skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
we installed a storm door not for protection against storms, but an intruder armed with a brick and/or hammer because our front door was 85% single pane of glass.

it seems like a bad analogy on the GP's part
It sounds like your therapist is letting their personal opinions into your session. I'm not an expert, but that sounds like a professional no-no.
>Many manufacturers oppose making any commitments about security updates, even voluntary ones. These manufacturers are heavily engaged at the FCC and represented by sophisticated regulatory lawyers.

Gee, I wonder if this has anything to do with the corrupt people like Ajit Pai?

Sincerely - after the Ajit Pai debacle and the fraudulent selling off bandwidth rights, I literally dont trust the FCC with anything...

So, prove to me the FCC actually understands IoT?

Basically youre attempting to regulate a swarm of GNATs and how they should behave, without understanding how they are born...

look at Moores Law as it pertains to surveillance and fraud tech ; The size of cameras, the power of IP enabled wireless talking devices (regardless of protocol/tech/mech) is so incredibly small and easily, cheaply replicated in any cheap-tech-state (china, and many other places we dont talk about) - makes it such that one can only assume that they are under 100% surveillance 100% of the time...

THAT is what you should be regulating - the scanning of an area for detection of IoT device transmissions

Think of Purple (brand) air quality monitors, a frequency field monitor for all RF transmissions in a given area (as can be heard) would be great, with sensors for adding to such monitoring that can RSSI triangulate the location of devices.

Think of Apple Air-Tags...

If you had cell phones all reporting RF triangulation signals - you could map out the IoT problem, frequencies, locations, targeted devices/tech etc...
Lol at the arrogance of thinking I do not take the time to learn or customize my tools while you advocate usage of a development environment that objectively lacks essential features for efficient professional programming such as functional semantic code search and navigation
At least Finland's stats are a bit misleading. They are using number of guns per capita, not number of households with guns (and might also be using number of permits instead of number of guns, same gun might have more than 1 permit). There's about 650 000 permit holders in Finland, i.e. about 12%. Of course there are some people who have access to illegal guns but I don't think that's very high number. Estimates I see for number of illegal guns (which include deactivated guns which can be reactivated) are from 35 000 to 200 000.
I'm reminded of how much better international real estate listings were in 2011. Used to be I could look at every real estate listing in Greece with a simple google search. I'm sure those sites still exist, but damned if I can find them through the noise of people advertising some more profitable subset.

I hope AI doesn't follow that trend, but I can't see why it wouldn't...
Film used be about a steady-stream of operational costs, amortizing film, processing and printing over many years.

Digital has always been about huge up-front costs of cameras and computer processing.

Film purchase and processing now have scanned added on, and all are getting painfully expensive, not to mention the surge in camera prices as TikTok decides which camera is flavour of the month. I can no longer decide to buy a Contax G2 backup body cheaply, so lucky I did it a long time ago.

Photography has always been an expensive hobby, plus ça change
No, they shouldn't.

But they should make it clear on their interface. I'm sure it's on some terms of use somewhere, but this information is missing from the entire UI of the app.

(Not that this would impact most people. Closed spaces in Brazil usually disallow delivery people from entering too.)
"a profusion of shortcuts that you need to remember" -- sure, true, but you're already talking about something esoteric like shift-option-F12. Were you remembering that in the first place?
I found a local company that made me a 96'' solid wood table from reclaimed wood planks (no veneer). Cost me like $1600, felt like a pretty good deal.
Small farms can be sustainable as a business model, and I know some (namely, the ones I buy from at farmers' markets), but it's rough going.

Then again, all the few homesteaders I know have a person employed in big tech or fintech who makes the investment possible, but that investment can yield a homestead farm that can eventually run with very low income once it's set up. I also know people in rural Texas who truly manage to live on small farm business income, but if you measure the quality of their lives by consumption, it's not very high, though to be fair they typically don't want to consume a lot.

Anyways, I'm also interested in how to nudge big ag to do better with less pesticide and herbicide use. It's hard to scale up good small farm practices to large farms.
Same I use them constantly, but just set one of your thumb keys to shift to your functions row. You can map all the way up to F24 then! and have any other IDE specific commands in that layer as well.

I use F all over the place in VS-code and have them all mapped on my dygma raise.
> I'm not aware of a non-Apple ARM laptop that works better than an M1 with Asahi.

