skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't share OPs view but I think it can make sense in a "murder is wrong, but murdering murderers isn't wrong" kind of sense.
There is a good article [1] just has been spawned on "New", maybe it answers your question.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35850843
USB-C could have used the lightening but we can thank Apple for that.

USB should have never existed, it was a scam by Intel (and Microsoft) to put the PC at the center of everything. In a non-dumb world, we would be using Firewire over something like a lightening connector. Jobs was too greedy with Firewire for it to be successful.
Maybe Civil law countries were right about this and you shouldn’t be able to change your name without a significant reason.
Hi there!

That university project sounds fascinating! Combining it with ReRender AI would indeed open up new possibilities for exploring ideas.

As for my setup, I generate images using my own GPUs hosted on LambdaLabs, which I've found to be the most cost-effective solution.
> Perhaps the "benefit" you describe is only relevant because the proprietary Apple cable design is so poor?

No, the lightning connector's design is actually less prone to snapping than USB type c. Whether or not that it is an advantage is subjective, given that cables are inexpensive and the devices they're attached to generally are not.

In my opinion lightning is a vastly superior connector to USB-C. It's easier to insert and it's more robust and doesn't present issue if you do need to remove a snapped connector as was mentioned in the parent comment.

In an ideal world, Apple handed off the lightning connector off to the USB consortium and that turned into the type c connector. I don't know if there are physical limitations that would ultimately limit lightning, which has only ever gone as high as USB 3 speeds, but as far as using it on devices that I'm plugging and unplugging, it's much nicer.

As it is in the real world, it's a dead end and I am eagerly waiting to get rid of lightning so I can use one connector for all my portable devices.
Bernie Madoff received a 150 year sentence and died in prison. Hardly a slap on the wrist.
>then once they have cornered the market

Unless Spotify obtains copyright for all the popular music in the world people want to listen to, or media or whatever, I do not see how this is a possibility.

Currently, Spotify has to buy from the 3 big music publishers (which limits the amount of expenses it can reduce), and it sells to people who have the option from buying from at least 4 streaming services which are relatively trivial to switch to (which limits the amount of revenue they can earn). The exact opposite of the situation you want your business to be in.
Defending sociopaths while sounding like a sociopath is no way to go through life.
Unfortunately, in this regard what you pay for isn't what it seems. There's a reason that machine learning is moving fast as a field, and that is because for this field academic discourse happens primarily through pre-prints and conferences. This would stop if discourse moved to publishing via journals. This is because the publishing system is cripplingly slow, exploitative, and a perverse shadow of what it was supposed to grow to become.
> Isn't there a chicken and egg problem there - no one will release products with new power interfaces, because they aren't releasable in Europe.

Yes - seems plainly obvious to me.

What’s more, the more countries to implement this makes it more unlikely to see different chargers. Maybe a better charger is released in the US. Now what if the US bans it? Are they going to innovate for the Brazilian market? The regulation scales very poorly.
ChatGPT is really good at roleplaying
On your first point, you're wrong on the idea that laws of nature outweigh our written ones. Some things that nature allow us to do have been deemed illegal. It's just what it is. Copyright prevents you from making a copy in the legal sense of a book, or of software. Reading a book to a kid is a private performance, your retinas are memory, and the mirror is just a mirror.

On the whole thing about a contract needing to be agreed on, you're right. Some countries have different jurisprudence, but a shrinkwrap license is difficult to enforce. You need to have actively agreed to a EULA. But copyright law still applies, and you're not given the right to copy software through copyright.
Sure, hello! I'm in the process of enhancing the image's realism. Kindly allow me some additional time to achieve a more photorealistic result.
Wait until the elections
Debatable. The latest Cleveland Fed nowcasts have inflation forecast to dip just under 5% starting this month, while the federal funds rate is 5-5.25%. So in real terms, that’d be the first time it’s positive, and it’s still a very very low number.

