skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet another example of the customer coming last.

Unfortunately, it's worse than that. It's more like a case of the consumer coming first.

The vast majority of consumers don't care about this. They're trying to get the biggest screen for the least money. And TV manufacturers are giving it to them.

However, to remain price competitive with the other TVs on the shelf in WalMart, they need to rely on ad revenue. So, we get TVs with ads.

This isn't a dystopian thing forced upon us by evil TV manufacturers. This is a dystopian thing we've asked for.
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My wife and I were talking today about how people fail to distinguish between a work and its creator. To her this was a great shame, as some art works can no longer be seen easily, or talked about favorably, because the creator turned out to have major personal flaws. I agree; this is a shame.

It is worth engaging with the article on its merits, irrespective of where it appears. One learns most from people who think differently from oneself.

I agree with the article as far as this: -

1. Some (many?) people use recycling as a "license to pollute". "I recycle everything I can. I deserve my twice-yearly holiday that's a six hour plane flight each way."

2. Focusing on recycling takes finite attention away from bigger issues, like meat consumption, flying, and coal power.

3. Recycling is meant to be a last resort. The first thing to do is reduce.

4. Post-consunmer recycling is dirty, dangerous and difficult, and in many places most of what people virtuously put in recycling bins ends up in landfill anyway.

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It'd be nice if environmental groups could get together and agree to focus on the big issues: coal usage, passenger flying, and meat. But that's not how humans work, it seems.
The acquired them in the first place because they thought Security was the future. It was their big bet they could grow it synergistically to the core business while at the same time the market would wake up to security as important. The problem was that we moved to the cloud where cloud providers produced their own solutions, Microsoft woke up to security as well and it turns out security is really a part of the operating system- and Apple and Google figured that out on mobile. The nail in the coffin in my opinion was the fact that McAfee didn’t have the right security expertise- they had no influence on chip design, they were basically strong in corporate sales, which is something Intel already knew how to do and was useless on mobile. So it was just another case of Intel overpaying for something, letting it wilt in the shadow of x86 and then finally getting rid of it.

It’s not actually changed hands since Intel, Intel spun it out, retaining 49% ownership with TPG taking majority ownership with basically exactly thus plan - cut back the wasted investment Intel had made, make it lean and dump it on the stock market before anyone gets wise.
Just an fyi, it's good to setup firewall redirection from suspicious devices as well.

For my Roku I have setup a redirection for all DNS port queries to my pihole as some app developers are getting wise to this and using their own DNS.

It won't be long until they encrypt this traffic and lock us out completely though.
This was my setup recently too but then Amazon disabled their cast button inside their prime website a few months ago which meant we had to switch to the app route. Despite their fuckery, we've found streaming from the phone apps (Amazon, Netflix, + Plex for torrents) is actually a better experience than the laptop on the couch or wireless keyboard option. Also YouTube Vanced + nextdns.io takes care of YouTube ads.
I didn't see this mentioned, and some of the posts imply that there are not smart TVs without ads, but my TCL TV running Roku TV bought last year and connected to the Internet does not have any ads.
I think while semi related, that falls under a different rule breaking that Epic did. If I recall correctly Epic was actually giving a discount to their own payment and charging more for Google/Apple. That is the violation they crossed. Using a different payment processing wasn't.
I suspect that a large part of this ad- and marketing-driven economy is based on this.

The reason they predict their revenue will go up (which it will, at least in the short term until the market adjusts) is because they have a lot of customers already lined up to pay them to show ads on their TVs.

Those customers' marketing departments decided to pay money to include their ads on TVs because a similar process was followed and they (rightfully) predict that they will get "engagement" on those ads (which the marketing department will rely on to justify or increase their salaries).

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, thus not contributing to the company's end goal of selling more product.

I am not convinced that the majority of the advertising & marketing initiatives out there actually translate to more profit. Marketing departments will brag about "conversions" all day long but how many of those are either accidental clicks or people who were already determined to purchase your product anyway (looking at the companies who buy Google AdWords on their own brand - if someone's searching for your brand on Google your website will already be the top result - a click on the ad is not a true "conversion" in this case and is just wasted money).

Ultimately, people have a finite amount of time and disposable money, and throwing more ads at this "problem" won't solve it. Your conversions will go up because of accidental clicks (and your marketing department will capitalize on that to justify their salaries/raises), but that doesn't magically give the consumer more money to actually go and buy your product so your profits will not increase.
I built my own router with a raspberry pi. I installed pi-hole and use that as a dns resolver. I then use an iptables rule to NAT / forward all dns traffic on port 53 to the pi-hole resolver, similar to how ISPs often intercept dns requests. This prevents IOT devices from bypassing the dns server configured via my DHCP. Letting pi-hole block the requests helps prevent errors from dns request timeouts.

