skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have only a small amount of money on you regular account for the everyday means, with all the money on another account whatever.

Lose your wallet with cards, lose your phone (or just a phone with Apple/GooglePay). Get a replacement SIM, be locked out of receiving any SMS for 24h[0]. Now be somewhere where is no local branches of your bank.[1] Or even better - be abroad.

Or just be in a taxi at 9PM when no one works and the bank locks you out - just like when it happened to me. Gladly I found an ATM where I could withdraw from a secondary account.

[0] Actual practice of cellular operators in my country. Safety

[1] Even better with the virtual banks without any.
So I had a Nest for a year before it just stopped working and Nest told me it wasn't compatible with my system, after previously telling me it was (not sure how it worked more or less perfectly for that first year but whatever). I moved to an EcoBee and I'm happy with it but for all their "smarts" these things are still dumb as rock in my opinion.

I work from home so turning up/down the temp when I'm away is rarely worth it other than when I'm on vacation for a week or a long weekend. I'm happy enough to be able to control it from an app and not have to get up and go to the other side of the house but there is one big thing that is missing for me: it being smart about the outside temp.

Let me elaborate. I want my house to be 65 during the day and 60 at night but there isn't a good way to accomplish that without micromanaging it when the seasons change (or freak weather which happens more and more often).

Depending on the outside temp (and humidity) I have to manually tweak the temp ranges. It would be nice if I could set heat to 65 and cool to 65 but that would kill my HVAC system flipping between the two modes (if the apps even let you do that), I just want it to be a little smarter. Something like "If it's >60 outside then set the cool to 65 and heat to 55" and "If it's <60 outside then set the heat to 65 and cool to 75" (though humidity, inside and out, probably need to be taken into account as well).

I'll probably attempt to tackle this using Home Assistant at some point but it's frustrating that these devices are in some ways stuck in the past of "Set a cool or heat or cool+heat settings", how about a little more intelligence? I want the inside of my house to always "feel like" 65F.

All of the "smart" thermostats are really just the same as before with a way to remotely change the settings (which is an improvement) but I'd never call them smart.
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> Require all uniformed NYPD to live in the city, and restructure their patrols to emphasize the neighborhoods they live in.

In addition to the concern of other commenters of how this could affect their interactions with the community for the worse, I'd be really worried about how our law & order could be affected by intimidation of off-duty police.

There's 100,000+ arrests per year in New York City [1], thousands of them for extremely violent or dangerous crimes. I can only imagine the retaliation that gangs could have on officers who make arrests, or refuse to turn a blind eye.

[1] https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis_and_...
The comparison to monarchs doesn't move me much because most of the world's billionaires aren't also sovereign. (It seems like confiscating the wealth of sovereign billionaires with nations, armies, and maybe even nukes or WMDs would even more problematic.) Not to be crass but "we ate the rich before" isn't a reason IMO to eat them now.

I figure the way to curb excessive power concentrations is the panopticon: ubiquitous surveillance. (I'm not advocating for it, but I think it's unavoidable, so we might as well get some use out of it.)

People can have their wealth but have limited political power.

It reminds me of a story I heard about the Chinese Communists tackling their unruly billionaires. How do you take them down when they can bribe any agent or official? A special unit was formed and this was their basic M.O.: they would locate one of these billionaires and pick them up and sweat them and then offer them a deal. "You can keep all of your money, go into retirement, and promise to be good, just give us everyone in your organization." The alternative is prison (or maybe even death, who really knows?)

It's kind brilliant, eh?

Think it through.

Are you going to go to prison to protect your henchmen and underlings? Or retire to, say, Macau with all your money? You sell out your org, of course. What does that do to team morale for the other big boys' orgs when word gets around? They stop helping their bosses break laws.
>My point is that some work is essentially synchronous and "be more asynchronous" is not an actual solution because it doesn't reflect how humans actually work.

