skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The displays in the article are TVs for people who hate their eyeballs. If you are looking for a quality picture there's really no substitute for LG OLED. They are smart TVs but the features are unobtrusive and work well.

If you want extremely good picture quality and also insist on "dumb" the best you can get is a second-hand Pioneer or Panasonic plasma display. I don't think any of these ever had "smart" anything, and their image quality is top notch.
I believe paying ransoms for people already is illegal, at least in circumstances where the payment would be going to terrorist organizations. I'm under the impression this is the case in both the US and UK.
I have no problem with how Singapore operates. I thought the post above me said "I'd like to think that cities / countries of the future have lower inequality". I thought Singapore was a poor example of that.
They treat mistake/bug/problem as a failure of a developer or engineer, not something to be proactively looking for and taking as a lesson for both engineer and code improvement.
When I got the watch it was on a weekend and I figured the stand ring was useless because how do you manage to not stand once in an hour. Then monday hit and it was telling me to stand up every hour and it always feels like it was just 10 minutes ago since the last reminder.
> Also, here's the thing about "liberty": If you're not a hypocrite, you don't attempt to control other people or decide what decisions they're allowed to make (barring things that would directly harm others) whether you agree with them or not.

And this here is I believe the crux of the issue. As you say absolute liberty requires absolute capitalism. And absolute capitalism by design incentives a number of negative societal behaviors. And companies forced to compete with those that perform those negative behaviors have to chose to either adopt them as well or go out of business - pushing them to adopt those behaviors.

So the conclusion is absolute liberty causes negative behavior. The idealistic view is absolute liberty is the primary virtue of society. Or in my opinion the more accurate view, is that liberty like many other essential virtues must be balanced with other factors in society.

My interpretation of you perspective is that absolute liberty is essential, anything less is hypocrisy - and the way you manage those views is by downplaying the negative impacts of what capitalism incentivises.

And note, I'm not saying capitalism is wrong (I absolutely believe is the best approach for economic efficiency) simply that it, just like liberty cannot be absolute. It must be balanced with negative impacts on society.
Dumb TVs are disappearing, monitors are more pricey, and panels for digital signage even more; so why not attempting a different approach like gutting a smart TV then connecting the panel to an external driver?

It has been done with smaller monitors, through dirt cheap boards that made possible adding HDMI to old VGA-only panels, for example: https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?catId=0&initiative_id=S...

How difficult/expensive would be to scale the same solution to 4K panels?
Hacktoberfest Is Now Opt-In
> it can also predict the final states of collisions between other molecules. Even when that information just doesn't exist in the perfect a priori knowledge

Obviously the special molecule is a thought experiment to illustrate an idea under certain simplifying assumptions and extreme parameters, to understand the consequences. Nobody expects to make one.

And you are doing a proper job of arguing why it cannot work, as you are supposed to with a thought experiment.

But... it's not correct to reason that "it can't predict" when the "information just doesn't exist [...] a priori".

If the special molecule senses, computes and reacts entirely in the quantum realm itself, then its processing will be entangled with those other molecules.

Despite the absence of a priori final states, the special molecule is, in principle, able to select an entangled reaction to those final states anyway.

It's a bit like saying "I don't know if particle X will move to A or B later (and particle X hasn't decided either), but I can prepare myself into a state where if X moves to A then I will already be at A', and if X moves to B then I will already be at B'".

And if being at A' when X moves to A, or B' when X moves to B, means that X can't actually move to A or B, that entangled reaction will affect X so the question of A or B doesn't even arise in the first place.
I have an LG smart TV of some sort and haven't noticed any advertising on it at any point. Happy with it.
Place where there is no free speech is not modern for sure.
Factorio only has very basic gates. slightly more advanced than plain redstone, but not anything close to command blocks.

There are three types of combinators: arithmetic, decider, and constant.

Signals have a channel name (one for each item type and a few dozen other options) and an integer value.

Arithmetic combinators can perform arithmetic operations on one or all signals with one signal and a constant integer, or two signals.

Decider combinators perform comparison operations.

Constant combinators emit constant signals on a given channel.

There are also abilities to detect state on some other items and cause behavior to change, the equivalent of observers, dispensers, pistons, etc.

https://wiki.factorio.com/Circuit_network#Logic_signals
An early post on HN highlighted how it's the open source projects that get flooded with dummy PRs in the process of DO handing out all those t-shirts that is the problem. For DO it's just a minor marketing expense; for your OS project with several hundred PRs it's a giant problem
Yeah, I remember reading years ago a paper explaining the same for H.264 and why 10-bit encoding matters (even for 8-bit content). It was fascinating reason, btw.

