skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> completely steamrolled by Microsoft OLE 2.

But did OLE 2 succeed? I know this is the technology which allows you to embed a Word document in an Excel sheet in a PowerPoint presentation, but does this actually work across applications by independent vendors? And is it ever used?
Looks like it was mainly because there was already a lot of high-quality programming for children in the UK at that time, and that too many Americanisms would be confusing for kids (my wife watched it in the UK and grew up thinking the last letter of the alphabet was pronounced "zee" for a long time).
Wouldn't this involve losing all communication grids and access to bank accounts? That'd be pretty disruptive.

I suppose the immediate challenge would be how to organise food 7 days out if we got hit by something like that. Assuming people put in a desperate effort and sort that out somehow, then the medium term problem would be something like a long period where effective communication is gone and any JIT systems fall apart. COVID shortages times 100 possibly.
But surely you can still do that, while maintaining compliance to the "event loop" interface...
“Preserving customer privacy and security is foundational to how we’ve built Amazon Sidewalk.“

I love that this is the opening line in two back to back FAQ entries. I'm going to make Alexa read it to me for full effect.
Those 1..6 are probably my “important list of car features number 95 through 100”

Are there any annoyances in software? Does anything feel misplaced? What % of users report something rattling in the interior? What’s the road and wind noise? What’s the service costs and experience for standard service things like brake fluids, air filters? How is the build quality, especially the paint quality (I heard early Tesla models easily chipped big flakes)?
The more we depend on automation, the more vulnerable we are to power failure.

Consider grocery shopping: what fraction of sales are online? What fraction in-store are card-based? Do the tills work offline, and if not, how fast can the cashiers work by hand? Does the store request resupply either automatically or via a manager looking at a spreadsheet, and if so, can the manager manage that without computer assistance? Do the freezers and refrigerators still work? Do the gas pumps used by the delivery trucks? Can current distribution warehouses function if there is no electric lighting? What are the power requirements of modern factories that turn ingredients into food products?

These questions probably have multiple answers, one for each different business, but the chain breaks on the weakest link.
> I got an almost identical comment

Yep, that was me that time as well.

> Inputting by hand (or maybe with a script

I did it by hand. There are websites to do this, but I’m not interested in doing this for any regular purpose, so I don’t think I have them saved. Besides, it’s more interesting to do it manually; you learn things about how Unicode works if you involve yourself in the low-level details once in a while.

> the opposite of "smart" in a discussion between reasonable adults.

Or maybe it’s humorous? You know, fun?
... how will you know? Without measuring "success" (however you define it) you will never know.

It may have already happened and you missed it.
Of course it would not solve the issue in a generic way. To me, the reasonable fix would be to immediately disable the feature in the specific area manually and then retrain the model or whatever it is they do.
I'm not sure I see how the customer is hurt in this case (or in the case of Apple's AirTags)?
Silicon Friend Camp
Equivalent to handling an additionaanl sensor input and an additional output, no?
Thank you for the link to Alain de Botton's Ted talk AND for summarizing in text! Wish more people did this.
How to debug silent data corruption
Is there any possibility for bugs caused by errors in the software or hardware?
They are usually russians or former USSR countries, so it is either patriotism or the survivalist idea not to mess with your own security services which don't have much need of international cooperation to find you.
> What do they gain from causing such discomfort to others?

Most people play some kinds of irrational games to generate emotions they are addicted to. The difference is what kind of emotions they want, and what kind of scenarios they use to obtain it. There is a popular book on this topic called "Games People Play", strongly recommended.

From the psychoanalytical perspective, all these games ultimately are sick attempts to indirectly extract symbols of love, when people are too afraid of a more direct approach (aren't we all sometimes?).

The recipe for this specific game is that I cause you discomfort, and if you continue interacting with me anyway, it means that you have forgiven me (for causing you the discomfort), which means that you care about me (otherwise why would you keep interacting with me). So I frustrate you in order to extract a costly signal of caring from you, so that I can feel loved for a moment.

Why not a more direct approach? First, I am afraid to ask whether you care about me, because you might say no. Even worse, if you said yes, I would still be suspect that you are lying; maybe you are just being polite. But when I cleverly extract forgiveness from you, if you stay with me regardless of the discomfort I cause, then I can be sure that you genuinely care.

Of course, the damage caused to both sides by this approach is obvious. But sometimes people just don't know how to do it better, and any symbol of love is better than nothing.
This.

