skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That device, the speaker in this case, is missing the pull-down (Rd) resistors on CC1 and CC2 to say that it's happy to get 5v@500ma when connected using a USB-C to USB-C cable. Those resistors aren't needed/used for signaling when using a USB-C to USB-A cable, which is why that works.

https://community.silabs.com/s/article/what-s-the-role-of-cc...
Its a 50/50 chance we avoid collapse but there is nothing to do but condition on the positive scenario. We already have plenty of hints how dystopic tech looks like.

In the positive scenario tech becomes a significant enabler of sustaibility. I don't think we need major computer science breakthroughs for this to happen though. Its purely a human moral, behavioral, economic and political challenge.
Southwest is just not a good airline.
Have to touch on this as it's a common theme to my response. There absolutely are regulations. However, regulations being in place, and the enforcement of these regulations are different. STIR/SHAKEN is a requirement, however it's an easy requirement for scammers to meet. (Numbers are super cheap to buy in bulk, pennies per month typically). Sooner or later they'll run out.

The second side of the regulation miss is that carriers have to self-report much of the time. These centers pay into the 6 figures monthly to their carriers. The carriers know exactly what kind of traffic is being sent through and many times aide these scammers in shaping the traffic to look more legit. Auto-warranty scams in the past? Huge amounts of that traffic were routed through the likes of Y-Tel and a couple others. Regulators knew this but enforcement took years to happen. It's the same right now.

Lastly is the issue of what happens once enforcement occurs? The answer is not great: The scammers change numbers and keep going. They aren't local and it's not cut and dry when it comes to continuous enforcement against foreign entities. Their carriers still support them and the fines are typically less than a month's revenue from the larger outfits (think Uber).

Better meta-data helps aide robo / scam / spam blockers. IMO, we should just shut down these carriers who knowingly aide these scammers. We know who they are, they aren't hard to find.
They've never had lidar and no.. self driving isn't "falling apart". You have no idea what you're talking about.
Bulgaria has a _terrible_ single payer health care system, an astonishing level of corruption, a powerful mafia that basically controls the government, widespread racism against the gypsies, dislike for anything LGBT, and many more not so liberal things. Cherry-picking the single payer health care system is silly.

If you haven't noticed, I am talking about modern-day progressives, not liberal policies. The term "woke" describes best the difference between liberals/the original progressives and the modern type of progressives obsessed with race, sex, gender, and such.
They don't seem to pay competitively with banks, let alone FAANGs, though the benefits and culture are (or were) reputedly fantastic.

Source: Am a local who's been headhunted by them a few times but never got beyond the initial discussion with the headhunter for this reason.
Disable browser push notifications or do it for them https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/consider-disabling-...
Trust does create a post-scarcity society, and any government who fought a war with full transparency would lose (osint).
I once got a spear phishing call from a scammer claiming to be the CEO of the company I work for. Even though I barely know the CEO, the phrases he was using was obviously wrong.

I'd imagine that's even more obvious for any family member. If a family member calls from any number that's not their number, my first question will be an honest "How the heck did you remember my phone number?"
I would love to connect! You can reach me out from https://pastebin.com/ubLausVJ
All major browsers offer password management, then there's Apple Keychain, 1Password, KeePass, Bitwarden, and Lastpass. And that's just the ones I could think about while reading your comment.

Where is the the duopoly, and who's being forced out of the marketplace due to lack of government regulation of password managers?
It doesn’t seem unreasonable to me that people with skills that would permit them to work in mines, work in mines.
It's definitely not the entire population that reproduces. I think a genes-in-cells view would look at biomass of those cells. Lots of those cells aren't directly reproducing, but they are employed in service of the genes within regardless.
+1

I recently threw out all of my USB-C cables that are longer than a foot but can’t charge at 100w, because I decided USB-C is a primarily a charging protocol, and I’ll use wireless, short cables, or Ethernet for data transfer and HDMI for display.

