skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bought my last TV, a Samsung, about 6 months after it was released.

As soon as I connected it, I got an alert that Samsung was discontinuing support for their Community 3D or some stuff app you were supposed to social media on your TV.

It all made me consider that Samsung forgot their core business in TVs should have been the TV.

I now own an LG OLED that is amazing, and coincidently black holed at the router.
Does this mean we can get number plates which are issued to the manufacturer, and the same for every vehicle from that manufacturer, so that they're not able to be used for mass surveillance of individual vehicles anymore?
Polyethylene glycol could be responsible for allergic reactions to vaccine
Fun with IP address parsing
Instead of playing cat and mouse with Pinterest, what would be a much better idea is to let users themselves decide what's important to them. Let us vote search results up or down, and let us block sites we don't like yet keep showing up. Those two changes would do a lot to improve user experience.
Describing driving assist as "beta FSD" is already grossly misleading, and still my point stands, either they were mislead or they were suicidal.
The prevailing risk of infection is from respiratory droplets. There's probably some limited fecal-oral transmission, but nowhere near as much as airborne.
The point is that all the data is centralized in a single database in this case.
Strangely enough, this does seem to exist for Google Sheets:

https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/73080/is-there-a...
In a lot of contexts I wouldn't mind an explicit whitelist. If somebody wants my email, they can let me know ahead of time how they'll be using it, and I can grant them permission to send me emails from a given source. Combined with DKIM et al it would eliminate many classes of phishing attacks and also deal with the email harvesting and spam problem.
The flammability of old printers came from a combination of paper dust, worn out printing ribbon and possible presence of a flammable cleaning solution IIRC.

More details are here: https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=102893054014512&w=2

So at the end of the day, it's more of a reality than a joke, sadly.
Improvements like this I believe, show how much science Elon Musk doesn't understand or is willing to acknowledge. Sure, I'm a fan of the Musk, however advancements like this show his hydrogen FUD is really just a marketing ploy / positioning stunt [1].

Once we can create better means than metal hydride [1] in order to store hydrogen it will become the de-facto fuel for long haul trucks and electric aircraft. Assuming fuel-cell tech continues it's steady YoY improvement, hydrogen IS the future.

0 - https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/21/musk-calls-hydrogen-fuel-cel...

1 - https://www.energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/metal-hydride-storage-...

edit - of course, I should've known the Tesla shills would downvote this... You dirty animals, I own a Model 3.
the difference being the database in this case is a culmination of god knows how many accounts on the www several TB-PB of data so it bit more scary.
Good catch on the 'disease' bit. Pure ableism.
> With this explanation it seems that if one wheel gets slightly stuck, the other wheel gets all the force, causing a dangerous spinning.

Your comment really shows how great the video is... That is exactly how an unlocked non-limited slip differential works, much to the irritation of anyone who has found themselves stuck in sand or a patch of ice.
Please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN. You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly, and we ban that sort of account. We're trying for something different here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
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Yeah, but there is something to be said for picking who you do business with. That allows you to "negotiate" the best deal for yourself.
Thermally isolated
Such a neat explanation!
That's why standards like ETSI 303 645 exist and legislation is being created. Although most of it is around "just buy a new one when this is unsupported".
Isn't this just a podcast website, or is there something more to it? Why on earth would a podcast website need Kube?
What's the model #? I can't locate a dumb LG Wallpaper OLED in that size
> If case studies were so effective, if you be possible to find companies that meet all the criteria, buy their stock cheap, and get rich.

This is what investing is.

Also, when they did this no-one had apps or delivery. The pizza market is growing but DPZ took massive share as well. It is surprising to me that so many people are armchair quarterbacking this (I know someone who bought them at $5...all of the stuff mentioned in the article was the bull case: online growth, mismanaged, etc.).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopilot#Autopilot_for_ILS_la...
Specifically in the case of fail-operational autopilots "[...] the approach, flare and landing can still be completed automatically." There is a whole organization responsible for defining these features of autopilots!

You can argue wikipedia isn't a valid source, but IMO that's not in good faith. So, 'autopilot' has a shifting meaning depending on aircraft capability.
I didn't realize switchar was undocumented. I learned initially on QNX so the /args used to drive me nuts. So needless to say, I used that one.

I'm pretty sure though that I learned about it straight from the DOS manual, which was a 2-ring binder with a LOT of pages in it. I learned Assembler from its surprisingly detailed chapters on the DEBUG command. (Needless to say, MASM and TASM were godsends once I discovered them!)

AVAILDEV is completely new to me though. That one I'm pretty sure wasn't in the manual, because it also seems like one I would have naturally gravitated to.

Great video. Blast from the past with something "new" besides.

