skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Knowing what you shared so far as a stranger, I would probably negotiate heavily with your company to give you some sort of ownership in this venture while they help you build/fund and hopefully market it. May be even get a lawyer who specializes in contracts, M&As and get their opinion if you can afford a few hundred bucks.

Best case scenario: The company creates a separate subsidiary for this project where you are an equity owner/director etc. in that company but overall it is owned (majority ?) by the parent company. However, they give you the freedom to work on it while they provide you the security and comforts of the current job. Win-Win for both. If you succeed in this venture, your parent company gets a big piece of it. If you fail, you hopefully still have your main job.

If you are serious and they are serious, get your own lawyer. Good luck!!
I'm really sorry for you. My girlfriend has a BRCA gene and the doctors didn't take her seriously when she was 29, because she was ,,too young to have cancer''. Now she has to take anti-estrogene after the chemotherapy that takes most of her energy away.

As for me, I have vasomotor rhinitis since I was 34 because I lived in a street full of cars and air pollution when I was young to save on rent. Now I'm full of money that I can use to decrease all the bad effects that the sickness has on me (like going to hotels far away from cities/villages), but I won't have a normal life until my methylation levels can be reversed.
Coupling un-alienable, (purposefully) unchangeable biological marks to any account is always horrible idea. And not just the privacy part, for one, it can (only) be unwillingly altered (eg. by an accident), the same way as fingerprints, so a secondary backup code is needed anyway, making the whole setup a bad sort of convenience feature.

The proper solution would be a safe hardware key mechanism.
That extra nonsense is generating revenue to the manufacturer of the product
If enough people do it, they gain independence (India, Poland) or civil rights MLK.

And because those protests are non-violent, and almost always the protestors suffer. They get the moral high-ground and people believing in cause rally around the protest and not extremist who want to burn down something.

Imagine any example I gave was a violent protest ending up as bloody conflict. How would any of them end up?
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The hard problem of consciousness, as philosophers of mind use the term, is not to understand how the mind works or how it produces consciousness, but rather to explain how it could possibly produce consciousness--it's a metaphysical problem.

(Physicalists such as Daniel Dennett [and myself] deny that there is such a problem--that dualists like David Chalmers are operating off of erroneous intuitions, not sound arguments.)
Totally agree, my Bravia was worth every (numerous) penny. I do update to get features like Airplay, but have never seen an ad. The $400 Samsung in my bedroom, however, starts streaming an ad-laden TV Guide equivalent automatically when I turn it on. Beyond awful.
Chains don't really work the moment they get broken. Instead the alternate view that habits take about a month to form at least and you can only really change about 1% of a day every month is a better system that allows gaps and adjustments and systems built around our errors and unreliability and rewarding that long term habit building without the chain effect are a lot more effective long term.
>I don't know anyone with a mobile phone, but without WhatsApp.

A smartphone, you mean.

Personally I do have a smartphone that I rarely use, but my everyday telephone is a good ol' Nokia[1] that does what it is supposed to do (telephone and SMS) just fine.

[1] smaller, lighter than any smartphone and three or more days worth of battery
It's purely gatekeeping, just like in a lot of other fields. A lot of people make a lot of money from it, so it's not going anywhere anytime soon, unfortunately. I too don't see why one would need a degree to give me a bottle of pills (dispensed by a robot) and read the label (printed by the same robot). I can read it myself, and I'd prefer if human was optional - this reduces the probability of a screw-up.
Yes, it has to be installed, but there's a world of difference between having do be default like Safari on iOS and being present while another browser is the default.
It's not just ads. "Smart" TVs can also capture what you see and send that information home.
DuckDuckGo is nothing but an annoyance for me, but only when I set it as my standard search engine. Because 90% of my searches are practical, currency conversions, calculations that I could’ve done in a calculator but didn’t, maps locations, directions, public transportation times, and, opening hours. DDG is absolutely terrible at this in my country. Google isn’t, and that’s why it’s probably going to remain my standard search engine for some time to come.

What annoys me about google though, isn’t the personalised advertising, it’s the personalised results. Google obviously knows I play Blood Bowl and collect various things for it, but as a result, my first two google page results are nothing but advertisements. Even if I was actually searching for information. A couple of years ago I don’t think I had ever clicked beyond page 1 on google, these days I find myself turning to direct forum searches. Searches on DDG or even directly on HN, FB or Reddit because all google wants to do is link me to sale sites.
Well Wordnet is often described as a combination of a dictionary and thesaurus structured so a computer can understand it https://wordnet.princeton.edu/
Exactly, we bought my 75ish year old father in law a new TV because he was using a small SD flat panel and his eyesight is going.

But he hates it because there's a million buttons and menus to navigate, when all he wants is to type in the channel numbers.

