skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting how there are still many internet connected products that don't have subscription fees and don't (as far as I can tell) track and sell my info. Some stuff from my home: Lutron Caseta lights, Bali motorized blinds, Secure360 outdoor security lights, MyQ garage opener, simplisafe entry sensors, cameras, and door lock (assuming you don't pay for the monitoring service). LG thinq products also (fridge, oven, dishwasher, washer/dryer) minus LG tvs (which I believe sell my info/deliver ads). Most of these products are something a household would buy once in many years (if ever a second time). So what's the business model here? High up front cost to subsidize the service for X number of years? There has to be some point where they are losing money on old customers.
If nobody ever tried out seemingly crazy things, we would be long extinct.
See also the News and Notes section in the Signpost, Wikipedia's community newspaper:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...

This dicusses the Wikimedia Foundation's Form 990 disclosures and its current fundraising campaign in India (2nd and 3rd sections on the linked page).

It shows that in 2020, there were 8 managers at the Wikimedia Foundation that earned more than $300K each in salaries and benefits. Three of the 5 most highly paid contractors were PR companies.

Despite revenue in the 2020/2021 financial year exceeding expenses by over $50 million, the Wikimedia Foundation is currently fundraising in India and Latin America, telling people in emails money is needed to keep Wikipedia online and ad-free. (Annual hosting costs are $2.4 million.)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/f/f7/Wikim...
Because the QOL from one is insane for me. While I’m cooking, I can set timers and look up conversions (one big country that produces a lot of internet content, including recipes, uses the most insane units). Everything else is a nice bonus, but those parts are major.

That said, I want to replace Alexa with something fully local, but the supply chain issues are currently a hindrance.
Awesome. This is why I read this board.
I love how the landing page features "Uninstall help".
I guess my thought process goes similar to this.

I am one person out of 7 billion. I need to provide for myself, everything I pay must cover the costs of all the costs of those people I bought from. When people buy my labour they must cover my costs of providing for everyone else.

My work and the work those people are doing needs to pay all those costs. We effectively pay eachother to work at what we are independently good at - trade.

But a worker only receives revenue from the work they do (I'm excluding unearned income)

If everyone gets everything they need ultimately from other people, and each of those people needs to get everything they need from everyone else - and sometimes the same people.

Where does the salary of the workers I buy things from come from?

I feel intuitively it doesn't matter how much bread someone can create, the total revenues from selling bread in general needs to cover the costs of all their employees and the business costs themselves.

But this process repeats for all transactions the total transactions for MasterCard pays the bills that MasterCard employees have.

Everyone needs to earn more than they cost but so does everyone else! How can this not inflate endlessly over time?

When I look at government deficit and debt levels of the world, people don't produce more than they cost and relative and absolute poverty.

What's the proportions of owners of wealth? Compare the bottom 99% with the top 1%.
1) Indoor exposure (ie. lack of time outdoors. For example, we need sun exposure to create vitamin D; the supplements are nowhere near as good.)

2) Inactivity. Our bodies need to move to be healthy.
Then use ansible, or some other stateless tool in the same space.
Hacking inkjets to use continuous refill has been a thing for like 20 years at least.

I mean I don't know the current situation (a happy laser printer user here) but last time I checked you could buy kits to convert many inkjet printers to just refill from a bottle.
If YouTube comments are to be believed...

> I'm the guy who designed that whole touchscreen (hw, sw, fonts, html+pdf-like markup, menuing system) as a kid a couple years out of college. I left the startup before they got into production, so have never seen a full system in action... very cool to see your vid! Looks like we both live in INLAND NW area. If so, might there be a way to come by and see it sometime?

In any case, this is incredibly cool (and I can't quite shake the feeling that the UI design was inspired by one of the early Alien movies).
Two reasons:

- Malaria is caused by a parasite, not a virus. Viruses are easier targets for vaccines.

