skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also small things around .net core stuff - better UI for project settings, built-in converter for packages.config etc.
Next time use a search engine for yourself:

https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/firefox-vs-rthreads
Ok, bye bye Samsung!
To extend your analogy, I’ve found a vast difference in quality between construction contractors who view their work as a profession/craft vs those who view it as a job/means to an end. The irony is those in the latter category have complained to me that they find it hard to find work, those in the former always seem to be in demand and making money. That’s to the heart of my question, I was wondering if that kind of motivation inadvertently can affect the ends you’re aiming at.

Regardless, I’m happy you don’t need work to be fulfilled and seem to be on a good path for what you’re after
I read this in Dale Gribble's voice.
> Also the point about the ad-hoc client validation doesn't seem right to me. If the server changes the XML response, the client may be able to fetch the updated schema (assuming the devs didn't forget to publish the update...), but then what? You still have to handle the new or updated fields in code somehow.

To be fair, there are often tools that will generate object definitions in the target language from an XML schema. It's not a perfect solution - you need to rebuild the project when upstream changes - but it's not like this hasn't been addressed. For what it's worth, Protobuf has the same property.
That is a 4h commute each day! While I echo your feeling about trains and commuting, a 4h commute would absolutely crush me. Let's say you sleep 8h, you work 8h and you commute 4h, that does not leave a whole lot of time in the day.
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> Management can't be in the union.

That's a weird rule. I've never encountered that in European unions.
The epidemic has obscured the biggest problem faced by the higher education industry: it's far too expensive.

For the last couple of decades the industry has been in a debt-fueled frenzy of higher executive pay and shinier facilities. The debt has been incurred not by the service providers but by their customers.

People graduate with good preparation to be a schoolteacher, health-care worker, librarian, social worker. That's great. They graduate with many tens of thousands of dollars of debt. That cripples them and messes up their lives.

The so-called reform of the bankruptcy system in 2005 made it hard for graduates to declare bankruptcy. That shifted the risk from the lenders to the graduates.

There was a time when student-loan officers would call university executives and say "Jack here wants to borrow $70,000 to pay your tuition so he can be a schoolteacher. Are you serious? We both know that's far too much debt for the pay he expects. We'll loan him $30K, and you better come up with the rest in grants or lower tuition." Those conversations kept a lid on education prices.

But that doesn't happen any more. Education lenders are dangerous predators and students are their lawful prey. No wonder would-be students are refusing to play the game.
I always thought the issue here is the difficulty getting radio waves through plasma for these weapons. So once the plasma is turned on, it's radio silence/the device is on it's own. There would be no GPS getting through, so if the trajectory is off you can't fix it. Has there been any success in getting EM through plasma?
can confirm, even without gsync.

lg seems to have the best OS and the best panels.
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Is there any way to flash a Samsung TV with a custom firmware similar to RockBox?

I hope it's only a matter of time.
At this point we might as well cut out the middleman and pay people to connect a black box to all their devices.
i tried blocking DNS or whitelisting and you probably see that large amount of blocked requests because it tries like every second if you refuse the response.
> Trump has A HALF BILLION in PERSONAL liability... that is fundamentally disqualifying from holding office because it presents a profound national security risk.

Yes, so what?

I am not going to stop talking to my mom because of that. It's not like 'she' votes trump cuz hates my country or goes to church cuz she hates children.

People are idiosyncratic and act like it. We live in the world of shades of gray. Good luck living with black and white standards.

Have you ever eaten KitKat? Well you support child slavery. Have you driven volkswagen well you drive a car from ex-nazi company, Apple phone, nike shoes... I can go on and on.

I really hope you are just hotheaded teen angry with how unjust the world is, then you are justified to feel like it :)
Most editors these days will do similar checking of JSON syntax and a lot do checking against JSON Schema as well if you have one handy.
Community needs to re-update your license every 30 days, so it would also stop working for someone who had that period ending during the outage.
Practically, there are plenty of ways to unbundle college. Culturally... it doesn't work like that.

Compare to other cultural institutions, like religion. When religion receded, it wasn't "unbundled." It just receded. The belief in God, the community ties, the source of leadership, the welfarism, moral support, etc.

Same for tribes, villages.

There was a Louise Theroux line about Scientology. Dissident scientologists tried to continue the practices, without the totalitarian cult stuff. It didn't work. All that was left was some squishy, gimmicky, self help stuff that people quickly drifted out of.

That said, change is coming. College is no longer a very good way of being educated, and in the US, the price is crazy high.

