skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume no wires means battery powered. How long do the batteries last? Will I need to replace the batteries in all my light switches every couple years?
Glad you have 4G. We are still waiting. Less than half the area of my province/state (BC) has any cell coverage. I live 5km from an international airport, but at this rate 5G won't be at my house for a decade or more.
The good thing about having gripes in an open source product is that you can be a part of the solution!
Blendid’s Smoothie Robot Lands at New Location
How? It does literally nothing for special interests buying politicians, it just adds MORE money into the system. No thanks.

Side note... not many people here would like the never ending series of populist presidents this would bring if it did work.
Tcl-duktape: call JavaScript code from Tcl
Would it be possible to offload the majority of the traffic using some P2P protocol for videos, like webRTC?
> If landlords in Austin tried to raise rents then people would go to Kansas City or Buffalo or Louisville.

In the real world, most people can't just relocate their life on a whim, and the majority of citizens are more-or-less locked into a specific area for long periods of time, for a whole bunch of reasons. (Employer, Spouse, Children, Extended Family, Networks, etc)

It's not impossible to relocate or anything. But most people can't do so, and the few who can usually can't do so easily. It's not like window shopping for cars or clothes, these markets are effectively soft-Monopolies.

If landlords in Austin raised rents, most people would just have to eat it, unless it got to dystopian levels that forced them to relocate.
Almost none of this stuff requires an internet connection and it goes way further than simply turning your lights on/off.
> There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Sure there is. In fact, all lunch was free until we invented money and farming.

The Sun is a free lunch. "It's raining soup, grab a bucket!"
Because unlike Google, Apple does not generate the vast bulk of its revenue from selling your private data to advertisers, so Apple does not have an extensive history of violating your privacy for profit.
Are holding people to (moral, ethical) account and looking at problems from a systems perspective mutually exclusive?

These are systems problems, I fully agree, but they aren't only systems problems. The systems in question are people. They have minds, personalities, and agency. Eliding this - sorry for saying so - makes phrases like "whatever process created the flawed product [...]" sound absurd, borderline callous.

I hate to resort to what by now is a web forum trope, but would you look the MAX victims' families in the eye and say, word for word, what you wrote above: "No, 'they' shouldn't" be held to account? Come on dude.
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Show HN: Joy – a privacy-first, ad-free nutrition tracker for pragmatic types
1. https://www.joyapp.com

2. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.joyapp.android

3. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/joy-health-tracker/id955172784?ls=1&mt=8o

Background

As an amateur powerlifter on constant cut/bulk cycles, I found existing diet trackers way too slow and clunky. A food tracker should get out of the way; otherwise — in the heat of the moment — you'll decide not to log things. Existing trackers also lacked flexibility for those times you dine out, skip meals, or need a break.

Privacy and focus

Thanks to HN, I've learned to value my attention and focus. So I rewrote Joy with that in mind. That means eliminating distractions, starting with ads.

You are not the product here. The app is. The business model is simple: if you like using it, you give us money. In return, we provide you with a service you find valuable.

Benefits

- No ads whatsoever. We value your attention span, so should you.

- We don't sell your data. Your privacy is important.

- Barcode scanning in the — optional — native apps. Don't need them? Don't use them.

- Trend lines. Once you enter enough measurements, you can see trend lines. Weight jumps up and down every day. But a trend line shows real progress.

- Speed. Once you learn the ropes, it's an order of magnitude faster to add entries than anything out there. A bold claim, but give it a shot. It was designed to be opened for as little as possible each day.

- Repetition, a cornerstone of a good diet, is especially easy. You can copy meals or entire days. You can even auto-repeat them.

