skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As long as the cable isn't completely broken and has wires that actually conduct the current, you're getting 60W over USB-C PD. It's 100% passive. Compliance means "it connects one end with another without causing fire", it only gets more complex at more than 60W.

If it doesn't have the wires inside, you've been scammed into buying a piece of junk that merely looks like a USB cable.

When using a USB-A charger, you're guaranteed* at least 2.5W, and the charging standard (BC 1.2) goes up to 7.5W (though usually you can go higher with proprietary protocols, such as QC, or even PD 1.0, although it's very rare for something to support PD 1.0 and pretty common to support QC or Apple signaling). Sure, you won't be able to charge a laptop from a USB-A port, but it's not a hard thing to grasp.

I don't think you know what you're talking about.

* You could probably find some chargers that do less than 500mA, but you'd have to search among 20 years old ones at this point and they wouldn't really work with anything modern anyway, PD or not. The hard requirement is that a port has to provide at least 100mA, but that's only relevant to data ports that can do USB enumeration - for charging-only ports, everything assumes at least 500mA, and it would be really hard to find something with less than 1A or even 1.5A (7.5W) these days. Of course, if you try hard you can find any kind of weird stuff out there - I've got a water fountain for cats with power adapter that has a USB-A port providing 9V, so connecting anything else to it may make it release its magic smoke - but that's hardly a problem with USB itself.
I didn’t like him as president, but he was entirely right about that. Any president would be, regardless of their politics. As bluntly as possible:

Keep your promises, and we will keep ours. But if you fail to keep yours, I do not believe we have any obligation to fulfill ours, even if it leads to loss of life. That’s not immaturity, that is the most basic, foundational tenets of a pact.

Europe constantly fails to meet the requirements across multiple agreements, wether that’s defense spending, carbon emissions, or whatever else, but the second that the U.S. slightly slows down on handing out free cash to anyone who asks, we are a horrible, evil “mafia” country. It would be laughable if it weren’t so depressing.

Ironically, more countries in NATO are meeting their 2% defense spending bill than ever before, because of a possible Trump presidency on the horizon. They know there’s a chance US funding gets rug-pulled, so they’re actually taking their defense spending seriously. Precisely because he is a poor, unpredictable leader, a Trump presidency is ironically what will save Europe from themselves.
I don't know what courts and what cases you're talking about, but SCOTUS has repeatedly held that binding arbitration agreements override almost all rights.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T_Mobility_LLC_v._Concepc... (binding arbitration overrides state law)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/21/business/supreme-court-up... (binding arbitration overrides labor protection)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/supreme-court-backs-... (binding arbitration overrides consumer protections even in cases of fraudulent deceptive advertising)
TBH - I find the opposite is true. Far more complaints have been of the form “this isn’t an illegal state, the dev mistakenly thought so because they’re not a domain expert - why won’t they let me do this?”

And some illegal states are useful. Letting a form exist with a field the user can’t fill out, along with disabled logic and a helper message, is often the best way to onboard users to your tool. Lots of proponents of making illegal states unrepresentable take those fields away so they don’t have to muck with validation logic, which takes away your best way to explain how to use your tool to a user.
Our food supply system is broken.

- It emits 30% of climate emissions

- 30% of food produced is gone in losses and waste

- People in middle to high income countries have significant obesity and related problems (some countries have either malnourished people or obese people, and less in between)

- Pollution from our agriculture and aquaculture is killing the ocean near land

- Our intensive agriculture is threatening biodiversity

- We have lost up to 70% of insects in many industrial nations

- Essentially all (90%?) of ocean fish stocks are overfished or at capacity. Even a supposedly rational and environmentally aware nation like Sweden can stop the overfishing. The cod stock has collapsed and now the herring is going too

- The soils are being destroyed or depleted

- The phosphor and nitrogen cycle is broken (fossil fuels or resources that are mismanaged)

I could go on. It is well documented.

I work on circular food production, where we really care about putting together highly efficient nutrient loops and make sure they work locally/regionally. A mix of tech (automation, IT, climate control, etc), agriculture, horticulture, aquaculture, insects etc. As part of this there are very interesting completing pieces with ways of getting the nutrients in creative ways (new food tech), dealing with animal disease (new tech), combined with sensors, ML and just plain old common sense, that can make a huge impact. If we just think through the process a bit more and take responsibility for the externalities, which really are starting to bite.

Much is still overhyped in foodtech imho, specifically the stuff which claims silver bullets without proper circularity. Which is detrimental to the real solutions as investors like simple superscalable solutions, and the simple solutions are mostly not sustainable. (There are of course exceptions).
> both more than happy to destabilize the middle east in pursuit of their goals

As if the west hasn't already destabilized the middle east for many decades now.
> Emacs is for people who want to make editor customization a _hobby_.

