skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like people are getting thrown off by the headline where you ask them to justify their existence, which kind of derails the discussion.

The more interesting question you pose is: What is your moral framework?
I agree with you on the consent thing. Still, many many people want hugs and sometimes they dont know it in advance. Its the same as doing any scary thing, dont force people to do it, but a bit encouragement is not necessarily bad, you should know when to stop tho.
Yes. They are owned by the Hong Kong company Techtronic Industries, which also owns Homelite, Hart, Oreck, Dirt Devil, and a few others. Ryobi Power Tools and Ryobi Outdoor Equipment are also Techtronic Industries brands, under license from Ryobi.

Techtronic Industries bought them from the Swedish company Atlas Copco in 2005.

Here's an article on who owns what in power tools [1].

With some of the licensing deals, the same brand might actually come from two different companies. Emerson owns RIDGID and makes tools under that name, but also licenses the name to Techtronic. Emerson seems to make the non-powered RIDGID tools and Techtronic makes the powered ones.

It looks like maybe 6 companies cover pretty much every power tool brand that most people in the US are likely to find at Home Depot, Lowe's, ACE, Walmart, and so on.

I just wish that they would get together and agree on battery standards for their cordless power tools, so that batteries could be interchanged.

My first lithium battery cordless tool was a bundle from Black & Decker of a weed whacker and a hedge trimer. Since then I've added a B&D drill and a B&D impact driver. I now need a cordless leaf blower and although it looks like some other brands would fit my needs better than B&D I'll probably go with B&D just to avoid getting another battery system (and will probably by the tool only since I have enough B&D batteries and chargers already--I don't use enough tools simultaneously to need more than the three batteries and charges I already have).

There are some adapters to allow mixing batteries, for example this one allows using Black & Decker 20V batteries on Bosch 18V tools [2], so it might be feasible to branch out from B&D without having to deal with a different battery system.

[1] https://www.protoolreviews.com/power-tool-manufacturers-who-...

[2] https://powertoolsadapters.com/products/black-decker-20v-to-...
Does each camera have its own signing key? If not, "signed by some camera" isn't that interesting.

Is there a public certificate registry?
Thanks for sharing, this is great information. I definitely think that independent testing organizations are important for quality so it’s always great to hear of more of them
> The quality of a mass-produced product like a consumer hand tool isn't a function of the country in which it is made but rather of its design.

I don't think you've read all the posts by people with actual experience in manufacturing. Give the same "design" to two different factories and you get two different results. Manufacturing matters.
What framework are you operating under? Every single "moral framework" is valid. Its dense to think otherwise, even "proof of money+taxes".

The only proper response to this is read a philosophy book until you find one that sticks with you +2 years after you read it.
The goal is to prove that you took an image of something that existed in the state it was photographed in. If you take a picture of a fake passport, you are "proving" this passport existed and looked like it did on the picture. So ... mission accomplished?

If they do it competently (or if it can be done) is a separate matter.
I think the OP is suggesting obligation to the 'collective' which is a common perspective in other countries, but not North America (in particular). Or maybe to 'God', whoever or whatever that may be.

In either case, I agree with everyone else here: I didn't ask to be born, so assuming it harm none, do what thou wilt.
How Do You Exit Vim? A Newbie Question Turned Tech Meme
When I was trying to use it keyboard only, I never could remember the magic shortcuts to access the menu bars, even after tweaking system preferences. Using the keyboard with Windows or Linux was way easier, IMO.
Anyone know if Allstate (seems to be the primary warranty parter on eBay) or Asurion (Amazon) sell their add-on warranty data to third parties?

Someone could beat Consumer Reports by just purchasing & publishing the raw data (warranties sold, claims made, claims paid).
No, they can't provide better targeting than Google/fb. Taking out competitors makes it a lot easier to seek rent.
Windows has something like 15,000 performance counters and error metrics that can be collected. There isn’t a system on earth that can even approach this. At scale, I have to pick and choose maybe 20-100 counters for fear of overloading a cluster(!) of servers collecting the data… once a minute.

