skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would it only allow for the lamp to be "secure" in the sense that the owner would not be able to take back control anymore? If that's the case, that's a "solution" worse than the problem, that's even unethical as hell given this will short/medium term accelerate the ecological nightmare.
> The problem with "they" is that it is in fact a very bad translation for "ő" in a sentence like "ő mosogat." We typically find gender-neutral "they" in English when there is an indefinite antecedent like "someone" or "anyone" - "if anyone objects, they should talk to me."

There is a school of thought that says we should change how we use the English language. This school thinks that the proper way to speak is to assume non-binary until informed otherwise and that appealing to "what sounds right" or "the rules of grammar" is unacceptable linguistic conservativism.

I am not making that argument. I'm just raising it because it seems relevant here. I would point out that, even if you disagree with this argument, it seems reasonable to think that people should be able to choose how they use pronouns, whether their usage flies in the face of linguistic convention/rules of grammar or goes along with them.
Ok. My bad then. If this is true, it changes maybe some things.

And I lack the sources, but I recall people saying that the sign was there for quite a while, even if he did not wrote that by himself. And I actually would like a quote from him, to confirm that he did not write it. All that is in that source is someone saying it was not put up by him.

If it was really put up by someone else, it would be the question if it was a joke. Making fun of RMS well known attitude - and he left it as in agreeing, at least for a while - or if it was ammo for a smear campaign. Then it would make sense to investigate that and put it right.

But I actually suspect the former.
Oops, good point. I totally forgot about Show HN (I'm not on here very often). It's still in development for now, so when the first "release" version is ready I'll post it as a Show HN.

I agree about the declarative approach, I like the idea of simply annotating your source code and then having Codeline process that for you. For example you could annotate several hunks as being part of the same commit, and then when you run Codeline it would reconcile and make the commit for you.

It may be possible to support both declarative and procedural (i.e. unix pipes) paradigms together, but they may have to be two distinct parts of the SDK to avoid confusion.
Most crops grown are for livestock.

We grow so much that we've stated to deforest the amazonas for it.

You will never be able to feed mainl seaweed, nor by grazing alone.

The advantage of soil protection from grazing is thus negated by the additional feed production.
Why is this incredibly important? Is there some huge proportion of unused, rotting feed in the world?
Unfortunately I've often found these capabilities end up being used against users as much as, if not vastly more than, they are used in their favour.

For example, secure boot and anti-tamper measures are often used to lock out users from being able to examine or modify equipment and software for their own benefit. Sure, these measures can be argued as ways to "protect" the user from themselves (preventing inadvertent/unsupported changes of hardware causing malfunction, or preventing the installation of malware, and so on), but to rob the users of their agency to decide what's best for themselves in these circumstances is fundamentally disrespectful.

Nonetheless, I hope your employer is in a position to be part of a movement to buck the trend here, but based on what I've seen in the industry over the years, I've learned to be very skeptical whenever I hear of such "security" capabilities being thrown around as universally beneficial for everyone.
Sure UBI is a valid idea. Trying to create such a system by forcing YouTube to implement it is not productive imo
Who even cares? Are we throwing all genius autistics out of academia for their social missteps? Maybe we should just replace all the academics with people who are better at staying on narrative and within the bounds of political correctness, no matter if they're any good

Remember meritocracy is white supremacy [0] postmeritocracy.org[0]
The scene from Terminator II came into my mind!
Honestly, I don’t trust the source. What an animal science professor says off the cuff in an interview is something that should be verified with real data.

The question relies on how much carbon ends up in CO2, CH4, and fixed in the soil between use of what would become cattle feed. Carbon is conserved without a doubt, but how much ends up as gas and which gas is important.

Carbon dioxide doesn’t matter because every bit which ends up in the air had to be taken from the air a short time before to build plant matter. Methane matters because it is a much more potent greenhouse gas and how much gets as methane instead of carbon dioxide makes a difference.
Fades?

Although China still consumes 28% of the world’s meat, including half of all pork, and boasts a meat market valued at $86bn (£62bn)

That's the second sentence in the second paragraph of the article you linked.
Yes: https://blog.usejournal.com/tail-recursion-in-go-fb5cf69a0f2...
> PEOPLE are scared, stupid, and crazy. They are lazy, apathetic, ingrained in habit, and tired.

I think we both know where this is going.

Me? I pick up litter. It's time to put lipstick on this pig.
PS3, Vita, and PSP stores to be permanently closed in a few months
"VW makes vague promise."

