skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“ The test of whether people love what they do is whether they'd do it even if they weren't paid for it—even if they had to work at another job to make a living. How many corporate lawyers would do their current work if they had to do it for free, in their spare time, and take day jobs as waiters to support themselves?”

http://www.paulgraham.com/love.html

If you aren’t honest with yourself about why you got into a profession it may wear against your psyche and burn you out. The lawyer knew chasing status would require a sacrifice of happiness, time, and relationships but didn’t want to admit it.
Warning: pure speculation ahead.

Look at their stock price. I bet there are a lot of tense board meetings happening right now. Culture flows from the top down, and if executives are panicking about the stock price, it makes sense that they'd lose focus. I mean, if you had stock at slack, it would be easy to fall into the trap of cutting costs and following the money instead of shipping an excellent product.
I am pretty sure there are many people on here who have not forgotten (it is not even that old! :P) and still use any variations of netcat, or even rsync. Nmap's Ncat is cross-platform (I use MSYS2 on Windows so it does not matter much to me), supports SSL, proxies, connection brokering, and a lot of other stuff[1][2].

[1] https://nmap.org/ncat/guide/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netcat#ncat
It's hard to argue a click through agreement presented after they already bought the TV represents informed consent.

I know rejecting it on my Samsung TV just reset the wizard
Tabs or Spaces? – Computerphile [video]
I was trying to joke here. The untrusted network in our case is the internal network. In that sense.
>As far as I know, systemd doesn't help with that

It depends on the service in use and how is it defined. I have an embedded system in production, which have quite a complex graph of dependencies, some of which should be restarted on sudden death of others, some of which should persist anyways.

Needless to say that systemd provides an incredible, robust and easy way of solving that, I had to write just a few 10-line long unit files for in-house software and use standard units provided by standard daemons.

>imagine if systemd suddenly killed and restarted your browser

Because your browsed doesn't rely on them. But my web interface definitely depends on NetworkManager, because it speaks to it via d-bus.
Since when does no retractions mean a faultless record? That just means you stand with all of the bullshit you spew, not that you're a fully truthful source.

Like when Wikileaks was perpetuating the nonsense Seth Rich conspiracy as cover.
Thank you for the reply
A note for other boxes, especially the nVidia Shield. It's my top blocked client on my home network with pi-hole.

It tries to connect to api.segment.io every 30 seconds.
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I’m sure the antennae will be impossible to physically disconnect as well. I really hoped we’d never get to Fahrenheit 451 but the wall to wall TVs that watch you are pretty close at hand.
Arrow's theorem rises, shakes off the dust, and rides off to cause more havoc.
The most rewarding things I've learned in life have not been easy by any stretch of the imagination.
Please never in good faith cite snopes as a reference.
It doesn't have to actually work reliably. It just has to present the appearance of possibly working some of the time in order to complicate an adversary's targeting plan and act as an effective deterrent.
Patagonia was started by a rock climber who sold his hand-made climbing gear into the free market. He was well rewarded for doing so and from that was able to grow into the Patagonia many of us know and love today (indeed my favorite clothing company).

The company is not only run on a capitalist basis, it's the reason it exists in the first place.

But yeah, it's true they're more conscious and environmentally friendly than most. And I think they play an important role in pushing back against fast fashion, which is incredibly polluting and wasteful.
I've never really used Python, but as a consumer of tools, I don't recall ever coming across a Python tool packaged as a binary - so it might be possible, but dose anyone actually do it?
A company is a group of people working together, so it seems fine to me.
FWIW my Sony TV has an option to update via a thumb drive, which is exactly what I did since it’s not connected to the internet. Worked great.
Philips Momentum monitors...
Paper Flowers- Oh So Pretty;
why? Net neutrality has been struck down. The ISP can basically throttle/block whatever they feel like, right?
Except they're clearly bad at it. Their biggest success is the hype about how effective their methods are with absolutely no proof.
It takes a little longer every time someone implies ad blockers are “stealing” or that it’s all ok because “it’s the model”. I completely refuse both of these ideas.
Would you mind going through the contents of the article I posted from them and finding pieces of inaccuracy?
> My TV needed an update via internet.

