skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Peer to peer exchange of goods and services backed by reputations established in Subreddits sounds like it has potential worth exploring to me. A similar model has worked out very well for Facebook.

Also, please note Reddit is already another social network so that train has left the station.

As for crypto, well I am a big fan of crypto currencies and I see a compelling use case here. Perhaps you disagree? Fine, ignore the crypto suggestion and comment on my others.

Their Secret Santa program is a great example of a successful peer to peer marketplace already. Reddit Gold’s success is a good indicator of the potential for virtual currencies, stable coins, traditional payment systems, or yes even crypto.

Their desperation to monetize through Ads alone is a dangerous strategy. It leaves the site vulnerable because it separates the needs of the Advertiser (Reddit’s real customer) from the community (Reddit’s users) when ever a company decouples users from customers it makes it easy to compromise the user in favor of the business model and customer.

In the short run the metrics go up. In the long run you end up with another Digg.
Yes, it is required by Google for Android TV devices.
Cool, mail me if you have questions, it sounds like we're roughly in the same bracket. jacques@modularcompany.com

best!
As people have mentioned elsewhere in the thread, suicide != suicide attempt. The former is higher in boys whereas the latter is higher in girls.
Where does the "ad invasion" end?

Smart toasters that force you to watch ads before getting your toast in the morning?

Smart windows that display ads that block your view of your backyard?

Smart paints that display ads on your bedroom walls?

Smart shower-heads that play jingles as you wash yourself?

Smart brain implants that directly induce subconscious desire to buy certain products and services?

Is there some kind of limit at which we value the right to personal privacy and the right to peace-of-mind over the right to advertise?
I honestly don't know. Thing is I have had Xiaomi devices before, and they are my only smart devices that do not have connection issues (for me) and work in my back garden. My new Xiaomi phone is the only of our phones that streams in hd in my backyard. So yeah just personal experience and bad experiences with things like Samsung
Please do this. Everything from kelp forests dying to bug populations diasappearing to the unsustainable mining of gravel needs to be displayed in a way that really communicates the breakneck pace at which we’re headed for doom. But it needs to be presented in an exquisitely wel-done, bare-facts way that ends with a CTA (unlike for example Kurzgesagt which is just depressing)

I bet a lot of people would like to help for free. Most of us feel helpless most of the time.
We've got Win10 tablets at work with 8gb. Having teams open makes everything else slow to a standstill.

I find myself literally confirming that yes I have already scrolled down in excel during a screenshare...lets just give it a couple secs to actually scroll. You'd think we're back in dial-up era

How does a Microsoft app, on a Microsoft OS on Microsoft hardware perform so incredibly badly?

No way Microsoft is dogfooding this. If they did they'd have nuked it from orbit years ago.

Teams 2...sure. I hope they carry over zero lines of code.
yeah I don't get that point, its not like people are deciding to scroll facebook instead of going to their friends bbq. maybe you could make the point that people pick activites for how good of a social media post it would make.

But that's not even what this article is about, its discussing the spread of misinformation and social media being full of low information content.
> C is way on the other end.

Rust is complex, but I think it’s honest in its complexity: it straddles programmers with lifetime management in exchange for better optimizations (alias analysis is a pain in C!) and memory safety.

This is in contrast to C: it’s very easy to write C that compiles, but very difficult to fully evaluate its correctness. Part of that is the extraordinary complexity of the C abstract machine, combined with its leakiness: writing correct C requires you to understand both your ISA’s memory model and the set of constraints inconsistently layered on it by C. That’s a kind of pernicious complexity that Rust doesn’t have.
Yeah and you can't appeal if some crazy mod got offended and permanently banned your on every sub he's mod because he didn't like your comment about China or you mentioned that BLM riots killed people, left burned and looted shops or that George Floyd got killed by drugs and was holding a gun on pregnant woman's stomach.
I must be out of the loop. Last I heard trials with CRISPR were making not only the desired genetic changes but also dozens of others at random points in the genome. Did they solve that problem?
This relates to one of the reasons I gave up studying only mathematics and became an engineer. I was far more impressed by the achievement of heavier-than-air flight in 1903 than by the mathematicians who proved that it was theoretically possible - years later.
I have a pretty new 128GB "Kingston DT MicroDuo 3C" which stays really cool, considering it's size that's really impressive.
> And if a fix for a critical vulnerability and an ad feature are both in the same update?

Can you point to actual real-world examples where this has been the case?

I don't see the point of this stretched hypothetical. If it were to come up, then you could deal with accordingly - for instance by getting the update and then blocking the ad server somewhere upstream in your network path.
If you think "being very good at something" should be illegal, you are going to hate the Olympics.
That misconstrues my comment: I believe that HN readers (and users) care about topics like this over the long haul and don't tend to just let intrusions like Google's slide by without opprobrium. Thus, to me, the parent comment doesn't wash.
Is police data the best source of data? The video in question suggests that people aren't even calling the police because they know they won't respond.