I disagree. I use it for org mode to take notes, track time, and write documentation. I use it with SLIME to program in Common Lisp (side projects, though). I make changes to .emacs or write an elisp function once in a while, usually to finesse something that I do frequently, but it's definitely not a hobby. It's a great tool, even before any customizations, IMO.
ELIZA was so much more exciting than the "put 100B artificial neurons on a GPU" idea.

;)
I'm guessing you mean income tax, rather than taxation in general?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_taxation_in_the_Uni...
I'm guessing that either the shots its trained on have a propensity to be slo-mo (like puppies playing in a field) or making it slow-motion makes unnatural movement a lot less obvious
Honestly, feel free to do it in HTML/CSS/JS. The goal isn't to go as hard as you possibly can, simply to start realizing how much more "first class" knowledge of items on the screen you probably want.

One thing I will caution is to not try and lean into making DOM layout do what you want. Represent the different elements as divs that are absolutely positioned, and you can go a long way. You'll probably still want a lot of seemingly duplicated data in places that you control directly, but that is part of the point.
Microsoft, OpenAI Confirm Nation-States Are Weaponizing Generative AI
That's not exactly true, as there's plenty of M198 built, they're just in storage. Ammunition is what's the main issue.

There's also plenty of M1 tanks in US.

The question arrises, when people start to realize that the storage of those wasn't up to the required standards.

The worst part was that multiple countries dragged their feet on providing arms and realizing that 2022 was the start of a new arms race. And multiple countries are still reluctant to commit to refill the arms stockpiles.(hence the inability to even start mass production 2 years after it's clear what's going on)

> whoever thinks Russia is a threat is to be laughed at and needs their head checked

As a Lithuanian - I know this all too well. My mother tongue is Russian and Russian political class had been dominated by anti-western, revanchist and militaristic rhetoric for at least the last 17 years. No one in the west bothered to listen.
If US Congress decides to spend 1 billion USD on weapons for Ukraine, they will not wire 1 billion USD to a bank account in Ukraine.

The US government will give > 900 million USD to US companies that build weapons in factories in the US, employing US workers who spend their salary in the US economy, boosting it.

The US government will also spend a couple million USD to transport the weapons produced in the US to Ukraine.
Good catch, thanks. I had forgotten about the HTML anchor fragment thingy.
Finding Nemo except they're all in BDSM outfits
USB-C spec is not very clear. And even in cases where it is clear. It’s not followed. There’s so many bad cables around. Cables that work on 1 device but not another, cables which do data and not PD, cables that do PD and not data, USB-C has the nicest plug with the worst experience.
New York Times, Get Out of My School
> immoral and I don’t want to ever participate in stock market

I feel that is a common opinion amongst people that haven't started a business. It is too easy to judge others.

If you are selling a product/service you can't avoid becoming part of the capitalist system and you are supporting "immoral" companies through your suppliers (e.g. paying Google for advertising, paying Amazon for fulfilment).

It is difficult to start a business and keep true to your ideals. And people that do walk the line between creating a business and keeping their morals is uncommon enough that they tend to be remembered for it e.g. Bob's Red Mill: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39366542

It is much easier to be tritely moralistic if you don't start a business. I often really admire people with idealistic values - and morality is critical in business. I don't admire people if they go to negative extremes: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splitting_(psychology)

Almost by definition starting a business means taking on risks. Mixing risks and money is "gambling" and it is an inherent property of businesses. Deciding what is good gambling and what is bad gambling is a very old problem. Buying insurance is reducing risk (less gambling) but insurance is gambling by definition. Unfortunately you have chosen the moralistic word "gambling" to talk about the normal issue of managing risk.

Perhaps you just don't like the rich? One can have shares and own a business without being/becoming rich - you don't need to directly involve wealthy people.

One can bootstrap a company without taking rich-peoples investments - see article. Unfortunately we get hoodwinked by the success stories from the VC investment sector. We hear less about the losers in the VC game or other ways to play the game of business.

Edit: a business is just a complicated machine. If you believe selling a product is moral, then you must believe that selling a business is also moral.
Let's not forget 1989 Loma Prieta quake that caused the top deck of the bay bridge to collapse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Loma_Prieta_earthquake
Exactly. God knows what happened behind closed doors. I hope the truth emerges one day.
The US occupied the country for 20 years. Staying just became unpopular. The US lost about as many troops in 20 years as Russia loses in 2 days of fighting in Ukraine.
That's precisely what I was trying to express!

In retrospect, I realize that the part you quoted might sound like I felt that toy programs like that weren't magical, when I was a kid. On the contrary, I'm trying to say that they don't feel like magic in today's world.
I use CoPilot and ChatGPT extensively and don't feel replaced. I feel like I have an incredible superpower and get excited building more efficiently than I ever have been able to before.

I still have a lot of useful things I'm building and learning about.

