skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hah, I have an AC window unit from Miele that is a great piece of hardware. But the app, my god, it's so bad. Every launch of the app requires a log in. Every log in error messages pop up about api endpoint such and such, but it works anyway. If a command fails, which it does half the time, the app gets out of sync with the unit (i.e. app will say fan speed medium, unit will say fan speed low). So I guess it syncs state on startup and never again, and doesn't check if commands fail. But there is one feature I can only find in the app, not from buttons on the unit (turning all LEDs off on the unit while it continues to run).

The buzzwords I never hear on HN is Digital Twin. It's usually in a HVAC or like smart building context. It's a buzzword for a simple idea, but the makers of the Miele AC app probably should have thought a little harder about tracking system state, maybe read a little of the literature.
The article links to this one, which has a screenshot of a table from the official document: https://freebeacon.com/coronavirus/hospital-system-backs-off...

Obesity, asthma, hypertension is worth 1 pt each.
Man have 2 pts, Diabetes 3 pts.
"Non-White or Hispanic" gives 7 points.

So a White person with obesity, diabetes, asthma and hypertension will still be denied treatment, when it will be given to a Non-White person of the same gender and age with no comorbidity at all.
BBC censors its own archives
Stand up for some meetings (like standups?)
Updates improve wash efficiency, etc. Not just security updates. Maybe a new cleaning powder comes with a new algo. Maybe there's a better dosing for certain levels of water hardness.

But the gist is that it updates the whole module. I'm fine with this, Miele are like Bosch in that they look after the hardware they sell for decades rather than considering it deprecated the day it leaves a shop floor.
My Cree wifi flood light above the door won't let me adjust the color temp if it needs an update. I can turn it off and on, but most functions won't work until it updates.
To be fair, it could also get functionality updates. For example they could upload a new totally different UX loved by the designers and that nobody else understands how to use ;-)
... if you know the secret button sequence to break out of the menu.

I can't think of a good reason to have a network-connected dishwasher. I don't think I'd ever start it remotely, as I still have to clear the table and rinse the dishes. The washer gets started when I'm done loading it. I can check detergent levels while the door is open.

Pretty much the same for all my other appliance for that matter.
I believe if you take for yourself the right to neutralize or silence an opponent, he gets to do the same in kind. State authority is mostly based on show and relies on people complying, even in autocracies. So you should be very sure about it if you do silence people and about the costs. There was never a point in the recent pandemic or would you disagree?

It is also difficult to come up with an example where it was warranted to suppress information. Can you name one? Educated and intelligent people are often very distrustful, especially of authority.

Society is not a boot camp of grunts.
Wouldn't want hackers to hack your analog dishwasher through the power grid!
> Technically, I assume their TOS or equivalent made it clear that they can do this.

Yeah, it'll be written in obscure legalese and say something like 'we will ship updates to improve the driving experience' not 'one day you might be unable to work out how to demist your windscreen while driving at motorway speeds'

> If not, consumers can always sue, I imagine.

You say that like it's a trivial endeavour! And how can one 'vote with their wallet' when they've already bought the car? A car is, for most people, a multi-year, extremely expensive investment; voting with your wallet is useful advice when your local coffee shop changes their recipe.
My (non-internet connected) washing machine does this very thing. Why does an appliance need to be connected to a network to provide this functionality? So I can track it on my phone? As another comment pointed out, until these appliances can load themselves, I still need to be physically present at some point in time. An LED indicator can tell me to clean the filter or fill the cleaning reservoir, and I don't have to enter my WiFi information or download security updates.
I think that the components being hoarded have little effect on the final car price, but are critical to the car working -- e.g. required but not sufficient. These are like $0.50 microcontrollers or similar.

