skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not even a secret. A TV manufacturer publicly said a while ago that a TV without "smart" features is more expensive for the company (even if sold at the same retail price) because they cannot make any money from selling usage data.
Even if that is true, it is more likely the result of poverty being inherently stressful and requiring the use of cognitive resources rich people can spend on other things (https://zhaolab.psych.ubc.ca/pdfs/Zhao_2013_Science.pdf)
Unlimited used to mean unlimited.
For typical cases JavaScript protos (jspb) should use JSON wire format. You would only use binary wire format depending on whether your message type is suited to it, e.g., lots of internal byte arrays.
I ditched Samsung years ago after they stopped releasing updates and bug fixes for my TV, a year after it was purchased. There are a bunch of TVs out there running Java without updates.

In general, my last like, 5 Samsung products have been disappointing, mostly due to software, or lack there of.
Reminds me of an old youtube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRlBtabKRFM

Anyway, the article made a point how they're "combating deforestation," but is that really true? I always thought that clearing land for farming and cattle was the main cause of deforestation by far, followed by construction and furniture, and that the paper industry tended to plant tree farms since they don't really require old-growth hardwoods, which is why I always opposed recycling paper. Was I wrong in my belief?

Additionally, it feels to me like this is more of a cynical attempt to capitalize on the eco-hippy market rather than any actual concern for the environment. All the people I've talked with who are concerned with environment and waste seem to be moving to bidets to minimize toilet paper use, and intuitively this makes sense to me, though I admit that I haven't done any research on the topic.
I think they have the resources. Recent example: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-reddit-funding/reddit-val...
It takes some planning ahead, but I use a podcast app that automatically downloads episodes when I'm on Wi-Fi and I explicitly download a few playlists on Spotify.
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The last time bought a TV, we simply looked around and found one that wasn't a "Smart TV". We stream through a Roku.
My country is not listed on JustWatch.
You can make DuckDuckGo your default search engine on all Apple devices.

Apple is definitely a for profit business and they charge for their products instead of subsidizing with data aggregation or theft.
Generally yes. In my (accidental) experience, don't give it a bad WiFi key, it'll just complain. Just leave it disconnected. Honestly, given the unnecessary updates, ads, and just horrid UI that WiFi brought me on my TV, I'd suggest leaving it offline even if you don't care about the privacy issues.

Oh, and WiFi won't change how much bandwidth you're using. And given the low (compared to Bluray) bitrate of 4k content on the streaming services, you probably don't need gigabit.

And, it's not for everyone, but I personally like just hooking up a small PC (Intel's NUC works well here) and using that instead of AppleTV or Roku.
Indeed, also not everybody is trying to squeeze money out of their user base regardless of costs (to popularity, principles...).
Ask HN: Good long form presentation of the history of probability theory
How did it start? How did it evolve? Who were the main players? First big success stories? Competing formalism?
I really wish the whole home theater system was way more modular. I want:

1. A TV that just displays video from an HDMI input.

2. An A/V amplifier that just receives an HDMI A/V signal from a single input, passes the video from that to to the TV, and does Dolby/DTS/whatever decoding of the audio, amplifies the result, and sends it to my speakers.

3. An HDMI switch that I can plug assorted A/V source into (FireTV, Roku, OTA TV tuner, Blu-ray player, Cable box, etc) into, which I'll connect to the A/V receiver.

(Actually, what I really want is for the switch to split the A/V signal into separate audio and video on two different HDMI ports. Video goes to the TV, audio the A/V amplifier--except now it is just an A amplifier. But I think there may be licensing restrictions on that kind of splitting that make it so you can only split at the step that converts to analog for the speakers).

All of the HDMI connections should support Ethernet over HDMI.

None of these should have WiFi built-in. They networking should be via Ethernet. If I want WiFi, I'll add a WiFi access point to the home theater LAN.

I'm not sure how Ethernet over HDMI interacts with HDMI switches. If you have, say, a 4 input, 1 output HDMI switch, does that switch all signals, so that you only have Ethernet between the one selected input and the output, or are the Ethernet lines treated specially and connected like a hub, so that all devices on both sides of the switch can communicated over Ethernet, regardless of which input is currently selected for A/V?

