skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Matter isn't special for any other reason other than that it's the first time so many manufacturers of smart home products have actually decided to talk to each other when designing a protocol.
Decentralized web project that became a crypto-oriented decentralized web project. Very sprawling with its own programming language and fancy speak. Founded by Curtis Yarvin, who you should look up on Wikipedia. He's no longer affiliated, but still, look him up on Wikipedia.
If you're up for some light soldering, I'd recommend picking up a few Sonoff Basics and/or wall plugs and then flashing them with ESPHome (https://esphome.io/). These devices are simple and cheap ($5-6 each), basically just an ESP8266 chip connected to a relay, a button, and a status LED. You have to solder to attach four pins to the board so you can flash it, then you can close it up forever. Future updates happen over-the-air.

I am far from being an electrical engineer, and found that these guides, plus a few YouTube videos, got me to the point where this feels routine. I now have over a dozen in my house, controlling all manner of things.

I've also had fun installing temperature and humidity sensors to Wemos D1 Minis ($2-$3, basically just an ESP8266 chip on a development board) to monitor climate around the house. During the winter, houseplants really like to have higher humidity... we bought a bunch of dumb humidifiers at goodwill, installed Sonos Basic relays inside them, and set rules for them to turn on when the humidity in the room drops too low.
I didn't understand the GabeN reference but looked it up:

> "Piracy is a service problem." Valve's Gabe Newell said that years ago, touting the success of Steam, his online video game distribution service.
That's a fair point. I guess I was speaking in the more general case, but yes, you can have multiple layers of authentication and it is super implementation dependent. Everyone has their own threat model (hopefully!).

(I wrote a few thousand words on MFA a year or so ago: https://fusionauth.io/learn/expert-advice/authentication/mul... )
The problem with home automation companies is they have a perspective and culture of a hardware manufacturer who never understood software. They want to build a device, wire it up, sell it, then forget about it.

For decades they have tried to get around the software part by outsourcing a one-time job to the lowest bidder, and then never want to update them. They’re more like the industrial automation companies (some of whom still have Windows XP machines running their CNCs), or medical device makers who get something certified with an exact version of Windows and never allow it to update.

Add to that, the Marketing guys who pitch unrealistic goals that need to be met in order for their plan to become profitable (“we can easily capture 50% of this market in our locked-in, proprietary protocol!”), and you have a train wreck any one can see coming a mile away.

These are companies who just don’t understand, and don’t want to understand, that these are long-term commitments that require full time development and operations staff to keep things going.
They mention that in the privacy section:

https://github.com/janestreet/magic-trace#privacy-policy
This is exactly it - they have to be easier than normal things, the fancy electric doorknob needs to unlock itself as you approach, the lights need to respond immediately to voice control, etc.

And since they took away the auto-unlock because of "security" the value proposition dropped tremendously. I had electric door locks, I don't anymore.

If I ever go back to them it'll be hard-wired on the jam and connected to a raspberry pi.
Maybe not exactly what you're looking for, but Xibalba BBS (https://xibalba.l33t.codes for a web UI) hosts a ton of articles on computing history in the files section.
If you're using Cloudflare DNS, archive.is etc will fail to resolve.

https://jarv.is/notes/cloudflare-dns-archive-is-blocked/
It's literally not the job of consumers to provide for your income. That may be a harsh lesson, but it's true.
Because the UK and US will not allow a peace treaty between Russia and Ukraine, they want "to fight to the last Ukrainian standing".
Whatever chief executive that decided to create their own streaming platform for a price that's too high is stealing your money. They are the ones that made it more convenient to pirate.
> Stop stealing our shit.

While I agree with your sentiment, you can also make a better product. This is an easy fix with some of the smartest minds in the industry. People showed Netflix early on they were willing to PAY for ease of use.
The "woke" all have the same opinions and aggressively attack any deviation. It acts like a parasite or virus that contains a payload of dogma replicating itself from host to host. It turns rational people into zombies, so mind virus describes it very well. Challenges to the dogma are considered dangerous as it threatens the ability for the virus to spread.

