skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why does this cable have all 24 pins when only half of them are connected? The extra pins could help the plug sit more securely in its socket. Another guess: the same factory makes Thunderbolt cables, and it’s cheaper to maintain just one design, even though that means wasted material and effort.

The highest volume manufacturers may be fully integrated. Usually how it works, especially for these relatively low volume no-name brands, is they buy connectors from one vendor, PCBs from another, cables from another, plastic moldings from another, and then assemble them together (which may also be subcontracted). The assembly process doesn't have to be sophisticated: a small warehouse with a few workers with soldering irons and some jigs. Even some medium-volume assemblies like the USB-C front panel cables for major computer case brands are soldered by hand by a handful of workers in a small building.

Almost all of the USB-C connectors which are available off the shelf have all of their pins populated. Pins are very cheap. You need to be moving a whole lot of volume before it makes sense to go to your connector manufacturer and ask for a custom one with missing pins.
How about Geoff Hinton? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65452940
Apple created a better connector it's called USB-C, they adopted it among all their other devices aside from the iPhone (Mac and iPad) in fact they were the pioneers in adopting it on computers.

The worst USB-C to C cable is still no worse than the best Lightning cable
Ask HN: How is the community using LLMs for data cleaning/enriching/structuring?
Would love to learn how the community using LLMs for data wrangling and exchange prompts [1]. For example, we iterated several times on the following "data structuring" prompt for our Github Stargazers app [2,3]:

--- Prompt to GPT-3.5

You are given a block of disorganized text extracted from the GitHub user profile of a user using an automated web scraper. The goal is to get structured results from this data.
Extract the following fields from the text: name, country, city, email, occupation, programming_languages, topics_of_interest, social_media.
If some field is not found, just output fieldname: N/A. Always return all the 8 field names. DO NOT add any additional text to your output.
The topic_of_interest field must list a broad range of technical topics that are mentioned in any portion of the text. This field is the most important, so add as much information as you can. Do not add non-technical interests.
The programming_languages field can contain one or more programming languages out of only the following 4 programming languages - Python, C++, JavaScript, Java. Do not include any other language outside these 4 languages in the output. If the user is not interested in any of these 4 programming languages, output N/A.
If the country is not available, use the city field to fill the country. For example, if the city is New York, fill the country as United States.
If there are social media links, including personal websites, add them to the social media section. Do NOT add social media links that are not present.
Here is an example (use it only for the output format, not for the content):

name: Pramod Chundhuri
country: United States
city: Atlanta
email: pramodc@gatech.edu
occupation: PhD student at Georgia Tech
programming_languages: Python, C++
topics_of_interest: PyTorch, Carla, Deep Reinforcement Learning, Query Optimization
social_media: https://pchunduri6.github.io

----

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_wrangling
[2] https://github.com/pchunduri6/stargazers-reloaded
[3] https://medium.com/evadb-blog/stargazers-reloaded-llm-powered-analyses-of-your-github-community-aef9288eb8a5
I agree that publishing methods, code or even reinventing products in an open context is valuable... it is what I thought was one of my main contributions while at the academic institution.

From what I can tell, they are struggling to pay people given the 3x base salary overhead at the academic institute.

They haven't been pushing out free tools, haven't been demonstrating in new scenarios, etc. They continue to publish things that are in the open literature which work for corner cases. The company has expanded the generality of solutions, which they are not innovating on or publishing.

I would also say they have more money than they can spend and have delayed projects over 2years because they don't have people to lead them (getting back to the personnel problem).

I'm just disappointed in them as an academic institution, deliberately missing their own mission statement and refusing to cite publications before them, and feel the 3x overhead is a waste... at the very least they should pay their people better.
I would also speculate the height of the bale would be significant -- lower the bale to the new safe height of the bridge, and if you can't go under the bale, you can't go under the bridge.
406 Not Acceptable

Something is broken.
> Already happened to Ukraine as well.

Could you point to more information on this? According to CNN the Starlink network was never active over Crimea, so there was nothing for Elon to “take down” Ukraine was asking for something more than what Starlink could do with its current infrastructure. Starlink was already providing much needed internet access for the rest of Ukraine though.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/09/07/politics/elon-musk-biogra...
> One clock may be an easily changeable thing, but is it really that much easier than changing one sign?

Mechanical clocks are imprecise and so need periodic adjustment. If you need good timing, then adjusting your clock periodically would be already baked in. Adjusting it differently would be essentially free.

Communicating that you've changed your schedule though, that's a lot more work. Phones are a new tech not everyone has. Telegrams and letters cost money and labor.

Plus there's an issue of synchronization. Imagine a whole bunch of people changing their schedules at different times. The barber changes schedule one day, the bakery the next, and the post office decides to wait until next Monday. It'd be pretty rough.

