skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So we have three laundry rooms here where I live, and they were all managed by CSC ServiceWorks until recently. When I first moved in, CSC had an amazing system setup, whereby you could go to their website and see a real-time animation of all the machines in the room, their current status, and their remaining time. This page updated very rapidly and always showed accurate information, including any machines that were out of service.

Therefore, it was very easy for me to put together some laundry loads, and then navigate to that website and see exactly whether I'd be able to go downstairs and start my loads immediately, or how long I'd need to wait until machines were freed up for my purposes.

Then they enshittified it. They took away the central payment kiosk and installed individual card readers on each machine. These card readers had some unholy mix of Bluetooth and WiFi on them and the new app was completely incompatible with the Android tablet I had at the time. Apparently it was mandatory to have both Internet and BT access before you could even start a machine anymore. To add insult to injury, they deprecated the public status website and walled up the status reports inside the app. In fact, you couldn't even get a report until you'd paid to start one of the machines, thus invalidating my old strategy of proactively checking for availability.

Then there was a protracted battle between landlady and CSC whereby there were many malfunctions and accusations about whose responsibility it was. The pandemic struck, and there was some third-party disinfecting service that was supposed to be sanitizing machines, but left huge gobs of lint and detritus behind them all anyway.

Eventually it came to a head, and the landlady severed their contract with CSC and brought in a new service company. They have apps and cash preloading and whatever and you know what? I stopped using the laundry room entirely. Now I bring my clothes to a Wash & Fold service, and have it professionally cleaned, because doing laundry is too strenuous for me anymore. Problem solved!
There is no public number for satellite cost, but I would guess a starlink v2 satellites costs about a million including delivery. I've heard the marginal cost for the launch itself is under $20M now, and the satellites are supposedly much cheaper than they used to be.
I'm excited about the VR version

https://stellarium-labs.com/stellarium-vr/
I’m not denying that personal conversations happen in the kitchen. But the most intimate space? That’s pure hyperbole.

Not to mention I think the paranoia about these home assistant devices is overblown. Do you use a smartphone? In your intimate kitchen?? It has just as much capability to listen to you.
You can buy smart vibrations sensors for that. No vibrating should mean it’s done, unless it lets the clothes soak- I have no idea, washed clothes hundreds of times but I’ve never looked to see what the washer actually does
Gaza is and has been effectively occupied by Israel since 1967. It's independent from Israel in the same way that Xinjiang is independent from China. Sovereignty and autonomy in Gaza have been aspirational ideas since Sharon's 2005 disengagement. Meanwhile: only a small fraction of the population of Gaza has ever voted (they're too young to have, in the last election, wherein Hamas threw supporters of the PA off rooftops), so it's deeply misleading to describe Hamas as "their own government".

Pro-Palestinian rhetoric on this site goes off the rails in so many directions, and because it seems to be the majority opinion on the site, there are many more examples of off-the-rails comments from that side. But this assertion of Gaza's independence from Israel is one of the reliable off-the-rails pro-Israel sentiments I see here.
Also I think the only reason why the BBC was banned in the first place is their BBC in Russian service. See https://www.bbc.com/russian
Oh yeah to be clear, I absolutely agree that docker desktop as a whole is a mess especially since they keep introducing more ways to tie it up to docker hub etc. I wouldn't use it unless I'm on windows. So yes, avoid docker desktop but docker (the engine) itself is thankfully completely separate from docker desktop.
Captioning all my YouTube videos with AI
How does the idea differ from a network of (possibly single-user) ActivityPub instances, perhaps with boosting removed (which is considered a feature)?
Building a fully local LLM voice assistant to control my smart home
That's rather cherry-picked.

The information you left out:

1. Those were test units, not purchased devices used by customers.

2. For consumer Roomba devices that include a camera: photographic data is not sent to iRobot for processing.

3. The test data for the images you mentioned was leaked by a 3rd party based in Venezuela.

4. These test devices were operated by employees and volunteers in exchange for rewards. They were aware that their image was being taken.

