skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it unusual to have that severe an issue with a power cable?

I thought the whole point of going direct to the manufacturer or someplace less shady than Amazon like Monoprice.

(I haven't ordered from them in a while, but while they don't ship as fast as Amazon I never had a failure, versus Amazon constantly selling me shit that breaks, then demanding I go print a shipping label and send them their less than twenty dollar hunk of whatever -- it felt like a very purposeful strategy to exhaust folks who were more than willing to do some research.

Then again, I have an uneasy alliance with "the gamers" since I switched to being a film snob in 2009 -- that's why they took out all the payphones -- it's a long story, but apparently someone formally complained to the FBI that I said they should ring the Vatican with Italian tanks and start shelling if they don't join NATO and pay the victims, so they're putting off legalizing Jenkem and taxing it for revenue for another 69 or so years.)
Agree - I always go for compliments about a choice someone made rather than some quality I perceive them to have. This suggests admiration for something they intended to do or worked on.

"I love that sweater" [that you chose] is a lot friendlier IMO than "you look great in that sweater"

I also try to indicate with my tone and bearing that a response is not expected, a good compliment is a gift (IMO) and gifts are freely given without expectation of payback.

I also like to stick to commentary I feel i actually know anything about, i wear earrings, so often comment about them. I dont wear makeup, so i rarely go there. I think fancy shoes are fun, etc.
Would you really show your source code before purchase?
What’s the Best Base Layer Fabric? Wool vs. Alpaca vs. Polyester
It's really hard to find that axis. Finding magnetic north (a good approximation for rotational north) requires a piece of magnetic metal dangling from a piece of string. A tiny piece of each suffices. Finding orbital (revolutionary) north requires some sort of astronomical measuring equipment like a sundial, and waiting for the earth to move enough so you can compute extrapolations to a reasonable degree of accuracy.
Mostly unrelated: in the illustration there are some iron railings and presumably an arch over where the man is walking. Attached to this arch are these horn-shaped ornaments. They are reasonably common on older houses. What are they for?
We can only discuss the information given to us. Sure, the other processes may work, but the process that I'm addressing, your claimed process (so you could give us more information if you wanted) seems DEEPLY dysfunctional.
Have you ever worked at a company where every engineer has in depth knowledge of git?

In my experience 90% of software engineers get as far as pull, push, commit, maybe merge. Rebase and amend if you're very lucky

Squash merges make git easier to use for 90% of engineers and therefore unless you have significantly above average git knowledge in your company it makes sense as a default strategy
and payback for not letting him reneg on buying twitter
It's gonna depend a lot on your visitors and what kind of website you have. HN will have more users than average with JS disabled for example, as it's a very technology oriented user base. The amount of people who log into HN will be even more likely to have JS disabled than the ones that visits without logging in.

If you're doing a website about privacy/security and have a lot of visitors using Tor, you'll have a even higher user base that has JS disabled, as that's the default settings for Tor Browser.

If you're doing a website about ponies for your local community, you're unlikely to have a high amount of visitors with JS disabled.

So TLDR: it depends.
Why would it move any more than all the other tiny astronomically irregularities we commonly ignore outside of detailed science and annual corrections?
Gamers Nexus has released their video on the issue:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIKjZ1djp8c

In short: They couldn't replicate it, no conclusion yet, further testing needed. What's weird is that all their adapter cables are clearly different (better) than the one from "Igor's Lab".
It is egotism
Walking lamps are very common in Indian marriages even today.
I think personal flaws can taint professional accomplishments. And the worship of these strong/genius people only reinforces bad behavior.

Of course there should be some slack given for indiscretions of youth. No one is born perfect. For adults though, let's keep our eyes wide open and praise the good works--not the flawed people who do them.
> new battery chemistries are self-contained. Think of, say, how rechargeable AA batteries can fit into standard alkaline AA slots.

You might notice that Li-Ion AA batteries CAN'T be charged by Ni-Cd or Ni-MH AA battery chargers. Even a smaller change like Ni-MH to Ni-Zn requires different equipment.
This was an excellent read, thoroughly enjoyable!
> People want things they will never use, like 5 seats in a car

If it was cheaper to buy, maintain and house a larger car and a smaller one just to save on fuel, people would do it.
I'm really reluctant to talk to strangers, but when I do... I use triangulation, where you don't talk about yourself (a stranger doesn't care) and you don't talk about them (it makes them uncomfortable), but instead you talk about a 3rd subject that maybe is visible to both of you, like the pretty fall leaves.