That’s because the protocol overheads cause “write multiplication” of a hundred-to-one or worse. Every byte of metric ends up nearly a kilobyte on the wire.

Meanwhile I did some experiments that showed that even with a tiny bit of crude data-oriented design and delta compression a single box could collect 10K metrics across 10K endpoints every second without breaking a sweat.

The modern REST / RPC approach is fine for business apps but is an unmitigated disaster for collecting tiny metrics.

Set your goals higher than collecting a selected subset of 1% of the available metrics 60x less frequently than admins would like…
Thanks for the user test :) I updated the game loop to be separate from the rendering loop. Any chance you can tell me if it is still slow?
If you can afford a $2500/month assistant, I think you are much further separated from the rest of us who are hustling to put a few extra dollars on the table.

His advice is quite sound in general though, it just reads like one of those “how to make a million dollars” posts and it turns out the parents gifted the million dollars by the end of the author describing all the grueling work they do each day.
yeah, just launch a android virtual machine.
You do spot incoming QA testing.

And if you find any issues, you test the whole shipment.

And then you compare the results to the outgoing QA test results.

And if any results can't be explained by failures relating to shipping, then you fire your supplier.

You let them know ahead of time that this is the procedure you'll apply, and then they'll do proper QA testing.
*Participation is optional
I'm from El Paso - hugs aren't a thing in my family either. I get really weirded out by people that want to touch me as socializing.
In that case I would wrap it with a class to enjoy programming with the reference counted python garbage collector here.

from cython.cimports.cpython.mem import PyMem_Malloc, PyMem_Free

@cython.cclass
class SomeMemory:
data: cython.p_double

def __cinit__(self, number: cython.size_t):
# allocate some memory (uninitialised, may contain arbitrary data)
self.data = cython.cast(cython.p_double, PyMem_Malloc(
number * cython.sizeof(cython.double)))
if not self.data:
raise MemoryError()

def __dealloc__(self):
PyMem_Free(self.data) # no-op if self.data is NULL

Extending it into a typical python array type doesn't look that hard. Just need to map the appropriate dunder functions into C array operations. Then optimized functions can directly interact with the C types. Basically any utility function you might need with C data types you would just add to the class.

And at that point, you're back to coding in regular python again.

I hope this helps but good luck with your project no matter which option you take.
Old refrigerators may not be as efficient, but they were built better internally and last longer. The savings from an efficient refrigerator that only lasts a few years is meaningless.
They are very tactical. They want to be praised as the good guys while killing their competition.
Another mitigation technique the article missed:

Instead of resetting everyone's status to zero, you can create a new status game. E.g. if you've implemented "likes" to your posts, you can add a "voted most helpful" status and highlight "these are the ones voted most helpful". Adding another status game side steps original status game.

It could also be interesting to have "status mini games" where different statuses switch out over time, but this probably works better for small communities rather than massive social media sites like Twitter.
I think the use case would be to take a photograph of a person to be used on a passport, not to take a photograph of a passport.

Optical validation of a passport from a photograph is impossible, and unnecessary. If you need to remotely validate a passport there are already secure ways of doing that using the NFC chip embedded in most passports.
Google-backed Android devices have a certificate chain where each device has its own certificate, but there's also a root of trust. So you can sign things identifying the specific device, but you can also just verify it was signed by a Google-backed Android device. They might have done something similar. Otherwise, a Sony-wide secret key is still interesting, in some sense, if done competently (which I doubt).
> I just wish that they would get together and agree on battery standards for their cordless power tools, so that batteries could be interchanged.

Paging the EU regulators who mandated USB-C for smartphone chargers.

