skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is vacation vs travel.

Thank you! My preference is always for an AirBNB when I go skiing or want to go work someplace that isn’t my house for a week, and you sort of nailed the reason. When I was in Madrid for a buddy’s wedding, on the other hand, my preference was 5* hotel.

That dichotomy makes sense and isn’t how I’d thought about it before.
This paper[0] suggests 94% at the end of 2022. At this point it’s probably closer to a 100%. Technically it’s “at least once” though not “multiple times”. Other papers only cite 25-50% asymptomatic cases since Omicron so not quite 90% but still quite high

[0] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.19.22282525v...
I ran copper wires to convenient locations in my house and then hard mounted manual switches to control lighting that is far away.
The BSD unixes are the classic example.
Gotta be honest, it sounds like this guy has bipolar disorder
However, we are not talking about Bach, but about Einstein's knowledge of epistemology and that he certainly was well versed in that subject and didn't make such a basic mistake as you alluded to.
> I’m guessing what you want is to run arbitrary code on an OS that manages the battery, the network, the display, audio in and out, provide a security apparatus... You want all of the benefits of the well-managed, walled garden.

...or a sufficently advanced browser :p (and people wonder why MacOS is loaded with lazy Electron ports...)

Distributing software should be free, ignoring the cost of transmitting the information and storing it on the client. Apple's pricing is arbitrary, and their defense of it is unsubstantiated. Forcing the App Store to compete is the only natural step forward for Apple, whether they (or their shareholders) want to admit it or not.
> No other OS requires you too look it up.

- Windows 3.1

- Windows 95

- Windows 98

- Windows 98 Second Edition

- Windows 2000

- Windows Me

- Windows XP

- Windows Vista

- Windows 7

- Windows 8

- Windows 10 1507

- Windows 10 2004

- Windows 10 21H2

- Windows 10 22H2

- Windows 11 21H2

- Windows 11 22H2

Compare to

- Mac OS X 10.0 (Cheetah)

- Mac OS X 10.1 (Puma)

- Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar)

- Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther)

- Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)

- Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

- Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

- Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion)

- Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion)

- Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)

- Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite)

- Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan)

- macOS 10.12 (Sierra)

- macOS 10.13 (High Sierra)

- macOS 10.14 (Mojave)

- macOS 10.15 (Catalina)

- macOS 11 (Big Sur)

- macOS 12 (Monterey)

- macOS 13 (Ventura)

- macOS 14 (Sonoma)
“If you run them both with docker then updating is pretty simple with no package breaks.”

Do you realize how insane this sounds for non-technical people who want to turn on a light in their livingroom?
> Of course breaking a massive story is going to lead to you being well known.

My argument is the opposite. You can break a massive story and people can still not care. That was why I brought up the Panama Papers.

Anyway, let's just agree to disagree.
Agreed, but I suspect that a lot of them who already use Google Podcasts won't be thrilled to have to switch to YouTube Music and may be looking around for choices when the date of cancellation gets closer.
I don't completely buy that, because I think it's under-selling the authority of VPs and setting low expectations for their responsibility.

VPs have incredibly large spans of control, counting reports-to-reports.

However, they also have a ton of authority to pull information. I've gotten ad hoc requests all the time that "X wants a presentation on Y."

Consequently, firing high-level technical folks without doing due diligence is exercising authority without living up to responsibility.

There aren't that many senior folks. Requesting a list of what projects each potential fire is attached to, and who will pick up their duties, seems a modest investment to avoid serious pain.
I know several teams who have already begun switching engines in games which are near completion. The threat of future licensing changes is very real.

There will be no asking ourselves in a few years time. Unity is a dead man walking.
As others have pointed out, it is a good idea to encode domain knowledge in your time series model through specification and priors. Prophet rarely beats a well specified GLM or SARIMA in real world applications, especially when uncertainty estimates are needed. Professionally, I have succesfully applied Gaussian Processes to many such cases.

