skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would love a place that works almost exactly like Stack Exchange, but which is geared toward polling experts' opinions on something (which is a thing that SE explicitly says it doesn't allow.)

Like, I can solve most concrete single answer problems (the kind SE is "for") on my own by digging into the offending component's source code. Reverse engineering if necessary.

The type of question that I really want to ask others, is when I have multiple options that all seem good to me as solutions, and I want guidance on which way to go — or, more deeply, which factors I should consider in my selection. (Example: "what should I use as a database for this project?")

This is exactly the sort of decision that a manager on a product, would hire a lead engineer for that project for their expertise in, and so would expect said lead engineer to be able to lay out for them when asked.

I feel like all the right people are there on SE to be able to answer this type of question. But SE itself just doesn't let them do it — or at least, isn't structured to incentivize them to do it.
The last 3.5 years have also screwed with peoples' sense of time, it's really common to see measures that normally get compared year-to-year instead get compared to 2019.
Meta and Microsoft Join Google in Newly Restructured App Defense Alliance
> Launched by Google in 2019, the App Defense Alliance was established to ensure the safety of the Google Play Store and the Android app ecosystem by focusing on malware detection and prevention. With a growing emphasis on app security standards, the Alliance expanded its scope in 2022 and is now the home for several industry-led collaborations including Malware Mitigation, and App Security Assessments for both mobile and cloud applications.
AI Startup Anthropic to Use Google Chips in Expanded Partnership
It's a very important philosophy to teach to people when they are beginning to suspect you've been picking their wallets for fifty years.

"Who Moved My Cheese", part five million and thirty two.
Furthermore, these forms often don't notice when your password manager has filled in the fields for you, so you have to go back and make a meaningless edit (e.g. add and then remove a character) in order to enable to the submit button.
From my POV it feels like every near-essential good has slow but steady inflationary effect and everyone just sort of accepts it:

* health care

* housing

* cars

* food

It's hard not to feel like these markets each manifest a collective behavior of, "we know we're essential, so we are free to set prices as we wish because you have no real alternatives." It benefits all the players to play along, you don't even need to prove collusion. And there's no way to push back on it collectively. I realize some of them are due to limited supply (housing) or pure necessity (health care). But cars? I'm paying 10k more for the same thing I bought in 2016?
Frankly, they should have pulled the plug years ago. The game has been dead for years. I try to watch every QPL grand final and it has been a borefest. Most exciting moment was the million dollar tournament. Newcomer beating Vo0 in spectacular manner.

StarCraft, which MS also owns these days, at least had traction for about a decade. Quake Champions was a bad game and it failed immediately. Maybe NS could finance proper Quake and StarCraft games with their infinite cash
No? Maybe you are projecting but not everyone is that way.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_authoritarian_per...
There's always a good reason not to use C#. That's actually the number one language that is crossed out of the candidate lists due to the company behind it and very "uneven" platform support.

As for using a unpopular language. My (mostly untested) conviction is that if this unpopular language is still popular among an albeit small group of programmers, it's a blessing. While hiring is difficult, you get much higher quality human resources. You get to enjoy working with smart people.

I've known a company whose business was to track real estate values. They had a Web site and some backend that did somewhat complicated statistics trying to predict prices or rent based on all kinds of factors they aggregated. A lot of the functionality of the backend was in scraping local news, city authority documents etc.

They wrote everything in Clojure (including front-end, which was Clojure-script). Great people, created a great, useful and successful business.

