skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the light of this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24613610 (Stupid solutions: Live server push without JS), I'd like to share that I made an "almost no-js" live monitoring service a few days ago. Again with the help of Elixir (and Phoenix LiveView). It tracks everything that's posted on Hacker News and Reddit in "real-time", and distributes it to everyone listening to it. And it tracks the number of online users, too. Of course.

It is "almost no-js" as there are no JS frameworks apart from Phoenix LiveView's integration. All changes are rendered server-side and only the diffs are sent to the client. The only custom JS that's used is for highlighting the monitored keywords and for slicing the list of results so that it doesn't grow indefinitely.
Similar story here in Canada - all my high school friends who went into blue-collar careers are doing all right.

I wonder whether it's self-correcting in some way - management-class hopefuls end up poorer than their hands-on counterparts, and these wealthier families end up having more political clout over time which balances the snobbery that got everyone to push their children into management streams in the first place...
Let's imagine VLC had a caption editor. Let's imagine VLC found it required lots of maintenance, it's got to support every language on the planet in every OS, and it was just turning out to be a drag on dev. They've got limited resources and they checked their metrics and found only 0.001% of people were using it. They see that it's still fully possible to make your own captions using tons of other software or even by hand using text files in various standard format and VLC reads those formats just fine. If I ran VLC I'd get rid of it.

Google is doing no different here. They are not getting rid of captions. They are not getting rid of user captions. They are only getting rid of their onsite caption editor. You can still create captions a thousand other ways. You can still give them to the author of the video and they can upload them into youtube in supported formats and apply them to the video.

Want to community edit a captions? Google docs or Google sheets would be two fine places to that. So might github. There's no need for a UI on Youtube for this.
Wow, and it seems it's built into flows like changing input.

I happen to only use my tv as a single input HDMI display, using my Roku for everything. I suppose they could still force ads in that situation, but I assume they haven't yet.
Which path should I pursue if I want to work remotely from overseas?
1. Path 1 - [backend development](https://i.imgur.com/u90cj9e.png)
2. Path 2 - [devops](https://i.imgur.com/UALBqGB.png)

I wanna be able to work remotely from my country (Egypt) and I'm down to learn anything to speed up that process. I know some frontend basics and python, but that's about it.

Which path would you choose?
My friend's Samsung TV has Bluetooth permanently enabled, so every time a neighbour turns on a Bluetooth device, the TV asks if she'd like to connect to it. I'll never buy a Samsung device.
I'd rather have a MacBook for $2500
BJP the ruling party is sliding India into totalitarianism.
The author forgot to mention one the biggest functional benefits of XML which is interpolation: the ability to drop XML components into the middle of text, thereby allowing for markup and nesting of elements in text.

<tag>

This text node contains <magic>unicorns</magic> and <magic>fairy dust</magic>.

</tag>

There is (as far as I know) no sensible way to add the magic above in JSON or YAML.
I'm guessing it's probably because being just above the ground is something people might refer to as "hovering".
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Why did Warren Buffett invest $6B+ in centuries-old Japanese trading houses?
You can't keep a helicopter in the back of a van.
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Never had one of those, but wouldn't a Surface or something alike be the right tool then?
I just got one today.

It's so much better than the "Smart" Samsung TV it is plugged into that it's not even funny.

The remote control has touch. I can use my phone to type text input. It's fast. It's elegant and slick. It has no ads. It has options that I care about. It doesn't waste my time with options I don't care about.

The Samsung TV on the other hand was a flagship model. Top of the line. Best of the best. Just a few years ago.

Now? It is unusable. It is beyond slow. Two to three second response time. Text input is just torture. Netflix crashes. YouTube mangles HDR in some weird way that makes people look like they were drawn by a kid with crayons.

It's shocking to me that you can pay thousands of dollars to Samsung and have them destroy your investment with "updates", whereas you can pay a few hundred dollars to Apple and have a slick product that improves over time.

What I don't understand is the executives at other companies. Companies that aren't the #1 biggest in the world. How do they not get it!? Just copy Apple! Stop fucking over your customers, and maybe they'll give you more money! I know I give Apple more money every year!

It's not that hard. It really isn't.
I still need to click update and then install. Is there a setting to let it update automatically? Or can you describe what's changed for you from before?
If ever, courts will act a couple of years after the case. The judicial system is close to non-functional due to underfunding and mismanagement and lately due to political influence by the current fascist regime. The global public is slowly getting aware of all the human rights abuses happening in the country - good. India will only be a true democracy when Hinduism, which manifests in the caste system and brahmanic supremacy, will be annihilated.
Terrible naming aside, the onslaught of biometrics everywhere is very concerning.
That seems disengenuous? You can't determine a person's identity by looking at a fingerprint either. You have to match it against a database of them.
So it's ~500 money more expensive than the samsung foldable phone while providing superior performance and a real operating system.

