skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why else would Google be producing hardware and selling it so cheaply if not to monetize usage data? Is there any world where the thin if any profit margin on Chromecast like devices are worth the revenue for a company the size of Google?

Roku - the leading company in the space - made $1.19 billion in revenue. I doubt anyone thinks that Google will approach Roku’s market share.

Roku is all about obtrusive advertising. Why would Google be any different? Do you think Google put a hard coded Netflix button on the remote out of the goodness of their heart?

> Google has a more trustworthy image than Apple! Imagine that

By what metric?

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/11/amazon-beats-apple-and-googl...
It will run the client, but not the server
For anyone interested in biology's slow advance, I'd highly recommend checking out the 2003 study that coined the term "Synthetic Biology"[0].

TL;DR is that we've known that dropping costs and scaling collaboration is how to make biotech better for many years now. This time span is also a testament to how hard it actually is.

As someone who works in synthetic biology on tools, I think a major problem is that the incentives are wrong for making the field better (they're stuck in a local maximum). The incentives of pharma + selling to academics doesn't really select for lower prices or increased collaboration.

[0] https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/38455
Google's Summer of Code was a little annoying too. You'd get this wave of Indians, where GSoC is extremely popular, asking you what they could do for you if they knew some C++. It was a lot of work to deal with their applications and shepherd them along a project and it usually yielded little in the end. We wanted new contributors, but at best we'd get a sort of working idea over a summer.

I know for some other projects GSoC worked out well. I'm sure people will pipe up telling us how we're doing it wrong if we couldn't get good results from GsoC candidates, but after a couple of years I was tired of being involved with it and got cynical about it.
It's probably less effort to get this t-shirt than it is to get achievement badges or hats or whatever for many video games, and this nets you an actual physical achievement badge.
Why are you stuck with them? Does your TV not have HDMI ports or something?
Hey, I made a flowchart that illustrates the setup I use with a lot of detail: https://i.imgur.com/cGXeby3.jpg

Hope it's useful!
Why? Open source has worked perfectly fine before this and maintainers are saying it's a net negative. So why not stop? Because DO doesn't get a PR campaign anymore?
I'd take that a step further and require that the PR fixes an existing issue opened by a different user. Go ahead and fix a typo too if you want, but that alone won't get you a t-shirt.
Mine still "work" but something changed around 2017 and they became so unreliable I don't bother any more.

The Chromecast to Device connection is lost after about 10 minutes, making all controls not work. Can't pause, skip, select a new episode, etc.

The fix is seemingly random - maybe 50% of the time recasting from the app (Netflix, Hulu, etc) works. 30% of the time mucking around in the Google Home app will work, and 20% of the time I just have to unplug it.

Near as I can tell it's agnostic of client device, casting app, Chromecast gen (I've got 3 different versions around), or router.

We've kindof just given up and gone back to Roku.
God bless the google tech lead whose promotion this iteration of google tv would end up supporting.

Jokes apart, I am not buying that this time is different. as much as it pains me to say, google needs a little power to the product managers to push through a consistent vision of consumer product side.
Buddhism is closer to Stoicism than you think. There's plenty of suttas where the Buddha explains how virtuous behavior leads to good outcomes to you even in this life (like high regard among your peers), and even material rewards (like wealth). All good outcomes ultimately boil down to virtuous behavior. This is the workings of Karma, one of the most central concepts in Buddhism. In Buddhism, rewards follow virtuous behavior by necessity, and if not in this life, then in the next.

It's really odd of you saying that for Buddhism, life a "dance". This is really not what Buddhism is about. Sounds more like Nietzsche to me (an anti-buddhist). Buddhism is about virtue, the four noble truths and following the noble eight-fold path.

'old age is fine, if you lived a good life beforehand' - this truly rings true in Buddhism, as your actions in this life determines your place of rebirth in the next.
Job title is senior software engineer, but actual skills required for the job is just basic programming and common sense. I feel that the company is not interested in giving me more scope. All it really needs is to get some stuff done, which boils down to coding in the requirements. I envy people developing databases or distributed systems for the living, but I realize it's not fair to expect this kind of technicality from a startup.
I would imagine there are 100 times more security researchers and graduate students looking at Intel than those two.
> I've encountered one genuine compiler bug in my (now 14+ year) career.

you're so lucky. between just 2014 and 2018 I reported something like 30 bugs to msvc, gcc, clang (in decreasing order)
Please don't keep pushing fundamental education to colleges to fix. It just makes everyone worse, and fundamentally changes the role of universities - they are not there for remedial learning!
I'm totally confused. So I have an Nvidia Shield that I bought a few years back.

