skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh this is easy

Revoke the alcohol license if there are tip jars present, if its mentioned on receipts, the point of sale system, or if staff brings it up

Other discretionary things can be revoked too. Easements, performances, outdoor dining. This is entirely easy.

Have random audits to see how often payments match the receipts

Have a consumer protection agency launch random lawsuits and distribute funds to patrons

Encourage staff to mention that everyone is paid a full wage and have similar disclaimers on the menu and receipt, just like they put shellfish and undercooked disclaimers on the menu and in some places have to state it verbally

Create liability so that any private lawyer can try to sue everyone just like was done to create California’s cancer disclaimer, they can function alongside the consumer protection agency

Make it illegal for point of sale systems to push tipping for certain merchant codes, merchants have to snitch on the POS provider and vice versa when anyone questions why the system is guilt tripping them into a tip

Everyone is a node within a network, graph theory, you can control behavior by regulating the intermediary, the nodes will flip their behavior in a distributed fashion. Think about everything that way and you can find how to control all facets of life under any governance system.
Google Video was YouTube’s competitor. Only after some years Google acquired YT
> This is one category of problem that should be solved through legislation, but I doubt that should such laws be passed, that they would be actually enforced against bad actors.

IANAL, but I would think this would be covered by existing false advertising laws, and maybe breach of contract. They advertised a product as coming with features x, y, and z; people paid for those features; and then the company unilaterally disabled those features. So now features x, y, and z no longer work on the product as advertised. I'd be surprised if we don't see class action lawsuits for this.
It didn't - one of the main reasons you can't make up your own title is that it acts as a kind of mega-comment over everyone else's comments. If you want to just comment, write a regular comment. If you want your own title with your own commentary, write your own commentary and submit it to HN with your title.

What you can't do is use someone else's stuff to make your commentary more important.
Related:

YouTube's crackdown on ad blockers intensifies - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37782171 - Oct 2023 (140 comments)

YouTube is testing new “skip ads” button that makes it just a bit harder to skip - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37224622 - Aug 2023 (12 comments)

YouTube is testing a three-strikes policy for ad blocking - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36747367 - July 2023 (72 comments)

YouTube is blocking videos for users who block ads - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36583277 - July 2023 (91 comments)

YouTube Threatens to Cut Off Ad Blocker Users After Just Three Ad-Less Vids - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36538577 - June 2023 (50 comments)

YouTube confirms three-strikes test for ad blocking - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36535417 - June 2023 (7 comments)

YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36517238 - June 2023 (1343 comments)

YouTube Blocks Ad Blockers Amid Declining Ad Revenue - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36277079 - June 2023 (30 comments)

YouTube on TVs getting unskippable 30-second and pause screen ads - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35986992 - May 2023 (190 comments)

YouTube is going to stop you from using ad blockers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35954648 - May 2023 (23 comments)

YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35892512 - May 2023 (1405 comments)

Apparently Ad Blockers are not allowed on YouTube. Is this a new thing? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35883457 - May 2023 (52 comments)

YouTube May Force You to Watch 10 (Or More) Unskippable Ads in a Row - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32911676 - Sept 2022 (128 comments)

The free YouTube tier is about to become unbearable with even more ads - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32866976 - Sept 2022 (96 comments)

YouTube ads appear to be ramping up, with as many as 10 unskippable ads - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32859438 - Sept 2022 (143 comments)

YouTube Free Is Silently Testing 5 Ads, Instead of 2, Before Your Video Starts - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32851367 - Sept 2022 (21 comments)

YouTube currently testing 5 to 10 unskippable ads before video starts - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32835071 - Sept 2022 (266 comments)

YouTube will now show ads on all videos even if creators don’t want them - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25149206 - Nov 2020 (758 comments)