A GP is an intuitive and expressive way to code time covariance in a model. A famous example is the relative birthdays model, discussed by Gelman et al in Bayesian Data Analysis and here [1].

[1] https://avehtari.github.io/casestudies/Birthdays/birthdays.h...
Love my Kasa products. API is actively maintained and works super well. Products themselves work great. Their colored bulbs can emit a ton of colors and support scenes. Not as bright as I'd like, though.

You don't need the app if you're using Home Assistant, py-Kasa or something like that since the devices create their own WiFi network on first boot and you can program them from there.

I run 30+ Wi-Fi bulbs on an eero mesh. These devices are noisy but they are responsive (slower than zigbee). Only disadvantage is that they live or die by DHCP. If they can't renew their lease, it can take a while for them to come back online.
Keychain is… not that bad. It works for almost all passwords/general use cases. It definitely is feature-lite compared to dedicated password managers, but it makes that up in integrations if you’re primarily in the Apple ecosystem.
I thought home automation would be fun but gave up years ago when a sub $10 light switch costs $50+ and breaks after 12 months.

Analog light timer and fake TV for vacations are now the extent of my need for home automation.
This look pretty good !

I'm a heavy user of data vis, and this looks worth trying.

Looks like McKinsey is doing and open sourcing some interesting things - I've also tried Kedro and while it feels a bit 'heavy' to use, I like a lot the emphasis on structuring the data and steps.
Is it just a coincidence or does it seem like governments (mostly EU and US) are cracking down hard on tech companies lately ?
It's actually in reverse. Taiwan's congress diplomacy was a huge success.
I just imagined having to drive every day, and it was an angry thought.
Surprisingly good ice cream I agree
Having a tarball of the source code for something isn't the same as having the community, the history, the culture, the processes, the infrastructure ... all the accumulated other stuff that makes up an open source project.

Without the concentration of diverse efforts that go into maintaining and advancing a project, having the source code (alone) is of minimal benefit.
Need to borrow a tin foil hat?
Samsung did something similar with their phones' built I'm heart rate and oxygen sensor, and health related metrics from the accelerometer

My Samsung Galaxy S8+ had those sensors and I used them often for many years. The results were interesting and useful, and graphed with history in the Samsung app which shipped on the device.

Then one day they changed the terms so you had to create and sign into a Samsung account, and upload your health data, to continue using the sensors.

I didn't accept those terms so I wasn't able to use those health monitoring functions on my expensive device any more.

Interestingly, most articles I saw about the change portrayed it as a good thing, that you could now have consistent healrh sensor records across your devices and other good cloud features, even portraying it as an oddity that Samsung Health didn't require Samsung cloud integration all along and that they had finally caught up to the times. But it already had those features before the change! The only visible change was to to remove the choice to opt out of uploading your personal data.
Never liked the Hue ecosystem. At some point I needed a motion sensor compatible with HomeKit. So went and got myself pretty cheap hue bridge and hue motion sensor only to find out (well, I should have done research probably) that motion sensor won't be able to paired with the bridge until at least one bulb is paired, so had to purchase cheapest bulb to get things working. it was still cheaper at the time comparing to other HomeKit only motion sensors.

I never got home assistant working, so got myself Hubitat hub (C7), which supports both Zigbee and Zwave radios and now exports them as HomeKit devices. So cheap sensors easy to pickup now are exposed to my HomeKit setup. That Hue motion sensor now directly connected to the the Hubitat and Hue bridge is somewhere in the box.

But at the time of setup, I was surprised that Hue Bridge didn't have an account. Didn't think about this until recent articles saying that account is now going to be mandatory.
> Most of the people I know with "real jobs" don't test anymore.

Just curious what you consider a “real job”?
If there is any foreign interference, it would be from britain, canada, israel, etc.

What russian or chinese interference is there when there is 24/7 anti-russian and anti-chinese propaganda?
I have run Home Assistant for ~9 years. I've done so with the core system in a virtual environment all along, and it's been great. I run my own local mosquitto server for MQTT in its own systemd service, bridged with one on my web server for remote stuff. You can do all this without any `curl | sudo sh` using excellent open source documentation.
> Use whateeeeeeeever words will make it through your compiler, insert those in place of mine - and that's what I meant.