It even needed a firmware update out of the box and he didn't have a clue why a TV would need new software and immediately panicked and refused to use the thing until we drove 150 miles to accept the update for him

We just wanted a TV that receives terrestrial TV and has a couple of HDMI ports for his DVR which he knows how to use without over complex menus, is that so much to ask?
Congratulations, you won the generic lotto. Health prevention improved a lot in our lives, but there are still illnesses that you can't prevent and just come at 30-40 already.
Yea. A better analogy is asking for receipts, payment card history, search history, etc. All things that tech giants know about you that isn't publically available for anyone to see.
Why are actual privacy issues like this not covered by any media outlets? I'm tired of hearing about Trump all day.
I prefer https://allainews.com/ myself
You're asking if a metaphor could be reality. Obviously not ... it's just a metaphor.
A reminder that increasingly intrusive ads are one part of the problem. The other, and potentially bigger, part is automatic content recognition (ACR), which has been covered on HN before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21899491 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21657930
The guy is smiling in a photo and has the right look, so it must be a good advice
Wouldn't a DFA for a computer have to have 2^n states for n bits of memory, so it's size would be exponential to memory size of the computer? So even for a pedestrian 640K of memory, that's like 10^10^7 states. Sounds a lot like trying to simulate a non-deterministic Turing machine on a deterministic machine; the state space explodes exponentially making it intractable.
For quite a while I used the rule that my favourite TV show could only be watched in the gym on my tablet. So if I wanted to really watch the latest episode of breaking bad or whatever it was I had to go to the gym and work out. It compelled me to get to the gym and stay exercising for 30+ minutes. Then I would also typically push out some strength on top of that cardio. Surprisingly effective to tie the two together and build a habit of it over a few months, starting initially lightly it can get you a long way.
I am very intrigued. I barely am able to keep scales in my head not even thinking about the other "rules". So I am looking forward to check this out.
Under the GDPR in EU or the DPA2018 in the UK you can request your data to be erased, corrected or you can grant limited access to your data.

You also have the right to request that a decision to not be made solely using automated means.
This is a good introductory article

https://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/advice/how-do-i-make...

Too bad most of these companies operate based on the US legislation which doesn't grant the same consumer rights.
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Even though if customers do have that right, I'd like to see how many % of the regular users actually demand it.
Define 'proper search results'. I guess you only search for common things that Google has optimized for.

In my experience, Google now stuffs the results with everything they can think of that's even remotely related (or even unrelated). There's so much noise that specific searches are useless.

On the other hand yes, if you want to find a pizza near you, Google is still best. I guess they should rebrand to 'restaurant finder'.
Ask HW: where do you find what to read besides Hacker News?
Any TV, as long as you don't connect it to wifi/ethernet. I've been using Roku throughout my house with a home DNS server set to block all roku analytics/log servers. No interface/app issues thus far (about a year now on 4 TVs)

edit: Also, aside from netflix, a local plex server with rtorrent/irssi to auto-download tv series I followl
In EU I think a "consumer complaint/guarantee" would work (the law, not a warranty given by the producer). As in: the product is no longer working as advertised/expected, so I want my money back.

For instance, when an older PlayStation (3?) in an update made it so that one could no longer run Linux (which was advertised as possible), I know of people that got to return it and get their money back after the Norwegian Consumer Council ruled against Sony.
I actively avoided a Samsung TV for this reason a few years ago. They weren't even cheap for their capability level compared to their competitors given they included ads and the other TVs didn't. You could get equivalent TVs for the same price without the ads, I am not remotely seeing the value to a purchaser.
I refreshed and the error went way. Cool site. Luckily performance can always be improved.
Ask HN: How do you ask customers for 'secrets'
We provide API integrations as a service to our customers. We'll frequently need things like a single API key, or a Client + Secret, or a BasicAuth + username/password, merchant vendor codes etc.

Once we get the passwords/keys/secrets, they are stored within a vault, but we don't have a good way of asking our customers for them to give them confidence on supplying.

Curious what solutions people have come up with?

ie. PGP email. (Might be difficult for non-technically inclined people to achieve).
Sending half to "Skype" (or generic chat), the other to email/phone. This i'd argue is less secure but seen as more secure to the customer than just having a collection form to let them enter directly.
PGP self-hosted form submission which encrypts before sending...

The things we want to avoid here is having passcodes all flying around on different medium, and have a single process which is both seen by the customer as secure and is actually secure. The problems I've has is we can make something that is secure, but customers think it's not because it's a simple 'web browser' that is being submitted. We also need a non-technical solution for when clients aren't too capable, if we set something up which isn't convenient, even the technical folk will look at circumventing.
If they had told people the wrong date, or given misinformation about voting requirements, that would have been the headline. But it wasn't. Again, what specifically did they tell these people to deter them from voting? Nothing. Or there would have been a headline about it. This is just speculation.
Just looked at a price checking site, checking the oled and "no smart tv" boxes. Zero hits.