Better data, I think, would be from stores reporting loses due to theft but I'm sure that data is a lot more difficult to obtain.
You may like to try wrist-friendly soft-ring notebooks:

https://www.jetpens.com/Kokuyo-Campus-Soft-Ring-Notebook-Sem...
If it’s like the older Apple TV’s no. It comes with its own remote, the only iPhone integration is that your phone becomes an extra remote should the original be lost or broken
After listening to The Lazarus heist[1] I find it hard to have sympathy for Izbicki's position. Children are recruited into computer science from a young age in NK with the express purpose of furthering the state's objectives. Mainly by funding the regime and circumventing sanctions by engaging in hacking. There's a good chance he's helping train the next generation.

1: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-57520169
>The crime he’s charged with is that he was willing to (and I think did?) assist in breaking into a computer system to get the docs. I think under the CFAA. They have communication records of this because the person he was talking to was working for the USG.

The US government claims this, but it's not been proven.

>At some point Russia was also using Wikileaks as a place to target the USG with some plausible deniability and Assange’s personal anti-US politics became a corrupting influence too.

This is just more Russiagate nonsense: https://pics.me.me/russiagate-explained-wikileaks-posted-the...

>To what extent were the sex related charges against him political or flared up by nation state meddling?

There are no charges. There never were any charges. There was an investigation and that's as far as it went.

>UPDATE GREAT NEWS: Swedish prosecutors are about to announce the dropping of the investigation into Julian Assange on sexual offence allegations. There never were any charges and the allegations were always nonsense, as detailed in the below article I wrote a month ago:

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2017/05/no-rape-char...
The period missing from the title makes this very hard to parse what is being said.
You might also use a small USB2 hub in between to force the device to configure and work as USB2. If the device doesn't draw too much current no external power would be necessary to the hub.
Another solution to keep using it as a USB3 device would be to open the drive and give the flash chips some decent heatsinks; even just a small copper plate would still be better than nothing, and drilling a few holes into the case would ease thermal exchange. To fix heatsinks don't use self adhesive thermal pads as they're suboptimal; a proper thermal glue can be bought online for cheap and works extremely well.

For example:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/201533371776

https://www.ebay.com/itm/173916377819

(no relation with the sellers)
Definitely agree. Another example of lost performance that comes to mind is (ignorance of) C struct padding. In terms of modern tools, Rust has definitely made some headway here:

• Variables are immutable by default

• The layout of a struct’s fields in memory is opaque to the programmer, allowing the compiler to reorder them to minimize padding

• As a natural consequence of the borrow checker, Rust has much more information about whether or not two references could alias than most other languages

• The programmer is very much made to feel the cost of dynamic-dispatch (via dyn), and static-dispatch is the norm

• The compiler can omit bounds checks when it can prove they’re unnecessary

• It’s easy to safely have structs that live entirely on the stack (i.e. no heap allocation)

Overall this is an unsolved problem though. It seems to me that the trend is that the more details about the internals that the language exposes to the programmer, the fewer optimizations can be made automatically. Essentially the ideal is declarative performance, where the programmer expresses the idea and the compiler figures out the optimal implementation (which is in stark contrast to most high-performance code being hand-tuned today). Take a look at something like Halide for a successful application of this philosophy: https://halide-lang.org/
We only feed them legalized heroin - it's good for the economy /s
> running on a five dollar Pi Zero.

While technically accurate, you also need a $10 SD card, a $3 usb cable, and a $5-10 power brick, so you’re really looking at a $25 solution here.
I like that dramatic ending, "Apple Won't Save Us."

The Lord has left the chat room.
As well as any known config file formats.
Oops. *Embarrassed edit*
> : Another huge advantage. Last week I upgraded MS Edge and WebView2 is also upgraded. So the control is kept up to date and not depending on an external dependency that might end up being a security nightmare

Or disadvantage if you look at it from the developer's point of view - they have zero control over the browser version, so if there's a bug, or lacking feature, or something deprecated, you're screwed.
You won't be able to use your phone as a remote, or to enter passwords, but other than that, there would be no frustration.
And how much billions is the marketing budget to get that narrative successful ? /s
It's nearly perfect now that they've fixed the remote, and absolutely the device to beat at the moment.

Most of the "channel" apps are also very nice, the exception being Amazon's clunky Prime Video app. The Plex client is quite good too.
I agree that HuffPo chose the wrong term there. There's nothing particularly apropos about Bannon not being Jewish, and HuffPo is not a Jewish organization.

I repeat: feel free to call out people who are being derogatory, no matter what the term. Banning words regardless of context hurts everyone.
But hey, it got published in a journal!
The notifications examples make me wonder what fundamental mistakes they are making.

