skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another example: when free high quality (slightly downscaled) photo storage turned into paid after I had used it as backup of almost sll my photos during my android days?

(To be fair, both Dropbox and OneDrive has done the same: offered free storage without specifying a time limit for jumping through some hoops, then IIRC:

- in the Dropbox case: suddenly just introduce a time limit

- in the OneDrive case just tell me one day that they didn't want to do this more and I need to take my data out quickly or pay to avoid losing it
)
Show HN: XRain – Explore rainfall statistics around the world
Last year I launched a website that allow people to see rainfall statistics that are based on satellite data. Historical rainfall information usually comes from rain gauges, and while these are fantastic there are many parts of the world that don't have many long term gauges, or where that data is hard to access. Satellite data can be an invaluable source of information for those data-scarce areas.

The business model is to sell "extreme precipitation" data that can be used for flood modelling. Unfortunately, after a year I still haven't made a single sale. I've tried various ways of advertising, mainly via messaging people on LinkedIn who would actually have a use for it. I'm still proud of what I've built, even if it's a flop!

The tech stack is SolidJS with a Django API backend.

Fun feature: jump to a completely random part of the world by clicking the "Random" button.

I'd love feedback on anything, such as how to improve the UI/UX of the mobile view of the map page.
How is this guy still a thing?
These links were probably shared to a site that was crawled by Google and indexed. I don't think this can happen with your personal queries shared with friends or in a closed circle.
In principle I'm all for openness, but it doesn't mean anything if the thing doesn't work. I just haven't found AMD drivers to be reliable enough to use, on any platform, whereas with NVidia I install the proprietary drivers and then it just works, on both Linux and FreeBSD.
The worst encounters I have had with nurses have been with older ones filtering information and using out of date practices because they think they have seen it all and now know best.
The fundamental challenge of life is striking the right balance, inhabiting an ecological niche. Too cold - die out. Too hot - die out. Too dry - die out. Too wet - die out. Etc. Why would automation be any different?
Xi is losing it everywhere;

- internal purging of military senior officials. 5 out of the 7 senior officials are now missing in action. https://www.newsweek.com/china-defence-minister-li-shangfu-m.... Very similar to Mao Zedong's purging of his generals https://www.hoover.org/research/lin-biao-incident-and-people.... China has had to transfer generals from airforce and army to head up missile force, because so many generals in the missile forces were purged.

- Xi Jing Ping was privately scalded by party elders during the recent party summit Beidaihe. There's an internal unrest and struggle occurring

- china's export drop 4th straight month https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/06/business/china-exports-au...

- the great flooding of northeast farmland this summer wiped out 1/3 of China's grain production. in order to mitigate the flooding of Beijing, they instead flooded provinces next to Beijing, which incidentally housed many military forces. Those forces were destroyed without warning.

- another big real estate developer, sunac, filed for bankruptcy https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/19/economy/china-sunac-ny-bankru....

- the Hangzhou asian games was a massive failure, attended by no major heads from developed countries. Cost $30 billion, while its local governments are so desperate for money, they are raiding temples

- marriages in China in 2022 are down 10% from 2021, lowest record since 1986. https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/12/china/china-marriages-record-...

- Huawei homegrown chips was a nothing burger. iPhones were sold out in seconds online. Full Apple Store crowds. Very empty Huawei stores. People didn't like the overheated mate 60, or the broken software.

In short, political, economic, demographic, and tech collapse in China.
> ... they gave up their best chance to retake Taiwan (while the Americans weren’t interested) to meddle in Korea instead.

My understanding of the timeline/causation in 1950 is the other way around. Initially China was only going to offer largely moral support to North Korea. On June 27 the U.S. Seventh Fleet was sent to the Taiwan Strait to prevent PRC from taking Taiwan. This was a factor in China's decision to enter the Korean War in October.

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1953-1960/taiwan-strait...

> U.S. policy toward East Asia in the early Cold War contributed to the tensions in the Taiwan Strait. In late 1949 and early 1950, American officials were prepared to let PRC forces cross the Strait and defeat Chiang, but after the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950, the United States sent its Seventh Fleet into the Taiwan Strait to prevent the Korean conflict from spreading south. The appearance of the Seventh Fleet angered the Chinese Communists, who transferred their troops poised for an invasion of Taiwan to the Korean front. This served to delay military conflict in the Strait until the United States withdrew its fleet after the Korean War.

http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1069/explaining-chi...

