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> We way over complicate things.

...because complexity pays people's salaries...
> I'm not ideologically opposed to the idea of a walled-garden phone (though my preference would be to have the ability to sideload).

The App-Store is, in this context, merely a Content Filter. So why not allow multiple content filters?
Going to echo all the other positive comments. This is the most fun variation I have played. On my first try I failed to complete it, then went and did a practice round with some smarter initial word choices and won (barely!)
A few of us have bought rebadged versions of these recently and we're looking to create a backend for them that accepts a call (probably via SIP / VoIP) and then demodulates the v.23 and does something useful with it.

Are you aware of anyone thats done this already? We're not desperate to support the encryption initially but I guess it would be nice too.

Thanks
> Columbo starts by pulling on all the strings and then doggedly chasing the inconsistencies and loose ends.

Interesting quirk of English idioms here. Maybe regional?

* Pulling strings often means to control, as a marionette
* Pulling threads often means to inspect closely and follow a pattern
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Lowering interests rates only favors investors, speculators and banks. Definitely not the average Joe. Yeah FED definitely screwed up a lot of people, transferring more wealth in the hands of wealthy people.
They highlight the "app main menu" on the left, but say nothing about an identical app menu on the right? Why do both exist?
Lame things get upvoted all the time so watching your upvotes is not really a measure of 'value'. Adding more lame things to the site just because it already has lame things only makes it lamer, not better.
Make web apps. It’s that simple. People complain about the play store and the Apple App Store yet continue to submit apps there that don’t even require native functionality.

Wordle went from web app to sold in what, two months? Native apps aren’t required. Make web apps and we need to unite and figure out a common distribution method.

When a critical mass is reached - Google in particular - is incentivized to help galvanize even further. Heck, Google tried to make PWAs a thing. It’s Apple that benefits more from app stores at the moment.
I believe that if you're looking for performance, you're never going to be able to avoid understanding how the programming language constructs are translated into actual machine instructions.

However, it is clearly less important these days to optimise code on that level, so as long as your runtime performs well enough, the benefit of having a simpler way to describe the solution is worth it.

Many would probably take issue with the statement above, but the popularity of Python, which is possibly the most slowest popular language that has ever been constructed, suggests that programmer efficiency is much more important to most people than performance.
Thanks for that, I really enjoyed it. Thats a very imaginative short game
No, it's not a clear case. That's what the discussion is about. It's overemphasizing the differing features, and Apple seems to also think so. What you and OP think is evidently not what Apple and many other thinks. Please at least attempt to understand another perspective.
The US is going through the housing boom that happened in the UK about 20 years ago, nothing to do with giving everyone $1k for free.

You think that $400b is a lot to "print"? Billionaires increased their wealth 10-fold in the same time, let alone the millionaires that have made a fortune from 10 years of rocketing stock market growth and leverage availability.
Because they're rich and powerful and its easier to belittle people with genuine concerns and with some incomplete evidence than it is to answer questions that might threaten their rich and powerfulness. And because there are a few who take their theories to extremes without evidence, its easy to lump all together with the crazies and demean them.
Or with two ton metal death traps going at 100mph.

Boring in manufacturing is good.
Canadas moves on bank accounts and how that ties to crypto robustness is already being discussed :)
1Password has become fundamentally insecure since about a year ago. You used to be able to run multiple instances of it and log into them separately. You could also run the browser plugin in multiple Chrome profiles and they were fully independent. This is the only sensible, secure way to manage something as sensitive as passwords.

Now they have intentionally crippled your ability to maintain isolation. They want you to go to "one place" to manage all your passwords, across accounts, and muddle through their clunky UI to change vaults. It's not obvious which vault new credentials are saved in. It will pull credentials from all vaults when you go to fill out forms, so now when I log into the different Google accounts I have to use (various clients), even though I'm using separate Chrome profiles, it's all a single 1Password behind the scenes, so I'm prompted to pick from a list of many accounts. I constantly use the wrong credentials to log into things and have to log out and start over. I'm constantly worried that I'm going to leak client credentials into another client's system. It's a huge anti-security pattern, and they did it on purpose. I went to the 1Password forums to learn more about this, and a representative from 1Password stated this was intentional and was proud of it, stating something to the effect "it wouldn't be 1 password otherwise".

I won't use 1Password if I can avoid it, but I'm often required to due to clients using it. I switched to Bitwarden with a self-hosted server for all my personal credentials.
It's almost never a software issue. If you had another application besides Confluence would you be suddenly motivated to document? I doubt it. It's discipline and habits. The boring stuff. Tickets and projects should always include a component of documentation. Document about things, avoid how-to's except for specifics. Don't worry about screenshots, GUIs change all the time. Summarize uniqueness and put annotations on why something is set a certain way.