If we get that recession, we could see those rates reverse and end up negative again before too long.
Still really bitter about Inbox shutting down. It was really good!
Some manufacturers have even introduced charging-only cables which don't even have the USB 2.0 wires. This isn't allowed by the specs, but that doesn't seem to be stopping anyone.
>the writings of someone who has never actually worked in the field.

I think it may be worse than that - I've had the fortune ('mis' or 'good') to listen to folks whose only experience with something was academic ... but at least they could parrot the Academia-Designed Best Practice™ when asked about something

This ... was totally different
We're actively working on developing the ability for users to upload floor plans and have our system generate realistic renders. This feature is definitely part of our vision for the future of ReRender AI. Stay tuned for updates as we make progress in this direction!
Let's say they want a ten year payback, and profit $20 a year on a .web domain, they need to sell about 625,000 domain names.
Re watched recently HaCF, supplementing it now with book "The soul of the new machine" which also enjoy. The book also appeared in last episode.
I got scammed to pay for things that were run down in the Airbnb the same way.

Host had a white couch with a delicate fabric in a rental beach vacation rental, already a bad decision.

I get there and we all comment on what a pity it was they picked that color because it had a record of every little spill on it. Not even coffee, just water or drinks, multiple spots. But we moved on and enjoyed our stay.

When we left we got a terrible “do not rent” super dramatic review with pictures that were trying to
Make it seem like we left a mess and stained the couch. The pictures were a chip on the floor, a torn trash bag trying to make it seem like we left it like that inside, you could tell they went to the trash bin outside to take the picture, the trash bins in the bathrooms with stuff in them (isn’t that what they are there for?), etc

They wanted $800!

Anyway I reply saying that the couch was like that and that the trash cans are there to have trash in them. Airbnb mediation made us pay half like they were doing us a favor, and left the bad review in our profile so now we can’t rent anywhere.

I’m back to hotels.
It's still substantially cheaper for Stanford graduates with friends on Sand Hill who can mumble the words "crypto LLM" than even the most ambitious Burundian with a great idea.
Ask HN: Anyone else lacking motivation during this time of layoffs?
I wonder if I'm the only one that feels this way. I suspect its a broadly felt phenomenon, based on the research on layoffs[1], of hurt trust, and demotivation among employees at large tech companies. Though nobody would publicly admit it (hence my throwaway account!). It's not exactly something you announce on slack when layoffs are afoot!

Before and early pandemic, I could at least suspend disbelief that I worked for a special place at my big tech company, who had a mission, or at least my group had a mission that someone cared about.

Now, I don't see any difference between a tech company, Exxon mobil, Coca Cola, or any other mega corp. It's all just capitalism. Yes, yes, I should have known all along.

It's hard to find motivation in such heartless times. When companies like Shopify layoff, even when performance is good[2]. Trust has been utterly destroyed. Even if probability is still pretty low I'll be impacted, I will know people impacted, it's simply hard to care about this company and what I'm building.

1 - https://hbr.org/2022/12/what-companies-still-get-wrong-about-layoffs

2 - https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/04/shopify-cuts-20percent-of-its-workforce-shares-surge-on-earnings-beat.html
You could vote for the candidates (senators, state and national, governors and presidents) that push for nuclear, building-heating-tech regulations, carbon taxes on food production and tell your friends and family about it.

If you have the means to, you can even donate.
Generators are common in... less developed economies, where blackouts historically have been, and continue to be, frequent. It's not a good sign that generators are becoming more common in the US. I'm not sure it's possible for an advanced economy to remain... advanced without reliable energy service.
Maybe gas pump sizes at gas stations are a better example?

