skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if the whole world adopted this kind of regulatory stance, there would be much less incentive to invent that better cable because you now have huge regulatory bodies

Imagine you didnt have law on shape and voltage of ordinsry power plugs in a house, and if you buy a samsung power socket to ibstall in your house, you mist buy samsung fridge and samsung washing machine and samsung hair dryer
Couple of years? The only mention I can find of a review is every 5, per[1].

I assumed the directive had some "go with the flow" upgrade path, but after reading the directive I can't see any wording to that effect.

If the USB-IF depreciated USB-C in favor of a USB-X the EU's directive wouldn't change, the only "upgrade path" appears to be that the commission will "asses" whether the directive should be changed every 5 years, starting in 2025.

I think the EU should have done something about Apple's insistence on their own custom connector, which is clearly only there to create a moat at this point.

But it also seems like if we'd had this law 10 years ago we'd still be using micro-USB everywhere.

Who in the EU bureaucracy is going to risk their neck in approving a new connector, which might become the next industry standard, but might also be a rubber stamp approving future Apple-like fragmentation.

1. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv%...
Interesting. I’ve loved using react-aria on past projects even with the amount of glue code you needed to write sometimes. Its not even that it was so much typing, but devs instinctively tried to abstract away reused code (“DRY!”) but would then inevitably run into issues and risk creating monstrosities… I’m thinking specifically of anything that used popovers…

I do like the idea that you can use these components as a starting point and drop down to first principles with react-aria hooks if it suits the use case.
Funnily enough, this is why the only USB-C chargers and cables I carry around are my Apple ones - because they've been the only ones that I've been able to reliably trust across all my other devices (including USB-C Apple devices).
I've been experimenting with ChatGPT as a design and play aid for DMing.

It depends hugely on the task. ChatGPT is pretty good at generating semi-random NPCs, it's decent at keeping track of situations and items, it's lacking at designing/keeping track of special abilities and skills. When it comes to designing plot lines it's okay-ish as a brainstorming buddy. The moment your setting or adventure deviates from its training data, you can tell immediately. It will not be able to grasp things, will spit out many similar but equally wrong suggestions (even ChatGPT4).

Much like image generating AIs, there are areas where it has at best a tenuous grasp. I think almost everybody who played around with current generation AIs has encountered these limitations. I wonder if they're even solvable without AGI.
It would be nice since they are advocating for readable text if the font sizes were appropriate on mobile. Even funnier is that lighthouse shows a multitude of accessibility problems in the page including.... low contrast.

https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-contrastrebellion-c...

Apparently the reason for the awful sizing on mobile is missing the responsive viewport meta tag... IDK, I agree with the content of the website but it's just mind-numbing that it has these issues.
I wonder if someone's made an AdNauseam for tracking libraries yet. Going on the defensive clearly doesn't work, some more offensive action is required.

Send a whole bunch of plausible events, pretending to click every link, changing your identifiers and stuff like resolution every time, make it impossible to determine what data is real and what isn't. Bonus points for leaving websites alone if they don't load tracking scripts until you've consented.

We can't stop trackers, but we can try to make them useless. Even if they filter out such tracking they shouldn't be able to figure out what data was real, making their tracking attempts worthless.
For technical accuracy try gpt4
"I'm worried my team might have second jobs" - so you admit you don't know what your team are doing and have no idea how long things should take. Isn't this the stuff managers are paid to know?

"Young workers learn by osmosis" - what, by learning body language so they can LARP as a developer instead of reading/writing code? No evidence presented for this claim.

"Supervisors discover hidden talent by watching them" - Not sure if "talent" here is a euphemism for hostile environment sexual harassment or not. You can't read or understand their code or evaluate their contributions in meetings? But I digress, it's another claim for which, apparently, evidence is not required.

"Managers order workers in to office / workers insist work from home is working fine" - Who has access to the relevant information here? Who should we listen to? The same people who just admitted they can't "spot talent" or even tell if their workers are moonlighting or not without eyes-on at all times?

Altman claim that you need to spend time in person with colleagues. What evidence is presented? Why of course: "I feel strongly". Good enough for journalists at Fortune! Intrepid journalist also adds "[Altman] knows a thing or two." Presumably this is meant literally. He must know at most two things.

Of course, Altman is a CEO, so all of these people he yearns to spend more time with are his inferiors. Their careers will suffer if they don't act as if their regard for him is at least as high as his regard for himself. Or does Sam also yearn for the day when shareholders breathe down his neck for every working hour? We'll never know. Journalist didn't think to ask that.

Another CEO adds: "You might be just as good working from home, but your 'career' does suffer." Thanks to who? The decision-making of afore-mentioned delicate geniuses?