I'd write a book about documentation, but I just haven't had a chance to get it all down yet.
I wanted to highlight the alternative approach take by China. I don't agree with what their government, does but its useful to see what they're doing.

China has essentially realized they're in a demographic crisis so they've enacted the following policies:

- Stopped their speculative debt fueled housing bubble, this I hope makes it affordable for their citizens to own homes, without prices skyrocketing.

- Stopped for profit educational institutions, this is so that education and specifically tutoring aren't exclusively for the rich.

I think they're enacting policies for childcare as well.

Given in the US investors are buying up property, and costs of both education and childcare are skyrocketing. I don't see how the US won't avoid a demographics crisis as well.

The US can't mandate its industry to follow a similar approach, but can't the government provide stimulus or some other Manhattan Project type drive to encourage entrepreneurship and companies to start and resolve these underlying issues?
In a tool like 1Password, they need to do enough to avoid user errors (I'm sure they are). That is the responsibility of these tools. In other words - there is no such thing as user errors for these tools.
What kind of mortgage allows you to waive the appraisal? Seems a little negligent for the bank. How can they finance something if they don't know how much it is worth?
Mars might not, but the technological/resource window of our civilization could. And we should not risk it.
Intentionally breaking the pattern of internet fora by withholding this feature seems

Saying that the HN devs are "withholding" a feature implies that you think you're entitled to their development time, QA time, support, etc. You aren't.
Whoa, I didn't realize automatic radiator valves existed. Always feel guilty about using a space heater because the radiator gets way to hot.
I don’t mind the App Store removing shameless copies. But games with distinct features (eg offering Swedish) and which don’t use anyone else’s intellectual property should probably not face such an uphill battle.

Further, they only pay such attention to Wordle clones because they were publicly called out on it. Other clones, even ones that violate IP laws, still get a free pass.

And it’s not as if they’ve stopped allowing Wordle clones in, either.
Communicating through the filesystem is one of the Classic Blunders.

It doesn't come up as often anymore since we generally have so many options at our fingertips, but when push comes to shove you will still discover this idea rattling around in people's skulls.
A few off the top of my head that are extremely well-corroborated:

Jeffery Epstein (nothing in particular, just literally everything about him)

Gulf of Tonkin

MK Ultra

Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment

And those are just the very obvious ones. I find that a Bayesian way of looking at the world tends to drive up the credibility of various "conspiracy theories" which would otherwise seem fairly unlikely.
> Coolness factor, fashion, corporate propaganda / indoctrination mean zilch to me.

You are absolutely right. Unfortunately this puts us in a minority in the CV-driven-development era.
My university (11 years ago) was the same. They had a /16, all of which was firewalled and could only access the internet through an HTTP proxy.

edit: Just did a quick WHOIS. They still have the /16 even though the university doesn't exist any more (merged with another). Crazy.
> I "think", most of those debate ties with technology one way or another.

I feel that, if this is the reasoning it's becoming more prevalent, then it should be reeled in a bit. Politically charged topics seem to rarely bring in good-faith discussion I have come to expect from HN.
It's like saying affordable healthcare is economic devastation because insurance companies and hospitals will lose profits.

It's completely ignoring the massive wealth drain on the average American. There's an enormous opportunity cost.
You hand somebody 1000 dollars, they spend it one time, and where did that money go in the end?

Primarily on corporate balance sheets, paid to investors via dividends, buybacks etc. Of course also used to hire new workers and so on.

The point being handing somebody money in a one time transfer only helps them in the immediate term but the inflationary impacts actually harm them longer term.

I would venture to guess most of the stimulus money ended up in pockets of already wealthy asset holders at the end of the day.
He's trolling, he didn't have to do with the hack there was just a shout out to him. He's willing to say all this because he knows he'll be fine but a bunch of people will get mad. Basically, he's doing it 4 da lulz
>“We know historically that places where minorities live are undervalued or lower priced,” Redfin’s Sheharyar Bokhari said. That, he said, makes them more attractive to investors, driving up prices for residents.

This is undoubtedly true, and hurts potential first-time-buyers in those neighborhoods, but at the same time it benefits existing homeowners in undervalued neighborhoods by increasing the value of their homes.