You're right that the virus could be a different variant, like the anti-woke variant, and it'd be a problem too if it parasitized as many brains.
Lol, not a single foot visible in the picture they use to illustrate it!
EU Could Unveil Digital Services Act on Friday, but Not a Done Deal
But middle management doesn’t make these decisions. Decisions that effect the whole company come from the C-Suite.
I can't respond to your deepest comment, but the privilege is you can drive, which is distinctly not universal. In any case, having biases is totally normal.

Smarter Cambridge transport has addressed many of the issues you raise in far more detail than I can in an off-topic comments thread: https://www.smartertransport.uk

Notably this:
https://www.smartertransport.uk/why-park-rides-are-a-waste-o...
and this:
https://www.smartertransport.uk/could-lollipop-bus-routing-b...

Edited to add links and remove assertion I can't support.
Michelle Obama programming. Me too related programming. Forced lgt story lines in unrelated programming.

Everything you experienced in your life can and does corrupt you.
misinformed is worse, if only because in many cases those who are misinformed WANT to be that way, and ergo don't care about facts or reality, just their normative preferences.

uninformed is passively annoying, misinformed is aggressively annoying.
> Handbook of Metaheuristics

There is a third edition, 9 years later: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-91086-4
Buy a subscription. Then get a VPN so they don't force me to watch things from the wrong country. Then dislike the political narrative forced on me? Or just click through to some streaming site and close a few popups?
We haven't gotten spelling assistance right, let alone grammar or semantics. Prefer editors with fewer "smart" features that distract from writing.
True crime is extremely popular with the female demographic. That can be influencing what they push on you.
Basically, you'll find ones with fast storage with big storage for reasonable prices and that are... explicitly sanctioning this use case. And I'd bet the competent ones specifically design their network and client settings for good performance. In professional settings getting good large storage performance is sometimes a struggle or expensive.

I've thought about using them for non-shady data storage and transfer given the price and performance. Nothing sensitive which wasn't encrypted, obviously.
uhhh... that theey are an engineeer and not a lawyer... Do you read your companies terms and conditions wholesale?
For every person who would benefit from that, there would be someone harmed by that. We should instead focus on ways to alter our very perception of time - paying attention to the actual passage of time will usually slow it down for you. Time is very fluid for us, most of us just don’t realize it.
Little L liberal isn't political. Western countries are "liberal" countries which generally translates to free market, democracy, individualism, etc
Like StarLisp.
(Disclosure: I have a smart home blog and YouTube channel)

A nice write-up. Insteon have (had?) some great products, so this is a shame. I do think that Matter will improve things a little, but we'll see - owning hardware from a bankrupt company naturally isn't great if the device breaks down...

LIFX (one of the most popular smart lights, aside from Philips Hue) have been having various troubles recently too:

https://www.smarthomepoint.com/is-lifx-in-business/

They are keen to stress that this is only affecting their owner, but in reality many LIFX customers have recently had issues with support tickets and warranty claims going unanswered.

The only good news is that LIFX support local control, meaning that HomeAssistant and Hubitat can still control them even if LIFX's cloud servers get switched off.

Nonetheless, reports of LIFX and Insteon struggling/disappearing is never encouraging. Especially when combined with recent (negative) subscription changes by Wyze and Wink.
> And then you have the "Oh, sizeof (long) will always be the same as sizeof (void *) and I can definitely do this cast!" libraries from 1999. Those are fun.

Just out of curiosity-- where does this break down in common use? I know of some microcontrollers where e.g. long is 32 and pointers are 16... but most things really are ILP32 or LP64.

