skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
@gnicholas @dang

See what I was talking about 4 days ago! Just the name Gebru is triggering to (some) HN users.

My comment from 4 days ago:

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Sidenote: HN isn’t all fun and games. Please don’t paint it as that. When I (and peers that I’ve spoken with) talk about HN, it’s usually characterized as a forum where really smart people like to bump heads. A place where people like to outsmart each other. A place where people nitpick article titles. You get the idea.

Your behavior-correcting skills were needed during plenty of more appropriate times. For example, when someone with a username like “koreanguy” said that he wanted to personally kill Timnit Gebru if he could. No downvotes or flag after many refreshes. Want to know why? Because plenty of other men were leaving similar disgusting comments in that post. This is just one example out of many of “weird” behavior on this forum. How many times has the mod here left that “be nice and follow the guidelines” comment on charged articles? (Some) HN users love a good dogwhistle!
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Not to say that this recent comment is absolutely negative in any way. But the floodgates are about to open lol

(Context: I left a very innocuous comment about SAT scores on that TI-83 calculator post and someone was trying to reprimand me for it lol. They called it strange behavior. I’m like “wait… huh… but isn’t this Hacker News? These people start acting like apes whenever Timnit Gebru is mentioned!”)
Given the context, I’m guessing what you want is to run arbitrary code on an OS that manages the battery, the network, the display, audio in and out, provide a security apparatus... You want all of the benefits of the well-managed, walled garden.

Or did you mean just running ARM Assembly?
>People are less likely to be irrationally exuberant if there's an up-front cost to trading, no?

Stock bubbles promise to return your investment several-fold. See: stocks like Tesla or even Zoom (during the pandemic). A 10% tax isn't going to dissuade anyone from the prospect of making 500%. It will dissuade someone from buying broad-market ETFs or mutual funds that return on the order of 5-8% a year.
Abusers sometimes take their victims elsewhere - new doc, new town, new state - when people start getting suspicious. The victim may also be retaliated against; accused of trying to get help. There’s a risk to consulting someone you suspect might be the perpetrator.
If I really want different color temperatures in the future I think I'm just going to double the number of fixtures instead. The fancy bulbs are too complicated and (in my experience) die too regularly.
It was marketed directly based on 'no subscription fees', and had a heftier price to boot. So they're having their cake and eating it too.
> My animator friend is very upset about this because she will lose 10% of her income

She won't, if she increases her price with 10 pct as she should.

> As a freelancer I can invoice a client with consumption tax on the invoice, but not pay the consumption tax,

A government charges tax. Not you. If you put it on your invoice, without giving it to the government, and then the same government has to pay that same amount back to your client, clearly something's wrong ?

> I wouldn't be suprised if criminals managed to get money from the government through fake invoices.

exactly.
This enshittifcation is endemic. Corporations cannot just release a good product and support it. The better the product is and the larger the customer base becomes, the higher the likelihood that some business planner is going to see dollar signs and try to squeeze the product for everything it’s worth. And every time this ruins the product. And we’re here with a proprietary phone OS and proprietary apps. Proprietary firmwares on proprietary hardware. And we are completely at the whim of these companies.

And the option is what, buy a Zigbee dongle and a raspberry pi run some code written by unpaid enthusiasts? 3D print a case for it and mount it on the wall, running updates and fixing it ever few months when some package update breaks it?

I like the concept of lights that run from an app. I don’t have any of the physical Hue switches for my system and it’s fine. But I do not want an app that abuses me, and I do not want to maintain some fragile project made from slapped together code. I want robust open hardware with open source software.

I’m convinced that we can achieve this, but it won’t be with the current model of business and engineering we have today.
Photographer Shoots Sports on Film Cameras, Other Pros Think He’s Crazy
That's a fascinating way of looking at it that I've never thought about before. So basically Spotify is considering cost per minute of music vs. podcasts? That's a believable explanation for the counterintuitively high price they paid for acquiring popular podcasts like Joe Rogan (which they know loyal viewers users will reliably watch for hours each week, during which time they won't be streaming Taylor Swift songs on repeat).

