skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A related article : https://voxeu.org/article/algorithmic-stablecoins-and-devalu...
Open source Linux based smart appliances would be good. I don't dislike the idea of smart appliances, but if its mine I want full control over what it does.
The UK PSTI legislation currently going through Parliament includes penalties of up to 4% of worldwide revenue if manufacturers don't live up to their product security obligations. That should be a reasonable incentive.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-product-security-and-telecom...
It's an engineering and financial challenge, it's not mystery or anything lime that. The science behind it is well understood.
Thanks for letting me know. I didn't realized using "endings" can be confusing, will look into it.
Not wanting to sound dismissal, but as Italian the real story of Pinocchio is the original story of Collodi's Pinocchio

did you read the article? it talks about Collodi in the first sentence, says there is a new English translation... just not sure what version you might be sounding dismissive about
It looks it hasn't been updated in nearly 12 months.

Adminer has added a lot to my Dev workflow, I really hope it doesn't die.
She is not a day trader, her fund has a very explicit 5 year horizon. Where did you read about that?
>The market has lost all of its gains during the pandemic

No it hasn't. Not even close.
This is a common thing in computer art e.g. demoscene competitions too.
Ukraine war student-turned-soldier: 'Friends die in your arms'
Have you bet your house on your very obvious prediction to win money against market fools? No?
Oh, I have no delusions that it will happen. I also have no delusions that our government is good.
This is only true if the power to run the electric car is environmentally less damaging than the diesel's emissions. With Germany's obsession with using diesel vehicles to mine brown coal to burn for power, I'm not convinced it is.
Be aware that UI is planning to consolidate the UDM/UDM Pro software (1.x) into the UDM Pro SE / UDW software branch (2.x) in the near future, and the 2.x software doesn't use Podman and instead runs the software "bare metal".

IIRC the udm-utilities also work on the UDM Pro SE, though i'd be a lot more worried about "messing up" when it's not confined to a docker container.
Agree except I had assumed the VCs were being opportunistic in unloading, rather than actually shaping policy. Do you have any evidence that they shaped it? Seems there were other significant reasons for stimulus programmes not just saving VCs.
Netflix / Disney pre-installed on the smart TV are probably the features that allow the manufacturer to reduce the price thanks to subsidize from those subscription vendors.
First of all you own all rights to the video you create.

Regarding pricing, the pricing is based on the total number of HowTo projects in your account. The pricing is flexible , You can always upgrade or downgrade the project count. Hope that clarifies.
There’s no monopoly on stories and Disney was run by committees for a very long time. The internal culture and some of the non-movie activities reflect the values of each studio. For example, Pixar open sourced USD which is quickly becoming an industry standard for animation and VR. I could never imagine WDAS open sourcing something that could give them a competitive technological advantage.
No one will hand you your rights for free on a silver plate. Protesting and fighting back is the only way any progress is made in society.
The more we can split up "Teaching people useful things" and "Rationing access to status objects" the better off we are.
"understanding English is a requirement for every coder out there."

As a learning language, which it is, there is no need or requirement to already know English well enough to program for the masses. Teach this in a Spanish grade school, and there'd be a whole lot of benefit to the students. Why should they wait until they're proficient in English before they can even start to learn coding?
In which language?
I ran Pi Hole (and AdguardHome) for years, but eventually just upgraded to NextDNS instead. It works almost the same (minus the DHCP stuff), but instead of just working on your LAN, it works on every device all the time.
I suspect that a "certificate of course completion" (or, if you prefer, "a course grade") does not actually requiring comparing individuals A and B.

It does, however, require gauging that individual X, for any individual X who have taken the course, said individual X have acquired enough knowledge to consider "having passed".

Anything beyond "pass/fail" is merely trying to stack-rack students and impose un-needed competition. But it is good for the gamification of knowledge acquisition, so perhaps not entirely bad.
That's going to depend on your dishwasher. Our dishwasher does a prewash even in eco mode. But the water won't get as hot (to save power) and it takes longer. On the other hand, the 30 minute mode only does the one main wash. Check your manual.
Free market doesn’t work well in presence of information asymmetry and behaviors exploiting it.

Since we cannot fundamentally eliminate exploitative behavior just yet, seeing as the world is full of suffering and people grow up with all sorts of psychological trauma and cannot help trying to secure themselves at the expense of others, the biggest antagonist of the market that we can tackle is information asymmetry.

In some countries, you can bet that every mention of a regulation intended to tackle a specific instance of information asymmetry abuse (often enabled by advances in technology) will be accompanied by concerns about “government control over everything” and that “the market should fix it”. Unfortunately, that agenda mostly helps the exploitative behavior.