Tell HN: Adblocker doesn't block YouTube ads anymore - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22658093 - March 2020 (17 comments)
We need consumer protection that comes down to terms locked in at time of purchase for any aspect of the device fundamental to its advertised functionality.
This was actually a worthwhile read, sharing the section titles in case anyone is wondering what they are getting into:

Lesson 1: Respond instantly
Lesson 2: Early communication is essential
Lesson 3: Treat contributors like team members
Lesson 4: Age reports keep you honest
Lesson 5: Burndown is a must
Lesson 6: Consistency is the name of the game
Lesson 7: Documentation is king
I purchased a Miku when I brought home my newborn from the ICU, who had 24/7 oxygen needs. Although not 100% accurate, the Miku did give my wife and I peace of mind when we didn't connect the pulse oximeter and laid our baby down in her crib.

Hearing that Miku will now be subscription-based is really disappointing. From being at the top, to bottom with the other wifi monitors. We'll still use as a monitor, but wont be recommending to anyone anymore like we used to.
I usually resort to running inline scripts using python3 or node (using only the standard library) if I need to do something that I can't express in bash easily. That means avoiding stuff that have to look up and I won't remember or be able to debug in a month.
Will these be exempt from the community notes too? Hilarious to see those on obvious ads frequently saying "you can get this on amazon for 5 bucks".
I’m not sure about vyvanse specifically but for some medications the time release mechanism is the coating. my comment should have been more clear
Everyone knew CISC was dead and 88k was the future.
Small, opportunistic omnivores who are adapted to close contact with humans.
Digiloi is another cool Petscii platformer from a few years back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UNMSeS5l4k#t=30s
I've never played the game but listened to Vib-Ribbon Blues a million times. Seeing this I took the opportunity to watch a playthrough, and wow, the singing voice is actually the character speaking in the tutorial. I had no idea.
> getting Baumol's-cost-diseased out of affordability to the middle class

Ok, I looked at the Wikipedia page for your gratuitously-verbed jargon.

Wouldn't that phenomenon increase the wages of healthcare and education?

In any case, I'd wager that if you had avoided gratuitously-verbed jargon I wouldn't have had to ask a question.
You can buy cheap non-networked baby monitors just about anywhere, and they work great.

Mine has a range that works across the entire house, battery lasts all day, and only 'wakes' when junior is crying/moving.

IOT was a massive hype-cycle long dead. I even swapped out my Sonos system after those clowns making dumb privacy decisions.
gov.uk manages some of the content using Whitehall which looks like a custom CMS using Ruby on Rails https://github.com/alphagov/whitehall

nhs.uk is built using Wagtail, a Django based CMS.
Risk to payoff is just too high, and the biggest problems drivers face are solved in many cars with a basic suite of assistive technologies (lane keep, dynamic cruise, etc). I usually drive with cruise control set to a practical speed and take over in basic moments (accelerating at green light, passing on freeway, exiting, etc)
It actually took me a bit to break out of the lease cycle; I leased a nice-but-not-ostentatious Volkswagen right out of school that was quite a bit more than 10% of my take-home. Hedonic treadmilling what it is I wanted to buy something but didn't want to "downgrade" and ended up going through another 3 or 4 leases before I had finally saved up enough to buy something used outright at the end of a lease. And what would you know, because I wasn't leasing something I had all these termination fees I had never had before, pushing $1500.

It's easy to see how if you don't have the income to save and a cheap car lease is already pushing your budget you would get locked into not only leasing, but basically leasing from the same manufacturer or close competitors time and again.
Shout out to you for finding this for me
Lasers deflected using air
Not every camera is positioned like the stock photo. Wherever voyeurs are, there's usually an unwitting female victim-- so I assume the interest is more in half-asleep, half-dressed mothers doing things like breastfeeding in view of the camera.
This is my baby monitor setup. It uses a GoPro (already owned) and a BeagleBoard. If you have a webcam lying around this is a lot cheaper than any baby monitor out there. If you have a webcam and a raspberry pi or something lying around, it's free.

