skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But then you have to remember the orientation of the port itself!

That sounds silly, but I forgot a non-trivial number of times.
profitability is determined by competition, not by Moore's Law. If the cost of generation goes down prices will go down as service providers battle for users, as they do everywhere else.

And given that the tech itself is rapidly proliferating and effectively just public research and compute, including open source not being far behind, the fact that they're not even making money right now when they do have somewhat of a monopoly is kind of a bad sign.

The much more likely scenario is that these systems will run locally on commodity hardware soon, it'll be free because every large company offers it, and they'll end up slapping ads on it or sell enterprisey stuff to businesses.
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I believe you don't yet have kids. Besides the usual videos that kids like watching, there are a lot of topics in their books that I need help explaining. However, there are a lot of YouTubers explaining the topic pretty well.

I can uBlock/AdGuard them or even spend many weekends to yt-dlp the heck out of it. Or I can pay a small monthly fee while 'reducing my coffee/tea purchases', and my kids get all the videos uninterrupted. This is indeed one of the only ways for my kids to get through Hindi and Math lessons.
Wouldn't you rather have a decent CPU and better I/O at the same price point in a similar form factor?

There are options. Some that are better, which is why I posted the link. Not everyone is OK with a couple generations old CPU.
Huge thanks! I have been using Insomnia for quite a long time because postman never made sense to me with all the online data sync. I just want to keep everything myself, so really appreciate the insomnium fork here.
Japan is very very weird in mobile games.

Western games basically never pierce in Japan, not for lack of trying.

Japanese mobile games extend from their life and media consumption habits
Wouldn’t one need to adjust US numbers to also include R and D, intelligence communities, and private sector investment in military tech?
You're right that it comes down to national sovereignty. I'll show my bias: I don't think a complete lack of sovereignty is viable nor desirable. Completely erasing cultures and local specificities won't help, and I agree there is way too much US centralized critical infrastructure.

But I prefered a kind of status quo where the big players are in a standstill and can't make bold moves that could destabilize the whole board. Basically the state where the US couldn't abuse too much their position in fear of the other entities calling it quit, and the other entities couldn't completely close their borders in fear of losing too much as they retreat.

In recent years we've seen more and more moral/cultural rules getting applied to critical infra (payment, communications etc.), and I guess we're not getting that standstill back anytime soon. That also means we're back to black market style communication, as it was in the earlier decades, when we were looking for a common ground less constrained by national limitations.
I've lived in the states for 15 years now. I know roughly what to add, though I have to play guessing games depending on even the town that I'm shopping in, (quite literally I can even walk to two stores in neighbouring cities within range of my house, and pay different prices for the same goods).
It makes it no less absurd that I have to know and guess what the actual out of pocket expense is, no matter which way you slice it. Especially because it doesn't have to be this way. Given individual items aren't shown with their particular taxes on them, it obscures what I'm actually paying for what, until I've spent enough time shopping in whichever place I'm in to finally figure it out.

It's just one of many little ways that the US operates that's profoundly at odds with a positive experience for citizens. You _could_ have the prices right there in the stores. You _could_ structure your tax system such that the prices can actually be done that way and you don't get the rounding fun that you see mentioned elsewhere in this thread. However, because you do this "hide the actual price" there's zero incentive to actually implement tax approaches that are nicer as a citizen/consumer.

If you'll forgive a slight diversion, it's a similar deal with tax incentives. In a lot of countries around the world, they structure it such that the tax incentives happen at time of purchase, so e.g. a $2,500 rebate would result in you, as the buyer, buying at price $2,500 less than it would have been otherwise. You never see that $2,500 at all, you just see a much cheaper sticker price. It's end user focused, like you'd think a government for the citizens, by the citizens, would be.

The US approaches it such that you have to actually have the money spare up front, to eventually get it back (or mess about with your monthly withholding to try to claw it back that way, quicker). This penalises poorer citizens, who otherwise might have been able to afford to buy whatever thing it is that they could potentially afford. You essentially miss out on the tax incentives the government comes up with, unless you happen to be rich enough to afford a well versed tax accountant, or have enough luxury of time to sit there and work through all the possible rebates you might be eligible for. Neither of which poor or disadvantaged people tend to have.

With this being the way that tax incentives have long been done, there's no real incentive to try to do it any other way, even though it would be better for literally every citizen, rich and poor alike, with the possible exception of tax accountants. You'd all get specific rebates you were entitled for.
Yep, probably damage to either the connector on the cable, or the port on the device. Does the connector also feel a bit looser when you plug it in the non-working way? (Not required, but it's a dead giveaway.)
You can’t make walking and transit better without making driving worse. It can be better for the people who still choose to drive, but shoving a 2 lane road with a 55mph speed limit through a pedestrianized neighborhood is just not possible.
The Nix package manager is to apt what Emacs/Vim are to Notepad.

