skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
lol, what did you expect?

I worked at Microsoft when the Playstation got hacked. They were like, "let's not say anything and attract attention from the hackers."
You can't really buy a high quality TV anymore without having em try to shove extra garbage down your throat. I own an old Samsung TV, and it has terrible UX. Giving it a chance to connect to the internet was a horrible mistake. My TV is around +5 years old, and I don't see myself buying a new one any time soon.

During the last 2 or so years I've drastically changed the kinds of media I consume. Now my primary sources of entertainment are a mix of books and audiobooks. Last year I think I read somewhere between 200 and 300 books.

Books don't include any tracking bullshit. If you stick with digital you can at least buy DRM-free copies in a few online stores. But even cooler, we actually have tons of huge buildings all across the US, each with thousands of books, and you can grab any one you want and read it for free!
Because this world is suffering.
Yes. Lower calorie intake is healthier. Simple.

And less meat means less beef needs to be produced, which is better for the environment.

Guilt free? Not quite. But less guilt.
Yes, that's what I mean by userspace. It's a hedge against startup time and separate process pools for fcgi. Php's answer to node.js's persistent processes.

Somewhere I can keep cached computation.
I wound up having to change my wifi password.

Without thinking about it I configured my current TV to join my wifi network. After it so kindly started putting ads on the screen while watching things I turned it off. A few months later, ads again. Somewhere in the bowels of the settings the wifi was reenabled, so I shut it off. A few months later, more ads. In a new place in the settings it was back on. Repeat a few more times.

Changed my wifi password and that took care of that.
A few times at home with my parents, I've used the 'chrome-cast' functionality to view Youtube controlled from my laptop, without any cable hassle.
The same thing with Plex worked, but finicky. Somewhere between linux, plex and the TV, there is some compatibility problem.
I've been wondering for a few years now what it would look like if one of these tech behemoths collapsed, mainly in the context of how intertwined and globalized they all are now.

We're also not allowed to talk about how important and integrated these companies are with the defense industry, but they are. Lots of people working on lots of projects that they can't put on their resume. Some of these companies are practically governmental entities, particularly the telecoms.

Maybe too big to fail isn't the correct term, more like too integrated to fail. Market caps can move around but the apparatus must be maintained.
Worth noting they have already edited the article (less than 2hours later) and taken out the "We will never log your IP" bit...

"We committed to never writing the querying IP addresses to disk and wiping all logs within 24 hours."

"While we need some logging to prevent abuse and debug issues, we couldn't imagine any situation where we'd need that information longer than 24 hours. And we wanted to put our money where our mouth was, so we committed to retaining KPMG, the well-respected auditing firm, to audit our code and practices annually and publish a public report confirming we're doing what we said we would."
Notable changes:

Standardized resolution
Improved color scheme
Improved terminal font
Beautiful /etc/issue artwork
Beneficial sound effects, for improved touch typing
Efficient, automatic shell chooser
Removal of networking, for security
Removal of window manager, for efficiency
Removal of ACPI features, for simplicity
Increased CPU usage
Increased ISO size
Known issues:

None
They stay "Mum"? Boy that sounds odd to a British resident.
Australia, LOL.

You guys are 100ms from anywhere cool.
Right, but what they've said is "we've lost TM and it's going to deorbit sometime in the future. We'll watch it and keep you posted." Which is all well and good until you realize what they haven't said, and they've had more than a year to say it:

What they haven't said is "the reason it's going to deorbit at an unspecified time instead of an exact time is because we've lost control so we can't do a controlled reentry burn to have it splash harmlessly in the Pacific. So if it puts a few redhot hunks of ceramic through an apartment building there's nothing we can do. Sorry."