That move is just one step further in removing control. They now have sealed devices that can have who knows what functions but are confined to the network. Next step is to have a concealed upstream. After that they will somehow get a legal mandate to force such devices on you (like the EU did with cars). Maybe they will use smoke detectors or "emergency" services. In the end, this is exactly like in 1984.
A perfectly reasonable approach; but then it is easier to ask people you trust rather than reading HN. Anonymous internet people are inherently unreliable.
Data caps have little to do with infrastructure as demonstrated this the past year.
Oh, they will be, but in the opposite way to what GP seems to want. That is, I'd look at the sources as further sources of authority :). E.g. a bunch of papers from multiple teams, with some published by high-profile journals or authored by well-known researchers, indicates it's relatively safe to trust their conclusions. A bunch of papers from the same few people who seem to want to push their pet theory indicates low trustworthiness and need for independent verification.

Unless you've studied the domain in question in depth, it's not like you could use the citations in any other way. Trust, as a heuristic, is fundamental to advanced research as much as it is for everything else in society.
This reminds me of my favourite explanation of why many children are afraid of the dark; we are decended from hominids that were big-cat prey and are genetically predisposed to be hyperalert at night.
I battled with a previous employer with this. I don't care about the yearly weekend getaways, bi-monthly restaurant dinners, takeaway etc you buy us, I know best what makes me happy and its not that. Just give me what I need to do my work, be a good manager, give me good pay and let me enjoy my life outside of work in peace.
The problem is that the 0-60 times for the regular model is measured from a standing start, which is the standard for regular cars and which makes it appear worse, and without any visual indication on the main page that the times are measured in different ways.

Only when going on a sub-page do you get an asterisk with a footnote mentioning the difference.
It can work well for dynamic event-driven problems, with no need for a central busy loop[1]. Any sensor changes are responsible for triggering an update in any nodes that depend on it, who are responsible for triggering nodes that depend on those, and so on. One way to do it: abstract class Node, which has a list of child nodes that it loops through and alerts whenever there's been a state change in the parent node.

[1] There is a busy loop but it's only there to trigger tasks on a timer.
Industrial applications often use PLCs, Programmable Logic Controllers that also do this.
Good god this title editorializing is atrocious. For those who don't read the articles and only go for the comments... Amazon plans to use Echo devices as some sort of local, extremely low-bandwidth (80 Kbps) gateway for IoT communication. Not some sort of "internet sharing" in a "this is a wifi hotspot" way.
>I hope they inform their customers that filming and recording public spots or other people's houses in Europe requires advertising the presence of CCTV and adhering to data protection laws.

I live in the EU and have a camera on the front of my garage, pointing at the street and partially covering my opposite neighbour's house. I'd like to understand more about which rules I need to adhere to, I was unaware of this. Can you point me towards some resources on the subject?
Every time someone (usually someone from HR) tries to point out how great a company is because of its great perks like awesome couching sessions (not actual training), great team-building events, the best coffee machine ever, table tennis, etc. and how these somehow compensate for a subpar salary offer, I tell them: you just pay me well, give me more time off, and I'll handle all that myself.
I realize this is a forum that caters to tech folks who might be accustomed to these kinds of perquisites, but I’m pretty sure you’re describing the default state of employment for the vast majority of people. No free food. No restaurant lunches everyday. No attention paid to employee mental health/wellbeing.
Why current Babel maintainers (not the main author who gets nothing!) would be entitled to donations?

They need to convince people/corporations to donate, default is that they get nothing.
Are the ISPs actually okay with this? Ideally Amazon would check who your ISP is and then check if the ISP will allow this type of usage, before just enabling it.

If properly protected I don't see the issue, but it really needs to be opt in. The main issue from my point of view is that companies like Amazon automatically assume that a customer is okay with this, without knowing anything about pricing, security requirement and stability of the customers internet connection.
How do you solve the Mickey Mouse problem? E.g., you have a character that has created an "empire" that an organization has the means (cultural/monetary) to prevent their creation from entering the public domain. You have to figure out what to do about those rare situations because they're the driving force for extending copyrights.

My ideal is like the old system (initial registration plus fixed term renewals). That actually worked well to balance interests and we should go back to it. Just make the renewals an increasing cost so that your 'Mickey Mouse' hits can continue to have effectively infinite protection while most won't renew and drop into the public domain.
Did working conditions really got much worse over the past 20 years? Or are people just becoming more entitled? I agree with the premise that workplace wellbeing is a bunch of BS (and just a small part of much large corporate BS universe), but is 2021 much different from 2001? I understand blue collar complaints and unfortunate situation workers found themselves in after union busting or outsourcing. But what's gotten worse in the white collar world, really? Benefits? They weren't that great 20 years ago, it's hard to find a place with good benefits now or then. Long hours? Not a recent invention. Your average corporation is a soulless greedy machine, constructed purely for extracting money. Trying to put a lipstick on a pig doesn't change the fact that it's still a pig. If you are miserable in your current workplace, the only real change you can make is moving to job that brings you joy. This outcome is much more likely than fantasizing about changing the whole organization you work for.
free wifi right on
You can run the workloads on (possibly partial) replicas of the production database running on another set of machines.
To be clear, are you referring to the guy in the company selling cars claiming that the current models sold today will be fully autonomous with only software patches?
My concern is less illegal and more about device manufacturers using this to bypass any internet settings I choose (eg to block ads and trackers).
Maybe carbon fiber technology has improved and has become more affordable?

