skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
wow, this is so absurd from my point of view. i am glad my home is not smart.
> On waiting for services: I was actually (and still technically am) on an NHS waitlist which I've been on for the last 5 years, my new employer is just paying a private doctor to handle everything which begins next week.

Don't you pay something like 60% taxes for this?

> of immigration raids being stopped by hundreds of people surrounding the vans until the police leave

I suppose illegal migrants are ineligible for public healthcare. Else it's a little counter productive for people to block immigration enforcement isn't it?
Not quite sure how to calculate it, but a n2-highmem-128 instance running at near peak for 24 hours surely uses more electricity than the energy required to heat a dozen or two gallons of water per day.
>or kick people out of the beta for posting them,

didn't they fire an employee because he posted a video that included some software flaws of Autopilot?
Whenever some AirTag news come up, I see the argument that GPS trackers had existed for a while, and they could be purchased readily through AliExpress. The argument implies that additional threat posed by the prevalence of AirTag is non-existent as the threat model had existed before.

This argument misses the point that to a non-technically-minded consumer, AirTag made stalking significantly easier not only on a technical ground (Apple's familiar UIUX), but also on an emotional ground -- Apple is an admired premium brand, and instead of buying some sketchy equipment from a no-name seller, one can walk into a pleasantly appointed Apple store and pick an AirTag on a coffee break. It makes the whole experience _feel_ more legitimate and kosher, if not pleasant.

Accessibility of a tool whether on technical, emotional, or legal grounds makes material difference in adoption and usage of said tool.
Most tunnel protocols are UDP these days, vxlan, geneve, wireguard etc... Just because it doesn't guarantee delivery, meaning you don't get the retransmit amplification you'd get with TCP over TCP.
Really really well done! I love builds like this and am collecting pieces for my own sleeper PC. I'm an unashamed nostalgia addict and would much prefer an older case in the room than the modern ones we get these days.
Tell HN: Don't bring your loud mechanical keyboard to the office
Over the past couple of years mechanical keyboards have soared in popularity among engineers. Rightfully so! Owning a custom piece of beautifully crafted equipment is delightful!

However if you own one of the loud ones and want to be considerate to your coworkers, I implore you to not use them at the office. The sound is so loud it pierces through noise cancelling headphones, and it's not fun to have to blast music all day just to cover up the sounds of typing.

There are some options if you want a quieter mechanical keyboard (https://www.electronicshub.org/best-quiet-mechanical-keyboards/) or you can get the o-rings to dampen the sound of the switches on your current model (https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00K73IE1C).

Truly not trying to be a dick writing this, I really get the excitement! But the sound has been driving me up the wall, and I can't be the only one.
If it ever connects, then return it. It stopped working.
For years now I have published DNS TXT records for my domain that include my twitter handle, email address, and a Google Voice number. I always thought it would be a fun "protocol" for people to adopt, but never knew how to advance it.

dig TXT trevormanternach.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Proposition_13

"1986 Proposition 58

Proposition 58 allowed homeowners to transfer their principal residence to children without a property tax re-assessment, as well as the first $1 million (not indexed to inflation) in assessed value of other real property."

Of course if the homeowner has more than one child it could get messy
Do Kwon says claims he cashed out $2.7B are categorically false
I remember the conservatives of that era, and as you note, that era died with Prop 187.

The republicans killed their ability to have a place at the table on meaningful discussions about the states future, and as of right now? Being a democrat requires you to hew to certain ideological perspectives and ways of discussing issues. I'm not suggesting that the current or former Republican Party had the right answers, but you need more than one perspective to make meaningful change.
> The administration which has been openly hostile towards tesla

No. They just haven't gone out of their way to publicly promote the company.

