skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Lots of situations aren't murder such as defending your country or killing an armed intruder in your home. You're a hero in those cases.
I'm pretty sure I read on Twitter that this person now works at OpenAI...
What does this look like from Philips' side?

Are they losing sales? Making money from the login somehow?

Is whoever made this decision getting patted on the back, even though its tanking sales? I think that's probably the case, otherwise they would have rolled it back some.
Censorship is necessary for a civil forum. If you don't censor, you get 8chan, a place full of nothing but vileness. All the shitty people congregate there because no one will censor them or ban them, and all the decent people leave.

Of course, we usually call this "moderation" instead of "censorship", but it's mostly the same, except it isn't done by a government.

So the quality of any forum just comes down to the quality of the moderation. Good moderators keep out the off-topic crap and general nastiness, shitty moderators ban people for saying they don't like the company's new game.
> Should an enterprise created for profit consider other values than profit?

Yes! Very much yes! Adam Smith himself noted that a capitalist enterprise, if not run according to good values (which to him meant Christian values, but it need not be that for everyone), would be a horrible thing. That hasn't really changed since. A business needs to have some values behind it other than pure profit-seeking, or else it becomes a serious ill for society.
Sure, and by existing laws and court rulings they haven't done anything wrong except be a preferred choice by many consumers. This is not comparable in any way to antitrust transgressions that got Microsoft in trouble, nor do they have the market share to manipulate that's comparable to what Windows or Google have had.

FWIW, I also want a more open iOS platform, but I don't think you can demonstrate that they run afoul of any existing antitrust laws or prior precedents either and trying to redefine what a monopoly means, exclusively to to the iPhone, is never going to work.
If you're interested in developing an intuitive understanding for how information (items and relations) can be represented in vectors and matricies, I highly recommend this paper titled "Hyperdimensional computing: An introduction to computing in distributed representation with high-dimensional random vectors":

http://ww.robertdick.org/iesr/papers/kanerva09jan.pdf
Having come from Nvidia before recently switching to AMD, this is a naive take on it. Their compute software might be better but their Linux driver is abysmal to manage and takes the fun out of owning a PC. Never again. I'd take AMD over them even if the card burned my house down each time I used it.
Yes, you would have to be familiar with the charts, “training” etc.
HAOS has been a pretty good experience when I set it up at my parents house though. I don't begrudge HA from trying to figure out the most reliable way to support installation methods - they're in a complicated space, and techies like us do tend to build unique-snowflake home setups.

I'm running the docker container (since I already had a home server running docker containers), but a NUC with HAOS for my folks has been working great.
How do you get color and dimming features with that setup?
It's in LinkedIn style
And in my house the primary lights we use are lamps, so I can just shutdown or adjust the house/each room/lamp easily.
It's not insane. Genetic lineage is the least important factor in whether or not a given kid is "yours".
> when the claims are about physical evidence (both crafts and biologics)

People (including government/military people) have been making these claims for decades, so far nothing that people can actually put their hands on to back up the claim has been produced.
Typical fate for a Google product that consumes RSS feeds.
so they're used in combination with already known exploits but you're saying no one uses them during the development of exploits?
Yeah all for < $200 shipped!
"ÖPNV" (Öffentlicher PersonenNahVerkehr) is the German abbreviation for "public transport". And "Karte" <-> "map"
Others have pointed out, and I agree: supermarkets are a large factor here. The transition of American food shopping from a "market" pattern to a "supermarket" one has taken a heavy toll on food items that aren't true luxuries, but are effectively made into luxuries by failing to fit cleanly into supermarket-scaled supply chains.

We now spend less than (nearly) ever on food at home[1], in large part because we've eliminated the foodstuffs that can't be produced at the smallest possible margins.

[1]: https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/gallery...
How is this different from any other profession? I am sure garbage collectors go home and indulge in other fun things. Yes corporations are loosing out as they are unable to utilize your creativity but let us face it, corporations (and wall st) cares more about mitigating risk no?

I go home and write code for fun (and intense challenges), play sport, play music etc. If I had to pick work that gave me these id have to take a massive pay cut. Yep it is "sad" but I think the bigger loss is for the CO than it is for you. Id even say (if I was being selfish) that work is so damn boring and unchallenging that it actually fills me with energy that I get to take home :). Being broke may not do that for me !
for my next brand-new car, one which manufacturer can make without asking privacy questions nor EULA, GETS MY MONEY!
The "period of time" isn't what was hostile.
Nobody has ever accused me of supporting UBI, but hardly any idea is more “counterproductive” than “we should have” done something 100 years ago.

Or maybe it’s less counterproductive, more irrelevant, if some topic at hand is “what should we do about increasing automation [in the future]?”
Same reason that phones are shaped like that - it fits in your pocket, which is convenient. Kobo used to make a Kobo Mini for the same reason, although it has been discontinued for a long time.

