skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Home assistant is fantastic. The number of integrations available is unbelievable (and also somewhat scary, security wise):

What I have right now:

- integration with Tuya lights/electrical outlets

- integration with AirThings air quality sensor

- integration with EcoBee thermostat/presence sensors

- integration with an LG Oven (status only as far as I can tell)

- integration with Garmin ecosystem

- integration with presence detection via the iPhone app

- integration with the sound system/spotify

So far my favourite feature is the ability to tap an NFC tag by my bed and execute the "bed time" workflow:

- ensure the lights are off

- dim the lights in the hallway, for kids

- reduce the speed of the bathroom fans

- sunset the lights in the bedroom for 10 minutes, so that when they finally turn off it's bed time.
I’ve gained that impression from every single alternative notation system that’s come up here (a new one comes up every year or two). They have a habit of solving problems that just aren’t problems for experienced readers, while causing problems for experienced readers. (They may also solve some real problems, but when they do, they always involve compromises. Inconsistent octave positioning on the staff is a problem, even if it becomes comparatively minor for fairly experienced readers, but the solution offered for that particular issue here looks lousy to me, the compromises made being considerably worse than the original problem.)

In this instance, I look at the subtle vertical placements alone and first guessed rendering imprecision, because I’ve seen that bad and worse from some digital scores, to say nothing of older scores especially with inconsistent ledger line spacing, especially when they’ve been scanned or reprinted or are otherwise aged. I also see something that my dad would struggle to distinguish visually except under fairly strong lighting. This notation looks terribly unsuitable if you don’t have (a) a high-precision, high-resolution display, (b) good lighting, and (c) good eyesight. And it certainly won’t scale down as well, nor is it in any way suitable for hand notation.
Website crowdsources reviews to fight planned obsolescence
Effectively Yes. I felt like I don't really need to clarify that this includes more than what the literal FAANG is to this audience haha.
tar especially the gnu variant:

https://xkcd.com/1168/
It’s not really a competing product until they relaunch it with a heavy consumer focus and with some of the properties that Tailscale has, ie: avoiding going through the cloudflare CDN. But more to my point, cloudflare is definitely in a position to outcompete Tailscale, it’s just a couple tweaks and a marketing shift.
There are many price points in any market. These are aimed at people with more money than time, for whom the higher cost is a rounding error. Whole Foods costs more than Costco. Different demographics shop in each.
Idk my kid has bombas and Walmart socks and there is a significant difference in quality. Maybe only 2-3x better but still difference is there
Unfortunately because of the way Bitwarden works you should consider your passwords compromised when Bitwarden itself gets hacked - regardless of vault encryption. Especially if you ever used the web login.

To access your account you need to type your master password, the same password that is used decrypt your vault. If a competent hacker gains access to the Bitwarden servers they could install a compromised login page that logs master passwords and with that gain access to password vaults.

Sounds far-fetched maybe, but your password security depends completely on the ability of Bitwarden to protect their servers. The encryption is just a minor hurdle once the servers are compromised.

Note that 2FA doesn’t help since it is not used for vault encryption.
Wine dev, here. Feel free to throw me a wine log of that crash over email, I could maybe see if it's something obvious.
Avacado seems relatively cheap considering Tempur-Pedic mattresses range from 2000 to 4000 dollars.

Honestly the whole mattress industry is a little strange, though.
> you have to manually copy over any credentials from Bitwarden to Keepass

pass-import works pretty well; create an initial empty KeePass DBX file first and keep a copy to re-use, then one can re-run pass-import to import BW to a fresh KDBX on a recurring basis with a simple script.

[1] https://github.com/roddhjav/pass-import
Same, I abandoned Tailscale sign up for this reason as well. Perhaps consider https://github.com/juanfont/headscale ?
Consumer credit card debt has decreased more than 12% since 2020 and is trending down.
> I challenge you to purchase a product from one or two of these brands

Nice try!
Google doesn't really hire great engineers. It hires people who had the time to cram leetcode.

Source: me, crammed leetcode.
I find Hersey chocolate inedible, but I think it's one of those products you have to have grown up eating, like how some people prefer canned green beans to fresh ones.
There are lifestyle companies and lifestyle products. Lifestyle products are goods that are perceived as an expression of an individual's style, preferences, values, way of life.

Selling a cheap T-shirt with Che Guevara or ripped jeans are just as much a lifestyle product as lululemon or Tory Burch.

You can charge a premium or sell an inferior product because consumers are buying more than just the functional utility of the item.
I'm excited to see this mature.
I saw this in 2020 and I had the same problem with it then that I do now: if you are so certain that civilization is going to collapse, why are you making an OS about it? Certainly there's prepping that makes more sense..
> Not much more you can do in my opinion. It's definitely good enough for me! Thanks for this great service!