Until I do it incorrectly, and then I'm deliberately misconstruing your point into something you didn't say. Or if I do it in a way you feel makes you or your argument look stupid, at which point I'm arguing in bad faith.

No thanks. If you'd like to discuss things I'm happy to do that, that's why I'm here as Obi Wan says. But I'm not responsible for steel-manning your point for you because you lack vocabulary.

> Nitpick 2, Electric Boogaloo. Now you have a problem with the way I've used some other words or the absence of some qualifiers.

This is still not nitpicking. You have repeatedly put the notion of product acquisition on a pedestal, including the fact that pulling goods from China is this difficult, laborious task (which, it does take labor, that is true). But Amazon knows how to do that, it's basically how it became the retail juggernaut it is.

And that includes Amazon Basics products, which without even looking at one, I'd be willing to bet non-insubstantial amounts of money are manufactured mostly in China. That doesn't make them inherently bad: Chinese firms will make your products as good or as bad as you're willing to pay for.
This article linked from the OP turned out to be a find too

> in western Kentucky, a tradition of barbecued mutton still holds, although no one is quite sure why. https://bittersoutherner.com/southern-perspective/2020/south...
> Amazon does 100s of billions of 1st party sales.

And the remainder is not scalable. All of that done by their sellers. As evidenced by the fact that they are not doing it themselves.

I'm beginning to think this thread is being astroturphed. All of you are employing an identical strategy of latching onto minor issues with how things are phrased. A standard PR tactic. And Amazon has a long documented history of astroturphing.
Your grandma doesn’t know how to run containers as k8s services?

Don’t tell me she still manually SSHes to each box to run the apps in the background using nohup?!
Written by people who think the core contribution of computer science grads is 'coding'.
Why do you say that. I use Firefox on my Android, specifically because I can install plugins, which I can't do in Chrome. What functionality do you think is "crippled"?
Fanciful Failures: Keeping Nonsense Marks Off the Trademark Register (2021)
Since Amazon's tactics are in the news today, some background on where the LJXOAIEUs and the JANRSTICs of the world came from and what the trademark lawyers are making of it. See also John Hermann writing for the Times, as cited in the law review piece [0]

[0] https://perma.cc/QFM7-R3M2
Idk, this resonates with me and in ten years with a great therapist, the idea that I have bipolar has never come up. A friend of mine acts this way too. She is an artist, and has late night art sessions from time to time, which ultimately wipe her out. I appreciate the discussion in this article about it.
How do you turn them orange though on halloween?
That was exactly my thought. A relatively mild case, but still.
back in April, Google announced cancellation of several home products. dont know if they sent an email but they have a blog post.

> starting April 8, 2024 support will stop for Nest Secure

> stop support for Dropcam starting April 8, 2024.

> we will officially end Works with Nest as of September 29, 2023.

https://www.googlenestcommunity.com/t5/Blog/An-update-for-ou...
Ideally the person with drugs in their body would be sent to a hospital where medical professionals would handle extracting whatever needed to be removed in a way that didn't cause harm to the person.

I can't imagine when it would ever be necessary for a random TSA thug to go elbow deep in someone to rummage around for a balloon filled with drugs that could rupture and kill them.
I prefer mastodon.social, and nitter.net (for when I need to see something on the old site)
> Inspiration for this members-only club within Tinder comes from Match’s July 2022 acquisition of another high-end dating app, The League, which could cost users up to $1,000 per week. During its Q2 2023 earnings, Tinder CPO Mark Van Ryswyk said The League indicated there was a market for daters who were willing to pay for quality matches and experiences. But Tinder Select doesn’t rely on human matchmakers, nor does it offer anything that’s really worth the cost of the $500 per month membership.

