skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I LOVE Home Assistant! Pretty much automated everything in my house. I walk around and the lights turn on with a time-appropriate brightness. They turn off when the room is empty again. I haven't touched a light switch in months. Garden irrigation is automated based on outside temperature and rainfall from my weather station. I get instant picture notifications when someone walks up to my patio or front door, and HA fakes inhabitance by turning on a couple lights randomly inside. My bedroom lights slowly dim up starting 15 minutes before the next alarm on my phone if I'm in bed (great for the winters). I'm notified when I can get free cooling or heating by opening the upstairs windows (calculated based on temperature differentials and HVAC status). I can set my alarm and view the status of all doors/windows/motion/etc. remotely. My thermostat loosens the desired temperature range when the home is empty, and tightens it back up when I return. Bathroom fans turn on when you've been on the toilet for more than a couple minutes, or when humidity spikes due to the shower being on.

There's at least a couple hundred other little things I've written automations for, and it's really nice to be able to do whatever YOU specifically want. (I even have an Android tablet mounted on the wall in my bedroom - great for setting things conveniently and it will bring up a camera stream when motion is detected in an area around the home.)

Sure the stuff requires some upkeep, but I actively enjoy that. I might have to replace a ZWave multisensor battery every year, or upgrade some configuration when a new version of HA comes out. But I always wanted a smart home I could tailor myself. Everything is local (well except Google Assistant, but that's ancillary). HA is just fantastic, and so is the community. :)
Press release from the university:

https://www.imec-int.com/en/press/belgian-security-researche...
Are you sure it couldn't be installed locally?

My client is a bank with private GitHub servers, so I assume their codescene is self hosted as well.

edit: Yep, there is an on-premise option: https://codescene.com/pricing/
It is often unknown, as are many things in reality.

What's interesting is that IT folks are typically rather curious about mysterious behaviors in software, but this curiosity often vanishes when it comes to the real world (but only on certain topics).

Regardless, back to my question:

>> If you're alleging single-actor control you need to have some idea of who that single actor allegedly is.

> Why?

Why is it ok to discuss theories about some portions of reality, but not others? I'm not insisting that we must, I would just like some day for people that assert or imply that we cannot, to explain (in logically consistent detail, using objectively true statements) why we cannot (or will not). But to be crystal clear, I'd never insist that the majority needs to explain or justify their behavior or unwritten rules, here or elsewhere - I realize this is simply one of the fringe benefits of being the majority.
Even once safety is established, our current protocol requires waiting for wave of infections to sweep so thoroughly through the population that some of the study volunteers are infected by chance.
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> most of the source code for Android

Except for everything related to the Play Store, correct? And that is a critical part of Android at this point. Google is progressively closing Android.
Unverified information about a government's actions.*

Not saying that is the case here, but the truth is this cuts both ways, and I would say this development of free flying unverified information is overall more helpful to bad actors than good.
Well it depends. Do you expect your writing to be accessible in 50 years?
Hopefully this doesn’t work and people in us only die. I also hope death rate in u.s goes up...
At my startup we use a pretty similar tech stack, except we are on Heroku for infrastructure which makes our life a lot easier, and gives us things like review apps quite easily.

One piece we've struggled with is just mypy doesn't seem to play too nicely with Django. It definitely feels like a world of difference between the type support we get in our React app with Typescript and mypy with Django. Would be curious what OP's experience has been with that.
Yes, it does, as long as performance-bottlenecked code is not in Python (and it usually isn't). In the real world, you may have to extract some hot regions to C++ or Rust or Java, but 99% of your code will scale infinitely.
I've been a contributor and avid reader of Spatial Ape since near its inception and it's been amazing. There is always great conversations going on with a variety of perspectives. I've explored quite a few AR & VR online communities, but I must say Spatial Ape is the one I return to on a consistent basis.
I don’t know how else to explain to you that this is different functionality. When someone is added to the app they have complete control over your Ring, this is not the same thing.
People who clear the effort bar for the dweb can read subversive takes but not effortlessly share them with everyone else. And low effort normies can go back to consuming state media cud that doesn't whip them into a violent frenzy. At least we can hope.
Is that so? I would have thought MKL and CUDA would have kept AMD from dominating in AI and simulations for at least the next 3-5 years. That is unless you're working supercomputers.
Believe in it as much do you do in their claim that they're not running the largest concentration camps since the Nazi.
Super similar to what I use (http://www.casaspanish.co.uk).

Django has just so much stability, it was an obvious decision for me to go with it. And that's speaking as someone who has mostly worked with NodeJS/React for the past 5 years.