It is not a question about affordable TV. The only ones that does not have smart features (as far as I can identify) are the cheapest LCD ones at the bottom of the price list.

The best alternatives that I can find is projectors or monitors, as those seems to so far not expect an Internet connection.
> What's my upfront cost before the $53 incremental cost?

$400ish (get lucky on a $250 "ran when parked" car, pay by month for insurance and live in a low tax state) on up.

>AAA says car ownership costs $8,558 per year

They say it costs that on average. That's very different from the floor or baseline cost which seems to be what you're implying.
Reentry develops sufficient heat that any complex organic molecules are torn apart by their thermal energy. And the impact is severe enough that it would likely destroy what was left.
Does it ever crash?
What gets lost in degraded mode?
Is that what they said? No. If they had said this, that would have been the headline. It's pure speculation that they were trying to deter these people from voting.
Playing off venality, a semi viral marketing state on many of the world's legacy PCs and a somewhat tainted name as the eponym does ... things.
As other wrote Billions, and Broadwalk Empire are bothe great.

As for designated survivor it was a nice copy of house of cards, but lacked the level of storytelling that went into house of cards.
That's exactly what I've been doing with my 2019 Samsung TV and and a Shield Pro. The TV is unplugged from the internet and all my streaming is done from the Shield, which is even better because:

1. The Netflix/Prime Video etc apps are snappier because of the beefier SoC

2. Content looks better, because DLSS does a better job at upscaling than the TV's native upscaler

3. I can use it to stream games from my PC, which is making me reconsider buying one of the new consoles just for couch gaming since I could spend the money on a new GPU to upgrade my rig an just stream from there.

And as you mentioned, the presence of HDMI CEC makes remotes rather interchangeable

I also didn't connect the antenna cable and didn't even notice during the entirety of the (Italian) lockdown since I never watch "normal" TV. At this point I wish it could be possible to get TVs without a tuner, I could stop paying the TV taxes!
I would agree to work for Shibu Philip if he applies the same rules to himself and workers can see his keystrokes, mouse movements and websites visited. And if he's not spending his time looking at employees keystrokes, mouse movements and websites visited, his bonus is halved every time someone catches him doing something else.
Yeah you're not paying a plumber to tap on some pipes. You're paying him for knowing which pipes to tap.
I recently blogged about using CRDTs in building privacy focused software, e.g. how would one approach building an end-to-end encrypted Google Docs: https://www.kn8.lt/blog/building-privacy-focused-collaborati...

The nice thing about CRDTs is that each individual message can be end-to-end encrypted (like WhatsApp messages), and then re-merged by all the clients locally.

A local-first database with such an encrypted sync property would would be amazing for building lots of apps with the ability to sync data between users or between your devices seamlessly. The challenge I ran into my initial experiments is that CRDTs need to be compacted/merged in various ways to stay efficient, but encryption gets in the way of that a little when considering server backups / high availability.
Mostly Twitter, Lobsters, various GitHub repos from people I follow. IndieHackers, RSS feeds.

https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/research/staying-on-top-of-t...
The most common place I still come in contact with advertising is radio. It also is the only place where regionality seems to work. I mostly have my own playlist, but sometimes I still like to listen while doing chores or driving.

If you mean on the net the options are limited. I use an adblocker everywhere aside from a few selected portals I want to support, but if in doubt it gets blocked.

It probably depends on the product, advertising a webservice is probably harder to do on the radio.

I think most people still watch TV, so that is an alternative although probably quite expensive.
There are definitely unpleasant quant shops. But there are pleasant ones, too. Interviewing with shops is like asking people to dance. If you stop after the first rejection, you're doing it wrong.
it's an interesting point you make, but perhaps companies should make these trade offs transparent.

You can get the version that phones home or you can pay extra for the version that doesn't.

I suppose the problem is that they'd make this transparent and there would likely be a bit of backlash ... thank goodness that regulatory agencies have our best interests at heart /s
There used to be open source firmware for Samsung TVs called SamyGo, it would be great if it were ported to newer ones so the ads could be replaced with Kodi or similar.

https://www.samygo.tv/
> If I paid 1000s of dollars for an "idiot box" that's supposed to reproduce faithfully the signal that I pass it

Just don't connect it to the Internet.

The bigger problem is that at some point there will not be any "idiot box" models at all. The TVs will refuse to work if they aren't seeing the Internet. Then we'll be truly fucked.
> used !g so often for programming queries

Funny, I find google useless for programming queries lately.

