skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was the A/B test guy for Travelocity I was fortunate to have an excellent team. The largest bias we discovered is that our tests were executed with amazing precision and durability. My dedicated QA was the whining star that made that happen. Unfortunately when the resulting feature entered the site in production as a released feature there was always some defect, or some conflict, or some oversight. The actual business results would then under perform compared to the team’s analyzed prediction.
If you invoke the init script on a system booted with systems then it does indeed wrap the equivalent systemctl command.
Dumb TV can play video from USB? That's pretty smart.

The Mac can't act as a mass storage device for the TV? That's a shame.
Oh my, thank you ! I thought I somewhat had a problem with either the drives I bought last 3 years or my laptop (3 years as well). Simply plugging the drive and waiting 5 minutes gets it hot.
I have searched far and wide last year for a dumb tv and couldn't find one. Like another said there's the Sceptre TVs, I've stumbled upon it earlier this year with this article: https://frame.work/ca/en/blog/in-defense-of-dumb-tvs

I've even started to look into buying just a big monitor and an external tv tuner.
Offensive Team Names and GUIDs
A solution to the offensive team name problem.
The new launcher got force push on my Nvidia Shield (app store update is to manual).
“Sleep number app almost destroyed my marriage”
Rent relief remains slow as CA extends eviction protection
In other words: outdated, ugly and barely supports modern requirements such as high dpi. Apart from Jetbrains who put in a literal buttload of engineering, there is not a single Java Swing application that is not an absolute PITA to use.
Haven't looked in to this properly yet but already in love with the name!
And if a fix for a critical vulnerability and an ad feature are both in the same update?
IMO these problems should be solved with a firewall either way. You can never know when they start talking home.
In a sibling comment, I was wondering about projects that are trying ASTs. I haven't read deeply about it, but I recalled that [pijul][1] might be a way forward.

[1]: https://pijul.com/manual/why_pijul.html#comparisons-with-oth...
> Rome's collapse was attributed to the cause de jure ignoring all the contrary evidence

What does this mean?
That's what I'll likely end up doing with my desktop. Not immediately, but in a couple years when Windows 10 is EOL. Microsoft is worlds better than Apple when it comes to supporting older hardware/software but this is still unacceptable. New machines are better but the improvement is much more incremental than it used to be.
Off topic: are there any central repositories tracking gene therapy progress for various genetic conditions, with a similar UX to Moderna’s mRNA pipeline tracker?

https://www.modernatx.com/pipeline
Keyword “HN Readers”, not users. I’d be surprised if even 1% of all Android TV users were HN Readers.
FWIW, Slack is just as bad. Looking at RAM usage while running both on macOS, Teams is at 490 MB and Slack is at 500 MB.
With increasing cookie warnings, email signup modals, adblock notices, nth article advisories, and other annoyances, I go directly to Safari reader view more every day. It works quite well.
You can get a 4k laptop from Costco for less than $1k (HP Envy): https://www.costco.com/CatalogSearch?keyword=4k+laptop&dept=...

But at 15", 2880x1800 looks perfectly sharp to me, so I wouldn't benefit from 4k. Maybe some folks have better eyes or sit closer to the screen?
I disable the email address that is receiving them.

I have separate email address for each correspondent and each service, and can easily add more, or change existing ones when needed.
I'm pretty similar except for the digital portion software. My final work notes live as an org-roam database because it has really rich linking, export and embed options. Day to day is in paper and the pertinent stuff is "elevated" to digital.

Diagrams get inserted as an image as-is and can be tagged with pertinent info. I do have the benefit of having decent handwriting that most can read as is or be OCR'd.
> Programmers also don’t think in ASTs,

Citation needed
The new Apple TV 4K is a absolutely better than any of the high end android tv devices. I’ve been through them all (at considerable expense) and am now totally happy on the new apple tv
Alpine runs on all sorts of small platforms. It is possible to run it on OpenWRT type devices.
My guess: super crappy (chinese) low budget voltage regulators. Not working near this field, but have had some practical related experience.