What still locks college I to place is that it works for the upper classes, and for the high achievers. They pay less, get more and have the most cultural influence.
Are there really TVs that won't work until connected?
That won't last long either if at all. They will just require an SSL connectivity to their servers with a custom CA root. The end.
And that the YouTube app forces its ads and shitty recommendations down your throat. A NUC running Kodi sounds nicer. (Yeah, yeah, pi-hole. It’s a bandaid, IMHO)

Also, Apple‘s streaming services being ever more annoyingly shoved in your face on menu screens.
One thing that broke SMS here in the Netherlands is that Whatsapp offered media as well. As MMS never got off the ground and just died off.

If you don't have Whatsapp in the Netherlands you're basically of the communication grid for others.
IF migi be a good took for some to help lower their calories but weight loss will always be dependent on calories out > calories in
What is Azure Machine Learning and how do you use it to productionize ML models?
I should've mentioned the Kindle as I have one of the ad supported one, but I'm not aware of any other examples
I like XML (though rarely use it these days) and JSON but I would have to say that the worst XML I've seen was far far worse than the worst JSON.
I would really suggest to get a free tier or let accounts live for a while without CC info. seems very cool
I should see what happens with my Philips TV if I block it from accessing the Internet. It's currently plugged in because it's also connected to my Hue lights but I don't really ever use any Internet features on it.

Also, if you really enjoy Ambilight, there's a (kinda expensive) solution to get it on any TV now: https://www.techradar.com/news/philips-hue-now-lets-you-turn...
Can’t your friends temporarily sell you their locks? Or is the problem that it is connected to their house?
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As per my knowledge goes,

All foreign funded organisations, under so called NGO's name should be completely under scan.

These NGO's are not helping people, what they are doing is propaganda, support terrosits, conversions.

Christian missionaries conversions are so rampant in India, Most of north-east is converted, punjab, tamil-nadu, andhra Pradesh, Kerala, are in-line for huge demographics change.

If this is not enough, these organisations which are belong to far-left even create riots, trying to white-wash historical atrocities, shame majority population, support terrosits, anti-government.

We are unable to bear the wrath which is being unleashed by foreign agencies on our country.

We just want to live, leave us alone.
Story points are now decimal in Jira
Sometimes I wish there was a suckless for everything.

Gimme a boring TV with open firmware so I can flash it with Linux or better yet, no need for firmware, just a few video ports and a power switch. I'll feed it with my video signal of choice.

Then a phone with stock android or ability to flash Linux or whatever with hardware kill switches because you cant trust anything electronic these days.

Then I'll take a car with a steering wheel, two pedals and a double din opening on the dash and some HVAC topped off with a downloadable service manual right from the manufactures website please.

I'm tired of feeling this technology anxiety where I'm supposed to just give up my rights and dignity and capitulate to the corporate gods. Go away already.
> 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.

1. why?

2. the ps4/xbox pale in comparison to my lg's apps. functionalities, quality of streams, the voice search. they're all much better on the lg apps.
Let's play a hypothetical game. Your TV attempts to literally control your life. And is ultra HD and really cheap. But you have to keep its front facing camera uncovered or it blares an alarm saying that its front camera is covered. The alarm also activates, but more quietly, if it loses its internet connection.

Finally, there is a 30 second "sponsorship punishment" if it sees you have brought a product competing with its sponsor.

So say the sponsor is Coke and it sees a 2 liter bottle of pepsi in your home. It displays something literally equivalent to (not in exactly so many words) "we are punishing you for bringing pepsi into our home, because our sponsor is coke." It then counts down a 30 second punishment timer. As a shopper you dont have THAT strong of a preference between coke and pepsi. So the next time you need to watch a movie on the dictator (name of TV set) you buy coke that night instead of pepsi.

Does that cross a line? How would you legislate against it? Devices shall not act as slave owners over humans who have bought them?

Well, um....
Researcher in biometrics working on contactless palm/finger recognition here.

1) A new innovation ok. People have been doing that for more than a decade, my group included.

2) Given the sensors look, it's almost certainly near infrared (NIR) camera, probably 850nm illumination and the dark surface is a NIR filter.

3) It certainly capture a mix between palm veins (850nm quite absorbed by de-oxygenated hemoglobin) and palm skin ridges.

"Rather, the images are encrypted and sent to a highly secure area we custom-built in the cloud where we create your palm signature."

4) Weird approach to biometric template security to send palm picture to a server...

5) Curious how anti-spoofing is implemented, if at all.

edit: less agressive
>And then they get upset when they get nothing in return

Good point, I’m tracking you now and agree 100%. Thank you for clarifying
If you really mean a Note 1, it came out before Google started that requirement in 2012. If you mean a Note 10, those came out after Google announced they would stop the requirement in 2018 in reaction to the EU antitrust case (which specifically called out the enforced Chrome bundling as one of the things being punished)
The fees are one thing, but are those plastics actually disposed? At last burned?
Thank you for improving it. In fact, I prefer your first example and if I had thought about 30 extra seconds, I probably would have written something similar.

