skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The UniFi Protect integration is awesome. Turn on outdoor lights on motion, disable loud doorbell ding when the dog is sleeping, change privacy zones, send critical notifications to bypass silent mode on iOS devices when a person is detected while away… really amazing stuff.

The HomeKit Controller integration is also neat. All kinds of HomeKit compatible devices can just work with Home Assistant. Honeywell Lyric is the best example: PIR sensors with local push for lighting automation or special alerts when gates open to prevent the dog from escaping the backyard.

Edit: More useful things!

I have my washer and dryer in a garage. Can’t hear the machines inside. The Z-Wave light switches around my house have status LEDs, so one LED is dedicated to the washer and dryer status based on power draw from the outlet. Works really well. The same status LEDs are shared for all light switches around the house, so
it’s a good ambient notification.

The Mac app can provide webcam or mic status as a sensor, which turns on a key light when I join video calls and turns on an LED on the light switch outside my office to signal when I’m on a call.

I also get a push notification on my computer and a LED light on the light switches when the Roomba is full. It fills up a few times during its typical run while I’m working.

I also have the door status (open/closed/locked) from the Lyric as LEDs on the light switches. Very easy to tell if something is unlocked or open at a glance while walking around the house.
"Crypto Fund Manager/Scammer" reads like they are synonyms.
People park their car in their garage?
Natural immunity?

But then again, I seem to remember that the 97% number was not a fair enough random sampling.
Things like Amazon's Fire being so cheap are probably propping up the Android (or non-Apple, whatever) side of the ledger.

I have a Fire because it was very cheap and it's a reasonable "small thing that plays videos" device. I don't really have a use for a tablet to do anything else.
> Everything returned a value. I guess a bit like Ruby

Like C, isn't it? Assignments return values! Still feels weird AF to those of us who started on BASIC and Pascal.
Facebook is one the highest paying companies, the highest among FAANG. High paying companies = high demand = selective = high prestige. I would say Google and Facebook are probably the two most in demand companies (out of all companies) to work for among software engineers.

(I frequent career fairs, blind and cscareerquestions)
The intention was there - according to Pakenham's "The Scramble for Africa" the idea was that prior to independence you educate a generation of civil servants who will then run the country along essentially British lines. I'd argue this worked well in India, largely though because Indians were already running the country in most important particulars. In Africa less so because independence movements gained unstoppable momentum which preempted such planning, plus many of those countries had been colonies for decades rather than centuries.
Probably the replacement program and the associated logistics were too expensive and the recall was an easier solution in terms of costs/benefits. Not sure about the PR costs this will cause though.
“Not all of them are bad” isn’t a very strong argument against the general heuristic.
The supply dictates the price. Thought experiment:

Imagine any item with a certain amount of demand. Now cut the supply of that good in half. What happens to the price?

If the supply gets cut in half, then cut in half again, and again, what happens? If we accept that the mining reward is the "supply" then we can see that it should cause continual increases.

As for the already-emitted supply, you can essentially ignore it because of self-interest. Seeing the effect of diminishing supply and unlike miners, not needing immediate funds to buy new mining hardware to stay competitive, for currency hodlers, HODLing is the rational strategy. So holders aren't really part of the supply equation, hence the "store of value" narrative.

So you've got a dwindling supply flow, that causes higher prices, which, because of built in competition, guarantees that the blocks will go to whoever is willing to expend the most energy to get them, which is a ceiling only provided by the current price, which is ever driven higher by the increasing exponential scarcity of the halving block rewards.

Essentially, this scheme ends with the heat death of our planet, and unlike climate change, green energy might not be able to make a dent in time.