> But changing all the clocks, in a whole country (or on a whole continent), on the same day? You think that's easy? You've never got that wrong, or known anyone who got that wrong?

It's far easier and more reliable for a government to make a big announcement (radio, newspapers) and make a single, global change than for a lot of people to communicate with everyone else.

In modern times this is a lot more practical, but communication used to be a lot harder.
Show me a module based language that maintains the same parallelism of compiles.
> The demoscene is certainly top of the 'wish I was there' list.

Ditto. Back in high school (early 90's) I had a friend who had an Amiga, this was rare for the US. I would go over to his house often and he would show me demos he downloaded off a BBS. I was always in awe of them. We also watched Demos release on PC as well. I later learned about the Demoscene parties/events in Europe and it made me wish I had grown up closer to that.
Did I miss something? Since when is capital drying up in AI?
I would think HN is actually pretty good for screen readers or other assisted browsing. I say that having not tried it myself, but it even works reasonably well in text-only browsers. Certainly a much simpler front-end than most modern websites.
The Vulkan backend does work on PC, as the only requirement is that Vulkan drivers are present. However, it was developed with mobile use-cases in mind and we haven't validated/optimized performance for PC.

As an aside, the Vulkan backend is tied to TorchScript at the moment, so it is not yet compatible with ExecuTorch. However, we are also planning to introduce a Vulkan delegate for ExecuTorch which will enable GPU delegation through ExecuTorch.
I have a LG plasma TV from 2008 that still works great. It's not a smart TV so I don't have to worry about keeping it up to date or having it slow down. I've gotten more than my money's worth.
The places where these cables come to shore are rightfully rated as high-priority military targets. You can't just walk up to them, nor go poking around in a yacht.
Vitamin D is a very inconclusive topic. That is why it is contentious. Go search pubmed or litcovid, there’s plenty of research.

I’m just calling out the fact that your complaint is not rooted in reality.

The studies you refer to are observational tracking people who supplement vitamin D or live in places where they get it naturally more. To say vitamin D is the cure to most things or even long covid is shortsighted and frankly irresponsible. Linus Pauling did that with vitamin C and tainted public opinion on vitamins.
But until you don't know something, you can't use it and, most importantly, you can't understand that you need it.

Like, how can you understand the tradeoffs between react, svelte or vanilla js until you have a basic knowledge of them?
I got 10th gen i5 on sale just before 11th gen came out. Works great for my gaming pc. Haven't felt the need to upgrade even when 12th gen went on sale for similar price I paid for 10th. So who are they targeting by launching barely improved chips? Anyone with a decent pc won't upgrade unless there is something substantial and hyped about it.
I'm curious about the 9-layer PCBA -- is it an amplifier or signal conditioner, to achieve 40 Gb/s? Or does it implement some protocol?

Or for power delivery? I see what might be resistors or capacitors. Not sure what else.
How would you solve the bot problem?
Micro-anything tends to cause engineering orgs to spend more time drawing boxes and fantasising about what tech would be 'just-perfect' for that particular box than actually considering their users needs.

The killer truth is, the connections between your components start to become more important than the components, and the work to maintain this system is only really justifiable if the components can be worked on in parallel.

But that never happens, and now you spend all your time trying to herd cats. Embrace a monolith, modularise the code, discuss your work with your colleagues so you don't step on each others' toes.

We're here to build systems, not pet-projects/fiefdoms. There is no software architecture that will allow you to work in isolation.
All over Northern Europe surely.
I believe income tax in the UK was a wartime measure during the Napoleonic Wars that never got removed, and the national speed limit of 70 mph was another 'limited' measure after someone hit 185 mph in an AC Cobra during the 1960s.
> The federation is militaristic to the point of the military, Starfleet, running diplomacy.

Starfleet, despite the ranks, authority structure, style of discipline, use of “courts-martial”, and the fact it fights wars, is not, as Starfleet personnel are eager to point out, a military force. Also, usually, Starfleet doesn't run diplomacy, they provide transport for diplomats.

