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99% of solar/battery systems will work just fine with no internet connection.

In fact often the internet connectivity is a separate plug-in module you can just not install.

Loads of these devices get installed into garages and suchlike where the wifi is no good, so most installers will know that their systems can work without internet connectivity and will be used to installing them that way.
Yes, everything. There is only one instance as of now.

The activity of bluesky is highly variable, seems to be very US based right now at least.
what advantage does the lightning cable afford? doesn't seem that Apple has really put their foot on innovation
What accessory makers? The only thing lightning is used for these days is charging. I can’t imagine that charging cables is a huge money spinner for apple.
imagine you are in the singularity and waiting for the dust to settle
this might be a way to improve the default nix toolset in a way worth globalizing, it seems like it has the same philosophy. Discovering missing tools... it's like discovering new primes :)
As others have mentioned, security is not just about connecting to a vpn. Bare in mind that the IT department has to take care of hundrends of techologically illiterate pc users in their organization and they need as much remote control as possible and as much standardization as possible. I am not saying it's undoable to plug in a linux pc in there, I am just describing some factors

Depending on what work you do exactly and how beefy your machine is, you can spin up a virtualbox with linux to do your job. I had such a case and did my work just fine.
> They also manage the review process (screen papers, find reviewers, communicate with authors and reviewers),

They do not. That's the editor's job, and Elsevier journal editors are unpaid volunteers -- as the Guardian article correctly pointed out.

> A half-decent review can easily take 3-4 hours, and a typical paper gets 2-3 reviews, so something like 8-12 hours of PhD-level labor which are not currently compensated.

It generally takes much much longer than that.

The average article in Neuroimage is 14 pages long (~ 10000 words), not counting references and declarations. Pure reading, single-domain, technical: the chart says 10k words will take at least 60 minutes. And you'll definitely need to read the article more than once while doing peer review.

Then you'll need to look up references, do some sanity check calculations, evaluate artifacts if available, scrutinize figures, and unless you're up-to-date on all recent developments of the field, probably read at least one more article on prior work just to understand what's going on. If unusual methods were used in the evaluations, you have to understand these too, so better add a few more days.

And you still have to actually write the review: at that point, you only have some notes and scribbles! In neuroscience, we're talking about at least 2-3 days of FTE work. And that's only the first round of reviews. About 80% of articles go through multiple rounds of review-response, according to Neuroimage's own statistics.

In other fields, review times might be significantly longer (weeks, or in mathematics even months, instead of days).

Elsevier profit margins are 40%, according to their own admission. They could afford the costs of compensating this labor. But why would they?
That's really weird, but I remember in the past there were some older usb-a ports that did not send enough power to charge some stuff, perhaps your headset requires a higher current than the controller or something.

Here I can charge my laptop (although slowly) via the usb-c on my PC. All other devices work fine too.
BusyCal shows both calendars and Apple Reminders items, and it’s way more sophisticated (different calendar views and filters, for work and private, for projects, etc).

Love the app, on iOS and Mac. Because it’s got a more sophisticated view on my Reminders. In today‘s view it‘ll group the reminders based on the list or other aspects.
Truman Capote once said (of actual writer Jack Kerouac), "That's not writing, that's typing."

Junk like Buzzfeed news and similar sites that just regurgitate other content existed before ChatGPT, I guess those serve some purpose, though I've always thought they mainly exist to host ads and to trap people in a maze of links and pop-ups. ChatGPT can write that junk just as well as a person.

At this point LLM-produced "writing" sticks out because it has no voice, it just repeats and walks around some point derived from the prompt, like someone summarizing Wikipedia articles. I will just click off of that stuff until I find something written by a real person. I hope more people do the same. The novelty will wear off sooner or later and we'll recognize LLM-generated writing as nothing more than vapidly useless filler. In a culture schooled with writing presented as a chore, where the number of words in an essay matters more than an original thought, LLMs promise to relieve a lot of people of the burden of thinking and writing.
Right, Blue sky is invite only, and has just started out. And like you, I strongly prefer Mastodon, but if Blue sky helps organize us into a post Twitter world so much the better.
> It was known that there were people in the British Isles before the arrival of the Indo-Europeans. It was not known that these were the Picts

I don't think that the article supports the theory that the Picts were descended from the pre Indo European population. It's actually somewhat unclear on this

> The analysis revealed that Picts descended from local Iron Age populations, who lived across Britain before the arrival of mainland Europeans.

Iron age populations on the British Isles and Ireland are generally associated with Celtic, Indo European, cultures. The Iron Age in Scotland is generally considered to have lasted from around 700BC to the start of the Medieval Era.

The pre-Indo-European populations would date from the Bronze age and the Mesolithic - which the article makes no mention of, so it's not clear what relationship the Picts had with the populations before the arrival of the Indo-Europeans.

