skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has to scale to the population and functions that it serves. I’m not saying the current form(s) of government are doing it right or that they should be as big as they are. I don’t appreciate the simplistic rallying cry of “small government” that I hear all too often as if it’s some panacea. The average person can barely remember longer than a 7 digit number. I don’t expect everybody to understand every part of government at once. Understanding the larger bodies and functions of the branches of government sure. But understanding why the DOT has a purchasing agent, or why the local building department has electricians and structural engineers on staff, that’s beyond far too many people.
Here is a fun experiment that seems to perpetually blow people's minds no matter the country they live in. Which latitude (in terms of km) is New York City closer to? London or Algiers? The answer is Algiers -- take a look on Google Earth with Gridline turned on [1].

Second, while most of the U.S. is on the level of North Africa, the East Coast, where most people are, is significantly wetter. In the South East, where it's humid and hot (at least in the absolutely miserable summers) and where cotton grows well, there's no point in trying to grow wool and wool adjacent animals. Cotton grew so well it was a secondary cash crop for plantations that used enslaved people to pick giving rise to several regrettable idioms.

Third, when you get into parts of the U.S. where mutton makes more sense, it's definitely eaten quite a bit. I spent a little bit of time on the Navajo nation for example, and mutton stew is probably the second or third most common dish -- because of the wool and wool adjacent industries in the Navajo nation (and surrounding nations).

Finally, back on the East Coast, where I'm from, the population is highly diverse. Everything from lamb chops, goat stew, and mutton kabobs are honestly very common and available. The local Costco sells whole hallal lamb and sheep it's so common.

1 - https://earth.google.com
The work is definitely undervalued. It seems that thanks to the current structure the barrier of entry is smaller and more projects are possible.
No need. Back in the days, as you can see in the video, you just needed a couple of sentences and a few images.

Interesting to see the big adsense block present on the page and the example being an exact match domain, which is clearly an MFA (Made for Adsense) website.
X270 is my PC when I am away from my home office - wish it was a bit faster but then I look at my colleagues lugging around their HP/Dell "gaming" laptops and I am not so envious anymore.
The question is not weird in the context of telling the story on a messageboard.

If we were applying the default "random stranger" rules, the story never would have been shared in the first place.
So a good hacker is whoever you decide has good nature?
You’re missing out on not needing to think about turning on your lights. Come home at 6pm every night after work; lights come on at 5:55pm. Come home at different times of the night; set up a motion sensor to trigger the lights when the door opens or per room. Don’t want to set up a motion sensor? Geofence your house. Seasons changing mean sunset is later; have logic that only turns on lights after sunset. Kids are only allowed to watch tv until 8pm; automate the tv turning off at 8pm. Its limitless what you can do. This is all very easy to do using something like HomeKit. Each day adds minutes back in your life; span that across a lifetime and it makes a difference.
I don't understand why someone would waste their time on a quixotic quest to end cheating in a video game. Who cares? The whole think is ridiculous. It's not real racing anyway.

I had a paid Zwift subscription for a while but the game aspects of are boring and pointless. So now when I do indoor smart trainer workouts, I just use my bike computer to control it and watch a movie to keep myself entertained.
Of course you can. Use Zigbee2MQTT and buy one of the supported adapters (don’t get IKEA) and all your Zigbee devices will work. No cloud needed: https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/guide/adapters/
That ad says literally the opposite of what you claim: the iPad is NOT a computer.
In efficient market every business must have razor-thin margins, otherwise competitors squeeze into it.

Good fat margins are a result of an ineffective market.
I have visited several art exhibitions this year and generally would say that stuff at front page of /r/StableDiffusion/ is just more original and better than some random art exhibition.
This always scared me because I don't even know what counts as shaking.

Can you accidentally shake a baby? Can my 2 year old daughter get shaken baby syndrome when older children on an inflatable castle with her jump and bounce too wild around her (she can't jump yet but loves the bouncing)? I've also often seen parents throw their children a bit in the air and then catch them. The children like it and laugh.

I'm not even speaking of law and police but medically. Can this seriously hurt my daughter?
Sadly the worst ones ever - ours had NVidia onboard GPU and they got toasted after 2 years of moderate non gaming use - company then switched to Dell after that debacle.
Get one with a big external antenna and use a 30…50 cm USB extender cable to distance it from other 2.4Ghz RF sources.

https://sonoff.tech/product/gateway-and-sensors/sonoff-zigbe...
There is no period in recorded history where an economy was dominated with a number of small players of roughly equal status in competition for an extended duration.

5,000 years of human history is roughly as long as we have the concept of an economy. Before that, you had access to the people in your immediate vicinity and "competition" for services was not a concept.
And consolidated to one or two players.
I think Adams is wrong. Constitution was made (I believe) to deter immoral people who would like to get rid of the constitution, who would love to establish a dictatorship,
who would love to force a specific religion on all of us.

