skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh I love visiting my friends and hooking all their IOT things back up to the internet! Last time I enabled Alexa on everything. Now they can turn on their microwave from the bathroom! It's truly glorious! They really love it. They were especially thankful when they were able to check if the toilet overflowed while they were on vacation in china.

hehe just kidding.
It looks interesting, but the lack of pricing information suggests it to be unreasonably high (plus unnecessary hassle: truly "business").

What did you pay?
That’s closer to the truth in my experience.
Maybe they will build in free 5g but then can’t you just disable it? If they made a tv that could only work with a 5g connection that would be terribly inconvenient and a huge disadvantage.
Antivirus updates of course. Why? Because you connected it to the internet to receive updates!
This makes a lot of sense about why my priors were wrong. Thanks! (always gotta check your priors)
Who do you think is going to create all the content you want to read? The number of people willing to put the amount of time and effort required into writing a book without a profit motive is very low. The outcome is going to be the same. Except instead of having your access to copyrighted material restricted, it simply won’t exist.
Why are you so quick to blame "backwards attitudes" when this behaviour is simply to meant to compensate for discrimination against Asians in college admissions? (https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-many-sins-...)

Asians with far better scores are deemed to be less worthy due to "uninteresting personalities" than others far less qualified.

I don't think it's difficult to understand why the children of people motivated enough to emigrate for better opportunities would themselves be ambitious and would want to establish themselves with stable, high performing careers (having almost no generational wealth to fall back on.)
In related news.
Team Xecuter is hiring again. hazard pay.
A lot of these "bugs" are just backdoors that countries might force them to include. When caught they call it a bug.
I've lived in the mountains near Santa Fe for 20 years and every day I'm grateful that I'm here. Although with my head down in a computer it's sometimes easy to take this place for granted.
Looks cool, but no price in sight. Doesn't bode well.
> It's not necessarily even possible to have two copies of some of the systems; who knows how expensive a given vendor's hardware box is.

Given you are running a stock exchange, chances are you have enough money for at least one copy.
To answer your first two questions: yes and yes.
One of the charges is "trafficking in circumvention devices" that's a huge concern! If they are successfully charged as such it's going to set a horrible precedent!
I wonder why you are getting downvoted so much.
I don't know how common bi-men are (probably more than bi erasure makes us believe) but it feels like a least a portion of them are not ready to come out as bi.
Or it can just be a single string of arbitrary length.
2 and 3 are true, 1 is more debatable. Gini coefficient of Japan is quite higher than most European countries, though it measures income not wealth. US are at 0.39, Japan at 0.34, most Western European countries below 0.3.

A lot of people here also base their thinking on visits to Japan, but that's sampling bias. Poverty is less obvious than in the US or even Europe, but Japan poverty rate is at ~15.5 %, much closer again to the US (~17.5 %) than to Western European countries, closer to 10 % or even below.

There are plenty of "dead" cities in Japan that are depopulating fast, but they are not on a typical tour when you visit the country. Some of them are < 1 hour of train from center Tokyo.
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10604465 from 2015. Thanks!
You can get an entire RPi computer for $10. It all depends on what you call a computer.
It can be helpful to do this with someone you highly trust and is sober. If you are ever worried, you can ask them if you are doing anything weird and they can reassure you. Or if you find yourself in a situation you dont want to deal with, you dont have to. ie: you get food to buy, but are too anxious to interact with someone and actually pay, or whatever.
In some cases, mandatory compliance measures even worsen security with rules such as requiring some kinds of characters in a password for instance.
I thought it was this even scarier chemical, also with the same acronym: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricresyl_phosphate
To be honest I don't understand why people use mobx this way. I mean short life store objects, populated by props, that are recreated every mount. Might as well just use React state and save the overhead. You might say, because I have several components using the same business logic and fields and such, I can inject the same store into multiple components. I would say that logic can go in functions which take React state as their argument. You don't need a global state management tool to separate business logic from the view.
The WiFi rumor is plausible because it's free for them, the LTE story is not because it would be quite expensive in multiple dimensions.
I don't know about today, but judging from the old checkout cards my library used to use when I was a kid books could be checked out quite a bit more than 26 times. The average would be quite a bit lower because many books are only rarely checked out.

One thing I dislike about library ebooks is how thin the selection is. It should be trivial for the publisher to offer every ebook ever published. It's insane that they felt the need to port the concept of scarcity to the digital world. ebooks should have something like the compulsory licensing system used for songs.
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Good to know that the DOJ works tirelessly to make the world a better and safer place
Gary Bowser is a proper name for a real life videogame villain. Name checks out.
I'm talking about cheating in high school. It worked in terms of college admissions (presumably these students cheated in college to get into med school, but I can't speak to that with certainty).
Another jap article, can't go a week on HK without mentioning japan this, japan that.
Unfortunately, a large part of it can only really be solved by making the world and the laws of the world safer for the LGBTQ community.