Point-to-point encrypted video from a sender with a GoPro plugged in with a USB cable to a receiver at 192.168.0.2:

Sender:

curl http://172.29.114.51/gp/gpWebcam/START?res= # Put GoPro in webcam mode
ffmpeg -nostdin -threads 1 -i 'udp://@0.0.0.0:8554?overrun_nonfatal=1&fifo_size=50000000' -f:v mpegts -fflags nobuffer -vcodec copy -acodec copy -f rtp_mpegts -srtp_out_suite AES_CM_128_HMAC_SHA1_80 -srtp_out_params ${FORTY_CHARACTER_PRIVATE_KEY} 'srtp://192.168.0.2:5005'

Receiver:

ffplay -srtp_in_suite AES_CM_128_HMAC_SHA1_80 -srtp_in_params ${FORTY_CHARACTER_PRIVATE_KEY} 'srtp://192.168.0.2:5005'
this is the only open source solution that I know of, if you know of any others let me know,

https://github.com/EliasKotlyar/Xiaomi-Dafang-Hacks
The product was sold with the monitoring baked in. There was no expectation by consumers that they would have to pay an ongoing fee for functionality that was included at the time of the purchase. I don't have the BOM either, but $400 is very much on the premium side for such a product. This included monitoring functionality is a large component of justifying that price. Without the monitoring, it's a $400 product with essentially the same functionality as a $30 one.

Moreover, a $10/month subscription is far from selling things at cost. Maybe the company has too much overhead and they really need this revenue to stay afloat, but the bait and switch is still not to be excused. Given the sequence of events, it has the hallmark of a company purchasing another specifically with the intention of rent seeking.

On a side note, I think startups are really doing themselves a disservice here. With stories like this, Nest, and others, I have very little interest in buying a product that isn't from an established player. Because the odds are really good that company is aiming to get acquired and then the nature of my device changes. Maybe it gets discontinued. Maybe the privacy policy changes. Maybe features get removed and replaced with subscription fees. It's not terribly often that I end up having the same experience I enjoyed when I purchased it. More often than not it ends up being e-waste because it won't even function without an always-on connection.
Wage theft is really common though, so if they don't get tips their pay may end up just being low. Not that it's your fault, but that's the reality.
So this is just me, I don’t speak for all film shooters.

I actually really prefer the interface of a film camera. It’s hard to explain, but I feel like there’s an additional layer of abstraction between me and the final image. I spend less time thinking about the camera and more time thinking about the photograph.

But I don’t see myself spending $650 on a m4/3 sensor to digitize that process. If I wanted a new digital camera with a similar experience I’d rather put that money towards a film-like digital, e.g. a Fuji XPro3.
Thanks! Looks like this very specific area needs some open source love though. I'll look into if I think I can contribute here.
It's most likely SEO mysticism. Like those awful blogspam articles: "This blog will tell you how to set up your WiFi router. Setting up your WiFi router can be easy, but only if you have a guide helping you to set up your WiFi router. The first step towards setting up your WiFi router is to turn the router on. You've just taken the first step towards setting up your WiFi router. The second step towards setting up your WiFi router is..."

Guess which article now shows up towards the top of search results for "set up a WiFi router"?
This sort of thing has long annoyed me too when I see it, so thank you for stepping into the firing line for at least the both of us. See also, "FED" for Federal Reserve.

I'm trying to train myself out of this nonsense, but some habits die hard.
Why would the ones who control the robots keep you and your descendants alive and enjoying the wealth generated from the robot work if you provide no value to them?
We just use one of those Anker ones that do not even connect to the internet— they just feed the dedicated screen they come with. Works fine for us. I know Anker had some scandal with their internet connected cameras, but I think we’re safe from that.
Show HN: Cut back alcohol in a warm and supportive app
I've always been a heavy drinker and tried multiple time to cut back alcohol, but failed every time.
As a mobile developer, I had the idea to create a dedicated app to track alcohol consumption in quick and fun way.