- The economics of a COVID vaccine are way better. It's a lot easier to get funding and the ROI is much easier to see.
This article is a good argument for certain kinds of writers being modern spell-casters, able to conjure attention out of a little over a hundred paragraphs of incantations.
Stardust is €0.09 per month without IPv4. its basically free.
> "there are few options"

I'm curious about your phrasing. In idiomatic English, this says "there are _not many_ options", IOW options are limited. It emphasizes the constraints. OTOH had you written "there are _a_ few options", it'd emphasize the existence of more than one option, with a positive connotation.

From context I infer you meant the latter, is that right?
LLVM is geared towards providing a single toolchain for frontends to target, but is essentially made to target von Neumann/serial-ish/homogenous machines. You can get an overview of its philosophy in Lattner’s original 2004 paper [1].
MLIR (Lattner 2021 [2]) aims to generalize the compiler toolchain to support different compute paradigms and heterogeneous targets (polyhedral compilation/parallel kernels/afine loops) and so on, by defining a declarative framework of IR _dialects_ and transforms between them.
I’m writing my MSc thesis on using C/C++ as the IR, assuming it has enough compiler support for different targets to provide a suitable platform for optimisation transforms using a source-to-source compiler, but MLIR seems like a better first-principles approach, maybe suffering from the impracticality of using it _right now_.

[1] "LLVM: A Compilation Framework for Lifelong Program Analysis & Transformation", Lattner and Adve. https://llvm.org/pubs/2004-01-30-CGO-LLVM.pdf

[2] “MLIR: Scaling Compiler Infrastructure for Domain Specific Computation”, Lattner et al. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9370308
Not at university, but at a company I worked for: the company had legal requirements to train its employees and contractors in various aspects of integrity. They'd made an app that gamified this, and at the end of every month, we should have out score above 70% in that app.

A coworker used our testing framework to write an app that would collect the correct answers and fill them in automatically, and only wait for user input if it didn't recognise a question. He gave to code to me when he left. I think I tried it once or twice, but it failed to work for me due to some network issue, so I figured I'd just stick to the spirit on the thing and keep my score up manually.
Touch ID for Sudo
Do you know what routing provider(s) were in use, out of interest?

It looks like the app builds upon[1] the kpublictransport library, which should offer a few options[2]. I'm not sure how the selection of those is surfaced in the app though, not having used it myself.

[1] - https://invent.kde.org/utilities/ktrip/-/blob/1bd4e070143eb0...

[2] - https://github.com/KDE/kpublictransport#backends
Give Rimworld a try. It's easy to get a few things done every break and pausing fits in naturally. You can even almost get away with backgrounding it where you set up a bunch of stuff to be done, and let the pawns do their own thing.
I use the chess.com app and solve puzzles. Lichess has free puzzles but I think the ones on chess.com are better.
I use yadm (https://yadm.io/), very happy with it. It's a thin wrapper above a git repo rooted in the user home that is configured to ignore untracked files. yadm adds a bunch of helpful convenience feature on top (like "alt files" that symlink either one or the other file depending system tags or the OS, and secrets [which I don't use])
It really started sucking after the redesign, IMO. But who can blame them? What happened is the only outcome possible if your business model is Web 2.0.
Same here, except just one Tesla. Breaking point for me was “pedo guy”. Elon is one of America’s premiere douchebags, against stiff competition.

I imagine there were many Jewish and Black Model-T Ford owners who felt the same way about Henry Ford.
Can it be that we are just getting old? The new generation will have their brains wired to ignore ads, will be ok with devices spying on them (it will be called something else).

And we will be something like that grandpa that can't unblock the mobile phone. (for example, use that new blockchain smart contract to open the fridge and order some food NFTs)
As a long time Windows user... I had no idea, nor knowledge of dotfiles. I found this introduction[1] which seems to explain it fairly well, as far as I'm concerned.