If the later, then the home theater LAN can use the HDMI ports. If the former, then all the devices need an Ethernet port.
Pro tip for other people with 2019 and 2018 Samsung Smart TVs, if you back out of the network config and never set it up during the initial config or after a factory reset the TV will never show any ads and will never have the annoying icons for its own apps in the menus. If you attempt to use these features the TV will kindly remind you that you are not connected to the internet/have no accepted the user agreement. I have done this on all of my Samsung TVs and the result is a much cleaner UI.
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I assumed that's what google voice would do eventually.
not ridiculous — it leads to higher chances of throat cancer, tragically, thanks to certain viruses being picked up in this manner. (I know, viruses and bacteria are not the same, but they share transmission vectors)
That seems like it would be easy to solve by delivering each household a minimum number of bags and then charging for using extra, instead of making the tax maximally-regressive.
I thought Wikipedia doesn’t have monetization issues, but maybe things have changed?
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/20/cash_rich_wikipedia...
Interestingly their human support has been good, considering how annoying and not helpful human support is with other Google services.
i'm not saying they are completely broke, but they certainly are on the more thrifty side of things compared to most tech companies
> I guess the UK no longer exists

Meh, it will become "the United Kingdom of England and Overseas Territories" or something to that effect. UK is a brand and a symbol that Westminster will never abandon. Serbia, for example, tried really hard to remain "Yugoslavia", and if it weren't for the tensions it generates, that name would still be around.
I think they just don't sell as much data as something like Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc.
Basically, yes. And you can and should also put all of those IOT devices on separate VLANs which you can control and monitor via firewall rules and packet inspection.
TVs are sold at or below cost and they make money from selling ads and get a cut of subscription revenue if you subscribe from the device.

This is no different than PC makers who make money from bundled crapware and stickers plastered on the computer.

People use to complain about the “Windows Tax” and thought the computer would be cheaper without it being bundled, but the PC manufacturers actually loss money when Windows wasn’t bundled because they also couldn’t bundle third party crap.
I had the opposite experience. I don't think I went to a terrible school but I learned way more practical skills through my internship and work experience after graduation than I did in school. The only language I used both during and after college is PHP. I never learned any C#, .NET or Javascript. I have not used C, C++, Java, Haskell, Scala, Big O notation, graph theory, NP&NPC, linear algebra since then. While a lot of these languages and theories are interesting I feel like it was a lot of wasted time and money.
Any attempt at monetization through the "normal" means, such as increasing the number of ads or selling user data, would completely undermine the things that make Reddit such a valuable site. We've already seen a few examples of Reddit moving toward a more legitimate, financially viable social media model, and each one of those moves has been met with significant backlash. It seems that they're in a lose-lose situation: either run out of money to keep the site running, or lose all their users.
Y'know, the toll that all this activity takes on Reddit's servers gave me an idea for a sort of distributed Reddit. News links and stories assorted into topic-based groups, with the option for users to comment or respond to others' comments in a threaded discussion. It would be completely decentralized and belong to the users, not some central media company. We could call it Users' Network, or USENET for short.

We could implement it with blockchain.
And I wholeheartedly wish Reddit will continue doing what they are doing. As a user, I would vote for scheduled maintenance downtime to many monetization attempts present on other networks.
I've been pretty happy with Visible which is a Verizon owned MVNO (sort of, not sure if it's a true MVNO if Verizon owns them).

Everything is done via an app, you get the Verizon network with unlimited LTE (though you do get de-prioritized during congestion, but I've found it to be fine in the bay area).

It's $40/month which includes all local fees/taxes and it's no contract.

Only downside is no cellular support for the Apple Watch.
Deleting domain zone changes nothing

All we need is proper Tribunal on communism and ussr
Like it was with nazism
You’re wrong on that, security teams at the major tech companies love it, especially for variant analysis. Ask your coworkers at Google! One of which recently left to become Semmle’s Chief Security Officer.
I have a Phillips that does not have any smart features.
I have a relatively old ad-supported kindle.

It was fairly straightforward to replace the ad images. Now it shows me cat pictures when turned off.
I think you mean to say they can't, but… they can https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/hookworm/gen_info/faqs.html
> Supposedly a lot of news sites were pummeled with traffic on 9/11,

I think it's pretty safe to say that new sites were pummeled with traffic on the biggest news day since the internet was widely used for news.

Certainly, it's the simplest explanation for how news vs. other sites behaved on 9/11.
You can get a large format displays. The prices are reasonable for forty inch displays with 1080p resolution.

