skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just spitballing here but it's possible that Android's openness is exactly why Google Pixel doesn't have better resources to have long term support. Some bean counters probably determined that Google doesn't make enough money to have teams supporting older Pixels. Samsung is taking a ton of profits from Pixel and the end result is piss poor Android support on Pixels.

Guess what? Samsung doesn't care about long term Android support. They're in it to sell phones. It's better for Samsung if Android's ecosystem continues to drop older phones.

At some point, Apple realized that long term support is a competitive advantage they can leverage. Due to their enormous profits, they can increase their support costs. With their closed ecosystem, Samsung can't come in and pull their shenanigans to undercut Apple.

IMO, Android’s openness is exactly why the Android experience on older phones suck.
When planes that aren't VTOLs take off the thrust isn't perpendicular to the runway/road - it's mostly parallel. But what can happen is if there's a crack or gap in the road surface the wind could get under there and lift up chunks. Now you have a FOD problem for the next plane until someone can get out there and pick it up. But if the road was concrete and/or well-maintained, you're likely to be fine.
Dad, thanks for giving me the confidence and skill to ... be the handiest girl I know.

Professionally, when I came in late to work, having run some simulations on the home-made Imsai. Slightly perturbed boss looked at my printouts and said "You did a week's worth of work in one morning".

or time he said:

"You do great work, not very often, but it's fantastic when you do." :-)
SIDS most likely does not exist. "Unknown cause of death" should be preferred.[1] If you review the literature, there has been a definite increase in pushback against "SIDS" instead trying to assign causes of death with known mechanisms. I can't find a great reference but there is one out there that proposes with evidence that the most prevalent actual cause of death labeled "SIDS" is accidental suffocation.

It is so emotionally charged though that there is and has been great hesitation to assign this cause of death because of the emotional effect on the parents.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10571752/
I just imagined not driving past cows and goats and chickens everyday, and it was a sad thought.

The concrete jungle just isn’t for me, thanks for the timely reminder! :)
This feels like "Philsosophy" from Modern Family
for someone who accused me of bad faith in their first breath, you sure don't seem to be trying hard to accurately represent the specific practices Amazon engaged in as described in the complaint, and lazily misrepresenting them isn't the same as proving that they foster competition rather than stifle it.
In the 60s the Queen chose and elected her own Prime Minister. In the late 90s the Queen refused Parliament the ability to debate a bill around strikes in Iraq.

The Crown dissolved the Australian government in the 70s. In Canada a few years ago they denied parliament the ability to dissolve itself and go to elections.

The power has been exercised in the last century multiple times.
"...The Norwegian Institute of Public Health followed several cohorts throughout the pandemic and early performed a systematic data collection of self-reported unexpected vaginal bleeding in nonmenstruating women. Among 7725 postmenopausal women, 7148 perimenopausal women, and 7052 premenopausal women, 3.3, 14.1, and 13.1% experienced unexpected vaginal bleeding during a period of 8 to 9 months, respectively. In postmenopausal women, the risk of unexpected vaginal bleeding (i.e., postmenopausal bleeding) in the 4 weeks after COVID-19 vaccination was increased two- to threefold, compared to a prevaccination period. The corresponding risk of unexpected vaginal bleeding after vaccination was increased three- to fivefold in both nonmenstruating peri- and premenopausal women..."
> I prefer my meat to be ... labeled with words no longer than 5 letters and two syllables

Slain pals? Surely that would sell.

(There’s a lot of words for “murder” but not many with 5 or fewer letters. Same with “friend”. A thesaurus is only so helpful.)
>comparing between different placebo groups in different studies is cargo cult science.

I'm a science dude but I'm also a cargo guy.

Maybe that's why I was thinking it's about time we see placebo on the rise.

After all it does seem to have the most remarkable effect on the widest variety of conditions compared to any other single solution.
Even if you don't review it before running it, after

$ curl https://whatever/foo.sh > foo.sh
$ sh foo.sh

if something goes terribly wrong you can examine foo.sh to try to figure out what happened and how to fix it. Even if foo.sh managed to delete itself you can just grab it again.

