater.
> We're in the final stretch of a 20 year trend towards universal chargers, and this EU mandate is totally unnecessary.

Did you forget it was the EU that asked phone producers to standardize (on USB-micro)?

We'd still have one charger per producer without that, since there was no critical mass to adopt one connector or the other.
Come on, you are clever, I believe you can figure out the answer yourself, if you didn't already...
Say no more. You're hired.
The idea this somehow limits consumer choice is nonsense. It opens up choice because now I don't have to pay insane markups for proprietary items.

Printer ink, razor blades, and so on are other examples besides connector cables where companies' `innovations' tend to make things worse for the consumer. Even if the new cable is technically slightly better, the other factors of price, availability, and lack of inter-operability ultimately make things worse for the consumer.

Also, you'd likely have more luck getting elected officials to change EU policies than you would have with mega company board members changing profit-maximizing strategies.
You say creepy, I find it to be an incredible level of trust on one side and maturity on the other side. It could have easily be "I can’t tell you where I was" and "wow you met Alissa a lot in 2005, I'm gonna break up"
Not to mention a slow startup problem, a pipe of python tools spends some significant time there where (ba)sh is close to instantaneous.
When I stopped driving in the United States, I noticed a sharp drop in interaction with the police. Years would go by with zero interaction. In a car: A few times a year (or month if unlucky). All of those automobile-related interactions are an opportunity for you to make a small mistake that will be blown up by the officer.
> Why do people think it is a good thing to have this enforced by law is beyond me.

Because the only balance the capitalism and free market introduce, is high balance on oligarchs' bank accounts.
whatever happened to downloading a mp4 torrent of the movie and watching it instantly whenever you want?
Android's Unlikely Success: How a ragtag team of developers created a mobile OS
I've always linked "intelligence/knowledge" with "interest" as interest being the foundation of building the former.

My buddy, literally, couldn't spell "girl" in high school ("does it end in an 'e'?") and calculating percentages? Naw. But he could rebuild an engine and transmission and could identify a plane in the sky by the engine sound and then give a mini-history lesson on the plane, especially if it was involved in war. Then he discovered geology and hydrology.

Now he had a reason to spell (pride in his reports) and aced chemistry (equations and all) and regularly does calculations in his head. I posit the difference was "interest." Once something is interesting, it is much easier to learn about it. Similarly, his dad couldn't get calculus to stick until he saw applications in finance, then the door swung open.

For me, I find most things interesting and people think I'm smarter than I am because of it. However, when it comes to medical/bio stuff, I can't keep it in my head. I superficially like knowing about how sugars are processed by the body but I never remember the pathways and differences between glucose, sucrose, and fructose. It is not of enough interest to stick.

I think the real super power is to convince yourself to actually be interested in a thing.
What happens when we want to move on from USBC? Do we need a stamp of approval from the EU to do it? No thanks.
Yes there is. Fixing WASM for anything but VM holes is like changing your CPU because your Login screen accepts "password" as valid for every user name.
10+ years ago I tested moving some (ancient at THAT time) Celerons[0] to SSD drives. It made absolutely no difference, because the CPU is too damn slow.

My own rig was on A64 X2 4200+ (with no less than 8Gb of RAM at any time) for years, with Vista since 2008. I don't remember when I migrated it to SSD (perhaps ~2012-2014?) but I noticed a great improvement in QoL, though it wasn't instant. Years later, somewhere around 2016 I "upgraded" to G2010[1] and despite everything else (well except DDR2 => DDR3) were the same (including OS and the system drive on that SSD) I noticed performance increase in both boot-up and everyday operations.

You still need a good IPC to actually push any meaningful amount of data.

While OP's T9400 is not Presscot bullshit[2] it is still an ancient shrunk down Merom, ie just the firsts of the Core CPUs.

> Which would mean 4 GB/s max

And the memory is just 6.4GB/s max.

Still, in 2022 this is probably the simplest way to add a decent amount of fast storage for a such ancient machine.

[0] https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/27116/i...