Nix is a very powerful tool for dealing with packages. NixOS uses the package manager to manage the system configuration.

With a declarative config, you mitigate the risk of "I made this change, forgot what that change was" (or otherwise systems becoming out of sync with each other). Ansible also solves this, sure. (Though, NixOS forces a system into a target state).

Especially useful for working on more than one machine is the ability to conveniently install the same sets of packages everywhere. -- The standard thing to do is just run "install <package>" on each machine. Whereas with Nix, you can write a meta-package of packages you want, and either install this system-wide, or just have those packages added to PATH for when you need them.

With Nix, you pay an upfront cost, so that later you don't have to pay the cost later. -- It's a similar trade-off to using Ansible, or using a dotfile manager across machines.

Nix's reproducibility has benefits, too; before using Nix, when picking up a side project would often require that I'd update the code, as system package managers updated their package versions. -- With Nix, it's easy to retain references to old versions, and possible to have both old and latest versions of a package available on the same system.
>if you are throwing an error in most of the languages your caller function will not get an idea that this function can throw an error

Is this true any more? I feel like most languages, relative to popularity, have compiler-enforced thrown error handling.
The more submissions there are on a given topic, the greater the number of submissions that will be flagged. That's both a law of averages, and HN's aversion to repeat / duplicate discussion:

The intention is not to suppress an important topic but to hold the countless me-too posts at bay—the ones that don't add anything significant. When the massive wave subsides, we'll remove the penalty. For example, there was a period where HN did this for NSA stories, but that hasn't been the case for a while.

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8461596>

That said, yes, the vast majority of moderation is done by HN's readers, not mods.
And then emerging companies and nations will fill the gap. This may benefit everyone except pre-existing hegemons, suffice to say it’s not in a monopolists interest to allow any other significant marketplace to be dominated by another. This is why we the strategy of isolating China rather than competing directly may backfire. Also why China protecting it’s own internal market is net beneficial for the world in aggregate, whilst perhaps not good for dominant powers (hence the geopolitical u-turn from China good to China bad)
I've used two methods of doing this:

First, a local smallish legal firm that specialised in intellectual property (trade marks, patents, etc) offered an escrow service. We would send them a list of customers and their contact details, updated for each sale, and a DVD (this was a few years ago) of the source code and build scripts for the product: you need to deliver enough to enable the customer to build (and fix) all their licensed products.

Then we got a larger customer who insisted on using what was then called Iron Mountain as their escrow service. That business was sold, and is now owned by NCC Group. Their process was similar, but a bit more bureaucratic.

In both cases, the escrow agents would actually check the build instructions, and make sure they worked: once we forgot to include a file, and they called us up about a week later and asked for it, because their attempt to build it had failed.

The local lawyer was remarkably cheap; Iron Mountain less so, but still reasonable.

They have standard language you can then put in your contracts to give clients the right to acquire the source code (with appropriate rights to transfer to successor organizations, but not to re-distribute, etc) in circumstances where you either cancel the product or go out of business.

My company ended up cancelling one particular product, and one of our customers exercised their escrow rights. They maintained it in-house (with a little bit of help from a couple of our engineers) for many years afterwards.

The whole process was remarkably painless.
I don't watch conservative media, I just see more and more posts on r/bayarea about carjacking or blantant assaults and robbery, then I was thinking about buying gun and applying for ccw, and found about SB2 bill which prohibits ccw in most reasonable places.
> Are there any pre-eternal-September warriors still sticking Emily-Post-like to their 1992-era netiquette standards in the face of modernity?

Yes, and one time it comes into play is when you're dealing with someone else who uses those conventions. IME, people still doing that are very sharp. And if they're doing it, you want to do it in kind, both because it can be more effective, and also to let them know you're clueful enough to know that style of email-fu.

But I also adapt to other people and organizations. For example, if some business person seems to keep the past history quoted, and also might be forwarding it within their bureaucracy to people who also expect that, then use that style. (And maybe also repair it to not drop history, such as when they respond to an old email, or they send two responses to the same people before anyone responds, or there's race conditions or oops/indifference when multiple people are responding. Not everyone has given any thought to how this works; they just start typing where their corporate-drone webmail or app left the cursor and quoted everything for them.)

When I have the luxury of setting an organization's conventions, I try to get people to capture all non-code institutional knowledge in a wiki and issue-tracker, and to not lean on ephemeral/silo'd email for the "history" of something, nor to create new silos in a dozen different SaaSes. (This also occasionally involves copy&paste of an email with important info into a wiki page, as the easiest way to leave some important info where whomever later needs it will see it.)
But when the plug was designed, there was only one speed.
And your Reddit link also has a comment suggesting using a USB A to USB C adapter. Those are also non compliant

https://hackaday.com/2022/12/27/all-about-usb-c-illegal-adap...

