skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a thread on Reddit [1] but the poster never replied when people asked about the exact model and no one else reported this behavior, so I'm skeptical (I own a Samsung smart TV and from my experience it always asks you before attempting to connect to any wifi network). From the manufacturers' point of view it wouldn't make much sense auto-connecting to an arbitrary open network as that will in many cases just lead to an unusable connection, so I have a hard time believing Samsung would actually do this. What's more likely is that someone else (spouse, kid) used the TV, selected an open wifi and the TV saved that without OP knowing. But who knows, maybe Samsung is really after us.

Anyway, if you're so worried about the device maker spying on you it's probably best to avoid buying such a device (or any kind of smart device including a smartphone). In that case just use a monitor instead.

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/bpr6xs/if_you_choo...
I have told my kids many times that I expect piloted cars to be a rarity in the future. Once reliable self-driving cars are common, the difficulty in obtaining a driver license will likely increase.
That’s a very interesting link and overview, thanks!
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I bought a dumb TV 3 months ago. It's a simple Samsung 1080p TV. I don't need anything else.
I was looking at logseq earlier this week, but everything I found said you needed GitHub. Do you happen to have a link to the local git method?
> a closed latte shop is not a good reason for depression.

I agree but that's not what I was referring to ->

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression
Two things that I am aware of:
(a) All standards provide a "comment period". Along with contact details for those standard bodies, there is a viable mechanism to some extent.
(b) Standards are broad, which makes the language a bit abstract, and this can be a problem. However, they also include "compensating controls", which are typically used as a wedge to avoid a compliance failure.

I have had great success with several auditors with a polite conversation trying to help them map their goals to our controls. Yes, you will always meet an auditor or two who won't accept anything but the written word of the standard. Like any other industry, there are smart and dumb auditors. :-)
I call bullshit. The VGA port is still alive and well. Wanna bet $50?
But hey, now they get four years of peace and quiet as the Democrat controlled mass media tells them that everything is perfect and that Biden is the perfect President who never does a single thing wrong, and everything is just great, as the Democrats continue to destroy and wholesale sell off the country.
There's speculation that an ancestor strain to OC43 was in fact the cause of the 1898 pandemicinstead of influenza.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_coronavirus_OC43
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21011313

Apparently Roku sends audio and/or video fingerprints of frames (not frames themselves).
It's not a mistake to re-implement these. It's a mistake not to recognize that you need them in the first place.
The Apple M1 [1] has set the bar for hybrid 4+4 big.LITTLE laptop-class silicon:

> The M1 has four high-performance and four energy-efficient cores, providing a configuration similar to ARM DynamIQ and Intel's hybrid Lakefield and Alder Lake processors.

Apple, like other ARM-based smartphone/tablet-class silicon designers, has selected a System-on-a-Chip (SoC) architecture. Intel and AMD are incrementally modifying their discreet processor architectures to provide competitive hybrid architectures together with some SoC aspects as AnandTech describes in detail [2].

The Wired article also describes Qualcomm as a competitor coming from the ARM big.LITTLE side of the equation while leaving out other competitors like Samsung and (the defunct?) Huawei/HiSilicon. Nvidia, the current leader in discreet GPU silicon and former competitor in the smartphone/tablet-class silicon market, has announced the acquisition of ARM [3], which adds an interesting plot twist to the competitive landscape.

The hybrid core architectures require new schedulers in the OS kernel. Transitioning to new/alternative Instruction Set Architectures, like x64 to ARM64, also requires a translation layer like Apple's Rosetta 2 to help the software transition. Microsoft Windows currently lags being Apple on both of these fronts.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_M1#Architecture

[2] https://www.anandtech.com/show/15877/intel-hybrid-cpu-lakefi...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arm_Ltd.#Changes_of_ownership
This sh*t is the reason that I write offline and then copy-paste the final text only at the end.
Build your own TV with a short-throw projector and back projection screen if you a have a spare corner. You can make it look seamless basically like raising a thin artificial wall with a cutout for the screen. You could even hide a subwoofer in that corner and out of sight.
> Aside from blending small amounts on hydrogen in existing methane feeds

What's "small"?

20% hydrogen on existing grid in place now: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/24/hydrogen...

100% hydrogen trial over next few years: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/scottish-homes-wil...

Hydrogen has suddenly skyrocketed up the agenda in Europe this year. There is a pressure group called Hydrogen Europe (which oddly doesn't even have a wikipedia page) which comprises companies like BP, Shell, Total, Equinor, Repsol, Engie, OMV, PKN Orlen, Hellenic Petroleum, and many more. At the same time almost 100% of hydrogen used in europe comes from oil.