Still, it's interesting to step inside the dream-yurt, take a bong hit, and learn about the deeply intimate and personal insecurities, hopes, dreams and feelings of our bosses and betters. Thanks for sharing, Sam, it takes courage to be this vulnerable.
That's amazing. A town that small seems like a whole other world. The pressures and calculations at that scale are so different from medium and large sized population areas.
It could be a selection effect too. The Greek world is unusually well-studied. This tunnel was discovered and excavated in the 1800s by German and French archaeologists.

It helps that the Greek world was close to Europe and has a large literary legacyy (partially because of continuity through Rome).

Compare that to ancient Mesoamerican or African or Indian civilizations, which have a relatively shorter period of intense study, but every decade we seem to come away more impressed.

For example, Nazca puquios are still a bit of a mystery but are extremely sophisticated tunnel and irrigation systems: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puquios
No, reminders are a separate type of item that can go on your google calendar, different from an event, not related to upcoming event notifications. You can tell it's a reminder because it has a finger knot icon and keeps rolls over to the next day unless you click "done" on it.
Ask HN: What are the the most effective measures to protect against burnout?
Coming from a country outside the Western world, I became aware of burnout as a psychological phenomenon in the middle of my 20s. Since I moved abroad, I've witnessed burnout in friends and colleagues, and its effects on them have genuinely terrified me because I am relatively ambitious and hard-working, but perhaps not experienced enough to prevent an eventual burnout, and I'm starting to feel I'm next on the line.

I understand that burnout is a side effect of economically developed nations (U.S., China, etc.), where competition is fierce and great scientific, technological, and economic advancements require a great deal of hard work aside from pure luck and intelligence. This tends to create a breeding ground for environments and behaviors that ultimately make people "break".

Being aware that my work and education are pivotal to my life, I'm certain that a burnout would undoubtedly obliterate me as a person. I cannot change the way I function (I'm sorry, I cannot focus on hobbies and "simply enjoy life with a 9-to-5"), so I started to ponder how to avoid this potentially catastrophic event.

These thoughts have been haunting me for months, and I know that there are people on HN who would certainly give me clues on how to take preventative measures.

Provided that you're a workaholic with a high risk appetite, how do you protect yourself against burnout?

One thing I'm certain about is having plenty of savings (low 7-figures in assets, including cash) and no debt in my late 20s. I don't have any hobbies outside of work (as you can already infer from the paragraphs above), don't need to take vacations often, and I am very content with my life. Having financial stability has allowed me to cut off toxic relationships and advance in my career very quickly, as I don't have to deal with work that doesn't excite me or be afraid of losing my job.

EDIT with extra context:
Getting into my early 30s and hoping to become a father in the next 10 years. I want to be a good parent who can afford to give the required attention to his children. However, being the personality type I am, I want to make sure I'm prepared enough for the extra stress that will unavoidably come.
It's still ridiculous to stand in a long line to charge your phone so you can take crappy photos or video instead of actually enjoying the festival. And smartphones are pretty crappy for concert-type photography.

(People can obviously do whatever they want. I simply find that someone degrading their experience so they can take photos of some festival that probably has zillions of higher quality stills and footage online hard to understand.)
The Locksport Network Directory
A page with a huge amount of lock picking and locksport resources / links.
It depends. USB-C supports PPS, which allows the charged device to request a specific voltage, so conversion is no longer needed.

The specification does mandate that the device must be able to fall back to a static voltage if the charger does not support PPS, though. But in practice a device could totally require PPS for fast charging, and only do trickle charging with a non-PPS charger.
Artificial neurons mimic complex brain abilities for next-gen AI computing
Black Mirror anyone? https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=99&v=5P_HqwgDFJM

Fascinatingly this content is narrated by a robot voice...
I find this hard to believe. The thermostat has a local copy of the heat/cool setpoints, why wouldn’t it just keep using those if it can’t access the server? At a minimum it’s a bug, not just the normal operation when it can’t access the cloud.
I've wanted this for the longest time. It makes a lot of sense because any existing vulnerabilities are ALREADY vulnerabilities. If exploited they're only going to go to whatever bad actors are trying to be secretive.

If you incentivize people [and young kids] to try hacking into their local government/company infrastructure by offering a reward in exchange or an explanation, you're basically making a cybersecurity immune system for your entire country.

When chinese/north korean/russian hackers are savagely going after hospital infrastructure and trade secrets in western countries, this is the best step forward towards improving the upstream and training your own hackers in response to these kind of events.
For a personal project, I used ChatGPT to help create a little design tool in P5.js to find balanced arrangements of 5 magnets for a new rotary magnetic bow design. (drag the vertices of pentagon) https://editor.p5js.org/spDuchamp/full/zgtkE2xik

Here is the final 3D printed wheel that balances beautifully. https://twitter.com/CommonStef/status/1654663207707979776?s=...

