skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can be summarized as "we live in challenging times, subscribe to my newsletter". The next post is generic fill-sentences https://medium.com/@emmmmmmmm/out-of-the-box-fb3a08654109 I'm actually surprised one can write so much content without, well, containing content.
Surely someone with grueling stamina has shown an ability to withstand infection that would have interrupted that stamina.
Inb4 Samsung+, a monthly subscription for those who want an ad-free experience. Recurring revenue is king.
Pour one out for Visicalc, the precursor to Excel/Lotus and the 'killer app' of 1979 for the Apple II!

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

Flash forward to 1997, and a key part of the deal for MS investing in Apple is...you guessed it, Excel on the mac.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxOp5mBY9IY&t=2m0s

Funny to think about next time some engineer is telling you how this or that new cloud software will 'totally replace spreadsheets.'

Spreadsheets powered the personal computing revolution - single handedly determined the winner of the OS wars (when people fled to first DOS and then windows after MSFT build Lotus into Excel).

Like em or hate em, spreadsheets are here to stay.
> It should be illegal for anybody to access resolved criminal records if they don't have a direct reason pertaining to the safety or security of others.

> It's not your job as an employer or hiring manager to judge someone's mistakes, only their aptitude to perform a job.

I have no horse in this race, so my opinion is mostly out of ignorance, but I believe that this formulation isn't entirely correct. In a sense employers should be allowed to make stupid decisions; the problem is when too many employers make correlated decisions leaving out a innocent chunk of the population.
> This should just straight out be forbidden and regulation is the only way out of it.

Ok, but also on the internet, radio and in newspapers.
"You too can become an NBA player!"

You have the opportunity if you work hard enough. Isn't it incredible ; )

But not everyone can do it.

Wait -- if not everyone can do it, then is it really an opportunity? Or only for "those who can"?
Don't connect your TV to the internet.

I have ~5 years old Samsung smart tv.
I've disconnected it from the network almost a year ago.

I have cheap Android tv box for all my "smart" needs, I will probably replace it with a mini pc once it die.
Those moves only makes me want more control over my setup.
Correct, this thread (and the tool linked to it), breaks down what that looks like across localities -> https://twitter.com/jmhorp/status/1221828310000271361
They scrape all of your contacts and create ghost profiles to better track connections of even people who do not use their services.

Apple does this too. Well, did - not sure if they still do.
Leo - as other folks have noted it is a major assumption to think that VCs are good at calculating the expected values of companies in which they make investments. The fundamental randomness is so high here that any ranking a VC made would likely be garbage - the sample size of investments is not nearly high enough to come to a precise viewpoint on expected value of one good deals vs another. As an analogy, if this was a regression the standard errors would be massive, so much so that each investment would not be statistically significantly different from one another in terms of expected return. I think it’s plausible that they’d be able to distinguish best from absolute worst, but best from slightly less good? No way.

I think a more realistic “model” of a VCs behavior is one of thresholding - set the bar somewhere and invest in any company that seems to be above that quality bar, with some stochasticity as to which deals you actually win in the end.
Copy pasting my comment from above:
Someone in a previous thread mentioned Sceptre TVs. They are dumb. Incredibly low priced but quality models available (55" 4k HDR HDMI 2.0 for $300) [1]. They have 30yrs experience. Seems a good company. Have high-end models too.

[1] https://www.sceptre.com/TV/4K-UHD-TV/U550CV-UMRD-55-4K-UHD-T...

Anybody here have one?
Users of TVs, wow. I remember when they were not more difficult to use than a door bell.

I'm always more convinced that I'll end up with a monitor, a Raspberry, a stereo speaker and possibly a DVBT decoder.
You may be right, and perhaps it would be better to relax the requirements, letting them flow from the critical software (PII, risk to life and limb) downwards.

So if I want to make a new radiation therapy machine, I won't be able to pull in random crap from NPM. My software will need a PE sign-off, and so will my dependencies. This will hopefully lead to some OSS libraries getting certified (perhaps with corporate interest funding the certification), creating an excuse/incentive for other companies. Now some bank will notice that a third-party app they use internally has eaten their data several times, causing monetary loss, and it'll decide that going forward, PE-certified software is prioritized during procurement. Creating incentive for non-critical software vendors to get their software certified. Etc.

I'm not sure if the dynamics would play out this way, but it seems plausible. The goal here is to retain free experimentation - I'd hate to end up in a world where you aren't allowed to use a Turing-complete language without a license - while at the same time forcing responsible software practices where they matter.
I am the original author. I don't disagree with anything you said here, but it does not seem it contradicts what I am trying to say. Probably my article was a bit unclear on this point.

The connection between freedom of speech and privacy was just an example of how privacy affect other rights, too. I used it because I did not want to be too abstract. I used just one example, because I did not want to write too much on this. I wanted to write something that could be shared and read by a few people, rather than just hardcore privacy enthusiast.

