skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of this seems to focus on certification of the cloud things that you have to use with most IoT devices.

Since HomeKit operates locally, with the exception of remote access to your home through a HomePod/Apple TV/iPad hub, could that be why Apple hasn’t shown an interest in this?
Is it possible to be anonymous online and still engage in the "online world" as most non-tech folks see it? Increasingly I think the answer is no, without substantial tradeoffs.
Just like a huge percentage of the population doesn't believe that the Covid pandemic is a hoax or that masks are useless against it?

Oh, the eternal optimism...
Number 2 is actually pretty common. Maybe not as an advertised policy but if you write to cancel reps will often give a pro rates refund.

This may happen more in businesses which figure you may be back someday.
Eh, I've seen several content creators I follow make loud and pointed moves away from YouTube after they've been targeted or after a high-profile case gets some news.

People are leaving, and if YouTube doesn't fix its moderation, it'll only get worse. There are alternatives, just none that have done anywhere close to as well as YouTube does. It's a good product, it literally just needs to not be moderated into the ground.
Analog microphone audio is one wire (and ground) having the AC signal of the audio, superimposed on a DC signal powering microphone capsula. The simplest way of making a killswitch is to either 1) short the signal to ground or 2) cut the signal between mic capsula and the soundcard input. Done with just a switch, both of these will impact the AC component as well as the DC component, and the DC offset change that causes the pop.

And yes, there are many ways to avoid this problem. I think adding a resistor and capacitor to form a high-pass filter for the shorting option would work fine. If there is already a PCB for the switch, adding these two components would cost practically nothing.
I oppose this idea simply because most people’s’ retirement is held in investments now; I even think that congressional pensions have been dialed way back IIRC. I much prefer the “notify publicly well in advance” approach.
I think your discount is pretty fair for a 1 year commitment. Wouldn't change anything. If you do decide to increase prices at any point, consider grandfathering your current customers into the old pricing to not piss them off, as long as they are still netting profit for you. They're probably your best customers for adopting and committing so early and will probably be some of the best word-of-mouth spreaders and sources of free advertising for you.
> Facebook wouldn’t have these problems if they weren’t obsessed with acquiring as many users as possible.

Is there any venture capitalist that would generally believe "there is value in not trying to connect everyone on Earth together?"

It feels like when you market your hot startup idea, connecting the world or enacting change is merely a cool new thing that carries no long-term downside. Find a market, connect with a target audience, grow. Maybe that's how Facebook started (or not).

I feel that, because of human nature, if it weren't Facebook then some other company would have inevitably taken its place. Being able to connect to someone faster and easier than ever sounds like a tangible gain for average people. The idea, with no strings attached, was too tempting to pass up for someone that truly wants to change the world and be a hero of some kind. It worked for a single university, after all. It's the sense of starting a technology company when the future is completely unknown and the potential for change is exciting. I'm not sure there was anyone that would have understood the consequences of taking such an idea to its logical conclusion, and now Facebook has become irreversibly baked into human culture.

The more people that want to connect, the more moderation staff is needed to match. Unfortunately, the desire to connect with others is wired into pretty much everyone on Earth at the deepest level (with exceptions, of course), and so your potential market is... pretty much everyone on Earth.
Why would that not happen to any other form of flat file storage? When you force quit a process, unless there's some nuance I'm unaware of, you're not only bypassing any graceful cleanup but there could be an FS operation in progress. Although I'm certain there are mitigation techniques, I would never expect a process to guarantee no file corruption when it's forcefully quit.

Interestingly enough, I don't think I've ever had this issue. I've force quit Firefox many times in the past (not often, but I'm sure I've done it countless times in the 10+ years I've been using it) and I still have localStorage data intact. There's old crap in StackEdit.io, which uses localStorage, that I haven't touched in years. (no, I have neither that service or Firefox itself set up to sync with anything)

EDIT: Maybe it's OS specific? I've been on macOS, and maybe there's something about other file systems where corruption is more likely to happen with a force-quit? Just throwing darts here.
Only way to consistently outperform the market is lobbying, insider trading or fraud (see Madoff)
I hope that doesn't mean that I have to build a rail line to a new copper sector to the north-east...
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One wonders if there will now be an arbitrage market for those watching update diffs prior to public disclosure.
I will take some financial certainty over flexibility any day. My mortgage is the same every month, year after year, and with that general certainty it’s one less thing I have to worry about going crazy on me.
Firefox on Android has adblocking extensions available for it. Chrome on Android doesn't have extensions because...
Does anyone use this info for their own trading, particularly the $300 a year plan? You would figure if there's insider trading going on to be watched your performance copying their trades should be pretty good as well.
not evil.

mildly amusing, but also a demonstration/reminder of how both functions work.