They do sometimes fill in when the transported diplomats become unavailable, when an emergent needs happens without time to dispatch a diplomat, or when an individual Starfleet officer is requested by tbe parties to a dispute (where the Federation is a neutral mediator) or the other party (where the Federation is a party), but all of those are implicitly exceptional events that disproportionately happen to the particular officers on whom the franchise focuses.
Determinants of Human Action, Neural Bases&Functional Impact in Adolescents wOCD
The nice thing with GPUs is that the performance actually scales quite linearly with price.
YES! This was one of the things I came across. Thank you!
Can someone explain to me in minimally technical terms how scientists can determine the molecular composition of an exoplanet's atmosphere? It boggles my simple mind.
Did we ever officially re-add observing the earth to NASA's mission statement, after Bush II took it out? https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/nasa-earth-removed-mission-...
Hah I was going to name-drop The California Ideology article, but figured that has gotten enough discussion here over the year, and would only muddy the waters.
I bet Orcas have now something to do with it...
I do that too. Only needed to once I went from a (1080p) 27" monitor to a 24" one.
Not required, but the size at 110% looks better to me. Recently discovered that firefox saves this value if you do it outside of a private browsing window, prior to which I did it on each browser restart.
Subreddit Simulator on GPT-2 and AiDungeon have existed for a while, proving the capability of language models. That, combined with further research and the increasing availability of processing power, made the development of LLMs as we know it an inevitably, though the social impact this early is definitely surprising to me.
Cascading scheduling is really hard, especially when some of the things won’t need to change and others will. Which is inevitable. It can take months for things to stabilize again.
I don't think that one works for England; see W. T. Conqueror.
Reality is White House says evidence shows it was a Palestinian misfire. So bummer for you I guess.
I'd be curious too!

Most existing solutions I've seen use either Bluetooth LE (the only somewhat low-level API that can be used for cross-platform P2P things that Apple allows access to) or Apple-proprietary APIs like this one: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/multipeerconnectiv...
Great, Binance was fundamentally not built to service US citizens. Coinbase and maybe Gemini are basically the only ones who have gone through the legal hurdles to actually service US citizens. The intended market for Binance, and exchanges like it, is the other 95% of the human population without US citizenship, and that's fine.

Kind of a bummer that US regulations make it incompatible with the financial infrastructure that the rest of the world is moving towards, but that's just the world we live in. We (the US) have enjoyed a certain level of economic dominance in the world, and aren't excited to give that up, but at some point the unsustainability of our financial infrastructure will catch up with us.

Edit: Quick example. In the US, there is an adversarial relationship between commodities regulators, and securities regulators. They frequently fight for territory, which spills over onto us, in the form of contradictory lawsuits and regulatory uncertainty. No other country in the world is set up like this.
Russia and China-Backed Hackers Are Exploiting WinRAR Zero-Day
The site is still online [0] although there haven't been any new releases since 2018. The site's FLAC releases have been preserved on archive.org [1] for posterity should it ever go offline.

[0] https://ektoplazm.com/

[1] https://archive.org/details/ektoplazm-flac
Arxiv is great... also forgot to mention that people should abandon paywall journals and potentially peer-review all together in certain cases.
Thunderbolt is an Active spec, chips are required.
I completely agree with what you've said.

All I want to add is that today React is the winner, last week, backbone/ember was, week before that it was angular.

Even winners are transient and ephemeral.
Ka-Block! works for me on iOS. Its an extension for mobile Safari.
Going to keep buying even more cheap domains then.
There has been a lot of discussion about Georgism lately, and this link just made me think: could Georgism effectively be applied to domain name squatting?
Cryptocurrency was (and still is to an extent) a really interesting idea that has a ton of real world utility, especially as government surveillance continues its march towards panopticon. It's a shame that the "get rich quick" grifters and speculators took ahold of it and have killed any chance of normal people adopting it as a regular form of payment.
Great to see this getting more traction.

Two things I wanted to add:

1) The image markdown data exfil was disclosed to OpenAI in April this year, but still no fix. It impacts all areas of ChatGPT (e.g. browsing, plugins, code interpreter - beta features) and now image analysis (a default feature). Other vendors have fixed this attack vector via stricter Content-Security-Policy (e.g Bing Chat) or not rendering image markdown.

2) Image based injection work across models, e.g. also applies to Bard and Bing Chat. There was a brief discussion on here in July about it (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36718721) about a first demo.
ATS excludes good job candidates and people know
They can get quite gnarly, check out Just as a modern alternative: https://github.com/casey/just
The last build of Notational Velocity dates back to 03.2011. It happily survived (let me check) 12 Mac OS X, then OS X, then macOS updates. Not bad.
Like everything else related to content decisions made by free services like youtube, it comes down to advertising money. Advertisers don't want their products marketed underneath a video about how the holocaust didn't happen or how covid was fake.

