skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can someone explain the Home Assistant anecdote regarding JS and curl | sudo sh? Does the author mean Home Assistant isn't secure? Or that there's some issue with the front end of it? Or something else?

Because imo... that is the answer. We have seen so many stupid closed ecosystems of home automation stuff come and go, I dunno why you'd mess with anything else at this point. In fact I just got another email reminder that Google is turning off the old Works with Nest stack. Remember Nest? Yeah...
Reporting actual technical problems is impossible, in my opinion. The only way to get through to an Amazon representative is via chat, and the frontline people there are tasked with solving customer problems with orders and the like. They are working off a script and it's very likely they don't have a mechanism to forward any problem report. Over the last ten years, at least, I've had a problem in the reader app with downloaded samples of e-books not able to be removed from the downloaded section or deleted overall. The chat people, following the script, tell me I have to select the item and got to the menu and select the menuitem for remove or delete. When I say that those menuitens aren't displayed I'm not believed, possibly. I've asked them to foward my report to someone technical, but nothing has ever changed. This state of affairs has existed in the app on both iPad and Android devices. To resolve the problem I just delete and reinstall the app, but I wish I didn't have to.
That much? Makes the $2600/yr that I pay sound good. I have a high deductible though ($3K).
I don't know if putting $23K aside each year and not having any insurance would work for everyone... I think we should just give that money to the gov't and they should cover pretty much everything. With a pool that big I think the economics would work.
That's amazing - does that mean it's more complete than arm as a platform offering?

I don't think arm has anything standard around the boot process and vendors have various implementations
"Modern" is one of my pet peeves.

It tells us very little about what's being described. Use your words!

Some negative implications:
* not well tested
* no community
* not robust
* fragile
* moving target
* no tooling

Maybe not always true, but the non-modern options usually do much better in these areas.
While is was not measured directly, we can still look at other data. People who don't get COVID obviously cannot spread it, and so we know vaccines were effective to slow the spread. They were not good enough to stop it, but they did slow it.
It's completely open source, so you can run it yourself. I've read through a lot of the code and have contributed to it- it's pretty well organized.
Sugary drinks are taxed in many California cities, for no other reason than they contain sugar. Is that also unconstitutional by your logic?
If you have lots of windows and lots of shades, you can open and close them all at once, making life easier if you and your spouse disagree if they should be mostly open or mostly closed, possibly saving your marriage if that applies. Lights follow the same trend: it isn’t that turning on and off the lights is a pain, but being able to turn on or off all the lights with just one command is useful. We’ve only bothered with our open kitchen living room, but we had 4 switches all around the 2nd floor to manipulate before (and we went Lutron for our shades anyways, so we can set scenes with both).

I don’t get the mood lighting. And really, if I lived alone I would just keep the shades up all the time and forgo the electric shades as well (but given my wife they are indispensable).
> office workers eating food designed for labourers has its own problems.

Reminds me of traditional food in Innsbruck, Austria. It's great if you, say, work in the snowy forests 12 hours a day doing hard labor, but those calories are not real healthy if you're sedentary.
I mean, the original intention was that developers would just write web apps for the phone. It seems like they really scrambled at the beginning to right the ship. That being said, it’s been 14 years.
My partner is a GP who has been doing early childhood screening. One thing she learnt after doing a special training is that advice on proper breastfeeding is very difficult to find. She found that with many mothers that had problems, some small adjustments could often make a huge difference (often causing a kind of hallelujah moment for the mothers). The issue is much of the advice given at the hospital is wrong or insufficient.

