skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They compared a thunderbolt 4 cable to several non thunderbolt cables. It's not surprising the non thunderbolt cables do not have thunderbolt chips

This cable also has no thunderbolt chip and is only usb 2.0

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MU2G3AM/A/240w-usb-c-char...
Congrats on triggering my chronic anxiety.

I dread the day I require anything complicated that requires medical/insurance bureocracy in this country. I've had already ungodly share of issues with Aetna because they capitalized my surname.
Of course, making square wave oscillators is very difficult at any frequency - there is always some rounding around the 'corners'
>> Apple has managed to pack the power of a Mac, plus the performance of a new dedicated AR chip, into a computer that you can wear on your face.

Regarding the external battery, I recall watching some movie where an AI discovered that the human body could be used as a battery. Seems like Apple could solve a lot of their battery issues by working on that.
People have been searching for a lost Dragonfly in the South Island of NZ for decades, we're far smaller (and so was the plane, to be fair) than Alaska! It's a 2.5 hours drive from my town by the Pacific Ocean over the Alps to a wild beach on the Tasman Sea. There's a one day running/cycling/kayaking endurance race from the Tasman coast over a pass in the Southern Alps, down to the Pacific coast. (Guess what it's called)

And the search area(s) is/are reasonably well known now - it was flying to Milford Sound, there were several mountain passes feasible for flying over the Main Divide in a rather underpowered aircraft to get there, and there were some statements from locals in the high country in the east who believe they heard the plane as it flew into the mountains that yielded places to look.

There's a general agreement forming about which area it crashed, but no evidence yet. Makes for good practice in extreme terrain for LandSAR exercises though.

So yeah, far smaller search area, still missing. Google ZK-AFB for more, there's a few books on it, one gent in particular has been searching most of his adult life for it.
A friend of mine is working on this. Personally I'm not too involved with .NET crowd but looks pretty neat from what I've seen!
Or you'll stop resisting and start communicating using only emojis.
Was expecting this to happen soon and I guess soon is now. Will Zoom, MS start to compete on participant authentication features they are probably going to add?
> “(In the) multi-person video conference, it turns out that everyone [he saw] was fake,”

This could be totally real, but also could one employee saying 'the CFO was on a call' and claim deepfake to make it an excuse?

I guess it was a matter of time before this occurred. How long before scammers do bulk video calls to parents/grandparent pretending to be the kids saying they are in trouble and need $$$ ASAP.

The even better question, is how can this be stopped or reduced and is there a new business there?
Well, things like law school & medical school have high rates of failure.

So if one of the successful that passed the bar & became doctors people say "They studied hard" — yet many failed, even when the also studied. Does that nullify the value of "studying hard"?
Interesting thought, but how would that work?
> Chan said the worker had grown suspicious after he received a message that was purportedly from the company’s UK-based chief financial officer.

It wasn't just a fake call, and he had a paper trail of the order...at this point it's pretty hard to prevent this from happening, short of having every order double checked by some other independent entity.
Australia was and likely still is more socialist than any US centralists wants.

The 1900's Harvester agreement indexed the minimum wage to am eight hour work day with a week sufficient to feed, house, and clothe a worker and their family.

The Whitlam years saw free university education for anyone that merited by high school (and equivilency) exams, health care has been universal - now with a split of both public and private, pharmacy companies are capped on their generics so that costs are reasonable, differences are picked up for those that can't afford medication (for almost all prescriptions), etc.
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the scary part is how easy this would be to do right now, especially for a larger, higher-profile company. leadership is almost synonymous with an online presence in the form of podcasts, interviews, youtube videos, conference talks. combine that with public photo-sharing app profiles, and you're in business.
I always assumed the younger users use it. But I have no stats on it.
To me, Delphi has always been the best tool for desktop development.

And I've tried them all. Win32, MFC, Winforms, WPF, Qt, Gtk, WxWidgets, Fltk, Swing, JavaFX, Flutter, React, Angular, Svelte, Solid...

