skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have found it useful when you have your hands full (e.g. hands full of shopping, or carrying a baby with a dirty nappy/diaper to a changing table are just two examples where you can just shout to google/alexa to turn it on), or turning stuff on/off when you are away from home (e.g. automatically at sunset, turning heating on when you are on your way home etc), or you left the lights on and you are already in bed etc.

First world problems, but it is handy.
I look forward to alternatives to big tech . It is about time.
As much as I would like to see this happen, I don't think it is going to happen this time around either... or ever.

We've seen this movie before. Minds, Gab, Patreon alternatives, Voat, all of this has been done with no success.

Whatever you open to the public will be infiltrated by the enemy. I think the new model is to do it secretly in closed groups away from the public, preferably local groups where you meet with people in person, have strict rules and only sign up new users via strong referrals: family members, close friends etc. Once some of them work well, they can be franchised. A very good example of this is Freemasonry.

Yes, such social networks will be much slower and decentralized but they will be much more effective and better for the members long-term.
Open Source does not mean “Includes Free Support”
It avoids having to run wires through the walls (the switch can be battery powered or even piezo-powered so it works just from the force of your press). Having said that most houses already have the wires in the walls, and even if the wires are old/unsuitable you can pull through new ones, so for most people it doesn't really make much sense.
Has anyone tried to send Subject Access Request to Apple or Microsoft to receive all telemetry data they collected? If you think it is not a personal data, then you know you can identify a person from their behavioural patterns.
> My current theory is vim users are like vegans/gluten free/paleo/etc, in that its a personal choice that some are public about.

This is not a good theory. Surely, this effect appears wherever you've got conflicting choices about what is best, but there are always reasonable arguments on why you should do X over Y. And you know, there are always people who respect other's choices.

I am a vim user and I 100% understand why others don't want to get into it. I don't bully them, I will explain only once why I think it is a better environment and then they are free to carry on with their lives and so am i.

People who are extremely attached to their choices are (to me) unable to understand that every tool is for a job && different people have different needs. This shouldn't lead us to label a group of users and ignoring the pros and cons of smth
We had soviet clones of this chip. Part numbers КМ581РУ4/КМ584РУ4/КМ565РУ3 (MK4116-2/MK4116-4)
Simple engineering rule applies here... “if you can run a wire, run a wire”.

Notice over the whole article he talks about the how, but not really the why?
There are some reasons to go for a wireless system, for example when you can’t just go and run new wires to have switches in places you’d want to. Either because it’s an old house or a rented unit or something like that. But when planning a refurbishment or new construction, pulling (ethernet) wires is the safe bet.
So, has anyone used this Shelly 2.5 "WiFi-operated double relay switch" thingy?

Looks pretty cheap and interesting in principle.
Fully agree with the premise, but the tone is not going to work for all projects and may discourage contributions if that's seen as desirable.
I’m in a great situation. Good job, great family, enough money to not worry.

But I still answered yes. I was always prone to anxiety and depression, but Corona is fucking me up.

I’m trying to resume my normal life because getting sick is frankly a much better alternative than whatever this is.
I never implied it didn't, but in recent years there always seems to be a ready supply of fresh grist for this particular mill.
Nah, I know a few Republican voters and none of them have decided to dedicate their life to explaining how Obama's secret police are waiting in the wings to take over America and the only tool that can stop them is a dollar store katana.
I've had both a switch for the main light (s) and a lamp bedside the bed all my life, multiple houses, none of them 'smart' or wireless.

Don't get me wrong - I want to use HomeAssistant or similar - but I don't want to ditch physical switches.
It wasn't even a digital camera for that system - it was an analogue CCTV camera hooked up to a framegrabber. Digital cameras weren't really a thing at that time.
As many people have already recommended, you should absolutely look into Applying Data Science to problems in your Agricultural field. Your domain expertise combined with skill in computing technology would be a killer combo.

PS: You might find the book Cloud Computing for Science and Engineering useful - https://cloud4scieng.org/
You don't need a long term visa to come in legally. You only need one to stay legally long-term.
Never seen that. I like it.

Providing a solution before the problem exists is exactly what this is.
I live in Amsterdam. What I'm seeing here is that the security field is lagging behind the data science / web dev field. It's not easy to find junior jobs, but a lot easier than data science / web dev.

The most fun example that I currently have is that my LinkedIn profile is super wide. I market myself as a generalist software dev, because that's what I am. I'm not a specialist and I've dabbled in almost everything.

Naturally, no recruiter contacts me because of that. But you know who does? A European company looking for a reverse engineer.

I found it quite surprising that they were capable of reading that I have some IDA Pro experience, because it's in the fine print of my profile and not at all readable when you skim it.
Same was happening on Twitter for quite a while with 2 bots chatting to each other on every popular thread about Trump: "just drinking from this <mug with "leftist tears">", "OMG, where did you get that", "<link to shop>".