If we don’t do our best to keep the market working by compensating for information asymmetry, command economy will eat it.
It takes longer because of environmental reasons and just because water is cheap doesn't mean we should waste it. We currently have a huge water shortage in Sweden.

https://www.sgu.se/grundvatten/grundvattennivaer/aktuella-gr...
Don't robot vacuums these days come with an app where you can specify no-go areas?
Mandatory registration to the FCC?
Something else that is quite nice is that you can switch to certificate auth and use your yubikey to protect an ed25519-sk certificate authority.
World's top graduates get new UK visa option
I'd like to add Melvin Capital... Not so much because they got caught on the wrong side of a short squeeze, but they wanted close their fund and get a "do over", leaving their investors to swallow the losses and they get to start anew.
Adminer has got me out of a jam many times, i tend to use it when i've had restricted access to the database somehow and just need quick and least hassle one-time access. Its a great tool to have in your toolbelt.
The question is valid: it is not clear what would make this article or specific topic "extraordinary", hence what made some promote it. The potential points of interest are rather vague.
I know Yubikeys are pretty old hat by now, but I still feel weirded out by relying something like this into a USB stick. I just know I would lose the key at some point locking me out from everything. Of course the solution is to have two keys, but don't really know where I would feel comfortable storing the extra key (also how often do you check that it still works?)

I'm probably just over thinking this and overly paranoid.
I think you mean something like $20 more, and that's likely overshooting.

Some smart TVs can milk money from subscription partnerships, but on a per-tv-sold basis it's not really that much.
Jordan Peterson is anything but "woke"
If you click on some of the many outgoing links to other "revival" websites on that page you will see that they're all in that style. Perhaps this is just the case of the 90s aesthetic being the fashion of the day—particularly for zoomers who mostly didn't experience the 90s—but I still find it quite unoriginal.
This seems like an odd perspective. Relative to not having medical problems, all prescription medication is bad for you. Most healthy people wouldn’t touch it. (The others are why you need a prescription).

The question is how the problems induced by the medication compare to the problems solved by the medication. You don’t want to be on an SSRI, true. You also don’t want to be tortured around the clock by your own mind. Which is worse? I’m no doctor but I think the accepted answer is “it depends.”
NextDNS allows automatically whitelisting affiliate links. That's not as easy in Pihole, making it annoying to use at times.

But otherwise I concur, I've run pihole for years without any manual intervention needed.
I wish some of those were clickable - I’d love to join the vampire club!
> The only significant addition I see in somewhat recent models is auto-turning off, and I'm pretty sure it will help save the house from burning down at some point, so I'm all for it.

Many recent stoves (induction or regular) have figured that, when interacting with them, no one will have wet hands nor need to adjust them repeatedly, they could go ahead and save a few pennies by using shared tactile controls.

My stove need me to press a button corresponding to the plate I want to change, then press a common +/- button to turn it up or down. If my finger is wet, it will have a hard time registering and reach a timeout, whereupon I have to again select the plate. This is hands down the worst UX for an appliance I've had in my life.
Sometimes I wish I had gone with a newer vacuum. I got the original Xaiomi vacuum and while it has the LIDAR it's lacking on the software side of things and "forgets" the map with every clean. Luckily I have root and installed valetudo on it so I can bypass most of the limitations using HomeAssistant

https://valetudo.cloud/
That field is optional in npm, and vsce claims to be using npm as a base for its package structure.
And this is how AI changes human culture twine ball by twine ball.
WDAS and Pixar are two separate studios owned by Disney the company. There are other studios under the Disney umbrella such as ILM, Live Action, Blue Sky (closed), Disneytoon (closed), DTA (TV Animation)
I Made a Programming or Pokemon Quiz
I don't own a robotic vacuum, but two racks. They seldom end up in the exact same position every time, are frequently moved between rooms depending on state of drying, weather, and so on. Not to mention the kids.

I can't imagine spending effort exactly mapping the location of a rack, a passive/permanent solution like the one in the article is just right.
A recent experiment: publishing your online stuff as PDF files: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31375013

The author calls the HTML website -> PDF zine switch "deurbanising the web" in his/her manifesto: PDFs are self-contained, offlineable, files, decentralised, discoverable, independent of browsers, with a tool ecosystem that exists today, open standard, part of the web, page oriented. The manifesto is an insightful read for sure: http://lab6.com/0

I think I would absolutely love to browse this "PDF internet" if only PDF files were smaller than the typical several megabytes. For that reason, gopherspace and gemini (or casual web with a text-only browser like w3m) seem like a more compelling alternative, but YMMV.
However the manufcaturers prefer to avoid the risk of a user physically breaking the device from software and the manufacturer having to repair because of legal warantee.
A plant-based diet can be cheaper than a lacto-carnivorous diet.

Sports on the other hand do take a lot of time.
But then the overall shape is defined by the size of the screen. Especially with Settlers, the actual game board is often a function of “how many tiles we got” and “how big is our table “.
The price of bread has a net addition into the system in the form of sunlight. Seeds essentially germinate into wheat for "free."

