skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eastern European home is a flat with 5x smaller footprint.

I charge at ~2.7KW and drive 3000 km per month. Could probably get away with 500W charge rate, but would need to plug all the time.
Google Play now shows ads, events in search history
Even if it it is brief, a siege usually had very detrimental effects on the surrounding areas as the invading army "forages" for supplies. Also, the Romans were not beyond indiscriminately slaughtering (not only plundering) or deporting populations that put up formidable resistance. E.g. Siege of Avaricum. Such depopulated areas were often awarded to other tribes or to retiring soldiers for resettlement.

Caesar recorded it himself in his annals. They are not entirely reliable, but the essential points are probably true.
How I used Midjourney to design a brand identity
This comment doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense. IGBT-based variable frequency drive is an improvement over GTO Thyristor technology, not a fundamental enabler for a VFD or ACIM.
I'm surprised they're not being sued in the EU over this.

You have conaumer rights over the reasonable lifetime of a product for something to keep working.

The reasonable lifetime of a home surveillance system, as he says in the article, is 10+ years.
But it's not like they're dismantling the 4G infrastructure yet right? For a while at least I would have assumed people moving to 5G would steadily free up capacity on 4G bands.
> Nintendo’s hardware is so insanely dated that its first party games run better on other devices.

Of course, you could say exactly the same thing about Microsoft or Sony's hardware - the only difference is the Switch is more dated and its games run better on more devices.
The tale of "-mrtd" in GCC and Clang
Similar if you are from Switzerland and cross any border. If you are in Switzerland semi-regularly, either get a plan that has cheap roaming in and out of EU, or two SIMs.
I often wonder if someday we could see WebObject or ColdFusion being open sourced.
When Sprint first built out its digital cellphone network, their slogan was "you can hear a pin drop".

It was basically true, this was more clarity and intelligibility than the full-quality land line POTS.

After a year or two their airwaves got crowded and it became apparent they were compressing the audio enough to be noticeably way worse than the POTS was.

Cell carriers seem to have kept performance at that low level ever since.

Plus lots of times it seems like it's no longer full-duplex, after a pause more like voice-activated from either end before it starts transmitting to the other party.
This story was uncovered while working on the M68k backend in LLVM.

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> I think this message should have been at the top of the 5G marketing, and would have helped the reception of the technology as bringing an altruistic angle.

Meanwhile, 3 out of the 4 big networks in Poland market it as a premium feature, and only offer 5G to the customers on more expensive plans or for extra fees. (The network that gives 5G to everyone is Plus, and their plans are cheaper as well.)
It's like a server in that the members have to pay $1000 a month in order to upload a file that's more than 3 millibytes in size.

But all that money goes to pay off their VC debt, not to the person that created the community. So that's fun.
I am parent and one of my kids is stubborn. (One of my friends described her as "prototype of stubbornness", it was really defining temperamental feature, and not just my observation.) Stubborn kid is not what causes abuse, commitment to absolute control over the kid does. There are definitely more difficult issues with kids then stubbornness.

And that is the issue with this argument - perfectly normal kids gets treated badly and blamed for perfectly normal behavior. Yes, kids with issues end up being abused more often, but you do not even describe yourself having adhd or autism or some other hard issue.

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When I became parent, I became less tolerant of these "maybe the kid was just too hard". Because, I realized that decision between abuse or not is fairly often conscious choice. Adults say hurtful things to manipulate kids into what they want or to vent their emotions. They know full well what they are doing, they just think they are entitled to do it. Or they genuinely think that the kid is not entitled better treatment and deserves it.

It is not always inability to do otherwise in technical sense. It is unwillingness to do so and sense that it is just to hurt the kid.

When I became parent, I gained some insight into some of what my mom did. More understanding did not lead to "parents were actually right I see now" nonsense. I became retroactively angry, because I realized how much of "bad stuff" was knowing and intentional. (It was not even abuse, nothing that bad. More of, stuff like insulting me to manipulate me into something. That sort of more minor stuff. But still, conscious.)
It's funny because "server" is obviously revisionist history. Their API calls them "guilds". I have no idea why they changed the name to the less-accurate "server".
Love this on the desktop, but it's there a way to use on an ipad - where I watch most movies. Or an app that will show subtitles on an alt lang than the spoken track?
Migaku is a paid service that does this, and then lets you record individual segments into Anki flash cards, and works for a variety of video services. Awesome!