It's also interesting because the normal optimizations like caching don't apply to licensing fees. At first I was going to suggest that they can cache frequently played songs to save cost, but then I realized that has no impact on royalty fees derived from playtime.
> attacked by apologists on Reddit

Sometimes people get into niche communities and get really obsessive in a ridiculous way, like spending inordinate amounts of time defending a junky Logitech software suite.

I know, because it has happened to me. I see it happen with particular frequency in Discord.

I am not a psychologist, but it seems like a trap humans are predisposed to fall into.
Covid vaccine was not studied the way drugs normally are, so they don't know what the side effects are. And it was rammed down everyone's throat so "public health" authorities had to present a unified lie that there was absolutely zero downside.

People happily take and request drugs with long lists of side effects and accept the risk, so there is societal understanding and tolerance of the tradeoff in taking a drug. But because the covid vaccine was forced on people, they were not allowed to make an informed choice so the government had to pretend there were no risks as part of claiming authority to mandate it.
But should barr them from selling a line of similar products.
No it just wiped me out already
If you haven’t already: find the accusation in your comment.
The US leads the world in both mass incarceration and recidivism. Jail time is not only not a deterrent, but actively makes the problem worse because incarceration in the US is punitive and is much less focused on rehabilitation. An ex-convict has very few options for employment after they've served their time, so it's unsurprising that many need to steal for their survival. It's a feedback loop that can only get worse without addressing the underlying issues: guaranteeing people's basic needs for survival. Shelter, food, clean water, adequate healthcare.

Reducing incarceration should be the goal, but it needs to achieved by addressing those fundamental requirements.
They did the unscalable part. That better? Are you happy now? Can you go find something else to nitpick?

> finding some cheap garbage on AliExpress that you can sell with instagram ads isn't actually all that hard

It's very hard. What you're missing are all of the thousands of people who try it and fail. And you see one person succeeding and say that's easy, they're just buying shit from China. No, they combined skill and a lot of luck to find a product in China people want. That's not just ordering shit from China. If it were, Amazon would do it themselves and cut out all of these middleman. Which they can't, because it's not scalable. Which was my original point.
VC Twitter's crazy right now. It's as if Amazon was everybody's best friend.

User xattt says in a different thread on this story (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37667379)

> I bet dollars-to-donuts that half of those folks don’t know how to articulate the sentimental attachment to their Prime subscription either.

It seems that applies up and down the population.
In Palmdale California, at the corner of 25th St E & E Palmdale Ave [1], there's what is essentially a parking lot with a chain link fence around it. Sitting there are a SR-71, a A-12, a D-21 (supersonic recon drone originally launched from A-12 variant), and a U-2. You can just sit there and take all the pictures you want.

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@34.6026576,-118.0860601,117m/da...
> if a company can force updates to your device

Worse, if your device requires remote services then they can control access to those. Stallman was right.
Your pedantry is incorrect. Computers are people who compute and machines that compute.

The point is that in a discussion that includes Alpha, "x64" obviously isn't clear. Doubling down with "but everyone does it" isn't a good look.
I typod it, the spell checker fixed it, and then I thought the exact same thing, and went back and broke it again.

I'm claiming it and hereby releasing it into the public domain! :D
Exactly. I have hundreds of dollars tied up in MY hue products. I paid the market price for a device that didn't require me to sign up for an account.

As far as I'm concerned these companies should get hit with deceptive advertising charges. Yes, I realize that buried somewhere two or three hundred paragraphs deep in the TOS I "agreed" to let them do this. Then again maybe I didn't, because I also likely "agreed" to have the TOS changed at any time for any reason without warning. That is key here.

IMO These companies get away with this because they can toss out one of the basics of contract law. It is unconscionable that one party can _unilaterally_ change the terms of the contact (the "terms of service") without prior warning or input from the other party (me, as the purchaser of said device/service).