Which is understandable given that Biden is pro-worker/pro-union and Musk from events to date isn't.
I use virtual desktops/workspaces for context switching. Because I don't like to micromanage opening and closing a multitude of windows each time I switch tasks, I just... leave everything open until I'm done with it. My computer is powerful enough that it doesn't usually struggle with that. Even if it'll be hours until I'll use a certain context, I just leave everything up on that virtual desktop/workspace until I need it next. So, I have a workspace for each of:

- Leisure (browsing Hacker News, reading the news, listening to music, chatting with friends, etc.)

- Play (usually an idle game I enjoy)

- Software development (code editor, terminal, browsing code documentation, debugging tools)

- Virtual office work (writing documents, checking email, managing my calendar, managing projects)

- Learning (these days that means formal schoolwork as I've gone back to school to chase a graduate degree)
Yeah, obviously there is nostalgia value for a lot of people but objectively it's a pretty average looking case even for the era... which leads me to ask this: what _was_ the best looking computer case of the retro era?
So Insteon hardware works fully offline. It's a RF and powerline protocol, and they sold computer USB or serial adapters to interact with it.

People who got screwed were only people who chose to use the Insteon Hub, which is their specific cloud/Alexa/Siri/phone app solution.

So most of the hardware was unaffected and the users dependent on the cloud chose to be.

Insteon hardware actually exploded in value when the company folded just because you could only buy second hand. PLMs were going for $400 on eBay. Because all the hardware is offline and still works fine, there's just nobody manufacturing it.
Maybe a corresponding growth in credit has allowed the financial sector to capture the increased productivity? A lot of loans are given for non-GDP transactions (i.e. purchases of existing assets as opposed to actual business and infrastructure investment).
I find that using multiple workspaces makes it harder for me to find the window. Normally I just trigger the activities overview in gnome and it shows all the windows. If I use workspaces, it only shows what’s on my current workspace and I have to either search multiple times or remember which workspace things are on and dedicate to a scheme.
Yeah that's probably the best point so far... but if you run out of tiling space with the standard two+ monitors, I'd argue you have too many windows!
But you generally don't wanna keep a "connection" open to everyone in every scenario, like the one in the post.
Are these accurate portrayals of benefit programs? In the US they are quite a challenge to get (say social security disability) and not particularly generous.
https://swedx.se has Digital Sinage products without Smart features - or tuner. Add what you need only. Also comes with touch.
He resigned, which avoided the fight entirely.
Agreed. I'm baffled by the "impossible" commments.
> Don't you pay something like 60% taxes for this?

Yep, my effective tax rate is roughly 55% over the year

I've previously applied to go work in the US, particularly at Stripe. Basically got told unless I have something ridiculous (so they can get me an EB-1A) the waiting times for Visas is way too long.
Have you considered concealing the logos? I ask because I haven't and I'd be interested to hear the thoughts of someone who has. I imagine there could be lots of ways to conceal logos attractively if know-how and slightly greater effort is on the table.
On the political aspect, you are almost quoting Achen & Bartels, see here in particular:

https://demodexio.substack.com/p/democracy-for-realists-part...

They make the point that the public often screams at whoever the leader is, regardless of whether the leader has any power over economic events, and regardless of whether the leader is conservative or socialist. There is also this:

Democracy for Realists, 2016

Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government

By Christopher H. Achen & Larry M. Bartels

Page 312

The result is that, from the viewpoint of governmental representativeness and accountability, election outcomes are essentially random choices among the available parties – musical chairs. Elections that “throw the bums out” typically do not produce genuine policy mandates, not even when they are landslides. They simply put a different elite coalition in charge. This bloodless change of government is a great deal better than bloody revolution, but it is not deliberate policy change. The parties have policy views and they carry them out when in office, but most voters are not listening, or are simply thinking what their party tells them they should be thinking. This is what an honest view of electoral democracy looks like. It is a blunder to expect elections to deliver more.

https://demodexio.substack.com/p/democracy-for-realists-part...
make sure you don't use a Roku to make your TV "smart", because it is phoning home constantly 24/7, especially when you're interacting with the remote or anything in the OS. If it can't phone home for a while and it's aggressively blocked, the OS will interfere with other apps, preventing them from running until the Roku stick can phone home.