Thank you. I happen to think there's a lot more we can do. Look forward to future blog posts. :)
Have you tried (in Firefox) screenshotting the entire page? If you don't need text to be selectable or anything then dumping that into a PDF might work. Otherwise you can use SingleFile to download the page and then convert that HTML to PDF using some other tool.
>>> 8 months after rolling out a brand new method of doing payments, ~70% of the country has tried it and ~11% of those are using it for remittances (3% in Bitcoin, 8% in dollars).

>> Not if the technology is a currency. I think this finally ends the idea that bitcoin can be used for day-to-day transactions.

> The program started less than a year ago. I think it's way too early to say that. So far, it seems like people prefer still transacting in dollars, but that may change over time.

Isn't that a lot like saying "give Google+ time, it may catch on eventually"? Most users tried and rejected it.
Thank you. I see Stratoscope responded as well, so I'll keep this short. (again :)

Re-read the post. The original conclusion was:

> The TrackPoint may be something like this. Those of us who insist on it may be small in number. But if it is ever removed, then the one reason why we will only buy ThinkPads is gone. We may as well get a Dell or an HP or a Mac M1 or whatever.

It says nothing of who "those of us" are (the explicit question) other than a cyclical "those who use TrackPoints." And it doesn't at all answer why (the implicit question.)

So I genuinely couldn't find any information related to my question. Since the (long) text was about keyboard rather than pointing device, it also felt very... out of scope. Hence my conclusion: classifying it as a related rant. Granted, I could have just ignored it. Not sure why I replied, TBH.

I guess you're telling me to not gatekeep and try to keep replies on track. Instead, go with the flow. Fair enough. ;)
That's like saying if the government had created its own version of PayPal in 1995 and it had failed, it would finally end the idea that dollars can be used for day-to-day transactions.
It's just an encrypted blob that's uploaded, not your passwords.

There's a self-hosted alternative, but even so, I'd trust them to handle server security better since, since it's their speciality.

I'd suggest adding Yubikey as 2-factor, then anyone would need that physical key to login.
I'm not sure "we built too much of it" as much as we failed to anticipate or account for trends such as urbanization. Anyway, it's probably more productive and less prone to chauvinism to frame it as prioritizing high value/cost infrastructure rather than morally upright urbanites subsidizing lazy, freeloading rural people (I'm exaggerating here for effect, but that's often the tone that this framing conveys whether or not it's intended). That said, I fully support gradually decommissioning the lowest value/cost infrastructure.
Yeah, I was surprised at how in a story about the benefits and challenges of fitting nature into modern lifestyles, one of the four points was "don't forget about colonialism" and another was "try segregating into identity groups". It seems at least a little bit shoehorned in, and it's clear I'm not the only one who was at least a little turned off by it.
Hey Jon! We're friends (followers-of-one-another...?) on Twitter. Super cool to see a post from you here. Small world!

I'll take this as an opportunity to 'send that dm / email / offer to connect'. Going to send you a message on Twitter.
> don't need data to understand how people would simply stop working and wait for their cash to appreciate as they do nothing

You do need data to confirm how these people affect the economy in aggregate. Based on our current evidence, when there is a steep supply curve, deflation is fine [1]. (People hoarding money and delaying consumption and production doesn't change output because (a) there is excess demand and (b) production is constrained by non-price factors.)

[1] https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w10329/w103...
Indeed, this is why I won't use it either. I settled on Slack's Nebula [0] instead of wireguard because it handles direct p2p communication between nodes automatically.

There also exists an open source implementation of the tailscale control server [1] that you could self host.

[0] https://github.com/slackhq/nebula

[1] https://github.com/juanfont/headscale
I REALLY want to start self-hosting but I can't afford a separate homeserver. I have a personal list of software to self-host and have looked into VPS providers like DO, Vultr, Linode & Hetzner.

While they're cheap, should I really self-host on shared CPUs because that's all I can afford right now.

My basic system would be Pi-Hole, Miniflux, Linkding. Maybe Bitwarden.

What would be a good way to get started? Any suggestions are welcome.
clothes, bedding, and food are exactly the sort of things you should spend more money on
I...don't think it's faded. I could totally be wrong here, but I don't think they'd actually made a transition yet; the complaining you're talking about was over the 1Password 8 beta. That actually just went GA this week, and people were still upset.

