skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nursery rhyme to learn the days of the week:

Solomon Grundy,
Born on a Monday,
Christened on Tuesday,
Married on Wednesday,
Took ill on Thursday,
Grew worse on Friday,
Died on Saturday,
Buried on Sunday.
That was the end,
Of Solomon Grundy.
Oh they deserve to be hand waved. The going trend is to sacrifice functionality, for a bit of beauty.

Thats not a tereible thing to do, but the UI UX group has too many loud characters that are hell bent on applying this minimalist beauty to everything.

Casepoint is the recent update to Youtube android app. Earlier, when i would search something, on the top right corner was a small button that allowed me to filter the results. Now its hidden behind a menu. Why? God knows. The worst part is, its not like the menu has 10 items and the filter icon was moved into it. The menu has just one item and its the filter.

I hated Apples shift to minimalist design.

I hate apps that think minimal design is functional.

There is a place for minimal design, and its not everywhere.
A reason Iran is threatening to Israel is because Iranian leaders don't recognize Israel's right to exist. I don't have data on when Iran will/can develop a nuclear weapon. There is a fear that they would make use of it though, which is definitely a problem. In contrast to Iran's stance, Israel does recognize Iran's right to exist, and while it is in possession of nuclear bombs, has not used them. Iran also provides funding and weapons to Hamas and Hezbollah, which are both internationally recognized terrorist groups on Israel's borders that launch rockets into the country. So while Israel is technologically ahead, Iran demonstrates intent to be an aggressor against Israel given the opportunity. In the interest of avoiding a war between Iran and Israel, where I argue there is no real winner when lives are lost, it's worth making sure Iran doesn't have the opportunity to start a war. Israel would much prefer to have peace.

I agree with the concern about the 1 year claim. Iran definitely has the right to use civilian nuclear power, and I don't know the math behind the 1 year line. It may be that 1 year is the fastest possible amount of time that Iran could conceivably develop a nuke, in which case, I totally agree, it's propaganda to be citing that.
If you have an I-device use the remote on that. iPhone controlling Apple TV is delightful (even allows 1pass access to passwords for accounts)
Kids usually go to school around 8am and that families eat dinner around 7pm. Those times are similar in many places. I try to remember events throughout the day, not just when they arrive at work because I tend to make judgement calls about scheduling people's time based on what I know about their entire daily schedule.

All you have to remember is the offset and everything else fits.
Sounds like white holes.

https://youtu.be/S4aqGI1mSqo
Custom complex workflows
A big thing in the US is the housing construction and related service industry. That's a lot of voters.
It may take you up to ten years to know what you are doing (not counting the time you might want to spend reading Knuth).
It is 100% a Google language. Step 0 of their contributor guidelines is to use a Google product (ie a Google account) for authorship of your commits[1]. It's insane to me that this is required for contribution to the language's development.

[1]: https://golang.org/doc/contribute#google_account
A count down timer on your phone's clock app can achieve the same effect, without the washer needing to be internet connected.

Granted, you do have to remember to start the countdown timer.
Nice, 2 VMs for free. Might put my little side project there for a while. Currently on 2 nano vm's on AWS.
> if you're concerned about that you should run a test comparing them yourself on your specific environment.

I mean, X.org runs well enough on my end? I'm not finding myself wanting something with lower input latency.

> The difference is that the X compositor is just storing a copy of large amounts of state from the X server, whereas the Wayland compositor would store the canonical data and wouldn't need to worry about falling out of sync with the X server.

Honestly, if I were to do a ground-up X11 implementation, I'd probably build it around wlroots or similar. Then Wayland clients could interact with it, and I'd be able to preserve all the X11 compatibility and X11-isms I cared about. Like having separate window managers, hotkey daemons, screenshot tools, the slew of X11 command-line clients I know and love today, and so on.
Emacs, Naked (2014)
That's strange, the LG CX series are the mid to premium range from LG being OLED? I am willing to pay more to avoid ads but putting ads on premium models now leads to why should I pay more if I'm going to see ads anyway so might as well get the cheaper model/brand that was good enough but avoided because of ads.