In fact, you could make the argument that all of human endeavor is simply withdrawing from the bank of 4.x billion years of sunlight.
UI Hell: The place I'm renting has an IKEA / Whirlpool ceramic top stove. All digital. And I HATE it.

You can't find the touch-buttons in the dark, say when you want to make coffee in the wee morn, so you're forced to turn on lights. When you finally find a button, it takes forever to turn it to max. You have to fiddle around to turn it back down again, first click the button for the corresponding plate you want, then click a separate button to actually power it down. Again, it takes forever.

It's also impossible to train tactile memory for it, becuase the buttons are too close and too hard to discern on the dark-on-dark top, so if you try doing it blind, you'll just end up fiddling forever to find the damn thing.

If you spill something over the touch area, it'll start beeping and complaining before it turns itself off. Meanwhile the corresponding pot might have already boiled over, and you can't react in time, because the touch panel is covered in boiling liquid.

Also, honestly, I think it's actually harder to keep the ceramic top clean than a regular top. Reason: It smudges real easy, and you're never sure how much pressure or abrasives you can use without making scratches. On the old tops, you just didn't have to worry. It could withstand a sledgehammer amount of abuse before scratching or chipping.

And don't even get me started on the microwave installed here... I brought my own two-knob micro despite there already being one installed here. That should give you a clue.
That 60k per year seems to come from a small program where they're spending 60k per year for a tent, food and washrooms - twice the median cost of a one-bedroom apartment.

https://nypost.com/2021/06/26/san-francisco-run-homeless-enc...
So a pyramid scheme. The coins need more and more suckers to sustain it and fails when that supply dries up.
This definitely goes against the current narrative—nuclear power plants being shut down for no good reason. I wasn't aware of this type of corruption, but maybe someone with industry experience can speak to the gravity of this?
I am secretly convinced they have "eco" programs just to get the A+++ rating on energy efficiency, but that you're not really meant to use those modes.
I also ran into the issue of a wife who didn't like the fact that I had set up a pihole, apparently it blocked a number of shopping websites she was regularly looking at.

At the end of the day I looked at a few of the sites with her and whitelisted a couple of them, but basically told her that (based on the lists I was using) if the pihole was blocking the site entirely then it was either straight spam marketing or the site itself was malicious in some way.
Just tried Ktrip but it only let's me navigate between train stations in my country (NL). Transportr (also on Fdroid) I use normally, where you can actually see the data sources api's it uses, and it has one for the other public transport too.
We're already approaching that point. Most modern cars phone home, and my partner's CPAP machine also has a modem that reports usage info back home, including to their insurance provider.
"Faraday cage" is my one-size-fits-all answer.

It turns out I kinda have that already. My 1919 house has plastered walls, some of which have a wire mesh underlay. It blocks wifi signals between rooms beautifully.
>possibly resulting in the device bricking itself

And voiding the warranty for sure.
This is already a thing in many cars (many cars a few years ago, but almost every car now). Both to show ads in the vehicle and to harvest your location data. As well as to sell subscriptions for things like remote start from an app, wifi hotspot in the car, parental controls/monitoring, etc.

You can disassemble the interior a bit (usually not too difficult) and disconnect the antenna from the comms module. Depending on the structure of the wiring harness your car uses, it may not be possible to easily do that without also removing GPS/radio functionality. Some models are now integrating WiFi/Bluetooth into the same system.

Alternatively, depending on which manufacturer your car is from, you can "acquire" the manufacturer diagnostic/service software and disable the cellular connection.

I will give a shoutout to Honda for being pretty good about this. The Civic didn't have a cellular connection at least as of the 10th gen (up to 2021). Not sure if the new '22 Civic does. Also, their infotainment systems run Android and you can root/jailbreak it - on the Civic, Accord, HR-V, and others. Again, this may change in current model years so double check before you buy. And (excepting a few years around 2016-2018) Honda also still has physical buttons/knobs for all the important controls, instead of putting everything into a touchscreen like 90% of companies do these days.

BMW has had a cellular connection in their cars for many years, but you can disable the SIM card by programming the TCB through ISTA, even on the current G chassis cars. Not sure if that completely disables Tx. Also not sure how their just released iDrive 8 system handles it though.

