skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: I want a universal AC Adapter that fits ALL plugs and ALL V/A?
Over my life due to a love for electrical gadgets I have gathered a nice pile of them. W
ith moves, divorce, spring cleaning and just plain stupidity I have a lot of cool stuff that I can’t turn on because that nice adapter that came with it is nowhere to be found.

In order to connect you need the right plug with the right polarity at the right volt and the right amp settings.

I do have drawers that are filled with Ac adapters that I have accumulated but seldom does one match a gadget I find. I am not sure how that can be, but that is my life.

Right now I have a bit of a different problem.
I am trying to troubleshoot an audio mixer. One possibility is that the existing battery adapter is not working correctly.

Ideally I would reach into my collection, pull out a replacement and be good to go.
Not one of the other ones I have match plug or power configuration.

This is bugging the hell out of me, and I know I am not the only person with this issue.
I do have friend with their own drawer and their own collection of things that is of no use until you can turn then on.

Buying replacement ac adapters, when that is possible, is usually extremely expensive.
Sometimes you can buy them real cheap on eBay, and usually those work for a while.

I do have multi voltage ad adapters that come with some tips.
Usually they cannot be configured or tipped to what I need.

In my research I found “lab” power supplies like this one:

https://www.amazon.com/Adjustable-Switching-Regulated-Quick-Charge-Interface/dp/B08HYK2ZW3/ref=zg_bs_318022011_sccl_2/146-8484433-8823007?psc=1

This thing looks awesome.
It can set to nearly all my required power configuration.
Score.

Except.

How do I get that power into my gadgets?
There is no option for buying a bag of 1000 tips.

The wires it comes with do not look at all helpful.

What is the solution to the plague of missing ac adapters?
Someone must have figured this out?

If not, it might be something I can invest a lot of effort it into for the sake of all humanity.
How far back was it able to remember in your tests?
Aaronia Aartos Drone Detection and Defense System [pdf]
The rationale probably is that you can easily check for division by zero before doing the actual division, whereas checking for an overflowing division requires to actually perform the division. The DIVU instruction thus allows to check for overflow without the overhead of raising an exception.

It certainly is a bit of a footgun, because one normally doesn’t expect overflow on integer division. On the other hand, the other basic arithmetic operations all require overflow checks as well, or equivalent operand value analysis. And this is assembly we’re talking about, where you’re supposed to know what you’re doing.
Can anyone explain the "NFT" argument they're putting forward? What in the new license protects them more than existing copyright law, trademark law or OGL 1.0 does not?

The OGL does not allow people to use the D&D branding, nor any famous monsters or named spells (i.e. no Tasha's Anything or Beholders) and so if anyone made a D&D NFT they'd already be in conflict.
For pretending that covid is something other than a moderately bad flu, in order to push pretty much untested mRNA shots onto the population, the vast majority of whom didn't need it.

Is it this month that the clinical trials end? I will be very curious to see what happens then, as the EUA will end, and thus pharmas liability shield is gone. Will the bullshit be forgotten about? Biden just extended the "emergency", so maybe not.
The hardware is still incredibly reliable and astoundingly performant. The rate at which they're capable of delivering them to the store and your doorstep is too. Per number of devices sold, it's crazy that they encounter as few issues as they do. Yeah, they've had some real 'Oops' moments, but on the whole it's crazy good.

As for software? Yeah, it's really, really bad. :( I think Apple has forgotten how to do software.
There's a button with two diagonal arrows that lets you enter fullscreen mode although you might have to scroll a bit to get it to show. Otherwise, you might have to fork the replit and make an account. It's free.
The bozo bit as described is how I thought about Sony for a long time.

I had a different name for it, "The idiot engineer".

That for all the amazing premium quality products Sony releases, every product has at least one extremely poorly thought out area. It was like there was some designer/engineer who was the son of the CEO or something, and got to work on every project.
Analog is the study of continuous circuits.

Digital is the study of (usually) binary circuits.

--------

Ex: an OpAmp is called an analog computer sometimes, because you can do things like Add, Subtract, Multiply, Divide, exponent, differentiate, or integrate voltages. (ex: 0.543V + 1.1V == 1.643V output). This is troublesome in practice because a bit of noise (ex: +.05V error) propagates.

This is in contrast to a digital computer, which encodes data into 0 or 1. There are things like PAM4 which encodes data as 0, 1, 2, or 3 (2-bits per signal), or other such "discrete steps". But the overall concept of "snapping" data to specific voltage levels allows you to fix noise issues.
> Well, Australia claims about half of Antarctica so as long as we can enforce that claim maybe it's not the end of the country.