The matrix of charging + data speeds in USB-C is a nightmare and always resulted in having the wrong cable for the desired devices and usage.
Curious to know more about this! Please elaborate on this if you don’t mind! :)
HN is busy telling me over and over again that power from coal and natural gas is dirty and cannot feasibly be filtered to be clean, so the only way to go is nuclear, which doesn't have any problems at all. How come we can burn plastic of all things in a clean way?
Do you have any recommended reading/viewing on the subject?
seems like a good idea - what's the downside?
This is a super common f*ckup in a truly ridiculous number of devices. It's so common that somebody published a PCB design to retrofit noncompliant devices to make them work: https://github.com/ide/usb-c-to-c-power-mod
That is a cost I will accept. I used to get about 3 robocalls per day, or 1000 robocalls for every legitimate unknown caller. There is a fundamental tradeoff between optimizing for minimizing false positives or false negatives.
There's substantial disagreement around this issue in the Muslim world as evidenced by the fact that many women don't wear head coverings. But I will say that if you're attracting attention to yourself in an effort to be modest, then that's a logical contradiction. Allah gave us the ability to reason and based on one's ability to read through the source material (Quran and Hadith), one should be able to come up with a reasonable interpretation.
The metaverse is a communication tool
Can you explain what you mean by information warfare? Do you mean someone is tweeting on his behalf?
Borg is surprisingly fast and memory-efficient, even when compared to Restic, which is written in Go. Recently did a benchmark to test the upcoming Borg v2 and this surprised me the most:

https://github.com/borgbase/benchmarks
I hate USB-C connectors. All my phones have had the same issue: USB-C connector busts and you can't insert the cable any more. I use high quality Anker cables, and I keep having to buy new Google Pixels over this. Replacing the USB-C port is around $160.
> What does lightweight mean?

It would traditionally mean a program running as little code as possible (dependencies included) for a given task, instead of relying on piles of pre-made libraries and frameworks, which obviously creep way more features than required.

However in this day and age, lightweight usually means it's not based on a web engine, although quite often it could still be huge and needlessly complex.

edit - post was edited in the meantime
> Oh dear, dear EU, please show some teeth on this matter, god help us if you do not.

> The EU is the only place on earth having kinda sensitive big data/privacy laws and enforcements thereof

Only for corporations, not for governments. EU already has mandatory ID cards with biometric data (fingerprints), while AFAIK there is no such systematic collection of biometric data in US.
I went out and learned C++ because Numba was so finicky to work with.
I very well may buy some LUV depending on where they end up over the next few days. Remember the Equifax security breech that should have destroyed the reputation of that company in 2017?

Here's some historical stock prices

9/1/2017 $134.64 - everything's fine

9/15/2017 $87.99 - scandal breaks and hits the news

9/17/2018 $130.55 - one year post scandal

people forget
> Tesla crashes on U.S. roads has grown far faster than Tesla’s sales growth

A fairer comparison would have been [ total number of reported crashes ] / [ total number of cars on road ].

Comparing it with sales growth will show poor performance for older brands which have a lot of cars on the road vs newer brands that are just release cars now.
> They are really good cars actually (FSD Bulls* excluded)

They're not tho, the materials, QA, and fit and finish is absolutely garbage, has been for years, and apparently it's getting worse (https://youtu.be/kIW4moIM0zM).
From Fetch to Code
Using AI to Sell Music on Spotify
I have never liked the CD/DVD media. As much as its durability is alleged, I have not experienced it. They are very sensitive to scratching and must be spotlessly clean to work. In the hands of children, I always had better luck with VHS tapes.
I'm inside and I'm pretty happy comparing to alternatives.
This is clearly BoR (Bill of Rights) territory, any 1st and 4th, 5th amendment protections should apply equally to everyone regardless of citizenship.
> don't fly Southwest in the winter.