- No community-entered foods. This is a feature in most cases. Food is from a professionally curated database (Nutritionix) or custom foods you enter. Most community entered-food in other apps is flat out wrong. Once I figure out a proper ranking / vetting mechanism, I may introduce a comparable feature.
If they have a TI-83 or TI-84 graphic calculator, you can't beat Axe Parser! https://axe.eeems.ca/Documentation.pdf

It's as simple as the BASIC language that comes with the calculator, but it compiles to assembly so it's lightning fast. And you can write and build the entire game from your calculator. I spent hundreds of hours making games with Axe back in high school.
It's all about the $$$ and the community. Blender started as a commercial project too. I was already using it in the 90's alongside POVRay.

The good thing is unlike in the photography or the print industry there is no real industry wide vendor lock-in when it comes to formats in 3D, so it's always possible to create a challenger.

Right now Godot isn't really on par with Unity, but it could become the de-facto game engine for Blender in the future if Godot allows deep integration with the former.
> many native tribes are notorious troubled

Victims of genocide have additional complicating factors, eh?
Introduction to Statistical Mechanics
OVH is also nice. Some pretty cheap servers in both Virginia and Oregon.
Tech Stack (We're on HN after all)

- React, both for the app itself and the static pages.

- Django for all server logic.

- Heavy use of Redux for the application areas

- Server-side rendered React templates with Django. Seamless with https://github.com/silviogutierrez/reactivated .

- PostgreSQL

- TypeScript for all React code

- Mypy for some Python code, and type generation to interact with TypeScript

Disclosures

- I do use Google Analytics, but only on the marketing pages. Not in the app.

- Mixpanel is used for my own analytics.

- I'm working on a clearer privacy policy. Right now, I'm using the one Automattic gracefully open sourced.
This I agree with. There are also degrees of deception and badness on privacy, and Apple is by far the worst among the major tech companies, even beyond Facebook, which has not given the Chinese government wholesale access to a subset of its users' data and then lied about it.
philips4350, can you say roughly how long it took you to build? Thanks!
The way to help make the career more attractive is by providing a mentorship program by a team made of at least 50% competent female programmers. Offered to both male and female (at least 50% female). This is the best way to project an image of inclusion and equal competence.

The usual model of completely gated groups does more harm than good, in my experience:

The most pejorative views of women as programmers that I have experienced in my career were from groups of well intentioned people organising “[language] girls” week-end where groups made of 80+% of white male coaches would offer to help “girls” presumed to be incompetent to get treated as damsels in distress. Or groups organising “girl geeks” dinners where the only persons I ever met where persons working as secretary in some telecom company. Where the most “technical” talk that I ever heard was on how to read data from a diving watch. I have felt a higher sense of non belonging in these “tech girls” communities than in the many teams where I was the only woman in a programmer role.

Do not “chat”. Provide role models. Give young professionals images of what they could become in 2-5 years. Do your part. Present at meetups. Or provide assistance to help other women to present at normal meetups.

I am a woman. I do programming. I excel in what I do. Please, really, please, do not ask me to join a group called “pink programmers”. Or “girls programmers”. Seriously, the worst sexism that I have seen in my career was from women degrading the image of women in tech by infantilising women in tech.

If you go for a gated community, then make it so that you are attractive to the most bad ass women in your tech community. Look at JuliaGals for inspiration. Silverlight girls in nz, also does excellent work of taking an approach to give access to great role models, inspire up, instead of dumbing down.
I think it’s more likely that the west will collapse than that China will, to be honest. Nobody in the west believes in their institutions any more and the uk and us folded like a house of cards with just the lightest push from Russia in 2015-2016. The economy of the west is still strong for now, but if we continue blindly following this nationalist path we’re going to end up the way we ended after our last dalliance with nationalism, except this time with nuclear weapons.
This feels like when privileged people on social media say things like, "Why don't the poor just go get more money?"
Bullet journal book and journal.
> 5. Use the most common OS (Windows 10 at the moment) + the most common web browser (Chrome at the moment)

Use the OS with built-in telemetry and the web browser that constantly reports your activity to a data harvesting company and which keeps trying to prevent people from blocking ads or limiting data harvesting on the browser? Try again.
California will make solar panels the next home appliance
Homekit, Siri and Shortcuts offer superior integration with Apple’s ecosystem.
Well one thing it offers is that the layout isn't broken, like Apples site's seems to be in my browser. Also in terms of basic functionality, you can search for a song name and click the album title to go to the whole album, which seems to be not possible on Apple's site. So that's something.
Probably an arms race would make defense technology good enough to limit the consequences of it.
Pride comes before a fall.
I hope so!