I expect they made lots of money there if they outsourced to print on demand.
If they 'identified' dark matter, why do they keep calling it that and not what it is?
The problem with 'may' is that a network intermediary might block TLS connections to ocsp.apple.com knowing it would fall back to plaintext.

Apple could encrypt the payload though, using the Apple public key, which would solve the snooping by intermediaries problem.
Beware, the Tradfri spots are not as bright as regular bulbs by far. Try out one first before committing on a couple hundred dollars.

And if you're hunting for relays and other actuators... the compatibility between IKEA Tradfri products is excellent, but your mileage will vary when going with other Zigbee products.
Documents may also have a unique wording for each recipient and the source could be easily identified by that by whoever created a document.
I dont think Big Tech got every call right, but I really don't see how they please both sides here.

Especially when one side, from the top down, considers everything other than sycophantic praise for its leader to be 'fake news', and the other side has some people opining that even reporting things the other side says without qualification is irresponsible journalism.

If anything, I'd say hindsight makes some of their more dubious decisions (slapping content warnings on stuff deemed to be aimed at undermining the democratic process) look better.
The problem is- that they never invested in growing healthy engagement instead of enragement. Instigating a tribal warfare climate to push adds is just to easy of a business model.

Then the goat was chosen to moderate the cabbage and here we are. If the predictions hold, the ironic end will be, some CEOs blown up by a terrorism wave they helped to create.
Thus ended the lesson and the revolution can now eat its kids
I stayed clear of smart appliances for a long time for the reasons I'm sure we're all well aware of. However, recently we had our central heating boiler changed and my partner was very keen on having Hive. It's almost useless. I can't believe how incompetently it seems to have been designed.

Essentially there are three parts, a receiver connected to the boiler, a network bride connected to the router and the thermostat connected to both.

Within the first week of having it installed we had times when we realised the heating hadn't come on as scheduled. Checking the display on the thermostat would show no signal. In effect the receiver on the boiler had disconnected from the thermostat and as such you have no heating. After several occurrences of this I broke down and moved the thermostat to the closest reasonable place I could.

The thermostat is now in the worst place in the house for taking a temperature reading but at least it vaguely heats the house up when I expect it to. However, it is now almost constantly disconnected from the network bridge which enables the "smart" part. The solution to this if I can ever be bothered is to run a network cable from the router to the same room as the thermostat.

Why it was designed like this is beyond me. Why not have the schedule stored on the receiver, at least in memory. That way if it lost contact with the thermostat at least it could put the heating on full during the schedule.

Why make the wireless bridge a separate part? If I could add my WiFi details to the thermostat I guarantee it would have a reasonable connection.
It blows my mind that PoE LED drivers aren't an established dirt-cheap standard I can choose from multiple vendors supporting @ my local Home Depot/Lowes.
I have a system called KNX, its not wireless but each switch is independent of each actuated function (light, blinds, etc). The main advantage is the wiring is simple, a bus for all switches and all lights go back to a relay board. Switches, sequencing / grouping can be assigned at any time after install, scheduled on/off, easy to extend later, etc. For example I built a garage 10 years after my house and by running a single cat 5 between the buildings, I can now press a button (any button I wish) in the house and turn all garage lights off. I can also see the state of any light or actuator at any time, etc. So there are some nice advantages, but I'm glad it is wired for sure..
This sounds like a hacker gone mad.
This article honestly made me want to quit engineering and limit the amount of technology I am dependent on. You must have the patience of a god. Also your family definitely hates you
I tried this, and it works wonders during the day, but when I step from my daylight room into the rest of the house I’m so thrown off that all benefit disappears.
There is a technical solution for this which might need some research and I’m not sure it’s been proved out yet but if you search for ‘bedside lamp’ you might find a starting point.
I've been a professional developer for 10 years and programming for longer than that. In all of that time, efficiency of editing files on a remote server has never been something I've needed to optimize or been concerned about. Have I had to do it? Yeah, occasionally. Yet when I do, it's almost always changing a config file in a minor way.

Back when I started it was editing the code on a live server so I used textwrangler/notepad++ with an ftp editor.

I don't buy the argument that learning an editing paradigm for this very specific use case (which is likely getting less and less common) at all. This is coming from someone who uses vim bindings in my daily editor.
Lets not forget that much of the 2016 fake news boom on Facebook was agitated for by US conservatives.

Facebook had a news team that hand-curated top stories (to stop obvious lies going viral). As was the nature of these young news teams, they were more liberal than the average viewer of Fox News. Prominent media personalities on Fox News, as well as US senators agitated that this was biased against conservatives.

