skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Companies are not incentivized to produce incompatible cables, the industry has done a remarkably good job of settling on basically a single standard"

If constrained to cell phones and tablets only I might sort-of agree with you, but right now the rest of the industry is fragmented to the point that it's not advantageous for any vendor to have its own weird cable except for Apple.

Even still, laptops can charge and dock via USB-C but they still often have their own weird-ass connectors and chargers.

But this also ignores the pre-Android years of every cell phone manufacturer having their own chargers, etc.

"Would the amount of charging cables you have purchased in your lifetime even fill up one regular-sized (13 gallon-ish) trash bag?"

If we're only talking about cell phones, close but no. But if we include similar devices that have used similar chargers and now use USB-C (ebook readers, MP3 players, tablets, handheld gaming devices) then yes. Easily.

Starting in the late 90s, I've owned something like 15 cell phones, and I think ~10 of them had unique chargers. Several MP3 players starting with the Creative Nomad and ending with a Fiio X5 (I think? I lost it on a plane). Three or four handheld gaming devices including a Sony PSP, IIRC.

And that doesn't include things like smart speakers (Amazon Echo devices now use USB-C I think? But the first few didn't), and a slew of other devices that could've used the prevailing standard (USB micro or mini or now USB-C) but didn't.

And that doesn't even include the parade of assorted data connection cables...

And, finally, that is only my personal use. I have a family, so when I say a "staggering" amount of waste I'm taking into account all of the various unique and now dead-end devices/connectors/cables that my wife and kids have churned through.

So - would I trade the potential for innovation on the off chance someone is going to come up with a super-duper nifty new cable vs. having a legislated standard? Yep. Happily.
3. anti-theft. AFAIK the way that anti-theft features are implemented in android is that the owner's google account information is stored on a partition that survives a wipe, but the actual enforcement of the anti-theft feature is done by the OS itself. If you flash a third party os (eg. grapheneos), you can bypass it. Having phones being "unlocked" in the warehouse or during shipment increases their value to thieves, because they can easily bypass any anti-theft features.
In the described use-case, you don't have to re-pair your phone, you just turn the speaker on and it reconnects automatically. Both phone OSs work that way, reconnecting automatically to known devices.

Also, the daily briefing is a different use-case than was described above, where the GP commenter just wanted to play music.
And this comment is being down voted for expressing hope that something important will find its way to the Linux kernel soon.

So confusing.
+1 for this request. McFly user, keen to know to difference
What happens when a malicious program figures out the syscall-pattern equivalent of a "pretend I'm a a hypervisor" prompt?
https://swiftui-lab.com and https://swiftwithmajid.com have been a great help.
Most USB-C devices and cables are USB2. Most USB-C phones are USB2, and there are a lot more phones than there are laptops with USB3 USB-C.

It is probably better to think of USB3 as extension that requires special, shorter cables. I like to think of them as charging cables and data cables.

I probably have two USB3 USB-C cables for MacBooks (and I found one that is 6ft long) and dozen USB2 USB-C cables for charging phones and MacBooks.
LattePanda Sigma – A Hackable Single Board Server with Mighty Power
Boss mode activated.
At least $200 to $250 per visit. Female realtors used to spend $1000 a month every month in 2008, based on a conversation with a female hair stylist. That's the Bay Area rate in 2008. Now add inflation.
The performance issues aren't with the measurement requests but with reporting.

When I eval'd it for my book last fall there were big delays in reporting waiting for segments and then also issues with custom reports. I think they have changed the default behavior to get around some of the former, but with MySQL it's always going to be tough for larger queries.

(if there's any performance issue on the measurement side it has more to do with the JavaScript payload because they include a lot in their standard JS bundle).
In the example above the parameters are in the clear and only inputs and outputs are encrypted!