P.S. Long, long ago you wrote you found Mel Kaye, and I'm always curious about the actual story.
Well, such things are always driven by demand. And unfortunately, there is a strong demand in our society for policing words, renaming formulas and issuing apologies all while:

* Property ownership is becoming out of question for an increasing fraction of Americans

* Any kid of retirement (as in not having to work and enjoying life off your savings) has become a pipe dream

* Having a single-income family with one parent dedicated to raising the children has become unaffordable.

* Even if you managed to put enough effort to teach your kids the values of hard work and setting long-term goals, the public education system is set to confuse them and kick them off that path, so they will never be competitive with those who received education abroad.

At the same time, the media oligopoly [0] keeps ignoring the problems and pushing the narratives how addressing short-term emotional problems is the top 1 priority, and anyone who wants real prosperity instead of taking a part in the never-ending mutual comforting game is the enemy of the people.

I wonder if people will ever realize they are being manipulated into poverty before it's too late.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31077525
This is before the influence of Steve Jobs who would have insisted on a 1:1 ratio can anyways and run up the manufacturing costs, raise consumer demand for them, and other manufacturers would be forced to copy suite.

Tesla is a chief offender at this. Automakers have known for decades that touch screens and center gauges are usability nightmares. But then Tesla made it cool and now everyone has to do it. Or the over-engineered nightmare that is the gull-wing doors.
Since you assert that "woke" isn't a useful term because today in 2022 it basically means "anything a conservative doesn't like" and Elon Musk uses the term liberally, do you agree that Elon is not a conservative?
I took my son to see the first Iron Man movie when he was around that same age (maybe a little younger). He's 18 now, and has yet to become a burned-out, drug-addicted misanthropic serial killer. Maybe, just maybe, you're being a little unreasonably overprotective.
Ah yes, the weekly article from a new parent wanting the world to be changed to better cater to their children and what they've decided is "appropriate" for them.
My ~80 person company is pushing hard for return to office despite only a few middle managers / team leads. If anything the leads are the ones happily wfh whilst the senior management are doing the pushing. The reasoning is ostensibly that the business works better due to lots of little in-person interactions. It does make some sense when a lot of the staff are junior (which they are).
It is extremely tired as well. Any time there is a post about Netflix, or some streaming service, I always predict there will be someone in the comments section talking about their “sweet, open source Unix based media server” and how much better it is.
I can't tell if you're joking, but the author previously explains that "double mouvement" is a french expression.
Yes it is really stealing.

You want something.
You don't want to pay for it.
You take it without paying.

That's stealing.

If you really truly didn't want to watch it, you wouldn't steal it.
Domotics should be mandated to always work offline, and all deathly hazards should be denied any network io. I don't want to discover my oven has a 0day by finding my home on fire.
> Is it really stealing if they wouldn’t have ever paid for it in the first place?

Since when does it matter if I would've paid for it? If someone steals a Mercedes from a dealer is it not stealing if they wouldn't have bought it anyways?
Juxtaposing the effort to get a math or law degree just to be a grifter was the intent!
I have done this exact thing in CL before. What you do is have your event loop function just be a loop calling another function, where all the event handling actually happens. When the event handler function is recompiled, the new version will run /the next time the function is called./

If the recompiled function is currently running that stack frame and anything deeper won't be affected for that call.

The only thing you can't do is redefine the loop function itself since it never stops running. That's why you factor it so there's no reason to change that function, just the functions it repeatedly calls.

Hope that explanation made sense.

Edit: And yes, the way this is implemented under the hood is that the repl has its own thread. You could do this even in C. In fact people have done this for the Linux kernel for example(at least for binary patches). The great thing in CL is the language is designed with the functionality in mind, and the dev tools just support it, so you get it for free.
What I've noticed in the past two years... my daughters friends mother had it on her phone, her daughter showed my daughter the app when we were having lunch.
They were trying on 'masks' and various filters. The kids get a real kick out of it, and taking pictures of the adults.