After

$ curl https://whatever/foo.sh | sh

if something goes wrong and you then try

$ curl https://whatever/foo.sh > foo.sh

to get a copy of the script to examine a malicious server can tell that you aren't piping to a shell [1] and give a non-malicious script.

Since it takes an insignificant amount of effort to defend against this why not get in the habit of doing it?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17636032
What's missing from what Target and others are trying to have us believe is that employee theft and corporate ineptitude account for 56% of "shrinkage". Also, external theft is trending down while internal theft is trending up.

"While retailers and the NRF are increasingly saying crime is cutting into profits, losses from internal and external theft last year were largely on par with historical trends. They made up 65% of total shrink, the survey found.

External theft, which includes organized retail crime, was again reported as the largest source of shrink last year at 36.15%, but that was slightly below 37% in 2021. Internal theft, or goods stolen by employees, rose slightly to 28.85% from 28.5% in 2021. Process and control failures and errors made up 27.29% of shrink in 2022, up from 25.7% the year prior."

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/26/organized-retail-crime-and-t...
Please don't post pointless comments, or this site turns into reddit.
That makes total sense.

Great example of a product that is only viable because it’s inputs would otherwise just be waste.
Nonsense. I am currently positive as a result of a lateral flow test. It was a useful means of confirming what I had was indeed Covid (the dry cough was pretty tell-take) and so to take appropriate actions.

They are absolutely not without significant fault and there doubtlessly countless false negatives giving people ideas they can go out when sick (stay home, Covid or not!). However it’s not fair to say that “PCR only works”.
Microsoft was forcing people to pay for Windows when they bought a computer even if they didn't want to use Windows.

PC makers had to pay for licenses based on the number of computers sold, regardless of whether they were bundling Windows with them or not.
I don't care about the raid features personally, that's irrelevant to me. I care about snapshotting and send streams more than anything else.

Your anecdotal evidence about data loss is meaningless. I can counter with my own anecdote: I've had zero data loss with btrfs running pre-release RC kernels on my laptops for over a decade. I fill up disks a lot.
If prices keep up with inflation then the business owner is no worse off. They have most of their assets in the business, which is better than cash.
It's exactly that. they think they can become a Lightbulb-as-a-Service company.

Insane.
Thank you!

I hear that. We're making a lot of progress on reducing the amount of sql you need to write, keeping it DRY etc. Making the dev experience really buttery and high leverage is definitely a priority.

Here are a few of the things we're working on in that regard:

1. Making our components issue their own queries so that you don't need to write full sql expressions, just fragments when you're defining the chart you want.

2. Improving intellisense -- right now you get "slash commands" and snippets in our vscode extension to invoke components (which are really sweet), but we're aiming to get to a full intellisense type of experience.

3. Supporting external metrics layers where it makes sense. We've got some users using Cube, we're interested in Malloy, and the dbt semantic layer, those types of things.

One of our team members is very keen on building something he calls "Evidence studio", sort of a wsywig you could invoke during development for generating basic queries, setting up charts etc. that syncs the components into their text representation. That'd be further off though :)
I use reader mode most of the time on my phone.
Yes, that is what I meant. I probably should have been clearer in meaning it fixes our behaviours that seem to unnecessarily contribute to factors that cause myopia.
Technology has moved so quickly we literally can't have anything nice for more than 5 years before they start innovating on revenue streams.

I used to be a massive technophile but now I have the dumbest home of all my family and friends and I wouldn't change it for the world.
There were also issues getting the light sufficiently collated from a synchrotron.

This Asianometry talks about the engineering:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ge2RcvDlgw

Now, China may decide that it doesn't need throughput and that will definitely help. Having a facility that can simply do it even if it can't do it at speeds that a commercial fab would accept would be fine for strategic reasons.

