skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are being downvoted for what I see as a fairly logical comment. The problem that climate change researchers keep running into is that these things are extremely hard to predict, and predictions are sometimes embarrassingly incorrect[1].

So, here is another doomsday prediction. As someone who whole-heartedly believes climate change is happening and is a very real threat, I am forced to take this article with a big grain of salt, unfortunately, unless there is an immense amount of evidence to the contrary. Also, I don't want people to assume that I am arguing 'these scientists have been wrong in the past, so they will be wrong in the future'. That is definitely not what I am saying. But at this point it is a frustrating boy-cried-wolf situation with these predictions.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/08/us/glaciers-national-park-202...
Show HN: Physically-Based GPU Pathtracer with Mitsuba XML Support
In my experience, docker-machine-nfs has the best performance on mac. No syncing of files.
Maybe you need to rework your CV/profile a bit. It's about keywords these days and only after keyworks comes the real deal.

As a side-note: My current boss told me straight up he hired me because my cv was shit but he looked at my hobbies. THat is what made him give me a call to get a feel for the "dumb ass" that is that bad at selling himself.
See the point is that you can be reasonably accomplished thanks to your talents, interests and intelligence, but let's take the very same you and remove some of the procrastination. It is reasonable to expect that it would be an even more accomplished version of you (even though you might pick up some tangentially interesting stuff that might be useful when browsing HN). To people who do not understand ADHD, your behaviour will be looked at through the lense of "if they just applied themselves...", "they are really smart but just so lazy...". That's what I mean by "unexplained underachievement". It is a useful signal for caretakers. If Johnny is so smart, then why does he end up doing everything at the last minute, inviting stress in his life that will probably shorten his lifespan by 5 years?
My smart home strategy is pretty simple: nothing that requires internet connection to work. Only local devices. WiFi where possible over anything low power (BT, Zigbee, ZWave), wired over wireless wherever possible (e.g 1-wire). Policy for anything I include is that it must fail like an escalator not an elevator - a dumb switch for example, not a light that can’t be switched on. This means smart lightswitches, not smart lights.

It’s a lot of work to configure and maintain but tools like home assistant, proxmox and docker at least makes it somewhat manageable. It’s still a pain though, and it feels like a special kind of masochism to tinker with.

I think it’s entirely possible that an average user who isn’t a programmer or willing to pull a neutral wire here and there could have a decent “smart home” set up by themselves some time within the next three or four decades…
Oddly enough, Windows RT still gets security updates until 2023.

But with it stuck on IE11...
>touting itself as a privacy-centric alternative

There is a difference between selling your data to the highest bidder through a stalker capitalism ecosystem and giving governments carte blanche access.

I am not at all advocating for the latter, but if you are fighting that battle, CP is not the hill to die on.
The Xerox PARC and ETHZ workstations.
I'm sure it's a fault of my attention span but I tend to be a fan of 30 minute conference presentations and otherwise distilling topics down to about that length. Otherwise, it often feels like you're dragging things out. I'm not having a date with the person. I want to discover for my audience what key insights they have.

I do sometimes have longer podcast conversations with people I know well but 20-30 minutes feels like the natural sweet spot for my typical interview.
No one is arguing the commonality, it's the enforcement of these policies that are questionable. In a right to work state, these clauses are meaningless.
Why was this dead? Sure, I got an error message at first when opening the link -- but after a second or so of "spinning beachball" that went away by itself.

As to the article itself, quite interesting (and a bit scary).
it seems to be built using this, but that's all I can tell you:

https://bubble.io/
Laptop: Framework Laptop

Phone: Pixel with GrapheneOS or CalyxOS. In the future a Linux phone when the software improves.
Coors Gets into the Whiskey Business
I use an hp spectre x360, it's not the most powerful thing in the world and has occasional issues knowing when to charge but otherwise I love it with ubuntu/i3wm
welcome to reddit
The value priced EVs typically come with narrow low rolling resistance tires that have the kind of friction coefficient that tends to get online comment sections whipped into a frenzy of pearl clutching about safety when poor people buy them for their 20yo ICE cars. It's hard to make a 1 for 1 comparison with the luxury EVs that use soft wide tires to take advantage of all that torque.

Nitpick: Most EVs are pretty low horsepower. You just don't care because you have ~100% of it available at any RPM.
Distance-based spatial audio! :)
While it is appropriate to attach Orwell's final warning to the likes of GAFAM, often the boot on the face actually looks like this boot kid meme https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/027/787/boo...
Though there are attempts underway to do inline signing of JWT (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-jordan-jws-ct/), though that's still not nearly as bad as XML-DSIG of course. I'm sure some vulns will shake out of it.
When I started my home automation, I wanted as little frustration as possible. I knew that you just can't rely on companies, so I ensured everything is controlled in-house.