Facebook then fired all the editors, and obvious fake news took over the site, with predictable results (who would have thought that the Pope would endorse Trump?).

This incident is important context. Also note that the most engaging content on FB is right-wing conservative content, not left-wing content.

Like, FB tried desperately hard to avoid regulating speech on their platform, but both sides demanded it, leaving them in a position where both groups of partisans think they are biased towards the other side.

> And even before all that crap below up, they had the gov't taking a long and hard look at the anti-trust problem. The platform censorship just threw gasoline on that smoldering fire.

The conflation of these two things makes me very said. There are 100% huge anti-trust concerns around Big Tech, but the censorship crap is a sideshow that will end up preventing any bi-partisan action on this (if I was a super-cynical policy exec at these companies I might even say, just as planned....).
Don't forget time.
I am more interested in Parler's business model moving forward.

One reason of censorship becomes so prevailing is because of advertising. The advertisers ultimately defines what is 'toxic' and what not.

If Parler can stick to its current path and manage to survive, it would pretty significant to the internet ecosystem.
Apologies if this is covered in the article, which I can't get to, but what is he doing to make amends? Or is this just empty, placatory words?
I use Twitter quite a bit and there's no politics on it. Mostly AI stuff and the musings of my friends. Twitter only gives you stuff from people you follow and one level past.

Of course not using it is a good option but ultimately what you get from Twitter is what you put in.
I greatly enjoyed the article, love the Shellys too. +1 also for Homeassistant.
Just wish (minor point) the author had chosen a font-color with more contrast to the background, like a slightly less pale shade of grey.
I'm trying to sleep better (not going so well), sleep deprivation is a simple but important thing that can trigger a vicious cycle for me.
> I know this from talking to him about it, specifically.

Perfect! So what's the exact story, then, finally?

1) Was the quote from him completely invented?

2) Was he allowed to check in or not? Did he need the test to check in at that moment to which the quote refers? (I don't care about the moment when it was published).

3) And even more specifically: were there ever the times where he was in Google but when he not able to check in the code lacking some Google-prescribed "test"?

Just "yes", "no" or "I don't know" there, please. Also (just for my curiosity):

4) How long that period lasted?

Then you can elaborate where I was wrong by searching thorough what I've written -- I've specifically quoted the article and talked about his C background and involvement in a new language, never claimed anything about his C++ code and a "certification." I have an impression that your perception of what I've written and that, what I actually have written don't match.
> Whatever you open to the public will be infiltrated by the enemy.

Can you explain what you mean by this? I wouldn't have thought that the average user of social media had that many enemies, but i could be wrong.
This same guy made a similar video about an antique toaster and the absolutely ingenious way it works without any electronics still haunts me to this day
Is the transcription of Macron's speech completely off or am I not understanding what the two shown texts represent?
(Anyone know how the transcription quality compares to the various cloud offerings from AWS, Google, and IBM?)
My lizardmen handlers have instructed me not to tell you lest I give away their presence.

Then they instructed me to tell you this so that it would cast ridicule on the notion of lizardmen overlords.

And they then instructed me to do that last one to sow confusion.
I understand, but to my knowledge there isn't something you can use to make such a thing and not invest time to learn it. Thus my choices are the ones with the least investment needed.

If you are to invest some time to learn any tool for prototyping, you might as well go for a proper framework. First you can use any of the dozen UI frameworks (like bootstrap) to get away with not writting css. Then, as one auggested you can go with pure js/html. I might also suggest you could throw a highly productive js framework in the mix like react or ember
It will go the same way as its direct predecessor Gab.ai, Voat and other "alternatives for conservatives" - it ends up as a self radicalizing Nazi hole, as no one except right-wingers wants to be on a network dominated by right-wingers.
So just like most consumer tech startups then?
Block early, block often. Think twice before following someone.
Virtual DOM?
As it said, it makes no sense at all. F1 is not Google, "Provided a driver has previously held a super licence they do not have to meet these requirements, a driver who has held a valid super licence for any of the previous three seasons is eligible for a new licence, "
I have been gradually installing Shelly relays and dimmers in my place for some time, and they are excellent. They have a fully open and documented REST API, a simple but effective local web interface, and any Cloud connectivity is completely optional.

I have never had one fail (N=25). Since installation, I have never had one drop off the WiFi or require a physical visit for any reason at all (one is installed in my boiler and it takes an hour to get it apart, so I really appreciate this!). I honestly don’t think a single one of them has missed a single rest API call in the time they’ve been running.

When initially installing them, this can be done from a mobile next to the unit, at which point you join them to your WiFi.

