skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't actually have to be in the same update, the security fix just has to come after the ad antifeature with no separate patches presented, only a linear series of versions. And that linear model is extremely common. Anything using the linear model that has both antifeature updates and security updates at unpredictable times is very likely to run into the “can't install the security update without accepting the antifeature” problem.
> at least not in significant numbers

That's ok. Insignificant numbers are more than enough to colonize an entire galaxy on geologic timescales.

The thing about the "Great Filter" is that it is great. If you can even imagine an exception for your candidate filter, then it's not great enough.
Some random thoughts.

@daenz: My first thought also was that this was a very dangerous idea.

My second thought: Would it be possible to create an app that would disable the texting function while driving? E.g. use the GPS functionality to detect when the phone is moving above a certain speed. Of course, the problem with this solution is that you wouldn't be able to text when riding as a passenger in a car or bus.

My third thought: I'm too lazy right now to check, but are there apps that let you send a text by speaking the message you want to send?
> Rust is not a C analog. The whole value proposition of C is simplicity, and Rust is anything but simple.

I would say the value proposition is control and performance, and more pragmatically ubiquity. If the value proposition were simplicity, why aren't C programmers writing Lisp instead? If it's simplicity and control, why aren't they writing assembly? At this point, C is little more than a bad abstraction that people are nostalgic for.

> Look at a platform like Apple. Every release makes it harder to run arbitrary code.

No, it doesn't. It has not gotten harder to run arbitrary code. It has gotten harder for developers to distribute unsigned applications. I've been using Macs for 10 years and my setup process throughout that whole time has been: xcode-select --install, install Homebrew, get on with my life. The OS never interferes with my programming beyond that.
Maybe more like porn ads, its like all attention seeking to direct people to only fans.
Like I said above, I would like nothing better than to be wrong about this. In fact, I have never wished so desperately to be wrong about something as I have about this. So yes, if civilization outlives me I will definitely think of this thread.

If, 10-20 years from now, there are world-wide food riots because of global crop failures and the entire western US is burning in one gigantic continent-wide forest fire, will you?
It is an ERC-20 token on the Ethereum blockchain, so yes it is a cryptocurrency.

There is good stablecoin competition in USDC, or, my favourite, DAI. Unfortunately I think exchanges like Binance are somewhat in kahoots with USDT which is why they will not move off it.
The properties of silicon change in a reversible way as temperature changes and a little bit above 100 centigrade most devices fail to work. It doesn’t kill the device.

People used to think that the lifetime of electronics was shortened by high temps in the normal range but when hyperscalers started building modern data centers they found they could run hotter than data centers used to without ill effect.
There were tools called bulletin boards or wikis created decades ago that can accomplish what is described above.

Far be it for me to defend Teams, but one thing it does kind of right is to automatically create a wiki, a project tracking and a file share page in addition to the chat space for each project so that you can, if you want, use the right tool for the job.

That being said I worked at places a decade ago that tried to do the internal bulletin and wiki thing for their projects, and for whatever reason, it never worked anywhere near as well as I've seen Slack work. So while I agree in theory with many of the complaint levied against Slack as a productivity tool, in practice I've yet to see anything work better. But it is also clear that, for whatever reason, I haven't experience many of the time wasting antics that other people seem to be describing.
Your link wasn't working for me, here's a different one: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3415014
I have the same problem, I tried so many ways of holding a pen, but nothing works. Like you said, it starts already after writing one sentence or something like that. Made my schooltime really complicated.
> If you are asserting that the angle of attack does not affect the lift, you are wrong.

I am certainly not asserting that, and I'm baffled how you could have formed the impression that I was.

You appeared to be attempting to rebut an argument in favour of the significance of angle of attack. We have another pointless internet misunderstanding on our hands.
There are some workarounds in this Nvidea thread: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/shield-tv/9/4579...

None of them perfect, but you can roll back to what you had before.
I ran into this last week on my nvidia shield. Here's a summary of the workaround I found (apologies for not having the specific package names offhand):

1. Install a new launcher from play store (I found one called "Basic Launcher" that matches the aesthetics of the default one). This doesn't solve the problem though, because Google disabled changing the default launcher for some user hostile reason, until you delete the existing launcher.

2. Enable development mode by tapping on the build number in settings

3. Connect an adb shell to your device

4. Remove the built in launcher

5. Reboot, select basic launcher when prompted

I own a few android TV devices, have recommended them to people in the past, and won't be purchasing another. I think what happened here should be illegal and shame on whoever worked on this.
My experience is different.

I love it especially now that I can install VPN. I can access US-version of Netflix, Disney+, etc while traveling.
Non obvious? It’s deliberately hidden. Its utterly dishonest. Thanks for mentioning it I’m just annoyed by user interfaces copying human choice and manipulating people. It goes way beyond “disrespectful” and should be illegal
I openly say I work for Reddit. I even actively try to convince people to work here as well!
The problem you never win and never will. Our economic system has a win-lose structure.