But desktop development is dead, unfortunately. And Delphi is too expensive. They should take a look at Jetbrains on how to successfully sell licenses to individuals...
You can see similar things in the Apple Lisa source code as well: https://info.computerhistory.org/apple-lisa-code

The linked SO page is a page of complete speculation.

History isn't just a bunch of logical thought exercises, it's an assembling of documentation and evidence.

As far as I can see, there is no contemporaneous documentation claiming intentionality so the question remains unanswered.

A smoking gun would be a file with a name like cursor.bitmap or some code like "declare cursor_default = [ [ 1, 0 ... ] ];" from a major source (ms/xerox/apple) say, pre-1988 or so, with some comment above it explaining the rationale of why that cursor style in particular. I'd even accept a more minor source like Acorn, Digital Research, Quarterdeck, NeWS, VisiOn or MIT Athena (X).

Finding something that talks about say, lightpens and then defends the mouse cursor style in that way is working backwards from a hypothesis. It's weak and doesn't preclude other possibilities. Let's be rigorous and get it right.
RSA = Republic of South Africa
Amiga emulators often don't do the music correctly, Amiga had very special sound hardware. Turrican 2 has really good music using their own homemade audio code, getting a bad quality version of that just doesn't feel the same.

Modern computers can easily get the same sound of course, but it is hard to emulate that sound based on the original game data.
I was on Chinese TikTok: Douyin, I only saw two videos reporting this, it is a recording from a news reporting with translation on top of it. The video clip is 30s long. That's it. To be honest, I don't think many Chinese care/know what's going on.

[I didn't read the bbc article, and do not know what it is talking about, just providing some information for you all]
I'm sorry to inform, but the new Modula-2 is already Nim, isn't it?
WPF still works, but it's tied to DirectX 9 in various ways and doesn't get more than a few bugfixes. It's also used for Visual Studio, albeit with .NET Framework, so any changes risk breaking one fairly complex product (while nothing at MS uses Windows Forms, as far as I know).
True, especially if bought from Aliexpress, Amazon, Ebay or similarly unreliable source: most solid state relays sold there are relabeled fakes claiming higher specs than their actual one.

https://protosupplies.com/inferior-counterfeit-fotek-ssr-25-...

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/reviews/warning-dont-buy-fotek...

Buy parts only from reputable sources, especially when safety is involved, which is the case
with everything that is connected to mains voltage.
Don't want to diagnose you over the internet, but this sounds very much like me and my ADHD. Pills fixed it.
VPNs do not do what you seem to think they do. A VPN is a privacy tool as much as restarting your router to get a new IP lease is a privacy tool.
Make a twist and call my wife, not me.
This should like bad company processes all around. For a sum this high, you need more than just a video call. Get an email (if the tech team setup DMARC correctly, sending phishing from company-domain is near impossible). Talk through company chat (Slack, Teams, etc). Call a couple high ranking on their cell.
Another avenue of escalation is also via your state congressional rep / federal congressional rep. Their offices should always have a constituent services function whose very purpose is to help their constituents navigate these bureaucratic mazes.

(Disclaimer: I’ve never had to exercise this personally.)
'don't buy anthem products, period, for any reason"
Maybe we can generalize the becquerel to mean the average number of events per second of an arbitrary Poisson process? (The number requests per second and the number of decayed particles per second usually follow Poisson distribution.)
The 4 feet can make a big difference, think of the highest possible groundwater table.
> Initially, the worker suspected it was a phishing email, as it talked of the need for a secret transaction to be carried out. However, the worker put aside his early doubts after the video call because other people in attendance had looked and sounded just like colleagues he recognized.

this is the real problem. why oh why, after suspecting an email as phishing, would you then go on to even click ANYTHING, let alone join a video call?

insanity. either stupidity or he's lying about suspecting the email. how many corporate security trainings does it take? this is just about 101. "if asked to do a secret task by a suspicious email, DONT do it"
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I don't have necessary knowledge to explain this, yet while using gpt4 to help me parse the abstract, gpt4 without missing a heartbeat, changed it to "Insolation refers to the amount of stellar energy a planet receives on its surface. The value "0.67s" indicates that TOI-715 b receives 67% of the solar energy Earth receives from the Sun. "

Wiki ref check: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_irradiance
Where it hurts is it can be a PITA to get hold of the CFO from the mere employee side, especially as the CFO was UK based.

