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I don't think you can claim there was any sort of "AI winter" before the expert systems hype collapsed in the late 80s. Quite the contrary: ARPA (later DARPA) spent prodigiously on various AI labs and companies and in response Japan launched the 5th Generation project. Other countries (e.g. France, with it's Centre Mondial d'Informatique, though AI was only part of it, and its many universities; UK with Oxbridge, Nottingham etc) also invested heavily. In the US, Government-Industry partnerships like MCC spent heavily on the field.

BTW "AI Winter" was a term coined (ironically by Marvin Minsky) at a panel at AAAI-84 (IIRC in Austin). The term echoed "Nuclear Winter", a theory from the late 70s or early 80s. So it's a little weird to apply it to an earlier episode, though as I say that earlier episode didn't exist.

Also, "AI Winter" was specifically addressing the commercial investment in AI technologies; research continued (e.g. DARPA continued to spend).
Depends on the selling point. A 2 year old library sounds to me like it's just getting mature.
"Security people" spend most of their time dealing with dubious compliance requirements that rarely improve security (in most cases they annoy users and force them to use even less secure workarounds) than actual security like reviewing code to catch things like this and implement policies to make sure unreviewed code doesn't make it to production.
That so contradicts the GDPR, it's almost comical. I'm sure they don't plan on turning that on in the EU, but things could get interesting if such "features" end up in the area somehow ... how much is 5% of Toyota's revenue?
Nicely put. What’s particularly aggravating is the push to unbundle features from a flexible power-tool like a spreadsheet, into siloed apps which can only do one thing, and charge recurring fees. When a user’s needs morph or expand, they hit a wall and are now held hostage by the service provider.
USA has a good number of security frameworks. Collaborating with a more advanced education institute (for guidance) and setting a programme/project would be possible if they wanted (or now to prevent the shitshow from happening again).

Any uni that has undergone similar project will have the project charter, resources, skills, timelines, lessons learned (the whole project folder).

Where there is a will there is a way. And I believe thay many organisations DO know that they operate on low/bad security, they just prefer to roll the dice and use the budget for something else..
Isn't the market for music still way below what it was before Napster? Lots of sources but this one has a good graph:

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/music-industry-sales/
Sounds like HDCP. I've read that some cheap hdmi splitters will strip HDCP as an undocumented side effect. By strip I mean communicate to the player/source that the display/destination is compliant regardless of whether that's true.
> If you could take a step back from modern human life and look it "for the first time", like a child -- you would fall over laughing too.

Check out the comic Strange Planet, which has a silly, alien-based take on this. Human society really is absurd
Could you explain this a bit more? I'm not sure what `ssh myserver tic -x -o \~/.terminfo /dev/stdin` is trying to do nor that it's correct as you typed it. Should `tic` be `-tic`?
hopefully no one has jobs and the U.S. economy goes downhill and fires burn the entire western half of the U.S.
Is it 4K? If it is, you're out of luck, but for 1080p you can buy HDCP strippers since the encryption is breakable.
I reckon contrast is more important than peak brightness. The eye is good at adjusting to brightness, and 1000 nits just seems overkill. You might need that much if the TV is surrounded by a white wall directly lit by the sun, but in normal indoor lighting conditions it just seems excessive.
Why people are still hand rolling common stuff like this is baffling to me. I'm treading on offensive waters here, but I'd guess this is from a nodejs backend, for some reason it seems to be more common to hand roll stuff like this in node than pretty much any other web language/framework I've worked with.
> I’ve seen something similar to this, but about “Names”.

I believe that's the Ur "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About" article. Sort of like Dijkstra's "Go To Statement Considered Harmful" is the progenitor of all the following "Considered Harmful" titles.
For sure. Money, our roles and borders are nothing more than collective agreements on how we wish to see “reality”. Money is really just energy when you get down to it.
It's too late to edit the above comment to clarify it, but could the downvoters please explain why I was downvoted? I'm genuinely curious: what does "loss of taste" mean here? I'd like to know in case I encounter it.

