skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know the industry well but I always wondered why it was not ripe for a solid entrant to come in and easily scoop up at least some of the market.

I think there is only 2 companies now that control most of the American market. Chamberlain and Overhead Door Company (owned by a Japanese door company). I think I have mostly had Chamberlain brands and of course the door itself always works but the tech behind is has been lacking. I suspect ODC is similar. Lots of gimmicky systems like adding video cameras to the opener which requires yet another subscription along with controlling the door through the web along with a similar subscription. Last I looked the fee was something like $45/year which felt steep, would be happy to pay but the price felt out of line with what it does.

Along with poor tech decision I always felt that the product itself was not very interesting or innovative. Shoot, look what Ryobi did with the now discontinued opener, it had a battery backup, excellent lighting, extension cord, plugs. I don't remember the story on why it was discontinued but I believe it had something to do with supply chain and covid....I might be misremembering.

So yes, I am always a little stumped why someone does not jump in and just make a solid unit. Give me a non-buggy interface, let me pay for a reasonable subscription so I can maybe connect to my apple ecosystem. I never see any clones from China in America, they surely must exist but I never see them.
> It’s a sad state of affairs. Most of the public are unaware that a cage is being built around them.

Plenty of people want the cage. I don't mean that disparagingly but don't know how else to put it.

Life is hard and can be scary, there are a lot of people who would rather have a cage with someone else in charge than deal with it themselves.
I don't disagree with either statement, but I think both of those are a price worth paying to avoid having hardware become e-waste because software support was stopped.
> You're defending this guy so much… why so defensive? Do you reject the notion that incompetents exist?

I'm not defending him. I'm just refuting that a developer's competency can be judged without taking into consideration, first and foremost, the benefits he produced for the users of his software.
It's stupid because RISC-V isn't a specific new technology, something like an EUV machine. You can control where those are shipped. It's also not really a new idea, like patenting a new method for speculative execution or somesuch. You could work with US industry to keep those a trade secret.

RISC-V is an attempt to make a pretty boring but cross-industry standard architecture that doesn't need licensing. The fact that it doesn't need licenses is the giveaway that RISC-V isn't groundbreaking exciting new work, but more like Linux, a dull, but free, reimplementation of an existing idea.

Ask yourself if the US can control Linux distribution, or if it would have been a good idea back in 1991 for the US government to support proprietary Unix and prevent US developers from working on Linux or BSD. How would that have gone do you think? Would we be in a better place now if US persons could not work on Linux and if the US was funding SunOS development?

(And I say this as a big fan of RISC-V and the first person to work on the Fedora port to RISC-V).
Giant WWII Airship Hangar Decimated by Raging Fire
A less charitable interpretation is that "Nobody gives a f* about your clean code, because if you're dealing with code, you're a nobody in the business"
"The dose makes the poison".

According to the WHO, there is no level of alcohol consumption that is good for the health.

OP sounds like he doesn't get anything out of drinking anymore, so I guess he doesn't even want to crack open a bottle for special occasions. He's realised he only lives once, so he kicked the booze.

As somebody who's never drunk, the only thing I think I've ever missed out on is the social lubrication element, but that just made me find people who are more like-minded.
Yes, stop making every conversation about yourself. No, do not stop sharing your knowledge and experiences. This article is like someone who once had a meal that was overcooked, and insists that all food should be eaten raw ever thereafter.
> That's kind of the exact opposite of people's goals in this situation.

It depends on whether their goal is averaged convenience in the long term. In my opinion, having to deal with this crap always ends up offsetting not having to manually hit a switch.
It's a huge piece of very pure glass, that has a precise uniform shape down to the nanometers scale. Another thing that I learned is they are first ground to a spherical shape, then a parabolic. It's a very time consuming process, although I don't have exact data.
I think you'd be pressed to find a representative who didn't receive donations from Intel. Why would they gamble and guess on which ones will win next election or which ones will help them push their agenda?
Here is something i encountered, sometimes higher ups will put arbitrarily deadlines and act like the entire business depends on you meeting that deadline for a project and after that deadline passes no one seems to care that much about your product, they even allow you more time to do it "right".
Desires are real though.
From child molesters in government! I would be surprised if you could find even one country where there wasn't at least one case of a high ranking official indulging in related crimes.
> People tend to read "disputed" as "there's significant camps of reputable experts on each side" when the actual scenario is "there's a tiny loud minority opposing the generally accepted consensus".

Yes I understand, what I'm saying is that is genuinely true for some small fraction of articles. Obviously not anywhere close to 100%, but the amount of people who would actually read 'disputed' as anywhere close to 100% of articles have 'significant camps' is almost 0.
Hey, if it makes you feel better, a lot of biochemistry research ends up being completely meaningless fluff that is only published to inflate the author's reputation, but will likely have zero effect on the real world.