It concerns me how much government subsidy (both cash and regulations) is being pushed into hydrogen.

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-8970377/...

"Hydrogen companies were given a boost this week after the Prime Minister vowed to inject £500million to 'turn water into energy' as part of a 10-point plan for Britain's green recovery.

However, critics say the targets are nowhere near enough compared to Germany's and France's respective plans to invest €9billion and €7billion in hydrogen."
Which exact projects do you have in mind? Because none of the issues you identify seem to apply to the BSDs. We don't really have the notion of "maintainers", either, so, I'm guessing your comments aren't as a BSD user per se?

The BSDs have excellent archives of the mailing lists; FreeBSD, NetBSD and DragonFly have their own websites with complete or near-complete archives, including full threading and sub-threading support; all BSDs are also archived on marc.info, and plentiful of other sources, some of which do come and go; but archives themselves are downloadable in bulk from the underlying projects, so, archiving is generally a non-issue.

What formatting tools? Why would I need any formatting tools to hack the kernel? That's only a benefit that none are available.

Security mechanisms? How's GitHub any better? Anyone can make any account and pretend to be anyone. Or do you suggest GitHub introduce Account Verification, so that someone at Microsoft-owned GitHub could then decide whether or not you're an OSS contributor worthy of a Blue Checkmark to accompany your name? I think we did have people pretend to be de Raadt or Dillon over the years, but it's generally not really an issue; often just the April 1 jokes; very easy to verify based on headers.

> Forum config problem.

OK, now we're talking! So, how about all those forums fix their "forum config" problems, and then maybe we'll talk? Mailing lists are by far superior to what GitHub or any other popular forums actually do offer as of today. GitHub Issues, for example, doesn't even support threading within an Issue; unlike the mailing lists since decades ago. There's absolutely no archiving of GitHub Issues being done anywhere that I'm aware of, apart from user-initiated archive.today. So, even in such basic aspects, mailing lists are already superior. Not to mention that we have contributors from across the globe, whereas Microsoft disables (without notice) GitHub accounts of anyone who's a citizen or a visitor of the geographic places and peninsulas you aren't supposed to visit or originate from -- covering dozens of millions of global citizens, denying them access to code for no good reason.
> The prevailing theory at the time was that people don't give a shit about fast food quality, they just want food that's fast and affordable to shut the kids up for a bit.

But no one could possibly have believed this was true, right? Other "corporate pizza chains" it competed with were fine... Domino's pizza wasn't. As a college student, I heard--and participated in--people calling for "anything but Domino's" many many times. There is 100% a market for "food in the shape of Pizza that is as cheap as possible", but Domino's pushes that boundary really hard and for anyone to have believed that that market was anywhere near the size of the addressable corporate pizza market size ignored both common sense and the reality that their competitors seemed to exist and sell pizza (despite it being slightly more expensive).
Have you looked at other challenges in Computer Science? Think embedded software, or maybe FPGA work? Maybe a position as a scientific programmer, or software that's very close to custom electronics?
I would really, really hope that they are using a good cross-validation strategy (as they'll definitely need it).
Until the pandemic happened I would order from Dominos every time their email list sent me a notification that there was a deal for a large 2 topping pizza under $7 with in-store pickup. That was about once every 2 months. Nothing mattered except the price.

When the pandemic started I stopped eating food prepared and handled by random people. I am surprised to see in these threads that so many people started ordering food prepared and handled by other people.
They actually do have a thin crispy crust option, at least in my region. I order it with beef and jalapeno.
Isn’t most of that going to go to people who have domain experience or education, rather than to general developers?
No they are complaining that it is too RISC compared to well designed RISC ISAs, e.g. ARM or POWER.
Pretty sure you’re being sarcastic saying that’s a valid thing to expect end users to do to opt out. And I agree. Wish mining peoples privacy wasn’t accepted norm.
Offer refunds on what? Do you actually buy games on stadia? I thought it was like Netflix where you pay to have access to stream anything.
You're conflating a few things -- it's not like mechE's don't have their own journals in which to publish scientific papers, after all.

It's merely that, to pick some famous names: what leslie lamport or simon peyton-jones or donald knuth do with their daily professional lives and output has a passing similarity with what titus winters or linus torvalds or raymond chen or .. have, but not much more than that. And both groups know stuff the the other one does not.
The only thing I have against GTA V is that cars can't be saved in story mode. I hate paying 100,000+ upgrading a car, just for it to disappear after a mission is started.
As another commenter in the thread mentioned, televisions and high end gaming displays are often optimized differently (I don’t know what this means for an OLED display, just speaking generally here-so take that as far as pleasant conversation will permit) Which admittedly isn’t something a lot of people care about, though I would reckon if one is about to drop three big ones on a video display source it probably matters more to them than it would to the rest of us.

