skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A number 4. would be: Buy from an established lighting company that publishes compatibility tests. It may not have all the bells and whistles but focuses on doing one thing right, which is to switch a light. My Lutron’s have never needed a debug since install and I get all the convenience and forget about it.
I think a lot of people get into home automation to constantly tweak stuff. If that is what tickles them sure. For me, like anything automated, I want it to work in the background and provide some quality of life improvements and never have to think about it again.
> They farm out manufacturing to China and logistics/warehousing to Amazon

You miss the key distinction. The former part of that equation is competitive, the latter part isn't. A guy who sells firepits can't be expected to create a competitor to Amazon. Amazon has complete monopolistic pricing power. Whenever a company is in that position, they will abuse it.
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> As a precautionary measure, the hospital followed mandatory reporting statutes and my wife and I temporarily lost custody of David.

Are people absolutely nuts? Is this just a thing in France or is this elsewhere in Europe or even the US? You're actively encouraging people to not bring their children to the ER by doing this crazy nonsense.
Glad you aren't making the rules!
Ok but that is just one example. If the guy they chose for the example happened to make his own firepits he'd also be getting squeezed.
It's too late to edit, but I should add that the RX 6600 XT is not officially supported by the upstream ROCm project. It's not clear to me that the experience would be better on any other distro. That's where having public test logs would be valuable.
Summary of the 2023 WGA MBA
Per the WGA's summary:

1) AI can’t write or rewrite literary material, and AI-generated material will not be considered source material under the MBA, meaning that AI-generated material can’t be used to undermine a writer’s credit or separated rights.

2) A writer can choose to use AI when performing writing services, if the company consents and provided that the writer follows applicable company policies, but the company can’t require the writer to use AI software (e.g., ChatGPT) when performing writing services.

3) The Company must disclose to the writer if any materials given to the writer have been generated by AI or incorporate AI-generated material.

4) The WGA reserves the right to assert that exploitation of writers’ material to train AI is prohibited by MBA or other law.
Toon was awesome. That and Paranoia were our go tos when we wanted a low pressure game night.
How expensive could it be? Google Bard, a free service, offers the drafts for free. Just do the comparison on the user’s machine if the LLM provider is that cheap.

P.S. Also aren’t LLMs deterministic if you set their “temperature” to zero? Are there drafts if the temperature is zero? If not, then that’s the same as removing the randomness no?
How would doing your own research prevent the state from taking your child away and putting you in prison for murder?
Sure there's a lot of state-level spying. NSO Group et al. That doesn't mean Apple is complicit.
As I said in a sibling comment many pre-20th century commentators also omitted the prefratory clause. It was widely understood that the core right is an individual one. Please see this thread https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1645290263299117056
Wow, that's terrible. I'm glad you've learned better taste for steak.
He helped make the genre of games that I played during my youth - still wish that Tom Hall would finish Anachronox - such a quirky but awesome game and interesting story.
Source? Incarceration rate seems to be going down in western countries: https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/07/1096042
TLDR; do not trust Activity Monitor.

> I gave up Sublime because of memory usage

Isn't this just because of GPU-mapped memory/textures? Because you can't get much better with any other app, for example text-rendering is not a solved problem yet, there are few nice tricks but they always come with some tradeoff so if you want to support non-english scripts, you usually just go with glyph atlas which needs to include 1:1 glyph-size (retina is big) + up to 3 extra variations because of kerning for each used glyph. System apps do not report this if they are using cocoa but a similar overhead is still there.

Or because of the emoji font, which alone takes 200M!!! And if your app opens it (just to support emojis, not necessarily to draw them), it gets reported as its own memory even when it's usually mmapped and shared between processes (and might not even be loaded in the memory).

What kind of memory usage are we talking about? And how did you measure?
I can dim my backyard lights, turn on and off my porch light depending on the sun's position, control my home thermostat to heat or cool via phone before I am home, control my washing machine and dryer or know if they are done, open garage remotely with my app or close it, turn on any lights of the house or turn them off if I am in bed with my phone, control my TV via phone if I lose the remote (likely somewhere in the couch), also I use a lot of smart plugs to control individual devices such as fans, manual electric devices that are always set to be on, etc...
I want to understand your perspective so I have a personal question: what is your professional discipline/area of training/educational degree?
I recommend reading Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
as a Hyderabadi, I fully approve of mutton biryani posts in HN. :D
Probably, my current favorite dish. Have been eating it multiple time every week for decades now and its charm has never faded. That said, it does play havoc with your triglycerides.
You say that, but this doesn't seem like presumption of innocence. A country with a presumption of innocence doesn't take your child away from you without trial.
I think the article is written in a over-sensationalistic way and I would take it with a grain of salt, but also possible that he's really into finding bugs. Based on the reddit post, he's definitely really into racing on Zwift

As a casual Zwift enjoyer, I'm just vaguely familiar with the story, but now I ended up digging the initial (now deleted) article: https://web.archive.org/web/20220223133105/https://zweight24...