Having predominantly black neighborhoods cost less than comparable neighborhoods that are not predominantly black is probably not, on balance, a good thing.
No people just dont understand what monetary policy does to assets.
That highlights another problem with the process- the complete lack of transparency. Apple could be more forthcoming about the review process, yet they aren’t.
I have been using ZWave motion sensors that have USB input so no battery required, for buttons I have replaced a lot of wall switches with Tasmota switches that are programmed for single/double/hold click actions on multiple buttons. This can be great on multi gang switches where I have one button control the relays in all three switches, leaving two buttons open.
This sort of reminds me of what happened to the Slashdot... everyone was playing video games, hacking with Arduinos, doing silly things with homelabs, arguing about OS X vs. Linux, etc. and then suddenly so many people in the community moved up through the ranks and started to interface with politics, policy, and international business, just as those things started to really change with tech. So ya, tech overflows itself.

In light of this pretty natural scope creep, I agree with the above point that the moderation feels pretty consistent, and am, for one, extremely appreciative of Dang's work.
einkbro is the best browser for eink android tablets. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.plateauka...
Because if you don't use one, you'll almost certainly instead either reuse passwords across sites, store passwords insecurely, or choose weak passwords.
Hmm. What issue might you encounter trying to solve this problem using an SVG?
Had monetary policy not made borrowing cheap the wealthy would be lending everybody cash at high interest rates instead of buying up and renting out houses none of us can afford.

The net effect would be the same. It doesnt restructure everybody's relationship to capital it just restructures the form in which capital gets hoarded and deployed.
It looks like the principle is that a machine learning model trained on the combined output of four different kinds of gas sensors can discover correlations between unintentional characteristics of the sensors. For example, the manufacturer of an ethanol or nitrogen dioxide sensor is not going to specify anything about how it responds to vanillin, but it seems plausible to me that the relationship between their responses contains some hidden information that could help to discriminate between vanillin and eugenol. With enough different sensors, there's quite a bit of information to be found in mining their undefined behavior.

That is to say, you can treat the sensor reading as being completely meaningless and skip interpreting it as indicating VOC levels. You're just using the sensors as black boxes that produce arbitrary values with the property that exposure to organic vapor changes the output "somehow", and letting model training find some meaning in it.
I get your point, but the house you live in is an expense, not an investment. The fact that for a long period of time it seemed like an investment because home values kept outpacing inflation made this common thinking, but there's no reason to assume that it will go on forever. We know the line doesn't only go up because we saw it crash in 2008 and it wiped out a lot of paper wealth. The government has done everything it can think of to continue pumping those numbers higher but we don't know yet if those actions have completely changed the economic fundamentals of home ownership.
If corporate profits didn't outpace inflation, no businesses would ever exist. The only time that's possible is hyperinflation or a business with declining profits which is certainly not what we want.

Also the fed printed tooooons of money besides the $600. The $600 is the only bit that ended up directly in citizen's hands.
They wouldn't be buying houses if houses weren't an appreciating asset. Let's change that.
Thanks for the info, from a quick look it also seems as if some people have managed to get simple Flutter apps running so that looks promising.
The fact that Wordle is currently popular has nothing to do with the logic of the situation.
That's kinda what I'm getting at. The root cause of the failure was not winterizing the plants and infrastructure, not really about residential construction design.

The resistance heating failed due to the grid design, not the other way around. Having more electrical demand would have not been much of an issue, I presume, had the grid been more resilient. Conversely, less resistance heating would not have magically made the grid more resilient.
Amazon reaches ‘global’ truce with Visa on credit card fees
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics

A key problem is that these days a lot of techie/nerdy/geeky/hackery news has a potential political angle. Advances in cryptography, drones, medical matters, and many other things, increasingly touch on politics because they touch the wider world not just techie people and often do so in decisive ways.

Take face recognition and similar tech: all cool as the tech on its own, but there are scary implications that we see forming already so even if the original post is a purely technical & politics free look at a new development the comment threads resulting from it often won't be.

Conversely, political issues affect technical ones: free speech or the lack there of both has an impact on the use of current tech and drives ideas for future systems, so while seen as a political matter by some (a philosophical matter or both by others) there are valid interesting technical discussions that can be had relating to changes in those issues around the globe.

> In the old days

I think some of that is that in the old days the connection wasn't as “real” because the tech being discussed was not widely used, or was in fact still only theoretical. Now the tech is out there, and many are using it including many who have no specific technical bent because these things are becoming part of normal life. Once tech touches real life, it touches the sticky subjective messy aspects of real life: politics & morality. Also even when things are still theoretical, the developments are more open to the general public for better or worse because access to information (and, of course, misinformation) continues to become increasingly ubiquitous.

