skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a spinal cord injury (well technically, its an "incomplete" spinal cord injury) and yet must still work for a living (to the extent that I can). I make significant use of this technology as I have limited movement and significant daily pain and limitations I must live with.

I like that I can control things without needing to get up again if required (as mobility is quite difficult for me) but I also make use of motion sensors/schedules and stuff to ensure as much as possible that the areas i'm in are lit without me having to mess around with switches and stuff which can often be difficult with a cane in one hand, if I want to do literally anything else with the other.

It may well be a first world problem for some, but for me, it is simply a problem full stop and some basic home automation stuff has been a big help.
FTC is misguided.

They just punish Amazon for being successful.

On the other hand, they (DOJ) should use the maximum might of the criminal law to prosecute using fraud statutes for sellers (and Amazon itself) when ratings have been manipulated, resulting in decades in prison.
That seems pretty different from breaking an clearly worded promise?
That's not true, Zigbee remotes can pair directly to lightbulbs (including Philips Hue) and control the color. Example: https://rgbgenie.com/?product=rgbgenie-rgbw-remote-zigbee

Also, there are tons of cheap colored lightbulbs controlled directly by an infrared remote. Example: https://www.amazon.com/Light-Color-Changing-2700K-White/dp/B...
This is what I did when I found out that other people were aimbotting in CS:GO. I went outside and shot some real people instead.

Nothing can substitute for the real thing, guys.
It’s not that easy to just know how parenting is going to work the first time around. You can be lactating prior to delivery and then dry up for no reason. Even worse, your baby can decide not to latch or be tongue-tied. If your husband isn’t on hand to run to the store from the hospital, things can get challenging.

We had to worry about my wife dying because they wouldn’t suggest a C-section and we didn’t think to ask for one (her induction didn’t take for several days). We’re quite confident they’d have let her die before suggesting one. Thankfully, we thought better in time.
I like how this implies that after firmware release 2.7, they decided that 12 different power cycling patterns was too many, so they lowered it to 10. Wouldn't want some unsuspecting user to reset their bulbs by accidentally following an exact pattern up to 9 times.
macports is great! doesn't get enough love imo.

same could be said for pkgsrc I guess. I've used that on other *nix systems; haven't tried it on MacOS yet but the fact it's an option is huge
My assumption is that the development/maintenance/support costs aren’t worth the bump in adoption/sales they’d see from doing it.

It’s a large amount of expensive, ongoing work, and leveraging Apple’s native toolchain will invariably provide a better user experience.
> If I was an entrepreneur keeping my ear to the ground I'd weigh up starting a boutique produce delivery services, a human agency dedicated to dealing with companies on your behalf

But this just emphasizes the inequalities these automations create—poor people could walk to the neighborhood grocer and buy produce, but now that's reserved for people who can afford to pay for delivery or have a car and money for gas. Poor people could wait on hold like everyone else, but now only the rich can afford your agency. A small business could hire a designer, but now they're left buying stock plugins because being a small-time designer doesn't pay anymore.

The premise of this article isn't that automation is bad in and of itself, but that we are bad at considering the inequitable impact these automations have on our world.
Contract specifics:

https://www.wgacontract2023.org/the-campaign/summary-of-the-...
Which sounds like brigading?
Really? Should work with any OpenType font. Are you generating in a language that doesn't use roman-ish alphabet? You're not wrong that working with TeX can involve a lot of yak shaving in general. Sometimes finding the right template can solve a lot of problems. I use Eisvogel. https://github.com/Wandmalfarbe/pandoc-latex-template
It's not whataboutism (a nebulous and mostly useless category) to talk about common journalistic practice, and how the claim falls well within norms of that practice. So it can hardly be described as "disinformation" except in the sense that it is unflattering information coming from an official enemy.
Can you share more about what you're hoping to do?
I don’t disagree with what you’re saying, but it’s not money that’s corrupting.

