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I've had my Samsung TV for 3-4 years, it works just as well as well today as the first day that I bought it. I've never connected it to the internet and get streaming capabilities using 3rd party devices. Dumb TVs are much better than shit ones.
As far as I know, not everything can be blocked.

You were able to block everything in the past but no longer. Samsung catched on and now serves some ads over the same domains they distribute their firmware updates, install apps, get the program guide, and check the online status.

If you block those domains the Samsung TV loses most of its internet features and also seems to go crazy and requests all domains multiple times per second, defeating deep sleep of the TV.
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Hey, I've been collecting a few tools on Notion, and just thought it was cool to share them :)
I feel like a horrible analogy is itself the perfect analogy for XML.
And some languages just don't get autogenerated captions at all. "No captions available" is pretty common on videos even from fairly large European countries. I think Russian, English, French, German and possibly Spanish and Italian frequently get autogenerated captions, but Polish, Swedish, Norwegian, Czech... (languages I deal with frequently) sorry, no captions.
I am in agreement with remarks elsewhere here that this is being done cynically to be pointed at by lawyers rather than as an actual intention to make third party app-stores better for either users or the app-store operators.
> He added even some errors, because there was another guy who checked all his work.

That is where the company could get him legally in most jurisdictions. Doing the work in 20 minutes is a grey area and depends on contract wording, but is probably fine in my legally in-expert opinion. Deliberately introducing errors to extract money from the company is a fairly clear cut case of fraud though.
If anyone wants to do the thing romwell describes without an avalanche of math, try this one-liner:

bash$ gnuplot -e 'set format x "%.15f"; set format y "%.15f"; set samples 100000; set table "cos.dat"; set xrange [-3*pi/8:3*pi/8]; plot cos(x); f(x) = a + b*x**2 + c*x**4; fit f(x) "cos.dat" using 1:2 via a,b,c'

It then gives you "optimized" values for a/b/c from your template formula, thus resulting in

cos(x) ~= 0.999923 + -.498826*x*x + .0391071*x*x*x*x

Which is even more accurate but only to about four decimal places.
Yes it can work but its a cat and mouse game. Not to mention, prevention is better than cure, this is indeed a cancer.
Even granting your argument, the dangers of giving any political faction the power to censor political speech that threatens their grip on power will far outweigh the danger of not being able to use censorship to filter misinformation in my estimation.

If countering political misinformation with political information is hard, then public-minded individuals can increase their efforts 5 fold, to make up for the additional difficulty.

This, to me, seems far less costly than the risk-adjusted cost of introducing a new norm of society being more tolerant of censorship.
Yes, until they'll add a data SIM to the TVs. Then what, some shielding on the case? And what if the TV won't boot unless online with its own server?

I think: monitor + DVB decoder + Raspberry PI.
Sounds like you got a really good deal! 3 persons in the middle of the night on short notice doing a specialized task for you, with successful results. And you got a good story out of it too!

Too bad about their dinner and your neighbors not caring.
The stated purpose of the WCAG accessibility guidelines is that disabled people should be able to access the same content.

If you can read the negative voted comment, but another person can't, then it is not a "legitimate" violation. Why is it right that some disabled people shouldn't have access to that content?
I switched my desktop to OpenBSD a couple of years ago after ~18 years on Debian. It takes less time to set up the way I want than recent versions of Debian. I make heavy use of traditional Unix CLI programs and don't use a heavyweight DE, so I guess I'm not a typical desktop user.

I still run a couple of dedicated audio workstations on Linux as I need preemptive scheduling (not available on OpenBSD) and Linux drivers.
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There is a third argument which is admittedly not weak: the extremely high walls are a large part of how their measures against cheating remain miles ahead of what games on PC can offer, which is invaluable to both developers and players (especially for multiplayer games). There's tons of data to back that up, but as just one point the recently-released Fall Guys was plagued by hackers on PC from pretty much day one while there hasn't been so much as a single report of a hacker in the PlayStation version of the game.