I love the pythonic principle of "There should be one obvious way to do it". This helps me cut down on decision making which is something quite annoying to deal with as sole-tech-founder. Now I get to focus on the business, and technology is just a matter of execution.
And burn the books, and keep out all the foreign newspapers!
No, Apple has a code of conduct all their contractors are required to adhere to,, and pays substantially more than market. Their jobs are so coveted potential hires wait in lines for days just for a chance at getting an Apple job.
I actually don't have any real experience with Microsoft's cloud products, just Google's. They're pretty flawless IMO and have just the right set of features for me in general. Certainly I've lost far more work over the years with desktop products crashing or just accidentally deleting the wrong file.
A corporation is much easier to get away from than a government. With a corporation you have a choice in whether you want to deal with them. Government not so much.
Could you cite a study or other statistical evidence? I'm surprised to find that the median server gets tips >20% averaged over all customers as a voluntary contribution. It would be interesting to see a break down of the range of tips send which restaurants were in the study, etc..

Presumably other areas of devices, like clothing or general retail are getting demands from unions to move over to voluntary tipping to tap that generosity?

In UK it's relatively common to tip some hotel workers and taxi drivers -- do USA hotel room cleaners also benefit from this effect of tips>>charges?
It'll be interesting to read his thoughts about Company of Heroes, should he ever get to that game. The developers naively implemented the Nazis, Allies, and the Soviets as historically faithful as they could - which made the Nazis incredibly overpowered.
Yeah that's nice, except this looks like a case of government trying to prevent people from having a form of communication to express discourse about the shady actions of that very government.
I'll play the part and mention microG, an alternative which supplies many of the Google services that are required by a ton of apps these days. Fair warning, though. Installing microG on a lot of popular phones is non-trivial.
I used the Alexa media player integration along with the integration for my alarm panel, so Home Assistant automatically synchronizes Alexa's Guard Mode with the alarm being armed or disarmed.
I think that painting a multi-trillion-dollar corporation as "good" or "bad" is always disingenuous.
There is a major hole in its lack of support for animation.
They couldn't do that on intel because if they made it too draconian people would just install windows. Now people are locked in tight.
We should consider sending Trump supporters to reeducation camps.
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Im not sure why but reading this article raises my internal BS skepto-meter.

The story explains that the companies in question have access to RPC functions similar to those that an ISP might use but that they are not ISPs. Then later on the article states that one of the companies described itself as an ISP.

The story also questions why there is a GUI for running remote commands and why a device would need to scan for nearby networks. I can think of a few legitimate reasons for both but no reason a decent backdoor would have a server side backdoor GUI.

Just my opinion but I get the feeling this whole situation was created by IP theft in the form of firmware duplication. It seems these companies have used a very insecure firmware possibly made intentionally bad to trap or setup these Chinese manufacturers.

If these are in fact intentional backdoors they were made with an incredible amount of effort to look like sloppy 0day exploits.

I should add that I don't doubt that these vulnerabilities are real, just the intent behind them.

If I was having my products manufactured in China, I might provide a similar bad firmware for the factory too, then patch the devices before providing them to my customers to prevent IP theft.
Fair point. Newsworthy for the confusion factor I guess.
Is there a way to check what games/platforms install kernel drivers? I recently installed trackmania and after jumping through what felt like 10 hoops just to play the game (log in to epic, download epic games store, log into ubisoft, etc etc), I realized I have idea how much stuff is being installed on my pc after all these steps.
Talbot's book is top notch, if you've read it you have a huge head start. I haven't read "The Mighty Wurlitzer", so thank you for the addition to the "to read" list. I would probably suggest Fletcher Prouty's "The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World". Another more superficial but still useful one is "The Brothers". To understand the OSS-MI6 connection, I like to suggest Carrol Quigleys "The Anglo-American Establishment", and for particulars about things you devolve into certain authors, the list is long, but an example would be Doug Valentine's work about Operation Phoenix. For a more unorthodox look into the Bush connection, the Unauthorized Biography of George Bush by Webster Tarpley is quite illuminating about the Brown Brothers Harriman stuff.

The point I made previously still stands though. Some of these are really good books (and we just barely scratched the surface) but I have found that there is no "one great book" that explains the history or current state of things.

