skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to the directive:

"In so far as they are capable of being recharged by means of wired charging at voltages higher than 5 Volts, currents higher than 3 Amperes or powers higher than 15 Watts, the categories or classes of radio equipment referred to in point 1 of this Part shall:

3.1. incorporate the USB Power Delivery, as described in the standard EN IEC 62680-1-2:2021 “Universal serial bus interfaces for data and power – Part 1-2: Common components – USB Power Delivery specification”;

3.2. ensure that any additional charging protocol allows for the full functionality of the USB Power Delivery referred to in point 3.1, irrespective of the charging device used."
Ohh, back up for me here in Japan. GitHub's incident team is on crack, that turn around time is quite something. Definitely some impressive stuff.
They don't know these things because they don't care to know, there's no other excuse when you're living in the information age. You don't need a teacher to tell you how many branches of government there are. I agree that it's a massive failure of the education system, but not solely- there's plenty of blame to go around.

In practice I don't think 85% of Americans would be unqualified based on those stats, those numbers would improve dramatically if the incentive were there (IE. know these things or don't vote).

>If you give people the obligations of living in a democracy (paying taxes, subjecting themselves to its laws, signing up for the draft, etc.) without actually letting them participate in that democracy, then it's not a democracy anymore.

I see your point but I don't consider democracy to be a binary condition, it exists in degrees- IE. voting directly for policies vs. electing representatives to do so, etc. If one were barred from democratic participation on a permanent basis for reasons they have no control over, IE. Race/Sex, then yes democratic principles have been violated. But if all they have to do is learn some basic facts about the history of the institution they are participating in, I don't see that as 'not letting' them vote. It's more 'if you really care about voting you'll do some basic due diligence first'.
That just forces e-waste. Aftermarket firmware lets a device stay useful indefinitely.
So that’s why profiles aren’t loading
Yes, making wood glue even more valuable if you want it to last.
Closures in C# Demystified
I'm genuinely curious: what is the difference between hourly and daily/weekly rates?
The client side devices / cameras / whatever would send the encrypted copies off-prem, to be decrypted in the case of proper due process and authorization. But it would require interactively querying a distributed database that is managed by agencies or networks representing civilian interests, and these agencies would rate-limit the queryinf and disclose every query, who did it and why.

We need more transparency in our governments and security agencies (including FSB, CIA). Start with transparency on why the need certain data. More here:

https://community.qbix.com/t/transparency-in-government/234/...
If I was 18 again, I'd take a gap year slumming it in Europe or Asia before continuing with career stuff
> Ahem the emoji bar?

I like Touch Bar.
Because there is no guarantee that:
A) Twitter will exist within a year
B) Musk won't takeover or delete your account
C) Twitter has been experiencing plenty of random downtime due "production experiments"/cost saving.

I also don't think it is intended to be a replacement, looks more like for help and general outreach; I mistakenly described it as 'swapped out' which I think has created some confusion about using youtube as a bug tracker.
arp.library, asl.library and similar is another one of those things I miss. Having such rapid adoption of standard requesters everywhere was great.
Nope! The problem is that Congress chose to liquidate the reserve’s holdings below market cost a few decades ago.
Was the pregnancy the cause of the firing?
And those properties make it well suited for things like cabinet panels that don't take load.

MDF has poor structural strength, next to zero holding strength for fasteners (the first thing to go on ikea furniture is always the screw holes), and is very prone to water damage.
I can't help but perceive the smell of a solution in search of a problem with all those ‘things that “AI” can do for you’.
Genomic inference of a severe human bottleneck during the Early to Middle [ ]
This paper is under strong discussion, but it argues that humanity had a period (between around 930,000 and 813,000 years ago) where we had a severe population bottleneck with about 1280 breeding individuals.
Sure, maybe I shouldn't have used those words, but my point was that it will enable a lot more flexibility for people who want to write apps across platforms and with their own preferred language instead of Javascript, because it will all compile down to WASM, as well as stopping people from bemoaning the slowness of Electron, or shipping an entire browser per app. Instead, one ships the app to the browser.
Faster Vue.js Execution in Firefox
Wow this lady is gunning hard for Villain of the Year. She should be having shame and remorse - instead she doubles down and sues her accusers along with playing the sexism card. Seems even more like a grift.
To me it sounds like someone who wants internet strangers to agree with them in opposition to their therapist. Not knowing any of the other details that's as far as I'm willing to go with the assuming.
Agreed: any kind of future disclosure requirement should be backed up by a source code escrow requirement.
I see that your niche is in C/C++ world (with some Obj-C), low-level stuff.

Mind if I ask how's the market and what kind of clients (companies?) that you worked with? If you don't feel comfortable sharing the list, would you be able to share some hints?

