skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don’t you ever need to step out of the automation predefined values sometimes?

I do have most of my house automated, but my pain point is in those rare moments when I need to do something that doesn’t fit anymore in my predicted automation.

I said it in a previous comment as well, but I’ll give some more personal examples here:

1. We have friends coming and we need more light for a board game
2. My wife wants to sew some new clothing creation and needs bright white lights for short periods of time
3. Sun is still very bright at sunset but HA already turned on the lights (I kinda like the sunset natural light, and want to enjoy it without artificial lighting. I have a light sensor for this situation but it’s hard to get it right)
4. I want to change volume of a speaker but I’m not using the device playing the music
5. I want to get the blinds higher/lower without getting out of bed

I’m not saying everyone needs my app, of course. I made it for myself, and just decided to share it with the world, in case there are other people sharing my pain points.
I have a quest 2 and on one hand I'm impressed, on the other hand "crappy" is still a reasonable assessment.

It's way better than I would have expected. It's still not good enough to make me want to use it daily (even for just an hour or so)
Yup, _that's_ definitely the reason that'll never happen.
Similar but with an app, Amazon had a store like that and I've seen some experimental non-Amazon stores set up across europe over the past few years.
It’s probably rude to call a German a fascist because you don’t like how they comment on physics?
Yeah I came from uk undergrad to us grad school and was shocked to see that even some advanced undergrad classes, with grad students in them, were tested by infantile multiple choice questions (this was at harvard). It almost makes one wonder whether the us dominates academia to the extent it does because of the foreign influx.
City of Cambridge, Massachusetts, effectively requires Sheffield stands as suitable bike parking: https://www.cambridgema.gov/-/media/Files/CDD/Transportation...

A handful of the other types, e.g. the lampposts, get called out as acceptable as well.

I should bring up a few dozen of those and distribute them to various retailers around the city...
Burglaries are not self-defense cases. According to that website about 12% of burglars are armed, and in states without "stand your ground laws" you're only going to be able to justify your self-defense case if they presented a clear threat, you attempted to flee first, and then you found yourself without an exit before firing. So of the 3.8m burglaries, one third of which have a person present, one eighth of those have an armed intruder. Which leaves 160,000 potential cases for self-defense. Which is certainly not the "millions" initially claimed.
Minecraft: Java Edition has none of these flaws and is the superior experience in basically every way. Unfortunately, the cost you pay for that is that the game only works on "normal" computers, no console/mobile support.

If you specifically mean Bedrock Edition has problems, I agree with you, but it's been that way for a long time.
The gripe about being completely unable to enter a quantity of an item doesn't match my experience. But it isn't obvious how to use it - do you scan something, then enter the quantity, then put in the bagging area? Turns out no, you enter a quantity, scan one item, then put them all in the bagging area. But I discovered that if you enter a large quantity and can't put them all down in a certain time frame, it will complain the weight doesn't match and you have to wait for the supervisor... So I guess it works best with quantities of something you can fit in your hands.
Not to detract from your point, but surface area scales with size ^ 2.
I didn't know pipe benders capable of bending 3" dia steel tubing were accessible to a garage shop. you also need to weld mounting flanges.
Social experiences are the use case you're looking for. Multiplayer gaming is a lot more fun in VR, watching video together with people is great, even just hanging out and socializing is great and it beats video or voice hands down. You're right that it's currently in the dork stage of development, the internet went through that period as well. I'd enjoy it while it lasts though, I dread the day when it's fully monetized and mainstream.
Which ones? On principle, I never use chrome on android. Am I missing some killer feature?
They likely use XATTRs to store the ACL (that is an option in Samba), but it's not native like it's on the TrueNAS systems with the kernel. I bet if you log into the Syno's via SSH you don't get the ACLs enforced on the shell. With the NFSv4 ACL patchseries, they would and you could benefit from the better options that the NFSv4 ACLs give you.