I have always wondered how this would turn out. Currently not many other countries recognise our claims, but so far there's been no reason to enforce them. Given out proximity we are in a good position to enforce them, and the likes of BHP and Rio Tinto would love access to all the possible resources.
Don't worry, the EU can't regulate effectively either, they just end up making life harder for everyone, while the insiders, large producers and corrupt politicians continue to make out like bandits, just like here. They are just better at throwing you a couple of morsels to distract you at what's really going on. Prime example my relatives experience daily: they can't do anything to stop trade fraud with extra virgin olive oil or cheeses.

I'm tired of everyone romanticizing the EU here, it's full of all the same corruption and regulatory capture issues as America. I question whether even a fraction of you have ever lived there.
There are consumer protection laws in place wrt to your liability based upon discovering fraud. It's something like no liability w/i 48 hours, $50 in liability with 1 week, full liability after that. I may be getting the specifics wrong, but the gist is correct.

It sounds like your bank has made the decision to eat the small liability as a customer value add.

One of the reasons why people are often wrong about CC being safer than debit is because many banks will also make you whole the next day after reporting fraud rather than waiting for it to process before returning the funds. They're not legally required to do this, but neither are credit card companies, both are doing it to gain customers.
The GM bolt rebate came with a condition saying that you wouldn't join any class action against GM w.r.t. the battery fires they were having. GM is also somewhat more desperate to sell bolts because it saves them buying emissions credits.
That's really not bad. Definitely better than blindly chopping the titles up.
You're getting really possessed over things I never said.
Those are all valid points, but I think the trade off might not favor them. Although piracy mighttt in some situations help games, I don't see how it could help us. No free trial would mean we miss out on users too. Plus, from what we've been talking with devs, they don't seem to like the idea of being DRM-free.
So now he has to make ends meet on, like, two million dollars a month? TWO!
This is straight up gaslighting. The original language says NOTHING about NFTs and barely anything about acceptance use or community guidelines.

Hasbro is down 40% YoY. It's very, very plain that the entire goal of this was to drive players into DnDBeyond and then charge them a subscription fee because DnD's primary customer is DMs and not players. The entire point is to delete their competitors like Roll20, Foundry, or 3rd party sellers in the digital space.

This blog post is a smokescreen under the guise of "feedback". They were asking folks to SIGN the OGL 1.1. There wasn't a feedback period or words about how this was an early early draft that would change based on feedback. SHESH.

Hasbro tried this with 4th edition by making the rules of the game more wargame-like to force regular players to buy minis (there were even rules initially that for official dnd events that you could only use OFFICIAL minis) but they backed down on this even too. Same thing, different go to market.

The fools in Hasbro's executive suite are NOT decades-old players of DnD and they have no idea what they're doing. They have no commitment to players: Hasbro shareholders is where their loyalties lie.

I've played TTRPGs for 25+ years and this behavior is also completely unsurprising from Hasbro/WoTC.
Not surprised prices are dropping, only surprised that people believed the prices would stay fixed. The vast majority of people do not need or desire expensive "boutique weed". Trader Joe's didn't kill it selling $400 bottles of wine.
Content already released is not the same being able to release new content under 1.0a. They might try and force all new content to be under the new OGL. The issue is they are tapped out of good will from the community and have shown themselves to use weasel words. So all press releases from them should not be given any benefit of the doubt.
They finally posted an official statement on the D&D Beyond website just an hour or so ago. (I'd link but corporate firewall means I can't find it right now.) They do think they are doing it with good intentions, including blocking NFT and web3 things trying to commercialize on D&D. It's skirted around in that post, but also implied that they want to make certain that OGL can't be used for film rights (because Hasbro has a growing film studio now) nor VTT rights (because D&D Beyond is a growing VTT). Both of those things to them add to their biased feeling that they are being the "good guys" in all of this and defending the OGL as a tool "just" for hobbyists and game players.
Past a few years in the industry, you can have brilliant friends who are all in more or less okay jobs but are very risk-averse, either because of their situation or simply because of it's too much effort without a guarantee. There's a reason there are founders networks, it might be hard to find entrepreneurial-minded people around. So, there's a (slim) chance.

That said, it's certainly a good approach to ask that question in earnest early on.
suggest you read the article.

The sea change in chicken production demonstrated it was possible to quickly scale down antibiotics in farming, but it didn’t do much to reduce overall use, as the chicken industry only used 6 percent of antibiotics in agriculture in 2016. And the momentum didn’t spread to other parts of the meat business, like beef and pork, which together account for over 80 percent of medically important antibiotics fed to farmed animals.
Note that with gcc/clang you can control the auto-use of fma with compile flags (-ffp-contract=off). It is pretty crazy imho that gcc defaults to using fma
Yes, dealing with IE (even IE 11, up until the last 2-3 years for me) was a pain back then, as it was circa 2020.

That said, it saw a lot of innovations broadly, web development was taken alot more seriously as a profession, and saw some interesting frameworks come out (Ember, Angular, and later React) and jQuery sure made life easier by that time.