Out of curiosity because my background in college is more towards System programming but life puts me as a full-stack and backend/cloud engineering. Gettin a bit tired with too many backend tech (too many different storage solutions, backend languages, etc)
Shameless plug for a load testing tool I built that, in my workflow, relies on curl for the request syntax: https://github.com/Steven-Ireland/spam
Since around 15, my chronic sciatica has affected me deeply and caused lots of issues throughout school, the workplace, and every day life. Quite simply, I suffered and meditated on the fact that it could still be much worse, at least I have good days where I can walk.
Both - tagging errors into broad buckets can help with filtering and searching for categories of errors, while finding similar errors surfaces ones that might be more familiar to an unknown one. We're learning as we go though and also want to surface solutions to errors long term.

As for hosting the model, Hugging Face has a number of guides (ie. [1]) for this but overall the process was quite simple. All you need to do is find a model compatible with the kind of inference you want to do (ie. sentence embeddings vs. text generation). Once it's deployed, Hugging Face gives you an API endpoint similar to OpenAI's embeddings API that returns the embedding vector for a given input. For picking the model, there are a bunch of good resources with benchmarks comparing them depending on the use case (ie. [2]).

[1] https://huggingface.co/blog/getting-started-with-embeddings
[2] https://supabase.com/blog/fewer-dimensions-are-better-pgvect...
> If I become aware of a business treating workers poorly I’m inclined to find an alternative.

I agree, provided there is actually clear evidence of it. A generic "Well we all know these services don't pay their workers enough" doesn't suffice.

And the solution is to find an alternative, and not "Let me pay this guy a nice tip because I know he is poorly treated, so that I can enable those who hire him to continue to pay poor wages."
I worked on some of this - happy to answer questions :)
The regular helium grade purchased from industrial gas suppliers and typically used for filling party balloons is >99% pure. There are higher grades available for specialized purposes, but using lower grades doesn't save any helium.

https://zephyrsolutions.com/what-are-the-different-grades-of...
Nope! The problem is that Congress chose to liquidate the reserve’s holdings below market cost a decade ago.
It's very possible, because the two scenarios play out rather differently:

In a real infection, most spike proteins are assembled into very small viral particles which leave the cell to find new victims. (In the case of SARS-Cov-2, it's a continuous process, some other viruses swell up into one massive cell-explosion.)

If it's an mRNA vaccination, cells create spike proteins and hang them to their cell membranes in an orderly fashion. This makes it easy for your immune system to systematically gobble them up as large units and burn the spike proteins (and the rest of the untrustworthy cell) away. Also, it's a much smaller number of your cells, and most are in a pretty safely boring place like the muscle of your arm.
The great thing about an Airship startup is that there’s no worries about “up and to the right” growth.

It’s mostly just up, and any direction you want to go.
One way to mitigate this is to require introspection into what the update is. This has two implicit requirements which are that the firmware is source-available and has reproducible builds. With those two requirements you would be able to see what is being updated, and prove that the update your device receives is actually the update the manufacturer said they created.

The second requirement is something that is really overlooked in the software supply chain, partly because of the difficulty in achieving it. But it's a goal that the proper push from regulators could help us reach.

A knock on benefit is this helps secure the update channel, which if you are requiring firmware updates you must also require a way to make sure those updates are secure (since it inherently creates more attack surface area)
Say hi to ebpf, now shipping with android kernels.
It would be great for people to post an update like "comment submitted" on threads like this one to make sure it was entered as a comment into the official record.

I'm sure these comments in themselves are helpful to @SimingtonFCC individually, but having them be part of the official record gives the FCC legal grounds to consider them and incorporate them into rules.
Tell HN: uBlock Origin Blocks YouTube
for several days now I couldnt load youtube. incognito works though. so I thought it has to do something with my extensions. turns out ublock origin (when enabled) causes youtube to only show a skeleton page (no content).

searched and found this on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/167bzk9/youtube_stopped_loading_with_ublock_origin/
Working again for me. I was able to login in again.
Part of the reason control theory exists is because it turns out that we can't take it as given that just because we built something, we can remain in control of it. The consequences can be quite severe. For example a nuclear reactor can melt down and make a good portion of a country uninhabitable, even though nobody in the control room, nor anywhere up the chain of command, desired that outcome. No terrorism necessary. It can even reach a state in its state-space where a meltdown does not seem imminent and yet no further action can prevent such an outcome.

Such systems deserve to be treated with a great deal more respect than just assuming that they aren't capable of unbounded harm as long as nobody commands it of them.