Just speculation on my part, though.
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> So, for example, it is possible that users value edge case usage (such as very long trips) much, much higher than they do day-to-day usage and so still you could meet 90% of general motor vehicle usage with EVs at the same convenience but if the remaining 10% was far more valuable to end users and the inconvenience too high, it might still not be reasonable.

How much do you weigh the inconvenience of being 10 minutes late for an appointment because you had to make an unplanned fuel stop?

How much do you value 100s of unneeded fuel stops interrupting your life?

Fortunately, it's not necessarily an either/ or. You can buy an EV for 99% of driving and just rent an ICE car when you need to road-trip.
A common mistake I've seen in the industry is to "look down" upon the IT staff, which makes it much difficult to get a meaningful conversation going.

Yes, wiping W2K and installing W95 is problematic and insecure, but I always believe in the power of a polite conversation and have had great success in persuading the powers-that-be to change their stance. :-)
> I'd much rather that "Smart" TV's just include their own proprietary stick that plugged into the HDMI input and could be replaced with a current generation streaming stick in a few years.

You mean like a ChromeCast?
mRNA vaccine theories: are they credible?
I would like to bring to the attention of the experts these doubts that I have found online and which deserve an answer.
I would like to point out that I do not know who asked the question, but I know how many experts are present here on this forum.
I apologize if the machine translation has any errors.

In the report submitted to the FDA for the authorization of the vaccine mRNA-1273 - Moderna (December 17, 2020 Meeting Presentation - Emergency Use Authorization Application) we see a series of figures that "sing the wonders" of the vaccine, including the one I report here (the question marks are mine). Original file https://www.fda.gov/media/144583/download
One Melissa J. Moore, Chief Scientific Officer, shows a figure showing the famous LIPID NANOPARTICLE (LNP) with mRNA entering an "antigen presenting cell" (APC, mostly dendritic cells and macrophages) surrounded by lymphocytes B and T. To a pathologist who has taught immunology all his life and knows cells well because he has often had them in his hands, this theory appears somewhat flawed, or at least stunted and shaky. I try to explain why in a popular way, focusing on the two question marks indicated (?). I do not treat the third (the reverse transcription from mRNA to DNA which I think is very unlikely even if not entirely impossible). But there is enough to worry about, as we shall see.
To be fair, I don’t think most people would consider a solution that voids the warranty on an expensive TV valid...
You definitely don't need that level of granular detail from 10 years ago. There is no use-case for reproducing every keystroke. Major edits would be fine after literally only after a major save, or a day has passed.

FYI - this is a kind of 'biometric' leakage eh.

Your typing style is probably as unique as your finger print.

It's not shockingly bad, but probably something, under thoughtful review, they should take care of.

Edit: by 'no use case' I mean, no use case for long term history. Obviously there's a good use case for 'very short term' individual keystrokes.

Also Edit: the answer to this issue is not 'Don't worry about it, it's a low risk problem'. This is the 'slow boil' SV way of thinking that is seemingly benign, but not acceptable in the long run. The answer is: don't store personal data that is unnecessary. It's that simple. It doesn't diminish the product a single bit.
I would say this speaks to their efficiency. They probably have optimized routes and know exactly how long a trip is going to take and whether its worth offering delivery to that location.

I used to work as a pizza delivery person and there were some locations that were extremely inconvenient and were money losers to the shop in terms of effort, time I'm away from and order size. I remember spending 40 minutes to deliver a $10 sub for a $2 tip.

You can get even more granular with this and fire customers that live in complicated building complexes that take forever to traverse.

But on the other had, a national chain like Dominoes may want to serve some customers as a loss leader purely for the reputation
Correct. But distracting driving is happening today without allowing the driver to physically disconnect from the driving system. The manufacturers, willing to sell the new Advanced Driver Assisting Systems (ADAS) are saying that it would be safe for the drivers to actually disconnect from the driving systems (hands off the steering wheel and feet away from the pedals) which is simply insane.

ADAS are designed as an additional safety level for ACTIVE driving, when the driver is 100% driving the car, and not for a potentially much more dangerous situation, when the driver (as encouraged by the manufacturer) is completely disconnected but supposedly "alert" at all times.
I still expect masks to become less effective over time because of their widespread use.
If you want to constrain yourself from even having that option. Say you only want to watch dvd's or presentations on it but not browse internet/yt/other major 'filler' time wasters. If id buy a tv id probably get a dumb one because of this.
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"It seems like almost every TV sold today is a smart one, which means a lack of control of what’s happening on our device"

"Just Don’t Connect It To the Internet [...] You can then go ahead and add a Nvidia Shield or Apple TV and connect that to the internet."

