skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It actually might. If the Ring doorbell allows you to avoid opening your door just once or twice a week, the energy savings could exceed the environmental footprint.

A Ring doorbell has a 22Wh battery that lasts about a month or two per charge.

Having the door open for 10 seconds on a cold winter day can easily waste that much energy. About 10kW of heat loss for 10 seconds is 100kJ, higher than that 22Wh.
Likewise, the embodied energy of that 22Wh battery is about 22MJ, and might dominate the embodied energy of the Ring camera. So if it saves you from opening the door 200-300 times in its lifetime, that might be enough to pay for its own embodied emissions.

Plus not having to drive home to pick up a package, etc, etc.

Plus think of other smart devices like smart thermostats that might be part of the whole Ring system. Or perhaps if the Ring device prevents destruction of part of your home from theft.

I don’t even own a Ring doorbell, but I can see how it could actually help. Also, traditional doorbells aren’t that efficient. Especially if they have a little light.

Ring could also replace a window to see who is there, which is a big source of heat leakage.
> It's almost as if.. Doing stuff that you'd otherwise do in your spare-time, is not a real job for 99% of people ?

Realistically, people run channels this is about would not do it in spare-time. Making gameplay video that people actually want to watch is not nearly same as playing game for fun. You have to be entertaining for others. It is same difference as between being comedian for money versus being funny with friends.
Krispy Kreme Offering Free Doughnuts for the Covid Vaccinated
> Von der Leyen [said] the epidemiological situation was worsening

> “The European Commission will know that the rest of the world is looking at the Commission, about how it conducts itself on this, and if contracts get broken, and undertakings, that is a very damaging thing to happen for a trading bloc that prides itself on the rules of law,” Defence Minister Ben Wallace said

Can't believe such bullshit in the face of a humanitarian crisis. Sales are cancelled all the time. It would only be reciprocal, and in line with US policy. More importantly, the UK is already thoroughly vaccinated, and the risk is very low throughout the summer. For once, the UK has time.

He's right in that export restrictions on vaccines are wrong, but it's because much of the rest of the world is even worse off than the EU, not because this tool has a piece of paper.
> When people say Go is a simple language, they mean that Go, the literal language, is simple.

Perhaps. But what use is a language that is simple if it doesn't make it simpler to use or easier to learn? I think most people who claim that Go is simple are claiming the latter, because the former is mostly uninteresting. It's good for IDE support I guess.
This just isn't true. The Eastern half the US was heavily deforested by colonization, but that's really not true in the midwest. It was prarie.

There are actually a lot of researchers who believe that the Native peoples were keeping the forests back via controlled burns, since grassland is better for hunting and agriculture, and the forests have regrown substantially _since_ most of the indigenous people died via disease.
The thing that drives me bonkers about "smart" TVs is how slow they can be. Cheap processor + lots of software to compute = sluggish user experience. It's not not only is it spying on me, it's letting me know that it cares more about making me wait to spy on me before adjusting the frikkin' volume.
I can understand the Fuzz in high-income countries. 30k seems doable when your income is in the range of 60-200k. For me 30K is a lot of money.

And honestly I don't really feel that moving around a massive battery in a newly produced car is better than buying a Fiat Panda and taking care of it. My brothers Panda is nearing 500.000 Km and it's fine.
Older people tend to have weaker immune responses than younger people. Nothing to wonder about, asking his doctor, in case of the journalist, would have answered that question. Or Google. But then he wouldn't have been able to write yet another AZ side effects article.
You wrote it yourself:

> "but to cost and time effectively fix the car you absolutely need the diagnostic software."

> "etc, etc., etc.. can all be guessed at by a shade-tree mechanic. But good luck fixing it quickly and without buying a bunch of parts."

That was exactly my point. Car CAN be fixed without the software.

It just takes more time (and knowledge).

If you are an owner of a repair shop then that is probably deal breaker. You can't hire actual engineers to fix cars, the cost would be prohibitive.

