skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Doing the same with putty, iTerm2 or gnome-terminal would require automating the import/export of platform-specific config formats that I'd honestly rather not learn.

Sakura is pretty nice - options can be changed in the gui/menu - config file is stored on disk.

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/focal/en/man1/sakura.1.h...
I posted in another thread but another option is commercial signage displays. They are built for commercial use which means they are very bright and durable and missing lots of consumer features. They can be more expensive but not outrageous.
I'm going to join Patreon for the first time in order to support Bret, that's how much enjoyment I get out of his blog posts.
That suggests that tv manufacturers are going to pay for that extra hardware, and ongoing costs.
This is delusional. It would be fine if all these shut-ins were living personally satisfied, fulfilling lives. But the vast, vast, vast majority are not. Most live with deep regret, shame, depression, and isolation, and romanticizing their situation as some sort of meditative peace is f'd up in my opinion.
Agreed -- and an especially big turnoff is a "cert collector", most of which have done the absolute minimum required to get each of them, i.e. mostly rote memorisation. It's a very Quantity over Quality mindset.
My understanding is this was a ransomware attack.
Almost everyone believes the color of the sun is orangy yellow when its real color is the furthest thing from that. And again, facts will not convince them.
This is by the same person that wrote ffmpeg.

Discussion 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17587684

Discussion 6 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8704629
> self-worth from what we're worth to our society

Is employer granted employment the only way to have value in a society?

Personally I value motherhood far more than anything a woman could do in the workplace. Of course it's her choice what she wants to do with her life, but it's my opinion that there's little more important to a society than intensive investment in its children.
This doesn't stress the datum point quite enough. If you have an arbitrarily precise lat long, you still don't know where you are very well.

If you don't know the datum of a lat long, you only know the location to within about a kilometer.

Datum matters. And yes, WGS84 is fairly common, but you will still very routinely come across lat/long or projected coordinates in other datums. NAD27 is the one that you'll encounter the most in the US, and it's about a 300 meter shift compared to WGS84 or NAD83. Others exist too and are frequently used.

Don't just record lat/long.
Bellard is obviously a technical genius. I have no doubt that BPG is competitive on a technical aspect. Politically though AV1 is looking like it has the best chance of unseating jpg. Near universal buy-in by browsers/OSes/hardware makers, hardware acceleration starting to roll out, and patent free.

Lots of other discussion on this though: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=bpg+bellard
Treatment plants in general obviously do do that.
LG sells them as some of their "Business" tvs, intended e.g. for hotels. In Canada some of them are branded as "Commercial Lite".

Here's an LG 65" 4k HDR dumb TV: https://www.lg.com/ca_en/business/commercial-tv/lg-65UV340H

I have a similar model from a few years ago (purchased from Canada Computers fwiw), and I love it. Because I don't notice it exists. It just does its job, like a TV should.
I let mine on the network so it will get updates, but I just don't use any of the smart features. I understand that some TVs (Samsung?) apparently track your activity and show you unsolicited ads, but as far as my LG TV doesn't track me and all the apps and smart features don't do anything unless I choose to open them.
> Came across it because I've always enjoyed mushroom spotting in the nearby forests, and decided to explore them in greater detail.

Find your local mycology club on NAMA, most of them have free walks that are open to the public every weekend: https://namyco.org/clubs.php

It only takes a year to learn most of the major edible species in your area.
> Congratulations, you've defeated the purpose of having a YubiKey.

Even a virtual 2fa button is useful. It prevents people using your stolen credentials to login to websites unless you click the button, even if it's just a virtual button.

Sure your computer can be compromised, but it's probably still more secure than sms 2fa.
Government can use its pseudo-monopoly on violence to deter anything it chooses to.
They can recoup the costs with ads.
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Does cheating work or are there a bunch of horrible doctors out there?

How did they not get filtered out during residency?
Well email tracking isn't perfect, but it can help a lot. A legitimate pattern you'd see an email open event, email click event, then successful reset in that order. An illegitimate one might have no email open or click before the reset, or clicks from multiple places or something like that. That could narrow down the list significantly.

Of course, not all email clients allow send these events.
I'm amazed that they managed to make contact centre work even more stressful and even less rewarding.
They will. Because they are selling your habit data on the backend.
But sorting implies just changing the order of elements not eliminating elements. Stalin sort is not a true sorting algorithm.
No idea what you are trying to say here. You are intent on reading more than is there.
Every year growing up, my parents made a road trip with me in the backseat, from the South Bay Area to Albuquerque.

Back then, I couldn’t be bothered to look out the window. I was like “cool ok that’s normal, next”. It’s a long drive!