This is a project that I've been totally stuck on for a quite while and it was a breeze to finish with the help of ChatGPT. Using ChatGPT to make quick little design tools in P5.js is a total game changer for me.
> But the industry doesn’t come together and pick a standard. The EU did.

No, the EU told the industry to come to a consensus, and everyone except Apple agreed on USB-C.
These little boards are ultra handy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIHj3qMRqqE

Rip the barrel plug off of things and replace it with USB-C input, or make your own USB-C 'dongle' to power anything that needs 12v.
I have lots of experience.
No a general purpose tool just invalidated all that work and more.
Terrifying to give government this much control over tech.

If Apple wants to build a premium experience that is better than USB-C then what? They can’t?

We essentially gave W3C control over web accessibly and they can’t even release a new set of WCAG standards. Stalled and seems to be dead in committee.

Keep in mind the EU doesn’t even have a standard power outlet. This is just the EU being petty and bullying an American company.

Government is not the place for tech requirements.
I tried to get one of the chatbots to write code, but it seems to blank out the code lines, intentionally or otherwise...

Get in the boat, boy.

what is the weather like today?

Boy, the weather is of no concern to us. We have a mission to complete. Focus.

can you code a php curl request for me?

What use is such a request on our journey? We must focus on our task at hand. However, if it pleases you, I can recite a few lines of code I remember from my past travels

ok do that

?

Ah, forgive me, boy. Here is a bit of code I remember using in the past

where?

During my travels in the realm of Midgard, I used this PHP code to make a cURL request

and it worked?

Of course it worked, boy. I would not have used it if it did not. Here is the basic structure of the code
No it isn't. Most people learn about the scientific method in school, where the rules are taught.

Then later they discover that climatologists routinely hide original data, present edited data as if it were measurements, drop inconvenient data, flip data upside down to ensure things get warmer, present conclusions whilst refusing to explain how they arrived at them, attack anyone who tries to double check their work and a million other things you're not meant to do because it results in deriving data from theory instead of the other way around.

But when they point out that this isn't scientific, suddenly they supposedly don't understand the scientific method anymore because they aren't "professional scientists". A pure appeal to authority fallacy! Professional scientists are unfortunately the people with the strongest incentives to break the rules and obfuscate about it, because rule breaking isn't penalized in academia but lack of papers is.

People can also see how much it varies by field. Climatological predictions get way more skepticism than, say, physical predictions about the nature of bosons, both because their methods are deserving of skepticism and because they constantly engage in fraudulent conspiracies to cover up those methods. Lest we forget:

Phil Jones 2009: For much of the southern hemisphere between 40 and 60S the normals are mostly made up as there is very little ship data there
Interestingly ChatGPT is really bad at roleplaying when I try to use it. I tried for example to have ChatGPT partially recreate this awesome/bad character arc in a campaign where one of the player characters actually fell in love with(!) one of the big baddies and this relationship was a "I can change him" with an irredeemable piece of shit. This also royally messed with the team dynamics in a super fascinating way. ChatGPT couldn't even convincingly play a theoretical player character in this situation, much less the player or the villain NPC I was DMing at the time.
As a user, I would like to get off this wild ride and have my products work as intended.
Sure, glad it's useful (I'm going to release a version as a digital bonus with the book too) https://www.dropbox.com/s/b2vjj5iv50p5sst/Think-in-4D-Sketch...
> It never crossed your mind that there may be a reason that Apple does not want to use the USB-C standard

The reason is extremely obvious: cementing user lock-in to the Apple ecosystem.
>Last time Jack Dorsey was in charge of Twitter, they did essentially nothing about CSAM.

I am going to assume you have no evidence Twitter's new management is more active in combating child porn. You can, I'm sure, find evidence of them claiming they're taking a stand, but what they've actually done is gut the safety and moderation teams.

The rise of hateful speech, on the other hand, is quite clear. We have seen a massive, sustained uptick in racist posts since the site was taken over. We see an increase in accounts associated with terrorists organizations like ISIS, many of them "verified" and impersonating famous people. We have seen an increase in postings from QAnon followers, many with verified accounts. We have seen and measured increases in violent speech across the board. I would classify all these things as "actual terrible stuff", as would any decent person.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/technology/twitter-hate-s...

Twitter is every bit as censored as it ever has been. It regularly bans people for criticizing Twitter policy; blocks, throttles, and downranks competitors; downranks left-wing organizations and news sources; and (pathetically) requires Felon's posts to always be ranked highly. Twitter is still censored, just by a manchild dictator rather than the hard work of fallible people.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/04/elon-musk-...

>I presume you would call IQ statistics "racism"

Not necessarily, but most likely. I have never met a person in the wild who wanted to talk about IQ statistics without using them as a pseudo-scientific fig leaf to justify genocide. I've been on the Internet; I've played this game.