I see pump dimensions in the law here but don't know if there was traditional regulation on fuel pumps being compatible.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/40/80.22
It’s all so exhausting, isn’t it? The PR machine, endlessly contorting reality. She can be a nice, caring person and still do lots of crimes and ruin the lives of others. This isn’t newsworthy; it’s a vanity project for both the author and the subject.
I think 5G is more of an enterprise technology than consumer tech. For me latency and "campus networks" (or simply the ability to apply for a license to operate your own 5G network in a fixed location) are the two most interesting things about 5G. Those are clearly valuable if you think about a production line of connected devices in some fixed geographic location (factory etc.). Pure download speeds etc. don't matter that much to me, 4G was already plenty.

The rollout is a bit curious though. In Germany providers are incentivised to connect people no cover area (iirc they have to connect at least x% of the population). Sort of makes sense but also cuts off potentially very interesting use cases (for example rural areas where 5G could be used for agricultural machinery).
Can you make a slightly crappier version with a much cheaper visible spectrum sensor? I don't know much (obviously) about how they work, but intuitively it would seem a bit weird to me if they just happened to be restricted to exactly the same part of the spectrum as our eyes as a hardware limitation. Can you ignore data about visible red and higher in firmware, and get a thermal image that's obviously not as good as a purpose-built sensor, but maybe useful for some applications?
FYI jepsen already evaluated the development build of Redis Raft and the write up was a good one https://jepsen.io/analyses/redis-raft-1b3fbf6

Will indeed be interesting to see the analysis once it becomes stable.
Also donating plasma was a better option than whole blood.
> the goal is to have industry-wide discussion on adopting new standards for everyone.

That’s not part of the regulation whatsoever

> If the industry will decide that USB-C isn't enough they will revise the standard.

But the industry doesn’t come together and pick a standard. The EU did. The closest industries came to picking a standard were freely choosing from many different formats that emerged.

Imagine what it would take for the executives at Apple, Samsung, Motorola, etc. to come together and all agree on some new format that perhaps one of them developed. Now consider that the EU would still have to approve it. The conclusion made from that Herculean effort might just be null and void. Also consider that this sounds a lot like is collusion. These companies would never get as far as sitting down with each other and are even less likely with this EU regulation.

What’s worse is this all completely subjugates new players, who may be more likely to innovate and which can’t abuse any existing user base, to the current phone market. They would never have a seat at the table.
Just use KNX. These proprietary single-vendor solutions will all turn into unserviceable e-waste sooner than later.
What technology has come out in the last decade that isn't an increment or miniaturization?
Clickbait regurgitation of a blogpost which explicitly did not say serverless wasa big mistake
There are millions of small businesses that have an online presence and no way to protect themselves against a physical building penetration.

Heck, most administrations can't. A small town city council cannot be expected to have the budget or expertise to deal with someone trying to break in.
When Connie Converse, the ‘female Bob Dylan,’ lived in NYC
> it can’t be sold in all the places that ban non USB C? How would you imagine that happening?

The same way it happened for microusb->usb-C. Think of the law as more of a "get along shirt" applied to misbehaving kids/companies than a specific ban/enforcement. The big players can still decide on a new standard and start using it.

The process would be something like this: someone has a need that usb-C connector can't solve, some working group makes a new connector, large phone producers agree to start using it, they start using it.

Also, just like with usb-C, we'd most likely see the new connector on the laptops before the phones. If some new capability is needed, phones are unlikely to be the initial devices to need it (given low power / small size)
I suspect in practice it would mean that the new standard would have to be backwards compatible with the old one to start with.
You guys have weird use cases.

My smartphone charges while I am asleep. I can't see a good reason to charge a phone during the day unless you are using gps navigation all day. That is the only usagr that drain battery a lot. But in this case that is usually because you are driving so the phone can be plugged easily.
We're missing a task synchronization server. we already have a Calendar synchronization server.
Nice one! No offense, but IMHO the most useful thing is the link to https://bigjpg.com/ (for image enlargement) as well as the other related links for https://jpgrm.com/ (for image cleanup) and https://jpghd.com/ (for image restoration).
I’m not affiliated with them and they seem to be from the same shady Chinese business, just posting them for reference and future use :-)
If I'm ever convicted of large-scale fraud / sociopathic crimes, I'd definitely like Amy to write a story about me.