I find the moralizing of these actions quite frustrating because they seem to indicate people don’t actually understand why things work the way do.

The C-suite aren’t corrupt. They have a job to do and they’re doing their job. Their job is to maximize returns on the investors’ investments. That’s it. It’s absolutely moral for them to do that job.

One might complain that their actions focus too much on the short term rather than the long term, and that would be a legitimate complaint. But only if it means they’re losing money in the long term. Enshittification usually makes money both in the short and long terms.

Once we recognize that people aren’t being “corrupt” but actually doing the job they’re being paid to do by maximizing their profits, one can focus on how to provide incentives to maximize profits without making things worse. And profit maximization inevitably leads to making things worse because it requires minimizing what you’re giving the customer and maximizing what you’re getting from them.

The free market check on this is competition. But competition only works if it’s a genuinely competitive market, and there are clear signals to the customer who is educated in understanding and valuing those signals, regarding the quality of products.

This used to be much easier earlier where products were simpler, but it’s much harder now. The vast majority of the market will have no ability to evaluate the risk of needing an online account to switch on your light bulb. And so a company which provides the no login option will be less competitive because it won’t be able to make money off your data and it will have to support an additional workflow.

In the absence of customer knowledge and visibility we only really have standards.

Ideally you start with standards provided by industry trade bodies. However, those are ripe for corruption and as a result there’s hardly any such successful standards.

Which leads you to the final option which is govt standards that are either highly encouraged by the threat of possibly instituting firmer regulations or just plain and simple regulated with the threat of fines and jail.
Not so easy when you are in a hospital recovering from birth. They generally won't allow things from offsight into the hospital either, so even if you (dad) goes to get some you have to get it in without getting caught.

The other side is nursing is hard, and so it is easy to cheat and use formula when you could with a little effort nurse the baby just fine. (Nursing is generally slightly better for the baby, but the difference is tiny. Nursing is generally a lot better for the wallet though)
> When a project proudly declares itself as "modern," it implies that it's up-to-date and built with the latest technologies.

> Would anyone suggest replacing TeX with a "modern" alternative simply because it's newer?

No, “modern” implies that the existing solutions have some shortcomings which are perceived to be due to old age or legacy/tech debt.

That’s why no one is proposing an alternative to TeX.

Whether that perception of old age therefore bad is valid or not is a different question. Chances are that the “modern” solution will end up reinventing the wheel and rediscovering why the old tools did things a particular way.

Other times modern means the new tool cherry-pick the best part of its predecessors and omit the bad parts.
Well timed, I've been thinking of this lately:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37517137

Only that the article is very long.
I've managed to come up with a few app free options, more limited, but still effective and less abusive than an app. I'd make do with a string of Christmas lights if I had to.
Takes all kinds to fill a world, I suppose. I don't think I'd like that commute at all. Too long and requires attention so you can't read.
I thought it was just me, albums getting duplicated with few one song in one and most in other.

What issues you face with music app ?
Just bunch up the blanked and slighly life the back of the laptop and bam, enough air.
100% agreed. I was a paying customer for years, but finally switched to Apple Music when Google shut it down. A significant downgrade, IMO, but not as bad as YouTube Music at the time.
Can’t confirm, the only issues I’ve had were with Deconz, since switching to Zigbee2MQTT (using the same ConBee stick) there have been no issues whatsoever.
This has no actual effect on the underlying issue that nothing is stopping companies from doing this. In fact, if what you describe active ually happens a lot, it would be trivial to set up puppet competitors to your own products in order to recapture leaving costumers, repeat ad infinitum.
i see no master here
I thought about flipping your comment into one that encourages people to not comment online to prove a point, but to find someone outside and do the real thing, but that'd be rude.