That being said you could probably do the reverse and encrypt the parameters of the model and not the inputs/outputs if you are deploying the model directly to the client.
On my most cynical days all I see agile/scrum used for is a selfish tool to appease stakeholders anxiety that their directives are being worked on by the demanded date and to give the micromanaging admin types something to do. It seems to effectively transfer the stakeholder level anxiety directly onto the people doing the work.

Also you’re not “too old.” It’s called wisdom to see through the emotional manipulation for what it is. That clarity can be punishing when you don’t want to just go along with it and the toxic positivity pushed in the corporate world.
i use it for some small projects or features where i know what i want, but not sure the best way to implement it. for instance i had a project where for scanning purposes, i needed to copy roughly 50 container images from google container registry to an in house azure container registry. the process was taking quite a while as we transferred roughly 70gb worth of images.

i asked chat gpt to take my script and modify it to utilize multi threading. i had used threading in a project years ago, but couldn’t remember exactly how to implement it. it gave me some snippets that got me 95% of the way there, just a couple small tweaks and it was good to go
Waiting for a Rust compiler, written in Go.
Will that take months, or years? If she appeals every decision, could she stretch that out for years?
I’m using Nest without a Google Account. It nags me to migrate but I’ve never done so. I deleted my Google account because I was using a custom domain and Google moved that functionality to Workspace and wanted to charge for it, while half of Google products don’t support it fully and there was no migration path to a regular account. I could pay for something broken or loose all my data. So I wrote some scripts and migrated to iCloud.
The lockdown was a difficult but highly unusual event. However, it also wasn't nearly as extreme as you describe: people didn't live in cages and they didn't starve.
I think it’s more helpful to try and quantify that though, rather that just leave a vague “sometimes” response.

For example, one thing I look for is when the model can not explicitly express all of the states that we now need, and as a result the code has developed various “hacks” that try and simulate the additional states. This code tends to look like “guesses” or “assumptions”. For example, “if not red than blue” or “if no records than user is still on step one”. I tend to see developers spending hours in that kind of code, trying to confirm that the assumption is still always the correct one to make, or trying to shoehorn in another state,
and it’s just a horrible time-suck. Improving the model at this point generally pays off in time saved puzzling.
mRNA vaccines are a huge deal. I don’t think it would be fair to call them incremental.
But there's loads of stuff like that. "Take a shot" and "take a bullet" (pretty much covers both ends no less)
ICEVs are absurd by modern standards, but sonically speaking the 917 has nothing on the 787B:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjwwV20iZYE
I think Russia has done a wonderful job of that itself. Why would Germany ever want to depend on Russian gas again, if it's just another lever for extortion?
Ukraine war: 'Mad panic' as Russia evacuates town near Zaporizhzhia plant
The State of Work in 2023
With 5g you can potentially sidestep hospital IT departments with a network connection that's outside their control.

Also, it may be bold to assume that WiFi as offered is a practical option.
> If something is a library, why do you want autoloading anyway?

What? Bundler always "auto-loads" all of your gems automatically anyway—that's the whole point of the require: statement. If anything, thinking about lib/ code as library code makes it MORE obvious that it should be autoloaded—why should gem "papertrail" and lib/papertrail.rb ever behave any differently? Both should provide Papertrail constants to the rest of the application.
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Weren't Merkle trees popularized by git?
If you see it more from the perspective of what value these markets actually contribute to the world, then he's spot on. I cant count how many times an open source alternative has saved me from the price gouging tactics of some seedy firms that cornered or bought out an entire market. At least socialists believe in and contribute to something higher than themselves for the benefit of all, even if their implementation is sometimes poor.
The power of peer networking for improving STEM faculty job applications
Related:

Dave's Garage YouTube Channel (David Plummer) - The Sigma: The Most Powerful Single Board Windows PC:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggy378_K9Zg
Yup, I spotted that two.

He correctly divided by 2, though.
I love the sound of that wankel engine
I thought the same but checked all the known SNPs for my genome and did not find any. Maybe I should check again.
Being able to rent computers by the hour was definitely a big change.
California's epic snowpack is melting. Here's what to expect
"Low cost" is still 300 bucks. That's very expensive.

