skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t understand—don’t benefits typically make up around 30% of all compensation in the US? Why are the insurance/retirement costs so high in this particular case?
> Why does any of it operate on remote cloud API calls when it could operate locally?

Vendor lock-in, and gives them the ability in the future to hold your devices hostage by requiring you to pay a subscription fee.

Various IoT platforms, eg Tyua (which gets rebranded a lot), sell a complete package that is totally cloud oriented. Configure the product behavior online, click order, purchase 10000 controller chips preflashed with firmware implementing said behavior, integrate with devices, slap logo on it, sell.

Also, maybe the developers of these products only know how to write cloud enabled software? (slightly joking)
Are you aware that there is a dose-response relationship observable between adolescent smartphone and social media usage and mental health issues?
Public employees typically receive a larger portion of their total compensation as retirement benefits, than do typical employees at private companies.

Given this difference, it seems like it would be misleading not to quote total compensation.
Not to sound negative, it reads like the author quickly dismissed HA without a great reason so they could build their solution.

There's a lot of home devices beyond ZigBee, with a large community supporting them.
Beyond ZigBee, we will see Matter devices also cropping up over time.

I do like the idea of being in control of one's automation software. The risk that I've seen though is when one ends up spending more time on building the software than the automation, which can happen when one writes their own integrations from scratch (i.e. not using Z2MQTY, ESPHome, HA, etc).

With that all said, I like HA as the central programmable hub, but have come to dislike the proliferation of ecosystems that require add-ons
I'm mostly looking at Sonoff devices that tie you to ewelink and phone home in opaque ways.

I'm personally probably going to go with Matter for store-purchased and DIY devices. I'm already nearly done with our first DIY devices at home. A light strip for the kitchen, that has some sensors for useful automation.

Not rolling my own solution makes it easier for me to build a few devices for friends later.
n=1 is a bad sample size. I've been on there 10 years and nothing of the sort has happened to me. If you don't like reddit then you should leave and find a better platform for you. I highly doubt reddit is going anywhere for a while because there is no easy alternative like there was when Digg died.
Most engineers at FAANGs cost significantly more than 200K in net employer costs, which is what that number actually represents. As noted elsewhere in the thread, the actual take-home for these municipal workers is $71K, pre-tax.
Take a look at the 'hybrid synergy drive' model. It's a pretty streamlined gearbox. ICE output shaft connects to motor/generator 1, MG1 connects to MG2 via planetary gear, MG2 connects to wheels more or less. There's gears in there, but there's no gear selection. Depending on how you control the ICE and the motor/generators, you can any of the three movers power the wheels individually or in concert.

It's not much more complex than an ICE, a generator, and a motor for the wheels.
it's always risky to buy high in a bubble
Generative AI learning path
Using these math ideas as Python APIs first and then explaining the why behind it, seems like a good idea before delving into the concepts if needed.
Haskell calls these 'typeclasses'; cl calls them 'protocols'. Apl style is not to expose sophisticated user-level abstractions, so I think that there it is not inappropriate that the scope of associable objects (say, a monad, a dyad, an inverse, and an identity; perhaps a few others) be fixed by the language.
dang has specifically addressed the flood of AI / ChatGPT content on HN:

There are plenty of such repetitive/indignant symptoms and one of our jobs is to dampen them so they don't crowd out the things that actually are interesting to read. If we didn't do this, HN would consist of almost nothing but sensationalism, indignation, and the few hottest topics of the moment (ChatGPT these days). It's our job not to let that happen.

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34507392>
Our kids are not allowed to have their own phones, but they can use our phones for a limited amount of time every day, to communicate with their friends (under our supervision). There are middle grounds, it is not a all-or-none decision.
> We offered him API access for a fee, but any fee was too much for his business model.

