skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in CA, and my lease has a clause specifically prohibiting changing/adding locks to the doors. I wonder if the CA law invalidates this clause. It's not a problem for this lease because my landlord is very hands-off - I've never even met them, only communicated via email. But I'll definitely be paying attention to clauses like this in the future, especially if there's a "smart" lock on the unit.
Rife Chinese product forgery is the greatest cause of my reticence to trust most any Amazon product. Second to that is wariness over resold return items which are not disclosed as such. I'm not much liking my shopping experience there lately.
There is an inverse correlation between profit margin and utilization (% of year you're billable).

So if you are selling billable time of your employee at a 30% markup over cost, then you need that employee billable 70% of the year JUST TO BREAK EVEN.
A surprising number of people I know (Edinburgh) live in shared rented flats with only a Yale lock. I'm surprised they're not burgled more often, but I guess there are only so many burglars to go round...!
Yes! It’s simple price compression. If you can outsource labor to China, why can you not buy direct from China?
Weird they don't talk of the `git commit --fixup=` command. And then `--autosquash` when rebasing.
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one of us owes the other a coke :-)
If you're connected to a VPN, install pi-hole on that network and use it as dns.

If not, just get blokada from f-droid. It uses 1-3% energy over the day on my phone, but saves around 15% by filtering ads
This is the single worst thing about Amazon (aside from the knockoffs); Every time I want to buy something, I do a search and all I get is 200 pages of the same shitty product with some generic brand name like "teksolv". Somewhere in that 200 pages is a product I want. So I go to another online retailer and buy it there.

Edit: the Brand filter would work, except if there are more than five or six brands it dumps you in a huge directory of brands that you can't search, and you can only select one at a time. It's been that way for like ten fucking years! The only thing that would explain such incompetence is some kind of dark pattern.
That design is terrible. Is anybody working on design for KDE now or do they have developers writing interfaces?
Can't help but quote: «“the "Internet of Things" won't work until the "Local Area Network of Things" works», seen here on HN [1].

There's significantly less money in it, though, and more hassle. It's not going to become popular enough until people get burned enough with vendors going out of business, or just stopping support, and making their convenient $199 gadgets obsolete.

In a sense, a large company like Nest pulling his off is a good thing: it sends the signal.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15721911#15726960
On sourcehut in particular, you actually hardly use `git push` in the first place, opting instead to use git send-email[0] from your local copy. The GitHub concept of "forks" is not used on sourcehut.

[0] https://git-send-email.io

Still, rebasing is an important workflow to master even if you work on GitHub or on shared branches with others. If you mess up and force push to the wrong branch, you can always go back to the reflog[1] and check out the old version, then force push it.

[1] https://git-rebase.io/#reflog

And in the immortal words of Doug Gwyn(?): "UNIX was not designed to stop its users from doing stupid things, as that would also stop them from doing clever things."
A lot of HN news has to do with improving/preserving cognition, that's the connection that I see.
That's good to learn! I think I might replace the lock this weekend.
AliExpress is a lazy man's Taobao.
And people still protest at the sanctions the US government is imposing on China. If it gets garbage products off the market, I'm all for it.
When you have a command so confusing that you need an entire website dedicated to a single command, and still need to warn against using it, then perhaps you've got the UX wrong.
This has nothing to do with vindictiveness. Simply put, if you refuse to testify in court, you can be held in jail for contempt of court. Manning was offered an immunity deal but decided she didn't believe in the concept of a subpoena, so she chose jail instead.

She could have walked out of jail at any time had she chosen to testify. In accordance with the law, she has been released because the grand jury has concluded.

One can argue whether someone can/should be compelled to testify, but Manning was not singled out for extra punishment here.
So using technology that tracks your every move and is funded by wealthy venture capitalists who worship Ayn Rand is somehow less fascist than making your own coffee?? Not to mention the fact that the average person who owns IoT is typically wealthy or upper-middle class. As far as helping disabled or elderly people, I think communal living is a better, more affordable approach.

Also, the whole idea that every moment needs to be productive is influenced by capitalist propaganda. It rests on this assumption that domestic labor and physical labor are less inherently valuable than mental labor. I honestly think that doing these types of menial tasks and physical work have their own value, in that they get you out of your head.
I find a great irony that Amazon decided to wrap up in China's domestic market.

I believe Jeff Bezos simply failed to comprehend the market.