5. The devices also contained additional monitoring hardware attached to the device which is not present in the consumer models.

If anything this fiasco demonstrated:

(i) one of the weaknesses of outsourcing,

(ii) individuals taking part in testing should be mindful of their privacy,

(iii) test units should have user-purgeable test data (if this was not already included)

(iv) the importance of reading beyond a headline

Refs:
(1) https://www.businessinsider.com/roomba-photos-recorded-bathr...

(2) https://homesupport.irobot.com/s/article/31056

(3) https://homesupport.irobot.com/s/article/964
Arguing that things are impossible is, along with pessimism and doomerism, a cheap low effort way to look smart and profound. It’s much easier than actually doing anything and since doing things is hard and often fails it sets you up to say “ha ha told you so.”

Same thing applies to social criticism. Criticism is easy and makes you look wise. Improving society is incredibly hard and since it’s so hard you often fail and look foolish.

All advancement depends on people who don’t care if they look dumb or foolish.
Thank you for making it free! I've used it on my blog (https://vgel.me) forever, since back before I ever would've paid for analytics, and it's been rock-solid the whole time. Some of the most "set it and forget it" software I use. I definitely owe you a donation so I'm glad I saw this!
A big part of this could just be mild burn out. I find that if I take a long vacation, sooner or later I get bored and get right back to being curious and working on building or learning something. Having said that, I have a harder time finding meaning in side projects now that I'm older.

There's a bit of nihilism in me now, kinda like the koa “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" If I work on a side project and no one uses it, does it even matter? Learning for the sake of learning has become near meaningless to me.
I have an LG Washer/Dryer with smart functions.

As others have said, the notifications are useful, but you can also track the wash/dry cycle and see what it's done so far, what is left and the estimated remaining time.

I like it because the smart features are optional and are genuinely useful.
They are free to reject the pull request. The worst they can say is no.
Absolutely. Counseling services are very expensive. Changing my perspective/mindset to regulate my emotions is exactly what I used it for. I have been in those emotional moments but the reality needs me to move on quickly. So, I have to reach out to the counselors for a quick solution for the emotion, not changing the realities.
Maybe you could have used Shockwave or something? But until WebGL implementations were shipped in 2011, there was no 3D API accessible from Javascript. At the time, Google Maps just did 2D tile scrolling. I remember being super impressed when it started letting you zoom out to the globe like you could do in Google Earth.
FDA approval should at least require key algorithms be disclosed in code form.

I’m thinking specifically about “artificial pancreas” aka “looping” insulin pumps, which automatically adjust how much insulin they give you based on a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) providing blood sugar readings.

My kids use these devices, and I’ve watched their devices dose insulin (a potentially lethal drug) erratically when the CGM data itself occasionally goes haywire.

I wish I could review the algorithm for myself. There’s no excuse for a piece of software which is automatically injecting drugs into my children to be a black box.
Exactly my thoughts. I've shifted to music as well. I'm not interested in programming anymore, music has taken the place programming had and for a living I do tech support.
> Einstein for example had public resistance to his theory of relativity in the beginning.

More recently, it took years for the medical community to get over its opposition to the evidence that common peptic ulcers are caused by bacteria (which earned two Aussie physicians the 2005 Nobel Prize in Medicine). [0] A NY Times correspondent (and physician) wrote in 2002, "I’ve never seen the medical community more defensive or more critical of a story."

(Much of the opposition was interest-based, e.g., surgeons who didn't want to lose lucrative fees for operating on ulcer patients who could instead be treated with inexpensive antibiotics without the pain and recovery time of major surgery.)

