skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HA has improved quite a lot over the last say 18 months. Please consider giving it another go.

Make sure you are using either hass.io or supervised. The dockerised approaches are far superior to say the venv jobbie. I'm a dyed in the wool old school sysadmin and it took a while for me to get it. Get the nginx proxy addon with Lets Encrypt working and you are all good for kick off.

As always, ensure stuff you don't trust is on its own network/VLAN or use host based firewalls to take up the slack. HA will use HIBP to check your passwords in your addons which was controversial but I think rather good.

HA is in the hands of people who seem quite driven, which is nice.
This is obscene isn't it?

So you can't talk to anyone privately , everything has to through some NSA infected, zerodayed, hyper complex backdoored software/hardware?

Seems to me like the "powers that be", doesn't want anyone to be able to talk to eachother without them knowing.
> Gates’s particular advantages were being smart and having access to computers in high school in his day

That's a rather inaccurate description of his advantages.
All these stories can be distilled into - "I picked something I liked and we made it work. Yay team"
I said it's not enforced.

I cannot speak for moxie or Signal. I can speak for my own experiences, as the maintainer of a fork of signal-cli, and I have never seen any evidence that Signal's servers block signal-cli or my fork. I don't know about signal-cli but my fork clearly identifies itself in the user agent (and another field called the "signal agent") to the server. If they wanted to block me they could.

edit: signal-cli also sets a user agent clearly identifies itself: https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/blob/05abb3f9f6294677d2d...
Then what the hell are they doing with all the money I send them?
You won't BE addressing them in a city, you will be addressing them in a field or a mine. You will either have to live the standard of living you are apparently unwittingly espousing, or you won't be addressing what you see as the problem.
Duh. This is just a “hard work propaganda” piece. Some parts just read like “Believe in Jesus or your limbs will start melting away!”. Just like that.

Is this how venture capitalists have always functioned, or is it a new kind of initiative? Is there some kind of threat they perceive seeing many people, organisations, and even some nations talk about work-life balance (et cetera)?

Besides, is this what pg essays are all about? So much brouhaha for this? I have read one more of these 1-2 years ago or so and it was the same feeling. No wonder I’ve never encountered these writings or talk about them anywhere out of the HN.
The free exchange of ideas is curtailed everywhere, all the time. It's curtailed in private homes, in the workplace, and on social media. It has always been this way. Our first amendment right has never guaranteed the free exchange of ideas, because people have the right to reject such exchanges on their own property. Your issue and the issue shared by many others comes from a complete misunderstanding of what freedom of speech entails. It does not mean people should be forced to listen to you; that would be a horrifying dystopia that I want no part of.
true. but the point of the article everyone is missing is that by assuming you will have even the kitchen sink available to everyone at all times, is the problem.
I never said anything was safe or not safe. I claimed that the long-term safety profile of the vaccines is unknown. This is demonstrably true.

It seems like you're claiming anything that gets an EUA, regardless of FDA trial status or outcome, is "safe".

That would imply you believe FDA Phase 3 trials are irrelevant, and that safety, particularly long-term safety, is easy to assess without doing any long-term safety studies.

That's quite a strange position to take, but OK, you can take it.

I trust the FDA, however. It's strange to be arguing with somebody who doesn't trust the FDA, but here we are. I trust them, and they think long-term safety trials for pharmaceuticals are really important. You seem to disagree. That's fine.

I agree that the vaccines show good safety profiles for older patients in the short term. The younger the cohort it's administered to, the greater the number of adverse events occur, however, which is worrying, because it's the opposite for covid. But still, they look reasonably safe for the 18+ crowd, in the short term.

You seem to think they're perfectly safe in the long-term based on no studies. That's a cool, if strange, way of magical thinking. I think differently, and I seek data and trustworthy sources for my medical information.

For what it's worth my doctor also recommended I don't get the vaccine, for the same reasons I've laid out here.
I was routing a slot in my table top to slot a vertical board in. The bit came out of the router, bored through the table top, and went careening off.

Fortunately, no body parts were in its path.

I've always been a bit leery of routers since.
Large retail stores are an interesting example.

In that case, the core product (to other businesses) is shelf space.

So is there a monopoly on shelf space control?

Walmart is huge. But Target's pretty big too (~10% their size by revenue). And they've got bigger competitors in grocery.

But in the Facebook case, where else are you going to buy eyeball time? The closest thing to the scale of Facebook ad space would be if Google put ads on the launcher of Android.
A group of people who organize to advocate for a cause are an NGO, and "affinity group", or a dangerous conspiracy or maybe even cult; depending on if you agree with them... by modern usage.