AFAIK, there is also less banding issues even in 8-bit content, and the filesize is generally smaller too. The biggest reason against its usage is more computational power, though.
I got a tv with built-in Roku, and its actually pretty nice. I can change volume, select hdmi inputs and power on/off the tv with the Roku remote (and app) now.
What “The Social Dilemma” Gets Wrong [pdf]
Ah yes, Team Xecuter. The notorious. The infamous. The scoundrels! A household name, in fact. The textbook definition of organized crime! Our kids aren't safe with all these...video game console hackers. I can't believe a bunch of feds are getting paid to investigate and track down geeks in their basement. I think there's more important issues to focus on. Regardless of how you view this, I think we can all agree that it's a waste of resources. I think they should all go get a real job. Maybe Captain America will bust into some nerds house one day and beat the crap out of him for hacking his xbox. Would pay to see that movie. It probably wont come out though because it would make no sense at all.
Shouldn't something like Lasp[1] help to build better distributed and fault-tolerant systems of this scale? Or using the purer programming languages and frameworks, like Jane Street with OCaml, Standard Chartered with Haskell.

[1] https://lasp-lang.readme.io/docs
I just switched from android after using it for the last 10 years. Largely I find them to be the same, the few things that really bother me is the lack of a back button and the lack of having photos sorted in the gallery. Its stupid how my camera photos get mixed in with memes saved off the internet.

But the main reason by far I picked an iphone this time is Apple is not an advertising company and therefore doesn't have to disrespect my privacy. Its always comforting to open a page on an apple app and see a very plain text explanation of exactly what data the app stores, how it is always kept locally and if shared, apple only requests the bare minimum rights to provide the feature you are using.

And then you look at a Google ToS that says "We can and will do whatever we want"
Cute track from the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5lRcjC3bY4
Yep, it was the official Indian student group registered on campus. Nothing wrong with the association itself, but a large subset of it were Bio majors so I’d imagine that’s how many were involved.
Alternatively, I'm gay and even though I grew up in an area of the US which wasn't that homophoboic. I still hated myself for being gay enough that if I had an even slight attraction to women then I would have just killed off the male attraction side to me. If you're bi and grow up in a world where everything tells you that being gay is wrong, then that part of you that is attracted to guys will probably never get explored.
"Copyright circumvention device" is really a broad and dangerous definition. Pretty much every electronics lab contains at least one of these devices in the form of a logic analyzer, and network sniffing tools can be downloaded from every software repository.
Hacktoberfest Changes to Opt-In
I charge mine when I'm showering and when I'm eating dinner and that's more than enough.
Yes, I should probably clarify: the point of such a law is to _discourage_ the behavior, but not to actually _punish_ the ransom payer, since no jury is going to vote on putting grieving parents in jail. So you end up deterring ransom payments without actually introducing negative externalities.
I bought a Team Xecuter mod chip for my original Xbox years ago, and I got a lot of my early computer experience by participating in the modding scene of xbox games like Halo. I spent some time helping reverse parts of the file format used by the game. I loved finding and creating ways to remix the game's existing levels and gameplay. (I didn't have any interest in using mods to cheat online, and cheating was looked down on in the modding community. Besides being assholeish, there was nothing clever necessary in making or using a cheat mod online in Halo.)

In order to mod an xbox game, you needed to mod an xbox (through either installing a physical modchip or installing a software hack, which each had their pros and cons) so you could edit the game's files. Modding an xbox let you run unsigned software, including launchers which let you start homebrew software, homebrew games, and ripped retail games directly from the hard drive instead of the game disk. Many people would rip retail games they owned off of the game disk onto their hard drive so they could conveniently launch the game without putting the disk into the console or so they could make the game's files editable on the hard drive, but it is true that some people would borrow game disks to rip or just pirate games from the internet to their console's hard drive. It's true that the features for running homebrew software or ripping or modding your own games were useful to pirates, but to my knowledge, none of the software associated with the Xecuter chip I had or the popular launchers had any features that exclusively catered to pirates any more than Android's sideloading functionality caters to pirates.

If it's true that they continued to create tools for running homebrew software, adding convenience features, and modifying your own purchased software, then I find this news distressing. But if they did directly cater to and profit from being directly involved in piracy (like if they sold consoles preloaded with pirated games, or provided software preloaded with easy-install links to pirated games), then I'm a lot less sympathetic. I don't find it clear which case it is from the article. The article alleges it's the second case, but I'm suspicious they may be spinning the first category as the second.
Thank you for posting this. I've never been able to tell what "loss" meant in media reports. I've had instances where I don't have much of a sense of smell, but I can still smell certain strong odors.
So were they denying clearances to openly gay people back in the old days? Because there wouldn’t be potential for blackmail in that case. Sorry I can’t tell what you’re saying changed about the policies.
Well, first I dont think anyone is blaming Apple for resaving privacy for wealthy.

