skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gap year doing a little contract work on the side.

Anyways there are poverty rate statistics for single people, and families.

And for the record, I was hardly roughing it. I met an awesome French girl who claimed to have spent 6 months in Oz on under 1k EUR (doing mostly woof'ing).
Wait, what is your end goal with a dynamic relational database?

Changing features/conventions will always create a new learning give.

What is dynamic-ness in RDBMS? It feels like you describing a problem that does not exist.
Ex felon here. In my experience, it was far easier to deal with people by being open about my criminal history. In a its-a-no-big-deal-if-you-know sort of way.

If I'm trying to keep it secret, I have all this stress of wondering who knows, lying about it, etc. And that's bad for me because I'm already in a stressful situation.

Putting it out there saved me a lot of time with companies/HR departments by filtering out the haters in the first step. I didn't have to bite my nails wondering what their reaction to the background check would be.

I put my record on the bottom of my resume. My father told me I would never get a job with that, but he was wrong. I landed one two weeks after my release.

I asked the guy who interviewed (and hired) me if he had read about my criminal history on my resume, and he said, "Yeah, that's not a problem. My cousin's been in and out of jail all his life."
SMTP LANG extension
Or if you follow it with a trailing slash, for less typing

1.1/
Some ISPs block outbound DNS from customers to anywhere but their resolvers, filtering based on target port.
This is a particularly common trick in countries that attempt to censor the internet.

It's a lot harder to do that with DNS-over-HTTPS because it looks like normal traffic.

That said, in this case ISPs can just null route the IP address of the obvious main resolvers such as 1.1.1.1. I imagine most of the benefit is surely to people who can spin up their own resolvers.
The difference is that getting a degree in Germany is much harder.

I’d be okay with publicly funded education (all levels) if the admissions requirements were a lot stricter.
Are the updates needed? Was anything broken?
This is the same argument people used to make for why it was fine for capabilities to be unrevocable--someone could have copied the data anyway (or whatever) so there was no point in revoking it. In reality, most of the time nobody but the host of a deleted item has access to the data, has a way to tie it to the originator, and has a motive to use it, especially without significant effort. Being able to delete things is a very important feature (not to mention a legal requirement in many countries!), and it's disturbing to me how many people seem to want to justify a world where every bit of data is saved, forever.
I can see OPs point. I'm slightly less concerned about Google than some scrappy little upstart still trying the "growth at any cost" thing.

I actually will probably trust Facebook again once they have been suitably thrashed over past deeds and have had time to reflect on what went wrong.

Both companies will eventually become privacy conscious by necessity and have the resources (hopefully) to enforce it internally.

If they don't then the next revelation or the one after that might be their death knell.
Not all math has applications; some of it is just interesting for its own sake.
You could use wireless in the same way you use a wire by restricting wireless clients by MAC address, for example.

When you want the IoT device to have Internet access, temporarily relax the restriction.

I did this because my TV is mounted on a wall with a large desk in front and its ethernet port is inaccessible.
I wish I was joking but is Cloudflare going to just decide one day to stop resolving domains based on any morning whims of management?
Don't try that in the wild, most sw out there would ignore spec and use some arbitrary regex to validate IP format.

i.e python:

octets = ip_str.split('.')
if len(octets) != 4:
raise AddressValueError("Expected 4 octets in %r" % ip_str)
Yeah, I was in Egypt during the revolution, a revolution built on a social networking app is a revolution built on sand. The liberals claimed that the Muslim brotherhood "hijacked" the revolution, but the truth was that none of the liberals had the first clue about what it took to make a polity.
Perhaps people don't finish a mushroom-burger? :-)
Where have you been all my life?
Why do you need firmware updates for a TV not connected?
> Imagine if we wrote [..] in a sort of lingua franca pseudocode, and then compilers competed with each other over the years to produce ever more efficient machine code from that well-established pseudocode. In this fantasy world [..]