Is The Federalist Society a conspiracy? They have open meetings. How about labor unions?
Response from Google [1]:

"To close the loop, these are not Google ads and we do not condone this practice. We are working with the wireless carrier to understand why this happened and ensure it doesn't happen again.

Glad Google Messages flagged it as unsafe"

[1]: https://twitter.com/mrisher/status/1410017611018952704
Or, you know, corona is a highly contagious disease and after a year we've reached herd immunity in the US. Which is basically what the NIH just reported on June 22, 2021:

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-study-sugg...

The NIH report debunks two common tropes on HN:

1) That consumer masks work - they don't stop the spread of corona.

2) That COVID-19 vaccines are necessary for herd immunity - we already had it beforehand.

This was obvious (and I mentioned that here several times) since early 2020 if you look at the Santa Clara hospital ICU utilization, which averaged only 10% throughout most of the pandemic because of daily flights from China to SFO causing widespread infections in SF and SC.

Sorry for reporting actual science (with data) on HN, instead of the garbage discussed here since early 2020. My bad.
It is encouraging that there is a lot of interest in looking at the weaknesses of Bitcoin and crypto in general. This, I think, is "a good thing." However, the author is not one to bring forward a well reasoned case (initially I thought I was reading an article written by a 15 yr old). There are references to all kinds of documents, but it is clear that the author does not have the technical background to clearly convey (or pinpoint) the supposed issues that he is highlighting. Instead we are to believe the arguments because crypto is a kind of tulip mania and those that buy in are suckers...
The coastal redwood is sequoia sempervirens.

The giant sequoia is sequoiadendron giganteum.

So depending on how you look at it, either species is or ain’t a sequoia or vice versa or both.
It's worth discussing the fact that this is a tool you can never own or fully control.
It all boils down to motivation and what you want out of life. Compound interest is great but health and youth never return, and the opportunities of today are not always here tomorrow.

(That said, I have been at it since 4:30AM today and working on a single venture for six years in extreme adversity. Anything else would be boring!)
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The "quality programmers" (neckbeards) can continue their quality work. These new faster programmers can get other stuff done.

The one paying for these jobs can decide what level of quality they want, and hire/pay accordingly. How does that sound?
You're right - I love the look of weathering steel, but it looks like it would be a bad choice for where I live in New Zealand, which is humid subtropical.
LGR did a pretty good review/retrospective on that recently: https://youtu.be/38VEBOseAzM
This makes me really miss Keybase.io. Anyone around from Keybase? Will it just bit rot away or will it get some attention/love in the future?
As far as I can see, there is no license attached to the output of Obsidian.

Open source is a license, not a standard.
Interestingly, mutable data is also sufficient to achieve general recursion in a typed language:

let fact' = ref (fun x -> x) in
let fact = fun n -> if n = 0 then 1 else n * !fact' (n-1) in
fact' := fact; fact 3
Writing to a SQLite file on a remote filesystem only works with a heap of caveats: don't use WAL, and disable SHM.

SQLite is crazy fast in WAL mode, but it's because they use a memory-mapped file to coordinate consistency across multiple processes/threads. You can't mmap a remote file.

(Source: hacking in a DB replica workaround to PhotoStructure so people can store their library on arbitrary filesystems... BTW, I'd love to be wrong here: if someone's figured out how to do this, please share!)
It's the land that's expensive and the best way to use it is dense, concrete, apartment buildings.
I have walked past that tree probably more than a hundred times and I never knew it was that old or the originator of the name of the city. Its not very tall or massive, unlike the giant trees in the park on Lytton Ave.
I always liked that big and tall condo building there - with big balconies facing the tree - was it fun to live in that bldg ?
Sort of throwing good money after bad. One wonders what a species that didn't quite apprehend the consequences of being delicious (as an evolutionary strategy) might be able to contribute if we brought them back, no?
I know a couple of examples of millenia old concrete. Can't say the same for wooden buildings.
The way to edit multiple notes at the same time is just to have multiple tabs open. Thinktype is optimized for that workflow. It loads fast, it updates the title based on the note you currently edit and when you edit a note which is visible in another tab, thinktype updates the note there too.
On the contrary. This tool increase the programmer productivity, hence you will get more salary not less.

You assumption is that programming demand is finite, AND that all programmers are equal, both of those are false.

I must also say that actual programming is around 10-15 % of the programmer job, so the tool will make you around 10% more overall productive.
Personally I don't like depending on musicbrainz or other online sources; any album that enters my collection I manually (and tediously...) tag via information found on discogs and other sources. I get that this is not... a typical desire, but, for anyone else who came across this post and thought "cool! I like music tagging!", other things worth mentioning are the really useful `eyeD3` utility [1] and `exfalso` [2] (which is from the same the `quodlibet` media player project, which I have found handles large libraries very well!).

