skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I follow basically the same logic as the author does - local-only, no messing around with custom firmware, etc. I'm willing to make exceptions for things that are just too good to pass up, but those are few and far between.

Some additional recommendations that fit the general theme:

* Cameras: I use Blue Iris, so anything that does ONVIF is suitable. There's no need to limit yourself to one brand, though sticking with stuff you know is good is sensible - I've got a couple of ReoLink cameras that are good, and I've got some Amcrest cameras that are also good. Keep your cameras, regardless of brand, on a separate VLAN/Wifi network.

* Switches and Lights: Ikea's TRÅDFRI outlets, and bulbs are pretty decent and very affordable. I also recently got a bunch of Sengled Zigbee outlets and am very impressed with them - great form factor (small enough to not block the other outlet), and the power consumption monitoring helps me understand my electricity usage better.

* Sensors: Ikea's motion sensor is decent and I've never experienced the extreme battery drain that other people have reported - I only have one of these though, so maybe I got lucky. Also, Aqara water detectors have likely saved me thousands of dollars thanks to alerting me to issues in places I don't normally look.

* Other stuff: Ikea's STÅRKVIND air cleaner is pretty nifty, and Zigbee-enabled. I've got a handful of Ikea Zigbee buttons (the shortcut button and the five-button 'puck' remote) that work very well.

Also, check out ESPHome[0] - if you can't find a sensor or device that does exactly what you need, this makes it shockingly easy to build one. I've got a water level sensor (ESPHome, ESP32, HC-SR04) on my sump pit that has alerted me to pump failures before damage occurred.

I'm using a ConBee II with deCONZ for my Zigbee gear, but that's more of an implementation detail than anything.

Finally, my one exception to no cloud stuff - the Rainforest EAGLE-200[1]. Being able to monitor and track my home's energy consumption has been very valuable for saving money. You have to use the cloud to set it up, but Home Assistant can do local polling to retrieve the data. You can also, via the cloud, configure it to POST data in real time to a URL, that POST happens directly from the device.

[0] https://esphome.io/

[1] https://www.rainforestautomation.com/rfa-z114-eagle-200-util...
> EVs Reported More Problems

I think it's important to keep in mind that 1) ICEs are many generations beyond EVs so it's natural to expect more issues but also 2) ICE vehicles came into being in an age where maintenance was assumed to be inherited with the vehicle (and a lot of it if not all of it could be done by the owner or a neighborhood mechanic) while PHEVs were born into the "weld the hood shut" generation of owners and can only really be worked on by dealers and certified professionals.

I'm very handy with cars but when I bought my PHEV for the first time ever I also bought the extended warranty and any time anything happens that car goes straight to the dealer because not only is the process for fixing EV components alien to me, but they're also not built to be user-serviceable in the first place and there's limited to no documentation out there.
>is it possible the entire field is just cranks deluding themselves?

That's a question better saved for psychiatry and sociology.
The reality is the opposite. People are keeping their vehicles longer now than in the past. The average fleet turnover is now over a decade:

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=36914
I don't really understand the ramifications. If you have a vegetative child, are you obligated to keep them on life support for the rest of his life?

My grandmother died last month. We chose to keep her under morphine despite the fact that she couldn't take her heart medecine anymore, and to not install another IV (she refused to be taken out of her home and to be sent to a hospital the day prior). Would we have been able to do that?

I know worse! a very young and talented violonist, friend of my parents when i was a kid, suffered a weird disease that would excite her nerves, hurting her even when staying still. The pain was so high her brain was shut down most of the days until she took her own life. If this disease triggers in an infant not able to speak yet (and who won't be able to learn, ever), what happen? I'm pretty sure this is debilitating, so the infant would need life support for at least ten years, and then be unable to learn anything, only suffering or being dosed with morphine. Would letting this infant off life support be prosecuted?

This is really interesting philosophically. I am a negative utilitarist of sort (Karl Popper is the base of half my opinions tbh),so the answer to all the questions are evident. For classical utilitarists or deontologists though, those should be really interesting. Where do you draw the line?
Currently the best known theory of physics at small scales is a quantum field theory known as the Standard Model.

"Particles" are phenomena which appear when fields are quantized. They aren't really balls of stuff. E.g. photon is a quantum of a wave in electromagnetic field.

These exotic particles are simply a confirmation of predictions made by the Standard Model, they are not surprising, it's just the first time there was enough data to test this particular prediction of the theory.

> I'm very skeptical that it's apparently just smaller and smaller particles all of the way down

The Standard Model was formulated in 1970s, no principally new phenomena were discovered since. So it's been strong for ~50 years.