https://www.migaku.io/
The always entertaining question of do you pay for value or cost
It is only a matter of time before a class action is filed against Google for reducing the functionality of products they previously sold. The Assistant in Mini speakers I use at home has become amusingly bad: not that it doesn’t understand what I want, but it will often just not execute my orders, despite understanding. For example, it recently ignores my “yes” to its “do you want to know more?” follow up questions. They keep messing it up, it used to be way better few years back.
I don't think making the usernames randomjoe4587 and randomjoe4597 is going to be much of an improvement in this case. If anything, its harder to read.
So what you're saying is that they embraced IRC, extended IRC, and extinguished IRC? Surprised they haven't been bought by 1990s Microsoft yet!
Pidgin still interfaces with everything, including walled gardens like Facebook :)

https://pidgin.im/plugins/
I wonder what's next: ads on boot screen, notifications, recents menu, settings app, system update screen, caller screen, etc.
And my algorithm pdqsort uses Hoare-style partitioning, is branchless, and properly solves the Dutch National Flag problem by being 0(n log k) for k unique values on average using only a single extra comparison per partitioning.

https://github.com/orlp/pdqsort
Afghanistan-lite? The Ukraine situation seems much worse than Afghanistan.

Re regret, I guess it depends on who you mean by 'Russia". Looking at their faces I think most Russian top officials apart from Putin were rather horrified from the start.
And worse still these things get inflicted on the next home owner.

I bought a house with a "smart" boiler and the UI and app are absolutely atrocious.

Worse still it doesn't have basic functionality like my parent's manual system had 40 years ago like temporarily being able to turn it on without changing the schedule, doesn't have a weekend setting, requires me to send my email address and address to a third party who then have full access to when I turn the system I to holiday mode. Basically a lovely treasure trove for thieves.
It's widespread in asian families where the parents grew up poor. Kids are abused by their parents, who were abused by their parents, who...

It's not uncommon for aunts/uncles to turn a blind eye to child abuse. They just don't care because they see it as some sort of rite of passage, or because they view it as something that could never compare to the horrors of the motherland.

My father beat me so I went to my uncle (non-blood) for help and you know what I got? Another ass beating. The culture just doesn't view it as abuse unless you end up in the hospital, because at least you aren't starving to death.
Hey, I'd even settle for dodgy software if the hardware was open source. Calling this a "Fully Open-Source Smartphone" is just incredibly misleading.
> Deployment time: the same reason why people wouldn't compile dependencies statically. It's easier to replace a .dll or .so than the entire application, less bandwith. However, mess up the versions and you end up having a really bad day. Same with microservices: sure, a tiny service is easy to deploy, but heaven forbid you deploy incompatible versions.

That argument I could understand. But their argument turned out to be that they thought a monolith meant everyone has to spend weeks between deployments.

So it wasn't how long it took do the deployment but how often they could do deployments. Which is entirely a process matter. With microservices in my experience it can turn in to a mess of we need to sync our deployments because they built a distributed monolith.

To be honest, most of their arguments seemed to be they had tons of technical debt and blamed that it was a monolith for the technical debt existing than the fact it's technical debt.

> Microservices give people who don't have an architectural view/experience in building complex systems from scratch a framework to put their stuff in without thinking much about it. Good luck getting the same level of organization in a monolithic NodeJS application. It's hard, even seasoned veterans often get the abstraction layers wrong.

If you don't have the discipline to keep things organised in a monolith how are you going to manage with microservices? Especially, when there are literally tools to help you do this in monoliths. This is how people end up with distributed monoliths.

Is building a high quality monolith hard? Yes. Is it harder than building a high quality microservices system, I would say no.
Second mass shooting in Texas this week but no thousand+ comment thread about how crime in Texas is "out of control". Curious.
> So, isn't this firmware protection with BootGuard only really meant to prevent rootkits from getting persistence?

I saw this "but it only prevent persistence" several times and I wonder...

Isn't preventing rootkit from getting persistence already a big win? Preventing a rootkit from getting persistence also means that should a new signed kernel contain a security fix fixing the hole the rootkit was exploiting be installed, the rootkit won't work at all anymore. The attacker now needs not only to root the machine at each boot, he also needs to cross fingers that a kernel patch closing the hole he's exploiting doesn't get installed (or he needs to both prevent the new kernel from being installed while, at the same time, managing to make believe it's been installed).

Which also raises the probability the exploit he's using at every boot gets detected at some point.

How is this a win for attackers?

Are black hat hackers really thinking "Great, BootGuard and SecureBoot are getting ubiquitous, everything up to the kernel loading is signed and enforced, so now things are easier for me!"?
At least here in Italy, we were hassled with those kind of "rocket surgery from your phone" :) ads, and told (whether right or wrong) that we had to change most of our TV's so that they could narrow the video transmission band to allow for more band for this marvellous 5G.

It has been (and it will be) a major cost for families, besides the complication, especially for the older people that have now to deal with either a crappy external decoder or a crappy smart TV (as "normal" TV are in practice unobtanium).

