skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is one thing Apple TV has so backwards that I can't even.

Text input.

All the letters lined alphabetically with only left-right movement allowed. Takes ages to input anything.
Also no corrections allowed.
I actually exit appleTV and use the built in TV apps for when I need youtube and the like, because their input mechanism is not insane.

I know there is a remote app for iPhones, but you do provide an actual remote, make it work ffs.
Ask HN: What’s your preferred budget IoT home solution?
I’m looking to connect a home up so that radiators react to open windows / programs / occupancy and so forth. But a mere window sensor costing 30 pounds is insane. What’s your recommended budget solution that doesn’t require technical know how once it’s up and running?
Every dominant majority oppresses - doesn't have to be religion - see China.
I see, apologize for ignoring the context. I missed your grandparent comment.
Agreed and since TLS 1.3 is still work in progress the chances are slim that you will find a blocked website that meets your criteria. Great article, very accessible. Thanks!
Isn't this the entire reason we need groups like Amnesty International present, or do you think they're bias/compromised as well?
Time Travel Theoretically Possible Without Leading to Paradoxes, Researchers Say
So Apple, Google, and Steam all take a 30% developer cut. Normally we'd say "economics will drive this down" but is it not more reminiscent of a cartel with price-fixing behind-the-scenes?
I switched over my router the other day and while I was debugging some minor issues I briefly had internet without Pi-Hole.

I was stunned by the prominence and intrusiveness by the ads on my Roku, even with already knowing it calls home several times a minute.

Once everything was back up and running things were back to normal. My setup is a dumb Spectre with a great screen with a Roku connected for Netflix and Plex/Jellyfin. Combined with a pi-hole it makes for a pretty clean experience.
You sound like a government-funded internet troll paid to spread a certain line of thought or to just oppose any criticism to the government. Whose payroll are you on?
I worked for Motorola back in the Razr days and I remember that the failure rate on folding phones was far higher than "candy bar" phones. I image that a screen will be far more fragile than the hinges that folded in those days.
My only annoyance with TCL is that once you connect it to the internet, and then disconnect it, the activity light (a quite bright, white light on mine) will flash constantly. Forever.

Solvable by tape, but doing that blocks the IR sensor.
When laptops were bulky I wished that the keyboard would lift out. At the time I did not imagine that the PCMCIA slots, the hot-swap DVD/CD-ROM, hot-swap batteries, full set of ports, docking station port, ethernet socket, IrDa receiver or the fans on the back would go.

We were left with tablets and Ultrabooks and no need for a 'lift out' keyboard.

This Thinkpad has one. But I think the design needs more work to be useful.

The screen needs to be larger so you have a manageable laptop screen on the bus or train, 13" or so. Then on the desk in the office it needs to be double that, unfolded to 21" or so.

The power brick could be the stand for the desktop use with the brick also being a minor docking station for a second monitor, a real ethernet port and legacy USB devices such as mice dongles and USB sticks.

The keyboard needs to be backlit and able to be stored in the middle when folded. With these improvements I think I would have my ideal mobile workstation.
my samsung tv always tops the charts on most blocked connections on my pi-hole, its not even close. it is disgusting.
I read in another thread. reproducing the comments here for balanced point of view.

"If more than 20% of your funds goes to administrative expenses (office supplies, stationary, tea/coffee, misc), you know there is something shady. Satyam computers, did the same thing, created fake employees, posted huge expenses under admin category for almost 5 years. Later it was found that they were laundering money for YSR from overseas, and went bust and was later acquired by TechMahindra for paisa on the rupee.

Amnesty india is probably in knee deep shit and exiting before anything comes to light."
Direct link to the paper - https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/aba4bc
I love the candor in your post but you're being too hard on yourself.

Learn functional programming, gradually. You'll get there. I like to think I reverted a decade of brain damage inflicted by enterprise java development in three years.
The effect for this experiment is like too small to be significant.

Either the study should have been longer or there should have been more participants. The data seems to suggest there being an effect albeit a small one.

The interpretation of the result in the article seems to miss the point of what not meeting significance means... as is common in reports of scientific studies in mass media.
How is that evidence for ‘capitalization’ or ‘rubber stamping’?

What you may be complaining about is why is it illegal to contempt Indian Judiciary —- which is a different topic.
I feel like there's an entire side to this story that isn't being captured.
The title makes it sound like google specifically eliminated DuckDuckGo, when in fact DuckDuckGo simply lost an auction. They demand that rather then using an auction, google should determine who gets a place on the choice screen by market share. Obviously self-serving, would make it harder for new competitors to enter the market.
Where I went to school everything you just said was a mandatory class from middle school on. They taught you how to make snacks on your own and do the basics of cooking, sewing, and cleaning for a middle school age kid. They also had budgeting classes or a portion of a class, can’t remember. Home EC and typing was 100% mandatory in middle school.