Storing them in metadata is not the same as having them natively.
It would be difficult. The modern mass-produced book is first bound/glued and then cut to size, and consequently has page offset tolerances measured in millimeters. Something like this would require printing precision and page offset measured in microns.
I really like this style of bike racks: https://www.wuft.org/news/files/2019/10/ElectricScooter-1024...

(Don't know the name)

It lets two fit in next to each other by raising the wheel of one, and the wheel locks means it just slots in so nicely. Plus a raised part for the lock
No offense intended, but what you describe sounds pretty dismal to me. We have what you describe where I live (France), but I prefer to go to the markets where I know the butcher/green grocer/cheese person/dried fruits and nuts person/fish monger/etc. and they know me. I stand in a line, sometimes for a while, and finally they get to me and ask me how I've been doing recently. Then they ask me for my order and frequently tell me something interesting or useful about what I'm ordering (e.g. where it comes from, how it was grown, etc). They might tell me how to prepare something or offer a suggestion as to what I could buy that I don't usually buy. They might even tell me something about an event happening in the community soon. It's pretty rad.
Certainly wouldn't have been practical without smaller, faster, more reliable relays, and once it got there the applications were immediately understood.

What I meant was that it seems surprising, from a modern perspective, that it never seems to have even been proposed until much later. There are some early hints: I recalled a mention in Gardner's "Logic Machines and Diagrams" of an early (1880s) electromechanical design by Allan Marquand [0], who had built several mechanical logic machines. But Gardner wrote that there wasn't anything published on switching circuits as logic until 1910 in a review by Ehrenfest [1], and it wasn't developed until several independent publications in the 1930s, most influentially by Shannon. By then switching circuits had already gotten very complicated in practice.

[0] pg 112 https://archive.org/details/logicmachinesdia00mart/page/112/...

Alonzo Church uncovered a diagram by Marquand of a logic machine using relays [2], but it seems to have been sequential, using the relays as memory of what hadn't yet been disproven [3]. In 1886 Charles S. Peirce wrote to Marquand mentioning that electrical circuits could be used for Boolean addition and multiplication [4], though it doesn't seem he was thinking about relays, and I don't know that this was ever applied.

[1] pg 138, reference 2 https://archive.org/details/logicmachinesdia00mart/page/138/...

[2] Mays "The first circuit for an electrical logic-machine" https://archive.org/details/sim_science_1953-09-04_118_3062/...

[3] Patterson's review of Mays, https://doi.org/10.2307/2964205

[4] https://electronics.stackexchange.com/a/321534 , it seems clear to me that Peirce was talking about manual switches, not relays as the answer seems to suggest.
That really only matters if you’re putting quite a bit of food in the fridge/freezer. Think a large pot of stew. It’s more guidance for restaurants than people at home.
Maybe they use the same wifi channel.
great point, the more of these kinds of shortcuts accumulate, the more complicated it becomes to think about related changes in future, making maintenance, training new team members more time consuming and expensive. maybe not quite the same as "technical debt", but some kind of debt.

tangentially, re: organising things to reduce cognitive load, there is an interesting discussion with the authors of the book "team topologies" who characterise the purpose of platform teams as existing to _reduce the cognitive load of stream-aligned teams_ (who have the goal of providing a user-facing service or product, say). https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/software-architecture-team-to...
> What is that supposed to say about reputation?

Just that people don’t consider chrome extremely secure, it may be acceptable 99% of the time, but it doesn’t get a free pass in extreme security environments.
But... Twitter is unreadable! I get all these weird popups and it requires enormous amounts of effort just to follow the thread.

We probably can't fix Twitter. Would it be possible to reconsider the guidelines to allow for alternative views of websites that have absolutely atrocious usability?
Sea salt prices are about to be negative one dollar per pound
It doesn't have to be perfect; just good enough. You don't have to lock up perfectly, just better than the bikes around you. And carry insurance and be prepared to replace your bicycle. Or just ride beaters.
Cancer Care costs are insane..my mom is being treated for breast cancer..each chemo infusion cost $65k to her insurance company. Her surgery to remove her left breast cost $165k. 5k going to the surgeon fee while the rest was a facility fee. It's been less than a year now and the insurance has paid out almost a million dollars.
Very slick try-before-you-buy experience. And excellent, realistic pricing. I’ll be giving this a go.
I hope this way of life never dies
It mitigates the fear about its primary use being regulatory capture. Which is also quite important.
I used to have 2 of these. They were amazing. I miss simplicity.
Ah, side door. That should’ve been easy then, no?
There must be some way to get at least a SATA SSD onto a raspberry without too much hassle.