In any case it's not widely believed that there was an "Indo-European" invasion, or arrival. Instead the genetic and archiological evidence points to a diffusion of small groups across Europe which seem to have spread their culture and language by "elite capture" rather than by wholesale population replacement.

The general consensus until now is that the Picts spoke a variety of, or something closely related to Brittonic, the Celtic, Into-European language spoken across the rest of Britain at the time, ancestral to modern Welsh.
But the "process" is still "secret", and the whole issue is the shadow around this, gov agencies or corps, same same. At the time I was seeing "computer security" people: namely at the time I did learn deliverable "security" is a fantasy, some said they were "pressured" by some corps to shut up with significant help from the authorities.

There is only one way to do that safely: immediat full public disclosure. Corps and govs have to be ready for that all the time, this is a significant part of their job.
The real issue is the trust about the source of "vulnerabilities", because upon publication, it must be validaded by competent ppl, and here we go again in the shadows where things could become "delayed" indefinitely (I guess as long as possible).
>It seems now however a simple app on a phone could do the hearing test and then match up what the patient needs with an open sourced hearing aid.

I would bet a lot of things could be done by regular people with proper software support. Having licensed gatekeepers raises prices for the service. Since you're excluding a lot of supplierd from the market.

The question is then why gatekeep at all?

With antibiotics for example, abuse and misuse can cause a lot of harm, so having someone gatekeep them, even if this raises the price of service makes sense.

But with a lot of licensed professions we're merely creating an artificial moat that increases prices in a market economy.
Same happened to me with investing in the Fitbit ecosystem. Hope they don't botch Reminders next with their migrations to Tasks
I don't understand how this relates to git.
Having your own GPU makes sense if it works out cheaper than the cloud equivalent (not just the GPU bit but everything else - bandwidth/storage fees, etc).

Given the prices of cloud infrastructure, it doesn't take much before walking to your local computer store and buying a GPU (or more!) becomes more cost-effective.
I had to delete the YouTube app simply because there was no way to disable Shorts. Those things are hopelessly addictive and unavoidable. If I wanted shorts, I'd install TikTok.
Your article is good but the callouts are barely readable on my iPad which is in dark mode and fairly dim because I’m reading in a dark room. A little more contrast would help a lot.

At the end you mention the lack of timer based triggers. You can do this with Shortcut personal automations. For example, I have a WFH focus mode. I run an automation at 8am on weekdays that checks if I’m at home and if I am, it turns on WFH mode until late afternoon.

My problem with your setup is that it doesn’t update the events when I modify or complete the reminders.
> Most of the time, you avoid problems of "PD device hierarchy" by using a proper charger (i.e. a device that only has the functionality to charge other devices).

The problem is with the "most", which means you can't count on it.

I have usb-c headphones that can be charged with my hp usb-c laptop charger (which is a "proper charger", I guess, since it only does charging) or from a regular computer usb port. They don't pretend to have any high-powered charge mode (manual says 3 hour charge time and "usb charging").

My usb-c ecig won't charge from that. It will only charge from either my pc's usb-a port or random "low power" usb phone charger.

I haven't tested it with any of the fancier high-powered adapters, since I don't own any. But, clearly, usb-c charging ports are not that universal.
They are and reek of chatgpt pr. Now the real issue here is that if the ceo of openai endorses such negative marketing you can only begin to imagine the kind of toxic person he is and the kind of toxicity openai is creating in the space. I am speculating of course but openai is promoted solely around this kind of publicity.
there is a saying in my country:

to get a nut tight: Tighten it until it loosens, then back off a quarter turn.

As it is pointed in the article, it really creeps up on you, and it is much harder to 'back off quarter turn' when the nut is broken.
Ah, you're right indeed. (As of course you, specifically, would be on this topic.) My mistake. Unfortunately I can no longer edit my previous comment to correct it.
I am always on a verge on burnout, and somehow I'm balancing that well, I suppose..
I wonder if anyone has done any studies on how many years it could stand unused without maintenance before some event would flood it.
The old Google Mini don't even connect to the Google Home app anymore, which is necessary to chain it to Wifi connection. For a <5 year old product - that's unacceptable
Yea. I moved to the KC area from Broomfield about 20 years ago. It is not terrible.
I haven't considered that it might be a joke...
This is not a burnout, this is depression.

Possibly one of most valuable things you can do is to focus on better quality of questions you're asking yourself in your inner dialogue when thinking about anything throughout the day.

I hate to say it but I do believe it'll help you a lot in this situation - brainwash yourself by listening to motivational speakers like Napoleon Hill, Brian Tracy, Tony Robins or any others (pick your best, it doesn't matter; ask GPT4 for a list if you want to explore more).

Do something random outside like going cycling on some local meetup.