An additional benefit is that you get to log internet traffic and get shocked as you find out what your devices are really up to.

To block ads that are served over whitelisted / not blocked domains I’d need some kind of deep packet inspection. I’m not sure this kind of filtering even exists / would work as a lot of the ad traffic I see is served over https.
My TV needed a firmware upgrade to get HDMI working. You need to accept EULA's before connecting and updating.
I am thinking about upgrading TVs at my hotel and 49 inch low to medium quality is between $440-600. These are designed for hotel/hospitals.
Like starting a food truck?
Tell that to the water bears: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade

Not only is their original habitat 420 K and 1 K (absolute zero) they’re described as “colony” species.

Quite interesting.
Not too late to teach yourself those skills! I didn't start getting into auto-mechanics until I was well past college.

Planning on buying a cheap welder soon and teaching myself how to weld in the next 6 months (at age 50).
Is it time to kill the calculus curriculum?
For the time being, https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/2018
They have sound.
Other features my web app had was keeping track of individual parts, because our ERP system was focused mainly on manufacturing and design, not management. Parts could be assembled into assemblies so we could track what revisions were on what machines.

The web app I made is still up and running 5 years later (I left the job 4 years ago), although I don't think it is being actively used anymore! That is one huge advantage of using a service like Heroku...
You can see what a load of BS is right from the one review screenshotted in the article. Point 1 boils down to:

- “manager is Czech and full of himself” - xenophobic my ass (preemptively: I’m Czech and no way in hell would I see such statement as having “xenophobic connotations”

- He wrote “avoid like the coronavirus” - that can’t mislead anyone with non-zero reading comprehension to “associate the property”

They’re just bullies.
Good thing this is just a dress rehearsal for when you can spend time working on things that interest you!
I wonder how neighbors would answer those questions. Would Americans say Canadians are more trustworthy? Or would Colombians say that about Venezuelans?
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> Toyota recently pulled out of the country

That is incorrect. Toyota is halting expansion in India not pulling out.
Is there any device you might connect your TV to that actually provides Ethernet over HDMI (at all? unprompted?)? People keep citing that ability, but I can't remember ever actually encountering devices that do it.
Firefox Nightly WebRender is now activated by default on Intel Gen 12 GPUs
The big problem with this spec (which is shared today by all the HTTP uploads in the world) is that you have to check for the delimiter every byte!

"Content-Type: chunked" is much better because it gives you the size of each chunk upfront! But that requires .js and also was buggy in IE until version 7.

I made a multiplayer online system that relies on chunked: https://github.com/tinspin/fuse
In a not so-distant future dystopia you can only get monitors without ad-overlays, when you pay for the monthly subscription ...

You'll get the first month for free, when you sign up for the 2-year plan for 19.99$/month right now!!
We built a new design system in Voog. And made it free to everyone
Packfiles are nothing but a compression/storage scheme - which is a couple of levels under git-objects conceptually. Saying that "git stores content in deltas because it uses packfiles" is like saying "git stores content in deltas because it uses compression". Of course it does. You'd be hard-pressed to find any tool similar in functionality that doesn't compress content before persisting it or sending it over the network.

The Linus' original insight that made git successful in part was exactly the fact that: You don't need to do the delta scheme on the VCS-object level, but you can just use it on the storage/compression level. So conceptually CRDTs are more similar to the VCSes of the past (e.g. SVN) than they are to git.
>Capitalism solves the resulting supply shortage of "qualified" plumbers, carpenters et. al. by providing cheap, eastern european, DIY-style "I can do everything"-craftsmen

You can say the same thing about software engineering. The push for easy immigration has solved the fake shortage in Germany and kept the salaries low enough to keep companies very profitable.
Scrambling to reach someone over difficult terrain also carries risk to life. As does being unable to reach patients for 90 minutes whatever the emergency.
Ask HN: How would one go about deserialising custom binary formats?
I use a bunch of scientific instruments that initially output their data in binary formats and which require the instrument software to output as a Ascii, csv, xml (etc.) File.

Is there a way to deserialise the data without the software? How would one go about it? Any links to get me started?

Data is GCMS data (shimadzu), isothermal nitrogen adsorption data amongst others.
Is there any degraded functionality on the Roku if you block the logging?
I've got them both in hardcover as Firefall. :)

I must confess I couldn't make it through the third Rifters book with all the torture. :S But yeah, overall his stuff is great. If it's uncomfortable, that's because it's all too plausible.
Not really. The browser need to read the header to know where the video frames are in the file.

The table with pointers to all the frames cannot be made before all the frames are encoded and their size is known. Then you can shuffle the file and move the table to the start (known as faststarting), and in that case you can start viewing the video before it is completely downloaded.