Personally, if i would need a big screen to do real work on it, that screen will have to be BIG like a desktop monitor. For anything else the regular size tablet screen will be sufficient.
> The problem is that this "engagement" will mostly be just annoyed customers mis-clicking or trying whatever it takes to dismiss the ad and not actually intending to purchase the advertised product

"Amazing! The smaller we make the 'X' button, the more people love them!"
Nobody in their right mind uses inches anymore. Please adapt SI units asap. ;-)
Yes

http://letmegooglethat.com/?q=Firefox+slow+on+Openbsd
I do. It's quite common in Japan to not have a surround sound etc. Our neighbours are quite close lol
Exactly. I'd love to have a compact package that unfolds into a big screen. Although a 13 inch tablet is still cool. But, you know, it's a tablet, not a laptop. $2500 is pretty steep for a tablet.

But let's see where this technology goes. I hope that it eventually leads to a 28" screen that I can carry around like a 17" laptop.
AI 'resurrects' 54 Roman emperors, in stunningly lifelike images
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Never download an asset again: The future of digital asset management
S3 durability works as long as somebody pays for it. When the bill is not paid then it is 0.0000000 and objects are gone forever.

With distributed storage like IPFS or BitTorrent the availability of resource is proportional to its popularity.
So as article explains, initially there will be group of seeders. I assume anyone who downloads an keeps a package on the system becomes a part of sharing swarm. This dramatically reduces the burden of hosting from package creators as the cost gets distributed among all available peers. As long there is one peer who has the complete package it will be available even forever.
A good chunk of the world has shifted that way since 2000, its actually baffling.
I think the article I read a few years ago was mostly using employment as a sign of success instead of just the decrease in homelessness.
Are you behind a VPN? I wasn't able to read this through my company's VPN but have no issues from my home network.
I looked at going back to school for about a year and and no matter how I spun the numbers I wouldn't be able to afford it. I dont have the time, space or likely the coherency to explain it all in a single HN comment, but the way the costs were structured and the financial aid system struck me as quite blunty, incredibly stupid.
Or for less than one third of it you can get a One Mix Yoga or GPD Pocket, I personally have the Yoga 2S, it's as small as a 7" tablet AFAIK it uses the same screen as the Nexus 7 2013 used to, the newer ones use eight-something inch screens, I suspect all these mini notebooks just piggyback on the demise of Android tablets.

The older Core m3-8100Y has a 809 single core benchmark vs the Lakefield Core i5-L16G7 is 797, so that's the same, in multicore Lakefield has a 25% advantage which is certainly something but not a hell of a lot. To quote https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-lakefield-cpu-benchm...

> While the results look good, real-world gaming told another story. The difference between the two Intel processors was less than 1 frame per second.

And the Yoga, as the name suggests, is also a tablet albeit obviously not 13".
Anything that requires Internet connection (i.e. Youtube, including casting from mobile device).

I just found out this weekend; with an older, cca 2013-ish samsung tv, connected to a network that has OpenWRT router with Adblock, and forced redirect of all port 53, 853 traffic to the local resolver. It cannot resolve its mothership (the rules were already in the Adblock list, I didn't add anything). The TV shows up a messagebox that it cannot to the Internet and asking the user to check the connection.

The local DLNA sources work.
Scepter allows you to customize your existing website by simple drag & drop of pictures, texts and other fields. You can add new elements and remove pretty much anything there without any technical knowledge and publish quickly.

https://scepter.app
Also interesting that they did not find a shred of evidence in that case. In fact the order mentioned that he was convicted to placate the “conscience of the nation”.
They don't identify you. They read your future.
Anti-trust, ultimately, is not really about optics.

Proving a "trust" is a pretty arcane affair... and fairly tangential to actual monopoly issues.

In any case, available and viable are two different things. I doubt that they'd intentionally make them viable.
> I am not convinced that the majority of the advertising & marketing initiatives out there actually translate to more profit.

That’s odd. You’ve never read a valley S-1, I take it?
> Why not do the same thing, but instead of verifying your palm you verify a device?

Because my (imaginary) 12 year old son can grab my phone and then pretend to be an adult when doing booze shopping. This is the reason why most Western countries don't allow this kind of technology for age verification. For example in the UK you have to file an application if your new technology can be authorised to be used for age verification in pubs, restaurants and other venues and that wouldn't pass their requirements.

On the other hand, a palm cannot be given to a 12 year old person. If Amazon One uses an element of palm veins in their biometric template, then even if you chopped off your hand it wouldn't work anymore because the blood flow would stop and therefore fail the identification.

It is true that an adult could still pay for booze for a 12 year old by presenting their palm, but that is already the case today where parents can go shopping with their children and buy alcohol as part of the family basket.