Assuming you have approximations of both in easy memory, which probably covers most of HN readership.
And yet the network kept running.

Back in 2016, a denial-of-service attack took down the most popular node implementation. People quickly switched to the second-most popular implementation, and the network kept running without interruption until the popular client was fixed eight hours later.
How did people buy Bitcoin before Coinbase?
Trying to understand the initial service that Coinbase provided. It seems like this was allowing people to buy Bitcoin from a USD bank account. (https://web.archive.org/web/20130424175129/http://blog.coinbase.com/post/34357253898/you-can-now-buy-and-sell-bitcoin-by-connecting-any-u-s)

What was the easiest way to buy Bitcoin before this? Why did Coinbase implement purchases from bank accounts before credit cards?

What regulatory licenses did Coinbase need to acquire to provide this service? Did they need money transmitter licenses in all states? Given that it only took a few months to launch this service, I'm guessing the regulatory reqs were minimal.
Thank you! I tried to help with OSMS last year. It felt unsatisfying. I'd turn stuff in, send out new designs, and people would thank Gui. Gui's a good guy but this made me like him less, although I'm rational enough to know that it's not his fault.
I haven't taken anything. I have noticed it getting harder to concentrate at work.

I think this change for me isn't so much my lack of ability to concentrate, but a lack of desire to concentrate. Many things seem less important as I get older. I am increasingly disillusioned by the systems in place (like meritocracy). I've done everything right in my life (stay out of trouble, good grades, masters degree, worked hard, etc), yet my career is basically dead and life goals are seem a long way off if even possible.
Here's the root of my concern - safely and securely emitting SQL from an untrusted client is exponentially harder than running canned SQL queries from a trusted client.

People forget (or don't care) about security or safety when it lets them move faster.

"Move fast and break things," is a terrible security model.
> It also requires you to have one database user per external user.

So?

You are adding a database entry per external user, along with data identifying their roles/permissions in the app, one way or the other.

You can either use custom code you’ve built on top of the DB engine to apply this, or you can use the far more battle-tested code in the database engine.

I’m not sure why so many developers believe reinventing the wheel on database security is more effective than understanding their tools.
So, at Amazon's entry level, you're making 85% of the median personal income, plus benefits. And that's for their lowest paid FT employees, it can only go up from there. Where's the problem exactly?
Did you prepare and also surrender to the experience? I think if you give in and accept, you can’t lose.
Ask HN: How would you make RSS feed readers better and increase adoption?
Attempting to evolve RSS readers considering the following: the overwhelming amount of content being generated constantly ; majority of content being clickbaity/noise ; advancements in machine learning, e.g. GPT-3 which could be helpful

I'm thinking of adding:

1. Prioritization based on content preferences, evolving reading interests and value delivered. The current reverse chronological ordering does not work when one feed generates too much content and it's not possible to go through all feeds individually. Basically, trying to surface the most valuable content at the top to save time.

2. I feel that having autogenerated TLDRs would also help the user in having a quick glance-able view and distinguishing valuable/interesting content from already known facts/noise.

Would be really interested in learning how do you solve this problem of filtering out noisy/not-so-valuable content currently?

Relying only on a few trusted sources helps, but I feel that leads to missing out on a lot of other sources that could've been useful. Even otherwise, for me, the list of trusted sources grows continuously.

Questions:

1. How do you solve these problems currently?

2. Would you keep the feed readers same or would want to see them evolve to counter these problems?

3. Why are feed readers not so common? Are there not enough people out there who're interested in keeping up with multiple sources?

I've discovered RSS readers very recently, so these might be newbie questions. Please let me know your thoughts. Thanks!
I was lucky enough to realize, a month into the pandemic, that I would be having all meetings on Zoom for at least 3-4 months. I did three things, which seemed a little excessive at the time, but turned out to be great investments, since I've been working for home for over a year since then.

1) I bought a reasonably nice Logitech C920 Webcam. At the time, it was a $100 on AliExpress, which seemed like a crazy markup over the MSRP of $70. This turned out to be a great investment, given how much higher the prices went. Most people will probably still be working from home for at least 3-5 months, and you can buy one now for $70!

2) I bought a cheap USB condenser mic with a boom arm. This was a $70 package deal, and from a cheap Chinese brand Fifine, but the audio quality is truly amazing, and having the mic close to your mouth makes a huge difference. Probably my best investment. Seriously. Go buy a podcast mic and a boom arm. Now. If you want something more portable, the same company also makes very decent lavalier mics (lapel mics) for ~$20. Those are more omnidirectional, so they pick up more background noise than condenser mics, but they are imminently more portable.