Clarification: I don't think Samsung etc are using counterfeit inferior regulators - I suspect they are using inferior regulators because it makes the BOM cost lower.
From their faq.

> How do I pronounce Cwtch? Like "kutch", to rhyme with "butch".

> Cwtch (/kʊtʃ/ - a Welsh word roughly translating to “a hug that creates a safe place”) is a decentralized, privacy-preserving, multi-party messaging protocol that can be used to build metadata resistant applications
Very cool this. Thank you for posting it.

Why do you call the white.jpg and black.jpg files 'exe' files?

They are binaries, images to be specific.

Edit: ah no, parsing error on my end, I get it now.
I have Kodi on my cheap android TV which performs much faster than on my pi. So I prefer that. My RPI even crashes from time to time, even thought it has active cooling. Elec just can turn into a resource hog, especially if you switch between apps often. I am just still pissed that I spent $150 on a pi with case for elec when it obviously isn't the optimal device. And want others to avoid the problem :)

As said somewhere else, calling home issues are just a question of your firewall / DNS setup
This is hilarious, but I'm puzzled by his reaction to a hamburger menu:

> Oh-oh. Drag-n-drop icon used for a dropdown menu - May 8, 2021

https://grumpy.website/post/0V_dyk3EP
PiHole to remove those Roku ads! I have PiHole running on a five dollar Pi Zero. Just sits on a shelf doing its thing on all devices connected to network.
The words you’re looking for are “hospitality” and “commercial display”

The hospitality versions will be cheaper than commercial (commercial displays are designed to last longer with continuous operation).
Are bio less secure since they're somewhat easily reproducible and things like fingerprints are known to various companies (24 hour fitness, etc.)?
> Apparently (based on the comment I was replying to), labcomputer does seem to think the maximum is an outlier

Visually, 1968 sure looks like an outlier to me: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=EZn4

But let's check my intuition. The federal minimum wage was raised 10 times from 1960 through 1980. The raises have the following indexed values:

* 1961: 137

* 1963: 145

* 1967: 151

* 1968: 167

* 1974: 146

* 1975: 143

* 1976: 147

* 1978: 150

* 1979: 151

* 1980: 141

So mean = 148, st.dev = 8.1. That puts 1968 at 2.4 standard deviations above the mean.

If you just want to make the pedantic point that the maximum is not in general an outlier, we are in agreement. But, in this particular case, the maximum is clearly an outlier.
I posted it just now bc I just came across this today (have an nvidia shield but haven't had a chance to use it in a few months)
I agree that some of Israel's actions in the west bank are better not done and palestinians should have a right for self determination.

However, the statement that Israel steals land is false. Israel has never stolen land from anyone.
The previous owners of the west bank were the Jordanians and the previous owners of the Gaza Strip were the Eygptians, who lost this land in a war they initiated.

Like in every conflict in the world, crimes are comitted by both parties. During the 90s and early 00s suicide bombers kill thousands of Israelis - that's the reason Israel built a wall around the west bank.
Does this also impact Android TVs? Like Sony models, etc.
Mathco.thon: The Data Scientist Hiring Hackathon by TheMathCompany
Ask HN: How do you keep track of your time?
I feel like I am very unproductive nowadays. Daily I juggle between different tasks and time seems to fly quickly making me feel like I don't accomplish much. How do you guys cope with this feeling and how do you keep track of how you are spending your time daily?
If you try to include any invalid transaction in the proof, you will not (w.h.p.) be able to create the proof condition. So that update would be rejected. It is up to the proof generator to verify their transactions before including them in a proof. A proof verifier can accept or reject a proof trivially.
I'm not Jewish, or any sort of expert on Judaism, but I understand that Judaism has a very different conception of the relationship of man, god, and law than Christianity.