[0] https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2005/7693-the-nob...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_peptic_ulcer_disea...
Homeless people often aren't homeless because they lack homes. It's a very loaded and misleading term. There are usually many other problems that they need help with, and homelessness is often just a symptom.
UO Super Vet here. (was in the beta - we ran the Intel Game Lab DRG - and we ran 6 of intels top boxes with a t3 to the lab and just decimated)

Dread Lord Phlux, HellFire Guild - Napa Shard. (and others) have tons of stories)

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Would be interesting to grab the openGIS point maps of that section of colorado and make that the mesh - since your doing Stellarium for the sky.

There is also that guy that made the tool to grab the 3D tiles from google earth for converting to meshes...
If I copied everything that was unique about you as a person, and benefited from it .. how would you feel?
My example is kind of trivial, but I've used Midjourney with its --tile option to make backgrounds for web pages. One case is an internal tool where I just wanted to spice up the homepage and so I put in a rotating background, and another is a game where I put in one of ~50 backgrounds based on the environment.

I don't think many people use the tile option in Midjourney, but it's fun because it's not easy to make tiling images, and the result is generally aesthetic and not representational so the AI aspects are fine.

I have a friend who is using Midjourney to illustrate some instructional material she's writing. It's a little like stock photography, though without AI she wouldn't have used stock photography, and the art itself is more like graphical design. She keeps it fairly abstract but has artists and themes she uses consistently (lots of Ezra Jack Keats). She's probably creating dozens of images to get one usable one. But both of us enjoy the process, there's something a bit meditative to making Midjourney images sometime... a quirk of their Discord interface too, I suppose. Dall-E is much more instructable, but doesn't have any feeling of flow.

I've toyed recently with the idea of creating a massive number of pre-built avatar images for NPCs: https://hachyderm.io/@ianbicking/111740198056655468 – for my use case the most consistency I need is to change the age of characters, which works well with a fixed seed and no other pose changes. I'd probably use Stable Diffusion because Midjourney isn't scriptable and Dall-E is too expensive and lacks controls for aspect ratio and seeds. Obviously lots of people do live character image creation, but the cost and operational complexity kind of annoys me.
The Extremely Online crowd’s influence is waning.

Twitter is widely mocked as a cesspool of conversation. Facebook is seen as antiquated. Instagram and TikTok are the current darlings but they seem to have less of an iron grip than the OG social networks.

The future is probably not another winner-take-all network. We’ve tried enough of those. The future is probably smaller networks where users self-select into them based on affiliations, much like web forums.
Yeah, I agree, it would've been clearer if they'd placed the circles in the correct locations and then put the line between the circle and label. The ones in the Netherlands might've been too close together (with this circle size), though.
Very strange. If it's a layoff, just say it's a layoff and follow the standard procedure. It's bad but nothing fundamentally wrong if it has to happen. If it's about performance, like the article says, the employee should be warned with metrics and other evidence. That's why companies like Amazon have procedures like pip to "ensure" a performance related firing has its basis (even though pip is often abused there, whatever, at least in theory that's something). I don't think this will go well
Doesn’t the Oberth effect still work?
This is a funny thing. I recently looked into living in a central location downtown, and all the rents are far beyond my means as a Section 8 participant. But if you put "affordable housing" way out in the boonies, then how do residents access any services at a reasonable price? If we need to run all over town for stuff, why live in a God-forsaken location like that?

Downtown in my metro area is not only a transit hub, but a central location for goods and services. I could easily walk around, catch a bus or an eScooter, and have everything I want within mere blocks. Instead, these "affordable housing" developments are in suburbs where you've got one bus line and a Starbucks 3 blocks away, and your grocery stores are nowhere to be found, and your place of employment is way across town. Just not making sense.
You basically need types that can depend on program constants (like the size of an array) and to be able to do compile-time computation on these constants. These are emerging features of sorts, but languages like C++ and Rust support them. They're also inherent to dependently-typed languages. (Of course you can alternately pick array sizes at runtime, but then you'll be dependent on a runtime check wrt. correctness.)
Stereotypically, probably "thin slice of cheese" :)
It seems completely inconsequential
The map is based on GIS data of Colorado :) Including terrain elevations, landcover, and water.
I'm not sure how this will resonate here, but this past year my interests in side projects sharply declined. For reference I am early 30s, married no kids. Up until now I used to work on 2-3 large side projects a year, diving deep into them obsessed with sleepless nights working.

