skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> I think the problem with using a relay is that you probably miss state information like open/closed/obstructed, etc.

> You're on the right track here. Garage doors are a security risk and safety hazard. All these homebrewed, cobbled together solutions aren't tested to UL standards like the official stuff is.

How so? I don't think anyone's talking about a homebrewed garage door opener, just a hacked garage door opener remote. It would almost certainly be physically and electrically isolated from the actual UL-tested opener.

If you're doing homebrew, a pretty easy and effective solution to the "state" problem is point a camera at the door. That also gives you better (remote) situational awareness when the door is going to close than any commercial solution on the market (though I haven't actually checked what's available in 10 years).

I actually built a IOT garage door remote about 10 years ago (I got the hardware working, but lost steam with the control software beyond running commands over ssh). The effort I spent to directly sense the door state was a waste. You've got a good solution with a Raspberry Pi, an off-the-shelf remote, a reed relay wired to one of the buttons, and a webcam.

But ultimately, the best and cheapest solution is neighbors who will help you.
Same, good experience, with the Meross Homekit capable garage opener. I do like that it’s a wired setup, which us more secure (I just erased all the paired radio openers). My only gripe is that I have Apple Watch Series 3 and the resent forced upgrade of the Home app means I can bo longer control anything from my watch which sucks!
You have it reversed. The celebrity endorser is the platform. FTX has no platform, they have money and can buy commercial time. Larry David has his own 'brand', and people like you and I have positive feelings towards it. His mere appearance in an FTX commercial is him lending his platform of positive feelings we all have for him over to the brand of FTX, so that we may associate those positive feelings toward them. That's the endorsement. Even if he said, "FTX fucking sucks, and so does crypto!" in the ad, people would think, haha that's so funny, did he really say that in a commercial?! And the next time they think about crypto they remember their jovial laughter at that dumb ad and "FTX."

I also don't care that he endorsed them and don't think he's at all responsible for people losing money in crypto.
then who cleans up the trash?

charge you for things that you don't ordered

that is not what is happening here. the state is not some foreign entity, but the elected representative will of the community. i want the trash taken care of, and so does the majority of the community.

if your government does not do what your community wants then you don't live in a functioning democracy. that is a different problem alltogether.

in summary: free market will not take care of those problems i mentioned. if you disagree, then i'd like to see a specific explanation how a free market can take care of those issues.

anything mandatory is not a free market.

to get these things taken care of, the community will have to enact rules or delegate someone to do it. how it makes that decision is is up to the community. it doesn't require a government that is not under the control of the community. nor does the existence of taxes imply the existence of such a government.
What Is the Role of Architects in Combating Climate Change?
How much would one tree remove? ~20 kg/yr, once it is fully grown.

How many would it take to remove ~40-50 giga-tons (40x10^12 kg) of CO2 per year? Two trillion (2,000,000,000,000) trees per year. The total number of trees on Earth today is estimated to be about three trillion.

So we would need to plant ~2 trillion per year to just keep up with the amount of CO2 being produced today. Do that many saplings get produced every year? How much land would it take to create that many saplings? How much time and labor? And what steps should be taken so that none of them end up rotting once they are dead (and release the CO2)?

How many more would it take to use the biomass to create something that can offset the existing fuel usage that keeps billions of people alive?

Hence the reason to pursue more efficient forms of carbon capture than just "plant a tree"
Both Golden Eye and Perfect Dark support using two controllers per player. Or a controller on each hand and thus two analog sticks.

This was, for me, the perfect control mechanism. I still prefer that to modern PS and Xbox controllers.
Gleam has curried functions by default so F# style pipes make sense imo.
Posts can be interesting and amusing without being dishonest. These are not mutually exclusive.
That bit of the documentation was... misguided. Relocating code segments was incompatible with many popular C runtimes (typically because CREL/DREL relocations were applied to the segment at load time, and there was no way to rerun that after a segment was moved), and was dangerous even if that wasn't the case (because stray references to the old location would often persist, e.g. as function pointers).

Later on in the 68k Mac OS lifecycle, compilers figured out how to bypass the 32k segment limit, and would often compile the entire application to a single CODE resource, sometimes with auxiliary resources for embedded libraries. There was certainly no unloading those.
Consider using a supercomputer next time.
I've found these blog posts of his to be like Moldbug's - compelling in a way, consisting mostly of true statements, but also trying to aggressively push a very particular worldview on you. I would advise mixing him with other sources and taking care to be sceptical.
Ask HN: Where Are the Text+video Models
Hello,

As far as I can tell none of the big "AI" players (Openai/Google/Meta) are releasing text+video multimodal models. What I mean by this is a transformer that somehow operates on language tokens as as well as image/video tokens. My intuition says that this should be quite feasible right now: I think by training such a model already with "low resolution/small encoded image dimension" one can give an LLM a better understanding of the behavior of our physical world (lack of this is a thing Le Cun criticizes again and again, so clearly he would try to find a solution).

