skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remain miffed by their recent decision to force the blue lights to on with my dropcams. I actually was able to gather critical evidence when cleaners (who were swapped out for my regular people without warning by the cleaning service) decided to search my home and commit identity theft instead of their jobs. They actually picked the dropcam up off the shelf and looked at it - getting a great, clear shot of their faces for the police - then decided it was broken and put it back down instead of destroying or unplugging it. Now, that wouldn't happen. They'd just unplug them or point them elsewhere. They even blink if I decide to look and see what's going on - a clear warning to any well-informed thief.

I miss the old Dropcam. You created something great. Sorry to see the buyers screw things up so badly.
Yea. Lyft wanting to make their take more opaque is certainly a plausible motivation. But since Lyft and Uber are now offering complicated reward/discount programs, it's plausible that the rider's payment on any given trip is misleading and mostly a source of confusion. Driver's won't complain when Lyft's take is unusually small, but will when it's unusually large, even if it balances on average.

In general it's frustrating that pricing is becoming more opaque for everyone. Despite multiple emails exchanged with Uber, I still cannot get them to tell me how exactly the Ride Passes work in the SF area. There doesn't seem to be an unambiguous description on the website, the receipts don't explain, and different customer support agents give contradictory statements.
I am not sure I agree with that. Overpaying for something is still overpaying even if it provides value. Do you spend 100% of your salary on food? You will die if you don't eat. But somehow, the food required to keep you alive probably costs less than your salary.
So, I think maybe you're actually confusing the thing Hochschild is trying to distinguish.

It might seem like a chore in various ways, on the 11th time etc. It might not be super fun or your favorite activity in the world. You might be tired and rather be taking a nap.

But it shouldn't be emotionally difficult to do routine caring things for your family. And it shouldn't require you to pretend or force yourself to have emotions other than you have. That is, Hochschild's definition of "emotional labor". It shouldn't be "alienating".
Simple productivity hack using bash scripts
Unfortunately not; Star Trek uniforms generally don't have pockets (with an exception of Beverly Crusher's lab coat (TNG) and the jacket B'Elanna Torres wore at some point (VOY)). Enterprise-era uniforms are full of pockets, and they look kind of nice too! However, I don't think a DS9/First Contact era uniform with pockets in trousers would look too much unlike the original, and it's enough to store a smartphone (and a thin wallet without much cash).
While true, and obvious to experienced drivers, not every light is vertical. Some are horizontally placed.
Do banks using third-party cloud services just trust that the provider won't abuse their data? Do they actually store financial data there, or just use them for front-end stuff like websites?
NordVPN subscriber here, I just use DSVPN now. Simple and works.
Also, Dropbox is not a good solution. It is spyware that just happens to provide functionality convenient to end users.

Any software created by for-profit corporations and given away gratis is inherently untrustworthy. TANSTAAFL!
Rereading your comment, here is one easy verification method for one of the programs: literally a marketplace of compliant services by the group which does the verification.

https://marketplace.fedramp.gov/#/products?sort=productName
> Should we let such problems fester forever?

Absolutely not. We should take measures to ensure that individuals in those areas are on a path to better futures, if not for themselves, then for their posterity who will continue to live in that area. But you don't give people better fathers and mothers by taking them away and abusing them. If anything, doing that would just inspire distrust in the government and authority in general into those kids, leading to a poor future outside of society.

> better give him a free pass for a few crimes that we wouldn't give to a privileged kid

I never said anything about treating people differently based on their backgrounds.

> If anything we need to be harsher on gangland so as to eventually stomp it out. Unless you think that we should just accept organized crime as a fact of life and stop trying? Damn, those Brazilian favelas are looking better all the time, eh?

Ironic you mentioned Brazil, a country with massive crime issues and a grim future, and also aligns with your "Harsh on Crime" stance[0]. Whereas some of the lowest crime rates in the world can be seen in Switzerland, Denmark and Norway, where prisons are rehabilitation first[1].

> Probably also find a common pattern of low IQ.

Wouldn't that imply education would help?

You seem to be contradicting yourself, I recommend reading up on the topic a bit more to form more informed opinions.

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/12/18/prison-coul...

https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/Publications/abstract.aspx?ID=1338...

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rehab-not-punishment-must-d...

:)

(0) https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2540444/inside-brazil-prisons-...
(1) http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/crime-rate-by-cou...
> The prototypical Chinese name has three characters, a single surname followed by a two-character given name. A smaller number of Chinese people only have a single given name, and a very few have two surname characters.

I'm not sure if this is correct. IIRC, in at least some areas/families, it's a tradition to alternate between giving a one or two character name from generation to generation. So if your parent has a two character given name, you'll have a one character name, and vice-versa.