I'm in the proces of learning to use a kitesurf hydrofoil, it's funny to see the gps tracks from a smartwatch on strava, very messy, like a child scribbling.
> - Instead of updating tables build their replacements under a different name then rename them. This makes updating heavy-to-compute table instant

isn’t this what materialized views are for?
The only reason Musk immediately starts defending Tesla is because the media immediately blames Tesla when anything goes wrong.
Would I finally get to see the northern lights from the equator?
I mean ... who cares. Having bias, then calling it as win or acting like no one is allowed to point out it is bias is not correct application of the Bayes' theorem.

I did not flagged the comment nor downvoted it. I responded to claim that it was win. Which responded to claim that the comment took offense.
Thermapen is an excellent thermometer. It's fast, nice ux, robust, and just works. The $10~ dollar thermometers I've used are too fragile, grossly inaccurate or annoying.

I suppose there's room in the market for a cheaper thermometer with the same features/performance as thermapen but it's probably not worth it to the manufacturers and re-sellers that could actually pull it off. The markup for the thermapen is not particularly shocking or worrisome. More importantly, the consumer is not getting "ripped off" at that price if it's a solid product that lasts for years and years.

I'm not sure what to think of their Amazon antics. They're aggressively keeping Amazon from selling thermapens so they can keep the price at a premium in the American market? It's not like I cam blame them. They just want to make a buck and not bend over for Amazon. Competitors, including Amazon Basics, are free to sell a product and eat Thermapen's lunch, but they don't. I expect because it's not worth it.
So if engineering team uses an ORM, pushes a massive API change that renames columns and removes others, and drops FKs, and leaves it as a change item in a release list in an access controlled repo without notifying anyone, it's BI team's fault the DW ETL breaks?

IMO it's not fruitful to throw blame on teams or call them unskilled. Usually, everyone is trying their best to do their job, and things that make this not happen should be seen as "how can we improve/fix this" - better communication is almost always the solution.
It’s amazing how many people don’t realize that the Beyoncé concert in the office comes from the same pool of money as compensation. (The company only does it because it’s cheaper than bonuses) And everyone showers Instagram with photos of the show.
Production controllers, OTA software updates and the impact of IoT
I'd wager that at face value most of the public wouldn't want their neighbors sharing internet, if only for the liability risk (who wants to find out the hard way their neighbors kid was downloading kiddie porn)
There aren’t enough trees to offset CO2 emissions – and there never will be
How is this different from having a wifi access point?
Water is considerably different to air and there is no analogous effect for ground effect in water.

Edit: I realise now that you mean hydrofoil as in the boat rather than the submerged wing (it's confusing that they both have the same name). I don't think the ground effect from the boat's hull contributes much to the lift but it is something that the designers of the AC75 boats take into consideration https://www.sailmagazine.com/racing/36th-americas-cup-differ...
At 3 cents/word, not only is the ghostwriter not an expert, they probably aren't even a good writer. That's less than what a decent typist would charge for material that's already written (transcribing from audio or handwritten manuscript).
My point was that framing this as a tragedy of the commons problem, and here's the standard solution, can itself be disputed. The hidden assumption is that the capitalist will take the responsibility to take care of the thing, and provide it for a fair price, but it is by no means given. Certainly, there are examples of economic failures of this type as well. (Even in software, Unixes/Lisps..)
Honestly, the end user should be subsidised for hosting this feature. The fact that Amazon are able to spin this as "we're giving this to you for free" shows how far the tech industry has gone in tricking it's consumers into thinking that they're getting something for nothing.
Hell. No.
You could probably use some of the game "Kerbal Space Program" source code. Would be a good start to control the rockets.
> awesome couching sessions

Did you mean “coaching”? Or is “couching” some new SV term I am unfamiliar with?
For me at some point it became an insight that I don’t always want “faster” or even “simpler” , most things are simple enough already that I don’t need to trade privacy, security, speed or even a nice discount for that latest and greatest product that’s actually just a new sales channel disguised as a product or app.
Show HN: I used React Native to create a climate change app
Remastered audio combined version, no captions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TpFQuBY8E0

Nearly 5.5 hours!

Standalone modern slides, almost 200 pages:

http://www.projectwhitehorse.com/pdfs/boyd/patterns%20of%20c...

Alternate modern slides with PiP presentation of same presentation as above, but in separate parts, but best audio IMO, with auto-generated captions, typos included:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4pmLxkc7CTcukIlpD0UThT7Y...