If you're unable to do this kind of stuff, your top priority is to take professional help asap.
I'm sorry but I couldn't finish the article. Every incident described in the article is so similar to my childhood, that I was becoming restless, agitated and getting tears of anger and frustration in my eyes frequently. Even as I'm writing this, I'm half crying because I'm revisiting my childhood memories. My step father was almost exactly like the one described in the article. Always yelling at me, hitting me, threatening to kill me, beat me, kick me out of the house, starve me, lock me in a room. He'd even tell me that he wished I'd die. And every time I protested, I'd get my teeth kicked in. And my mother was right there, watching. She didn't raise a finger to protect me. Sometimes she'd blame me for this, telling me that I make him angry and that's why he hits me. She was also abusive towards me. I didn't know what I had to do to keep her from getting angry at me and hitting me. My protests were also met with "You're ungrateful" or something similar as well. My step father would constantly make mistakes and then blame me when consequences hit him. And my mother would actually take his side. I clearly remember several instances where he gave me incorrect information by mistake and then blamed me for not doing what he asked properly. This would then lead to him calling me useless, a burden, leach etc.

But, thankfully, I got out. And I am never going back. The only person in my entire family that I trust is my eldest sister. She's the only reason I tolerate the rest (from far away). Otherwise I'd have left the country and cut all ties with them. All I needed to hear was "It's ok to go against the wishes of your parents". My counsellor told me that in the second of our 8 sessions when I voluntarily checked myself in a psychiatric hospital because I'd been depressed and suicidal for the last decade (since I was 14). I've never looked back since.

My childhood has left a massive imprint on my personality. I have severe trust issues, generalized anxiety, repressed emotions. But I can say with absolute certainty that my life has exponentially improved since I left my home behind.
Here's a few accessories I can think of:

- headphones

- displays

- "gas station" chargers (for when you leave yours at home and just need something cheap)

- memory card readers

These are just the ones I own.
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Good point. Every superhero movie looks the same to me. I always assumed that was due to my age. The thought of LLM-generated "Marvel Universe" sequels going on forever seems depressing, though I long ago learned to just ignore that Hollywood compost bin.
That sounds like an excellent way to get people to give blood
True but many times helpful since that is the only way to get some relative cheap usb-c cables rated - and working -for 100W charging
Stripe expands access to its crypto onramp with a new hosted option
That makes no sense.

If USB-C is mandated, there will never be a newer standard to replace it, because no company will invest any time or money into developing it as it would not be legal to ship it until it’s blessed by the government and it won’t be blessed until it’s got a critical mass which it can never have!

If the rest of the world mandated the Micro-USB standard at the same time as the EU previously, we would never even have USB-C! No one would have bothered to invent it.
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>It's not like they'll blow up in your ear

I mean there is still product safety laws for this, which I would hope are enforced. But they should be just as strict as for your earphones.
I am in no way trying to invalidate the anguish that the author or people in this thread have suffered. I simply want to share my experience with having parents that beat me in a culture where it is commonplace.

I grew up in a Muslim country where I and everyone else I knew received the same level of physical punishment as part of the general parenting strategy. Some call this normalized child abuse - when I moved to a Western country for work and discussed this type of upbringing with others, they claimed I was abused and oblivious ("repressing"), and they seemed shocked at the fact that it didn't bother me or that it hasn't affected my relationship with my family. If I had been the only person receiving beatings and everyone else at my school was telling me I was being abused, I may have also deemed my father to be a monster, but I assumed the punishments were justified.

Someone may take this to imply that whether you see your parent as a monster or not depends on the context (on whether it is culturally acceptable or not) and that there is nothing inherently damaging about receiving beatings. Others may conclude that cultures where beating children is acceptable are barbaric and their children do indeed suffer lifelong trauma but manage to cope (if they do not seem to have been affected). I don't have enough data to draw any conclusions myself.

However, and this is my man point, a charitable view of the issue may at least make a distinction between parents who are intentionally hurting their children because of their own issues, and parents who believe physical punishment (or any form of a strict, stern upbringing) is a valid method for raising your children. Is it possible that the father of the OP, being Chinese, thought he was doing the right thing at the time?

One interesting thing I noted is that even in Western countries, beatings are more common and accepted in certain groups. Some Black and Hispanic friends of mine have joked about how hard their parents beat them, but I have yet to meet a White person who thinks of beating children as anything more than abuse.
> "Everyone saying the government will pass UBI. Lol. They can't even handle providing all people with basic Healthcare or giving women a few guaranteed weeks off work (at a bare minimum) after exploding a baby out of their body. They didn't even pass a law to ensure that shelves were restocked with baby formula when there was a shortage. They just let babies die. They don't care. But you think they will pass a UBI lol?"

i feel like they would almost have a point here if they could calm down a little
i love this. gives me a peek into the bluesky world while waiting for an invite.
You mean Gerolsteiner? Also, what Hydrotap machine are you referring to specifically? Zip HydroTap G5 CS? Just having this discussion with my wife and am researching options. Thanks!
Whenever I read "yeah no", it reminds me of HN comments from people disagreeing with someone. I have no idea when "no yeah" would be used though.
> limiting technical progress is not a good idea

If Apple is limited by USB-C then why do all their other current devices - where the EU never forced anything - use primarily (sometimes exclusively) USB-C?
Yes, that will be more than OK.