Basic contract law should apply here. What _tangible_ benefits are there to me
Google Research embarks on effort to map a mouse brain
OpenAI is reportedly raising funds at a valuation of $80B to $90B
It sounds like you haven’t been following her ongoing work. I really like what she has been doing.
Apple lets you do this, too, but it's really not better than Swype's method. The Gboard/Apple method resembles the description in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy about radios that could be tuned by pointing - "[it] meant that you had to sit infuriatingly still if you wanted to keep listening to the same programme." Take your finger off the screen too roughly and you get a last little bit of motion.

That's not necessarily an everyone problem, but for all the people who complain about how big phones are and how they would like a smaller one, I have big hands and find an iPhone Pro Max to be a comfortable one-handed fit (I also found the OG Xbox "Duke" controller quite comfortable).

On Swype, you could click over two spaces to the right, or left, or up, and konw that it wouldn't move.

Did I mention the Swype key? Swype-A, Z, X, C, V worked exactly like you expected from computers. Swype-space did something, maybe bring up the edit board? Capitalize a word by going up above the keyboard before finishing the word, and double a letter (as vs ass, for example) by squiggling around on it before moving on to the next letter.

It had one fault for most of its life: the word "me", which is very common especially in text messaging, was frequently interpreted as "nee", which given that I'm not a wedding planner doesn't come up often. And yet even that was better than the horrendous Apple swipe misread that gives me "Abbas" when I mean "and". The only Abbas I know is the Palestinian politician, and he's not in my contact list. And I don't ever write about him except to complain that Apple just keeps doing this substitution.
Someone can be "real" and still have bugaboos that are just not really worth it.
Airbnb started a large arbitrage process. Kinda the same one booking.com and the others are in. It's the nature of the game of arbitrage that it changes. That is its fundamental characteristic. Arbitrage is not static. Airbnb helped owners (and renters) realize they had an under-expoited asset. And travellers realize that hotels were over-priced and feature-poor. And consumers that booking services (travel agents) were often lax and complacent and sometimes true gems. Etc

We are now in the phase where some Airbnbs really are overpriced as seen from the consumer side. But perhaps perfectly priced as seen by the owner (who perhaps wants fewer but higher priced rental days to better fit their own hassle overhead.) There is space for the prices to bounce around. And for some consumers they are still what they want: as others described, if you want more than a couple days and you want a real living place as opposed to just a place to sleep and desk.

Does it mean that AirBnB disappears? Of course not. But their business has really changed, yes. Have they adapted enough? Are they continuing to adapt enough?

What sounds more of a problem to me is that Airbnb has not solved its hassle issue: The inventices for the reviews to be effective don't seem right to me. And it has not solved its issue of relations with governments / voters: the supply of Airbnb is threatened pretty much everywhere. And while booking.com and the others seem highly diversified, perhaps not so for Airbnb.
What do you mean?

Like if your headache goes away with a placebo, isn’t that the same as taking a pain killer?

In that case the effect is the same isn’t it?
Step 1: Make discontent known to brand
Step 2: Create/join community of fellow disaffected individuals
Step 3: Use community to spread awareness of said dissatisfaction
Step 4: Observe as sales of product fall off and brand reputation falters
Step 5A: Observe as brand reverses unpopular decision and recovers
OR
Step 5B: Observe as brand is replaced in the market by one which better meets consumer preferences
If you aren’t confident in your styling skills, Tailwind and it’s ilk can be a shortcut .

If you already know CSS inside and out, they’re nothing but hurdles, someone else’s code maddness you must learn the method to in order to contribute.
There's nothing inevitable about this stuff if you avoid The Cloud from the beginning. Hue used to be about that, with the app locally controlling everything and the cloud as just an option. Because of that, all of my Hue bulbs will continue to work just fine. I never used their app in the first place.