None of the executives specified a definite date for when they would exclusively produce electric vehicles. Previous targets saw the VW Group launching the last combustion engine platform in 2026, then running until 2040.
Absolutely, I loved seeing spikes in my traffic and going to the reddit/HN thread that caused it. I guess you still can manually figure it out using a search engine maybe, but like you said the smaller weird ones will go under the cover probably.
Tribal police drag messy Indian sovereignty cases back to the court
He's got a point. My smart lights are the only reason I even own a Google Home assistant. The rest of the features are not very important to me.
Well, you just pointed out why the shorthand is only stylistically correct for functions that only have an error return. Trying to force a convention into a completely different situation is going to cause pain in any language.
This is even worse. So this is not about he did something? Just he voiced his opinion on something?
This kinda sounds like saying "why are poor countries poor? Can't they just pay everyone more and then they won't be poor?" I get what you are saying but I don't think this will work if the problem is country-wide. You can't just magically increase everyone's wages in a country.
Software needs to be updated though, certificates need to be checked and all that. That's only possible with Internet - unless you run your own CA, Package Mirror on the local network. That said, there is also a trade off between having a having ports open for REST vs. having a gateway (whether that's on the local network or on the Internet). Also it's probably a difference whether one plans to update the installed system every now and then or whether that should be fully automated...
This perfectly explains one of the many bull cases for cryptocurrencies. 15% annual inflation robs the working class of wealth but they previously had no alternative. At least now they can store some of their assets in cryptocurrencies while the government continues to debase the purchasing power.
I think it's a safe assumption to make that the chick's suffering in the egg will be less than or equal to the chick's suffering at one day old.
Hm, then I think my calculation that the 14th digit is worth 0.15mm must be wildly incorrect.

For a 40km earth circumference, I worked out 10^-14 * 360 * 4*10^7 = 0.00014 metres.
> I have seen that message distilled down into "Go is simple to read."

I think the two are related, directly. However in my experience i don't even agree with Pike. Go is not easy to read. Yes, a single small function in Go is much easier to read (perhaps) than X lang. However Go requires a huge (brain)memory table to remember everything, because it spreads logic out. So you have to remember X function, scroll up, look at Y function remembering how it interacts with X, etcetc.

> Whether or not it is successful in that is another topic for another day.

I guess i bikeshedded, sorry :s
How many Americans give up their citizenship to avoid paying taxes? It happens but it’s extremely rare and I’m highly skeptical that tax rates are the explanation here.
Then just buy American beef, which is produced without any deforestation.
The army is kind of irrelevant here, because the Turkish government has a lamentable track record of printing money to pay the bills. The previous lira reached 1.3 million to the USD before they chopped off 6 zeroes (I once paid 6,500,000 lira for a kebab & a Coke at the airport), and the new one is rapidly heading the same way:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_lira#/media/File:Euro_...
It just shows most people working in Tech Industry, and specifically software ( or web ) development ( as oppose to Tech / software within Oil Industry or any other industry ) have absolutely zero idea on market or commodity trading.
I appreciate your constructive response very much. Congratulations on your tour-de-force article, and I hope we hear more from you in the future.
By the latter are you referring to the pay gap myth? If so it's well beyond innocent innumeracy because feminists have been doing univariate "analysis" to make false claims of pay discrimination since the 1980s, and people have been pointing out the need to do multivariate analysis for just as long. It doesn't make any difference, they still make exactly the same claims in exactly the same way no matter how often it gets debunked.
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Never said so. Even tho, if big corps paid their fair share in taxes, instead of using foreign tax havens, it would be way easier to find the resources for a UBI.
This is hearsay...if it is well documented may be it would help to provide an example of bad behavior from someone who dealt with it directly.
> "...both fields struggle to be anything but descriptive ... The real test of an idea is what predictions it makes not how well it describes things."

So you agree they are descriptive, and for you the test is the effectiveness of their predictions.

In a scientific context these are both valid criticisms. Semiotics had it's brush with scientific rigor and suffered a similar blow as formalized mathematics suffered in the early 20th century.

Of course mathematics survives not because its logically consistent, but because it's useful. Semiotics is also useful in many disciplines such as art, literature, design, communications, philosophy, where it provides a consistent language and framework to describe culture and language construction of meaning. Semiotics is sufficiently useful to generate new perspectives in short order (Greimas' Semiotic Square) is a neat trick.

Memetics also has a number of neat tricks which are usefully descriptive of phenomena.

Jokes aside, any work which is mostly descriptive suffers the same criticisms, and different descriptions of those disciplines also do justice, or work to discredit equally well.

Not for nothing. I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything, but I do have more than a passing _blog_ fancy of these topics. I'm always looking for others who are equally interested, and maybe, like me still look for more better uses. (^_^) And I'm thinking there may be a few here on HN, because this post did get some upvotes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiotic_square
Having problems doesn’t mean something doesn’t work.
If you misread the comments that were made by Stallman as “defending” Epstein then maybe you should just learn to read period
I don't see the point of cherry picking highly specific examples because for every argument there will be just as many counterarguments from other domains.