> 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.

Because that was just an example that came up in my mind in less than 10 seconds to make my point.

I am glad that people understood my point and even came up with better solutions to make my argument even stronger.
I totally agree on this, the pricing is not well thought, take HabitBull for example, the app is free for 5 goals and you can unlock the rest of features with unlimited goals for a one time purchase of $10.

That's a way better pricing model for this kind of apps in my opinion.
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The site has no RSS, I just made one for the newsletter, if anyone is interested.

https://kill-the-newsletter.com/feeds/edm2fk6qj0w2kzk8ci59.x...
> These standards were written in the blood of thousands of people who died or were severely maimed in accidents.

So were the European standards. They just tackled accident prevention more than accident survivability as the engineering goal.

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2018/11/23/u-s-finally-legalizes...

> But FRA rules had required significant design changes. Most important, American train cars had to be built to withstand 800,000 pounds of frontal impact. Former Amtrak CEO David Gunn complained U.S. trains had to be designed like “high-velocity bank vaults.” Rather than just bulk up, European and Asian trains instead are designed to absorb impacts and avoid collisions in the first place. And they have better safety records.
Oh dear. The mindset behind comments like this is not helpful at all.

Please stop perpetuating such arrant nonsense.
This is the only reasonable solution. I've got an OLED LG "TV", connected to an Apple TV and a receiver for proper audio (using HDMI ARC).

To turn everything on, I press a button on the Apple TV remote and everything is up and running within five seconds or so (from standby/sleep mode). Powering off the Apple TV also turns off the display and the receiver via HDMI CEC.

Edit: http://www.eiman.tv/misc/power-on.mov
He talks about that a Doctor is a Doctor and it's not important whats between the legs, it is a job and not a description of a person, super stupid that whole "für Benutzer*innen" and future generations will laugh about our Fascism.

It's not like "Die Erde" is a Woman but "Der Mond" is Male...never watched a dingdong on Moons surface.
> I want to understand how best to tweak and measure performance.

For the long term, make it a repeatable process, i.e. establish a bunch of test cases against which you run your tweaked code.
“If you want a task done quickly, ask a busy person to do it.”
> This assertion just assumes there's no room for optimization and / or improvement on already commercialized products and that the originating company got everything right in the first place.

It's not saying the improvement isn't an improvement, it's just saying that the improvement is useless until you reach sufficient scale.
And where are you getting all this knowledge from?
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Germany and the US are opposite ends of the spectrum. The US values general education highly. Germany values specialisation highly. Most places are somewhere in between. I often wonder why certain things require specialization in DE.
Their operations in India are financed by donations form Indians. From the linked update:

> For human rights work in India, it operates through a distinct model of raising funds domestically. More than four million Indians have supported Amnesty International India’s work in the last eight years and around 100,000 Indians have made financial contributions.
The main page is a SPA but the user guide isn't https://www.mindpad.io/user_guide at least for now.
It would be more helpful if you could substantiate your claims with some reliable references. Otherwise it is just throwing dirt at someone's work.
I just bought a Sony and it’s running google android TV and it has suddenly got ads for “staff picks” now. “Free” movies on YouTube.

https://streamingclarity.com/android-tv-staff-pick-highlight...
I haven't seen any of this behaviour on my Samsung TV yet, but I'm going to pay more attention to it now. And definitely avoid Samsung in the future.
> Either approach is valid. Having a choice about how to structure the data is not a bad thing.

I though the point of using a well defined markup language was exactly that it imposed a clear structure on your data.

In another sense, xml gives no options: your data is going to live in a string.
I upvoted somebody else's recommendation of NYRB, which has many excellent books. On the other hand, buying them new will get you twenty or twenty-five for $300. And as somebody else says, what do you consider the classics--Plato in Greek with a good critical apparatus, or SICP?

Oxford University Press's World Classics paperback series has very many good books at prices comparable to NYRB's.

One caution though: when much younger, I thought that I had accomplished something when I bought a book, and I wrote the date of purchase on the flyleaf. Eventually, I learned that the purchase, even if it took half or more of an hour's wage, was the least of the investment. That might argue for your stocking up more gradually.
> Paternal leave is a privilege, not a right.

So what?

> Not doing everything you possibly can to make everyone equal when it comes to sex is not sexism.