I was looking the LG CX at christmas but decided to go with the Sony X9500 as could get a bigger screen for the same price and nervous around screen burn on oled of the lg cx.

The reason I was looking the LG CX / Sony specifically was because of lack of (or perceived lack of) ads compared to say Samsung who are well known for this. Both TV's had good feedback on the user-interface being fast and user friendly.

I'm now glad I went with the Sony. The Sony's seem to be running a pretty stock Android TV UI so haven't seen any ads or annoying things so far. In fact it's working better than the Xiaomi Mi Android tv box I had previously with my old TV. It's faster, not as buggy, supports Airplay and AppleTV, I was quite pleased after updating having one remote, no third party boxes plugged in and a seamless UI with what appears stock like android tv.

I hope Sony don't do an update pushing ads. Saying that I run a dns blocker on my router so maybe I do get ads but they are blocked.

Ads / bigdata seems to be the bullshit jobs of the modern world with ads driving us more and more to a dystopian future with more data acquisition then driving more ads then driving more data acquisition and on.
I use a macbook pro and this is an issue for me quite often, maybe you'll be faster but it'll still be a hassle
The very definition of a grandparent :)
Do you have evidence for that though?

I've heard that repeated but never seen anyone actually test it and it would be shocking if true.

It seems more likely that in these cases, a family member or friend connected to the WiFi instead, without the owner being aware.

And if it were actually true and verifiable then surely journalists would have written articles on it by now.
Integromat
I rarely see the main interface since I mostly stream with a ShieldTV, so I can't really say anything about ads there.

I did finally end up enabling wifi though. I kept it off for the first month but the TV got more and more aggressive about posting overlays that warned my that my TV did not have internet access. Even while streaming on an external device. It really took me out of the moment.

I probably would have returned it at that point but my car isn't big enough to fit it and any other TV would probably end up the same way or worse.
I just tried that on Chrome on macOS and it doesn't work
Yes I agree with you? You need to size your battery supply to meet both peak power and overall energy needs.

Generally when folk express concern about running random equipment on an UPS, they are concerned about peak power rather than energy capacity.

I'll also make the claim that most hobby grade 3D printers come with power supplies that are barely adequately rated for the printer's peak power, so using the supply's rating is probably in the right ballpark.

Edit: ah, I interpreted the thread a bit differently. Ignoring the UPS rating aspect, yeah the average power draw will likely be a fraction of the peak. My guess would be around 100W total for most Prusa style printers printing PLA. The stepper motor draw would be highly dependent on the speed of the print and the shape of the part, since power draw will be highest when accelerating at higher speeds.
I doubt the company will throw money to someone to write the code without any hint of residual rights.

Even if they're open source religious - still they want at least their name probably listed along the lines as a creators
haven't seen these keys on a keyboard in like 10 years o_O
That makes much more sense now. So just a little difference in understanding/definition of "contractor" :)

And I can definitely corroborate the "young" part as well. We had some external contractors that we placed with our clients that made less than the 75EUR (IIRC maybe 60EUR or something) but they were young and/or from Eastern Europe.
I'm not sure what you mean. Republicans don't have a platform for addressing issues such as inequality, racism, criminal justice reform, gerrymandering, global warming, etc. They either deny that the problems exist or advocate the same policies that they have for decades.
...I still to this day wake up more reliably to sunlight than my alarm. I wish I could decouple from gigantic fusion ball time, but there's just something about that sudden uptick in sensible energy...

The crack of dawn is too...darn...loud!
Your product is disaster. If you have 500 customers why is this launch post? Moderators need to stop taking bribes and give every post equal chance. This Dang guy is aggressive in removing other posts but looks like he boosts HN posts.