I've worked in companies early adopters of Go and Rust. It was a great experience. I've learned a lot during that time from my coworkers. I also briefly worked for a company whose main product was written in D. It was another great place to work in terms of quality of human resources and the quality of code I had to work with.
Very higelian comment.
I moved on, it was many years ago. But now that you mention it ... :)

No, I was doing everyday wikigardening of pages that were well-known to me. The 'editor' was jumped-up and self-appointed in the sense that: they were not the original poster of the copy pasta; they had no previous record of creating or editing those pages; they had a bezillion WP edits (indicating an almost full-time obsession with editing random pages); and they had no rational argument against my common-sense application of normal WP rules & style guidelines.
That’s an implementation error and not inherent to a disabled button.
Or make everyone go through metal detectors and millimeter wave scanners at the airport, take their shoes off, treat any liquid over whatever the small limit is like it’s bomb-making material (but still let that person fly; checkmate, would-be bomber!)…it’s all security theater. Notice how they don’t release their testing rates on how many of the test weapons and threats make it through TSA security, because then it would be too easy to point to that and rightfully assert that they utterly fail at their mission while wasting untold lifetimes worth of human time and make travel that much more miserable. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/06/reassessing_a... (2015) is a good read on that if you don’t already know.

My point is that when politicians do something “to save the children”, it’s rarely about actually helping anyone but themselves.
https://archive.is/USZBA
We care about CO2 equivalent, so anything that leaks methane is a candidate for being burned instead to reduce impact.

And plastic leaks methane from dumps.
It also depends on a neighbor. I heard my previous downstair neighbors only when they had guests. Now, there’s a single person who is a god damn elephant. They way she always stomps and throws things on the floor…
MyQ app should work fine. Just not the API integration to MyQ.
Chileans have "spaniard" jokes reflecting this (or they used to in the 80s anyway)
Why even buy a product like this anyway? Aren't there plenty of "dumb" smart garage door openers?

Aren't there plenty of great stand alone garage door openers that you can wire a smart relay or whatever into?

From what I can see there are plenty of "wifi garage door adaptor" options and everything looks to have pretty standard wiring, it's only not "plug and play" cause it's bare wires rather than plugs but it's essentially the same.
You might mean different things by "formal logic". It makes a lot of sense to teach Aristotelian logic either before or with Aristotle. But modern mathematical logic really is a different field.
If anything, Chamberlain should be paying Amazon for the right to be included with Key. It drives sales to Chamberlain.
I can only speak for my experience with iPhones.

I went from iPhone 4 -> 7 -> 11 -> 13. I upgraded on a shorter cycle from 11 to 13 so I could pass down my 11 to my kids. In each instance, the image quality has improved tremendously.

Going from 4 to 7 was a massive jump in terms of resolution. Going from 7 to 11 was a boost in color and clarity, despite being nearly the same MP. Going from 11 to 13 was a huge improvement in night mode and shooting speeds. Also, these are non-PRO phones, as I cannot afford the PRO ones. I imagine the improvement in the PRO iPhone cameras are nicer.

Every iteration has been an improvement to me, and obviated the need for a DSLR in every day use.
There have been numerous high profile incidents. I can't find a list, but BGP troubles took Facebook down for a while in 2021: https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/05/networking-traffic/out...
One of the things that makes me so successful is that I always try and have a backup plan. "our goal is X, if we fail to meet that with approach Y then we'll use approach Z. Lets prepare for approach Z while we're also preparing for approach Y and evaluate and switch to approach Z as early as we possibly can. We still want approach Y so we'll continue working on it even if we start using approach Z to successfully launch".

The issue is that there's a fluidity in that thinking that many many MANY technical people either don't have or don't employ.
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But people who built businesses whose core feature is based on OAI APIs might struggle.
Also, there are enough people meticulous enough to follow up on the sources. When a source is not freely available online that often involves going to the library and looking things up; there are people who spend many hours a week doing this, unpaid as a hobby.
If you post about this project, have a github, etc. Would follow your progress.
> if it was illegal, I suspect the pittance fine attached for it would do little to dissuade anyone

You’d let shareholder lawsuits sort it out. They’re the injured party, after all.
Just a tip for anyone dealing with noise in a multi-tenant situation. Get yourself a white noise machine. It's a life changer. I thought I was going to murder my neighbor with his own leaf blower until I got it.
And everyone is doing a lot of union joining.
Maybe they're just trying to get rid of expensive leases and debt. Then - a new chapter!
Plus some of their door openers have a camera and microphone. From that they could get a lot more very specific data.
Maybe Reddit (I avoid it), but there's no question HN misses 95% of what's happening in ML, maybe more. The 5% it gets isn't even the good stuff.