Even then, I'd be okay with Sony offering an "unlocked" version of the PS4 that's blocked from accessing the PlayStation Network; modding offline, single-player games is not cheating in any real sense of the word, and then at least more hobbyists could develop and run things on it without committing to becoming capital-G Game Devs (or being game devs at all - there's plenty of space for regular apps as well).

At the very least, they should allow (easily) unlocking the bootloader and installing a different OS, even if it would mean that that particular console can never install Orbis OS (which funnily enough is based on FreeBSD) again. It frustrates me to no end that my PS4 will become effectively useless to me if I purchase a PS5, when it would make a perfectly good desktop with a wipe and a Linux install (some people have managed to hack this on older firmware).

That actually mirrors my stance on Apple - I have no problem with iOS as it exists, but I do have a problem with not having any other easy OS option on iDevices.
It depends what time of job you do. I only ever installed it for one contract which was the only hourly contract I ever did. The requirements of the project were regularly changing and there were no minimum/maximum number of hours (the job went for about 16 months). Given there was no max hours and the hourly rate was high it seemed fair to me.
Can those "smart" TV do ACR on content provided via HDMI? i.e. if I connect my apple TV to my intrusive smart TV, does it do ACR on the signal it receives via HDMI?

At home I don't have a smart TV (I use a JVC video projector and they've resisted adding those kind of useless feature so far) but my parents use a smart TV connected to an apple TV and so I'm curious what happens there.
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They do... ok, you could afford a pretty decent used car (or several months of car rental) for the shipping price: https://www.autoshippers.co.uk/air-freight-car-shipping.htm
They rushed headlong into this, knowingly stealing IP from Google in the process, because their business model is currently unsustainable with human labor and this is the only way to make it work. It's unsurprising that they're struggling.
Ha! I think we worked at similar hospitals.

As an aside, one of my girlfriends used employee monitoring software to catch her husband having a string of affairs by installing it on their shared laptop. Turned out he was hiring rentboys on the side and it was very helpful in their divorce proceedings.
Could they fork and brand android like they did with edge and chrome?
XML remains my favourite configuration format, anything that came later just ends up reinventing the wheel, and badly with half of the tooling capabilities available for XML processing.
False about the VAT in the UK at least for small and medium companies. You need to keep but not show records and you have to say how much is owed you, just like in the Netherlands I imagine.

It's not checked later unless you get audited which is uncommon generally.

False also about road tax.

Perhaps your anecdotes were from a couple of decades ago?
Curious to see what HN users believe is the best smart TV to buy in terms of OS functionality, privacy and user experience?
Needs a video or something to explain what it actually does. "Cloud-Based Social Music Creation Platform" is just marketing nonsense. I'm guessing it's a DAW that runs in-browser, but I can't tell. I'm not going to bother to sign up to find out.
McAfee seeks $2bn return to stock market
And the Seinfeld strategy
There's still a maintenance and opportunity cost involved for YouTube.
This is the most perfect description of what life has turned into for me. Thanks. I like the clarity.
Reminds me of this brilliant GDC Talk - 1,500 Slot Machines Walk into a Bar: Adventures in Quantity Over Quality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8Lhqri8tZk
If they add a data sim, I’m going to work out how to use it!
Do note that google engaged in anti-competitive practices to discourage other stores emerging.
Surely this would land much better if the lady's reaction were "10,000 francs? For a ribbon?"
Sorry, don't where you're at. Over here, it's commonly a month return policy of most stores (no law setting this, it's a voluntary thing).

Then there's quite generous warranty for 2 years, up to 3 years, but that's when things break.