And some reddit post from him, explaining why the article was deleted and his disappointment in Zwift as a company: https://old.reddit.com/r/Zwift/comments/t0n5be/the_article_z...
Which ad-blocker(s) did you install?
And in fact you can use ANY extensions if you use Firefox Nightly with Collections https://www.androidpolice.com/install-add-on-extension-mozil...
Not sure why this is getting down voted. I'm in the UK right now for work and it seems to me the country is riddled with bureaucracy. An army of bureaucrats making sure the actual doers has to bend over backwards to follow some ridiculous rules.

I am not surprised the 5G roll out is taking time in the UK.
> "you can't point out that Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward caused a famine that killed tens of millions of people."

I suspect you never read commentary about the Great Leap Forward from the official gov.cn web sites...

In other news, if we're here to sling dirt: https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/31/23004339/uk-twitter-user-...

Of course UK isn't in "EU country" any more, but hey, I don't have a habit of collecting human rights violations of other countries as a hobby.
> (effectively zero VAT) on B2B transactions

Businesses don't actually pay VAT, they just act as collectors for it. If the VAT balance for some business is negative, they actually get it returned by the tax authority.

Invoiced VAT, zero VAT, reverse charges in B2B are just an implementation detail that doesn't affect bottom line.
> that labour can be reallocated further up the value chain

Not in America - upskilling workers is too expensive.

Displaced workers are gonna break rocks in debtor’s prisons & the median voter already thinks they deserve it.

AI will bring mass downward mobility.
What’s favorable about announcing that you’re closing a store due to theft?
Right, the problem I see is that dictators like to help each other. It is in their interest to make deals with other dictators because they can, rather than their own people, which they can't unless they allow free elections. For instance Trump's best friends seem to be Putin and other autocrats. Why is that? Because they can make deals with each other, to suppress democracy everywhere.
I meant, not in the audio level, but some words are said much louder than those around them. 'Misplaced emphasis' for long!
They mentioned R9, they know what CRI is. And more importantly to your advice, a bad R9 is common with LEDs but R9 is not used in the calculation of the overall percent.
I’ve always wondered why the APIs for reflection in Java were always so low-level. If you look at, say, Objective-C (a language with a very similar model of Java) almost nobody drops down to assembly to patch things, because the language is expressive enough that you don’t need to do this basically ever. Why not add the same to Java?
It makes a mess out of iconv because it's not compatible with the OSX bundled version. Without digging into it further it seems like the macports iconv headers and libraries shouldn't be in the default search path.
Just use a meat thermometer. I guess that's a skill but it's an easy one. Pull it 5-10 degrees (F) before your target temp. I get consistent medium rare every time.

I love a braise too! But it takes some planning and it's more work. I can go from "hmmm, what dinner" to plated lamb rack in 45 mins - including defrost time.
On the contrary, I have already made and set the rules for this tangent into semantics. Behold, social hacking in action.
This doesn’t surprise me. We have massive systemic issues in medical science and care delivery.

- Medical science handles variation by simply assuming that large enough samples will average out variation. This loses a ton of information as the “average person” is a construct that almost certainly doesn’t exist.

- news media on medical science glosses over all uncertainties in the name of clickbaity sensationalism.

- lawyers are the incentivized by our adversarial legal system to adopt aggressively hyperbolic interpretations of the science to sue people and extract money.

- medical associations then tweak policies to protect against malpractice

Run this loop enough times and lots of noise gets amplified.

My hope is the AI+sensors ushers in the era of truely personalized medicine.
True that. Mutton biryani is love \../
So the problem is Meta/Google, not Apple
It doesn't, because shipping 1 tonne of food by sea costs about 0.02kg of CO2, and it's already part of the calculation (under "transportation").

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/emission-factors-food-tra...
This is an assertion made, necessarily, without evidence. It's also value laden in terms of what is considered "costly", and who should make the judgement.
It’s electricity a product or a utility? What is a smartphone?

I’d argue that smartphones are rapidly approaching being utilities and search is way past that point.
The chair of the FTC is Lina Khan. As a law student, she wrote this article [1] for the Yale Law Journal. It attracted so much attention in the antitrust law community that it led to her becoming the youngest FTC chair in history.

She has literally been building this case against Amazon since she was a student. It’s not just about dropshippers. It’s also about how Amazon uses automated price controls, guided by scraping of competitors, to engage in dumping [2] and predatory pricing [3] to wipe out competing e-commerce sites. Since everything is automated, prices can change in a matter of seconds, so once competitors are destroyed, prices go back up automatically.

[1] https://www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/e.710.Khan.805_zuvfyyeh.p...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy)?wprov...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_pricing?wprov=sfti1
Isn't using GPU and hardware acceleration considered experimental in browsers and the safe default to disable such features for day-to-day use?

