skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No Sony TV has ever had firmware updates for long enough that the retailer wouldn't be required to replace it under the Sale of Goods Act under UK law fwiw.
What types of data would one look at to try and back up that story?
Obligatory BBC public service announcement on safe drinking levels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-ZVdHnOqd8
Visa is 54% of all card purchases, Mastercard is 23%, and together they're 100% of debit purchases.

Waaaaaay past any reasonable threshold for market power scrutiny.

But antitrust is currently dormant in the USA.
> Any advice?

Spend a lot of time with funded startups. Meetups, conferences etc. They will be happy to talk about this. But also online; you need to 'dox' nicks some times, but when you see quite broad questions in slack/reddit about performance of systems and you find out this is some (tech) (co-)founder you can ask them to help. I do no-cure-no-pay if the system is an MVP and crud; I do no-cure-still-pay if the system is larger and already live. That is not because I want to blackmail the company (and if I like the idea you can give me a % as well instead, all fun and games), but usually because 'wanting to help' is punished when it's 'free' as in no good deed will go unpunished. I Did no-cure-no-pay with optimising (and other services) live systems in the past, but as soon as I touch it, people blame me for all kinds of dataloss (while i'm very careful and absolutely make (offsite) backups always) and other misery. So when basically what I do is connect with (co)founders who are in a jam and when they don't have production data yet, I will go no-cure-no-pay; when they have production data they need to keep, I will explore but if I cannot do anything (for that price, mind you; there is always something to do), I still get paid.

There are probably literally 1m projects and growing at any time in this world that have serious issues and that are burning money and that will crash (all the time or sooner or later) that need help. For instance, I know of a large state own postal/courier tracking system that crashes under load every 48 hours. We tried to help them but they are fine just rebooting (manually!). Fine, that happens too.
Delphi also went through a similar transition from "strings are in whatever the local code page says" with one byte chars to Unicode strings (Windows-style).

However the makers of Delphi spent many years preparing for this, so when the time came for us to switch we only had to spend half a day or so to migrate our half a million lines of code.
Anyone have a recommendation for high quality 4k dumb TVs that are truly offline? I have a media center PC I plug into my TV and don't want or need any of the "apps" or "homescreens", just give me a few inputs to HDMI cables, maybe USB slot, and I'm good.
Pretty sure some tv's scan the local wifi networks looking for way to call home.

Not sure if Samsung is one of the manufacturers of those though.
Like most software, quant investing models are usually separated from production systems when being created and undergo integration testing, back testing, etc., and have all sorts of automatic and manual revert capabilities in the deploy systems.

Not much different than shipping something broken to millions of users and needing to triage a rollback.

Of course there are outlier firms that play fast and loose and can have risk of huge sudden losses that can’t be stemmed, but most firms do risk management as a core part of their purpose for existing, and this applies to risk of bad code / bad model just like anything else.
Yes, great, now you've complicated the workflow. What if the service fails to run? Or fails to pick up the changes? Now you've got another thing to think about.

Is the overengineering so ingrained in the average HN user that they cannot see why someone might not bother with that?
I have a TP-Link device and am glad to see an alternative to the stock firmware since all of the consumer brands have been found to have gaping security issues over the years - at these price points and because consumers don't know/care about it, security is not a priority for most vendors.