Actually I really like your observations. Frankly this is another way (maybe a better one) to say what I was thinking:

>Privacy is about denying other people the information that they may use to obtain power over you in some way.
> why can't I just pay more and opt out

Because they one day realised they can make you pay more and show you ads to get both of the moneys

Honestly this is why I fully back adblockers of all kinds. Companies associated with ad tech would do much worse if they thought they could get away with it
Spotify reads a webcam to hide ads when the viewer is not looking at the app?

Or it pauses ads when the app is muted?
I don't use Spotify, but have you tried using Flatseal[0], to modify the folder access of the application?

[0]: https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.github.tchx84.Flatseal
wow, amazing news!
I had one ~eight years ago. It worked fine. Not a cinophile though, so can't really comment on anything there. Am a gamer; no noticeable smearing and no detectable input lag greater than any other TV. We ended up getting rid of it after a move caused it to get damaged. Only thing really of note I can remember was it was fairly heavy, but I never compared it against other TVs being sold around that time so can't say it was due to the brand.
I'd imagine any one of cell networks, mesh connections to nearby tvs, partnering with xfinity for wifi (or similar in China), jumping onto your neighbor's unsecured wifi, etc.
Why do people equate capitalism with "Fuck everyone, get money"?

Sure, the people who have the majority of the world's wealth may be unsavory, ruthless folks, but let's not toss the baby out with the bathwater.

Capitalism is the alternative to state-controlled commerce.

If you believe in (here we go with the cringe term) liberty, then you cannot on-premise agree with an economic system that isn't capitalism.

(Whether capitalism ever works out in-practice is another argument entirely. My theory is that given any long-enough amount of time, a small group of actors will amass hugely disproportional wealth, and then start gaming/breaking the system for everyone else, as seems to be human nature.)

It gets really tiring (especially in modern tech culture) to say "I'm a capitalist" and then have people dogpile on you, asking why you want to pillage the environment and steal all the wealth, etc etc.

And then you have to explain, "I want none of that. I just don't want anyone telling you how to live your life, and to have as many opportunities as you can create for yourself."

I say all of this as someone who grew up exceedingly poor, in trailer parks eating peanut butter and crackers, with no higher education.

There are shitty people everywhere. Because some humans are murderers, does not mean all humans are murderers. Become some people are twisted, unethical capitalists, does not mean all capitalists are twisted and unethical.

At some stage of hyper-capitalism, when you hit "oligarch" levels, you've stopped representing capitalistic ideals because you have created a less-free market than when you entered.
My nonintenernet connected tv takes probably 5ish seconds to boot. Which for a tv is crazy long but it's a low end westinghouse tv that I've never connected to my network. I use chromecast with it, so google can spy on me instead I suppose.
Excel's notion of what is "CSV" and syntax of its formula language is locale dependent for as long as I care about that. Notably, for locales that use ',' as decimal point excel uses semicolons as separators in both its "C"SV format and formulas.

What changed in last few version is that excel started to distinguish whether you are "opening" an CSV file (eg. by double clicking it) or "importing" it and the former tends to lead to various kinds of random breakage in presence of the aforementioned (mis-)feature.
Charges filed in hack that caused NFL athletes nude pics to be posted on Twitter
This is getting slightly more difficult to do lately, depending on where you live. In northern Sweden where there aren't very many different stores nearby, options were quite limited when we bought a TV several months ago. Every unit over a certain size, like maybe 32"(?), was a smart TV.
It depends on exactly what and how you're measuring and why.

TLS has a non-trivial bootstrap cost, due to the need for extra network round-trips during establishment (mitigated with 0-RTT, if available), the additional byte overhead of certificate exchange (which can be substantial relative to small payloads if you have a long chain or are sending unnecessary certs, and more so if you're using RSA keys), and the cost of performing the crypto operations for the public key part and key exchange.

So if your use-case is "client arrives from the blue with a one-off API request and latency is important" then you are going to suffer with TLS.

If this is a web application (on the other hand), then what's actually going to happen is that the browser is going to establish HTTP/1.1 connections over TLS to the load-balancer, keep them alive, and re-use them. Assuming a well-configured load-balancer, it's also going to have the same from it's back-end to your actual service implementation.

However, once that's done, the only necessary overhead is the symmetric key stuff (microscopic) and maybe rekeying in long sessions.

Using curl to do a one-and-done connection to your service (as suggested by another poster) will give you an estimate which is only relevant to the first use case I described.
> Third, that's the premium the company gets for the risk. Intern will get his salary no matter what. The company makes a bet though. You want to own part of that risk? Build your own company.