At this point, wasn't banning him in the cards?
Yup, looks like even in 2022 their salaries are <$100k: https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?q=Sewer%2...
Feel free to use it today in any language if your debugger supports it. Most do. It's called a data breakpoint/watch point.
Lol. What an extremely privileged take. Covid isn’t the only problem to solve for. For the vast majority if people, there are way bigger problems than covid. This was true even in march if 20202.

Who gives a shit about covid when you need to work for a living. Who gives a shit about covid when your kids literally depend on schools for healthy meals, safety and learning.

The myopic focus that work from home tech workers have on covid is so utterly detached from reality. The idea that all we should have optimized for is the spread of some respiratory virus. It’s insane. I still cannot believe the amount of privilege it takes to dismiss kids going to school.
In an Australian context, seeing "security officers" (these are guards from before the Australian Federal Police was formed) pulling guns on ordinary people is pretty chilling: That just doesn't happen now. It was wartime, it was perhaps contextually understood but if you want to stop a truck driver, pulling a gun on him isn't how we do it here.

Calwell basically wrote his own end, the night he did this. No paper helped him after this, Perhaps this is why Labor historically has been so scared of Murdoch and the power of the press.
A Hoover Fellow, I presume?
When I originally announced this project I called it "das blinkenlights" and was quickly mobbed by a group of Germans on Reddit for misappropriating their culture (even though I was quoting The Jargon File). Normally I try to focus on cosmo corpo speak that couldn't possibly rub anyone the wrong way, which is why I like "blink" because blinking is something man has been doing for centuries, so as a word I feel that it really unites humanity rather than dividing it.
112k/yr for health insurance seems high. How large is the SF retirement benefit?
housing as an asset/investment who's value needs to keeps rising is a big contributer to homelessness. If Dense affordable housing isn't created because of the vested interests of the home owners worried about their properties losing value then they are partly to blame..
It wasn't even about a disagreement.

If was like "Get a mop, a bucket in the storeroom, pour in a cup of sugarsoap into the bucket and fill up with water then wash the floors". They washed the floors even though they couldn't find the sugarsoap because by accident they god sent sugar and soap instead, so they put that in, perfectly understanding what sugarsoap is and why sugar and soap won't replace it.
https://archive.md/jayXh
I know nothing about baseball, cricket and American football, they’re practically non-existent here. Basketball and soccer are full of numbers? For 3-4 years old they are. Maybe there could be some lessons for older kids, I just can’t think of how to spin it that way.

A month ago I told him an old and tired joke. 90 degrees is a right angle, and 100 degrees is when water boils (celsius FTW). He howled with laughter and sure knows now some things about angles and circles.
Of course not, it's just a good headline. Only if you bought or sold or used them for leverage.
He purchased it for 25 million and poured another 100 million into it.

But it is the most impressive home in San Francisco. Right across from the Lyon steps. You can’t miss it. The only one that you have to crane your neck to see all 5+ stories of it.
They're not quoting the total cost of the role. They're quoting total compensation.

What tech roles provide defined benefit pension schemes?
The misleading nature is the implication that SF's public servants are, on average, taking anywhere close to 200k in TC home.

We can have a conversation about pensions and retirement funding if you'd like, but that isn't mentioned anywhere in the article. Instead, the article moves to imply that city employees are lining their pockets, when they aren't.
This logic only works if you ignore the fact that housing prices have been juiced even in areas experiencing population decline and economic blight. I live in upstate NY and housing prices have tripled in my town despite no actual growth occurring here in decades, with more entry level jobs evaporating here every few years with local industries continuing the trend of closing up shop.

It's also highly dubious that any land in SF can be considered higher value due to the rampant crime issues. I really don't understand how anyone would want to buy a home or live in one where there a daily risk to waking up to a home invasion, your car being pilfered through, literal human shit on your doorstep, etc. All in a place where cost of living is 2-3x higher than nearly every other part of the country. It's laughable.
If you’re going to make a claim that strong please provide evidence.
Books are also available as these big papery things - they don’t have adverts, videos or other distractions, though.