Amazon in China was actually beginning to do quite well in the last year when they found their niche in second tier cities.

Second tier city may not sound appetising, but you have to keep in mind that even second tier cities in China have more buyers than entire USA.
I can't be the only one that dislikes KDE's typography.

I see that notification pane and aside from color, nothing gives it typographical hierarchy. It just looks odd to me.
Nobody trusts google. Remember their street view cars that vacuumed data out of unsecured home wifi networks about 10 years ago.

https://www.wired.com/2012/05/google-wifi-fcc-investigation/
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My comment has absolutely nothing to do with her gender.

It's that the grand jury in question wasn't dealing with her case at all. The grand jury was tasked with Julian Assange, who isn't female, but more importantly isn't Chelsea Manning.
I found the only emojis I use are on Telegram as a shortcut to find a sticker I want. I've never seen an emoji larger than 64x64px anywhere outside of source documents.

99.9% of people, at most, use the basic emojis if any at all. In my book, this is just for Google to get "woke" points.
Of course, a decade is optimistic. You could have felt the same way and written the same thing a decade ago.

It's possible that there will never be any stability in the smart home ecosystem, and constantly buying and throwing away electronic junk is simply the norm.
No hierarchy, bad sizes, bad padding, no different colours, etc etc. It's just terrible design, as I've said in another comment which has been promptly flagged. Seems like the only proper criticism is to write the code myself to fix it? Because I'm passing, I don't use KDE, and I don't need to write code to see when a design is amateurish.
The author should add "block force push to master" to the comprehensive guide :)
If it is in the landlord agreement in Germany, that part of the agreement is void. Such a thing is against German law.
You are giving people way too much credit here. No-one is going through all of the specifications of their car and buying it for those reasons. Plus, you don't buy a diesel vehicle to be eco-friendly, you buy it to get better gas mileage. Car came with X features, which is high MPG. VW got in trouble for X features so they had to flash the computer with Y features, which is lower MPG. This particular customer didn't want to give his vehicle up, but wanted a check. For what reason? To receive money. There is no other reason, if this person was upset about the scandal, they would get rid of the VW fast. Do you not see how this is entitlement? They didn't care about the fact that their car is polluting the planet, they just want money.
Damaging a $3B Indian submarine by forgetting to close a hatch
I've been happy with my Carrier Cor thermostat. It's certainly not beautiful, but it is simple and functional. You can program min/max temperatures and start/end times for 4 parts of the day (morning, day, evening, and night). You can temporarily override the schedule, and you can set vacation temperatures.

https://www.carrier.com/residential/en/us/products/thermosta...
what field of study?
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Hm, not as far as I can tell. I use a mostly stock git config and these are copy-pasted from my terminal. Is there a particular part that looks off?
Lol. I think I looked at it a while back.
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>According to the indictment, in August 2014, Mr. Hale’s cellphone contact list included information for the reporter...

That sounds like they used his Google Account/iCloud account to find back-ups and that was how they found that information. Otherwise, that's oddly specific for having been almost five years ago, now.
This looks normal. The order of the 'git rebase' plan shows the sequence in which commits will be applied from top to bottom.

You are probably thinking of 'git log', which uses the reverse order with the newest commit at the top.
I thought people would comment on this:

>Such a share of transactions is “sufficiently large to have an observable impact on real estate prices,” the report said. It estimated that dirty money pushed B.C. home prices 3.7% to 7.5% higher than they would be in the absence of laundering.

So yes it has an effect, but it is a tiny proportion of the price, something on the order of 5%.

You can read it here: https://news.gov.bc.ca/files/Combatting_Money_Laundering_Rep...
Oh screw that. Come into my home when I'm not there, and enter my 2 year old daughter's room? If the police don't see that as a crime, it's vigilante time. The chances your landlord wasn't attempting some creepy perverted shit is zero to none.
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And how about my long unused (over 35 years!) but still working 1967 (built when my house was constructed) central vacuum?
Agreed. There's one line about a drafted standard, along with a note that no other browser vendor has expressed interest.

I do not want to return to the days of incompatible browsers (to the degree it was) even if they now publish a draft of how it works - the goal is compatibility, not POTENTIAL compatibility.
> But if they are doing something that PayPal ... obviously found acceptable for ... years, it means that all businesses are in immediate danger of being instantly banned without explanation ...