How could it possibly know it needed an update? And what could your advantage be letting it update, considering it would otherwise be forever air-gapped?
> What do other init systems do that systemd doesn’t?

Skip an opaque spaghetti-code declarative-to-imperative compilation step that I have to debug at 3am.
Rent control is not a solution, it is a part of the problem. To have affordable rent prices there has to be abdundance of rental apartments available, and if rents are artificially capped then those apartments will never be built in the first place, because it isn't profitable to build them, especially when riddiculous zoning requirements are also present.
> But I don't think the Gore camp felt they had legitimately lost at all.

My memory may be false or incomplete, but I thought Gore ultimately said he’d lost and that Bush has won?
Handing Science to the Machines and other consequences of rewarding quantity
There’s been plenty of discussions on HN about the possibilities of SmartTVs doing nefarious stuff but not a lot stuff in the wild.

Last time this came up someone was telling me the TV could get Ethernet from an HDMI cable via an AppleTV or Xbox etc. Stackexchange said the tech was dead and no one really adopted it. You can’t find a TV or even a cable that supports it.

Any source about the auto connect to open WiFi?
GMD is only against small attack with limited warheads. North Korea or Iran type scenario. It's also the official purpose of the program.

Russians and Chinese have multiple ways to counter GMD.

- Countermeasures that are indistinguishable from warheads during mid-course. Extremely light with same temperature as the warhead can't be distinguished from real warhead in vacuum. The number of interceptors required becomes prohibitively expensive.

- R-36 has 8000 kg throw weight, it can launch 4000 kg to LEO. Reducing the number of warheads enables Russian use trajectories where GMD don't reach. Latest versions carry just one.
In a word: convenience.
Stupidest move ever by Slack, so much so that one of my bosses is making the decision to close all Slack-related stuff for the business.

We have a strict no phones policy, so those of us needing to use slack utilize our desktops. Well, no longer, I guess.

Sorry, Slack. You fucked up bigtime, and now I can't wait to watch you hemorrhage out that user base of yours.
How is your firewall going to know the difference between uploading screen shots vs. communicating with a streaming service?
Convenience. Even always using the private mode when browsing the web is a hassle.
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If you're in London you can buy the book (comes with Heaven and Hell) for £4 at the Old Spitalfields Market. Tell the guy "the one in the yellow jacket sent me".
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Basically you're under-capitalized if the problem is important or the problem isn't important. $50-100 for one to two hours probably won't get you an expert. A consultant can't make a living on jobs like that. They need better clients to stay in business.
Circa '63, IBM systems were generally considered the natural choice for timesharing at Project MAC. After all, CTSS had been implemented on the IBM 7094 and IBM had a close relationship with MIT.

But despite MAC's lobbying, System/360 left out virtual memory, signalling that IBM was focussed more on their commercial batch systems than on the smaller university/scientific market.

GE's 635, on the other hand, had privilege rings and virtual memory built-in. So did the DEC PDP-6 (in a primitive form). So those are the machines Project MAC purchased.

Now MIT might not have been a big source of revenue for IBM but it was still a star customer from an image perspective. And IBM realized the error of their ways pretty quickly, and got a crash program going to modify the Model 65 with paging, which was out by 1966. But they were too late, really. GE, DEC and a bunch of other companies were already eating into the timeshare market aggressively.

If the original higher-end IBM System/360 machines had included paging hardware from the start, the history of computing could have indeed gone very differently.
yeah more propaganda they can't even feed their people.
Sadly none of those are alternatives if you don’t have a say in what your workplace uses.
It’s really hard for people realize the effects of something that could potential harm them in the future. Future self Vs present self, present always wins.