So what are the obvious explanations?

1. It doesn't work.

Consider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBRQJLy3M2E
and
https://youtu.be/6x-Xb_uT7ts?si=dVKt72sYRBp5m9E6

The way I interpret this is that it is possible with reasonable compute cost (these models are supposed to run in cars) to train models that have a decent understanding of the behavior of the physical world. Orders of magniute better than text-only LLMs.
Video+Text Data is also available via subtitles.

This leads me to think one of these is the case:

2. They exist but I have never heard of them.
I know about Gen-2 but that is not good video generation, in my opinion. The videos are more like animatronics. There is rarely any real movement. The dynamics of our physical world are barely present unlike the above examples.

3. I am missing something and it doesn't work or isn't useful.

4. These models are being tested internally for research purposes but they are not product-worthy so not released.

What do you think?
Browsers could simply make QWACs distinguishable from all other certs. Make sure to show qwac next to the lock. Will the EU say hide the qwac?
> I’ve been studying Spanish for a few years, and want to read fiction, but jeez, A Hundred Years of Solitude sure is difficult.

Well, sure. Get a book with a plot.
You obviously do not understand tenders and also have a bad faith in addressing this message towards me (García-Ripoll) and Artur.

First of all, this tender only received one application. There could have been other applicants as it happened in Galicia's quantum computer tender, but there were none.

Second, this application was done by a collective of companies of which Qilimanjaro is only one more participant, responsible for calibration and integration.

Third, my role as scientist in this evaluation was only to certify that the specifications of the tender proposal follow the scientific requirements of the call, and whether any parameter is below or above the requested standards. That is tickboxing essentially and with only one applicant this does not influence the outcome.

So I am asking you to retract these accusations as I am concerned, or follow suit if you have so much evidence of wrongdoing.
MyQ lets you close them blindly. In fact, it has a built in timer that will blindly close it for you, after 30 minutes, or whatever you choose.

They have pressure sensor strips along the bottom to detect impact that's not the ground, to make this reasonable.

It's not some new idea, it's the current state of all of these remote doors.
Building Communities With Software (2003)
Yes. In Tokyo
But Japan's not cultural relativist.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stern%E2%80%93Gerlach_experi...
I totally agree! I also very much appreciate the amount of time they dedicate to explaining the details of the apparatus. I suspect that very few physics students get any reasonable amount of instruction on experimental techniques these days. I barely did fifteen years ago, and I think things have only gotten worse since then. Without that, the learning curve of working in a research lab can be pretty brutal.

A second benefit I get from spending all that time on the apparatus is kind of paradoxical: those extra details seem like they would distract you from learning and understanding the core concept, but somehow they make things much more approachable. The idealized experiment is slightly too abstract to easily digest.
Go binaries tend not to be that lightweight, because we have goroutines for that.

And yes, setting up a separate VM for each instance of a process is perfectly feasible. That's what all this cloud business was about in the first place.
The issue here is offering up #3 “It will be late, broken and other features will break” means you are not delivering anything of value, so it is not an option. Offering #3 just communicates “this can be done at a cost that is not relevant to you” as opposed to “there is no way to achieve the stated outcomes”

Offering #3 is absolutely not a business or management problem, this is something you are doing wrong.
The local authority would rather everyone in those buildings have died.
Watermelon Status
> I also doubt there are a lot of deals where a previously profitable company is unprofitable after the deal.

Perhaps - but the fact that a trick has become well-known where companies are acquired only to be burdened with debt from the acquisition is rather telling. And that is not helping profitability.

As someone who's less into business / financial news than eg. curling news, I know of a ridiculous amount of companies where this happened. So I really do not doubt this is a common strategy.
agreed, he has a great piece on japans system
Weird to see all these comments calling the army generous. They didn't have to bomb a civilian block at all.
I guess I am just bad at golang.

Loop variable pointer and nil struct is not nil interface are the two that continue to hound us.
Thanks a lot! I was able to signup using the code.
When did the meaning of the term 'punk' change from denoting an anti-establishment attitude to a 'buy me' trigger for certain customer segments,especially as suffix in the literary market?
And how much was the overlap?

Vivian Westwood?

Blondie?

And then Cyberpunk,right?
Yeah, I am pretty sure the people of Hamas are following the guidelines and have satisfied all of the regulatory requirements before flying their small grenade carry-on drones.
Same reason I don’t want to have a half dozen streaming providers. I don’t want to have a bunch of different stores and launchers with different games on each.