My wife installed it on her phone, and likewise when we have met other families the kids have done the same. It's not used for any messaging element, just purely as a digital novelty for the kids to pass 15 - 20 minutes while we wait for food.

One random occasion led to about 6 families with 7-10 year old kids downloading and using the novelty aspects of the app. I expect the same ripple effect has happened with other children in each of their networks.
Question for those in the Beta trial:

Can you disable this feature globally for your account, or do you need to disable this in every document explicitly?
Yeah, it's hard for me to believe his views are completely separate from the project. Note how the Urbit universe is organized is highly hierarchical, likely because he believes this is how things must be.

When I wrote Firestr (http://firestr.com) back in 2013, which is similar to Urbit in many ways like being P2P and being able to download and share apps, It's clear to anyone who knows me my beliefs drove the technological decisions. For example, I am anti-hierarchy. So your Identity on Firestr is completely decentralized. There is no sub-ownership. There isn't even a central repository of identities. Identities are shared in a peer-to-peer way. Also, it doesn't attach itself to some bigger system like Ethereum and running it is free.

I can easily see Borges's ideas in Urbit and it's a shame as we need more decentralized software.
Paywall. No photos.
Well then let us pay for shit in a convenient way. Like OP said, if there’s something like steam or Spotify then I’d gladly pay for it. I still rent movies weekly on AppleTV because it’s a convenient experience. Geo gating, shitty compression and making us choose between n apps is not the way.

Also, we’re going to end up with shitty generated content regardless of my $10. If you’re making strong statements like OP is stealing from _you_, then go advocate for change. You’re in the industry.
Judging by the network tab, it looks like they wrote their own. All the api requests fall under the same domain.

https://forums.lenovo.com/api/v1/user/getCountryByIp
https://forums.lenovo.com/api/v1/forums/getForumAccess
https://forums.lenovo.com/api/v1/forums/getCurrentForumTrees
https://forums.lenovo.com/api/v1/topic/getTopic?fid=6&tid=51...

Also interesting that they have no auth requirement on the getCountryByIp route
It may not be unfair to claim that it's "everything conservatives don't agree with." While that may or may not be true, it more specifically refers to a type of hivemind.
The textbooks I used in university were "From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog: A History of the Software Industry" (Campbell-Kelly) and "A History of Modern Computing (second edition)" (Ceruzzi). There is a brand-new update to the second one, "A New History of Modern Computing" (Haigh/Ceruzzi) that I'm looking forward to reading this summer.
I think I’m missing your point.

What I’ve noticed: a Netflix 1080p is very much worse looking than the 1080p I get off Plex.
$135/mo (after taxes, etc) for unlimited data and four lines.
I feel what you say too, that all the content feels samey. But I'll offer a suggestion that works for me: try some animation. That's where you get the passion projects that can feel different. Animated characters and settings can be far more expressive and varied and fresh, compared to the stock sameyness you get from live action.

The new She-Ra on Netflix was the best thing I've watched in quite some time. It's not a kiddie show, it works for all ages, think like Pixar movies. Other great cartoons across a variety of streaming services: Steven Universe, Gravity Falls, Owl House, Star Trek Lower Decks, also the more mainstream Bob's Burgers. If you want something fresh to watch, try animation.
Since making money seems to be a thing of the devil nowadays, Lawyers are much worse than developers, just because they usually make a LOT more money.

Also, developers very often confess their misbehaviors on social media and donate their time to OSS and money to charity or the social warrior politician du jour, while lawyers are infidels. This basically clears the bad record for developers, so they can continue working for Facebook et. al. with no remorse.

This is perfectly reasonable, logical way of thinking in the year 1022. I mean, 2022.

If you think of downvoting, be careful, as you may end up being sued for intolerance.

