skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are all great ideas, and I echo them. But I do feel like these sorts of collective problems are hard to solve by each person trying to do their own part working alone.

One reason that corporate internet won is that money transfers to a single entity, and that pot of money can be used to coordinate action in some particular direction (for better or worse depending on your view).

Without some coordination mechanism, it seems a a bit too divided. It's unclear to me what the appropriate mechanism is, but I think that's the right sort of way to frame the problem.
All remote are more potentially hostile than any local will ever be.
Yeah, I always felt like the implementation wasn't that good. But, tbh, rate limiting them and saying "hey don't poll quite so much" would have been trivial compared to the approach they ultimately took.

And obviously people with HA will use it more than people that have to wait a ridiculous amount of time every time they open that stupid myq app. It was terrible.
harsh reality is that 80% of humanity works a dead-end/awful/not wanted job just because bills. IT is a nice bubble in which you do something you are mostly passionate about and you get paid well. I'm not saying "we got it good so don't complain" but sometimes is worth to analyze the situation from the perspectivo of an outsider.
IMO i can do whichever tech job, the more i dislike it the more i need to be paid, that's all
No, this is being realistic. Time makes the rose tinted glasses go away.

This would be the same with another career.

It doesn't mean he does not like what he does, just that he sees the reality of working in an organisation.
> Sure this has drawbacks, but it's not like advertisers didn't make conversions before tracking got the way to go.

Why would anyone settle for less without getting something in return. You wouldn't go into your job and happily take a 30% pay decrease because your boss said "it's not like you weren't surviving before".

User tracking results in better ROI. This is why advertisers pay Facebook for the privilege. And you just expect Facebook to say "oh well, shucks"?
It’s not the same as MyQ here, but Philips (specifically Hue) recently pulled a similar move around requiring accounts. Thankfully it’s not as big of a deal for the HA crowd because the lights can be controlled directly via zigbee, but it certainly caused a kerfuffle in their ecosystem.

Related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37594377
Apache-2.0 gives everyone those rights. The CLA makes Element the only one who can build proprietary modifications on top. Monopolization of the position they gained by advertising as open-source.
I use the myq app to open my garage door open regularly. The app is slow to open and generally annoying. For example, the whole interface is initially blocked, so you tap to open and it doesn't register the tap, still doesn't register the tap, then finally it does.

I was not aware of there being ads in it, but I just looked, and you are absolutely right, there is an ad at the top. It looks like its for their home security camera.

Based on my experience with the company, I would not purchase additional products from them. Not based on my desire to use home automation or homekit, just on the fact that the app is poor.

The garage door openers themselves, however, which have battery backup and which open quietly and with a gradual slowing near the finish, are pretty decent. Mainly I wish they had a better, faster app, as the garage door is the smart home thing I used most (followed by maybe Rachio).
Yeah but if the officer assaults or shoots someone, their case being thrown out isn't much consolation.
I wonder what it's like to be BrandonM and internet famous in such a niche way but also in a way that a lot of successful people recognize.
I don’t think it can be expected to have doctors all the way up the chain. Even in the UK’s nationalized healthcare system, the chief is not a doctor, and I assume many under her are not either:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Pritchard

Even if the chief was the doctor, they would be getting their funds from the political leaders, who are most likely not all going to be doctors.
If you agree with me what they said about "control" and "lending my soul" is wrong, why pretend otherwise? If all they intended to say was that they don't like that if someone asks Alexa to play a playlist, that Amazon can choose which songs are on that playlist assuming its one Amazon put together, then they would have said that.

Instead they said a different thing. No, that's not an example of control. It's a feature I paid for!
More evidence of your complete and total lack of reading comprehension - I am dating someone who I did not meet through a dating app, and mentioned that in a comment above.
That works, but it also means maintaining a Dockerfile that does the COPYs, when all you're really doing is assembling image layers. This is more or less exactly what ko does, without using the Dockerfile language to describe it.

Not having to run a Docker daemon is just a nice bonus! :)
Just to comment on incompetent people. There are kinds of incompetence. It also makes a huge difference where in the hierarchy they are. Incompetent boss will not let you save the day, but will make you take the blame, for example.

Here's an example of incompetence I deal with every day. The head of R&D department either pretends not to understand or is genuinely this stupid as to engage in the following process over and over:

* We release a program with many defects due to the short development and testing cycle, but especially due to poor (or missing) planning.