For instance, if I have sinus congestion so that I can't breathe through my nose, I can't experience the olfactory component of tastes. If you gave me orange juice and lemon juice, I'd be able to tell that both were sweet and sour but might not be able to distinguish between the flavors.

So when I've read about losing taste, I've wondered if this was like all the prior times when I've lost the sense of smell, or if this was something new and my taste buds would also stop working so that I couldn't experience "salty" anymore.

When people discuss taste, it's not always clear whether they mean the sensation you experience in your tongue or in your nose.
> discern one TOTP authenticator from another

Just match the code the user entered against all registered authenticators. Limit the number of authenticators to maybe 3-4 per account.
Nonsense. Really successful people have the opportunity to say no to almost everything, and do so because their time is so valuable.
Recognizing the state of the current status quo isn't being negative. Understanding it and stating it with direct bluntness can be a good foundation for actually doing something about it. It seems like you're saying that a person shouldn't point our a problem without having a solution. That's incorrect. Properly identifying and staking out the boundaries of a problem is an invaluable service. That ability can exist independently of the understanding or insight necessary to fix the problem. That can be done by those people with the aptitude to do so.
Do they do this in the EU? This is clearly not GDPR compliant, unless they get the customer's consent at every step.
> Is it petroleum-based? Looks like the answer is no. [1]

Are you sure? From that link: "PVA is prepared by hydrolysis of polyvinyl acetate"

Follow that and you'll find: "Polyvinyl acetate is prepared by the polymerization of vinyl acetate monomer (free radical vinyl polymerization of the monomer vinyl acetate)."

Which leads to "The major industrial route involves the reaction of ethylene and acetic acid with oxygen in the presence of a palladium catalyst.[6]"

And finally: "Ethylene is produced by several methods in the petrochemical industry. A primary method is steam cracking (SC) where hydrocarbons and steam are heated to 750–950 °C."

PVA seems to be made from fossil fuels (oil, coal, or natural gas) when manufactured at industrial scale, though Wikipedia does a good job of obscuring this. The Wikipedia page mentions that North Korea produces it because it doesn't require oil but they make it with coal instead, which isn't mentioned on that page. The section on environmental considerations mentions only that it's nontoxic and biodegrades, nothing about where it comes from. (Do the fossil fuel / chemical industries have a history of misleading the public? Hmm..)
The best dumb TV is a monitor with an HTPC attached to it.

Also, you can find "LVDS converter boards" which are sold for repurposing LCD panels out of laptops and such, but they can also be used to dumb down TVs. You can buy a large smart TV just for the panel (which is the majority of its price anyway) and replace its motherboard with a dumb converter board.
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Wow! Thanks for the info. I couldn't imagine what that would be like. Here's to hoping for a speedy and complete recovery!
Wouldn't it be better to have some explicit method of aliasing your dependencies if this is actually something you want to do? It seems wrong to have that as a feature opaque like that.
As long as the table is bolted to the floor, you're replacing posession (of a phone) factor, with location (in SOC) factor. Keeps both client happy, and security architect sleeping soundly.

Nice solution.
I'll admit my usecase is probably not the most common: I don't have cable, and I just use the device for watching online videos. Which, as karolist said:

> I landed on LG because my requirements were "no Android" and "I hate Samsung", LG are the only ones left pretty much.
I'm sure a government could detect that a citizen visited grindr.com, but it'd be harder to guarantee that they actually had intent to commit "crimes" without access to unencrypted internal messages.

I'm also concerned about antagonist nation state that gets the personal emails of top officials at Department of Defense. Goes through a targeted list in an attempt to find out who's a member. And if a match found, then engage in a blackmail scheme for secret information.
You're assuming the attackers are that sophisticated. With an attack this simple it could be exploited by a group of thugs a local police station (with maybe a "computer savvy friend") logging into local accounts to see if they can find anyone they recognize.
So is there any embedded system vendor that doesnn't make non-crap software?
For a public library that traffics almost exclusively in popular materials (genre fiction and non-fiction written for a general audience) print books are bought with the understanding that they will be “weeded” after a couple of years anyway.
Try it with a predetermined intention. Something like “explore”, “heal”, “connect with the universe”. Mindset and setting are key drivers for psychedelic experiences.
It can very well connect to those semi-public WiFi's that require payment or require to be a customer of that ISP (and every router from that ISP automatically broadcasts such a network in addition to the private one).