Plan on getting one with a stick PC.
I’m so sad Silicon Valley wrapped before artesian TP got its big break.
Well I'd say that student got a lesson that years of schooling could never provide!
For unlimited data with included international data... shouldnt I be able to sign up for this internationally and essentially get unlimited usage in my own country?

For example my phone plan costs over $100AUD so that I can get a measly 1GB of international roaming data.. this seems like it would be a better option?
After going and getting (most of) a degree this describes exactly what I saw. I taught myself to program in my preeteens and avoided university for a long time because it seemed like a scam to me ("why should I pay someone a significant fraction of a million dollars to read a few poorly organized books to me?"), after going through all the classes I've realised just how easy it is to underestimate how important certian abstract ideas are.
I don’t think this is a one-or-the-other situation.

“Bloat” is a problem on, say, news sites with horrible ads and it’d be great if they kept it lean. Obviously they don’t need webassembly and binary formats.

But... there are also incredibly powerful tools (google maps and docs, quake in the browser, streaming services, etc) that push the boundaries, which these kinds of tech will enhance, or make possible in the first place.
Number of new posts every 15 minutes in the past 24 hours:

https://imgur.com/a/HqUsYGn

It's interesting to see how it fails. Clearly some users can still post. I'm sure there are things that still work (maybe the phone apps .. got me), but also very clearly, there's a sharp dip in new posts.
What had to be done to make it scale?
If anyone ever actually builds a TV that supports it* then the list of things one must actively disable will have grown all the way to two. Again, not hidden spy equipment; no reason to wonder whether your TV is secretly communicating with someone.

* https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/325215/appletv-eth...
Now it means “caveat emptor.”
Hard to find a 55 inch PC monitor. You can buy a 55 inch 4K Roku TCL TV for less than $400.
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I was a skeptic of a lot of things until I saw some flying orbs around Mount Shasta, California last October. I saw similar moving orbs again in upstate NY this year on two occasions. I don't know what I saw but they were not weather balloons, satellites, planes, planets, stars, or meteors.

Anyone here ever see something similar?
Yes, It is a national shame that the USA has such bad average health care. The rich havd the best in the world. The poor die young. Just look at the age stats for Cuba versus the USA in these charts etc. Yes, Cubans outlive Americans, so do Canadians. All dues to crooked Doctors, insurers, pharma companys, hospitals and...
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/sp.dyn.le00.in

https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publicatio...
https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy
I don't know. I did it with two kids and it didn't bug me a bit. Really, I felt pretty good about it. It's one of those parenting merit badge moments.
To my mind much of the polarization is in part the result of more and more power being handed to a winner-takes-all Federal system. If more power were in the States, then it is more likely that the laws will reflect your political views, and/or have an option to move to another State without having to leave your nation. With most eggs being in the Federal basket, which (generally) does not make laws for one state but not another, you are going to have a bunch of unhappy folks no matter what law gets passed.
It was the Vizio CTO, while trying to spin it positively it came out a bit too honest. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190114/08084341384/vizio...
It’s amazing how if you try to make a progressive political point here, you tend to get criticized. But when it comes time to judge the morality of things like racism or misogyny, suddenly it’s impossible to know the morality of any idea ever.
I was shocked when a medical device I got had a built-in CDMA modem to send telemetry to my insurance company. Thankfully there's an airplane mode.
Can't they run in read-only mode during maintenance? That would be a relatively simple workaround, I suppose.
Once again, the question of whether multiple simultaneous vaccinations increases adverse effects is well studied, and the verdict is that they do not. It doesn't seem to me like trying to reason to the contrary axiomatically is going to get you anywhere.
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A website is not a subway system. There are no "huge costs" to having basic rolling deployments set up. In fact it's likely more expensive to have extended outages and maintenance windows, because it shows that there are humans running commands behind the scenes rather than automation.
They were kind of a default since there's only a few huge ones. Main win: it's not Microsoft. MS already has lots of internal tools from MS Research they were wasting. They probably couldve built Semmle themselves. They're also a known patent troll. I don't know if Semmle's methods are patented, though.