Another interesting characteristic of Chinese names is that given names are very diverse and varied, while family names come from a small set (something like a hundred or so). This is opposite from the West (or at least America) where given names are pretty restricted (e.g. lots of Johns and Emilys) but family names have a lot of variation (probably due to all the immigration).
So, back when I first started using Lyft, in 2014 or 2015, I thought it was customary to stay in the car until you rate and tip your driver.

One day, as I was doing this the driver started aggressively demanding I tell him how much Lyft charged me. And of course I was having signal issues with my phone so the rate/tip screen was taking forever to come up. And he kept getting more and more impatient and demanding, and he repeatedly took screenshots on his phone during this time.

Eventually, it came up, and he had creeped me out so much that I lied to him, told him I still wasn't getting signal, and I left.

He had dropped me off at a bar, by the way. I went inside, ordered a drink, then went out on the patio to drink it (the patio is near the front entrance). As I was drinking it, I saw that he still hadn't moved his car and was staring right at me. I went right back in and was afraid to go back outside.

That incident broke me of this habit, by the way. Now, as soon as I get to the destination, I quickly thank the driver, open the car door, and bolt. I don't even pull my phone out to rate/tip till I'm inside.
I didn't choose cranelift because there was no real benefit for it. If the focus would have been on optimizations, I might have used it. The IR seems more friendly compared MIR, although I think there is a rewrite coming to make MIR more suitable for optimizations as well :).

And I do quite a lot of transformations at the MIR level, so I am looking forward to a more optimization friendly IR.
The person you are replying to isn't saying anything about the actual rate of unemployment, but more that while the rate may be low, the actual number of quality jobs that pay well/treat people well isn't reflected in that percentage.
It is governed by law in America, too. At least it is in CA.
> In my mind, fully distributed doesn't have to be the goal. I believe the number one problem for getting people to talk to their smart devices are NATs.

Ubiquiti does a good job with this - they provide the interface to get into my equipment remotely with little setup, but don't send the data to their equipment.
I presume most new translations now target Mandarin, but I wonder whether some older western imports got their names in Cantonese, is this a thing?

And likewise for candidate names -- IIRC lots of people moved to BC from HK, but perhaps a minority by now?
Lego has an annual revenue in the billions and has recently grown bigger than Mattel or Hasbro. So, yes
init.d was nice, using shell scripts. readable, editable, clean, extendable. I liked that
Are disabilities not a protected class?
> For example the western values that we hold dear were not really appreciated by indigenous people of all the places colonized by Europe.

“Indigenous people” often can recognize a good idea when we see one. The constitution of Bangladesh was written by a lawyer educated at Oxford and Norte Dame: http://hrlibrary.umn.edu/research/bangladesh-constitution.pd...

The text,[1] is immediately recognizable to any lawyer familiar with the Anglo legal tradition. It rings with ideas and phrases dating back to John Locke and the Magna Carta. This was not an externally imposed constitution. This was the founding document that Bangladeshis themselves adopted for their new country!

There are many people from former colonies that “appreciate” the institutions and values their countries inherited (without white washing what was taken). Fareed Zakaria, for example, has written eloquently about this: https://slate.com/culture/2006/10/the-best-case-for-india.ht...

> But India does much better in its micro foundations for growth. It has a real, broad, and deep private sector, populated by thousands of enterprising firms. They use capital efficiently (because they get much less of it than China), and they understand capital markets, branding, and sales. The banking system is clean and efficient, secured by British law. That’s why, despite being much smaller and slower-growing as an economy, India has many more world-class firms than China. India will do well because its growth is bottom-up, organic, and spread throughout the country. It is not the product of commands, special zones, and sweetheart deals to multinationals.

Even if we think colonialism shouldn't have happened, reversion to indigenous modes is neither possible nor desirable. Maybe the French can afford to faff about and translate everything into their indigenous language, but Bangladeshis cannot. We don't have the time or resources to rip "equal protection of law" out of the constitution because it's an American import and, figure out some organic, indigenous replacement. We have to plug into the world that exists now. The question is, what kind of world is best for all these developing democracies? Is it a world where China makes the rules and establishes the norms? One where Saudi does those things?

[1] The constitution provides for both English and Bangla translations. Although the Bangla version is the “official” one, the text was debated and drafted in English. It was then translated into Bangla before being officially certified.
Already was - spawned games, movies, theme-park rides, etc.
Uber automatically charges you $15 (to be awarded to the driver) for a lost item return: https://help.uber.com/riders/article/contact-driver-about-a-...
Never know, some might need to reach him
> A lot of comments here are blaming the user for using the same username/password on multiple sites, allowing their account to be compromised. This is missing the point.

Omitting the lack of 2FA is missing an even more important point because it's cases like this why 2FA is pretty much mandatory today.

But instead of using already available solutions, you want to reinvent the wheel with "a pairing procedure". Gee, that sounds awfully familiar to what 2FA does, which also would have completely eliminated this failure mode, if the user would have bothered to actually use it.