> .. in 2017. They did not anticipate that she would be indicted. They did not anticipate that she would be sentenced to 11 years.

John Carreyrou's story broken in October 2015, and his investigations the next few years resulted in his book Bad Blood being released in 2018.

I expect everyone that read his original story, or any of his and other reporters' subsequent investigations, would have just naturally assumed indictment, conviction, and sentencing were inevitable - assuming some semblance of justice was involved.

And while we were finding out some of the awful truths, Elizabeth was of course already intimately aware of all of them.

So that claim is just ludicrous.

The author touches on the problem of how to trust someone who by all accounts is a pathological liar - but doesn't seem to have a good answer.
I love this approach. While the device is in use - it is ours, and you cannot open, repair, modify it of its firmware. When we discontinue it - it is your problem, we got your money, end of story.
Of all the ethics questions her story/life poses, the one that is bothering me the most - if she hadn't cheated wealthy investors, if she had only played with average people's health/wealth, would she have gotten this much attention? this much punishment? If the answer is a no or a maybe, then we have much, much bigger issues than one person being a fraud, sociopath etc

Another thing to think about - all those press fawning over her (similar to SBF), did those journalists do any due diligence at all? I understand doing good journalism is hard, but it is their moral responsibility to at least double check before praising someone as genius, savior of mankind or whatever else, isn't it?
Apple refused to implement mirco-USB when the EU issued guidelines to use USB because of electronic waste. Apple refused to even talk to the EU about it. So with Apple refusing to engage with the elected representatives of the EU then the EU got to the point of having to force Apple to engage; legislation.

TLDR: The EU wanted less e-waste. Apple refused to engage, so the EU forced them to engage or leave.
AMD promises its new laptop chips will crush the Apple M2 and it’s got receipts
Here's what I tried and recommend:

https://www.youtube.com/c/DANLIAOFreeToLearn - "Free To Learn Chinese", teacher uses a "natural method" where all of the content is in Chinese and most difficult words are paraphrased (HSK1-6)

https://www.youtube.com/@ShuoshuoChinese - similar but HSK1-4 and parts of the contents are in Chinese
What if we have exited that tech revolution era already? I don’t recall a lot of successful tech innovation or revolution in the last decade but I recall a lot of scams.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/froth.asp

And now we are about to get AI froth that will follow the same Gartner hype cycle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle

I wonder where you guys would place us now? I’d say Peak of Inflated Expectations since every other story on HN is about AI or large language models.
Just have Gordon Ramsay do it anyways.
“Help Me” Easy Button
pretty much - we don't adapt our form to our environment, rather when a problem arises we develop a technology that removes the discomfort we feel, which would otherwise act as an adaptation driving pressure. We develop our tech such that any segment can be readily learned as an isolated component, and as such our memory isn't under pressure to improve. We outsource memory to digital storage, and so there is even an allowance for memory to shrink.

Overall, all our tech looks at helping us not have to change, grow, or adapt. We want to live a life of comfort but comfort means no pressure and no pressure means no adaptation reinforcement of advantageous mutations, since what is most advantageous is being average in every way.
They’re saying the phone is always charged, because it charges when you put it down.
I get heated about this lol. If you really meant well, I'm not sure what to say. Try reading a comment before responding to it. My original comment was about the validity of an Orwell analogy, a point which you have absolutely refused to engage.

Calling you a troll was my most charitable reading of your obtuseness, because if you weren't willfully so, you must be either unconsciously so, or, well, just bad at reading.

If I'm a phrenologist, so is Orwell, and newspeak is not a valid analogy.
The revolution we Ade still in is the transistor and it started 60 years ago and probably has 40 years left to go.
If I recall correctly the EU explicitly and intentionally excempted wireless charging from this regulation.

The argument was that this technology is not yet mature enough to standardize and should be allowed extra time to develop further.