It's known to be incomplete as it does not explain gravity, and physicists hope that better theories will be found in future. But so far nobody was able to formulate a theory which would make better predictions than the SM.

> What if everything here about reality is being misinterpreted?

The topic of physics is to build models which predict observed phenomena. Knowing what reality _is_ is a topic of philosophy and religion.
Quality doesnt matter anymore. It will get views because it has a brand attached to it and lots of people already have prime.

I don't know what their break even number is but prime is fucking expensive. If this pushes 1% of people who are on the edge of buying prime and not buying prime into making that decision its a massive win for them.

I don't think it will be any good. But 95% of film and tv is terrible and it keeps getting made.
I've seen assertions that it's basically always been like this, but until recently the Musk RDF has helped maintain extremely high reported-satisfaction numbers, despite problems that would never be tolerated on any other vehicle, much less other vehicles in that price point.

But it's definitely changing as they try to go mass market. Some rich cat buying a Model S as their third or fourth vehicle has very different expectations/needs than a middle class family getting a Model 3 to be their only car and a daily driver.

I have a few friends/neighbours interested in going electric who have recognized this and explicitly chosen to go with the offerings from traditional manufacturers over Tesla— the Kia Soul, Polestar, and in one case a Taycan. Maybe there isn't folksy stuff like plaid mode, farting seats, and biohazard protection, but that long-standing design experience does seem lead to more solid basics like safe, functional interiors, doors and windows that work, and no surprise OTA updates that move around important features in the glass cockpit.
American here. I think it's important to not characterize judicial review in the Row case as lawmaking. Although lots of anti-abortion advocates criticized Roe as legislating from the bench, the court was actually doing was checking the power of various state governments to take away individual rights. Judicial review has certainly been misused by the court in other cases to legislate, and the concept is anti-democratic to a problematic degree, but it is an important check on governments taking away individual liberties in the US constitutional system, at least in theory.

In Roe, the court didn't write a law saying abortion was legal. It struck down laws stating that it was illegal. That's an important difference.

It's also worth remembering that there was never a realistic chance of a nationwide right to abortion being passed through congress. There are a few reasons for it. Only about 15% of the country is against abortions in all circumstances, but they're a loud minority. Similarly, 20-30% of American are pro-choice under any circumstance. But the majority of Americans support abortion only in certain circumstances, and they tend not to care as much about it. [1]

In cases where a majority doesn't have strong opinions, the US government doesn't really need to pay attention to the will of the voters. Politicians are rarely if ever punished for it. A similar dynamic played out with net neutrality during the last administration. Despite the public, including Republicans, being overwhelmingly for it, it was an issue they hardly cared about, and so the FCC was basically free to do whatever they wanted.

The other reason is that voters who are anti-abortion are not equally distributed amongst the population. Some, mostly smaller states are vehemently anti-abortion. As such, the senate would never muster the 60 votes needed to pass legislation protecting the right. Without Roe, for the last 50 years, we'd basically have been in the situation we're in now: legal in some states, illegal in others, with states fighting each other over whether or not residents can cross state lines to get an abortion.

1: https://news.gallup.com/poll/1576/abortion.aspx
Power companies, Telco companies. Oil companies, In some countries train companies.

Sometimes this happens when services are provided by the state directly.
It's not that simple. Most of the food produced here is exported, most of the food we eat is imported, and farming accounts for about 1-2% of GDP. A significant amount of farming here is in the business of importing plant-based foods, feeding it to animals, and exporting dairy and meat. It's a very intensive business: for example, there are 100 million chicken here, 20% of that in the US but on less than 1% of the farmland area. Why we do it that way? It was very profitable for the farmers when environmental costs could be externalized.

(Flower farming is significant as well, but doesn't produce food).
No bids on Chevy’s first NFT, even though it came with a free Corvette Z06
Except it is not a single theory, but whole families of theories.
You say that, but it should be part of the creating of something new. It should be studied to see what negative effects it has. We have enough collective knowledge to know that even when things are created to do good, some negative things sometimes occur. It's not beyond reasonable to have the new thing tested in these negative reactions as well.
You need uretprobe but also need to read an arg by ref so no I don't think so... But thanks for the tip
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Thanks for trying to explain. It's all still largely beyond me TBH.

But more idiot's questions if you have any thoughts....

My understanding was that particle accelerators were being used to try
and deconstruct matter, to do for want of a better word "fission" by
smashing things together and seeing what smaller bits came out - by
analogy to mass spectrometry.

What seems to be going on now is that we're trying to make new
particles. Have we switched to a sort of "fusion" - to see if smashing
things together will get them to stick in bigger configurations?

