skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The law explicitly states that it has to be reviewed every couple of years to determine whether USB-C it is still the best choice, or there has been sufficient technological progress to warrant a switch to a newer standard.

But under these rules, wouldn’t that necessitate that a new standard develops and becomes the more popular one despite not being used because it can’t be sold in all the places that ban non USB C? How would you imagine that happening? It seems like in order for a new standard to catch on you can’t ban non USB C.

The more places that implement this non usb c ban the less a new standard can emerge. The regulation scales poorly in that regard.
Cheap money has ended, hasn‘t it?
If I recall correctly, the Memorandum of Understanding was basically "please come up with an industry-standard connector", not "use micro-B".
Europe is big, made of many different countries, with very different policies on public health care and very different standards for that public health care. For example, in Romania (part of the EU!), the big cities usually have good hospitals, but if you're in villages or smaller cities, good luck! Also, to be able to benefit from free public health care, there's a list of conditions you have to meet, it's not available by default to anyone. The requirements are quite reasonable (be employed, be on maternity leave, be in school, etc.), But there are people who are not covered.
I don't get why some of the commenters are so surprised by the article. There's a long history of newspapers showing the "human side" of famous criminals. Even Charles Manson got articles like these.

You should always apply a bit of Straussian reading to them. For example, note how in the opening sentences the author confirms that Elizabeth was faking her voice the whole time (as many have suspected). That's not something a truly sympathetic article would have pointed out.
The macOS Ventura review doesn't count?
You are probably in the US. In Germany usually each radiator has a thermostat and you usually do not have wall thermostats unless you have floor heating.

That being said, I’ve double checked and it is Netatmo [0] and not Nest. The point still stands, that some cloud based home automation devices behave stupid if they cannot talk to the server.

[0]: https://www.netatmo.com/en-gb/additional-smart-radiator-valv...
Atomic Network Unified Storage, that's where I pull my data from and it's where I shove it up.
The biggest unanswered question for me in recent years is how educated people with a tech background have trusted a big corporation which publicly stated years ago that they existence goal is to build the digital GOD (AGI).
It's beyond my imagination. The same with OpenAI craze now.
Why I would give my personal or corporate information to them or Microsoft?
To learn more about my process patterns and RLHF their models for free?
I understand the normies, they have no clue. But this?
I agree with the importance of standards, but..

The Edison screw works quite badly for LED bulbs commonly used today. The electronics are all buried in the base part, which has very limited cooling, so they get extra hot and kills the lightbulbs prematurely when the LEDs themselves last much longer. It is also not standardized w.r.t. voltages, power limits, etc, making it prone to user error.

The European and British plugs both have noticeable advantages compared to the American one, in that it is much harder to get shocked by them or cause arcing. Also, a universal plug would be much more helpful in a world with the same electric power systems everywhere, which is not the case.
HugNLP is a novel development and application library based on Hugging Face for improving the convenience and effectiveness of NLP researchers.
https://github.com/HugAILab/HugNLP
>bad at marketing

I am guessing maybe it's Apple's corporate secrecy that is the issue. Apple likely has a massive deployment of this tech.
I had an AirPort Express as an audio bridge to my stereo for years, maybe a decade? Thing was bullet-proof and the only reason I finally put it down was all the new stereos have built-in casting of some sort.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/203874699472 was great, had everything you could want in a compact size, and was compatible with the power adapter cables (which are still the same these days)!
The lightning cable has whatever you want on the other end. The only thing needed is a cable. I only want 1 port on my phone. I don't really care what that port is. I'm very uncomfortable with government mandated ports.
IIRC not all apple devices charge with lightning cables.