Which is why I'm not criticizing your other example of "dragging out or leading to misunderstandings", which is fair criticism of async and speaks favorably of synchronous communication (even if its just pinging messages at a rapid pace back and forth). However, I don't agree with a blanket statement such as "that's not how humans work". Enough people do work better largely asynchronous. What's more, people throw examples of "this can be solved synchronously!" when in reality, you're incurring costs no matter what solution you're going for. If we're arguing "that's now how humans work", humans weren't made to go from manually intensive labor 2-3 generations ago to sitting in the office 8 hours a day either, but here we are.

>I did.

Looking back, all I find is this:

>As others have pointed out, working across multiple timezones/geographies has requires asynchronous work for decades, now, and anyone who does it will tell you have enormously painful it can be.

That's evidence asynchronous has challenges. Not that sync is flat-out better, let alone in what situations. Not a single comment in this thread links to any source as of the time of writing, it's just a bunch of people with experience and without debating anecdotes and rationalities with one another, on both sides of the spectrum. If anything, that proves how much evidence we lack to make a definite statement from either side.

I'm not arguing async doesn't have problems. I'm arguing different people work in different situations, rather than the one-size-fits-all mentality some individuals try to push through. Worse, because so many are denied experience or even strong evidence, people going "this doesn't work so no" feels infantilizing, leading to confusion and animosity down the road. It wasn't too many months ago we started questioning the need to be in office because commuting sucks, high rents suck, open offices sucks and individuals have different needs, and now it's met with a blanket "back to the office y'all" without clear transparency regarding production gains/losses.

The "one true way of working" has changed more often in the last three decades than most of our species' existence. I think there's room to criticize what is and isn't fixed.
Actually it’s not just browsers, HEVC can’t be hardware decoded out of the box on Windows applications that rely on Media Foundation, you have to open the Microsoft store and pay $0.99 for the privilege of using those codecs.
I use it every day for splitting and joining PDF files.
Controlling thought by controlling speech is nothing new, and it IS a historically ignored problem
I seriously hope MSFT is committed to pushing Blazor. It's has the potential to stand above the other "unified back end front end" technologies.

Unfortunately Blazor hype has really died down the last couple of years and I'm starting to get Silverlight vibes from it, which doesn't bode well...
'When I hear "anti-microservice" my brain thinks "wow, this person is against code that separates concerns into their own logical buckets'

... Then you're not really listening.

Especially in this day and age of cheap machines capable of doing thousands of requests per second and hundreds of thousands of IOPS... almost nobody needs 'microservices'. Hell, I worked at Google and that's not how they solve scaling problems and their scale is bigger than yours... So why does the industry reach for this as a tool?

Microservices != separation of concerns or designing for modularity. It's actually a pretty terrible way of designing for that.

(Sometimes I feel like if I see another client-side join in my life, blatantly abusing and/or ignoring the presence of a relational database in the stack, I'm going to cut my fingers off with wire snips, throw out all my computers, and leave this industry forever.)
You actually don't even need to buy the well. Currently they pay to haul the brine water away and reinject it into a disposal well.
I didn't know you could deduct against your W-2
Guess you can as long as it's not for the same business
The same thought crossed my mind. :-)
One factor to consider is that coastal California cities currently pipe in a huge amount of their water from distant locations. If they ramped up desalination it would lower the overall amount of water travel by quite a bit.
I think there are a few patches that can enable HEVC hardware decoding with chromium. Though I am a firefox user so I didn't test whether these patches works or not. https://github.com/StaZhu/enable-chromium-hevc-hardware-deco...
Guaranteeing a singleton process is a very difficult problem which horde definitely does not solve perfectly mind you.

All is well and good until it isn't. We opted for leveraging different mix release permutations deployed on k8s as needed instead.

Definitely takes more effort than what you describe, and has its own issues... But imo definitely better understood than fighting weird state with horde
Urban areas are not just walkable but walk-centric. They are built under the assumption that most people don't move faster than 4-5 km/h. Places that want to attract people must be close to each other in local centers, or people don't go to them.