That's why I've developed Drylendar, an iOS app translated in French (I'm French) and English that allows people to track their drink every day in a beautiful calendar.
To help people staying motivated, I've added medals to unlock and possibility to add friends to share calendars and positive energy.

My app is available on App Store for 10 days, and it's been 215 days that I didn't drink alcohol at all, I've never felt healthier & happier!
This reminds me of when I asked it to generate a fake research paper describing how my dog is the best in the world as a joke and it refused because apparently creating fake research papers is unethical, even when it’s an obvious joke.

I asked again in a new chat and it made me a really nice one with funny things like a formula showing the amount of force he uses to open doors and fake data proving statistically that he is the best
Correct.

Adding a feature to scrub "You're leaving the enclosed ecosystem" to the export function is not free.

Complaining about "Google is evil" is free, though.

It's a typical case of "we'll equate laziness to malice"
The pics of the offer and pricing suggests uniform DNA info rather than names or passwords for some and raw DNA profiles for others. Also this from the article:

“ The compromised accounts had opted into the platform's 'DNA Relatives' feature, which allows users to find genetic relatives and connect with them.

The threat actor accessed a small number of 23andMe accounts and then scraped the data of their DNA Relative matches, which shows how opting into a feature can have unexpected privacy consequences.”

Edit: maybe you are right about the lack of genetic info, if this account is correct (unless the researcher didn’t pay full price, and only got the metadata): https://therecord.media/scraping-incident-genetic-testing-si...
They've been around for a very long time for medium and large format cameras: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_camera_back

This product definitely looks like it would be challenging to design an manufacture. Without having seen this post, I wouldn't have imagined it would be possible to fit a sensor and associated electronics in the small space meant for film!
Fodder for those who claim they're 1/17 Cherokee.
Also Fall, to a more extreme extent. In fact it’s kind of been a theme he hinted at in several of his more cyberpunkish novels - going back to Snow Crash, and even shows up in Anathem - he’s often sort of gestured at usable networks having to be built on top of a substrate of bot-generated untrustable falsehood and lies. The cyber network almost needs the noise as some sort of fuel.

In Fall he talks more about how that kind of layered infosphere arises - and he’s not optimistic about it. The ‘flood the zone with the worst possible bot generated trash’ defense is applied directly on behalf of Maeve in Fall as a response against the post-truth impossibility of publishing the truth in the face of conspiracy narratives. It doesn’t work. The bots - and others like them - destroy the value of the internet as we know it. Everyone retreats to AI-mediated (‘edited’) information bubbles.

I think it’s sort of the current that runs through most Stephenson futurism.
I see where you're going with your point, but my gut feeling is none of that data is anything new.

We know where Meryem was born (govt records which you probably helped make public), we can read James' twitter feed and we know the relatives of political figures (except for all the illegitimate children).

So yea... I'm still not seeing the issue here.
Not if they are smothered and/or can't lift their head yet to breathe. Newborns are very weak in the neck and generally struggle to lift their heads.

We had a wireless monitor that velcroed around their foot that monitored heart rate and blood oxygen level (Owlet brand). It went off once after an ill-fated breast feeding session at god-knows-when-o'clock where they got into a weird position between a very very drowsy mum and some cushions and we didn't notice. Would they have suffocated eventually, or maybe they would have mustered a cry? Who knows, but I am glad the alarm went off and we were able to wake up mum and reposition the baby so their face was not mushed into skin.

For us the monitor was something that allowed us to relax a bit.