All that said, I'm not sure how misconfigured TP-Link infrastructure would lead one to declare all their device firmware is bad.
Just do what Plaid does and scrape it. Your bot could also download a csv file.
Anyone know if this acquisition is a win for Plaid, or are they are just panicking before bank API middleware becomes commoditized (e.g. http://paysli.com/ offering free authentication)
But with static typing, the compiler can let you know when you're doing something wrong with the new Unicode-based string.
Yes! One set of jump squats as high and as rapidly as you can do them without pause, until fatigued. Rest two to three days afterwards. Once you get into a habit where you hate to miss a workout, switch to doing burpees instead. You can do this anywhere, including a hotel room, so it minimizes reasons to skip. It is surprising how much this works your cardio as well as strength. You can get super-fit doing this one thing and you only need to do one set per workout. In each workout, focus on doing a few reps more and doing them a bit faster than the previous workout. Just be sure to start slow (maybe 6 reps on your first workout) and never increase by more than 10% of what you did on the previous workout. Never do this two days in a row. You get stronger on your rest days, not your workout days. For high intensity workouts, I find that two days of rest is better than one.
About 2/3 of software cost is typically maintenance, not original creation. If some RAD-ish tool makes maintenance more difficult, saving time up front doesn't mean a lot, other than maybe as practical prototyping. Maintenance costs include getting new staff familiar with a tool, and the turnover rate is typically around 4 years for developers. Self-taught programmers tend to produce spaghetti systems, in my experience. My first programs were spaghetti, I must say. I was an IT puppy. I short, consider the medium and long-term costs of RAD/code-free tools.
So is anybody who provides a service to an oil company part of the problem?

Do these IT companies have a concrete ethical and moral directive that fobodes such dealings? Probably not one that would apply to this and equally what would?

But when it comes to technology companies and poor customer selection - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
will have to go a long way to be usurped and I hope we never do.
I've been playing Ring Fit Adventures on the nintendo switch, which takes you through a lot of different short exercise routines. I'm not sure if it technically counts as HIIT, but I do about 20 minutes every couple of days and work up a massive sweat in the process. Also because its a game I can play from my own lounge room, I'm finding I keep it up much more regularly than I have with a gym membership.
>I am trying to become somewhat ruthless in analyzing my dependencies when it comes to software

This strikes me as both very difficult and very wise, in the way that choosing to run Linux on your desktop was 20 years ago.
> drinking alcohol only in moderation (defined in this study as just under 2 units for women and 4 units for men daily)

This part Of “stay healthy” advice has always puzzled me - it looks like full blown alcoholism. Am I way off?
nginx will get H3 this year, so I think we'll see a massive uptick in adoption.
I'm actually surprised it's that high, considering how long they try to maintain commercial jets (decades) and the relative lack of new models.
Yep. Your reasoning is valid, and further illustrates my point: From your perspective, pasting a URL to some media is a really basic use case. From mine, a stripped-down browsing experience is. The common element is that, no matter how simple and straightforward we think our preferred way of doing things is, it's still not particularly interesting - and therefore not particularly worth worrying about - to someone upstream.

Such is the way of things.
Pretty much, or at least reinventing functional interfaces which encode behavior at the type level.
I'm going to say something crazy, and it's cool if you disagree if you don't call me names or kick me in the shin.

Pay people to go to school. At least for a while. Why not?
I feel like "from __past__" would have allowed projects to get to the point where they were "on Python 3" much sooner, though.

The mentality would have been "we're on Python 3, and we have a long tail of cleanup to do excising from-past out of our codebase" rather than "we and our users are all still on Python 2 but we thiiiiink our code is mostly using constructs that are Python 3 safe. We get a green CI checkmark, anyway, but who really knows."
“Dumb TVs” essentially don't exist AAA product category; you need either a “commercial display” or a “monitor”.
In the range of $500k / year assuming the bonus was the target amount. One year it was substantially higher.
Floppy drive was replaced by two things:

1) For software distribution, CDs. CDs were vastly superior in their read speed and size (400x bigger). CDs are open standard and are not controlled by any single entity and you don't need license to make one.

2) For transfer from computer to computer, by USB flash disks, which are vastly superior in size and speed and durability. USB is very open and there were (and are) many flash disks available on the market.

Meanwhile, 3.5mm Jack was "replaced" by

1) Proprietary bullshit connector, that needs a license from Apple or a dongle only sold by Apple. It is not superior in any way - it provides no better quality or extra features.

