skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No... because the idea of an objective source of morality is meaningless. I 'ought' to murder someone – or else what? why should I? 'Ought' is fundamentally subjective, existing relative to an agent's basic goals. If I already believe that I ought to do X, an objective source of truth can convince me I ought to do Y by showing that Y will accomplish X. For example, I might at least consider murdering every 14th stranger I met... if you could somehow credibly demonstrate that doing so would save the lives of millions of people in the future. But no source, no matter how authoritative, can say I should murder every 14th stranger "just because" – or, for that matter, that I shouldn't.

Morality only seems universal in our society because we're all human, and most of our morality is derived from emotional responses preprogrammed into the human brain as a product of evolution. To evaluate the morality of more complex actions, we build architectures of logic on top of those emotional responses, and there's plenty of room to argue about the best way to do so. But fundamentally, murder is bad because it feels bad, and it feels bad because we evolved to live in groups; that's all there is to it. Any arguments about how forbidding murder creates a more stable society are fundamentally secondary. At best they're explanations for why we evolved this way, and/or reasons to strengthen a pre-existing moral precept. They can also encourage us to suppress emotional responses inclining us toward murder, because those exist too... but the effect of the suppression is limited, and in practice people sometimes commit murder anyway.

Importantly, though, the fact that my morality is in some sense 'arbitrary' does not mean I have to tolerate other arbitrary choices of morality. If some person or AI is strongly driven to kill lots of people or fill the universe with paperclips, I'm not sure I could argue that my morality is inherently superior. But I'm still going to try to stop them, because that's what my morality tells me to do.
Wemo’s plugs support other protocols too, don’t they? Could you bridge one of those to what you need?
No, this doesn't rely on the nighttime being colder than daytime. So long as you were using a wavelength in which the atmosphere is transparent, you could run the same system at any time of day even if you were in a temperature-controlled bubble that had no daily heat fluctuations. The only reason this system operates at night is because the atmosphere is not actually transparent to the frequencies used; during the day, the sky is just too hot to use as a cold sink.
Those things were rock solid as well...
Absolutely. I should have the option to use a browser, be it Firefox or Chrome, without unwanted integrations or 'features'.

I'd like a browser that just browses the internet and respects my privacy. But apparently that's too much to ask
It's generally my experience that street lighting is not very helpful while driving. It often reduces the contrast ratio between an object illuminated by my headlights and the background as well as the light fixtures themselves being a source of glare.
It's a "garden path sentence", but not in the fun way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence
"Equifax was founded by Cator and Guy Woolford in Atlanta, Georgia, as Retail Credit Company in 1899"

And the thing is that most people would never knowingly make the privacy vs utility trade-off. The risk (that the entire world gain access to one's search history) is not in the best interest of most users. Personalized search does not provide that much added value.
I've been considering pasting this: https://killedbygoogle.com/ every time the argument comes up. Maybe Google proponents will make one for other companies notorious for killing services, but at least for now, the Google Graveyard grows.
China’s secret internment camps and the internet detectives working to find them
As far as I’m aware qualified automotive mechanics don’t need training for brew vehicles, but they do need workshop manuals and telephone support. I wouldn’t surprised if new manuals have video links?

I can’t see there being anything fundamentally different about Tesla repairs. Many mechanical workshops also employ or engage automotive electricians, so the cross-skill collaboration for the electronics side of the Tesla already exists in the industry. Also, mechanics have been servicing the Prius for years, so they’re not totally unfamiliar with electric vehicles.

I don’t know how the dealer networks help? By all accounts here in Australia the dealers employ none to very few of the good mechanics, rather they’ve all left for higher pay / better conditions elsewhere.

Maybe I’m wrong about my pondering above, but my larger point of getting parts swiftly to the repairer certainly couldn’t make things worse.
The "sorry" part was presented best by BP in South Park I think.
Me too. I was literally just looking at them, since I wanted to hook up a smart thermostat with my motorized blinds (close blinds in summer when temperature is > X) and was planning on buying one this month, but no longer.
not sure how many "Hello, World" SPAs would add up to that.
Disclaimer: I own no Smart Home devices.