Actually, last year, right after I learned about triangulation, I was walking my dogs and stranger mentioned the pretty fall leaves to me. I then started telling him that he was using triangulation and explained what it is. He got uncomfortable and walked away. Derp.
Oh my wording was bad I did mean that he has self awareness, and that self awareness matters little compared with the power held

There’s nothing necessary about subjecting people to boss-control and even if he knows that, it’s more favorable to him personally. It’s a myth that doesn’t fit the evidence that it’s the only way to productively structure society/orgs at scale
Triviality is in the eye of the beholder, but I consider this the correct choice for the application. I've already registered my one objection, but don't mind expanding on why I think this is a good idea.

Lil is designed for an interesting, if a bit retro, reboot of HyperCard. The fantastic thing about HyperCard was the ability for a user to just... change stuff.

In a HyperCard system, users become developers whenever they want to.

They're going to make mistakes. A lot of mistakes. Mistakes you and I, as developers, won't understand.

What should the runtime do? Not break. "Attempt to index a nil value" is a cruel thing to tell someone who is trying to create a dictionary.

What this does: "oh, you're trying to index this value? Ok, it's an empty dictionary now". "Oh, you're trying to sort it into a drop-down list? Empty string, nothing happens".

HyperCard scale isn't dozens of developers working on a cadence, with branches and merge reviews. HyperCard scale is someone making something really cool, and dozens, maybe hundreds, of personalizations. Some shared, some not.

The distinction between, say, adding photos to a gallery, and adding a photo editor to the stack, is not sharp in HyperCard.

I'm very pleased to see this project, although I think the retro aesthetic might be self-limiting at some point. The loss of HyperCard was a real one, we're suffering from it to this day.
First that wasn’t a 15x price swing, you read the chart incorrectly click on the 5 year view again. That said, Price shocks happened in both directions from COVID it’s just another supply disruption not any kind of a long term trend.

As to cost, it depends on chemistry but you need ~0.16kg of Lithium metal/kWh or 16kg for 100kWh battery pack. At current prices that’s ~1,300$ worth of lithium meaning the majority of battery pack costs are still from manufacturing and other materials.

https://www.dailymetalprice.com/metalpricecharts.php?c=li&u=...
My car is 22 years old and has a key lock on the glovebox. It even rejects the valet key in case I wanted to give someone access to my car without giving them access to the glove box. This is a solved problem.
All hail the great Khan. Elon Musk is singlehandedly saving democracy.
In sweden in winter they had to suspend all the electric busses runs because they were not managing to go from one charger to the next.
Keep reading the article - it's explained later as a way to extinguish the torches when no longer needed.
Chrome on Android, JS off. I could not scroll down more than a couple lines of text.

On desktop, I could reproduce the same issue in both Firefox- and Chrome-derived browsers.
The article is fairly content-free but is nonetheless interesting.. I would love to learn but don't know where to start. Security professionals of HN, any good resources you could point to re, for example, the type of 'hunting' work the article refers to?
> Large dev tools like Clang/LLVM set the defauts for performance opt

I think of performance the way I think of security. The basics are pretty easy to understand, easy to apply, and are generally applicable across a wide range of software applications and problem domains.

But then you get into stuff like setting kernel parameters to harden your system, and it's much like tinkering with build options to speed up your application. The choices and combinations of options start to become highly dependent on the specifics of your particular system, to require specialized knowledge to understand the implications of any particular change, and to have effects that are not necessarily easy to observe immediately unless you know what to look for and measure.
True. Imagine if John Deere was a monopoly and insisted upon 30% of all crops that are harvested using their machines. Or if AT&T insisted on 30% cut of all sales performed on their phone network. Or an innovative prosthetic developed by a medical company insisted on 30% of income generated when using the prosthetic. Should this be allowed and does this damage the economy in general allowing for these companies to suck money out of transactions when using their devices?
Oslo had a loooong line of teslas waiting to charge, last time I was there.

With people just having to sit inside, because if they leave they lose their spot in line.
But what is the actual reason you hate smartphones, if I can ask?
OMG. A greek translation!

We're totally into more translations. I'll contact the author and see if we can add it. Thanks!
I believe those laws would effectively mean "don't escape". I get it, especially in a tight-knit tribal society as Somalia, even though I disagree.
Ask HN: Books you'd love to read to your 6-year-old?
Books your own kids have loved, books you'd want to read to your kids if you had kids, or books you wish your parents had read to you when you were little.

Am interested primarily in books rooted in the real world that kids can relate to. Like stories based on...

- the lives of interesting people (Semmelweis, Curie, or maybe even just someone who lived through interesting times or with an interesting outlook on life),
- how everyday life looked like in the past and/or accounts of human history through the eyes of a child living back then,
- how everyday life looks like today for kids in different countries,
- travel, adventure and curiosity.

Fiction is also fine if you think the main character would be someone you'd want your child to spend time with and learn from.