It’s a testament to how kids can get used to anything. :) These days my face would be glued to the window... I don’t know if there’s any place on earth remotely like that. Just breathtaking.
ancestor is not the same as caller.
> 14bit (...) It gives a higher dynamic range (which is important for cameras and new displays) and a slightly better compression ratio (because there are less rounding errors in the decoder).

That's clever and a bit counterintuitive.
I have a finger bot do it for me.
Previous Parts:

Part 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24517792

Part 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24591216
What I'm hoping for is competition that is willing to pay "fairer" prices, pushing prices up. The position of automakers against smaller suppliers is just so strong otherwise.
I was wondering about that "enabling" angle as well. I remember when I was in my young twenties a good friend of mine had a parent who pushed him out of the nest. I remember being shocked and offended by the crazy act and thought it equally outrageous as he did. Years later I look back and see that it actually taught my friend the ropes and the difficulties in life taken for granted with the parents taking care of things they figured out years ago. People won't know how hard life is until they get their hands dirty and make it on their own.

I always found it curious how the various species out there push their offspring on to adulthood. Trial by fire, diving in to learn how to swim, there's a lot of wisdom in all that. Life is hard, and at some point you realize people don't get get old by default, unencumbered by adversity and trials and tribulations--all those older folks you see are actually survivors.
> I've read that some cheap hdmi splitters will strip HDCP as an undocumented side effect

I haven't heard that before, but according to Wikipedia a master key was leaked or reverse engineered 10 years ago, so presumably manufacturers out of Intel's legal reach can produce devices that strip HDCP.
According to Wikipedia:

> According to Bellard's site BPG may be covered by some of the patents on HEVC, but any device licensed to support HEVC will also be covered for BPG. Patent issues may prevent JPEG replacement by BPG despite BPG's better technical performance.

So it sounds like you’re ultimately correct.
Yeah, but it doesn't look like it has built in smart features like Netflix, Hulu, etc.

I don't mind controlling my TVs settings with an app, I just don't want to have to deal with their crappy TV interface.
Ask HN: What RSS feeds are you subscribed to?
Inspired by the recent Ask HN about what RSS Reader people use, I wondered what RSS or Atom feeds people are subscribed to/what blogs they would recommend.
I am not really sure what point you're trying to make. There was an old saying in the Soviet Union: "we pretended to work, and they pretended to pay us". Everything that you're saying is compatible with the notion that the Soviets didn't actually reward innovation and productivity, they just pretended to.

Your offhand comment is pithy, but ridiculous on its face.
Not sure how large you're looking for - however, I use a LG 43" 4K monitor as a TV. Lots of connectivity - Multiple HDMI, DVI and even USBC inputs.
There are other virtues of a dumb TV. Simplicity is probably the best reason for wanting one.

If you're getting a dumb TV because it stays off your network, but then get ipTV dongles and boxes for it, then you effectively have a smart TV on the network.

I have one and like it a lot. The remote control is beautifully simple. There is no complicated menu structure; it took all of five minutes to go through all the screens, to discover all that can be tweaked. The remote has dedicated buttons for switching among the HDMI inputs: power it on and hit the button for the input that you want.

I like the separation: the TV is the TV, and the box or dongle is the box. You can ditch the dongle and get another one, while keeping the TV. You can take the dongle on the road and plug it into another TV wherever you are.

The dongle has its own control mechanism (own remote, or smartphone). This simplifies things. You know what is a TV setting and what is an IPTV setting, and talk to the right piece of hardware with the right remote.

There is fault isolation. If your IPTV dongle or box fries itself, then it's just the box. If it's integrated into the TV, then the whole TV is toast.

You can ditch the dongle/box in a few years and upgrade to different/newer one, while keeping the TV. If you're happy with the size, colors and resolution, and the thing works, there is no need to update it. It will work fine with whatever you're interested in four years from now.
Not sure if 'less optimized' is the right term, the way I understand it you can implement a basic segment tree as a single contiguous array (unless of course you're storing more complicated data structures in each node). Something like that is way easier to optimize than a finger tree which require type polymorphism to be even remotely workable.

Of course finger trees do allow for easier insertion and deletion, so they're superior if you need that (although it's surprising how much you can get away with by just rebuilding the whole structure when necessary).
> The specifics are irrelevant and can sometimes even obscure basic relationships. The point is recognizing the relationship to more familiar forms of combustion and oxidation in day-to-day life; that's how you orient yourself when you come to the question for the first time.

I would guess that there are two familiar forms of combustion in day-to-day life: burning wood, and burning gasoline. Only the second is referred to as "combustion" in the vernacular. (Since it happens in an "internal combustion engine".)

Neither involves burning pure carbon; one burns carbohydrates and one burns petroleum. The definition of "combustion" that I was taught in chemistry class was "any reaction that produces carbon dioxide and water".