How is this different?
Or those such as myself who were forcibly separated from our partners overseas for 5 months? I had to fly to Dubai to reunite with my partner just so I could bring her back to NZ with me. I'm lucky to be able to do so; remote job, no kids, have savings. We have a Facebook group with 1,400 members in the same position who were and are suffering for months from the extreme border closure, many are married and have children.
Not a good reason. What about people who don't use GitHub at all? Why are they excluding them then?
Maybe some people feel that these t-shirts signals street cred?
Alternatively, it seems like many successes are built off the back of virality.

> A successful business relies on having repeatable processes that generate profit

It can take luck to get the business off the ground though.
Chromecast milestones should be in this list as well, just to add to the chaos.
I am not aware of any earlier publicly documented attempts to build XP from leaked sources.
You might wait, what, a 10 person line to get a free t-shirt? Making 5 “corrected typo” commits is probably equivalent to that effort and looks like 5 is enough to get past a spam tag.
Gotta disagree with this, I'm very happy with the integrated Roku in my TCL TV. And the TV still has HDMI ports, so I don't see how it's obsolete if I ever want to stop using the Roku.
It's a metric of interest, but it's uninteresting if we can't measure it properly.

To get a good estimate we'd have to randomly test the population, instead of measuring people with symptoms. Since a lot of people are asymptomatic or don't get a test since they don't feel too sick. Picking people at random would give us a good overview of active cases.

In March in Germany they were reporting a doubling of cases on TV every day, but they failed to mention that they had administered almost twice the tests as well. So basically the number we were measuring was the number of tests we could administer, which was naturally rising as testing capacities expanded, not the number of Corona cases.

Deaths just seem way more reliable a measure.
> Employers, in general, just want to hire "smart" people and the BA degree has become symbolic of something that "smart" people have. So every employer uses it as a way to just screen out the "dumb" people. At the same time, employers increasingly want new employees to have some sort of skill set that can be applied to the job.

Definitely this is the case. A degree is merely a signal. Eployers want the smartest 10% of the population. If they were left handed, employers would require left-handedness.

What I find discouraging is how routine and repetitive most work is. It's like you are the paramedic at the county fair and you're job is bandaids on elbows, but you need to be an expert brain surgeon in case that comes up.
the problem is a lot of the math curriculum is designed to teach engineering computations that were only useful in the slide rule era.

nobody nowadays needs to know how to hand-calculate gnarly trigonometric integrals, or solve systems using Cramer's rule. it is just pointless hoop jumping as far as I can tell.

at the same time, avoiding teaching calculus in high school still seems like a disaster to me. people are saying "teach statistics and data instead of calculus" -- but how can you hope to understand statistics if you can't compute an expected value, which is defined as an integral? if you don't know how a PDF and CDF relate to each other? calculus is just very important, there's no way around it.

you could have a calculus class with much less mindless computation though -- it would probably be both easier for students challenged by this and more useful for all students.
DO knows that that would instantly kill their marketing campaign since no project in their right mind would willingly participate.
How would Google possibly know the types of shows I watch unless I am watching something on YouTube without a connection to my TV?
Nonsense. Physical chemistry and thermodynamics are underpinned by calculus. Try studying engineering without calculus ...
Consume investor money? :)
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Chernozem, Expert System for smart farming using IoT
Chernozem is an expert system for smart farming using IOT to provide the farmers with best solutions and hardware with the ability to monitor the hardware remotely through the website in real-time.
How do you square this opinion with https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...?, the youngest commitor to the Linux kernel?
You would be surprised by the stuff people do for free swag. I don’t get it either, but I’ve seen first hand how hard people go for that sort of stuff.

It’s a shame it has led to people spamming repos, however.
I hate commenting on this usually, but please please please don't touch letter-spacing if you want people to be able to read your text! Doubly so if these are literally headers and using a fairly ugly, squat font…
Toyota Research Demonstrates Ceiling-Mounted Home Robot
Your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins.
I think they can statistically analyze which category one belongs to among those categories.

Whether they can sell that capability to advertisers ? I don't know.
It looks like a shameless ripoff of Apple TV. I wouldn’t have been surprised if it were made by Huawei (or similar); but for Google to stoop to that level? Tsk tsk tsk
But how do you move yourself from place to place?