Big companies like Microsoft make billions not because they sell lots of good products and services that everyone buys, quite contrary. They sell shitty products and services and force them to buyers making sure to extract every single penny you have even when they are not providing value for you anymore.
Not really, you lose the remote app on your phone, which is useful to enter passwords, but using the voice dictation to enter a password a character at a time works surprisingly well.

You'd also not have airplay and mirroring. That might be a bigger deal for some, but for me, it's a feature I basically never use.
> I’d be surprised if even 1% of all Android TV users were HN Readers.

Remove some magnitudes, and then some more.
There was one startup that I met a few years ago that focused on enabling IoT on 'dumb' devices. Their first product some sort of plug for ceiling fans that allowed people to turn on & off / control the ceiling fan with their smartphone. The product also required a $5/month subscription service.

I remember asking the CEO why would someone pay $5/month just to control their fan and he basically responded that the idea seems ludicrous and this point in time, but eventually people will catch on, and then he made an allusion to Microsoft Office and how that it's becoming a subscription product despite initially being one-off purchase 15 years ago.
I suspect the Great Filter is that sufficiently intelligent life has no interest in expansion, and doesn't communicate at all.
I think you’re overconfident in what you believe to be true based on the evidence that exists.

The Russian bit can be politically inconvenient for you and yet also be true.
One cube goes in the tray, the rest stays in the fridge. Otherwise making toast for breakfast would be impossible because you'd have to wait an eternity for the butter to soften, at which point you'd be late for work/school/etc.
A bidet uses far less water than a shower.
I mean.. honestly, if I had to set up some "media device" for a relative, I'd pick google over anything else... usually it just works, it's simple, if something doesn't work, "it's googles fault", if something isn't supported, again, googles fault. ...basically same as with IBM.

At home... libreelec. +importing ipvt playlists... +epg, which gets banned by the telco, and then reappears somewhere else. +subtitle services. +this and that plugin.
I suggest a compact, fanless, low end Win10 pc with air mouse.

No ads and forget Kodi unless you happen to have a large amount of media files. Almost anything you do with Kodi as far as streaming can be done straight from the web browser.

https://www.amazon.com/Beelink-x5-Z8350-Processor-Windows10-...
I believe Word/Excel have a really old code base. The web tech versions of them are very different applications with different feature sets. They're about as similar as VS Code is to Visual Studio.

I think Microsoft is trying to move towards a cross platform for everything from what I've seen. They have a ton of legacy stuff though.
The other party in any transaction knows enough to "deliver" whatever you purchased. In the world where all your transactions happen on a blockchain, that's everyone from Amazon to the corner pizza shop.
For what it’s worth, the app, by default, will not take any action and largely act as a helpful reminder, and I highly recommend this type of use.
Russia is bound by non-proliferation laws and accepts international observers to its nuclear objects, so no.

A lot of difference between rogue nuclear state, and a member of the club.
In computers the "work" is mostly not physically impactful apart from the creation of light from a monitor, or the application of magnetism to a disk. You could say all the energy that goes to heat instead is waste, but as with mechanical devices, there's no way to be perfectly efficient. Some amount of energy loss to heat is strictly necessary to process logic.
An American lawyer tried to break up a scuffle in Hong Kong. Now, he’s in jail
Mistaking optical illusions, camera and radar artifacts, etc. for strange aircraft would also be very troubling: ignorant pilots, inadequate equipment, unprepared scientists and engineers...
> No, emphatically, no, our doctors and our health care institutions did not act to minimize deaths!

Some tried, but yeah, mostly it's been suppressed by politics: The MATH+ protocol would've cut the death rate to about 1/3 what it currently is, but it isn't well-known because of artificial controversy over some of the drugs it uses.
According to its data sheet the device is rated between 32° – 95°F (0° – 35°C). That limit seems definitely too low to me, but it's the official data sheet.

https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library...
Mapping a lot of pages has some overhead, too. So if you have large stacks per thread you'll take a hit.

If you use huge pages to alleviate that, you'll waste a lot of physical memory.
Of course it sounds like it, but we really need to do all the things. We don’t need to take our foot off the accelerator pedal because we have brakes—it sounds really stupid that way.
It works with a lot of TV remotes, I rarely use the Apple one.
> They’re also very much required,

The games I play don't have these sort of anti-cheat features; the anti-cheat is handled entirely on the server side. A server admin who is attentive and ready to rollback griefs helps a lot too. But kernel-mode anticheat on the players' computers is not "very much required."

(The game I play most is minecraft, and I think it's more popular than any of the games with this sort of invasive anticheat.)
For frustrated HN users, I have managed to remove the ads by uninstalling all updates to android home, disabling "TV core services" and "Google Play Services". You'll also need to disable automatic updates in the play store.

