skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder why there's only engineering and so little science in the design of modern dwellings! A lot of our constraints, such as maximum illumination lux have gone away thanks to new technology, but the "wellness science" hasn't been applied. It's not even an established scientific discipline, which is why I'm struggling to come up with a name for it.

I haven't heard of any large construction company or architect firm focusing on human-centric attributes such as:

* Minimising the levels of O3, CO2 and CO

* Fine particulate filtering

* Daylight-equivalent illumination

* Red-shifting illumation to simulate dusk

* Noise insulation such as double-glazed glass or weighted foam partitioning walls

* Etc...

In principle, living and working indoors could be much better for us, but nobody seems to be spending real effort in achieving this.

Instead, everyone is dead set on optimising for square-footage or workers-per-floor, completely disregarding basic humans needs.

For example, the office of a large government agency where I'm contracting has atrocious air-conditioning in their main city office building. The temperatures are over 26C (79F) most of the time, and I get blinding headaches from the CO2 buildup after a day of bad ventilation. After about 2pm I'm basically a zombie and can't concentrate. Noone has bothered to do anything about this for literally years.

(This is not my imagination: Their own staff work in air quality monitoring, so for laughs they used one of their probes in the middle of our floor and it basically read "off scale high" on nearly every metric.)

Meanwhile, another building around the corner has floor-to-ceiling glass windows letting in a lot of light and nice cool refreshing air-conditioning. There, I can work until 6:30pm regularly without feeling run down.
I think the general theme I see is that folks expect companies to solve problems that their governments must be solving. And when they don't get it uniform, everyone's mad.

I'd rather live in a world where companies aren't trying to push their morals on me and have a central entity (govt) arbitrate the same (Believe me I see evil in both places). I have been thinking on and off about the role of government in the current world and sadly I can't see a place where it can be as tiny as people want.
I only count 67 MB, with cache disabled an no add-ons.
True... but I've wondered how Wyze was making money on their $20 cameras with free cloud storage of events for 30 days. It's not exactly a free product but doesn't cost enough for what it does. I'm going to go unplug all of mine right now.
Try if you can trigger a migrane if you stay 2-3 hours later than normal on lcd screen, but do neck excercises every 15 minutes of that time.

I thought I had hunger headaches but after some epiphany it turned out that I was not eating for many hours when I was at my computer and when I was at my computer my neck suffered (painlessly) from lack of movement and that (not the hunger) triggered headaches.

I'm doing 24h fasting with no ill effects. Also when headache is building up when I'm at my computer I can make it go away with some neck excercises instead of suffering for hours.
Cisco will gladly sell you 400 gigabit switches: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/data-center/high-cap...
>You are thrust into a world where rank has an immense amount of power over your entire life and, depending on your chain of command, you can be subject to abuses of power that are state-sanctioned.

That sounds like a microcosm of American society as a whole.
I also can't wait for the day that the regulations you refer to which prevent NPs from doing jobs they are fully qualified for (and thereby improving the medical care for the nation) are struck down.

I'm not sure that day will ever come.
Legal protection is a great start. I would also say that most hiring managers understand that there are crappy companies out there, and that doesn't mean that all employees coming from them are bad news. I'd suggest for future interviews using the company as a reference, being direct that there was a issue with workplace culture and that you are excited about the culture of the prospective company. I would also recommend having some notes written down about the issue in the case that the hiring manager brings it up; if they know about it, they will probably ask, and if not then they probably never will.
Is that about this leak?[1] Or something else, like misusing the video?

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/30/21042974/wyze-server-bre...
It looks like the prior two posts have some details: https://blog.12security.com/wyze/
Instead of “experiment” which brings to mind novelty and discussion, they’ll should try “experience” or “practicum”.
I even pay for pinboard and barely use it.

It'd be great if every time I went back to a website, all the pages on the site that I already bookmarked would pop in a sidebar...
> easiest path for improving the performance.

upgrading should not be seen as an alternative to performance engineering though. Even if upgrading _does_ bring in some performance improvements.