I wish this tech would come down a bit so it would enable a whole new range of applications that weren't possible before due to the price.
This article has more information, like how she got on TV, while the first link says they don't know.
I've been keeping a track of all Chris Lattners answers, you'll find details on that here: https://mojodojo.dev/general/chris_answers.html#adding-a-new...
Just disable website search or change the search parameter inside website settings to stop Matomo from interpreting the 'q' parameter as search.
This depends on the legal system. Not all legal systems are like the US, some have different burdens and put those burdens on different parties.
Ask HN: Has any of you dropped out college because of failing grades?
I myself did. I've always found it puzzling that the English Language doesn't have a special word to distinguish those who drop out to work/pursue another path, and those who drop out because of poor academic performance. Please, news outlets, don't compare me to Steve Jobs.

I'm looking to go back to school, but I still don't know what I want to pursue. I'm looking for inspirational stories about people who went back to College after their first time didn't work out due to bad grades.
4-rotors not so bad, most of the sound in that video is straight cut gears

Ferrari had a 2 liter V8 in the 208s that sounded way cooler than it was.

My list would probably include the Pagani Zonda for Mercedes v12 goodness.

Also the Carrera GT and the Lexus LFA are v10 cars known for their unique wail.

Love the sound of a screaming 6 like a Honda cbx as well.
While I completely get what you're saying it's not really fair to expect Emacs to be compatible with systems that came after it. If you going to work in Emacs you have to pretty much work on its terms, which I think is fairly reasonable and speaking only for myself, I found very worthwhile.

If you think it would make it more accessible to have certain changes, email the Emacs issue/bug people with constructive suggestions and see what they say; they are extremely responsive (then try doing the same with Apple or Microsoft and see what happens :-) )
* It sounds like it an NBOME, which is known for being less forgiving at higher doses than LSD. I think the lesson here is to test your drugs.

* I've also noticed people that are interested in tripping multiple days in a row tend to have worse outcomes than those that pace themselves. He credits the second trip with developing the problems.

* His primary complaint before he started taking drugs is that trauma lead him to become withdrawn. His primary complain now is that he feels a tendency to withdrawal from his family. It sounds like his biggest problem is the same before and after HPPD.
Not the parent, but you are correct in that NP-Hard includes also harder problems than the problems in NP. "At least NP-hard" is just "NP-hard".
Benevolent dictatorship is the only way.
Ask HN: What should I do to land a “non-trivial” remote job?
I started my job searching nearly 3 months ago, and did not have great success. I have around 3 years of experience, mostly in the backend spectrum and can do some frontend/DevOps/platform stuff if it is needed. I found my solace in functional programming, and exploring programming language theory (interpreters and compilers), and really want my next job to be either:

- In a functional programming language (I can do Clojure and OCaml semi-well), or

- Allows me to dive deep into interpreters, or compilers, or anything that is more challenging than backend data gluing

I implemented a related side project (a toy Lisp interpreter in OCaml), but was not sure if it helps. Networking does not work for me, as most jobs in my country are the typical data gluing ones in popular languages. I figured that my choices are in remote jobs, but I have a hard time finding/applying to them.

What else can I do, HN?
The video is in Japanese, and the original paper is locked behind a research wall.

TLDR (from Hypebeast article): The results found that the coolest shirt was white, followed by yellow, gray, red, purple, blue, green, dark green, and black in that particular order. The temperature difference between the shirts was quite drastic, with the white shirt registering 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit), and the dark green and black shirts registering above 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit).

Fluffy articles on the paper:

* https://hypebeast.com/2021/8/japanese-researchers-test-color...

* https://ca.style.yahoo.com/japanese-research-what-colours-cl...
Sure but I guess I mean the nature of that task probably made them the wrong architectural choice.
> On the other hand, successfully publishing in a prestigious journal, would still be prestigious even if it was done for free.