The halvening stops in 2140, if I remember right. Humans intuitively don't understand exponential growth well, but if the same path continues, the energy growth (halvening = price doubling)

1 = Today = ARGENTINA's energy usage

2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512,1024,2048

In 40 years, 2048 times that. And it just goes up from there. Now, if you're thinking, that's more than the world produces, you're right. But what happens if it is even half, or 1/10th as bad? Still nothing that leaves us a habitable planet, because the heat and carbon from mining will drive climate change past the brink.
Price and panel gaps
> An alternative you haven’t considered is that leadership is excellent at communicating what they want, but it’s not reducible to a simple set of incentive foals.

Can you give an example?

> Another alternative that you are not considering is that the world is dynamic and excellent leadership involves adapting goals as the world changes, not maintaining consistency for the sake of easy comparison with other organizations.

I did consider this. I don't think maintaining consistency for the sake of easy comparison is a good reason to maintain consistency, but consistency in values is good because it changing values is damaging to an organization. It requires a cultural shift that usually causes deep pain and often requires firing members of leadership (I suggest reading https://apenwarr.ca/log/20190926 for a good post that influences my thoughts here and matches my experience).

If leadership is unable to maintain consistent values, that is a failure of leadership in my eyes. They are unreliable. Values can change, but they should do so slowly and rarely (and with good, and preferably transparent, reason).

If a leader is unable to maintain cohesive goals over a reasonable timescale, that's also an indictment of their abilities to plan within and understand the space they are working in.

Or to put another way, your organization will not develop a cohesive identity and culture without clear goals and values. Now oftentimes, you do have some clear values even if you don't state them, but then the question for leadership becomes "are those really the values you want"? And if you don't know them well enough to be able to state them, I'd suggest that the answer is probably not.

> Perhaps people can judge leaders based on results and culture

I'll reiterate: you cannot judge a leader based on culture if they don't declare what that culture is, or if their values and goals change too often. Values and goals set culture, and if values and goals change, culture changes. If all you know about a leader is that their values and goals change often, you can't judge them and their organization by how it looks today, because you can have high confidence that it will look fundamentally different soon. That's a sign of dysfunction. So I do judge them based on that: I judge them to be bad leaders. You appear to disagree, but I'm not sure how you are judging them if you can't even be sure of what their values will be tomorrow.
On the other hand, it is kind of weird that a site called "Hacker News" is less hackable than MySpace back in the day. At the very least they could redesign the layout to make it easier for external scripts to deal with.

Given how many people here long for the quirky old days of the web, I say whomever starts a thread should also get to create a custom CSS theme for it.
matrix does not care about which device you use for verification.

that said the clients do leak a lot of metadata when compared to signal.
PoS is more energy efficient, but so is an xls running on a single desktop. The argument is if PoS can replace the security model of PoW. I have been arguing for a long time now it can’t, in fact, those pushing us towards PoS are throwing away everything we have gained in decentralization and censorship resistance with PoW/Bitcoin.
What would you prefer over an app for these devices, especially for those where providing an on-device UI would be too expensive or too limiting?
Hard to understand the distinction between bitcoin and dogecoin using that logic. Both are PoW systems that can only do one thing: transfers.
It's common knowledge Russia has no extradition agreement with the US and if you are willing to spy for the Russian Gov't or hack for them they will likely trade you a start to citizenship . . . I mean Edward Snowden is the perfect example
The Baltics would disagree. Think of all the problems for the elderly retired Russian speaking people that stayed behind.
>“What makes this test provocative is North Korea’s public statement that these cruise missiles are a ‘strategic’ weapon, implying an intention to miniaturize nuclear warheads to fit on them,”

For headline readers, this is the real significance.
I've heard that this is the reason that all the future major lithium ion companies have already been founded.

Learning all the really hard lessons about QC and how to prevent fires and defects takes more experience and knowledge and time than any new competitor could devote to catching up.
No it's not. If you were surrounded by lakes. Sure.