They remarked that in the future additional laws may be introduced if required.

This was a clear warning directed at the industry (read Apple) to find a common solution for wireless charging without additional regulations.

If they are unable to do so the EU is ready for round two.
The High Cost of Neglecting Low-Wage Workers
I think a good rule of thumb is not investing in any hardware which has its functionality depend on someone else’s RPC endpoint, especially for something as trivial as switching things on and off.
It never crossed your mind that there may be a reason that Apple does not want to use the USB-C standard for all its disadvantages over the lightning connector that they have now had for 11 years. Apple has had two types of plugs over 20 years now. Can you say that about Nokia? Samsung? Etc?
> The irony is that I believe the Lightning Connector, the iPhone connector, has been the longest standing standard connector (11 years now)

Not sure how that's irony, since the connector is proprietary and not an open standard, resulting in e-waste and expensive chargers.

Your argument would have more weight if they opened it up. Do you think Apple should have done that?
... all of it
It will crush a year old chip. (By a little.)

Competition is great.

Clickbait is not.
> About Spotify, which isn't failure

Is that true? They are still losing money after, what, 10 years?

I like Spotify but I don’t think they are out of the woods yet.

Just like I wouldn’t call WeWork (isn’t a failure) in 2018.
Actual TED2023 talk according to https://conferences.ted.com/ted2023/program, apparently there was some confusion by the video uploader.
The Rocky Horror Coffin Clock
Using the lightning cable has more onerous standardisation and compliance requirements (not all of which are purely technical requirements) than USB. This is one of the reasons that there is less availability of lightning port accessories.
I don't know whether they had lower margins, but they used CDs, which were cheaper to produce than the ROM chips which were so far common for consoles (N64, SNES, Mega Drive, NES, ...). The price of those did go down a lot over time (early NES cartridges had 4 KB, early N64 cartridges 8 MB, a 2000 fold increase), but not quite quick enough apparently. High cartridge prices were not limited to Nintendo.
Did you talk about these issues with your line manager? What was their reaction?

A good manager will be flexible in these scenarios.
Interesting. I think when an author says "X comprises Y and Z”, they assert precisely that Y and Z constitute X, that is, are the only parts of X. Otherwise the author should have written “X contains” or “X includes Y and Z”.
Synthetic gasoline promises neutral emissions –- but the math doesn’t work
We are also changing because of technology.

The food we eat, the drugs we get, the lifestyles we have, the air we breath- are all different and make us different people than prehistoric humans.

For better and for worse.
A "demo creator" strikes me as a bit of an oxymoron, demos are usually all about demonstrating knowledge and programming acumen of the target machine, using a generator to do all the work of making a scrolling message on a static background seems a bit like trying to open an art gallery selling clipart.
It’s older from the first dot com bust, but I would highly recommend startup dot com as well.
That used to work but current block filters analyse js variables and url parameters and are much harder to circumvent.
Very easily. There's no baby formula shortage in the UK or EU, so why not pass emergency legislation that allows them to provide the US market and pay the EU/UK producers up front to ramp up their production until the issue is resolved.
It’s just non-stop mask wearing. The mask of the CEO, and now a different mask. Can’t hold her responsible for the CEO stuff because that was a different person right?
Fastmail has a pretty good calendar when you get subscribe for email. My main complaint is who don't use embedded calendar links and instead send you .ics files or force you to use Google Calendar.
The Pillar Box War
AFAIK MSI didn't announce, the hackers leaked the keys themselves as a public service. For all we know MSI was still hoping to reach a lower ransom amount and then never disclose that the keys were most likely sold in the exploit market.

I think we have to assume Intel was willing to put together a broken system with total incompetents. I think the US is better off with foreign chips watched closely than Intel watched poorly.
As someone not living in the US, remote work is a plus for me.
Do you know of a good, lower-price substitute?
Used to listen to it. Stopped because I cannot stand Marco Arment.