Moral people don't really need laws, laws exist to deter crime.

Frankly I don't get what John Adams was trying say? Can someone explain?
I literally cannot use public parking in my city without an app. A ton of services are requiring app based 2FA for their use. Anyone without a smartphone that uses either Android or iOS is literally being left out of a huge chunk of the modern world.

“Own this or you’ll be relegated to the fringes of society” very much sounds like coercion to me.
Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo restrict their game consoles in the same way. Are all three monopolies that are somehow competing with each other? Why is it good for the government to force Apple to open up their hardware, but bad to do the same to game console makers?
Huh, I literally cannot find mutton in the Bay Area, only lamb - hilariously almost always from my homeland of NZ which doesn't export mutton because it's a cheap meat that isn't worth enough for anyone to want to import.
My understanding is in some states the laws are written with a Catch-22: you need evidence of hacking to kick off an investigation. So I wouldn’t be that confident.

If I were China I’d probably go with a hardware supply chain attack. These machines can sit around for years.

I think DARPA’s SSITH program is a step in the right direction. At the very least, I’d feel a lot better with bug bounties on publicly available demonstrators from all manufacturers.
So... today I learned that I live at .. 60N. Tiles are available 10km to the south of me, but not where I live. :P
You absolutely need this: https://github.com/tombonez/noTunes
Given that Safari and Firefox don’t support it I’m guessing the answer is, it’s not useful.
They also write and maintain the primary frameworks by which one creates software on their devices, a set of tools that help developers create apps far better than any competing mobile operating system. These frameworks are available for all developers to use for free!

I propose Apple start charging some pennies for every million UIView calls.
> Capitalism abhors competition

>>"One of the foundational blocks of capitalism is competition."

This is just unserious.
I think it's actually pretty cool that Zwift works well at all. I do the occasional race in a lower category, and sometimes they're pretty realistic.

I did one with a fairly large starting group that broke apart on the first hill, and formed into smaller groups that worked together and in some cases merged back together on the flats, then split up again on the last hill.

If you squint a bit, it felt like an actual bike ride with other people outside. Which is pretty cool for something controlled by a phone on a stationary bike in your garage.
Recent and related:

Philips Hue will soon force users to create an account - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37594377 - Sept 2023 (314 comments)
Correct, because it fulfills the ability to generally compute despite not being a computer. It is an evolutionary replacement.
This is not a helpful comment, rather than drive-by deride, might it have been better to explain why and how to be better?
They are dominated by the mindless calculus of Wall St, injected deep into their programming. If they deviate from what Wall St wants they loose. So they dont dominate. They are dominated.
Thanks. This was fun piece of writing to read with a nice premise. And something to hopefully remember when a busy week leaves me wired rather than tired.
Correct. And given you have a Linux box, a very unrepresentative one at that.
I sure hope a museum gets something like that.
https://archive.ph/00vVY
Honestly I thought you were joking ... but the very first claw machine manual I found details how they lower the voltage available to close the claw with increasing height.
Yes, legal as long as we're below a certain revenue (10million yen, I believe).
It's the filing of those records that the freelancers do not want to do.
I can't believe how Google doesn't how much the impact of their product juggling and discontinuation has on it's perception. They introduced and killed so many chat and audio apps it's insane. Not to talk about useful products like Google domains. I just hope they don't kill Google photos, Google Keep, and Google voice - those are the three Google products I love and extensively use.
Marriages being down in 2022 is pretty easily explainable as a result of the strict lockdowns that weren't lifted until late December.
Not killed just moving it all to YouTube music. Shrug.

Lots of discussion here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37659482
I have a lot of friends in the manufacturing business that range from self-employed to military-backed conglomerates. None of them use this tool. Are they all Luddite idiots, or is this Amazon search tool, backed by their swiss-cheese supply chain, just not that useful?
It seems to be a popular programming challenge, generating an arbitrary image using a circle of nails and a continuous length of string:

https://github.com/halfmonty/StringArtGenerator

https://github.com/kaspar98/StringArt
I may not know enough about the situation but I bought a set of bulbs a few months ago and they pretty much instantly connected to my Zigbee router connected to Home Assistant. Haven’t had any problems with them since (dimming & changing color temp).
I don't know about the others, but I'd contest the claim about Cathie Wood.
What did you use to implement the regularization of the trend breakpoints? Prophet by default uses a regular grid and thins them out with STAN. I couldn't find a quick regularization replacement in numpy/scipy/statsmodels with equivalent performance. (I don't want to drag in another huge dependency with Torch or TF).
Lua Users Wiki
When was SmartThings good? I missed that. The only thing I use it for is an oven that, even though it is connected to the internet, can't manage to update the time when daylight savings time changes. To get the oven to update the time, you have to open the app, find the oven, go to Settings, turn OFF the "automatic time sync" option and then turn it back on again. Every 6 months.