The training the she did is the possums program from Australia, if somebody wants to look it up I think some resources are available for free.
Same one
So less freedom is good because freedom is good but any extra freedom will be stolen anyway? This is an idiotic take.
At the same time, China booming has brought hundreds of millions out of crushing poverty. There are obviously positives and negatives, we shouldn't focus on one side.
You scared me! Dropbox sync is still working for me in 1P7 for me. When did it break for you? (I'm using the latest macOS and iOS.)
That sounds super similar my setup ( https://github.com/bbkane/dotfiles/tree/master/zsh ). I'll check out a few of those I haven't yet.
I've never gotten a grand for deleting digital ocean block storage devices, though!
Not sure if I missed it, but how do you calculate address completion request? I mean, Google let me pass a random key for every Word I type and charge me once. Do you have something similar? Or each letter counts as 1 request?

Thanks for this great Project!
> Voltaire (1694-1778) wrote a satirical account of a medieval university's oral examination on medicine: the examiner asks why morphine puts people to sleep, and the student confidently replies that morphine has a "dormative essence".

It was Molière (<1622 - 1673), who wrote a play that featured an apothecary (explaining the functioning of opium to laymen), but no examinations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imaginary_Invalid
Your point is that because one journalist was killed for a story that no other journalist could ever possibly be rewarded for breaking a huge story?
I'm sorry, but I really don't see the difference. If they do gain of function to create a virus, that virus can be used as a weapon. You can't separate the two.
> Javascript plus a "curl | sudo sh" attitude to life equals "yeah no, I am never touching this thing".

I want to understand this reference but I just don't. Can someone help me out here?
I’m a little puzzled as well. It’s a phone form factor, it runs Android, it supports 3rd party apps… so it’s practically a smartphone, but then it’s not actually a phone and only has wifi for connectivity.

If they sold a version that was actually a smartphone I’d be very interested.
Storage plus shipping through FBA isn’t cheap. The problem isn’t that FBA is expensive, the problem is that selling on Amazon but not via FBA is heavily punished with placement and appearance leading to poor conversion rates.
Mutton always means goat. However, lamb is often substituted for mutton.
Luddites in the age of AI don't exist.

Until at least some data centers get burned down to the ground, comparing the current anti-AI movement to Luddites is just ridiculous.
Oh boy, if you have an hour of time, maybe you should think about reading

Meditations on Moloch

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
So if a company bribes a politician for favorable regulation, you view that as simply "good hacking"?
> Can I make use of the iPhones SOS feature for my emergency service?

I’m not sure if this is a joke or not.
EcoMapTech (Techstars) Statement on the Death of Their CEO Pava LaPere
You need a PR for this. Someone start a repo. And while we’re at it, can we think of something better than enshitification? It just doesn’t roll off the tongue very well at all.
If I understand you correctly, selling counterfeit/falsely marketed goods is only a problem if enough buyers can tell the difference?
Step-fathers and step-children are well known vectors of abuse. The Cinderella Effect was verified to produce more abuse from step-relationships up to and including lethal beatings from step-fathers.

Legally it might not be relevant for whatever structural reason, but the reality is that it matters a lot.
I think it comes down to what we expect the second order effects to be.

Yes, and when the first order effect is that a giant corporation gets total control over how you use "your" property, you need to be very confident in your predictions to outweigh that.

Personally I think we all want to see long-term user freedom

Apple certainly doesn't.
Downvoted!

I do presume eating a young carrot possesses the same moral reprehensions?
How would you say you measure up in Europe? How about compared to Apple?
The pharaohs of today? They are launching war against their neighbors in Ukraine.
Yeah album duplication is the most annoying, also

- Search sometimes doesn't work (can be solved by exiting all previous searches with the back button)
- Tag editing sometimes doesn't work (can be solved by doing it again and again)
- My status bar always say "syncing" when it's not
I loved Google Play music. Used it for years. Switched to Spotify when they shut it down and I don't particularly like Spotify, but I have enough custom playlists on there now I'm probably not going to switch unless something forces me to
25 Years of Google
At least I didn't have to click through a Medium subscription CTA to read this.
This is similar to:

Replacing horses with cars will free up those horses to do other productive work, like pulling plows and turning stone mills, thereby benifiting the horses.
I've pretty much just forced myself to adapt to macOS the way it is, stock, and not deal with these types of apps, for this very reason.
Here's a link to a CBS News story on the death.