But you might have a very different day-to-day life and chemistry education, I guess.
I'm not sure if you get it. India has a lot of people, some terrible infrastructure, has high amounts of competition, and the idea of craftsmanship is incredibly rare.

Their value for life is much lower. There's just too many people. The idea of a pedestrian lights is a tourist thing. They don't pay attention to it. Have 8 rows of cars on the road per each side? How do you cross? You just walk across it during traffic. (I'm not even joking.. I've done it) (Another thing.. traffic is extremely chaotic and dagerous.. lines on the road have no meaning there) Extremely poor and begging with a <5mo. They'll let it crawl around where people are walking in connaught place. (Btw go a little further to north and there is a good chance that baby was stolen [That's a thing])

Competition: Theres little to no social support from the government. Also, the families are hyper aggressive in getting their kids to succeed. This is shown in the marriages and determination of what their kids will do for work.

Craftsmanship: they produce quite a lot in that country. They're also having to deal with a market that won't support luxury goods. (Ok Goa can.. but Goa isn't buying domestically for that.. they're not buying their employees Tata motors cars, they're buying Mercedes SUVs)

You could never honestly convince me that they're not entrepreneurial. They are very much. There are aspects I love about it and there are parts that make me sick.
They probably didn't make any extra money from this
They should worry. They were an industry that sold ornately decorated paper, and libraries were community or charitably organized warehouses of that paper kept available for people to examine for a time, then return. Now, like the music industry, the publishing industry are solely marketing and litigation organizations. Libraries don't even need books anymore, they can just become a quiet place to study that offers professionals who are experts at research who can help you find the digital things you want to study.

There is still a need for editors and digital typesetters, but lets not pretend that there is a huge need for publishers, i.e. the organizations that print and distribute paper books. There's still some need, and for people who want to earn an honest living, I'm still in the market for paper reference books. It's quicker for me to look up things in a paper book. I also like a nice annotated guide for an outdoor event or large facility. The preservation and digitization of books is an important job. It's necessary to have paper masters in case all the digital versions get deleted, or corrupted.

I'm also a little less hostile to copyright when referring to marks on paper, because it takes an investment to create the infrastructure to produce paper goods, which puts a publisher at risk. I'm honestly unconcerned and think society should also be unconcerned with protecting the investment you made to attract a particular author to your publishing house, and to convince people that author was worth reading. Whether that author publishes with you or another publisher, or self-publishes, is not something that society should concern itself with.

Scientific publishers aren't the only bad publisher. All publishers in the age of the internet are engaged in artificially recreating the difficulties previously inherent to the distribution of ideas, so they can remain the mediators and the controllers of the scarcity of those ideas. If human society is a large composite mind, transmitting information from node to node, they are Alzheimer's disease.

Anyway, publishers hated libraries before digital books, just like they hated used bookstores. All businesses hate competition. If a significant number of people started writing and publishing high-quality literature for free, they would organize to either destroy those works or find a way to tax or control their distribution, just like proprietary software and FOSS.
There’s an impressive big data symptom analysis going on in the UK through the Covid Symptom Tracker app create by a company called Zoe. They’ve been doing trials comparing reported symptoms with PCR testing.
Reminiscent of the old Slashdot template https://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=149826&threshold=4&c...
It's lucky we have a public library system at all.

If it wasn't grandfathered in and someone suggested it today there is no chance in hell that it would fly. Profit maximization is the only thing publishers care about, and public institutions aren't going to stand up for the public interest.
You can't exactly not work until payment is made, simply because the field is too crowded. So in the starting of a project, you desperately go to a bidding war against the competition where you either compromise on your time or your money or something else of yours. Whether you get paid or not becomes a backseat priority. Offering a discount for early payment is one sort of those things, and let's be honest, most clients value the optionality of not paying at all over paying a discount. Charging an interest on late payments needs to be explicitly mentioned during the bidding process, and that will draw the client away in an already crowded field.
A charge in "trafficking in circumvention devices"!!!!!!!!! A mod device should not be illegal. This is horrible for device owner freedoms. I am worried this could be used to set a precedence for that fact. The EFF or some good legal team is needed to make sure that does not become precedent.

If they did something else to facilitate copyright infringement the hardware should not be part of the issue.
Apple Watch momentum is building
Segment trees are one of those data structures that blew my mind when I first learned about them. They felt like “cheating”. :)

Take a look at “union-find” and tries, too, for some other classic CP structures that most normal data structures and algorithms classes don’t cover.

Also, FYI, the code renders in an unreadably-large font on mobile. Otherwise this is a great resource! Thank you for putting it together.
If a significant number of people start leaving their tvs offline maybe they would. Everything is so integrated now. Perhaps it would be on the chips as the wifi so not much of an extra cost?