Amazon FireTV also phones home quite a bit , but since it runs android you can sideload a firewall like Netguard to try and contain some of the telemetry and usage data being siphoned off the device
It is sizeable enough that another company interested in it, Universal Devices (which makes a hub that can interact with Insteon devices) bid for it and lost.

But it's also a former VP of the old company who has apparently bought it, so I am kinda interested in the story of how that happened.
It does much more than just pretty print, BTW. The q stands for query, and you can write relatively complex queries using it. It’s certainly not as powerful as sql, but very useful for manipulating json data from the cli (or bash scripts)
Came to write practically the same thing, I feel like when some people decide they don't want to use something anymore and their world view quickly becomes biased to think others have had a similar experience.

RSS never went away, RSS apps never went away, RSS users never went away.
I agree with everything up until “A serious crime suddenly becomes a hip experience.” I think that’s taking it a bit too far (and demonizing Apple a bit).
Learning to do pull-ups was for me. I bought a pull up bar around late February and I just did dead hangs randomly throughout the day, attempting to do chinups every time. I started with chinups as I found it easier than pullups. I did easily around 100 attempts a day and by the end of the month could do 10x5 pullups (neutral grip, i find it more natural), but the breaks from each set is like 3-5+ minutes. Today my routine is 20 sets of 12 pullups 3x a week, this time the breaks from each set is about 1 minute. I also started pushups around that time, and within a month I could do 10x10. Now my routine is 10 sets of 32 reps. I could max out more reps but my bottleneck is breathing: I would run out of air before my muscles fatigue, same with my pullups. Looking for advice on that but I think the biggest factor is either my breathing is wrong, or that because I dont do cardio.
Software industry would really benefit once we grow out of discussing this 10x notion - it's the same level of juvenile (high-school/undergrad) discussion as whether geniuses and gifted people really exist (they do) but in professional settings, it matters very little.
Shapash – Python library to make machine learning interpretable
HA has had some form of Insteon integration for close to a decade. But I think a lot of the improvements in it recently has been to help new migrants from the Insteon Hub market cope.
There's many good recommendations for books here. But if you're a developer without much mathematics experience, I think you can harness your dev experience to learn far more efficiently than a standard approach.

Basically, go through the exercises in the book, but use numpy, Julia, MATLAB, or similar. Learn the "Matrix API" back to front.

I've successfully taught a number of devs without a strong mathematics background with this method. The fast feedback loop this approach affords allows a good intuition to be built up very quickly.
> Besides staffing costs (which also go down when you hire technologists from outside of Bay Area)

That's not what I've seen. Top talent still commands SF salaries, no matter where they happen to be located.

So far everyone I've seen try to implement Geo-adjustment magically had to carve out "special" deals for most engineers. They won't talk about it openly of course.
Did the find the circle hidden in the digits yet?
Apple does notify you of Air tags near you that aren’t yours.
You can also just toss stuff in taxable investment accounts. Tossing 20k a year in FXAIX or whatever still adds up over time,
Ask HN: Is it the “worst” time to buy a house?
You can't go a day, without seeing worrying "news." From the Federal Reserve raising rates, making mortgages more "unaffordable" to this summer leading in the most decrease "mortgage applications" since 2006. https://www.mpamag.com/us/mortgage-industry/market-updates/m...

On the other hand, commercial real estate has their own problem, prime commercial space goes unleased, and majority of downtown cores are still empty, or heavily decreased occupancy.

I'm on the opinion of, if you need a house, buy a house - because you do need a place to live.

Yet, decreased supply, higher cost of loans and loan servicing seem to make it mirror 2006 - yet, mortgages are stronger than ever - but what about those covid mortgage forbearances?

