skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does that viewpoint square with
1) Deliberately slowed-down hardware (claimed concern about "older device batteries" don't wash with reality either...)

2) Planned obsolescence in the forms of
A) Removing/altering physical ports, preferring proprietary "standards" to actual standards
B) Irreversible OS upgrades, Internet Recovery Mode notwithstanding, and the deliberately hobbled functionality "older" hardware endures, see leaked employee info on deliberate unnecessary version flags purpose built into software, etc.
We're discussing the torture of a journalist in the west. Adn you bring up a story that you think he lied to often. Now I assume you are right and I think that stains his character.

But, I think this is kind of hard to swallow at this point. I know you respond to someone else comment, and not directly to the story. But in this light i think it is not time to discuss if Assange lied at some point. The man deserves a fair trial, and some nobel prizes for the good stuff he did. Before Wikileaks we were some tin-foil hat /r/conspiracy readers. And now "deep state" a term you find in the MSM. Big progress necessary on the way to fix this mess, yet Assange's life got destroyed in the process.
OP was talking about rental records. That would be Blockbuster telling a marketer which videos you rented, not you lending a rented video to a friend.
The webpage for AGDA seems to be https://github.com/agda/agda or https://wiki.portal.chalmers.se/agda/pmwiki.php, but not https://www.agda.com.au/ (end of the paper).
Declaring who is and is not a valid journalist is not a path we, or any society, should go down.
Just having tech infra/org/ops doesn't mean it is efficient and adds value.
We are beyond fighting this with technical solutions. This can only be properly fixed via regulations and laws. Unless it can be proven that certain information is required for the product to function, it should not be collected. If it is required, it should only be stored for as long as technically necessary.

I am not familiar with the details of GDPR. Does it help in this particular case?
but yes, bad Sonos. (to bring it back on topic)
IIRC the interesting point is it was a very, very small team - like 10ish people - and got acquired for $19 billion.
UN backs Russia on internet convention, alarming rights advocates
You keep missing what I’m saying. Sure, the degree holders make much more, but the real question is, why they make more.

Do they make more because they learned valuable skills allowing them to do valuable jobs that otherwise wouldn’t be done? Then yes, the government extracts part of the extra productivity they generate that wouldn’t have been generated but for the education.

Or maybe do they make more because the college degree certifies them as quality people, which signals their value as good workers, leading to employers choosing them over other people? In that case, college education doesn’t make the workers any more productive. No extra value is produced because of college education. However, the college educated workers in that world still make more than not educated workers. All college does then is to determine who gets to do the higher income jobs. If nobody went to college in that world, those exact same jobs would be done anyway, it’s just employers would have to use different signals for employee quality than college degree.

I believe that our world is much closer to the latter than to the former. College is mostly quality certification to signal value, and it’s not building human capital through teaching people skills that make them more productive. This is shown by papers like above, where they find that after controlling for other explanatory variables, college premium is zero or close to zero, but also by common sense: a typical college graduate forgets 95% of the material in class, and the remaining 5% is often not likely to be used anyway, since most degrees are not teaching any practical work skills anyway (except for the job of being a college professor), and on top of that a lot of people don’t even work in a job they have a degree for.
Yes. I'm paranoid.
Well no one is obligated to give me content, but I wouldn't call that ethical.
Sometimes you just need to act on principle. If they're pulling this on their mobile users today, what will they do to their desktop users tomorrow?
Where do the discussions on HN, and Reddit [0], come from if it's not a thing in the wild? Granted: It's hard to search for because Google will bury any relevant results between a ton of support requests about people not being able to get their Samsung TV online.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/bpr6xs/if_you_choo...
The discussion here is a reminder of how sufficiently competent people can defend to death a narrative that is logically consistent enough and has some form of "majority acknowledgment" for the sources of that narrative.

I want to remind us that rarely do enough credible (according to some formal and stringent definition) evidences exist for a given topic for an observer to make a conclusion with the kind of confidence we often display while remonstrating on these issues.

Specifically: it is naive to adopt a conclusive tone involving a person without liberty for over a decade, and possibly undergoing forms of punishment without due trial. I suspect not one of us here is trained enough in Law and have access to enough TRUE information to come to a judgment. If so, we are guilty of engaging in and spreading careless commentaries made about a case that combines possible human rights violation (its abundance in current time does not make this any less serious of a concern) with possible government interference in defining what constitutes journalism.

I want to leave you with this last thought - in majority cases in history, it has been profitable for the public to challenge the government on its policies, rather than to trust in its foresightedness and integrity.
Is a Windows PC really under your control nowadays? And if you connect your phone to the TV, you don't really even own those, even if you paid $1000 for your "phone". The manufacturers are the true owners unless you root them which is not always easy.
I have been using this.