I do what I can in terms of promoting certain ideas, creating informational resources, etc. But I am just one person and yadda.

As long as it is okay to jail or kill people merely for being gay, no amount of security will ever really make it safe.

In the meantime, perhaps someone should blog about "dating security best practices for the LGBTQ crowd" or something like that. (It won't be me. I'm just tossing the idea out there.)
It may sound like a folk tale but to me at least it doesn't seem like a dumb strategy: Lots of people won't connect the TV to their home WiFi either because they're concerned about data collection or just because they don't want to spend time and effort on it. Most would consent to the TV's terms of service though, especially if a considerable amount of features are locked in case you decline. So if the TV manufacturer can sell its customers' viewership data for more than the cost of the LTE connection on average then there's a clear incentive to do it.

Apart from that I'd always assume the worst case when it comes to digital self-defense.
That violates corporate IT policy which expressly instructs me to touch the key with one of my fingers.
Super Mario 64 reference.

I think they changed it for Super Mario 3D All Stars.
I mean : why are they allowed to make it an auction ?
If the goal is to break their stronghold on Android, it sounds like it should be mandated as free ?
Global inequality doesn't go away just because we close our eyes to it.

Yes, Singapore has special visas for people to come as construction workers or maids. Some Google suggests they make about 800 SGD/month in basic pay in construction

Alas, if Singapore wouldn't hire them, not only would the city lose out on infrastructure projects, but the construction workers would lose out on high paying jobs. (High paying relative to the alternatives for them.)

Yes, not hiring them would technically decrease measured inflation in Singapore, but that would be functionally equivalent to deporting your poor people in an effort to decrease measured inequality inside your borders.
The relationship between the smarts and tv are sometimes underrated. It's one less connection to act up. When adjusting picture settings there aren't two independent layers of settings that don't interact with each other.

I was in the dumb tv camp, but I think having all my settings in one menu has converted me a bit.

If you're plugging in a roku or fire anyway just get a roku or fire tv and avoid the extra complexity of the interface handshake.
I think it's backwards to believe that the measure of your life is how prestigious a college you went to, or how much money you make, especially if these goals lead you to cheat and lie to advance.
If the laws were passed then what do you expect them to do?
I am a Pelican user and I love it. My blog is made with Pelican. I also tried Hugo, Gatsby, and Jekyll, but they require much more orchestation than Pelican. There are two areas that can be improved: documentation and themes. I got difficulties trying to customize my blog (syntax highlighting, integration with jupyter notebooks, latex support, and so on). Most of the time the answers were in another blog, not in the docs. Also, the default theme is not attractive for new users. That prevents them to even give it a try.
I think the dichotomy you’re pointing will affect Facebook’s legal tactics, but has no bearing on the privacy risk they need to defend against. In both cases, Facebook has an API that served data for some authorized client for a specific purpose (users browsing Facebook, users taking a quiz), but really there’s some entity pulling the strings and misusing the client to amass user data (collecting data associated with users who took the quiz, collecting data associated with users browsing on Facebook).
Social engineering trick: "Hey can you take our picture, my phone is dead, so can you just email it to me?"
You do realise that your wife's Bantu-speaking ancestors displaced the Khoi and San (also known as bushmen) when they invaded the area which is now known as Botswana I hope? If you insist on decolonising Botswana it is not the western coloniser (who gave up its colonies in 1966) who bears the brunt of shame but the Bantu-speaking Kalanga since they displaced the original population - the Khoi and San go back a long time, back to the dawn of Homo Sapiens Sapiens. If your wife descends from Tswana-speaking people she doesn't escape guilt since the Bakgalagadi moved into the southern Kalahari which was, again, previously inhabited by the San and Khoi. Or did she maybe descend from the Toutswe who came out of the east and invaded parts of the territory now known as Botswana? Or maybe she descends from the Bakwena who moved into the southern Kalahari and displaced the Bakgalagadi (who earlier on had displaced the San and Khoi)? Should she descend from the Bangwaketse she has ancestors who occupied parts of western Botswana, if instead she has her ancestry with the Bangwato she'll be sad to learn that her ancestors occupied parts of Botswana which were formerly held by the Kalanga. Eventually the Batawana moved into the Okavango delta, one of the last refuges for the Khoi and San in Botswana so if she descends from them the memory of her ancestors' guilt is still fresh - the late 1700's.

