skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Alex Morey, director of campus rights advocacy at Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, said universities stepped up their commentary on political issues during the pandemic and following the murder of George Floyd in 2020. The engagement shifted expectations, said Morey, and has left schools “trapped…in a cycle of having to weigh in on everything and if they don’t, that failure to say something is saying something.”

Same could be said of corporations.
Yeah these smart switches should
All have backup physical buttons which I believe they all do but also a kill all automation hard switch but that would not be so simple
I was trying to find a link to it earlier on, but the programme it was on (The Context) doesn't seem to be available on iPlayer, unfortunately.
Then it is a wrong use of terms.
It's a matter of opportunity cost. I don't think working in AI would be the best use of my time so I don't work at OpenAI/Tesla/etc.
As someone in this space I could not disagree more.

Certifications will do nothing for you. The harsh reality is only real world experience doing this stuff at scale will help you understand all the complexity involved. There are tons of people trying to hop onto this train after taking a few online courses and it's making it hard to filter down candidate pools.
There's a theory of "Agile", and then there's the reality of how it ends up being practiced in almost every instance. The latter is what matters.
easier to use and harder to be locked out.

years ago i was robbed in dc of my phone at night on the way to a concert. i use google voice and was able to login at cvs to contact a friend to meet me there. in 2023 i would have been locked out by not having a 2fa or phone
At a startup, you need people who are excited to make the product a success, not just someone who's gonna churn through tickets and tick off boxes. They were probably looking to see if you were going to commit at that level. Totally get why this rubs some people the wrong way, but probably just means it's not a good fit.
HA sounds cool to me but other than being a fun thing to work on, what's so good about it? Can anyone "sell" me on it? Is it just being able to turn stuff on and off from your phone?
Yeah don't be dunking on little joel. He's
I'll try that later :)
I wonder if nicotine gum would have any effect.
People probably thought that they had a particular kind of attachment in mind. One that can't be mentioned in polite society.
I visited a friend not too long ago, who had a smart speaker in the guest room mainly to control the lights. It went through a smart plug. Naturally, their internet connection went down. We had to move the bed (in the dark) in order to remove the smart plug and re-activate the regular lightswitch.

Fortunately, we're both reasonably fit people, but I know people who would've just had to give up and use a flashlight.
> Automakers passed the responsibility on to people who don't even drive.

We have roads. They are shared by all users and taxpayers for common purposes. The responsibilities are likewise shared. The available technology changed. We can't expect to force the prior status quo to continue to exist in the face of available technological changes.

This article points out that attitudes like your similarly existed at the time and contributed to the apparent delay in creating a reasonable solution.
> I don't understand how this is legal.

It's presumably laid out in the contract that their users sign. IANAL but I understand contract law gives wide latitude for parties to make agreements to do things which are generally legal.

One could imagine a legal regime that prohibited price or service changes in otherwise-legal contracts. Of course, that also might not be ideal. For example: a vendor used by the provider suddenly changes the capabilities of a piece of equipment such that the original service sold by the provider can no longer be provided at any price. What everybody wants in that scenario is for you to be seamlessly moved to the closest reasonable alternative, not for your service to automatically terminate. Similarly, most people will gripe about a $10/mo change in price, but against the likely alternative of automatic cancellation, the increased fee is what _most_ people will prefer.

And again, 100% of them will have agreed to this exception-handling clause when they signed up.

> This is like if I order a $200 SSD from Amazon and instead they ship me a $300 SSD and charge me $300, and there are no returns if I don't cancel the order before it's fulfilled.