In that context, I really don't see what Google could do differently with Nest. If users don't use additional security, then you can add all the additional security you want.
Why would that be relevant? What Lyft and Uber have been telling us all along is that they are not a ride-hailing company, they are just a marketplace bringing together riders and drivers. In that scenario, it is all about the up-to-the-minute price that riders are happy to pay, and drivers happy to accept.

Imagine a stock exchange where you can't see the market price, and after a week the exchange tells you "heres what buyers paid, sellers received, the difference is our subject to change take we don't let you know". Imagine a stock exchange that proclaims "stock price is decoupled from what sellers offer and buyers pay".
Nice idea but the fun of vintage clothes shopping is having a few hours with nothing better to do than trying on the umpteenth ugly sweater/velvet jacket/vintage dress until you find one that looks better than one you can find in 15 minutes on the high street. Buying online is totally meaningless in the space.
Kenya's Brigid Kosgei: School dropout, mother of twins and world record-holder
I couldn't agree more.

What I find particularly troubling: 4G is for me already more than good enough. 5G is really not so well thought out. They require a lot more cells. The exposure is much higher... They cost more (?).

Why are we having this technology?
We keep all of those to an absolute minimum and avoid as much complexity in our infrastructure as possible.

Which is to say, each of our five[1] regional POPs have a single connection provided through a dumb switch one hop from he.net[2].

They have no interconnection or dependencies to one another.

No routers, no firewalls, no balancing, no failover. When rsync.net fails, it's a very, very boring failure.

We've had zero network outages in the last 60 months or so.

[1] Fremont, San Diego, Denver, Zurich, Hong Kong

[2] init7 in Zurich ...
I would have presumed that the infrastructure cost for each service was included in the cost for each service.

For egress bandwidth costs, I'd assume it included, well, the egress bandwidth cost.
And there are a lot of other tricks[0] based on Instant Answers[1].

0: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/8-search-tricks-work-duckduckg...

1: https://duck.co/ia
Seems to come down to he-said / she-said?

> “There is no evidence to suggest that Dr. Crockford’s adjunct appointment was not renewed for ‘telling school kids politically incorrect facts about polar bears,’” said Ms. Parkin. “The University of Victoria, in both word and deed, supports academic freedom and free debate on academic issues.”

vs

> Ms. Crockford accused officials at the Canadian university of bowing to “outside pressure,” the result of her research showing that polar bear populations are stable and even thriving, not plummeting as a result of shrinking Arctic sea ice, defying claims of the climate change movement.

---------

I guess I was hoping for a better argument given the headline? Is there a strong basis for cause-effect here?

It doesn't seem like Ms. Crockford was a tenured professor either. Her former position was as an "adjunct professor". I admit that I'm ignorant to college-politics, but hopefully someone can fill me in on some of these facts.
> What is it with your current dev setup ops (editor/IDE and workflow) that is an absolute pain. And how much time/money would you be willing to spend in order to fix it?

Emacs built with X11 support on OpenBSD 6.6 has this weird bug where trying to kill or yank text will cause the editor to hang and spike a CPU to 99% until killed, even though I have an active dbus session.

One of these days I'll come up with a proper solution, but right now I've been coping by using Emacs without X11 support inside an XTerm.
Show HN: Alcamine – Automate your job search
> just having their perpetual consulting company on their resume

Has this ever fooled anyone? Ever?
That sounds a lot like warring oligarchical or dictatorial nation states with extra steps in practice.
Maybe? The definitions evolve and stretch. What if legos where made of smarter material or had more powerful components? 3D printing might actually be the right way to think about small-scale at-home manufacturing rather than per-brick components - but even then plenty of components (such as compute related) require different manufacturing methods - so standards based on something like lego might allow for interoperability. It's a toy ... until it is not.
Silicon Valley Takes on Amazon’s Cashierless ‘Go’ Stores
How to Give People Advice They’ll Be Delighted to Take
A unique barcode on the item would be one way to do it, but not the only way.

For example, a common thing to do on conveyors is to have reusable open-top plastic bins called "totes". (Think of going through airport security where you stick your luggage items into a plastic tray or tub that sits on the conveyor as it goes through the x-ray machine.) The totes can have barcodes on them, which can be used to track whatever is inside the tote.

Amazon could use a system like that to individually track items as they're being moved on and off shelves. And while on the shelves, it could track items by position (a database saying this particular item is on that position of that shelf). By combining these two things, they could track the position of individual items without sticking barcodes on them.

I don't know whether Amazon actually does this. I'm just saying it's not impossible.
Seriously? Washington Times has mixed factual reporting, not reliable: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/washington-times/
As opposed to the anti-union propaganda handed to management, fed down to workers, every day in corporate America?
And has been submitted to HN several times previously as far back as 2015 with the same URL. Odd...
Who fucking cares
https://www.leaderherald.com/news/local-news/2019/07/when-au...

https://forums.tesla.com/forum/forums/toys-rich
Any company with 10k full time employees will have some bad apples...
Note that you can't easily compare LUT count between vendors or even among a vendors different architectures.

