skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we stay trapped in a local maximum we can never ever improve our situation because any improvement will realistically come at some cost.

Can't replace old diesel trucks with green fuel trucks because the act of replacing them causes some pollution.
Unless I am missing something, nothing I said prior conflicts with your point, nor shows that GitHub is willfully violating the law. Are you aware of any copyrighted material that was illegally loaded to GitHub that has been proven to be used by CoPilot, it’s use was not transformative — AND - GitHub has not removed it from the model?
Do they charge as fast? Is there a trade off for the standard port being used in the EU?
Since pontoon boats are designed majorly for luxury purposes and accommodate a massive crowd, it is no wonder that speed is not their strong point. Despite this, manufacturers have enhanced their speed by tweaking the pontoon boat’s design, engine, and horsepower.
The most helpful things I've seen in quick summary are journaling around work:
1. What gives you energy
2. What feels like work/takes away energy

Use that list to double check against any opportunity you're deciding to pursue, aiming for things that primarily give you energy.

To figure out what you may want to pursue, another helpful exercise is listing 3 people you'd like to be like, and 3 companies/roles you'd like to do for work.

Lastly the Ikigai framework can be used as well to double check your decision.

With the combination of these, I think that's one of the fastest ways to discovery (for your current abilities), since it will help you find what you like and what is sustainable which usually leads to inevitable mastery
From the text of the Proposal:

> With respect to charging by means other than wired charging, divergent solutions may be developed in the future, which may have negative impacts on interoperability, consumer convenience and the environment. Whilst it is premature to impose specific requirements on such solutions at this stage, the Commission should be able to take action towards harmonising them in the future, if fragmentation on the internal market is observed.

So they left the door open to regulate also Magsafe etc.
Yeah, so, a lot less than covid is killing at its lowest point.
Building a business from absolute zero as a solo founder
Weren't they wrecked by Elop betting on Windows Phone? The MeeGo-powered N9 recieved positive reviews.
No question from me, just a thank you for fighting the good fight and making quality software
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What you are saying is true and no-one is foolish enough to think a minimum-wage job is "forever".

But the thing is people think going to college and studying a lot with a big time investment to become a pharmacist is probably a long-term job.

Now a pharmacist is basically a minimum-wage job, they are replaceable on demand by season and profitability.

This doesn't bode well for a society when you rely on someone who then believes their job is disposable.

Then there is that pesky anchor in the USA of health insurance tied to a job.
The sellers in other countries will adapt to the EU regulation, like every phone producer other than apple has already done since 2010 when the EU asked to standardize on
micro-USB.

And yet, we managed to also adopt USB-C after that.
Configuring JavaScript tooling is a mess
We have been running a Rails monolith in Heroku for over 5 years. Our application has pretty strict uptime requirements and in the last 24 months we've had several major outages that were entirely due to Heroku. We're in the range of 5-10 million requests per day.

Heroku's erratic performance over the last year or so combined with what we see as a steady decline in the responsiveness (and sometimes quality) of Heroku's support made it too painful to ignore. Their security breach was obviously also a big motivation, but by then we had already made the decision.

We are moving as much as we can into GCP.

- Web app: Cloud Run

- Background jobs: Compute Engine

- Heroku Postgres: Google Cloud SQL

- Heroku Redis: Redis Cloud (https://redis.com/redis-enterprise-cloud)

- Deploys: Custom scripts

- Provisioning: Terraform

It has taken about 6 months for me to do most of the work, with some help from the team on some of the heavy lifting. It's not full-time work though, so perhaps 3-4 months if you count person-hours.

I have decent linux sysadmin experience, but that's about it. Had to brush up on Terraform. Testing GCP services took a long time. Their docs are often good, but important details are sometimes missing or not easy to find when you're doing initial research. I don't trust the GCP console (web UI) much these days; the `gcloud` command shows your actual resources and not some half-baked abstraction. Sometimes resources aren't even visible in the UI.

The learnings were valuable for me personally. I've been interested in doing more ops-related things. For the company, the extra control we get over our own service levels is the major benefit. It has a cost in terms of developer experience and resources we need to allocate to ops as well.

Costs are about the same. Cloud SQL seems cheaper. Redis Cloud is almost exactly the same price (which feels like a lot tbh).

If you're interested in working with us (remotely) with ops, send me an email at other.water6357@fastmail.com
> Starting in 2026, USB-C will also become the norm for laptop chargers.

Fuck off! Barrel plugs are great.
That's an awful lot of cables globally to discard.
> My suspicion is that this artist had the opposite -- the ability to maintain a detailed image in his mind's eye as he traced it.