Use ZigBee. ZigBee devices create their own mesh network, so Wi-Fi can be down and things still work. ZigBee does use 2.4 GHz, so you may need to move your router to use a different frequency.

Use a Hubitat Elevation or other dedicated server with ZigBee and a UPS power backup. Again, this means the automation logic is independent of the network. Wi-Fi and/or Internet can go down and home automation continues to work. The Hubitat has community driven package management. Once set up, it's a breeze to perform updates.

If you still want to use Alexa, Google and Siri, use bridge software to the services. I use Home Bridge to give access to my Hubitat to HomeKit. Home Bridge in docker means upgrading is letting Watchtower do its thing. Home Bridge rebuilds it's plugins every start, so restarting the docker container brings everything up-to-date.

The most unreliable part has been Google. I have Nest thermostats, and Google cancels the Home Bridge login token now and then. HomeKit integration is excellent, but I wish Siri wasn't so daft at times recognizing speech.
My wife and I were constantly warring over whether our living/dining/kitchen window blinds should be open or close, and there were too many and the faux wood was too heavy to manipulate so much. To make things easy, we got Lutron motorized cellulars shades so we could just ask Siri to open or close whatever. Totally worth it.

Since we had the shades, we also did our lights in that room, so now we can quickly put down all the shades and turn on all the lights.

That being said, I can’t see doing it for any other room in our house. The bother factor just isn’t there like it was with our main open living space. Well, maybe the bedroom, we don’t open the shades very much even though I’d like to.
> Why shouldn’t they be allowed to privately communicate their feelings.

I agree.

> Simply chalking up social control to “cultural differences” ignores the fact that these aren’t cultural mores developed independently, but the results of a highly moralizing tyrannical government trying to assert social control

I've never been to China. But even from an outsider's point of view your statement strikes me as self-centered. What right do you have to enforce your own morals upon an entire other nation?

> a highly moralizing tyrannical government trying to assert social control for the material benefit of those at the top.

Western countries are arguably the same. How does that make the Chinese government wrong and Western countries right?

> Seems like you’re exercising a lot of social control over the couple.

To circle back to this comment; am I? The control is over the internet. Until they've met in real life you're just a stranger on it. Strangers on the internet can be very dangerous and with very little repercussion. Governments have an obligation to protect their citizens. So you should speak kindly and respectfully. You never know what words might upset the other end.

When you meet in person then you're putting your own person at risk for the words you say instead of just an online pseudonym. When you meet in person the stakes have been raised. What does the government do to prevent the couple from talking sexy after they've met in real life? I'm sure there's a lot but once you've met in real life then either you're physically in their culture or they're physically in your culture and respect boundaries must have changed.

Can that system be abused for the people at the top? Absolutely. Is it abused for the people at the top? Well I live in America and so I see a lot of anti-China propaganda so I'd argue that it probably is. But you'd be blind to think that China's alone in that.
I'm suprised nobody has mentioned GrapheneOS: https://grapheneos.org/
I guess the upside might be that this could be a compromise for them to start doing end to end encryption on iCloud backups and iCloud photo libraries. They might be able to argue that if they’re scanning for illegal content on the client side, then they don’t need to be able to decrypt on the cloud side… We’ll have to see, it’s still creepy but potentially a small net gain overall if that becomes an option…
Show HN: Rendering 3D offscreen: Getting max performance using canvas workers
Google founder gets New Zealand residency, raising questions
Evolution of the Computer icon through Windows versions
> Apple has always been able to scan iCloud and send your data to police

I don’t see how the article you linked to explains how Apple can “scan iCloud” for the police. What do you mean? It seems like they just hand data over for a specific warrant related to individual users.
The smartest developers are probably at the beach surfing, or chilling out.
Isn’t no code and GUI software builders an idea that has been tried for decades? Wasn’t Adobe dream weaver one of the early tools?
Me neither, because Linux is not an experience of combined hardware and software, and every couple of years everything gets rebooted because reasons.
I think the difference is right wing "preppers" are more individualistic. For them it's about saving themselves and their immediate family. The left acknowledges that we live in a society. And the real power to prevent happens at a societal level. So their energy is focused more on fixing government and through high leverage policy changes instead.
Is that what research says? Winters in Poland have been getting warmer not colder.