I tend to lean these days towards thinking much of the abuses are due to the 1947 NatSec act. For the other commenter, I would like to specify that my point is that the compartmentalization is abused just to that purpose (so that the middle men who have good intentions can be used in ways beyond their understanding that they would not like if they understood), combined with a top down series of compromise operations... that's the main weakness in such a compartmentalized but centralized structure.
The clarification is helpful, but everything said was in fact true. Omitting this clarification doesn't negate everything else they said.
If you were poor, you would not have the time to make those sacrifices. Instead all your free time would go into minimum wage job whose long term return is not being homeless and barely scraping by. Wealth give you the opportunity to not be homeless and invest in yourself instead of working, the long term returns of which are dramatic.
Exactly, I was expecting something like React, Next.js, Firebase, Mailchimp. This list looks huge to manage as a solo developer.
So it's sort of adding latency, as a trade-off for speed (once it starts). That makes so much sense and seems so obvious in a 'huh, probably never would have thought of that' sort of way!
The satisfaction rate is arguably a bad metric. Would anyone in rural China tell a government surveyor they were dissatisfied with their government-supplied job? I doubt it.

There's a reason this book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1442256885/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b... spends so much time talking about the problems with government-supplied housing, income, jobs, education, etc ... it makes it nearly impossible to not side with whatever the gov says.
In france our president told is to go to the theater during the pandemic : https://www.bfmtv.com/people/emmanuel-et-brigitte-macron-au-...
Hello HN,

here is some context:

There was this post on reddit about an antique pocket shopping list on "r/interestingasfuck". I liked the idea so I built it as web app very quickly just for fun.

It uses local storage, allows changing the items and you can add it to your phones home screen.

This was the post on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/jxfsfv/a...
As someone who had their bank account compromised by a successful social engineering attack on the account representatives, I'm okay with Apple giving us a technical solution that even they cannot break. It's up to me to remember the key, of course, but I like knowing that even Apple can't break into my device if they want.
Looks great!

I have a question the planned Alpha 7 feature: "smaller than 32-bit values (char/byte)" - I'm so used to bytes being a fundamental primitive in programming languages that it's hard for me to imagine not immediately having access to them.

Can you explain a bit why this is non-trivial, and what the implementation is going to look like?
How is it better? The cooks and hosts make the same wage because the tips aren't enough to make up the difference. The waitstaff makes less because their tips are deducted from to pay the cooks and hosts. The customer looses because they payed extra for their meal, but didn't actually increase the wages of the people who made it and served them.

The only winner is the restaurant owners who get away with paying their staff less.
Sure. You collect stamps. I hate an airplane. A man’s got to live!
which diets does this support?
No. I would love peace. I don't seek divide.

But saying that we "let politics be politics" is a privilege. If you are in a minority, either by choice or by birth, it's not that simple. Standing up against discrimination and making that one of our core beliefs should not be as controversial as you make it out to be.
And it's great for you that you can just keep politics in "political space", go home and live in peace. But others can't turn racism they experience off. I would highly suggest watching this video of a psycho-social experiment [0].

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPZEJHJPwIw
Misleading title, this is not what the article is claiming.

Original title: "China delists all remaining poverty-stricken counties"

Pretty big difference there.
Probably in the store and/or the news feed.

I can’t think of a nice way to say this, but I wonder if this is part of the reason they both perform so poorly once you’ve loaded a lot of data into them. I get so frustrated trying to use the on-console store after only a few pages of scrolling.
The landing page mentions blogs once, but gives no examples and blog posts aren't listed on the pricing page. Can it generate blog posts? If so, what's that experience like?
Keep in mind that CGTN is the English directed channel of China’s state controlled media, CCTV.

Take anything you read with a grain of salt.
If all you use is WhatsApp, then you really don’t need to care about Apple. There is a huge range of android phones that will meet your needs.
Maybe not in the console itself, but instead on one of their websites/servers.

I don't think lawyers would understand or care about the distinction, hence the license text is there.
Ha! I’m leaving it.
> someone will always turn off the light switch

You can (after turning off the power at the main breaker) take off the switches and just connect the two wires together as to have the circuit always-on. You can either put back the switches as-is (though they won't be functional anymore obviously) or replace them with a blanking plate or something depending on your setup. This is easily reversible and thus suitable for rentals too.
To be fair, this is something they've acknowledged and committed to working on for future API iterations.
> Entity like China are willing to block entire subnets if the subnet owner doesn't coooperate and doesn't separate the traffic. That would make the subnet owner's customer nervous, thus them pushing for cooperation in the first place.

Once eSNI is widely deployed, in addition to CloudFlare, DoH could also be ran from anywhere in Azure, AWS, or GCP. At that point, China will have to choose between breaking all TLS, blocking almost all traffic to the US, or accepting DoH leaking.

> The thing is, I don't want to pick one single DoH server. I want to use the resolver that knows the local network, i.e. exactly how DHCP works today. I would be fine if there was a way to announce DoH/DoT via DHCP[1] and all the systems and apps would respect it.