Maybe someday I will relax my meticulousness enough to use online sources for automatic tagging... :)

[1] https://eyed3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
[2] https://quodlibet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guide/commands/ex...
You're right about the principal in Roth accounts, but most people (especially high earners at time of contribution) put their savings in traditional retirement accounts, for good reason. The age to withdraw without penalty (for both types of accounts) is 59.5.

200k is unrealistic in most population centers in the country, not just the Bay Area (I don't live there).
No argument there. Drugs are about the farthest thing from a free market.
> I always make a point of saying that I will only consider remote work just to get that idea out into the universe.

Make it a point to also ask the hiring manager or someone on the team what remote means. Sometimes recruiters are not on the same page as the team or the rest of the company, and some companies have "unique" definitions of remote work.
We don't call it a hydro bill for nothing. Less than 20% came from fossil fuels in 2018 (latest data I could find easily).

As for increased demand, well, as much as we harp on BC Hydro for the project costs etc., site C will cover the demand here. I know there are other ongoing hydro projects in Newfoundland and Manitoba.

So, the power demand should be covered. Whether that causes some cost increases remains to be seen, but it's not like we're going to have no power or be burning fossil fuel for it.
If that’s inaccurate, tell us what gives us more bits of information distinguishing him from the general population born in the same year he is. The smart part puts him in the 0.1%, 10 bits right there, and early access to computers adds another rare multiplier to that.
Poignant reminder that SMS is unencrypted and not only readable but writable in between!
TV-Style Commercials Are Coming to Console Games
I think it's because Elixir runs in Erlang VM which was built from the ground-up to satisfy these requirements... And it's been around for a very long time with very good track record.
Those are all pretty standard garden variety small government proponent talking points but do you have any idea what arguments they make regarding the natural monopoly issue?
There exist many countries where you do need armed guards. I've never once heard someone from one of those countries express the viewpoint that it is a desirable state of affairs.

Ironically a functioning police service is a necessary condition for far-libertarianism to exist. It is a self extinguishing ideology.
I don't find anything to be wrong with this, I think it's a good idea.

But millions of Americans don't like it. They should like to see others suffer as much as possible. An amazing insight by the modern Republican party was that a big demographic are so enthusiastic about the suffering of others that they will choose, eyes open, misery for themselves just to be assured that it's visited upon others.

"Kick me in the head, but make sure to kick those people I don't like too" is more popular with swathes of Americans than "Don't kick anybody in the head" as a policy.
Figure out where we're going to get the metals for all the batteries it will take to create the world these dreamers want. You'll soon see that the entire scheme is fantasy.
Plus if you use this for anything non-trivial, it's functionally similar to using a third-party dependency, except the licensing terms are vague and there's no one to ask for help.

I could see it being useful maybe for testing. Even if it straight up copies code from the Linux kernel, you don't usually ship tests to customers so the GPL (probably) isn't a problem.

But the problem with testing is that you need to be 100% sure about how it behaves, and an AI generated test might not be reliable enough to be useful.
I think it may be helpful to evaluate the extent to which things have gravity, or create their own weather.

Some things can be hard to make sense of if your perspective is either too local, or too global.

I found the post interesting, but it also felt like he isn't seeing (or is perhaps not naming...) the forces that structure this corner of the universe?
This decision is easy: if you or your team is comfortable caring and feeding the DB and know how to harden and monitor the thing, save the money.

If y'all don't want to be on pager duty, though, pay someone else to manage it.
Biggest thing I'd change: Build in the ability to do long-duration keepalives from the git-go to avoid three-way handshakes when you want to send data later after establishing the connection.

A whole bunch of other changes to reduce latency in general - no one really quite realized how important latency was back when this stuff was designed, but in all fairness, it's almost, "how could they?"

Lastly, extend DNS to provide not only encryption and non-repudiation, bu most importantly, more info, or just absorb Project Athena's Kerberos and Hesiod into DNS at first opportunity. This also allows AFS or other global distributed filesystem support, which in turn could have changed database architecture and semantics for the better. Imagine how different the net would be with a scalable global federated name and directory service that could do everything that Yellow Pages did in the 90s.