As long as the prestigious journal doesn't balloon to a million pages per issue.
I guess you either like the buzzy sound that rotary engines make or you don't. As someone who's been to the 12 Hours of Sebring a bunch of times, I'm not a fan.
I find the repl invaluable for writing unit tests. I think about what I want to test, try it out in the repl, refine it for better generality, and then basically copy/paste it into a file full of unit tests.
The fact that my headphones, laptop, telephone, and even my electric shaver all use the same (usb-c) charger now is a complete game changer. I can't imagine what kind of hubris Apple has to not snap to that.
https://archive.is/nshRv
How to teach ChatGPT to come up with Google formulas
Dr. McCoy’s medical instruments on Star Trek TOS include artsy salt shakers. This sort of thing is very common. https://www.cbr.com/tv-legends-revealed-were-mccoys-star-tre...
That paragraph is a logical fallacy. To compute a cost/benefit analysis for something you have to include all the costs, not just one. There are many papers like that one covering many different side effects.

Note that there was an attempted discussion of that paper on HN but it was immediately flagged to death. It always happens for every such paper. People still aren't ready to do a full and honest accounting. Probably they never will be.
The article didn't touch on a single thing related to pandering to governments. Could you explain the connection?
I presume you can still email the author for a free copy.
My main problem is with the “driven” part of “test driven”. I’m fine with aiming for pervasive coverage etc., but I disagree that tests are this amazing software design tool that the test-driven ethos seems to put forth. There’s something off in the cart vs. horse equation with that.

I also work in a REPL. For me, design usually starts well before code. Then the REPL will take me towards defining behavior via understanding and exploring particulars around a solution or set of alternative solutions. Then as some final step, I will assert that it does what it should do, and guard against possible future changes violating some assumption.
But carrier locking is irrelevant, as the article is about bootloader locking.
Well, movie portrayals of anything are generally not accurate at all.

I would say that infections from battle wounds are probably more likely, but that probably has more to do with the surface area and size of the wound and health leading up to the battle. A big scratch from a briar or a chicken might bleed a lot, but the wound will be closed fairly quickly. A big scratch from a sword is going to take a lot longer to close, and you might have been near-starving and short on sleep for weeks beforehand and have been crammed in tight conditions with 10k other guys.

That said, it's still greatly exaggerated to say a war-wound is guaranteed death. People got hurt in battle a lot and generally made it out OK. You can find lots of famous examples where even to me it's quite shocking they were able to survive at all without modern medical care. For example, not only was the hard-partying Alexander the Great wounded about a jillion times in battle, one of his last battles involved a punctured lung. It probably eventually contributed to his death sometime later, but it's surprising to me he even lasted the night!
i was involved in the assset-categorisation of my family's ~130yr old UK funeral directing business prior to it's sale to a "funeral conglomerate" in the mid-90s. deep in the basement (of a basement!) in the family "brownstone", we found a fake coffin. seems it was made by the family firm (we used to actually make the coffins back in the day) for a local vaudevillian/magician in the very early 1900s, who never actually came back/paid for it -- which is why i assume we still had it? it was full and structurally complete when we discovered it, worked just fine after being emptied of a few rolls of wool (we assumed for death pillows). i was a teenager then, wish i had had the wherewithal to take some photos! after we dragged it out, we had a good couple of days of fun playing around with it, seeing how it worked, trying it out, and even sleeping in it! TL;dr it had a smoothly-weighted raised sliding false "third bottom" that slid in between two layers that made up the upper two thirds bottom. it was a much darker wood than the usual coffins, which always surprised me. perhaps coffins were much darker a century earlier?
Unfortunately it's often not entirely up to the company to decide. They likely use components and software written by various other companies which require strict controls over who may have access to it. The nature of those contracts would have to change first.
We would need a Fanless Laptop to compare it to an M2 MacBook Air. Giving both similar cTDP range.
Show HN: Origami Inspired Wheel Structure – Actuation Mechanism
Origami is an ancient paper folding technique that makes it simple to build and actuate devices ranging from small, scalable, and inexpensive robots to deployable engineering applications. The project describes the creation of a bistable origami-based changeable wheel transformation made by folding sheets of paper coated with various materials. The Waterbomb structure or Magic Air Ball pattern inspired the origami building block structure. We create a support shaft chassis construction with a double rack and a single pinion mechanism that retains the origami-inspired wheel and further modifies its shape. The project also presents a geometrical study of these structures based on linked joints and hinges. MATLAB was used to solve the geometrical equations leading to a range of values under the assumption of given dimensional constraints.