Plus it’s a terrible store front from all I’ve heard and I do not wish to support it
Don't know where you live but where I leave this thing is pretty common when you are buying some property. The goal in this case should be pretty obvious.
When Linux Spooked Microsoft: Remembering 1998's Leaked 'Halloween Documents'
There's no work to it though? My whole setup is automated, I just read my articles and watch my videos in the morning, everything in it's place, with no ads or fuss.
SoftBank already has all the political influence it needs in the LDP
Wow these keyboards look amazing! Thanks for sharing!
> OSes and container runtimes are the same thing

For a subset of OSes
Yes, Nárdil (or Nárndil?) could've been a Tolkien name meaning fire friend in Quenya.
Should your house be bombed if someone down the street is building a bomb in their garage?
Previous post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38187301
why is politics/news even on hackernews?
Interesting. Are you citing actual statistics here or is this a theory that seems plausible to you? If it's the latter, I should point out that it's relying heavily on an assumption about how often specific models of phones are actually stolen, reported stolen, and/or recovered and I think those numbers are extremely difficult to come by in any realistically useful sense. That said, even with statistics on hand, this is a reach. You might be right, but it's highly unlikely and impossible to prove in any useful application.
Couple notes

1. I'm not convinced that 20 upvotes on a hacker news thread is indicative of trends in the industry at large

2. As an amateur pilot who just got their PPL, it's also a rather unsubstantiated take.

Most pilots do not understand how their planes work at a fundamental level (it's an entirely separate discipline known as aeronautics). They understand how to operate the plane, how to respond to real world situations, etc. but one could just as easily claim that's essentially analogous to a software engineer understanding how to perform basic debugging on frameworks such as React, Angular, etc.
It's not the title which is the issue. You transferred the title and received the money and then the bank took the money. The buyer still has the title and doesn't care about you anymore, and you have no claim to get it back because they actually paid you. But then the bank stole the money they paid you because you couldn't prove how you got the title to begin with.
Trans rights are not well defined (ie what do the Gleam team put under that umbrella), and I've seen several statements in that context that I find problematic at best.

And they say "No nazi bullsh*t", which to me is a very loose phrasing with avtivist vibes, meaning I get unsure what exactly they put under the Nazi banner. Is it just actual Nazis or anyone they don't like, or something inbetween?
> Open source is full of instances where the person packaging the software is not the original developer.

How is that different. You seem to compare about method/language used.

> MSI (and MSIX) are complex databases of pain, but they absolutely know how to uninstall everything that they are told to install and that machinery is well tested now across way too many Windows versions.

They can do whatever developer wanted to do. Otherwise, we wouldn't have those gazilions of special cleaners/uninstallers we have

> My experience was very few of the packages I used did that and almost all revolved around some ad hoc Invoke-WebRequest

It was the case in the history, 5+ years back. Now big number of packages are not like that. I personally do not use non-embedded packages for office work. See https://github.com/chocolatey-community/chocolatey-packages/...

> Some people have built custom sources for winget to help with CI/CD scenarios

Yeah, you can fix anything. I keep rejected choco packages on my github too.

> Out-of-the-box caching/CDN for the primary public sources is still an active discussion,

I wouldn't use CDN, its just one dependency replaced by another. Cashing is irrelevant if you do not embed the software.

> but the neat thing is that it is an active discussion out on GitHub so that you can directly voice your "serious" use cases

You can have active discussion on GitHub with choco guys. I am sure results in winget case are not going to be much different. In my experience, way more pain than being useful.

So, to recap, the setup is almost the same with choco being small company and MS not. Choco is vastly better with features. I am moving to winget for various other reasons, that I won't talk about here and it has nothing to do with the tech.
This is really interesting. Thank you for sharing :)
Well isn't that fine then? Because those three things are already the status quo.
I would absolutely expect my house to be bombed if my government was building bombs in the homes nearby. Heck in pretty much every other war, you could expect to be bombed in you worked in a factory building the bombs.

On the other hand, I would not have voted for them in the first place.