Upgrading should be because of reasons such as security updates, and bug-fixes, and to continue to reap the improvements/features in the next version.
John Sundell is awesome. Other stuff he’s done:

Plot: Write type safe HTML/RSS/XML in Swift
https://github.com/JohnSundell/Plot

Ink: Converts markdown to HTML
https://github.com/JohnSundell/Ink

Swift by Sundell blog
https://www.swiftbysundell.com/

Podcast
https://www.swiftbysundell.com/podcast

I really love these lightweight, JavaScript free websites he’s helping create in Swift. It’s such a better experience loading and reading than other blogs - the inlined sponsor/ads even look nice and don’t feel overwhelming or annoying (I usually read them!).
How do you understand AGPL?
There is a good reason many of us have been flashing it with dafang hacks from https://github.com/EliasKotlyar/Xiaomi-Dafang-Hacks
These days you usually carry your computer with you, but if not, you can also easily carry a new 88 or 96 key keyboard as they come with a lithium battery and bluetoof support.
That's a shame because I always liked their terminals and keyboards. Oh, wait.
See my comment above.

Their model was to sell smarter features as they build. In addition to this, apparently.
Only if you act on it. Just because you know or suspect something doesn’t mean you have to do something about it.
> Revolutions, like bankruptcies, come gradually, and then suddenly. One day, somebody sets himself on fire, then thousands of people are in the streets, and before you know it, the country is burning. And then there’s no time for us to get to the airport and jump on our Gulfstream Vs and fly to New Zealand.

I recently read about the French Revolution. I can't help but wonder if history is repeating itself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JASUsVY5YJ8
Mammogram Images are far away to present any privacy challenge especially if identities are not disclosed.
...or, flash them with an alternative firmware. https://github.com/EliasKotlyar/Xiaomi-Dafang-Hacks
I’m fairly certain this single data point is statistically meaningless.

To me the story is about reliability, the changing nature of automotive problems and how they handle customer service.
Microsoft Introduces Power Virtual Agents, a No-Code Solution for Making AI Bots
There is a difference. But the difference is trivial. Making a backend or a frontend that connects to N amount of API's isn't impressive at all. Any fool can learn this concept.

In fact that's all a modern website is. The old way involved servers rendering pages. Now The frontend interfaces with an API. Efficiency at the cost of complexity.

You want to know what's impressive? Writing a compiler. Writing an OS. Nothing is simpler than interfacing with an API.

If writing glue code is your job and you're getting paid a lot of money to do this stuff then count your lucky stars because truly anyone can do that job.
The other blog posts on the site have the full (well, developing) story. Unfortunately I was only able to link one, and I was having a tough time coming up with a title so I used an excerpt from this post.

https://blog.12security.com/wyze/

https://blog.12security.com/wyze-essay-2-aresflare/ <- technical details aplenty
Computer Scientist Not Required: Breaking the Myth of the Technical Founder
A) debatable

B) very,very debatable, especially this piece: "understand the space well-enough"

C) I tend to agree, but then (especially with hardware-supported crypto) there is not much to be gained by reducing the number of rounds
Binding Android UI with Kotlin Flow
"I'm not blaming business leaders per se, as they are at the mercy of large historical and economic forces that limit what can influence them and the options open to them to choose"

I'm frustrated by the continued conflation of understandability and excusability. A band robber's motives are understandable, but we don't excuse them. However, while the systemic forces acting on business leaders make it understandable when they make mistakes, but we must draw a sharp line between understanding and excusing.

We can't credit leaders in good times, while also excusing them when systemic failures corrupt them.
I told my kid that math might be boring perhaps through the end of high school because the time was taken up learning the “alphabet” of math, and see what the boring process learning the actual alphabet resulted in? I guess he believed me as he became a math major.
Edit- I'm looking more into 12Security, and they seem sketchy too. But IPVM seems to lend enough credit to take this seriously.