Even users entirely bought in to their ecosystem are forced to carry multiple types.
Spondylitis? I’m curious mostly because I received a similar story and diagnosis, but over the last 5-10 years have had multiple doctors second guess what may be affecting me.
In other words, if you look around for everyday things that substantially use quantum-mechanical effects, it's not just a laser pointer or a flash drive; it's also every green plant.
Hundreds of comments, apparently this news went around the world. I assume they thought at the time the Macs were needed for developing MS Office for Mac OS.
All the companies that have stellar net incomes and profit margins are more than 20 years old, except Meta which is about to turn 20 in a couple years.

The crop that came after that (Uber/Airbnb/Snap/etc) do not show the same, except maybe Bytedance, but their numbers are not public.
The beauty of EVs with respect to the grid is they present an opportunity to make our grid much more resilient and reliable, all while enabling renewables much greater percentages of our overall power generation. Renewables (well, specifically solar and wind) are very peak-y, with peaks that can overwhelm a grid and blow out transformers, and troughs that require additional power generation from other sources. This limits the base load power that can be generated from wind/solar to around 40% of total demand. Unless you have a way to store and retrieve power on demand. You’d need enough storage to handle roughly 2 days of power usage needs in order to smooth power usage to cover peaks and troughs. And, lo and behold, the typical EV car has enough power to cover a typical home for about 3 days!

If we incorporate inverters into home building standards today, we can guarantee that our EV fleet can be used to provide storage and auxiliary power for our grid and allow renewables to approach 100% of power generation. But we will need to deploy wind and solar in a distributed fashion so that power generation and storage is local to where the power is consumed. And a grid like this will be much more resilient to power outages and weather.
https://ourworldindata.org/its-not-just-about-child-mortalit... has life expectancies for age ranges from 1841 and shows a huge difference for a 5 year old. If conditions get worse with age then the average going from 55 to 82 (from age 5) could hide a lot of data about these disorders.
CADT again. Did they fixed the bugs in 5 ? Or are they rushing to be ahead of Gnome GTK 5 ?
The PCBs That Make Up the Electronics Core Module (ECM) of Ingenuity
Does anyone know why I would've stopped getting a daily google calendar reminder on February 21st? This is a bit before the rollover for personal accounts. It was to take pills that I need to take daily, and I think I missed several doses (not consecutively, I often remember without the email) before I realized that the email was gone, which is pretty frightening.
But then for those of us not in the EU, Facebook et al suddenly have access to a plethora of data they didn’t have before via side loading thanks to a European law.
> I'm sure it's because the number of people on 5G is drastically lower than the number of people on 4G/LTE.

5G has increased capacity over 4G, so even if all 4G users would switch to 5G, you will still have better service.
> Why do so many commenters on HN always sound so confident, yet none of them work in publishing?

I find this with almost any topic I am familiar with.

The absolute confidence with which certain things were stated on HN was completely different from my lived experience.

This made me start placing less value on HN comments, and going and reading up more when I found a topic interesting.

I also find comments related to a certain worldviews generally get voted up more.
Probably it's because of the HN demographic.
Looking at the user's reddit history, he was posting about writing his novels already years ago.
Can't help but think it would look like that Charlie Kelly scene https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1430367-pepe-silvia
I've seen it a couple times, but not with Apple cables. Some of the 3rd party cables have the exterior metal of the connector just sort of snapped/crimped/pressed on and that pulls off to be left in the socket. You have to dig that out before you can put a cable in. To make things more confusing, the broken cable end usually goes in, so the user tells you "I only have one cable that works and it doesn't charge."
I’ve always found the msdn documentation to be excellent. Although sometimes finding stuff can be overwhelming.
If every author did.

Do they owe you anything?
I used ChatGPT to generate stories. I'm not a writer or native English speaker, so it helps with wording and writing more fluently.

But it actually needs a lot of guiding and editing to get something you want. I'd say it's similar to code generation, LLM can generate something not quite right or just broken, and you need to ask to fix it or tweak the prompt until it gets what you need. Or you might need to combine pieces from separate generations.