As another anecdote, I've had the opposite experience w.r.t. moderation under Musk, it's way, way better for me. Twitter is roughly back to where it was in 2016.
They have lost tens of billions on ~150 billion invested, much of that during boom years.
That sounds as effective as, oh, I don't know, the UN security council. Why not just argue against having the whole thing entirely?
Hmmm, maybe I'll have to give it another try sometime then!

Although I'm starting to prefer retro games, great modern releases are so few, now.
MQTT is the solution for this. Note that the garage door openers talk MQTT to the myq service (over TLS with preshared keys). It should be possible to subscribe to events from your garage door opener(s) and also to send commands to it.
> Some people fought tooth and nail to get it to not fail the build, because they didn't like that their new feature, which didn't introduce any vulns. per se, was failed.

Well... yeah? They're working on a feature and get arbitrarily told that they're not allowed to merge the feature until they go fix some completely unrelated vulnerability problem. How is that reasonable?
1. Company wants to sell an iot product.

2. Through research they find user wants to interact with their smart device while outside of range of wifi/bluetooth.

3. Company builds device firmware and cloud infrastructure to support this goal.

4. Company wants to simplify business logic and doesn't provide local (wifi/bluetooth/zigbee) support. Online only can service both on-premise and off-premise.

5. Company needs to reduce costs and justify ongoing operational costs of supporting this cloud + device service.

6. We arrive at the current solution.
I've been enjoying more mods than new games recently. When devs make something for pure love instead of money the results tend to be good. Eg.

- Stalker GAMMA

- RLCraft

- Ashes 2063 series (A dooom total conversion mod)

- Quake Arcane Dimensions

- Kerbal space program realism overhaul

- Krastorio

- Morrowind refined

- Portal reloaded
ABC is the other major player in the space besides MusicXML and Lilypond.

The Mutopia project [1] is magnificent but largely abandoned in favor of MuseScore [2] which uses MusicXML. The amount of music available there is staggering but locked in to their backend.

Unfortunately automated translation is difficult because Lilypond is very oriented towards specifics on how the notation is rendered.

And, if you are interested in general archives of music, IMSLP [3] (Internet Music Score Library Project) has to be mentioned as well, but mostly contains scans of existing engraved music.

[1] https://github.com/MutopiaProject/MutopiaProject

[2] https://musescore.com/sheetmusic

[3] https://imslp.org
Hi, yes, I've been looking into smoothing similar. I was thinking about using https://overpass-turbo.eu/ and running something like:

[out:json][timeout:60];

area["name"="Berlin"]->.searchArea;

relation["route"="subway"](area.searchArea);

out body;

>;

out skel qt;

Then I could get something like https://pasteboard.co/FTHhZgTPuP9b.png.

Maybe one day I'll try to mimic some GIS functionalities in my Memgraph database :)
Just look at the economists who are calculating inflation using the 80s methodologies and it's been way higher that the public figure.
What's more curious is why is it becoming popular nowadays. The internet, of course, factors into it. But ideas don't stick only through dissemination. The adopters of the idea need to be able to relate to the idea to some degree.
On their older hardware, I replaced a HD after about 6 years (that never actually had errors) with an SSD for another ~6.. With 8GB and an integrated SSD, I would be extremely nervous after year 2 or 3.
"new parts every few months"? Come on now.

Hell, I bought a new high performance vehicle. Drove it up to the dealership for its 5k oil change. They could easily have said "sure, no problem" and charged me $150ish for the privilege.