You can be cynical about anything if you want to :)
Maximizing the PHP compatibility for WordPress 6.4 and the plugin directory
Yea - even the ones Artists do get to share, it's just so much out there now.
If you take a quick look at sites like ArtStation, you'll see thousands upon thousands new artwork added daily.
> I love replying with “at least in public healthcare the doctors get to decide, with only private health insurance paid for by insurance companies, it’s a faceless claims adjuster with zero medical experience who isn’t even deciding as much as they are just telling you that treating you properly would cost the company too much money… I’ll take my chances with a death panel of doctors over the death panel of accountants any day of my entire life”

I think a licensed doctor/pharmacist employed by the insurance company has to make the decision, although, since they do not have liability exposure, I can imagine metrics can be imposed on them that make the quality of their work less than desirable.
Useful other side discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38187479

Important to note is that the main thing everyone is up in arms about, the TLS/HTTPS certificate stuff, already got adjusted after browser makers complained about it; browser makers aren't mandated to trust any certificates for internet traffic and DNS resolution. The only real problem left is QWACs in general being a part of the proposed legislation from what I can tell.

The rest of the bill seems more aimed at providing an easier authentication method to safely export private data. Could (hopefully) be good for dealing with KYC laws.

Digital stores obtain so much information to complain with those laws and it's a giant risk with things like the GDPR. As I understand it, under this law they could just store the absolute minimum (the reference ID for the centralized system in question) and if KYC laws are ever needed by the government, they can supply the ID rather than having to store a lot of Personal Information (which is a big issue with data breaches and the like being what they are.)
That's a poor apology for implementing a social rating score. Which is inevitable since you consider you have strictly NOTHING to hide.
European CAs can apply to be included in the root stores, and Europeans can definitely write content-delivery (CDN) and content-parsing (browser) software.
You obviously didn't have to deal with the misuse of security, "for the children" pretext for interception, and crypto scare attempts...

Yes, there are too much ill conceived attempts against security that in the end will hurt everyone. It's disappointing to see it coming from EU.
Some top-of-mind tips regardless of who you use for payments but I'm glad you're using Stripe! Is it for prepfully.com?

Tactical examples below, but the high level takeaway is communication prevents chargebacks. Say what you're going to charge, remind people when a charge is due, and ensure people can self-manage their subscriptions (or make it easier to request a refund than it is to dispute a charge with their credit card company). You seem to have a good handle on the post-chargeback process and are using the right evidence submission processes to at least counter some of them. You could consider adding an explicit agreement to your T&Cs to bolster any claims: stripe.com/docs/payments/checkout/customization#collect-a-terms-of-service-agreement.

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1. On "accidental" chargebacks: Use a service that lets your customers self-manage their subscriptions. Unfortunately, particularly in the US, it seems some customers opt to dispute payments as it's easier than talking to a business. (https://stripe.com/docs/customer-management)

2. On forgetting: Configure emails to send renewal reminders and receipts if you're using subscription payments and include a link to a hosted page that lets your customers unsubscribe or change their plan if applicable. Especially if you have subscriptions over time frames longer than ~a month.

3. On fraudulent charges: You can dial up your fraud risk tolerance on dashboard.stripe.com/settings/radar/risk-controls.

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4. SEO: Is it easy for Prepfully customers to find out how to get a refund by searching for it? I'd recommend having a dedicated FAQ page with direct links so it takes as few steps as possible to get there. (https://www.google.com/search?q=prepfully+refund)

5. Is your statement descriptor up to date? Your customers might not recognize charges if the statement descriptor is vague. I've seen folks get good results by displaying a hosted refund page (like "prepfully.com/r") that explains the charge, what a customer has signed up for, and how to manage their subscription. Tricky to manage as statement descriptors are short but something to explore.
Bridgewater's practices sound like an episode of Black Mirror - indeed, that one where any person could realtime rate anyone else.

If you want to get continuous feedback, all you need to do is to get married.
Man I CANNOT wait to play this game.
This is big news in my opinion.

"We’ve qualified Ferrocene for use in systems up to ASIL D"

Where D is the highest existing level used for systems that can potentially cause fatal injuries.

From my understanding that means that now Rust can be used for the development of security critical software in automotive.

I used to work in automotive and where I worked software development was dominated by ancient and archaic compilers and toolchains. Even if it wasn't for the advantages that Rust brings to the table the possibility to use a modern toolchain would be revolutionary. At the same time this is the biggest risk for adoption because these legacy systems are deeply ingrained and intertwined with existing processes that often span multiple tiers of suppliers and will be hard to change.
We have nutriscore labels, excessive sugar labels, "smoking kills" labels...