---

Full information is available at the following two blog posts, with more to come:

https://blog.12security.com/wyze/

https://blog.12security.com/wyze-essay-2-aresflare/ (many technical details here)

It also seems like a WSJ journalist has been helping on this (since they were compromised), so if this is real I'd expect an article soon.
The intent of the post is not about security vulnerabilities but actual espionage, it will be beneficial if the author simply presented the whole case instead of providing a teaser like this. They could have purchased a catchy URL, as is the standard practice nowadays, but it’s good to always come out with the proper case. Ow with this teaser I cannot help but think that it’s more of a PR move, unless proven otherwise.
How does this guy still pretend to be "conservative" in any meaningful sense? We didn't sour on your family, French, we soured on you.
Of course they are, I’m not saying they’re not. But that doesn’t mean Tim Cook doesn’t have a reason behind his tweets. (Note that I’m not saying this is a bad thing; it’s just that if they have anything to do with Apple they always align with something that the company would like to comment on, be it education or the environment or immigration policy.)
California’s Real “Train to Nowhere”
> nobody really objects to their design principles.

As a layman, I do not know, nor care, about the design principles involved. What I care about is how a building makes me feel and most modern everyday architecture seems to want me to feel bad.
I do the same thing (only use left shift). I have gotten really good at typing with using the ring finger for the far left row. Doesn’t seem to be any slower.
A factor of 2x+ speedup isn't "not much to be gained", but the point again is just to be more rigorous about the security margins we're trying to get.

Can you say more about what you believe the "debate" about key size and number of rounds to be? A pretty important point Aumasson seems to be trying to make here is that the reduced-round analytic results against ciphers are arguments in favor of their fundamental strength, not signs that they're teetering on a precipice of insecurity.
Since the smallest globally routeable address is a /24 (256 address block), surely you can just use the block to resolve to country as there would be few situations where a block would be split across an international boundary (excluding point to point links).
That's Wyse, a different company.
Probably much, much less is meaningless since it means nothing.

I’m pretty sure if there are 20,000 serious accidents per year and some lines of code alone prevent 100 (0.5%) that’s noteworthy.
It should, right?
A peer to peer file system sharing application with GUI in browser
I made a lamp that does 25k lumens (and about 20k lux at 1 meter) but when I use it to light my room from the ceiling the light is bright enough to be unpleasent. Like going out during sunny day.

I'll experiment with spreading lights a bit more.
I see a lot of machine learning work on medical imagery, which is great, but it seems like this is solving a problem that the human brain is already pretty good at (image recognition). I wish I saw more work being done on finding patterns in medical data in numeric formats which the human brain is terrible at. Is there much of that going on?
Not them, but with my usual work pattern it is really easy to end up with hundreds to thousands of tabs.

New issue? New i3 workspace with a new ff window and a new tmux session, which each accumulate tabs related to that issue. Workspaces can live for weeks or months and while each instance of ff rarely grows beyond 50 tabs, scale that across 10 workspaces and you've got a lot of tabs.

Yes, the 32gb ram in my work-workstation gets a workout.
Wyse was trying to get the Ann Arbor Ambassador fired.
I don’t think that’s true, though it may depend on the make and model - the related service manual should be consulted. Limp mode is intentional and is mostly meant to limit function while sensors may be disabled, compromised or uncertain. There’s a sensitivity to drivetrain timing that narrows as RPMs increase (e.g. approach redline), limp mode seems to mostly use sane defaults for everything to avoid catastrophic failure in that type of scenario.
Forum messages suggest this is the case.
Talk to some lawyers. Not happening anytime soon.
Strange sort of fear-based moral response to something which will clearly be common in 20 years.
Adapting yourself to eating only junk food means you'll never have to cook or pay for a proper meal. Only problem is good food really is better and always will be.
Hi, thanks. Yes, I didn't have the hours needed to make a decent last paragraph! Haven't read anything on the subject or thought about it much at all in 20+ years.