Now with LLMs it just feels kind of like whats the point? Either my work will be consumed by an LLM to train and get tossed aside or i should just wait 5 years and whatever i will have worked on will probably just be a prompt away. Even if that doesn't become true, nobody really cares about traditional software building anyways. Everything is just LLMs. All interesting things about AI that I really liked building with ML or RL now just seem completely obsolete. Any mention of AI is just overwhelmed by "oh so your just connecting to ChatGPT and boom no problem, right?" with the majority of the population completely blind to the fact that there are many types of ML and other things besides an LLM.

Its just hard to get motivated by anything. Unless you are working on a LLM right now nobody really cares what you are doing in software. Just seems futile.

I think also my own personal expectations get in the way of doing side projects. Its hard to work hundreds of hours on something knowing the end monetary value is going to be $0. So I end up in this state of wanting to work on something but then getting cynical, realizing there's little to no money to be made and just demotivate myself.

Anyways that is a long rant and this past year instead of building software i started to learn an instrument. it has been great. with software there is this notion of something being "optimal" but with music there is no optimal. Even the highest level artists are not satisfied with their work. The music is always above you.
Feedback has been shown to be both very important psychologically in a survival situation.

Practically it can also be crucial to know whether your signal went through or whether you should trade shelter for altitude (e.g. when hiking in a narrow ravine with limited sky visibility).

Two-way communication and being able to specify the nature of your emergency are invaluable as well.

PLBs/EPIRBs definitely have their uses, but I think they shine more in traditional aviation or marine SAR situations where longevity is paramount and it's pretty clear from context what type of help is needed.
The problem isn't work per se, it's our attitudes toward work and the projects that we choose to work on.

"Do what makes you happy" is a cliche that we all accept, but if you think about it, it's actually a very self-centered and egoistic way of deciding what to do. If we used different heuristics, like do what's best for your family/community/world, it might lead to very different answers than doing what makes you happy. It might even involve quite a bit more of what we call "work". Not work for the purposes of financial gain or social status, but work that improves the world for current and future generations.

That said, it's clear that our culture doesn't optimize for rewarding the kinds of work that actually make the world better. That's something we should try to correct for, rather than abandoning work as a value altogether.
Coincidentally, I'm reading A City On Mars (by the husband and wife team behind Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comics [0]) and it's pretty much all about poking at those legal, sociological, and medical problems that keep getting skipped over.

[0] https://smbc-comics.com
Is anyone else surprised at the ~70GB per day usage (assuming 3.7GB is 5% of total usage)? That would exceed the 1.28TB data cap on my ISP.
Boris Akunin: Russia designates author 'foreign agent'
Hmm, when I hear “artist housing” I always assumed they meant “interesting people who make music and maybe paint”. But “interesting” is too subjective to be real. Freestyle watercolor is no foundation of an economy.

We should not judge other humans by their ability to make rent. Some of my best friends struggle to do that.

But for a city making rent is all that really matters. They don’t care if you literally create art. They care if you buy coffee and pay sales tax.

So, do city planners look at “artists” as a revenue stream?

This is the same demographic that stereotypically spends the better part of a million bucks on an undergraduate education with no expectation of return.

Does “artist” mean “liberal artist”? As in “willing and able to buy in to and comply with a middle class lifestyle?”
I believe it is quite an advanced field involving neuroscience and human emotions. Hard to diagnose, treat, and measure. Not enough scientific research has been done in this field, and far from coming up with any solution. I guess we normally do not pay enough attention to our mental well-being. But, I always feel managing emotions and stabilizing our feelings is a great place to start.
Its worth mentioning that nobody is doing anybody a favor by using their free software. It seems pretty plain that the free version is a trial you are expected to uninstall or upgrade.
"Beam Me Up Scotty" Should automatically get you home - either by directions or ordering you a cab or calling your emergency setting...
Memory is cheap, but memory bandwidth isn’t.