3) I wired my bedroom with Ethernet. This was a bit of a hassle, since I had to run the cable down the side of the house and then underneath, and it also required crimping my own cables. However, it was totally worth it, since I knew connection issues were never my problem. I don't understand how other people suffer through constant drops over WiFi. I guess they're just accustomed to dealing with it, and don't think of switching to Ethernet as an option.
The explanation might make the joke sound rather cryptic but if it any consolation I did get it, and it did make me smile.

I also watch far too much Sci-Fi so my brain is wired to assume people are time traveller and such like :D
Put Adblock on it and JS out all the comments.
Don't forget about issuing your own stock and bonds.

I personally consider that part of my own portfolio. No par value, sold at a higher price.
Maybe change your pricing plans for new customers but tell existing annual customers that they can keep the current deal as long as they stay subscribed. Then you can compare the split for new customers and old customers and see how your price change affects it.
As Umberto Eco said: what do I do when my thesis advisor is an arsehole? Answer: come on, dude, you knew that before!
Shrooms hit at a raw emotional level, especially highlighting your connection and oneness with nature.

Meditation is the ultimate key though, putting in the hard work and then using shrooms sparingly to cash in on that.
You need to look at a lot more data before drawing any conclusions. Are you selling to consumers or businesses? What's the split in monthly vs annual subscription for brand new users (vs those that changed plans on renewal)?

IMO users switching to annual plans after using your product for a couple of months is amazing. It means that they see value in the product and decided to commit to it.

Users opting for an annual subscription off the bat is still amazing - but also a tad suspicious. Maybe a combination of low cost and good marketing?
>which is what most of the locals use

That's the point GP is making. It's not that people can't use credit cards, just don't have one available at the moment they are ready to pay for your product.
EU here. Credit cards are just a way to pay online. There are countless debit cards and every bank account comes with a card issued in partnership with a international service like VISA or Mastercard to enable online payments and money withdrawal at foreign ATMs.
Is it worth it solo?
Yes, and semantics are important. By your definition I make the decision every day not to end the lives of my children, who could for any number if reasons grow up to be a burden on the state.

Calling inaction deciding to do something is just a way to frame things to try and make action the default.
It's been all over the news. For example: https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/04/tesla-tells-customer...

Discussed on HN 4 days ago, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26776510
Err, don't you need a unique ID to associate the different cohort IDs in the first place?
I can't imagine the amount of sweat that comes off my head during a Peloton session being comfortable or safe for the Oculus.
I'm with you. I preferred the previous version of Firefox on Android. Since switching to the new version:

- I've noticed it crashes much more.

- It still doesn't support all the extensions I used to have, like uMatrix.

- All my bookmarks disappeared when it updated to the new version. I know syncing bookmarks would've let me recover, but I didn't realize it'd happen on the first place. And it seems like an easy problem to Amos even if a user didn't sync.
I think ActiveRecord beats this, since the code ends up more readable, but you can still run it in the rails repl, and the generated SQL syntax is printed in both the webserver logs and the repl output.
There is zero reason for congresspersons to trade options or really even any individual stocks. The optics are horrific.
The entire value of these companies is in the outsourcing of the entire problem.

It's incredibly hard to have multiple vendors if you're using specific or advanced functionality, and if you're hosting a failover yourself then you might as well just use that instead.
nsswitch.conf tells it whether to consult `/etc/hosts` (`hosts: files`), `/etc/resolv.conf` (`hosts: dns`), or systemd-resolved (`hosts: resolve`); and if multiple of those, in what order (`hosts: first second third...`).
> when algorithms did it in milliseconds (when common people can only operate with delays of hours and days, and with deterrent fees) it was OK

What, you think that "low-frequency" brokers weren't upset about the rise of HFT, and didn't try to push back/kill HFT in the crib?

Of course they did; HFT was classic "disruption" for their industry. You just didn't see that disruption happening, because an inside-baseball conflict between two groups of very rich businesspeople doesn't achieve anything by roping the public into the discussion. The public's opinion wouldn't have one shred of determination over which side won that conflict, so why bother spending money on mass-media propaganda? Mass-media propaganda won't do a thing to sway the rich businesspeople on the other side of the table.

The moralistic Op-Eds are happening now because one side of the current conflict is the public. And so the rich people on the other side now have great interest in swaying public opinion.
For something designed to last multiple years, why not? I can look in my garage and kitchen at things I've spent 12.5% of my take home on that I expected to last a decade, including my refrigerator. I do not like Nancy Pelosi, but this criticism always seemed like quite a stretch to me.
Amazing that somebody developed that for Microsoft.
I read the home page and in mentions getting a profile on unstuck.com but when I browse there I get redirected to https://www.sypartners.com/. This seems like an unrelated company. What’s up?
If you have 10-15 years experience you probably also have commitments outside of work that preclude you from wanting to sink multiple hours into doing toy problems and practicing STAR responses to behavioral questions. Most whiteboarding is just a legal, thinly veiled age filter.
Sorry to nitpick, but is it your favorite story of Asimov's or has he actually said it was his own favorite?
Oh, it's definitely more than most people will need. I had the camera for photography and just decided to repurpose it.