I get why they're doing it (or, at least, think I do), and I'm not angry enough to go get angry on Twitter, but I am going to avoid the upgrade for as long as I can. That's kind of a bummer to get there with a product you've historically really liked.
J/k.
This is one of those things they are required to list in the SEC filings. I wouldn't make much of it.

But even if there was one... good? Twitter is one of the worst places in the internet. This kind of feeds the narrative that a house cleaning was in order.
Things we use in self-hosted form at Fogbeam Labs:

1. MediaWiki (internal wiki)

2. Bugzilla (issue tracker, used internally and externally)

3. SugarCRM CE (internal CRM)
> That is all economies, since the beginning of time.

Doesn't pass the sniff test.

Even knowing how to make an item, was a big factor in what goods were available in the ancient world, see guilds. The Internet especially has changed that.

And until at least the age of sail, getting something from far away was a huge undertaking. Even today, supply chain logistics are hardly a solved problem.

Selling/marketing has always been part of trade, but it's hardly the whole story.
I am able to route traffic on my mobile device through my home network via the use of their "exit node" option. It allows one of my home devices to act as an exit node for my entire personal tailscale network.

This serves multiple benefits: the main one being that I receive pi-hole filtered ad-free traffic on my mobile device via a Wireguard VPN with my home IP 24/7/365
I think bug reports are way better than stars. But I always star repos that I'm fond of (I never used any of them).
I never said they have more assholes. I said the culture of these big companies creates an unhealthy system that leads to people having to change how they interface with others.

This is a bigger problem with some companies.
... if your definition of "home routers" excludes ISP-provided ones, then I'll agree. Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure that either you are on an ISP that actually cared and found a good supplier or didn't check out what are the capabilities of ISP-provided routers.
Thank you! I read the list and they all were valid until Kisses.
For the bedtime workflow, why NFC tapping and not a button? I use the latter and seems more practical, so wondering why you chose NFC.
I can assure you, the automotive industry uses more C/C++ than you've ever seen. C is used precisely because it's a mature and verifiable language.
Email. By a long shot.
They rapidly convert any financial wealth acquired into quality of life because given their nature they are not insecure or scared about tomorrow and hence don't feel the need to accumulate money (or set up a pension or life insurance)
> where is our software industry heading?

It was never our industry. There was a brief window ~2008-2010 where software engineers had a lot of power within their orgs, but at the end of the day we were always the laborers, never the owners of this industry.

Capitalist loathe a monopoly on skill, it gives labor a dangerous amount of leverage.

The people who own our industry, mostly venture capitalists and other investors are interested in capturing value at all costs and limited this power that engineers had.

This was the drive behind "MVP" and "ship it!" cultures that are partially responsible for this mess. But complexity is also valued by management because it reduces the ability of an individual engineer to have an impact, thereby reducing their monopoly on skill. In addition we've seen an industry pop up which focuses exclusively on rushing in new, minimally skilled, looking to make a quick buck devs. These are people only know how to fiddle knobs in a big complex machine.

This is also why the hiring process is even more awful today than it was a decade ago. A decade ago anyone who was passionate about programming and had a github repo willed with cool projects could get hired. This has been transformed into a machine that seeks to make sure every engineer is the same, trained only to pass a series of algorithmic puzzles from leetcode and hacker rank. These are even different than what they emulate: the old google challenges where hard but given by devs who knew what they were doing. Half of the algorithm puzzles I've been given in recent years are clearly by devs who only understand what the answer is, but don't really have any deeper insight into the problem.

> are we doomed forever?

Only until this latest wave of tech (it's not really a bubble) crashes. Once demand for software skill plummets then it will likely be like the dotcom burst valley of 2004-2010. The only people doing software where people who cared about it, and because salaries crashed many good engineers found other niches they could apply their skills in. That's when you saw some really interesting problem solving going on in the field.
Yes, all of those people spending a whopping $700 on a mattress are really just trying to flex on the Walmart shoppers.

These aren't really examples of "premium brands" He's comparing the cheapest products available, to mid-tier products where you actually see a difference in quality, comfort, and style.
Funding means giving financial support. You’re referring to political support. Different thing.

And for better or worse he is the president elect (as much as that may be worth in Russia) and is a very powerful person.

As an aside, I wonder how many coups were proponents of such measures already involved in. Every hobby revolutionary has a plan until they get shot in the face.
Maybe. I've consulted a few companies on this and have found a pretty interesting pattern.

My main point stands though. Don't emulate google or your startup is going to fail.
I buy uniglo which is a Japanese brand. Underwear made in Vietnam. It’s cheap. Hands down 1000% better than any expensive brand I’ve bought over the years.
The idea that bitcoin is useless as a currency should not be controversial these days. It's a speculative investment whose value varies wildly every day. That makes it impossible to price a good or service in BTC.