What do all of you think?
I set up Home Assistant for my parents after their Insteon system turned into a brick. It did a great job of controlling everything, but it seems to think there's an extra sunset at 4:17PM every day which has made scheduling a challenge.
It'd be nice if there was a thing to lean your foot on near the brake pedal.
That sounds horrifically dystopian.
Yes, we know automatic emergency braking is great. A mandate for it was in the infrastructure bill that failed I think. Lane keeping is probably quite good too (though I’ve never seen data on it).

However you take that info and make a leap of logic that doesn’t work for me.

> There is no question that public roads would be way safer if everyone drove a Tesla with the systems in place…

You can’t support that. In fact it directly contradicts the fact NHTSA is investigating. Because the Tesla system may not work correctly. A car that brakes randomly with fancy safety features is worse than a car without those features that never slams on its brakes falsely (IMO).

> …especially given the fact that most people are going to be responsible with the system.

You can’t know that.

We know people are irresponsible with eating in cars. And doing makeup. And shaving. And drinking. And cellphones are a disaster. And people playing with the radio or maps.

Even if the Tesla system was nothing but an improvement when used properly (we’ll see what NHTSA says), you don't know the average person will use it safely. I would argue there is a lot of anecdotal evidence that’s not true.

This is not an Android vs iOS or Vi vs EMACS discussion. There are literally lives at stake. I think it’s very fair we move conservatively based on documented evidence.
For my favourite math YouTuber besides 3B1B as is mentioned all over the comments, I really really like Steve Brunton at UW. I can't believe how much I've learned from his presentations on YouTube which led me to his book 'Data-Driven Science And Engineering' with J. Nathan Kurtz. Excellent book and excellent YouTube videos.

http://www.databookuw.com/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm5mt-A4w61lknZ9lCsZtBw
What are some libraries that already follow most of this advice?

I see cobra used in Go fairly often but I don't know if it's the best option.
It’s not. I know a person that ended up paying probably $10k for an interview coach and leetcode tutor that ended up leaving their $90k job at Accenture to making $600k at Netflix.

I wish I got returns like that at the market.
Ah yes, THE country.

How we doin' today, fellow Ugandans?
Good feedback. Took out my hyperbole. Thank you. No intention to demonize Apple in any case.
This is like saying offices can make a comeback after the industry went all in en masse for open plan. The stated reason for open plan was the mythical 'organic interaction,' but in reality it was reduced seating costs.

Remote work takes that those seating costs right to zero, and it's already been proven out with ample data demonstrating that productivity suffers little, if at all. There are a plethora of multi-billion companies that are 100% remote to really drive this point home.

In-office work isn't coming back any more than personal offices with doors for individual contributor engineers are coming back.
Pengaru mentioned MRU in the replies and that's largely how I find the relevant window, but instinctively knowing where the relevant app will find itself in the MRU using alt-tab. Either that or I just click on it in the taskbar, I never have more than 5-6 windows open. If I really need to be productive, I'll tile them up.
What kind of spiritual crisis? What symptoms do you see? Is this a cause or effect of the system we have?
Media isn't monolithic. Local media tends to ignore or downplay crime--I think in part because the writers are either insulated from it or have their own political biases. National media plays up the crime because they like to use SF as a whipping horse to say "see don't be like SF or your city will have full blown anarchy". SF is actually a huge anchor on national progressives because republicans can always point to SF and show how poorly policies have played out. If SF was as clean/safe as Copenhagen, it'd be a lot harder to make that argument. SF progressives are a different breed altogether though--it's all about scolding people and identity politics to distract from meaningful policies like universal healthcare, elder/child-care, etc.
Not if you're on Android and haven't installed the Tracker Detect app from Apple.
I love workspaces. My top-left one is my "home" workspace where I keep a browser window with mail, calendar, chat, etc., as well as any other random browser windows/tabs with "general" personal stuff.

Then the other three workspaces (I just have four arranged in a 2x2 grid) are for a particular topic or project. One of them is devoted to some ESP32 rust hacking I've been playing with. Another has a window open for a consulting gig I was working on recently (though that project has concluded, so I can probably clean that one up). And the fourth one is for a different coding project I'm working on.