Bicycles are more suburban than urban. Because they allow people to move flexibly at a relatively high speed, they encourage suburban structure, where things are spread out over a larger area. They are functionally similar to cars, but on a smaller scale.
Do you have a source for this claim? As far as I know, the cut of the ad revenue going to the creators has not changed since the introduction. It was 55% a decade ago, it's 55% today.
Nope. They bought 'shares', voted themselves total control, gave themselves all the assets, sold all the assets, and emptied the organization.

Basically vulture capitalism done at speed.
Hilarious.

Because crypto opposes all regulation, this was legal. Because crypto opposes all regulation, this is irreversible.

They lost their 'investment' by intentional and willful design.
Programmer time is more important than their computer time, sure. Not sure that programmer time is always more expensive than the compute time of all the users of the software added up.
Feel of late 1900's broadcast television using modern hardware and software
So Loom is just green threads? You have to implement a CPS transformation on top? If so, great decision!
Presumably the same forces that cause the rate of profit to decline everywhere. It's not anything new, it's just the latest step along the cut-costs-at-all-costs staircase.
I think the recent bouts of inflation show that people don't take large price hikes kindly
Thank you!

And great feature suggestion. I'll put it on the list.
This is not exactly it. What I meant was, something what IrfanView does: when you open an image (or any file the program can read), you can press a button to open the (alphabetically?) next or previous image in the same folder.

Looks like Preview only has this, when you select all files and open them (Cmd+O). Wish it was like IrfanView.
The Federal government has set the precedent that they will bail out people impacted by climate change in the USA.
I'm not sure what portion of derailment costs are externalized. I've seen a few in town, none that involved hazmat spills thankfully, mostly coal trains. But the repair of the rail and track bed, hiring of services to lift the derailed cars back onto the track, repair of damaged cars, etc. is all going to be on the railroad. Loss or damage to the cargo would be on the owner of the cargo as in any shipping scenario, but they should be insured for that.

If there was damage to private property, a hazmat spill contaminating private land, or injury or loss of life, the railroad is going to get sued.
They do now. The original Nest did not have remote sensors.
I got the same feeling.

Wish I had the luxury to tell my boss , hey I'm burnt out, be back in 6 months or so.
To be fair, there was probably a fair bit to cut or optimise in the very beginning of it all; but Jack Welch, the prototypical MBA CEO, started being CEO of GE in 1981.

41 years later, we are probably now cutting bone instead of fat.
It is also embedded in the article.
Boards especially would count. My proposal is to limit the concentration of power in individuals, so they should not be able to have any influence in more than any one business.

> Many businesses have > $1M revenue per employee. Perhaps some can even hit $1B per employee.

Yeah, but by limiting the size of the corporation, we get:

- more competition, and consequently a reduction in profit margins.

- more localized/niche offerings.

- less chances from the incumbents to buy out potential competitors. (Screw you, Facebook)

- more companies trying to succeed by commoditizing their complements.

- less capital going to loss-leaders. (Screw you, Google)
Possibly. Structural, mechanical and propulsion parts were probably custom. Some electronics parts were probably "COTS" mil-spec parts which were procured for imaginary projects or diverted from existing ones.
I'm not expert, but I think you're oversimplifying a real problem. My understanding is that we're giving water to farmers at such a cheap price, that they are essentially wasting it on crops that shouldn't be grown where they are growing them. Which costs us ridiculous amounts of water in order to get cheap luxury crops, at the cost of other things. If it were about keeping people fed.. well, that really isn't an issue. We're REALLY efficient at farming enough crops to keep people fed, even without wasting water.

edit: after reading some other comments, it's perhaps inaccurate to say that we're giving agriculture the water. And it sounds more like they bought it years ago at a ridiculously cheap price and are still benefiting from that.
Very neat, thank you for posting that.