Though the Blender situation is a little different. Blenders main competition are paid software. While Unity and Unreal are technically paid too, many users can use them "for free" for the most part.

Unity and Unreal are both foraying into non-gaming applications like Cinema, and whatever the word is for working with architectural programs/formats. Might be an opportunity for Godot to stay focused and gain mind share that way?

I know Unity is under a bit of an upheaval right now with their engine architecture and it's putting a lot of strain on it's userbase.
I use Alexa for one light that never got connected to a light switch. I used wireless X-10 for it previously :-)

I agree about reliability. It's one reason I won't get a Nest thermostat. I live in snow country and I'm not going to do anything that potentially introduces a new failure mode into my heating system.

(I actually have a couple of the Nest smoke detectors. The internet connection isn't required for them to function as dumb detectors and they work well in my experience.)
> It (UBI @ $1k/month) is just supposed to take starving and freezing to death off the table

My point is that $1k/month does not do this. Hell, minimum wage is approximately 1.5x to 2x greater than UBI (depending on the area), and even it does not quite take "starving and freezing to death" off the table.

"Working Homelessness" is a thing - https://www.npr.org/2018/09/30/652572292/working-while-homel... and https://newrepublic.com/article/154618/new-american-homeless...
They still can't, because they're not even local monopolies.

There are a thousand local landlords. If they all decided to double rents, maybe only 5% of the local population would move out, but then 5% of the landlords would have empty properties. They're individually better off to get someone in there at a lower rent than have an empty unit, so they advertise a lower rent and take one of the tenants from a landlord across the street. Now that landlord has the empty unit and they do the same thing.

Which means Kansas City is competition for Austin even if 95% of the people there would never actually move. (Assuming cities where the job market, amenities and so on are similar.)

Also, when rents are higher, there is incentive to build new housing to capture the profits.

Rents only get high when they're not just eager to arbitrarily raise rents but somehow colluding to constrain supply, which is hard for thousands of landlords to do except through zoning. But that's completely independent from how much money the local people have. There are cities that have the same median income and higher rents because the local government imposes housing supply constraints.
Sorry, I have no idea how your comment connects with what I wrote.
Perhaps if previous administrations (one of which Biden was part) had properly funded education, then those coal miners would be smart enough to take him up on his career suggestion.

Tone deaf. Just tone deaf.
I've been looking for a lightweight 2D engine to use on Android. Something I can use to build simple 2D games with small binaries that load quickly and run on lots of hardware. (Like I might use SpriteKit for on iOS.)

Should I look further into Godot Engine, or is it more of a "heavyweight"/loads-of-features engine like Unity and Unreal?
Stayed up til after 3am because I was running a virtual fireworks show in an Open Simulator world, and they all run on Pacific time.

This might be my last one, because TBH I'm getting tired of Open Sim, it's a dead end.
I can fully relate to this. Same experience here.
It is closer to $3 trillion because children wouldn't receive the UBI as far as I know. Still a big number for sure.
If the people who write the code had a sense of ethics they would go work for someone who did not ask them to violate user privacy.
I don’t think Paul Graham will read your comment these days

He is rarely on HN, especially if someone else posted his article at a random time.
I'm not sure if you realize this, but as time passes people get older, and they usually gain experience. Soon, Gen X-ers will be the ones with the optimal experience/dementia ratio.