There is a material difference in changing prices (say) 5 years after a contract was signed and ordering a specific item at a specific price a week or two earlier. IANAL but I believe the ordering of goods via the Internet is in fact covered by different laws in a way that services are not. Which again, makes some sense given that service contracts frequently have a term of "forever," during which time everything about the world can change. (Pretty sure my current phone contract was signed over 10 years ago. I'm glad they changed my plan to let me use LTE, for example.)
We are building "Loom for devs" at https://dashcam.io
That's certainly a driver for much of the pathology, however, I don't really see how that can be changed - I haven't seen any good proposals for what could reasonably replace the current bibliographic metrics for the various funding bodies and institutions. They do need some 'outsourced' objective metric because they aren't capable or willing to do in-depth review of each individual's work, and they won't trust the self-evaluation of researchers or their home institutions.
No paywall: https://archive.ph/zkZ4X
No other country has anything to teach the USA. The USA is unique and special for a large number of reasons and so foreign methods won't work here. If I recall they even drive on the other side of the road in the UK, that will never catch on here.
The scales are noisy, but the trendlines they provide are useful and match the visual appearance of my body. The biggest source of noise that I see is when I have a lot of carbs or sugar in a day and then retain water. Then I eat fewer carbs the next day and get rid of the excess water.
So make that the expectation.

Expectation management is a huge driver of quality of life.

Knowing how to carve out your niche and not be expected to delvier feature after feature without a break is part of "managing upwards", which is another important life skill to gain.
On Jeff Deutsch's "In Praise of Good Bookstores"
That's an implementation detail leak: for the end user it's just an advertisement. Call it as you want, but when I pay premium and you write "no ads" I want no ads. That's it.

I don't care that the content provider found a way to show ads. I have a contract with you - you have to figure it out.
When it comes to Home Assistant, the Pi is actually a much more pragmatic option.

It works out of the box, is very easy to source (hell some brick & mortar stores sell them), has very good Linux support due to its popularity, and makes up a large part of the install base meaning HA support for it is unlikely to get deprecated.
Not that it appears to have done much good

https://x.com/NationalIndNews/status/1712525993854833142?s=2...
Thanks for clarifying. I was worried that the parent was actually seeing real pre-roll ads with the subscription that would eventually get rolled out to everyone.
This is very much a regional thing.

After the repack many markets have multiple HD channels sharing the bandwidth previously allocated for one OTA HD channel. In addition, as ATSC 3 is being deployed these channel sharing agreements are only becoming more common.

In addition, some cable providers are taking this over-compressed feed and compressing it further.

In many situations, streaming is the best option for picture quality now.

I did some comparisons in the Philadelphia market:
https://www.somesortofweatherexperiment.com/tags/tv-source-p...

Even flagship events like the Super Bowl are not exempt to from low detail, compression artifact video in this market.
What part of the Kubernetes manifest do you think makes deployments insane?
Didn't see batching taken into equation, might skew a bit
> Zitadel, heard but not tried yet. The keycloak vs zitadel page doesn't help. Is the Zitadel access token also jwt like in keycloak and included role membership?

By default Zitadel uses opaque tokens but you can switch to JWT and use an piece of JS code (actions) to insert whatever claim you want into the tokens
I was in Newfoundland in July and I noticed a few interesting things:

- The houses tended to be colorful

- Almost all the buildings I saw looked like they were just painted, I did see a couple buildings with peeling paint, but I think they were abandoned

- I personally saw around 10 different people in the middle of painting their houses just driving along in remote rural areas, all in the span of about a week. Where I live (in California), I only see this about once every 5 years.

- Paint stores are widespread, even in small rural towns where there are hardly any businesses at all

I don't know why the people of Newfoundland love painting their buildings so much, but it really makes the place look nice.
Plenty of religions don't demand self sacrifice from their adherents. Polytheist and animist creeds are very different from the Abrahamic faiths that we tend to think of when we speak about religion.

For example, the Tlingit in Alaska believe in reincarnation, but in their tribal way of life, there really isn't any compelling "use" (in the Machiavellistic sense) for that belief.
> Give it a few days.