So it seems strange a professional writer would get replaced with just ChatGPT and "$0 overhead". Maybe you could hire someone for less pay, but it's like hiring a ChatGPT-assisted junior dev and expecting good output.
Sociopaths can be very charismatic. Narcissism + confidence + lack of empathy makes them easy to like at first glance.
Yup metallic taste almost certainly NBOME or another RC.

But even so, I didn't have any of these side effects from NBOME, even temporarily. It was just a shorter, more chaotic acid trip with a different kind of visuals and more cohesive consciousness/memory.

I have no regrets about LSD or any other chems I experienced. In fact I credit them with enabling me to finally understand what love is (and isn't).
they probably kept the node_modules and .cargo directories
I’m still getting mine. Might be worth checking spam?
Well, that's the typical startup trajectory, isn't it? As long as the revenue goes up year-by-year (which seems to be true for Spotify), investors are happy to subsidize the net losses, then once they have cornered the market, they can get rid of as much costs as possible and raise prices as much as possible.

It's a fucked up system, but it seems most companies go through this.
Battery in the phone needs ~4.2V for charging. So you need conversion in the phone no matter what voltage you supply on the USB port.
BestBuy killed their IoT HomeKit compatible switches and stuff years ago, but they 1. still work and 2. still work with HomeKit if they were installed/connected before they took down the IoT servers.
$523 total? That's not my definition of affordable.
> For instance, a major selling point of Node was running JS on both the client and server so you can write the code once.

(I'm not actually arguing with you, just thinking out loud)

This is often repeated but I don't think it even close to a primary reason.

The primary reason you build JS web clients is for the same reason you build any client: the client owns the whole client app state and experience.

It's only a fluke of the web that "MPA" even means anything. While it obviously has its benefits, we take for granted how weird it is for a server to send UI over the wire. I don't see why it would be the default to build things that way except for habit. It makes more sense to look at MPA as a certain flavor of optimization and trade-offs imo which is why defaulting to MPA vs SPA never made sense now that SPA client tooling has come such a long way.

For example, SPA gives you the ability to write your JS web client the same way you build any other client instead of this weird thing where a server sends an initial UI state over the wire and then you add JS to "hydrate" it, and then ensuring the server and client UIs are synchronized.

Htmx has similar downsides of MPAs since you need to be sure that every server endpoint sends an html fragment that syncs up to the rest of the client UI assumptions. Something as simple as changing a div's class name might incur html changes across many html-sending api endpoints.

Anyways, client development is hard. Turns out nothing was a panacea and it's all just trade-offs.
There's also the guy who was driven to suicide.
You can theoretically use an electron cannon as a source of thrust, but that thrust would be very, very small. Even very real and large electric ion thrusters that power interplanetary spacecraft have thrust within a few N. And this is very far from the range of energies that photosynthesis molecules provides.
Many people asked and now I’ve managed to update the guide for macOS Ventura (13.3).

Be safe!
"full of app stores for firmware key updates, for your safety"
To the chagrin of most anti-PoW folks: I can ROI on new equipment in 60-90 days.

No miner of any scale is using air conditioning (compressor.)
As a society, we want to have a "portfolio" of research. We want short-term research with tangible results, moderate-term research that builds on the current state of the art and advances it, and long-term research that might pay off decades from now. You also want to mix in "moonshot" research that likely won't pay off, but if it did would be revolutionary. The proportion you invest in each is up for debate.

Generally, as the time horizon increases, risk increases, and it becomes less and less likely any particular research direction will pay off, but you still need to do it or you won't have anything after all the current directions have dried up, matured, or otherwise run their course.

I think the error people make is to assume academia is supposed to cover all three. Largely, academia covers long-term and maybe some moderate-term and moonshot. Short term is better handled by industry where there is a more direct measure of applicability ($$). But business is generally not interested in the longer term stuff because it is too risky.

