skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On a recent Smart TV installation, the multiple EULA alluded to the following:

* if you use the "Who Where What" 'feature', they will take screen shots of what you are watching, send the screenshots home, use "AI" to identify 'things' in the scene - then display relevant advertising - for example, if there is an washing machine on the screen, they will show ads for that.

* if you use their "IP TV" service, they will report home with your usage stats, and share them with advertisers.

* if you use the voice activated remote control microphone, they will send the audio clip home.

* if you use their built in "apps" (Netflix, Youtube, Disney+, etc) they will report home about your usage (and maybe what you watch? TBD)

* they might have an additional content watching service, that takes screenshots and reports them home to identifies of what you are watching.

* System setup has an optional 'user profile' (name, age, zip code, etc), if you fill this informat in, they will share with their advertising partners.

* They will show advertisements on the "home" screen

* they will show advertisements on the "App" screen

* they will show advertisements on the "change input source" screen

* they will show advertisements on their "IP TV" channels

* if you use the built-in web-browser they will report usage home

etc
Thanks, that's definitely coming in the near future
There are lot of fringe political folks on HN that would prefer everyone shuts up and works. Or that want to turn everything into a moral crisis.

But to them I say, at least we can vote where we want to whittle our lives away, right? Choose the people and products we work with and on.

You're free to work at "do your work" Coinbase if you want. Or "everyone is now a vegan" WeWork.

You can choose to build spy tech, ad pipes, weapons systems. It's all up to you.

People complaining about culture (or defending it) might be making different choices than you.
> Making RV full of explosives and exploding it in a right place not a small feat.

I don't see why not. The United States is absolutely stuffed to the gills with explosive materials. Tannerite is basically everywhere, for example.
A combination of bad PR from Sega Saturn, fanboyism of Nintendo over Sega, Sony absolutely killing it with Playstation One and hyping Playstation Two to pieces leading to few game studios making games for Dreamcast, which lead to fewer sales, etc.

I owned one, and absolutely loved it. But the amount of games you could buy compared to the alternatives was a massive drawback, and Sega didn't have enough household names like Nintendo to pull through.
Can someone clear up the timeline for me? Text messages show Batjer was gunning for Stebbins for over a year but the news report seems to be pushing the juicy headline that its in response to this recent report? Does that really add up?
As an adjectival modifier of "fortune"? It seems to qualify.
Also, when they did deliver a Half Life game, it was incredibly well executed and novel in a way that could simply not happen at a different company with a different culture. Normally I'd dismiss claims like that as puffery, but here it's concrete: no other big studios have invested in a VR game at that scale. And, veering into less quantitative observations, I haven't seen any VR game—and not many "normal" games either—with the level of attention to detail that Alyx got.

I've listened to some of the design commentaries for the game, and I was really impressed at how much time, effort and user testing Valve was willing to put in to every detail. VR is a new medium, and it's impressive to see an organization learn how to take advantage of it so thoroughly. It takes a special culture to make space for people to try things and indulge in perfectionism—takes a lot of money too, of course, but other AAA studios have just as much but don't hew to the same standard.

I know Valve's approach is controversial and I'm sure it's not perfect, but it's clearly doing something right that very few other companies are. I've seen small teams work in ways like that, but never at scale. One of these days I'd love to work at a company trying something like that. (Probably not in video game development though :P.)
Avoiding the trap of "root causes" is exactly what has lead to such a significant reduction in failures!

Avoiding "root cause" thinking doesn't mean that there isn't something that can be found and fixed. The intent is to keep your mind open to the fact that these systems and the interaction of their components are phenomenally complex. There are many contributing factors to a loss, not just a single error.

Root cause analysis is harmful because it artificially limits your investigation to a predetermined "single" error or fault. Once the first or most salient error or fault is found (very commonly a human operator), the investigation stops because the "root cause" was found. Instead of stopping at the root cause, you keep digging in attempt to find all the possible contributing factors, no matter how big or small. You can prevent many future failures of the system, not just the same one, by learning about many places where your defenses and mitigations were weak.

NTSB reports are a great example of how useful this approach is. Instead of identifying a root cause, they list many contributing factors, all of which can be improved to raise the level of safety significantly rather the fixing a single root cause.

As a recent example, think of the Boeing 737 MAX. What was the "root cause"? Was it:

* A software bug in the MCAS system?
* The removal of a redundant method for sensing angle of attack?
* The decision to make the "AoA Disagree" light an optional upgrade?
* Making substantially unstable changes to the existing airframe?
* The desire for it be be "another 737 variant" for pilot classification?
* The insufficient pilot training w.r.t. to the new MCAS system?
* Organizational pressures to not lose the AA contract to Airbus?
* Executive leadership that prioritized business over safety?