These strange papery things are also rather portable.
Lockdowns in the US were both less effective and more destructive. I agree that lockdowns aren't primary driver in this case, but nearly every Western Country decided that in person education was an essential service and one of the most important things to lock down to preserve.

If I were to Hazard a guess at the primary cause, it would be the normalization of physical violence and property destruction a legitimate mean of protest or expressing one's anger. Despite the enormous gains of the Civil Right Movement, nonviolent protests and Democratic action are now commonly believed to be a futile because they did not result in a completely egalitarian society.

Without faith in shared institutions, there is no Civil Society.
I think he's so used to being ensconced in vast sums of money—and mostly shielded from any consequences—that he's largely disconnected from the world. He's not in the habit of doing the rational cost-benefit calculations that we assume he's doing because we'd do them ourselves if we were in that position.

Everyone assumes this guy is still acting according to some process of reasoning. I really don't think that's the case anymore.
Kids need faces. That is the fuss. It requires absolutely no further debate.

It’s almost criminal abuse to force kids to wear masks for something they aren’t even at risk for.

You are free to force your kids to hide their face and treat others as nothing more than disease vectors… but pre-2020 most would rightly consider that child abuse.
> I can't put more hydrogen, or gasoline, into a vehicle without getting it from somewhere else.

Gasoline is not too hard to transport. I have two 20L gas gans at home that I generally keep full. For gas powered lawn things, and a portable genrator, but also for when I want to charge my cars at home.
Depends on the job, but in my experience no, it's closer to 50%.

In general, government jobs have even better insurance and retirement benefits than a "regular" job. CALPRS requires retirement contributions in the neighborhood of 30% of salary
Jesus. Learn how to use the parental features and turn off access to mindless apps. Not letting your child take photos, look up info, share their location or a million other uses for a mobile phone besides TikTok is just short sighted.
They dont. Do a search of something older than 5 years in btdigg and you will most likely get only dead magnets.
Other examples that I have found difficult

1) My wife (native English), when she is asking me to do something , always says "Would you like to...?" eg "Would you like to do the dishes?" To which, the answer for me (English first language, but born and raised in Africa) is "No", because these sorts of chores are things I do in spite of not wanting to do them because I know they are necessary. I've since learned that I actually would like to do the dishes in those cases and perhaps just don't realise.

2) A lot of time when I am leading a team or giving instructions, people from certain cultures get confused because I always ask with the word "Please" eg "Please could you get this analysis to me by close of business so I can work on it tomorrow morning while you're sleeping?". For me that is a very specific and clear instruction, but in some cultures it seems if something is asked with a "please" that means it's a favour rather than an instruction, so will lead to mixed results until we get used to each other.
Relatedly, I run a Twitter bot that tweets every time a poop is reported to the city: https://twitter.com/poopscoopsf

(After many years of running, the bot seems broken. Not sure if I’ll fix it this time.)
This article and lots of the commenters are falling into the same trap that happens in every article about San Francisco. It states:

> In 2018, the city created a pooper scooper team, each member of which received annual compensation of about $211,000 that year.

The implication of a $211K salary sounds too ridiculous to be true. And instead of assuming that it is therefore false, people freak out. If you look up an actual article from the time [1], you'll see that the claim is already not true purely by the numbers:

> workers make more than $184,000 a year in salary and benefits

And if you dig in further you'll see that "and benefits" is a huge caveat:

> Employees of San Francisco's "Poop Patrol" are set to earn $71,760 a year, plus an additional $112,918 in benefits, such as healthcare and retirement savings, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

That $112K in benefits includes health care benefits (which are mandated for city workers, which is a good thing). And health care—if you've been paying attention—is completely fucked in the US, so any attempt at pricing it is going to sound ridiculous. The workers don't actually see any of that money.

If you take the $72K in salary, you'll see that it is below average for San Francisco:

> On average, a San Francisco resident earns about $96,677 a year, nearly double the median household income in the US.

And "below average" is what you'd probably assume a sanitation worker makes. So a huge amount of outrage over nothing.