EDIT:

At the end of the day, a biometric will ensure that the adult is actually physically present at the time of purchase, which is what the law requires for things like alcohol shopping. Devices don't have that extra layer of quality assurance.

EDIT 2:

> But why couldn't the device handle your biometric authentication? Your 12-year-old son can't (hopefully) steal your face or your fingerprint

Because what happens on the device is unknown to the thing which needs to know that you are of legal age. At the end of the day it's just a phone which says "yes person is above 18" but how do you know that my phone didn't just reply that because it was programmed by me to do so? If the biometric is verified by the Amazon One device which is not my personal device then it's infinitely less likely to have bene tampered with.
8 GB of memory seems rather unpowered for such a high-end device.

Also: What is it with the keyboard? Is that attached to the back or where do I put that, when in folded mode?
They're just feeling left out - everyone else has a product called "One". The next version will be called the Amazon One X 360 Series X.
In theory, that's how the free market should work; in practice, it's very hard for a new player on the market to get brand recognition and a share of the market.

It can be done, I think, but it has to be VERY well funded - you need to send salespeople / lobbyists to the various on- and offline shops selling TVs, you need "SEO experts" to try and beat the competition's "SEO experts" on the internet and e.g. Amazon's search results, and you need a legal team to help with the inevitable heap of lawsuits you'll get (patents, design infringement, etc). And then you'll have to deal with the competition pushing the prices of their devices below yours; Samsung can afford to sell TVs below market value for decades if need be, JUST to push out that shitty newcomer that does ad-free TVs, and they'll make money off of the ads + subscription services they offer in the meantime.
Maybe that it fits in a purse and I don't know who is this for. Rich fashion snobs is this for you?!
> My qualms are with people who declare that they will stick to their principles, out of principle and not at all because they expect anything in return. And then they get upset when they get nothing in return.

If one were a touch cynical though, loudly complaining about not getting credit with a pretended naivety is also one way of playing ‘the game’ , as you put it (even if it’s not to your taste).
I hope this thing finally gets me to grind leetcode
> in those countries where there is no democracy such as middle east, africa, china, etc

Only one of those is a country. Do you actually think India is better off than South Africa or Botswana (these are actual countries).
Then it'll just complain that it's not connected to the internet, wouldn't it?
The truth is noone buys anything from any ads... however brand awareness is a real thing. If you see a fancy ad from a company, they must be a profitable company that has a great product so you might be inclined to buy it or suggest it next time you're looking for this category of products.
I think right now they're like $440,000 [1] which is comparable with cheap helicopters (if not more expensive), but far lower than the average helicopter.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAJM5L9hhBs&t=6m14s
> This sounds like the actual problem is lack of jobs and bad economy.

Prominently a lack of the factory production kind of work, I'd say.

So you keep people in school system(s) as long as possible. For people who would previously have gone to a factory after leaving school at age 16 or 18, you now keep them and give them a high-school+2y or +3y degree (it is free), and you release them only at 21-22 years old, they will be some random clerk performing some random procedure in some random client service or administration.

1. While they're in schools, they don't grow the unemployed figures.

2. Degrees guarantee a better chance for employment, they say. It is a stupid fallacy because it is only a comparative advantage, and when everyone gets one, even the advantage is gone.

So now, in France, by widening and easying them, we reached 95% of "success" for high-school degrees (which also grant access for universities). Also, high-school has become the almost unique way, so overall 80% of all kids get one of the high-school degrees every year. So, technically speaking, it means we're giving the high-school degree to a few light morons (or whatever it is called these days).

Cherry on the cake, they now finish high-school without having repeated any year (now, you can sleep your way through your whole primary/middle/high school career without repeating, no matter how little you do and you know, as long as you are not an exceptional PITA), so they are even less mature, which is another problem for practical and technical paths.

One big issue is that all those people at different levels think that they are valuable because they got a degree of some level. Except the degrees are valueless, and they are plenty of these people being given licences or master degrees. So there is a huge gap between what they think they will get (status and salary-wise)and what they will actually get.

----

There is however a big difference between France and a lot of other countries: in France, good pupils do not go to University ; after high-school the top 5% (perhaps up to 10% now) goes on a path to Engineering schools (and similar paths for humanities) through competitive exams. One major consequence is that, opposite to most countries, the PhD does not represent the "elite" here. Of course there are gateways going one way or the other between the two systems, but still, the paths are pretty separated (and the gateways are mostly used to allow a few good ones from University that were missed earlier, to join Engineering schools after 2 and 4 years of University) and University/PhD is not considered the royal path. Actually, 40 % of PhDs are delivered to foreigners.
What the fuck. You can't even get away from ads after _paying_ for a product.
They could offer a Play Services API that allows app stores to update apps which the user previously installed through them.