And all we got (where it works) is just a lot more people viewing videos on Tiktok.
When are they finally going to move on to CSDs like GNOME?
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It’s my money, it’s always an investment hoping to get some return, either happiness or convenience. It’s not meant to be taken literally.
I can't understand people that want to wire up every aspect of their home to big tech cloud companies. There are plenty of options for self-hosted smart home setups.
To me, the funny thing is that google could use brand awareness to engender trust. When I buy some new fangled toy, I often look for a trusted name, instead of something made overseas, with an incomprehensible name.

But it is almost the opposite. Fly by night names and resellers on amazon, are more stable than google. Some even have far better support!

Just bizarre.

Someone should tell google that outside of SV, people hate iterate often, hate fast change, and just want security updates and bug fixes, no feature changes, no gui improvements, just stable stable stable for decades.

And google could do it so easily! Shared dev platforms, long term support branches, they could own the world.

And they could open source old hardware firmwares at end of life. Strutt and preen about how they are the beautiful peacock of the OSS world, and do their best to keep old hardware from the trash.

Instead they are so short sighted, they can't see beyond a quarter. ChatGPT and its potential was well known, google is a subject matter expert, and yet they were astonished at the progess and press and bing?!?!

They have no vision, no look ahead, trash their brand, destroy their image, piss off consumers, and for what?

To dabble in things they well know will shut down tomorrow anyhow. Gee, great.
Some people consider frequent blood donations as a way to reduce the amount of foreign particles in their blood.
The author mentioned they would be moving towards local smart-home solution but doesn’t mention HomeAssistant even once

https://www.home-assistant.io/
If this were just a fun side project, great, no problem, let's give people the benefit of the doubt.

However we have seen the harms of social media in all aspects from the self esteem of teenage girls to harassment to financial scams to stochastic terrorism. This isn't 2007 any more, anyone entering the social media arena in 2023 with all we know today has to be prepared for skepticism, scrutiny and criticism, whether they are closed source, open source, protocol based or fully commercial.
A lot of enterprises need to comply with regulations and security standards (e.g. PCI-DSS or SOC2) which often require them to implement systems and processes over their "control environment". They need to demonstrate that they can do things like enforce password requirements, or disable your device/account remotely (via MDM) if needed. It's not enough that you use their VPN.
And another question - did you already pay for value through your taxes?
Free Public Domain Audiobooks
I have a 5 digit battle.net discriminator number.
Nintendo also has an established history of resurrecting titles that seem long-dead (or "abandoned"), both as straight re-releases and re-masters, both as one-off sales and as licensed rentals. They even released new hardware to play SMB on pretty recently.
Emacs Docs – The modern documentation website Emacs deserves
If I try one of those recipes will I get food poisoning?
What can HA do that Google/Alexa can’t?
I always thought that Trump is not a good builder, I just couldn't put my finger on it. I think this is it, the thinking of everything as transactions with immediate effects.

Let's be honest, all politicians think at transactions, but he might be lacking a strong internal belief, to help him tie some not so great transactions for "the greater good".
I'm keen to see a fairly minimal change with KDE6 / Plasma 6 - so much is working great in KDE5 / Plasma 5 that it would be a shame to suffer reversions but presumably the odd one or two will crop up.

The only things I can think of I'd like tweaked are:

1. to make shifting pinned icons about more initiative (I must have the wrong mental model of editing the desktop layout as I always end up flailing around with something that seems like it should be trivially easy!)

2. Sort out Baloo: perhaps off by default and ideally to have better handling of exceptionally large compressed files (these usually result in it going into an hours long process of chugging away often with little to show afterwards!)
Is that still a thing?
If your customers supply the equipment and dictate the hours and so on you get close to the IRS classification of employee. You (or your customer) can't just call the relationship freelance or contract, it has to meet some requirements that show an independent relationship.

I have freelanced for over a decade and never had a customer tell me I had to use their hardware. I don't doubt it happens -- I know f/t employees working remote who have to lug around a "work" laptop -- but I would just say no to a contract like that unless it had a lot of ofsetting benefits.

The policy may come from the IT security people rather than a policy enforced by the client company. I have had to jump through hoops with large company IT departments just to get access to their network.
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Postgres 16 highlight – JSON predicates
The verb "to invest" predates the usage you say it implies for you. This might be a sign that there are other usages.
Currently, by default, it uses 3.5. Premium allows you to switch to 4, but it's rather limited (25 messages every 3 hours or so).
So force them to register one that is public.

Infinitely better than the evil crap they are now doing.
I lit ask it ; tell me what I am not asking or propose BETTER SCHEMA, or table. and it usually suffices.
More likely people are just going to stop using their products.
> But it is almost the opposite

It feels like I only hear this on tech forums. Everyone outside trusts Google and that’s kind of the issue
Nice catch, yes!
I just figured I'd do some measurements of the different speeds.

Location: in the center of a modern well isolated family home, with HR++ glass. So not ideal for optimal reception, but I didn't care to get up from the kitchen table.