BTW: You could put CON in any directory name and it would reference the console just the same. It didn't matter if it was \DEV\CON or \BANANA\CON, it worked just the same. There were a few pranks played using this "device" quirk.
Sure there are, and yes, they are different sets of problems though. Have a look at the British Tesla Driver Youtube channel, some of his videos are eye opening. Basically the car is in full autopilot mode, approaches an intersection, correctly slows down, waits for its turn, starts moving.....and in the middle of the turn goes BEEP BEEP BEEP and disengages entirely because the road markings aren't there and it wasn't entirely sure where to go. And now of course you're in a moving vehicle that's heading for a collision with someone else and requires IMMEDIATE attention to continue. One could(and I'm sure will) argue that the system "shouldn't be used this way". But that's a moot point, if the system is there and lets you do this, then people will use it this way.

"How long before the tech exists to address this issue?" I'm not sure if that's a problem with tech as such. We have fantastic cameras, yet famously Google's best image recognition algorithm just couple years ago would reply, with 100% confidence, that a sofa in a zebra print is in fact a Zebra, after all the stripes are there, it has 4 legs.....it must be a zebra.

So in my(personal) opinion, self driving will face the same challanges image recognition has faced - we will rapidly get 90% of it right, then the last 10% will be a massive pain to get right for decades if ever.
OP might mean "When I was a student working on a self driving car student project, which we mostly tested in simulation, occasionally on private land with a lot of extra safety precautions, and never on public roads"
Different ways to sort an array of strings in Swift
Ahh, ok, I read it as two separate cases (produce delivery and long haul trucking). Thank you for clarifying
Why allow Wikipedia links at all? They’re almost always mundane and receive little attention. Seems like an abuse of a service that’s intended to generate informed discussion.
Where you are getting population level statistics that show beyond doubt that most people if they did not have to work to survive then they would be spending their time on "caring" for other people and on similar altruistic endeavours?
I think the “problem” here is that there are so many useful things you can do with math that we spend all of our time in school learning the useful things first, with much less emphasis on the enjoyment aspect.

It’s a shame, too. As an undergraduate I had a very small amount of exposure to some papers in theoretical computer science. I presume they were fairly typical for the world of mathematics - trying to establish boundaries on how small something can be. And not much application in the real world. But I remember having my mind blown at the way the authors could take one problem, convert it to some completely different domain, and use previous work in that domain to prove things about the original problem. It was very beautiful, and I think even that very limited exposure has changed the way I see the world.

Then the real world came knocking and I haven’t been back since.
I’m old enough to remember Domino’s pizza from early 2000s. It was hmm... worse than cardboard.
Well, that's why the parent commenter was surprised that the scanning bug in the grandparent comment was fixed at all.
A big problem with TVs right now is the mess that is HDMI 2.1. Companies keep putting out firmware updates to make features like VRR work (somewhat), which is a huge bummer for TV Ethernet-cutters like myself.
Guessing: martens.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/they-go-absolutely-insane-and-t...:

“Auto makers are building defenses against stone martens, a type of weasel that invades engines and eats the wiring

[…]

We only have data from those insurers that offer a weasel policy”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beech_marten#Car_damage:

“Since the mid-1970s, the beech marten has been known to occasionally cause damage to cars. Cars attacked by martens typically have cut tubes and cables. A beech marten can slice through the cables of a starter motor with just one bite. The reason for this is not fully known, as the damaged items are not eaten. There is, however, a seasonal peak in marten attacks on cars in spring, when young martens explore their surroundings more often and have yet to learn which items in their habitat are edible or not.[29] The fishoil often contained in the cables of cars from Japan may contribute to this”
Why do they not work though? I mean, the reader should just be reading a series of lines. Are they too close together in your case or something, or too twirly? I appreciate that this may be a personal question but I hope you can overlook this given that we are on a semi-technical forum. It seems an interesting problem (though I am not a fingerprint engineer)
> Apple devices have the same issue.

Let's be real here -- is this a problem with the device, or with site operators?

All the major players that promote TLSv1.2 -- Mozilla, Microsoft, Google -- serve their websites over TLSv1.0 just fine. Because they understand that they have to serve old devices to sell products and make money even from such outdated clients, which are still plentiful by the absolute numbers when it's billions of users that we're talking about.

In fact, most people aren't even aware of this, but www.google.com itself still works without HTTPS at all. This can easily be verified with curl. Looks like www.bing.com is the same in this aspect; because they gotta make the money from every user as well.

But what doesn't work? Wikipedia. Ironically, it's Wikipedia that intentionally engages in planned device obsolescence. Does the read-only access to an encyclopedia editable by anonymous users even require any TLS at all? Really?! And why is noone talking about this?