This isn't something I've seen in the wild yet (beyond anecdotal evidence which I suspect is due to a misconfiguration), however it is a very valid concern especially considering most ISPs are in bed with the media/advertising industry and would directly benefit from allowing these TVs to connect to these networks and making a deal with the manufacturer to make them do so.
"better off" implies that this is a better recommendation than the article. However, it seems exactly the same.
Because at the application level, you get so much more data. Who they're talking to, who they're meeting. HIV status, photos, etc.
Yes! Doh.
It's been a few years now, but when I bought my current TV (Samsung), one of the first things that popped up when I turned it on was several EULAs. I skimmed over them, and went "lol no", and pressed decline. This effectively lobotomized the TV. None of its "smart" features are enabled.
Fair enough. It's probably a poor distinction. It's not like we sit around singing hymns in robes... We certainly have a lot of fun and laughter, and that's a huge part of the experience.

To each his own, but for first-timers a more controlled environment might be best. I'm pretty introspective, so I like a environment where I can go deep with that. Too much chaos, or interruption would get in the way for me.
Nah -- Rokus are really bad here, they want to run roku first then be a TV. The more traditional brands -- LGs and Samsungs of the world -- do better at this and don't bitch as much.
Yesterday's related thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24643894
I think we actually broadly agree. I was thrown by the mention of art conservationists, but probably took it too literally.

When it comes to archival conservation and restoration, it seems to me that there are two opposed goals which both have value: restoring to the highest-quality version we possibly can, and preserving the material as it would have appeared to its original audience. So for the wax cylinder example, we definitely want to produce the best, truest to intent restoration we can, but at the same time the experience of listening to a wax cylinder recording is also worth preserving.

As long as the restoration is non-destructive (which it always should be, with digital tools), that’s great! We can have it both ways.

There’s an interesting modern twist when it comes to vernacular photography, too. The popularity of instagram filters and the like suggests that there’s something more going on now even with snapshots.
A true hacker/maker's delight. It's a journey of embedding a Raspberry Pi Zero in an Apple iSight camera. The photos document the process well, and there's a GitHub repo for complementary study material. Very well-rounded, polished work!

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Long story short, tests don't prove there's no bug, they can only show there is a bug.
That's interesting because I've always found someone being "certified" for e.g. Microsoft something is a huge turnoff for hiring.
I've heard of Ironcast.TV whose entire selling point is the lack of "smart" features, though I haven't ordered one and I'm not sure if they even shipped any, but on paper it looks nice and reasonably priced: https://displayy.studio/ironcast.tv/
> You can buy a large smart TV just for the panel (which is the majority of its price anyway) and replace its motherboard with a dumb converter board.

This seems way harder than the alternative: just not connecting it to the internet.
Google as well. (Physical security keys, at least - I make no specific statement about branding)
No, Jack Dorsey suffered a sim swapping attack. Those happen here in the real world, but the post my joke was aimed at wrote sun swapping. Swapping suns isn't a thing outside of fiction.

As to me, since you made it personal, I'm sure somebody at an AT&T store could attempt SIM swapping but they might have trouble because the system won't give them my number from a completely different numbering system (different county) without a code they don't have.

If you socially manipulate your way into getting a transfer out code (good luck with that, but I'm willing to accept it could happen) then the big problem is I don't use SMS 2FA, as I wrote in the comment you're replying to, so it's a dead end.
Go Utes! Loved the animation! Thanks for sharing.
Sounds nice, what's the input lag though?
After going to GIS school, I once wrote an email to a homeschooling list and may have titled it "Georgia is an imaginary place."

There are a great many problems with trying to depict a three-dimensional world in 2D, which is what maps do. There are many different projections that get used for different reasons and it depends in part on which part of the earth you are trying to depict, how much of it you are trying to depict and what information you are trying to effectively convey.