Guaranteeing their safety takes a great deal of work. This lesson is paid for in blood, and learned time and again by each discipline, but it's one that the software field has yet to really grapple with.
Googlers are adding attestation to web standards so you can't use escape through the browser. To be fair, Google stands to benefit from this and they get paid in Google so the incentives line up.
The extra heat from this summertime is adding like $100/mo to my bill for a 2,400sqft house for like 3.5 months. This is a hotter than average summer, usually its like $75 or so more a month. So if my two cars cost more than like $350 for registration fees, then yeah I'd be paying more for registration fees than I do on AC. Given the fact others here suggest its several hundred dollars for a single car, then yeah I'd probably be paying way more for car registration fees than what I'm spending cooling my home. How much are motorcycle registration fees? We should probably tack on at least one motorcycle being registered as well.

And that's before the fact gas and electricity is routinely 2x more expensive in CA than TX, which energy costs are a large part of the costs of operating a car. If we were to really compare car ownership costs in CA vs TX to the idea of how much I spend on AC, it wouldn't even be close.
Oh certainly! I was just pointing out that tuition fees eat into stipends. Luckily my province pays for much of my schooling.
yes this is true today - some researchers have identified the LEGAL definition of a person taking over from the biological definition of a person, in modern times. If you consider the realms of finance, things are definitely not consistent nor fully resolved.
Joyful Python with the REPL (REPL Driven Development)
> This is a general problem for law generally, one that is usually resolved by imposing a reasonableness standard.

Exactly this. Here in the UK we have "merchantable quality" as the standard for the required quality of any goods sold. How "merchantable" is defined is a matter for the courts to decide on a case-by-case basis. In practice, the courts take into account generally market expectations as well as the marketed price to determine the expected quality standard and it seems to work just fine. If my chair falls apart after a few years after ordinary use by ordinary people, then it wasn't of merchantable quality and the seller is in breach of the law.

In the case of security vulnerabilities, I think a similar approach would work well. The key thing is to ensure that sellers of IoT products cannot disclaim responsibility for security vulnerabilities altogether, which is exactly the problem today. If an IoT product can be subverted by an adversary after a few years of ordinary use by ordinary people, then the seller should be in breach of the law.
> This year I'm on track to bill out between $360k and $400k

> To anyone reading this [post] and thinking they are offering you helpful advice, consider their motive

Honestly I'd be happy to sign up to your newsletter and be upsold into a private $20/mo high-end consulting community forum if I were to learn how to earn those kind of numbers and I was disappointed you didn't.
Chrome cares a lot more about PWAs. WebSerial, WebUsb, etc. aren't supported on firefox.
I'm pretty much done with delivery apps. I'll either order pizza directly from the pizzeria or go pickup the food myself. It's faster, hot, tastier, and cheaper. Food delivery as a service is following the path of Airbnb, a good idea in theory, but not in practice. Too much variation, no quality control--little recourse, just roll the dice again next time.
This is really quite distasteful. People should live their life for themselves, not "goaded" or "challenged" by HN user sdwr.
One thing that definitely skews the reporting of this is that it's socially acceptable to admit you regret not having kids, but it's absolutely not socially acceptable to admit you regret having kids.
The Immortals: meet the billionaires forking out for eternal life
On the flat rate model: I like to tell the story that the highest hourly rate I've ever earned to date was as a college student when I took on a fixed rate project to fix some department's "we have a web form that is critical to our work and backed by this perl cgi script that used to work but doesn't do anything anymore" problem.

Turned out someone had uploaded the perl script to a Linux server using dreamweaver on a Mac, and the line endings were wrong. So I ran dos2unix on it and added a blurb to some documentation on what not to do and how to fix it again if necessary.

Made $1000 for less than 15 minutes of work!

But of course I also could have spent two weeks bashing my head against an awful perl script, never figured it out, and made nothing. It's a risk/reward trade-off.
Looking at total executive orders is misleading (and dishonest), EO’s historically were often used for very inconsequential things, like declaring some nation a friend or thanking someone for something. Without looking at the actual order it’s hard to know the impact and any given EO. Please try to argue in good faith.
I hate to be that guy but this line of reasoning leads to “redefine every shortcut for every app” in order to fit your keyboard. Yes, it’s possible, but cognitive overload is also a thing.
I'm trying to figure out a new computing architecture, and the infrastructure to make it all go. A full new stack is required, and there are many puzzles to solve.

I think it is possible to do Petaflop computing using a BitGrid[1]. I'm fairly confident I can get the VHDL or Verilog written to actually make the chip. After all, it's just a huge grid of Static RAM cells hooked to some 16:1 multiplexers and latches, and 2 phase clock distribution.

The tricky bit is the programming. I'm at the stage where I have to figure out how to compile an expression into set of binary logical equations, then route it into LUTS in the chip.

I also need to find out how much energy a single stage will consume in one cycle, to then figure out if this actually would be worth the effort or not. I estimate the odds 50/50 at this time.