This seems to, to an extent, describe SQL.
Haven't tried this with Lets Encrypt, but would be nice if this worked there aswell.
Exactly. Meaning is subjective. Chasing down a bug can be an exercise in patience, diligence, and an opportunity to improve one's skill. The activity itself is irrelevant.
That’s what the ToS and privacy policy are for.
Why Android over Linux or MacOS? It feels like at this point, Android and Windows are surveillance systems. If you don't want a surveillance system, you need to go with Linux or MacOS (or iOS.)
Yes, I've seen the exact same Ray-Ban scam multiple times over the years.
The most unhealthy part of a burger is the bun. This does nothing to help that.
> These hyper-targeting stories are the scariest part about adtech.

>> Despite what some con artists may tell you, I prefer a broad demographic approach to online messaging . Rather than complicate matters, I decided to target everyone in each of the three states between the ages of 28 and 44. No political affiliation sliders, no audiences, no Facebook machine learning wizardry. Every person within the age range, Republican, Democrat, or otherwise.

???
Not only that, but you see them in public places in the US also. Usually not in stalls, but in single toilet bathrooms.
Why did you jump to stupidity? When a person's livelihood is threatened, they think about ensuring things like shelter, food, and clothing, not what the environment will be like in a century. You need leisure and plenty before you can worry about that sort of thing.
It's very interesting to see some concrete numbers on political marketing, and while I don't doubt the author's number, I find his conclusion over-ambitious.

- The author finds that the click-through rate (20%) is much higher than the rate he typically sees in his career --> This is evidence of people being mad about Betsy Devos, and doesn't necessarily say anything about how easy it is to influence people through ads.

- The hardest part is to get people to go from watching a video to physically pick up the phone. The author doesn't (and can't) track this part, so can't prove his ads' true effectiveness. He "conservatively" estimates that his ads' audience make up half of the 1400 calls to the North Dakota senator. For this to be true, the conversion rate from video to physical phone call has to be 70% [1]. I'm not convinced it's this high.

Indeed, if it's so easy to convince people to actually pick up the phone, a school district or a church can get the hundreds of parents and church-goers in a day.

[1] 996 North Dakotans watched the ads. The conversion rate needs to be 700 / 996 ~ 70% for his audience to make up half of the 1400 calls to the senator.
The title is misleading. It should be followed with "...on AWS". It would have gotten less interest that way, and justifiably so.

I would have preferred either an analytic treatment of the subject, or an emphasis on open and free solutions, not what amounts to an advertisement for AWS services and vendor lock-in.
"Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, took yet another step to muzzle the scientific inquiry that for years has informed sound policy at an agency he seems determined to destroy." The EPA "No Studies, No Data, No Rules" approach shows the anti-science bias of the Trump Administration. Failing to understand and address environmental issues is an existential failing the is likely to impact human survival.
It's not the exact same stuff, but for all intents and purposes if you're not planning on competing in a powerlifting event anytime soon it's close enough that you could substitute it. It's actually used quite a lot for athletes who can't afford to have a sore lower back in training practice.
It's worth watching, it will look like a large meteor that breaks into pieces and takes several minutes to cross the sky.

Also it is likely that some large pieces like pressure tanks will survive reentry.
This does not make sense. Either people are not concerned about hiding their traffic or if they are it follows they would be equally if not much more concerned about Google that can track them across devices and build far more indepth invasive profiles than the ISP.

Aside it's strange https everywhere has been pushed aggressively by many here under the bogeyman of ISP adware and spying while completely ignoring the much larger adware and privacy threats posed by the stalking of Google, Facebook and others. It is disingenuous and insincere.
Looks like its down. I get a "The page you were looking for cannot be served." error.
Does it work well with (non-CloudFlare) CDNs or is this another DNS service that won’t work with Netflix on a Friday night because it routes everyone to a single edge mode?
How is the current situation possible? Shouldn't some company be able to buy the same panel, put minimal electronics and casing around it and sell it cheaper?
Yup, of course they can.
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Please, do not drain my batteries, waste resources of my planet and make me (or my employer, or my coffee shop, or my train company, or my library) pay electricity to prove I'm not a robot.