I'd look at it the other way around: cancelling is so annoying for them that they're often the last ones to do it (barring catastrophic collapse, of course).

When I was traveling weekly out of Chicago, I always made sure to bring my Southwest credit card, just in case. Southwest sucks, but it gets you home.
The US needs relationship with EU citizens just as much as the other way around. Or even more, like in the case of people like me (I rather avoid the US after being there several times and experienced the mentality). The vacations are especially weak argument for sharing highly personal data with an entity that is prone to repeatedly and shamelessly abusing it, misusing it.

Will the relationship being more difficult if not yielding to the demands? Ok then. We are not made of cotton candy to melt in a drop of rain that easily when some difficulty comes along, especially if it is a bureaucracy thingy. The vacations will be a bit more difficult - for those attracted by the US instead of beautiful spots elsewhere. Business relations too, of course, but that one has double edge actually.
Nice setup! I've been following Vercel and Cloudflare trying to sync up their v8 isolates runtime: CF is going to be a great option for running these "Edge Style" React apps once stuff stabilizes.
> If someone could produce even one document implying that this was discussed at all it would’ve been catastrophic.

Why? that sounds like a pretty reasonable measure to me. The government has every right to ask companies to limit supply or pull stock off shelves in a crisis. Hell, it could force them to if needed and bring back rationing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationing_in_the_United_States
Ask HN: Create pinball machines for your team
This is sort of Discuss HN instead of Ask HN.

I just finished reading "The Soul of A New Machine". It is a marvellous book that talks about tech, management and ultimately, people. But one particular rule stands out:

> They believed in the rule of pinball: if you win, you get to play again; but failure is unthinkable, so you'd better let no one get in your way.

I can relate. I believe in the axiom that I should pour into whatever I love to do, 70/80/100 hours a week, and don't worry about financial rewards because they will come along eventually. In all of the gigs I worked for and am working for, I had/have to create mini pinball machines for myself because one rarely gets what one loves to do.

In this respect, I completely agree with people who re-invent wheels, who do NOT do things "the boring way". Work is boring already, and pinball machines are rare. One has to find some fun by oneself. This, of course, leaves unforeseen consequences, or are they really unforeseen?

It is therefore important, and beneficial for managers to create sort of a pinball experience for the team. It doesn't have to be a real pinball machine -- I mean, it doesn't have to be the most exciting thing. In fact, as the book states, the Eagle was actually a boring product to build. It is the atmosphere created by West and other executives that ultimately motivates the whole team and made the experience memorable. It was not the $$ rewards (no stock option), not the product (a boring machine), but the freedom -- sometimes frightening that drives the pinball machine.
> I've never thought anything related to chemistry was simple

I was an EE/CS major and getting A's in the two chemistry courses I took in college is one of my proudest achievements because I had to work so hard for them. Nothing about chemistry was intuitive or simple for me.
I've been using Borg for years. It's great! The deduplication feature allows me to take a "full" backup of my work station hourly. Taking frequent backups like this has already saved my bacon a number times in cases where I accidentally mangled/deleted a file I didn't mean to touch.

I recently stumbled upon the release notes for the (WIP) v2: https://www.borgbackup.org/releases/borg-2.0.html. Seems to address quite a few of the pain points of v1.
Sort of. They bid based on seniority. So if you've been there forever you get the cushy flight that pays a ton. If you just joined to get the worst shift nobody wants (because it's the last one left).
On Android 12, at least, the current version of Google Play groups "Payments, deals and recommendations" into one notification category. Want to avoid deals and recommendations? Won't get notified when you're charged money.

It's more challenging to disable notifications we don't care about anymore with tactics like these.
You were pretty lucky if you got away without being towed if you had no plates in Westminster - they will tow abandoned or untaxed cars.

https://www.westminster.gov.uk/parking/has-your-vehicle-been...
You say: “The Turing test is a meaningless benchmark” and then in the next sentence you say: “there’s not anything today that would come remotely close to passing the Turing test”

So which is it? I think you’re confused because there’s a difference between fooling a random person and passing a Turing test as described by Kurzweil [0]

The magician analogy is kind of like James Randi’s Paranormal test [1]. Again a proper test should determine whether the magic is real or a trick.