That's no news. Many PP user are fully aware of that fact. There have been similar cases over the years, completely unrelated to PBNs. That's the deal with PP, take it or leave it.
Tor Hidden Services provide fairly secure access to your IoT things over the Internet: https://github.com/n8fr8/talks/blob/master/onion_things/Inte...
I know of several cases where patients heard from friends or relatives about experimental or new treatments that were a perfect fit for their situation, but that specialists had never heard of.

It's worth the time and effort to research conditions that affect you (or your family) and actively seek non-standard treatments that your doctors don't know about. Don't blindly trust their expertise.
Yes, I agree. The brand consolidation is long overdue, as are any meaningful updates and fixes to the Nest app. Those are two definite positives of this move.

Moving to Google Accounts is more murky: I can definitely see and sympathize with arguments on the basis of Google's overall business model and how it seems off for an ad company to be creating products for the home. With that said, Nest accounts (like the app) are woeful and only support the weakest of 2FA methods. (And in fact, I had that break for me on their desktop site -- enter the 2FA, then infinite loading.)

And the definite downside everyone seems to agree on is that killing Works with Nest (especially on a, IMO, short timeframe) shatters the trust placed in that ecosystem. Clickbait comments are focusing on the short-term which is going to be messy and involve a lot of people ditching Nest, but (whether I agree with it or not) I don't see APIs which give direct device access like Works with Nest even being a thing in the future.

In a world where the WSJ is sounding the alarm at people adding benign add-ons to Gmail by their own hand, not to mention people blaming Nest for their own weak passwords, it may be that even basic security principles need to be re-examined and in a way "dumbed down." An example of this dumbing down is removing the ability to turn the recording light off moving forward.[1]

"Dumbing down" is a negative term, but I'm trying to apply it as neutrally as possible. It makes sense to Google to remove that ability, since any blowback would fall on them. I'm honestly surprised we haven't yet seen the headline "Google's Nest Cam recorded me even though it looked turned off," when the real story there would be an ex-SO or roommate opted to turn the light off and start recording.

1. https://www.techradar.com/news/exclusive-googles-security-ca...
> actually take issue with Go for large code bases

This has been my experience as well. People just parrot what the golang authors say about it being a language suites for "large scale development", whatever that means, without providing anything to back it up. Just because they said it was must be it's true? In practical experience, it's a verbose, clunky, and awkward language to use for any non-trivial code bases.
Chances are the branded retailer just rebranded the shitty product from China and sells it at premium/luxury price.
The internet was a contributing factor, but not it alone.

In the 90s the internet became just another publishing platform when newspaper revenues were at a high.

They were cash-cow investments for large corporations. It followed a similar pattern to SV companies now—buy up high revenue properties promising ever-increasing returns.

As soon as that started to level off investors will obviously darken on the large corps they have shares in.

Large corp needs to keep finding ways to find profit in their properties so they started cutting, which put publishers in worse situations for affording and producing content. That started a vicious downward cycle. Couple that with falling advertising prices (in part because of Google and Amazon, but not solely) and it’s a race to the bottom for these corps in managing their properties.

One I worked for [the parent corp] had enormous amounts of money from their main ventures but had us at a continually reducing hard-capped headcount in spite of increases in revenues after a lot of hard work. Every year saw mass layoffs for several years in a row in the order of 1/3 to 1/2 of the entire publishing company’s staff at a time including writers, editors, designers, managers, videographers, researchers, sales staff, marketing staff, you name it.

[edited for detail: in one instance taking a fully-staffed heritage political and analysis magazine down to a couple of desks in a corner of a floor they once filled with passionate, talented people. With contractual obligations made by former executives for volume of content.]

Basically crippling the [publishing] company every year a little more because of fixed numbers they had to serve to shareholders based on previous, naive promises made by long-gone executives.

So the internet—not directly. Greed, primarily.

(I’ll leave this with an old protest sign I spotted in a book in the City Lights Bookstore in SF—paraphrasing—“free the press from their corporate masters”.

If only)
So, in the first week of April, I was browsing Amazon for a small bike part. I bought one for 1.99 EUR, no shipping costs. 1 day later I get an email that my article is now in transit via China Post, and I will receive it in 5-6 weeks.

How can they possibly make money selling bike parts for 1.99 EUR from China?
About six years ago I had to deal with this. The guy showing our place kept forgetting to lock our door afterwards - one time even leaving it ajar.
No idea what you are talking about. I have a VISA debit card and I pay the same way that I pay with my credit card. It is not a different payment flow on my end.
Is that so different from Walmart? Perhaps not "Merchants" but the country of origin of the products.