So you send alerts about burnout based on PR? We don’t need yet another alert. We need less alert. If this sounds crud, be it. If you have got guts, address these deficiencies head on.
> I'm wary about GCP because Google hasn't issued any kind of promissory statement that GCP won't end up on the [Google Graveyard](https://killedbygoogle.com/)

Isn't that literally what an SLA is, a (contractually) guaranteed level of service for some interval of time?
The Oracle cloud is for Oracle customers. The same way the IBM cloud is for IBM customers.
> $1,500 is probably quite low for the caliber of screen you get in a brand new TV.

I am suspicious of that claim. How much, in real dollars, is your exposure to ads worth over the lifetime of the TV? I bet it doesn't move the needle that much. This is just manufacturers getting greedy, they're not selling TVs at a loss.
Oracle Virtual Hosting
In contrast to the famed Oprah car give away that actually left the recipients with a noticeable tax burden. [0]

[0] https://jalopnik.com/that-time-oprah-gave-276-people-free-ca...
Complete outage world wide and the status page says it's a potential issue which may affect some customers lol
Vim is a far cry from being drop dead simple.
> Do physicians have to perform surgery to demonstrate their knowledge when they change hospitals?

And even that wouldn't be comparable, since they'd be observed on something they actually do every day as part of their real job.

In software the interview drills are about thing nobody ever does as part of the real job, so one won't have any recent experience doing algorithm tricks.
There is an official thread for freelancers the first da of each month. Remember to find the correct thread and post there https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring
I thought supply had to cater to demand, but if they're all emergently colluding...
I think code completion is for “I want a list of properties or methods available for this function” and not “I don’t want to have to type the next few characters”.
In Japan, it depends on area but needs at least 30C(0-30C), at max 50C(-15-35C) or more.
> I wish Android and iOS would add functionality that allowed an app to connect to a known SSID without access to the scan

Would that really help that much? If you know the user's approximate area, e.g. by IP address, and their SSID is unique in that area, than if the app says to the OS "please connect to this SSID if it's available" and the connection happens, the app now has your location.

I suppose that's a case for making location access more granular, not leaving things the way they are. But I bet people doing UIs for Google and Apple won't do that because the average user doesn't understand the possible location implications of giving away your SSID.
Doesn't Apple do sponsored app search placement on the Apple TV?

https://searchads.apple.com/

Or is that only on their other devices?
Cool idea, looking forward to playing with it.
Maybe this could be automated, like break a country into contiguous regions grouped by sunrise and sunset times, then each phone can geolocate to figure which time-region you're in.

Then it can set your waking and sleeping time based on time-region.

This could be further extended by having the devices overlay a new set of times over the universal time, where, say, 12:00 is normalized to be lunch time. Then when someone says "meet me at lunchtime", everyone (even if they are visiting from out of the area) knows he means 12:00 and they don't have to consult their phones to find out that lunchtime in that area is 17:00

And then, if someone says "Well I hate in summers when I have a lot of daylight in the morning, I want more daylight in the evening, let's change our clocks in the summer", then everyone shoves him out of the room and never talks to him again.
CHIPSEC v1.5.10 supports the latest PaX/GRsecurity and vanilla kernel
I tried converting from Earthdate to Stardate (98791.48) but then realized "what" Earthdate?

Luckily in our future Capitalist 2.0 society everyone will be aligned to the "shift" they work around UTC, of which there are 10 but they are coded in binary for simplicity.
Yes but it's also why those are a lot shorter. If Google has been signing 10 year horizon SLAs, that'd be big news.
> then becomes trivial to flash the firmware from an adless TV onto an adful TV

Just occurred to me that we need some young hackers to start working on "opening" up tv firmware like they have for consoles and phones.
Building the Innovation Economy in Tel Aviv, Israel [pdf]
Cache invalidation, naming things, and a globally distributed system. What could go wrong?
Champion Kenyan runner being interviewed on what makes Kenyans better runners: "when I train with foreigners, they don't keep up. I ask why and they say they feel like they're going to die. I feel that way too. But I keep running"
I have a Sony X9500.