[1] https://esolangs.org/wiki/Bitgrid
This is a very detailed and accurate explanation.

Thank you.
This academic is accused of data falsification and their most book is titled "Rebel talent : Why it pays to break the rules at work and in life"
I'm just skimming, but it looks like the docs are fantastic. I've spent some time with terraform internals, and this seems like a significant improvement for a dev looking to work with this codebase. Gives a great overview to get started. well done!
Pinyin is not just an input method, it’s also the standard way to write Mandarin in the Latin alphabet.

Virtually all the spellings of names from mainland China that you’re familiar with (e.g., Xi Jinping) are written in Pinyin.
Thank you, it was a bit unclear if I had to pay in order to redact content but I guess I'll have to download it and give it a shot in order to find out.
i'm as hype for ai as anyone but mathematically it is a markov chain; a trained llm model is a function that gives a probability distribution over token n+1 conditional on the preceding n tokens.
Agreed. Thank you Commissioner Simington for reaching out to us. It makes all the difference in the world.

> while you likely can’t influence something like a presidential election on your own

In fact, there is almost nothing of significance you can accomplish (or influence) on your own. We always do and always have needed to work together - and the results are astonishing: almost everything that's ever been accomplished.
I'd love a book like this written in Python. Just feedback. I clicked the link and was about to purchase this. The idea of learning physics sounds great. The idea of spending time learning a new programming language that I'm unlikely to use for anything else sounds terrible.
> main product

Well that's the core problem - what is the product here. Terraform Cloud and Terraform Enterprise are products for sure. They're not open source, though. Is Terraform a product? Well, it doesn't do anything on its own, it requires plugins ("providers") for anything it does. Plugins are developed by or at least with third parties. It's a gatekeeper of an ecosystem that at this point is a common good.

Whether the ecosystem would exist without the permissive license and external contributions - really hard to say. But if your main play is to foster the growth of an ecosystem and then turn it into a product exclusive to your business, then I guess you should look for alternatives.

(Marcin from OpenTF, private opinion)
This article is from 2009, a lifetime ago in Dubai time. It is not the first time I see this article, it seems to come up in every discussion about Dubai.

Dubai was essentially a fishing village until the 70s. Nowhere else in the world are things progressing as fast as in Dubai.

I was posted to Dubai as a new employee for my factory in 2019 and ended up staying there for two years. I did not exactly have a rosy picture of the place before I landed. In fact, I would say Dubai was at the bottom of my list of places to visit.

I worked closely with laborers from predominantly Bangladesh, India and Pakistan on construction sites, installing heavy machinery. They did not seem to regret coming to Dubai for work - many of them had saved a substantial amount of money working there. One foreman I worked with had saved 200 000 Dirhams and was going to return to Pakistan to set up his own company. Yet these many success stories never reach the western world. I cannot help but wonder if it’s because of racism against Arabs and the usual propaganda.

I do not doubt that there is a lot of terrible things happening in the UAE, but at the same a lot of the same things are happening in Europe. Passports being taken, people sleeping on construction sites in some hidden away corner.

Until I see actual numbers of how prevalent these things are, which never materialize, I will trust what I saw myself.

It is marvelous how quickly Dubai has developed.

As an example, today it is legal for unwedded heterosexual couples to live together. When I was there it was still illegal - that didn’t stop me and my girlfriend, or any of the unmarried couples we know. It was completely normal. I would walk hand in hand with my girlfriend, just like in any western country.
Rachel Bonn:8-months pregnant woman with 9-month baby laid off from Twitter (2022)
+1 to solid wood Amish furniture

I've ordered a few pieces from Hedge House Furniture (https://hedgehousefurniture.com/collections/storage) and am very satisfied. They aren't cheap but they've also been able to customize the dimensions and their designs are more to my taste.
"At least until WEI becomes mandatory"

Sadly I think Google has killed the open web with this. It was getting boring anyway. But it's annoying how much harder it is to live without a phone/"approved" browser, etc. now.
> when the client has a specific, measurable problem that they don’t know how to fix (but you do)

Then the client tells you that wasn't their problem in the first place.

In the 10 years of contracting I've never done fixed rate for the reason the client never knows what they exactly want. It's not like installing a tiled floor or drop ceiling.

Being a professional means a lot of things, but fixed rate contracting is amateur hour truly. Every software dev learns this eventually.
Researchers develop ultrahigh-water-flux membranes for seawater desalination
Closed loop card on transit is a free loan to the transit agency. Seems logical that they would prefer people use that.
This is exactly what Framer did before pivoting to a website builder, it might be worth looking into them. How will you be different than them?
That's my argument, I see no realistic path to decarbonization. I'd think we should eliminate fossil fuel consumption for base load power generation, but I'm not sure we can go much further than that.