Almere still does quite a bit of that, for instance, it was the first municipality where they allowed 'tiny houses', though, truth be told what they are selling those for you might as well buy a normal house.

https://www.funda.nl/koop/almere/huis-88999896-alseidenstraa...
This is fully detached from mainstream economic theory. Barring a few rural agriculturalists, people below the poverty line don’t make a dent in overall water usage - a small handful of wealthy individuals and organizations use the vast majority of water. Pricing water appropriately benefits those poor, rural agriculturalists in the long run too, as appropriate rationing means they don’t have to compete with their wealthier neighbors in a race-to-the-bottom arms war, drilling ever deeper into depleted aquifers and purchasing potable water for drinking.

Not to mention the bandaid solution of subsidizing water only up to, e.g., the first thousand gallons per resident per month.
The Citations Needed podcast recently put out an episode on the growing sports gambling push:

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9jaXRhdGlvbnNuZWV...
This is also behind heic? Right? Man what a pain, I love hdr and Live Photos but anywhere outside the Apple ecosystem it is pain. I really wouldn’t mind paying some dollars for some codecs to just be able to see my pics in Windows, Linux, Nextcloud etc.
New Edge supports it, if you have the h265 extension from the microsoft store (cmd "start ms-windows-store://pdp/?ProductId=9n4wgh0z6vhq"). It's also the only (?) browser that supports AC-3 audio. Thanks for nothing, Dolby.

There's barely any content though (possibly premium VODs on Netflix etc).

Bilibili (kinda like Chinese youtube) offers HEVC (and AV1) playback, if your browser supports it. Example: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Q44y1372Q

In general it's kind of a moot point by now, just go with AV1.
Florida doesn't really have many evacuation routes. In a worst case scenario it isn't just the land which gets abandoned.
Except as a tradesman you don't need to constantly learn new skills from a very fast moving industry, or frequently dedicate your free time to side-projects and the like just to be employable
There really isn't a lot of reason for phoenix to exist. Before the invention of air conditioning it was merely a truck stop between the texas coast and the california cost. Everything there is artificially put there and the only thing making it possible is the water. If everyone tries to stay, the price of water will adjust accordingly. Any crisis with the water will be handled by government as well as they handled covid.
The live action movie is widely regarded as a cinematic and adaptive dumpster fire. Panned by fans, critics and audiences
Such is the risk of algorithmic stablecoins. The only ones that seem to work well have actual full collateral backing them (either some cryptocurrency, or actual dollars in a bank.)
I’m not going to pretend it works 100% of the time. I don’t know if that’s the issue.

It works with anything that works with Monterey. So if you are running macOS Monterey you fit the requirements.
You can't set a temperature range, like "keep my house between 65 and 70"? So when it's cold it would heat to 65, when it's hot it would cool to 70, and between 65-70 it would do nothing? That's not very smart..seems like the most basic thing they should be able to handle.
Some kind of middle ground platform with the largest commercial multicopters as a cost effective base but with some jamming resistant communications would be the sweet spot. Perhaps 5kg payload and a few km range and some autonomy such as being given permission to autonomously drop munitions on specific target signatures in specific areas.

If it can be entirely radio silent within the last mile radius (records video for later transmission, finds targets and attacks without intervention) then jamming would be extremely difficult.
> In fact this is made even worse in SPA-type systems by having an ORM (or similar) and a REST/GraphQL type layer inbetween the view and the DB. Layers and layers of transformation. Each stripping out the richness of the relational model.

What about GraphQL that is quite literally just your database structure? IE, verbatim columns and foreign key relationships.

I have this issue too -- you can make an infinite number of onion-ey layers of abstraction over your data. But at the end of the day, there's only one canonical representation of it -- in your data layer.

This is why I am against marshalling naming conventions across programming languages. If your database has snake_case columns, keep the values snake_case when working with them from API responses in your code. If you change the casing, you now have something that doesn't represent what's in your database anymore.