Under the FAQ, I was not able to find an entry like "Will I be able to reach a human about my Nest devices / services?". That's a bit scary. Not sure if that was possible before though. But, considering the occasional horror story of what happens when you get locked out of a Google account, I wonder what the impact will be having a Nest integrated with that.
I think that’s two sides of the same coin. If someone’s rent budget meant they had in theory access to say 10% of the units for rent, but AB&B’s additional demand means now their budget only puts 5% of the units available within their range, that effectively reduces their supply (or in other words access).
Ok. It's not exponential instead it's the sum of all n's. 3 keywords with 10 results each on its own, provided no other keyword was part of the result, will return 30 results when used together.
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> we want to do more to stay ahead of user expectations.

Right now they are so behind user expectations that the above statement is not even funny, it's almost insulting.

The only company they seem to be beating is FB, and not sure if that is the company they want to keep, or probably they do...
Not sure about the "Hello" but this sucks for people that take advantage of their thermostat API. The hardware still works but the way I use it won't any more.
They're in fact assisting in the beginning of an economic war between the US and the EU. These taxes, intentionally and specifically targeting critical US companies, are de facto tariffs. The US will have no choice but to respond in kind.

There's no scenario where Germany doesn't get its export machine hammered with tariffs if the EU broadly goes too far with this. It will drag the EU economy below water into a perma recession (which it has almost been in already since 2007, all the major economies of Europe have seen near zero net GDP expansion for over a decade). Europe is extraordinarily weak, with Brexit and France, as well as the continued residual mess in Spain, Italy, Greece and Portugal from the great recession. Germany is the only thing propping up the EU economic house of cards. And that's what the US will target to break the back of the EU. If I were the US, I'd start with finishing off the collapse of Deutsche Bank (down to a $16b market cap now) and move to decimate their auto industry (conspire with China as it makes sense, we can carve the world in half between superpowers; they'd love to take the place of some of Germany's advanced industry and move up the ladder of development further). Once it's war, it's war. Or you know, the EU could be smart, turn back and stop the targeted assault on the US economy.

If it gets really feisty, just look the other way, Russia will begin rebuilding its empire by consuming parts of Eastern Europe (which it's always desperate to do). That will destabilize an already weakened EU. These countries are either allies of the US, or not. If they are, they will stop attacking the US economy. If they're not, I don't see why the US should be protecting them from Russia with its military power. And there's absolutely nothing the EU can do to stop Russia from taking what it wants in Eastern Europe.
Their foray into the services business might make the last part of your argument no longer true in the future…
Compile Blender 2.8 on Linux
Flutter looks great, except for the fact that is yet-another-language, why???

otherwise I might put some time into it, the Dart decision is unwise to me. Life is too short to get good of so many languages(esp the eco-systems behind each)
Pardon me making a joke at your expense cornstalks, but...

Is this what a culture that AB tests 34 shades of blue looks like?

I think we can handle the conversion here in the HN comment section!
Thanks. I agree composition was a pain point. I had various ideas to make things better, like adding support for "erased" views/functions/TVFs that would be inlined at compile time, but it always felt like it'd be hacky and still not solve enough problems.

Type providers are such a cool language feature, but the way developing one works is too damn confusing. Especially when you try to publish one as an easy-to-use package and simple stuff like loading dependencies feels like uncharted territory. When it comes to my precious free time I hate, hate, hate figuring out packaging/deployment type stuff, I just want to focus on my code. So that's a big part of why I haven't done a great job maintaining it.
Using an ORM to enforce security is like wearing your motorbike helmet down to the store in case a bird shits on your head.

Yes, it will help prevent bad developers from introducing sql injection vectors, but with a whole lot of extra baggage coming along for the ride.