Tested with speedtest.net in the browser with Android Chrome. Network is T-Mobile NL.

5G: 69.52 Mbps down, 37 ms ping
4G: 56.79 Mbps down, 34 ms ping
3G: 4.01 Mbps down, 56 ms ping

I'm not sure if T-Mobile is still keeping their 3G network at optimal performance. All their competitors have phased out 3G. They'll probably follow soon (though only 2G phase out is announced).

Anyway, 4G → 5G is an improvement, but not orders of magnitude. That might be a bit much to expect though.

I also measured my wifi/fiber connection. Got to 162.86 Mbps and 17 ms ping. Still much better than the mobile networks. (And lower than I expected, so probably time to debug a bit.)
It hits you in the face, how do you eat an elephant? A bite at a time. One API, one abstraction at a time.
I recently went and got a couple of Lenovo ThinkSmart View displays off eBay and re-purposed them: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2023/04/22/1330

The reason I got them was that I wanted small desktop displays to both replace my “now playing” Raspberry Pi display and act as smart speakers, and there didn’t seem to be anything event in the market (there are plenty of cheap Chinese tablets, but I wanted something with a standalone PSU and a proper speaker).

These are not Google Home devices (they run Android Things, but a “corporate” version tailored for Teams and Zoom calling) but they are functionally equivalent and surprisingly capable. After installing Firefox and PlexAmp, they do everything I could possibly want from a kitchen-top display, and I am considering getting another one.

Like the OP, I am fascinated with the fact that Google keeps shooting itself in the foot regarding home devices—-these things are as capable as any Android tablet and far more useful if you install a browser, so I honestly don’t see the point of nerfing them with fancy “home” UIs that do absolutely nothing useful.

If Google stopped messing with its partners and standardized on a a more open, more third-party friendly Android Things release with just a browser, a media player and the Play Store (plus maybe a better “family” calendar UI, which I baked in with an Outlook web view), I’m betting there would be plenty of cheap Chinese clones as well…

And they are more reliable to boot, since you won’t forget to charge them (no, a tablet on a dock isn’t the same thing).
Nothing. Waiting for the tide to go out like it did with metaverse, Web3, quantum computing, and the two previous AI hype cycles during my career. This time it truly reached peak hype in a short time, I suppose correlated with a slowdown in tech stock returns.
GIVE ME A BETTER SCHEMA FOCUSED OR SORTED BY X

SUMMARIZE THAT AND PRODUCE CSV FOR X

CONSTRAIN TO CALIFORNIA

CREATE TABLE FOR EACH COUNTY LIMIT 3

JOIN THAT WITH OTHER RESOUCES
I hadn’t heard of “truthiness” outside of Boolean comparisons in programming languages, but when I looked it up, it doesn’t seem like something worth aspiring to:

> Truthiness is the belief or assertion that a particular statement is true based on the intuition or perceptions of some individual or individuals, without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts. Truthiness can range from ignorant assertions of falsehoods to deliberate duplicity or propaganda intended to sway opinions.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness
Yeah, but when you keep explaining the issue, they eventually figure it out. And them challenging these are opportunity to explain again.
> The finalised text says that immediate open access to papers reporting research involving public funds “should be the norm”.

100% this – if tax money fuels it, it belongs to the public, end of story.
Ubuntu Touch and Mobian don't seem so bad.

But good support is still far away.

Especially since I'd really need Whatsapp and banking authentication on the phone, which both only support Android/iOS atm.
Interesting to point out that Euroclear and Euronext are based in Belgium.
From vague memory, "investing" has been a Sales Dept. buzzword since at least the 1970's. Typically used to ease a prospective customer into spending too much (if not way too much) money on something. With fairly explicit implications about $Product being awesome, admired by people you know, and lasting an exceptionally long time. And implicit implications of getting the customer emotionally invested in $Product - to the point where he is no longer making rational decisions, and spending way too much money.
Based on the LLM-produced stuff I've seen online I have to think a market will emerge soon for real writing from actual people. How much reshuffling of stuff already written a hundred times can we put up with? The bar seems pretty low if you only have to compete with ChatGPT.
Also, Nothing to do with MARC, the commuter rail system of the Boston Metro Area.
prefix: Now that there's no economic advantage to investing,
That sounds like more effort for the user: now they have to remember some random string in addition to their email address.

If every website did this, no one will ever sign up.
I switched from my iPhone 5 to a Google Nexus when Material Design came out, and quickly grew to love Google. However, after 10 years, I began to have security concerns and didn't like the idea of using Google anymore. So, I switched back to Apple and found that everything was more integrated with more features, better privacy and security. I even switched all my accounts to the new iCloud email and stopped using Gmail.
This website is full of Ads. On my M2 is lagging and can't scroll thought.
A dozen of my millennial friends do not have a wired internet connection. Gen Z even more, especially students.