"Sir, unless you've been tracking the car and driving it very hard, 10K is the oil change interval. Sorry you wasted your trip".

In your world, they would have taken my money.
Yeah, no one who’s actually had to work with this on a technical level would seriously suggest our current GPT-4 level of AI for detection. It’s hash-based with some sugar on top.
No it wouldn't, because in that new world, that would lead to a murder conviction for the cop.
Not really true - Git is distributed, after all. During an outage once I just hosted my copy of a certain Git repo somewhere. You can always push the history back up to the golden copy when GitHub comes back.
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I remember in the late 90s and through the aught that Walmart had huge Rollback campaigns. Prices were constantly rolling back. Things were getting cheaper. This is still around of you look carefully but it's a scarce shell of what it used to be. I imagine it will return in a decades time as the economy sorts itself out.
For most of the time, the Commission seemed to be a reasonable (as in "voice of reason") counterweight to regional governments and their insanities. Having said that, the EU appears to be wearing off in weird directions, lately…
Oh yeah for sure, but I'm thinking more for the realism of the simulation, we don't move like that irl so it would make sense to simulate roughly how we do when it comes to games.

I guess it's all trade offs at the end of the day, dev effort vs game style vs priorities.
As someone who grew up in a commie block, I think density over a certain point just sucks.

Cities in southern Europe are generally denser than what the communists built and to me this is simply too much.

I remember staying in Bilbao and the garbage truck waking me up on each garbage day because its sound bounced back and forth between the walls and some genius thought it would be a good idea to have it do its run during the night.

Meanwhile back at home if it weren't for a construction site that propped up recently there would have been at least 70 meters to the building next to mine.
It’s consumerisms effect on people in general. It drives them into lower states of consciousness. The ceiling for mindfulness becomes individualism, which is decent but ultimately a state of arrested development. David Foster Wallace cautioned the public about it.
HN has a high concentration of above-average salaries, even within the US. It's tough constantly hearing how many multiples more my southern equivalent at FAANG is earning without it affecting my sense of self worth.
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I have seen noticably worse results with Bard, especially with long prompts. Claude (by Anthropic) has been my backup to ChatGPT.
> The central difficulty and huge part of many programming projects is actually the "unknown stuff" that is insanely hard to estimate, be it

This is my observation as well.

I also think that devs tend to consider the central problem they're solving when estimating, rather than the totality of the work that has to be done in order to complete a task. If I'm tasked with adding a new feature, my mind is focused on the business logic of that feature and if you ask me how long it's going to take, I'll tend to answer the time for just that. I'll tend to forget the time required for all the other ancillary work around that (documentation, UI changes, code review, QA, etc.) Omitting that stuff results in wildly optimistic estimates.
I think that it's only going to get faster, easier, and more accurate to generate sexualized pictures and videos of someone younger than 18.

Whether you or I consider that "real" CSAM, is moot. What matters is that more and more girls are going to be deepfaked into content they didn't consent to (and in fact can't consent to due to their age.

The proliferation of that content will lead to new laws driven by parents and politicians eager to "think of the children". However impractical, I could see image generators being treated like drugs or firearms and being highly restricted or banned.
The Daily Stoic was created by Ryan Holiday. I believe that he really did a lot to encourage current popularity for Stoicism.

But it is interesting to note that he seems to have gotten into Stoic philosophy to make up for the sins that he committed as a digital marketer. Of his books, his expose on social media and digital marketing, https://www.amazon.com/Trust-Me-Lying-Confessions-Manipulato..., is my favorite.
Not OP, but where I _may_ agree with the sentiment is that inflation has a wide distribution of impact by the underlying category of goods/services. e.g. food, energy, electricity, shelter, apparel, etc.

Namely, even if average / median inflation is going down, inflation is still non-zero - and even still very high - in categories that significantly impact lower-income households, urban families, farmers, etc.
Depends on the strain and what you mean by "traditional thought."