This project lays a groundwork for future research in the field of development of wheel structure for various robotic applications in space targeting mini-scouting rovers which traverse along with a parent rover to the region of interest sites.
The Internet forgives you. THIS time. /s
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When the Mexican fisherman parable breaks
For whatever reason in vim 9 and my astro nvim I can’t get the above command to work :shrug:
It's also lowish-cost for the field and is possible because the tech has come down quite a bit, which enabled a whole new range of applications that weren't possible before due to price. ;)

But I assume the chinese parts at least will continue to become cheaper, although afaik they are currently not as available as individual parts vs complete devices.
I agree with the contrast rebellion

But it’s a bit ironic that this website is impossible to read on mobile because the font is TINY - my other massive pet peeve as a person without particularly good vision.
Yes, but that doesn't mean it may not also be forgotten, other than as part of computer history. These LLMs have multiple uses, and the use cases aren't going to go way, but LLMs are very primitive as a type of AGI and will soon be surpassed, and "ChatGPT" as a brand may not last too long either. After all, who nowadays really remembers early pioneer computer products like Lotus 1-2-1 or WordPerfect .. the genres persisted, but those specific products are only remembered in historical context.
Google has done the same thing to Nest Secure. I removed an ADT system from my office because the monthly monitoring from ADT was $39.99 - the ADT system came with the office. I installed the Nest Secure cameras and system myself, even running USB power outside the office through the masonry. The monitoring was adequate - notifications sent to my phone - and Internet storage pricing was acceptable. But as of April 2024 the service is being shut down and I can opt to have an ADT system installed - a $485 value! - and pay a monthly monitoring fee. (Or I can receive a $200 credit on the Google store, presumably to buy some other technology they are going to sunset.)
The fonts on HN are a bit small. I have my browser set for HN to get a 125% magnification.

The comment text is a nice #000000, but the rest of the text is #828282, which is insufficiently contrasty. Lighthouse flags this, as well as some other accessibility issues.

I notice that on mobile the front page will sometimes have tiny text and if I reload then it will be larger. I'm not sure why the non-deterministic behavior there.

The line length of about 144 is uncomfortably long. It should be about half that. Line height of 1.5 would improve readability as well.
> The managers who are supposed to oversee the development

Yeah, I can understand kids wanting to play with whatever's new in HTML5 etc. But I don't get why the manager in charge of the project doesn't say "Yes, very cool; but it's unreadable if there's sun-glare. Fix it, please."

Well, I do sort of get it; the manager's a kid too, and he likes custom controls and "distinctive" typography as much as the developer, and doesn't know anything about accessbility. I'm not talking about real accessibility; I just mean ordinary people being able to access the content.

Yeah, you can say "fuck it, I'll go somewhere else". But a lot of sites that I rely on have unique content.
God forbid they’d have to cut the military budget and fire some bureaucrats.
Actually, during the Medvedev presidency, there were serious efforts to negotiate visa-free travel and reduced tariffs (which is the essence of what everybody wants, not full integration). If these things were granted, the revolution / civil war in Ukraine, primarily motivated by one part of the country mostly trading with Russia and the other with the EU, probably wouldn't have happened.
Unity's Shrinking Growth Story
No gods, no masters.