I also love my family, so when a military tells me to evacuate a city, I would be getting out of there no matter what.
Optus outage causes chaos in Australia
this is exactly why we're never getting full self-driving cars, whether or not they are actually safer. no manufacturer is going to take on strict liability for 100,000's of auto-driving cars let loose in the hands of legally immune "operator"/customers.

but what's the point of even having self-driving cars if you the user are still on the hook for some hallucination or oversight of the product of that manufacturer? you would never cede full control in this case. and why pay $10K, $20K extra for the privilege of something you can't use?

exactly. there's no point.
That is this post.
I usually recommend Data Science At The Command Line https://jeroenjanssens.com/dsatcl/

Not because it explains bash well, but because it fits with my data science/bioinformatics niche. It's all about these funky sort/uniq/rev/cut/uniq/awk/wc/sed patterns I use everyday fiddling with csv files.
You need to be on the sun minimal time to maximise these benefits. It happens earlier than getting for example a tan.
Oh, it's smart all right. They want you to use their app that has ads all over it.
It was the second question that convinced me to buy it.
Doesn't the garage door use some proprietary protocol that the opener doesn't support?
Despite being made in a Mexico they won’t be sold in the States and probably wouldn’t meet NHTSA or EPA requirements. But if you could buy them… I’d write a check for 3 tomorrow.

Edit: and CAFE refs per gottorf https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38179829
It does. Their app does a check of the device to see if it looks legitimate, otherwise the APIs lock you out.
maybe Israel should bomb itself then?

https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up...
> You want to understand why cd is not an executable but a builtin?

Because a sub-process cannot change the working directory of its parent. The shell process needs to change its own working directory. Therefore cd must be a builtin.

Although, I suppose that one might execve a cd binary, which would change directory and then in turn the cd binary would execve the shell that is specified in the $SHELL env var. That would be terribly silly though :p
Nanoparticles Show Quick and Easy Way to Target Cancer
overall it's a huge win. In Germany we effectively already have an eID system as an extension of your national ID and you could use it to for example trivially get covid relief funds as student or you can use it to age verify when buying say, booze on Amazon.

The status quo of typing your personal information into random websites only to find them on haveibeenwpnd a few months later rather than having a proper API between your identity and private services is just awful.
Any chance you still know the title of the strangeloop presentation?
People buying stuff based on their partial temperature (“Earbuds are so hot..”) disgust me sincerely from the bottom of my heart. Usually the same crowd preaching all day about saving the planet from things like e-waste…
Out of curiosity, was it metavante?
CSS-only scroll-driven animations
> All of Melbourne's train services stopped temporarily due to a communications outage, and Metro Trains said it was unable to rely on its back-up system, which used the Optus mobile network.

Their primary and their backup were both Optus. Not much of a backup.
Definitely! But MISRA is about writing robust code with an error-prone language, not picking a different language that is better designed.

Your second point doesn't make any sense. Someone reading `int` has to determine if that is actually correct or not too.
No, Misys
And acojean, was not directed at you but at the editor and readers of the site.

Sorry as I re-read it and realized it could be mistaken….
That’s a legitimate reason :D

I think the pretty animal illustrations is what initially caught my attention and helped me discover O’Reilly as a publisher to pay specific attention to in IT books. The animals trick you into opening their books, and the texts usually have you continue reading.
This is a good point, some people might violate Poe’s Law (“Everyone is obligated to treat everything online as serious”)
> they must be the most restraint army in the world

It is unbelievable that basic decency comes as surprise.

It is as if some only met beasts and never met a Man.

Beasts should be seen as the exception - even when overwhelming in number.
I guess this is a good strategy to take the bite out of propaganda by saturating the image space with known fakes.
I believe it's been posted here before, but I also use this for reference whenever I forget the syntax to something, or know there must be a better way than what I am doing.

https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible
The overwhelming majority of those being bombed were were not part of the 44.45% that voted for Hamas in the 2006 election.

Certainly none of the ~ 3K children killed by the IDF in recent weeks voted.
Zalando RESTful API Guidelines
Mostly good article, but this made me laugh:

> In response to the revelations of government mass surveillance by Edward Snowden, the share of encrypted web traffic jumped from less than half to 95%.

Seriously?

In last 10 years situation with government mass surveillance become much worse. Now majority of web runs on public cloud and "encrypted" by CloudFlare MiTM engine. These are literally centralised mass surveillance platforms.
It is by far the cheapest rare-earth metal.

It is even much cheaper than it could be expected from its abundance, because it accumulates as a byproduct of producing REEs for which there is a higher demand, e.g. neodymium, and its storage is expensive for the REE producers. They would be almost willing to give it away for free, to get rid of it.

In recent years most public information about the current price of metals has disappeared, but 10 years ago the price of pure cerium was around $10/kg, in the same range with the prices of pure copper, pure chromium or pure titanium.

Cerium compounds, like the ceria used here, can be significantly cheaper than the metal (because the metal requires a lot of energy for extraction).

A Google search indicates that the current price of ceria (i.e. cerium oxide) is around $1.65 per kilogram, so the price of ceria must be a negligible part of the price of such a CO2 splitting device.