I find this much easier organizationally than having them all in the same workspace, and having to dig through the various windows to get things where I want it when I switch context.

Perhaps I'm a little odd, though: this is a laptop with a 13" screen, and I do all my work and play on it, without an external monitor. So keeping unrelated things separate is useful for me to keep clutter down.
I feel like, what can I do? If I have a lying red/blue on my hands, my only choice is to swap it for a lying blue/red.
> I was looking for a weekend job to help with the bills, but given my tax rate it's basically pointless looking for extra work

What do you mean? It looks like the UK's income tax system is progressive, so you'd still be making more money, even if at a lower percentage of the real value. Do you mean that your net pay would be too low to warrant spending time on a weekend?
I'm commenting here both to remind myself to check back and try this out when I'm not on mobile, and to thank you for building this- at first glance it looks good.
> they would still be given opportunity the rectify the situation

He was asked on air to stop transmitting, and kept going... necessitating personnel having to take a break from incident command to go out and drive and tell him to stop.

Subsequently, there were further unauthorized transmissions, but this guy denies making those.
Digital Signage was the term when I worked in that space.
I actually hadn't considered laptops at all, since even those are usually hooked up to multiple monitors in work scenario but you have good points both on the screen and font sizes!
But we can't perfectly simulate a rock, or a nuclear reaction. Perfect is an extremely high bar here.

It would probably be difficult to simulate a rock sufficiently well to fool someone with the combined skills of a geologist & 3D graphic designer.
Sounds like the victim and perpetrator lived together. What sort of publicity would this story get if she had turned on Find Friends on his phone and shared his location with her?
Good thing you work in 2022, because back in the day I guess you wouldn't have been able to be employed in an office environment.
I think anything retro will beat anything current because of the nostalgia factor.

At the time I didn’t think about how aesthetically pleasing a case was though.
I love this:

https://river-runner-global.samlearner.com/

Click on any spot on Earth and see where a raindrop there will flow until it reaches an ocean.
I mean, aws makes it quite easy to run postgres so I don't see why not either, you don't need a dba more or less than with SQLite + rqlite. If you wanna run onprem you can usually do with one container for quite awhile too. I wouldn't call postgres a "complex dependency" anymore.
Where do you think all that deficit spending is going?
> no ads, no paywalls, no sponsored content – just like Wikipedia.

So nagging popups for donations, then?
Copy and run the below commands to try it out.

I can't make it work from the explorer bar, powershell prompt, dos shell.

Bye.
I would imagine doing something like storing 12 decimal digits every 5 bytes (exploiting 10^12 <≈ 2^40) would be simple enough, great for random access, and good enough at compressing (within 10% of theoretical optimal treating pi as a random sequence of digits) that it's not worth spending a lot of time trying to improve upon that.

Of course, under a different set of constraints, one may find something better.
> The UK is in far worse shape because Brexit has nuked a huge hole in the economy. 4% is about £80bn a year.

The EU lost the exact same amount in that exchange and had to substitute it with inferior or more expensive goods and services from elsewhere.

So no, the UK is not in far worse shape as they can open up to the rest of the world and the EU cannot because it's built around the principles of self-isolation and trade barriers.

Why the UK hasn't done as much after Brexit is a different problem. Sadly, Johnson has turned to be useless, although not nearly as useless as May. I'd like to see a "UK Trump" take over for a while. It's very hard to do worse than the two main parties.
Definitely not the worst time. While rates are going up, they are still relatively low. Back in the early '80s rates were up around 16%... that's really bad. It can get much worse than it is right now. If it happens to get better, just refinance.

Home prices will also continue to rise over time. Not the at rate we saw over the last 1-2 years, but if someone is looking to buy today and decides to wait until prices come down, they will likely be kicking themselves in 5 years.