2) Bluetooth, which has advantage of wirelessness, but suffers lower sound quality and high latency - which of course Apple now solves by their proprietary bullshit codecs that only Apple headphones have, so they gained advantage through anti-competitive means.

As I see it, those situation are in no way similar. Apple is obviously abusing it's position in an anti-competitive way, and removing open and free solution to push it's proprietary one.

I know I'm not going to convince you, because with some people, Apple can do no wrong because otherwise their identity as fanboy would suffer. I'm sorry.
A Sony Android TV would - you could paste the URL into either VLC or the Internet Browser provided with the TV using the Android TV remote app on your phone, as you can paste into that.
I used to do this with an Nvidia Shield, but I've since switched to a Roku TV (meaning TV with Roku software built in). With this setup, I have a single remote that turns the TV on/off, can play Netflix or other apps, adjusts the volume of external speakers, switch inputs, but still come back from any input when you hit home.

I could not figure out how to do this with any other combination, and this strikes me as fairly baseline usability.
I may be in the wrong here, but afaik mathematics has not "re-invented" itself after WW2, to take it a step further, I fail to see how we're doing different mathematics compared to what Newton and Leibniz have put on the table.

Even if we look at the "greatest" post-WW2 maths result, Fermat's Theory, I don't see any new reality-related insights that it has brought us, and I'll go another step further and I say that even if we were to someday prove the Riemann hypothesis I don't see how it would fundamentally bring new insights regarding "reality"/the physical world.

If anything, I dare say that in a certain way maths has tainted the physical world for us, has made us believe that in the same way in which mathematics is "homogeneous" then the physical world is too, if maths has numbers and "units" and if (1002 - 1000) = (2002 - 2000) then it also means that in the physical world we have homogenous "stuff".

This is why physics has started using mystical-like language like "elementary particles" which are seen as the "foundation of the physical world", with the implicit premise (if I'm wrong here, please correct me) that given a certain "elementary particle" (let's say a boson) then the boson close to it or the boson situated at the other "side" of the Universe are pretty much the same thing, almost identical, the same way as the mathematical difference I mentioned above is the same, or how two parallel lines are "the same".

Basically almost all the theoretical physicists have become Platonists by embracing mathematics no-questions-asked, when in fact they should have remained closer to Hume. And when reality hits them in the face pretty hard they resort to even more mysticism by "inventing" concepts like dark energy and the like.

Later edit: I see that that "homogenous reality" theory even has a name, Cosmological principle [1], and as a close-enough Hume follower Karl Popper was quick to dismiss it. By reading it you have to wonder what those physicists had in mind when they wrote it down:

> Although the universe is inhomogeneous at smaller scales, it is statistically homogeneous on scales larger than 250 million light years.

like, why 250 million is ok and 240 million light years is not ok? To say nothing of the fact that the "infinitely small" (the mystical-like elementary particles I mentioned above) are ignored completely from this discussion, they're also probably seen as "statistically the same". As I said, this "statistical sameness" has made us believe that more than half of the Universe we know of (68%, to quote Wikipedia) is made out of the mother of all mystical thingies, "dark energy".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_principle
I believe the OP is referring to the AWS CDK (Cloud Development Kit) - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/latest/guide/home.html
I fear that soon we're going to need an open-source alternative to Plex. Increasingly aggressive monetization seems to be creeping into the Plex experience. I keep finding things I don't own and don't want showing up on my home screen. "Suggested movies" and "Suggested podcasts" and the like. You can prune them back but a few months later you find some other garbage you don't want.
Yes. First, intuition depends on your experience. If you never studied physics, most things will be nonintuitive (heavy bodies don't fall faster than light ones? really?)

Second, modern 20th century physics education (courses, textbooks) suffered sustained corruption of methodology by scientific authorities, where the quest for understanding was renounced in favor of "modelling" and "prediction" (e.g. authors of orthodox quantum theory and their less bright pupils perpetuating that attitude) and later by institutionalized system of university research which propels tweaking and applying old ideas to detriment of trying new ones or questioning past ideas that are too ingrained.