That said, a webcam can only do so much even with proper lightning and a clean background. They're never going to be as sharp, or as bright, as a nice fast lens on a quality camera.
I would call indirection the price for abstraction.
Direct SQL from the client definitely isn't for everyone, but these problems aren't insurmountable.

Caching: This is true of any API allowing, for example, advanced search. If you can get by without it, great, but it's often a requirement.

Dialect: I don't think it's a terrible idea to bet on one (ideally stable and FLOSS) database, it's just a risk to be managed, and I think it can provide benefits in some cases. Or you could be fancy and use jOOQ's SQL dialect translator (this could also be used to create a "custom dialect" without some features).

Multiple data sources: You could use PostgreSQL's Foreign Data Wrappers. An unorthodox solution, but it allows seamless access with fast joins.

Complex SQL features: I don't think it's really a problem, in complex analytics code I think some users would actually appreciate having all these features. It can be a code quality challenge, but I think that's better solved on a personal level.

This approach does have real problems, like it being hard to prevent DoS attacks, but I don't think there are as many problems as it seems on first glance.
In most markets major repairs factor into the value of the property.

In some sense you restore the house to where it was before years of use.
I've used https://github.com/nektos/act in the past. It works ok as long as you don't need artifacting.
Thanks Huy, my goal is to keep the tech stack concise so that it is easier to extend. Luckily FFMPEG fits my case well :)
It's really surprising to me that people are modding parent down to oblivion. If you are going to vote it down, could you reply and say why? I'm legitimately curious.
> it is indeed very likely that what runs on FF will also run on chrome, but not necessarily the other way around.

Yes, one would expect that to be true. However, as a very heavy FF user I haven't noticed any breakage in pages at all. Might be there's small things in a side-by-side compare, but nothing annoying so far.
Let's see. My house I bought 12 years ago is now worth double what I paid for it - but I didn't pay full price because the house I sold prior cleared me enough to pay for nearly half of this house in one go. Now I live in a 2,400 sq ft midcentury ranch for a price that's less than people are now paying for a 2 BR apartment in my area. Yeah. Owning sucks!

People talk about the flexibility of renting. I don't get it. You have to sign a 12 month lease. On average then you're 6 months away from being able to get out of your lease. In my area you can sell a house within 90 days and it's been that way for over 40 years! Of course now houses are on the market for 10 days and people are bidding them up - that's not normal, but still I can sell a house faster than I can get out of a lease.

Don't even get me started on the difference owning vs. renting makes on your retirement planning! I live in a high tax area and my taxes are HALF of the rent of a 2 BR townhome!

Renting makes no sense.
It's even more odd to see the, "if you disagree you're alt-right/ a Nazi" mentality on HN.

You believing that "right-wing conspiracies" automatically means ties to "alt-right/Nazis", I think this says more about your personal biases than the person you are responding to.
How to get a Tesla Model 3 for around $25k in California
Everything is short in supply. Part of that is because analog chips generally use older processes anyway and part of it is that old fabs have a very long tail of selling older process size chips. I think right now the best bang for your buck is 40nm.
> More recent research from 2009, which imo has a far superior methodology and a larger sample size, says that "over 87 percent of officers reported never having engaged in physical domestic violence in their lifetime" [1]

I'm sorry, are we reading the same thing?

"Using a survey created from existing scales, 250 officers were contacted within several departments in Central Florida, of these, 90 officers responded."

Asking cops "do you do crimes" is an interesting methodology, for sure.
Yeah that is not really true at all. Your grandfather had it objectively worse overall.
President of France and all its government said during the entire first lockdown that masks were useless against Covid. People would behave a teeeent bit better if they didn’t know they were blatantly lied in their faces as a common way of governing.
My opinion as someone who is running a SaaS business:
- Annual contracts are better than month-to-month, because you will get a customer for a year in most cases, extending your LTV
- Customer choose annual not only for the pricing discount but speaks to their commitment with your solution. I take it as a great product market fit indicator.
- Your price should be aligned with your competition. You can increase prices for new users but don't increase the price for your existing pay customers.
- Offer your monthly customers the option to upgrade to annual as well
FlightGear: Open-Source Flight Simulator
As in all things, it depends on your specific application. To make a broad statement that SQLite is crap for serious distributed systems is extremely presumptive about all potential applications.

Distributed systems are largely a mistake and amount to a lack of understanding regarding what is actually possible to extract from a single x86 server.
I find these kind of discussions of notation really interesting. They're not at all the bike-shedding they might first appear to be. One of the last EWDs[1] is an interesting meditation on the topic.

[1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD13xx/E...