I even have some fond memories of KnockoutJS. My most favorite, and probably most underrated framework in the history of web development, was SproutCore, which had legs at this time.

From a culture side (user?) it was the heyday of things like Delicious, Foursquare, Good Twitter (IMO) and blog rolls. Mobile web was rolling out in earnest. Alot of innovation was happening in this space.
Docker 2.0 went from $11M to $135M in 2 years
They asked if doctors are getting stupider. You provide an argument for why they could be getting stupider and pass it off as a counter-argument...

Unless the schedule was always like this. Then it wouldn’t explain them getting stupider.
One could pretty easily build a browser extension that does this automatically all the time for some sites - in either direction
"People think NTFs are stupid, right?"

"Yeah."

"Ok, tell them we were doing to to stop people making NFTs."
I had one issue where pdftotext would produce different output on different machines (Linux vs Mac). It broke some of our tests.

I tracked down where it was happening (involving an ==), but it magically stopped when I added print statements or looked at it in the debugger.

It turns out the x86 was running the math at a higher precision and truncating when it moved values out of registers - as soon as it hit memory, things were equal. MacOS was defaulting to -ffloat-store to get consistency (their UI library is float based).

There were too many instances of == in that code base (which IMO is a bad idea with floats), so I just added -ffloat-store to the Linux build and called it a day.
Imagine a world where the most powerful companies that you relied on for your livelihood had no humans you could reach (customer service, management to dispute false claims). Elements of the AI catastrophe are already solidly upon us.
It's a summary of a peer reviewed paper from a doctor. Absolutely hilarious.
An enslaved monkey race that rose up to fling off the chains of their evil Wizard master.. I am paraphrasing, but not by much. Slave race of monkey-like humanoids. That never should have made it past the editor in this day an age.
Fully automated does not mean nobody from the company onboard, does it? Even assuming pilots have the final say about re-routing in case of medical emergency, I do not how they are better suited than a random flight attendant to evaluate medical conditions.
I have my fair share of complaints about Apple Music, but I don't agree that this is in any way 'basic functionality'. I would expect that 99% of Apple Music users just want an easy way to stream music, not sync custom songs that they received as .mp4 files on WhatsApp across their devices. It would obviously be nice if this was better supported, but I can see how this may not be worth investing a lot of engineering hours in.
Dallas Zoo closes–issues ‘code blue’ for missing clouded leopard believed hiding
They're referring to the mythical animal, using a metaphor to express that such a company is mythical or non-existent. Coincidentally, this is same metaphor that the person who coined the term "unicorn company" was using.

Given that private companies with over $1B in revenue actually exist while examples of "[companies] that values programming and real productivity" are yet to be forthcoming, the parent post is using the metaphor correctly and the finance world is not.
https://archive.ph/m4OKx
all the users are fake? I thought at least 300,000 were on the db, with 4 million or so being scraped. Crazy that low open rate from a mass mailing campaign was a signal that something was amiss. JP Morgan do more due diligence on $1K loan than they did with this $175 million acquisition, craziness
I recall beyond the usability issues (who wants a big stupid MP3 player? Not me.), iTunes when you uninstalled it left a bunch of stuff behind on the system. I'm not talking just odd files here and there, I'm talking entire sets of running services you have to remove from ARP or otherwise nuke. Bonjour was one that comes to mind, but there was more I can't recall offhand.
"'Real' socialism hasn't been tried, so you can't say it doesn't work."
Thanks for the tip! Will look into it
Which in hindsight seems extremely naïve. Files are just too damn useful a concept. Their main rival, databases, have a bunch of peculiarities that limit their generality. When people want to share information any longer than a paragraph or two, they send a file. You can’t beat files!
> agile has killed the happiness of our industry

I don't think you're wrong, but I should point out that Agile started out as a rebellion against "meetings, rituals, and meta-work and not actual productivity". As somebody who got involved in one of the Agile tributaries before the term "Agile" was coined, I'd say the actual problem is older and deeper.

I look forward to another rebellion, but would-be revolutionaries should make sure they don't fall into the same trap, or you too will see your new terms and bold ideas corrupted to the point of meaninglessness.
> what did I miss?

You missed the pre-installed browser and applications bundled with your computer becoming good enough that ~nobody is going to www.firefox.com to download a browser on a fresh install. This isn't 2004, you no longer need to spend three hours downloading software to make a fresh install of Windows usable.

That, and a weak mobile app.
There’s a lot of things like this that I blame mostly on the growth of what we’re doing here. We’re communicating in a low fidelity text only fashion and doing it without any knowledge of who each other are and how our word choices will be received. We definitely don’t know who is lurking or reading or may take offense once I hit the reply button on this form.