[1] https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/71071/i...

[2] https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/35562/i...
If your monolithic backup suffers single a bit error, it's unrecoverable. If you zfs recv, though, you can recover all pristine files. And if you zfs recv to a redundant filesystem (mirror, RAID-Z), you can periodically zfs scrub and recover from those errors completely.
> I'm just amazed ads work at all.

Same, I don't recall a single time an ad made me want to buy something, if anything I think "if they have to shove this in front of my eyes and I don't already know the product it probably is bad or useless to me"
Yes, USB-C charging demands a supply chain of such incredible complexity that it has only been mastered by every other manufacturer of phones, tablets and laptops; and by apple themselves on the ipad and macbook.

And Apple has been cruelly blindsided, as the EU has only been pushing this issue since 2009, giving Apple a mere 13 years to prepare.

It just wasn't reasonable to expect them to conquer the massive challenge of USB charging in the iPhone 4, 4s, 5, 5c, 5s, 6, 6 plus, 6s, 6s plus, 7, 7 plus, 8, 8 plus, x, xr, xs, xs max, 11, 11 pro, 11 pro max, 12, 12 mini, 12 pro, 12 pro max, 13, 13 min, 13 pro, 13 pro max,13, 14 plus, 14 pro, or 14 pro max.
USB-C will deliver up to 240W.
That’s ridiculous. Jaywalking should be completely legal, it is in NY and it’s safer to walk here than CA
Unless I can charge it with my body temperature, I don't want anything to do with a device that has no connector.
Simple solution --- don't buy 3D printed junk that even a criminal would be reluctant to use for fear of it blowing up in his hand.
Most people become good at something by sticking with it...

Very few people are born with useful skills.
What exactly is your USB-C cable example meant to illustrate? You were successfully able to buy a cheaper cable without any laws being passed. Seems like things are working fine as-is.
Email me if you’re still interested in building this.
MWI is more suggestive to pop-sci readers and ill-defined enough to mean different things to different people, I guess.
> I really dislike the idea that EU regulators would know what's better for consumers than consumer electronics companies and the consumers themselves

What proportion of phone consumers have an informed opinion on charging technology? Why would the electronics companies work in a way that benefits everyone/the environment instead of themselves.

> I guess you could make that argument for a lot of things

We do, we have standards for a ridiculous amount of things no one ever thinks about.

> There would be benefits if there was only one mobile operating system or if all mobiles used the same interchangeable batterie

Standardising the operating system would create a monopoly and have no obvious society wide benefits. Whereas cables can be made by anyone competent. It would be more prudent to mandate user replacable batteries before thinking about if such a specific battery standard could feasibly work. Something you can probably make a good argument for.
Insignificant vs forever..
Never used Arch but since they show up often in search results, I've learned they have relatively good articles.
I think I learned how to run systemd-nspawn from there as there weren't much concentrated document on that.
Just an idea, but would a Masters in some other field besides CS make more sense? Perhaps you have a passion or something that drives you to where you could marry this with what you already know about CS?
> I don't see any win besides a minor convenience. A lightning cable weighs almost nothing and it's not a big deal to have one around.

The standardization is good for a lot of purposes:

- cutting down on the number of cables and especially chargers. Seriously, it's amazing to have one single Anker 65W power supply and a single cable on vacation and it can charge everything - tablet, work phone, laptop, power bank, drones, Nintendo Switch. I 'member the dark times where each of these devices had their own cable and for some even own charger.

- car and in-flight entertainment systems can now be relatively secure that USB-C is here to stay and be used for connectivity, which means less effort for this kind of appliance

- if a cable gets lost or damaged, spare cables are cheap and plentiful, and they will also be available in a few years of time

- devices can now be shipped without a charger and cable, which reduces package size and weight (and thus shipping efficiency, as more packages fit into a single container) and as almost everyone has chargers and cables, there is no need to produce as many chargers and cables before, which reduces resource consumption and eventually waste

- when devices break down, chargers still can live on. Even a plain old 5W USB charger is enough to charge an e-cigarette.