I think there isn't a bullwhip effect on batteries, which is the main cost associated with TVs.
Yes, that's a nice solution. It's very easy to create a local instance of WP with the Local.app (localwp.com) and use the WP2Static plugin to generate a static version of it (or appi.sh, if you need to do that via terminal).
> Research has previously suggested that automated vehicles could cause people to drive more than they currently do,

Even without full self driving, having lane keeping assist and adaptive cruise control greatly increases my enjoyment on long trips. Often I will put on a podcast or audiobook and drive. Before, traffic jams used to be a pain because you were constantly having to shift your foot from brake to accelerator, but with adaptive cruise control, the car handles all that allowing to relax and enjoy the ride.
* Insert quote from Ubik by P. K. Dick *

I'm glad that I have around 20 year old Bosch dishwasher. It has one button and one knob and it doesn't beep.

For home automation I sometimes would like to add a lowest quality webcam pointed towards lights to see if it has finished. But not for the dishwasher - it always takes the same time and is quick enough. It could be useful for the washing machine, but not enough for me to care.
Having traditional controls would probably increase the price. There's a reason that so many car manufacturers are adding touchscreens; it's _cheap_.
I'm a bit upset to say that this is one of the few times I've seen AWK code outside of a one liner (some of those one liners are pretty beastly, but still).

It reads pretty well, and now I'm interested in using it a bit more for my scripts. Any good AWK examples/resources anyone can recommend?
Why Legal Weed Didn't Kill Oregon's Black Market
They can and do put drugs directly on the other side of the barrier. Intrathecal administration typically uses an infusion pump to put drugs directly into the cerebrospinal fluid. Pain meds are a common use case, as well as some chemotherapy drugs. It's a somewhat risky MOA, as the likely path of infection will proceed immediately to the life threatening stage, which means not many drugs are approved by this route.
The browser demo (https://scrtwpns.com/mixbox/painter/) "runs two color mixing implementations in parallel: one based on Mixbox and the other that performs ordinary RGB mixing."

The issue is clicking between "Mixbox" & "Normal" in the app with unmixed paint shows two different starting colours which must make any comparison of mixed colours effectively void.
And the UX should be a lot better on various white goods too: simple, intuitive and unobtrusive. I love my Miele dishwasher (not WiFi enabled!) but my Zanusi washer/dryer is utterly terrible in this respect.

Despite plenty of great physical abilities of the washer/dryer, it's almost ruined by a useless UX that obsessively locks one out of all sorts of perfectly legitimate transitions, meaning one has to frequently turn it off and back on to force the change of activity, adding frustration for something that could easily be handled if only they'd not crippled the device and made you wait while you cycle it.
It can be very difficult to replicate a data race when using shared memory without decent performance when debugging.
The most common response is likely along the lines of "we don't need our dishwashers connected to the internet, this is unnecessary, another failure mode, another invasion, etc."

The more interesting question is who, in the bowels of the manufacturer's corporate headquarters, determined that this feature added value, how was it priced, and what, if anything was done after the fact to assess whether the additional cost was justified?
It only happens at `await` points. This means you don’t need to worry about it leaving an invalid BTreeMap or anything, only code that actually does async work needs to worry about being canceled.
I think incumbents love over regulation. A wider and wider moat.
Allow Black to choose White's first move. They aren't allowed to pick f3 (huh, looks like Stockfish greatly prefers f3 to g4)

Or more, based on https://lichess.org/analysis you'd have to ban a couple more moves like a4/h4, but you could opt to restrict picking first moves within Stockfish range at some depth of -0.1 to 0.1 (looks like c4 is enough to be 0.1 at depth 47)

This may increase the draw rate

If you want to keep engine analysis out of the rules, you can go the "evenly split candy between siblings" route: after White's first move & before Black's response, Black may elect to trade positions
I went car shopping this year in the new market and found that that if you want more a "dumb" car (UX occurs primarily outside of a touchscreen, no internet, no geolocation) you lose all potential for any nice non-smart features. So no heated/powered seats, no power windows, the material of the interior is refurbished from a spirit airlines airplane, etc.