(N.B.: When I was at Chevron, we built our own version of YP that was hierarchical and multi-domain. It worked really well ("really well", as in damn near flawlessly from the Monday morning we turned it on after a coffee-fuelled weekend hacking session by one of the three true geniuses I've ever met!), seamlessly syncing the info that was in Hesiod/Athena, YP, and DNS to make as much of it as made sense available to clients of each. I've never seen anyone else ever do anything like that, even in all my consulting exposure to other big companies' network services architectures.)
>Notification

You can usually globaly turn it off and it's way less spammy than "Download our mobile app if you want to see the rest."
I would be very surprised if there way a law requiring search history to be recorded.

Just because some data can be supoenaed doesnt mean you are required to store/create the data in the first place.
jQuery is great, especially when you are low on time available and wanted to put together your product with minimal friction. VueJS, React etc. are great, but not when you have no more than 2 developers working. We are in the age of 5G internet and high bandwidth network streams, downloading a couple of hundred extra kilobytes of js files on mobile clients and desktop browsers should be no problem to at least 85% of the users.

Oh and BTW it pairs really well with StimulusJS. I've used it thoroughly and it's been a godsend
Agreed, what got people for awhile is that while there is sometimes visible rust - sometimes there isn’t - and even then nothing like normal steel or iron. Then it fails. Or doesn’t.

Not what you want in rebar (or climbing anchors!)
Flash was AWESOME in that it enabled all that everyone whining on here wanted in their browsers, not to mention the lowest barrier to entry on content creation not reached again on this day.

But you had the option! Want your computer to the unsafe man-child playgroud? go ahead, install flash. Want something serious for work, don't touch it.

But the advertisement industry had their way and apple and microsoft started to include flash by default. Do you think Google fought flash because they care about you? heh. Google helped kill flash because it gave an edge to microsoft since their ad network at the time was text only and microsoft et al were making bank on swf banners.

anyway, you had the option! it was a plugin, not the browser. Instead of a better plugin, you killed the radio star, took over w3C so that feature for your ad network would be part of the standard.

Now chrome is worse than flash. Features like Federated Learning of Cohorts will be shoved down your throat like or not and it won't even allow you to play web games or something FUN.
Yes, from the University of the People, for instance: https://www.uopeople.edu/
Mt Shasta wildfire renders bridge impassable
I feel that there are more remote Elixir jobs than ever. I get a lot of offers without actively searching, most often it's sole Elixir or Elixir + Ruby (unsurprising) combo.
As someone who writes web extensions, I have to disagree with many entries under the “ Useless API” section. The storage and permissions api’s are two that I use on a daily basis.
Would be nice to have two classes of browser you could switch between.

a Webapp browser which is full fat and heavy, like an OS with task managers and so on. (this is what Chrome is today)

and a basic web browser for reading news, banking, watching youtube or commenting on forums.

The issue is that we're all forced to always run #1, which leads to developers thinking every site should be a full fat webapp... when webapps should be reserved for actually advanced things like games or google maps.
Thanks for the link.

Why do you hate it?
Deliciousness seems like one answer.
There’s a lot of luck in life too. The timing of a natural disaster or biological disease or being around when humans evolved contributes a fair amount. It’s not just genetics that determines survival.
It seems they don't necessarily have to be using a cloud-based service to sell/leak phone numbers to a third party?
Seeing my job get automated before my eyes makes me nervous but can AI make dumbass libertarian arguments over lunch? We’ll probably actually
> Might ask for 20, 25 grand more if I have to go back to the office.

Here's a source you can use for hard numbers[1].

Commutes are responsible for a 9.91% drop in wages. They're also responsible for an average of nearly 10 entire days of driving a year, or 30 full 8-hr work days of driving each year.

[1] https://go.frontier.com/business/commute-calculator
And people with higher incomes will just continue to buy "commercial" trucks like they do now and bypass this whole thing. Every time they ban cars, and not all vehicles, the car makers reclassify whatever they are making to fit that definition.

Small SUVs/CUVs and even some station wagons are considered "light trucks" to evade EPA and safety requirements. There's a reason Ford and others doesn't make sedans anymore. It's not just because people all want CUVs, it's because CUVs were cheaper as they didn't have to meet all the same requirements. So they marketed the shit out of their CUVs because they had higher profit margins.

If they don't ban commercial trucks too, I see Ford, GM and RAM releasing more and more 'commercial' trucks, and people buying them as family haulers.
> But doing dishes during a lecture seems antithetical to what they are trying to achieve with remote learning, and isn't the use case they should be catering to.

It seems, but it isn't. The inflexible way they structure their courses is just a failure to accommodate to different learning styles. And it's okay - they don't need to be everything for everyone - but it's disappointing.
I was convinced i wanted one as well, until i saw the price. Sadly.
I know people post archive.is links to get around firewalls. Is there a similar service that has the contents of the tweet in a way that doesn't require Javascript?