This won't let you sign into Google apps anymore, but most major apps work fine after a reboot.
Of all the things to fix with Teams, Electron isn’t it. Our company forced us to switch from Slack to Teams. We have it the benefit of the doubt but are regretting it every day. Collaboration is down vs Slack and we’re all less happy. Sounds small but little things effect morale.
Any suggestions for an Ad Blocker or different Android TV launcher?
You're clicking 23. There's so much experience out there for you to explore. I don't know which part of the world you live in, but get in touch with the physical world, forget about the digital world for some time.

Forget Tinder and other social media apps, they don't bring joy or reason to live; you get someone to sleep with, and in the morning, it's the same feeling and cycle. Firget those apps. They are trash. You need to be active in the physical world based on your post.

My advice is relocate or get actively involved in charity works, get in touch with the physical world. That's what you need. I know the pandemic has made life more difficult and less physical, but get your shot (for prevention) and get active.

Remain strong, you'll overcome this phase.
> fast builds

Interestingly, immutability and fast builds are often closely related, because immutability (in build systems) can be used to ensure referential transparency, which makes it trivial to implement caching of intermediate build artifacts.
I just use my Windows laptop, it's pretty good. You're not limited to anyone's apps, you choose what goes on. And you're probably already used to disabling whatever dumb ads Microsoft tries to put onto your machine.
The language is immutable, but hardware is stateful, as well as external software.

So genservers are abstracting that,while keeping your code pure
I am hopeful that now that the FTC has a pro-consumer Chair that some of these anti-consumer acts will be curtailed.

I would also argue that some of these bad acts could be considered to be false / deceptive trade practices under the various state laws (in the U.S. at least). For example, some people would never have bought a FireTV cube for streaming video if Amazon had revealed that they would be adding advertisements to the consumer's video-viewing experience.

But: how much incentive is there for individuals to file a small claims suit against Amazon for a $79 device? Generally speaking you might get treble damages but not much more unless you've had actual damages.

And although class action suits are frustrating and should be "fixed" so that those harmed get the bulk of the proceeds (i.e. it's not okay that consumers receive discount coupons or $10 checks while plaintiff's counsel receives a disproportionally huge payday) this is one thing we've lost by generally not allowing class actions.

David v. Goliath is not as effective as 15,000 Davids v. Goliath.

Not to even mention the mandatory arbitration imposed on consumers (which do sometimes carve out the ability to file in small claims court).

We have cultivated, or at least allowed, a very anti-consumer bias to take hold in U.S. law.
What is your advice, or more details on the types of challenges you came across and how you handled this discrepancy? I would imagine the data shifts a bit, and that standard assumptions don’t hold up around how the difference you were measuring between your “A” and your “B” remain fixed after the testing period.
I feel scared opening the web outside of my home these days. Seriously what even is that thing people used to call internet!?

In all seriousness running that pi-hole is power and hardware perfectly well spent. And you literally start saving time
Really like the idea behind this. The basic premise is really interesting: Conversation between two people is direct p2p through tor, while groups require a server that people need to host. It's a really interesting middle ground between having to trust a single party with all your conversations and making everything truly p2p.
The obsession modern developers and marketers have with trying to convince people using a computer they're not using a computer is so pointless and perverse I'm tempted to call it a mental illness.
Ask HN: What are the alternatives to an Nvidia shield with similar UX?
Re-posted from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27643920 due to a user's suggestion.

It sounds like ads are coming to Android TV. Many users are affected. Myself not yet, but I will be soon -- I have an nvidia SHIELD.

I want to opt out of this ad-based ecosystem. What are the alternatives, that do not sacrifice immense amounts of UX? I like the nvidia shield's remote, I would like to keep using it (or something like it) to control the apps.

Any alternative to consider would have access to at least Spotify, Netflix, YouTube and Plex -- those are pretty standard apps which I believe most people would be using anyway.

As for my personal setup, I do have a Windows machine hooked up to the display on which I could do a manual setup, but what I'm worried about is that PC-based apps are not going to be optimized for tv/remote based input. Sure, I have a wireless TV keyboard, but I like the shield's UX and I don't want to sacrifice it.