I think manufacturers are hoping that certain aspects of the modern auto become "can't live withouts", e.g. bluetooth, which helps them smuggle all the other more marginally useful, security and ux intrusive features into your model. Now as others have mentioned, these unwanted smart features might actually be required by law/regulation/tax-credit/legal-dept, so it's not bad programming/design but "design by committee" that's dooming our chances of a good dumb car.

I wonder how well my car will age when miscellaneous sensor all over the car start failing. It used to just show a light on your dashboard, now I wonder if I'll be grounded - stuck in park - or hounded by incessant bells repeating the same spurious warning over and over again.
Something I've found is that, in particular for calls, Apple isn't able to retain object permanence around contacts.

If I assign a contact a custom ringtone, I expect all devices to know that, especially if they're going to do the insane Apple thing where every.single.device.I.own rings at the same time.

I swear Apple thinks any call which hasn't been pre-selected for voicemail has world changing importance.
A Brief History of Netflix Personalization (Part One, from 1998 to 2006)
Google Chrome Is the Worst Browser – By Brad LaPlante
Yeah it would be great to see that done for a more modern VT too though!

Especially because a 100% perfect emulator doesn't really exist.
The wifi isn't there for the firmware, it's there for the wifi functionality (Don't ask why it needs wifi functoinality, I can't answer).

But once you do have wifi functionality so you have wifi hardware, then the thing needs patching and upgrades too. Maybe some server address has changed, maybe a security fix, etc. And obviously if you have wifi hardware, it's the easy way to upgrade the software.

So the question I think isn't "Why does the firmware need to be updated at all"? It likely wouldn't, if the firmware just made the machine clean dishes. The question one should ask is, why does it have network features at all? What possible use case can exist?
> The dishwasher I buy will never need software.

If you have that option. Not sure if you've shopped for white goods recently, but the options without wifi are relatively few, and mostly lower end models.

We needed a new stove, I wanted one without wifi/internet connectivity. Due to the above and supply chain issues that limited availability of a lot of models, I didn't have a choice and ended up with a model with wifi/internet connectivity. I have, of course, not connected it.
Interesting, thanks! I guess I’ve only read the horror stories
"Command and Control" by Eric Schlosser (I think it was) contains a report about the USA being extremely hesitant and taking ages to reprogram the missiles. So yeah, I'd not be surprised either.

Also, that's a great (audio) book on the general subject.
From what little I scrolled, I didn't see any category theory. Just some elementary group theory, point-set topology, real analysis, linear algebra etc Most of it standard material for undergrad math majors.

> And stuff that used to be simple algebra is now explained as something like 'Abelian group linear transformations'.

"Simple algebra" means different things in different professions? For example, Dummit&Foote's Abstract Algebra[0] would be considered "elementary algebra" by most mathematicians. For another example, Principles of Mathematical Analysis by Walter Rudin[1] is "elementary analysis".

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Abstract-Algebra-3rd-David-Dummit/dp/...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Mathematical-Analysis-Inte...
The no-code implementation of this is to plug your workstation into an outlet that is controlled by a wall switch.
In the near future there will be an illicit underground market for dumb devices that don't "dial home". Anybody seen to buy such devices will be ostracized as somebody having "something to hide", e.g., when and what they wash, what is in their fridge etc.

Dumb cars that are spotted on the highway without matching digital footprints will be confiscated on the spot.
I'm married and do envelope budgeting with Beancount. We share a bank account, and it's my job to update the budget every day. I manually enter all transactions, except for monthly expenses that are scripted to come out automatically. My wife just wants to look at the reports. I keep it up to date.

It's not perfect but it's the best system I've tried, including YNAB, because I get paid biweekly and YNAB forces you to budget monthly.
Trust is the thing that keeps the entire global economy going. Sure, it is attenuated at many points and has to be back-stopped at others, but all division of labor is expression of trust in the work and promises of others.

Now, the whole world is trying to get TSMC to invest in other locales in advance of Chinese invasion of Taiwan at the same time that NATO is funneling arms and personnel to Ukraine ahead of Russian invasion. Work isn't getting done on expected timelines because of unprecedented disruption caused by responses to covid.