Everyone knows they've lost control, and it's not the first time a country has lost control of a satellite. But maybe they get some legal benefit out of not admitting the loss of control. Because otherwise they should confess, it's not like this is the first time a country has lost control of a satellite.
Adulterating food with cheap alternatives is a way to disproportionately screw over poor people. Everyone else will just add beef to their “buy organic 100%...” list of products and pay a premium. If you want to help poeple, help them, educate them, don’t patronize them. If you want to help the environment there are economic (hold companies financially responsible for externalities) and scientific ways (additives such as seaweee to cow feed to drastically reduce methane emissions).

It’s a nasty and unfair thing to assume that when someone gets a burger, they’re “overdoing it” every time. Plenty of people have an occasional burger and just want beef, not filler. For people living in food deserts, and people poorly educated or just poor, how about giving their kids healthy and edible school food? How about heavily subsidizing healthier foods for people on food assistance, and going out of our way to make those options readily available? How about bringing back Home Ec?
It’s very difficult to find a high quality LED TV > 46” without the apps.
Urgh. Too lazy to try to format it properly.
Thank you for responding, Patrick. As one of the authors of the RFC, your views on this are a great contribution to the conversation.

> rfc 8336

I'll have to read up on this, thanks for the link.

> h2 coalescing

DNS is already capable of using TCP/TLS (and by it's nature UDP) for multiple DNS requests at a time. Is there some additional benefit we get here?

> h2 push

This one is interesting, but DNS already has optimizations built in for things like CNAME and SRV record lookups, where the IP is implicitly resolved when available and sent back with the original request. Is this adding something additional to those optimizations?

> caching

DNS has caching built-in, TTLs on each record. Is there something this is providing over that innate caching built into the protocol?

> it starts to add up to a very interesting story.

I'd love to read about that story, if someone has written something, do you have a link?

Also, a question that occurred to me, are we talking about the actual website you're connecting to being capable of preemptively passing DNS resolution to web clients over the same connection?

Thanks!
Whonow: a malicious DNS server for executing DNS Rebinding attacks
Wow, now that's all kinds of f'ed up. Not so crazy about the update but to suspend the use of the phone is just stupid when you talk about just some apps updates.
Because there's almost no profit in selling a dumb screen. SmartTVs are all about the TV manufacturer trying to get a cut of subscription services.
Is there any concern with a smart TV that isn't connected to the Internet (using a chromecast to connect to netflix)?
Have not, will check out aeyrs though.
You can then avoid connecting it to the internet at all, providing you a TV with all the beautiful looks and dumb insides.
There's a developer at SUSE who has done a lot of work on tablet mode, fwiw.
No. Where did you get that from?
1.1.1.1 does support DNS-over-TLS as well: https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/dns-over-tls/
You're still leaking that information due to SNI.
If you're curious what samba does with your data: https://platform.samba.tv/audiences/connected-tv-ads/

I run two ctv ad camapigns partially using samba tv data.
Why not both? Not everyone wants to pay a premium for a 100% beef burger when they could be eating a cheaper, healthier alternative. Having more options is better not worse.
How is any of this more secure against your ISP in any case given someone willing to do reverse lookup‘s on IP addresses?

If someone controls routers is it not nearly useless?

So for example all mobile 4g providers could laugh at this and build a nearly as good database of every site you visit?
How much longer do you think it will be possible to buy a TV that works without Internet access? I assume at some point soon they will demand connectivity to even display images coming in on the HDMI port. Internet services is the future profit center for screen manufacturers; also it's easier to build a system if you assume it has Internet connectivity always. (For, say, HDCP updates.)

I also don't allow my screens to have Internet access; did that the second time Samsung demanded I approve a firmware update before I was allowed to watch my TV show. Fuck that.
FWIW, the implementation of Oil is following a "gradual" trajectory. It's amazing how long various "wrong" things were in the codebase!

I was already 8-9 months into coding with over 10K lines of code before I added ASDL schemas for the AST [1].

I believe this was a good thing, because I had running code from the start, and the only way to understand shell is over many months. It's impossible to just "think about it" and come up with the correct schema. The schema follows not just from understanding the language, butfrom the algorithms you need to implement on the language. [2]

So I see the value in both -- starting out with a very loose notion of types, then making it stricter.