Keep that same mindset with any whizbang tech, and you'll mostly be alright. Cheap build quality is something else to watch out for, but that infects "dumb" devices just as much.
I doubt the proper answer to this risk is to assume abuse. I don’t mean to say the answer is easy but the described behavior towards this person for how they try to help their child is sickening.
Would be nice to have something like Android has nowadays where software that hasn't been used in X days is progressively permission restricted and tallied in a list for easy removal.
Yeah, my wife’s Pixel 3 came with unlimited photo storage too. It was a selling point… of course, that went away when it became inconvenient for Google.
There's an ecosystem? All they do is turn off and on on command, and change colour.
Unfortunately I find Tesla's UX unbearable in other ways.
It's not a profitable endeavor. The idea is not new yet no service has the option. I suspect that a group has been assigned the task of selling a no ads account and they concluded that it's not worth the trouble. Generally speaking paying for social media apps has not been a success. Look a pre-musk twitter they had a pay option but it did not make them profitable.

People complain about privacy on social media yet when it comes down to paying for privacy few people pay. Free is always better.
Ask HN: Has any piece of information you've learned made your life worse?
We often think of information and learning in a pure sense as an absolute good, but there are certain things which merely knowing about them can make our lives worse. Have you ever gleaned information which made your life worse due to knowing it?
So the idea is to assign a different "time" to each event. It's very different from physics, because physics assigns the "same" time to multiple events.

In Newtonian Mechanics, everyone agree to assign the same time to the same collection of events.

In Special Relativity, the same time is assigned to different collections of events by different observers.

In General Relativity, it's more complicated.

Back to your original comment

>>> *Every event happens in a place.

Does each event get a different place, of places can be shared between events?
I agree partially, but I think it’s possible to hold opposing ideas here. Both perspectives are incredible and valid in their own ways. I’m very small, yet I’m the epitome of intelligent life as we know it. Perhaps it’s important to explore both ends of that spectrum.
Next feat after blessing us with the cookie banner and an inferior plug: making iOS so unsafe that everyone has to use physical branches for banking again
I wish there were a macOS (and Homebrew) "extended support" edition with security patches for 10 years rather than 7.

Old Macs are often perfectly usable in terms of hardware, but macOS security updates have left them behind.

As of today, it's likely that the 2016 Mac I'm writing this on (which can run Monterey but not Ventura or Sonoma) is out of support.

Of course the Mac apocalypse will be when x86 support is dropped, possibly starting in the next macOS release.
FCC plans to restore net neutrality rules
I have to admit, begrudgingly, that the Tesla App experience “JustWorksTM.” This is the 3rd I’ve picked up (3, Y, Y) and this time, I didn’t even have to pair my phone. I was signed into my existing app and my new Y just changed from an order number to a VIN and started working. All my preferences synced to my driver profile immediately.

If every experience with Tesla was like the initial buying experience I’d recommend it to anyone, however, let me assure anyone interested the honeymoon phase definitely ends.
If the current functioning is it doing "the best it can", the whole thing should be burnt to the ground.
He has RSI, so most of those reviews were dictated into a microphone.

Nowadays, most of his microphone time goes into podcasts like <https://atp.fm>, and he doesn’t have to worry about the voice recognition screwing up.
That's Amazon Seller customer service. You sell a product with a 5x markup, so when your crap build quality and nonexistent QA end up shipping bricked devices or they die prematurely, you replace it for free no questions asked. People are so surprised by it that they leave glowing reviews, and that sells more product.
You’re confusing a small quota with… 94%
I agree with this.

I intentionally buy switches not bulbs or more complex gear. Then you plug your dirt cheap LED dumb bulb into the lamp and have it turn on and off with your voice. Much cheaper to replace when the bulb eventually burns too.

Its stupid simple, just make sure everything connects to your assistant of choice (Hey Google / Alexa / Siri - maybe?) OR just stay in one company's walled garden and you're fine. Personally I'm a fan of Wyze's hardware but don't use their apps or more complex cameras.
I've bought a bunch of stuff from these guys: https://athom.tech/

Their model is shipping ESP devices flashed with open source firmwares. They still go on their own firewalled wifi network, but this is about as future-proof as I can imagine: the software is open source, the updates can be run locally, the parts they're made of are actually pretty simple PCBs you could get a fab run of your own done if you wanted to.