Nothing is free. People don’t realize that google being free is because, let’s say, Samsung pays Google for ads. And Samsung passes it on to customers. Lo and behold, your phone purchase pays for Google. (This is simplistic but I’m using it as an example of hidden costs. Advertisers could potential still spend the money elsewhere or keep it as profits)
To clarify, by "systemd doesn't help with that", I meant "systemd does not attempt to manage, track service dependencies of, or restart applications I launch through my desktop's Applications menu or in a Terminal window".

Which is a good thing! Even though my browser uses/"depends on" audio, I still don't want systemd to restart it without warning if PulseAudio dies.
No.

Extradition is covered by a patchwork of treaties and laws most of which involve some kind of human judgement as well.

One core concept of extradition is the crime has to be, at least in broad strokes, illegal in both jurisdictions.

The crime in question also has to have some reasonable argument of jurisdiction for the requesting state. You might have been gay while buying things from an SA company, but you weren't doing anything in an interaction with SA that had anything to do with being gay. (The first dual criminality concept protects you way before having to think about this). It is also often the case that countries are reluctant or outright refuse to extradite their own citizens and choose to try them in court locally.

Assange wouldn't be protected by either of these. Conspiring to take classified military secrets with a member of the military in question would be illegal everywhere. As would participating in the taking and the following distribution.

The legal questions for Assange are "did he do those things, guiding, requesting, and helping Manning acquire and send the classified information?" "Do the first amendment protections of free speech and free press cover WikiLeaks model?" and "Would Assange receive a fair trial and just punishment if extradited?"
The OP had a browser on the mobile device capable of rendering a "Desktop experience" and requested it. Slack went out of their way do discover that and block that user intent, rather than serve the Desktop UI that they test already in a desktop browser. The user knows they will be getting a desktop UI crammed into a mobile device, they asked for it.
>They made you face up to the ground-level reality.

The news media has consciously hidden and censored the ground level reality of war since Vietnam, where they made the mistake of showing families the graphic ground level realities of war in color while they ate TV dinners in their living rooms. This created what was perhaps the greatest anti war sentiment in US history -- it was not sustainable. Meanwhile Hollywood perpetually pushed out war and action movies glorifying violence while also censoring the disgusting reality of it.
In my experience extreme workaholism can often be a way to avoid or defer major life decisions that someone doesn't want to make or even consciously recognize. High status careers are often structured, full of positive feedback loops, and well compensated, all of which can strengthen the urge to defer existential questions about meaning, purpose, community, and identity until some unspecified future date, even (perhaps especially) in highly rational or analytical thinkers. Eventually the debt comes due but sometimes not until many decades later.
This is a great argument for starting a company in an industry where you are an expert, but this guy isn't doing house calls for hourly pay. He's taking a big cut of alllll the house calls.

According to wiki he is paying his plumbers more than I'd expect, which is cool.

>The company promotes itself as providing a high-quality service, employing "£80,000/year plumbers", charging £80–200/hour depending on time of day and service performed."
Desktop slack will keep working on desktop OSes. This is just them blocking desktop mode access from phone browsers.
I see a common pattern among utility providing IT companies, that despite the core functionality can be supported by tens of people, it goes ahead and hires thousand anyways, which give raise to features that are neither core nor that anyone wanted. The company then go under as the business can’t generate enough revenue to feed the thousands of developer and management that has been brought in.

If you have a good app, keep it that way by not increasing bloat, both technically and organizationally.
One terrible but effective solution is to turn your home into a Faraday cage.
Could something like pi hole fix this problem, without disabling services such as Netflix?
You can be a volunteer project and still strive for having uniformity across packages in your project. The fact that you're volunteering doesn't mean you get to do whatever you want. That's exactly the reason Debian holds such votes.
they probably would make more money by monitoring that traffic and selling the information of when you are watching TV to advertisers
The signal should travel through walls better.