Add in transaction fees of several dollars each and the idea of buying a pizza with bitcoin becomes pure fantasy.
People today aren't mining BTC with mass market graphic cards, but ETH and other currencies.
These products are worth the money until no one has any money.

The products are a sign of loose monetary policy.
Zoho CRM and Zoho Invoice. Deluge, their scripting language is obtuse and their REST API docs stay wrong or out of date for months at a time.

I could go on but the killer paper cut with that software is the abysmal in built reporting tools and the equally absurd limitations on how much of your own data you can export before they start charging you.

For reference, we pay 35 dollars per user per month. We are still price sensitive so Salesforce or others aren't real options yet.
AdGuard Home the pihole alternative or their end client options?
A question for the people here who have a favorable view of kubernetes: what is your level of experience with it, and what problems does it solve that aren't already solved by cloud managed services?
Their pronouns are they/their, however it's a long time friend, and a new change to me. I'm trying, but make mistakes.
I personally feel like it was somehow worse in the days of enterprise Java BS. Check out the daily WTF and it doesn't really seem to have substantially changed over the decades: some folks in the industry will have great success with some technique that happens to work for their particular case, others will repeat, some successfully, some not, a myth grows from the successes that people do hear about, there's intense FOMO (what is _your_ micro service strategy), and at the end of it there's "cargo cult technical strategy" from people with little understanding of the circumstances in which something is applicable but try to get to success by applying successful people's techniques regardless of circumstances.
Boston, NYC, Philly, Baltimore, DC, and Richmond are practically bordering each other these days.
...to this day, I still can't wrap my head on how PHP even got to exist in a world where Perl was already filling the web niche just fine.

Also, if they wouldn't have made it too-weird-for-math-and-physics people, Perl would've probably filled Python's niche too.

And with that kind of resources focused on it, Perl 6 could've actually turned up into a clean nice new language that would've unified us all by also supporting nice compile-to-wasm.

</alternative-reality>
+1 for this. I would kill to be able to play this quasi-natively on my Mac...I would be perfectly happy with a browser version.
I think 'lifestyle brand'[0], linked on that same Wikipedia page, is a more accurate description of what people are talking about here. The discussion is not about the lifestyle of the founders (though I'm sure that's great), it's the lifestyle the brand is attempting to sell you.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestyle_brand
I feel like the recipe for Hershey chocolate has changed over the decades I’ve experienced it. It’s more wax-like than I remember in my childhood.
More than one, but alright. The point is the mechanism exists to just fucking ignore PoS and if miners don’t think there is enough in it for them, it won’t happen.
I guess taste is very personal, but it’s pretty hard to categorically call them chocolate. In fact I just double checked, and they’re now classified as “chocolate candy” by the FDA meaning they probably use less than 10% cocoa.
I couldn't figure out the justification for middle C being on a ledger line, and then the D above it being higher up, but on the higher of two ledger lines.
The Pi actually boots from the GPU, which runs a closed-source binary blob. The GPU then starts up the ARM cores, and that's where Linux boots.
There are ways around it (as there are with Covid vaccine requirements), but most folks are subject to vaccine mandates for school attendance (though, sure, those are state-level rules). IIRC I had to provide vaccination records for college, too. Plenty of states require vaccination to teach in a school (so, to hold a job).

What's different about this isn't the presence of mandates, but that it was a novel virus so mandates were applied to (a small set of) adults rather than mainly to kids.

In fact, the set of people to whom Covid vaccine mandates apply is surely way smaller than the set to whom a variety of others do. I'm pretty sure most states aren't requiring Covid vaccination for school attendance, for instance.
Pi-Hole, Prosody (XMPP server), Miniflux (RSS), Pass (password store, although it's only a git repo, so doesn't really count)
Dropbox has been fine ish? Like not stellar but it’s still something I use as one of my core tools and pay for.
I mean you might find it terrible, but some people might prefer the taste. It’s subjective, no?
The thing is, if it were real, the company would be getting signed off by the EPA, not by some 3rd party "non-profit" that it pays for certification. What I'm saying is look at the list of materials in a mattress, and look at the list of materials everywhere else in your house. If you truly believe your mattress is poisoning you then the solution isn't to buy this mattress. It's to replace every item of furniture, clothing, wallpaper, paint, cleaning sprays, air fresheners etc. And you'll do all this despite noticing literally no symptoms from exposure to these life-threatening chemicals.
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> the high price itself is the part of experience.

Yes, this. We are living in a new Gilded Age.