Second being iPhone users continues to grow. Although at a much slower pace. So there must be some kind of reason people are still jumping from Android to iPhone.
This maybe true, but Google Ads even on YouTube is way less invasive than Samsung ones. And BTW, YouTube Premium disable all ads, while there is no way to have a ad-free experience on Samsung.
Yep I totally agree with you on that, I was just commenting on the free pizza thing :)
> That's all good if your sink supports sinking 20V, but some don't.

It's not like you go directly to 20, you go one step at a time.

> Sources can support more and it's not against the spec, as long as you detect the 5A cable.

They can but how many do? If you want to play nice you shouldn't require that for your device.
This is definitely not the field you're looking for. Anything like a nice invisibility cloak is probably impossible, but you would start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamaterial
"Traditional" watch designs differentiate mens and womens watches mostly by size, and there are already two different sizes of Apple Watch.
What's their market share like?
Twitter Announces Changes to Image Cropping Amid Bias Concern
No matter what you do, a smart watch will always look worse than a regular watch without seriously crippling the watches features. If you want something that looks nice then get a normal watch. The core feature of a smart watch is fitness tracking. I love using mine for going on a run and seeing my heart rate as well as switching music. And then if I stop at a cafe I can use it to pay. All without bringing any phone or wallet with me.
It looks like the question surveyed was just "When somebody loses weight, where does it go?" The reason why FM physicians got this wrong is most likely just a framing issue. It's not a wrong answer; fats are broken down by beta-oxidation and the products are used in oxidative phosphorylation to generate ATP - which is then used for energy.

Honestly the question itself seems opaque and intentionally vague to generate surprising results. It's like asking a chemist "What happens to bonds during IR spectroscopy?" and then when they start talking about induced dipoles you say,"WRONG! The bonds stretch!!"
I have to admit I skimmed the parent and didn't read the comment correctly. I have to take back what I said.
Did it change at some point? Back when I drank soft drinks I had become a diet soft drink consumer and Coke Zero was a godsend as being at least somewhat like actual Coke.
I gave away my TV a little over a year ago now, with absolutely no regrets.

But if I still had one, I’d definitely be looking into rooting it specifically so I could uninstall all the bloat they now come with and ensure it doesn’t try and connect to the internet, or break itself while trying.
AirPods could do it. AirPods could accurately take your temperature as well.

I'm hoping this will happen. I don't wear my AirPods continually, unlike my watch; but I do wear them daily, and pretty consistently while exercising.
Tokyo: Two men arrested over deepfake pornography videos
I have a charger on my bathroom counter by my sonicare charger. Charge it while showering/brushing teeth/etc...
At one point...not that many years ago....samsung was using excel spreadsheets for bug tracking in house....and that's the beginning of the rabbit home. Let them sink in.
Or someone illegally transporting a gun across state lines and using it for "self-defense"
If I take my series 6 of the charger at 07:00 and wear it all day and all night, when I wake up at 07:00 again its at 50% charge. I can then charge it while having a shower. This seems to work fine for me. I take my watch off anyway while having a shower so putting it down on the charger is no issue.
Under the hood of calling C/C++ from Python
The days of Xbox hacking are long over. Xecuter's stuff has been subtly or not so subtly targeted squarely at piracy for many years now. They have also done things like try to detect "piracy" of their own software and brick consoles in response (with inevitable false positives), which is utterly against the spirit of any kind of legitimate console hacking/homebrew.

I've been involved in the console hacking scene since the PS2 times and a major developer for one generation, and I won't shed a single tear for these guys.

Legitimate console homebrew these days is pretty much all done in the open and not for profit now, usually via software exploits. Where hardware is necessary, which is rare, it is usually open hardware. The companies trying to do things for profit are pretty much all catering to the piracy crowd.
I remain grumpy that Google and Apple's petty little spat means that a cellular Watch won't work on Fi.
If you don't play Factorio, let me tell you this is absolutely freaking nuts. Even the 16-bit ALU in Minecraft from 10 years ago seems like child's play compared to this.
I have a 65 inch samsung tv that kept popping up on my network. I put it on an isolated wifi network once to get the firmware updates. After I did that I turned it back off.

But it keeps trying to come back for just a moment every couple of days. I had to ban its mac address since there was no way to get it to stop in the settings or after factory resets.
Our Sony is about 10 years old now, and still works fine. Not only do newer TVs not have any features we want to pay for, but most of them are too big for our living room. We don’t have some gigantic suburban McMansion.
Google (like Apple) is trying to claim that the only harm Epic has suffered is fortnite being kicked off the play store.