Basically, it was a well thought and well executed scam that perfectly fit the employee's situation.
The arrow has a white outline around it, so the hotspot is at the tip of the black arrow, at (1,1).
Nah, I still think the author has it right.

The combination of cheaper, faster processors and a market that wanted to constantly upgrade is what killed the Amiga.

As mentioned by an earlier commentor, who your market was really counted back then. Businesses have upgrade cycles every 3 years as they right off liabilities. That subsidises the next generation of improvements.

Even if Commodore had access a single generation capable of fast 3D code it wouldn't have saved them.

For example, the Acorn Archimedes had access to much better processors[1] and a chunky 256 colour mode at launch in '87.
That still didn't save Acorn[1] because they lacked those business upgrade cycles sales.

I don't think an '87 Archimedes had enough umph to run Doom back then but it could have run something Doom like that the Amiga A500 couldn't if really pushed.

It still wouldn't have interested the business users that really made the PC successful and by '93 Intel would still have been ahead.

1. 12Mhz 32 bit ARM2 was at least 7x faster than an 8MHz 68000 in 1987 and twice as fast as a 16MHz 386 using Drystone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture_family#ARM2

2. Although thankfully Arm did pretty well all things considered.
Isn't this both unethical and illegal?
A close friend of mine who is an American feels strongly that this is a health insurance thing and not a car insurance thing. It’s interesting to see her reaction being offended by the article. The Economist is a British newspaper. Could there be a cultural issue writing the article?

Also, car insurances are different in many states.

I am Dutch, so no clue here.
Human needs 2000 kcal on average for daily activities, which is equivalent to 470 mAh. So... no.
Ha, I know Carelon! It's their pharmacy division for specialty (read: expensive) medication. Not a clue as to why they'd be involved in a CPAP claim, but this story does ring far too close to home.

I once spent months fighting United Healthcare to stop hounding me for a $2k bill that I categorically did not owe. Countless phone reps were unable to remove it from my account; I only solved the problem by making a big enough stink on Twitter for someone from corporate to get involved. Good times!
> The hotspot for the arrow cursor was not (0,0) but was (1,1).
> Can anyone explain why?

My assumption (not having an old Mac or documentation to confirm it...) is that the tip of the cursor had to be at (1, 1) to allow for a pixel's worth of mask around the outer edge of the tip.
http://www.ipodlinux.org/Firmware.html#Firmware_Partition_fo...
it’s trivial to avoid. Do not accept instructions outside of the standard instruction channels. The only reason this scheme works is because of bad processes, bad training or a culture of fear (where employees feel compelled to comply with any demand regardless of process for fear of losing their job).

If an employee routinely receives email or zoom instructions to transfer $25m without any sort of sign off then the company is completely at fault for terrible process.
I wonder if this was part of the inspiration for Outer Wilds, where the system’s planets are so small that they could be explored with wooden spaceships.
I had my first serious medical procedure a year and a half ago, which required a rare specialist. My insurance, Anthem Blue Cross, covered everything, and called and mailed me ahead of time confirming my hospital stay at UCSF was approved and in network. So, YMMV.
i suspect the same but unfortunately i don't live in a place where it's realistic to get assessed or treated for adhd
Are you for real?