Languages that can stay in L1 cache for the duration of a computation will run circles around a language that explicitly computes and stores all intermediate values in full.

Also, array-based languages can easily hit the wall of system memory capacity whereas traditional code tends to be streaming and can handle unbounded input lengths.
It's 12 bytes per second, or less than 1kB per minute. Doesn't seem like much.
You are still dependent on a smart gadget but with less quality.
My comment was mostly aimed to other people (I suspected you might be using Firefox).
The question is what one would trade, especially if there has to be an actual early growth phase rather than just having it poofed into existence with regional value-added manufacturing specialties out of nowhere.
Yeah, maybe. But a tiny home isn't gonna hurt.
Why anyone buys anything from the Amazon store besides e-books is beyond me.
> human condition

You apparently know nothing about the typical human condition so I'm guessing you're young, had rich parents and grew up surrounded by adults who catered to your every need and smoothed out every issue that caused you negative thoughts. I suggest you read Herman Hesse's Siddhartha as an introduction to Buddhism and how The Buddha, who grew up in similar circumstances, discovered that life is suffering and how to manage this fact. Drugs, both legal and illegal, can be a tool in exploring the roots of this suffering within one's own mind.
Building decomp.me was really worth it. It even helped us match the very last function - someone from the Metal Gear Solid decompilation team finished it off.

https://decomp.me/scratch/GImYC
https://github.com/pmret/papermario/pull/1019
> Of course assembly language has zero memory safety or other guarantees which probabilistically increases risk. I can't say if I think they balance out one way or the other.

I would posit that assembly + Linux kernel ABI is safer than the traditional C/C++ stack because they are not littered with nearly as much "undefined behavior". Signed arithmetic overflows and underflows as expected. Memory allocation with mmap + MAP_ANONYMOUS initializes it to 0 as expected. Accessing unmapped memory in your address space (including address 0) triggers a SIGSEGV as expected. Your assembler makes much fewer assumptions than your C compiler and doesn't try to be half as clever, so it's more likely to crash and burn on error instead of silently subverting your expectations.
Basically every mobile network in the world has roaming deals in place.

I don't think every roaming partner of T-Mobile will gain access this the Starlink-based service, though. It's probably going to be another tier of "Starlink roaming", only accessible to the subscribers of Starlink's respective local partner operators that are also lending their spectrum.
I'm in Illinois. Of course, you used to be able to just wait until you were 18 and take the test if you didn't care about driving without an adult and not have to do the 50 hours or behind-the-wheel course, but I think they've upped the requirements since I took it.
My sister has such a smart washer and funds these same features useful.

I had to helo her get it connected to wifi - it would not stay connected. Turns out she was on the same channel as literally all her neighbors.
Buildah (which may well work with Docker, but is a Podman peer) is the killer feature in my opinion. Dockerfiles are unadulterated shite. One of my pet peeves is "bored developers" writing DSLs/programming languages (especially in YAML, but that isn't the case here) when an off-the-shelf language would have done. Dockerfiles are a genuinely fantastic example of why this nonsense needs to end.

To see why, look at Buildah without `bud`. Instead of a silly DSL that becomes annoying the second your use-case veers an inch off the happy path, you can use Bash, or Fish, or whatever it is that you want.

These types of bad decisions carry the into the rest of the Docker ecosystem. DCS and it's (perpetually incomplete) replacement are yet more examples: instead of using established signing protocols (like Cosign does) they had the desire to build an obnoxiously complex and hard to automate (especially key rotation) system.
Have they made any progress on that? If so, it's not obvious from the screenshots and linked repo.