In any case, I think ecp5 is partially supported by open source tools which should make it much more interesting to hobbyists.
A public roadmap, minimal exit friction (how quickly can I switch to something else), and a real SLA (if hosted).
A wealth tax on individuals in constitutionally problematic.

I think a more workable plan would be a corporate wealth tax, levied as a percentage of total stock value, or as a fallback, a corporate gross income tax.

A corporate wealth tax would solve the problem of profits sequestered in foreign subsidiaries, since as long as the value of those subsidiaries is reported and reflected in the total stock price, the foreign business activity would be effectively taxed, even if the profits are never repatriated.
"Oh hey! Sorry I hit you with this car, what you've got to understand is that I was trying to optimize my way through this red light."

You can't "move fast and break things" if those things are basic food and safety regs.
bioinformatics/computational biology. Specifically, multiple sequence alignment and HMMs for protein recognition. The author was previously a physicist (PhD) who left physics due to the low number of jobs in the 70s-80s, founded a database company, sold it to Intel, and then visited Berkeley and saw a cool talk and volunteered.

There were already a few codes in the area and plenty of papers, and he was mathematically inclined, so it didn't take long for him to become an expert. Once he was an expert, he pointed out major problems in existing codes (both functional and performance).

This is an area where you're working with fairly straightforward data and math (linear strings from a chosen alphabet, probabilistic model is well-established). You don't need to understand the underlying biology in detail to contribute.
Mexico’s Attempt to Save Freud from the Nazis
Came here to say this. Ar is huge. It's the merging of the digital world with the real. Before we all disappear into our personally constructed digital nirvana, there will be an age where the two worlds become inextricably linked.bif I had enough money for stocks and shares I'd be heaping all my chips on AR. I have a few ideas for killer apps...
Just so we're clear, this is a Washington Times article. It must be a reflection of a complete shift of internet culture rightwards that this rag has been upvoted here significantly.
Keep in mind that many readers here are involved in these technologies. Any safety issues would directly or indirectly harm their interests. Alternatively, some likely feel they understand radio frequency radiation and know a-priori that it is safe; "why, I have carried a phone for years and I've never been nuked like a microwave burrito."

It's an interesting comparison with the vaping thread last week or the week before, where a similar number of comments came to the conclusion that it should be heavily restricted because we don't have enough data.
No its that the Spokane Weed Control District offers a service that the Federal Government finds worthwhile to pay :-)
Computer models show clear advantages in new types of wind turbines
Well, non-coercive association between employee and employer... let's talk about job-market monopsony and its distortions thereof. (I'm starting to use this "market-distortion" framing for class struggle.)
"If surveillance helped me meet my customer demands better, then by all means, watch me like a hawk. If it's just there as automated paperwork for the project manager then buzz off."

This is the primary problem. Managers exist because they're supposed to know the business and manage projects. Normalizing surveillance across society in the name of efficiency or profit is already sending us down a dark path.

I guess we'll have to legislate privacy and jail anyone violating it.
Do you think Wasabi is sustainable? I looked at them but find it hard to believe they can sustain free unlimited egress forever.
The BBC article is probably using Asian to mean Chinese (or nearby), while Cupertino's statistics will count Indian (and nearby) in that total too.
It's amazing to me how much Europeans do not identify with management, as if management is a class separate from them and not just people who were like them before getting promoted. Do Europeans see themselves as confined in their careers to a "class," and not invested in the competitiveness and profitability of the company they've voluntarily joined?

I'm sure these sorts of things are more common in Europe, and it's amazing to me how Europeans don't independently realize that it's not a coincidence that the battle lines are about trying to exact concessions from American companies, since there aren't really any relevant European tech companies anyway.
Why tip at that point? One of the major draws originally for these services was that the price you see is the price you pay, and drivers were discouraged from accepting tips. I tipped for a bit when that changed because of some imagined social infraction I was committing, but I got over it and now I tip pretty much never unless the driver goes out of their way to do something nice for me. I still get exclusively 5-star drivers from nearby locations, so I’m not sure what consequence I’m supposed to pretend to face by not tipping.

But I’ve also not once been asked about my tip or my fare so maybe it’s different in your part of the country.
It is Apple style "we know what's best for you" authoritarianism. Multi-button mice are confusing. USB ports and headphone jacks are ugly. Nobody needs an Escape key. We'll take those away and restrict what you can do with the product to enhance your experience.
Clearly it should be the choice of the individual (or parents) to receive treatment or not. Why is this even a debate. With any elective treatment, there isn't going to be 100% adoption.