Ahh capitalism. They saw a premium service at a premium price, decided people will pay the price even without the service and shut down the original. Match.coms monopoly power over our love lives is very very bad for everyone. At this point I feel like arranged marriage is better because at least it's arranged by people who care about you and have aligned incentives. But my main point is this is terrible news.
MacPorts has provided binaries for many years at this point.
> but to fill out the rest of the architecture matrix I have been personally buying GPUs. That's been sufficient for covering most architectures, but we will need a sponsor if we are to acquire CDNA 2 and CDNA 3 hardware.

This seems like the kind of thing that AMD should be providing (or at least sponsoring) as a matter of principle — regardless of whether it can be funded in other ways I.e. if anyone in AMD cared this problem would be solved trivially. The fact that you are funding it out of pocket is seriously calling into question AMD’s commitment. What am I missing here?
> 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?

You've missed the idea entirely. No shipping services are envisioned whatsoever by the "public utility". It would just be the actual marketplace connecting buyers, sellers, and fulfillment.

Amazon can continue to do order fulfillment if they like, it's just that any company with a warehouse can actually begin to compete with them. Sellers would be able to freely associate with whatever fulfillment company best suits their needs, rather than being captive to FBA.

> What on earth are you on about? They own a url.

Right, from which they extract enormous rents. It is not a product in which they continually invest. If you have used it with any frequency over the past decade, you've almost certainly noticed how shitty it's become. That's not an accident; their "sellers" (tenants) are locked in, and are paying something more like obligate rent rather than indicating with their dollars that Amazon's product is the best.

It would be the same story with privately owned power lines or privately owned roads. You're not using them because they're the best, but because you don't have a choice. We screwed up with the actual internet cables, but we still have time to get it right with internet marketplaces.
The problem here is it's a lose-lose situation for the consumer. Either the incumbents push regulation that benefits them at the expense of new business and consumers, or regulations are removed and businesses (new and incumbent alike) get free reign to apply any consumer hostile money making scheme their hearts desire.

Maybe there's a third option?
I believe in you! Enjoy what you have. Slow down and smell the flowers.
The national electrical code is a private standard. Many local laws directly reference it, but it's not created nor maintained by the government in any way. These standards often come about by simply recognizing the most popular solution and then codifying it.

The government is not better at this than the market.
A few years ago read a review that stated IKEA led lamps (at that time) had more red (R9). You’d have to do more research to confirm.

I did buy a large supply of incandescents some 15years ago, now running out of them and starting to consider alternatives.
reason.com has an entire long-running series of stories like this happening in the U.S. I've heard quite a few stories from the Netherlands. It probably happens in other countries as well.

It's an issue in many Western countries, where we've seemingly become risk-averse to the point where it's causing more harm than good.
There are those of us who are security minded and will in fact download the script and check the sha1/sha256 and review the script before running it. Any time I see this curl sudo thing is when there's always another (manual) option. The shell scripts themselves aren't so complex that you can't figure out what they're doing, they're normally fairly straightforward, unless they were generated by some tool, or are in fact malware, so you can see if something looks funky before you run it. Sure, there can be a malware that makes it so you can't tell, but normally not.
I wonder how atypical I am as there was literally nothing in the list I cared about. In particular the widgets seems unfathomably pointless. I don't even use them on the phone, but at least there I can kind of see the point.

Meanwhile there's still no support for AV1.
Why not all of them? American politics have turned into a global influence game.
The Suffocating Blandness of the Fashion of Our Leaders
Can he not setup another Florida corp and transfer the assets? I meant his kids.
Platforms like this are always pretty funny. It's basically a gateway drug to their cloud platform (which isn't free) that they hope you use, but then they keep it open source so that they don't have to pay salaries to w2 employees. Smart thinkin'!
In Australia a meal is like $12 (about $8 USD) and we don’t have to tip.
Valve, Epic Games, and Nintendo seem better about privacy but are barred from iOS.
Recently set up HA with a Zigbee dongle, took less than 15 from zero (newer used HA before) to be able to control my dimmer, most of that time was spent on finding my USB device path in /dev.
Connect the usb dongle, start docker container, initial HA setup, find my Zigbee device and done.
Note that you don't need the Community Store if you're running HA via Docker.