Check out Kim Jung Gi. He's basically doing that in real time, with impossible speed, accuracy and level of detail. He's making a living via performing live shows of his skills.
> Hard to believe USB-PD upses aren't a common products.

Insanely easy to believe. The role of UPS is to prevent data loss when power fails. If something is powered by USB-C it almost always already have its own battery preventing from that.

The only devices that are not are stuff like say, raspberry Pi

Also, there literally are devices like that, just aimed more at stuff like camping, so much bigger battery, usually an inverter on board and solar input.

> Hopefully USB will give us standards for power banks someday so you can get certified ones with a defined form factor and behavior.

If it will be like USB-PD then it will be insanely overcomplicated and nobody will be able to get it right.
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I'm just in the process of moving to Northflank from Heroku for my Django app after trying SO MANY other PaaS services. I really like how they organise things (apps have multiple services, the build stuff makes sense) and their support so far has been amazing. One of the few where I'm confidant they're not going to work as I need without too much work from me and not cause me stress in the future.
Why bother? The competition can't out-compete because it'll be illegal. And the most likely outcome of a prototyping project is people will say "looks nice" then not bother to seriously consider it.

The EU is never going to produce a charger that isn't backwards compatible with USB-C. They'd better hope nobody comes up with a cheaper alternative that catches on in Asia.
> it's extremely unlikely that it happened without his consent

"My partner kindly agreed to download his data and sent it to me."
Not exactly - they expressed an assumption that is too strong in this explanation. The assumption that is needed is only that measurement choice is not correlated with the generation of the particles themselves - not that it is not determined by past history.

That is why there was a lot of interest in doing cosmic Bell-like experiments: it is very hard to define a mechanism whereby the hidden property of the particle that left the quasar many billions of years ago also determined that Alice and Bob would set their apparatuses to measure these specific angles today. Theoretically this doesn't rule out the possibility, but it does mean at least that the theory would have to be significantly non-intuitive in its own right (whereas if Bell-like inequalities only happened for small-scale experiment, the theory that explained them could have been very simple indeed - such as some new wave that affected the measurement apparatus or some aspect of how we choose measurement angles).
He volunteered the data
Thanks, I hadn't heard of this case. Our company (and the competitors) are both based in Germany, so I think the EU trademark regulations would be applicable.
the referenced article from 1985: https://www.mercurynews.com/2010/11/22/document-1985-mercury...
> which is used by billions of smartphones as part of their baseband OS

oooooh.

It's almost a lame/inane question when framed this broadly, but: where can I read more about similarly incredibly obscure yet Really Important™ applications of technology that have just about completely disappeared into the woodwork?
It's not EEs, it's beancounters, EE's are just paid to please them. Just like developers really
Posts like this make HN feel more like a fashion magazine, I miss having news for nerds.
Then you are not complaining about UML, but about the old school bad OO designs that UML is meant to support (along with old school good OO designs).

Without UML, such designs would be worse because they would be less documented: if you have a relatively concise class diagram in front of you it's easier to ponder about what each of the arrows and boxes means.
> On the other hand I'm not sure I like the idea of government mandating electrical connectors on devices

Depends on the device.

Standards for EV fast charging are a very good thing. North America has two different plugs and protocols for DC fast charging (three if you count CHAdeMO) and it's a mess. The EU has standardized on CCS Type 2 Combo so any brand of CCS charging car can charge on any brand of CCS charging network. That's good common sense and it benefits everyone.

Incompatible charging infrastructure doesn't benefit any EV owner. It's a drag on the EV market. Closed networks like Tesla's and Rivian's are continuing to be part of the problem.

Tesla is (very) slowly changing in North America:

https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/28/22596337/tesla-supercharg...

Rivian still hasn't got the memo. Rivian's chargers are at least CCS but because they're brand exclusive they don't see much use:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbvW0nK38j8

Those chargers could be earning more revenue right now instead of sitting idle. All they have to do is unlock the software.
Again, there’s nude on the page you linked to; you need to edit your comment to warn users.
I think it's only wrong in the sense that lower levels of education are biased towards a kind of rote memorisation of bashing everyone into performing the same basic task in the same way to get the same results which look good on the test. That is certainly something which is more likely to have a negative effect on an artist's potential than anything else (but the same is true of any other subject IMO). Actual careful study which involves acturally engaging with the subject will generally enhance anyone's capability in the subject, even if in art usually you succeed by breaking 'the rules' in some way or another.
Someone’s job in PR is to get the facts right in the press releases. Like referring to first American President as “Gerald Washington”
That's really making the assumption that this didn't happen before data tracking.....