But nothing is stopping you to fix the car (except if manufacturer like John Deere makes it their mission to stop you from repairing it).

If electronics is broken your mission is to find the broken part and replace it, not reprogram it, which is basically the same as with mechanical faults.
Disagree, as a renter smart bulbs are by far the easiest way to get dimmable lights in my apartment. Being able to dim the lights in the evenings while I watch TV is amazing.
It’s not just biology, it’s thousands upon thousands of years of evolution.

The sexes evolved to share the workload, and specialise in different tasks. Men have greater spacial awareness so they can hunt better. Women have greater empathy so they can care for babies emotional wellbeing.

The “men and women are the same” lie is a very very recent ideological movement, and incredibly damaging.
So if we ever did have a mini ice age, releasing methane might be a good way to manage it? Since it’s short lived.
He said he isn't autistic in 2008.[1] I haven't seen anything about him getting diagnosed since then.

[1] https://www.computerworld.com/article/2551458/asperger-s-oxy...
That's what journalism has always been like, save for a few decades in one specific country (the US). The past few decades of supposed "objectivity" and "neutrality" in American journalism were a historical aberration.

https://www.wired.com/story/journalism-isnt-dying-its-return...
I'm likewise unsure if it's fair to treat cattle production which did not engage in deforestation (perhaps located on the great plains or similar) the same as cattle production which did. However I find your argument interesting. I will spend more time brooding on it.
Open innovation will be the winning strategy for digital sovereignty and human
The FDA requires their own trials, there was no after the fact decision to not use the other data, they just never considered it.

It's likely they'll issue an EUA for the AstraZeneca vaccine based on the US trial results in a couple weeks here.
>often part of dirty movie titles.

As always, one wonders how she knows this.
Sure.

We use Prometheus exporters, most of the exporters are written in Go. And this is a snip from the vmware-exporter for our VMware estate.

metrics.go

The first throw was this:

import (
"context"

"github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus"
log "github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
"github.com/vmware/govmomi/find"
"github.com/vmware/govmomi/view"
"github.com/vmware/govmomi/vim25/mo"
"github.com/vmware/govmomi/vim25/types"

So as it currently stands I have no idea what those modules are and what I am loading. Browsing each of those repos sure will tell me, but that's not my role. My role is to make X operational.

And if that repo doesn't exist anymore and you go to compile, it fails. More overhead if I need to make changes to any of those modules. I would need to git clone it somewhere, make the change and then either recommit it to git, or do something to make it locally available. At least with NPM, CPAN they are local to the file system.

So lets start:

var (
prometheusHostPowerState = prometheus.NewGaugeVec(prometheus.GaugeOpts{
Namespace: namespace,
Subsystem: "host",
Name: "power_state",
Help: "poweredOn 1, poweredOff 2, standBy 3, other 0",
}, []string{"host_name"})

I understand all of that. Power_state, display the help, power status description etc, however prometheus.NewGaugeVec --
Sounds great. What is it? Where do I find this? What module is this related too?

That's where it falls down for me. I now have to duck in to the rabbit hole of github to find out where that function is phrased and in this sense "under-the-hood" could also count for library .pm files in perl, but now having to navigate GitHub really messes with my workflow.
On my first sysadmin job fresh out of school I got a locked down laptop where nothing could be installed. So no Python, no Perl, no nothing, except Batch files. My morning job consisted of going through hundreds of report emails from all systems to identify issues (full disks, high nr of errors, etc), every morning, every day. This could easily be scripted and save me a lot of time, but no such luck for me. Until I found an application in the "allowed software catalog" which came installed with a Python interpreter. Python 1.x mind you, but nonetheless: Python. Within a few days I automated my morning tasks and got some free time to play with the servers in the lab to beef up my networking skills :).
What tariff does is that it moves the price point at which the retailers switch to imports a bit higher. Tariff does not eliminate the ceiling. There still would be a ceiling on price, determined by international commodity price + X% tariff.
Running only on PDP-10s was enough to make ITS useless to maybe 90% of the people who used Unix at the time of that story, regardless of whether or not it was, by any objective standard, better software. Being extremely expensive is enough to make SolidWorks useless to maybe 90% of the people who use FreeCAD.