In addition, I think this also includes if a sold item is unfit for advertised use, or perhaps even if substantially changed during ownership (eg Samsung mandatorily introducing ads), but I've never had to use that so don't know).
I merely see "error"
Buy a small NUC and run some docker containers. You might end up sinking 100 hours into it, but I have the same concerns and self hosting (with some cloud backups, but encrypted) is the solution for me.

https://github.com/htpcBeginner/docker-traefik
Glass jars are a standard size and shape, and have a 15 cent deposit, redeemable at the collection machines in the front of the store that also handles other glass and single -use plastic drink bottles.

That’s how it works in Germany, but there are plenty of yoghurts sold in non-deposit plastic, for which the seller has to pre-pay the disposal fees.
Seeing links like these that load and then return nothing: https://mln.dev/link/ckfh0rqfr28471yyuufr7fkoa

just made me realize how much I appreciate HN even more. Stuff just loads.

Also, I'm not sure if it's just me, but the font used is barely readable.
Far better to purchase a large screen, then get a TV capture card, and just use a media player platform.
Any tv, but you do not connect it to an internet and get an apple tv to do it instead.
Whatever has the best panel for the best price, then strap an apple TV (or your choice of NUC) onto it and completely ignore whatever on-board smarts exist.
omg! I thought it would slowly create and send along an mjpeg video file. Server push animation is a 90's thing. I wrote something up about it in 2009, and posted a still-working demo, because of a thread here. https://pronoiac.org/misc/2009/10/server-push-animation/
I really like this model. Users get free stuff, they create content to attract more users. Bigger fans spend a bit of money on full version, which fuels the development. Potential contributors build from source code and get full version. The full version is little more than quality-of-life improvement and WIP modules that will likely reach free version when done. It's hard to see any downside.

Compare it to other models. Donations don't work at all, they just make developers downhearted. Ads are huge betrayal of user's trust (and hard to do across platforms). Freemium is based on addiction-forming patterns. Commercial products create walled gardens for privileged, they severely limit adoption rates and they are reserved for first-comer (PICO-8).
> I could have done the same for free.

But all your tools were behind that door?
EXI is 'lossless', right? Trivially convertible back to plain XML? Not much downside then. Ideally the downside that it isn't human-readable shouldn't count for much. Technically that's true of HTTPS too. If it's treated as a communication channel, it shouldn't matter at all.

I suppose it depends how good the tooling is. I get the impression it's not natively supported by web browsers.
Mice cried prickling themselves, but kept eating the cactus.
If contrast is used to make some comments harder to read as a way to de-emphasise them from the discussion, then end result is that the visibility of the comment is determined by your level of eyesight (or the quality of your monitor), rather then any conscious decision by the reader.

A visibility toggle would serve the same purpose and make the experience of reading discussion threads the same regardless of personal ability or the screen you're using.
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Good discussion. I enjoyed this. Thank you.

I don't really much else to add aside that the boundaries these days are definitely a lot more blurred due to WSL (bringing many of Linux's tooling to Windows) and web applications (levelling the playing field somewhat in terms of application support). Both of which are largely a good thing for users.

Thanks again for the conversation. These topics often end badly and it's been nice to have a discussion like this without any of the flamewars :)
I have also a LG TV, and I used to keep it disconnected at all times as all my streaming comes from the nVidia Shield anyway.

However recently I wanted to setup my home automation system to automatically turn the TV off when I go to bed or outside, and for that I needed to connect it to the home network.

I solved this by confguring the router firewall to drop any package from the TV to the internet. It works!
@dang this is looking a little too coincidental:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24623896

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22408604

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24624418

Actual discussion on this propaganda piece here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24623896
The thief thinks everyone else is a thief too?

Honestly I'd be worried about hiring that company because they'd try to shaft me too if i don't monitor them.
I hope someone will figure out how to serve them fake 1-second black screen ads from your Pi-hole.
You're vastly underestimating the effort required to go from a simple HTML renderer to a full-blown web browser. See [1].

[1]: https://drewdevault.com/2020/03/18/Reckless-limitless-scope....
It's just a matter of time until Smart TVs deactivate themselves if they can't connect to their telemetry and ad servers -- or the manufacturers enter into agreements with streaming services to proxy ads through the same IPs used to stream video.