Common Lisp Object system perfect and natural for this kind of programming.
This was quite an interesting meditation on configuration management.

Telling quote: "I have been a part of the Python 3 migration and I can tell you that it sucked out all my enjoyment of being a part of that community. No matter on which side you were during that migration I heard very little positive about that experience."

Armin Ronacher is among my heroes: Sphinx, Flask and Click are just superb. I hope he regains some joy in time for the next go-around.
It's because when you're young, you're just happy to be making it on your own.

But I'm not sure everyone does reach the second stage. Some people seem to be content just living their lives and enjoying themselves without really wondering if they could have done more or whether they need to leave the world a better place than when they arrived.

I think maybe it depends on how much exposure to death one has had. Death tends to make one reevaluate ones own life, at least in my own experience.
I have a ham radio license. If/when this happens, I eagerly look forward to using what I’ve picked up to figure out how to kill this with fire. In all likelihood, a piece of thin metal plate taped to the case in the right place will probably be all that’s needed.
It's likely a mix. Some jobs will get put onto other people, Some jobs will just go away and never come back. When they feel pain they'll fill the role with a contractor or cheaper person.
Most of the prop shops I've been talking to have been Python & C++.
Does anyone know why Slack would have done this? I can certainly understand Slack not providing a specific mobile-web experience, but that is not what is going on here. The user specifically switched their mobile browser to "Desktop Site" (one of my favorite features of Android Chrome by the way for sites that mysteriously provide dumbed down versions for mobile that are missing all the content I actually need - looking at you, Square), so the server should just serve them desktop-optimized content. Slack has to go out of their way to prevent this. Why would they care? It has to be a very small portion of their users in any case.
Some nice musical choices in the top music. Big Thief produced two amazing albums in 2019. Glad to see Balthazar mentioned. They don't get nearly enough love, especially in the US. Also, to note, the ratio of quality musical bands to population in Belgium is second to none in my opinion. One of my favorite bands is Intergalactic Lovers. One of the best female lead singers around..
Shouldn't your question be 'which 4K TVs are still dumb'? I cannot find a single TV at Best Buy that isn't a Smart TV.
High order means much less dependence on step size. Automatic (exact) differentiation means no roundoff from finite differences with small step size.
They use a very clever and involved code generation approach, I have just hardcoded the recurrences in my implementation (much simpler). https://github.com/m4r35n357/ODE-Playground

It is not a black box approach like RK4, it depends on the model using a (hardly at all) restricted set of functions. Piecewise definitions are OK though.
>A fully malicious TV will connect to open WiFi nearby

Connect to your own wifi and block any traffic?
Displaying content on your television isn't something you do online. It's something you're doing at home. Samsung is spying and putting it online.
Sorry, would you clarify? It’s unclear what part of that statement you are questioning.
> the accusations of sexual assault in Sweden was not part of some US lead conspiracy against him.

What makes you so sure of this?
My point is that it'll be worked around by blockers, which means they'll then implement more robust methods (which as a side-effect might break accessibility, see how Facebook splits the "sponsored" subtitle in lots of spans) and so on and so forth.

Instead, the ads should be done in such a way that most people don't have any incentive in blocking them (I personally would like to see ads provided that 1) they are vetted and 2) they are for products I'm interested in, based on the choices I make in my profile). Given that, the few outliers that would still end up blocking them wouldn't be a problem worth solving (you can always offer a paid tier to remove ads for the people that truly don't want any ads).
It may be an effect of the economic bubble we're in. It's an ethos that doesn't survive a crash :)
This mafia-state aggression is too 90’s. The latest battlefield is in information operations (persuasion if you will). They know they’ll never use it, and so does any UN country. The only benefit is to maybe galvanize nationalistic tendencies under the mafia-state in hopes to give some credibility as a legitimate government, which the whole world knows is a folly. Russia is the largest crime syndicate to ever have existed.
What we can and need to change to keep climate change low – the scientist view
That’s a legit concern. If Samsung made a deal with, say, Comcast to connect to the ever-present “xfinitywifi” SSID, then it wouldn’t matter if you’re blocking the sly TV from your own network.
No, laws are not made by convenience. They are made by lawmakers who in turn are influenced by lobbyists. That is why it was illegal to share video rental records and that is why it is not illegal to monitor and monetize your private data.
The problem is most careers don't really qualify as "higher callings".

Originally "higher calling" meant a much more important (e.g. scientific, humanitarian, patriotic, artistic, priesthood, etc.) not some person working up a management career in some BS enterprise selling BS through marketing...