Note that it's not necessary for you to personally burn the three gallons of fuel per day. It's an average.
Thank you. Can I put on the phone with my parents so you can you explain this to them? Also, make sure to mention "Chromecast" as well.
Belgium launches coronavirus contact tracing app
The application needs 15 percent of Belgians to sign up for it to provide first results. I wonder if we get to that 15% soon.
I was curious what the average PR looked like, so I went to their project and opened one at random: https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/5968/commits/5d8b75ef0a3...

Yeah, it's pretty bad.
Personal repos have worked in the past, as long as they're public.
There are a ton of automated trivial pr spammers out there that aren’t even in it for a t-shirt. Maybe it’s vanity or just wanting to see the world burn ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I feel bad for the repository maintainer, but they take Digital Ocean's initiative in extremely bad faith during this article. People are frequently incentivized to do the wrong thing and, oh look, here we are. This situation could be resolved or at least improved upon by Hacktoberfest and a load of maintainers sitting down and talking things out.

This is a comms problem, not a "corporate-sponsored distributed denial of service attack against the open source maintainer community". The well-meaning frequently cause more problems than they solve, but it is better to have them on the inside of the tent pissing out than on the outside of the tent pissing in, it is said.
This is wrong, Australia did not have New Zealand's elimination strategy. It followed the same sort of strategy as most of Western Europe. Control the worst spike with a lockdown, and then relax once the worst is over.

One of the giveaways was in their briefings at the time. New Zealand was interested in every new case, because you don't get to elimination with some sort of high level statistical approach, you get there one case at a time. Australia was happy to cheer success if it had fewer cases this week than last week - but fewer isn't elimination.

New Zealand left Level 2 only after weeks with zero new cases. Because they understood that "it's just one case" plus "infectious disease" multiplied by time = unlimited cases. Meanwhile Australians decided they were done, after all it's only a few cases, what's the harm? Well this is the harm.
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This is unfortunate, and I agree with other commenters that Hacktoberfest should be opt-in.

I had a great experience with Hacktoberfest last year. I tagged a few issues with Hacktoberfest and got a nice PR from someone showing me how to configure my Vue project for unit testing.[0] It was a non-trivial PR and a useful contribution.

https://github.com/mtlynch/whatgotdone/issues/279
You didn’t even write “black person” with a capital “B” as in “Black person”. In many places you’d be jumped on for this recent development.
Just a piece of anecdata in regards to this, last year in my first Hacktoberfest I made a PR for an open issue on a project that got no response from the maintainer until a week later, where he said something along the lines of "Oh sorry, I missed this one, I'll get to it soon", and then he just never reviewed it or anything else on the project ever again.
I don't get why this product gets so many upvotes. The only thing that I find refreshing about it is the use of an active DSP instead of a passive crossover network. Maybe the aesthetics.

For the rest, way too expensive; says the guy who spent more days and money than he likes to admit building his speakers (4" FAST, 5 liter each, active DSP@250Hz, plays down to <40Hz).
The 4a would be perfect with a slightly better processor. I would have easily paid $50-$100 for that.
The lack of clear use case reminds me of Qwiki 10 years ago.
Your introductory point about share of lobal emissions is something I think we as an industry don't really realize yet. So, to give some more precise numbers about that…

> data centers contribute 3% of global greenhouse emissions

Not true according to my research [0] — more like _Tech in general_ contributes ~4% of global GHG emissions. Within that, datacenters only represent ~20%. (The rest is 15% for networks, 20% for consumer devices consumption, and the remaining 45% for manufacturing of equipment.)

And also:

> (same amount as the entire airline indistry).

Air traffic accounts for ~2% of global GHG emissions [1], so Tech is actually twice as bad as air traffic there. Other ways to put it is: as much as all trucks on the planet, and 4x emissions of a country like France.

[0]: https://theshiftproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Rappo... (FR) (p18, p20)

[1]: https://www.atag.org/facts-figures.html
Are there features or apps with features like this on the iPhone? I would like to activate them if so.
Why aren't they using translation instead of emulation, as Apple's Rosetta 2 does? Isn't that the better play overall, even if it uses a little more storage space?
That's not what planned obsolescence is. You're talking about intentional obsolescence and that's not what's happening with Apple.
Is there a logical fallacy where you appeal to only the rarest of circumstances? You want your t-shirt? Find some repo that uses PRs normally.
So then I’ll keep the question open. What is the dopest UI framework across any language with great paradigms, design language, developer experience, and of course, dope results?

Right now I’ll say the best iOS/android apps put web to shame. Is Flutter and SwiftUI where we should be looking? The question is specific to semi complex apps (typical crud), not websites.
It's why I like a dumb tv with seperate 'smarts' as an external attachment.