Anyways, it is also not just an e-reader, so books aren't the only content you can use it for. A lot of websites look and work best when used with a phone-sized device.

There are also more people who prefer the smartphone size every year, just because it is now the default media consumption device.

It's also a great stepping stone if the company wants to enter the mobile phone market.
I think that absolutely is a problem with Airbnb. That problem has been around since the beginning and it's still not solved and that's just plain not acceptable (for many traveller potential customers.) In several ways, Airbnb has abslutely not solved enough feature-level travel problems. An opportunity wasted.
And if the x-ray finds drugs and the suspect doesn't want to take it out themselves? As a matter of fact maybe they don't want to risk the suspect tampering with the evidence. The gloves are coming on at that point.

Criminals aren't always the most reasonable people. Saying "pretty please" is a waste of time.
Thank you for the explanation I did not have the courage to gather.
Related: mtree can be an amazing tool. very handy to help you maintain audits of your system.

I think there is a linux tool that does the same thing but I can't remember what it is. I just used mtree on my linux hosts and it worked fine.

http://man.openbsd.org/mtree
Lol, you're experiencing what's called "crimestop" the automatic tendency to stop thinking when anything encroaches on the orthodoxy you've been fed. Why does it "sound harmful"? Because it contradicts the covid propaganda that's been pushed on you, or because there is a real first principles problem with it? If it's the latter, cool, let's hear it. If it's the former, I encourage everyone to try thinking for themselves.
That was only to weaken your sense of identity enough so you would not, could not, resist the following steps.
I'd like to learn how an intermediate level app was built with small components from scratch. Maybe a telegram like chat app. That will be very interesting.
> Should we as a society forego the benefits of automation, because it makes some people unemployed?

Yes. AI generates sameness on a good day, and comical gibberish on a bad day, that will never change because, AI isn't human.

Sameness will drive customers to look for human made stuff, gibberish will drive them away.
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.

Honestly, I'd blame Wall Street here more than the tech companies, but it's really everyone's fault. Tech compensates people with stock, so everyone is incentivized to make the stock go up. That's not always doing what's best for the customer.

But also running a hardware business where every customer buys something once is a tough low margin business. New players don't want to get into the game and old players have to placate Wall Street. Even Apple is shifting more and more into services, but they can vertically integrate and are already "upscale". No one can pull of being an upscale light switch.

Honestly I think open source is the only thing that will save us here, but sadly there isn't a lot of money in that either.
1. Crypto is a pyramid scheme. I've been saying this since 2011. And it is very well proven by the flow of money over the past 12 years.

2. How is this a tangent? It is directly related to the problems discussed in the post
I observed this enshittification happen at my tech company. When we were smaller, the C-Suite bent over backwards to keep the product good and sane.

Then they went public. This attracted a lot of new managers and ladder hoppers.

As a public company, the board, the C-Suite, the immense layers of management all were incentivized to boost stock prices to boost their own compensation.

They did this ethically during the low interest rate environment. But with higher interest rates, the only way to maintain growth is via scummy nickel and diming.

So execs and all the management layers do nothing but enshittify the product so that the gravy train can continue for at least a few more quarters.

Thus, customers are left hanging with shitty products.

Imo, the solution is to never buy long-term subscriptions from public companies with listed stocks, if possible.
Love it but note that Dan Ariely is a fraud: https://datacolada.org/98
As people who understand these things, we can choose the role of "citizen technologist", to benefit society.

Some off-the-cuff ideas of how:

1. Make our own purchases "on principle", and hope that enough other techies do that, that economic pressure is applied to brands.

2. Make our own non-purchase technology adoptions "on principle".

3. Inform other techies, both on specifics of individual devices/architectures/vendors/etc., and to bring everyone up to speed on the basics (e.g., reasons for open standards, user-oriented products/services, avoiding lock-in, privacy-respecting, responsible security, etc.).

4. Inform non-techies, such as by pointing them at solutions in their interest, and in the interest of society.

5. Advise lawmakers, to complement whatever they're hearing from lobbyists.

6. Contribute code and other effort to open platforms, and actually use them.

7. Be careful about helping to prop up society-hostile platforms, such as by using them to the exclusion of something else, making them more palatable to the exclusion of something better, implicitly endorsing them, etc.