In terms of "future" proofing, everything I've installed I've been putting in accessible junction boxes well labelled - electricity isn't going to change, so as long as it fits in a box, I'll always have the option to replace the hardware (if you have light switches with a neutral wire then you're basically set).

I wouldn't say "simple" per se but that's really more on the "you need a box running some type of home automation stuff". I suspect simple enough for the consumer would be something which came with it's own wifi AP and pre-configured mesh routers so the IoT network would start out intrinsically separated.
Yeah we do, but generally are resistant to eating snails or frogs or lots of other animals commonly eaten elsewhere.
I feel like this title would have gotten a lot less attention here if it wasn't for all the lusts.
> I couldn’t live with this uncertainty any longer. But first, I had to get my son back. As a precautionary measure, the hospital followed mandatory reporting statutes and my wife and I temporarily lost custody of David. Thanks to our incredibly effective defense lawyer, we were cleared of all charges within two months, during which we stayed at the hospital 24/7 with David until we sorted out the legal procedures. I would discover much later that we actually had been lucky to be allowed to do this, as most parents are abruptly separated from their babies for months after reporting takes place.

This sounds very much like presumed guilt rather than presumed innocence.
If you're ok with wifi protocols, Kaufman[1] makes bulbs, switches and plugs that all run ESPHome out of the box. I have some bulbs and one of the plugs and they all work nicely.

[1]: https://kaufha.com
Why does a WASM > NES translator actually sound fun to write...
No, even the very first model could be mounted as a USB drive and you could add files that way. It doesn’t natively support epubs — that might be what you’re thinking of — but converting them into mobi or azw format is pretty trivial anyway.
Dunno this looks pretty safe to me
https://www.lighting.philips.co.uk/consumer/p/led-bulb/87186...
It was partially used for serious dating (myself included) back when there were no other popular dating apps, meaning all kinds of people were on there. Since then, users have split out to other ones. Maybe Tinder wants them back.

Luckily I'm not going back cause I met my now-wife somewhere else.
This sounds like harmful and misleading information.
Seems like we're going backwards... I thought we're supposed to be hiring the best people for the job, not based on skin colour. The people who are supposedly anti-racism are encouraging racism.
Yeah, I think "mettle" here is like a sword and shield and the ability to use them (read and understand scientific literature, and able to do so, self-directed, for years).

But whether a person does use them, and for what, is entirely due to the person themselves.
Yes, this would be the clear message OP is talking about haha.

It’s a time to be pro-human, across many topics.
I like the way you put it because to me it holds the connotation that the company which threw away the trust is so massive that its gravity (usefulness, lack of good alternatives, network effects, enterprise stubbornness, mere exposure [1] etc.) brings the trust back. (Well, it might be begrudging distrust rather than trust, but the result is the same if the people come back.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere-exposure_effect
> If I'm not mistaken, it would have Hausdorff dimension 1

What is the Hausdorff dimension for a line?
Verification bias?
I hope they spin off/sell their ice cream manufacturing operations.
Just to be clear you are saying that this title isn't clickbait?
It's instant vs. delayed gratification. Being right is seductive, and immediately rewarding. You are perfectly normal.
DA's stopped prosecuting, the police kicked back, corporations weren't interested in improving local problems, and cities imploded.

Also, with that much volume of merchandise, it had to be trafficked on Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist, and eBay.

The Target/CVS I use has 2 armed guards wearing plate carriers who look like they did a tour or 2 in Iraq or Afghanistan.
> OR just stay in one company's walled garden and you're fine

Google wants to have a word with you about some of the products it's sold and quickly killed.
The current generation gets to have a lot of time and anger on their hands. But good for Waymo and co cracking the code on this intractable engineering problem finally.