Maybe it is better to take history as it is, learn lessons from where things went wrong so those mistakes are not repeated and look forward instead of back?
Gig workers are going to become a larger part of the workdorce. Can't put the genie back in the bottle. Full time employment for the service sector will continue to go down. It's either this or outsourcing.

As of now benefits (health insurance, retirement benefits, unemployment etc.) are too tightly coupled to the employer and are very lopsided in terms of tax benefit. This is basically a legacy system from WW2 era.

Laws need to be updated to provide more rights to gig workers and benefits should be accessible in proportion to hours worked, preferably independent from the employer.

Ideally a contractor who works 10 hours a week should cost 25% of an FTE.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_enforcement
This issue is incredibly strange and severe.

One thing I did notice, though: The timestamps on the Twitter DMs, which were used as evidence to assert that they're unresponsive in DMs, cover a time period of 90 minutes. The language the twitter client is set to is also not english (maybe French? the original discovery was made by someone who lives in France. I don't know), which introduces the possibility that it wasn't even daytime in the US when those were sent.

I'm all for publicly announcing these things (in a responsible way) and forcing a quicker response from the company, and its also likely that Troy tried to reach out on his own, but I just think that screenshot is a bad example of a company not responding to DMs. If it had been 48 hours to a week, then I'd be in the concerned camp.
I technically get it, but it’s amazing you’d design a solution that didn’t handle this. Seems like the pattern now is “just use usba anyway”
Any digital TV could have a software bug that bricks it.
My advice is to stop seeing a “smart tv” as a feature and see it as an expensive piece of equipment subsidised by extra advertising revenue. Don’t get upset about this, just understand it for what it is. Now, what can you do about it? Easy, don’t connect it to the internet. They will tell you that it needs updates but come on, what is a security vulnerability going to to to something that’s only output is a screen and audio? So there is your answer. Don’t use the smart features, plug in something you trust like a raspberry pi and use the expensive part of the product (the screen itself) without incurring the cost (the advertising they were using to subsidise the screen)
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I find it strange to say Sony isn't a leader in electronic hardware, at least using it as a blanket statement. Some divisions are clearly innovative. For example, they make the best camera sensors bar none and camera sensors are cutting edge and hard to design and manufacture. Nobody comes close to Sony from my understanding from some camera experts that I work with. They are also working on sensor like this https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/14/21258403/sony-image-senso..., which if it works could be huge for the AV industry. There could be a lack of innovation in japan as a whole, but could that be because you just aren't aware of it? Both Honda and Toyota manufacture fuel cell cars, something that always seemed 10 years out, then all of a sudden it popped up for sale. So it seems strange to say that Toyota isn't innovative, simply because they aren't a leader in one specific area that they were previously. It could be that they aren't experts in CG, but I highly doubt a country can be a world leader in every single field in technology.
Any TCL or Hisense on sale is going to be better than Sceptre. Sceptres quality control is also horrendous, there was a time when one in three panels was shipping to me cracked. They make great ultra cheap monitors, but for the extra hundred or so bucks get a TCL.
Nice post, but the author acknowledges that his terminology is wrong. What he is calling "hardness" is actually called "toughness", hardness is resistance to penetration. There are a few typos. But other than that, this is an excellent post.

If you're reading this Bret, that is some terrific research and writing! Thank you!
That sounds like a problem with your company first and foremost. If you ignore useful information from people you dislike, your competitors will innovate faster than you.
Faster than light was never the problem. Einstein's Theories forbid as fast as light, but say nothing about faster than light travel. Of course, one probably must pass y to get to x.

Also, it seems pretty clear that Wolfram does not understand the concept of Warp drive, which is not used to propel the craft, but instead used to warp space to come to the craft, because there is nothing preventing space from traveling faster than light, and, indeed, the expansion of the Universe causes distant galaxies to recede from ours faster than the speed of light. So there you have it, we already have proof of faster than light travel, so we know it is possible.

But if FTL travel is not a one way trip, it will tend to introduce causality issues. Say you're somewhere far away and observe some event on Earth that arrived by the speed of light, like maybe a lotto drawing or who wins a game. You could zip back FTL, arrive before the lotto drawing or the result of the game, and bet on those numbers or the game winner. If you were far enough away, you could observe your own birth, and possibly zip back fast enough prevent that from occurring. The Universe may allow FTL travel, but I doubt it will allow such paradox.
Hypothetically because I’d be using it as a monitor part time and using the built in shit the other part of the time? In actuality I do as you suggest and don’t ever connect the thing to the internet. Operation Weeping Angel was enough to convince me of that.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/weeping-angel/
What's really concerning is that "smart" TV's are no longer an upgrade, but the standard. You practically cannot find a new dumb 4k TV. When I went to purchase one recently, Best Buy at least had no other option.
Rick did a sim (ulation) swapping attack once or twice too.
All concepts can be victims of wordplay regardless of the complexity of the concept. Logic is Logic and religion is religion. These two words are concepts.