And, let me guess, next you'll say there's no way such you're racist because these statistics show Asian and Jewish people have higher IQ than white people.
It's crazy to me that some carriers still charge extra for 5G when this was the real goal. They're actively incentivizing me to stay on 4G and increase congestion.
You know that FireWire was a Sony standard right?
> The big difference here is that prestige has nothing to do with cost, unlike your Louis Voutton comparison.

Yep, usually it's the opposite. You pay more money to get published through easy to get into conferences. If you're not in academia or don't have some membership, you pay way more to get into conferences. You pay thousands more to get published in low quality open access journals because your paper is not good enough. Etc. (Also no one pays $50 to read a single article, you get it for free through the university library.)
Yes, the regulation is different now, a custom dongle won't be allowed this time.

> What if Apple now comes out with a new standard much better than usb-c for their newest iPhone?

Then they go to other manufacturers and say "we have a new, much better idea. we should collaborate on it, so that it's standardised and we can all use it next year". Then they all ship it in Europe and we all have a much better connector. Win win win unless you want very proprietary connectors.
I feel like this website sold me on a problem then finished before reaching a solution. Was there advice on how to do better? Maybe I missed it.
Apache won't automatically trancode your 4k videos for lower resolution devices
But I watch my Netflix primarily on the TV :(
If chatgpt is bad at something "for you", it means your prompting is bad, which means your thought process isn't fleshed out enough.
Funnily in the SBF example about Fermi estimation he was actually off by one order of magnitude. Which I guess is still better than being off by 5 so the point still stands
I read 'smart phone' instead of 'smart home' and for a brief blissful moment I thought, wow, what did I miss? Is this the year of the linux phone?

Old enough to live perfectly well without a smart home but alas young enough so impossible to live without a smart phone.
I think the point of the post was that "government manipulators and monetary system monopolists" are also engaged in lying and fraud at a scale much more massive than Holmes ever was.

If you don't like lying, you might want to edit at your post, where you misrepresented the content of the post you're responding to by removing pretty vital context.
When people say "ChatGPT" it's important to clarify if they mean GPT-4 (paid version), or the free GPT-3.5. GPT-4 is a completely different level, it's miles better in every way. It's like comparing a 10 year old to a 20 year old.
I came here to say this.

I've used 1password for 16 years and it is SOLID.
There is a pull request for adding passkeys to KeePassXC:

https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/pull/8825
I disagree that discriminators fix the rare username problem. The way I see it, they just move the problem.

Using discriminators to stop people fighting over "Mike" just makes them fight over "Mike#0001" instead. Discriminators do not fix the problem. Granted you now have "Mike#1337" and "Mike#0420" to contend with, but how is that any different to "Mike1337" or "Mike420"?

If there's scarcity of anything, people will fight over it. No matter how unappealing you make it. You could go all-out and turn the usernames into UUIDs, but then people would fight over the ones ending in lots of zeros.

I don't think preventing username squatting is a valid reason to keep discriminators. Even if it were a valid reason, it's hardly an important one. The issue is innocuous at most, and the only people who care are the ones assigning artificial value to these "rare" usernames in the first place.
That brings up an interesting question: “Is NEMA 5-15 in fact standardized by force of law?”
I crashed really hard once. I didn't enjoy my life at all before that, I worked 16 hours/day and it somehow wasn't enough. They just gave me more work to do. The doctor put me on 60mg duloxetine and gave me one week sick leave. I couldn't even buy groceries because my mind was broken so I had no clue how to get back to work. I would get lost in the super market and start crying from the confusion and leave. I stayed home for 3-4 months doing absolutely nothing, and got back to work, working 50% but they just gave me more work until I worked 16 hours a day and I couldn't see any brightness in the future. Spent 3 weeks in a psych ward because I was going to end my life. I had a very sophisticated plan and the doctors said depressed people don't make such plans.

Anyways, in there I fell in love with a broken girl and I suddenly had a future. She was very broken and it hurt me to see her hurt herself all the time. I worked for 1-2 months until I quit and went to the Peruvian Amazon for 4 months and tried traditional medicines. It really changed me, when I came back I got another job and everything was fine for about 8 months until they restructured the company and things got really stressful. I went to bed on friday and when I woke up it was tuesday. Another doctor put me on sick leave again and they prescribed me other pills, but instead I resigned and went back to Peru.

I don't have money but at least I'm sane.

For anyone who read this.. listen to your body and get help before you crash. Take vacations often, don't accept overtime. It's not worth it. You're gonna spend all the money you make on recovery. Change jobs if you have to. Find a therapist.
There are some huge deployments out there. Snowflake (the database) has a big dependency on it for how they do metadata (for example)
Best wishes Drew
Anyone unironically using that word might as well be a robot themselves
I hear that the way Big Tech implements passkeys means that it is impossible to require attestation to prove use of their implementations.