And there are other application security scenarios involving database where the ORM gives you nothing, such as always forcing a "tenant = " filter in a SaaS scenario (which some database engines do support).
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The availability of cheap overkill LEDs is making cities worse... It's especially noticeable when walking at night in areas with restaurants and nightlife.

It's not just street lightning, but also private buildings (maybe they're after that prison yard look?) and cars (giving pedestrians and drivers free lasik, nice!).

Maybe these are OK for highways, but this sucks big time for everywhere else.
It probably has something to do with the headphone jack. It's hard to drill holes into something and make it water resistant.
Lyft's reply re: profitability from the conference call:

"We anticipate 2019 will be our peak loss year as we then move steadily towards profitably on a consolidated basis," CFO Brian Roberts said...

https://www.businessinsider.com/lyft-cfo-says-2019-will-be-p...
They sold $2billion in 8 year bonds at 8% yield. i think their cost of capital will go down now that their contribution margin is positive (9%)
Not to mention your data plan
"these countries"? I've seen schools in the US with 15 mb/s My mothers, Xfinity, has a low tier, 25mb/s.
Google Takeout – Export a Copy of Content in Your Google Account
Many people use Gsuite logins to authenticate to Dropbox, so if Google locks out those accounts they lose Dropbox too.
Anyone know a good replacement for a nest cam?
This is what hacking is all about!
ChromeOS apps are (were?) written in JavaScript, using similar API's as Chrome extensions, and can be installed via the Chrome Web Store. So at one time at least, you could write them in Dart and compile to JavaScript. I remember there being Dart wrappers around some of these JavaScript API's. Not sure how smooth the path is anymore or if that's what you meant by native.

The modern way would be to write a single page app using standard web API's, if those are enough to accomplish what you want, since it's portable to other browsers that way.
Good point, but Netflix for example is really not very invasive in terms of privacy. iTunes has not been really a problem for example, any more so than another e-commerce entity.

Search, e-mail, social - particularly as they relate to ads - this will be the problem.
And for a comparison point versus real headphones, Sony’s USB-C charged WH-1000XM3 is rated for 30 hours with noise cancellation on, 38 hours without. But those aren’t something I’d carry around all the time, so I’m happy to keep using wired earbuds where battery life isn’t even a question.
Fair point and good examples. But those are all old companies. How many new companies (companies formed in the last 10 years) make long-lived hardware products?
Sharks as big as small yachts spotted off California coast after 30-year absence
Taste Testing Robots Judge Authenticity of Chinese Food
Google doesn't care about individual people.

Scale is fun! >.>
I may be wrong, but they are most likely asking if there is a reporting module (KPIs?) with this product?
Maybe Wolfram paid him $1 billion for the project...the possibilities are endless...
So a personal project then, not a commercial one. My guess is they just lost a new customer with you.

The root of my question though is this: Is most API use a hobby thing, or a professional thing businesses are build around?

My assumption here is that the financial impact is trivial for them. They aren't Valve ending Half-Life modding for example. If that's not a clear analogy, Valve's enabling of modding for Half-Life enabled Counter Strike, which basically kept Valve alive so they could become what they are now.
From Data Entry to Software Engineering at Flexport
Forget 'pre revenue' they are 'pre business model, pre product, pre complete IP' ...
Nice, thanks a lot for the info that's going to be helpful. I'll look into these!
So let's talk alternatives. EcoBee? Honeywell?

What's the suggested alternate device and route for those of us that like a little control, like having other services that can integrate, and don't want to be yanked around by shutdowns?
Looks very nice.

I know you decided against selling this as a SaaS but please reconsider. That you are self-hostable is a selling point that will drive potential hosted customers to you.