Oh please what do you work for Prager U? What Risk, if the company goes belly up they'll get a bailout from the Gov and all the Execs will keep their bloated comp packages. There is no risk for business owners. That is an illusion peddled by Ayn Randian morons.
If anything, I an overvaluing the error bars on what is knowable. And I know I will lose because the "market place of ideas" strongly prefers the certainty of a comfortable lie.
> identify a specific C program

Well, not sure about C (but I assume something using gtk could be pain), but if we expand that to C++, I mean, I would expect firefox and chrome to be basically unbuildable in static manner.

> no matter how hard you try

Well, no. If you are willing to rewrite it (even significant changes), of course it will be possible to built it statically. That does not mean it is doable in practice.
A Digital Euro
Correction: I missed the year on the linked article. He passed away in 2019, a year before the paper was submitted.
I dunno, on the flip side it could be a good way to collect evidence if the garbage coming out your tube could be tagged somehow
It an offline smart tv then, not a dumb tv.
This reads like a propaganda piece. Why is this here?
America and American capitalists benefit from America’s position, so I can’t imagine American isolation going much further. The US controls many of the world’s major supply chains and trade routes and ensures them with its military. What country can offer realistic competition for a reserve currency? China is trusted even less than America in many parts of the world, and their governance is even more opaque.
Let Your Future Customers Find You
Zola [0] has a comparison table between Zola, Cobalt, Hugo and Pelican. I tried out Zola because I saw somewhere that it was single binary (had heard of Hugo, but didn't know it was single binary). I moved my blog from Jekyll to Zola as I found a theme I liked.

[0] https://github.com/getzola/zola
I wish Excel used newer, easier programming languages like Python for scripting and macros. I don't like learning an entirely new programming language just to make use of one software feature.
I've bought a few non-smart TVs from Wal-mart: Sceptre brand. They were cheap and functional. I use them with Fire TV sticks, XBox, and this NUC that I've got sitting around.
How much network latency is between you and the load balancer, and between the load balancer and the web servers? Normally, the initial TLS connection should be around 4 * the network latency, and subsequent requests should be very close to the network latency.

Give httping [0] a try for benchmarks.

[0]: https://www.vanheusden.com/httping/
3D printed 'invisible' fibers can sense breath, sound, and biological cells
What We Learned by Closing a $4M Investment from Accel
People with privileged lives can still set the political agenda. That hasn’t happened with privacy. I don’t think the argument is screwed. But the present mode of messaging, which can border on patronising towards the technically unsophisticated and uncompromising to an extreme degree, isn’t working.
Weapons of Math destruction points out how a lack of privacy can hurt your job prospects. You post something stupid on Facebook , a future employer declines to hire you . An insurance company sees many of your friends are poor , your insurance rates may rise.

At this point I do my best to avoid social media , theirs a ton of potential downside for very little benefit.
So lets go all in.
Publish ALL data about everyone in a nice and tidy database where we can go an stalk eachother.
I want to see how much properties the president has - voila, quick search lets me find it out.
I want to see what is Zuck browsing - find out after a few steps.
I heard a loud party next door - log in and find out who was there.
What conversation did Trump had with Putin - here is the recording.
So, are you saying that the expression "Aboriginal people just commit more crimes than non-Aboriginal people" is not racist? Really?
>> Good work is still highly valued ... If you increase a company's profit by $500k annually

Not every job has the potential for such things. "Good work" is different than profitability. A factory line worker can be the hardest working and best worker on the planet, and not increase company profits more than a few dollars an hour. That's the point about how we now value work differently. We place value on work that has direct and immediate impact on the bottom line. We don't value the hard work that goes into just keeping the doors open from day to day.
I can't disagree more with this.

You don't have to be born with the skills to put in the work and build a product or a business for that matter. You have to decide to do it and put in the work to learn what you need to learn. People do this everyday. Tons of people start businesses without a business degree. Tons of people learn to write code who previously had no idea how.

In the US at least, educational materials are everywhere. Public libraries, online resources, free entrepreneurial mentoring groups.

Access to education may seem like luck, but it's usually the result of the hard work and decision making of your parents to ensure that you have access to education. Same with quality education. And those decisions likely came from the work of their parents and those before them.

When my wife and I bought our first home, we looked at school ratings to influence our decisions. Our kids don't have access to quality education because of luck, they have access to it because we made it a priority for them to have access to it.

Inevitably the followup to that is that everybody can't afford to move to a good school district and I 100% agree with that sentiment. It's also why I pushed for school choice programs to be everywhere. For some reason, whenever choice is mentioned, people immediately declare it somehow linked racism but for the life of me I can't follow the narrative.

If your child isn't zoned for a good school and you can't afford to move for a better option or pay for a good private school, I can't begin to understand how restricting choice is a good thing because it will remove the economic restrictions that block off quality educational opportunities.

That luck is created because of bad policy, of decisions that people make to ignore means to address these issues and lock in the status quo. Which means it's not luck at all, it's simply a side effect of the decisions of a lot of other people.