The Christian god wants people to behave in a certain way, and has made laws accordingly. Following the letter of the law but not the spirit is defying god, and is bad.

The Jewish god has made laws as a test of faith. Following the letter of the law but not the spirit is creative, and is fine.

After all, "it is not in heaven": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oven_of_Akhnai
Just to add, Android's material design is full of shadows and 3D encoding, while still being flat. It's not a great design by any means, but it's proof that flat design does not imply on a 2D UI (despite its name).

The single largest problem is that when we took 3D buttons away, we got no icon for the idea that you some object is clickable. An icon does not need to be skeuomorphic, just unambiguous and easy to recognize, besides, it needs to exist to be useful. Flat design uses a high-contrast background to encode that, what is extremely ambiguous, but there's nothing prohibiting people from creating a better icon.
Sewn bindings will lie flat if the book is thin enough, like 100 pages.
Well, lockdowns have ended in most places. Even in Michigan, which had the last big spike in the U.S. (so far), the governor decided not to use a lockdown. Now this may have been primarily because it didn't appear to have had much beneficial impact; this is further supported by the fact that Michigan's last spike ended just as quickly as the prior ones when there were lockdowns. However, it may be that the impact on mental health had some influence over the governor's decision.

Our society hadn't really dealt with a pandemic of this size since 1919 (although that one was far bigger), and hadn't dealt with a pandemic of any significant size since 1968, so clearly we did some things wrong. It's kind of like a military which has not fought a war in decades; you can expect them to not be very good at strategy for the first year.

By the way, masks and "endless testing" do not cause anywhere remotely as much stress as lockdowns, I don't believe.
Does the Nvidea Shield TV come with this Google controlled "Android TV Home" as the home screen / launcher?

Seems like a miss on Nvidea's part to let someone else control the default experience, if so.

Edit: It appears so. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/shield/support/shield-tv/introd...
I've never heard of reason.com, but it links to this PNAS article: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/25/e2022819118

Two paragraphs at the beginning stand out to me:

> Through an experiment in Bosnia and Herzegovina where users refrained from Facebook usage during 1 wk of heightened identity salience, we find that—counter expectations—people who deactivated their accounts reported lower outgroup regard than the group that remained active, but this effect was likely conditional on the level of ethnic heterogeneity of respondents’ residence.

and

> Here, we find that Facebook deactivation leads to suggestive improvements in subjective wellbeing and a decrease in knowledge of current events...
I've been using mostly paper for my notes for more than 15 years. Of course I have a system that works for me, and it has evolved effortlessly over that time through practice. If I had to explain it to you it may sound convoluted, but it's not like I sat down one day and tried to design a complex system from scratch.
What I am saying is that Manning was forced to take that path

I actually have had sex, multiple times, with trans people. Careful with your assumptions. I find your response offensive
Sure... but I was responding to the assertion that the discrepancy in suicide attempts comes from suicide attempts being over-counted. I don't think that holds water.
If you buy a product that someone can remotely control, then you are setting yourself up for a world of hurt. Whether that is advertising or having all your data wiped (like is currently the case for those Western Digital Live Book hard drives).

'Future blaming' is an asinine term. If you point out to someone that, well, they shouldn't be surprised if their home got robbed because they only had a screen door, you could make a similar reply that you're "future blaming" those people because they needed to "to predict all possible eventualities and are to blame for any future changes to a system?" Ridiculous.

People need to take accountability for their purchasing decisions. You buy a product with a gaping front door in it that allows the vendor or whoever else to push whatever crap into the product? Then that is on you.
How do you find out which ones have good WiFi chips?
This doesn't have that much to do with the reasons proposed in the tweet. It's is simply an indirect result of past socialist policy.

In 1970s the puppet president Husak started giving free flats and cars to young families. In 1980s you had a huge fertility boom, entire suburbs were built up just for young families (see Husak children).