As Play Services already has an API and the permissions to replace installed apps (although this API is currently only available to the Google Play Store), and as Android already tracks from where an app was installed, this would be easily possible.

But knowing Google, they won’t allow this.
Oh no, you'll pay the subscription AND you'll get ads. That's what Amazon Prime feels like atm, preroll ads for other shows at the start of everything you play (even next episodes).
And what if the damn thing won't boot without 5G antenna working (I mean "phoning home" test via 5G antenna on every reboot)?
The page doesn't list my favorite operator,

!ducky <search term>

that will navigate to first result. It's named after the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button that used to exist on Google. It's useful with Firefox keyword bookmarks to navigate to specific pages quickly.

Bookmark: Python's PEPs
Location: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=!ducky+site%3Awww.python.org%2Fdev%2Fpeps+%22pep+%s%22
Keyword: pep

Type in the browser address bar:

pep <space> 8 <enter>

Will navigate to: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
I found that my receiver was still using 50W while in "CEC-ready standby", while it's only 2W in normal standby, so I never use it. I'll just press a few more buttons.
If you'd use that thing in full screen mode then you don't have access to the keyboard. If you start docking keyboards and such then it defies its portability factor.

The best of both worlds would be to have a wrapped screen instead of a foldable one. I'd like a screen that extends when needed and wrapped away when not, eating as less space as possible.
iOS 14 now requires an account to enable the phone.

It literally just bricked my test iPhone SE.
Startup business “knowledge” is counterproductive
Using the TTL, we figured out that the censor kicks in at the kth hop. This kth box belonged to Airtel.

If a box was censoring after Airtel, we would have received a clean response (ICMP timeout) at hop k as well. Of course, the TTL itself can change during the run, but that wouldn't happen for so many cases :)
Ah yes the very same independent judicial system whose last Chief Justice is now a member of parliament. yes sir, very independent indeed.
> India will only be a true democracy when Hinduism, which manifests in the caste system and brahmanic supremacy, will be annihilated.

I have no words.
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You have to adjust this for people who read the comments but haven't clicked the link :P
Update: #3 and ~130. Whoa, dramatic fall.

Edit: #4, post is six hours old, counter up to ~190.

Edit: #5, ~6 hours, 173 points, ~220 current site readers.

Edit: Back to #4, ~6 hours, 186 points, ~300 site readers.
There aren’t many choices for sub-A4 laptop that aren’t netbooks, so if your requirement is something more toward hardcover book form-factor for use on a side folding tray tables than B5 or A4 on fold down tables ... just like a good old ThinkPad 3xx ... priced at same ranges as well
Not me. What I hated most going from driving my car to taking the bus is I could drive in 12 minutes, the bus took 25. I miss that extra 26 minutes per day with my family. Working from home is better, but I suppose it must end (when there is a vaccine)
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But why couldn't the device handle your biometric authentication? Your 12-year-old son can't (hopefully) steal your face or your fingerprint.
> I suspect people probably said the same thing the first time they saw a helicopter!

Odds are that they would have been right - early helicopters probably weren't safe enough to use as ambulances.

Well-run modern air ambulances are very safe edit: perhaps not, see replies (twin-engine helicopters with very experienced pilots) and can serve hundreds of patients per year, generally only serving very urgent cases of course. [0]

My question for the jet-pack folks is why not use a helicopter? Presumably the suit is a great deal cheaper, but are there any other advantages? Curiously the article doesn't mention helicopters at all, but in the video, they did their interview in front of one.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London%27s_Air_Ambulance_Chari...
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Have a look at 'How to crack a Binary File Format' at https://www.iwriteiam.nl/Ha_HTCABFF.html
One side is full screen, the other is half screen half keyboard, like in a laptop.
Interesting time to launch a product that involves everybody touching something.
>Absolutely and you can say that about literally everyone who gets caught by a confidence trickster and some do.

No, you cannot. Because with a confidence trickster there is usually an element of regret afterwards. The folks we are talking about have generally been using Google for years and years. If the other shoe is going to drop it's sure taking its time.
Here's a fantastic article about the various misuses of XML that I greatly enjoyed: https://www.devever.net/~hl/xml
World's largest democracy vs NGO with shady foreign funding, forced to shutdown because they are asked to make their operations transparent.

Enough said, India is the only major functional democracy in region filed with autocratic communist and theocratic states, where stoning people for blasphemy and organ harvesting is the norm.

At the end of the day that is how democracies need to work and those of you spewing rhetoric against the current disposition have revealed the wolf within your sheep clothing.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24619170
TCL Roku is pretty "dumbish".

You can install it without an account, plug in an antenna and go to town. You can even connect it to wifi then use Youtube or Netflix. Haven't seen any funky ads.

My only peeve is that the controller doesn't have a full number pad which makes it a little derpy for the older generation.