A cursory google search revealed lots of blogposts, videos etc on doing exactly that.

Also, if you're using an Rpi, it's also because you like tinkering, so more tinkering could be seen as a bonus :)
"One of these things is not like the other"

TimescaleDB, because it is packaged as a PostgreSQL extension (and not a fork, unlike the others), stays compatible with mainline PostgreSQL, especially as PostgreSQL improves. This is one of the key advantages of our approach.

(Timescale co-founder)
There’s also submarines
Yeah, most bikes in NL are not that expensive and/or old, have only integrated ring locks and are still not be attractive to opportunistic thieves.

Still, I'm glad that most places have proper Sheffield stands at most one block away here.
I think I am misunderstanding something, how did you cut your cooking/cleaning up time down to 4 minutes a day? And, are you eating the same food every day now?
Try Qubes OS: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/windows/.
I wonder if stores lose money on self checkout lanes. Just yesterday I witnessed something for the first time(for me) and I wonder how often this really happens. I was in line for the self checkout, there were about 6 machines and they were all being used. In one of them there was a guy with lots of groceries and he was slowly scanning everything. Then when he was done he pretended to pay and then just walked out. At first I didn't understand what happened but the machine he was using just remained there in non-ready state and nobody was touching it afterwards. After it was my turn I walked up by it and noticed that it still displayed "$220 due".

The guy went through the trouble of scanning every item he was going to steal and then just walked out.
For the simplest case yes, a way of bending big pipe and some way to make two big holes in the ground to then cement the thing in. (Or similar) But it quickly gets complicated - making smaller holes in concrete type surfaces is easier, less intrusive, less permanent than making bigger holes, which can lead to the flange method, but then you need some way to make or buy flanges, and then stick them onto the pipe. I make my own flanges out of plate and weld them on but you could go with threaded flanges, I think Home Depot (or similar) can thread high diameter pipe for you.

You can also skip the pipe bender by mitering two pipes together with a welder or doing like a pie cut thing. I do that kind of thing for pipe that's harder to bend - bend it to 45deg, miter cut and weld to 90 is a common technique for me. If you look up how DIY car exhausts are fabricated there's a lot of relevant tricks there. With a grinder and some elbow grease you can make it look like it was never welded.

For the finishing touch it's nice to have a friend with a galvanizing and powder coating shop :)
Same here - 32 cores/64G ram/4 3.5" bays, dual power 460w for $300.

Results:
- idle - 55W
- full usage - 200W

Not bad for 10 years old server.
Funny that this question gained 180 upvotes in 10 days when it also could have received the reverse for being quite lacking in things the author has tried to figure the (rather obvious) data dependency out on his own.
I've used the current market leading products and they suck. If you understand the tech you know how far it's come and how sophisticated they are but they are still decades away from famous Magic Leap teaser level of vividness.
Very much agree on the Flatpak side of things. GNOME has been using it to promotw their own EEE philosophy, which is why I avoid it like the plague.
Farmers expect you to pay extra for the inconvenience, in addition to already cutting out the middle-men. Same thing everywhere I've been in more developed countries across North America and Asia. Even Bali.

The most charitable interpretation is that farmers are simply not as optimized as grocery stores, resulting in a higher overall cost.
Lo and behold, they still do coding interviews. Who would have guessed that people who answer difficult questions correctly would outperform people who don’t.

In all seriousness, thank you for bringing this up - it’s an interesting story and I will probably look into it. But I also think it’s pretty obvious that coding interviews work extremely well, and any discussion of ”how can we create a procedure that is better for everyone” that doesn’t acknowledge this is hopeless.
Migration was a total nightmare for my family too.
> I don't think I'd say that code review needs to be abolished, but it often needs to be put on a bit of a diet.