- interoperability between devices gets increased. No more micro-USB-to-micro-USB or whatever rare cables to interface, say, a DSLR camera with a phone to transfer photos, a plain USB-C cable is sufficient.

> Feels like there's nothing to celebrate here. Just the EU using its influence to exert control over things that don't matter at all.

Well... Apple refused for years to implement USB-C on the iPhone on their own, while the rest of the market converged first on micro-USB and nowadays on USB-C. The regulation was only established to force the hands of the largest player, which didn't like USB-C because it would destroy its lucrative MFi licensing - basically, rent seeking by preventing competition with a closed solution instead of an open standard.

If there is one thing that drives EU legislation ideas, it is the convergence towards open and common, market-wide standards. This reduces the barriers to entry for small players and leads to more innovation as a result. Additionally, since the 500M citizens of the EU are a market bloc that no manufacturer can afford to ignore and for most things except automotive it isn't worth to set up different supply chains, our legislation can improve the lives of everyone on this planet - just take the RoHS directive, which led to lead solder being phased out worldwide and less lead ending up in the environment.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 – Entangled states – from theory to technology
Really? It hits $66K all of the time?
I'd say it's getting a wide audience agree on a common method of notation. I have a Java book from 1999-2000 which uses OMT (all right, OMT's object diagrams) as its main representation. Not too far off from UML class diagrams, as it is also considered a historical predecessor, but still enough to make me consult the legend time to time.
Most certainly there are cables that are much better than the ones Apple is selling. I’ve been an iPhone/iPad user for more than 10 years and I no longer use Apple cables because they are gone in 6-8 months. This is an issue they had from the very beginning and which they utterly ignored.

In contrast, I bought an usb-c cable from one plus 5 years ago, which is still in perfect condition. With the iPhones, I use cables from some company (forgot the name) that have lifetime warranty. I swear I could tow my car with those, _for the same price_
The point of this is supposedly to reduce e-waste and it will create e-waste. EU in a nutshell.
Whatever you will become really good at will be something that motivates and keeps you energized.

Getting good at something takes time. If your first discover what you like, i.e, what motivates you, inspires you, energizes you. Then, getting really good at it will come im time and be tempered by your natural talent.

Perhaps what you could potentially be the best at is not something you even like - and what’s the point in that?
Unless I'm misunderstanding you, they're all part of the same standard, CEE 7, but have different purposes and are intentionally incompatible.
No mention of sex toys, even though globally I believe that market is already larger than the smartwatch market. Are they covered but not mentioned in the article, or have they been left out?
EUV High NA can "draw" 7nm features, with heavy design constraints and alignment equipment, they can sort of go "below", but even with new electrostatic transistor design, they are sort of limited at 20nm for the gate lenght?

Then the litographer does not seem to be the limiting equipment anymore. I guess there is heavy R&D going into electrostatic transistor design and crystals to deal with the gate current below 20nm.

I wonder at which size, silicium doping does not work "enough" anymore.
Your love is one in a million
You couldn't buy it at any price
But of the nine-point-nine-nine-nine hundred thousand other possible loves
Statistically some of them would be equally nice

Or maybe not as nice but, say, smarter than you
Or dumber, but better at sport or... fuckin' tracing?

I'm just saying
I really think that I would, probably
Have somebody else

If I didn't have you
Someone else would do

-- Tim Minchin, If I Didn't Have You
Thanks for all your hard work. VLC is such a high-quality piece of software. I hope this is all resolved.
One under-appreciated limitation on digital movies is geographic restrictions. You buy a bunch of iTunes movies in Canada, then move to the USA, and you no longer have the right to watch them anymore due to licensing.

Another significant issue with digital movies and games is the inability to resell the content once you're done with it. You can sell your DVDs at a yard sale or on eBay but not your iTunes movies. IMO, our competition law should require vendors to allow re-sale of digital goods. Big benefit for consumers.
There is more waste this year, but in 10 years there is less waste.
I think it was both. No one in Xerox management understood that they could grow a new market - possibly with loss leader hardware sales - instead of trying to farm their existing market.