And that argument is much, much older than the digital age. If anything, extra tracking helps exonerate more than without it (false imprisonment, etc) https://time.com/wrongly-convicted/
Why? I use the same Baseus 65-W power brick for two phones and two laptops very, very conveniently. And GAN chargers are a third of the size of traditional power bricks.

Also, who cares about magsafe? Only Apple laptops have it.

I think the move to USB-C is a smart one, it can even reach 100W.
Speeds are insane too.
I don't think EU regulation works the way you think it does.

> This is just stupid fearmongering.

I guess if you can't make a good point, you can always hurl insults.

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?
The biggest deception was convincing the public that knowledge is a thing, so it can be bought, sold and change "owners". Convenient access to movies can be indeed sold, but not the movies themselves.
Idea: "fuchs" is German for "fox".
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> Just use Firefox

I want to but in Firefox developer tools there is no option for developer tools to follow new tabs.

Apparently this has been an open bug with Firefox for a while.

But it is what keeps me from using Firefox vs Chromium's full time
If only the EU had thought to forestall him by mandating that all EU-sold phones were UI-compatible with Symbian and used high-quality Swiss keyboards. Or maybe stick to the cutting edge and standardise on Blackberry to really future-proof the Union. Then all would have been well.
Grew up here. Winters. Overpriced but lacking in amenities. But really that first one
Is Credit Suisse Like Lehman?
Do you know how many USB cable / charger people have on average?
This is something one of my side projects aims to fix. Basically make a programmable battery source out of 18650 cells, USB Type-C, with automated charge & discharge control to keep it between 30-80% for UPS or Solar augmented use cases
A 4 year old iPhone still works perfectly, but a $200 Android will find its way to a landfill way sooner. As a rule of thumb, appliances that last are better for the environment than cheap products. Apple is good at make devices that last.

Nowadays all laptops can charge over usb-c (including Apple laptops, mind you!). Did anybody have to force Apple to do this? No, because charging technology improved so much that what used to be a big brick is now a pocketable GAN charger. Even the new magsafe laptops still support usb-c charging. And iPhones support wireless qi charging as well as Apple's proprietary magnet based wireless charging solution. Thanks to cheaper chips all devices can now negotiate how much power they need from the power brick. That's a big win, and this just wasn't possible a decade ago.

We're in the final stretch of a 20 year trend towards universal chargers, and this EU mandate is totally unnecessary.
> I'm not able to hear-play more complex harmonics s.a Jazz, or things like Queen which are not totally trivial.

Granted, but Queen didn't just show up at the studio unprepared. Given the same preparation Queen gave, it is not entirely out of the realm of possibility that you could pick up any of their songs, making it look easy to someone that didn't observe your preparation.
Fashion has always been ruled by nerds.
I do expect the Right to Privacy will be brought up again to the Supreme Court as a result of making use of location history sometime in the next five years.

Indeed, I believe the first use of the "Right to Privacy" was by a lawyer and Louis Brandeis, and future Supreme Court Justice, upset that a journalist had written that one of them attended a wedding.

Depending on who brings to suit, I expect it's likely that even the conservative justices will suddenly agree with a right to privacy.
This does not take into account the years of practice and the natural talent that led to these composers being able to do this. In comparison, any schmuck can learn how to find prompts within a few hours, and can get pretty good at it within a few weeks.
Most classes are only going to teach you how to sketch UML diagrams. If you were told to create diagrams conforming to a particular UML spec they would all look very similar.

If some came out "wrong" that probably says more about experience than anything else. Being able to effectively communicate your ideas with UML is a skill that takes some practise.
ahem de facto, it's latin.
Apple will do what they did with micro usb chargers. Bring out an dongle.
I remember some article of someone trying it, only to discover their power bank cut power for few milliseconds when you disconnected the external power supply, resetting the device...
Why is it so hard to write a scaffolding tool? (2019)
I'm working in a project that uses SysML, an extension of the ISO standards group that originally developed it. There are problems in that none of the tools for it are compatible with each other but it works if everyone uses the same one.

I'm also looking at whether QVT will work for doing transformations between models.
Data transfer speed is an important reason. iPhone 14 Pro can create huge videos and photos, and transferring them using Lightning is too slow.
The idea of code as data is something that's been churning around in the heads of my colleagues and me for a while now. Compiler optimization in particular is something that can really benefit from this view: The typical fixpoint-style approach of writing optimizers usually requires a ton of fine-tuning in the rules (e.g., manually triggering one rule after a second one fires), and you're still limited to how big a query you can run. On the other hand, start thinking of the optimizer like an IVM system... not could we automate a lot of the hand-tuning, but we can start thinking of scalable cross-module optimizations.
I find this to be empowering, not offensive. Seems like it's mostly telling you that some things are in your control and some aren't, and that you're responsible for the stuff that's in your control. Frankly, this would be great for an entrepreneur.