This can't be used for live content, since the encoded frames does not exist at the time you start viewing in that case.
After a while I think you find out you’d rather have a minimum wage dead end job than no job at all.

Of course, if you can keep yourself busy, then that might be unnecessary. But I don’t think humans are made to simply be idle.
The govt has been tackling entities that do not conform with their views. Conformance is their objective.
DDG's User research on 9k users in 3 main markets shows people don't mind scrolling through a long list of search options. Most people will still pick Google even if it's the last option. But their research also shows that about 20% of Google users would choose a different provider if given a chance. Google created fake scarcity by limiting the number of search providers to 4.
To name a few (each have data that can be downloaded):

- Jibiki.fr (Japanese-French)

- CFDict (Chinese-French) https://chine.in/mandarin/dictionnaire/CFDICT/

- 教育部臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 (Taiwanese Hokkien) https://twblg.dict.edu.tw/holodict_new/ https://github.com/g0v/moedict-data-twblg

- 台日大辭典 (Taiwanese Hokkien-Japanese) https://github.com/fhl-net/Lim-Chun-iok_2008_Tai-jip-Tua-su-...

- Littré XML (French) https://www.littre.org/faq

- 重編國語辭典修訂本 (Chinese)

Note that all have different, sometimes incompatible license. In particular dictionaries from Taiwan's Ministry of Education usually don't allow derivatives.

There is also a lot of dictionaries digitized on Archive.org that felt into public domain would require transformation into text (actually the Jibiki project did that with the Cesselin).
That thought had come across my mind, but no, I've seen engineering requirements stating something to the effect that the value of PI used in these calculations is to be 3.1415, for example.
Inner Working of GPT-3 and Why it is (not) an AGI [video]
CCYY-Www-dd and CCYY-ddd are part of the same ISO "standard" that CCYY-MM-dd are from
I too wish gp would elaborate. I don’t know what caused the change but it’s clear to me that companies wishing to choose hires now with no qualifications other than teachability would have a very difficult time dealing with diversity issues.
Can't you just yank the internet connection afterwards?

I did a firmware upgrade and just disconnected from the internet right after. I also don't use the built in apps, because let's be honest, compared to an AppleTV, all SmartTV apps are basically garbage. I understand that the AppleTV is somewhat expensive, but it's my baseline for the quality I'd expect from a SmartTV.

Netflix on the AppleTV, starts instantly, and you're browsing the content endlessly after 20 sec. Start Netflix on the TV it self, that will take a few minutes.
Presumably the Android box is cheap enough to simply swap out with competing tech, should it become annoying, so you don't need to dump the whole TV.
That was my first impression as well - but I suspect people probably said the same thing the first time they saw a helicopter!
It's just Indian control/slave culture. Like the American/UK version but even more racist and fucked up.
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Update: now it's on #2, and it's hovering around 430
Depends on where you go. The arrival is written by someone who lives near the airport in Minneapolis and had to drive (or?) a considerable distance to the train station.
My native languages has gendered objects, and "language" is feminine. Might be the same case
Hindu nationalism is just like any nationalism. It harms liberties.

India: Arrests of Activists Politically Motivated
https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/09/16/india-arrests-activists-...

Under Modi, India's Press Not Free Anymore
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/world/asia/modi-india-pre...

Critics of India’s Modi Government Face Sedition Charges
https://thediplomat.com/2020/03/critics-of-indias-modi-gover...

Is free speech under threat in Modi’s India? Activists, journalists, lawyers and academics are concerned that free speech in India is deteriorating (2017)
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2017/08/03/is-free-speech...
It was actually getting better too until COVID. The labor market was tight and wages were rising, even in more rural areas.
Almost all Smart TVs have this type of ad in the home screen but the obtrusiveness varies. For my Roku Tv, it is a small banner on the left side that you can ignore easily and isn’t a huge deal. I bet it contributes very little revenue.

For all of them, their main money maker is ads on free video content. Most of them have a channel/section filled with free tv shows/movies (usuaully b level content) and they make the majority of their revenue showing ads on this content.
This looks awesome. How does it compare to a helicopter though? Are helicopters not available for these situations?
Dubbing
I think the point worth making is that a bad tracing app is a lot worse than no app at all. It’ll incorrectly give license to people that have been exposed to continue going going out. It’ll incorrectly isolate people who haven’t been exposed, it’ll destroy businesses based on false positives and it’ll destroy the credibility of effective lockdown measures.

Given what we know of the uk governments competence, I would want a strong study indicating its effectiveness before I go anywhere near this.
Your comment unfortunately shits on non profit orgs. Several search engines are not meant to turn a profit.
This. I'm working as an ESL teacher and upper management made me install cameras in every classroom, then pipe that feed to their home and head office.