* Customers complain they cannot achieve what they want using our program.

* R&D lead bravely rushes to "extinguish the fire" by adding new feature to work around the customers' complaint.

* Because the feature was never properly planned it creates multiple new issues while coming late to the testing stage.

* We burn past the deadline, and eventually have to release still half-baked.

* Customers complain again...

There's no place in this scenario where any of the underlings can swoop in and save the day, because saving the day would be to tell the R&D head that he needs to go through due process of planning his contributions and coordinating with other department heads, esp. the QA. But nobody can, because this will be judged as insubordination and violators will be fired. Over half of the underlings are on work visa, not to mention that the company is almost exclusively filling its niche. So, nobody wants to speak up out of fear of being fired.

On the other hand, such incompetence only lowers morale, leading to most underlings losing interest in the subject matter and doing the absolute minimum to hold the job. You'd think it's a miracle such a dysfunctional company keeps sailing... but, I have this to tell you. This is not the first company of this kind I met in my life. All companies of this kind that I've met by the time I've met them were over 20 years old, profitable, big, fearlessly looking into the future...
Yes, this was my thoughts too, since this is pushed by politicians, they should roll out the end of encryption to their phones first, and if in 10 years we uncover no new sex scandals or other big scandals about them, it means that having no encryption is perfectly fine.

If they want encryption but with a backdoor, just send the master key to a bunch of random citizens for monitoring.

In my case, I'm French, so they won't last a week like this. Don't give felon politicians a place to hide.
> Another option can be flashing it with Tasmota

ESPHome is also a good option and makes Home Assistant integration easier.
I will do this with ChatGPT in the future. No need to type or use a calculator or anything like that anymore.
Wikipedia is good? I find it a mix of good info and blatantly slanted. Not even just in political articles.

> cambridge.org

Ah, say no more
It isn't completely insane. in the days of landlines it makes sense because you can hang up the phone and go to a different - more comfortable - room when you realize the conversation will take longer. I don't think cell phones have ever had this anywhere.
They never technically allowed it in the first place.

Homebridge and Home Assistant used a popular Python library that reverse-engineered the MyQ API from the Android app. Many companies couldn't care less until abuse ramps up, but given that Chamberlain (Blackstone-owned) has gone into rent-seeking mode all of a sudden, they decided to turn the Cloudflare Super Bot Fight stuff way the hell up on their OIDC token exchange endpoint (you can still request auth codes).

I decided to abandon trying to get MyQ to work with Home Assistant (it would have required hours of trying to figure out what combination of headers would have passed the CF checkpoint) and ended up getting a Meross Smart Opener. It was shockingly easy to install (plug the relay device into the same pinouts that your wall door opener uses) and works even better than MyQ (in that you won't get a weird "close error" that prevents you from operating your door that not even MyQ customer service will clear)
Received my ratgdo yesterday and uninstalled the myq app. They won’t be getting any more traffic from me
Sounds like there's a market for intermediary tech support
They do not support opening your own garage door via IFTT, Alexa, or Google Assistant.

They do support allowing their paid partners (eg, Amazon) to open your garage door for deliveries. I think this last part is where they get "value".
Fully agreed. Seems to me that most people who don't care about curating their commits (and either leave a mess or squash everything at merge regardless of context) simply don't work on projects that are either complex, distributed or long-living enough, so they can easily afford such carelessness.
Number of active car owners living in an area could be valuable for a few industries and governments
If you look at these chip
Bans as being used to vault China into a leadership position they make more sense

1) China has home grown flagship tier chip

2) soon a monopoly on risc v development which they are already building around also protects Chinese arm investment

3) local manufactures soon won’t need asml

Perhaps the entire strategy is wrong
I suppose if we redefine words everything is everything.
Acknowledging the ubiquity of politics in organisations is not whining. He only offered a way to deal with it for those not interested in playing the game, or who are not very good at it.
Please don't spread disinformation. You don't clearly understand how the PKI works.
This sounds interesting please could you share a link if you find it?
Seems like a true consent based "Reject all" button is a critical danger to Facebook's business model since they are currently in violation of privacy rights in the EU after their last attempt at a legal basis was struck down.

They are basing this subscribe or ad based model on a non-binding comment in a judgement last spring. Should hopefully only be a matter of time until it is ruled illegal.

https://noyb.eu/en/meta-facebook-instagram-move-pay-your-rig...
>>> Users who consent will get targeted ads. Users that do not consent will get non-targeted ads. Users who subscribe get fleeced.