It also had the added bonus of you could tell if they were getting a cold before they had any other symptoms as their heart rate was usually higher than normal when they were sleeping. Very useful.
The problem is that ai doesnt learn as such. Therefore it depends on continuously ingesting data to maintain token databases up to date. Naturally at some point a ceiling will be hit and the quality of generic token databases will stagnate.
The pro tip is to just not use it for SSH
Good effort! (I mean that)

Not a criticism of your project, but could someone give me an idea as to why neobrutalism is popular at the moment? I first noticed this trend on Gumroad's site. It def looked cool, but more sites seem to have adopted this style, so much so it seems like an entire design pattern (sort of like material). It doesn't strike me as "timeless", more like a cool trend.
I've got an internet connection at home, I've got UPnP, I've got hole-punching, what more do you need? Just let me open a connection from my phone to my home router and skip the $X/mo fee.
Forgot the irony flag
But how many times, in how many countries, will voters be fooled into electing disasters before they stop falling for deepfakes?
On a purely technical level, I feel very strongly that the model is not a derivative work any more than a dictionary is a derivative work. The model is a recording of token stream probabilities. The training data is, in my mind, where the conversation about derivative work and fair use comes into play. Again, I'm not a lawyer and have little exposure to the legal profession, so my opinions are my own.
Yes, I reckon that's true. What's more we've seen that glimpse from different perspectives—for starters by observing both the distant and recent past.

It's a complex matter and there's no way I could provide a comprehensive summary here (and my history is very rusty), but some things stand out. At the height of the Industrial Revolution (say around 150 years ago) not all but a large percentage of capitalists were very proud of the products that their companies produced, for the era their quality was excellent and they lasted. Work conditions were pretty rotten but workers nevertheless turned out good high quality products and their guilds encouraged and maintained high standards of craft and workmanship.

Now look back over the last 40—50 years and see how this has changed, production now favors profit over quality and product is essentially a means to an end.

Yes, that's a pretty simplistic summary and no doubt historians will be shouting 'gross oversimplification' but I'll provide an illustration anyway. Not far from where I live there's a two-track railway viaduct built going on 150 years ago that's still in use. It's in two sections separated by land in the middle and in total it's over several miles long, and it's built entirely of standard bricks. The ground it traverses is mostly parklands so is easy to get up close and in parts one's able to stand under its arches. Over the years I've walked its entire length many times. What struck me years ago was the remarkable condition of the brickwork in that I could see there were no cracks anywhere and that included the mortar which is still in excellent condition, that's remarkable given that there must be millions of bricks. So I set myself a challenge of finding any cracks every time I walk there and to date I've found none.

Now between the viaduct and my home there's been new low-rise developments in the last 30 years, new semi-detached, two-storey and similar which I walk past on my way to the parklands. Almost every one of these new dwellings has cracked brickwork and some of the brick fences have vertical cracks that don't zigzag along the mortar but rather have sheered completely through the bricks from top to bottom.

What I've described here isn't an uncommon scenario, I've seen similar instances elsewhere. The question is why were Victorian bricklayers consistently able to build brick structures that remain faultless after 150 years whereas today's builders seemingly can't or won't. I'm not going to attempt to answer that except to say it's more than just capitalism at work, it's also has to do with changed ethics, different worldviews and changes in the movement of capital (and that's just hardly scratching the surface).

(Incidentally, I've always taken an interest in how things were built. Several decades ago, before bans were in place to stop people walking over it (it's very dangerous), I spent many hours studying the masonry on the Roman Ponte du Gard viaduct. They say it was built mostly by slaves nevertheless the workmanship is just impeccable, I was simply awestruck by their craftsmanship.)
This is true, but two things mitigate it. The first is that if you're the one paying the bill, it's pretty easy to do so in a way that nobody you're with can tell how much, or if, you tip. The other thing is that the social consequences aren't that large.

In the end, it's voluntary behavior.
Sony user here, but my understanding is that Fujifilm cameras have a much more analog look & feel. I had someone ask me to take a photo for them in the spring on one, and there were the typical film knobs and a feeling of solidity I'd quite forgotten in cameras. It sounds silly, but pressing the button felt like such a clear solid action, had such great feel.