I find the idea of having a file system full of links in it a bit odd.... but I only discovered the nest of them in my Windows 10 system a month or so ago with the windows DIR /AL command. I'll have to get over the cognitive dissonance and adjust to this new reality.

1 - https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/dotfiles-what-is-a-dot-fil...
> It's also probably not even going to be seeing a ghost or something that makes you drop an atheistic, nonspiritual worldview.

I have seen testimonies from more than one skeptic / atheist who witnessed something they "have no explanation for" but who remain atheist.

I think it goes back to that almost-religious commitment to only believing the reproducible.

Or, perhaps in some cases, to confirmation bias and a desire to believe there is nothing beyond matter.
URL should be https://soundcloud.com/ideoforms/windows-95-startup-sound

The tweet is just a no-information embed of the Sound Cloud page.

See the link above for e.g. links to more information about the sound. Click on the user’s name for links to other Windows startup sounds slowed down.
Tracking `~/.config` as a regular directory in git only works if all your machines are near-identical. If you want to share dotfiles between, say, Linux and macOS, or between your home and work machines, then a dotfile manager makes it much much easier.

For more reasons, see: https://www.chezmoi.io/why-use-chezmoi/

Disclaimer: I'm the author of chezmoi
After reading through the thing, I don't see any DRM at all. Just a simple counter for the machine to know when the cartridge is empty. Frankly, I feel deliberately mislead by the headline, as seems to be getting the norm these days.

Edit: Kindly tell me where I'm wrong.
There is still a market for one-time purchases. I'm not surprised if companies don't build planned obsolescence into blinds, doorlocks, cameras and ovens.
I would use my built on mapping for those reasons if I had any, but just as an aside, OSMAnd+ is an offline heavy duty free FOSS navigation and maps app. It's not quite as user friendly as google maps unfortunately, but the offline, downloadable navigation maps have saved my ass a few times.
California Right to Repair Bill Dies in Senate Committee
LOL. Have you actually used Baidu? It is trash. Results are full of heavily SEO-ed sites and sites that grab other websites' content and present as if it's their own. I say this as someone who has used Baidu for many years, including before Google was forced to leave China in 2020.
there's a lispy alternative to nix, called gnu guix, which uses guile/scheme instead of nix-lang.
Update.. I tried just "order dog food" and it picked a decent choice based off my order history and then I could have said "buy this". So to be fair (with a device with a screen) it performed quite well.
It's just a business model, similar with printers, coffee capsules, software and music.

Essentially, the idea is that you get your payment for your work and resources over the course of use without using intermediary for financing the customer. You spend the resources upfront(record music, film a movie, produce appliance and give it away for cheap) and later you enforce payment per use where usage almost doesn't cost you anything.

From consumers perspective, you can achieve similar savings on games, music, movies and software if you use torrent trackers and a seedbox.

IMHO, it's only a problem when prevents legitimate use cases like lending it to a friend(was not a problem with DVDs, huge problem with DRM protected video purchases).
One associated maximum automation income.

Not all automayed jobs are alike, and you can still make money through other non automated means, including entrepeneurship, but this restriction could probably enable UBI.
> terms like "caregiver" or "responsible adult" should be used

When I was in school (90s, 00s) it was "parent or guardian", which I think is a reasonable balance. I'm pretty sure that's still the phrasing my kid's school uses.

In any case, I dont think the Google guide goes to the extreme you mention.
Nonsense, humans are no different than any other animals and survive best in equilibrium and always die out in cases of uncontrolled growth.
I have a new car and no, it can't be disabled. You can only disable tracking by the car company but not emergency calling.

Via IMEI tracking the cell providers have your location data, willingly or not. If you want to travel anonymously you'd better have an oldtimer. I know of lawyers who only visit clients with an old car.
Yes, there is a lot of concern about that; it might even drive away existing customers. Some extra trains are being added, but the ability to do that is obviously limited.
Agreed, I think you can see this rack (or at least the bikes stood in it) in this street-view link: https://www.google.com/maps/@50.7988844,-0.580026,3a,17.1y,1...