To be more specific: the point isn't whether Go is "always" simpler to write but whether it is generally simpler to write. I think the latter is true for all the domains I've written code in Go and I've solved some pretty hard problems in Go (check out my Github repositories if you don't believe me).

The awesome thing about programming languages is that you're free to pick another language if that is a better fit for any specific domain or even personal preference. Hence why I've worked in more than a dozen different programming languages over the years. So rather than moaning that Go doesn't fit a particular pattern where you need to rely on generics, perhaps use a language that has generics to solve that problem and save Go for the occasions you don't need generics (which, if we're all honest, isn't something we need to rely on half as much as people claim when moaning about the lack of features in Go).

As a veteran developer, what really annoys me the most is people who pick a language that isn't well suited for solving the problem at hand and then moan that language needs to change, rather than developers picking the right tools for the job. I'd rather see a language lack features but focuses to serves its core demographic well than see everything and the kitchen sink is thrown at it and everyone using it even when they know they shouldn't simply because they're too afraid to learn anything new. What we need is more appreciation that "general purpose languages" doesn't mean "should be used to do practically anything in". Then I'd think we'd all get along better.
I did not imply that he said, or believed, that what Minsky did was "right", and I fail to see how your interpretation is any different than mine.
Correct. Most people like myself go with no cloud versions of smart home gear. And use vpn to have a lot more control.

A camera that works only locally (dafang hacks + wyze), home assistant, zigbee/zwave for example.
> > I think at a certain point it's fair to shame people for seeking out loopholes, even if they're technically legal. Not that they probably care.

> Governments should just close the loopholes.

Calling attention to the existing wrong — its existence, it's wrongness, and it's connection to the present state of the law — is a key part of changing the law, so such public shaming is directly part of that process in a democratic republic, though perhaps not in a regime where “the government” is an aloof dictator unconcerned with public opinion.
Clicky: https://github.com/gugarosa/opytimizer

It would be nice to add an example in the readme. Something like

f(x,y)= -x+x^4+y^2+sin(3*(x+y))

(Perhaps adjust the 3 until the graph looks nice.)
And it is about to get much worse according to the CDC in 2017. [1] IIRC there were some articles cant find them that talked about the Department of Defense tracking this as an existential threat to the future of the United States of America.

[1] - https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2017/p0718-diabetes-repor...
> Does the Linux kernel still only support compilation using gcc?

There was an effort to build the kernel with Clang [1], I'm not sure about its current status. It helps that Clang tracks GCC's features quite closely, including some of its idiosyncracies.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/734071/
Surely its clear that if the soybeans aren't growing in the field that something else that grows, dies and decomposes would be.
Why are you mischaracterising this? Complaints that "he make me feel uncomfortable". Isn't the reason he ran into problems.

In a deposition, one of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims said Epstein he instructed her to have sex with with the late Marvin Minsky of MIT.

RMS jumped to Minsky's defence, nitpicking about whether whether this could really be “sexual assault,” since the young woman, he reasoned, would have seemed to be presenting herself to Minsky willingly.

Whether or not, you think Stallman deserved the level of aprobium that hit him, it's nothing to do with accusations against RMS himself that he made anyone feel uncomfortable. Or "he once hit on me and I had to reject him"

And then you have the temerity to include, in this masterpiece of misdirection, the question: "Why are women always presumed to be innocent and men always presumed to be guilty?".
Literally yes, but come on. "connected home" and IoT are so close in use case, and _because_ most connected home things are Internet-only, let's not pick at terminology too much.

I would love to have a connected home that did not require _any_ external connectivity or web accounts. Why did I need to login with my Google account and enable location services to set up a Chromecast Audio?
Maybe. If you have to remember two functions to _understand_ the code, is reading really easier? I imagine reading implies understanding, and while i definitely think Go is easier to read without understanding, i don't think that's the real implication.
Damn, that's really cool.

My concern with doing this with more than a demo setup would be elecrolysis injury due to long-term exposure to direct current. Humans are basically big bags of electrolyte solution, so applying DC for long periods of time results in ions bunching up at the electrodes and all sorts of nasty chemical effects. This is the main danger when children inadvertantly swallow coin cell batteries: it's not actually the heat that causes GI damage (heat generation from a shorted coin cell is minimal), it's the electrolysis-induced chemical burns that result when the battery pumps a few tens of mA through GI tissue.

Is it possible to achieve the same effect using an AC waveform? That would likely be safer since it won't result in polarization.