Want data that doesn't exist in a table? Make a view or call a function.
I think you are right, but a designer makes color pallets. Investing a bit of time in the psychology of hue or “color”, saturation and value might put you on the right track. It goes way deeper of course. But it a good starting point. Colors also obey to trends. A color palette usually has a hierarchy. Just take a look at dribble for some inspiration. Design borrows quite heavy on “stealing”. Of course don’t just copy paste something 1:1 but it might also be a good step. How we perceive Colors is greatly influenced by the relation of other colors in the composition/palet keep that in mind.
The dark pattern for me is seeing ads.
It's not really "send-money-to-anyone-with-a-phone-number", it's "send-money-to-anyone-with-the-mobilepay-app-installed" - and it only works on iPhones and unrooted Android phones with Google services enabled.

As someone who doesn't have it, it's very rapidly become the thing that makes me feel the most like a second-class citizen.
Ah, yeah. I don’t think a government is anything like a startup. It should be making decisions that span generations. I was mostly referring to “culture smells” rather than anything business-like.
Create Smart Folders and sort by date, type, location, etc... Whatever you want. Then open the folder. You can tell Finder to use View as Gallery in those folders.

You can also just continue to use Grid view and tell Finder to use large preview icons in that folder.
I've noticed a lot of interest in differential rendering/reverse rendering recently

Does anyone know what the end goal of this kind of research is or why there is so much interest?

Its definitely cool but is the idea just to make photogrammetry cheaper/easier?

Or are there other use cases I'm missing
>> people trying to figure out how to come to grips with historically ignored problems

I very much agree that many people have limited knowledge of the history of the last six hundred years, but I believe that sharing the cold hard facts from history (that aren't taught in schools) has a better chance at opening up a person's viewpoint rather than criticizing their behavior.
For that matter isn't the thing that "Web 3" is going to replace "Web 2.0?"

My take is that "Web 3" is a deliberate choice in the sense that the Nigerian scam emails are deliberately badly spelled.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

The "Web 3" promoters want to drive away any critical thinking or critical thinkers: they can't afford to have anything between feeling FOMO and pushing the "buy" button.

They don't mind if people on the cluetrain are offended by "Web 3" or Bored Apes or other junk, they only want to speak to people who aren't on the cluetrain.

Thus there is no fixing "Web3", just killing it.
Modern Money Theory (MMT)
This is a great write up dropbear, I learned a few things! Please keep blogging, this is some quality content!
I was just complaining about this in my comment. All of these "smart" thermostats are super dumb IMHO. I want one that takes into account outside temp/humidity as well as indoor. I want my house to always feel like 65F (and ideally 60F at night). That's it. No smarts, no "away" detection, no eco mode, none of that. It's bonkers to me that all these newer thermostats accomplished was adding the ability to remotely control the same old stupid tech (and wasting everyone's time figuring out how to turn off eco mode).
Its worth noting, for clarity/posterity, that my prior post is actually discussing mongo in a (mostly) backend distributed systems environment. I find its just as impactful there, not just in more conventional CRUD/browser/full-stack apps.
No: you are dissembling.
My homegrown solution is Home Assistant talking to the Lennox API for my system. If my phone moves more than a mile away from the house for more than 30 minutes, then it switches to Away Mode (62℉–82℉), and when I get back within a mile of the house it switches to Home Mode (70℉–78℉).

It works flawlessly. It's been months since I manually tweaked the thermostat. When I do need to override it, it keeps that override in place until the next leave/return event.
Must be wonderful to actually have the luxury to step away... I'm living the American dream - to work a non-rewarding job for no other reason other than health insurance. How do people manage these sabbaticals? Are they just wealthy enough so they don't need income?
Regardless, the relative price of food is usually a reasonable proxy for the amount of energy that went into its production. If the food from the urban farm is more expensive than equivalent food from an industrial farm, it probably took more energy to produce (and consequently probably released more greenhouse gases during its production).