Please, do not make Internet an energy hog more than it already is.
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Netflix, Amazon Prime, Mubi, BBC iPlayer... in Hi-Res, UHD or 4k mode.

The apps with rich capabilities are restricted to the platform.

Android is the one with them all.

(caveat on Amazon vs Google stupidity)
Aren’t hotel TVs pretty much all smart these days? Honestly, it even makes sense as you can use it as a media center (Spotify etc), movie ”channels” are easier to implement etc.
Sadly the panels used in such models are almost always crap compared to high-end consumer models. Even models which are supposedly identical to some consumer model are usually not identical. The software often lacks features such as Game Mode and such.
Many years ago I used Posterous as my blog, in good HN fashion.

Aaaaand it went away.

Walled gardens are always going to be a massive vulnerability for link rot.
Yeah that doesn't make sense. Other articles mention the 25-30% mushroom but not the other claim.
https://www.fastcompany.com/40539024/now-you-can-get-sonics-...
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I looked at monitors 35" and larger and the cheapest I could find are at least twice as expensive as the corresponding TVs.

Maybe it's just a marketing thing but there are definitely differences which make monitors a hard sell to be used in place of TVs (e.g. in a living room, opposite to the sofa).
No, that would still be the red meat and saturated fat (cancer risk increase and calories).

Carbs have gotten an undeservedly bad rep, due to bro science. But there is still no actual proof of these assertions, only speculation.
This is just wrong, and missing the point.

The article states they are providing up to 834 people with internet access with 50+11 hot spots.

I shared a 20$ data plan with two+ travelmates while on gap year in Australia, and it worked extremely well. $7/person cost. Give or take for US data rates and inflation since then.

Even with generous assumptions, these wifi hot spots are at least 50x, and coule be 100x, that cost.

So worst case scenario, just buy them all smart phones and data plans for a small fraction of the cost of this current setup.
How are billions of taxpayer's money not a sacrifice?
And just like that a huge swath of the Internet looses links due to link rot.

Putting your data in google.is like putting your data on an inspector gadget exploding letter.

I remember thinking shortener services are scary for this exact reason back when they were first created.

Maybe we need a non corporate backed shortener service that has the staying power to surpass shuttering like this.
Blur is actually good for your eyes. This is how clear type works in windows. Try turn it off and your eyes will suffer.
What do you think of having your research funded through platforms like https://experiment.com/?
In the US, your funding primarily comes from your PI. You may have to supplement it via TAing some semesters depending on your group's resources. Even if you are lucky enough to get something like an NSF GRFP, that wont fund your full five or more years as a student.
Not really. Typically the query includes much more information (the site you want to visit) than the response (an IP potentially shared by thousands or millions of sites).
* Assuming the "Unit of Renewable Energy" is watt-hours. In SI units (Joules) they have long passed this "milestone".
GDPR will hopefully make companies that do things like this really sweat. The EU doesn’t seem to be fucking around with that one.
2008: plug the TV into the power outlet and you're done

2018: your TV needs internet access because updates

What the hell happened? This is ridiculous.
Take someone with intelligence and options, have them spend 10+ years of their life working toward something, and then give them a dead end job where it’s difficult to switch careers because of over education and lack of experience. No surprise here. Make these three year PhD programs at most. Don’t eat up someone’s best years.
If someone is writing a programming blog AND using a static site generator like Hugo, etc., that also builds up the author's credibility as a programmer in my view. But that's just me.
Announcing 1.1.1.1: the fastest, privacy-first consumer DNS service https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-1111/
Presumably, it’s about all the junk that OEMs install on Windows in exchange for a few cents or dollars per machine.
You think it has no mic.
Nice article OP, compelling stuff. My pet theory is that "Satoshi Nakamoto" is not a singular person and I'm never going to give up on it without some strong evidence to the contrary.
Bit of a let down really
On a similar note, Samsung updated a bunch of apps on my dad's s7 and pushed a bunch of notifications to him, trying to get him to join some Samsung rewards club and suspended use of his phone until he clicked next. He's 67 guys. The madness needs to stop.
Quite subtle, kudos
...so if you substitute all of the beef, you get negative caloric intake?