I'm taking the next step now and am looking to make that detailed schema static rather than dynamic [3].

[1] Success with ASDL http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2017/01/04.html

[2] From AST to Lossless Syntax Tree http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2017/02/11.html

[3] Building Oil with the OPy Bytecode Compiler http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2018/03/04.html

(copy of Reddit comment)
It was interesting to check out the marketing on the Sonic website: "Cheeseburgers
Prepare to be delighted with 100% pure beef..."
Was considering including that one, except that it was based more on the Atari competition to the C64 rather than the ST.
I never stopped using RSS !
Even taking it a step further...

There could be a custom Android ROM specifically tailored to the challenges and specific processes of homelessness. Like an offline map of free hotspots, or offline maps pre-downloaded already. Settings tailored for maximum battery life. A contact book pre-loaded with important hotlines, resources, etc. Things like that. I’m sure the customizations could get very creative and useful.

This is actually an idea I’ve been toying with over the past year as I’ve made friends with some homeless people around my building and they tell me about their troubles.
Updating April Fools List
Even with https, the name of the site is sent in clear when the connection to the site is established (this is SNI).
Shipping culture is hurting us (2015)
Ha! Forgot about that one. Throws the Jobs fetishism in this thread into even starker relief.
Right on. It's the same way a windows computer is often cheaper than the same computer without an OS. The seller doesn't get paid by McAfee, Microsoft Office, Norton, and so on for bundling their crapware and has to make up for that by charging more. All that crapware probably covers the license cost of Windows and then some.

You can bet Sony didn't put this app on the TV because they wanted to give consumers an improved experience for free out of the goodness of their hearts.
That's exactly what Ruby on Rails seemed like it was about to do ten years ago. But it was followed up by a counter-revolution that took us even further into enterprise bloat. It's as if there are hidden psychosocial forces that drive web developers in the direction of more complexity.
Oh oh I have something to help you! I used to struggle with them sticking out, too -- but since I watched this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S6dthcSVIM

I can pop them in and you can't even see them when you're looking at me head-on. You _have_ to use two hands to put them in -- pulling up on the ear is essential. The roll-down information is helpful, too.

Now, I can yawn and move my jaw every which way and the seal is never broken. Actually changed my life, since I wear earplugs for most of the night and a lot of the day.
Depends how disconnected it really is.

If it's doing some kind of "always scan WiFi in the background" shenanigans then it's still a computer slowly going out of date without security updates and occasionally exposing itself to the local area.

I wish I could take a "smart" TV and flip a switch and have it gracefully fall back to "dumb" TV where the Android device is physically disabled.
> C++ has drifted off into some fantasy world

I like what E. W. Dijkstra had to say in "The Humble Programmer":

> Finally, although the subject is not a pleasant one, I must mention C++, a programming language for which the defining documentation is of a frightening size and complexity. Using C++ must be like flying a plane with 7000 buttons, switches and handles to manipulate in the cockpit. I absolutely fail to see how we can keep our growing programs firmly within our intellectual grip when by its sheer baroqueness the programming language —our basic tool, mind you!— already escapes our intellectual control. And if I have to describe the influence C++ can have on its users, the closest metaphor that comes to my mind is that of a drug. I remember from a symposium on higher level programming language a lecture given in defense of C++ by a man who described himself as one of its devoted users. But within a one-hour lecture in praise of C++. he managed to ask for the addition of about fifty new “features”, little supposing that the main source of his problems could very well be that it contained already far too many “features”. The speaker displayed all the depressing symptoms of addiction, reduced as he was to the state of mental stagnation in which he could only ask for more, more, more... When FORTRAN has been called an infantile disorder, full C++, with its growth characteristics of a dangerous tumor, could turn out to be a fatal disease.

April fool's. He actually said that about PL/1 [1].