It's extremely useful. It's just not in demand. Which is exactly what I just wrote. Land is not at a premium. Space in the cities is, like every nation around the world.
It's not that they were deep-cycling the cells before. Discharging lithium cells to 0 volts is very bad for them; the cars definitely restrict the cells from being discharged below a certain point. Rather, the potential for danger due to this rare, hard-to-detect manufacturing flaw is great enough that Chevy is asking Bolt owners to self-impose even tighter restrictions on how low the batteries will be discharged.
I mean it does look like it got lost, but the blue line in the "this is what I'm sensing and going to do in the next 30 seconds" view started indicating a full turn the instant it started turning.
For the few folks that doesn't live in SF, maybe?
I expect so too, and was going to say the same, but it's not actually that different (to a pop-up, or message, or whatever invasive 'jump-in' alternative) is it? It just means most people won't know about it.
they enable communication for 3 billion people on the scale not previously seen in the history of mankind?
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. There are salary bands precisely because of this. Also productivity isn't the only metric. A person may get a higher salary for the same position because they bring in more experience or relevant skill set. A good chunk of more senior development work is figuring out which problems are worth solving in the first place. A junior engineer with that talent is far more valuable & senior engineers can differentiate themselves in that way as well.

As for replacements, for more senior positions its not a 2 week process. You typically have someone more interim step in if there's nobody existing on the team that can step in.
And thanks to people moving house, or even changing profession, or acquiring some defining trait or accomplishment. With most people being undocumented throughout history, names could be much more fluid, like the way a person's "nickname" may change many times with or without consent.
Ask HN: How does placer.ai get its data?
According to TC [0] placer.ai collects data from 40% of iPhone and 60% of Android users in the US via its SDK! How are they encouraging top apps to install their location tracking SDK? Is this some sort of hidden library that gets auto-included via something like CocoaPods [1]? Or maybe they partner with an ad platform and include their SDK as part of theirs? Still neither one of these really explain how they can have such high penetration.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/27/location-data-analytics-startup-placer-ai-raises-50m-series-b/

[1] https://guides.cocoapods.org/using/the-podfile.html
Sell the other car

Edit: or get a rubber car to counteract
Of course it had. Turbo Pascal had, AFAICR. (Probably because, at a guess, Wirth-standard Pascal did; though I'm less certain about that.)
It still strikes me as a bit weird that Canada did not have its own constitution, as in technically completely independent of the British Parliament, until 1982.

And technically the head of state is…well it’s complicated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_General_of_Canada
Much props to this guy, The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY
PA is apparently kind of weird:
https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/pennsylvania-no-faul...

Also, "No Fault" doesn't cover vehicle damage. Apparently, this is what I was remembering. It changed when I lived in Pennsylvania (that was quite a while ago).
> They should have limited the charge from the beginning. No way the engineers didn’t realize deep cycling is bad for the battery.

Have you even read up on the manufacturing faults behind this? It's a cell manufacturing robot alignment problem that went unnoticed, not a deep cycling problem.
Banning NEW* ICE vehicles, where medium and heavy duty vehicles are still by 2045. Honestly we need to push that up a decade by atleast phasing out non-hybrids. Still have people buying and factories making 15mpg Dodge Challengers that will be running the next 20 years, when they can afford the zero emission alternatives...
Previously (76 comments, 2016): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12343755
Some owners have successfully gotten Bolt buybacks. Of course with the car shortage that might mean not getting a replacement car immediately.
connect and let 3 billion people communicate with each other every day
help small businesses reach customers
invest advance the SOTA in a lot of tech
Duolingo: The Antithesis to the Bazaar
This. I strongly feel that anyone anti-BTC at this point is basically a state boot licker who loves to push for authoritarian policies. It was designed exactly to ignore these authoritarians. Honey badger doesn’t give a shit.
The panel gaps and misalignment ive seen online for Teslas are still better than the general fit and finish issues that plague every single GM car I been in. Massive chunks of messy rubber foam, obvious joiners, bad internal panels...