I wonder why the photographer decided to make it black and white!
I had to click on the link to be sure it was really a detergent for a washing machine. I feel like we are all becoming crazy
It was so cumbersome that we built a platform to solve it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28777589
I wonder if you could just tie pin 7 (VCC) to pin 8 (Write Protect). I wouldn't be terribly surprised if they didn't check for success on the write. Would be a much simpler hack.
You can't outlaw stupid. It would be nice if things like this that were obviously "anti-competitive" were treated as such though. Maybe a nice exception for bypassing anti-competitive DRM carved out specifically in the DMCA, or something like that.
Hearthstone has been my goto for "I want to play something for 15 minutes with little commitment" for the past 8 years now.
I'm guessing you're not from Europe? Most flats are very small and there's simply no space for a traditional, large American style dishwasher.
How would you sell a fridge or a car in the EU if you're not compliant?
IMHO this should be a priority for all nations, however it is not happening, possibly because the effects are not yet in the news?
"I don't know why you purchase (say) bonds, but most people I know purchase them for the interest,"

You don't need to issue bonds. When government spends it automatically borrows the same amount at that time as a function of the way bank transfers work at the accounting level. Tax payments then reverse that as the money spins around the economy, which reduces that borrowing. What is left is simultaneously what people have saved from that spending flow, and the government deficit.

"You'd think if the government could get the same loans with the same terms without paying interest, then they would avoid paying interest."

That rather depends who government is working for doesn't it. If it is exempting holders of debt assets from the inflation process, by giving them free money when there is no need - while spinning an elaborate story to cover - it makes perfect sense.

"The more you increase the outward flow the more you need to increase the inward flow, and the extent to which you can do the latter is not limitless."

When you turn on the hose pipe, and then increase the flow by turning the tap, do you need to widen or lengthen the pipe, or does the water just come out of the end faster?

Sovereign money is a closed system. The more government spends, the more tax and financial savings it creates. Tax + financial savings = spending. Always. And it can do that until the cows come home.

What stops the process is running out of real things to buy at a price worth paying. Then government spending stops.

Government spending works like spinning a stone across a pond. Each hop is a tax point reducing the size of the next hop, and eventually the stone disappears.

Saving is like videoing the hopping and pressing the pause button. The hopping will then continue when the pause button releases - ie when the savings get spent.

"Nobody's explanation of this ever makes sense to me,"

Perhaps if you drew out the balance sheets, and applied the journals you'd see how it works.

What you're missing, it would seem, is that for every debtor there is a creditor and everything must always add up to zero at all times.

Do that and you'll see that what you're calling 'unsustainable debt' is just a balancing entry in the accounts.
How do you do resource allocation and commerce without money? Centralized planning? No thank you.
Elastomania.
You can spend an arbitrarily small amount of time on it, like a 1 or 2 minutes.
It also turns off the brain well.
Well maybe the auto manufacturers will push the cell carriers to finally have service everywhere then...
That'd be nice.
Can't it be both? Google's entire career is combining something useful (gmail) with something shady (reading your emails to sell ads).

This sounds exactly like that.
How Good Are Those Probabilities on the Apple TV+ Broadcasts?
A funny quote if you put on your layman's glasses:

> It's simply a 24C02 EEPROM with 4.7K pull-ups on I2C lines, a bypass cap, and some diodes, probably for reverse-insertion protection.
Is it one document? Many documents? Does the article mention it? What about all of the pictures?

Do you happen to have a link to the document in question, or a title I could use to search for it?
Noise pollution is my number one. There is simply no way to escape it living in the city, and there are no job opportunities for software engineers on the countryside (not that it's perfect on the countryside either - given all the motor-based tractors, chainsaws, lawnmowers, leafblowers...). I hate it and it's driving me crazy and all I want is peace and quiet, but apparently, that's too much to ask and I'm spoiled and it's all in my head and I should shut the fuck up and stop bothering the noisemakers.