Trading one surveillance system for another.
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Show me a GPU made in the last five years that is even capable of outputting VGA.
American medicine. Brick-and-mortar shopping. US highway system. US tax system.
Considering Google doesn't really support anonymous accounts very well, and anyway only the owner and at most collaborators can see version history, the idea that there's a practical attack here seems pretty far-fetched.
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Trucking is 40% of commercial miles. Most trucks are parked for hours/ day so the driver can sleep. It'll be interesting seeing how this changes as autonomous driving becomes more common.
This is one of those myths that just needs to die.

"Put the good tires on the back" is a terribly inaccurate rule of thumb. Whether you want the good tires on the rear or the front is gonna depend on how the vehicle handles. Most modern mom-mobile type crossover are so biased toward under-steer (usually from a combination of rear weight and stiff front sway bar) that they need all the help they can get up front and putting the better two tires on the rear is just wasting traction because that end was never going to break traction anyway.

Also, Firestone happily puts fronts only on my junk.
I suppose anything could be patented..
> To your last point, if it is possible for drug addicts and alcoholics to overcome decade long compulsive behavior, there is no reason you can’t too.

Agreed. It certainly feels impossible but I know rationally that it isn't. That being said, bridging the rational knowing vs the emotional feeling is always a challenge, especially with behaviors that are compulsive.

> One other thing worth mentioning is that you might be beating yourself up for not being productive in your spare time, which is particularly self defeating since the feeling of guilt will lead to more of the avoidance behavior

It's interesting that you mention this because I do carry a lot of guilt when I'm not working or learning something, which definitely tends to exacerbate the avoidant behavior and make me more likely to engage in it. I have a very hard time accepting that something like watching a movie, reading a (non-work) book, or playing a video game is "worthwhile", because it feels like it's not "productive". It's something I'm definitely working on, however.
Was it a Hollywood "A-Lister" celebrity? I only ask because i'm considering moving to LA and sounds like I should stay away from those weirdos. :)
Yes, of course Tesla hasn't solved it yet, because no one has, and in fact it probably isn't possible to solve without some magic tech that doesn't exist yet - it might be possible to fix with LIDAR, but obviously Tesla doesn't have it.

All of these systems have to ignore stationary objects ahead of them, or the car would be emergency braking in too many daily situations to be usable.

Simple case, at 150km/h you are travelling at 41m/s. The stopping distance at that speed is roughly given as 130m[0]. So the car would need to see and recognize objects at least ~150m ahead to stop autonomously from that speed. That's just physically not possible, the cameras on the Tesla don't have enough resolution to do such a recognition. Instead, a radar-based distance measure is used - but again, even if the car detects that you are rapidly approaching "something" 150m ahead of you, that information is nearly useless. At that distance, you cannot differentiate between a stopped car 150m ahead of you, an overhead sign, or a large rock next to your lane which poses absolutely no danger whatsoever - it all gives the same signature. LIDAR doesn't have that range either. And then of course even if the car could reasonably detect that there is something ahead of you that you are absolutely 100% definitely heading towards, it has no idea if the road doesn't curve in such a way that you would avoid it. Famous case of adaptive cruise systems freaking out at bends, because according to the radar/image recognition you are CLEARLY heading for that telephone pole standing next to the road - but of course the road curves so you aren't actually going to hit it. Problems like that.

[0] https://www.random-science-tools.com/physics/stopping-distan...
> If you can't keep it in a way that ensures its welfare whilst also ensuring that it doesn't cause havoc amongst the local wildlife, maybe don't get one at all.

I'm glad that you're taking the time to think through the responsibility that comes with getting a pet, but I think you are coming close to letting the perfect be the enemy of the good here. just keep in mind that there are already more cats than homes willing to take them in (almost a million shelter cats are euthanized each year in the US alone). if we're talking adoption (and we really should be; deliberately breeding cats for sale is part of the problem, imo), you don't need to offer a perfect life for your prospective pet. you just need to offer a life that is worth living at all.
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To be fair there is also: share, new, open, make a copy, email, download, make available offline, rename, move, make a shortcut in drive, move to trash, publish to the web, document details, language, page setup, and print.

That is just for the file menu. There are 7 other menus each with their own long list of options.
The Actor paradigm is indeed very powerful. It has been

reinvented many times since it was first published in 1973.

For example, Erlang was a reinvention that put the paradigm

into many practical applications :-)

However, only more recently has it been characterized up to a

unique isomorphism. See the following article:

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3459566

The most important code to be written now is for the

foundations of Universal Intelligent Systems :-)