Maybe I'll feel bummed out if entire projects are being generated and I become QA. But we're not there yet.
Cannot overstate the helpfulness of rerere if you work in a rebase workflow.
Did they envision labor unions with mandatory and exclusive bargaining rights? I'm not sure what the point of going down that rabbithole would be in this case.
Perhaps we should side with Apple when they do something good and but not when they do something that isn't that good?

I'm writing this on a Macbook Pro which I really like, but this decision has downsides for me as user and I'm not convinced by Apple's justification.
Exact numbers are probably hard to find since not everyone will be honest, research by of university of Chicago mentions:

"67 percent approve of how Putin is handling foreign policy, fewer, 58 percent, approve of his management of domestic affairs."

https://www.norc.org/research/library/new-survey-finds-most-...
It tends to be better if I look out the window, it's the looking at a screen and my inner ear sensing the movement that mucks me up I think.

Interestingly, I don't get motion sickness in VR, which is the opposite problem (movement visually, none in reality).
He's thinking about it like a business person who is looking at buying a business. It's worth close to zero. In it's current state this business is not an asset, it's a organization doing stuff.

Breaking it out into SDE + adjustment is what the comment already does, albeit without using that terminology.

One cannot hire a person who can do all the things this owner does. The person is a smart former google engineer. These people don't grow on trees. It would take a few people to do a bad approximation of what he does. The adjustment to SDE is going to be 100's of k and you get to 0 cash thrown off.
Dang and others, would it make sense to change the HN posting workflow such that a one-paragraph ChatGPT-produced summary was the first visible comment? Or otherwise make a summary easy to find.
Also, ask the poster if the title could be improved, and suggest a possibly better one?
Maybe it'd be unwise, of course.
Sure: he's flat out wrong. This has been played out again and again - "winning a war" is meaningless if you can't retain the territory. Unless the world is going to stand by and allow Russia to commit genocide of the entirety of the Ukranian population, this will move from a traditional war to a guerilla war. Ukrainians can fight guerilla warfare longer than Putin is going to be alive and able to maintain support of the Russian population. They couldn't conquer Afghanistan drawing from more than double the population.

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/AFG/afghanistan/popula...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1072400/population-us-us...

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/UKR/ukraine/population

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/RUS/russia/population
(pre- M/S Estonia)
And in 10 years, there will be a comment saying "XYZ is why VSCode is not as relevant as it once was."

And Emacs will still be around.
I really wish that Deuce [1] [2] got more attention as a source for ideas for Emacs alternatives. It sounds incredibly cool.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20221002093520/https://groups.go...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20210407151341/https://discuss.a...
Good list, definitely concur with the top ones and can't think of anything major to me that's not listed.

rebase.autosquash combined with an alias I have (called 'fixup') to make that commit and then do the rebase is probably my top one by an absolute long shot, at least in terms of frequency of use. pull.rebase is important to me, but I fixup so frequently, I really don't know how people get by without it.

(Well, I do, generally they create a snaking history by merging master or whatever into their own branch repeatedly, swapping the parents, and make lots of new commits to fix things in the old ones. But I don't know how you can put up with doing that to yourself, is I suppose the long version of what I mean.)

Oh - semi-missed - insteadOf is more useful than implied: I have 'gh:' mapped to the full thing, so I just `git remote add somefork gh:someforker/the-project`, for example.

Some other minor ones: advice.statusHints=false; include.path (if you need it you need it - I use it to set my signing key according to which Yubikey is plugged in, plugging can write the whole file because it's all that's in there, no parsing required); remote "origin".fetch set to get PRs; oh and interactive.singleKey = true if that was missed - not a minor one at all! Makes staging changes so much faster and easier. Obviously not as fast as `add .` or `commit -a`, but don't do that.
He absolutely can and will destroy the country and what it has stood for. He's already completely corrupted one of the only two viable political parties. They no longer believe in democracy. If Trump or one his sycophants gains office again, America won't be a shining city on the hill, it'll be a toxic waste dump.
This is exactly why “America is bad” is such a common opinion.

The preferred response of many of its citizens and politicians, is to prove the critics right with no thought of how that affects the world. This vindictive idea is worthy of a 4 year old child that doesn’t know any better.

And I bet you think that the US never benefited from being the world police. You think that the only super power in the world projecting influence all over the globe was all done out of the goodness of their hearts?