Also, yelling the loudest is problem the predates human history.
Study finds Google system could improve breast cancer detection
New Year's Resolutions Making Lists – Richard Branson
Some of the points made here I agree with, probably slightly more accurate that the other warped predictions I’ve seen so far.

However, I question that predictions /2 and /6 seem to be wildly far-fetched that it’s as if the author based his predictions from a damaged magic mirror.

/2) While the tech is there for automation, Several safety and regulatory requirements the AI technology is not transparent enough to completely replace workers. This will take more years to only end up being a complimentary tool for its users.

/6) doesn’t sound very realistic to achieve in this decade. The research is experimental or starting to emerge but not mature yet for be available to all yet and will not be in this decade. Probably the next or very late 2020s.

I’m surprised to see that mainstream AR not being mentioned nor the further regulation of tech being detailed more in this article.
They claim 10+ years. https://levven.com/products/consumer-wireless-switch-control... but I don't have any personal experience.

I know a couple of wireless X-10 switches I used to own lasted for a very long time. I'm not sure I ever replaced the batteries.
The FAQ answer is the kind if condescending tone that I don't like and some developers of long running OSS projects use after a while. I know that these projects are hard and take lots of effort. I've experienced it myself. Warning people that X is more complicated than it may first seem is perfectly OK. But telling them to just stop is wrong. There are valuable lessons to be learned by starting from scratch. Commanding them to help out others instead denies them this experience. Sometimes the journey itself is the goal.
Even if the IRS has their own filing program, Intuit and H&R Block wouldn’t go out of business; People who want to make sure their getting the best would still use them, along with people just distrustful of the government.
We don’t have yet the communication technology for anything far from our system.
Global Apathy Toward the Fires in Australia Is a Scary Portent for the Future
> money doesn't come out of thin air.

It can, though. Money is created all the time by banks only having to keep a fraction of their deposits on reserve. You deposit $100, they lend out $80, then you have $100 (in the bank) and someone else has $80 in cash (and an obligation to repay). $180 exists in a real form when at the beginning only $100 existed.

For the US Treasury, the rules are even stranger. Like a bank, they can write checks for whatever they want, as long as they do so in a manner consistent with the law (and laws can be changed). Unlike a bank, there can never be a "run" on the Treasury (no Treasury check can ever bounce for insufficient funds) because they can literally just print more money.

It is entirely possible to just deficit spend your way to a UBI. Many economists would predict this to create inflationary pressure - and indeed it might - but predictable inflation, even at moderate amounts, is beneficial to those who those who carry debts. This can create incentives for investment (you don't want to sit on your money if it's losing value) which may result in actual wealth creation.

Inflationary monetary policy effectively acts as a tax on those who hold currency, yes, but it's not a zero sum game. Plus people who receive these checks will spend it in the economy or deposit it with banks to create more of it. Economics is not well enough understood for there to be a consensus on what this would do in aggregate, and anyone who tells you otherwise is probably lying.
When you go to a party, you "pay" for it with your time, which is priceable.

On your comment about market value and book value, both are measured in monetary terms.

The thing here is that we can't come up with an abstract definition for prices and values where anything goes and then use it to justify something economically unsound such as the government activity.
It’s interesting to see that what ever worked in the early days of the web, still works today. Viaweb —> Shopify, Squarespace, Wix, etc.

Myspace -> FB

IRC -> Slack

Aim -> WhatsApp

It seems that, to come up with a good startup idea, one can look at the early days of the internet and replicate it for today. Preferably for a specific niche audience first, then grow from there.
OTOOH, react et al are just attempts to make the asynch web synchronous.

Request/response cycle returns a resource, including embedded resources, and we get over it and move on in life.

Now, how on earth a folder-index-sharing protocol for hyperlinking became the planets default UI surface for everything ever, that's another ball of wax to fry another day, killed with the same stone as the mythical 2 birds, etc.
I wouldn't assume that colonies would have anywhere near the technical capabilities of the seeding planet.