Maybe Tesla is not as tight as BMW, but it is definitely better than GM.
Usually yes, with an AT command: http://www.messagestick.net/modem/Hayes_Ch1-1.html

Knowledge of AT commands is still useful today, but the modems are cellular: https://www.twilio.com/docs/iot/supersim/introduction-at-com...
> The markets didn't take off, they withered. AFAIK they don't have them anymore.

Actually there is a new prediction market at Google now called Gleangen. It seems to be fairly active and flourishing despite not using real $$. Although there is a leaderboard, so perhaps the desire to want to rank in the top 10 is what motivates people to place bets.
Yes, but it's vanishingly rare to see crimes like securities fraud enforced with ACTUAL violence. "Vice" laws disproportionately effect marginalized communities, down to the amount of violence used to enforce them.
No, Free Pascal is Delphi for the modern world.
I was counting on that when I added status 418 to my gopher server. It shut a particular web bot right up when I did that.
Because it might be wired to a bomb?
I still think bad scrum is still better than bad anything else. If you have to have a badly managed project, scrum keeps it from going off the rails.

My favorite project was this thing where everyone just chatted non-stop on Slack from morning to 4 AM on all the cool things they wanted to do. Since the conversation was non-stop, everyone just knew how the progress was and what needed to be done and we had almost no meetings, and onboarding was seamless.

It didn't scale though. The managers who kept it running that way eventually left. The conversation just became noise and as the teams grew bigger, nobody knew each other, so they broke off into different cliques.
Everyone knows the garage is for storing the treadmill you never use.
Both really. The problem is supposed to have been caused by misaligned robots at LG's factories:

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/08/misaligned-factory-robo...

But the fault of both GM and LG is that they weren't able to detect the problem sooner.
Unicode Sponsors of Adopted Characters
Turing was interested in a bunch of other stuff, but what people know about is the Computer and his war work (at Bletchley Park). His work on say Morphogenesis (why are zebra stripes different on each animal?) is little known.

But Turing probably isn't more important to how you get from the Treaty of Bern in 1874 (creating the UPU thus you could now practically write letters in Paris and send them to New York and it Just Works™ albeit it's expensive and slow) to the Internet than, say, Godel (more fundamental observations about the nature of mathematics that underpin computation) or Grace Hopper (the first compiler although today we'd say this is only a linker). Her Navy bosses couldn't immediately see any value for it. But Grace is apparently the first to make use of the meta-applicability of computing - the minutiae of actually programming the computer are tiresome, a lot of rote tasks perfectly suited to a machine, so, why not have the computer do those parts for you?
If you look at the link, it's not the majority of locations selling SMB for $25, it's the majority of launch titles for NES games being $25, with a few slightly more expensive.

I see some reports online that the average price was $50 in 1990, and others that say $40-$50, and maybe slightly higher for select titles. I think it's fairly safe to say that Nintendo priced their launch titles low to attract people, and third party titles were likely averaging $40-$50 within a few years.

I also think it's safe to say that most people's memories about this are fairly faulty, given 30+ years. There's numerous reports online about people saying they paid $60 for all their NES games. In addition to that, there were probably some places that sold above MSRP, and some people bought from those locations.
Google Pixel 3 (XL) bricking out of nothing
Phones are stuck in EDL mode with no way to recover, due to Google not releasing the signed firehorse files.

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/192008282

https://www.google.de/search?q=pixel+3+brick&tbm=nws

I am not affected (yet). If anyone from Germany is interested in figuring out what the issue is and can risk losing their data, feel free to ping me on libera IRC. I have the ability to desolder and dump the UFS memory to start some investigation.
WHy is that good? Seems like it just leads to 13% of teenagers just wanting to kill themselves.
Same, I got in early with explaining how to do a callback. It trumps all my other answers.
Both North Korea and Iran deftly took advantage of the U.S. being preoccupied with Iraq and Afghanistan. Frankly, I'm surprised China didn't make more significant moves the past 20 years. Though, I suppose China's economy has changed significantly over the past 20 years, and the U.S. was less preoccupied the second decade than the first, which is when Iran and North Korea made their major nuclear moves.