It’s wider bandwidth and faster nitrate so it should be cheaper.

All things equal with both factors above it should take less power (if for nothing else radio is on shorter time).

If not part of the spec itself, it likely will coincide with from the get go.

I have to agree that IoT (bleh. Coming from someone with an in-development connected device) will only become bigger with 5G.
I lived in Israel when all of the soviet Jews emigrated in the late 80's/early 90's. One of them got a job alongside my dad, who was an engineer, and they went on a business trip to the US together. When he came back, he said that if they "turned off the US and locked the door", it should still take Russia over 100 years to catch up.

However, during the early days of the space race, there was literally nothing the US could do to catch up with the Soviet Union space program. Their best hope was a former Nazi engineer.
They'll be traces in a PCB, you will probably be able to cut the trace (and fry the transmitter).
I see we've reached the point in any systemd-related debate where someone tries to claim systemd is bloated by listing off projects that are not part of the systemd init system and just happen to share a common name and dev team.
Russia has a history of announcing weapon systems for propaganda purposes, and then it turns out they're mostly on paper, half done or of low quality. That doesn't mean this is the case here, but they do have a history of over promising and under delivering. The reality is that Russia's conventional or "normal" ICBM weapons are far more of a threat to the US than any hypersonic platforms.

The Chinese are the ones to watch. They have been much more thoughtful about their hypersonic weapons development and are trying to develop tactical hypersonic weapons in addition to strategic assets.
I can generally agree that the author may be misunderstanding or misusing it here, yes
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This made me chuckle:

> The backlash was so extreme that Twitter reinstated the time-based timeline [wait for the punchline] two years later.

There's no call to action here. All it says is customization is better than personalization while accepting that the internet must be ad powered. The larger problem to solve is filter bubbles.
I dig the simplicity, but why didn't you use Sapper?

https://sapper.svelte.dev/

(Next.js/Nuxt pendant based on Svelte, can also be used as static site generator).
Slight correction; it was John Tower, a potential Defense Secretary nominee whose nomination was scuttled when a local paper got hold of his video rental records. He wasn't in congress at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tower
What it feels like to be a worker in the ‘woke’ world
It not. That's my point. You can't just throw things in the pattern and make them parallelized.
Speakers (of any kind) can vary tremendously, which is why it's nice to be able to compare them. Guitar Center carries more than just guitar-specific items, which is why I thought it would be helpful to mention them; it's not something many people are aware of. I would never consider guitar speakers for general purpose use.
I’ve never personally seen a TV that can’t have the soap opera effect turned off, but I believe you they are out there.

Apples to oranges feature though.
Boy, did I learn this the hard way.
Fast Lane to Slow Science
At least Roku can only capture screenshots of content it's serving from itself. Not that I'm defending this practice in any way, but it's significantly less disturbing than my TV doing the same thing.

What if I'm using my TV to watch [homemade] porn, or browsing sensitive personal data on a PC connected to the TV, or something like that? Sounds like Samsung will get screenshots of all my content, regardless of what it is or which input it's coming through.
If you want to shock your colleagues into action, one effective way is to plug their email addresses into haveibeenpwned, and tell them:

> Alice, YOU were exposed in the XYZ breach. Your $identifiable_information IS publicly available. If you used the same password on XYZ as you do on other services, those services ARE vulnerable. If any of those services allow you to access your email, ALMOST ALL of the services you used are vulnerable. You should change them as soon as possible.
I've literally never had a TV break or stop working. Ever. Especially with the new mass produced panels, what sort of Diagnostics or remote analysis could they POSSIBLY be doing?
How well would your setup handle larger amounts of data (say 10x, 100x, 1000x)? Would Svelte be able to handle it? What would you have to change in your design? At what point would you have to replace the entire architecture?
This assumes a certain (low) level of malicious intent. A fully malicious TV will connect to open WiFi nearby or use even more exotic methods to exfiltrate data.
Soon enough, failure to connect your TV to the internet within, say, one month will void your warranty (and the TV will refuse to work in two months after that).
This is exactly the reason I asked the question. PG didn't post this on HN.
This is a bad move, especially given the constraints of their mobile app.