Have all the most fundamental bits (quarks?) been found now? Can we
prove that those are irreducible?

chreers
Timely post as this is something I have been quite interested in, and starting to explore. I'd love to see some sort of list of smart home automation/devices that would fall into the safety buckets, and why. Something like:

- Safe

- Medium safe

- Not safe

- Do not do
I was somewhat hoping full face mask/helmet wearing would become in vogue in the past two years with all of the masking requirements like we see in so many sci-fi shows and movies. Algorithms would move to gate analysis or other things, but at least facial recognition could be crossed off.

If a air born pandemic can’t move society in that direction, I fear that we’ll never get to our perpetually masked future.
Chrome was better than IE, but it won out not because of technical capabilities but through Google's constant and ruthless exploitation of its web properties and operating systems. That already happens on iOS, and I'm sure a Google SVP reading this ruling just started a project to intensify it.
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>> I think egress rates are going to start disappearing over the next few years.

Compute costs generally drop over time. Do you have any data points to confirm egress will soon go to zero?
I read that as being harshly sarcastic but I'm now thinking it might be unintentional the way they make these people out to be obviously the source of their own issues.

It seems like the suburbs who actually pay taxes to provide the water are being prioritised for water access and the people who intentionally built were there were no rules are upset that other people aren't following the rules.
Here in China there is like 800 app stores for Android.
Exactly my thought... quite freaky to see it unfolding like that.
I always felt like using a CSS ease transition between points would be enough. Love the spline approach with perfect-cursors, cursors really feel like they're being moved by real people.
> Reality is that no one owns a car for 200k miles anymore.

Do you have statistics on that?

I purchased my previous car (a Dodge) when it had 8k miles and had it as my primary car until 240k miles. It only started to have serious maintenance issues at 220k miles. I not only paid it off, but saved enough money to be able to pay for a new car in full. I would recommend to anyone, as it is really nice to not have a car payment.
Council support (for the general targets/scope) is almost guaranteed before a commission proposal sees the light of day, it might get amended and / or clash with parliament amendments but the fact a proposal has been made is a good indication some form of the law will pass
No physical harm. But psychologically harm, to them and/or their family? I think so.
that is hilarious and awesome. Did you enjoy working with them, and did you think tackling a newer unseen problem with the interviewer as a peer showcased your skills well? I wondered if that would be a better experience (having the interviewer unfamiliar with the question as well, or something like that).
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I think that the base claim that "Car quality is slipping" is generally true. But I think that this is a trend that began a decade ago. Comparing the track records of the vehicles I've owned:

2002 Corolla (used) - rock solid reliability, only cosmetic issues with vinyl and a need for break pads.

2013 Elantra (brand new) - reliable, except for an electrical issue caused by an off-brand Rocket Fish (Best Buy in-house brand) car charger for my phone. The charger would send dirty electrical signals back into the car, and the new 1st generation power system would trip up... and I wouldn't have climate controls, defrost, wipers, stereo, etc for a random amount of time. I eventually reproduced it for the dealership, but was told by Hyundai that they wouldn't do anything since it wasn't a "defect". I traded it in ASAP for the next car, while it still had trade-in value.

2013 Civic (used, current daily driver) - so far rock solid, except for a tendency to burn up the brake's rotors. I had to replace calipers, pads, and rotors shortly after purchase of the vehicle (they were brand new at purchase IIRC). Occasional power system (maybe the battery?) issue where the airbag system shuts off randomly at start up.

I'm definitely cautious about buying a newer car now. I always try to review the lists at CarComplaints.com when considering what I might want to look for.
They can afford it if lenders are giving car loans to just about anyone: https://twitter.com/GrahamStephan/status/1542860348742836225
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JD Power doesn't create awards categories because they are in the interest of the consumer, they create award categories so that they can sell them to their customers to use in their marketing. They're a marketing data company, not a consumer advocacy group.
I can't find it anymore but I read a long form article like this probably 10 years ago on the problem of suburbs public infrastructure.

Basically they ran the numbers and figured out that more than 50% of cities simply cannot afford to maintain the suburb infrastructure no matter what they do with the budget. Even if they did something crazy like tripled taxes tomorrow they still could not afford it. The called them zombie cities or something like that.
My anecdata says your anecdata is wrong. Everyone buys a car new and keeps it going for 10+ years until the cost to maintain it gets too high. Then they sell it for scrap or donate it for scrap and get a new car. The one person who trades in their car while getting a new one is the outlier in any group of people.