I run a dns blocker on my router so it may be serving me ads but if it is I don't know. From my research I don't think the X9500 serves ads.

I was quite pleased with upgrading to it from a dumb tv and cheap android tv box. It's faster than the android tv box I had, not suffered any bugs i saw on the android tv box. UI looks pretty much stock android tv, it has airplay and appletv which you don't get on android tv boxes.

I'm happy with the purchase so far.
Any changes made would be district wide.

We probably got here (counterproductive start times) by making budgets the first consideration - with literally everything else following it. It also explains why we segment kids by age.
I wonder if Lil’ Snitch firewall app for macOS is impacted by this SSH port being opened up by macOS upgrade(s).
— Holding back the upgrade until then.
So the same name AND the same field? Wow!
Google's GCP SLAs are 99.95% per month[1]. There's no mention of any guarantee that the GCP Cloud nor that specific GCP Products (like App Engine) will be supported for, say, 10+ years from now (well, 10+ years is unreasonable, but something like "at least 3 years, and with 2 years' notice of any planned discontinuation" would be nice).

[1]: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/sla
> I would need to be a superstar to ever get tenure.

The real issue is that tenure is not given to highly competent people. It's given to "superstars" and that is more of a political title than anything else.
I'm a Googler, opinions are my own.

The terms of use for GCP does say any product that is shut down will give at least a one-year notice before it's shut down[1]. For any given product within GCP that has been shut down the lead time has been greater than a year as far as I'm aware.

The fact that Google is calling out GCP separately on its earning calls is actually somewhat of a commitment to trying to grow that business. Very few products within Google are called out separately, so that was a fairly big change.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/terms/

> (d) Discontinuation of Services. Google will notify Customer at least 12 months before discontinuing any Service (or associated material functionality) unless Google replaces such discontinued Service or functionality with a materially similar Service or functionality.
I'll admit I only took a skim but isn't this just an R course with EDA?
Oracle OCI is one of the few cloud providers who'll actually give you two VMs for free, forever.

https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/

Could be worth checking out.
Right, so if your max rated load is below your UPS's capability, it should work with plenty of margin and you can stop worrying about it. If your max rated load is higher than your UPS's capability, then you can either analyze the actual load more to see if it still works, or just buy a beefier UPS.
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Not really: an SLA for a service doesn't preclude the deprecation of the entire service.
Thanks for posting this - - I was a true believer years ago, now I see it's a hoax.
This guy is remarkably calm about seeing this ad. I would be apoplectic. I would pick up the tv that instant and return it. If they wouldn’t accept it, I would douse it in lighter fluid and light it ablaze in their parking lot. But the last t.v. I owned was a CRT 15 years ago, so the idea that a t.v. plays its own ads is new to me.
Apple also tries to trick you into enabling Siri every time you install a security update.
Doesn't that strike you as odd? Like, why is it that X11 was so close to fixing the problem, but everyone who would benefit from it (and who touts Wayland's ability to do it) decides to just throw it all away and re-built everything from the ground up? I'd sure like to know what they know about this.
Google is signing 10-year deals though: https://cloud.google.com/press-releases/2020/0121/sabre-and-...
Sounds like you can get a "second hand" house very cheaply.

Or is the catch that they're so cheaply built that you don't want to live in them?
> From the point of view of wider society, people who don't produce tangible or comprehensible benefit are indistinguishable from parasites.

No. If that were the case post 2008 we would have seen a major purge in the speculative financial system. We had anything but that.
The key is to have sophisticated software to "filter" down the content into reasonable geometry (rather than the grossly inefficient geometry you'd get out of typical photogrammetry) and then into LOD levels and very optimized streaming representations for that geometry. Anyway this is why unreal engine 5 comes together with current-generation console runtime SSD streaming, it's to facilitate this sort of streaming large quantities of geometry for virtual environments.