[0] https://www.kurzweilai.net/a-wager-on-the-turing-test-the-ru...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Million_Dollar_Paranorma...
Ruby Python and js has their own downsides and benefits, I just took java as an example to illustrate the point — language is not just a syntax, vm and standard lib, it’s always bundled with some traditions, mentality, patterns that one should take into consideration.
Thanks for sincerely responding.

I honestly wish I knew how fix the problem of Cloudflare blocking Tor.

In the past, voices for Cloudflare have disowned responsibility (for
presumably default settings) and claimed it is down to the settings of
individual site owners. So, there may be something you can tweak. Not
a being a user of their products I have no knowledge, though I wish I
could help and would gladly give more constructive suggestions to
other's whose sites I find are blocked.

Unfortunately, here on HN there is some resistance to even discussing
this problem, so very little intelligent discussion is permitted
before it's shut down. As an example, this recent comment today was
down-voted without without any reflective or considered response
[1]. Threads are often dominated by pro-Cloudflare comments that tend
to "victim blaming" or mocking of those who value privacy but are
obstructed by Cloudflare.

Feel free to PM me via (see Digital Vagen website), as I'd honestly
like to read your article.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=34152355
Well it's look how Americans are big on freedom for themselves, but view people in other countries as something like movie extras. The most extreme example of this is the emerging nationalist caucus which has elevated hypocrisy to an art form and has every intention of leveraging similar tactics against its domestic population.
According to wikipedia, the amount of aluminum cans recycled is actually substantial:

> Recycling scrap aluminium requires only 5% of the energy used to make new aluminium from the raw ore.[4] For this reason, approximately 36% of all aluminium produced in the United States comes from old recycled scrap.[5] Used beverage containers are the largest component of processed aluminum scrap, and most of it is manufactured back into aluminium cans.[6]

This seems to line up with the fact that you can actually get paid for aluminum cans, the metal used aluminum cans are made of has enough value that it actually makes economic sense to pay people to recycle them.
In my 20 or so years of travel, Southwest has never been a good airline. But what more boggles my mind is that they've never been the cheapest, either(ignoring spirit and the like). Usually American or United was.

Was that just where I lived (primarily in the east), or am I missing something?
Qemu has a TCG accel. module.
A high-end PC, a childhood dream I waited a decade for(then another year for the GPU prices to drop).

I no longer have to:

- wait for minutes for the OS to load

- limit the number of chrome tabs open

- choose a lightweight code editor

- play games at minimum resolution

- trade dark mode explorer(Windows 10) for less resource usage(Windows 8.1)
This seems to boil down to "it would be more complicated", mixed with "the trivial thing is a bad idea", both of which seem true.

But I can imagine a more complicated scheme could be much better; done right.
Do Leetcode. Seriously, just do Leetcode. No one is good at Leetcode at start, but eventually they became good.

Leetcode is the only thing that gave me the best bang for the buck. I literally tripled my salary (now $300k, USA) in 4 years because of Leetcode. I was hesitant to do Leetcode at first.

As for rejection, just keep going at it, and eventually you'll develop a thick skin.

Btw, I was rejected 9 times from programming bootcamps when I first started learning programming. I got rejected by Google 4 times, Amazon 3 times, Facebook 2 times, Uber 2 times, etc.

I don't work at any of the big tech or unicorns right now, and boy I'm glad I don't. I work at a private investment firm (still doing software). Better problems, better environment.

From not knowing that string (in JS) is immutable, to $300k/year.