> In fact, at the initial stage, China took a passive response to the situation in North Korea. Besides moral support for Kim, the only material support provided by Beijing at the time was to send approximately 14,000 Korean Chinese who were then serving in the PLA back to Korea.8 However, three subsequent events dramatically changed Beijing’s attitudes.

> The first is that on June 27, the U.S. Seventh Fleet was sent to the Taiwan Strait to ‘neutralise’ the situation. ...
Hmm, I guess it's nothing to celebrate, what with all the attacks on privacy and the open web they've been doing.
I think the question is what do we do when everything is automated - that’s the main “threat” of AI.

People have always been able to find other work when displaced by automation - unpleasant task though. What happens when there are no more “other work” or there aren’t enough remaining jobs to support the population?
Mutton in NZ and Oz is older sheep, hoggart is sheep between lamb and mutton in age and lamb is well, the youngest and called lamb.

https://www.handsourced.com.au/behind-the-scenes/whats-diffe...
> I used to work with someone who never watched Star Wars.

I never really watched Star Wars. I've seen part of it, and it never seemed all that interesting. I know enough to "get" the references, and I'll even make them myself, but I never really cared much for the films. As far as I'm concerned the best Star Wars film is Spaceballs (but I can't seem to find my DVD copy right now, but I'll comb my living room for it later).

I'm not trying to be the "cool kid" or something; I'm just saying there's a lot of variation in what people watch, read, listen to, and generally do with their time.

My grandfather died (in 2008) and he had never eaten pizza in his life.

Just a few weeks ago I introduced a woman in her 50s to chickpeas.

A few years ago I mentioned Stephen Hawking to a group of coworkers (I was the only programmer, working in the sales office) and no one knew who he was. "You know, the scientist in a wheelchair, with a robot voice". Nope, no idea.

But then a few weeks later they mentioned ... someone ... I had no idea who they were on about. Apparently it was someone who was on TV all the time, but not the programmes I watch I guess (I have obviously forgotten who).

The first time I heard about this Kim Kardashian person was with the introduction "you must have been living under a rock if you don't know who the Kardashians are!" Yes, this Patrick.

I can go on and on with people who "have never done X" or "have never seen Y", for all sorts of values of X and Y.
Indeed. I feel like the HN title should be changed to reflect the facts instead of the bait.
It's nonsense. This is not even how you install home assistant.

They provide a pretty locked down image that also loads a ton of plugins in dockers. It's nice and well designed. And you don't have to expose it to the internet if you don't have to.

The installation described is legacy and only supported for historical purposes.

I agree that Hue has totally gone down the toilet but the criticism of Home Assistant isn't justified. And if you go for the Ikea one as recommended in the article, it's just going to be a matter of time until their shareholders will want to see those sweet recurring bucks too. You need a truly open ecosystem to avoid that from happening.
But they can't beat Sonos.

Sonos is the eiptome of enshittification. Pretty good hardware screwed over by bad software, growth marketing, and middle-finger to UX.

I have half-a-dozen devices at my home--almost 10 years old. I do not use the app, I do not do updates.

My hack: Use them with Echo dot. Apparently the backdoor Sonos team has overlooked so far.
I don't think that's really fair - the recommended way to run Home Assistant is to run HA OS (on a VM or dedicated machine, like a Raspberry Pi), or to run it in a Docker container.

The "Supervised" installation (i.e. installing Home Assistant on top of an existing Linux install) is doable, but not preferred.

https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/
Google search was great back in the day! It’s a shame what it’s become, but nothing lasts forever.
What's the terms on your forward geocoding? Many providers have terms that require live lookup of address->latlong, no caching permitted. My client's use case has long-lived addresses that may need to be mapped many times, and currently we're paying for one of the only geocoding services that permits us to persist the coordinates involved.
If they rely on a central server, what guarantee do you have that it won’t all go to shit with no warning? You certainly can’t rely on the economics of the situation, so what’s left is relying on some nebulous concept of “reputation” and that has been proven over and over again by the largest and smallest companies to be worthless…
> - Should we as a society forego the benefits of automation, because it makes some people unemployed?

We as society aren't the beneficiaries of automation, those profits go to private owners. Given that price points exist, the benefits of lowering costs of production are captured by increasing profit margins.

After those profits are captured, we as society have to shoulder the burden of caring for potentially thousands, or more, people who are put out of work, and their families.
enshitification is just so onomatopoeically pleasing though. it's also like one of those fun German words, but in English.