Shop and welding was long gone by the early 2000s but my school had a big greenhouse so I took Horticulture.
If you used an allowed domain name, did you get TTL expired messages back when using TTL=5/6/7/8?
>Helicopters can reach people just fine in a reasonable time

Try to imagine a world where helicopters work in some rescue situations, but not so well in others.
QuickJS's own benchmarks are here: https://bellard.org/quickjs/bench.html

V8, with or without its JIT, wins hands down. QuickJS may be small and fast to start, but fast actual computations seem not to be its strength (or intended target).

Big discussion of QuickJS last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20411154
Yeah interesting you bring that up. I remember being introduced to this Browning by this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAJM5L9hhBs

And you notice something interesting in the beginning... this guy is in GOOD shape. Like not just good, we're talking REALLY good, he's in the 0.1percentile, being able to do some pretty difficult callisthenic moves (go to 1:00 in the video to see him doing handstand pushups and flags, these can take years to learn for the common person). And I think it's one of the reasons he made the suit work... because I can't imagine someone NOT being that fit arriving to a working design, given the iterations it required to get everything right in the beginning.

However, I think we can now arrive to a design for the common man thanks to him having iterated through these first versions.
don't dells have them as well?
Well it's more like "people hate ads, but next time they buy a new TV, the ads will make our TV $10 cheaper than the other guy and they'll buy it anyway"

It's the same thing in the airline industry - people will complain all day long about legroom and being treated as cattle, but the next time they buy a ticket they vote with their wallets when they sort the flight list by price and choose the cheapest option.
Interoperability is exactly the reason why control characters weren't added to xml 1.0.

And

>You are encouraged to create or generate XML 1.0 documents if you do not need the new features in XML 1.1; XML Parsers are expected to understand both XML 1.0 and XML 1.1.
No experience running them, but looking at samsung digital signage, HDR looks to be a feature of their high end models and extremely expensive. ~$4,500 for a 55" 4K TV [0]. The more competitively priced displays[1] (~$1300 for 70" 4K) don't seem to offer it.

[0]: https://www.samsung.com/us/business/products/displays/pro-tv...

[1]: https://www.samsung.com/us/business/products/displays/4k-uhd...
Yes, that was the case
"I don't care about privacy; I have nothing to hide."

Funny, most people don't even share information about their salary or their bank balance with their friends.
Food trucks may need to scale because you have to buy additional food, maybe hire a few additional people.

No lemonade stand, unless you already have the lemons.

You'd think blogging on a free platform might fit the bill. But, making money depends on readers, which would need to scale to make ads worthwhile, so scratch that- it's scale-dependent. Don't do that.

Maybe if your family has a lot of money, you could pay someone to write your app for you. No- scratch that- it's dependent on the number of people paying for it, and you need to buy ads to reach them, so it must scale.

You could be an investor! Just hold out a carrot and watch people work themselves to death while having a small chance at success. Even if only 1 in 10 you end up actually giving money to for their work are successful, you come out on top. Wait, it turns out 1 in 10 isn't guaranteed. That won't scale, then.

Instead of investing yourself, have someone else invest it for you. Nevermind, no one would do that, because in order for it to be worth it for someone to invest for you without taking too much off the top for overhead, they'd have to scale.

Back to selling.. you could sell your existing possessions and evengelize, going from place to place to get food and lodging.

Sounds a lot like being a priest.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-natio...
This is not the solution. Adding a PiHole to your network is not the solution. Disabling features in other places of your network is not the solution.

What if Samsung decides that it will try to connect to open networks for updates or what not? What then? Ask your neighbour to install PiHole on his network? No. This is an example of a game of cat and mouse that shouldn't exist - you pay money for a TV and that's not enough? You giving them your money is not enough and so they decide to shove ads down your throat because profits.

Simple solution would be just not to buy Samsung.
And the privacy implications. Which is why it's illegal in parts of Europe.

>Any black hat that finds a way to gain authorization will basically have a ready-made botnet.

This has actually happened with viruses, cryptolockers, etc before. Get access to Windows group policy, add the virus to it, see it being spread around.
Yeah, I did. and at least it is an Ad-free TV.
I thought the same about the iPad when it first came out. (I still wouldn't buy one, but lots of people do).
Anything skilled is just outsourced and even many unskilled jobs like DBA are very hard to get into if youre a US citizen because the culture her is that the skilled worker factories in China and India and Pakistan are in extremely high regarded. PArity is paramount in professional management these days and you would be a one in a million unicorn if you went with US skilled labor why would a professional manager take such a huge risk to be the only person doing something?
I don’t think that’s true that all of empire builder was on a downswing. Before Covid, (and maybe still), empire builder was going to get a second train in each direction daily on the stretch from St Paul to Chicago.