Sorry, bulimia doesn't sound fun to me.
My FAI, Orange in France, seems to block/redirect acces to https://1.1.1.1 , i see great irony here.

Chrome security warning when i try to access it, ping <1ms when ping ip adress.
Isn't social network a purely commercial idea born to manipulate people, get them obsessed over it and exploit them? I mean it's not an actual problem to solve that can be worth any research.
Got me so good
Good one! :D
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Haha, this was a good one! As long as you read half the article before realizing you know it’s a good April’s Fools joke.
This seems like a duplicate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16700065
> all of the flavor with none of the guilt

No guilt? Because it’s less calories? How tone deaf do you have to be?
> Beef has an outsize environmental footprint. Per gram of protein, beef requires on average 50 times more land and produces 100 times more greenhouse gases than do beans and other plant-based proteins. Replacing 30% of the beef with mushrooms in the roughly 10 billion burgers that Americans eat each year would reduce emissions equivalent to taking 2 million cars off the road, according to the World Resources Institute, an environmental think tank in Washington DC.

How do they make this calculations? Is it a proper way to present scientific data on the best scenice journal in the world?
Thanks. Will give it a shot.
If I knew how annoying that stuff was, I sure wouldn’t have bought my ps4. Absolutely.
Bear in mind, Google's changed its mind before and can again at any time. For instance, when they bought DoubleClick they promised not to connect it with the Google account data they had. Then they changed that policy later.
Coming? I think that most of chain burger places around (above McDonald's level) have some sort of burger with mushrooms, I didn't even think it was some kind of novelty.
Privacy-first from cloudflare? Wasn't cloudflare founded by ex-NSA employee and heavily funded by NSA when it started?
It's only for personal use, but if you want to try:

https://gist.github.com/Visarga/e6597edcb7ec6993521829ef5c17...

Also, it only works on MacOS because it uses the Alex voice which comes bundled with the system.
What if... Work with me here... The "Smart" TV company is paid by malicious hackers to include malware that snoops on its customers.
That would allow them to lower the price of the TV to below the cost of the dumb TV. Mind you, they might have to call the malware "apps" and call the hackers "partners."

Ok, snark aside, what if the makers of Smart TVs call them "platforms," and they get a subsidy for bundling apps, and maybe even a revenue stream from people who sign up for things like Netflix through the TV?

Again, they will be able to make a cheaper TV if there's more money in apps than margin on hardware.

This is analogous to the situation with phones. For most companies, there's more money in the telecommunications service than in the hardware margin, so most phones are subsidized by the service providers.

So-called television is going there: It's just a platform for advertising, tracking, and services that generate revenue on subscription. This is going to relentlessly drive hardware margins deep into the negative, which makes it impossible to sell a "dumb" display for a reasonable price.

I fully expect that it won't be long before leaving a smart TV unconnected to the internet won't be an option: They won't work unless they can phone home.

Samsung's partners don't want you hooking a 4K TV up to an AppleTV and routing around their platform in favour of Apple's app store, not if you bought that TV at a discount thanks to their subsidies.
They are blocking repeated hotlinks to the .png based on referrer.
You seem to be on the wrong thread, fyi.
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Because they’re all doing the same stuff?
Most fears of ISPs have been stoked primarily by tech companies, who invest a lot more money into marketing than the ISPs do.
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Thanks for your the comment.
The big majority of serverless users nowadays are on AWS. It might change in the future (probably not), but today the most relevant information regarding latency between serverless functions is due to Lambda and AWS services.
I am not working in AWS, and my company serves both AWS customers and other cloud vendor customers.
Presumably, the issue is scale.