[1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD340...
April Fools’ Day 2018: the best (and lamest) pranks
«People Like Us» home swap network (Like Airbnb without the strangers?)
Duration is another difference, 5 year PhDs are rare in Europe.
The Netherlands mostly has 4 year programs, Germany mostly seems to have 3 years.
At the same time, PhDs here require a MSc (2 years usually), which in turn requires a BSc (3 years usually). So in the end, total time from start to PhD doesn't differ too much.
On the immaturity of tokenized value capture mechanisms (cryptoassets)
If there is a faster way to MVP than Anvil I would be amazed to see it. I am trialling it at the moment for something entirely different, business work-flow apps and monitoring apps. It is really fast to generate API endpoints, and it comes with an amazing 'uplink' tool which is a Python library that opens a websocket to Anvil and allows communication straight through a corporate firewall!
yes of course.. common in totalitarian countries
First I thought you are trolling. Then I saw they are trolling. Well played!
Sitting at 127.1, apparently.
Yes! And I plan to actually build in a default setup to use that now that it exists. I should have mentioned up front that this is the most exciting thing to me in the announcement.

This is a very exciting development, thank you for posting this.
> lifespan extended

Right. Sure. The manufacturer will spend time and money to extend the life of devices already purchased.

I would prefer not take the chance, and see what happens. If the TV dies early, so be it.
Mr. Zuckerberg, read this before you run for president
A new app listens to the problems of bees
The title of this post is a little incongruous with the linked content, which gives equal footing to data tidiness and privacy:

> TweetDelete is useful for people who want to reduce the amount of old data in their Twitter account (perhaps because of other apps they use on it) or people who want to limit the amount of data about themselves they expose online.

I think most of us will dismiss the privacy angle here, moderated as it is.
Peer for free? Anything to back that up because I doubt that highly?

Maybe DTAG and UPC will peer for free in mighty LA as well. /s
I'm not sure that's quite true. Raw pointers are fine if you need a nullable non-owning reference type.
Sounds plausible. Is there any evidence that this is what's going on?
It's trial by the public, and its modus operandi in principle no different than witch hunts. Guilty until proven otherwise. Such medieval reasoning was abandoned for good reason but now it seems to be back in western societies with what seems massive public support. I find it revolting and very frightening.
Is it dangerous to open a modern TV?

Might be worth finding the network chips and disconnecting or breaking them off.
I’ve been using this service for a few years now. I catch some flak about it from folks (deleting my tweets breaks threads). However, I love that there’s an option that works to do this. I’ve been on Twitter for nearly a decade. A lot of who I am has changed, also meaning my tweets have as well. It’s good to have a fresh start, which is very hard to get on most social media networks.
Thats kind of sinister.
Eating beef is disproportionately bad for the environment (and your health) and should accordingly be priced at a premium.

You can't fix it effectively through changing the feed or livestock farming practices, you have to replace the beef with a fundamentally less harmful alternative.
> People should know that they should cite you if they want something to be preserved in conversations or when linking.

If people are worried about that they shouldn't be relying on a third-party (twitter) for record keeping.
You can use search to find your tweets that are not in your most recent 3,200.
You are mistaken.

The history of taxation is one of tolls, robbery, piracy and skullduggery. Source: https://mises.org/library/taxation-robbery

The word I should have used is Robbery. Not theft.

Readthe founding father's of US constitution for their thoughts on this kind of income tax.

In fact, Income Tax was promised to be temporary to fund war efforts. Liars.

Any compulsory demand to give up your labor and property at the threat of being locked in a cage, or killed is straight up robbery.

Also, your comment is Statist because we do not have a relationship to the "government". We have a relationship to the men with guns that show up at your door when you do not compulsorily give up 40% of your labor and property.
If you get those 3 stolen coins, and don't want them. The easiest is to just transfer them to a burn-address.
If you fear people are ever going to demand it back, either try to transfer it back, or transfer it to a separate holding wallet. Authorities might also set up a special address for collecting these kinds of coins.

This makes me think, what happens to fees?
Suppose I take those 3 BTC and 'burn' it by creating a chain of 100 transactions, each with a fee of 10%? At the end, all of the stolen coins have evaporated into fees. Are those fees tainted?