As early as the Toshiba AC100 there were usable ARM laptops on Linux. Nowadays, you can spend $99 and get a fully-supported ARM Pinebook if you fancy. Or check out the MNT Reform, ClockworkPi systems, Snapdragon laptops, Nintendo Switch, the list goes on. There are dozens of better-supported mobile ARM platforms, if you specifically want Linux on ARM.
manufacturers are simply never going to be incentivized to take security seriously

I worry about this too, and it's one thing when it's a camera but another when it's a car, or electrical grid equipment, or chemical process controls, etc. You make a great point re clickwrap, and clearly clickwrapping your rights away should be something that we don't readily allow for a manufacturer receiving the federal benefit of a marketing label.

It could be that even a top-tier label will turn out to be meaningless. That would mean that we'd need to have "harder" regulation or that people would start demanding dumb devices. I hope that industry will respond productively to this voluntary effort so that the public doesn't get harmed and we are able to benefit from the real advantages of connectivity that's also secure.
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> The focus on the top 10 in vector search is a product of wanting to prove value over keyword search

I'm surprised to see less mention of the use of vector search in RAG. The reason top 10 (or less) is so important in RAG is that you only have so much context to work with (and even in large context models, you still would prefer to minimize the total amount of context you're sending the model).

Everyone I know working seriously on vector search is using it to plug into a prompt for an LLM. For this use case top 10 is a fairly important metric.
> in reality mass leaks of private data have never been an issue.

France, 1940, religious census data.
The only way he could be released in a way that's not hypocritical is if we scrap all notion of government secret classification. Is that what you're advocating?
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At ikeas price point you don’t even need to move the fueniture, just give it away and buy the exact same one in the new location.
You can get great furniture today that is made from stain grade hardwood and uses high quality fabrics. But it’s expensive. It always has been. Quality, heirloom furniture was never the domain of regular people. It’s through mass production and engineered materials everyone has couches, tables, chairs, shelves, dressers, etc.

You want nice counter height chairs made of five hardwood and leather and joint work instead of screws? You’re looking at $1000/chair at the bottom and can go way up from there. Most people aren’t spending $4k on chairs for a kitchen island. This is where the cheaper mid market comes in where you get 4 chairs for $1k and they’re fine. Just not jointed or if the better wood or nicer seat, etc.
Most of Ikea pieces I’ve assembled utilize wooden dowels in addition to their special locking bolts. Definitely use glue in all holes that are meant for wooden dowels. If you wish to go an extra mile - use a thin bead of wood glue anywhere two wood surfaces meet, tighten the screws and then wipe off the excess that gets squeezed out of the seam. Wood glue is water soluble so clean up is easy before it dries.
I'm a big supporter of the idea of applying right to repair principles to software, but I don't think it should (or legally can) be implemented by fiat of unelected bureaucrats at the FCC. Labeling requirements like what the OP is proposing seem much more palatable to me.
I have heard the same as commercial lumber today is harvested from fast growth trees.
I have been furnishing with IKEA (and Target and Home Depot and Costco) furniture for 20+ years, and still use dressers and coffee tables and bunk beds from back then, including the use by 2 toddlers. I even moved it across the country.

Maybe the melamine surface chips or scratches, but a little touch up marker makes it pretty unnoticeable, plus I do not care. Plus it was $20 to $200, so I can just replace it if it was damaged.

I would much rather spend the money saved on vacations and whatnot, I get no utility from a heavier table (in casual household use).
Honestly, I wish it were plywood, it's actually MDF or other kind of pressboard.
Right now, the actual requirements for a label are totally up for grabs. This would make for a good public comment, in my opinion.
That isn’t really a fact-checking issue, though, it is an alternative interpretation of the data. I think your post is a fine way to begin a reasonable argument.

I actually don’t care to argue back. I object to the argument-less fact check request and insinuation that the figures are misleading, on principle. It is annoying to give your conversation partners homework for no reason.
> The problem with industrial farming isn't an education bottleneck

The problem of industrial farming is the education bottleneck, though. There is good reason why virtually all farms in America have remained family farms. What growth in farm sizes we've seen has been mostly on the back of machinery and other technical innovation allowing families to do more work, and not so much farms being able to hire more and more labourers. The latter has not happened in any significant way because educating farmhands about agriculture is a monumental task. And if you manage to pull it off, there is a very good chance that they will soon want to become the farmer running their own family farm!
Strange that in such a popular country this is so late.

> Defining the Internet of things as "simply the point in time when more 'things or objects' were connected to the Internet than people", Cisco Systems estimated that the IoT was "born" between 2008 and 2009, with the things/people ratio growing from 0.08 in 2003 to 1.84 in 2010.[29]

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_things)
Texas solves this with lots of toll roads.
> GPT-4 was trained to predict the next token in a text document and that is it

Indeed, and it's doing a good job at it. That's why since its training data includes historical chess moves and documentation about chess it can predict how chess works. And probably why it can generate documents made of the words that make up an image.