So the Alto was never properly productised. It was essentially a boutique product at a big-mini price. That made it competitive with DEC and IBM minis, but not with budget the $10k S100 systems that were just about - barely - powerful enough for a small business.

To be fair to Xerox, six figure systems weren't unusual for business customers at that time. Which could be why the company never understood that it had the key to popular budget semi- and non-pro commodity computing.

DEC died for much the same reason. DEC management were used to selling to fellow nerds and business people, and couldn't imagine super-affordable commodity products.

MS, Apple, and the IBM clone makers saw the new market for what it was. So did some of the new software houses.

IBM itself almost did, but couldn't quite shake its monopoly-oriented culture. So MS and the clones killed it in the commodity space.
Still alive and kicking. You just need to know where to look.
You know the Kingdom is sliding towards tyranny when the Court Jester is arrested for doing his job.
The EU consulted with phone producers before standardizing on micro-USB, then again before standardizing on USB-C, and it will do again when something better comes up.

They have explicitly called out not regulating wireless charging for this reason.

Yours is a valid concern, but it's not grounded in reality.
Show HN: Generate code and diagrams from live infrastructure, AWS/Azure/GCP
A simmple machine learning code
That's rediculous. You think that influencer fame just happens? Influencers put lots of effort into being famous. Probably a similar amount as hollywood starlets of yesteryear put into being "discovered".
imo there are two ideas about what embedded is in current world:

1. low level embedded - RTOS, bare metal programming, micro controllers, C

2. higher level embedded - linux, android, qnx, various arm platforms, c++, yocto, cmake, various open source libraries depending on your specialization

for both cases you will need to know your c/c++, know how to read schematics and use oscilloscope, know how to read datasheets and apply that knowledge into drivers, know how to work with debuggers and digital analyzers, know embedded OS of choice and the surrounding ecosystem

its very interesting field where you get to work with and interact with things you implement

there are some downsides, like you need HW or remote jig, so remote work might be challenging or you end up dragging HW with your if you want to be on the move
USB-C will be a decade old when this goes into effect
Exactly. Many people don't realize, that the more people you are interacting with, the greater the odds are to finding what you seek. Probably this is more true for men, as oppose to women, as men tend to be more proactive. However, men still need to overcome any shyness or fear of rejection, to unlock such greater possibilities.
> What do you think people who upgrade their iPhones in 2024 will do with their lightning cables which no longer connect to anything they have?

sell
That's more related to the the calculation from my statement a bit back up the comment tree:

> it was about 43,000 GWh/y for CA (15m cars * .24 KWh/m * 12,000 annual miles). For reference CA has a yearly electricity generation capacity of just under 200k GWH/y.

But the numbers I posted that you're directly referring to are still important, as they indicate the need for improved electrical infrastructure for individual buildings who may want to put in chargers. Your grocery stores, apartments, motels, etc.

If just one 18kW charger can double demand on a motel's power, what happens when you add ten? Twenty?
Another fucking adaptor.
Is React hiding your navigation links from Google?
Ah! Good to know. I didn’t see any reference to that on their product page so assumed it was still on by default
USB-C for laptop chargers isn't a fantastic idea IMO. The majority of laptop manufacturers solder USB-C ports to the motherboard, so when the port inevitably wears out/becomes loose, you need to have micro soldering skills to replace it. Putting the USB-C port on a daughterboard (or flex cable as seen in phones) isn't easy to do if you want to push USB 4 speeds through the port (40 Gbit/s).

Compare that with the traditional barrel connector which is usually an easy repair. Most designs have the barrel connector on a cable assembly rather than having the connector soldered to the motherboard.
I love sequence diagrams. They are essential for designing complex event-driven system where there are a lot of asynchronous operations. I often use them to make sense of and/or prevent race conditions.

I can also see the value in UML class diagrams for complex OOP systems but for me personally, I can make do without them in the vast majority of cases. They are not as valuable to me as sequence diagrams.
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