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/baltimore/news/baltimore-police-...

Here is the company website: https://www.ecomap.tech/
No, they're not. They're saying 20,524 more white people were employed at the end of the period than at the beginning. That is what a plain language reading of the text says. I don't know what you're trying to imply here.
Hey that is a fantastic price. I'll check it out, thx
it's interesting that the article is about mutton, however a lot of comments here are about sheep/lamb. very curious, why not goat?
I have normal lights, but the switches are on a Lutron hub. I like being able to set movie mode to dim lights from my couch on my watch or phone. I like being able to turn off my kids' bathroom light when it shines too brightly in my face at night when I'm trying to sleep. I like being able to turn the lights off across the whole house when I leave, and have smart away when I leave for awhile.

Smart thermostats are nice when you want to adjust things from all over the house or keep a schedule relatively easily. I also like knowing if my basement sump pump isn't keeping up with rain water and flooding things.

In general, it's nice to be able to monitor things and control them across the house, and the Lutron setup has been pretty painless.
Optimizing for Taste
The justice system is doing what the doctors tell them. Broadly speaking If a medical professional testifies that this is the only way, what qualifications does a DA have to question him? Medicine is a profession; thus the professional body ought to be addressing this and, if the guidance changes, be advocating and lobbying to Congress that people start being released.
This right here is like a second-order or third-order effect of the layoffs last year. Tech companies are shuttering useful consumer products because their profit margins just aren't high enough for today's high interest environment
To me the surprise is the popularity of turkey over duck and goose. Turkey is cheaper, but needs to be prepared really well in order to be mediocre. A badly cooked duck or goose is much better than a perfect turkey. The ceiling for goose is high and even higher for duck, but the floor is already pretty high.
Apple exec defends Google as default on Apple Devices
So you're now comparing AI use to heroin use? Not the most accurate comparison if you ask me.
Why would you add a second function for the answer object when you can return an answer object in the same response as the chain of thought?

Overall your second approach makes for really terrible UX and dramatically weakens the performance at the task unless you go and repeat every single definition along the way: ensuring you now have X copies of the prompt spread across the code base and have blown up your token count.

Once you get to that level of granularity between calls, you've pretty much fall back into doing a slower more expensive version of NLP pre-ChatGPT.
We're still left with the original TeX being unsuitable for the 21st century. Times change, requirements fluctuate, expectations vary. Another area where TeX/LateX have fallen behind: accessibility. It's possible to coerce LaTeX into generating documents usable by the visually impaired, but it's not part of vanilla TeX.
because Halal lamb meat is slaughtered and raised differently the flavor is less game-y
Yeah, the window of time when you need to pull it so that it's good. As in, pull it 2 minutes one way and it's not done, 2 minutes the other way and it's overdone.
I’ve been a meat eater most of my life, but since I met my wife, who objects to eating lamb and other young animals, I too have grown to find it objectionable. No judgement to those who enjoy it, but something about it doesn’t sit well with me any longer.
Pricing is per API call right now, but we're planning to add "per session" pricing in future.
Sorry for the title change, HN said it was too long, original was "Apple exec defends the decision to make Google its default search engine on iPhones and Macs."
we've all mostly been liberated from back breaking agricultural farm work in developed countries, no? At least in countries that have automated. Don't think you can say the same for countries without automation. We've reaped tremendous benefits that are just totally lost / taken for granted by the luddites.
If you think advertiser sensibilities and internet mobs should play any sort of part in a just justice system, I don't know what to tell you.
What I was alluding to was Einstein's belief that the EPR paradox was evidence that QM was incomplete. He was wrong about that, but can be forgiven because he didn't know about Bell and Aspect.
I've upgraded (mainly) to get new emoji first.