There is a certain combination of cable+adapter+device that can ruin your device. I don’t remember the details. I heard about it on the Accidental Tech Podcast
As a heavy Linux user myself, I was wondering what kind of functionality you would gain from running Linux on a DS (aside from the obvious learning experience and “because you can”). I found the FAQ[0] answers this nicely.

Basically, it boils down to anything you can do on the command line within the resource constraints of the DS.

Would love to hear any DSLinux users who would be willing to share stories about cool functionality they were able to achieve.

[0] https://www.dslinux.org/wiki/DSLinuxFAQ.html
Considering they keep racking up fines I seriously doubt it. It's become like banking regulation, fines are just a cost of doing business and you just have to factor in the percent chance of getting caught times average size of fine vs revenue.

See https://www.enforcementtracker.com
I find myself very interested in trying to figure out the story of medieval progress. Because I learned it was all fallen and ruined as a kid, and now I don’t believe it. But, I don’t have a grasp of the timescales of progress involved.

My working theory is that progress was really slow until the written word, incremental improvements but still slow until the printing press, and pretty quick thereafter (until computers, and then the wheels came off). But…I would love to read a history from someone who actually studied it, and said “look at the pace of discovery from 1000BC-200AD, 200AD-1200AD, 1200-1600, etc.”
too complicated for ordinary users
And we've just seen examples on the news where rear officers might have been better equipped had they had their handguns on them.
Swift Cross-Compilation SDKs for Android
> It also banned a-lot of normal people who were questioning official narratives

They really didn't. "Non official narratives" were usually conspiracy theories or hate speech. If anything, these accounts were given multiple opportunities before being banned. Only the worst of the worst were banned.
What makes the average politician automatically dumber than the average AI startup or social media company decision-maker?
I mean yea, I've been personally considering switching away from Teslas to some other manufacturer's BEV or PHEV. But the sub-$70k options for high quality cars are quite limited. (I know a lot of people will dispute that the Tesla Model 3 or Model Y are high quality, but personally I really like the design, aesthetics, driving feel, the mobile app experience, and other aspects of Tesla.) To be clear, all/most of the credit for this excellence goes to the talented engineers (and designers) in California, and absolutely not to Musk. I do keep on skimming lists of new/upcoming PHEVs and BEVs (and digging into their specs and watching reviews of them) in the hope that I'll find something that'll be a true upgrade from my Tesla. But I haven't found anything quite yet though.
> The regulation plans are revealed in a letter from ISED Minister François-Philippe Champagne to the Industry committee studying Bill C-27, the privacy reform and AI regulation bill. The government is refusing to disclose the actual text of planned amendments to the bill.

So like between this and their online harms bill they are proposing not to mention their massive screw up with their other tech bills, is CA just trying to cut the Internet out of the lives of their citizens? Seriously what is going on there? Anyone in CA want to comment?
How’s the quality? I heard it was so-so and i think you can’t close your own presets
I don't see this as either or. Good quality asserts can be very effective when managing objects with complex state transitions

For me assertions are for invariants. The code has no expectation of successful execution

I also like (borrowing from testing) the idea of expects, where we can hope that the object is in a specific state, but have an explicit compensation path for when it isn't, perhaps objects that need to be migrated to a new schema etc.
How does it not?

Consider terrain such as the mountain ranges along the side of California. Or the entirety of Japan.

Wheeled and tracked vehicles generally have problems in that terrain.

Legged robots don't. Suddenly your troops intended to operate in mountainous terrain have a reliable robot donkey to use as a packmule.

Many countries (US, Germany, France, Italy, etc) still use horses and donkeys for transport in bad terrain.
The gravity of Terra is exactly enough to cause the curved orbit. You are just missing how shallowly curved it really is, by squashing out the time part of spacetime. In 4 dimensional spacetime, the circle is (to simplify a little) really a helix, because it does not return to its starting point, and it's very stretched out along the time axis. (Or very narrow along the space axes, depending from how one choses one's units.) The curvature only looks greater because you are discounting how much greater length of time it extends across in order to do all of that curving that gets it all of the way around Terra.
Twitch used to use cheap cores with Intel quicksync and maybe still does
If we have on-orbit refueling and Starship on or before 2031, it would be possible to "park" the ISS at the Earth/Lunar L4 or L5 Lagrange points. Conversely it could be parked in a solar orbit far enough out to not interfere with geosynchronous satellites but close enough that a small tug to move it up or down to maintain spacing with the Earth.

Given its mass, either option would require significant delta-v to get it parked. The L4 and L5 points have the advantage that it could pretty much live there without worrying about station keeping.

I expect its possible to do it with a series of Falcon 9 launches of several tug craft but the co-ordination of that would be very difficult to pull off.
This is like in basketball where they throw it right next to the hoop for someone to make an innuendo slam dunk, right??
Or just put + and - through a rectifier and you don't need an extra pin.