So while a doctor might have his "higher calling" as career, I doubt that can be the case for the millions of corporate drones...
"Slack continues the war against its own users" somebody will say.
After talking this through with many non technical people, I have become of the opinion the shame is ours. Why do we keep pushing this patently unsafe authentication mechanism? It should never have been allowed in the first place, but now with hardware keys readily available there really is no more excuse. I understand there is a first mover disadvantage to disallowing password-only auth, but that’s on us. Our collective timorous prevaricating is to blame for the misuse of passwords by end users. Because, unlike them, we do know better.
I do not want to argue with you if the opinion of the leading UN expert in this matter is based on enough hard evidence. The important thing is:

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture (and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment) visited Mr. Assange with a medical team and then wrote an appeal to the UK Government. The UK government should react with a prompt and impartial investigation. They did not do that. The did not even answer the question of the United Nations Special Rapporteur.

That by itself, no matter if Mr. Assange was subjected to torture, is non compliance with international rules.

Given Brexit this level of "we do not care about international rules and we do not accept the UN as an authority" is unsurprising. IMHO a western nation like the UK ignoring a member of the OHCHR is very worrisome. It shows that the UK government has little interest to participate in the trend towards "good governance".
Precious models like “standards” and “semblance of moral code”. :-:
Here is how to disable it for all brands: Don't connect your TV to the internet.
I’ll go for this one when my plasma dies:

https://ironcast.tv/
Yes. Kipling's gods of the copybook headings return in a rush when a stock market bubble pops. I wonder to what extent you can predict a crash by sensing when the mood of a society has disconnected effort from reward.
Seems like the way to fight back is to not give them your data in the first place. Stop using their services/apps.
Samsung Smart TVs do not take screenshots as far as I know. They do audio and video fingerprinting. It would be way too costly and inificient to upload screenshots for content recognition (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_content_recognitio...).

Disclaimer: I work for Samsung, but not directly in the TV software.
Does svelte have any traction recently? Any big names using it?
> 90% of grad students are foreigners.

Nowhere near that in total over all fields and even in STEM where the percentage is the highest it is about 80%.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/03/education/edlife/american...
My TV software gets updated. Have gotten noticeable improvements.
Corruption.

FTFY.
Speaking as the project lead for Riot, I agree... for now :) The difference (relative to Discord) is that Riot is FOSS and the sky is the limit in terms of how fast it evolves. These days Riot/Web, Riot/iOS and RiotX/Android are both straightforward and fun to hack on - and we do everything we can to encourage and merge good contributions and features from the community. As per the 2020 section at the end of https://matrix.org/blog/2019/12/24/the-2019-matrix-holiday-u..., our top priority for next year is to get the UX of Riot to be as mainstream as possible (ie as good or better than Discord), and we need all the help we can get. The company which funds most of Riot’s development (vector.im) is also hiring currently for UX Designers and developers to work fulltime on this.

TL;DR: If Linux can obsolete Solaris, Riot can obsolete Discord/Slack. Come get involved and help :)
Yeah, that’s the first step we take with PrivicyPal. Then data brokers, then Google/Facebook et al.

While there are others, Troy Hunt’s HIBP is a great resource, and we are indebted to his work there.
Funny enough, 5G is not much better than 4G other than 1000x device density. There is no 1000x increase in population on the horizon, but IoThieves is around the corner.
I am not paying to deny any one any thing; rather I am simply not paying for them to receive it. What is wrong with paying to get what I want? How does my purchase of medical treatment harm another?

> Because without that society, you too, are nothing.

This reflects a profound ideological difference between you and me. I believe the individual's value is a unique, personal thing that exists independent of society; you seem to think individuals are without value on their own. You are evidently a much more collectivist person. That's fine, go form your collective, but don't force others to enter at gunpoint.
I'm getting ready to go full Battlestar Galactica in all of my appliances. It's now difficult to find high end washers and ovens without these features.

At least right now we can choose not to connect the devices, but what happens if iot LTE connections get cheap enough that the choice is removed altogether, like with Tesla and other high end modern cars?

I don't think I'm just being a Luddite. This really seems like a bad idea. We need some way to assure security and limit data collection.
And they will be right. The arrogance of market leaders is more or less a universal constant.
An entertaining guide to data-driven research in the humanities (using R)
Hardware keys get lost, what is the fix for that?
Fair enough, that's another good name for it. Lobbying is legalized corruption in many ways, especially in those fields where the politicians of today are the industry captains and lobbyists of tomorrow and vice-versa. This incestuous relationship is the root of much that is evil.
Tried Svelte and it seemed really concise and fun to work on, however I really miss being able to format on save with Prettier in React.