The answer is all of the above, and more! By identifying all of these past "a software bug in the MCAS system" we have the opportunity to fix many safety issues which could be contributing factors to future failures.

There is an even more in depth example of this in Chapter 5 of Nancy Leveson's book Engineering a Safer World. She spends over 60 pages describing the environment and circumstances that lead to a US Air Force F-15 shooting down a friendly US Army Black Hawk over northern Iraq in 1994.
RAM is the same situation as disk for me — I have plenty to waste.

Again, not advocating Chrome in a container, I don’t even run Chrome outside of a container. I just think it’s odd to get hung up on these sorts of resource requirements given the state of computing.
> Walk into a bank to open an account where to receive your salary. In no time after mentioning your US citizenship, you are shown the exit door. Try every bank until you eventually lie about it as the only way go on with your life.

Things are highly inconvenient, but not this hopeless. In most EU countries there is at least one bank that will open an account for (locally resident) US citizens, although the process does involve some extra forms where you have to write down your American Social Security Number as your “tax information number”.
I wonder which countries allow dual birthplaces though
The first season of “The Dream” is dedicated to MLMs.

I knew a little about Amway, but the history, current impact documented in it is jaw dropping

https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-dream
Virtual Event on Mythology in John Wick
Hi! I'm running a casual, virtual class on mythology in John Wick. We watch the movie, then chat for 30-50 minutes afterwards on Discord. Since you can't make friends in person now, this is a nice way to meet people safely! :)

The event will be January 9th 4:00 PST/7:00pm EST!

Discord link: https://discord.gg/q9xWbFmJ2D

Read more about what I'm doing: www.emergentuniversity.org
Does this conference have a companion app like the FOSDEM Companion to check schedule and so forth?
Also one in Florida at the Cape. Amazing perspective to see it in person. I've never seen a picture that came close to the impression from seeing it in person.
I'll admit that I straight up don't know how the structural loading would be like - but I seems to be me that you might be able to get some sort of telescoping solution that works ok. Since you'd probably need to clear the containers anyways to get the most of the power out of the system, the lower portion of the sail doesn't need to be a rotor - just a mast for the rotor section to telescope over.
> talking to yourself is usually attributed to being a psycho

Only if there are voices you hear in return are you considered "psychotic", with psychosis being defined as seeing or hearing things that are not real or attributed to self.

Our thoughts are real and there is nothing wrong with speaking those thoughts out loud any more than making a Youtube video for others to watch later (even yourself).
A first look at Ghidra’s Debugger – Game Boy Advance Edition
Thanks for linking this interesting article. While reading it, I followed a link to what turned out to be another great article, "Why everyone hates the mainstream media":

https://maxpolicy.substack.com/p/issue-45-why-everybody-hate...
I remember one of my favorite things about being an intern at Microsoft was finding people who had been around for a while and had fascinating stories. One person I talked to had a dreamcast on a shelf in their office and I asked why and they explained they ported the graphics stack for the dreamcast. I was a little blown away at the time but it served as a good reminder that the amazing gadgets and gizmos we use every day are built by quite normal people.
Also of note was that the Dreamcast's Windows CE had a web browser and Adobe Flash implementation, which was used for some of the simpler games on the platform like ChuChu Rocket.
Interest, relevance? Yes. Gratitude, not so much.
I honestly wonder, for a team that is unfamiliar with both psql JSONB and mongodb, which of those two would be easier to learn? And later on, which of those two would make the team more productive? I think this is the most important.

To be fair, I use mongoDB for 8 years now compared to less that 1 year of psql JSONB, so I can't really answer objectively.
The Capcom fighting games on Dreamcast were arcade quality at the time. Absolutely stunning. My favorite was Marvel vs Capcom. I wasn't very good at it, but I was mesmerized by the graphics and great overall UX.
> Joel Spolsky wrote Things you should never do, part 1 about the company-destroying effect of Netscape/Mozilla trying this. "They did it by making the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make: they decided to rewrite the code from scratch."

I'm not convinced. They only show a couple of examples, but there must also be counter-examples.
The jars are called amphora.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphora
But how much can you acquire without triggering some FBI/police alarm? I honestly don't know, but I think it's harder now than in 1995.
It gets brought up in a different context. Until recently, Reddit had no rules against hate speech, with the CEO explaining openly and at length why free speech principles speak against such rules and why the company won't institute them. So you could (and people did) write news articles about terrible things people say on Reddit, but you couldn't claim Reddit was being hypocritical or point to a policy they're not properly enforcing.

Now that Reddit does have a hate speech policy, I expect we'll start to see them in the same conversations.
For me the big eye-opener was learning to play traditional Irish dance music on whistle. About two years into the process, I thought I was great. I could read sheet music, I could play fast, I could play rolls, I knew a couple hundred tunes! Clearly I had to just keep it up at the same rate a few more years and I'd be a master.