Data lines -- use differential signalling and polarity determined by whether +/- got reversed by the rectifier or not.

Or do like Comcast does and put all bidirectional data through 1 conductor at multi-gigabit speeds.
I think it'd go straight up.
> The addressables are a total fuck up. They push it very hard in the documentation but every time I have to interact with it I wish we had just dumped everything in a resource folder.

At one point we finally gave up and just dumped everything in Resources and StreamingAssets.

And that's... it? We even removed the Addressable package completely from dependencies.
> Some “low wattage” specification USB-C devices are compliant with USB-C but are only compatible with USB-A power bricks because thet require 5V:

This is because they are not USB-C compliant, despite physically featuring a USB-C port. The USB-C spec calls for any USB-C sink (i.e. device that consumes power) to include a pull-down resistor (Rd in the diagram on page 4: https://www.ti.com/lit/wp/slyy109b/slyy109b.pdf?ts=169690039...)

Devices that do not include this resistor, and are therefore unable to be powered with a USB-C to USB-C cable, are noncompliant and should not exist.

> Some USB-C cables are only 31 watts, and some devices can’t charge with less than 60W

As seen in [0], page 37, even USB 2.0 C-to-C cables will support USB-PD at 3A: https://host.zlsadesign.com/HJU_Drfba.png

The USB-PD handshake is performed independently of the cable, and uses the CC wire that is mandatory even in USB 2.0 C-to-C cables (page 76 of [0]): https://host.zlsadesign.com/Bk62vSMZp.png

You're right about the 60W point. Anecdotally, every device I've ever tried to charge has had no problems at 60W (although of course they'll charge more slowly than if they had 100W), but this is definitely not guaranteed.

0: https://www.usb.org/sites/default/files/USB%20Type-C%20Spec%...
There has been sweeping changes in log management, data export to outside entities, reliance on third party providers to parse that data and come up with insights etc.

Pre-GDPR, you'd open your logs to any random company promising to come up with something that could remotely help your marketing department. Nowadays, you'll have to vet your partners and audit how your data is handled internally. It's hard to come up with concrete examples when it's basically every single company above a decent size, as they typically don't want to work against the law.

Same for the retention period, the very type of log that you'd open for internal harvesting (you could still be collecting the info, but keep it way more confidential to the point no one outside of your SRE team has access to the totality of it)

It's as if you were asking what changes the PSI and DSS compliance laws had on the card processing field.
Marriage is more like a good wood fired furnace. If you put in the effort it will keep you warm and happy. If you forget to tend to the logs and the fire your home will grow cold and unwelcoming.
Honestly, don't bother, because we all know how this works in practice:

There is a button in my mail client that says "forward". If I want to forward a mail, I click that, put in address(es) and click "Send". If I'm feeling especially generous, I am gonna type a quick "FYI" ontop of the message field. Usually I don't, and trust that the recipient(s) will draw the correct conclusion from the "Fwd:" that is prefixed to the subject.

Whatever format is used, idc. that's up to my mail client. I am not gonna, and I don't want to, worry about this detail. That's why I outsource this to a program.

Even if I worried about it, it would be completely moot. I get emails from at least 3 dozen people every day. Many of those are forwarded. These people use at least half a dozen different mail clients, and most act exactly as described above. It is completely impossible for me to somehow enforce a standard, so I stopped worrying about it.
Why? What's wrong about using AI to moderate your platform? Are you supposed to underpaid workers from Colombia to do it and make them see horrible content?
Did you reply to the correct person? But yes I have three cars and a flexible work schedule, as well as premium bank support.
According to the USB-C spec page 37[0], even USB 2.0 C-to-C cables will support USB-PD at 3A (negotiated with the CC wire which is mandatory even on 2.0 C-to-C cables.)

0: https://www.usb.org/sites/default/files/USB%20Type-C%20Spec%...
Well this recently created Lemmy community is empty so far, but programming.dev/c/devlogs is an option.
https://lemmy.guide/link?target=!devlogs@programming.dev
I don't know. You don't know. It is likely that the regulator doesn't know either. Maybe even the plant owner doesn't know.

But what is fairly clear is that the USs anti-nuclear strategy has caused thousands of deaths, untold pollution and a lot of poverty because it pushed energy prices up. It squelched the safest and cleanest form of power we've ever discovered from taking root. People should calm down about calling for license revocations because something turned out to be imperfect. Especially since we don't know how much redundancy is built in to this system. The standard applied to nuclear power safety is excessive.
David Rosenthal analyzed this theory in depth: https://blog.dshr.org/2023/09/the-bitcoin-lab-leak-theory.ht...
ChatGPT's mobile app hit record $4.58M in revenue last month but growth slowing