You will get a lot of people who will try to find all the theoretical reasons why this wouldn't work.

My recommendation is that you can try it out and use it until you encounter those problems, and then you reevaluate the situation.
...and that's bullshit, and should have never passed muster in a court of law ever. Period. Consideration and a meeting of the minds has always been essential to contract law.

The age of technology was not just a revolution in silicon, but a revolution in wholesale stripping of consumer riggts by buisnesses through legal boilerplate as supported by the United States judiciary's continued coddling of the interests of the tech sector to the detriment of everyone else.
Ask HN: Could LLMs be used for sandboxing programs?
Today I was thinking that for many programs, you could probably formulate some restrictions on what exactly they should be able to do using LLMs (access home/dotfiles/secrets, network, etc.)

It's cumbersome to set up the configuration for exactly the "expected" capabilities (at least I never bother).
So I was wondering, could one do something like trapping syscalls and using LLM as an exception handler for each category, until a complete profile is built for the program. After that, there should be no overhead for the LLM/sandboxer.

The top-level input would be something like "foo is a multiplayer game" or "baz is like youtube-dl".
If the target doesn't have BootGuard, you replace the firmware with one that pretends that Secure Boot is enabled even if it isn't and Bitlocker is unaware anything's changed.
As a truly absurd example of "if you give developers the option, they will abuse it" : I am not allowed to check the train schedules for the Slovenian national rail service on phone with a custom ROM (not even rooted).

Turns out, the company that got the tender to build it encrypted all traffic to the API with a custom encryption scheme and added three layers of obfuscation/anti-tampering (presumably) in order to make it basically impossible for another company to take over the app, guaranteeing all subsequent tenders go to them. The only even remotely sensitive thing - buying a ticket - happens in a WebView anyways, 90% of the app is just timetable data.
Would love to see this type of experiment performed across different dosages, 25 μg -200 μg. I think the "positive" effects would take a big, sudden drop after a certain threshold
I thought BlueSky was a protocol, not just a service. How can there be only one instance of a protocol?
I'm still not clear on why that's a benefit?

Nothing about the architecture of the protocol itself? Or better account migration or improved design of name conventions, or improved server performance?
75ug would definitely be 'noticeable' if you took it sublingual. But this was an IV so I wouldnt know how much dilution there would be before passing the blood brain barrier. My best guess is that it would lower effective dose and how strong thr initial onset was.
> Wasn't the dose high enough to be easily distinguishable from the placebo without any experience?

This was my first thought. There’s no way that anybody would mistake 75 ug of LSD for placebo.
FYI carriers like Verizon have also recently launched "home internet" products, which essentially are WiFi routers that connect to 5G.

[1] https://www.cnet.com/home/internet/verizon-5g-home-internet-...
I’m very thankful to people who write these things, because they helped me recognize burn out and address it when I was early in my career. I would not have handled it at all well without the pattern matching
Bluesky is the app/one UI. AT Protocol is the protocol. Currently there is only one widely used implementation of the protocol.

Probably because they're still working out exactly how federation will be added to the protocol.
It's not about the possibility but the ease of use.
ChatGPT doesn't do something new too, text were written before, but know it easier and faster for more people.
Show HN: Simple Git Workflow for Effective Teams
Hi HN,

My friends and I worked at Meta & Google. Once we’d left we realised a lot of the internal tooling didn’t have parity on the outside. Specifically, version control tools outside big tech are much harder to use than Google’s Critique and Facebook’s Phabricator, etc.

Git is powerful but notoriously difficult to use [0]. Existing Git clients don’t make life much easier, exposing all the complexity by default. In practice we don’t need an equally complex GUI, and version control can be much easier to use.

In our experience, it works best to expose a small number of features for an efficient workflow: commit, submit changes for review, and rebase (those are actively used in trunk-based development). Further, a “tree of commits” is a sufficient mental model, there’s no need to worry about branches, merges, etc.

We have built a simple prototype called TrunkFlow that works inside Visual Studio Code. It borrows UI from Sapling (which is similar to internal tooling at Meta) but is fully compatible with Git.

Would appreciate any feedback on the prototype [1] or on the challenges you’ve had using Git!

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25121416

[1]: https://www.trunkflow.com/