Which would personally lead me to flag this story, rather than trust any of the other numbers its quoting.

[1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-poop-patrol-em...
I believe the current license permits it under copyright law.

That's certainly my reading and based on precedents like search snippets I don't have any reason to think otherwise.
It’s a horrible move. When it comes to technology, the kids affected by this will be illiterate compared to their peers.

I graduated college in 2018. Some of my classmates weren’t allowed to use “screens” growing up, and you could tell instantly. They struggled to use google to do basic research, struggled to collaborate in group projects, and were generally a burden to others, constantly needing help with technology.
Nah, same amount of news, way less competition for eyeballs back then. CNN had its best commercial times when the Internet was still very small.

For years, if something important happened in the middle of the day, CNN was kind of it, in terms of finding out what was going on quickly. If it was REALLY big, the networks might break into their daytime programming, but that was a very high bar.
This is a lie. The SpaceX asked the Pentagon to take over Starlink funding for Ukraine in Sep 2022. Why did they request that if they were already paid?

USAD in their initial announcement of Starlink donation said SpaceX donated “roughly 10 millions” worth of 3,667 terminals, and they themselves bought additional 1,333 terminals (They later deleted those details):

[0] - https://twitter.com/joroulette/status/1511781864356212737

In addition, SpaceX donated at least 50 Powerwall according to the Ukraine’s government:

[1] - https://mil.in.ua/en/news/ukraine-received-20-000-starlink-t...
Cause there was a pandemic. Nobody dying is not a possibility.

The best you can do is protect 80+ people, who are far more at risk than anyone else. Staying home is a middle class fantasy though. You can't just keep the entire country home or you'll run out of food and the sewers will fail in a week. Not to mention many people don't want to do that and would rather take the death.

Nevertheless, the US gave out approx $2400/month in CARES Act unemployment support, which is more than anyone else.
I'm pretty sure in the last year plus with interest rate increases, the value of "for sale" real estate across the "bay area" from napa/sonoma down to monterey county, maybe lost value in the billions, but $260bil? no.

Look at sales, yes, they have slowed, but demand is still incredibly high. My primary residence is in a rural county north of Truckee/Tahoe - housing prices in the last 7 years have doubled or more (wide area, wide variation), truckee/tahoe way worse.

I don't see the argument even if you extend it beyond the city. Santa Cruz - houses picked up for $1m or more turned into student ghettos pulling in $5-7k/mo in rent. (my other neighborhood).

260b is a load of bs.
Why is the implication misleading? Because there’s a vest period on their total compensation? Isn’t it standard to quote total comp as salary plus equity even if the equity takes years to vest? Why have it be different for a city employee?
> Are these real jobs? Where are they operating and has anyone verified their effectiveness? In the last decade, I haven’t seen the poop problem get any better in the Mission, SoMA, and the Tenderloin…

It's interesting to note which jobs get this treatment ("is X doing its job? The problem X supposedly solves isn't getting any better) and which jobs get the opposite treatment ("X is clearly necessary, because without them the problem X solves would be even worse).
Yes.

Its more obvious with something tangible. If I give you a $100 bill, and then you drop it down a drain, have you lost it? Of course you have.

The same is true for the value of assets though. You had the opportunity to cash it in by selling, you could have secured a loan against the value, you had the status of the wealth of owning a more expensive home. Those things have real implications on your life, and now you don't have them. It doesn't really matter that it's not actual cash.
What 11 year old has a thousand bucks handy to drop on a phone? An incredibly spoiled one, if you ask me.

I know this dates me, but mobile phones weren’t a thing until I was at university, and they definitely weren’t smart.

I didn’t lead an impoverished childhood as a result, and information was still available to me through a desktop computer.
> The biggest problem with HomeAssistant, however, is its really overengineered setup for running on mini computers like the Raspberry Pi, which was my goal.

False, i ran mine on rpi for 2 years now with many sensors. Zero issues and not even close to maxing out the pi.