That's not how Epic see it. Epic think the harm is that they are unable to do payments the way they want and smoothly run their own games store on phones. They even claim that Google is blocking them from making deals with phone manufactures about bundling their games store on certain phones out of the box.
Yeah, I feel like this event is probably dead now. No way that maintainers will willing subject themselves to spam PRs by opting-in. Anyway, I feel like allowing PRs before this point to count as valid is silly. Haven't 70k people already submitted 4 spam PRs in their own repo by now?
You can't take two cases and extrapolate any meaningful conclusions from it.

On top of that, hand waving away the death of people because they are fat or elderly is both incorrect and pretty fucking callous.
People used iTunes despite its terrible performance on Windows so they could sync their iPod and buy music on the iTunes music store.

GIMP is arguably no more complex than Photoshop, it's just badly designed. And the UX is inconsistent with the look and behavior of pretty much every other app on Mac/Windows.

Popularity is the sum of a number of factors, and simplicity is just one of them. It may not even be the primary factor. I think we've had a bit of a reset, spearheaded by Apple, because bad UX got out of control, but phones are still gaining more features not less. We just have to make sure that the race for features doesn't get too far ahead of the UX teams having time to make it good.
you're like the blackberry guy who thinks the iphone sucks because it doesn't have a physical keyboard. nobody cares
Isn’t that normal? I thought studying past exams is how it works, but the questions improve so you still have to understand the topics.
save web page into a complete single file
https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile
You're right, of course. What went unsaid is that with these offers the strong temptation is to move out to areas where you truly want to live, not to just another slightly cheaper large metro area with jobs.

Everyone I know who took these moves went to places like a large farm out nowhere, or a cabin deep in the forest, or to a small village in the mountains or on a faraway beach. Places which defined paradise to each individual, with wonderful quality of life (but no jobs).

Personally I was very strongly tempted to move to Kona (Hawaii) keeping my full silicon valley salary. Not exactly a hotbed of replacement tech jobs though, so I guess I'm glad I didn't.
This is the current #1 reason I refuse to work for any SV companies. Before, it was their shiny veneer of fanciness that barely covers the shitty working conditions. I see nothing but continuous witch hunts targeting people who didn't toe even the most ridiculous lines quickly enough. I can't imagine the anxiety of walking on eggshells 24/7 only to wake up one morning crucified online for an opinion that was mainstream less than a decade ago.

What scares me is how ingrained in every SV company this is now. Nearly every company monopolizing some corner of my Internet life continuously spouts this rhetoric in terror. It makes me wonder what they are afraid of.

"If you don't like X, then start your own." I watched Hatreon get shut down by Visa and probably every other processor. Is their name stupid? Yes, but that's not the point. I would bet you dollars to donuts they worked ten times harder than Patreon to comply with US laws and regulations. They knew they were going to be under a microscope. It didn't matter one bit.

Everyday, the Internet and the companies who sit on it are becoming more central to our lives. We are already close to an informal Social Credit System in the US. How long will it be until watching the wrong politician's speech on YouTube means you can't get a mortgage? Can't get a middle class job? Is that where we want to be? It's not where I want to be. It's not where the vast majority wants to be, and it's scaring us.
What if I don't want to talk while running? Or under water?
I posted something similar in the other thread about this. This change probably kills Hacktoberfest imo. What maintainers would want to subject themselves to spam PRs by opting-in. Anyway, I feel like allowing PRs before this point to count as valid is a bad idea. I would guess that 70k people already submitted 4 spam PRs in their own repo by now following the tutorials that have been posted for this.
Security isn’t binary. This mechanism is more secure than no 2FA, because off the shelf malware isn’t gonna prod around your local network and look for a self built finger contraption. Furthermore, if someone does trigger it, the thing will move and you’ll hopefully realise you’re haxx’d.
Not exactly. They upload fingerprint to see if it matches known content. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_content_recognitio...
I wish the Computer History Museum would do an "Oral History" video with him. Such a fascinating individual with monumental contributions to tech.
I tried one on at an expo before a half-marathon years ago. I also borrowed one from my trainer to see how I liked it (it is expensive and he was actually planning to sell it to get the latest iteration). The battery life and utility for offline use are fantastic. But, it was also really damn heavy. Noticeably heavy (maybe the latest incarnations aren't so heavy?). As someone who always wears a watch, but usually ones with few complications and relatively small (compared to many men's watches) it was uncomfortable.

That was my biggest take away and the main reason (besides the fact I don't do any long backpacking trips anymore so the offline mapping and really long battery life were less critical) I selected the Apple Watch. A watch, to me, shouldn't make you notice it's presence whenever you move your arm. Plus they're even more expensive than the Apple Watch.
Sadly apple watch is the only real product that's making any attempts are iterating to more cases. But the tie in to iphones is sad.

Everyone else is still regurgitating the same garbage with their watches.