This leads to a large portion of theoretical physics publications being more and more about complex calculations where most applicators do not even try to understand "what is going on", they just assume the same quantum methodology with some tweaks (i.e. different configuration spaces, more dimensions, different Lagrangians, new fields that fix problems of the previous ones, tricks with removing some ugly series terms etc).

Sometimes these tweaks get fancy names (superstrings, loops, dark matter) but they are really an additional concept that needs to be put in to save the edifice from those radicals who would like to try actually new and incompatible ideas.

When you study 20th century physics yourself from original sources, you'll find the stuff taught currently actually has highly varying degree of credibility. Some stuff is rock solid, such as relativity, molecular theory and chemistry, nuclear physics and solid state theory, and some stuff is ... well, more unfinished and less credible - such as standard model, force unification, quantum gravity, dark matter, etc.).

If you want to get some solid ground on which to build intuition, start with the rock-solid physics as known till 1905, then after that makes sense, learn about its problems (explanation of emission spectra, inconsistency of EM theory with Newtonian mechanics), then after that take a deep breath and read original papers on quantum theory and particle/nuclear physics.

This will take years to understand. The later theoretical stuff around Standard Model details (lepton generations, stability of particles, unification of gravity and QFT) is a decades old project that nobody knows how to finish. It is stuck for now, and has little relevance for understanding those previous things.
security of OpenWRT vs Tomato?
OpenWrt has a up-to-date Kernel.
We try and be as safe as we can from first boot.
We make you set your password to get up and running so no crappy passwords from the start.
wifi is turnd off on boot so you don't get a unsafe wifi network with no security.
The firewall is set up with a small rule set to be as safe as it can.
The webinterface can be installed with https
We have lots of packages to be even safer.
BCP38, addblock, banip, dnscrypt, several proxy servers and dns over https.

I would not run Tomato?
on a router in 2020 it runs with old Kernels and old packages.

Disclaimer: I am not a OpenWrt dev I just help out around the place like on Twitter forums
PS if any one needs help pleas come to the forums we will help out as best as we can. Some people think that OpenWrt has devs that are not very tolerant. I can tell you that this is not true. there was a bug in LUCI the webinterface that made it hard to use with my screen reader I asked about it on irc and it was fixt in 3 hours.
Because op is just posting a laundry list of things they think are sophisticated to seem impressive.
Parent sounds like an FB engineer, so probably a tool for internal use only.
I'm sure that this kind of thing is farmed out to the lowest bidder.
It could just be that to be a payment processor, it helps to have a conservative, reliable image.
Even if they had really shitty agreements I bet they'll see something substantial. Reports are saying it was a 5.3 billion purchase price. That's a lot of money for 400 employees.
Are you suggesting that you can do visual development without anything more than a text editor?

Apples to apples would mean comparing your Scratch experience with a nice IDE for a typed language.
I miss the days when my TV didn't need rebooted and didn't crash. I want a TV that is basically just a multiple input dumb monitor. I don't even want a tuner built in.
All this to support more ads per page.

All this is only a win mostly if you have a huge number of little assets from different sources. Ads, trackers, icon buttons, malware, etc. If it's all coming from one source, HTTP/2 is good enough. If it's mostly one big file, HTTP/1 is good enough.
Also, air can often be unhealthy. Even places where the air is 'clean.'
Even PLEX includes Google Analytics now I believe.
implementing a new version of TCP would be nearly impossible because of all the equipment out in the field already.

Changing transport protocol is far harder then changing IP protocol or layer 2 medium.
Visa invested in their Series C[0], so it seems unusual that they'd also acquire the company (why not acquire it back then?). Any ideas why this might have happened? Past examples?