However, it will be 20+ years of engineering.

And that's just the light source.

The optics, for example, are a whole other engineering project.
Yeah 1Password 8 is really bad compared to 7, ignoring how awful electron is for a password manage it doesn't even have basic feature parity like finding and removing duplicates, completely hiding vaults etc
Fair enough. But what if you bought the product, paid a fair amount for it (i.e., you can't just shit-can it) and *then* X months later the brand suddenly require a sign up, subscription fee, etc.

Then what?
Without knowing the particulars, that's an interesting example. The fact that Miku was going bankrupt suggests that they did not have a viable/sustainable business, and perhaps they could have been profitable with a different (i.e. subscription fees) business model. In either case, new company seems like they do not much value existing Miku customers, as demanding more money for a product that was bought/paid seems pretty outrageous.
Yeah I did. It's not as detailed as I wish for but it's a lot of fun listening to him talking about the contractor days.
VLSI Physical Design
The main thing for reliability for me is ... is there wired ethernet to the device or hub, and NOT wifi or bluetooth to the final switch/bulb.

"real" protocols like Zigbee and friends seem to work well.
Theoretically it is hard to argue against letting apple configure and manage the devices they sell as they see fit. After all of users don't like iphone they can buy a galaxy. It's not like apple is a monopoly in smartphones.

However, the current market situation is definitely limiting customer choice and freedom in a way very similar to a monopoly. There are only 2 options in the market. Iphone or android. So even if I do care about having a device with full control, I literally cannot buy one, without sacrificing the last half decade of tech improvements.

If the next version of android totally disallowed side loading, what recourse would people have? Literally nothing. You would be forced to take it.

This thing has happened multiple times before with removable batteries, headphone jacks, memory cards, etc. I care about having a headphone jack a little bit, but there is literally no new phone coming out with that feature now. You can still get some, but not without major degradation in areas like CPU/GPU, battery, screen, cameras, etc.

So effectively, I do think that iphone and android should be related in some ways like a monopoly. Simply because that's how they are affecting customers.
Yup. It’s very “fake nerd” energy.
This is amazing. It's working fine with firefox on my old machine with Win10.
Long about 1970, I was in the 3rd grade, and The Bell System came by my school with a setup to teach the material in this pamphlet.

There was a box that stayed in the hall and two rotary phones that ended up in 2 class rooms. The Bell System person showed everyone how to answer (try to pick up within 4 rings) and how to call (let it ring no more than 10 times). Then we got to practice. Pick up one phone, the other phone started ringing! You could pick up and talk to someone in the other classroom! It was great!

As an adult I worked a spell at a baby bell, before cell phones killed them. It turns out that the whole Bell System demo was self serving. Each central office has a "ringer", a machine that generates 60Hz AC, which is what rings old land line phones A ringer has a fixed capacity, it can only cause so many land lines to ring. If teenagers are letting phones ring too long, the Bell System had to buy more ringers
I have a different take on the ad. The ad is saying that computer is the obsolete experience, not that the iPad can do everything a computer can do. If Apple truely believed that, they would not have a mac line up.

For a certain demographic of people, I would agree. I continue to push the iPad for my aging parents because it can do what they need to do without my tech support. They don't need all the flexibility of a computer as a general purpose computing device. They just need to browse the web, write emails and watch videos, and the iPad is perfect for them.
A fantastic example of these backdoor discussions is here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1501749/Papers-revea...
We have already introduced so many automations into our lives in the past century. People from 100 years ago would assume that, with the tools we have today, we already would have reached “fully automated luxury communism”. But instead, we fall short of that utopia.

The growth in consumption seems to always ever so slightly outpace innovation.

A result of this relationship between consumption and innovation seems to be that there is always some drudgery for humans right beyond the edge of what we can automate. The drudgery serves to eek just a bit more out of the system in order to match the demands of consumption.