And then, about two years after that, it gradually sunk in that I'd been missing everything about what the music was really about. I hadn't been able to pick out what made good playing good, so I couldn't tell that my playing wasn't. I had been focusing on a bunch of superficial stuff and missing the heart of the thing.

And now 20+ years on, I am vastly better at it than I was when I thought I was great. But I know there are loads of people much better. And I'm constantly worried there's some other epiphany waiting to happen when I will realize I'm still missing something absolutely key...
Thanks a lot for raising the issue. I will get it fixed asap.

Keen to know your feedback!
It sounds like they mean "the most important living being that benefits humans, other than humans themselves".
Agree to too large an extent for my comfort. Things like Facebook and Twitter, for instance, have basically made anything posted globally viewable. Everything posted on those platforms is globally viewed and, it seems, global viewership is even reinforced or even enforced (through 'outrage mobs' looking for the latest thing to be upset and 'go viral' over, etc).

edit-Here's a potential factor to make energy local - but just a supposition: A desire for power to be generated at smaller, localized scales. i.e. Power becomes near-free through the use of tiny nuclear plants - so tiny even your most stalwart against it perceives it as safe enough at that tiny scale.
That's way too meta for me.
Although the JVM has many limitations, it has important capabilities

that are lacking in BEAM. The limitations of BEAM are severe,

especially for implementing Universal Intelligent Systems,

which is the primary challenge of Computer Science for this decade.

See the following:

Project Liftoff: Universal Intelligent Systems (UIS) by 2030

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3428114
Very valid points, though the net cost of grid connection varies wildly even in developed countries, and even more so in not developed.

A rural electric grid may well be losing doubled digit percentage of electricity to crappy transformers, and low voltage.

And you may get 90%+ efficient delivery if you live in a dense megalopolis.
The failure of the Sega Saturn scared away the big 3rd party developers like EA and Square, combined with the huge success of the PlayStation 2 forced the company to cut their loses and leave the market entirely.
Douglas Coupland Pessimist's Guide to the Next 10 Years
I'm not sure how you ever would. It's not like the windows GUI was there, most likely it was just basic process management, IO, memory allocation API.....that sort of thing. In the same way Xbox runs a windows kernel but you'd never guess.
That is like saying someone should get a goldfish because salmon are going extinct. Backyard bee keeping is not helping the global native bee population (this is the one that matters in the long run).
Really nice to see Savycal here. I follow the podcast and wish it a great deal of success :)
They Are Billions is really the only RTS I've played in ages, and it's technically not even an RTS to some degree.. it is and it isn't. But they really made a unique game so I've highly enjoyed it from time to time.
Regular bank accounts may not be hopeleless after some paperwork fights. Investments accounts on the other hand are actually hopeless. Source: Googling the bogleheads forums for investments options for US citizens residing in the EU.
Mongo is very, I say, agile-friendly. With SQL I should always mind schema migrations, and think about it both ways. If I have large enough RDBMS setup with sharding and replication - altering large tables may even became a complete show-stopper.

With Mongo and null-friendly languages (Kotlin, PHP) I can just start writing documents with new fields right away.
Really hope someone is thinking about the ethics of releasing this information.

In birding for instance, there's often an unwritten rule of obscuring locations of rare species when it's reasonable to think additional traffic would threaten the bird.
0 is 0.0.0.0, which is not a valid address for most purposes. Some programs, like iputils ping, have special handling for that case (i.e. using it as an alias for the unroutable host address); some programs, like FreeBSD's ping, do not [1]. Unlike most of these address tricks, it's not standardized, except that treating it as a normal address is technically disallowed.

1: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/99336/how-does-ping...
Obviously a bit of hyperbole. The honey bee (dozens(?) of subspecies around the world) is indeed important, you can tell because the largest entomological society in the world (Entomological Society of America) more or less treats them as their own section in their annual conferences, on par with sections for all insects like "Insect Evolution and Systematics". "Most important living thing" though, that assertion is not terribly meaningful/useful in a biological sense.

Bees are certainly one of the most important species for many NSF grant targeting PIs at the moment,"bees"referring to hundreds of different species. These grants often emphasize the importance of "native" species. There is $ in pollination studies, bee genomics, natural history collection digitization etc.
If you’re a farmer, plenty, as the components for one compound are diesel fuel and fertilizer, both of which are part of “running a farm”
> As a Chinese born and raised in mainland myself, I am amazed at the ability of Chinese people to tolerate and coexist with this unspeakable brutality on our ancestors. […] I am also constantly puzzled by the denial from Japanese government regarding the war crime.

Yeah, denial is a strange thing sometimes:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinicization_of_Tibet

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camps
I think it can be, but only of your business is monolithic. My work affects and spans offices in 3 time zones, and very disparate ones at that. I have a few local colleagues, but I can’t think of a situation where talking over the wall or desk has been more effective than a slack message or a call.
I didn't say that it was "just Predator-prey". But birds are definitely both, and exist in a web of predator-prey relationships.