The books don't necessarily have to be books written specifically for kids. For instance, I find that my daughter (6) loves it when I read to her Sebastian Haffner's "Defying Hitler", which I discovered here on HN. It's not a book written for children at all, but it's been one of her favorites for weeks now. She only understands about 90 % of it - but that leads us into some of our most interesting conversations.
Things your manager might not know (2021)
You take 25 minutes to go to the bathroom?
It also risks fostering a dangerous culture of ends justifying the means, and trust the 'genius'/'strong' leader.
That’s precisely how acquisitions at my current and past company worked. Everyone signs NDAs, there’s a fee paid by the purchaser for the time should they decline the deal, and the audit commences.

I’ve been asked to do the evaluation a few times and it’s pretty straightforward. Even if you think the code is of poor quality, it may still make sense to complete the purchase because of the business case.
Two of my favourite authors. I know that their books the equivalent to blockbuster movies in cinema but man, I loved their books during my teenage years.

I already loved dinosaurs as a kid (whick kid doesn’t love them, though) and Jurassic Park the novel and then the movie (I was 10 and 13 when they came out) blew me away. I just started reading Jurassic Park again, this time in English (I couldn’t as a kid) and damn, so many memories…

Never cared for The Lost World though, neither the book nor the film.
I run "office hours" where anyone can book a call to chat, pair program or rant.

Come and say hi! https://sonnet.io/posts/hi/
I was just visiting Switzerland and these prices are 2 times what's paid there. And like 3-4 times what's paid in Central Europe.
Averages are not the same across different statistical distributions.

In the case of working hours, the Swedish median, mode and mean are heavily divergent, since the distribution is truncated at 40 hours by the law and thus heavily skewed.
It wasn’t a 15x price wing, but large commodity price swings aren’t that unusual. Oil briefly went negative due to COVID that’s larger than an infinite price swing.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DCOILWTICO/

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/20/investing/oil-prices-negative...
> I thought the original story implied that the primary purpose of the alleged hack was to make the program (a blackjack game) difficult for anyone else to understand and edit

Nah the essay implies it was just Mel's style, due to coding on very resource-constrained systems. So Mel had a habit of data reuse, self-modifying code, and self-constraining timings (from the drum).
Yeah, but it's not like they are actively interacting with me or a friend. I assume everyone more or less automatically ignores the background noise of other tables.
Very good points on the benefits of talking to strangers. :)

A total aside on the tortellini pointer idea:

> when a store moves something a note or something similar would be helpful to tell shoppers the new location for the item

This is a complete misunderstanding of why the stores move items. :)

https://bettermarketing.pub/the-secret-brilliant-and-questio...

"Supermarkets relocate their products around the store to make sure their customers get lost. As they struggle to find what they came in to buy, customers can’t help it but scan the freshly-redesigned shelves. That’s when the marketing magic happens.

[...]

That’s how you end up with three additional products you didn’t even think about before stepping in the shop. Your active search for pasta made you notice other merchandise and buy some of it.

In short, rearranging the store makes you spend more money — enough money for supermarkets to invest in this technique on a regular basis."

If they would want you to not get lost looking for tortellinis they could just leave them where they were. Heck there could be a tacit understanding between every shop to use the same schema and then you could just go in, grab and get out.

It would just result them earning less money. That is why they don't do it.
I was disappointed with that ending myself. Someone has to apply pressure to keep bloat under control. That pressure would be most effective from an entity as powerful as Apple. The modest specs of the iPhone itself used to provide that pressure, but now of course they have to keep selling next year's more capable model.
The use I would think of for the oxygen would be burning fuels in Allam cycle turbines. These use supercritical CO2 and burn fuels with oxygen in the CO2 (oxygen is needed so nitrogen doesn't build up in the CO2). The products of combustion are water and CO2. Water condenses and can be reused (an Allam cycle turbine burning natural gas would be a net producer of liquid water); CO2 from burning natural gas would be tapped off in pure form at zero marginal cost (unlike other CO2 capture methods.)

Allam cycle turbines burning hydrogen would not make CO2, of course, but they'd avoid the need for NOx reduction stage after the turbine. One could also imagine a system where CO2 is captured and stored, then used to make methane from hydrogen, that is also then stored. You'd need three kinds of storage reservoirs (methane, CO2, and oxygen) but perhaps this could be easier than storing hydrogen.
Keeping tips from workers could be illegal under new law
> I would argue that the Pantone colour library is effectively an API for reproducing specific colours as paint

I would roughly say that Pantone is a specific arrangement of a set of specific items, with the arrangement intentionally conveying a unique meaning to the set. Just like a book or a picture or song or a piece of code.