I performed this ritual last weekend, and followed up by filing a bug report about what a shitshow the whole thing was from the feedback option in the app. I got a very nice message back from Samsung telling me my message had come to the wrong place and that I should do something different if I wanted to give feedback about the app. FFS.
Feels more like a bug fix release. Feels more snappier on M1.

Plus they fixed the god awful auto switching for AirPods (phone to mac). Much more seamless
I wish there was some way to entirely disable the macOS music player when it is not in use.

I am referring in particular to the visual element outlined in the red rectangle in the image below.

https://i.imgur.com/6uOjflM.jpg

It is a small thing, but as annoying in its way to me as the blank space in the Windows 11 Start Menu that remains when the advertisements displayed there by default are disabled.
Can Modernity Last?
It's confusing because the OP is referring to a pipe to bash method as if it's a recommended install method, which I can't seem to find anywhere on the HA installation page.

Yes there are security concerns with any home automation system, but if you run HA locally and only access it via a VPN like Tailscale you're probably safer than if you used any of the big name cloud first smart home providers. Even if you access it over the Nabu Casa site, because everything is ostensibly Local first your attack surface is always going to be quite minimal.
I have done a bit of shopping on Taobao which is basically buy direct from manufacturers and yes, curation is valuable. Both of quality and design.
FWIW my poor performance is in Chrome on Apple Silicon not Firefox.
He was. He ran the productivity blog 43folders and did a bunch of speaking.
It doesn't equal infinity, it is undefined. x/n approaches infinity as n goes to 0, but at n=0 there is no answer. One way to think of it is x/n = m therefore n * m = x. You can recover the original value by multiplying the result by the denominator. But when n=0, you can't multiply 0 by anything to get x. There is just no such number.
I'm not a fan of taxing consumption. It's hard to believe that Japan did not have this for a very long time and now we are at 10%.
It's especially questionable since older people consume less, but usually have more savings.
OpenBSD: -current Has Moved to 7.4
No this was in English but I needed the math characters, like for example, ≥

I ended up settling on Latin Roman Math (something like that). I needed to use pandoc to convert Markdown files generated dynamically into a PDF that looked reasonably OK. It wasn't great to have to use the Latin Roman * fonts to begin with given audience but at least I found something. Thanks for linking that I'll take a look :)
But Amazon adds real value. They built out a huge logistics and PoS system. They have warehouses everywhere. They have millions of subscribers for Prime which gets people to buy large amounts of stuff on the site.

Any business owner is free to build their own website, set up payments, set up accounts with FedEx and UPS, and rent some warehouse space. That’s a tough row to hoe!
Joe was bad (whats with all the howdy and emojis?). Taylor OK.
He used to be Merlin Mann.
there are already plenty of evidence to suggest that we, collectively, don't treat our fellow humans well. There are tens of millions of people who are on survival mode and most of people living in developed countries simply don't care much , including you and me. You absolutely cannot rely on humans to treat each other well. In the AI age, it will mostly benefit those who have capital to employ an army of AIs. It is hard to believe our politicians will do anything drastic but only drastic changes will matter (like universal income or very high tax for wealthy people who no long rely on labors). Dark times ahead.
The UI is fantastic . I don't think there is anything wrong with the website. The reason you are not making a sale has probably nothing to do with UI. I think you should concentrate on sales and filling an important gap in user requirement. Who needs this data? There are already many websites where you can get extreme precipitation data for free.

P.S. I am a hydroclimate scientist/professor. Happy to discuss further.

Edit - Looks like we have almost the same background in academics. :)
Until Apple detects its usage and bans your account for breaking TOS?
You learn something new everyday. We don’t have Internet during the Windows 9x circa so now ideas this is even possible.
It's their hubris that lead to this. For some reasons companies always seem to believe that they have an upper hand over even the most powerful governmental structure.

The very powerful people at the helm of Apple, Google and friends seem to forget that on the other side of the table there are powerful people as well and that those are quite similar to themselves.

I believe a large contributing factors were the public appearances (or lack thereof) of Tech Execs in front of government bodies (think Zuckerberg in the Senate) where it became clear that they think themselves above the rules of mere mortal man.

They committed the capital offence publicly "ridiculing" powerful politicians (and by proxy the people who elected them) all over the world and that is something that won't fly in the long term.

Come on Mark, suck in your ego, grovel a bit and agree to some semi-token compromises to keep the money train going.

And for the love of god spend some real money in Europe and pay your taxes if you want political leverage.