Let's go back to the original quote:

> For what it's worth, depending on the harms, a sudden total ban is not out of the question as being beneficial to humanity as a whole. It would just be disruptive to enterprise, boo hoo. We don't need to always treat bad actors with kid gloves.

How isn't that talking about “punishment”? What do you think the last sentence is supposed to mean?

You either have a pathological level of confirmation bias, or acute reading deficiency, I'm afraid.
What the hell are we doing as an industry? We have 20 cores per CPU and enough RAM to fit the entire human civilization's knowledge in text form in everyone's pocket, but we can't scroll a webpage with animations without stuttering?
In uk they weren't allowed to inspect the software for a looooong time. And you can't prove anything without inspection.
What's crazy is that Anthem is genuinely one of the least-bad insurance giants in America right now. The bar is incredibly fucking low.
It’s surprising to me that not only in my home country is the process of having a CPAP machine covered by insurance a long and complicated one.

In my case, it took almost 12 months to receive my first CPAP machine, which then turned out to be refurbished. Initially, I had to visit a doctor, who had an available appointment in two months. He then referred me to a sleep laboratory (another two-month wait). After my sleep study, they sent me back to the doctor, who confirmed I had sleep apnea and said I needed to return to the sleep lab to test some settings—a further two months’ wait.

Then, after more than a month waiting for the next appointment, the doctor informed me that the settings they had tried were too low and wanted to send me back to the lab. I disagreed, but he gave me the prescription, and two months later, I received a CPAP machine with incorrect settings that didn’t help much.

Eventually, I purchased my own Philips Dreamstation Go because it automatically adjusts the pressure, and I’ve been sleeping well ever since.
> Do not accept instructions outside of the defined company processes

Most non-enterprise companies have fairly loose wire protocols. That said, outgoing phone calls to two separate signers is a good, simple best practice.
CPAP = Continuous Positive Airway Pressure ventillation - a mask, a hose and a flow generator. Treatment for obstructive sleep apnea.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_positive_airway_p...
docker run --name docker-nginx -p 80:80 nginx
It almost sounds like it, but I can't control those thoughts. They happen on their own. I've been told one of the ways to successful meditation is learning to be a passive observer of these thoughts, to let them happen but not engage in them, but I definitely don't know how that works.
This is a pipe dream and will remain one.
Are you sure? Many C++ programmers who have learned rust report that it has also made them better C++ programmers.
Probably because "Uncredited" signifies the absence in credits sequence(s) in general for crew and staff, while the term "Extra" applies just to actors.
Just tried it with my C project. Entry point extension is not supported. :(
Reading this depressed me: I imagined the title being “How to get your GMail/XBox/PlayStation account back in only 666 days.”

I worry that, some day, tech companies will be under a regulating agency like insurance is today. If that happens, we’ll probably deserve it.
It's not an issue of SNR. Wifi isn't allowed to transmit when it detects another station is already transmitting - it has to wait for clean air. By reducing everyone's power level the competing transmitter disappears into the noise floor, freeing up air for you to transmit on. A weak-ish signal which can transmit 100% of of the time is better than a strong signal which can only transmit 5% of the time.

In theory you could indeed all shout at once, but that breaks down when your conversation partner is way closer to the other shouter - no matter how loud you shout, your message will always be overpowered and will only get through when you wait until the other shouter is silent. That's why wifi chooses to listen first.
Both the relay and the wiring in that particular smart plug looks to be up to spec, going by the markings on the relay and the apparent wire thickness. At the end of the video he does an insulation test as well and it passes with room to spare. There even is a basic surge protection in there (the big blue disc). I would have liked to see the circuit board airgapped between the HV lines to reduce the chance of creep if it ever gets humid, but for dry applications indoors this should be ok. I didn't see a fuse and I would have liked to see a small inductor to separate the HV from the LV section but that's expensive so many brands choose this kind of directly coupled system. R1 (the high wattage resistor next to the relay) and the two 400V caps are doing the heavy lifting there and even though that works I just don't like having electronics directly coupled to mains voltage. The 'Sonoff' devices do this better.