Tomorrows drudgery will not look like todays, but it will remain drudgery all the same.
It's all about discoverability, you wouldn't find them, tree falling in the woods, no one is around. Does it make a sound?
Shelly products are (mostly) esp32 based with very open architecture.
I figure in 20 years, they will either be dead or still working, no middle ground of "manufacturer went under" because the toolchain is open.
Well it is an arms race of sorts. If you can build it you can fake it.
Sure, I can answer your question :) Tes, I tried to use YouTube Music with Chrome since it supports PWA installation, but it wasn't a good experience, the browser get synced with my Google Account and I don't like it, also my keyboard keys to change volume and tracks didn't work (with the Spotify app they work), maybe now they work, I know that PWA support in Chromium was pushed and evolving a lot recently.

Maybe I should try other chromium-based browser just for that, but also don't feel to have logged in my Google Account in other browser (if YTM has a desktop native app will be similar haha but IDK), hope Firefox desktop at some point support PWA installations. And maybe I'm old, but for products that I interact all day (spotify, figma, slack) I just like native desktop apps detached from browsers, even if they are Electron apps which are essentially a webapp wrapper.

About the Overcast suggestion, I'm a Windows/Ubuntu/Android person, I guess Overcast isn't for me, but I'm willing to pay $10/year for a product like Google Podcasts, I will look for products soon.

Also, Google Podcasts is free and ad-free, I never even see a promoted podcasts or something like that. But than can be one reason why Google shut it down. Google Keep is similar, simple, free and ad-free, I love it, hope they don't shut it down!
You can buy prototypes from dirtypcbs.com (Dangerous Prototypes outlet)
Fair enough especially considering there is overlap in the congressional proponents of both the shutdown and ending free elections.
I really can't feel sorry for people that think it's a good idea to depend on proprietary software for their light bulbs.
Being locked out of your account because of something you don't expect and not able to use your device is an experience you will never forget.
Latency is an issue with file or network-based IPC, but shared memory is supposed to be the same speed as non-shared. Apparently the X window system relies on it a lot.

Scheduling, I dunno. Would imagine it's not bad as long as you don't spawn a ton of these.
The justice system does the best it can with the information it has. It is far from perfect. It makes horrible mistakes all the time. The problem, of course, is improving it without knock-on effects making it worse.

There are huge swaths of people doing the work required to make it better, every day. It's not as easy as turning a dial from "bad" to "good"
Why ironic? Java is a multi paradigm language (though obviously not at the same level as say C++). It has been getting "functional" features for a while now, including streaming libraries, pattern matching, immutable records, etc.
Matter makes it a lot easier to mix and match products from different ecosystems. You can get 3 A19 nanoleaf RGB blubs that support Matter over Thread for the price of one Hue RGB A19. The Hue might be better but I doubt its 3 times better (I have a bunch of Hue lights and no nanoleafs yet).

I'll be moving to matter blubs (whatever brand strikes the best balance between price and quality) in the future and only using Hue bulbs when its necessary for features that aren't supported with Matter (like Hue Sync).
This is even better than the docker version, because it's able to set up a bunch of stuff for you that you'd have to do manually with docker, like the current ZWave integration.
I wonder... do people with distros that use declarative package management have use for a similar tool? How do you "spring clean" your installs... apart from reinstalling?
I really like this. It’s so hard to recognize when energy / restlessness is something I need to channel “productively”, or when I just need to knock myself out.
Not what happened. The driver thought they heard the nword come from a Eufy doorbell. Which was them mishearing the automated response. No person uttered an nword and no ring doorbell was involved.

Amazon did lock the guys account for the report from their driver. That did lock him out of his other IoT devices.
Did not know about it - is it new?

Wonder what additional fees are associated with it.
Elon Musk and the Infinite Rebuy
1. and 2. Just use Paddle.

Note that you still need a legal entity to receive your income and probably an accountant to do your taxes.
Use secret vaulting, never a shared password manager.