> Sure, and you doubt that there are AI labs with billions of dollars in funding

There are indeed, and that's the issue. We need to regulate what these people can do with this tool we call ai, that mimics and understanding of reality and intelligence. Just like we regulate what people can do with guns, towels, intellectual property, etc.

If I'm going to build an ai that tries to find ways to kills us and i equipt it with the right data then yes, I should pay for my crime and ideally not be able to do it in the first place.
I just moved cross-country in the US and my mover specifically carved out particle board Ikea furniture as "best effort", i.e. they will do their best to make sure it arrives in one piece, but they are not responsible for damages, and we should manage expectations accordingly.
Thanks for the clarification, I was pretty confused by the article on this detail myself. Per app opt seems like a reasonable compromise for my use as long as the browser recognizes my CA, as that's the one I care about.
I used it for another project but was not impressed. When I tested it, the documentation was scarce, and the deployment is harder than Julia because it needs a working C compiler alongside the CPython interpreter.
This take is simply not based in reality. Compare what it took to gain root access to a computer 20 years ago to a modern iPhone and tell me again that there is absolutely no point in caring about security.
Isn’t the issue the screws tearing through the soft wood and/or engineered wood?
It's more simple than that. Most jobs don't need to exist, but most people need jobs for a society to function.

There is a basic conflict then between business (who optimize for cost) and government (who optimize for stability).
I think they were successful in obsoleting a huge amount of functioning computers, forcing my people to buy new hardware to run Windows 11.
Re: the licensing issue, companies wanting to put a label on their product would probably want to extract similar guarantees up their supply chain. Especially with a voluntary program like the one the FCC is proposing, good practices won't become the norm across the market overnight. But maybe, at the very least, the segment of product and component makers that take security seriously will begin to grow. I encourage you to share your thoughts in an official comment.
YMMV, but I think the Keyboardio Model 01/100 has a pretty great layout for programming. The keys are in a different spot, but they're easily reachable, and the palm layer toggles mean you don't have to contort at all to hit them.
Until we start fusing hydrogen for energy.
My main reason for going in the opposite direction and switching from DSLR to mirrorless is giving other people satisfaction of a perfect photo where everyone's faces are well lighted and in focus, action shots are frozen at the perfect moment and there are no unwanted people in the background. It's not clear to me that personal satisfaction with film's disciplining factors on myself will be able to overcome shortcomings for others. Anyone has related experiences one way or the other?
Well, making a voluntary sticker to opt-in to certain legal obligations is fine.

But you are saying already that manufacturers don't really want to commit to anything? What makes you think the sticker would change that?

(In principle, I'm all for manufacturers offering more warranties. But when it comes to spending money, privately I almost never opt for the enterprise grad hardware that does come with warranties like long term guaranteed support.

Instead I rely on reputation, eg that Google will keep providing security updates for their Pixel phones for a few years as they have done in the past, even if there's no legal obligation for them.

And I wouldn't want any regulation to take that choice away from me. I'm glad to have escaped the EU where appliances are more expensive, partially because manufacturers are forced to include a two year warranty with each device.)
used furniture is a good compromise there, though it's harder to get a consistent style when going that route. Part of Ikea furniture's appeal is also that it looks like other Ikea furniture.
Except everyone who "has a hostile reaction to people who handle guns irresponsibly" has a story of a range or person they know who does exactly that, and their response is simply to stay away, instead of narcing on them and making the community safer at the expense of being a tattle tale.

So there are plenty of people who call themselves "responsible gun owners" but turn a complete blind eye to bad behavior.

Or they will keep a loaded gun in their bedroom for home defense, something that is outright NOT responsible gun owner behavior, yet is the primary cited reason people own guns in the US.
The Menlo Park property is the former US Geological Survey campus, which has been moved to the NASA Ames campus in Mountain View because the USGS couldn't make rent to the GSA. It's a nice campus although some of the buildings could use some superficial renovation. It's got a lot of lab space.
Are you also in favor of public monopoly on other natural resources such as rare earth metals and oil?
I asked about this once and someone pointed out the obvious E=mc^2 issue: a fusion reactor will generate only a trivial amount of helium in the process of releasing a large amount of energy.
I think the issue is that it's such an easy web-search, your failure to do it and instead make a "simple request" appears to present an implication that the phenomenon in question doesn't exist, i.e. gaslighting.

The assertion for which you asked evidence is not a correlation between prosecutorial policy ("fully prosecuting criminals") and crime rates, but rather the existence of the policies themselves. So, there's no need for a "study": the prosecutors put it down in writing (and those policies then get reported by the media).