I’m not in any way connected with Shelly, just a very impressed user of their stuff.
I agreed with you until the last paragraph, where it became clear that your problem isn’t with extreme views in general, just the sort of extreme views Trump is likely to endorse. That’s exactly the bias that people behind Parler aim to exploit (or provide an escape from, depending on your view)
In some ways, this is the result of equality through having paid salaries for politicians. While the previous arrangement of having to be independently wealthy excluded most people from getting into politics, it did mean that it wasn't a career choice. It was something you did after you gained wealth and experience, at the end of a career in an actual industry and most likely running a business or being a senior manager, or you were wealthy to begin with. While the arrangement was not perfect by any means, it did mean that the politicians of that era were men of substance with a wealth of knowledge tempered by real-world experience. Politicians who go into it as a career straight from university lack any serious real-world experience outside politics, and I'm afraid to say they aren't up for the job. Their heads are full of political ideals but they mean little to the rest of us who just want competence and level-headed decision making.

I think there's a relatively straightforward and fair solution to the problem, and that is to require a certain amount of experience before being permitted to stand as a political candidate. You could do this by having a minimum age limit (e.g. 35), or by having been employed or being an employer for a certain number of years e.g. 15. This would ensure that the people representing us have gained a little understanding and experience of the world we live in and the real needs of the people they serve. Right now, I feel politicians of all stripes are almost completely divorced from the rest of us, and the consequences of their actions.

I do feel it is somewhat foolish that any job in the real world, from management through to the lowliest worker requires years of experience, multiple qualifications and certifications, training and assessment. But politicians require no independent assessment of their capabilities. The ballot box is not a high enough bar when all the candidates are of low quality.
Why would you leave the room light on for reading in bed?
Hey HN!

I've been working on this for a while now.
While there are other on-premise solutions using older models such as DeepSpeech [0], I haven't found a
deployable project supporting multiple languages using the recent RNN-T Architecture [1].

Please note that this does not achieve SotA performance.
Also, I've only trained it on one GPU so there might be room for improvement.

Edit: Don't expect good performance :D this is still in early stage development. I am looking for contributers :)

[0] https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.06621
Especially considering that all of these failed not because they were infiltrated by "the left", but because they're now a haven for literal nazis.
Who's to decide what is spam and flood and what's not?

The circle never ends.

Call Parler what it is - a right-wing circle jerk, for aggrieved snowflakes who think that "free speech" means that you can say whatever and whenever, as long as it's sufficiently conservative, and not only can the government not punish you, but those big meanie private companies can't either.
I don't see how voting machines are relevant to what you're saying. Are you arguing that there is or isn't a cold war between the US and Venezuela right now?
> Whatever you open to the public will be infiltrated by the enemy.

This is a hell of a take on free speech.

> Freemasonry

Ah, by "enemy" do you just mean "women and Catholics?"
Nah, you stay on the main sites and get mainstream videos of a dude skating on a street lipsyncing to Fleetwood Mac. Which is like 3x better than the latest theory about the alien overlords and their pyramid eyes that have hacked our voting machines.
I don't have empirical evidence, but it mirrors the 2nd law of thermodynamics (entropy always increasing). Most "concentrated" things tend to dissipate away.

> Are we doomed by bureaucracy?

When empires collapse, you get small offshoots starting up somewhere nearby. If you search "tree life cycle" on google images you will see the analogy I'm trying to get at :)
I use OpenHAB purely as a ZWave I/O engine for Node-Red which works quite well for me.
The first example is so much cringe that had to stop reading.

Just because you made your source code available does not mean I'll do your QA for free. I might, if I think it's worth it... but if you haven't made it worth it, just forget it.
Seems off indeed. Plus, the readme says French is not supported yet. Not the best demo IMO.
Yep. Works as intended, easy to set up though as with most of these wireless technologies the initial pairing can be a bit fussy. The built-in software and smartphone app is good enough for me, but if you want you can flash new firmware and/or use HomeAssistant. I use it for roller blinds and for outdoor lighting on a sunset/sunrise timer.

I'm not a huge fan of home automation and my partner hates the mere thought of it, so what's nice about Shelly is that these units have not just outputs but inputs as well. If you flip a physical switch you will still trigger your lights or appliances or whatever is connected to it. You're not locked into an ecosystem with its own remotes, switches etc. – it'll feel like the sturdy old system you already had, except that now you can program it and control it remotely, too.
It's a system for controlling lights wirelessly. The lights themselves are of course still wired, but instead of having physical switches you have a wireless control network turning them on or off.
I love browser's reader modes to easily apply the styles I like to articles like this. Instantly dark mode and huge font to any article
So what powers the switches then?
I mean, Glenn Greenwald resigned from the Intercept so he could write about it. That post wasn't censored in any way, shape or form.

There were huge threads here about this for literally a week. Seems like a bad job was done on supressing that information.
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