It's the same story with Gitlab: I love that it's open source and self-hostable. I prefer they take care of the hosting for me, but it's good to know if they go under, I can switch to the self-hosted version and there will be very few workflow changes for my team.
No one should have expected Google to maintain focus on anything.
I love radiative cooling. When you first realise what the hell is going on, it is one of those 'aha' moments of real deeper appreciation of a subject.
I used to be a fan of Google. They were the good ones, the open ones. Ha! I’ve feel like they played the long sucker game. How times have changed. Even Android feels like a ruse. And Chrome. And maps.

The last thing will be search. At some point it’ll be curated for my own good.

To be fair, Everyone has to make a living, but be honest don’t take people for suckers of make them into suckers.
This is pretty much the same tactic finance companies are using to stem the growing political fallout. First get in front of it by acknowledging the problem, then explain how you're not part of the problem, and most importantly, outsource the solution to "legislation".
Look not to be blunt, but 1800 users? Why should they care?

I'm being a devils advocate, but ... if you were at Google and a person making large business decisions, why would you care about 1800 users?
What I find interesting is that Nvidia claimed on their website that their hardware could do self driving. That’s the same hardware that Tesla has used and has to upgrade to the new Neural Net chip. Do you think Nvidia is going to pay for the hardware upgrade Teslas need? Tesla is doing so. They believe the current version of the NN is good enough for FSD, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be improved.

What I find so fascinating about this discussion is how Tesla is necessarily the most transparent player yet everyone else (with the same stated FSD goals) is given a pass due to secrecy. I suppose that means secrecy works.
A lot of Australia is still stuck on ADSL with speeds of 5 - 20Mb if your lucky
Literally bought a nest thermostat yesterday. Glad it's still in the box. Wondering what the best alternative is now.
TiDB Open Sources Its Binlog Implementation
If you build a business around a Google CONSUMER device/service/api/whatever at this stage you are a fool.
All of this takes memory. Also i do a lot more than use some crappy flutter calculator.
Yeap, for me its all the nice iphone & macbook integration. Seamless copy paste, phone call notification, text message showing up...

Of course you can do all of these on Android, but I tried using Android + Surface Pro last year and the amount of things you need to install & tweak are just silly.
If you're looking for installed units, I've been really happy with my Brightgreen LED downlights. Of course, I could have literally bought a box of 10 low-quality Chinese import downlights from the local lighting store for the price of two of these, but the high CRI and really high quality driver made it worth it for me.

Not sure what availability is like in the US and other countries though.
I/O on a Turing machine consists of initializing the tape with your input and reading the output off the tape once it's finished computing.
None of my mobile phone apps look like any of my other mobile phone apps.

I've never really considered it to be a problem. The thing that looks like a play button makes the media start, the square makes the media stop. The speech bubble looking thing makes some sort of conversation happen, and the photo looking icon either opens a camera or lets me add a photo from my camera roll. That last one gets a bit annoying.

But I seriously don't care. So long as every app is consistent with itself. The number of apps that follow "platform guidelines" is astonishingly small, typically those from the OS creator (Google or Apple) and people who used the sample template and who didn't bother to customize anything.

Which is another thing, if an app looks too much like other apps, it looks cheap. Sure I want proper back button and keyboard integration (numeric inputs should use the numeric keyboard and so forth), but apps that look like they fell out of a sample catalog don't feel premium.

There isn't a consistent "this is how all retail stores are decorated" standard, there isn't a set of mandated "this is how all grocery stores are laid out" regulations, why in the world do people go around insisting that all apps should look the same?

Sure, use the default platform picker if it is appropriate, but if it isn't (and finding the year picker on the Android date picker is darn nearly an easter egg, and Android's keyboard entry for time is also not up to snuff), then use something else!

I give 0 cares if an app has properly rounded text inputs. What makes an app feel good is nice animations, no stutter performance, quick load times, and a self-consistent look and feel.
If you interpreted that statement as me specifically saying that commenter is a shill

I don’t understand. Which commenter are you referring to? You weren’t replying to anyone. In so doing you implicated anyone saying something along the lines of "I switched from Mac to Windows, loving it!" as being a possible shill.

you should probably take a rest from social media as well, and take a step back to realize the negative lens you are viewing things through.