Meanwhile, down at the bottom of the pile, when airlines cancel my flights for unprecedented problems, I wait 3 hours on hold because they don't have enough people working support.

All this to say that, yes, the bullwhip is going to be horrible, but so is not being able to perform your function in the economy because your required inputs are unobtainable. There's no graceful path for a system with so much volatility. Hopefully we can all stomach the creative destruction.
>I hope the massive advances of sequencing will reach the clinics soon

What are the obstacles to this? I have been seeing articles lately about sequencing your own DNA at home in a few hours for about a thousand bucks. I guess the medical
grade equipment has to be a lot more robust, so a lot more expensive? (And there might be an insufficient supply of biology interns to operate the equipment.)
DDIO works for any DMA initiator, not just Intel NICs.

It's too bad that DDIO has not trickled down the product line. It doesn't exist on desktop-class parts, and many people can't use it even on top-of-the-line Xeon-SP because cloud operators disable it and RDT/CAT, which is helpful when using direct cache access.
Because it'd be too easy to just invest some time beforehand to figure out the optimal process beforehand.
this is where we can say we have failed as engineers, technology should exist to help people... not the other way around
All those things mandated for cars are related to safety. Back-up cameras are required to prevent drivers from running over small children. ABS and stability control to prevent crashes. Etc. And none of them, in a simple implementation, reduce the usability of the car/truck.

No such mandates exist for home appliances. The connectivity/apps are purely a money-grab - either people like the general idea of connected devices, or the manufacturer thinks they can monetize that connectivity post-sale (or likely some combination of the two).
It should be the other way around: non-essential-workers only leaving the home for groceries and other essentials reduces it from 7 to 1.5, keeping distance at the grocery store reduces it from 1.5 to 1.1, wearing masks at the grocery store reduces it from 1.1 t o 0.8. Something like that. Made-up numbers.
Doubt they would have any incentives to do anything but the bare minimum considering it doesn't appear to be a paid service?
Open index of scholarly papers launches
I looked at the photos first, in awe of the photographer's bravery. Then I read the article and it made more sense; technology is neat!
> I already told you this wasn't a simple missclick.

Seems like it essentially was. He exchanged ETH for WETH in exactly the same way. Assuming that the reverse would work (as opposed to destroying the money) was not an unreasonable step. He still screwed up, but a design that allows this is user hostile and stupid.

> You can dump money into a pit just as easy with the classic banking system. Where I live (EU), wiring money…

In the US at least, you can get your money back through the legal system. Accidentally dropping your money into someone else’s account does not give them a right to it and for substantial amounts of money people can and do get their money back.

For this amount of money I’d consider pursuing legal avenues against the developers of Etherium. This design seems borderline negligent and Etherium has modified the code at least once already to force a refund.
You could state (2) as a contrapositive where your re-phrasing of (2) is:

If A is the set of all primes, then A is an infinite set.

Contrapositive proof: Suppose A is a finite set containing only primes. By (1) we know there exists some p not in A and therefore A is not the set of all primes.

I don't believe contrapositive needs law of excluded middle but I'm honestly not sure. Logic is not my area
At least in NYC the HOA fees can be crazy. I have seen as high as 3k/ko for a 1.25M condo
Ah, OK, that makes sense, then.

As a counter-example:

DR-DOS from Caldera or Lineo made it to v7.03, I think.

Versions 7.04 through to 7.07 were finished, released and sold, but only as OEM products, bundled on bootable floppies containing Ontrack and Seagate hard disk toolkits, in Nero Burning ROM's bootable floppies and so on. (I suspect also in virus scanners, disk-imaging products, backup tools, etc.) Just the boot file(s) and COMMAND.COM.

Given that a bootable diskette containing a disk manager was included with probably hundreds of thousands to millions of EIDE hard disks at the end of the 1990s... it's quite possible that more copies were ever shipped that way than were sold as standalone retail products.

(Arguably, but IMHO: sad to say.)