When I was a kid every winter snow started falling in december and started letting up late february or in march. For the past few years there was almost no snow in the winter. Temperatures are higher too. I barely needed my winter coat past few years.
Source of Europe's Mild Climate: Gulf Stream responsible is a myth (2006)
I have been house shopping for about a year now (with no real urgency) and ALL real estate agents will do this. We saw a house where a real estate agent only used their cellphone for photos and the house had the lowest number of views. We went to see the house and it was a m a z i n g. You may joke about these photos, but people want to imagine the room. When you have spent some time looking at houses, your brain is able to convert from the wide angle deception to what it should probably look like.
Can’t tell if this is sarcasm, SpaceX has been launching satellites faster than any organization in human history. They have to deploy 40k for the world, and it will take some time to do this. Superheavy can help make this real with improved satellite deploy bandwidth.
My local hardware store has a fairly large range of smart light switches. I had no idea they existed until now.

But the cost and difficulty of installation must drastically reduce their appeal. Sure they're not hard to install, but it's probably best not to encourage DIY electrical work.

https://www.screwfix.com/p/tcp-1-gang-1-way-smart-light-swit...
Personally? A deep wading into physics and philosophy. What are we even doing here and what, how, and why does it all work and be at all?

I guess just trying to see the things for what they are, versus what you/I/we were told they were or were supposed to be. It at least helps with the acceptance of present circumstances, and allows for establishing enough ownership over your/mine/our own part in it all, however small or great.

Unfortunately the myth of our adversarial relationship with our world is still a firmly held belief by many. That's not something anyone has a great deal of control over—especially in adults.

Likewise, the idea that we're somehow above everything around us tricks us into thinking we might not just be like a spider who wandered too far into the house and is about to get squished by an ambivalent power [read: Earth's nature] greater than ourselves.

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I see you're from not too far away. Similarly in SW Ontario I've wondered what it will look like when climate change really starts taking its toll around the world. On a recent visit to Vancouver Island, the heat and the dryness already is staggering. The image of BC I had not twenty years ago is kind of gone. It's not the same. Its long-time residents have watched it change year-over-year. SW Ontario remains more or less unscathed. It's as lush as it's ever been and fresh water is plentiful. Somehow, it's almost always insulated from the worst weather effects of every major surrounding ecosystem save for the odd ice storm or low-grade tornado. If it wasn't somewhat land-locked it would probably already have a wall around it filled with compounds of the ultra-wealthy.
> They are doing everything client side

That's what they say. And we should trust them on this because...? More importantly, even if they're doing everything client-side now, why should we trust it won't change in a few years?

Also, they aren't doing everything client-side. For this measure to be useful, it has to send out the hashes, or that there were matches detected, to the company, and ultimately the law enforcement.

> it seems like an apartment complex saying you are not allowed to have fires inside your apartment so they installed a smoke detector in your apartment

This situation is not like a fire. A fire in one apartment threatens the entire building (and everyone in it), and it spreads very quickly like started. This is more like installing chemical sensors in every apartment that will automatically call the police when they sniff out illegal drugs. You have nothing to fear if you're not an illegal drug user... unless the sensor has a false positive against your medication. Or the volatiles from your cooking. Or the cleaning agents. Or a jar with a mix of benign substances that someone sent you to screw with you. Or...

Perhaps people would mind less if they could trust the system will work. But anyone with even little bit of exposure to tech industry already knows that these systems don't work, and data collected is routinely abused.
For a moment I suspected you'd end this with "turn on, tune in, drop out".
Reddit’s reliability is a major point and it’s something that has actually gone better. As horrible as the new UI is, back when the old ui was the main one, the site would go down almost daily and often for hours at a time.
> What is clearly a PR move

I don't know what I think about the move, but I know this: intentions don't matter. Capabilities matter. If the current intention is benign, that means little.
I feel like the biggest problem I've had with smart home technology is that there is no out of the box standard for controlling or having access to all of your devices. Almost every device seems to require interacting with it with the vendor's own app or other utility, and so I've needed to install a multitude of at least 3 apps just to control the lights. So not only are vendors trying to compete with their smart devices, but additionally with the apps they've created to even use them, probably to see how much more money they can squeeze out of selling your personal information.

Thankfully, there's Home Assistant[1], which is an amazing project that aims to bridge connectivity and control between all of these devices into a single centralized environment. Pair that up with Tasmota[2]-compatible devices and you can have a smart home that can be completely disconnected from the cloud and in your control.

[1] https://www.home-assistant.io/

[2] https://tasmota.github.io/docs/
Yeah as I mentioned down the thread, once you act against the users, you're dead. I'm done. They are going from my life.

Good job it's ebay 80% off fees this weekend here in the UK.
I also had a Sparc IPC for a while. Those were slowwwww.
Seems like on of those cases where "what is good for the individual is bad for the whole population if every body follows the advice" I remember seeing this when I took economics but I can't remember how it is called.
How to calculate revenue growth for early stage startups? 8 months operating
http://www.paulgraham.com/aord.html

In this article, Paul says the first thing he asks early stage startups, is assuming that their expenses remain constant and their revenue growth is what it has been over the last several months, do they make it to profitability based on the money they have left? Our revenue has been fluctuating a lot in the past 9 months, do I just get the average growth from the first month till now? Or is there another better way to calculate the revenue growth?
Great rant.