I generally keep my TV much longer than I keep a laptop/computer.
It's worth remembering here, when picturing it as a comparison or tradeoff, that there are a lot of ways to die young that are full of pain and suffering too...
And that law has no effect on Google. Google doesn’t sell data to advertisers. It sells access to you. Meaning they aren’t going to send advertisers a list of 20-35 year olds who like action movies. Advertisers are going to ask Google to target their advertisements to that demographic.
Are you anti-love? Why do you object to love?

Why are you actively making the :sparkles: open source community :sparkles: less welcoming :hearts: and inclusive :smiley:???

Next you'll tell me you object to frivolously renaming the m*ster branch of every project at your company and forcing edits to every bit of extant Git-related shell script out there.

It's a new world, buddy — only blue-hairs and anti-racists need apply.
Google needs a marketing department. Badly! I mean, all that insanely cool technology and even the geeks on HN are confused how to use it.
In my experience the average American goes into a leave nothing behind mode whenever baited with Free.

Just look at the kind of mayhem Black Friday precipitates, and that's not even free - just a promise of exceptional discounts.

The comedian Doug Stanhope has an amusing bit about free healthcare and how wastefully it would be consumed by Americans conditioned to maximally abuse anything offered free of charge.

Edit: I don't mean to suggest Americans have a monopoly on this sort of behavior, it's just the country/culture I'm by far most familiar with.
Maybe I'm not understanding, but it's pretty easy to edit the wiki from the command line in vim (I've used text editors for it before).

https://fossil-scm.org/home/help?cmd=wiki

To edit a page, do an export and then a commit when you're done. It was easy enough to add this as a menu item in Emacs.

fossil wiki export foo.wiki foo.md

fossil wiki commit foo.wiki foo.md
The question is, how does sleeping less than 7 hours a day impact you health/cognitive abilities?

Also does catching up on sleep from time-to-time help?
they will.
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Lit-HTML is a templating system that's baked into Lit-Element, which is basically the successor to the Polymer framework. It simply uses JS template strings, with a few little niceties in the binding syntax to allow for things like setting properties rather than attributes, adding/removing boolean attributes, and defining event handlers inline. It lacks two-way data binding, but we use "data" elements as a centralized data store. That store provides a master state object that's passed down to every component on the page - though frequently it's just a sub-tree of state that gets passed down. If a component receives some input and needs to update its state, it fires off an event with the updated value, which has a corresponding handler in the data element. That handler taps into a functional pipeline we've built to handle function composition, passes the information down the appropriate pipeline, and the master state is updated appropriately. At that point the data element fires a "state-changed" even that basically everything listens for, and whoever cares can then update their own little bit of state from the master store (typically one line of code).
They need to hire somebody like "Google program advocate manager for TV" to get their branding fixed :-)
//sarcasm
Hah, put the bank on hold for a change. Hope this takes off.
It's probably already in github ;) (MS owns github)
Thanks for making me cry. It's Mac OS specific.

Is there anything similar (or otherwise interesting) for other OSes? My currently favorite duo is Sublime Git for light weight and niceness and Fork for full features and reliability.
It's almost as ridiculous as people spending $100 on windows 10 licenses so they can change their desktop background.
Yes they are, I did contributions to my own projects and they counted. At least last year.
Undergrad is 100% signaling if you're not STEM. Employers just want people who have what it takes to succeed in a difficult environment.
You just don’t ever know how it will interpreted against you forcing an apology or more recently a written declaration that you are sexist/racist/etc and that you will “do better”.
I hope they succeed so I can write Sega Genesis games in Rust
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From https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/faq:

> Do pull requests made on my own repositories count?

> Yes, but we strongly encourage you to make quality contributions to other repositories.
Also I noticed with the latest upgrade they added the date the photo was taken on the screen, a small but very cool improvement.

So I guess they are still upgrading and paying attention to older models ?
I think, it is an industry wide problem

https://dcurt.is/apple-tv-all-the-way-down
Definitely. I've always wanted a cool Hacktober Fest t-shirt like the ones my co-workers have. But I certainly wouldn't spam open source projects just to get one.
You are talking about the industry that routinely overbooks flights.
For servers that have older versions of ncurses, you can run this command from kitty to install the xterm-kitty terminfo files on the remote host:

kitty +kitten ssh user@host
Yes, I’m aware of how fortunate I am that WFH is available for me

And how it further reduces my risk of daily commute driving
Indeed, DO could have done something about that at some point in the past 5 years.

(Although the free cloud resources idea sounds worse to me - those have actual value (spam, mining, ...), so there'd be a real incentive to try and automatically game this)
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