But the network is the main adversary. It would just advertise a DoH server that does censorship or surveillance, and then we're back where we started.

> > Firefox will fall back to the local resolver for domains that fail to resolve with DoH.

> Just wait until ignorant people will start screaming about "DNS leaks" -- just like they do today with VPNs.

That feature is optional. It's easy to turn that off if you don't want it to happen. And even if that weren't the case, isn't most of your DNS requests being safe better than none of them being safe?

> BYODs. There are organizations (both for and non-profit), that have external co-workers, working with their own devices, that are not managed by GPO or MDM.

So just add one step to onboarding: after "here's the Wi-Fi password", it's "here's the subnet to add to the DoH exclusion list".

> Centralized service, preconfigured by default, used by many people, capable of discerning browsing habits per device even behind NAT. What could possibly go wrong.

A lot less that could go wrong with the current state of ISPs.
It proves that this guy has a platform where anybody with internet access to read his opinions. That is the point here-- people's 'opinions' are no longer in some hidden corner, but are front and center of your news feed.

"Information Controls" -- I see you are making some kind of boogey man of this, but this already exists in some forms already (Slander/Libel/etc). I don't know how anyone can seriously argue that anyone should be able to claim whatever they want with no repercussions (especially when that anyone holds a position of power -- you could easily fabricate a story with false pretences to justify further power grabs).
> I'm tired of meeting friends and family in person and listening to them spend 20mins one-way unloading all the shit they read on the internet. They're so indexed on things that aren't physically present in the moment it's like talking someone through a psychosis or reasoning with someone with schizophrenia. It's a mass hysteria machine. When I talk to some people, it's like I'm not even talking to people anymore, I'm talking to some node of the internet. We've basically invented language cancer, nice one guys.

It's easy to imagine this being about the news (in whatever format: TV, radio, newspaper) or even ideas in general. This very forum is dedicated to talking about things that aren't physically present.

Maybe I didn't understand your argument, but to me it sounds a lot like you're complaining about human nature.
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There have been independent surveys of China, you know... 99% is obviously an overstatement but young people especially are genuinely very satisfied with their national government (less so locally).
looks nice. why did you pick fossil (I like the idea) and how are you finding working with it so far (e.g. comparison to github)?
I've heard of them having toilets downstairs too, and a quick search confirms this: https://simpleflying.com/airbus-a340-600-cargo-hold-toilets/ -- although these are permanent fixtures.
In corrupt hellholes, conflict is a good thing. There will be no change, no reform, no improvement ever without conflict. The key of course is to prevent violent conflict, but banning Facebook isn't gonna address the underlying causes of discontent, it'll just make things simmer under the surface until they explode into violence anyway.

You're thinking about this from a prism of a country with a generally functioning, competent government (i.e. any rich Western country). Solomon Islands isn't that.
Remember that a lot of us have pockets of specific knowledge.
They're basing this (and their other product, the GameShell, which looks like an old Gameboy) on the Raspberry Pi compute module. I believe they have their own PCB to fit into their formfactors, but the SoC should be well-supported.
If you wouldn't my asking, what did you choose as a replacement device and what configuration?
People will leave certain platforms if they become unpalatable. Look at the amount of outrage generated by the very small level of tampering that facebook and twitter do currently. There is a tremendous amount of scrutiny on these platforms.
You don't?!
hey man, “better safe than sorry, include the license” is a nice change of pace! I’ll take it.
You think node.js specifically has anything to do with that being slow?
I agree. The unverified information needs to be investigated by the relevant authorities (prosecutors and the justice system). Under normal circumstances the information would be swept under the rug.
It's cool that this stack works for the author, but if anyone is just starting out on their own one-person journey to build a product, I don't think they should follow the stack in this article.

There are too many dependencies and too much complexity here. Kubernetes is overkill for 95% of applications, especially single founder SaaS businesses. Clickhouse may make sense for an analytics product but caring and feeding it is non-trivial (see: ZooKeeper dependency and all the problems you get once you move to a distributed database).

Most people would be better off with a single beefy machine running Linux, Postgres and whatever web app framework they know. The whole "cattle not pets" thing is fine once you obtain product market fit and your product needs to scale up. At that point you'll have time and money to do it - before then you're just wasting cycles.
I like it -- simple, visual, intuitive
>Language Cancer

I like the term 'autocult' myself, though it might be too pessimistic for what we're actually facing. Language Cancer implies there could be a cure, which is worth considering.
Yes they do. But the question is, why would they make a decision that will instantly make the machine completely unusable for a substantial portion of their clientele? Also, the portion that arguably gives MacBooks and, especially, iOS devices their value.