Right now 90% of the route from St. Paul is forbidden from traveling to Chicago.

And dining service was being removed from many routes before Covid, I’m sure that has been accelerated.
If they block ESNI, it's likely all ESNI requests would be blocked, because they can't tell if its a blocked site or not. (it'd be possible they only apply ESNI-blocking against IPs associated with blocked sites, but that seems unlikely)
This post is simply about values.

Everyone seeks status. It's one value. But some people have other values that partially or completely override it.

For example, as the post says, hackers value the quality of source code among other things.

And "opportunistic managers" don't secretly murder their rivals, whether or not it would improve the social standing. This is because of their values as well. (Psychopaths are actually weighing the risks and benefits of murder but they are a fringe.)

And tree cutters can also believe that well-cut trees are more important than social status. They would ridicule those who call meetings instead of attending the saw all day long.

All in all - everyone described in the post is optimally following the incentives present in the system. There is no need for contempt and no need to get cynical. In fact we should be quite happy about ignoring OKRs or performing the rituals with gusto.

I don't know about any inception that would allow to plant love for elegant code in a mind of a stranger. This stuff seems so intrinsic. I just pity these between the senior and the manager who struggle with their own conflicting worldviews for years, not even seeing the decision they actually face the whole time.
How much would it cost to helecopter a medic in to stabilize someone until a ground crew gets there?
There is actually a very good reason for the "low usage" rates, YouTube made the publishing of closed captions a lot more difficult a year ago: https://twitter.com/TeamYouTube/status/1167565334917742593

Starting from August 2019, only uploaders can approve submissions, when previously other viewers or YouTube moderation could also publish. A lot of people seem to have forgotten this, and YouTube never really updated the UI/Help pages to reflect it.

I have to wonder if whichever analyst came up with those stats was aware of this but turning a blind eye, or simply never noticed.
That depends on how they implement 3rd party app stores. If anyone can make one, then Google doesn't have undue control over competitors.

I'm not sure government regulation needs to enter the picture unless courts decide there's an anti-trust issue, which open 3rd part app stores might make less likely. For Android, at least. Good still would face anti trust problems in other areas.
> I think a better future would be focused, shorter-term educational programs, taken flexibly through one's early career years.

Drop the word "early" and I agree 100%.
These bubbles I mention represent only a portion of the cities themselves. I'm not at all referring to the whole populations and areas of many third world countries' large cities. I'm aware of how urbanized many developing countries have become.

I partly speak from personal experience here too. The city I live in has a largish core urban zone that's fairly tourist-friendly, clean and highly, fashionably modernized and cultural (but with a charming colonial aspect).

Since the city in general has well over 15 million inhabitants, this "bubble" area itself contains well over a million people, easily, but it's just a small fraction of the rest of the city, which is very much what you'd call a dangerously third world place in terms of crime, corruption, administrative ineptitude and barely functional infrastructure.
> Does IPFS actually solve the problem they set out here though?

No, none of these distributed P2P networks (that I've seen) do. The problem isn't just building a DHT (kademlia-based networks have existed for years) the problem is incentivizing people to seed - ideally people with high-bandwidth and massive amounts of storage who are seeding data that people want. In other words you need to build an economy on top of the network.

Cryptocurrency could be used for this, so long as its a cryptocurrency that supports instant micro-transactions (ie. you don't want to be writing to a blockchain every time you download a 10KB gif). So maybe someone will get around to building an IPFS-clone but on top of bitcoin's lightning network or something like that. Clients would need a way to decide which peers to send requests to based on who's offering the best speed/reliability vs price. Servers would serve higher-paying requests with higher-priority and would drop any requests that are too stingy to even cover bandwidth costs. Using the network wouldn't be free but it would be extremely cheap and fast and reliable.

One problem this doesn't solve is getting other people to backup/seed your data for you. An idea I think would work for that would be a prediction-market based reputation system for peers acting as storage hosts. That is, peers could advertise themselves as storage hosts, you could upload your data to them (for a fee) and they'd give you a cryptographic receipt promising that they'll still be able to deliver the data at some later date. People could then make bets on whether a host will fail to uphold any promises before a certain date, and the betting odds would be a measure of a hosts reliability. Clients that are uploading their data to the network would take that reliability measure and the price into account when choosing hosts to upload to. At any point a client could publicly challenge a host to provide proof that they still have the data, and if the host fails to provide proof the bets would close in favor of the punters who betted against them. Otherwise, once the bets expire, they close the other way. This would all need to be built on top of a blockchain though you couldn't use bitcoin for this until/unless they add support for covenants or sidechains.
Google Proposes Cookie-Free Approach to Programmatic Ad Targeting
Skin In The Game offers a good alternative to nihlism: empiricism, your beliefs are reflected in your actions and your goals.
Mathematical Problems with Integrated Information Theory (IIT)
Use voice dictation. It works remarkably well for entering text
It is not lost. "application/xhtml+xml" accepted by all browsers. Browser DOM is XHTML in disguise

document.contentType
//"text/html"
document.body.namespaceURI
//"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"