This would not be without precedent. Some Samsung TVs already refuse to exit setup mode if they can't connect to the Internet after initial power-on to geo-lookup their IP to make sure that they're being used in the country they're sold for.

The best solution for streaming is a low-end PC with hardware video decoding and the ability to run Ublock Origin.

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Edit: I see from other comments that Samsung TVs already go into degraded functionality mode if they can't connect to their ad servers, and already serve some ads from endpoints used for necessary functionality.
"Results" here are "delivering a thing", not "profiting from the thing".
I see it more as "even the very ... adventurous McAfee sees the need to distance himself from his old company"
Or paying someone to do it?
I thought it compete with both)
You should absolutely never give your 'smart' television the wifi password or plug it into a cable that will give it a DHCP lease. Use the things as dumb displays driven by an xbox or PS4 or a home theater PC.

Yes, the xbox and PS4 home screens have 'ads' (promoted games and stuff mostly), but they're not 1/10th as annoying in my opinion. And Microsoft and Sony have a much higher likelihood of keeping the operating systems properly patched and up to date on a 5, 10 year time scale.
I was skeptical too of this sentence, but then I realized that I have never used YAML for files that were more than ~200 lines long. What happens for huge configuration files with lots of sub-trees?

(Comparison with indent-based program programming languages like Python and Haskell is not completely appropriate, because one typically avoids too many nesting levels when writing code. But in a large YAML file you might just need to go deep.)
Yes there is - a good shrink/coach/teacher/boss/spouse etc.

You need to be in dialogue with someone else (about yourself) to assess and improve yourself. The mind is designed more to look outward than inward. So it can start developing and then reinforcing all manner of misunderstandings, when confronted by its own limitations.
this needs to be looked along with the new FCRA laws passed by the government, which completely cripple civil societies in India.

https://scroll.in/article/973909/behind-the-new-rules-for-ng...
For me, I cannot put a value to the transaction. I have done enough searches that can embarrass me, label me, or hurt me.
Maybe some were illegal; I probably am on a lot of lists. Political searches are enough to alienate a lot of people. How do you estimate how my searches affect my income for the coming years?

Privacy and ads are an unequal marketplace where the consumer lacks information. And looking at VPN incidents, perhaps it is fundamentally unequal. A consumer can never verify if information freely given is stored or abused.
I think it is possible to serve fake ads from Pi-hole.
Fuck the guy who wanted to suck up to the management in some stupid meeting projecting estimated revenue out of this to ask for a raise later because he "contributed to a revenue increase" to the company.

There's absolutely no after thought to this decision - If I paid 1000s of dollars for an "idiot box" that's supposed to reproduce faithfully the signal that I pass it, showing ads is unacceptable, no matter what the context or reasoning is.

This is one of the reasons I paid the premium and went for a Sony instead. They haven't done anything stupid like this yet, and I don't use smart features on the TV anyway, so I don't plan on updating the software either. Hopefully they face backlash over this stupidity and this doesn't go on to become a norm.

That would be really, really terrible.
> context-free grammar, the same type of grammars used to specify programming languages

As I understand it, few modern programming languages have context-free grammars.
So much hypocrisy, so much 'mission'.

Coinbase are pioneers of custodial, KYC-first, users data trade and espionage (IRS scandal) approach to crypto which harms ecosystem deeply, making non-custodial solutions more vulnerable to chain analysis and regulations.

Coinbase is philosophically a bank, not a crypto provider.

And they hired people who put DreadPirateRoperts into jail which say a lot too.
LaTeX is something very, very different. It's based around macro expansion and oriented toward print, not programmatic transformation.

For example if I want a programmatic table of contents for an XML document it's a simple transformation or DOM extraction exercise. If I then transform to XML-FO that will fill in the numbers. LaTeX does multiple full document renders to obtain auxiliary data for a later render to use.