If as you say, when they charge members to not get targeted ads, the paying customers are getting fleeced. So what can these companies do to actually make money??
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> What is so hard that people find estimating their work?

The central difficulty and huge part of many programming projects is actually the "unknown stuff" that is insanely hard to estimate, be it

- requirements set up by users are often very vague

- interacting with some very complicated third-party library/software that takes years to only understand the basics of

- many programming tasks are unique, thus you have never implemented anything remotely related, and thus also have hardly any idea where the difficulties might lie

- the new software "has to behave like the old one". In the old software, there exists an insane amount of corner behaviour where nobody has any idea why it was introduced, but the users will at some point complain if the new software behaves only a little bit different in such an obscure corner case
> Most of these will be proprietary

Yes, I'm talking about that situation more proprietary competitive -> higher demand/improved ecosystem for RISC-V chips -> Chinese companies become more competitive relative to AMD/ARM/Intel -> influence US has is diminished

> a competitive open source chip design that the EU are putting money into for the European Processor Initiative, so good luck trying to control that.

And for better or for worse than will benefit China.

> The software is already ported to RISC-V

I'm talking about software in general (Web servers, databases, mobile operating systems etc.)
At no point did I say I don't like this. It's absolutely the best career I could think of. No heavy lifting, no dealing with bodily fluids or excrement, no harsh weather conditions, low to no risk of getting killed, no dangerous chemicals, no being shot at etc. And I get to play with things all the time and solve interesting problems.

But it is what it is!
Yes. The jerks found meta.stackoverflow.com and for a brief period started a campaign of what is off-topic in each very-specific forum in a effort to drive content to their very specific fiefdoms.

basically after sub-forums like bicycle, gardening etc which didn't fit at all under the programming forum, they opened up for randoms moderators. But the jerks started to abuse it to create a reddit-like web of overlapping forums. in 2018(?) you could not post anything without a question being closed with "offtopic! to ask about this specific setting on android phones with a blue or green protective case you must do so on xyz.stackoverflow.com. closed."
I don't get the anger over this. For years I read "I would gladly pay X to use a service and not be spied on", and now this is an option. If you're not the customer you're the product I heard. Now you're the customer
> Which can easily be decided to be illegal in many countries based on the current laws already existing

Sorry which laws are those?

And for the billions of people with free will who use these services, you know what's better for them than they do?
I surmise part of the reason they did this is to protect revenue from "authorized" partners. I'm sure these partners are not happy paying money to Chamberlain so their customers have access to myQ while other unauthorized partners get free access.
> At the risk of being very directly contrarian

Please, be! Discussion is welcome.

What I despise is only immature people ignoring important societal issues with a sweep of their hands, while crying a void "because privacy".
This goes against everything we've learned about effectively deploying and managing software at runtime. Using the golang binary as a packaging format for your app has the same energy as crafting it exclusively from impenetrable one-liners.
In general a very good comment. But:

> Obviously if this happens, you leave the area and don't come back. And if you don't leave, you don't complain about a rocket coming back.

I suspect that for the average Gaza resident, there aren't many places they can go that aren't right next to somewhere that rockets come from.
To me, the main difference between almost every other place on the Internet (save for personal websites) and Wikipedia is the lack of advertising, or attempting to generate revenue through engagement. That is the reason why Wikipedia still remains tolerable.
SEO, content farms and click mills are the things ruining the internet. All of this is the result of advertising as a business model. For any content, the perverse incentive is to copy it repeatedly with slight variations then monetize the copies with ads and SEO your monetized version to the top of the search results.

What we need is a social-first internet where every piece of content is associated with an actual human and people query for content through their social graph. This will be doubly important in the age of AI.
I am curious, what books you found important enough to bother? So my list of (shame) books to read could grow even longer.
Not that I don't agree. I would however rank Sci-Hub, Library Genesis and Anna's Archive higher than Wikipedia. And don't forget about Internet Archive and Arxiv.

This vast amount of high quality human knowledge was not available in the good old internet 20 years ago.
I buy a garage door opener. That is the end of my transaction.

I buy a connected garage door opener. The provider knows my geolocation, my name, email address, socioeconomic status, even the phone I own. Inferences can be made on activity such as "they leave for work at 7am when garage door opens".