15 years ago we were watching reports on the Walmartization of america, and one key line from the Frontline documentary (I think) was that Walmart basically taught China how to sell to America.
Does it solve the infinite appending issue though?

Basically, every Slack message would append to the same notification, so after 4-5 notifications, I'd just see old ones and a ... line, making the notifications useless. This also went for the update centre, etc.

Also when notifications decide to just stay on screen indefinitely because of... Reasons.
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Thank you for the correction. I revised the phrasing slightly.

Jerry Mendelson's Laser Lovers post [0] reads "A FORTH like graphics/printing language was developed by, among others, John Warnock before coming to Xerox/PARC." Mendelson quoting Forth as the first inspiration here made me believe they knew of and used it. But admittedly "based on" is a bit much.

[0] https://tech-insider.org/unix/research/1985/0301.html
Quite the strawman article itself, obviously, by an institute of economic extremists who shy away from empirical evidence themselves.
I have made friends with a German family that homeschooled their children. They had to escape Germany (early 2000s) because the German government was going to take their children from them.

They successfully applied for political asylum in the US.

Germany is hardly a bastion of freedom some may think.
Works With Nest means arbitrary third parties having API access to a Nest device. Any person could make a dev account and start logging data, sending commands, etc.

Works With Google Assistant means Google (and in this case, only Google, given the WwN sunset) having API access to whatever device, in this case a Nest device.

Correct me if I'm wrong.
Smart people don't buy smart home devices.

My relatively poor grandparents and my slightly less poor parents had a hard working life, but none of them had to sleep in a dark cold room because the switch to turn the lights on or the heating stopped working. Ever. This problem has been solved by other people many many years ago.

Last month I watched a documentary where a billionaire was showing of his multi million mansion and when he wanted to show the camera team his 100k home cinema room they couldn't see anything because his smart lighting system was stuck in an update loop and nobody had a clue how to fix it. In the interview he said it's not a big deal because he doesn't like to have the lights on when watching a movie anyway. L.O.L.

If I had a 100k cinema room then it would be certainly be a big deal to me if I can't even see where the heck I'm walking.

In my entire life I never thought "damn, how nice would it be if I could turn on the lights in my bedroom from downstairs on my phone". It's just not a problem which I think people have, but somehow the consumer industry has convinced so many fools to buy cheaply fabricated, badly secured, even worse programmed and often not long supported smart home devices which add absolutely no benefit to anyone's everyday life and cause lots of problems.

By the time I find my phone lying around in my lounge, unlock it through Face ID or finger touch, open up the home app, find the home device which I want to control, then make whatever change I wanted to do I am much faster to just get my arse up from the couch, walk over and turn it on/off with a normal hand movement. On the way I can also grab a beer from the fridge and then continue watching the telly and laugh about some fools who spent 100k on a home cinema without lights.
When the GDP gets up near 5%, the deficit will melt away.
While I am glad to see and encourage the production of more material on the topic of intentional attention, I found this particular book amateurish and much more of an angry clichéd rant about active resistance against certain qualities of our current political and cultural climate than useful and fundamental advice on personal attentional freedom, and would actively dis-recommend this book.
> why can you not buy direct from China?

Before somebody can buy something directly from China, the person have to know what they can buy... You know, entire business empires were built entirely on knowing what and where to buy.
Print news isn't losing out because of competition from online media. The dominant factor in the decline of newspapers is loss of ad revenue: Ad spending that used to go to print ads has almost entirely moved online, and online ad revenue is almost entirely captured by Google and Facebook. If you look at a plot of print news ad revenue vs. Google ad revenue, the two trends mirror each other, with Google ad revenue growing at basically the same rate as newspaper ad revenue declines. (This story[0] has a chart that goes up to 2012 that illustrates the point.)

So it's true to say that newspapers used to have a viable business model because they were "the only game in town", but what they were gatekeepers of was not content but ad space.

[0] https://www.jgsullivan.com/2012/11/14/google-ad-revenue-vs-p...
The reflog has saved my bacon more times than I care to admit.
I'm doing this as well. Z-Wave+ and a Raspberry Pi for the hub for my first automation device, an RGBW LED strip for my home office lighting.

Even if I wanted to pay a subscription fee to some external service for my hub, the risk of service disruption, hacking of my network, and/or misappropriation of my personal data are just too high.