8. Keep principles a factor in who we go to work for, how we work while there, and whether we stay there.
What about the dynamic memory allocation bug?
Laws. We need the force of law protecting us when entire industries work against the public good.
The development of ML to automate this stuff is especially perverse because ML can't function without the prior value created by people like artists and writers.
It seems worth the cost and effort to improve CAPTCHAs and comment microtransactions to prevent automated and boiler room sentiment manipulation.
yes, it absolutely isn't. it's a regular well-crafted title that conveys the flavour of the article and doesn't hint at must-see secret knowledge within.
The Web Is Shitty
It’s by far the most important factor. Who are you to say it isn’t?
One of my favorite questions "what does gamey taste like". I've gotten a wide range of answers.
> you're experiencing what's called "crimestop"

I think they were being sarcastic, and that you're experiencing what's called "Poe's law." ;)
I wonder why we always hear about brain research for higher order animals when we have trouble understanding the nervous system of a fly. I think it would be very useful to truly understand the brain of a fly or a cockroach as a step to get a better understanding of other animals. Why is that not the course of action?
Tescreal
Unscalable is not synonymous with hard for the vast majority of people. If you communicate confusingly, you'll be asked for clarifications. That's not nitpicking and you can avoid it by using words for what they're for.

> What you're missing are all of the thousands of people who try it and fail.

It's not easy or hard. It's lucky. It's getting your ad seen in the right place with the right audience and taking off with enough sharing to build virality. Then your store will do a brief burst of good business before you fall back into irrelevance and continue.

It's highly analogous to gold rushes. And then as now, the people who get reliably rich off gold rushes aren't mining gold, they're selling shovels and pickaxes, namely: hustle influencers, shopify, and indeed, Amazon.

> That's not just ordering shit from China. If it were, Amazon would do it themselves

Buy some Amazon Basics stuff and check where it's made, then get back to me.

> and cut out all of these middleman

Which is what they seem to be doing.

Like again, for emphasis: Amazon is not a good guy here. They are neutral, at best. But I have very low sympathy for people who build their entire way of life on one single platform that could at any moment tell them to kick rocks. It's bad when YouTubers do it, it's bad when instagram influencers do it, and it's bad here too. And all of these usually end in similar ways. You're only as good as your last post, your last sale, your last quarter of profits and if your and the platform's interests diverge enough, you'll be dropped like a flaming bag of dogshit.
Yea, I think I mentioned that.
I put together this handy guide for myself if anyone is interested

TESCREAL
Saving the human race from itself

Transhumanism - the belief or theory that the human race can evolve beyond its current physical and mental limitations, especially by means of science and technology. For example, by moving our minds into computer brains

Extropianism - evolving framework of values and standards for continuously improving the human condition

Singularitarianism - a movement defined by the belief that a technological singularity — the creation of superintelligence — will likely happen in the medium future, and that deliberate action ought to be taken to ensure that the singularity benefits humans

Cosmism - the philosophical theory that the cosmos is a self-existent whole and was not created by a god, a theory about cosmic evolution, developed from contemporary science, that regards the cosmos as self-existent and self-acting

Rationalism - a belief or theory that opinions and actions should be based on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief or emotional response

Effective Altruism - a project that aims to find the best ways to help others, and put them into practice

Longtermism - an ethical stance which gives priority to improving the long-term future. It is an important concept in effective altruism and serves as a primary motivation for efforts that claim to reduce existential risks to humanity

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New ZeroFont phishing tricks Outlook into showing fake AV-scans
It's going to be funny when all these AI companies realize that hurting people who make things also hurts their models in the long run.
Can a "regular" installer do all of that? Especially if it asks to escalate its privileges?

"Running a software installer" in general seems just as insecure as "sudo | curl" whatever.
>She points to a spurious claim that America “wants to blow up” TSMC, a Taiwanese chipmaker. It originated with a misleading video posted on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, which featured an American lawmaker appearing to discuss the possibility.

This part stood out to me as I've seen this mentioned several times on HN in the past.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Somewhat off topic, but I bought a Philips Hue system for my house in August since the incandescent ban has made it difficult to find light bulbs. I spent some time getting the colors close to matching my incandescents with a light meter, set up some automations, etc. I could definitely tell they were LEDs (I think their R9 values are low), but they seemed... ok? I don't know, I still wasn't really loving it, but they were better than some other LEDs I had tried in the past. And some of the automations seemed legitimately useful.

Well, I got 4 ocular migraines in less than 3 days. Packed them all up and sent them back. If anyone has recommendations for LEDs that don't trigger migraines let me know. Or else I guess I'm buying a lifetime supply of incandescents and a storage unit for lightbulbs /s.

Honestly, the whole thing sort of seems like focusing on the wrong things. I've never owned a car, am vegetarian, have never lived in more than 1000 sq ft as an adult, and walk/take public transit in NYC daily. Not sure the 2 incandescent lightbulbs I use in my living room are really causing climate change.
My understanding is that chickens are bred either for eggs or for meat. Egg farmers cull males as soon as they can (which depends on an interesting technical problem called sexing). Hens that can't lay anymore are called "spent hens", and the meat is not generally liked by Americans at least, so it's probably not what you're buying at the grocery store.