For ultimate offline secrets like HSM, CA, or crypto private keys, buy new printers, print the secrets as QR codes and keep them in safety deposit boxes at 2-3 different banks.

For passwords you don't want any one exec to have, use N-person keying by splitting 1 or multiple keys into pieces such that a quorum of 2,3, etc. are needed to utilize the secret.
Why is the proposed solution HomeKit? It requires an Apple device to control it and an iCloud Account.

Are account requirements from some companies better than other?
Congrats, you just defeated the attack by manually downloading the script before running it!
You get money from advertisers, you put more ads, simple. The ads are there because users do not pay, so it's unlikely they will suddenly start, and one exception doesn't change that.
Is this new? I specifically went for Kobo years ago because my research told me that Kindle didn't have that capability, and Kobo did. Perhaps I didn't look hard enough.
I don’t know. It’s a cat and mouse game, and you can only win in such games if you don’t play. By moving the security from static analysis to kernel, Apple has sidestepped most malicious API mishaps. My project isn’t malicious, it just uses API not as intended, but it can do little malice in wrong hands. I think this is a good system overall.
I switched hue bulbs to zigbee2mqtt adapter few days ago, the whole thing took 30 mins, mostly because I had to factory reset all bulbs and go through dashboards and automations and replace old hue integration entities with new ones.

Zigbee2mqtt adapter picked them up right away, I tossed the hue bridge, and got rid of few cables. Amazing that it just worked. Just didn't get the hue remote to work yet because I'm lazy, worst case I can literally program anything else to interact with the lights now through HA

I'm using SONOFF Zigbee USB Dongle Plus with Z-Stack 3.x.0 Coordinator Firmware that plugs directly into RPI
FWIW Logitech continues to run the Harmony servers, and I've bought a couple of used hubs since. I hate that you have to login, so don't call me an apologist; Logitech made some real mistakes here. Still, the Harmony products work well enough. I hope eventually either Logitech open sources the server and database, or that someone emulates the server somehow.
Thanks to you for brightening my afternoon -- oh, you brought a smile to my face.

My happy wishes to you and your family!

=Cliff
I wasn’t even aware this was a supported installation method anymore. If it is, it’s hidden on the site. When was the author’s last experience with homeassistant?

If the answer to cloud enshittification is “I know! I’ll use a different company’s solution instead of this open source project because I want to make an outdated stand against curl|bash” then I think the thought process is misguided.
That's the thing, all these holes need to be identified and plugged up. Google, despite being a data-hungry targeted advertising company, did a fairly good job at this in recent Android versions.

Or, a much, much simpler solution: an application firewall built into the system. With downloadable easily shareable rulesets. No matter what an app collects, it's all worthless if it can't send that back to advertisers. We already do that for websites by using ad blockers.
Check out https://indiehackers.com, a community for "solopreneurs".
>> It's like learning about keming.

I see what you did there
I’d rather install open source JavaScript code via curl and sudo than install closed source binaries via an iOS app. This is for something with a permanent place on your home network.

Rachel is usually spot on, but dogma won the day today. Home assistant is great, and I’ll go one step further: I don’t care a bit what language a tool is written in. Plenty of insecure and malicious C in the world.
This seems a little exaggerated?

Macos 12 will run on most Macs from 2015 and later.

8 year old hardware isn't Earth shattering, but it's also not a "hostile" period of time for a non-commercial open source project to support. And it's certainly not "new hardware every year".
Deep­Mind’s Demis Has­s­abis un­veils his vi­sion for AI’s fu­ture in biotech
Couple other links from previous news:

"COVID-19 vaccine recipients report changes in menstrual bleeding"

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-07-survey-covid-vaccine-...

"Covid-19 Vaccines Linked to Menstrual Cycle Changes"

https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-vaccines-linked-to-men...
Not surprised it happened in France, they are much more of a nanny state (in good and bad ways) when it comes to parenting. Like the fact that paternity tests are banned unless you have a court order, etc.