Why not "This device does not support local cloudless control" and "This device does not allow 3rd party software access" labels too

Garage opener is a 10+ year device, expecting the company/cloud service to survive for that long and still be supported is too optimistic, but local control will still be usable, even if some 'adjustments' are needed.
Is there something wrong with archive.ph lately? I only get infinite captchas. Yesterday same thing on another article. It was a great service when it worked.

Edit: seems to be an issue with DNS over HTTPS, change provider from cloudflare to nextdns solved it (per https://www.reddit.com/r/AskTechnology/comments/162w00q/gett...)
Thanks :)
I actually feel like I've found the secret to being ok with my life. Like a sort of calmness.

I didn't realise that weekend drinking was leaving me mildly hungover for days. Its like a filter was applied to my thinking where I could mostly only see nagatives in life. Though it's more subtle than this.
Yes it does. Like other drugs too.

Empathy is a thing which comes from our brain. All the drugs we know, somehow influence on our brain. If our brain is influenced by the drugs, then it also has an effect on our social behavior.

Drugs affect the dopamine receptors (very briefly said.). That's what's letting us feel well after consumption. While we're "high", we're susceptible to empathy of others. For example, a good friend of my never questioned man+girl. Then he started to take ecstasy at parties and his personality changed to the not so good any more, IMHO.
Mainly because of the mood when he's not high.. and he questioning man+girl now. He started to kiss with a boy while being high and fell in love with that guy (the don't even know each other nor have ever meet again hahahaha)
So clearly, something has changed in his brain.

The same I can notice with other friends, who smoke pot. I know them since a long time, so I see clearly a shift towards a peace & love thinking, away from my job & money & cars and watches attitude.

So. Let's smoke pot and live empathic :)

I'm really keen to the observations made in the next 20 years. If cannabis is really not more dangerous than alcohol, then good. If it is nearly as dangerous than alcohol, I think we'll see that with the consumers in 20 years.

Hope for the best and "let the people choose free how they spend their recreational time"

Peace to all the Harry Pot'ters. Keep care and check yourself for plausible-ness each day xD
Thanks for that clarification, I also couldn’t remember the name of Tasmota.
Wouldn't Certificate Transparency make it very visible and obvious if they did that?
Unofficial IoT software and integrations are not (much?) better. I wouldn't be at all surprised if this was partly due to a junk integration for this device cobbled together by an amateur and replicated by thousands more amateurs into their own ginormous pile of other junk YAMLs.
> Do you seriously think the intent here is to allow, say, Italy to issue a certificate and spying on German citizens?

This legislation allows and enables it, regardless of intent.
My retention from any audio is simply better if I’m doing something other than staring at the screen. On meetings that I’ve listened to while taking a walk, I can think back to specific things on my walk and recall exactly what was being discussed, sometimes months or years later. This holds true for doing housework, yardwork etc. There’s some spatial component of memory that wakes up while I do that. It might look like I’m not paying attention to the meeting at all, but I’m actually paying more attention and getting chores done. Win-win.
The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century
What's the difference between using Stock images (generic photographs / graphics) vs Fake Ai images in a news story? Traditionally stock images have been used to add more "impact" to a story. If the Fake AI image can do that better, obviously they will be preferred.

I understand that readers need to be informed. But to be fair, (c) Gettys (or some other stock photo dealers) below a photo never made me aware that the photo used was a stock photo until I learnt about stock photos one day. Also, would marking a photo as AI really reduce the impact of a well-written news story?
And the Richest Man in Babylon.
Your answer is basically "it's expensive because other high end things are expensive, too!". Thats not what the GP was asking. Also a Ferrari is a bizarre comparison. Telescope has about 10 or less moving parts. Ferrari has hundreds, maybe thousands.

A real answer to this would be to break it down by materials vs labor. Not shaming them for being curious and then saying it's high end.
I don't think there will be an explicit "ban on e2ee". That I would almost fear less than what I think is on the table now: a targeted way to add cert backdoors just to the top 10-or-so products and browsers. Generally worded of course, but only enforced on the big players. So that 99.9% of users and messages are compromised but no one really has to worry about the rest. It's a good enough improvement and no one cares whether the people they actually talk about catching are using secure services like they have been all along.
Climate researcher pushed the limits of low-carbon travel
No, the optimal speed for efficiency is around 60mph.
I always struggled with understanding JQ. Each time I was just googling things. But actually it does make a lot of sense if you understanding the building blocks. I wrote it all down [1] but here is my summary:

jq lets you select elements like it's a JavaScript object using dot notation and array indexing.

jq '.key.subkey.subsubkey'
jq '.key[].subkey[2]'

You can turn wrap things in array constructors, or object constructors to create new objects and lists:

jq '[ .[].key ]'
jq '{key1: .key1, key2: .key2}'

You can combine filters with pipes (|) to build complex transformations. Built-ins like map() and select() are useful for transforming arrays.