> I have a strong aversion to Python due to its horrendous package management history (we use dozens of languages at work, guess which language is the only one that causes build issues all the time?). It’s a nice language, but for things like home automation, having build/dependencies problems is the absolute last thing I need.

Not sound reasoning imo, this is mangable if you know what you're doing. Clearly, HA doesnt have any problems related to this version management.
Here are some other features to make Java more modern:

- Replace `System.out.println` with just `println`

- Add operator overloading and subscript overloading for lists and maps

- Add string templates with `$`, e.g. `"Hello ${user.name}!"`

- Add range types, e.g. `for (i in 1..10) { ... }`

- `val` keyword, like `var` but only doesn't let you assign to the variable after defining it

- Add coroutines

- Make `==` use `equals`, and define `===` for identity comparison

- Make types non-nullable by default, and use `?` to denote nullable types. Use `!` to cast a nullable type to non-nullable, and `?.` to access a field on a potentially nullable object

- Add readonly types for arrays and maps: replace `List` with `List` and `MutableList`, and `HashMap` with `Map` and `MutableMap`.

- Get rid of sigils for array types, use `Array` instead. Also get rid of lowercase and uppercase variants for primitive types, just use the uppercase ones for consistency

- Make it so that when a lambda is the last argument it can be outside of parentheses, when it's the only argument parentheses aren't needed, and when it has no arguments you can omit the `() =>`

- Put type annotations after the variable like in most modern languages, and use the `fun` keyword for functions. So instead of `void main(String[] args)` you would write `fun main(args: Array<String>)

- Put class constructor parameters on the class declaration, and allow them to be fields by specifying `var` or `val`, like `class Rectangle(var width: Double, var length: Double) {}`

- `init` blocks in classes for initialization code, and `constructor(sideLength: Double) : this(sideLength, sideLength)` for alternate constructors

- Add the `when` condition as a better replacement for `if else` chains.

- Add convenience functions to all objects: `x.let(fun)`, `x.also(fun)`, `x.apply(fun)`, `x.use(fun)`, and `x.apply(fun)`

I'm sure there are more improvements I haven't mentioned, but these would all be good first steps to make Java almost as good as other JVM languages like Kotlin
Ecosystem.

Its an IDL that I can generate language bindings for and supports a well developed ecosystem for RPCs between systems (or bounded contexts in your modular monoliths).
This is great news for the housing affordability crisis. Sure we should build more housing and that helps an incremental amount, but reducing home value across the board is a much bigger lever. Of course there’s many interests that understandably want to keep home values up so we only focus on the supply side of the problem.
It's not a loss of 30% if the 5+ years you have lived there have been trouble free. Just normal depreciation.
If you watch the 3 episode series Example in the order

1 2 3

you have seen all the series episodes in one order. If you watch the episode sequence

1 2 3 1

you have now seen the series in two orders by watching a sequence of 4 episodes.
At this point (in 2023) the sheer volume of "intro to ebpf" articles is becoming a bit of a meme.

This product claims to be open source but I had a quick look through their github and didn't see the actual eBPF probe code (which AFAIK is required to be released under GPL)
> Dog owners can walk their dogs in 99% of public spaces

My point is that I can't walk my dog in those public spaces.
Yeah gleeful is an apt descriptor for the vibe there. It got non-objective pretty abruptly at the end imho...

> There are tens of thousands of mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, sons, and daughters of San Francisco drug addicts who likely feel the same way as Berlinn [mother of an addict who disagrees with SF drug policies]. They should be heard, and new policies should be implemented to get drug use off the streets, provide support for those struggling with addiction, and return functionality to a city that lost its bearings so many years ago.

I mean as a frustrated hippie idealist SF native hypocrite I think I totally agree... but thats just like, you know, your opinion man?
overlaps. I wanna say it's a de Bruijn sequence.
> 2! is
> 1, 2 then
> 2, 1

but you can skip an episode, and hit all permutations with
> 1, 2, 1