I mean, SolidWorks is fine for hobbyists, who don't need to worry about getting reported to the BSA by a disgruntled employee, or for organizations that have very large budgets. But a lot of people using FreeCAD aren't hobbyists and don't have very large budgets.
If your page resonates, there's probably something wrong with your monitor. If you want engineers to be interested in your product, stick with concise and accurate descriptions, stay away from vague and meaningless business buzzwords and buzzphrases.
I think I'm missing a few major points. I wonder if someone here might be able to clarify.

1. The real meat of this "pwning" was (it seems) a google search to identify the WEB API endpoint. Then it turns out that sending POST requests to this endpoint can turn the light on/off, change its temperature, and change its brightness.

2. In order to turn a light on/off using the "found" api, it is first necessary to connect to the lamp's network. So if I were doing this on my own linux machine, which cannot as far as I can tell connect to multiple wireless networks at the same time, my script to change the settings on the light would include disconnecting from my true wifi network, connecting to the lamp's network, sending the signal to the lamp, disconnecting from the lamp, and then reconnecting to my own network. Is that right? Is this what the bash scripts and apps mentioned in the post are doing?

3. If I lived in the apartment above the OP's (say), and I were malicious, I could even now also access the lamps' networks and, say, set their values to be whatever I wanted. And there is simply no way of stopping this (S in IoT, after all).
When you're mostly indistinguishable from an employee, except for the legal relationship.
But all that boilerplate also makes it hard to read. You have to pick out the meaning amongst a bunch of noise.
I think, it is very important, that people started to actually discuss and compare different approaches to safety, instead of just saying that since Rust is safer, we should throw out all of c/c++ code and rewrite everything in rust.
It was surely fixed in Outlook 2007, perhaps even 2003 and maybe even 2000.
The guy was standing while his experiment, right? That is for me the potential Darwin award material here.

Actually loosing balance due to this could lead to a potentially lethal head injury.
Python 3.9 was released on October 5, 2020, but TensorFlow still doesn't support it. But that's an aberration and most of the time and for most packages minor Python releases doesn't break them.
There's a huuuuge gap between "some prominent old white dudes might be targeted in specific communities" and "white guys are the most persecuted people on earth."

When the Stallman thing was still fresh, I saw people online argue that it _didn't really matter_ whether Minsky actually did anything wrong, or whether it was inappropriate for Stallman to defend him. There are too many old white guys in prominent positions in tech, and reducing their numbers is a good thing. Sure it'll mess up Stallman's life, but whatever, that's a small price to pay for progress. In other words, explicitly: it's okay to target him, even if the accusations aren't correct, because he's an old white guy.

I think that's something people really believe. I also think it's unfair, and shouldn't be tolerated. And yet...I don't believe anything _close_ to the argument you put in OP's mouth (and by extension, mine). No, white guys aren't even close to the most persecuted people on the planet--and yet, that doesn't make them immune from persecution in all forms, either.

So: you attempted to rebut an argument by reducing it to a ridiculous caricature of itself. That's called a strawman.
> it's bad to keep adding all features to all languages

I understand the reasoning behind this take - a lot of modern languages have wound up somewhat bloated, with features that are either non-orthogonal to other features and break the 'one way to do it' principle (Scala comes to mind), or with features that seem tacked-on and feel alien to the language (the latest versions of python come to mind). I understand, in theory, why go tries to buck this trend.

The problem is that in bucking this trend, go has (at least historically) not evolved enough to fix some of its own core issues. And it does have some big issues - nils, zero values, and non-thread safe primitives come to mind for me. I'm all for being thoughtful about introducing changes and making sure those changes are idiomatic and don't violate the 'ethos of go'. But avoiding making those changes in the name of 'keeping it simple' never made sense to me in cases where programmers are shooting themselves in the feet and already not having a simple time with your language.
We just started using Kitemaker for our development team a week ago and it is so much faster!
We were using Notion before and it got slow with more and more tasks and people.