People respond to change. If you A/B test, say, a new email headline, the change usually wins. Even if it isn't better. Just because it is different. Then you roll it out in production, look at it a few months later, and it is probably worse.

If you don't understand downsides like this, then A/B testing is going to have a lot of pitfalls that you won't even know that you fell into.
it's clearly a typo
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad you got some tips, and here's another site with some options: https://pointerclicker.com/best-dumb-tv/

My comment to your post was just a general observation that I find it depressing we are at this point in our culture where people need to ask for help to find electronics which do not surveil them.
Have you installed jdk before? I installed jdk quite a few times without root and never had a problem. Jdk only depends on essential system libraries like libc. It ships other necessary libraries in the tar-ball. Do you have a reference to your claim that Java requires libssl?
Question to HN users: I have a dumb display attached to an nvidia shield. The Shield is nice: It's powerful enough, runs decent version of the common apps I care about (netflix, plex, youtube, spotify are the ones I use), and the remote is minimalistic and nice to use.

Let's say I want to opt out of Google for this. What the hell do I do? I do have a Windows PC attached to the TV, for gaming, but if I wanted to run the apps above they wouldn't be optimized for TV input, they'd be cumbersome to use. Attaching a Linux box isn't going to work particularly well for gaming either.

Seriously, what are the alternatives there?
That’s all it can do. Has no internet connection on it.

I don’t want the two to meet. That’s where the hell starts.

I use this because the HDCP implementation on the TV is broken so it won’t play anything with any streaming boxes. I’m not throwing a perfectly good TV in the trash because of a copyright restriction.
I guess you would not be able to stream your display to the Apple TV, and you would not be able to use your phone for keyboard input, and probably more. Just get an iPhone already!
Bracewell’s Probes: Fiction Masquerading as Science
That is kind of a twist on the old "nobody ever got fired for using IBM" idea regarding marketplace saturation: "nobody ever complained about Google"?
I use a similar system to the article, just a bunch of checkboxes and stars in my notes. At the end of every day, I review and make sure everything is up to date. A couple of times a week I'll do a deeper review and either do the thing or formalize the work in an issue somewhere. My handwriting is an abomination, but this system has always worked pretty well for me.
Ah, okay. That does make for a confusing consumer experience. I would guess most non-tech users would assume this is something Nvidea can control.

Edit: You can see some complaints flowing in on Nvidea's forum: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/shield-tv/9/

Lots of comments on this specific thread: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/shield-tv/9/4579...
Does the drive capacity influence temperature? Not necessarily. I've got the same brand of 128GB and 256GB drive they don't run any different in temperature. Perhaps attach a heatsink if it bothers you. I've done that with harddrives I've run for long periods on hot days. I've done that even with a little drive smaller than my thumb.

On a related note, I had a little usb flash drive (verbatim) that was very hot and after I inspected it I discovered a fault on the board, an actual hotspot which didn't exist on another similar device. I promptly got my data off the drive. A few months later I plugged it in out of curiosity and the drive started to cook itself. I pulled it out and it was too hot to touch, so I promptly destroyed it. I figured the thing was going to take out my computer sooner or later anyway.
I certainly don’t disagree (that doesn’t mean I agree).

The purpose of the conversation is to arrive at mutually acceptable interpretation.
It will never end so long as consumers will keep buying the products. In other words, it will never end, period.
> They changed it so I would report to the product lead, which is odd for an EM to report into a product chain and the only instance within the company ever.

This screams of power play. Good on you for moving your neck before the axe came down.

The fact your engineering higher-ups didn’t push back or failed to push back is really scary.
You can't actually implement everything in Brainfuck. You can implement something which is performing an equivalent computation in an abstract, mathematical sense. But there's no way to write Firefox or Windows or Fortnite in Brainfuck. Turing completeness means you can evaluate any computable function of type N -> N (and the many things isomorphic to that), it doesn't give you anything else.
But the compiler may not compile simple 'functions' as the user understands them - it may compile loop bodies, functions with other functions compiled in them, individual branches of functions, multiple versions of functions based on where they're called from...

If I tell you as a compiler writer that this loop body from this function, but with this branch and this branch outlined, but only when called from this context, takes n bytes... I don't get what most working programmers are going to usefully do with that information.
I absolutely agree with your point about diversity. But us advocates need to understand this "pragmatic" view and counter it properly. Normally, the argument that works is: "Do you monitor the thread stack size on $POPULAR_PLATFORM so if that changes, you won't be bitte ?
No, Apple TV doesn't require any other Apple devices. It will prompt you for an iCloud account during setup, but you can create a free one or just not have one.
That's a great Ask HN question actually, as opposed to a comment here.
Recently I hear that booking.com is given as an example of a company that runs a lot of a/b tests. Anyone from booking reading this? How does it look from the inside, is it worth it to run hundreds at a time?
All those statements are correct. The people downvoting you know that too. I don't think anyone has figured out what point you're trying to make, though. Could you spell it out in more detail?