Couldn't afford to leave, so I had to do it. I've left now though when I finally lined up something better.
You're being downvoted, but I think you're right.

Personally, I would pay more for a TV without this functionality. I'm running one of the last "dumb" consumer TVs, from 2015.

But the overwhelming majority of consumers just want smart TV stuff built right into their TVs.

It's like power windows and air conditioning in cars. They used to be premium features. Now, you really can't buy a car without them, at least in the USA.

(Pedantry note: As late as ~2014, you could still buy a Nissan Versa with manual windows; perhaps it's still possible)
Thanks for the heads up! I haven't been paying any attention to C++20. You must be on the cutting edge of C++ to know that - I ended up having to work a bit on my Macbook Pro to get a version of gcc working that defines std::numbers::pi.
Epic’s decision to bypass Apple’s App Store policies was dishonest, says judge
thanks for the tip but i will probably re-investigate using dnsmasq for whitelisting netflix and co using ipsets and nftables. it bothers me a bit having to set this up specifically for the TV but its probably worth it.
The thing is that DDG does not give people the privacy they want.

Some people do not want privacy. They are on every social media network sharing everything about their life anyway.

Some people do want privacy but are not tin-foil hat about it. These people get their expectations of privacy met by other means, not being on every social network being one of them. Then there are the practical measures of running ad-blockers and other browser tools to prevent tracking. These tools are generally unobtrusive even if lifting the ad-blocker for a page is a daily occurrence.

People in this category get the privacy concessions they want and are probably okay with Google knowing what it does. They are not going to go full tin-foil hat with some Tor onion browser on the end of a VPN. Using DDG takes you into this territory. Everyone knows their search results are just different, not the standard Google fayre. The secret sauce is just this claim to privacy that people are able to get enough of with other means, such as running ad-blockers.

With the limited offering that DDG is there has to be an overlap between those who are obsessed about privacy (tin-foil hat and probably 'preppers'...) and the DDG user base. They need to get out more and add to the internets.

I would like to see a search engine that offers people the option to raise their HTML game by using the semantic elements for content structure that Google and Bing ignore. Content matters but so does HTML. This could be easy to game with people getting rid of div style HTML to replace it with articles, headers, sections, navs, asides and footers, with inline elements such as dfn and abbr, but I would be quite happy if the web was written that way. Even better if there was a search engine that worked with it.
Not all jobs or service contribute to society. But if you invest in a company that provides goods and services that people don't want, that money is lost and you lose your ability to invest further.

When government provides a service that people don't want, that service can continue indefinitely, especially if the few who benefit can contribute back to the politicians who keep it going. Lockheed Martin and Boeing can contribute to some politicians to make sure that wars continue and they reap back way more than they contributed from the taxpayer who's only option is to vote between two pro-war candidates. Those jobs making bombs for Saudi Arabia to drop on Yemen don't contribute to society, they are a determent to society, yet they continue without end because nobody loses on that investment as long as the taxpayer can be forced to pay for it.
Or we could (radical idea here) not use biometrics. I don't mean to be dismissive, but what advantage does this provide over opening a web site and hitting "pay" or maybe some sort of NFC tap? This looks like biometrics for the sake of being cool and flashy, which is not a trade-off I'm willing to make.
Just make your own yogourt it takes like 15 min and costs a little less.
I think they are saying that humans cannot associate palm prints to an individual, unlike face (or even eyes in certain cases). It's just security by obscurity kind of thing but yes, not very convincing argument for privacy.
> I am glad that people understood my point and even came up with better solutions to make my argument even stronger.

Your smugness is unwarranted.

You claimed that XML has an obvious, natural mapping to data structures. After looking at the same extremely simple data structure, two people came up with three different XML representations, each with different pros and cons.

Your argument didn't come out in very good shape from that exchange.
When YouTube was censoring slurs in automatic captions, it was just a simple search and removal.

Caption 5: "Because you, that's why"

Not the best failure mode, but it does completely prevent the damage, <del>and your argument about how censorship doesn't prevent damage doesn't apply</del>.
that's exactly what I said and it's sadly not a joke :(
It's not a question of legitimate complaint. They didn't complain, they froze assets and halted the organisation's activity.

The question is whether or not the Indian government's actions are legitimate, and whether or not their stated reasons are true. On the later, it seems to be a clear no.
I saw a comment on HN the other day about bay area nurses making like $200k. Idk how true it is, but fuck if so, what the hell am I doing with my life.
Why would people get envelopes with money if a turbine was delivered?
> String with an ISO standard datetime is perfectly reasonable

The standard defines more than one format.

Another thing, because it’s not on the spec, people went creative. It’s too late to fix I’m afraid, some widely used APIs already have these seconds in their JSONs.