I recommend Christopher Hitchens' book on Mother Teresa, I'm pretty sure you wouldn't write about her like that if you'd read it.
A lot of technical details are available here, and they seem staggering: https://blog.12security.com/wyze-essay-2-aresflare/
Yeah I think it will be a really hard sell since my perception is that programming is python for a lot of data scientists. Also static typing is something you have to use for a bit before you can understand that the little bit of extra formality is actually saving you a lot of trouble in the medium and long term.

Still given the growth of that industry, it's hard to imagine that Python can bear the burden of the increasingly complex work there forever.
The human brain could always use a bit of help. Think of these sorts of tools as medical IDEs for practitioners. Anything that reduces costs, improves outcomes, or both, are welcome.
I’m saying that Tim Cook doesn’t just tweet things because a small supplier tells him to. It’s because it’s something nice that fits in with what Apple would like to say on a certain topic.
The Dutch https://routeplanner.fietsersbond.nl/ (for bicycles) has had options like this for ages.
Ketamine works wonders for them too.

Clinical trials are happening for mushrooms as well.
The cotton gin increased demand for labor to use the tool. You have to think very carefully and subtly to even have a chance at predicting second order effects from more complex forms of automation.
> with free cloud storage of events for 30 days

That turns out to be the same as "give us 30 days to pull any information we care about from your camera feed" - unless they decide it's worth making a copy, in which case they have forever.
Windows 10 phones did this. I had a small docking station for my Lumia 950 that had USB ports and a display port. It worked pretty well.

(Disclaimer: I'm a Microsoft employee and the phone and docking station were both given to me.)
Bleu Score
I think it is 90% hobby, 10% value. It takes a very long time of using a new layout to get any benefit. If you don’t have any interest in keyboards and layouts, then don’t bother. I personally love trying new layouts and keyboards. Though I wouldn’t say they have actually made me any faster.
Libretro Cores Progress Report – December 31, 2019
Ask HN: What Podcasts to Listen to in 2020?
I am interested in the following fields and am looking for recommendations on podcasts to listen to:

1. Front-end Design
2. Productivity
3. Relationship
4. Public speaking and writing
Why have comparison callbacks return this enum

enum c7_order {C7_LT, C7_EQ, C7_GT};

instead of a signed int which seems to be the idiomatic way in C?
TIOBE is probably not worth looking too much at, but a number of embedded engineers use C almost exclusively. They’re just not all that visible :)
How about bogger trim wheels, or servo motors for those?
I absolutely agree. As an aside I also have a CO2 monitor (Awair device) and make sure to keep my bedroom/home office below 700ppm. This is easily achieved by keeping the window open. Self experimentation has shown that I tend to yawn quite a bit more at levels greater than 1000ppm.
The Acorn Archimedes Talk [video] – Pagetable.com
Not only that, they swap in a fancier font after it loads which has slightly different text sizes. This causes everything to jump around as you're reading it. Wasn't the whole FOUC issue known by designers years and years ago?

It jumped around 2 seconds into load for me, and I'm on reasonably fast WiFi less than 100mi from Google HQ!
@dang although the title of the post is from the article itself, it is not descriptive of what it is. I liked previous title more.
There are myriad reasons why you might "absolutely have to" code in C. There are even a few reasons you might code in C even if you have a choice.
2x+ speedup would assume that all you do is just doing encryption/decryption while in most cases crypto would use only a small percentage of cpu time anyways. So if - let's say 1% of cpu time is spent on crypto, then that 2x gain translates to .5% overall speedup. On the other hand I do understand that this % varies a lot depending on what software/system you look at
Sorry to hear that this was the case!

I wrote about how scientific research is broken earlier this year, and what you're describing is one of the most pernicious. https://medium.com/@barmstrong/ideas-on-how-to-improve-scien...

https://www.researchhub.com/about is a project I'm helping get off the ground which hopefully can help this problem, by eventually replacing the traditional journals. Still early days (just beta launched).
Honestly the microsoft sculpt is pretty darn close to a perfect keyboard in my opinion.