Nazi party was in fact a coalition like any other successful political party. After they purged their left ("socialist") wing, it became a big tent of militaristic anti-enlightenment thinking. It was broad enough that otherwise intelligent people like Martin Heidegger could feel comfortable under the umbrella.

Likewise for Mussolini's actual fascist party. Appeal to a pre-enlightenment quasi-Roman Italy, and the symbolism around that. Fusing hierarchical / anti-democratic with traditional and romanticist aesthetics. They weren't as caught up with the racial superiority stuff either.

The word fascist or Nazi gets thrown around a lot for things that are ... unfortunately... new variants of an old strain to which the word won't precisely apply. E.g. Trump, Proud Boys etc. It is unfortunately important to engage with the content in these movements and offer a democratic alternative rather than just slap the pejorative on it and hope people are shocked out of finding it appealing.
Is AI the next crypto? Insights from HN comments
“Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.”
–Anne Herbert
There's a huge functional difference between fundraising ads (no matter how manipulative) and the kind of commercial (and behavioral) ads you see everywhere else: the incentive structure it creates. Behavioral ads also require extremely intrusive tracking.

Commercial ads incentivise optimising for impressions, i.e. getting users to see as many ads as possible. This leads to clickbait, bloating one-line news bits into entire articles and extending the number of clicks necessary for a user to get what they want. Social media makes this even worse by making the ads "content" (i.e. "sponsored posts") and thus trying to drive up "engagement" which in practice leads to outrage bait (because people are more likely to comment or share what they disagree with or dislike).

Wikipedia on the other hand just has a slightly annoying banner made more annoying by lazy-loading (and thus shifting the layout) that shows up for a few weeks each year.

Unless your complaint is with "supposedly non-profit organizations trying to make more money" (in which case I'd say your problem might be more systemic than just a website with an ad) I'd take this over the former any day.
I’m new to Sweden so I don’t know the technicalities of voting but I assumed that’d be the case, to get banned from a union seems to be very extreme
How do they block access? I always wondered how these types of things get implemented.
are you trying to "talk to potential customers about a problem" for your startup idea, or are you genuinely trying to fix your back pain?
This is the only compromise I would accept, otherwise I'm in favor of E2E with no backdoors. People who care about preventing CSAM and prosecuting pedophiles should consider this an improvement over the status quo.
It is more noteworthy to be sure. But no system is perfect - mistakes happen. Bad defense attorneys exist. If anything it's a testament to the resilience of our justice system that it did eventually find justice. And that the person the injustice was done to was compensated for damages.

It's just weird (and self serving) to only vilify the system that ultimately freed you. That the actual result directly contradicts the claim that our system is unjust. It's great that the system is so just that it self corrects and is always willing to change outcomes if a more just outcome is possible.
That’s definitely the high road solution. The low road solution would have been to start suing HA users under the CFAA. So I guess they took the middle road.
I just connected my garage door opener to Home Assistant by taking apart the remote and wiring the button to a Zigbee relay. They can't stop me, no part of this is connected to their cloud. In any case, smart home stuff should never rely on the cloud.

https://i.imgur.com/lNOXdhe.jpg
One thing to bear in mind is that any technical lawful intercept capability is also a technical intercept capability for a hostile intelligence agency. Note that "hostile" and "foreign" are not always the same thing.

With this in mind, I think making the tools resistant to abuse is a highly desirable design goal, up there with making the detection of abuse very easy.
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Inflation has multiple definitions. The layman one has nothing to do with currency supply level.
At this point, why doesn't SoftBank just use WeWork as a physical presence outlet to expand offering their core business services internationally? Like cell phones?
So why is the stated main benefit lost?
FOX is your network, then. ;)
Yeah -- it is certainly quicker to use the keypad that I have outside the garage door than try and use their app. In particular, it keeps asking me for a username and password (which I can't remember because who remembers 16 character strings??).

I just want to get local access to my openers.