It's been a few years XD

I doubt it will go away since in my case the tinnitus was disease induced, as opposed to loud-concert-induced. The disease has since been treated successfully, but perhaps something got damaged.
Two hearts are better than one for toddler, historic operation (2004)
Unfortunate, but not really unexpected.
There’s no point to the crypto part of cryptocurrencies if it’s centralized. You just have a currency.
I don't think they are referring to any specific country or alliance but to the catastrophic idea of a hot war between two nuclear armed countries.
Heavier vehicles would also lead to faster degradation of transport infra
Steve Sailer the white supremacist? Yeah, I wouldn't trust his claims on anything related to education especially on IQ.
The 5 minute cap, and difficulty getting a slack video URL to paste into code review tool or bug tracking tool, is what led us away from Slack videos.

If Slack stepped it up, it'd probably come down to who has the better bundle price.
Doesn't France have constitutionally protected freedom of speech?
> To me it's the same if a driver cuts in front of me and then slams on their brakes, there was nothing I could have done about crashing into them no matter how safely I was driving.

It shouldn't be. The risk to you is much greater if you hit another car, than if you hit a pedestrian.

Addtionally, while you are right that a car can't stop on a dime, speeds have a large influence on the size of coin needed for a car to come to a complete stop. And I think we both know that they are not linear.

Over the decades, posted speed limits in North America have only increased.

https://www.brake.org.uk/files/images/Speed/Infographics/_la...
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I don't think it needs to be "moles"

There are tons of "Expert networks" companies where they tap key personnel for market info. I have received these sort of inquiries many times in the past. Hedge Funds are major users of these.

I can easily see the line of inquiry not breaking the law but getting close enough to extrapolate information on the companies being targeted (IRS personnel, for example), without outright naming them.

This is kind of digital fingerprinting, but for companies. You don't may never get the name of the company, but at some point the questions become so specific that shoe will only fit 1-2 companies.

How many companies have personnel primarily in the US, HQ in Ireland, have revenues >1B, and sell operating systems as a primary source of revenue ?
makefile cackles as it observes the exchange
Ah, it sounds like you need smart switches then. :)

In my case I just have two lights. The ceiling one is controlled by a switch near the door, and the lamp is controlled by a switch on its cord. I use either depending on what I'm doing.
Just a heads up, trying to view any of the preview images gives

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The stories you hear coming from teachers are nuts. My parents basically deferred to the teacher's opinion in almost all matters at school. Meanwhile, enough modern parents go to war for their little monsters that I think teachers feel limited in how firmly they can give negative feedback.
I've commented about this overall situation in France a few times, and yes, they've gone after fundamental rights also before. Which is kind of weird given their history.

EDIT: Over again, some Americans seem to think that this is about the "freedom of speech", whereas, in reality, it is about the freedom of assembly. That said, the situation seems pretty dire, with organizations classified as terrorists on the streets.
What exactly does unexpected escalation around Ukraine mean in this context? There already is a war there.
Ah right, I forgot: they don't want to do content moderation, because then they become gatekeepers etc.

They just want our money. Twice.
Maybe I’m just thinking outside of the box here, but how exactly do 3,000 lbs pieces of metal and glass become safer for people crossing the street in an addressable way by auto makers, when it’s the buyers demanding larger and larger vehicles?

On segregated bike lanes, I’m afraid to tell you, cyclists don’t use them anyway, so why on earth should anyone focus on putting them in?
> That all the public schools I know in Europe, either directly or indirectly, are pretty much of the same quality

That is definitely not the case here in Romania.

One of my personal projects involves mapping the results of Romania's National Exams for pupils at the end of 8th grade (in here [1] are the results for Bucharest), and as you can see on the linked map/link there are definetly better (colored with green, with average school grade higher than the average for Bucharest) and worse schools (colored with red). Going back to 2015, let's say (meaning at this link [2]), one can see that the schools colored green have remained pretty much the same, and the same goes for the red/worst schools.

I have a close friend who's a math highschool teacher in the French Education system and he confirmed to me that a similar situation takes place in France (the Paris area, to be more exact).