Thank you Leetcode.
I have a retro games portable that behaves the same way.
As a robotics engineer (though I don’t work on AI systems) I was bullish on Tesla’s architecture for a long time. I’ve watched all their presentations. Their hydra network. Their massive custom AI chip. I really thought they had a chance at making it all work. But the long tail is killing them. They’re walking back their claims for fully autonomous operation. Andrej Karpathy (their AI lead) left. Musk is distracted and showing that he doesn’t have all the technical chops we thought he did (if reports from inside twitter are to be believed). It feels like the company is all promises and no delivery now. Many have been saying this for years, but I really thought they were going to pull it off. Now I’m beginning to feel that they’re not organized appropriately to do it. You just can’t have a single guy who is all ego running a project as complex as this and find success. I think of how they must be doing things at Waymo or Cruise and they’re going to have a team of competent people in charge who don’t make rash decisions on major architectural issues. And given the scope of this problem I’m really starting to believe that’s what’s needed to make this work. There’s just no silver bullet. I’m really questioning what led me to believe in all this in the first place.
> How do you know that did not happen?

Because Twitter's staff numbers are public? What are you talking about, are you going to try and claim that Twitter has the same number of moderators now that it used to? It doesn't.

This is not something that's debatable, Twitter's moderation teams today are smaller than they were before he took over the company.

> Under what basis to you believe Twitters lawyers were the "best free-speech advocates". [...] Sorry that does not make you the best free-speech advocates.

It's a heck of a lot more practical and useful than just complaining about it. They did what lawyers are supposed to do, they showed up in court and defended free speech rights.

Twitter's lawyers took on government cases and challenged police orders that other social media companies would have rolled over and accepted -- in particular around the right to anonymity and parody. This is important foundational stuff that free speech rights online are built on.

But again, if Musk disagrees, more power to him. It's not a problem for Musk to hire different lawyers, the problem is that he hasn't really done that. The most he's done is brought over some lawyers from Tesla that are essentially doing double-duty now, but he doesn't seem to have built a legal team that's centered around specifically defending free speech rights for users or challenging government requests.

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> If you listen to the people that took over from the ones that were fired it seems like the former Management was not providing money and resources for real enforcement for things like CSAM

See, this is exactly what I'm talking about. Musk makes a big deal about this stuff, but he has literally just gutted these teams. There are way fewer moderators right now on Twitter looking for CSAM, and Musk is leaning into automated/contracted moderation to try and fill in the gaps -- which pretty much everyone dealing with child safety agrees is not a sufficient approach for this kind of moderation. He's dropped CSAM teams for some countries down to the single-digits of workers.

Musk has criticisms about the amount of resources that Twitter was devoting to CSAM. But his response isn't to increase those resources. His policy seems to be that if you say something is important, it just magically gets better because you say you care about it. But it doesn't, you have to actually put work into it and devote resources to making it better.

The CSAM example is just so wild to me, because it's such a clear example of Musk criticizing Twitter for something and then doubling down and doing the same thing to an even greater degree.

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> Personally I think the platform is better today.

Good for you, but this is a wildly simplistic take on free speech. It undermines legitimate conversations about real problems Twitter had with moderation in the past to simplify the issue down to "he banned some journalists I don't like and let some right-wing people back on the platform."

Structurally, he's not really doing anything. He's just gutting teams and complaining about the way they used to run.
To put some context for our international readers. The Royal Mail was a public company and as such had certain requirements (must give equal service) then it started making money and therefore the Tory government decided it needed to be privatised. However you can’t just say “lol half the country no longer gets post” so the newly private Royal Mail still has to continue this minimum service. Anyway, after privatisation, they ran it into the ground. now billionaires who don’t pay any tax (the owners of the telegraph) want the Uk to stop having a postal service because it cuts into the profit margins of the guys who own Royal Mail.

If they can’t provide the service they agreed to, return it to public ownership, and pay some amount towards the bail out.
Tesla aspires to such truck margins in the near future.