You put it all together into something like this:

curl https://api.github.com/repos/stedolan/jq/issues |
jq 'map({title: .title, labels: .labels}) |
map(select(.labels)) |
map({issue: .title}) |
sort_by(.issue) |
[{issues: .[]}]

This query fetches GitHub issues, transforms them into a simplified structure, filters out unlabeled issues, sorts them, and wraps the results in an array - demonstrating how you can chain together jq's query language to wrangle JSON data.

[1]: https://earthly.dev/blog/jq-select/
All wars Israel has been involved in were started by its enemies. You can start an argument about settlements and there is some merit to that. But no honest discussion can be started from your position.

If Israel didn't try to minimize civilian casualties, this would look very different. To say otherwise is not only cynical PR, it is actively malicious. Towards Israeli and Palestinians both.
Just rephrase it as "Keep the government out of my affairs". It's not just "protect my privacy" though, it's also "protect my ability to organize against the government", which in the US heavily overlaps with the second amendment and the rhetoric about it.

In a more globally appealing version, you can spin that into various forms of "This is what the Communists did to prevent people from rising against them" (replace Communists with Nazis, if desired). Or reference V for Vendetta or 1984 or other cult classics.
Just allow some countries to ban End to end, and then see them lose financial services.
> easily

Not for the average consumer.

I actually have gotten to know a lot of folks who are massive into home automation, who also know precisely fuck all about computers or whatnot.
Certainly EKS is less managed than it appears, I’m quite confident that a node running something implementing the kubelet API convincingly would work. They changed recently (1.23 maybe) from Docker to containerd.
PDFs suck on e-readers.

But you can get an epub on at least one of the shadow libraries :)
100% agree on this.

Can’t just property tax a fixed amount.

We want most people to affordably own a primary home (their primary address) may be have a vacation or side rental at higher property tax and heavily discourage investors sitting on an array of homes primarily for rent seeking.
For me, bash and jq are, literally, the opposite of riding a bicycle. It doesn't matter the amount of time I spend on a given week working with them, a month later, I am gonna have to skim through my bookmarks and Kagi results (and now also chatGPT) for knowing how to do stuff I was easily doing a month ago.
Or delete your entire smarthome config during "routine database maintenance" and provide you no recourse other than to wait 6 months for their overwhelmed support to grant you the access key to set your system back up from scratch. Also known as a typical Thursday for Samsung.
I'm not clear if people are really replacing a physical something here, but if you have an old smart home device which sucks, be sure to put it up on online marketplaces.

List it cheep along with a warts and all discussion of it's problems. Means less waste as there's always someone who'll want it, people who are looking for the product hear about the limits upfront, and the company actually gets a real loss from you leaving (assuming it sells to someone who might have bought a new one).

Plus it's fun to try to convince enquirers why they shouldn't buy your item
Zigbee in general is great. If you want the more expensive stuff, Philips is the leader in that.

And now that Matter support is slowly trickling in, they should all be fully interoperable. Currently it's touch and go if a Ikea bulb works well with the Hue hub for example.
Odds are that whatever nice Chamberlain opener you want will have myQ built in because that's their business strategy. You can try getting a different brand if you're voting with your wallet -- but if all you care about is security: the Cloud connectivity is optional and you can just not connect it to WiFi.

The ratgdo is more trustworthy, and it just connects (really easily, too, especially with the new v2.5 board) to the opener via the same contacts that the dry contact button does.
Microsoft was the most important vendor of programming language compilers and interpreters for the CP/M operating system, for computers based on Intel 8080 or Zilog Z80.

They had compilers for many programming languages, but before buying the operating system that they have rebranded proudly as MS-DOS and which they have resold to IBM at an overprice, they had nothing to do with operating systems.

So the deal had nothing to do with their previous technical competence, but they happened to know the right information about who is selling and who is buying, which allowed them to gain the most as the middlemen.
Honestly smart features in large/permanent appliances is something I explicitly avoid these days. The majority of smart home products I’ve bought over the last ten years have been somewhat disappointing if not outright rage inducing. I don’t want that in something that is difficult or expensive to replace.

I sort of have to assume in the case of large appliances that the manufacturer will drop support for it well before I want to replace it, and that if there is any sort of functionality fully gated behind an app, that it will become unusable to me at some point when I reset my phone and discover they’ve unpublished the app from the store.

I’d much rather buy a dumb garage door opener and bolt on that ratgd device mentioned in this post, than be beholden to the manufacturer’s whims and invariably godawful garbage horrible no-good app.