I'm dead serious. Or lively joking. Your choice.
I just hope Kasa doesn't do the same thing. They run my living room lights so perfectly. And I have some random no name garage door opener that works 1000% better than the big name brands, all it does is short two wires, but it's wifi and works over google and pings me if the door goes up, closes, or stays open too long. Such peace of mind knowing the door is closed.
Those were such a pain in the ass. Everything about that game just hurt me. I should play it again.
But there is no evidence that they are writing the passwords to disk.
I don't pirate (out of principle), but I also basically don't stream because I'm a Linux user and your streaming platforms suck big fat ones.

If you want people to "stop stealing our shit", you should really address how crappy the distribution system is.

- Can't get it in __ country

- Can only watch it on __ closed-source devices

- Can't watch it offline

- A is only available on platform 1, B is only on platform 2, and I don't want either crappy platform

Anyway, as I said, I don't really watch movies much anymore, and haven't seen any of the ones on your IMDB page, I mostly play games or read books these days, but I'd probably watch more if the distribution system was better.
I don't honestly give enough of a shit about Elon to remember what his politics are.

All I care about is that "woke" is empty rhetoric which is in practice meaningless.
The plaquettes are small and portable, so they may have done both. But if they're enjoying the animation effect of a fire, it's probably dark.
Why is DIY considered bad? I mean, aren't existing "dumb" electricals also DIY in the sense that you have to install it, wire it in, etc?

I have a "DIY" setup in my current property with Shelly modules behind light switches and everything connected to Home Assistant. It's been rock-solid for a year now and the occasional maintenance I do (updates, etc) is more out of a hobby than anything (I could air-gap the entire system onto a separate network with no internet access and forget all the security updates). Yes, it took some skill to install and configure, but that's no different from installing all the electrics (or plumbing or heating) in the first place.

A "dumb" home needs maintenance as well. Maybe people just have an unrealistic expectation from smart devices?
I can't even properly describe how angry this makes me.
"Russians are logistically incompetent and can barely maintain air superiority"
This is categorically false, look at the insane 1200 airstrikes that were launched in the last week.
The only time people have ever paid for news before the Internet are newspapers and trade periodicals. When radio and TV were invented, people weren't paying for news from those outlets. There was some notion of public service regarding TV and radio broadcasting that kept things more "civil" for a while, but tended to erode over time.

So you could break up the media conglomerates, but it isn't going to make people pay directly for news and unless you want government-funded news, that would be the only thing that could prevent the advertiser hold over news, which is responsible for the dynamic of today more than anything else.

The majority of people don't want pure news or information as a whole though, because most people aren't rich.
The life of non-rich people is more stressful and people in that class will always tend to seek things with narratives and emotional resonance over critical-thinking-skill-needing information when they aren't working or otherwise trying to survive.
In the article they use the example of "Motherboard" and "Landlord" and seem to suggest that these are areas where the Google AI is making mistakes or being overly strict.

As a Google employee expressing my own opinion and observations of company culture, I can say that these are 100% not mistakes. Many Google employees are just so out of touch with the real world that they believe it is the duty of Google Docs to change the English language to exclude the words "landlord", "motherboard", and even "mother" in most contexts (sub with birthing person).

This may seem unbelievable, but the word "motherboard" is literally banned within Google and you are required to use "mainboard" instead. You are not allowed to use this word in documentation or code, and you're also not allowed to say it privately in chats or emails.
| You're going to end up with shows that are AI generated CGI sponsored by Mt. Dew and Chevy trucks.

As opposed to movies/shows already high on CGI with poor and rehashed storylines, and whitewashed to cater to CCP censorship?
Agreed, Caseta are worth their price premium IMO.

The only downside is that they aren't available in the UK, but that's not uncommon for non-mainstream smart home products.
Very similar to how a naive pair of eyes on an application says: “we can rewrite this entire application in 6 months. I don’t know what they previous coders were doing. This thing is so bloated”

They are missing all the details and nuance that get them to where they are today.

Of course this isn’t always the case. Sometimes an application is just terribly designed.
Who cares. What difference does it make to you if he pirates it or doesn't watch it?