So academia as a whole is about forming the bricks that industry uses to build useful things. While any particular paper is not going to be useful to society anytime soon (if at all), the aggregate knowledge will likely be useful at some point in the future.
I love this show, re watched it recently, but did not know this site. Thank you for sharing!
> Also kitchen nightmares/hotel hell for companies. It would be a hit, but without the woke American additions; just go full Ramsey UK style.

That's a great idea, would love that. What founder with experience has a good enough style/personality for this to work? Jobs sounds like he would be perfect for this, he loved berating people. But who could do the job today? Most founders today are too vanilla for it be interesting, at least their public persona.
But weren't those standards defacto? I share your penchant for the shape of a bulb socket and purposely bought a phone that still provides an audio jack... but afaik regulators never dictated those shapes.
I'm interested in people's experiences switching from Google Calendar to Fastmail Calendar. Is Fastmail a good replacement?

It sounds like basic calendar events will be unchanged by this (though I'm not completely clear on that), but Google Calendar is the only Google service I'm using regularly and I wouldn't mind getting off it.
You can get physical switches that are ALSO software controllable, which can be nice. Things like these: https://www.lutron.com/en-US/Products/Pages/SingleRoomContro...

So you can do "Siri turn all lights off" or whatever, and still be able to turn the lights on and off if the Internet is down.

Still on the fence if it's worth the cost.
Pretty much the entire cast was great, but the standouts were, IMO:

TJ Miller (Erlich)

Martin Starr (Gilfoyle)

Zach Woods (Jared)

Kumail Nanjiani (Dinesh)

(in roughly this order)

[Honorary mention: Henry Phillips (John, the datacenter guy)]
Clearly, speculative science fiction is not a safe topic for HN. Downvote noted.
There’s quite an interesting model by which the editors of a prestigious closed journal leave en masse and set up a new open-access one, hopefully transferring the prestige of the former one. Gowers wrote about it here (https://gowers.wordpress.com/2018/06/04/a-new-journal-in-com...). I’d claim that it’s mostly inertia that’s the problem. Prestige doesn’t require profit.
https://thestorytellers.com/the-businessman-and-the-fisherma...
That‘s what economic cycles are for. Too bad, we had to suppress them with free money during the last decade.
It's not the regulatory bodies deciding. It's the industry agreeing on when to move on. If they co-operate and design the new version in the open, there's no risk of wasted time. If they don't... it's a good lesson I guess.
Which is ultimately caused by the "attention economy" and that most providers don't get paid by their end-users but instead by advertisers. The service of let's say YouTube is not to provide a place for end-users to upload videos but to provide advertisers with a way to put their spam in front of eyeballs - the content that end-users upload is merely a necessary evil they'd gladly get rid of if they could find some other way of driving traffic to the spam.

Even in a perfect world where the DMCA is "balanced" and any abuses are properly punished, this problem wouldn't go away - the platforms will merely provide alternative means for advertisers (and anyone else who's happy to pay) - their real customers - to take down whatever content they want. It will merely become a bullet point in their list of features that they offer to paid customers, completely independent of the DMCA (and thus wouldn't be subject to whatever the DMCA says).
I just now asked a non-technical friend (who knows nothing about 5G besides it’s supposed to be better):

“5G towers are faster but they have less range. What problems would you expect when rolling it out across the nation?”

They identified all of the major ones in the article.

Just like many in tech did when 5G was announced.

And yet somehow we’re still here.
A standard on the 3.5 mm charger would have gated massive leaps like data transfers and lithium ion batteries.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19440443/

> Analysis of the mid-Victorian period in the U.K. reveals that life expectancy at age 5 was as good or better than exists today, and the incidence of degenerative disease was 10% of ours.

You see this basically throughout history except in very bad times like famine or major plagues, or were there is persistent dietary issues as we introduced in the late 19thc, or early on in the switch to farming. Rural areas also tend to do better than urban.
OP’s comment is “just asking questions” couched in a folksy, disarming manner, intended to seed doubt about adjuvants when the word they were feigning ignorance of is “antibodies.” This is slightly more sophisticated than normal anti-vax comments, but is too cute by half.