It really, really, really sucks. We're letting some of the most immoral and unethical organizations dictate what is acceptable online based purely on how it will affect their profits.
If I ever want to read dimmed text on HN, I just highlight it with my mouse. Then it shows up quite well.
Bitwarden releases new developer survey on generative AI, passkeys, and more
Yes; this is HN, and not the letters page of the Daily Mail, to which this sort of content is traditionally addressed.
It seems like somebody on twitter said that you should stop buying domain names, and the owner of this website wanted to troll them
that's funny, I loved Shpongle when I was younger but it sounds SUPER dated to me now. Just sounds like the early aughts to me

Shpongle also "just" sounds like "normal" psytrance with added flute, to me, after many hours of listening, and the flute is Raja Ram's addition iirc. I stopped following Posford after Younger Brother - Vaccine came out, though.. never could get into that one, and I always found Hallucinogen to be "just like Shpongle but not as good"
A 2022 macbook pro
Wow!!! Now make one for Industrial/Goth, one of the earliest forms of EDM according to Iskur’s guide to EDM. I’d like to hear samples of the various sub genres, synth, future pop, EBM, etc.

PLEASE!!
power usage on a computer is not constant by any measure.

power usage spikes with CPU activity (among many other things) and if your power supply can't deliver the current that is required, voltage will drop, and things start failing, but only for 1ms or maybe even less. maybe even a single clock cycle in some cases.

if you can't keep the board powered fully for every clock cycle, then you are going to have problems, and that's true for any computer, not just the Pi.
TL;DR they're forcing the customer to do the currency conversion instead of them doing it automatically at the time of withdrawal?
I thought it was just light? Light bounces off of different molecules differently?
Honestly, it's just really convenient. The way the information is displayed and presented.
For example, I had what I thought was a weird charge on the card last month. Immediately I thought I was being defrauded, however I clicked on the merchant name on the list of transactions and I noticed the same charge 2 years in a row, and it turned out to be for fantasy football thing I forgot to cancel.

Need to dispute a charge? Just click on the charge and click dispute (or something), you're taken to a Messages exchange colored gray to differentiate, where you interact with the rep. No phone call necessary.

Is that difficult for other card providers to implement? Nope. Do they make it as simple as Apple does to see your information? Nope
If you have the Health app, using an Apple Card is kinda like that in the wallet app. Tons of your own information readily available and presented well.
Speaking of Picard and getting past first seasons. I tried watching Picard and only got a couple episodes in and wasn't enjoying it so I stopped. I guess I should give it another chance.
I'll see your Makefile and raise you ... autoconf!
This mentality is what leads to paint drip shaped people. It's a very good practice in my experience. Go just as deep as you need to solve the problem.

https://flowchainsensei.wordpress.com/2021/07/28/kent-becks-...
The answers include

* Consistency: you know every store in a chain is going to be within a standard deviation or so of every other

* Economies of scale

* Developing specific supply chains for their business. Sure there's not a specific Applebee's supply chain company, but there are specific product managers at supply chain companies for Applebee's products, and when you take the set of product managers, warehouse space, supply contracts, etc across the whole supply chain industry it results in a specific supply chain for a specific company in a way you can't get if you're a small business
Yes, I'm actually using Stylish - thank you for leaving some context for everyone reading this.
If there had been a catastrophe that called the whole program into question, NASA might have ceased to exist. Those with authority to pay out would have lost their power, and budgeted money would have vanished. These astronauts surely hoped they'd be among the first of many to explore space, but in that moment it was still possible they'd merely be the last of few.

I know very little about 1960s American culture, so I don't know how well something like GoFundMe would have played back then. If the income-earning person in a family were incapacitated, was the societal expectation that the family should henceforth be taken care of by others? Or rather that the family identify a new income-earning person?
> Anytime you throw a theoretically infinite payoff into the calculation it blows up immediately.

The payoff doesn't even need to be theoretically infinite. A sufficiently large finite payoff is enough. The real problem, as you say, is that these theoretically large payoffs are just pulled out of thin air (or someplace less savory...).

In the case of AGI, there is also the well known viewpoint that AGI will result in a huge negative payoff, as soon as the AGI realizes that it can use the atoms you are made of for something that, in its view, is more productive. AGI evangelists like the GP fail to factor that in as well. When such considerations are taken into account, the expected payoff from AGI is basically zero, even without factoring in the issue I described above.
Computer people generally design terrible computer interfaces because they are not only willing to cope with something bad, they're pleased to.
- Alan Kay, Personal Computing Historic Beginnings

(I use hckrnews.com)
I don't think this take is necessarily wrong, but HN isn't a forum for free and open ideas in the way you're getting at.

The purpose of this site is to surface content and discussion that is likely to be considered insightful, engaging, interesting, etc. to the specific demographic that reads this site.

Consensus moderation is on point for this. You let the demographic that is on the site determine the value of the content on the site.

Content that appeals to a minority of the demographic here is unlikely to get traction. That's kind of the point, I think.

That doesn't mean minority viewpoints are unlikely to get traction, I do see engaging takes on minority viewpoints get traction on HN, I assume because they are both interesting and fun to engage with for the demographic that hangs out here.
Godot and LibGDX have pretty different goals, I don't see them as competing