EDIT: also, I wouldn't do this to myself, at least not with a 9V battery and a couple of pieces of aluminum foil...
Agreed! It was really terrible, it's much better now - at least you don't need to fiddle with YAML anymore for most things. There's still a ways to go, but for the audience reading this, it should be accessible.
Well one pretty big side effect of the disease is death, which is very long term and we know the vaccines prevent way above 10x. So that should probably count for more.
Yes, they have been draining the money and pumping up non-stop islamism.
if having to write a separate function for each type of container is easy for you, then I can only respectfully disagree :)

I'm saying this as someone who is learning go for fun.
Neurodivergence does not excuse you for being called out for toxic behaviour. You're still responsible for your own actions, and to be very blunt, if your neurodivergence is that troublesome you should not be in power. I mean a lot of leaders have a neurodivergent condition where they don't give a shit about their subjects or employees (psychopathy), all they care about is themselves, their coke addiction, and making money for themselves and their shareholders.

Just because you're autistic doesn't mean you're not responsible for the things you do or say.
Are people downvoting you because you made an obviously true statement or because they don't understand how inflation targeting works?

Folks, if it's the latter, I recommend you read a primer on inflation targeting here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_targeting to learn how central banks do their magic.
I use an old Philips TV from 10 yrs ago. It works fine, has HDMI and all that. No WiFi and other shit of course.

I am totally worried about the day it will break down.
Hey Peter! Thank you for doing this. I'm a regular reader and love what you do.
Congrats on the launch! My favorite task management tool — We’ve been using it since early days for more than a year and very happy with it, especially with how responsive Sigurd and Kevin have been. It really gets out of the way when making work items and makes it easy to have team discussions around these. Highly recommended !
In my experience, Go is as simple as you make it and it is easy to learn. You can cover the whole language in a few hours. With anything that simplifies interacting with the underlying hardware there will be complexity hidden away from you. That's inevitable. Go is no different to any other language in that regard.

The hardest part of Go is learning how to effectively use things like goroutines and channels.

Slices might catch some noobs out, but at the end of the day it's as simple as saying "a slice is a view on a block of memory", so 2 slices can point at the same data, and changing data with 1 slice can be reflected in the other. Once you realise that a slice doesn't hold values there's no issues. That's simple, I just explained slices in 5 seconds.

I think implicit interfaces are amazing. Yes it can be hard to figure out what implements it, but an IDE is used for that. Like you say, Goland is really good. Abuse of interface{} is bad, it's the worse decision that was ever made for the language in my opinion. But I don't think it's that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things. Generics will remove a lot of it's current uses anyway. I write microservices and the only time I have to touch interface{} is when using contexts.

It's not for everyone, but people saying "Go isn't simple" are just as bad. You've got to understand people from all sorts of backgrounds have learned Go. For me, I really think it's easy to learn and simple to use. Others might think it's the hardest thing they've ever done.
The fact that one demographic is or is not statistically oppressed does not absolutely warrant for any of its members the impossibility of not being targeted or harassed. And there is a quite large movement of people online "bored" of white old dudes. Let alone the movement trying to undermine meritocracy in the name of inclusion via intersectionality.
It's just what I heard on the Dutch news, but IIRC there are things you can do to make side effects less bad (I guess e.g. experiment with lower dosages), but doing those things will delay the vaccine. Which of course wasn't desirable, so they opted for a higher certainty of having a working vaccines sooner over having fewer side effects. In the future, side effects could be less severe.
> if this were legitimate, it would be huge news.

The first problem is that cattle account for about ~5% of the emissions from industrialized countries. So it's not actually that high of a priority from a climate standpoint. It's also not the first time that microbial fermentation has been successfully diverted away from methanogenesis; look up "biohydrogen" to find other examples where H2 is the terminal electron carrier instead of CH4 (I assume that happens here; fermentation needs an electron sink). Furthermore, a high proportion of the emissions related to agriculture comprise fertilizer-derived nitrous oxide, which has a longer half-life than methane and is thus more damaging. Further-furthermore, you still have open questions on how this affects long-term health and the rumen microbiome, which simply won't be answered quickly.

The smart money IMHO is on lab-grown meat. I expect seaweed may feature into a future market for ethically sourced fancy cheeses, but is unlikely to affect the market for staple foods.
much woke, so wow. ADL and SPLC are actively working on white genocide.
I recall a very similar quote from Larry Niven’s “Lucifer’s Hammer”. Something about no society being more than a few missed meals from a revolution. (Paraphrasing)
The profiteers are the lottery mechanism manufacturers. The people who make the tickets, the machines, etc. State run lotteries are TERRIBLE across the board and are the natural result of money in politics. Some group gets together enough money, they can push the public to accept a policy that profits the group indefinitely while marginally changing the lives of the public (usually for the worse, with noise and misinformation).
I'm surprised it took this long, and it's still not completely gone. I've never understood the history of why http referer exists (original intent) or why the user would benefit from sharing it.