I've had plenty of crappy jobs/bosses, but I can't think of one job where being bitter, entitled, or negative would have helped me.
Prototypes came up with Micro-USB and USB-C before either were released to the public, which then - in millions of tests - realized these are nimble things that break easily as compared to the rather robust Lightning connector.

Creating something in isolation, with virtually no chance of it becoming "allowed" by an hostile state actor is nice, expensive, and thus won't happen. If you want to figure out if an idea works, lots and lots of field tests are what you want.
Certainly if the quality of USB-C ports on Thinkpads in anything to go by.
UO was an awesome experience. No one has ever made a similar game, and UO doesn’t exist in its prior form. But let’s not forget that we all stopped playing UO for a reason.
I'll add two book suggestions:

How to fail at nearly everything and still win big by Scott Adams. Good for reframing the jumping around you're prone to from goals that you succeed or fail at to systems that simply work.

The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. Good for sticking with a project when the going gets rough (and understanding why it will).
>Perhaps you were not the same person, or nor was he.

Man this is really key. relationships is a skill. I don't believe in soul mates, but rather a healthy relationship is developed when two people have honed the skill enough to be able to handle conflict without causing irreparable harm, and enjoy each other out of conflict.
I don't really agree, if you sat down and talked with every single person you walked by throughout the day you would meet many people you clicked with, both on a friendship and romantic level. If the author was that outgoing they probably would have met their partner earlier, or she would have found someone she liked better.

In other words I don't think who we end up with is some 1 in a million cosmic star aligning moment, it's probably more like 1 in 100 and many people would be as good or a better fit than who we end up with. The time you spend with your person is more important than some intrinsic value you both bring at the start.
Depends what you mean by "dead-end", there is plenty non-corp OSS.
I'm obviously talking from a customer and consumer perspective, but can you provide any kind of explanation why implementing USB-C is problematic in the iPhone when it already is in the iPad and desktop and laptop Macs and Apple displays?

Tim Cook made himself a legendary leader in logistics and manufacturing before taking on the CEO role for being able to do just what you say he would have problem doing.
Bring back the old Four Square: oh, you like that Starbucks? Well, are you The Mayor of it?
Dropping from $66K to $20K within a year is overwhelming evidence of not a bubble? Bitcoin just deflated first. It could deflate again as the Fed offloads its balance sheet. Meanwhile stocks like TSLA are still meme-overbought.
> Why do people think it is a good thing to have this enforced by law is beyond me.

It's not, we're glad SOMEONE is forcing them to take this direction, but it's really sad (and potentially damaging) it had to come to this.

> As to lightning port limitations, I question whether usb-c will give average iPhone users any other advantage other than charging their phone. What are people gonna do with it other than charge their phones or transfer files?

Lightning itself is also used for audio (analog audio dongle) and video. The one benefit USB-C could bring to the table is higher transfer speed since Lightning is stuck on USB2 speeds, USB-C doesn't imply USB 3 but they might as well try.
I've always wanted to pin down a vaguely-normative idea of whether the "actually you can't have this anymore" applies retroactively, or whether it would be legally defensible to go run off with the kernel releases that were made openly available a while back.

I think it was even MIT or BSD or similar?
I hope we haven't reached the point where the average person is unable to find the number for common services.
You can. I still have a working Nokia s60 at home that can run a python script shell.
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And again when USB-D comes along
It's like wondering why anyone is even aware of St. Andrew. He was an Apostle. We need not look any further than that.
The law hasn't caught up, and might never do. But surely a generator that even sometimes inputs the artists' signature (or at least a bizarro version of it) in the output meets the spirit if not the letter of what copyright law is trying to achieve? At the very least you have artists in a more precarious position than they were before.
im not disputing that. im wondering if javalin came with one out-of-the-box is all.
How about not stubbornly staying with lightning when Apple had the option to switch to usb-c? They did that with malicious compliance to upsell their damn adapter.
There's no clean solution here. It requires a shift in cultural norms for everyone. From what I've seen, there are two main issues: 1) amount of options is too much for most women (big cities, online dating, using shallow social networks, etc.) and 2) we are focusing more on looks in our culture (instagram, tiktok, etc.)

In order to solve this - you'd have to change the way people meet and the way our culture values people. We need to value deeper ways to meet people like through hobbies, social groups, etc. where someone can have a more lasting impression than half a second on Tinder. (If you think this mentality doesn't affect people IRL - you are mistaken)

Does this mean that all the work is on women? Nope. It does however mean that there is work women have to do. Thus why it will never happen. We haven't asked women to change much in the last 50 years. The main focus has been on changing men, not women.