Not saying to make this achievement smaller than it is, quite the opposite, it's important there is more such research.
What the Hollywood writers have agreed with the studios about AI
From the WGA's summary (https://www.wgacontract2023.org/the-campaign/summary-of-the-2023-wga-mba):

1) AI can’t write or rewrite literary material, and AI-generated material will not be considered source material under the MBA, meaning that AI-generated material can’t be used to undermine a writer’s credit or separated rights.

2) A writer can choose to use AI when performing writing services, if the company consents and provided that the writer follows applicable company policies, but the company can’t require the writer to use AI software (e.g., ChatGPT) when performing writing services.

3) The Company must disclose to the writer if any materials given to the writer have been generated by AI or incorporate AI-generated material.

4) The WGA reserves the right to assert that exploitation of writers’ material to train AI is prohibited by MBA or other law.

[Note: members of the WGA will be voting on whether to accept the overall agreement between 2nd and 9th October.]
I think I have one voice-activated switch that replaced X10 in a room lacking wiring for a convenient regular light switch, a low temp alarm, and a camera/temp sensor I put together myself.

I understand there are people who like to fiddle with this stuff but mostly I don’t get the attraction.
The most badass story related to 'using basic tools and a steady hand in a pinch' is Buzz Aldrin pulling out a sextant and sliderule to do some calculations in Gemini XII. The description in the article reads "Aldrin pulled out a sextant and his slide rule and put his MIT doctoral research to work."

More details on the link here: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/gemini-xii-crew-masters-the-cha...
I don't think the retroactivity was ever legal, but small developers wouldn't be able to defend their rights in court, and the fact that Unity stooped that low revealed who they were. Nobody can ever trust them again, especially with the possibility of future retroactive changes being explicitly open.

The good part of the news is that developers who are currently working on a game can still finish it without submitting to the news terms. That is incredibly important and will save many games. But it's not going to save Unity from itself.
Founders on “Mount Stupid” do not accept the fact that anyone else can know something better or have a clearer picture of the industry or business than themselves. As a result, they fail to hire strong people who could challenge their worldview or provide constructive feedback.
I have used Gmail since the invite-only beta, although I have never given out my gmail address. I only use it as the forwarding target for my hundreds of one-time addresses in use. Now I am ashamed that I still have not completed my migration away from it.

I have some 30 Google accounts, each for one service I used either once or sometimes for a couple of years. Although most of them are unusable now because I cannot proceed beyond the login without supplying a phone number. Well, they have recently sent out mails that they will delete them soon if they remain unused.

I did use Google search from when nobody knew it in the 1990s until 3-4 years ago when I switched to Duckduckgo.

20 years ago I would have applied to Google if they had only had a tech job in my country.

I have only one Android account. I keep that phone constantly in flight mode, except when I absolutely need to use a single app for work.

Today I am convinced that Google is a harmful company that the US government should split as they did with AT&T. And as a European we should not send any data to the US because of what Snowden have taught us and the US government does not grant data of foreigners any protection.

Advertising is 95% an unethical business. Using the computation power that Google wastes for it in the cloud and at the edge is just evil. Overconsumption is a fact for large parts of the planet. Trying to sell more is wrong, we need to live with less. Myself by my own choices I took a 30% salary cut twice in my career. And I am still on the overconsumption side, even if the phone I type this on is 9 years old and my main phone more than 5.
He was pissed off at France after his stint in Europe and thought the Cult of Reason was fake as hell. He wasn’t talking about a dictatorship but rather subversion of religion and using fancy words to enrich a political class. He thought trade and commerce was a better approach to getting rich.
> If the ecosystem relies on app inspections that much it simply needs to be secured better.

How do you secure something without inspection? We have health code inspections for restaurants, car safety and emissions inspections, IAEA inspectors visiting nuclear facilities… Should we throw all those out too? What replaces them, the goodwill and word of people?
I could get hashcat to work with poor performance but then the computer was unusable.
I don't disagree.

What is the alternative? Locking them up on a disk that can't be accessed cross-platform? Self-hosting doesn't solve the "if you're hit by the bus" problem unless the next generation of your family is well-versed in technology.
I am reading the subtext. Pray I don’t read it further.
You've missed the point. AI is a surveillance technology because training it to a point of realistic usefulness requires enough data that you can't produce it yourself, without mass surveillance. Surveillance is the prerequisite, not the intended use.

That's... not actually stated outright in the article, so I get the confusion. But it seems to me like it's the only logical explanation for what is stated.
> [] simplifies the parser

Strong PHP vibes. They also went for weird syntaxes that don't exist or rarely exist in other languages to simplify the parser.