Every plugin that is in that store must have a custom_components folder.

Drop that into the bind-mounted volume holding HA's configuration.yaml and restart. HA will pick it up automatically, and you'll be able to install it in Integrations and Devices.
It would be nice to see iOS follow the Android model so that developers wouldn't have to pay a 15-30% platform fee to Apple and could instead pay it to Google.
The reason why the US would destroy it is bc TSMC manufactures chips used in.. everything from F35, carriers, drones, satellites, SIGINT hardware, etc
Okay? No one thinks they would. We're in a business transaction.
At least they didn't "gift" you the album like they did with U2
I have the same issue with BlackVue dashcams. One day you launch the auto-updated app - bam! Please sign in to view your recordings.

The home automation that requires one to sign in is next level, of course.
I get a fever from the vaccine, but I don't care because the real thing would be so much worse.
https://caniuse.com/css-has

Available behind a feature flag
there's lots of theories on this, to the point of having "blue light glasses".

however, mine is much more caveman like. during the day, the sun is up. at night, it is not, so it is dark and cold. man made fire. fire is good. fire is warm. light from fire is orange. man evolve using warm light at night. industry brings us blue light at night. blue light strange. makes things look harsh, unpleasant. caveman pushes button on magic rock that makes light back to warm color. caveman happy again.
Modellability or Computability?

There are incomputable models.
> Text to SQL that actually works. Ask questions in natural language across multiple tables and our engine knows where to join.

Can you share any information about how it knows where to join?
Yeah, "mutton" is not a nice sounding word. It feels like a portmanteau of "mutt" and "(better than) nothin".

It's already French, which rules that out (thanks for nothing, Normans!) Maybe Spanish? Añojo? That sounds kinda nice. Like añejo tequila.
I’m not questioning anything about your story. I’m just curious: what types of “junk food” were they recommending?
Not sure why the downvotes - very useful context and phrased correctly as a question.
> ATM machines also made the lives of bank tellers worse cause they lost their jobs.

Nit: this isn't accurate. ATM machines are the textbook example of a case where automation actually increased employment. Bank teller employment continued to grow at around the same rate as before ATMs were introduced even while ATM installations skyrocketed, because it suddenly became much cheaper to operate a bank branch. So while tellers per bank went down, the overall number of tellers increased because there were so many new branches opening.
You have to work even harder to attract investors in a high-interest-rate environment. Equity and bond returns must beat safe investments like Treasurys, or no one will invest in them.
A Vector Database in 35LOC
Grandma's still rocking the automation through the power lines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm33KB2Th9M&t=680s
I grew up thinking I hate steak because my family think the slightest hint of pink is poison. Even my younger brothers, so it's not a generational thing. It gets weird when we meet up and one of them wants to grill the meat, I have to snatch my meat off the grill like a cat burglar because nobody else will respect my preference and try to chase me away (they're completely convinced I'm reckless for this.)
Not sure about diagnosing someone over the Internet, but yeah, can’t relate. The rare days I wake up feeling half as alert and driven as described, it’s great, I get a ton of important shit done, feel wonderful and alive the whole time, go “oh, this is why some people are wildly more accomplished than me—they must feel like this quite a bit more often than I do, I’d be fucking emperor of Earth if I felt this way even one day a week”.

Then I’m back to normal for the next six months or so :-)
So that's why we have SPA's for things that should be simple HTML sites!
> Until I do it incorrectly, and then I'm deliberately misconstruing your point into something you didn't say.

That's what you're doing now, aside from pretending it isn't deliberate.

I strongly suspect all of you are Amazon astroturphers, so I'm going to disengage now.
mosquitto is pretty great
By that logic Apple does not prevent end users from rooting the phone and installing anything they like, it just makes it very inconvenient... and less shady than Microsoft's shell execute bug.