Poultry farmers raise both sexes and slaughter as soon as the bird is large enough.
Hahaha quite possible, I really didn't think it was satire and it's indistinguishable from a lot of serious comment I see, especially wrt covid.

Edit: looking at the op's recent posts I also found

If you write critical software or drivers in ‘23 and aren’t using rust you should be sued for negligence.
Take your “safe” subset/library of C/C++ and put it in the trash already.

So I think this may be a professional pursuit
The journalist most famous for leaking the Panama Papers died under mysterious circumstances. And almost nobody is aware of her name or even what's inside the Panama Papers.

How many famous journalists can you name? I'm not saying there aren't journalists that want to do good work and become famous as a result. But despite their efforts they're mostly fighting a losing battle.
Yeah, but they created a moat and became sticky. Netflix knew they were a middleman too so they started to produce their own content years before the streaming wars. I worked for one near the border that bought American industrial parts and sold it to Mexican factories. I helped build their quoting and ERP software, but the boss wanted to build a platform for him and his competition to try to become sticky and build a moat. Middlemen should always be finding ways to stay in the process.
Is it a big business decision or is it just 9 out 2000.
Yes, everything involving smart tech is a first world problem, but that does not mean we should be silent about it. This move is bullshit. If you are comfortable with corporations pushing more and more bullshit into their products even after the fact, fine. I am not, because a lot of my quality of life, for better and worse, depends on their products.
The Home Assistant team has a full company behind them, and they sell cloud services for the app for people who want it. Zigbee2MQTT has 113 sponsors. If you run them both with docker then updating is pretty simple with no package breaks.

I do get your point though. Fixing the lack of a privacy focused option that works well for people who aren't familiar with systems administration would be nice.
No one is nitpicking. They just don't buy your argument."nitpick" implies a person is addressing a minor detail and not addressing the central point. This person, and the comment above (by me) is directly addressing the central point you made, and saying it's weak.

Building all the infrastructure required for FBA is much more difficult than choosing products. The proof is in how many people have done one v the other. Amazon does a decent job on both sides - building the infrastructure, and figuring which products to sell, at scale (they do 100's of billions of non 3rd party sales every year).
> Do you know anything about what whistleblowers have to go through?

We’re talking about professional journalists here. I’m quite sure they’re aware of it all. If the story is newsworthy and backed by evidence you’d be able to take it to any competing newspaper. I imagine the Wall Street Journal’s legal team would be happy to bear the brunt of any fallout, it’s their job.
What do you actually WANT then?
I think it depends on if you include shipping from Australia to North America in the footprint calculation.
Lots of other parents driven to look for answers about what happened to their child, but being far less educated on how to read and understand academic papers, ended up "doing their own research" and became antivaxxers. There's a lot to be said for having an education that enables you to evaluate scientific literature effectively.
Maybe I’m just a naive idiot, but I thought her point was not the danger of sudo’ing random shell scripts per se but any sort of “solution” to restore the prior capabilities of a consumer product that required that level of technical acumen.

But every single other reply seems to be either “well yeah obviously read the script first” or “how dumb, just use docker,” so like I said, maybe I’m the dumb one.
"bikeshedding"?
Why doesn't freedom of association extend to Amazon? I'm pretty sure they argue they have the right in the EULAs the racist accepted.
Indeed! I have three lights in my backyard on three different circuits. Each one has a caseta dimmer but I linked them together with some scripting so no matter how you change one - switch, app, whatever, they all react in unison.
That could well happen, so, for that eventuality I have a little cardboard box with the old radiator valves and thermostat. The solar panels and the inverters would be a bigger issue though, this all runs locally, not in the cloud (it was a bit of a job to find inverters that do not require a cloud connection, what a nonsense that is). But given that altogether these give the house its A++++ energy label (it is in the top .1% or so for houses of this size and age with respect to energy consumption) I'm pretty sure that buyers would be A-ok with it. Energy efficiency is a massive factor in people's buying decision here (as well as location and general state of the house, obviously).

But your point is well taken and I'll be sure to introduce the subject at the handover if it ever comes to that.
if you find "a site for intellectual curiosity" to be "jerk each other off"-worthy, your pretention-meter is way miscalibrated
We should apply the same rule to all improvements. Can you imagine how many people we could employ if we banned all tools for digging and required everyone to dig by hand? We could literally create hundreds of millions of jobs!
This is a fantastic take. I’d never thought about this before but you’re right that this might be Patient 0 of the modern rich white person’s exposure to cast iron and associated care.
I assume the window manager/compositor should not've asked for that buffer in the first place.
If you think public companies are bad, wait until you look at the track record of companies bought by private equity or hedge funds. :s