Although, if you go past the beginner questions, all searches become useless. You want something exotic and android specific? Good luck wading through 3000 pages explaining you how to use Android. Even though you specified 'programmatically' or 'in code'. And 90% of the rest are SEO "tutorial" pages that don't answer your question either.
I am actively preventing anyone from buying from Samsung
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And that the answer to a lot of global problems is to reduce poverty. People who struggle to stay alive are focused on that. People who no longer have to struggle have the luxury of caring for their environment.

For example: most of SE Asia burns their rubbish in their back yard, because there are no rubbish collection facilities. They also litter, throwing plastic waste into the gutter, because they're too busy dealing with other stuff to care. But the wealthier countries (Singapore is the classic example) don't do this and are fastidious about waste management.
Talking to a friend of mine a few days ago. He develops with Flutter for Android and iOS. He told me that (almost) the same code can render to the web as pixels in a canvas tag. I didn't investigate the details (copy and paste, etc) but it's another step toward full black boxes that will do whatever they want, without any chances of blocking some parts of them.
Sure - it's all unknown. You can do market research and A/B testing to try and test the market though.
IIT is really just a definition. And like all such definitions, it includes some things that are intuitively not conscious and excludes some things that are intuitively conscious, which is why such "theories" don't go anywhere.
Pi-Hole would probably do the trick: https://pi-hole.net/
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I think YAML is popular because it has a non-noisy way of including multi-line strings, which are very common in CI /DevOps type things (where YAML is most popular). All of the other features and insanities of YAML don't really matter compared to that.

TOML is good, but it quickly gets confusing when you have object hierarchies / nested tables. I feel like json5 is probably the best option at this point.
And how do you arrive at the correct values for 'foo' and 'bar'?. The key feature of customize is discoverability.
It is not the company's data. It is the users' data.
Not in the market I operate in.
foo@bar.io is also quite commonly used for testing.

It's always interesting to get those test accounts for new services and try them out early.

Whats not so fun is "testing" all the draft newsletters people send to foo@bar.io.
... and that's exactly why my TV will never have an internet connection.

By now, it doesn't really matter which brand you use. I have analyzed Samsung, Sony, LG and Philips and ALL of them send data about your usage to NetEase in China and ALL of them have ToS that say that they might record your voice and store it for improving their AI or whatever. Plus all of them shove suggested apps in your face, so I'd say it is only a matter of time until all of them show more aggressive ads.

But if you fully wipe it and then keep it fully offline, most TVs have a great screen and they can be configured with "gaming mode" to work like a low-latency HDMI / DisplayPort display. And without internet, there are not ads :) and no forced (useless) updates.

BTW, my LG OLED is completely ad-free, defaults to using HDMI port 1 and even has GSYNC. Just connect any barebone with an NVIDIA card and you have 100% control over what you see.
I find that slack channels generally can be less pedantic and people are more likely to ask "dumb" questions they would otherwise not bother with in an email.

Archives do the job, but being able to have a dedicated channel in a tool i'm using for ongoing communication is nice and I find it nice to pin certain posts to the channel for reference or newcomers.

With that said my only arguments for a slack or "async" IM client is generally predicated on it being internal communication.
this is merely a modification of the original software on the TV which is achieved by gaining root access on it which is currently not easily possible on more recent models.
But nobody marshals like that (except you, obviously)! Your Person struct is usually marshalled like this:

<person>
<name></name>
<children>
<person>
<name></name>
<children>
</children>
</person>
<person>
<name></name>
<children>
</children>
</person>
<children>
</person>

or, if you're unlucky, even like this:

<person>
<name></name>
<person>
<name></name>
</person>
<person>
<name></name>
</person>
</person>

with implicit arrays. Not that your scheme is much better, really, why are you putting you favourite language's types in the tags? My favourite one uses lists and binaries instead of vectors and strings, you know.
For Cyber I suspect the uniform would be more leather / mirror shades - and Gucci kit a modem remake of the FG42

And can we the dress uniform looking like Psi Core from Bab 5.
The results aren't the same though. If you want maximum total income and you'll take a percentage cut of one of two salaries, you'll take the cut for the lower salary. If you optimize for maximum income per hours worked, you'd take the cut on the higher salary.
Save your loathing. This is possibly the hardest problem in management. It is an open secret that nobody really knows the formula for consistently promote the correct people.
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That's especially funny because Samsung TVs don't get feature updates.
We could invoice Samsung for our attention. It must have value as they are making money from it and it has value to me too
Then I'll start selling a little $50 box to emulate internet and route all update / advertisement requests to /dev/null :)

Or maybe we (the tech community) just agree on one model and produce an open source firmware. If you look at MagicLantern for Canon, you'll see how amazingly far people will go to control their hardware.
Not sure he went to an extreme the head line implied it and those other CEO's pure presentism in a lot of cases