It took us about half an hour to learn all the shortcuts, but that time has been worth it already.
I do hold some leverage since it would take them a long time to build software of equal or greater quality. It would also be difficult to have to migrate all of their customers over to another software should they decide to take a different route.

They also hold leverage in that as soon as they decide to take a different route, I have $0 in revenue and will have to start doing my own marketing/sales.
> You're either an insider who agrees with The Cause or an outsider unbeliever who must be reeducated or destroyed.

This can be also said of the 'anti-anti' crowd. Their whole objective is to moralize about how bad the 'anti' crowd is and telling them to shut up, while throwing a number of perfectly valid concerns out the window in the process. While most people in HN might leave it at denouncing the behavior, people have been doxxed, harassed online and in person for 'canceling' someone or something before.

BTW, I hate the 'cancel culture' term. I hate how it is used by people who - given the opportunity - would 'cancel' LGBT rights, immigration, etc. Every time I see someone using the term, I can't help but feel they've fallen for Propaganda 101.
>It often will just mean that successful writers are the most celebrity-like ones: writing controversial things because it gets more traffic

The opposite seems more the case to me. Convincing readers to get out their wallet encourages more thoughtful, longer form writing.

It's the larger media publications that are gradually getting more clickbaity in a desperate bid to gain clicks and ad revenue.
They could also hire expensive consultants (who will just call up the ex-employee, and listen. maybe to laughter.)
What do you think about Wordpress as a counterexample? There was a time a decade ago when lots of blogs under the wordpress.com domain; I don't remember anyone being confused or arguing that Wordpress the company was responsible for their content.
If it is half a man-year of work and not really urgent, that card has zero effect on the other party...

OP can sell his software or not, the other party will manage either way.
Keep in mind your conventional car’s catalytic converter contains grams of platinum group metals, worth about $1000 or so now ($3000 for older, larger catalytic converters). Due in large part to the spike in rhodium prices.
Eiffel, Delphi, Nim and D have very fast build times, and are all relatively complex.

Even C++ can have relatively fast build times, depending on how everything is structured, and the use of binary libraries.

It is a matter of tooling, as an anecdote all my UWP C++ applications compile faster than most of my Rust experiments.
It’s not a hardware problem it’s almost always software
Jury orders Apple to pay $308M in royalties for DRM patents
Totally understand. I just see someone who went through an experience like that, and think, he's learned a bunch of lessons that would make him great at moving to another slightly dysfunctional organization to help them do the same thing, and they'll pay to have someone who can help! But I get wanting to spend some time producing at a place that has its act together--and that you'd want to keep multiple kinds of engineering skills sharp and that requires working in a variety of roles.
Ahah.

No, the working poor are the kind of people that scrap everything, fidelity cards and discount coupons and sign in a new bank for that 100€ offer.

My high score at my GED (equivalent) granted me 200€, that i immediately used. Yes, most of my middle-class friend kept that in their account, but 5 year later i was earning 50k/yr so i guess my investment in a refurbished computer was a good one.

5 to 10% inflation seems a good target tbh.
Horft ofan í augað [Look into the eye] Drone footage of an Icelandic volcano
That's good way to put it. A more obvious trap question would be "have you stopped beating your wife?"
The blood clotting issue is a real challenge for world leaders.