I don’t understand how that follows from anything.

Accusing people of being shills is against the policies of this website.

End of story.
Is this true? I’ve used open source printers from Lulzbot and others, and I haven’t had this experience. I think the moral of the story is to not put stuff on some closed platform in the cloud, not that you shouldn’t use company-provided hardware.
Aww man, that just took me down memory lane. Minidisc was, imo, the peak of portable music players. Huge capacity, swappable/tradeable media, excellent sound quality, the little inline screen you mentioned. A quick Amazon search shows they're still available.
At $15 you should try that before forking $1000 (on something that you can get for $150 outside the USA, btw).

Also mouth guard don't cause choking hazard.

I had a dentist prescribed/adjusted MAD which cost $400. I hated that thing. I purchased a $10 nightguard at Target, less intrusive, smaller, more flimsy and flexible version, at target. It works great and last 6 months.
There aren't many benchmarks yet, but the Snapdragon 670's performance is roughly between the Snapdragon 821 and 835, which were the flagships just 3 and 2 years ago.
Pixel 3a Review: Google’s $400 Challenge to the $1k Smartphone
Love it! Like the fair pricing scheme and no monthly subscriptions. Keep it going and we might move from helpscout’s overpriced bloated tool.
I haven’t used rails in about a decade. Is the bloat of a typical rails app on the user’s machine?
Not sure why they don't link to a source on this. Here's what I found [0]. It says:

> If you’re starting a new project, you should write it in Kotlin

[0] https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2019/05/google-io-...
You want to look at the "EC" series. There's 2 sizes and a 2nd generation just came out.
Hadn't set mine up yet, but I did take it out of the box. Time to pack it back up and return it.
And then argue that they should be allowed to self regulate, and what needs to happen is the legislation limit their own liability.
Lots of little tiny cheap ESP8266 based systems with DS18S20 temp sensors all over your house, telling you far more than just a single Nest thermostat could tell you.

Look into low power sleep modes, so that it can run for a very long time, waking up at some interval to take a quick temperature measurement, report it, then go back to sleep. While you're at it, have it confirm its battery level and report that too if the battery is low.
Really curious how shutting down every service works as a business model.
More-less agree, but, khah-Silverlight :)
This NYT 'opinion' piece is a textbook piece of public relations writing, perfectly pitched and complete with interesting illustration of 'the author' looking earnest...
This sounds very logical explanation and makes lot of sense.

The way results are presented in this OR based setup can probably be improved. For example, by showing which of the keywords each result contains, or filter out based on ranking or number of keywords, or specifying that results must contain at least that specific keyword. This should reduce the number of results significantly.
How do these numbers look over time?
Pretty much straight up FUD. This is not bricking Nest devices.
> Yup, they just did a Twitter.

You misspelled Sauron.

One app to rule them all, One app to find them, One app to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.
Why? What have you lost?
Ironic that you should bring Equifax up since they would literally sell everything they had on you to anyone who could pay until Congress stomped on them with the FCRA. If you thought they were ever a good steward of your data you weren't paying attention.
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Given the strides they've made in automated dispatching and the increased demand for taxis that has come about as a response, I'm guessing the model makes sense at a higher price than they currently charge.

I was literally the model customer for taxis. No car, disposable income, goes out drinking a lot. Even so, I actively avoided taxis whenever I could before uber hopped on the scene. It wasn't a question of money - their dispatch services actively left money on the table with their terrible, terrible quality.

Whether Uber/Lyft took out too much money remains to be seen. But the dispatching technology is an immensely profitable business by itself.
The level of non-rational FUD posting on this comment thread is astounding.
It is cheap because they are loosing money. (Trying to capture the market or something.) Let's wait until they are profitable to see the real price.