Is there an auto formatter that makes my code shift around and have one-true-style? This is a most for any long lived project as it avoid all bikeshedding discussions about style. We use Prettier for JS, and mix format for Elixir, at work.
Everyone is all hyped up about 5G and its "potential" for IoT which means carriers could offer cheaper plans making it viable for these devices to come with a cellular connection out of the box.

But I agree, on a technical level, 5G isn't necessary for this. In fact, given the low data rate and non-interactivity of it (it doesn't really matter if the screenshot takes 10 minutes to transfer) they could even get away with GPRS or EDGE.
In 2019 I got sick of mobile websites offering me their apps again and again. Facebook, LinkedIn and endless others. Stop it.
The Opportunity Cost would have been incurred while they were in college, not 30+ years after. There are too many variables in play when projecting that far out in the future, but you can make good estimates as to what would have happened in the past as an alternative to the 4 years spent in college.
>The other possible top abuse is the way they block you in your group messages if you switch from iPhone to Android.

The solution is to deregister your phone number for iMessage; if you don't do this, it will happen automatically after a week or so.

https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage/
go to some random video chat, and record the reactions when you offer full data on some plain nothing to hide person, then show that to those with nothing to hide

In my experience there is a realization that its not about hiding your data, its about hiding from a particular type of netizen that amplifies to an extreme
If you really want to follow this thread, it isn't illegal to be gay in Saudi Arabia, it is only illegal to commit homosexual acts.
"Morgan Stanley plans to take a charge of approximately $150 million to $200 million because of the layoffs, a person familiar with the matter said."

At 150M / 1500 jobs, does that mean each employee cut costs $100K? If so, is that severence pay or something else? I'm also curious what the distribution would look like. Is it like most people get almost nothing but some big cats get golden parachutes?
How I see it is an optimization problem about paying a downpayment to get your device and after that paying instalments through purchases of unrelated goods and services down the line.

The advertisement agencies are the creditors and the debt collectors and they try to optimize for accuracy of targeting. The more accurate they are the ticker is their margins.
Url changed from https://hackaday.com/2019/12/27/magic-angle-twisted-bilayer-..., which points to this.
You don't own your Samsung TV. You lease it. It's therefore Samsung's screenshots, not your private ones.
If you’re the kind of person is always troubled by something (most people are), directing that unsettled nagging feeling into your work is the best thing you can do.
Do you have a way to reproduce it, even unreliably? Or any other info? If so, could you email me cancel@cancel.fm ? The Slack server determines most notifications that the client is supposed to display -- the logic all runs on the server, and is sent as explicit events to the client. So, the only way that Ripcord would be losing notifications for standard chat messages is if the server did not send the notification events, or the connection went down for several minutes and had to be restarted without an event replay.

But if you have any lead on a way to show that notifications aren't being displayed, that would be really useful information.

I've heard of some people using Ripcord on Windows 10 having some kind of automatic suppression of notifications occur at the the OS level. Probably some automated anti-user-spam thing. In which case, the notifications would only be listed internally within Ripcord, but not in the OS notifications list. Is that the case, or were they also not visible within Ripcord's own notifications list? (This one isn't relevant if you're using Mac or Linux.)
I like this initiative anyways:

https://ironcast.tv/

I’m not affiliated in any way, I just like what they’re doing.
Businesses don't leave money on the table. "Smart" features don't subsidize the purchase price, they just add to the margin. If companies tacitly collude to keep dumb TVs off the market, surveillance is a tide that will lift all of their boats.
Only if you have downloaded it before, but given that a person is using the browser version, there are good chances they haven't downloaded it before.
I don't understand what this brand is trying to sell?
No, that’s just the human condition. Having an outlet for it is good!
That's sarcasm and/or corporate-speak, just like every software nowadays has telemetry and diagnostics and yet the quality of it is much lower than a decade ago before any of this BS. Just that if they called it by stalking and/or marketing tracking there would be an outcry, so "diagnostics" it is.
It is possible for multiple things to all be true. I see no contradiction between the following:

1. Assange helped reveal severe wrongdoings by various governments.

2. Assange engaged in unprotected sexual activity with two women that violated the scope of their consent, because they only consented to protected sex, and also because one woman was asleep in one case. This would have also been illegal in the UK.

3. No prosecution would have been attempted if Assange has not already made political enemies.

4. Russia made hay while the sun was shining by using Assange as a conduit to publish dirt they wanted published.

5. Assange definitely and unambiguously broke UK law by fleeing to the Ecuadorean embassy.

6. The fact that the UK would not allow Assange to depart the Ecuadorian embassy was condemned by the UN as indefinite detention without trial.

7. The current condition of Assange is really suspicious and makes the UK look bad.

(Which of these are actually true is for someone more qualified than I am, but they are all compatible.)