It's similar to one of those George Carlin bits where putting a curse word in the middle of an ordinary word changes the power of the word.
incredible -> infuckingcredible
absolutely -> absofuckinglutely

I just don't know what enification means.
I see a Google Play icon in their pictures. There's absolutely no way this thing could have the play store without a color screen, right? The pictures show a camera, what on earth are you doing with a camera strapped to an e-ink screen? This thing is baffling.
And how far they've strayed from the beginning. Don't be evil. Won't show ads inline with search results that look like organic links. Constant product churn, search results inundated by click farms, and one can't leave out WEI...
is there a view that 2a targets not necessary security of the state, but security of people against state which decided to become despotic one day?
> “It would mean all this training is so useless,” he thought.

That had to be written ironically.
That's covered in my previous comment:

>There's definitely abuse of this with small businesses, where someone buys a pickup truck for "business use" but uses it for personal use, but that should be fixed with better enforcement of the tax code, not changing the tax regime entirely.

Also contrary to what you think company cars are taxed in the us, unless a very specific set of conditions are met. Your example most certainty not count

https://www.irs.gov/publications/p15b#en_US_2023_publink1000...
That used to be true. Now it speaks something called LEAP, which is a kind of JSON-based quasi-HTTP protocol over TLS. There is a python implementation (pylutron-caseta) and a javascript implementation (lutron-leap-js, which I wrote).
Not familiar with this list, but I'm guessing overly aggressive blocking of location APIs. More on our approach here: https://radar.com/trust
I don't generally find those interactions to be a struggle, but it's still 10x easier and faster to get up and turn on the light using the old-fashioned switch.
I work with scientists and most of my conversations are about facts. Young Joscha Bach would have liked it here.
company location? in some jurisdictions they must provide a clear way to cancel
I am an avid eink tablet user (brand is irelevant, ~10inch form factor, good writing experience) and I love it. I can't imagine using the same technology for a phone.

To me phone is: a camera in your pocket, a wide array of chat apps for different friends and communities, a music player, a navigation device and a bunch of other similar tools. For others it's also a gaming device.

Swapping to calming eink is cool and all, but you give up a camera, you give up your fast mobile typing experience for chats, and you don't really get much back. You need a larger surface if you want to read, write or sketch comfortably.
The idea is that you give it root on a VM or on a docker container.

You don't give it root on your desktop linux system you do all your sensitive stuff on of course. That makes zero sense. Home assistant really runs great even on a cheap raspberry pi if you don't have a VM- or dockerserver.
> it has the benefit of having proven to be able to lift a huge bulk of humanity out of subsistence living.

This is what happens when you smoke too much of your own propaganda.

America is very much a mixed economy, and we're the so called 'leader' of the capitalistic world. If the US had been allowed to be an unchallenged capitalistic country then we'd look very much like Russia today (which is not communistic in any way), a corrupt shithole. A huge part of our success was the labor movements of the mid 1800s in which a fair number of people died in. Then later in the 1930s after unchecked capitalism brought about a horrific crash that required a massive amount of socialistic policies to bring us back from the brink and get the economy working.

The reality of these situations is far more complex than the red white and blue cheerleading we're taught in school.
You've expanded the meaning of 'segregation' considerably, to apply to individual residence choices and freedom of association. Choose wrong, and the government will correct your choice.
Color Rendering Index (CRI) is the metric you care about. 95% is not good enough for the discerning user.
Sounds similar to airport security and the TSA. Maybe soon the government will create an “ESA Education Security Administration”?
Still pretty good in Europe, but more of a gap. International coverage will be a priority in 2024.
I would argue that apple doesn't do this for the good of the users, apples own apps are not restricted in the same way others are. The whole point is giving their own apps an edge over everyone else. This is what gives apple the power to demand deals like the recently covered deal with Google that gave them billions in search revenue.
4 ways to avoid an app

- schedule

- motion sensing

- voice

- routines / iftt (if it's a cloudy day, and zoom is open, then set brightness to x, maybe even open the shades)
Some people see innovative ways to combine art and technology.

Some people see money.
Does Valve or the Epic Games store have a privacy policy they enforce on products they sell? I didn't think so. How are they "better about privacy"?

Also, Nintendo products and Fortnight both were in the App Store store.
UX tips to increase form conversions
You can charge a lot when you're #1.
Australia and New Zealand have Western traditional aesthetics, Lamb and mutton are common here. What changed here ?
Hmm. You’re right. This article does not have that claim, I was misremembering it from a similar article written by Cory Doctorow [0]. Also written today, also written on the same book.