"just don't use f16" seems like the course of wisdom here.

I had a 3x 5 bit value, packed structure in something where memory pressure was severe, and it was such a bitch on a SPARC to deal with 16 bit quantities that actually running the data as two passes using more memory wound up being an immensely better approach. The Alphas would diddle yer bits any way you liked at speed, but that was clearly an aberrant ability.
My point is that the code is doing the most performant thing: sending the values from A to B with as little bit twiddling as possible. They almost certainly failed to even consider that there are different restrictions between the 2 protocols that could pose security issues.
Lawyers operate on the established parameters of a case as directed by a judges orders (and also the particular judge’s idiosyncratic nonsense, no matter how illogical or farfetched), not actual reality or truth..

If they can find a technicality to hide their own mistakes and general incompetency, why would they not try to influence the judge to proclaim their fantasy as the prevailing “truth”?
Maybe in Saudi Arabia? That’s not the case in the US.
Show HN: Olympic “combined climbing” calculator in Python
During the climbing qualifiers at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, I saw commentators struggle with calculating the possibilities of which-athlete-advances.

That's because the "combined climbing" points are a multiplication of ranking from 3 separate events. Most climbers hate this format, but it's fun mathematically.

So I wrote this little script that calculates the best-to-worst possible outcome automatically:

https://gist.github.com/piskvorky/ce48a4292fdf878f42495d027949ac45

I had fun with it during the women and (especially) men finals, calling the medalists early. The "combined climbing" format will be discontinued after Tokyo, so the script is likely utterly useless.
> Managed high-density bee colonies for crop pollination are associated with these pollinators being at risk of disease and parasite infection

I think, unfortunately, when most people hear about bees being at risk, they think only of domestic honey bees (which are not at risk). A lot of the solutions proposed to "save the bees" are therefore counterproductive.
You're wasting your time. These negationist dumbasses are everywhere and doesn't matter how much you explain or how many proof you have. They will counter argument you with a link to a Twitter of some random Illuminati or similar.
I write down my plan on paper. It's puts me in a methodical state of mind.
No-code eventually becomes so complex that it becomes a bad programming language eventually, or lacks the expressiveness of a programming language to do what the business wants.

The imagined problem no-code addresses is business people thinking that their requirements are simple, and the source of their problems are expensive software developers and programming languages. Just get a junior business analyst to drag some boxes around, and job done. They are wrong.

This pattern has been repeated for decades now.
I seem to recall someone, possibly the US CDC, banning alternative COVID tests to their faulty one in the early days of the pandemic.

If someone attempts set up emergency mask production they'd probably get hit by anti-gouging laws, because that isn't cheap.

And the vaccines are presumably only available because the governments relented, fast-tracked them and provided special guarantees to help people get over the testing hurdle. Normally it takes 4-8 years to get a vaccine to market. We've got evidence here that those years are more red tape than requirement, it suggests up to 75% of the regulatory process is destructive theatre.
Logitech's Harmony can do that, I'm sure others as well. Full disclosure I've never used their app, only other pieces of that line.

I think the whole line is discontinued now, but looks like you can still find them easily.
In the UK at least, the lighting circuit contains a neutral wire, so this shouldn't be an issue.
Unless Apple is starting to view YOUR phone as THEIR property - this is an invasion.

Android does not scan your phone. Google scans content uploaded to ITS machines - because content hosted on ITS machines is a liability.
Simply turning off iCloud Photos will ensure that photos on your iPhone are never scanned. Why are you trying to make this thing about photos stored on-device? Photos in iCloud have always been available to Apple through iCloud backups. If you are concerned about privacy, turn it off.

"And it does so while providing significant privacy benefits over existing techniques since Apple only learns about users’ photos if they have a collection of known CSAM in their iCloud Photos account."
What this kind of UNIX systems have versus Linux, is that when you develop an application for a SGI Irix, you get a full stack of frameworks and every Irix is the same experience.
I should have clarified. It couldn't be done with out breaking compatibility with existing apps. If I recall, Amiga Exec's "PutMsg" didn't even take a message length, just a pointer (message) and a port name.
He was homeless with mental health issues. Obviously not the mental health BS the state said he had.

This does not change the crux of your post, just some of the points.
Literally no book I hare read had lines as long as this one tho. They also dont use red text color on orange background with additional dark orange letters on it.

My point here is that this particular text presentation is really quite bad.
When they tell you that you need to upgrade if you want fewer updates, you know the daily updates aren't necessary.