For example, their iOS app requires iOS 11 or later which means people with a 5c, 5, 4s and iPad 4th gen will not be able to use Slack. These may be deemed 'older devices' by the tech forward folks like those on here but you would be shocked how many are out there still today. It only presents more resistance to adopt the app at team scale, as they will probably realize soon.
"Isolation and detained" refers to his condition being held in jail. He is not in solitary confinement. Melzer arguent opinion that Assagne should should be released and not be detained.

>Although Mr. Assange is not being held in solitary confinement, Mr. Melzer said he was gravely concerned over the limited frequency and duration of lawyers’ visits and lack of access to case files, which make it impossible to prepare and adequate defense.

sources:

https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/05/1039581

https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?N...
Most TVs have a "game" mode which turns off the smoothing.
Interesting. Do they go on to compare it to standard methods? Ie what’s the big benefit here?
Nah, this happens even in my hardware guitar pitch-shifting pedal. That one is pure analog. Guitar doesn't warble, but throw FLAC through it and you will get the warbling.
So funny to return to this after reading through the fact-free chaos of the ‘socialist website” Assange disinformation and the attending praise of Wikileaks.

Hopefully one day we can go through a collective process of settling on what’s true and what isn’t, and prioritizing true stuff! I heard this happened at a grand scale, the enlightenment, I think it was called?
The Russian government has no problem controlling WikiLeaks.
> audio equipment is one of the few areas where old high end kit is still absolutely fantastic

Yep. I picked up a massive old high-end Denon receiver with pre-amp inputs and use a cheap newer receiver to decode surround digital audio and pump it through that 40 pound beast. Sounds incredible.
Does not work with our Chromebooks, which is what comprises the majority of our work systems.
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Agriculture exports, at $20.7 billion in 2017, have overtaken the arms industry as Russia's No. 2 earner. Wheat makes up about a quarter of the total. Russia harvested an area of wheat almost twice as large as the U.S. in the year ended in June, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture

https://www.wsj.com/articles/grain-is-our-oil-russia-is-best...

Russia was the world's largest exporter of wheat in 2017-18:

https://www.export.gov/article?id=Russia-Agricultural-Equipm...
All that stuff doesn't work between systems behind firewalls or NATs.
What journalist? Assange is a Russian agent. Even previously there was no doubt but since Mueller this is cemented.
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College Board suggests that going from 0 to “6-8 hours” of prep is good for about 90 points and to 20 hours is good for only an additional 25 points.

It would seem folly to take the test with 0 prep and there’s a Khan Academy free prep course that you could use for the 20 hours of prep.

Given that, I’m not so sure that intensive prep is going to boost someone’s score significantly beyond basic prep.
Indeed, this is essential reading in its entirety. The image that emerges is one of a vain and duplicitous man who treats his projects as vehicles for self-aggrandizement. His poor character and lack of integrity are unbecoming in anyone who claims to speak truth to power.
According to the author, use -Q.
My Samsung TVs are not connected to the internet. I have never even run the “setup” on them as it turns out you can name inputs and change video settings without excepting any terms. Also before someone post “they look for open WiFi” again it would be great to have proof of that statement that has been made 100 times. Anyway, I was thinking about the screenshots. I wonder what happens if it could not ID the program? Does a human review? It would be a blast to take some shots of Samsung executives and family members and do some deep fake work on them, maybe including Kim Jong Un and some North Korea propaganda broadcast. Except all the terms, hook up to the internet and play the fakes and the propaganda for a month at a time. Just saying..
Love your job and you'll never work a day in your life. Live your job and you won't have any love left to give.