None of it is luck. It's years of compound decisions.

And there are a number of people who recognize the opportunities that they were denied in their own life because of the decisions of their parents, who then make a decision to make sure that their children have better opportunities. There are so many parents out there who work themselves to death to provide a better life and world for their kids.

That's not luck. That's a decision.
I decided to write a Terminal Multiplexer – Part 1
Yes in fact, but I can imagine it’s mostly same elsewhere too.
This has worked for us so far. We don't watch broadcast TV, nor do we have cable/satellite. We hooked an internet-connected pi w/ kodi, and it's been going fine.
Sammsung can't even fix crippling a problem like not being able to adjust settings (https://eu.community.samsung.com/t5/tv/unable-to-move-up-and...) -- they do not care about customers -- that's a fact.

Also who the hell is saying TVs would be more expensive without ads? What a load of BS -- perhaps for small companies starting out, but Samsung? LOL

I was on the fence about getting their frame TV, this pretty much kills it.

Can something preconfigured like pie hole help sandbox these things?
Great platform map.airly.org :O I love it!
Some industries have regulations that require specific controls, audit logs, and security for any of their data. When employees use uncontrolled 3rd-party tools, they’re inevitably putting some of that controlled data into uncontrolled systems. This can open the company up to massive fines or leave them vulnerable in the case of legal action, so they go ahead and block unapproved project management sites, communication tools, and so on.

Never work in a heavily regulated industry if this type of thing bothers you, because it exists at every level of those companies.
There are great deteails and write-ups on Bitmex's website such as https://www.bitmex.com/app/perpetualContractsGuide, but in general it is basically either futures or a type of swap contract, but all based in BTC.
That's a loaded and extremely variable question. Furthermore, it has little relevance to the main thing I criticized above: that misdemeanors are usually irrelevant to most work and rejecting people because of them is grossly, punitively biased. I say irrelevant because in the context of your question, the value of some random public disorderliness citation or DUI is next to useless for judging how inherently or professionally honest a person is, and even more absurd for measuring how likely they are to commit outright criminal offenses against an employer.

It's very easy to get slapped with a misdemeanor in the U.S and even many other countries, often for absurd, bullshit reasons that had more to do with the mood of the authorities in a given context than a person being at all an abnormal danger to society.
I especially love Feedbin's ability to ingest email newsletters, so that I don't have those crowding my inbox. It's also a great way to follow the select few Twitter accounts I'm interested in.

Not trying to be a shill, just love the service! :)
> The stock market has no bearing on the economy right now.

nor should you expect it to. people buy securities when they expect them to be worth more when they sell (or are forced to sell) them. they sell securities when they no longer believe that. either way, it doesn't have much to do with what is happening this instant. right now the market is saying that, in aggregate, people expect the economy to bounce back before they are forced to liquidate their holdings.
Interesting. But this (the company using the quoted text/first link) seems to be a company that sells stuff, not manufactures it, right?
I'm the complete opposite in this regard. I currently spend 2 hours a day training for boxing, spend time on weekends mountain biking and wish there was more time! At some point I'll be financial independent where I will be able to devote even more time.

With that being said, would it help people to view exercise as play time? If you go play basketball with a group of guys, are you exercising or playing? For me it doesn't matter, I'm going to be out there either way but for others would the mental shift make a difference?
I've written and open-sourced a book (soon to be published by No Starch Press) that might be close to what you're looking for. It doesn't poke chips directly, but drawing a pixel to the screen is the highest-level abstraction it uses (and builds on top of it).

http://gabrielgambetta.com/cgfs
Researchers discover a rare genetic form of dementia
I'm consistently amazed at the ubiquity and versatility of spreadsheets in both small and large businesses. What other no/low-code tool can be shaped into solutions for finance, accounting, project management, event planning, scheduling, data collection, etc.? The concept of rows+columns+cells is powerful, flexible and easy to understand; when combined with formatting, fills and functions the possibilities are endless.
> So when five million mostly men step over my body in the gutter and go "Meh, not my problem she can't afford to eat. It's not like I'm sleeping with her." it's pretty freaking dehumanizing.

Those same men also step over male bodies in the gutter because of their same lack of utility. They dehumanize both sexes with equality.
Researchers show how to transform materials using a finely shaped laser pulse
No, the Anglo-Saxon law (US, UK, etc.) is different and makes no assumptions outside of the contract; the contract is applied verbatim as written, and when something is missing, it is not part of the contract. In Europe on the other hand the contract is just one piece of the puzzle and the judge can add, remove or modify clauses in search of the true pary intentions; in case of conflicting elements, the judge may refer to what is applicable under the usual rules for such contracts and even change the contract type. That's why Tivoization with GPL v2 is unquestionably legal in USA, but there is still a certain legal uncertainty in Europe, because there is no supreme court decision.

EDIT: clarifications