[1] https://mihaitc.github.io/scoli/bucuresti/

[2] https://mihaitc.github.io/scoli/2015/bucuresti/
Is this a reflection of OpenAI’s massive scale making it so cheap for them?

Or is it the deal with Microsoft for cloud services making it cheap?

Or are they just operating at a massive loss to kill off other competition?

Or something else?
Germany always is doing super well in these rankings. Yet 2/3rd of the highways have no speed limit at all. It's of course unsurprising: all cars are driving in the same direction on the highway so head-on collisions on the highways are extremely rare.

Also pedestrian deaths on the highway: the number is so minuscule it doesn't even register.
SBF did have a very unusual discounting policy, namely "no discounting", in fairness. I'm not aware of anyone other than SBF who bites the "keep double-or-nothing a 51% probability gamble forever, for infinite expected utility and probability 1 of going bust" bullet in favour of keeping going forever. (SBF espoused this policy in March 2022, if I recall correctly, on Conversations with Tyler.)
Can we stop with this kind of low-effort snipe on cryptocurrency exchange topics?

Yes, if you run a crypto exchange, you have to interface between crypto and the conventional financial markets. So yes, you at times have to hold money with others in trust and are vulnerable to those counterparty risks. That's not some kind of brilliant "gotcha".

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Edit: Okay. Since HN now seems to love low-effort "gotchas", maybe I should take some time to show what a meaningful, curious discussion, that actually attempts to engage, would look like.

So: You've heard that crypto is trustless. With that curious hacker mentality, you think you've found a contradiction (that wasn't addressed the 30 times this came up before): hey, why was FTX trusting someone with their crypto assets? Doesn't crypto obviate that?

Yes and no. Like others might have told you in those previous 30 discussions, at the point where you have to move something from the trustless crypto realm to the conventional financial system, the conventional part doesn't have the same trustless guarantees, and you are vulnerable to assets being frozen.

Since the role of a crypto exchange is often to interface between the crypto realm and the conventional, then, in those cases, the crypto can be seized the same way. For example, if your exchange exists to interface between crypto and the Chinese financial system, then anything held on the latter side of it can be seized under the Chinese financial system's rules.

Similarly, if you trust someone with physical cash, you have less protections against them running away with it than if you e.g. paid them via PayPal.

"Okay but then still, doesn't that mean that some subset could still live in the trustless realm of cryptocurrency? Why use an exchange for that part?"

Well, one downside of the trustless crypto realm is that transactions are more expensive -- you incur costs to maintain the trustless guarantee. Depending on your specific use case, you may consider an institution trustworthiness enough, and the alternative expensive enough, to do the trustful way.

So, yes, it is a valid criticism to say, "hey, despite being trustless, it sure sucks that crypto can't also bring down costs to handle all this stuff on cost comparable to conventional."

Of course, there are limits to that to: as long as you have to convert back to the conventional financial system -- which that FTX exchange existed to facilitate -- you still have to trust counterparties in the financial system at some point.

There, mystery solved! Now I have a comment to reword for the next 30 times someone makes this brilliant argument!
We used it for a bit then stopped after discovering the screen share resolution is super low
> A car can't stop on a dime.

That sounds like a you problem. Why is it up to the pedestrian (who may have never driven a motor vehicle) to anticipate the performance characteristics of this large metal vehicle in the street ?

The UK already has designated areas with no pedestrians ("Motorways" ~= US highways [?]) and it has expended considerable resources closing or diverting at-grade crossings of railways (which obviously have a more extreme version of the "can't stop on a dime" problem). You aren't allowed on most airstrips at all, without special permission, in a vehicle or otherwise - so that mostly leaves cars hitting pedestrians, seems robustly like that's actually always the car driver's fault even if (as we see for "Jay-walking") they'd prefer to pretend it was not.
https://github.com/ngacho/obsidian-ai-assistant