(IANAL, I don't intend that definition to stand up in courts, just describing how and why it makes sense to me that it could or should be treated the same way)
You make a good point, Someone who donates to you regularly likely does so for few others and a single payment system for them could be useful; Even though the heavy lifting is done by Stripe for this case too.
Vihart: Only 0.000000001% of people will understand this video
I remember first learning about their steam system when The Bone Collector with Denzel Washington came out.
No good, the button to open the center console is located on a touchscreen inside the glovebox.
I'm just glad that HN salvaged the situation with the quality of the comments. Sometimes all we need is a good prompt.
Some users were using third party payment bots to sell access to specific posts content (paywall) and Apple didn’t like not getting cut of it.
I used to hitchhike a lot, and nearly every stranger (a couple nutjobs here and there) I met in that manner was interesting. Travelling in general, you meet a lot of strangers in situations where they are feeling charitable or helpful, which leads to great interactions. Also, in/around the wilderness, strangers are usually more eager/open to interaction.
Stationary storage will more like be taken over by iron batteries which are much cheaper. Sodium batteries will happen in cars because not everyone needs really long range.
Seen a lot of cars that have been broken into, seen a lot of open glove boxes too.
Please don't needlessly shit on Intel GPUs. The last thing we need is sustaining the Ngreedia and AMD price gouging GPU duopoly.

Intel GPUs are great if you want the best linux drivers and they do AV1 decode and encode.

If you're, for example, a gaming streamer, or you need to encode CCTV or other kinds of footage and stream it as cheaply as possible, or if you do video editing in DaVinci resolve or other apps, then the AV1 accelerator capabilities of such a budget GPU are a godsend.
Ask HN: Anyone else receiving unsolicited Datadog marketing spam?
I keep getting 'reaching out' and 'just following up' (because I haven't replied) spam from Craig Cummins 'DevSecOps Enablement' at Datadog.

One of them even said something like 'you may be wondering why you are getting this, do not worry, I got your email from our internal CRM' -- ..ok that's fine then?! No mention of how it got there. No idea why Cummins thinks it's how he specifically got my email address to use in a work capacity that might be a concern, or why 'from my employer' would be a useful answer.

It's incessant, and sure it has an 'unsubscribe' link but of course I never subscribed to your 'tell me how paying for Datadog might benefit me' spam, I shouldn't have to unsubscribe.

I assume many others here are getting this crap too?

If you happen to work at Datadog, I'd suggest telling the relevant teams that this sort of thing is only going to make people not use Datadog's services. (Or frankly, just tell Craig Cummins if that's a real employee's name - it's always him.) It's terrible for 'developer relations'.
In fairness to the OP and your question, over the last 30 years, several brands of cars developed catastrophic engine and transmission problems in the first 100k miles and definitely 200k miles - and there are many irrational buyers that buy (or lease) new cars every 3-5 years or before 100k miles.

There are also buyers who are overwhelmed by simple maintenance (oil changes, brake maintenance, window regulator failure) that help get their cars into these states.

Luckily, evs require so much less maintenance, even these buyers are likely to be surprised.
The Matrix Calculus You Need for Deep Learning (2018)
You seem unaware that a car's glovebox door is made out of plastic and usually has just a single "hook" style latch?

Thief's who break windows to get into cars carry tools.. your glovebox is NOT secure.

Lastly, you seem unaware that most car thief's don't break the windows because this often leads to their capture.
We exist inside the story that the brain tells itself (2020)
I remember one of the co-founders of Tesla left it to start a battery recycling company. It was clearly the way to go for him, and I reckon Tesla wants to do that as well. Maybe he's working on that problem for them in a way.
Which CPU would that be? An i9-13900K has a max power draw of 253W, a 3990X is 280W, these are both peak values, the 4090 peak is 600W.
It's not that long. Though the commission is mentioned, the primary "harm" mentioned is the obscure review process.
The reason they do this is simple, money.
It is much easier for a manufacturer to produce a single screen that contains all the functionality that can be adjusted on the fly using software.
The alternative (and the way it has always been) is early in a car conception, to design the cabin with the buttons layout, design the switches, find a manufacturer, test the switches, test the layout, repeat, etc…
Plus if they find a flaw in the cars button design / layout late in the process, it becomes even more expensive to fix.
Nowadays, car companies have an excuse to use screens, not only does it save them money, but they can disguise it under « modernism ».

Disclaimer, this is from what I heard and using common sense, but in might be completely wrong.
But there's no way that a manually-operated latch is more expensive than a latch that is controlled by an electronic component, and that's leaving aside any time spent by developers and product managers to design the look, location, and functionality of the button in the software itself.
That's not in-depth knowledge, that's basic usage. I don't have in-depth knowledge of git myself, most of its plumbing is an opaque black box for me. Less obvious but useful things like `--first-parent` are just one manpage reading session away. If your colleagues are unable to perform some basic rebases to squash away their WIP commits, you may want to help them learn how to use one of the most essential tools in their work. Everyone in your team will benefit.
This really shouldn't be the case. What kind of client are you using? Could you open an issue over at https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/issues please?
Its possible. Injection molding is cheaper when the part has less precise features.