He has a long sections:
> The true tale of the Luddites starts with workers demanding that the laws be upheld. When factory owners began to buy automation systems for textile production, they did so in violation of laws that required collaboration with existing craft guilds – laws designed to ensure that automation was phased in gradually, with accommodations for displaced workers. These laws also protected the public, with the guilds evaluating the quality of cloth produced on the machine, acting as a proxy for buyers who might otherwise be tricked into buying inferior goods.
>
> Factory owners flouted these laws. Though the machines made cloth that was less durable and of inferior weave, they sold it to consumers as though it were as good as the guild-made textiles.

Now. The New Yorker article simply states the factories sold worse goods cheaper. Other articles I’ve found published today on it are as vague, or say nothing at all about this specific thing.

The ebook is only sold with Adobe’s DRM, so I won’t be buying that. So I’ll have find another way to see what’s true.

[0]: https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/26/enochs-hammer/#more-6752
Valve and Nintendo are barred from iOS in what way? I have the Steam Link app on my iPad, and there are several Nintendo games in the App Store.
Why did they remove it in the first place? It's not like they rewrote Windows from scratch.
> I think there is LOTS of evidence about the vaccines effects on transmission which points to them being effective.

Can you point to some canonical sources on this? Preferably things that were published in the last year or so.

My understanding is that effects on infection and transmission were overstated and very short lived anyway. Didn't everybody get covid eventually, multiple times even?
> My front door lock used to be a pain in the ass when I had my hands full of groceries. Or my coffee and the mail. Now my door unlocks automatically when I walk up to it. It's a small joy, but it reliably makes me smile each time. (And I don't have an ugly keypad, and still have a standard key slot if I need it).

What equipment did you use for your lock? Is it an off-the-shelf or roll-your-own setup? I'd like something like this but so far all the consumer-oriented smart locks give me very little confidence.
Dude needs to learn how to build his own fully automated robotic fire pit factory.
I 100% believe you, I understand exactly what you mean.
Interesting. I love LotR the books, but I dislike the movies a lot - maybe they are good as "standalone" films, but they change so much important stuff from the books that they were a very sore disappointment for me.
The App Store is the monopoly. Once you own an iPhone, you have no choice but to use their software ecosystem where they double dip and charge everyone again to buy apps. It’s dirty.

I love Apple’s hardware. But I want to be able to get software from other sources just like I can on my Mac and my windows computer.
My theory is that emotionally charged issues seem like a haven for people not thinking clearly and cover for hand waving or opposing any thoughtful analysis.

I think there are people drawn to the absolutes. I can maybe see how it can be comforting to have a black and white issue to try to solve / help. A good side to be a part of in a world that to some seems very bad or confusing.

Some old friends of mine are very much into these kinds of children’s issues. But when they talk to you about it it’s all emotion, it’s not even clear to me that they know much at all other than a sense that the bad guys are out there, maybe some strange legislation they support and so on. They’re not interested in justice, just this absolute sorta cause.
I don't think it's about "politics" it's about power and the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. It is about what they say it's about it. This is just the way they are going about it.
> what to do about Richard Ramirez, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Phillip Garrido, or Brian Mitchell

Nothing. Those people are one-in-a-million anomalies. If it weren't for the media hype surrounding them, their impact on society would be comparable to the impact of deaths from lightning strikes. What do we do about people being struck by lightning? Nothing.
Do you have a link or a brand/model? I'm just recently shopping for smart home equipment and the Hubitat seems quite full-featured and I'd like to compare.
> society is cruel and violent

Which society?

Why does this happen only (mostly) in the US though?

That’s what we should be trying to solve instead of just endlessly escalating

Are we going to end up with militarized schools because we can’t address the real issues that create the violence in the first place?
Ignoring the details (bioweapon etc.), US Skepticism is very warranted for Taiwan (and all Asians/Europeans IMO).

Considering what US is doing to TSMC and how Taiwan is likely going to be stripped of all valuable assets in the future for NatSec, and how Germany is now being de-industrialized after the bombing of Nordstream by US & allies, I'd be extremely wary of the people running US if I care an iota about my own people.

Those of us who remember how Japan was made to kneel by the BoJ following US diktats know very well that Kissinger's remark 'to be a friend of US is fatal' is deadly serious.
Making space for yourself and connecting with others
Love them or hate them, their impact on the internet and the world is unparalleled - Both positive and negative impact, but mostly positive.
This is how the world worked before the internet. Your high school science teacher would directly teach you things they also learned in a lab in college.
>Break up Meta and Google and MS...

Don't threaten me with a good time.