I too have had to learn about adjuvants recently, straight up because of a new (new to me, anyway) wave of anti-vax sentiment specifically framing adjuvants as sinister. The last six dozen ingredients/compounds deemed threatening have not found widespread traction; this is the latest attempt.
Google still famously uses a monorepo. With lots of heavy set-built tooling, their own variant of Bazel for builds, it works well. I imagine a lot of engineering effort goes into making it work.
Many users report being filered out when connecting from a VPN:
https://community.openai.com/t/access-denied-you-do-not-have...

This was typically a blocker for me, I do not surf with direct connections...
People keep repeating this but how frequently do USB C ports actually break?

Anecdotally, I had horrendous issues with mini USB but I've never had a micro USB or USB C port break. I'm not particularly gentle with them either, I've had the female end come out of the cable boot/snap off and the cable stop working due to strain on the boot.

I don't know anyone who has experienced this personally and I can't recall seeing any anecdotes of it actually occurring in the HN threads where it's brought up.
Easily creating a back end for static sites with Airtable
> most of innovation comes from small startups

Right, just like how USB-C was invented by small startups like AMD, Intel, Apple, and Google. Before standardization the only "innovation" we were seeing was how many obscure connector shapes people could come up, all using the same voltages and currents.

> something that is illegal to put on the market

It is not. You can 100% put something on the market which has both your MagicConnector 3000 and USB-C.
For more information on the actual issue this comment mentions:

The page applies `overflow: hidden` to the root element, which isn’t a very good solution to the “you shouldn’t be able to scroll the document while a dropdown is open” problem. It tries to counteract the scrollbar shift problem this causes by applying corresponding padding to the root element (which is still yuck, because the scrollbar still visually disappears, which it shouldn’t), but the page uses `position: fixed` for the header and right ToC sidebar, which bypasses the document padding. End result, opening a dropdown shifts parts of the document, which is bad.

I’m not sure if there’s a proper solution that makes it behave how a <select> does on desktop platforms; historically there wasn’t, and every historical workaround causes worse problems than it solves, in my opinion. Also in my opinion, the problem was never particularly important; the only part that was even vaguely notable was scroll chaining, and you can now just specify `overscroll-behavior: contain` on the dropdown popup to categorically fix that. (Browser support: 7½ months in Safari, 5–6 years elsewhere.) Very recently, browsers have been getting better support for modal concepts, driven by the <dialog> element and the corresponding concept of a top layer, as the spec calls it. I haven’t played with it, but I suspect that this might finally be the actual solution to the problem of stopping scrolling underneath.
I came across this article today, and have to question its title: if you're using a "back end", how is your site "static"?
It’s proxies all the way down.

Evaluating candidates is really hard so employers rely on the prestige of their colleges. Evaluating professors is really hard so colleges rely on the prestige of their publications. Evaluating papers from post docs is really hard, so referees rely on the prestige of their advisors/institutions. Graduate admissions is really hard so admissions officers rely on the prestige of authors of letters of recommendation. Undergrad admissions is really hard so admissions officers rely on SAT and diversity factors.
It's good that no government mandates one specific technology then. This regulation is essentially "the industry needs to agree on one approach or else" - when there's need to change, they can re-evaluate.
I remember the RTD instruction. In classic macOS 7 it's employed by code that uses the Pascal calling convention.
I think it’s even more simple than that. They, like so many other things, were a zero interest rate phenomenon.

https://independentspeculator.com/tech-privilege-a-zero-inte...
I appreciate the sincere reply and the explanation. I don’t know physics. Just coming at it from the pov of a writer of speculative science fiction.
I feel this argument is like saying there's no point in developing free and open software because there are already other pieces of software that were adopted, and are de facto standard.

In my opinion, this actually promotes the development of technology to be shared for the benefit of everyone, not just to help with vendor lock-in.