Just look at what we have achieved in Earth vs. what we have achieved on the moon, or anyone's plans for a Mars colony. Mankind may set for on Mars eventually, but i don't think we'll ever do something like set off fireworks there.

Any colony that moves past the immediate survival stage is a success. That does not mean they have millions of years of fossil fuel stored to start further exploration.
Bolero Enables Writing F# Apps Running in WebAssembly Using Blazor
> The looming climate crisis will be to this century what the two world wars were to the previous one.

I don't think so. WWII was a war between two fronts. Climate change affects countries very differently. The ones not affected much will unlikely contribute. My guess is that everyone to his own in this one.

> experiments to reallocate wealth and income more equitably will produce a new generation of world leaders who ride this wave to popularity.

I don't think it'll be more than experiments. Capital is very sensitive to being grabbed by government for the benefit of the "people". My guess is that we'll see countries that try to have their industries collapse; while other countries letting that capital flow to them.

> China will emerge as the world’s dominant global superpower

China is doomed to fail in the long run. Not sure if it's going to happen in the next decade or later, though. But it'd be all good and hopefully democracy is established.

> Countries will create and promote digital/crypto versions of their fiat currencies, led by China who moves first and benefits the most from this move.

This was already tried and failed. Crypto-currencies have no meaning without the decentralized factor. Governments will never be able to establish their crypto due to the fact that they want to control the underlying.

> Asian crypto exchanges, unchecked by cumbersome regulatory restraints in Europe and the US and leveraging decentralized finance technologies

Kinda related to the point above. Countries with low taxes are going to boom further as western countries are tightening their fiscal game.

> A decentralized internet will emerge, led initially by decentralized infrastructure services like storage, bandwidth, compute, etc.

I, very, believe this one and hope it happens in the next decade.
I've become a big fan of Godot over the past six months or so. The open development model is a breath of fresh air compared to most game engines.

The node system seemed weird to me at first, but it's really grown on me. I can heartily recommend the engine now.
Beaming in might be popular for some use cases, however physical presence will still be the gold standard. VR/AR will always represent a big drop in information density compared to reality. In human conversation even a 75ms lag would be noticeable compared to real-time. I highly doubt looking at a vr projections eyes can match the same intensity as looking at a real person’s. Also, VR completely removes items such as touch and smell.

How much data does a human 6 feet away from you project to you? How much of that data enters your conscious? How much enters your subconscious? With Moore’s law dying we can’t hope to match that amount of information, much less accurately record and transport it in real time. Lossy capture and output mechanisms will still be present in a decade.
It seems to me there's a huge range of factors they didn't and can't possibly control for. Particularly availability of black market opioids. And if I'm not misreading - the changing policies of opioid scrips over time, a lot of which is 'trendy' i.e. socially driven as much as policy driven (i.e. individual doctors making changes in their practice because they read something).

More specifically, I'm always wary of 'top down' science that doesn't consider the myriad of real world considerations regarding their thesis; specifically they don't actually talk to people (or even take surveys) to get a feel for what is actually happening.

What if they had a lot of conversations and did a few surveys and found that people tended to not medicate 'en masse' for specific interventions?

I honestly don't understand how researchers can look at such an intensively social and behavioural subject without getting a personal feel for the prevalent behaviours.

I'll bet doctors, social workers on the front line have pretty good insight into what's going on.

So my question was pointed to anyone who understood this paper or issue in detail who could articulate in so many words 'why the correlation is valid'.
Simple proposition, but the Federal Reserve is not part of the US Government. Perhaps it’s time that system be re-evaluated?
In C++ you can have some help via static analysis.

Unfortunately very few care to actually use them.
https://www.bfilipek.com/2019/12/cpp-status-2019.html?m=1#wh...

As I learned since Turbo Pascal days, if it isn't part of the language, it seldom gets used.