If not, miners could try to white-wash coins this way.
I was bamboozled by that comment. Out of the frying pan....
Saturated fat got a bad rap because of butter. More recently studies have brought it into question how bad it is, and as it turns out, replacing saturated fats with carbs increases your risk of heart disease. Unsaturated fats are better, but saturated isn't necessarily bad for you. It doesn't help that there are hundreds of different types of saturated fat either. Not sure why you think carbs being bad is bro science, simple carbs are almost as bad as eating sugar. Eating carbs (preferably complex) is probably fine with a balanced diet including fats proteins and fiber and all, but most people don't do that. It's worth noting that general Mills basically makes the food pyramid (new and old) and it doesn't agree with modern science

Edit: Decided to grab a quick source online that seems pretty unbiased since this is can be a pretty heated and opinionated topic. Other more in depth sources exist, feel free to dig in
https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/the-truth-abo...
"A witty saying proves nothing." - Voltaire

Universal free speech is not laudable, it's suicidal. If your free speech doesn't protect you from those who want to take it away, they will win, on a long enough time horizon. They only need to win once.
Speak out against FB, people call you a hypocrite. Speak out in defense... we’ll who would be stupid enough to do that.

I bet their real play is lobbying legislators aggressively to weaken any potential legislation against them.

https://theintercept.com/2018/03/29/the-u-s-government-is-fi...
I don't mean to detract from the scientific discussion, but would like to note that this is a wonderful example of the "submarine piece" as described by Paul Graham:

http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
The non-smart 4k tv's exist and can be found for relatively inexpensive prices. I just got one, an off brand Technicolor TC5580-UHD.
100,000 GWh per fiscal year (2017-18)

Edit: Wikipedia has them at 195,242 GWh in 2015 but that includes large-scale hydroelectric.
“Better” for the environment doesn’t justify eating it just for the flavor. It’s still a net negative for the environment. Just say it’s healthier.

I didn’t think I needed to say it but I was mainly referring that you still need to slaughter the cow and calling it guilt free.
Not to this one, mum means to stay silent (mum as in 'mmm', not your mother). Even Shakespeare used it in Henry VI

> Seal up your lips and give no words but mum
LEGO’s fake product of the day is clever, and something that actually needs to be invented: a vacuum cleaner that not only picks up bricks, but stores them by color and shape (and separates out dirt on the floor). Anyone who’s stepped on one of these in the middle of the night or who has a LEGO-obsessed child knows what I’m talking about.

It really does need to be made, and I’d pay anything for it. My nieces and nephews are crazy about LEGO, but our familys’ feed are not. I was sitting for them a few months ago, and I stepped on a brick, and stepped on it so hard that I fully expected it would have embedded itself to the bone.
Every so often I just delete all my tweets. It's not automated, because I do it when I feel like it. The first ever twitter app I made was a delete-all-tweets app just for myself to use.

I purge content from my law firm website all the time.

I completely trash and start over my personal website every few years, too, and I've never kept anything in a purge. I have personal archives of it, and the various archiving sites have been snapshotting my stuff since 1999, so, meh, if anyone wants to find my old work product, there's a way, without me having to archive it all for the whole world for all eternity.

Sometimes it's nice to start over.

I like to purge my real life too. De-cluttering is fun. My zen would be to have nothing left.

Regarding link rot, the walled garden comment above/below is spot on. When you're dealing with a bunch of walled gardens, link rot is so far unavoidable.
Family members co-founding a company isn't nepotism.
When we add TLS on top of the protocol, ISPs can only filter based on port at that point. We can run DNS on 443 if that helps, but as you said, static well-known IPs can then be blocked.

> I imagine most of the benefit is surely to people who can spin up their own resolvers.

There are already many easily run DNS resolvers available. Is there a benefit you see in operating them over HTTPS that improves on that?
2028: defect found, but purposely not fully fixed so that people buy a new TV