Take cryptocurrency as an example. A decade or so ago it was just a techie plaything really. People were talking about what wider impacts it could have, but it wasn't having them yet and it wasn't clear that it actually would in the end. It is easy to be dispassionate and unpolitical at that point. Now though some of those impacts have happened and continue to happen, and can affect lives in significant ways, so new stories on the subject can't help but attract some political discussion as well as going over the technical developments, or in fact are news stories about developments that are happening because of (to aid or circumvent) political concerns.

For another collection of subject matter that has seen a massive change in public and political interest, you only have to look at the last couple of years development in certain fields of biology.

There is little moderation here or elsewhere can do about this significant set of changes & movements. The mods and the community can nudge things in a certain direction, but they can't fully control them.
it's a pocket telex from the early 80ies, you can read more about the device here: https://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/philips/px1000/index.htm
We have our house in trust not because of some prop 13 reason but simply because putting your major assets in a living trust is the right thing to do avoid probate.

It massively reduces headaches for your descendants upon death but AFAIK it makes no difference in terms of taxes.

Anyone who has a little bit of assets (a single house is enough) would be a fool to not have a living trust.
Ask HN: Is Seashell legit? Startup offering 10% interest
Seashell (seashell.com) was founded in 2021 and raised its Series A last month.

The product: "Earn up to 10% interest on your cash. Compliance focused. No hidden fees. Get started in minutes."

The FAQ page explains how they earn such high yields: "We place your money into a diversified strategy, partially investing into safe haven assets like gold and partially investing into dollar-pegged digital assets that attract borrowers who are willing to pay higher interest fees. As a result, your money is generating reliably up to 10% interest, leaving you with more cash in your pocket."

This sounds like an investment product that is substantially downplaying the risks (placing money in non-digital assets like cyrpto) - a material misrepresentation of an interest-bearing account.

And does "compliance focused" mean they're actually compliant? Or are they following the Robinhood model of building up a treasure chest before regulators notice, in order to afford the legal costs and changes necessary to clean up their act (i.e. cost of doing business).

It doesn't pass my smell test, but I'd like to hear your thoughts.
as a consumer, I will walk to the corner store here in the California city, and I will check the price of a loaf of ordinary bread, and the price of a pound of ordinary meat, again today or tomorrow. Not "the cheapest rice by the ten pound bag" .. or "chicken parts whole in a ten pound bag" I believe my point stands.. yes, there are layers in the consumer markets.. times one hundred for a fast food meal, too.
I use a Mac email app called Mimestream that uses the Gmail API directly, it's a very nice experience.
Yes and the investor class are the rich. Profit margins should not be rising in a time of scarcity. It's profiteering and nobody is doing anything about it.
No, you waive the appraisal contingency; the bank still does their own appraisal. If the property appraises low, you pay the difference. In this market, we kept some reserve for that eventuality to make the application competitive. The sellers want a buying frenzy and that's what's happening, so many properties don't appraise since those values are usually calculated on historical sales.
Lifecycle rules are free. Use them to empty the bucket.
I personally don't mind (and, in fact, encourage with my upvote) political discussion when relevant because I believe the attempt to pretend technology is divorced from the social dimensions of its use is a dangerous philosophy.

History (particularly twentieth-century history) is caked in the blood of people killed by technologies that were originally conceived of by people pursuing what they thought was innocent (or, at least, amoral) knowledge. The Pugwash conference (https://pugwash.org/) grew from the need of those who built the atom bomb to wrangle the ramifications of their technology.

A hacker without ethics is a terrible risk. We should have discourse on the human side of what we do.
There might have existed a moment where every broadcast television signal on Earth was showing John Fiedler (Mr. Peterson on the Bob Newhart Show, Piglet in Winnie-the-Pooh, a thousand other credits). He was everywhere in the same way people make fun of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.

For Columbo side-roles, Vito Scotti is a fun one to spot. I think he was in four or five episodes.
Great article, thanks for posting. I've been on a smart home journey myself, but I'm still currently relying on Alexa for most integration and a Hue Bridge. It works well for the 30-40 devices I currently have.

I totally agree that Home Assistant is probably the way forward for many power users, but it doesn't quite feel beginner-friendly enough yet (although the HA devs do seem to be making some great improvements in this area).

I'm still undecided on Matter and Thread. Both are naturally great technologies, but I can't see Google/Nest opening up to Amazon/Ring and vice versa. Not in any meaningful way, at least. My hunch is that Matter will help smaller smart home companies, but not make much difference for the pre-existing 'walled gardens' that the market has. I hope that I'm wrong though.

(Disclaimer: I blog and do YouTube videos as Smart Home Point, but I mainly cover consumer friendly products - and hence I haven't delved into Home Assistant too much)