The word "Philosophy" combining the concepts like religion, morality, science and logic into a singular field of thought is called "word play" because the very definition of "Philosophy" is the combination of several of these concepts. Logic is used by math but it is not math, logic is used by science but it is not science. Could one say the same about philosophy? Can you remove all those concepts of religion and morality and science from philosophy and does the word "philosophy" have enough merit like "logic" to stand on it's own without resting on the shoulder of actual concepts?

The answer is no. The reason is because philosophy itself has no meaning it is simply a grouping of concepts and therefore "word play." My main argument in this entire thread is that the grouping that "philosophy" encompasses is arbitrary and flawed. Religion and Logic do not belong in the same group.
> Blacksmiths were one of the few professions who could make their own tools and consequently any experienced smith would likely have a wide range of tools produced to fit his needs and preferences.

Just like software engineering
I’m happy with my TV from Spectre, though it’s speakers aren’t good so I have separate ones set up
The culture was already there when I joined the team, 8 years ago - but for me, it started with the on-boarding process when someone new was hired. They were introduced via email to everyone, including a short bio. Everyone else responded in kind, so your first week was already a lot of informal conversations getting to know everyone. Then it just continued - we'd all help new folks get up to speed, ask them how things were going... it felt natural from day one.
Currently $379.99 (usually $429.99) and $239.99 (usually $299.99 at Walmart.

Impressive! Electronics are quite a bit cheaper in the USA than in Germany. If quality is similar the panel won't be that great (but not terrible), the UI that is there will be very unimpressive and three's no proof on the web the model actually exists. I hope it's better.
What about 5g makes it cheaper than 3g or 4g for this use case?
Have you considered org-mode to markdown and ikiwiki? That seems to be the simplest single-user publishing system I’m aware of.
Wikipedia is running php 7.2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version so no. That said, new features do get used when they make sense, so we are definitely not maintaining back compat with ancient versions of php.

(This includes a couple usages of traits, traits is just not something super common in mediawiki, but there are some cases where they are used)
It makes automated testing of pw reset flow easier. Otherwise you'd need some out of band method to get the token.
Most public libraries offer Inter Library Loans that afford access to a far wider range of content.
Looks like $599
I may be climbing up the wrong tree here, but I genuinely get the impression that the OP is actually from the US, and wants to leave it.

Or am I reading in between the lines of the cryptic opening post too much? Dunno ...
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Which brand is that so we can avoid it?
My main problem with smart TVs is that they might take a while to turn on.
All smart TV's are dumb if you don't connect them to the Internet.
You can't deny that a high enough dose can pretty much be psychosis. It's temporary most of the time.
Agree. I use pihole + Roku with my dumb tv and it feels like a good balance. The pihole also gets rid of the big ad on the channel screen
I remember deleting the introduction movie file because 5MB sounded like a good space saved.
"The median 1-bed price in San Francisco last month was $2830, a 20.3% decrease from a year ago. Not only is this drop among the largest yearly decreases Zumper has ever recorded in our history of tracking rental prices, but it was also the first time the median 1-bed price in San Francisco was priced below $3000. These combined trends show just how drastically the market has changed in the nation’s most expensive city to rent."

- https://www.zumper.com/blog/zumper-national-rent-report-octo...
As long as users know what the extension is doing, hope the extension owners win. Facebook has a choice to boot the users if they don't like them giving credentials to the extension.
Just get a projector.
This might end poorly for Facebook.
That's thousands of dollars, though, innit?
The only people who are shot as an unavoidable consequence of their own actions are people who commit suicide or shoot themselves by accident.

Anything else is consequence of someone else’s intent to kill them, or negligence.
Modern high end TVs, such as those from Samsung, intercept all video coming from every HDMI port and use content recognition on it for ad targeting.

Granted: never put it online, and never use the smart stuff bundled with it, and you should be fine (assuming there's no critical software updates it needs to function, which has also happened). But its still disgusting behavior.
The media can do the same - tell any story they want from the facts. And that's how you end up with headlines about "fiery but mostly peaceful protests"
https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/build-scripts.html...
Sure, you may not connect it to the Internet, but you might have a guest over that logs into their Netflix account while you're in the other room.
A previous coworker of mine had a sticky note with "LONGITUDE FIRST, LATITUDE SECOND" (or something to that effect) stuck to the wall in her office.