[0] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/plaid#section-fundin...
Gallup should ask those people the same question when they get seriously ill - which would, statistically speaking, always be a small minority group. Most people are healthy, and don't need healthcare. Even if satisfaction with insurance when you actually need it is 0%, you can still have great satisfaction scores from people who aren't actually using their insurance. (Routine checkups are not something anyone should need insurance for.)

> People like the idea of transit in the abstract, but tend to reject it when faced with balancing their other wants and needs.

For the most part, they just don't want to ride in a shaky, loud bus that comes every 30 minutes. It's not a matter of balancing wants and needs, it's a matter of taking the least bad out of two bad choices. Expressing the desire for transit, but not using transit probably means that people want transit... To be better, before they use it.

The amount of money that is poured into transit, though, is a pittance compared to the amount of money that is poured into private automobiles, which is a large part of why the transit option sucks as much as it does.

The reason for why large, expensive metro areas are losing small numbers of people is probably not 'people want to drive'. It's 'the cost of living is too damn high'. And it's not the buses or the subway that's driving up the cost of living, it's land speculation, foreign buyers, and rock-bottom interest rates on 25-year mortgages.

And, again, people are horrible at actually measuring how much their lifestyle choices cost them. They whoop and holler at the lower rent from living in suburban sprawl, but don't notice that the various costs of car ownership are nickel-and-diming them, and their municipality's budget.
So it's ok to go on the slippery slope of seeing IP infringement as theft (at least I regard that as a slippery slope, and I'm not the only one), but going further down the slippery slope thingie is not ok. So the question becomes: who decides where we should stop the slipper slope-ness?
I would say that it is just shitty design not not differentiate between bytestrings and regular strings in a way that causes problems. The biggest design flaw here was not forcing people to understand the difference in python2
I've gone through many incarnations of HTPC's, plus tried with SageTV, Roku[1], Chromecasts, and several others... and can absolutely recommend the Nvidia Shield. It has a good 10-foot interface via Android TV (as opposed to regular Android), is kept updated, is a Google Cast target, has official apps for all the major streaming platforms, can run Plex and Kodi (for local content), and it's also possible to sideload APKs. Most importantly, it "just works".

I was never able to build a HTPC that worked with all the video sources I wanted (Plex, Netflix, Youtube) and was possible to control without ever having to touch a keyboard/mouse (or resort to a janky air mouse/remote thing). With the Shield + a Logitech Harmony Hub, a single dead-simple remote controls entire setup (Shield, TV, external amp, plus a BluRay player that I never use anymore).

[1] Note: I only have a Roku 2nd Gen. The newer ones look a lot better and are probably a fine option now, but I still really like the Android TV "Home" experience a lot more.
No, the comment by asdf21 says religiosity results in fertility (causation), while the comment by AQuantized says it's just correlation.

Please don't start comments with "I recommend you reread the post you replied to". Be more specific, e.g. "It seems your comment and the one you're replying to are both saying X".
The only reason QUIC is built on top of UDP is because ossification prevents it from being built on top of IP. It's essentially at the same level as TCP- and provides similar mechanisms to avoid UDP's issues.
Crashes, injuries spike after Michigan boosts freeway speed limits to 75 MPH
> This part Of “stay healthy” advice has always puzzled me - it looks like full blown alcoholism. Am I way off?

Yes, probably because you are mistaking a not-more-on-any-day-than level for a constant-consumption-every-day level.

Oh, and also confusing addiction with level of consumption.
The URL does work. I don't say anything in the post about reading what's on the other end. What you're saying would be like if I had said in the article that I should be able to give the Roku a video format it doesn't support and expect it to work. My website should work for anyone using a browser with default settings. I never claimed it was a static HTML site. It's an interactive JavaScript application.
As of at least 5-6 years ago when I was doing independent development on the Roku there have been apps/channels in the Roku channel store that can accomplish what the author is trying to do, and many for free.[1] Perhaps the author should have looked into the applications that area available?

1: https://channelstore.roku.com/browse/apps