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So the Sceptre 65" is $500. Where are you seeing a higher-quality 65" for $500 or less?
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I can see that point. Supply & demand are usually the go-to explanation.

However, liquidity in the labor market is rarely well-understood.

This article specifically addresses people who are never able to enter the workforce.

In the US the data is stark - there are literally hundreds of thousands of positions that are never filled, despite millions of job seekers.

To oversimplify with one major hiring filter - most jobs require X years of experience in Y narrowly-defined industry/region/tool/skill.

Liquidity in the labor market is the only answer to this problem - to get experience you have to be able to get a position in the first place, often in a role unrelated to where you end up.

Economists see jobs as “widgets.”

Of course, we all know we spend most of our time doing none of the things listed on the job we originally applied for (or were tested for in interviews).

Supply/demand explanations mask the fact that most work today is fluid. Getting people into the workforce creates economic growth. The barrier to that growth is a broken HR system.

It doesn’t seem to be, at first, a root cause that is significant enough in size to hobble a whole economy.

Until you consider that nearly every employer has the same issue.
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Unless you get a visitor over that wants to use those features and accepts them while you're away.
Isn't Grindr a hookup app? It's not like all gay people use it. It'd be like me asking a straight married friend if they used Tinder. Would "lol" be offensive in that context?
This is a very good idea I haven't thought about, thanks!
IMO when avoiding the "smarts" of a smart TV you end up fighting their menu system so I'd say it's worse.
Investors lose only a small portion of their assets and most importantly they don't have to lose time. Whether 2% of my liquid assets is more valuable than 4 years of someone's life is debatable, but I can certainly say the loss of those 2% won't make any impact on my life, while that worker won't ever recover his 4 years.
Not at all, in this case "better off" means don't worry about whether a given TV has smart features or not. Buy the screen/TV you like and bypass the "smart" stuff.

For example if I was in the market my choice would be one of the high end LG TVs. They all have a smart component but I would bypass that and still get the gorgeous screen.
People working 60 hours aren't going to have time to consume services. If everyone worked 30 hours instead, you'd probably see an increase in the demand for services (entertainment, fitness, etc). This would result in an increase in GDP, growth in the economy, and likely more demand for workers.

But that's just my econ 101 knowledge.
> This response lures their users into a false sense of security.

That's the entire point of their response though. If all you ever had to do was tell people the truth, PR wouldn't be a thing.
It's not as robust as it could be, but Flatpak pretty objectively has better sandboxing than a .deb package once you get rid of the dynamic linking problem. That's a good thing, because not all security bugs come from dependency management. But, ignore the sandboxing aspect for a second:

1. Ease of distribution of software should be a goal on Linux if it's not already. The lack of ease of distribution of software contributes to decreased support from developers on other OSes, increased pressure and stress for distro maintainers, and some truly awful installation methods outside of the official package managers.

2. Proprietary software largely already does this, so granted, using Flatpak doesn't really change anything. But that's also kind of the point; proprietary software already ignores the software center, so adding better sandboxing to those apps is a really good idea.

3. There are reasons to want the ability to link against multiple versions of the same dependency even if you're getting all of your software compiled by a single source upstream. Reconciling dependencies if you're a distro maintainer is hard. Being able to quickly update any app that's using an outdated dependency without worrying that you're going to break another app is kind of nice.

I'm not saying that Flatpaks should be centrally managed. My point was that people are already distributing software outside of app stores. We already have the AUR, we already have `tar.gz` files (even from Open Source projects), we already have custom repos that might break/rename/embed old dependencies.

Flatpak is responding to a trend that already exists; trying to make it slightly better so that instead of a random install script somebody pulls off Github to curl dependencies, they get a well-defined package that's less likely to bork their system or introduce a security hole into their other applications.

And that's good. We want to live in a world where people can install software from any source -- we wouldn't use Linux otherwise. But any system where people can install software from any source is going to have the same issues with dependency management and with trusting the author to keep their app up-to-date. All of the problems people are throwing at Flatpak in that specific area are just criticisms of the fact that Flatpak isn't centrally controlled. They're not really criticisms of the technology itself.
I hope you never have a visitor in your house that connects it for you.