I remember streets being overcrowded with children in 1990s. With depression in 1990s fertility rates started to plumet. For the next 20 years nobody was having children and now that generation from 1980s/1990s is about 30+ and all are settling down and having children (although a bit later than previous generation).
"For example, the paper says that tech companies have “fumbled their way through the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, unable to stem the ‘infodemic’ of misinformation” that has hindered widespread acceptance of masks and vaccines"

The numbers on masks and vaccines show that acceptance is widespread. What are we looking for here, approval rates to rival Kim Jong Un? The worst thing that could happen to what little is left of social cohesion is an even stricter attempt at controlling information.

Sure, some information shared on social media is misinformation. Some information coming from mainstream media is misinformation, too. In some cases, the authorities will spread misinformation. After all, some of the "evidence" used to argue that masks are ineffective came from the CDC itself.

With the politicization of everything, even facts can not be considered neutral anymore. For every verifiable fact, there's a set of other verifiable facts that may be omitted to achieve the desired effect. Fact-checks are used for propaganda. When consuming information, always keep your salt dispenser at hand.
Empty blocks generate less revenue (no transaction fees, only the minig reward) but are slightly easier to create due to small mathematical flaws that let you skip some work if the block you create is empty. So for certain pools it's profitable in aggregate to mine empty blocks.
They could call it Golem.
How would it do that? You think they’re shipping SIM cards in the TV?
You have a point to make and you choose your assumptions to make sure it's made.
It is absolutely not straightforward and you are arguing a black-or-white fallacy.

As was discussed ad nauseum on HN before, in threads about "smart" vs "dumb" TVs, 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.

As ads are not required for the functioning of smart devices, compared to for example, electricity being required for a TV to work, or an internet connection being required for movie streaming to work, it is fallacious to suggest that consumers must avoid such smart devices to avoid unwanted behavior being forced upon them at a later date.
Would use of an Android phone have any cause for frustration with an Apple TV? I'd assume not but I've never used one.
"Shtisel", my favorite show of this genre, just released its third season on Netflix. Seems like every ultra-Orthodox character in the show had a flip phone. I didn't get the impression that the phones were prohibited, though. Either way, great show that I highly recommend.
You ask a compiler, since it knows the max stack requirements of every function it compiled, if it's fixed. If it's not fixed it may give you at least the minimum.

For total depth, keeping you program simple and predictable helps. People certainly manage to do it even for large programs like Linux itself, where stack size is like 16KiB or so. https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.2/source/arch/x86/includ... and less on other archs. 8 KiB on arm https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.13-rc7/source/arch/arm/i...
Some purchase data being sold through brokers is not the same thing as a consumer buying space on the chain via gas prices to announce their purchases to the world, and then the entirety of the network burning resources to make that information available in perpetuity. It’s also something that’s easy to regulate.
World-Building and the Early Internet
> I think my statement is still correct in that "a symbol could be a data structure," right? Like you could take a list of dicts and emit a tree of dicts.

Yeah I guess. Text combinator libraries like Haskell's Parsec and Rust's Nom are typically parametric over the type of "characters". Realistically I don't think I've ever seen anyone use one of those libraries for an input that wasn't text-like, though; do you have a use case in mind?

> But wait, a list is a kind of tree, or rather, there is a parse tree of recursive head/tail branches.

Yes, so you can run into parsing problems when working with trees, if you work really hard at it. But if you do the correct action is "reconsider your life choices" and not "use parsing theory".
What a wonderful idea and execution!

However, for my use case, I'll wait for a software emulated virtual plug.
Does it leave a blank space on the home screen? I feel I am fine with the Roku ad in a rectangle box on the side of the home screen.
A bunch of causes are known, I believe the main one is a mite, but there are many contributing factors:

https://www.epa.gov/pollinator-protection/colony-collapse-di...
e.g. Gibbon attributing it to Christianity nevermind the 'barbarians' had also converted by that time, or the histories arguing for an ecological collapse (apparently contradicted by digs).