HTML is just a serialization optimized for human authoring, it has its faults

script = document.createElement('script')
script.textContent = '</script>'
script.outerHTML
//"<script></script></script>"

It may be humanity does not have an adequate and widely used way of plain text authoring of structured text. DOM diff and patch may be lacking as well.
Toyota is NOT pulling out of India, and neither is it not expanding/investing more money. It was a newsbyte spread by some papers w/o citing named sources. The news was refuted by Government officials as well as Toyota India's Vice Chairman, who said Toyota would be investing about 20 Billion INR over the next 12 months.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/auto/cars-uvs/...
@qu4k It's a shame that QuickJS isn't mentionned in the README since it does the heavy lifting.

Also, why is it secure ? Is there some kind of sandboxing of the runtime that I have missed ?
In short: interest rates & tax benefits.

Mortgage rates are typically far lower. My rate is about 1.5%. In Denmark it's -0.5%, yes you get paid to borrow.

If you look at mortgages, you have two negative cashflows: the principal you pay back, and the interest you pay on the loan. Of these two, the interest is actually the only cost. (taxes/insurance is separate because they're typically paid regardless of whether you have a mortgage, you'd still pay this even if you bought the home in cash without a mortgage.)

Paying back principal is not costing you anything. As in, suppose you had a $100 loan and you paid it back, you now have $100 less cash but also $100 less of a loan. You're not any richer or poorer. Similarly, if you do the opposite: borrow $100, sure you have $100 in cash, but you're not richer, because you still owe $100.

In that sense, if you borrow $250k for a home and over the years, earn $250k and use it to pay off the house, you've not 'lost' $250k. You still own it, it's just locked up in the home. If you sell the home, you get the $250k back, assuming the price hasn't changed.

But the interest, that's gone forever. That's where the real cost is in carrying a mortgage.

As such, the borrowing capacity and housing costs that someone can bear, is substantially influenced by mortgage rates. In the US these are 2-3% or so, in Denkmark it's negative 0.5% or so. These interest rates essentially dictate how favourable it is to buy, and how much more prices can rise, while still being affordable. Just compare the monthly fees of a 3% interest mortgage to one with a 1% interest mortgage. Or more informative even: compare how much you can borrow with say $1k a month in mortgage fees (principal+interest, or just interest whatever you want), when the interest rate is 1% or 3%.

For example, a $200k loan at 3% is $300k in total fees. A $280k loan with 0.5% interest is also $300k in total fees. And that's including principal. If you take out the principal, the difference is far greater.

On top of that there's significant tax benefits to home ownership in much of Europe, like deducting interest payments from your taxable income to a very large extent. The combined effect is that a lot of households have tons of debt which is actually very affordable and not problematic. (until interest rates will rise, which will get ugly... but most economists expect low rates to be the 'new normal'... we'll have to see. And a lot of the rates get fixed for 10-30 years so the impact if it happens, is not very direct).
With a car, you can go point to point. With a train, you have to arrange transportation to the station on both ends. Also, you can leave when you want, you don't have to time your travel with the train or plane schedule or worry about delays and cancellations. To me, up to 6 hours, a car almost always makes sense. Above 6, usually a plane. Rarely does a train beat out both alternatives.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/auto/cars-uvs/...
They're effectively saying Google is an unethical company and yet they continue to use the platform of this unethical company, a platform whose existence is solely dependent on the unethical practices of Google (as it has been mentioned over and over that Youtube is running at a loss).
That was a good watch, the recent documentary Console Wars is worth seeing as well.
The percentage of users using the latest version isn't necessarily the percentage that matters for a given developer.

For example, if we're talking about Fortnite, usage of the latest version is certainly higher than the general population. Older versions of Android are mostly used on cheaper devices, or users who seldomly upgrade their phone, and don't care that much about installing applications.
For the confused reader: s/OS/OSS/
See also https://cachix.org for a hosted binary cache.
An unhappy choice of words considering what he promised to do if BTC doesn't reach $1M by the end of the year. Somehow, I don't think he will bust out the jalapeño ketchup, relish, and spicy mustard, but will make some excuses. He's a media whore who always talks but never follows-through on anything.