The collection of data doesn't need to be used specifically for reengaging me with Chamberlain. It is now an asset to the company that can be sold to others as outlined in their Information Sharing section. Which basically says "we share it with everyone".

Partners can be anyone from insurance companies to academic researchers. Remember that partners aren't limited to just one data set. They have the ability to ask multiple companies: "What data do you have for all occupants of houses in this geographic area?"
A "criminal" (note: innocent until proven guilty) assaulting a police officer to destroy the body cam will get them shot and killed - did you seriously consider this comment before you posted it?
All places ever deemed 'good' have had sufficient technological or financial, and above all intellectual barriers of entry that filter out regular joes. BBS's in the 80's. Usenet till the early 90's. WWW till the late 90's. IRC till early 00's. Forums replaced usenet groups but have been in decline for years.

Once those barriers are broken and the masses flood in then the supply side will emerge and takes over with services designed for masses, to be used by the masses. This will drown all the interesting bits that used to be visible earlier.

The direction of development suggests that these 'good places' will be more and more scarce in the future. Further, (curiously both) privacy and surveillance laws are slowly creeping in and making it harder to freely offer services similar to those that have already died once. This further levels the playground for bigger players.
There is an official jobs thread the first day of each month. More info in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

You can still post in the last edition https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38099086
Some problems I often see:

1) The people estimating the work aren't always the ones doing it.
2) Engineers are optimists, estimates are often best case.
3) Not enough padding added to estimates (see #1 and #2.)
This guy consults.
I miss tags such as "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" and "suddenoutbreakofcommonsense", there have been articles on HN where these tags could have applied as well
I mean, I was thinking more like:

What's the merits that allow the certification? Is it technical? Is it bureaucracy and "just" certifications?

I've been on the healthcare business so I've seen how that works when doing FDA or CE certifications.
Let me know how you feel after you're married.
This is true. Just from a technical perspective I think toxicity isn't an entirely intractable problem. The combination of moderator + tooling + AI should eventually get to acceptable levels where you can scale moderation acceptably on average for most users most of the time.

But I do think there will be a cat and mouse game as tools to evade moderation also get more advanced and are perhaps only revealed when the moderation tools are needed most. That's where it's nice to have the resources of a large corporation to invest in being able to be proactive about threats.
> Technically, the insurance company is denying payment, not the treatment.

For almost every person in this country, for an expensive treatment, this is a distinction without any difference whatsoever.
There is actually. Go into your general settings and change your device name (for example ‘IPhone’ to ‘IPhone2’). Dumb, I know.
I suspect if you comment receives downvotes, it will be because it is verging on the incomprehensible. Seriously - I read it 3 times and I only have the haziest of ideas as to what you are trying to get at.
GitHub has much better usability than gitlab and you also reach more developers with it. And if you ever don’t like what MS does with it you can just move the repo somewhere else. Zero lock in.
Suppose they include those features anyway. Do Firefox developers in the EU get arrested? Does the EU block US websites distributing Firefox, and arrest anyone running a local mirror? Do programmers that compile and run their own, personal versions of Firefox, where they have personally removed untrustworthy CAs, get raided by the police?
Consumers don't care about the details of how a game is developed. So what's the BENEFIT of doing this?
"good" is a point of view anakin.

that place is absolutely one sided and toxic
OTOH you don't need 5 years and $50K debt to learn these basics.
Maybe as a slight input to why your comment would get downvoted: You're expressing a few semi-related frustrations, but it reads pretty incoherent, since you seem to assume folks already know the concepts you're talking about and agree with that worldview.

As such you're not really making sense, and human to human suggest the following: Try to get a different perspective and mingle more with offline people. The whole culture war topics and politics can really lead you down a crappy path, and it doesn't really reflect most of reality.

I hope this comes across as compassionate.
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"politics" just means "large groups of people making decisions together". People love to complain about it, but in reality it is the one tool we have to steer large organizations.
We designed cake to be implementable in hardware if anyone could be convinced it was useful: https://blog.cerowrt.org/post/juniper/ - I thought this test series rather compelling.

1) The data paths MUST prepend a timestamp to every packet
2) HW invsqrt for codel or cobalt AQM is 3k gates, checked on output
3) 32k 4 way set associative cache is a std IP block
4) HW Packet hasher - three different outputs

There are a few states in cake that are optional, but I remain boggled that step 1!! did not happen within 2 hardware releases of switch chips after van Jacobson and kathie Nichols published codel as a replacement for RED in 2012.

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2209336