The worst part is that the overwhelming tech community is doing absolutely nothing about this injustice -- about planned device obsolescence by the likes of Wikipedia. Most of these obsoleted TLSv1.0 devices have very fast CPUs and gigabytes of RAM, and are still perfectly capable of browsing most of the internet, and non-technical people are genuinely unaware about these politics w.r.t. TLSv1.2. There's not a single advocacy group that I'm aware of that advocates for the rights of people who cannot use TLSv1.2. Mozilla SSL Configuration Generator is intentionally giving misleading TLS advice that Mozilla itself doesn't adhere to.
I was highly skeptical of these systems too: for normal freeway driving, Tesla’s systems are much better than I expected them to be. There’s no way I would be comfortable enough to sleep in my car, as a programmer, but I could imagine someone getting overconfident. This has always been a major risk with semi-automated systems: I believe airplanes dialed back the functionality of autopilots to prevent pilot complacency.
That is a ludicrious distinction irrelevant to the end customer. I can't find that distinction on the website, mind sharing a link or screenshot?

Besides, how would you even establish that the hardware is self driving capable if the software isn't? You might need to change the hardware once you realise the software needs changes too?
connected to A-list circles

many celebs have personal protection details. how such protection details behave likely varies widely..

as for your concerns, pay close attention to your cybersecurity posture before engaging with people who will draw attention to you simply by association.
I'm optimistic for mRNA technology, but I wouldn't be shocked at all if we discover we are playing with fire. And the consequences may be completely outside of our reality; for example we might be putting selective pressure on pathogens in unanticipated ways, the mRNA may interact with other viruses, or mistakes in manufacture may harm people.

There's a hell of a lot more to safety than "We engineered a new thing and it worked for a few months", and as an engineer I have heard this line before and seen it play out exactly as you would expect.
That would mean those packages are probably deployed somewhere. That would still count as an awesome number.
This one's good too.

https://youtu.be/2OP0gp9v5XM
Ask HN: Best hassle-free, sub-$1000 Windows laptop?
I have a non-technical friend who's asking for a laptop recommendation (just basic stuff; content consumption, classwork, etc). $1000 is the upper limit, so the MacBook Air is possibly an option, but cheaper would be better. I don't really keep up with what all's out there. Anybody have recommendations?
I thought that the DVI port had VGA pins most of the time. A lot of projectors are still VGA only at various places you might give a talk
Yes, but the point of memorisation is you can much quicker re-learn the subject and you know there is a solution to a problem when you face it. If you have never learnt it, you don't know that there is a solution, or you start to optimise things in a way that is proven to be wrong. You might not able to recall them, but the knowledge is likely there in your subconscious.
Does this make as much sense for front wheel drive cars? Both of my FWD cars get front tires to wear more, and if I wanted to keep the better tread on the back, I'd never rotate them, and fronts would wear out much faster than the backs.

Not to mention that front wheels also have bigger brake rotors, so worse tread up front would also mean worse breaking.
Some trucking companies are using a “local” model where a driver will drive 4 hours one way, drop off the trailer to another driver for the next leg, and pick up a trailer to drive back home to be more efficient
I also recommend rtings. I used it extensively when I was researching two new recent TV purchases. Their review and analysis is very detailed and technical.
> There is literally no difference, in this regard, between a dumb TV with a dongle/box plugged in, and a smart TV which has exactly the same thing built-in.

I mean, the TV is usually much more expensive than the dongles that get attached to it. I don't love replacing a $30 dongle every few years, but it doesn't hurt my wallet too bad. replacing a whole $500-1500 TV every few years is a big deal.

ultimately I've made my peace with the whole smart TV thing. my current one does a much better job streaming high bitrate local media than a chromecast. whenever it stops getting updates, I will probably just buy a NUC to use as a source, and use it as an unnecessarily complicated dumb TV.
SolarWinds Orion API Auth Bypass
Do those have tabs? Otherwise I'll have to stick to my browser.
Yea. I picked up a CX, and holy moly, I’d miss 4K, HDR, VRR, and the response time.

These commercial units are great; but you aren’t just losing the dumb apps and potential spying/metrics/whatever. You always miss out on real features too.

I paid $1800 for a 65CX and immediately black holed its MAC address at the router. I love it.
I have all sorts of other issues. I had a package supposed to be delivered Monday, before I would be out of town. Of course, while USPS can haul it across the country in a day, they cannot delivery it 45-min away in that same time (yes I’m being disingenuous here). At the end of the shipping Window I decided I needed to get them to hold the package because I don’t want the product to be sitting in front of my door given what I paid for it, and the replacement cost which would be at least 3X more.