Also, it's not just cost. Sometimes newer models are just worse. There is one car that I thought about getting a little while ago, but the model changed dramatically 5 years earlier (the older version was what I used on a vacation that got me interested), so I had to look at getting a 5 year old car or a different model.
For some, this just has the effect of associating the exercise hate with those other things.
I'm genuinely puzzled by this assumption - that the top talent pool largely begins and ends with the best known actors. I'm not debating their obvious talent but I am confident that the industry limits who gets to be well known. One way is by excluding actors who aren't immensely attractive.
Sounds like the Windows equivalent of shutdown -r now
There is a long history in theatre of casting people in roles who aren’t the same as the character. Notably men would often be cast in female roles. Maybe, just maybe, if seeing a brown elf ruins a show for you the problem isn’t with the show.
So if atoms are composed of electrons, protons, and in turn electrons, protons are composed of these particles, can we potentially drill down a bit deeper into these hadrons, might they be composed of further sub particles yet unknown to science yet?
There are countries like Korea where it may be expected that you drink (I've heard it can be a significant part of work culture there). I wonder if this would be useful for people that don't really want to have the negatives of a lot of alcohol, but can't afford the negatives of saying no.
> there are so many interesting tales Tolkien wrote that have not seen the screen

Beorn! Completely left out of the Hobbit movies
https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Beorn
Yeah you are right, this is not a new idea. In fact even in the US it used to be the norm. (ie. The Milk man making a milk delivery and you leave your old bottles out for him to collect and reuse).

The plastics era is slowly ending and being replaced by ideas that used to work fine.
Yep, my alternative which I don't even know if its a good idea or not is to get a used E350 off BringATrailer or if I really want reliability I should probably get a 1980s Mercedes 300D. The W123s are insanely reliable.
There is no conflation on my part, it's just clearly evidence in that direction.
tbf Senate would be a better name for the Council of the EU, reducing by a good half the confusion when talking about "Council" in european politics
I mean, I personally know people who have done it at the SBIR level and there is definitely more VC interest recently than say 10 years ago.
FBI Says People Are Using Deepfakes to Apply to Remote Jobs
This “well designed” page is so hard to read on mobile
I donno. I keep thinking about this all the time. I might also be blinded by the intricacies of where I live, Bangalore. Cancellations by Uber drivers are rampant here and it's very hard to find the black equivalent. The UberXL service which counts as the black equivalent has absolutely zero predictability. My guess is that there are at least 10,000 - 20,000 people in Bangalore, a city of 10M willing to pay a 2 - 3x premium for predictability and good QoS. There simply is no such option for non airport rides.
No, probably not. I would just know that I was making a profit at the expense of everyone else. To go out in public and cry crocodile tears about my livelihood would be disingenuous.
The \ syntax is my favorite part so far, I’m definitely gonna copy it for my toy language, hope that’s ok ;)
Would not be the first time humans deluded themselves with big ideas the masses could not falsify.

It’s as likely as anything else given how common it is for even STEM educated humans to be religious and read into their tea leaves.

There is no center of the universe or higher power; why should a handful of physicists be unequivocally “correct”. Deference to their figurative identity is all the untrained can conjure. Doesn’t mean we need to shower them in praise and empower their agency at the expense of one’s own.

Even if the science is right they’re still just one of seven billion.
Of all my friends and extended family, including my wife's family, I know a single person who does this.

The only source I could find said: "The percentage of consumers that are leasing their vehicles has dropped due to the inventory shortage. In December 2021, only 20% of new-car shoppers leased a vehicle, compared to December 2019, when 30% chose to lease, according to Jominy."

https://www.cars.com/articles/how-does-the-inventory-shortag...
A link to the report: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2022/NIST.IR.8413.pdf
The most law that affects the most people day to day has always been State law. I wouldn’t expect any kind of legislation coming out of Congress on this (but many attempts both ways regardless), and I think if there were any that passed that would not actually help our politics. Not everything need be an Act of Congress. Every State has an elected legislature.
It's fun how Android users are so excited on behalf of Apple users in terms of letting Apple users install custom apps from outside the App Store. Being an Apple user for more than 15 years, I couldn't be more happy with the fact that Apple has vetted the applications you find in App Store.

Also, naturally, App Developers are excited. Well, perhaps you should think about the users - we don't care about you having to pay a cut. However, we really appreciate the experience from the App Store. Want to cancel a subscription? Just navigate to the one and only place where you can browse everything and cancel with a single tap.

I once purchased an Android device so see what it was all about. I found most of the apps were completely crap and the once that were good, were essentially just a copy of the iOS app. To be fair, this was many years ago.

I really hope that somehow someone interacts at a high level and gets the part about the App Store removed.

IF the consumers of Apple - for instance me - would like this part changed, perhaps we could instead put our money elsewhere, rather than rely on politicians to pro-actively deal with this.