Maybe it would be sold as a feature, like "Built in 5g hotspot!" or something like that.
They're legally not employees, yet are required to act like one - only paid for call time, yet required to be available for calls at times suiting the company.
Rip it to disk first.
I feel like it means this person is self aware enough to know this is something they have to develop, which is a step beyond most people's awareness. I'm speaking from experience, I spend the first 30+ years of my life in academic roles where I never had to care about getting along with people, I didnt even realize it was something that was missing until I started working in the private sector. If the OP knows they have this to work on, that should be construed positively in my view.
Here it is: https://twitter.com/tsukkiskys/status/1288333947047469056?re...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/akzx7g/trump-covid-coronavir...
>You are moving the goalposts.

No goal post was moved. All my original points still stand. I am simply giving you the scientific explanation of morality... a deeper look than what philosophy has to offer. And why such an arbitrary construct makes philosophy a flawed field of study.

The hierarchy from existence to morality flows along a single branch of a highly complex tree. It flows like this:

Existence-> atoms -> molecules -> evolution -> biology -> human biology -> neurology -> morality.

From this diagram of a single branch you can see that Morality is a biological phenomenon specific to humans. However, philosophy does NOT obey this categorization. It arbitrarily goes down this branch selects morality and places it side by side with "existence" as a field of study. Why didn't philosophy choose biology instead? Why did it have to flow specifically down the chain and pick out this really specific thing to humans called morality? Because when philosophy was invented many people were too stupid to realize that they had a biased view of the world with humanity and morality at the center of the universe.

Philosophy doesn't approach morality from this angle, it approaches it from a axiomatic logical angle as if it was a foundational thing when really morality is this very specific and arbitrary biological phenomenon.

>And yes, while I agree with most of your arguments about morality, you’re still making philosophical points. Yet again, you demonstrate an ignorance of what philosophy is in your attempts to brush it aside.

In logical debates, people tend not to make personal comments like "you're demonstrating ignorance" or other potentially disparaging garbage like that. If philosophers were truly logical they would just attack the subject matter rather than the character. I have a thesis how is it wrong? If you think evidence is flawed point it out. Deconstruct my points logically rather than stating your opinions about me and my points. Be more "philosopher" like.

Additionally this whole "you're still making philosophical points" is largely the main problem with philosophy. Someone decided hey lets' take any topic that's remotely interesting and package it up and put it under one field of study and call it philosophy. Great this package is so large that any thing that comes out of my mouth even criticism just happens to touch it.

The fact that my criticisms touch "philosophy" is why the field and word itself is loaded. It's stupid, if philosophy encompasses a bunch of BS but also logic than if I use logic to discount that BS than OF COURSE I'm going to be using "philosophy" because "logic" is part of "philosophy." Why don't you make "logic" part of the definition of "scientology" that way whenever you try to use logic to explain why scientology is wrong you will inevitably be using "scientology" to prove "scientology" wrong and be self defeating. Kind of a dumb way to defeat arguments.
Imagine if you could sell to a company an accurate estimate for the number of times your brand is mentioned in a zip code in a month.

I would imagine the profits from that dwarf the hardware costs of some antennas (that the consumer pays the power for).

The profit incentive from surveillance is already there. We have to be vigilant in rejecting products that include it.
Genuine question: what kind of updates would a dumb TV possibly need?
Modifying something that _you own_ should never, ever be a crime. It saddens me that indictments like this are the direction everything is headed.
and qemu
I recently watched the documentary "Fantastic Fungi" and it had very interesting part about how myccelium have millions or billions of tiny roots connecting and crisscrossing through the soil all across the country, like a single macro lifeform conglomerating underground.

Most interesting was a comment about how we have recently discovered that trees communicate using these myccelium roots, things like signals of distress from lack of water or from nearby fires. I couldn't help but think of these roots as something like neural pathways. It is amazing how much we still have to learn about mushrooms.
I'm curious: If Trump did die before the election, how does that affect his presence on the ticket? Would Mike Pence suddenly become the Presidential candidate, or does the ticket remain unchanged with Pence being sworn in when a dead Trump wins, or are the Republicans no longer allowed to run the pair on the ticket? Is the decision state-by-state or federal?
The TED talk that is linked in other comments debunks this too. All the CO2 exhaled by humans is short-term carbon that was recently taken out of the atmosphere by a plant. All plants and animals are short-term carbon sinks. The damage is caused by burning fossil fuels.

I suppose there might be a few artificial ingredients that are made from petroleum feedstock, and thus human metabolism cause it's first release as CO2, but it's tiny compared to the sugars and fats we consume from plants and animals.
Perhaps if they change it to "four accepted pull requests" rather than just "four pull requests", then we'd see less of the nonsense.