Apparently that was too much of an ask and now that the eyes of the public and regulators are on Big Tech they will be taken down a notch to "just" being profitable companies.
26-year-old tech CEO found dead in Baltimore with signs of blunt-force trauma
All that instead of type classes eh?
> There are literally many multi million and multi-100k cities away from the coast.

They're not near each other.

If you draw a 100 mile radius around New York City, inside it you find Yonkers, Stamford, Bridgeport, New Haven, Waterbury, Newark, Jersey City, Paterson, Elizabeth, Edison, Woodbridge, Lakewood, Allentown and Philadelphia. Each of which is a city of at least 100k people. Philadelphia is 1.5M.

If you draw a 100 mile radius around St. Louis, which he's got on his map, you've got... Springfield, IL just at the far edge of the radius with just over 100k people, and that's it.

There is one midwestern US city with a population in the multi-millions, it's Chicago, it's the one I suggested as the terminus of the rail line, and it's still on the coast... of the Great Lakes.

> And trains don't need to be connected, its totally reasonable to have train network that mostly covers one area.

Oh sure, high speed rail along the California coast could make sense even if it's only in California. Though then it's only in California and doesn't require any federal involvement.

High speed rail in Indianapolis though?

> But most people don't actually live in 'farm country'. So its completely irrelevant.

Most of the central United States by area is farm country. It's the thing you have to traverse, laying hundreds or thousands of miles of tracks through, if you want to try to connect a handful of medium-sized midwestern cities.

The fact that not a lot of people live there (i.e. it has a low population density) is a big part of the problem.

> I'm gone go with the guy who is a professional transit expert over your opinion.

Your transit expert is a mathematician with a Wordpress site. Math is neat, but it's also the thing that leads to hubris when the equations are missing a variable you were ignoring because it's the same in coastal cities all over but not in midwestern states where the cities are both smaller and farther apart and the largest employers are the automakers whose employees see your transit solution as a threat to their livelihood and are not going to use it.

It's a classic central planning fallacy. You have some numbers in a spreadsheet but haven't gone to the place you're drawing lines over on a map.
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Grow lights usually draw half of their advertised power, and try to justify it by saying 'equivalent' somewhere on the box next to an asterisk.

Very few grow lights that have ever hit my hands came close to their advertised power rating. One company sold me a 50w, 135w, and 300w light set. the 50w was 45 at the wall, 135 was 75, 300 was 150.

And that's because their thermal designs are utter garbage. They can't run at full power. Most UFO lights are literally bolted to a plate, no fins of any sort, and a fan set blows down on it to cool the LEDs. If you get a rectangular panel, odds are you might get one undersized heat sink that doesn't cover the entire LED array (just the array, not the whole panel)

Most efficiency specs are garbage, too, measured with non-calibrated COTS light meters. I can toss most lights in my integrated sphere and I'll see way different from what is claimed.

Very few companies can actually be trusted. I have yet to find one with 100% honesty.
I use zwift on a regular basis and I'm still trying to wrap my head around how much of a complete loser you would need to be to cheat on a virtual cycling app, whole thing's just mind blowing to me
Your comment makes me think of Hollywood writer's strike. I congratulate them for getting a better deal. But do we really need more Hollywood?
Makes for a good Sunday gravy!
> TL;DR having options is good strategy, OpenTofu is your insurance policy and competition makes things great.

I hope that includes competition beyond dotTF (as a term to capture both TF & Tofu)?

For example, I'm keen to see what can be built in this space on top of CUE

I have concerns that this movement will fracture the ecosystem. They speak of backwards compatibility, which to me means they are going to be allowing things that TF will not understand. The paths this could take will be interesting to watch unfold, it could be a complete bifurcation or something like the NPM v Deno v Bun situation, where it seems there will be long-term convergence of the module system, but requires more work for all vendors and module authors.

re: the quote, I don't really feel an urgency to get insurance or invest in a migration just because Hashi changed their license. This seems more like a group policy for the SaaS's that are impacted than for the users of TF who aren't

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edit, after reading the whole thing, I'm not really sure what to make of this writing, it meanders and spends a lot of time self glorifying...
I take it to mean immoral people can make mincemeat out of the best government.
Opening garage with phone (esp via voice if your hands are full) is killer app. I don’t have to carry any keys anymore (not that we need to lock up often)
Why for goodness sakes would I ever take a COVID test again much less because I have the sniffles. It's a contagious disease much like the flu. It's part of life, the vast majority of people get over it, and it will probably always be with us now.
Reaction: Whomever works in PRODUCT at Google has egg on their face.

An interesting idea:

One could use this feature, and the special site:https://bard.google.com/share URL (or https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fbard.g...) to have Bard host arbitrary conversations.

EDIT

Found some cyber-stalking / self-investigation...

* https://bard.google.com/share/24802050c1d2