So by any reasonable definition, the "mainstream" version of DR-DOS might be the one bundled on maybe millions of bootable diskettes, and not the boxed product.

I have no idea how many copied of PC DOS 7.1 IBM has distributed this way, and I bet it hasn't either.

But I take your point, and I accept it. I just have a slightly different definition myself. :-)
It’s time for a more sophisticated color contrast check
In theory, but in practice it doesn't actually matter enough for it to make a difference. What software-only advances are being made in wash efficiency these days?
Not sure how you could accomplish that safely without crippling users in different ways
I have a Miele speed oven that arrived with a major defect: Microwave worked, but heat modes didn't. They sent a repair crew and there was a missing wire harness in the circuitry. It never could have worked.

My experience with "high end" appliances in general (Bosch, Miele, Wolf, Subzero) is that it's a tax on "rich people". They're not better than top-line LG, etc.
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Is it good etiquette to link to an archived copy?
It does not sound like a problem for GP.

Your recommendation, depending on apps installed, could lower their quality of life. Proceed with caution, here.
Is domestic appliance history littered with terrifying tales of disastrous show-stopper bugs?
> I read a tweet recently along the lines of
> "Do you have 30 years experience, or have you
> just done the same year 30 times?"

Good point. I mean, this crude offline Excel solution has simply survived many system migrations, different operating systems (including Win95->...->Win11), employer directives, password restrictions, and so on.

Your "use one public key which I securely synchronize between machines" approach seems feasible, thank you for this idea!
I would love to see open source copies of those. Apparently they use NO power unless you press their buttons which means they can last for years.
> Looks like a Miele.

Well, kind of what I expect when I buy a cheap dishwasher.

(that's sarcasm)
Maybe there's some new dirt-sensing algorithms that can use crowd-sourced info to improve the efficiency for your specific dirt patterns and water type and detergent combination.
So right. This was covered on a post here on HN last week. An in-depth review of an (Illinois?) town and the hole they'd dug for themselves.

Read it, and reconsider.
In this case I'd say the right move is to just not buy the connected device at all. It should be cheaper and not lack any features you want anyway.

In contrast to the case of a TV, you may want to buy the smart thing and not connect it. Because since all decent TVs now are smart TVs, chasing a much worse and/or much more expensive TV to avoid smart features in 2022 is usually going to be a really expensive way of buying a really poor TV (Such as a commercial panel, computer monitor, or low end TV - all bad TVs). Then it's better to just buy the smart TV you want and plug in an external source and just not use the smart features.

But with a dishwasher there is still a wide selection of dumb dishwashers. And if we keep buying those, that will be the case tomorrow too.
> Back-up cameras are required to prevent drivers from running over small children.

Without backup cameras, eventually small children will evolve to be backup resistant.

> No such mandates exist for home appliances.

There are ever-increasing efficiency requirements, some of which all but require computerization.
Almost anything is less nice than BEL for me, since I've had terminals set to flash-on-BEL for decades.
Please wash verification can
A good interface consisting of anything such as lights, screens, buzzers, chimes, etc could tell/alert you about levels or the status of the dishwasher without an app too.
Used car prices probably will collapse, though.
Thanks, that was a very good explanation with legal backing.
This will work for this generation of devices.

The impending next-generation devices that will come with their own embedded 3G/4G antennae are going to pose a whole new set of problems.

Manufacturers do already build in dead-man switches into some products, and the more that do this, the more this becomes a problem because then even disabling an antenna will not work. It would be down to requiring custom firmware for a device.

This is an area right-to-repair legislation could address and prevent this.
Apple and Microsoft products aren’t even on the same dimension when it comes to poor design decisions, cruft, stability and performance. Microsoft fell behind a while ago.
I'm with you except for one thing.

No web connectivity. Either you're plugged in through CAN, or F-OFF. There is no logical reason for an internet exposed portal to physical car systems. Period.
I think the noble lie the parent is talking about has to do with the CDC's lie about masks early on in the pandemic.