It's 2023. How is parsing anything is a problem?
I would notice when I periodically check my network console. Hasn't happened yet.
Nah. I use F-Droid. Only because it's one of the only alternative app stores available that actually has a decent selection of applications.

Their build schedule is unnecessarily complex + slow. Can be waiting for weeks for app updates.
The stock client is quite frankly, crap - slow and outdated.
It's security is sub-par. If you're looking for secure app updates the Play Store is the way to go (if you're willing to compromise your privacy). They also use remote signing for apks (so, F-Droid builds then signs the APKs on behalf of developers).

One thing I'm hoping will pick up speed is Accrescent - https://accrescent.app/. It is in a very very alpha stage at the moment and only includes a handful of apps. It's built with security in mind from the get-go and doesn't compromise just to support lower, outdated/insecure android versions.
I hope for it to be the modern standard for alternative app stores.
I have similar feelings. Apple did a wonderful job with M1/M2, but on the software side, I have mixed feelings. Xcode is a mess, and Swift UI is not a complete replacement for Cocoa.

And on the OS side, I feel like Apple is creating features that I instantly disable because they do the exact opposite of what I want.
One man's nastiness is another's joke, or opinion. What people don't understand is that if you are ok with the idea of a so called "moderation" that's more on the limiting side, some other group of moderators will come later and apply he same rules but from the different side, and your sides ideas won't see the light of day. It's a very simple concept that people have forgotten why freedom of expression is the first amendment. The problem imo is that it doesn't translate well to online communities that are open to anyone. I'm sure people have thought about this endlessly before, but I don't know if there's any progress.
I've found that quail is often available frozen in many Asian grocery stores.
What is Amazon’s [redacted] ‘Project Nessie’ algorithm?
true, code is very different than natural language. any plans for incorporating it?
So give everybody a 30 hour week to start. Sudden transitions have lots of friction, so do it gradually.
You can just build the latest tarball from source with `./configure && make && make install` [1]. I did so just now without any issues. (You’ll need to install Xcode and the Developer Tools first if you don’t have them already.)

[1] https://www.macports.org/install.php#source
To protect against all possible harm against your child, perhaps consider wrapping them in a giant balloon so they are isolated from all possible outside influences.

We either accept the randomness of fate or we live in self-made prisons.
XCode is refusing to install. Fails with some error, and asks me to download XCode again. Also now the system needs 70-80 GB of free space to install XCode. One of the funny upgrades so far
They only care about selling data center cards for GPGPU.

The thing is, why would anyone buy them if CUDA just works?
Nonsense, for most tasks even 7B parameters is enough to replace chatgpt for most tasks. Arguably 7B is even overblown. The goal is not "human-like" but "profitable"
Do you have a link or something ? I couldn’t really find where you’d do that
Linda Yaccarino on her first 100 days as X CEO: “It’s hard on me”
https://archive.ph/l5yur
Thanks. That's easily discoverable. Can you explain concretely and specifically what terraform does.

"infrastructure as code tool that enables you to safely and predictably provision and manage infrastructure in any cloud"

Doesn't tell me anything. Is this a markup language for describing networks? Is it some web interface where you drag and drop server icons and then draw lines between them? Is it a simulation tool? Is it some provisioning thing like chef with a database for different machines?
Ask HN: How likely/unlikely is GitHub to enshittify at some point in the future?
The phenomenon of enshittification are typically associated with growth-focused startups bait-and-switching, or unprofitable entities trying to seek rent as a last-ditch effort.

At first glance, GitHub has two points against a similar mode of collapse:

1. being backed by Microsoft, it is not under pressure to seek short-term profit

2. Git being the basis means that developers can easily move to competing services or just self-host

On the other hand, increasingly convenient value-added features means that its ecosystem are increasingly enticing for developers to build things on top of it.

Over time, the treasure trove of meta-history residing in Issues etc become increasingly lock-in prone, and there is no easy way for a community to move those data off of the platform if at one point GitHub decides to pull a Twitter.

To what degree can developers be assured that market incentives makes GitHub unlikely to become too user hostile, and how should developers balance between enjoying their value-add features/build their community on the ecosystem vs guarding against giving too much market leverage lest they one day abuse their dominance?
I made this web app for this purpose, it can be used as a custom search engine in desktop browsers or installed for easy access: https://linkcleaner.app
It’s a great signal that you are buying from the wrong middleman. Seek out the source for a 50% discount. Usually that source is on AliExpress/Alibaba.
Yeah, I’ve seen these stories before. And all from the usual suspects. Quick, someone find the tweet with the 10 Economist magazine covers about China collapsing. You know, the ones that used to come out every 5 years and now come out every year.

Someone could easily cherry pick stories about the US and make the same argument. Unsustainable debt, rampant homelessness and addiction, lifespan and healthspan plummeting, birth rates dropping, etc.
it would be enough to disallow/containerize third party cookies, like pretty much every browser besides chrome does