If something inherent in our society - having children - causes one gender to have unequal opportunity it's sexist to be against counter-measures due to some sort of bullshit "biology" argument.
i disagree. i think that age has passed and tvs without the netflix app will simply not be bought.

for myself, having no 4k hdr, no netflix, apple tv, youtube, bbc, and many others is a deal breaker when it comes to buying a new tv.
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I currently use a Matias Pro. It has an Esc key, but the truth is I'd like Esc as close as possible. I've experimented with CapsLock as Esc but I prefer CapsLock to swap languages, which I also do often.

Ah, the troubles we go through for the perfect HID!
Isn't that what work is referring to here?

I suppose work can refer to either the effort or to the deliverable.
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Would something like a tinyurl clone also be a good use case for this? On a first hand look, it does look good.
> That said I spend some time carefully picking which folders to include in the backup to avoid slowness and bloat.

What directories do you exclude? I feel like there must be lots of superfluous stuff in my backups but I don't understand macOS well enough to know for sure.
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The knowledge created by a PhD by definition has to be evaluated academically. If it can't be evaluated by peers, it can't be published.

I don't mean this in a superficial sense, I mean: there's no way for a PhD to be certified for investigating the kind of knowledge that's difficult to verify in that context. They can investigate it, but the system is only allowed to give them a qualification for academically verifiable results. It cannot verify esoteric knowledge (unless it can use consensus as a proxy).

Sure, they'll pick that stuff up with experience. We might be talking past each other. I read it as: they're hiring graduates. That might not be what OP meant.
so...

1. Order TV.

2. test if it works without agreeing to anything and without internet.

3. return if that's not the case.

I have yet to accept EULA on samsung on anything and it works...

Right now the ACR is troubling. Telling a remote server what you're watching... Only solution I found - not connected + hdmi to Linux box I control.
US Pandemic behavior? Try “food truck” in Google Trends
Someone recently asked GPT-3 to solve the collatz conjecture. The AI wasn't too optimistic...

https://philosopherai.com/philosopher/solve-the-collatz-conj...
> It dropped the overall US homelessness rate by 17% against the backdrop of the great recession [2]

It's practically tautological that if you give homeless people homes, then the number of homeless people decreases ( unless there was a time limit on the house and the measurement was done long-term).
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I am planning to sell my 18 years old domain .net domain. I've checked my domain value and some websites tell me +15k others +5k. Anyone had a sucessful domain sale, which service did you used? My domain is registered in Dotster, if that helps. You can check my domain by accessing my profile.
> * DuckDuckGo are probably a honeypot; they gather as much or more information as Google, and lie about it.

You should suggest https://searx.me to such people.

> * I don't care about privacy; I have nothing to hide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument

> * Even if I switch search engine, they'll probably get all my info some other way anyhow

Even if you make it just harder to them, it's a big deal on such scales, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_in_depth

> * Using DuckDuckGo as my search engine, when I'm using Android as my OS, seems like a waste of time, and I'm not buying a new phone.

Same as above.
Interesting. Does the Indian government have a legitimate complaint?

There is a very wide spectrum of possibilities here. They range from the Indian government being horrible, through localised corruption, through the government having very legitimate concerns about foreign interference, through to AI India being corrupt and/or in league with western intelligence agencies.
C# also has Linq to Xml and the XDocument et al. classes which are a nice way of reading / writing XML.

I personally like XML. It’s a bit on the verbose side, but that makes is way more easy to figure out the position in the tree than it is in JSON. It is also more easily extensible thanks to attributes and namespaces. It supports comments which is mandatory for any configuration format for obvious reasons. It has powerfull transformation engine as well as schema capabilities. JSON schema keep producing new draft of its spec, yet the result is not on par with XML, and more painful to write.

I’d like for XML to make a come back, not as the behemoth it was once, but for case it makes sense, and configuration files is definitely one of those.
If possible, make the device connected to HDMI turn on the TV via CEC, that should switch it to the correct input automatically.
"most of the north-east is converted [to christianity]" is surprising, but actually that's true, for several Indian states that are in the enclave eastern of Bangladesh (Nagaland, Mizoram and Meghalaya). Not "most" eastern states, though, only these ones.

I am certainly not in favor of acculturation, and I have no sympathy for religions such as christianity who advocate that nature exists just to be used by humans, however I am not sure that the current status is really evolving. These eastern states seem to have been converted long ago.
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Re. conversion - nilsocket, do you believe that every individual has agency in choosing their religion? Or do you believe that these choices should be made for them by “those that know better”? An analogy, do you think that your occupation should be something you can choose? Or should that choice be made for you by “those that know better”?

If the conversion is “forced” or “fake”, nothing changes on the ground anyway, and it doesn’t matter. If the conversion is genuine, why should society have a say on an individual’s belief?