Another comment mentioned that DRM is coming to tool battery platforms.
Which is not uncommon in tragic flaws. It may often be a fundamentally good trait, just dialed up a notch or two. It's why tragedies have such power, it's not bad things happening to good people, neither is it bad people getting what they had coming; but good (but flawed) people making mistakes and only realizing it too late.

Achilles' blind rage makes him not even consider what might happen if the greatest warrior of the Acheans sits on the sidelines, who among his friends and allies might get killed.

Even Creon in Antigone, while fairly difficult to like, does what he does with fundamentally noble intentions.
Hacking Zyxel IP cameras to gain a root shell
Specifically for Munros which is what I do network coverage can be pretty bad and at least a few people I have talked to have done the same as me and got caught out depending on the internet then in future downloaded the route. The main website everyone uses here has a .gpx for every walk (https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/fortwilliam/buachailleetivem... for example)

I think drained batteries and no network coverages are problems that can and should be addressed by advising people properly. Instead I think some people end up over prepared and most people go in with a map and a compass but still completely underprepared.
I agree on all points. I remember driving from Paris to Epinal using printed out directions. At some point after the 15 roundabout we had no idea where we were. Luckily we were are to speak with some nice people to help guide us the rest of the way, but we almost missed the time we had to be at our destination.
Unless you take a picture of a picture.
> Navigating with a map and compass is a difficult skill that takes a lot of practise

That's a serious exaggeration. Navigating with a map and compass was taught to 10-year-old kids in elementary school when I was that age, and then it was practiced a few times every year. Probably to ensure that men didn't waste too much time learning basic skills in mandatory military service.
Again, most ground is covered by vegetation, so you can't see through that either.
Would be nice to see this on their xperia smartphones. They've been copying the Alpha look and feel for a while, and I've been wanting to see signed photos on phones for a while.
So 80% cheaper on fuel, but fuel for long distance trucking at least in Europe - with much more expensive fuel - is just 30% of the mile cost. It makes a difference for sure but there is lots of uncertainty when you factor in the vehicle costs etc.
You can't do that, because it's Not Allowed™.
13.8 Billion years ago, the universe was created in a magical moment that we have yet to understand.

370,000 years after that, it cooled down enough to finally let protons bind to electrons, and the first atoms formed (99% hydrogen, 1% helium).

100M years after that, much of that hydrogen gas collapsed into stars, which underwent nuclear fusion to produce helium, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and other heavier elements up to iron. Some of those stars went supernova and released their enriched guts out into the universe.

After billions of years of that, we had enough heavier elements to form rocky planets, of which one is the planet we're on now.

Somehow on this wet rock, organic molecules formed and found ways to replicate themselves inside of membranes. A billion years after this wet rock came into existence, some of these replicating membranes bound to each other and started to act in harmony to ensure the continued replication of the whole group of membranes.

For another billion years, these groups of self-replicating membranes got larger and more complex. Eventually, one of them grew opposable thumbs, a large brain, and started to make tools. Those hairy apes, my ancestors, against all odds, for millions of years, fought against wolves, tigers, the elements, starvation, and each other to form an unbroken lineage that led to the existence of my parents.

36 years ago, my parents made love, and from half a billion sperm, I was the fastest. I was an accident, in both the unplanned pregnancy sense of the term and the truly cosmic nature of my improbable existence.

You want me to justify my existence? My amigo, after all that, I don't need to justify anything. I won the lottery of lotteries. My moral framework is OMG WTF I'M HERE. I'm just here to make the most of it and enjoy my 80+ (cross my fingers) trips around this boring run-of-the-mill hot pulsing orb of gas.
Search Warrants for Abortion Data Leave Tech Companies Few Options
I'm no expert but how I under stand it is the company can offer x months of pay if you leave by your self. This does not need to be negotiated with the union. If this makes enough people leave, there will be no negotiation. If however they want more to leave they have to negotiate with the Union that the workers are connected to, it does not matter if the company have a contract with them or not.