Consider addition. The compiler does type checking, and the JVM actually adds the numbers. Nonetheless, the addition is type checked, and does not represent a weakness of static type checking. How is dynamic dispatch different than this?
C17 – ISO/IEC 9899:2018
Somehow I doubt this wide-sweeping affirmation, are you sure? Atom is really big family by now, starting from Silvermont it vent full out of order with all bells and whistles, I find it hard to believe OO backend is anywhere near the size of x86 insn decoder.
Yes, that's how communication works.
This report (the CDC report) is far more balanced than the dramatic 'article' linked, which uses other media sources to justify its position.

The discussion section at the bottom is particularly interesting, because it summarizes several hypotheses that might explain the cause of this increase.

Most interesting to me is the premise that it's possible that increased exposure to their children might be increasing parents' awareness of their children's behavior. Which makes it more interesting to me that more girls are brought to the hospital for suspected suicide attempts than boys.
Apple is winning. This kind of behavior is what you get from losers.
I've been looking into getting one, but my one hangup is still the lack of audio passthrough support. I have some UHD disks that I've digitized and without passthrough, the Atmos metadata will be lost on playback.
ha-lacha is "the law", specifically religious law. halachic, then, is "with respect to Jewish law".

The equivalent in Islam is sharia and fiqh.

The equivalent in Catholicism is called canon law.
you can replace launcher on shield
If 100% of the input power was given to waste heat then your computer would just be a resistance heater and not a computer. Computing information is work which requires energy (which will also eventually end up as heat in the long run, as will all energy, just not waste heat) and there is a limit on how efficiently you can compute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle. I.e. it's not possible to compute something without doing work.

Waste heat in a computer is largely resistance, power conversion inefficiencies, and cooling. Heat generated by the actual computation is known as work https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_(thermodynamics) not waste heat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_heat. The ratio of the two describes the efficiency of a machine. Since some useful work must have been done for the computation to occur then it's impossible for 100% of the energy to have been used for waste heat.
Not being snarky but an Apple TV
I doubt these require more than the usual 500mA at 5V (probably less), so the terrible waste is limited to 2.5W...
Horizontal lines (or sometimes an array of dots) are sometimes used as a "grip" icon to represent reorderable list rows.
If you are asserting that the angle of attack does not affect the lift, you are wrong.

A plane flying upside down is most certainly not using the same angle of attack as it does right side up. The real difference in performance is efficiency, the upside down plane is burning more fuel due to the increased drag from sub-optimal operation (a high angle of attack to overcome the optimization for right-side-up flying).

Note that a right-side-up wing can easily plummet by dropping its angle of attack. That is what it's doing while upside down to generate lift.
After a few weeks of my 3 year old Android TV having ads and having choppy animations, I bought the new Apple TV. In the last month we haven't watched anything on the base Android TV interface. Apple TV is smoother, easier to find what we want, and interfaces for HBO Max look better.

This is supporting my believe that expensive (durable) goods like TVs, cars, and appliances should have an external control hardware for their smarts that can be upgraded every few years. This would allow the good to last 10+ years without a crappy experience after the first 2 years.
Literally any device can force you to update, by the simple means of not letting you access the service without the latest version of their app.
Windows has such a diverse set of users, I don't think any one thing could ever be an existential threat to Windows, not even Windows being unseated as the most popular OS for PC gamers. But nonetheless, that is clearly one battle Microsoft intends to win, even if they could afford to lose it.
Apple TV?
The place that has seen this biggest, most obvious to human eyes delta is up North. In Canada's arctic, the Inuit are having to adapt rapidly as things that used to be predictable, like when the sea ice is going to melt, are now no longer predictable. They've apparently seen startling changes within just a generation.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/30/canada-inuits-...
I am not an expert either but comparing "thrust" from helicopters and airplanes is not meaningful if you are only talking about engine thrust. Thrust is a vector, although in aerodynamics it seems to refer to forward force by convention.

For helicopters in a static hover, the downward "thrust" is actually the lift produced by the spinning blades. The engines produce almost no forward thrust. Whereas, for an aircraft in flight, the engine thrust pushes the plane forward and the wings generate the lift that keeps it in the air.
Where does the driver come from, in the supply chain? I mean, is it the game devs that put it in? Is it the anti-cheat software they buy from a vendor? If so, who develops that and how did the driver get into it? It would be good to know at what stage it was injected.
I guess SD cards and USB cable don't count, because we all have some extra here and there?

I never use SD cards, but I have at least four of them in my drawer...
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