I've done a similar teardown on KaKu, Tuya and Shelly products and only the latter were - in my opinion - acceptable from a mechanical and electrical design perspective. The Tuya stuff was absolutely terrible (and required a server in China to have access to stuff in my home which will never happen), the KaKu ones are confusingly labelled (but if used at the lower of the two labelings probably safe) and much lighter in construction than the website suggested. The Shelly stuff is simply solid and comparable to the one in this video and doesn't require any cloud services. So that's what I went with. Bonus because it integrates seamlessly with HA.
Xkcd: Greenhouse Effect
Using P2P to turn your browser into a web server
I know this is not efficient by any means but being able to instantly make things publicly available from your phone is a cool trick. Just wanted to show how it's done and I'm curious about what could be built on top of this

Happy to hear your thoughts on this.
Met someone coming from US to Australia to visit and was nicely surprised you can just go buy a CPAP, cheaply with no referral. Just like buying a dishwasher or something.

Makes me wonder if in the US a trip to mexico or canada or somewhere could make this easier.
An EV with motor generator, charge at home, and fill your tank when you have to make a longer trip just in case, problem solved. It should work for many scenarios but not all of them. Say the battery covers 300km, with a tank of gas it can cover 600-900km, should be enough for everyone.
I was just about to say that.

There's an amazing video by Posy documenting mouse cursor history, and even provides his own cursor pack:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YThelfB2fvg

http://www.michieldb.nl/other/cursors/
> I stare out my office window often as I consider code

One of the attractive features of AR/VR for me is to be able to see sth different than the gray sky out of the window in a big part of the year where I live
I am sorry for your relative, but you should be aware that in ALS (and probably other diseases) a major patient organization has a financial interest in some drugs to succeed and they do not hesitate to put a lot of pressure on social media onto the FDA. As far as I know, with the same data, this drug was not authorized in the EU.

Also in ALS, there were major manipulations on social media by companies that claimed their drug was able to cure people, and to prove it they showed on social media well-known patients going to the gym and others doing motocross!

Yet these drugs never shown any benefits in phase III clinical trials...
Aaand your prayers are heard:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39246664
Where I live it would still illegal to film people without their consent. You wearing a thing doesn't create that consent.

And quite frankly even if it wasn't illegal, just assuming others have to be ok with this is a dick move. If you ever showed up to my party wearing these glasses and didn't put them down at the door I would kick you out and never invite you again.

And I would not be wrong, except in a world where people are like: "well actually".
I'm left handed and have always used the mouse with my left hand.

The tilt on the cursor has never seemed odd or wrong or strange to me in any way.

I've been using computer mice in one way or another for more than 30 years and perhaps a lack of oddness comes from having so very much gotten used to it. Maybe newer left-handed mouse users would find the cursor tilt strange?
Carelon also does preauthorizations for various expensive procedures and such. I’ve had the displeasure of having to try to coordinate between my insurance provider and PCP’s insurance coordinator for authorizing some expensive blood tests. Insurance wanted the PCP to use Carelon, Carelon automatically denied it, the appeals process was designed to be as frustrating and opaque as possible.

(Unlike the OP, I didn’t have the patience to spend two years navigating the kafkaesque nightmare they did. I finally gave up after a couple months of being stonewalled by all the parties who would refuse to talk to one another and me trying to be the middle man. I never did get the blood work done. So much for preventative medicine.)
How Lego Became the Apple of Toys (2015)
From probation to prison design, these reformers seek improvements
So obscure it's not listed as an SI base unit nor as an SI derived unit?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units
Is it ironic to pick up a hobby of digging a hole to fill that hole in your soul? For some of these people, it could be "meaningful" enough - after all, meaning and value are subjective. Or, perhaps the very meaninglessness has value for them, like a game without a practical purpose.