Some are quite funny.
> Define "getting screwed over". For instance, I do not care about Google Maps using my location data in aggregate to improve traffic predictions.

This guy didn't care about his location data going to google either:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/google-tracked-his-bike...

He got screwed over big time. Thousands of dollars, just to avoid a jail cell.

There are uses of personal data that can be harmless, but once that data is in the hands of someone else you don't have any say in how it is used (harmless or otherwise) and even if the people using your data today aren't doing anything abusive with it, that data will live forever and you never know who will end up with it in the future or what they will do with it.

If the alternative is a subscription (assuming that actually means your data is not handed over to someone else) then at least you'll know what the cost of a product/service is, and you'll only pay for it while you're subscribed.

If you pay with your data, once it's out of your hands it can be used against you again and again at any time so you never get to stop "paying" and can never know what it will ultimately cost you.

As another example of getting screwed over, I've got a family member who bought a bluray of some movie in a shop, and then when she got home to play it found that her player refused because of DRM. The player wasn't connected to the internet and it needed to connect to a remote server in order to get permission to play her legally purchased media on her legally purchased player. She didn't understand what was happening and called me. The player didn't have wifi. The company sold a special USB wifi adapter at an insane price, otherwise she'd either have to move her furniture to take the player upstairs next to her modem and connect it physically, or run a very very long cable across her entire house.

The next time she needed a bluray player, she avoided the old brand, but didn't even check to see if it had wifi capability before buying (she got lucky and it did).
I just bought Nanoleaf bulbs and they just don’t get bright enough. Then I have issues where there’s always 2 or 3 bulbs out of 6 that don’t respond and they’re all next to HomePods and routers etc…I really hate that Philips went down this route because so far they definitely seem to have the better product.
I'm also curious about the Home Assistant anecdote. It seems like there might be some security or reliability concerns, but I'd like more information to understand the context better.
> Well the exact same argument applies now.

Not exactly. Old school automations are pretty limited. You can’t automate everything so there will always be work for humans.

Automation is what allows our quality of life today so I wouldn’t knock it.

AI though could potentially eliminate all jobs. How the heck is society going to function after that I have no idea.

In its current state it has the potential to eliminate “low end” beginner jobs. That’s problematic because if you don’t have juniors professionals today … you won’t have seniors in the future. Now you could argue that AI would develop to takeover senior jobs too but that’s not a sure thing. It would be really bad if you bet the farm on AI continuing to progress at a certain pace and it didn’t happen - we could even get another AI Winter as all the low hanging fruit from the advancement of tech the last few decades are picked clean.
Social engineering is a form of hacking, and there are grey, white, and black hat forms of hacking. Hacks also vary in terms of skill, and elegance. What you describe sounds very script kiddie.
I am too. But what makes me laugh, and respond to your comment is the idea that perhaps half of the opposition to Apple's walled garden among the HN crowd would go away if they just allowed ublock origin.
Goat meat in India comes from castrated goats. You get the stress hormones especially when the goat is slaughtered in the West. Hence you might find Halal meat perhaps more palatable
> We check whether some value exceeds 9,

If I'm seeing the misunderstanding here, the article with that statement is not talking about string length. They're talking about if non numerical input was given, ie, "a" would "exceed 9"
It's the difference between making fertiliser for farming or to build a bomb. Intent matters.

And so if they are creating viruses to better understand how to cure them or prepare responses for dealing with them then that is a good thing. Creating a virus for use in a bio-weapon is a bad thing.

If you don't have bio-labs then you don't have cures so we can't get rid of them entirely.
I frequently hear that people aren't sure what to put into their Custom Instructions. I built this tool to help people get started with the basics. Including personal details and preferences about yourself significantly helps generate more appropriate responses from ChatGPT.
The author is referring to the officially recommended way to install home-assistant on a Linux box, which is just curl-ing and running an install script as root.