For the record, I support some of these prosecutorial reform efforts, but through legislation which eliminates things like "add-on charges", not by prosecutors selectively deciding who will and won't get them.

But, since you asked, here's just a few -- and I'll make the "simple request" to you to do the "hard work" of a web-search if you want more than these: try Chesa Boudin, Larry Krasner, etc.

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg announces he is directing his staff either not to prosecute, accept "community diversion" in lieu of prosecution, or at least not to seek any jail time, for a slew of offenses, including e.g. armed robbery:

https://www.manhattanda.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Day-O...

Media coverage of same:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/06/us/alvin-bragg-manhattan-dist...

https://nypost.com/2022/01/04/manhattan-da-alvin-bragg-to-st...

LA district attorney George Gascón, upon being elected, issued a memo modifying the policy to reduce the charging of violent criminals:

https://da.lacounty.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/SPECIAL-DIRE...

Media coverage of same:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/crimes-las-prosecute

And while anecdotal, here's evidence of the implementation of that policy, a letter from Union Pacific railroad to the DA's office, complaining that when their agents apprehend criminals robbing trains, they are not fully prosecuted:

https://www.up.com/cs/groups/public/@uprr/@newsinfo/document...

HN thread on same:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29985568
A lot! Last company I worked for (40B+ valuation) every developer used a Mac laptop and we were a .net shop. I imagine this is the same at many other companies using .net.
> It would be way better to let existing farmers incorporate better practices at scale.

Export even more tomatoes? Got it. Makes lots of sense..
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The issue seems to be wider than just abandoning support on IoT. IoT device abandonment is a real problem, but you can aim higher. Software written for hardware is generally of poor quality.

There is an insightful HackNews thread from three days ago about the subject. I hope it will add some more insight into the scope of the issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37352970

My 2 cents would be: treat software defects like hardware defects. Pass legislation to force manufacturers to provide a warranty for at least 2 years. Pass rules which favor the consumer ruthlessly. Button was not constrasty enough - refund. Text label caused the user to misinterpret the action - refund.

Perhaps the additional accountability during the early days of a device will have a positive impact on the longer-term longevity. If prices are forced to go up a bit in order to provide better support, there will be more money for higher-quality software.

Don't limit this to IoT devices. Manufacturers will find ways to skirt whatever way "IoT" gets defined. Make whatever rules you create apply very broadly to all devices with embedded software.
Indeed ! But as pointed by the sample I provided, you can use that word to refer to the act of grilling vegetables, so there is no point in being overly particular about the use of the word grillade. If a word was already reserved for the designation of grilled vegetables, on the model of bus/car or train/tramway (ie /within a city/ vs /between cities/), I'd accept your argument.

However what's discussed here is a case of legislators deciding what shape language should take, not usage !
A company who wants to make entirely their own car can do so and its customers can still drive it on the same roads and buy fuel from the same gas stations.

A company who wants to make mostly their own car and use some parts from another manufacturer can do that too:

https://www.hotcars.com/awesome-cars-powered-by-other-manufa...

This is the normal operation of a competitive market. Chelsea Truck Company wants their vehicles to be mostly Land Rover so they start with a Land Rover.

But Apple interferes with even that. If you wanted to buy iPhones to mod and resell, they stop you from putting your own operating system on it, and their operating system doesn't have drivers for your custom components.
I _really really_ enjoyed WebOS but it gambled way too hard on "Web Only" for the time period, and didn't really learn the lesson from Apple's attempt at the same thing. I only gave my device up after the screen broke.

And damn, that hardware keyboard layout was fire.
I didn't spend $1000 on a couch set to just get rid of it if I move in a year or two though.

I realize some folks on HN have lots of disposable income, however even for higher earners its a waste of money at that point, I don't feel like it should be accepted practice to throw out furniture out with every move, particularly if you move a few times in a short time span.
Perhaps we should respect the wishes of the large rest of the people who are outside that relatively small group?
don't forget to say that it's a blurry jpeg of the web, and therefore has fake artefacts and is a degraded form of the original
Google Search was orders of magnitude better 10 years ago.
Interesting. So should we really be wasting large quantities of this precious non-renewable resource to fill balloons at children's birthday parties?
I've had a couple of photo books made but I print very little. No room on the walls and I don't really need more physical "stuff." And while various things can happen to physical prints, I expect that most families don't really have a way to systematically pass down digital artifacts.
It was just an example, not necessarily a realistic one. The point is that we want to compare how quickly a processor will compute our problem, not how many instructions it's going to execute. If it was a car you want to compare things like its top speed and acceleration, not something inane like engine revolutions per kilometer. You measure and compare things that are relevant to the user, not implementation details.