Alternatively you could unplug the TCB on the BMWs. That requires dropping the headliner on recent ones (annoying but not hard), and on the really recent ones I don't think you can unplug cellular only (you'll also lose GPS & some other things, potentially including WiFi/BT/NFC, I'm not sure). And it'll show a warning on the dash all the time if you unplug it.
I bought a new washing machine from Sharp that was supposed to be eco-friendly, with microplastic filters, low energy usage, quick drying... whatnot. Most of my clothes are damaged from too wide holes in the tub. During spinning stage wet fabric get pulled into the tiny holes it breaks. Took us months to understand how our clothes get damaged. https://www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/images/articles/holes%20in%20...
Well, you can buy industrial appliances. They are more expensive, because they are sturdier and not subsidized by ads and data harvesting. But they are not "smart", and will last for a long long time.
I don't understand, why are you taking high school exams? Is it entry requirements for university?
How? You use the closure to capture the variables, but how can you make the variables visible in another function?
When I was maybe 20 years old and naive as hell, I thought it was funny that the older neighbors were really enthusiastic about their older fully analog, non-computerized Toyota Land Cruiser. They did all their own repairs on it. Now I understand.
Apple's headsets would be much more comfortable:

- OLED panels could provide much darker screens and cause less eye strain.

- Eye tracking with higher resolution where they only have to render properly where you are looking at

- I think the headset would be much lighter and comfortable.
As consumers, we ought to demand that. I like IoT, however if this is how the manufacturers gonna play it, I would rather have old stove and fridges with no internet access. Let's vote with our money.
> The point to watch out for is when the self-driving cars are the primary users, and the needs of human drivers start to fall away as not important any more.

Yeah. I'm really not looking forward to streets being all fenced off to prevent us pesky humans from jaywalking and causing trouble to our robotic overlords.
I'm not worried about the storage, but (almost) forced to run an OS is a bit much. I just want to run it on the same machine as other services and the VM is to me a clunky way to do that. Still overall like HA though.
Which hot tub?
A sliding door needing to be operable "without special knowledge" is interesting. Imagine if that code were expanded with "or uses latches and handles certified according to XYZ 123." Then someone can certify latches and handles (with installation instructions of course, like don't install them sideways). The building model would simply specify the make and model of latches and handles to be used, or if it's a simpler building maybe the model would only say "XYZ 123 compliant latches and handles."

This would decouple the complex English language from the need to know whether a door is compliant. Because it can be reasonably understood that a door will be operable without special knowledge if its latches and handles can be. Doors are often custom fabricated, but latches and handles rarely are. And a final check against idiocy can still be performed after construction, as it should be today.
It reminded me of Steven K. Roberts' "microship", an amphibian pedal/solar/sail micro-trimaran - https://microship.com/ .

He started his 'technomadic publishing' in the 1980s on bike. His BEHEMOTH was famous; it's on loan to the Computer History Museum. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dItCJUuFY4U for a BBC interview with him.

He then switched to microships for a while.

His description of struggling against the wind and current to make shore made me not want to go that route.

To be clear, Roberts's bike and microship were all human-powered, with no motor assist.
> You don’t fire someone over one incident. But if someone declines to internalize the feedback and continues to make PRs that are very far from acceptable or even reviewable, yes that is grounds for termination.

I agree; it's just that the way OP phrased it ("I was let go once for having too many commits in a PR", emphasis mine) made it seem like it was just one incident. Unless it was something completely egregious like a 50-commit PR to make a one-line change, I don't see how firing is a reasonable response. Which is why I want to hear the rest of the story :)
I've never seen any ads in my smart devices and I have a hard time seeing how the user data could be worth so much that dumb device startups can't even enter the market. Do you have any source with numbers on this?

I mean, I can understand the value of user data from Facebook but a stove or a fridge? What exactly are they selling?

Edit: realized now we're talking about TVs but still, is that data really worth that much?
it's all good until the local NPR station bricks your mazda's infotainment unit

https://www.google.com/search?channel=fs&client=ubuntu&q=npr...
I'd guess the implication is that some of the data was created or edited on a Taiwanese system.
As someone who uses Yubikey for about 5 years for SSH, GPG and O2F, an extra key is indeed the solution I use.

Effectively it means all integrations must support multiple keys, and you’ll have to register both. Of course, this doesn’t work everywhere, such as AWS. In those cases, I typically use my “main” key.

I’d argue that the key breaking due to wear or being lost is less of a risk than human error: just last week I had to enter the admin GPG code for the first time in years, and I forgot it initially, which caused the device to lock itself, and apparently the recovery code didn’t work. Caused me a few hours of stress to get it resolved.

So yeah it requires some discipline. What’s important is that you need to identity the services you absolutely cannot lose access to: in my case it’s my email and password manager. For those two, I properly manage backup codes, regularly test both yubikeys, etc. The rest can all be recovered through email, if it needs to be.
I’m fairly sure, at least in Europe, there will be legislation that prevents this without explicit positive content from the consumer. I suspect GDPR already covers it in fact.

My expectation is the online tracking/advertising is about to hit an incredible hard legislative period. The change that is coming is big, and the fallout it going to seriously badly hit some business models and corporations.

However, you are completely right, they will try anything and everything to continue.
Size. You cannot get the quality and size of a TV in a monitor form factor.