To clarify: You mean whole team meeting for code-review needs a diet?

Because i agree. I actually think code review is always positive in pair programming situation, and often a waste of time in a team meeting (even with smallish teams). Maybe include the new dev during the code review just to witness (and ask questions later for his enboarding).
If only it were possible to buy a Raspberry Pi at MSRP!
When the Down Arrow Is Not an Upside-Down Up Arrow
I had an AI professor that described artificial intelligence as an agent that operates independently in some environment and reasons probabilistically / mathematically to determine actions, so I made a trading bot that used some simple time series techniques to dictate decision making. She ended up telling me that it wasn't an AI because the algorithms wasn't complex enough. OK... well, then why didn't you just say an AI is really just defined by whether or not the 'agent' is using the newest, shiniest algorithms? I was a little salty about that one lol
This writeup on Reddit has a decent breakdown of the pitfalls: https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/uvcijm/a_pediatri...

Looks like osmolality is a major concern. Good luck explaining that in a 30 second clip on CNN.
Those particular racks don't seem awful other than the way they're (not) secured to the pavement.
Economies of scale strike again it seems, for #2. Cows are big. 20 kilograms is practically nothing and the efficency is low at very small scales. Consumers often operate under the delusion that cost is fixed per item in all locations, at all levels of demand and any increased prices are pure opportunism.
Modern football is the same as old 60s football: Catenaccio wins you matches and trophies with the minimum effort and minimal financial expense for the board.

"two lines of 5 will always be very hard to penetrate, in prehistoric times, in the middle ages and today"

- Josèp Guardiola -
globalism sure... capitalism... that would require a more nuance explanation of what you mean by "capitalism" since that is huge subject often misused by people that do no understand that all ownership of private capital and means of production is "capitalism" under which there can be good and bad effects.

So blaming "capitalism" for anything likely means the person is ignorant on the topic of economics, or is speaking about one type of capitalism (say corporatism, or crony capitalism)

capitalism as an economic system is a foundation for liberty, one can not have a free society with out capitalism in some form.
That’s superdeterminism (the version of it Sabine likes), but most scientists won’t accept it because they hear you as saying they can’t do reproducible experiments.
I was messing about with Carla on Ubuntu Studio recently and played with your plugin. Nice! :D Thanks for your work.
"Arc Browser" is just Chromium + uBlock + some GUI enhancements

I really wish that articles about "new browsers" should state
up front what (if anything) they are built on top of.

Each time I am hopeful that someone has taken on the monumental task
of creating a new, better, or at least different web engine/ browser.
The competition would be good.

The near impossible complexity in writing a new web browser from scratch
seems indicative as to how broken the system has gotten.
A good resource for typgraphy, https://webtypography.net/toc/ I don't think there's anything so well done like this.
No one locks their bikes in Japan, either. According to Wikipedia this is thanks to "strong policing and general public disregard for stolen items." I can certainly say I've never heard of a US police department doing anything proactive in response to a reported bike theft.
5-or-so years ago I came across a raytracing simulator that looked a bit like this, but did a full spectrograph IC light simulation on top. I haven't been able to find it since, but it was a fascinating little toy to play around with.
Documents Shed Light on Secret U.S. Plans for Apocalyptic Scenarios
I mean, see for yourself: only 3 DEs actually support Wayland, the rest are WONTFIX or have too much to port to wlroots. GNOME Mutter has the only complete Wayland implimentation anyways, if 10 years go by and 1 DE has adopted you as default, you've probably failed.
Unless I understand incorrectly, this doesn't seem to make the problem any worse. You'd just have to block the proxy rather than the DNS server. Like DoH, only a problem if that's also the web server.
>It's different in America

Yes. Not sure how it makes his argument weaker. There is a weak sense of community in US sports fans, where it is well understood that sports teams are first and foremost a commercial enterprise.