Now- I don't disagree that going outside is more desirable to me than this. Through the lens of playing a video game, cheating sucks. People that cheat suck and sour the experience for others. If it makes him happy to ruin these people's game like they've ruined his-- I'm good with it. If he's doing this to make his own experience more enjoyable-- I'm good with it. Either way, this was an interesting article. It was well written, and it gave me a window into something I will probably never choose to enjoy.
Philips is a Dutch multinational conglomerate. You cannot make any sincere argument about how this is the fault of Silicon Vally, or even the United States.

(Opinion) the only common denominator remaining is the underlying economic system.
Sure, but the accused should have a lawyer who is screaming about anything that is unreliable.
Similarly, out in Atlanta, Walmart closed both of the main stores [1] and cut hours for several of the remaining stores surrounding the city. [2]

I suspect all these store closings have less to do with theft and more to do with rent and cost-cutting measures.

[1] https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/vine-city-howell-...

[2] https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/these-walmart-store...
Companies are people, but not free from duress. Duress of having to eat, having a mortgage, having tuition, debt.

Everyone has a boss, and a budget to hit.

It is the Banality of Evil.

US corporations are full of layers of Middle management made of "Eichmann"s.

Be it violating environmental laws on dumping, covering up sexual abuse, or sending people to ovens.

It happens, has happened, and will get worse.

And yes, it will be done by humans to other humans.
“Adventure is out there ”: Opportunities in AI x Travel
I always assumed that the real reason YouTube Music was released was for Google to actually save on bandwidth.
The 1982 song "Some People (Have All The Fun)" was a minor hit in Australia, New Zealand. It includes the lyrics:

A Oh mumma make me happy, send me lots more cash
Don't worry, I saw the Midnight Express thirty-six times
And I know where to keep my stash

Young me took a few years to understand the reference.
It certainly doesn’t mean well, regulated as in restricted, because nobody’s gonna say oh no, we’re being invaded thank God we have so many restrictions limiting the size of our weaponry to protect ourselves, the security of the state will definitely be preserved because we’re so well restricted, I mean regulated
‘Optimal Illusions’ Review: Efficient to a Fault
I'm interested in understanding and keeping up with this space - do you have any suggestions for resources to look at?
As a counter to this, my 2 smart light bulbs (different brands) both like to reset themselves all the damn time. There is supposed to be a particular needed sequence to reset them but in reality just turning the switch on, off, then remembering you needed something in the room and turning the lights on again quickly, is enough to do the trick.
So if the spin is not real, what is the reason, and why does it needs to be spun?
I’ve had to do a lot of my rides indoors due to the Seattle weather and drivers.
There are times I don’t feel safe riding outside due to the lack of infrastructure.

This is coming from someone who logs 200 miles outdoors in the summer.
Last time I checked, admittedly several years ago, Lombok was abusing the fact that the AST esposed to the annotation processors was mutable (exposing a deep immutable view over a complex data structure is not something that you do easily nor efficiently in Java to this day, so I'm not blaming javac here). The compiler estensionions were not really forbidden in any meaningful way to do what Lombok is doing, and given the difference in tooling and effort required for a new language I don't really blame them either.
That said, going against the whishes of the JSL has its risks, but I can understand Lombok's choice.
I still push against Lombok in the projects I work on since how it works makes me unconfortable.
+1, didn't work for me either. There's dozens of us!
Or it signals "this person is looking for as many one night stands as possible".

Bars/Pubs are a place people have been meeting each other for 100s of years.
These days of woke domination 'racism' is only white. NY Times even argued that 'kill white farmers' is not a racism at all, it shouldn't be taken literally.

Brainwashed ChatGPT has difficulties discussing black racism. Even if it exists it's not nearly as bad as white.

Just ask 'anti-racists' about it and you'll see who they really are.
Try running `sudo mkdir /nix && sudo chown $USER /nix` on modern macOS.
This is a great one. It’s crazy to think how little most rules matter.

I remember in high school chemistry class this kid pulled the emergency shower chain and flooded the room with disgusting rusty water. I vividly remember thinking, “wow he just ruined his life.” He’s a doctor now lol.