There are many others that I can't think of right now, I don't really keep a list.
Next: all crypto and NFTs are probably worthless
The kicker here is that the "industrial revolution" (aka, not living hand to mouth and dying in the wilderness) also provides a way to avoid things like dishwasher DRM. Now this guy has a product that solves the problem: https://www.tindie.com/products/dekuNukem/bob-rewinder-renew...

The real problem here isn't the availability of technology as much as broken laws which prevent us from modifying the things we own to best suit our needs.

I don't have much issue with selling convenience. Most people I know will happily pay multiples of an optimal price for small convenience (most people I know will buy bottled water). As long as the law doesn't interfere with people who want to add their own caustics and detergent this way, then what's the actual issue?
Not necessarily, although unfortunately for GUI applications that's often the case.
5g and embedded modems will make it so much easier for consumers to get their new devices up and running!
The fact you call this mini feature of setting a timer (which is equally available on your phone via voice) "QOL" is fascinating to me
So fattening food and vehicles are the only possible goods and services?

How about living longer and healthier? Education, preserving the environment, care for the sick, young and elderly, all of that can be much improved and if you have a bigger GDP.
ohmuhgawd! Until now, I had never seen this "tech". It is so obviously the ink jet of washers. why on earth would this seem like a good idea to anyone other than the manufacturer knowing the ink jet games that could be played. as a consumer why would this ever sound like a good enough idea to actually purchase?
>>It would be more appropriate to call "capitalism" the obsession to put the interests of capital and its owners above all other interests. This means, capital should be allowed to override the basic needs of other humans. Capital should have the right to deny others the ability to obtain shelter or food.

Completely incorrect, unless you completely perverse the idea of capitalism which I suspect you are attempting with disingenuous argumentation and emotional rhetoric

Capitalism, on its own, does not result in "oppression" as that requires external non-economic factors often based around government for oppression to occur.

Also I am not jealous Jeff Bezoz, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, or any other rich person at all, in either strawman you have presented here

>>If capital overrides all your decisions, how can you consider yourself free? How can a society where only one special groups interests are being heard, call itself free?

I have not contradicted myself at all, you have massively over reached and attributed positions to me well outside that of my comment. Further you have now confused capitalism, an economic system, with government power.

The only way for "only one special groups interests are being heard" would be for government to impose that restriction upon the population, that has nothing to do with capitalism.

>>You are confusing market economies with capitalism

Market economies, including Free Market Economies are part of a capitalist economic system, so if you believe they are not I point you back to my original comment. A Free Market is capitalism, So is Crony Capitalism, but Crony Capitalism is not a Free Market.

Stated Differently, All free markets are capitalist economies, but not all capitalist economies are Free Markets.

I support free market capitalism
> Thank goodness she didn’t ask Alexa to say the Rosary

The highlight of the article there.
I just checked and it looks like[1] this happens at least once a year, specifically to guard against this kind of attack. It doesn’t break the chain of hashes though.

1: https://www.euspa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/calls_for_pr...
> No need to manually measure and add detergent each wash, very convenient!

No difference between adding a dishwasher tablet in the detergent holder of a regular machine. In both cases you're manually adding 1 item into the machine.

Except in the case of the dishwasher tablet, it comes from a box of 40 that you can easily buy in any supermarket.
Factorio, for 5 minutes? HahahHAHAHAmuhabahHaAha

I’m envious of your discipline ;-)
I have an iRobot Roomba J7 which has a camera and object avoidance. I had a cheap Eufy previously which tore itself apart after eating one too many phone chargers. The Roomba just works around it without a second thought. I'm very impressed, and it's made the change between 'running the vacuum' being a task I need to do 5-10 minutes of prep work for to a completely automated job that I don't even have to think about any more.
Very cool and clever plot. How it was done?