It is perceived differently in Europe where fans are attached to the team fo r other reasons and want to limit the commercial impact in the sport, probably for some of the reasons explained by the author.
Thank you for introducing me to a wonderful privacy nightmare.

P2P networks inherently are not private: everyone on the network knows who else is on the network and what they are doing. Thus one bad node could collect data on others' browsing habits and track people quite easily.
I was very upset this was not about making Potato Chips. Seriously.
So that text doesn't say they are not using the data they collected for advertising targeting or measurement. They simply say they don't link the data with data collected from third parties for advertising. They are the only ad provider on iOS are they not? So the argument is, because they have a monopoly on their platform and don't share with anyone else they are vastly different? Or am I misunderstanding something?
Well, I'd say that two locks are nice to have, if not entirely necessary. You can quickly use just the ring lock if you're hopping in and out of a store, and get out the larger one to lock your frame when you're storing your bike for a longer period.
And impossible to lock your frame except with a useless cable.
I agree. Flatpak is a packaging technology though, not a sandboxing one: if privacy/security was the primary concern, then Bubblewrap would be shipped as a separate program for any software to run in, not just Flatpaks.
> there’s a real need for fast and effortless manual control.

On iOS i just pull down the control centre from the clock and it shows my most 6 most used home assistant things (a few lights, temp and door lock). HomeKit Bridge, I think is the integration that provides that.

It provides essentially the same UI as your app, without any app needed, and allows for "hey siri, turn on the hallway light" too.
This is the way we have it, too. I would like to add yet another advantage of this approach: You can designate bags in your cart to where the items go in your house, e.g. for fridge items, bathroom items, dry items, frozen items. When you're in the store, you sort things right then and there when you pick them of the shelf; when you get home you just drop the bag off in the right room, no more running back and forth.
I have a pipe bender that looks kinda like this but sideways and yellow and mounted on a tripod. I bought it from a guy who does water-suppression system installs for warehouses.

https://www.harborfreight.com/16-ton-hydraulic-pipe-bender-6...
Are there current JBOD products in 1U short-depth (15" for wall mounted rack) form factor, e.g. 4 x 3.5" hotswap drive bays with a mini-SAS connection to the unit? This would be useful as a backup device, or low-power NAS when connected to a Linux thin-client with LSI HBA.

There were some 1U products which included RAID support, priced around $500, which is a bit much for 1U chassis + SATA/SAS backplane + Pico power supply. 1U chassis with ~11" depth (seems to be a telco standard?) start around $100.

StarTech 1U JBOD discontinued, https://www.startech.com/en-us/hdd/sat35401u

Silverstone RS431 JBOD unavailable, https://www.silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=482&area=en

iStarUSA upcoming (shipping in June) 1U JBOD is $400, http://www.scsi4me.com/istarusa-m-140ss-jb-1u-3-5-4-bay-tray...

For ~$600, QNAP has an Arm-based 1U short-depth NAS with 2x10GbE and 2x2.5GbE networking, plus dual M.2 NVME slots. Maybe Armbian will run on that SoC, it's part of a supported family. https://www.qnap.com/en-us/product/ts-435xeu

$100 ODROID M1 SBC has an M.2 NVME slot with 4x PCIe lanes. In theory, this could be bridged to a PCI slot + LSI HBA, within a small case, as a DIY low-power NAS.
Tumblr just added an deactivated- in front of the actual address IIRC.

Since I have an catchall for my own domain I received spam on those addresses after they lost customers data.
I'm not so sure. I think they will deliver something but I have a feeling that Meta is going to beat them to the punch as far as a productivity focused device is concerned. Meta might wind up with most of the market share while Apple trails them although I'm sure that most people who own a MacBook Pro will buy an Apple headset as well. I think this is more of a PC vs Mac situation than it is Android vs iPhone.
I use Home Assistant purely as an automation server and as a gateway between different (incompatible) ecosystems. Entities that need manual control are exported over HomeKit and controlled using any Apple device. I use HomeControl for easy access to all devices in the macOS menu bar: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/homecontrol-menu-for-homekit/i....