Despite much criticism, the US was the country most democracies looked up to or followed. It’s sad and quite worrying for the world that we’re now seeing the end of that.
Then again there is s&box which I would not consider being close to either, well the games that can be made with s&box at least. But I agree that it would probably be hard to build something like Teardown inside the Source 2 Engine. On the other hand: Teardown does not use Unity either.
The average non white-male westerner disagrees
"no human driver"? Really? Ever? Are you willing to bet on that assertion? Even if the human driver downs a bottle of vodka before driving?
Indeed, which is why I felt the need to call it out here. I'm not certain if the files on question actually happened to be valid C but whether that's a meaningful mistake regardless is left to the reader to decide.
I think Putin was keeping him around until the 2024 elections to use as a tool. "Do not cross me or this is what happens" is the message.
It's still spending most of its space on generic floating point units. And there's no hardware support for compressed weights as far as I know.
That's a funny question. Do you believe the African market is like the European market, where most people can afford paid TV? To be honest, I don't know for sure, but I would imagine most people would watch "old-fashioned", free TV channels as in most countries I've been to that's what I see people watching.
To be fair modern Russia is not exactly the USSR or Nazi Germany (let alone both of them put together). Their army was decimated (huge understatement) in Ukraine. Their demographic situation was pretty bad before the war. But now? If you combine the massive casualties (more than the US lost in Vietnam during over 15 years AND the Soviet war in Afghanistan (10 years)) with the exodus of working age males how can they ever recover?

It's an extremely cynical take but US + EU can pretty much afford to "wage" this war indefinitely as long they give just enough to Ukraine for it not to collapse and both sides continue throwing their men into the grinder. Russia is on a timer; it might take an extra few years and even if they don't run out of shells they'll run out of soldiers sooner or later (of course unfortunately the same applies to Ukraine..).
Does that involve wrecking their economy and killing hundreds of thousands of males in a rapidly declining population?
well I have a gripe with the existence of Administrative Law Judges

but ouch, didn't see the NLRB coming being the one on the chopping block to cause this change

hope congress, the people, or the states and their people will create a system that is more durable

I’m all for accelerating this outcome, just always a shock to see what angle it comes from
I've been at a conference where someone decided doing this would be amusing. I'm pretty positive there would have been widespread support for addressing the issue with a little property destruction, with the alternative being "Congratulations, you've shown you can't play nicely. Your admission to the conference is revoked, you're blacklisted from our future conferences, and we'll let the organizers of other local conferences know your name and why you're banned from our conference so they'll be forewarned."

As for courts, if this hadn't already been resolved (at least on iOS) I wonder if you could request that jurors and the judge turn their phones on for a demonstration. Given the state of Android updates in the general public, it'd probably still be effective on a significant percentage of people.
US is not the signatory of Budapest Memorandum?

If anything US should take a view of self interest as they are losing the credibility as an important international power very rapidly and are instead seriously helping their most dangerous adversaries to gain momentum.

Russia was in a very bad position a year ago, Putin's power was crumbling, but US withholding of critical help let him to sustain his power. Where are we now? Russia is threatening US space assets. Authoritarian powers all over the world are becoming more and more cocky as they see that US is becoming week and impotent.

It is sickening for me to watch how US is hurting itself out of stupidity.
Escalators usually carry more people if they are offered at least. Elevators get disgusting fast.
And there's something to be said for giving residents and visitors spectacular views of the city.
i wish i could wear my apple watch upside down. it is much easier and faster to get the time when worn this way, and it reduces repetitive wrist strain since rotating the wrist outward enough to expose the face require way less torsion than rotating it inward. also, the buttons and digital crown on the watch actuate way less frequently when my wrist is in flexion, i.e., when doing dips and military presses. however, the sensor and accelerometer readings are inaccurate in this orientation, so right side up it is.
This resonates with me. My computers used to crash at the app level, OS level or hardware level.

Now when something goes wrong the system just kinda gets lazy and stops working. But it won’t crash.

I’ve had my mac pinwheel on the login screen. I can still access the shell and file shares remotely, and even screen share to a logged in user.

But login.app refuses to crash so it’ll just pinwheel.

I’m glad I never forgot to turn things off and on for troubleshooting :(
IBM lists a cable tie as a part for Power5 here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/power5?topic=catalog-system-part...

I don't know if 9119-590 is compatible with AS/400 though.
> You've expressed what I believe to be a widely shared sentiment
clearly. Thank you.

Blogged about this just the other day [0] in response to a HN post
asking about how humans and AI can work together in hybrid harmony.

As others have said, there's not much to support that optimistic
"lambs lying down with lions" future. Mostly I see skilled people
expressing not unfounded fear, but resentment at the tedium and
stripping of agency if asked to "correct" the output of generative
tools.

[0] https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/aijobs/
The decision makers over HN as a software platform are pretty resistant to any sort of change, which is likely a mixture of deliberate intention but also lack of incentive to mess with what's already working.
Check out org mode (very complex and advanced task management / todo list system, calendar, etc), org roam (basically all the features of Obsidian), the ability to act as an email client, having a cross platform system shell independent shell (in elisp), and of course just general emacs architecture things like the ability to hot reload and replace and debug and inspect and get docs on and add to and modify every part of the editor