Obviously I can’t call because they close stores and call centers prior to the end of delivery, so I tried to go online and have my package held. The website was bugged and the checkout form always posted back with no error to the cart page and I was unable to have my package held. I figured I’d call the next day, before it was delivered, but it was delivered the next morning before USPS even opens. Now I’ve had a lot of money worth of difficult to replace packages at my door and I won’t be able to get them till next week. Hope they don’t get snatched.
Another researcher I was following along these lines, and it faded away:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_G._Nocera
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"Sun Catalytix, a startup for development of the artificial leaf. The company was bought by Lockheed Martin in 2014"
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"In 2009, Nocera formed Sun Catalytix, a startup to develop a prototype design for a system to convert sunlight into storable hydrogen which could be used to produce electricity"
I agree, though I'd concede that we enjoy taking the Tesla on road trips because our kids are young. Stopping at the McDonalds next to the supercharger for a restroom break, sometimes lunch, or a romp in the play area for half an hour works really well for us. If our definition of roadtripping was drive-pee-drive-pee-drive-pee-drive with no real rest stops, it would definitely be faster to take our pickup (the only gas vehicle we have left).
You've been posting a ton of flamebait and unsubstantive comments to HN. If you keep doing that we will have to ban you, so please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I would say 'studying maths teachs you how to abstract problems' or 'computer science usually cares for the results, not the method' but that has been said a lot in other comments (and it's not exactly right).

Instead I will point an interesting fact I've noticed myself among my computer science classmates (from my second degree, I first did mathematics).

When you stumble around 'maths' (which in classes it's pretty common, to explain things using mathematical formulas, but in the real world it's also common to have some explanations even in stack overflow using math expressions), in that situation other computer science students usually see them as something 'strange', something to be afraid of or reject by searching alternatives; whether myself and other math/physics-students just don't care, we are used to it (and most times it's just a function)

My opinion is: you don't need maths (99.99% of the time), but you also don't need to be afraid of them and knowledge is very good for that.
I'd be interested in learning more about the move from Concourse to Circle (I'm a notorious Concourse fanboy). What went well, what didn't, what you miss, what prompted it -- that sort of thing.
I have 10 years old samsung smart TV and use it with internet connection but I use firewall on my router to block access to samsung sites. It works perfectly, TV is not able to call home and I can use smart features. If I want to download new firmware it is easy to temporarily disable firewall rules. This is better solution than using 3rd party device as I do not trust them either. But I am not sure if this works for newer models too.
I recently upgraded displays to a widescreen 4k display, and "OLED burn-in" was something I routinely came across while shopping around (not that I was in the market for OLED specifically because OLED, but more just "seeing what's out there" in that spec). Ended up settling on an Acer Nitro because it was on sale at my local Microcenter. Has done it's job quite well for me--but I'm also one of kinds of people who buys a thing and uses it until the screws are falling out before upgrading and otherwise considers good enough, heh.

Appreciate the knowledge share, though!
My solutions provide the capability to "be sure you are interacting with the real authentication GUI, not a fake one."

They do not provide "some action only kernel can detect" -- but I don't think you need this. Linux has strong enough user isolation that userspace programs running as root are as good as kernel is. Let me elaborate on that:

From security standpoint, they are equivalent. If you get kernel access, you can start a userspace root process. If you can get a root process access, you can modify kernel. So being "kernel only" does not really have that many advantages over privileged process.

And Linux kernel provides pretty strong user isolation. In particular, there are two subsystems in Linux which (AFAIK) are not present in windows, and which makes the safe userspace login possible:

- The system does not have a single "screen", instead it has multiple "virtual terminals". All the display/input devices are tied to single virtual terminal, and switching to a different virtual terminal completely deactivates the other one. So, for example, you might have your user's regular session on VT 7. If you somehow switch to the VT 2, then no matter what that user session does, it can no longer affect the display nor read from keyboard until you switch back.

- The kernel provides direct access to the input devices to the root user, via /dev/input/ file. This access happens before regular input layers, and cannot be affected by non-root users at all. So while a user's app can proxy the TTY input, or set up a global keygrab for the X session, or install a strange keyboard layout, this will not affect those /dev/input files at all.

So have a root process that monitors /dev/input/* and switches to a different tty when a designated SAK key is presses. And you have your "real GUI" solved, no kernel needed.

Agree?
The last time this hit HN the article was a bit more informative.

Two people in the car with both front seats reclined, “appearing to be asleep.”

The asleep part is almost certainly sensational drivel. This is a driver with a history of reckless driving who was screwing around with his friend.

But because he was screwing around in a Tesla it is therefore newsworthy.

The seats were reclined, but there is no evidence that the driver and passenger were both asleep. They “appeared asleep” because the seats were reclined.

This was undoubtably a stupid prank. I’ll be glad for the day when kids can’t pull stupid pranks in their cars. The trade-off is we’re unlikely to truly “own” our own cars at that time, they will operate as essentially private taxis.
$ git config --global alias.praise blame # Who wrote this most beautiful piece of.. code?