Obviously your result is only gonna be as good as your source imagery, but a large part of the magic is in how precisely the photogrammetry is able to solve and compute correct camera poses so as not to inject artifacts, combined with the automated generation of efficient meshes.

It seems like traditional asset pipelines never really had a need for crazy optimized LOD generation. There have been sophisticated mesh optimization tools, but usually it's only a small fraction of the manual effort to make some LODs compared to modeling the actual full detail model. It's usually done manually, but I don't know for sure, never worked in the industry. But you can imagine how this is a non-starter for when your full detail model came out of photogrammetry. I haven't been following it that closely but my take on it is that Unreal Engine 5 is a paradigm shift in that it will liberate you from even needing to consider levels of detail, much the same as you don't consider releasing memory in a garbage collected programming language. This is clearly possible once those concerns you state, "input is an absolute mess", "having to recreate models", become automated and reaches a level of quality that equals what a human can do.

I would expect in unreal engine 5 you will be able to import assets in traditional 3D formats (in addition, of course, to a bundle of photos) and it will recommend you provide it with the highest possible quality input. And you'll just be able to straight away instantiate hundreds of thousands of copies of it into your scene stretching into infinity and your framerate will be fine.
This seems incredible to me. Shouldn't there be some sort of circuit breaker in place to limit the blast radius of an incident like this?
I love the unfettered optimism. But I can’t imagine a scenario where it does not get proliferated with SEO backlink games at best. And at worst terrible terrible pictures
There's domains where they work pretty well (that tend to look like DSP pipelines). But they're for sure nothing like a panacea opening the world of reconfigurable hardware to software developers at the same parity as HDLs.
I'm assuming this is because a huge percentage of India's internet infrastructure was only built recently?
Zig is pretty close to being both at once, simply because they've found clever ways of combining existing features to avoid needing entirely separate features to accomplish the same goals.

e.g.

They avoid the macro system by leaning hard on compile-time evaluation, leveraging dead code elimination to replace preprocessor/macro-driven conditional compilation.

They get generics in a similar way, by letting compile-time functions construct types.

Varargs are implemented with anonymous structs, and modules are also secretly just structs, which makes interop with C much simpler.

It's actually deeply impressive how far they've been able to go with a language that actually has quite a small number of separate constructs, and it doesn't feel hobbled by doing so.
The standard response would be to buy a commercial display, but you are looking at more than 25% higher prices. On the other hand, commercial displays theoretically are designed to be run nearly 24/7/365 and thus more durable, and many far more features than your standard television. Many NEC commercial displays, for example, have an expansion slot for a Raspberry Pi Compute Module. Wouldn’t that be fun?
Fwiw, the amount of money that Google is pouring into GCP, including their own transoceanic fiber makes me believe they are committed to it more than “other” endeavors.

Honestly the biggest issue with Google is that they need to dramatically improve their open source database offerings, including 3rd party vendors.

RDS/Aurora eats their proverbial lunch. Azure at least bought Citus to improve their PG offering.

The GCP database offerings feel like something that was put there to check the box, not to be competitive.

EDIT: The non-Google database offerings.
We're posting on the internet, buddy. We're all mentally ill.
>"Is there no escape from this stuff?"

There is. The last time I had TV acting as TV was some 15 years ago or so. Since then even if it is a TV it is hooked up to my computers as a monitor without its own access to the Internet.
Potential reason: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_IPv4_addr...

when you have 28 ipv4 address per 1000 people, it really leaves very little choice.
I can't advocate for Roblox because of their lack of moderation on excessive pornography posters hidden in many of the maps. This was a couple of years ago, so maybe things have changed. Roblox wins in freedom to build anything you can imagine versus Minecraft's limited blocky, lego-like (retro) builds. There's a trade off.

Personally, Minecraft's command blocks and server commands helped my child feel at home with java programming. I never forced or talked about programming until he started asking me questions about programming mods to extend his game plays after he outgrew the command blocks and / commands.