I totally get how that's off-putting, but the real recommended way to run home assistant is to install Home Assistant OS on dedicated hardware. Which also can be off-putting.

Either way, it's my favourite software that I regularly interact with (unless you count Linux).
They farm out manufacturing to China, but if they designed the products, this isn’t very different from having Foxconn assemble iPhones. But of course, now the Chinese manufacturer could sell their design directly and undercut them, since they aren’t Apple.

If they are using a design from the manufacturer, I have no sympathy for them. They are just trying to make money by adding some marketing and connecting dots together.
I'd suggest taking a look at the specific clauses under discussion, esp. as the draft laws are still in the public commentary stage. See clauses 2 and 3 of Article 34 in (https://www.chinalawtranslate.com/en/public-security-adminis...) and consider them in the context of clauses 1, 4, 5, and 6. Note the recurrent mentions of 'heroes and martyrs' and 'wars of aggression' within these clauses, something a casual reader of that BBC article would not have been led to expect, and consider that some European countries directly impacted by WW2 on their own soil have laws at least similar in letter (laws which most Americans would probably find restrictive, but I doubt anyone would regard as them as clearly 'nutty').

Of course, you can still criticize these draft laws for vagueness and unenforceability: these concerns have already been extensively covered in mainstream Chinese media outlets.
My Opinion:

If you have nothing too complex (like a "show information only" app consuming simple web apis), you could go for Avalonia UI, MAUI or Uno Platform - because you already know C#, but if you want to build something serious, learn Flutter. Be aware that this is not as easy as it sounds - the core concepts are a bit different from C# and you can't apply your knowledge 1:1.

There is also Ionic / Capacitor (JavaScript), but the apps felt pretty slow and often crashed within my tests.

I'm totally into AvaloniaUI and maybe a bit biased, because I think this is the most promising approach in C# for now, but since this is more a community effort and not supported by microsoft, developer wise it is not the same experience as MAUI. And C# pretty painful, if you plan to use any Hardware Apis (Audio, Video, Camera, Gyroscope, etc.) with the most modern approaches. I haven't tested Uno Platform yet, but it feels like it's somewhere between Avalonia and MAUI...

## Flutter (recommended)

+ cross platform
+ well designed
+ fast
+ good libraries

- steep learning curve

## .NET MAUI

+ easy to learn
+ supported by microsoft (it's not gonna die too soon, although I would love to see go more effort in Avalonia UI)

- Not really cross platform (no linux)
- Weird build errors (microsofts build system is horrible)
- Documentation is not up to date
- Often missing native device / library support (camera, audio-player, Drag&Drop, OnMouseOver, Gestures etc.)

## Avalonia

+ easy to learn
+ promising community effort (quick response times, huge progress)
+ "fast and good" internal design (runs on raspberry framebuffer)
+ cross platform (win, lin, mac, ios, android, wasm)

- documentation (it was a really huge effort to find the best project setup - avalonia.xplat)
- support (small team, huge todo list)
- Often missing native device / library support (camera, audio-player, Drag&Drop, OnMouseOver, Gestures, SecureStorage, etc.)
- Weird build errors (microsofts build system is horrible)

## React native (not recommended)

+ easy to learn

- package hell
- cryptic reoccuring unsolvable issues
See https://archive.ph/lLHy3
> For instance, most individuals would probably never agree to manufacture a weapon that is specifically requested to kill your neighbor.

Are you talking about gun manufacturing for law enforcement or military purposes? Because those weapons aren’t manufactured to kill one specific person (my neighbor).

If somehow the government were to pay me adequately to hand-craft a gun for the police or military, I would have no moral compunctions in doing so. I see no reason for the government to ask me to hand-make an inferior good at such high cost, though.
Agreed. It’s a net positive for society if the entire CSFC (Cheap Shit From China) economy is slowly collapsing.
A better term would be “propaganda” or psychological warfare, something CCP and PLA each have dedicated units for.