Obsidian Local LLM Assistant. It's actually a fork of someone else's project who was working with the Open AI API.
Audio plugins folders are a bit of mess. Even I appreciate the installer.
I'm not sure I follow. Having an immutable system of record (verified by crypto) is of value without decentralization and the blockchain is one realization of that.
Good q. No, looks like Stardust (comet) and Hayabusa (asteroid)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sample-return_mission#2000s
Even the concept that the flow of traffic is more important than the pedestrian's flow is indicative of the change in attitude. Somehow the car has come to be most important while the pedestrian is a nuisance. Both own and pay for the road but the pedestrian is a second class citizen (obviously some people will moan on about road tax and fuel tax, but these taxes don't come close to paying for the road infrastructure, I doubt they would even pay the rent on the area dedicated to roads in one major city - say NYC).
The issue that I have is that everyone that praise Loom are talking about how they enjoy using it to create videos. I don't hear anyone saying they enjoy consuming them. Do you?
If one takes a craft to be their profession, then one must be pragmatic because time and resources are finite. Otherwise one should take the craft as a hobby instead.

Spending all your time polishing details that nobody cares about is not doing great work, it is wasting time. Time that could have been spent experimenting on new techniques, trying new ideas, taking on new projects.
Are you talking about ceiling fans? If so, I've found that their fan switches work flawlessly - no need to buy any kind of fan with smarts built-in: https://www.casetawireless.com/us/en/products/dimmers-switch...

(Search the page for "Original Smart Fan Speed Control Switch", there's seemingly no way to link directly to the requisite page section... which is a thing I could rant about but will not).
It's the Manhattan Project 2.0. The AI, once created, won't be that hard to replicate, but those who fail to create it early, will be sidetracked later. The race among big tech is the american way of doing such projects: fund a few companies, let them compete and pick the winner.
Censorship is rearing its ugly head again. Can't have the wrong opinions. I feel like this really took off with the Corona virus pandemic, again with the Ukraine invasion, and now this.
On Safari, trying to view any app throws the following error:

TypeError: Object.hasOwn is not a function. (In 'Object.hasOwn(e,t.from)', 'Object.hasOwn' is undefined)

Looks amazing on Chrome though!
> when you're building something and you control all the variables, its easy to say the voltage is fixed

No, my point is I don't control that variable. I can't get 14.4V microcontrollers, nor 6.5V batteries. Neither can you. I am obliged to power it with 3.280V/0.1-150mA regulated power from 4.2/3.7/2.8 max/typ/min aluminized pouches of wet wipes. Wattage figures therefore won't help me.

USB-PD sure runs at 5/9/12/15/20V. Off of 3.7V li-ion cells, to charge 3.7V li-ion cells. So it's clear how many times more capacity a 20100mAh power bank battery has over 5000mAh phone battery, or a series 6-cell 18650 laptop battery pack(with nominal 2600mAh capacity per cell: 9x2600mAh of 3.7V equivalent capacity).

> And circling around, you can't be certain how many hours my 10,000mAh battery pack will run a 10W load.

37Wh? 3.7 hours, _ish_. Give or take one full hour. I don't even know what capacity of an advertised 10000mAh battery at ~0.3C might be. Battery capacity depends on discharge current. And here again it's current, not discharge energy.
but you are missing out that the solution is to keep making it inconvenient to let people use linux and other kinds of custom devices

eventually either nobody will use that, or they'll just jump the shark and outlaw such things

I know that for example in Canada, because taxes, ALL restaurants are (were?) FORCED to use a specific sets of devices else they're branded as tax-avoiders and dealt with accordingly

I've already had trouble using banking stuff under linux, I have had to cancel some cards because they became useless without a smartphone app (the real punchline is that I got a new card that's only works on a smartphone. but at least it was like this when I signed up; they didn't change how it works under my feet)
One immediately useful thing I got from the post is the genius idea of putting the printer (that frequently needs to be restarted for some reason) on a smart outlet. It's working around broken technology by using more technology, but I'll take it!