If most people prefer the TV with 'more features' then they'll take it. The savings of using a dumb TV are probably not a lot, I'd ballpark it at $50.
How many consumers are going to think "$50 dollars more to get netflix straigt on my TV? Great!".

Besides, that $50 advantage could well be lost in the smaller scale costs.
One of the use cases for DNS-over-HTTPS given in the draft was to allow web applications access to DNS directly via existing browser APIs.
2008: Manufacturer finds a defect in the firmware code that causes excessive processor usage, thus causing the internal electronics to fail earlier than anticipated. No fix available.

2018: defect in firmware found. New version deployed to internet connected devices and lifespan extended.

Both of those are made up scenarios, but I would argue that there are legitimate reasons for devices to be connected to the internet. Along with a bunch of terrible reasons, of course.
I would like to see a TV with the following attributes:

1. 8 Inputs, with at least four HDMI and one HDMI accessible from the front panel. The remaining inputs would have at least two composite inputs. There would be no cable input since most cable companies, around here anyway, require a set-top box anyway.

2. An optical audio output, for those who wish to hook up a proper audio system. Those who don’t would get ok-ish built in speakers.

3. An always-on power outlet or two, to make hooking up the obligatory set-top box, Apple TV, etc easier. It would also have two USB power outlets, which are also always on, which would make hooking up a Raspberry Pi, Chromecast, etc easier. This requirement is optional, but desirable.

The remote on the TV would have a button for each input, a power button, volume controls, and a couple of buttons to support the on-screen settings menu (things like picture adjustments, activate/deactivate/rename inputs, etc). The TV would respond to HDMI CEC controls from attached devices, but would have the option to ignore these on particular inputs.

In the end, the TV provides the appropriate infrastructure to hook up whatever devices meet my needs. It also doesn’t try to solve problems that TV manufacturers aren’t good at solving.

Why does nobody make a TV like this? Assuming this was price-competitive with a regular TV, I’d buy two.

EDIT: I found one that’s pretty close[0].

[0] https://www.costco.ca/Haier-49UG2500-49-in.-4K-LED-TV.produc...
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Those trailer is using clips directly from the film, watching it now, and it's no less sensationalized than the trailer.
Mushrooms are tasty, nutritious, very simple to grow, and they grow fast. The claims made in the article about the supposed fussiness of mushrooms does not fit with my experience.

We should all eat more mushrooms, not necessarily as a meat substitute, just in general. They can bring their own fantastic richness and flavor to so many dishes, if you venture beyond the boring white button mushrooms. At least go for portobellos or something, they're so much more interesting.
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It's ironic that "growth at any cost" is now being used as a stick to beat scrappy little upstarts with - when that is literally Facebook's phrase.

What Facebook and Google lose in (pretty much entirely self-imposed, for now) regulations, they gain in the ability to index against all of your other activity, everywhere.

The scrappy startup has only one data point on you, and has to work with others to make it useful (which, with GDPR will be a lot harder to do).
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It's very likely that they have 1.1.1.1 in their "bogons" list and have for a very long time.

Bogons are a list of prefixes that most ISPs blackhole as there is usually never any legitimate traffic bound for those destinations. RFC1918 addresses, for example.

I can't reach 1.1.1.1 either, but 1.0.0.1 works fine. Maybe try that.
We are recent "cord-cutters" with a brand new Sony 4K, Android-enabled TV. On our other TVs, we have a Roku and an Amazon Firestick. We use the builtin Sony apps because they were (essentially) free and are the only way we currently have to get 4K content.

I noticed the Samba nonsense when I set up the TV and have declined to participate -- but guess what? The TV still regularly connects to the domain flingo.tv, which is Samba's old name. It also connects to other strange things, like playstation-related domains. (and what is ndmdhs.com?)

I've set our WAN router to block samba/flingo and few other things, but my wife is (rightfully) concerned that I'll disrupt the Android update process, so I'm being careful.

It would be useful for someone with the skill, time and tools to investigate what places these Internet TVs are contacting, aside from the actual video content providers. If someone is doing that, I'd love to hear what they find.