It’s also funny how I was a total stickler for the rules and my brother just disregarded them entirely. He enrolled into ROTC in high school and once he figured out the instructors couldn’t do anything but yell at him he just let them yell. They’d tell him to run a mile and he’d walk it as slow as he wanted while they screamed right in his face the whole time.

Now that I’m older I definitely don’t think about the rules as much anymore. Somebody at work said we “had” to do something and I was just like, “Who said that?” And they couldn’t figure out why they thought we had to do it. So we just did it.

There’s a line in the new Elon Musk book where he says something like, “The only rules are the laws of physics. Everything else is just a recommendation.” When I was younger I would’ve thought that was a terrible philosophy. Now it makes a lot more sense.
No, I think I will stand by my position that the vaccines did in fact slow the spread, especially early on. I think there is LOTS of evidence about the vaccines effects on transmission which points to them being effective.

Also think back to before we had good evidence on transmissibility/infection. Myocarditis hit the young, who were the last to be vaccinated, and consequently among the last to be researched. So the evidence of the vaccinations effects on transmissibility/infection led the evidence about myocarditis. Before either of those bits of evidence came out, the vaccines were nevertheless VERY effective at reducing hospitalisations from COVID-19 caused by early strains in those initial trials. I've also only really heard of the Pfizer trial's being severely criticised after the fact.

So there was good cause to get vaccinated the entire time, although the value of vaccination kept dropping as new strains kept cropping up which were seemingly less impaired by vaccination, and after omicron I saw a huge amount of people start to skip vaccination.
Blob: OpenBSD 3.9 Song
In our modern economy everyone that wants a job has one. Unemployment is extremely low and has been.
> The stores include the East Harlem location in New York City, two locations in Seattle, three locations in Portland, and three locations in San Francisco and Oakland.

These are all growing or at least stable cities with strong economies. It seems unlikely that they were forced to close these stores for some reason and was forced to come up with a post hoc rationalization.
Opinion: Drop companies that don't answer support emails
I've about had it with crappy support from companies.

Sign up for a service, have a problem, introduce myself with a polite "hello, new here, and have a question" type email and never get a response. (This is AFTER I've signed up with a subscription).

After 48 hours, I find another service.

I'm surprised that in this day and age people aren't actually more willing to try to at least service their customers.

I get it. Unless a majority of their customers have a question, they probably won't care to answer it.

Thing is, this particular company, I had never heard of before, and they are a YC funded company (I think) with a crappy API that's not even got a version number on it.

----

There also wasn't an apparent way to cancel, so I just closed the virtual credit card I used to sign up for the service.
It goes beyond that, the more "renegade" Taiwan is in its rhetoric and the more the US increases the MIC investments in Taiwan the more militant China is about "repatriating" Taiwan and the faster they want it achieved.

Nobody really cares that much about renegade provinces until they seem like a threat. The US famously called Taiwan the unsinkable aircraft carrier in the pacific[1]. It doesn't really matter that Taiwanese people themselves don't want to fight China.

If the Europeans and the US were serious about Taiwan's independence they would have built up Taiwan's defense industry and supported it's independence in the UN, when they were at the height of their power, but they specifically did not, they actually voted against any attempt of Taiwan to be admitted to the UN(to be fair the Republic of China in its constitution still considers itself the sole China). At the time Taiwan was an economic powerhouse and they had some of the biggest shipyards in the world.

Right now the US cannot at all compare with China in terms of military industrial output, here's what the US Navy secretary general had to say about the topic[2]. Basically AUKUS is subsidizing US shipbuilding.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsinkable_aircraft_carrier

[2] https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/22/asia/us-navy-chief-china-...
my favorite food, spiedies, were originally marinade for lamb. remember reading years ago about how it was invented to dummy up meat that was going bad back in the day, but cant seem to find anything...ive never tried the lamb version. think they have that at lupos. ive only ever gone to ribpit for the chicken.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiedie
This is exactly it - as long as they support macOS for X years they need to release safari updates for that long, so they might as well decouple that one.
> Just because Luddites were sympathetic doesn't change the fact that they were wrong. They didn't care for the welfare of workers in general so much as they were looking out for themselves.