It's very much a question of how many of these blood clot deaths are worth exchanging for COVID deaths from a vaccinated populace. What's the trade? 1 young and healthy person dies to prevent 1 covid death? 1000 covid deaths?
That's definitely a popular stance in the community of people who care enough to join the home automation and general electronics community, but if 'most people' is a factor, Amazon's best sellers are all "works with alexa" and "no hub required", and all of those products will surely die when their cloud tenancy is turned off.
Is Twitch any better than Youtube for the creators though? It has the same distribution of top 100 performers who make amazing- to decent- day job salaries and then the other 99.5% are left fighting for scraps. I've watched a few guys do it for years without seeing any growth and grow more disillusioned by the month until it's just a self fulfilling prophecy that no one wants to watch them wallow at this point. They were in the top players of their games too (maybe 95th percentile) but just didn't have the entertainment part down.
MMs, MMTers, Larry Summers, young tweeters, and politicians
I’d encourage anyone who enjoys these projects to check out Home Assistant. It’s an incredible open source project with support for countless devices.
The oligarchs are the party. You can see that the people in power have better living conditions, special privileges, etc. The "people" have no recourse to hold the leaders responsible.
Honestly a lost opportunity. Hydrogen, lean running ICE engines with ethanol, opposed piston engines are all really doable options to offer ICE engines. Which are still important for higher speed travel and places where you can’t charge at night. Especially in Germany the charging problem exists and won’t be fixed for many years. The cars are constantly getting older here. And I can see why.
The U in Smart (devices) stands for user-friendly.

We need an app to control a stupid lamp but at the same time are expected to buy a "smart home" system so that we don't have to pull the phone out of the pocket. Originally smartwatches were marketed for the same purpose, but I guess now there's also the severe risk of having both hands unavailable at the moment so we need to be able to delay the system update via voice command. Of course with tracking so they can "improve the user experience", and the occasional personalised ad.

Meanwhile I'm wondering how people got convinced this is better than just pressing a physical button, but then I remember even $500+ appliances nowadays are built with such cheap buttons that after a few years I'm forced to learn where to smack the fist on the front cover so they work again for a few minutes.
Yes, definitely recommend "Automate the Boring Stuff" for anybody who have a serious job and .... well wants to automate (some of) it.

If you are on windows, also checkout AutoHotKey. Makes some types of tasks a freaking breeze. +1 for great non-technical docs
Choose your experiment platform wisely
I watched a classic movie from the 50s recently, Sweet Smell of Success. In the movie columnists are portrayed as almost exclusively venal and engaged in corrupt influence-peddling (except for one guy who refuses to compromise in the face of blackmail).

It was an interesting counterpoint to the "journalists used to be objective" stuff.
UFO report details ‘difficult to explain’ sightings
Probably, but you still have to compare it to an electric car.

Not having a car wins in both scenarios.
I'm confused about what this does.

Is it time domain or frequency domain?

Is it compatible with a FINESSE style description of the setup?

Does it have higher order mode analysis?

Can you add signals to modulate mirrors?

Can you propagate quantum noise through the system?
all the old people around here flagrantly disregarding the covid rules is definitely something that has soured the perspective younger people around here, who do observe the rules, have of the elderly.

every time I go shopping or to the market I end up feeling like punching some old people in the face because they're not wearing masks and having chats 1 meter or less apart. meanwhile my younger siblings are struggling because they can't go to their high school or college. Fucking boomers.
That is exactly how usb 2.0 (LS/FS/HS) devices are implemented with USB-C.
I’ll definitely try this app
Go argue with historians, if you like: https://blog.history.in.gov/tag/forestry/
Yep, doesn't help. France has a critical election next year. Germany has a couple this year, including a federal one. And sometimes I wonder whether politicians base COVID measures on their election chances or on effectiveness.
Incremental and Iterative Development – what's the diff?
Glad I'm not the only one that thought this.

Stallman seems to be in a similar vein as many of the 'great philosophers'. In that his ideas are challenging and difficult, much like himself. Making the man not one that you like all that much. The phenomenon reminds me of an often misinterpreted Edmond de Goncourt quote:

"Almost no one loves the genius until he or she is dead. But then we do, because now life is better."

The quote is not talking about how the genius made our lives better through their work/effort. Rather, how they were so insufferable.

As to Stallman, only time will tell if he will join the Great Conversation as a loud voice or not.