Also, they have to give six months notice to the unemployment agency if they plan to fire more than 100 people.
I've just tried doing this with Mutt. It's quite awkward, but (after fidling with the interface) it did create a new email with an empty attachment, i.e. the attachment is still there, but it has zero bytes. Also, the original email remained within Gmail. So, it seems that Mutt doesn't work well with Gmail for this use case. (Disclaimer: I am the author of the web app Unattach.)
Do you seriously want to go down the 'This is not art' path? That battle has been lost so many times for different forms of art that are much harder to 'get' for most people.

Also, since you like to emphasize the 'digital' part of these works, don't forget we're probably not much further than one Master-level project for some mechanical engineering students from having AI-generated physical paintings.
That manufacturing process is the result of bean counters determining it's a waste to ship boxed products that are 50% air overseas in a container. Ship the broken down components instead with denser packing and have a minimum wage worker bolt it together stateside. It isn't an enlightened return to domestic production.
I often hike by myself and, in general, try not to depend on other people having things unless pre-arranged.

I certainly use phone apps--including the Ordinance Survey app in the UK, which is very good. But if I'm hiking in an unfamiliar area, yes, I also do carry a map and compass because that seems like a low cost and effort backup. I'm absolutely not arguing against using a smartphone app as primary navigation. But I do also encourage having backup.
Marketing hype, if I have physical access to the camera then I can get the key and sign anything. It might require specialized tools or training but it is nowhere near impossible. If I am a sovereign entity I can just compel someone to give me the key. I wouldn’t make any life changing decisions about anyone based solely on the presence of a signature.
Do you have any sources on that? It l that's an interesting way to look at it. I would have expected life expectancy to be way lower than you suggest by your calculations. (IE: 9/13 babies died*, with 60 as full life, meaning 18 yrs expectancy).

* All I know is that humans used to produce a lot of babies because a lot of them would die, but my googling sucks
Sony's marketing department and execs should know better than over promise like this. The camera can and will be hacked, guaranteed. Like PlayStation security, it may take a while, but it'll be done. And that's only if they haven't overlooked any obvious flaws. We all know if you have physical access to the hardware, it'll happen.

Anyways, ignore the hyperbole. It's just a press release by inexperienced marketers.
A stable nation with good quality of life for it's citizens, as opposed to a revolving door of failed governments, or a new dictatorial government that quickly becomes as bad as the one that was ousted. Which is often what violent revolutions lead to. It turns out that a civil war leaves a nation on fragile ground, and the leaders who are so effective during your uprising often are not the ones best suited for rebuilding after the fact. And that's assuming your uprising has a single coherent faction and not many who will now set to squabbling amongst themselves about how the new government should work now that the common enemy is gone.
Interesting, I guess I was thinking of other American EVs like the GM Bolt.
Damn, how have I not heard of Marshall McLuhan before? Getting that book now.
You don’t have to choose one. With automation you can have a small, highly paid, highly skilled workforce do the work of a much larger, low skill, low paid workforce and actually produce higher quality products at a lower price.
> I know a thermostatically controlled toaster is feasible to make into a cheap product because it existed in the 1960s

Having bought a toaster and electric kettle recently, I completely agree with your main point: buy the cheapest one you can bear to look at, because they're all the same in the essentials.

But this anecdote about your aside might be diverting. One of my earliest extended memories (in the 1960s) is watching my dad repair our toaster. winding new resistance wire around the mica central divider. (The toaster was a manual model with flip-open sides, toasting one side of the bread at a time.)

I don't think automatic toasters were all that cheap in the 1960s. Not everywhere, anyway, if repair of a manual toaster was worthwhile to do.
Battery swelling is rarely poor manufacturing.

Nearly always it's poor design of the battery chemistry or battery management system.
ask a religious question and don’t be too surprised :)

a good answer though.
Got 1084 of karma at HN. That should be more than enough to justify my existence.
In Sweden the Unions actually makes it easier for both the workers and the company. This is a big surprise for most foreign leaders coming in unprepared for swedish culture :-)
For Christmas we replaced my moms vitamix. She had her last one for well over 20 years.