I see the recent fad is arguing that they weren't multicultural enough (nevermind that each stage of assimilation - when the Roman Empire 'worked' - was preceded by Romans beating up their enemies and that didn't quiet happen the last few times).
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We have a few files at work that change name with every commit…
Yep, 16 new libreelec installs will appear, and thousands of google tvs will be sold in the meantime.
AST editting would be kind of okay. But never better than kind of okay. Thoughtfully formatted text can be quite a bit nicer.

Also, cities where one can get around on bicyles are much nicer than where one needs to use cars. Flying or otherwise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul_xzyCDT98

To summarize both points: what looks like progress superficially may actually not be progress at all.
Written some 60 years ago, Information Theory and Coding by Abramson[1] is an absolute gem for those looking to get into info theory. The cover book [2] being the more complete resource (and somewhat of a grad level defacto standard text).

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Information-Theory-Coding-Norman-Abra...

[2]
https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Information-Theory-Telecommu...
I think they meant 'du jour', which makes it a bit easier to parse.
They are not hard to find at all. Sure it's more 'difficult' than searching for 'TV' on Amazon, but if you spend ten minutes doing a web search, you will find some brands.

Here's one site to get you started: https://pointerclicker.com/best-dumb-tv/
I'm not sure how you're connecting that quora discussion to what we were saying above, but I think the confusion comes from what 'thrust to weight ratio' means.

Helicopters and planes are both pushing down on air to generate lift. The lift generated has to be equal or greater to the weight for the aircraft to fly.

Thrust can mean many things (at least colloquially). As discussed in the quora you linked, a helicopter will have a defined power to weight ratio that allows it to fly (maintain level flight) in its 'normal' flight envelope. There are a number of things the pilot can do that causes the aircraft to 'push down harder' on the air. One of these is flying close to the ground (the ground effect) which is sort of like pushing against the ground as well as the air, and another is by moving horizontally (usually forwards, like a plane, causing transational lift). Both of these allow the aircraft to maintain height while using less power than if it was hovering, but to do so it is still generating enough lift to counteract gravity.
Well I guess I had been putting off setting up that pi-hole for too long anyway.
If blockchain advocates didn't come of as so cult-ish, it'd be easier to not down-vote. But most advocates talk like blockchain exists in a vacuum.

For example I saw a popular blockchain advocate talking about how the Pokemon company should get into NFT's and you have to wonder why? What advantage would it be to use blockchain over a simple database that the Pokemon company owns? I can think of several disadvantages. But the blockchain advocates keep harping on it whether it makes sense or not because it's financially advantageous for them.
What NASA Discovered on Ganymede
True

Except it's the power users are the ones that "make Reddit". They share the links and add comments

I think even the lurker/commenter ratio is something like 10x (can't remember where I saw this so I can be wrong)

But sure, the number of users go up. Until it doesn't.
Is the Apple TV better than the Nvidia Shield? I bought one of the tubes and that thing is slick as hell.
Everything about this is great.

Over the past 15 years, I've tried to break my paper notebook addiction numerous times, and have failed every time. It took a year of interacting with people over screen only to realize why paper has worked better for me (and why I'm going back to it after a year of Roam):

Writing things on paper forces you to be a better listener, AND when people realize you're writing things down, they tend to speak more concisely. It's not that hard to type at the speed of most conversations, but it never feels like it's really listening. Watch people who do it! They nod, type furiously, and when they have something they want to add they will change their facial expression to signal that they want to finish typing their sentence before they want to interject.

Saying "hold on, let me write this down" gives everyone a moment to refocus, and it's a lot more natural to say that than "hold on, let me type this". Plus, it makes it much more natural to revisit topics and let the conversation flow.

Roam, Notion, GitHub Issues, etc are all great for asynchronous communication and coordination, but I don't know that any system will ever beat writing things down by hand for talking with people. (Although, the hype around ReMarkable is tough to ignore...)