No XML based system does what LaTeX can do for text rendering. It's not impossible they just haven't bothered. What's more impossible is to match the ease of writing text. LaTeX gets in the way much less for most text.
https://mln.dev/top/1 worked second time though
Depending on how much the tools cost, OP might have been able to buy new tools and then do. Then even resell the tools to make some of the money back.
The number one cause of that error seems to be using AFP for backups. Had the same issue on a Apple Time Capsule and a Synology NAS. Went away on the Synology once I disabled AFP in favor of SMB.
Or even the 100, which retails at 3878€ (2nd class)/6560€ (1st class) a year and allows pretty much unlimited travel, forever, everywhere.
Hiring someone who's spent ten years in academia to design the architecture of real-world systems sounds like a very reliable way of getting terrible architectures. What are they smoking, are people with actual experience just way too expensive?

PhDs seem to me to be for quantifiable knowledge. They imbue highly specialised skills and imply a huge understanding of technical literature. But they structurally can't imbue skills that are nebulous. They can only teach things that are either consensus, or easy to evaluate academically.
Hi5 has launched a Microsoft Teams app
I made a little nojs shared drawing board a few years back that worked with MJPEG as the background of an image button ‘<input type="image" ...>’.

Clicking the image button submits the form with x and y click coordinates, and the server returns an HTTP 204 telling it to stay where it is, followed by pushing out the updated jpeg to all connected clients.

It’s pretty fun, and I wanted to have it online all the time but it has a problem I haven’t sorted out where sometimes when a client disconnects the server won’t realize and trying to push them a jpeg locks the whole rendering system.

https://github.com/donatj/imgboard
This is far from obvious. Caplan’s thesis is contrary to the common sense view accepted by the vast majority of people – the purpose of formal education is to learn stuff, and it works. Of course, that doesn’t make it false, but the argument is so far from obvious that even other libertarians have challenged it: https://reason.com/2018/03/24/bryan-caplans-case-against-edu...
The SBB equivalent is Switzerland is even cheaper! 165-185 CHF/year (a bit lower in EUR) and now it's cheaper for younger passengers, which means many people get it without really thinking about it because it almost inevitably pays back even with many local transport tickets or certainly intercity travel. A few trips from Zurich to Geneva would mostly or completely offset the cost depending on your ticket.
I had to blacklist my wifi controlled air purifier on my router as it was sending data every few seconds to Amazon's DCs.

If they want to collect air quality stats from my location they should pay me for that data.
Seems like, there are a lot of opinions out there. I often hear, what i can do on my phone i also want to see on tv. May it be playing music, movies, series, etc.. So a seamless integration from the start without another device like apple tv is a plus.

Same happens to screen in cars.
When the Europeans are coming up for midday at least. I wonder how that number will change depending on who's up.
+1 have Samsung TV(s), never connected to internet, never will.
Agree that invoking Python is probably counter-productive but I think the basic point is correct. I've banged my head against the wall many times trying to figure out which line in my 500 line YAML document is not indented correctly. Bonus point when Helm generates an invalid YAML document but because it is interpreted, the line number spit out by the parser is not a line number in your actual source template.
Typescript was created to bring static types in dynamic language, like JS. Now they made the static types more dynamic. What's next?)
There is a long standing bug that AFAIK it was never fixed, that it corrupts the backups if you close/disconnect the laptop while it's doing a backup it will leave the disk in a corrupted state.

It's not the NAS fault usually.

I've switched to an external HD always plugged on my "docking station" as Time Machine backup for this reason. Although it's annoying to remember to unmount the HD (and check if a Time Machine backup is in progress) before disconnecting the laptop :/
I just fear they will start doing Internet via TV box via HDMI... it will be time to cancel that too, or use it via VGA converter.
I walk into a department store or electronic shop, will I see these adverts demoed on the menus there?

It would only be fair to let people know what to expect!