And frankly, whatever setup I end up with, I'd like to think I could replicate it for other users who don't have the IT skills I or HN do. Doing something special just for myself seems selfish, we should be helping our fellow consumers to opt out of the ad economy -- "just don't buy their products" is so easy, yet so useless, to say.
Great info - an alternative to Google Store is Aurora Store, which allows most apps to update anonymously.
My point about the Bernoulli effect is that there is no physical reason why the upper flow should move faster than the lower flow and in fact testing shows that they do not.
Fair point. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27644017
There's only one correct answer: https://kodi.tv/

Works fine, but it is not the most stable software. Plenty of add-ons and themes, and (probably the reason why it's popular) you can sideload some pirate TV add-ons.
The conclusion is an utter joke:
“Maybe this will lead to abondonment of complex deep-optimizing chipsets like Intel chipsets, and make simpler chipsets, like ARM chipsets, more popular for datacenter deployments.”
The experts weren't _wrong_ in their understanding. Bernoulli (creating lift by way of pressure differential) and Newton (reaction to redirection of the flow downwards) are different ways of describing the same thing; integrating either the pressure or velocity vector of the airflow around the wing will give you the correct results for lift.[1]

Whenever people argue about which interpretation of lift is correct I think back to this (https://xkcd.com/895/) comic about teaching how gravity works in general relativity. Only in the case of lift the explanations are actually _correct_, albeit somewhat circular. ("So the air above the wing sticks to the surface, which redirect it downwards. But _why_ does the air stick to the wing?!")

Also in no way do hummingbirds violate any known laws of physics, although they do have a pretty impressive way of harnessing them.[2]

[1] https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/bernnew.html

[2] https://phys.org/news/2005-06-hummingbird-flight-evolutionar...
> Mozilla's brand had been permanently tarnished in recent years

Indeed, Google may have out-competed them on the marketing messaging front.
there's nothing wrong with ads on stuff like this; televisions aren't sacred ground.
Do you have any evidence that we only use edible parts of the plant? I'm fairly sure that there are crops that are solely grown to feed animals.
> 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.

This is literally not true.
Hey, that's a great idea!

It's a bit of a pain to implement, because I'd need to make sure that it only did it for displayed rows, and only once, but that's pretty cool.

Thanks!
Cutting off anything earlier than an 8th gen Intel CPU is hardly "worlds better than Apple".

Three year old PCs that can't run the current version of Windows? That's just crazy.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-11-leaves-computer...
I'm browsing through the list of contents and uh, everything looks both alien and magical, probably beyond my comprehension. Too many lifetimes compressed on a single seemingly never-ending page.
In 2020 in California, some 51,000 people died from covid vs. 3,723 from traffic crash injuries.

I haven't found exact statistics for both covid and crashes in 2020, but it looks like around 20% of covid deaths are in the 24-54 age range, as are around 45% of crash deaths, for an estimated 10,000 covid deaths vs. 1675 crash deaths in that age range.

So in spite of California's high traffic crash rate, covid deaths seem to have been a much greater risk in 2020 for the 24-54 age group.
Controlling a Windows 10 desktop is literally the last I want to do from my couch when I can have a unified interface for nearly all my streaming needs that works perfectly well with a remote AND keyboard (people give Kodi a try ;)
To be fair, it would cool things down
A quick search found this article in the marketing press:

https://martechseries.com/mts-insights/guest-authors/why-ref...

It's from 2018, and no progress has been mad on this wonderous world for ad-subsidized fridges that I know of.
Still, it's clear people are thinking along these lines.

And I remain adamant that any appliance I own like this must not have wifi or bluetooth functionality. After my TV started showing ads when I switched inputs, I'm done giving these people an inch.
As is with everything like the uproar Facebook as had with their changes. They even admit it with "we will not apply these changes for now" becauae they know it will die out.

That's why we need alternatives.
I personally don't like paper much because I write terribly, so either it takes a lot of time, or I can't read half of it. This makes writing either frustrating or useless.
reddit is the most dangerous bubble-building tool on the web, next to twitter.
That's true, but at least programmatic securities for all its pitfalls and possibly bugs, is likely to do what it says on the tin.
The plex client is rock solid
Not recently (thank the Gods), but I used to work for a defense contractor, and I have dealt with many specification documents (like the Bluetooth spec).
The way we store data is not the same as using that format to solve conflicts. Take a look at semanticmerge.com
> telling consumers to "not buy smart devices" is putting an disproportionate burden on them, given the market conditions as well as the actual consumer expectations and desires.

This is true for all consumer goods. The disproportionate burden has and so long as capitalism exists, will continue to be on consumers. Companies selling products have millions or billions to spend on advertising and lobbying. Consumers do not. Being a responsible consumer and carefully researching your desired product is true for everything you buy, TVs are no exception
I briefly considered it. I've been entirely out of the Apple ecosystem so far (save for airpods). It sounds like Apple is gaining traction over time because the competition keeps getting worse and worse.

I'm frankly not sure opting into Apple is a solution to the problem at large. It might be a temporary fix, but at the end of the day you're still using a proprietary system which might decide that ads are lucrative tomorrow.
It seems many people have a completely unscientific view of reality in that they have absolute certainty in what they believe to be true.

I think there are people who are looking for North Korea level approval ratings on things. If you have zero uncertainty in what you think is true then anything contradictory is naturally "misinformation".