The story behind the original uploader getting the source videos which were uploaded in separate parts, which have been remastered and combined since:

https://medium.com/@jasonmbro/uploading-john-boyd-4264b82d73...

Original slides:

https://geekboss.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/patterns-of-...

via

https://geekboss.com/boyd-patterns-of-conflict/

Which seems to link to an alternate version of the talk in four parts, but which is not exhaustive or complete as above versions.
I think the OP is referring to ground effect above the water surface, as employed by for example eraknoplans (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lun-class_ekranoplan)
Nvidia’s Broadcast update filters the sound of a billion sex-starved cicadas
I agree with your categories, but the first category doesn’t seem like “a revenue model” (other than in a null sense).
Interesting, love to see some experiences / reports how this works in practice.
First, this isn't a zero-sum game.

And second, seriously? I should worry that my competitors will be meaningfully boosted ahead (to the point of having a better shot a beating me) by me supporting a bunch of libraries that I use?

The world would be so much better if we all just did the right thing. It really isn't difficult to know what the right thing is at any given moment.
Ah there, another one falling for Apple marketing.

FAAG are all companies that want to make the maximum of money from their current market positioning, assets and brand.

There is no inherent ethics in any of these companies.

The moment Apple doesn't grow on iPhones/apps and see selling customer payment data as a significat add to revenue, they will sell all your data as every other company. Tim is no more ethical than Mark or Larry or Jeff.

The way companies act right now is the way that maximizes their current profit. Rolling out privacy measures on iOS hurts Amazon, Google, Facebook and helps Apples brand, that's the reason Apple does it. And if this changes - e.g. the app store gets decentralized or regulated or people understand they don't need to pay 30% to Apple for a web application - Apple will stop it in a second without any second thought and find new revenue streams, e.g. selling your data.

Their historic behaviour is not relevant.
Not just an article, an assertion of an "incomparable intellectual". That means an intellectual "without equal". It is fair to question such hyperbole, given that the editors of Nature are surely well acquainted with the English language.

But speaking of cracks in history, note how all these notables are aristocrats. Let's ponder all the "incomparable intellectuals" who were not to manor born, male or female.
We don't get robots?
A good couching session relaxes even the most stressed up worker
Here are a few links as a starting point:

https://ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/domestic-cctv-systems-g...

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=e5486933-1806...

https://www.netatmo.com/en-gb/guides/security/burglary/regul...
Nor is Find My limited to Apple devices. I think the analogy holds water.
Do you mean Waymo?
My guess: Tesla can sell cars that might not be top quality because a) first time EV owners are a huge chunk of owners and they get the first time EV experience. Second, in the US Tesla buyers are also still predominantly new car buyers and their sales experience is contrasted to the traditional US dealership sales experience which sounds awful (much of the rest of the world has had showroom + configurators for decades).

A fair comparison would be comparing Tesla owners who have driven other EVs and excluding the US. Everything else is just including ICE to EV or comparing Tesla sales process to US traditional car sales.
>I disagree with this. Fools have a hard enough life without permitting predators to take their money. Nobody chooses to be a fool.

If you risk more than you can afford to lose an anarcho-capitalist free market economy, then yes, you choose to be a fool. You're choosing to opt out of a regulated financial system with insurance and legal protections into a system whose only rule is "caveat emptor, lol. Git gud noob" because you think it's easy money.

There's a rule in poker - if you look around the table and can't tell who the mark is, it's you.
More and more countries are having this problem as women get emancipated and make more money.

Few people want to be completely beholden to the whims of another person for their entire lives.

I'm not arguing that people don't divorce for bad reasons, but there's also a solid reason why divorce is a good idea in many cases.
Breathing exercises can improve heart rate variability
The irony of your response is pretty thick.
I feel like you’re making a tangential observation, rather than a direct response to the concept of “convenience” being useful in modern life.

Anyways, could you provide some concrete examples of products where you were able to obtain such privacy and security guarantees with minimal friction?
I've flagged this on two counts (I don't like flagging stuff):

1. The website linked is just an advert.

2. The title is completely editorialised, regardless.

Not that I think it should be taken down, now there's discussion but it seems poor form as a submission especially on the title.
BT, the UK’s largest ISP, has this feature (Wi-fi sharing on a separate network) built into the routers or “hubs” it supplies, and on by default.

The benefit for people is that they can get Wi-fi in many places — free for BT customers, and a small fee for others. Note that anonymous access isn’t allowed.

Look for “hub hotspots” here: https://www.btwifi.com/find/

For other ISPs who don’t offer something like this, I don’t think they can stop their customers, the main question around customers offering free Wi-fi to others would focus around liability, I think. Who’s responsible if people do naughty things using your Wi-fi? And will Amazon’s solution help identify a potential bad actor?