I just (as in a few hours ago) got a keyboard.io, though, and it seems pretty darn cool! Hopefully even better than my sculpt.
You claim 1 is debunked but you’re replying to a quote from GP indicating Canada will accept the plane as per 1?

If you can back up the claim that 1 is debunked with a credible source, I suggest shorting Boeing stock because it means the 737 max is a complete failure, the line will likely be killed as it won’t be able to compete with the Neo, and stock price going to plummet through the floor.
One year, one lab, 16 spinouts
If you want the 101 of Mittelstand read the book Hidden Champions by Hermann Simon. A little dated but still relevant and a great read.
I ran some numbers a while ago.

Airplanes are faster than cars, and the average trip is longer. So, even if the pax fatality rate per distance is much better for aircraft (a factor of 200 to 1000, say), the fatality rate per trip is not that much better (a factor of 2 to 10, say).

Some more notes:

- That is for part 121 aviation (airlines). General aviation fatality rates are much worse (you're 15 times more likely to die in a small plane than in a car for the same distance, and 250 times more per trip...)

- An airliner also carries many more pax. The above numbers are per pax; if you base it per vehicle, then a plane is only about 5 times safer than a car for a given distance, and about 20 times more likely to crash than a car per trip.

- About 4% or so of all B747 or A300 ever built have been complete hull losses. (Newer planes are safer, presumably, but also haven't been around that long, so the statistics are not entirely trivial to compare.)
When someone seriously describes architectural styles with words like "an aberration, something alien to the history of humanity, something destructive aesthetically and spiritually, something ugly and unpleasant, something that was inhumane and abnormal", every one should have enough sense to treat the text with caution.

To complement the unreservedly approving review posted by OP, here is a more level headed one, by someone that does not happily accept "secret cult" as the full explanation for shifts in culture: https://www.architectmagazine.com/design/modernism-and-the-m...

Finally, for balance, here is a review by someone that clearly thinks "mental manipulation" is such a failure of explanation of a historical process that some liberty can be when reviewing the book: https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/08/modernist-architecture-i...
Some keyboards (stupid/fancy ones) may not have it, but regardless of layout.
CNBC reports open source software has essentially 'taken over the world'
I took some liberties on a couple to try and capture the meaning of the German word; "einsam" for instance would better translate into "onesome".

I'm also not a native speaker, so I could be completely off.
Chinese Scientist Who Gene-Edited Babies Is Sent to Prison
I see nothing wrong with this. 100% nothing amiss.

For me, I was part of early-career layoffs during a recession. I push myself because I was put in a hard situation, and I want control over my career.

I have that now, and I still push (though not as hard) to maintain it. It keeps my anxiety over providing for my responsibilities in check. I want to be independent.
A scarcity of antibiotics might encourage us to raise humans and livestock in less squalid conditions - a good thing.
It’s a matter of training the user to look for that though.
This title was changed from something informative to something that says nothing about the story at hand.
Jimmy Iovine Knows Music and Tech. Here’s Why He’s Worried
Thank you for this. I'll read the article more carefully tonight.

> But to the extent that it did, art could and should be ugly, because life is ugly, and the highest duty of art is to be honest about who we are rather than deluding us with comforting fables.

I don't disagree with this if we're talking about fine art. Architecture, however, isn't a fine art. It's designing buildings that people have to live in and with. As such, I think that the highest duty (once we get past the practical needs a building must address) of architecture is to acknowledge that design has power over people and to use design to improve people's lives. It shouldn't honestly reflect the undesirable aspects of existence, it should seek to elevate people and improve their experiences.
From the very first line of the article:

"The mantra “focus on the user and all else will follow,” is always top of mind here at Google"

Please excuse me if I find that shockingly difficult to believe. Google is one of the most user-hostile of all the large tech companies. I'm genuinely surprised they even had the audacity to write that.