Therefore it is contingent upon the presenter to provide at least some evidence that this is a "runaway" situation - a "die-off" rather than the usual alternatives, which happen all the time as Exmoor states in his initial post on this thread.

Instead we're shown a bunch of dead birds. That is followed by a chorus of webshits here providing subsequent "the sky is falling" lamentations, moaning and gnashing of teeth.
Preparations might go a bit faster when you are trained and groomed by FBI to bomb something.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/ev974m/isis-fake-bomb-terror...

https://www.france24.com/en/20121018-new-york-bomb-plot-arre...

etc
It doesn't really need to get a lot cheaper. It's already cheaper than coal.

I don't think retrofitting residential rooftop solar is necessarily such a great idea given the high installation cost. It'll make much more sense on large flat roofs like on strip malls. Residential electricity users will probably get more bang for their buck by being able to take advantage of fluctuating spot prices - e.g. with intelligent storage heaters.

It'll make sense on newbuilds though. If you're already building a roof, why not make it generate a bit of electricity? The installation cost will already be built in.
I do not remember ChuChu Rocket being Windows CE, it is not even listed as a CE game in the list on the website posted.
When I get home in a few hours I will confirm it.
Funny to see so many people doing the same.

My current apartment's topology is such that I can make 8's in it (while thinking of course). I'd never think a simple change in topology can make your thought process a little bit more interesting.
It’s because we are new. America doesn’t have any domainant original cultural memory. Our edifices are second hand European. Every other place from Rome or India or Caucasus have had invasions and migrations and intermingling of cultures etc that paint everything in vibrant shades.
Although I agree in general, the example you've chosen might not be the best one. This might be one of (numerous) areas in business where success is not measured correctly and the methods used are never really validated.

Do human resources departments actually evaluate their hiring criteria and the tests they use in experimental designs, e.g. by hiring two sufficiently large groups A and B based on different interview methods and checking a year later how the groups performed relative to each other?

Bear in mind that there are plenty of people who believe that they're good at doing something just because they have been doing it for a long time. Without an independent method for confirming such claims they are practically useless.
Couldn't developers have easily ported their Windows games to Windows CE?
Back in like 2005(?) when it came out it was also the first game that I ever saw supporting dual monitors. I had the overhead map on one screen and normal view on my main screen. That was pretty darn cool back in the day.
As a developer in Stockholm in a not particularly exciting big company in a not particularly exciting position I making about $80000. I have daycare for my two kids within 200 meter from my home, and I pay less than $200 per month and kid for that. I have a safe bicycle commute that takes less than half an hour. I have the forest behind the house. In my area kids as young as 7 roam around without direct supervision on their bicycles. Im currently on paid (ok, it doesn’t cover 100% of my salary, but enough) parental leave and will be for another three months. After that I will probably use my legal right to work 80% while the kids are small. And of course free healthcare.

I know that this is far from what everyone wants, and wasn’t what I looked for 10 years ago, but for me, now, it is almost perfect. And I don’t think there’s many places in the world I can live like this.
Yes, just search for rC3 on your App/Play store.

It's actually much better than the website.
Pedagogic IDE
Why millennials are renting rather than buying homes
I think people way overestimate the FBI and police department capabilities for detecting these activities.
I use the word to mean provocative/inflammatory comments that don't contain enough information to outweigh the provocation. Such comments tend to lead to flamewars.

Definitions aside, please don't post any more comments like that. We want substantive, thoughtful conversation on HN. Comments like "racist racist racist Fascist racist" are obviously not acceptable, quite apart from ascii art (though what you did with that was also not cool, and you did it at least three times).

Please don't post any more unsubstantive comments like these either:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25435883

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25428670

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25427868
One-party rule is bad no matter which party you like. Even if the party you like is the one that is in charge, you will see them become complacent and corrupt when no-one else is able to hold them to account.
Any word if it was locally sourced gluten free farm to table cage free grass fed free range ingredients?
ChuChu Rocket was a flash game? Are you sure?
I am replying for the sake of the hidden sibling comment:

I don't watch any major media coverage of politics, but a mathematician and comedian I follow on YouTube (from a different country who presumably has no horse in the race) has analyzed some of the numerical allegations of fraud:

- https://youtu.be/ua5aOFi-DKs

- https://youtu.be/aokNwKx7gM8

- https://youtu.be/etx0k1nLn78
Probably because the wire was at the bottom of the controller
Yes, exactly, we should just plant trees, fruits trees, plants (and eat them! so many people ignore their fruits in their gardens, or worse, cut them), vegetables, that's all needed, and insects will be back contributing
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