Unions don't fight for the welfare of workers in general. They fight for their members and their members only.

So thank you for your strong anti-union speech, I guess.
Opening this on mobile automatically redirects to an ecommerce website...
I don't see how eff has any leverage on large tech companies?
> say you are great programmer

> refuse to publish any of your code

> leave
> Sadly there is no money in home automation unless you can force them into your SaaS service. Making a good product and selling it once just doesn't get Wall Street excited anymore.

Cloud servers cost money to run. Security updates cost money. Firmware updates cost money. Mobile apps have ongoing costs, you can't just release an app into the stores and have it keep working, Google and Apple keep demanding updates.

One time fees on low margin consumer electronics is not a sustainable model.
You've got a point there.

This right here is quite grim, for all the talk about security improvement in the article from Microsoft, it links to a DHS CISA presentation at the 2021 RSA Conference:

https://www.rsaconference.com/library/presentation/usa/2021/...

Where you can watch the 40 minute video on Youtube or look at the 21-slide PDF which quickly confirms a lot of things on its own.

Slides:

https://static.rainfocus.com/rsac/us21/sess/1602603692582001...

Mainly confirming that the big problem is the hidden layer that did not exist before UEFI. And as we have seen UEFI was deceptively touted as superior to traditional BIOS.

This turned out just as expected 10 years ago when UEFI was forcibly rushed into widespread deployment by Microsoft itself at great expense to everyone else at the time. Without even considering the ongoing cost of the dramatically more extensive & vulnerable attack surface, combined with the inability of almost everyone to detect compromised firmware to begin with since the OS still runs and scans normally.

Plus before UEFI, the most devastating infections a user was significantly likely to encounter, when you have no choice but to reinstall Windows and then some, could be fixed by an ordinary computer repair operator by wiping the drive before reinstalling, which erases a rootkit without even knowing what type it is. Plus maybe reflashing the BIOS manually, which was not uncommon because it was more likely to become corrupt on its own than be the target of any widespread attack.

The CISA slides confirm the dramatic rise in UEFI firmware attacks which exist below the ability of OS radar to detect or mitigate. Ordinary computer repair operators can't do very much now and it's going to take a lot of advancement to catch up with the malicious efforts which have been going on for about 10 years now since the huge UEFI barn door opened up unseen below the surface. Right into a network which can still communicate with a great number of UEFI machines even when the user OS is not loaded and when the PC is not even booted in any way. What could go wrong? No security mitigation from Microsoft can now come close to unplugging from the internet and/or hard power-down of the power supply. Plain BIOS wasn't like this.

From slide 8:

>BAD NEWS: There are no ways to apply Vulnerability Mitigations
below the OS

>MORE BAD NEWS: Most criminal and advanced threat actors
exploit Vulnerabilities Below the OS that affect UEFI

Traditional BIOS long had secure protection on decent motherboards and could often be set completely inaccessible except from the local console, and only if the setting was manually relaxed and you were booted to DOS using a floppy, CDROM, or USB stick.

Microsoft (and everyone else) has only themselves to blame for rushing traditional BIOS out-the-door without something actually better, not a polished turd.
Did "these same people"? I can think of lots of people who orbit and are sympathetic to Brian Merchant's recent work who have been approaching tech via a labour rights lens since the start of their careers. The visibility may be new, but that says more about who's paying attention (and who wasn't previously) than who's doing the work.
Power off the bulb. Turn your zigbee hub into pairing mode (it may always be in pairing mode). Turn on bulb. Should autopair in 30 secs or less.

My hue bulbs pair so aggressively to my zigbee hub that I have to block pairing on it to get new ones on the hue hub!

They may already be paired and you just never realized.