But it's not news that China posed the greater strategic issue. One of Obama's first foreign policy initiatives in 2009 was the "Pivot to Asia". And the need for that pivot had been the consensus opinion of foreign policy analysts for years prior.

The U.S. got stuck in the Middle East because it couldn't separate itself from the rhetoric. The Bush Administration (specifically Cheney, et al) did too good a job selling the Iraq War to both the public and the defense industry. Conservatives continually carping over Iran has never helped, either. The irony that Iran would never have pursued nuclear weapons but-for the Iraq invasion--because of the threat the U.S. posed, because it distracted the U.S.--makes the dynamic starkly clear.
> I can't decide if I like that better or worse.

It's a really good question. Let's think about it.

As you've outlined it, Tesla's approach prioritizes the user's confidence in the product, rather than the user's knowledge about the product.

Naturally, when a product is faulty, the user's confidence in the product is inversely proportional to their knowledge about the fault; the less I know about the fault, the more unshaken is my confidence in the product.

So I guess it comes down to this: when a product fails, would you prefer to react with "wow, how unexpected" or "figures"?
I'm not a big censorship supporter. I'm not a big supporter of "use libel laws to impose censorship", either. But I think this article is overlooking one detail, and it matters.

Ryan Lizza wrote an article with some facts and lots of innuendo that attacked Devin Nunes. Nunes sued for libel. The court pointed out that you can use facts to paint a misleading picture (which is totally true), and that doing so can amount to defamation (which I think I agree with). In the end, though, they didn't rule in favor of Nunes on that point.

Where they ruled for Nunes: Lissa tweeted a link to the article, with some clickbait teasers to draw views. The court said that doing so was a "republication" and, since the court case was already in progress by a month, by then it was known that the contents were in dispute.

Legal scholars are having a fit about this. The linked article says,

> In other words, if the panel’s ruling is allowed to stand, people who share articles that have been the subject of defamation lawsuits may be held liable if a plaintiff can adequately show that the person who shared the article had knowledge of the lawsuit’s existence.

But the thing that I think drove this decision is that it wasn't just any tweeter. It was the article's author who tweeted. He absolutely knew the lawsuit was there, since he was the one being sued. He can't hide behind "I didn't know the article was false" for the tweet.

Now, I'm still not sure it's the right decision. But it's at least reasonable to say that, if you wrote something and you're getting sued because it was false in a way that slandered someone, maybe you shouldn't continue drumming up clicks for the false thing you wrote.

If you do think it was the wrong decision, note that it's just a circuit decision. It can be appealed to the Supreme Court. It also isn't currently binding outside the bounds of the 8th Circuit.
I have one caveat: people whose immigration to the USA was conditioned on their employment in Silicon Valley.

Aside from that, I think _every single person_ that works at Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc. (the uncivil technology corps) is morally bankrupt. Every last one of them is fundamentally compromised by their work.
Does Taiwan have nukes? North Korea does.
You could probably make a modern cross-platform finger client using Electron!
That’s not how these industries work.
The new kids on the block start with talent, largely hired from the more established players.
devs refused to go into that because much like the authors they are 30 years in the banks and don’t want to learn something else

The way to fix that is to use the method IBM used to introduce the IBM-PC back in 1981. They set up a completely independent project group that had no connection with the main-frame boys, and so weren't 'brainwashed' into the IBM 'way of life'. The rest is history.

Incidentally, while I no longer program in COBOL, I still like it. It was always easy to do maintenance on a program that I might not have looked at for decades because of its wordiness. I normally program in C these days, but it's not as 'maintenance-friendly' as COBOL unless there are lots of comments.
> Someone’s gonna get the money, it might as well be me.

Is a perfectly defensible moral argument.