I'd rather a company like them not acquire them in favor of one that is constantly developing new services with no attempts to financially drain 3rd parties. Not to say good won't come out of Github integration given huge number of projects in it.
So awesome! Interested in seeing d0n.xyz
Couldn't agree more. And it's not just customer service. So many workers are chronically underpaid in the US because wages simply haven't kept up with the cost of living. Some people are "working" and barely getting paid at all (all those side hustlers, artists, content creators, etc.) I'm working to bring tipping to web pages to apply that same solution (subsidize income with tips) to the digital creator economy (see my handle dot com).
That's the point, to spread the load as evenly as possible
I’m not sure that’s true. My credit card statements usually show the route (and maybe the date; I don’t recall) for airfare purchases. The format the statements use has led me to believe it’s more than the airline stuffing that data in the generic string that all transactions have.
Not recently, but Twitter's "fail whale" became famous due to problems Twitter had under heavy load.
They used to. Not sure why they don’t now.
> because languages are specification

It just so happens that the specification in this case makes very specific demands on the translation environment, closely describing compilation step by step from source files into a program image.

Your "interpreted C" is only C in the loose sense that one may describe other non-compliant but roughly similar implementations.
I've only skimmed the book, but I wouldn't recommend it. The author has a tendency to be snarky and come up with "fixes" for "mistakes" that "old" C programmers make, except he does so in a way that is at odds with the fundamental design of C constructs and does not really show a correct understanding of undefined behavior.
The revenue per minute of these sites is in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. While that can be budgeted for if needed, its not just inconvenient for users, it could mean missing a revenue target.
Roku enabled TVs very clearly send back frames of what you are watching. I've been watching YouTube casted via chromecast plugged into HDMI (NOT the built in chromecast, I have verified multiple times) and the Roku will give me a full width toast saying to press `*` to watch the full movie or some similar contextual option

I was pretty put off the first time this happened. That said, I don't even know if I looked through the settings to see if I could turn it off..
As someone that owned a family auto shop, I welcome this change.

The EPA set standards at a federal level (good standards I might add). Cali was given the power to require higher standards in the 1970's as the article mentions. In the 1970's and 1980's, a car made for the states vs. one headed for California might be quite a bit different, including a different motor with a different compression ratio and various "accessories" to reduce tail pipe emissions.

Since the 1990's, there is not much difference between a car made for the states and one for California, usually if there is a difference it is in secondary air injection into the exhaust. Nowadays if a car is destined for California, the manufacture adds a small airpump which is activated only for a short period after engine start up to pump air into the exhaust. This adds oxygen to the exhaust and allows unburned hydrocarbons to burn just a bit more before exiting. This is only needed when engine temps are low however. So over all, not a big change.

There are also rules to prevent tampering with the engine ECU. If one wants more performance, they can get a third party to flash the stock ECU firmware with a "hotter" one for more performance which usually requires more gas and higher ignition timing for the price of more pollution. Though one might also want their ECU tuned for nothing more than to change transmission shift points and firmness (so not for more pollution). But ECU flashing is expensive ($400+) and a few hot rodders aren't going to melt the icecaps.

This is the way things were up until ~2010 or so before I left the market, perhaps things are different right now, but I doubt it (any remarks are welcomed)
map/reduce deals specifically with an array whereas a while doesn’t? Most people get traversing an array with a for/while loop vs traversing with map, but using a while loop in a more algorithmic question trips people up.

Let’s say my terminating case is that a number no longer has a remainder when divided by X, that confuses people, different from terminating at the end of the array.
Because they don't specify what would be the network speed after 22Gb limit reached, I suspect their "slower after" means they simply give traffic priority to those who haven't consumed their 22Gb.

So it will be equally fast if only a few people use the service (e. g. outside of populous areas), and much slower otherwise.

So it's not like they are going to have their network underloaded just to squeeze more money from customers.

If that hypothesis is true, it does not sound that bad.
I started blocking the ad servers at the network level, and now my home screen on my Roku TV is very clean!
Ripping out as much home grown code for cross cutting concerns (logging, database access, retry logic, etc) that previous developers used and using third party packages.
There are many similar gaps in collection in the early years of the Internet Archive.

Early archive.org web captures came overwhelmingly from crawls by the company Alexa Internet (which started in 1995 but by 2001 was a subsiiary of Amazon). Alexa's original bulk web crawling was intermittent: restarted once every couple of months, without much focus on rapid re-crawls of news sites. You can also see seasonal patterns, with larger lulls in summers.

The events of 2001-09-11 prompted a bunch of fresh, faster crawls – and higher prioritization of news website re-crawls.