Had that been said in person, even with someone we only recently met, we’d have “known” what it was meant to mean and that it was just a figure of speech to support their main point. Online, people will read every word selected and choose to vilify you for using a pronoun or some other random extreme literal take on your word choices without really considering what your intent or meaning or that you is (often there’s not much, it just happens to be the choice of words they made while typing on a tiny device and trying to be concise). It’s also not considered that online we’re intermixing generationally, culturally, economically, and so many ways. When a 50 year old person says something like the word “retarded” it may feel normal and they are ignorant of the fact that anyone under ~30 knows not to even say that word, it’s the “r” word. Then you have the other “n” word that everyone knows is unspoken except it’s found and heard everywhere because some people can and do say it steadily.

As an example, I frequent a local subreddit for my city. Something that regularly comes up is crime and homeless and such. If you have anything to post there. Someone else will invariably reply with yes but redlining, Jim Crowe, disenfranchised citizens, etc. Those are all base general knowledge and historical facts for sure. I think everyone is well aware of them. But, it’s difficult to have any discourse when the audience expects a full historical account of why the situation exists before solutions can be discussed. It’s pretty tiring and I’ve basically stopped chiming in on those kinds of things.

TLDR: communication is hard and text only is really hard.
I wouldn't call it a tragedy. Delivery pizza is fine. The best part is they bring it right to my house.

> We can construct better pizza boxes, and we already have. The real issue is cost.

Okay, here's an idea they can just have for free: a restaurant buys 500 of the more expensive boxes, but continues to stock the cheaper ones. They give delivery orders the option to spend more money on the improved box, and tell them all the advantages. If they don't want to spend the extra money, they get the regular box. See how that goes.
I'm not sure how this addresses the fundamental problem, which is that Spotify pays a very low price per stream, so you have to be a huge star to make any money, and Spotify is taking a large part of the proceeds in the meantime.

Also there's the secondary problem that Spotify has an incentive to produce easy-to-digest content in house for which it pays lower (or no) royalties [0].

For you, the equivalent of problem #2 is your incentive to make deliberately addictive content of no artistic merit. Easy to say you won't do this, a lot harder when your backers demand growth and your analytics team demonstrates that Angry Birds For Tots will maximize engagement.

Don't get me wrong, I think you have a cool idea and I hope it works, but everything you say about your commitment to devs is cheap talk, and in my experience, such ideals tend to get discarded during, e.g., difficult funding rounds.

good luck!

[0] https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/the-fake-artists-problem-is-...
IMHO, I think this is by design, with the goal of moving people to Apple Music. These days, it's all about rent extraction (aka, subscriptions).
Hi everyone. We just launched an open source website for maintenance teams like Upkeep. It is intended to help maintainers do their jobs more efficiently and to help management make informed decisions. Please share it or contribute to it in Github
Another excellent overview of the wider problem that's behind the usage of antibiotics in that scale can be found in the Meat Atlas, published by Heinrich Böll Foundation.

https://eu.boell.org/sites/default/files/2021-09/MeatAtlas20...

It delivers an excellent compilation of the issues at play that will keep the problem going. As long as there's no change in policies, consumer behavior and/or some mad disease that brings down the meat industry, it's going to keep continued.
The State of Government-Speak in 2022
Yep, that's why we haven't approached them and have focused more on indie publishers and devs, although a partnership with them could be interesting
I have a single, dedicated layer for SC2. I didn't play WoL, non-queuing injects sounds like a nightmare!

Backspace (next base cam) inject is still a thing, but it's not really recommended: it tends to send different queens towards different hatcheries, delaying the injects. Again I didn't play WoL so I don't know which keys were re-bindable in the client at the time, but currently you can use almost anything for anything (except you can't change the modifiers like ctrl, shift, alt); those who use base cam inject will sometimes bind it to space.
What percent of doctors do you think contribute to the lobbying organization or agree with its direction?
I found that odd, and found this:

https://www.forbes.com/wheels/news/jeep-launches-wagoneer-su...

So maybe it's a premium sub brand, future home to a complete lineup?
I have used iTunes — consistently — for around two decades, and while I agree that iTunes was mediocre, Music app is soooooo much worse. It's total crap. Embarrassingly bad. I would happily trade Music app to get iTunes back again.
Agile is made up. The vast majority of places “do it wrong”. Coaches come in and make things even worse, with even less understanding. Saying “they are doing it wrong” and having nothing change isn’t doing anything, and it’s not really a great point. (Not specifically calling you out I just hear this all the time)

“Fauxagile” *is* agile, because thats what the majority of places in reality do.

“Agile” needs a complete rebrand.
You can also tell it's made by programmers because of the en passant "feature", which clearly only exists due to the programmers' incomplete implementation of the 2-square first move.
https://www.oidaisdes.org/native-dialog-element.en/

covers it pretty well.

it's not accessible... yet!
Fortunately the competition is busy scoring an own goal with Windows 11