We’ve had ours for 8 years and it works like new and doesn’t smell like the motor is burning out like so many cheap blenders do.
What does CSAM have to do with this story on how Apple might grow their ad business?
> On all three it's pads only braking only when the battery is fully charged.

So they don't encourage only charging to 90% like on Tesla to maintain good braking action?
This isn't true of me.

I value quality and price. Unfortunately, while price is clearly stated, poor quality is often hidden.
"Flight Control" was one of the first games I ever played on iOS, and one of the inspirations for Auto Traffic Control. I like how engaging the game was, considering it had only a single input and a very simple set of rules.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_Control_(video_game)

The other game that influenced the design of ATC is "Sector 33". In this game, players had to do a little bit of math using the speeds and distances of planes to coordinate their approach to an airport.

https://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/Sector33/iOS/index.html

Ideally, I'd like to combine the colorful art style and casual randomness of Flight Control with the simple arithmetic of Sector 33. I want to make it interesting for players to watch their creation play the game, and give them a sense of accomplishment when multiple aircraft land in perfect intervals one after the other.

Here is a little bit more background about the inspiration for the game in case you want to know more: https://www.jdno.dev/auto-traffic-control/
Best thing I've read on HN. ty
Same, but I just posted the screenshot with the birthday-related-items search string and thumbnails to her timeline. Free and she loved it. Done.
Then you're proving the picture you just photographed existed and looked like it did. Where are you going with this?

The utility of knowing a photograph was captured as-is should be know, as should be the ways to physically manipulate things so you capture what you want. IMO the question here should be if 1) this is the best solution for those use cases and 2) if this is implemented in a technically competent way.
The most important point here is delegate. Basically get someone else to do the work for you. Your job is that you hire the right person.
Why use Zoom or Pop? Google Meet, FaceTime, and Microsoft Teams are universal.
"The rise and fall of Ryan Howard" (The Office)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc35afiM2f4
> It's unreasonable to request that I propose a workable alternative in this context.

A complaint that one thing is not good without sharing something more workable is troublesome. There's a bunch of other things people have said (students work it out; always involve the police; etc) that I don't think would work.

> I hope you have a good week this week.

Just frantically preparing a classroom here and thankful, that for the most part, these are issues I don't need to deal with.

You too.
You'd have to stick an ammeter on it, but I bet a 50s fridge is pretty efficient because they are manual defrost only. Most modern full-size fridges are auto defrost – essentially they suck down electricity to heat up the cooling system. The efficiency gains over a couple decades ago are due to moving from fixed, mechanical timers to computer controlled adaptive defrosters.
"status" occurs 63 times in this 1900 word article. "game" occurs 12 times, "capital" 4 times. may as well call these things "status games". whatever a16z is cooking up this time, there's no way in hell it will resemble or is even designed to resemble anything the ordinary human would encounter (or desire) in their day-to-day social life.

hell, they bring up the gini coefficient not once but twice. how the fuck is this relevant to a person's social life? if you're looking for a way to balance a social network, look no further than Dunbar's number: actual social networks are naturally somewhat egalitarian (moreso than the stuff a16z is discussing at least) -- as soon as you stop thinking of them in terms of some hierarchy meant to be gamed.
Hey Cortana, define confirmation bias. You say you have to disable ads manually and then go on saying "I don't see this ad riddled Windows". Are you being serious?

Good for you for buying Windows Pro, what about everybody and their grandma else stuck on Home? I guess they don't count. Fucking normies.
Indeed, the quality of the keyboards is lousy these days. A classic case of lack of attention to detail in manufacturing.

And this is AFTER they fixed the infamous design flaw on mine:

https://thenextweb.com/news/what-hell-apple-butterfly-keyboa...