skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$3000. For a teddy bear. How delicate is it, and how easy will it be to repair?

App ideas:

Diagnostics and Repair: to it can help you take itself apart and put itself back together.

BearSwarm/BeoBaer: connect multiple Bear together into a cooperative unit

Bear8s: load balance those units!

WarBear: If these work and only cost $3000 a pop, you can expect the Army to want some.
> some devices expose ethernet over HDMI

wait, is this really a thing? I've heard about hdmi over ethernet, but ethernet over hdmi? also it seems it would be a lot trouble to bridge the wifi connection and dhcp to this ethernet over hdmi interface, why should they do it?
Also .net 6 was just released
Governments do not control DNS in any practical sense. Even if, in theory, the US Department of Commerce could revoke SIDN control over .nl, it would be totally impractical for any directed attack.

Control of Chrome or Google itself is a radically different matter. And with the CA system, there are a 140 other trust points to be attacked.

What is weaker will depend on your perspective and threat model, but if the measure is how easy it would be for the government to create an arbitrary fraudulent SSL certificate, it is objectively much easier than creating an arbitrary fraudulent DNSSEC record.
Windows 2000 running in VM in Docker. Might as well skip the docker stage as it does not really add anything.

Otherwise sweet memories. I used Win 2K as a workstation at the time. Loved it.
Google has committed to net zero emissions by 2030 I believe. Some one from Google can elaborate here.

I haven’t seen much from the others.
Pretentiousness seems, at worst, annoying. At best, I'm thrilled that there are people who 'overthink' things. Every technology that I use is the result of someone who took something 'too seriously', especially the open source ones.

For a concrete example, how pretentious was Wes Mckinney to build Pandas?

Podcast story: https://www.datacamp.com/community/blog/data-science-tool-bu...
You overestimate the USA military's tolerance for investigation of its many "mistakes". Julian Assange has been persecuted for over a decade now for the "crime" of investigating such "mistakes". Korsak and Tate as described in TFA will probably suffer as previous whistleblowers like Daniel Hale, John Kiriakou, Thomas Drake, Chelsea Manning, etc.

Let's not give TFA too much credit, however. In 12 pages of reporting on USA military action in Syria, they couldn't find space to mention the fact that right now in mid-November 2021 USA military still occupies the oil- and agriculturally-rich eastern third of this nation, thus ensuring that while they can't buy food due to sanctions they're also not allowed to eat their own food because "fuck you"? In order for this brutality to end, it must be reported upon.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/03/05/tulsi-gabbard-calls-out-t...
Someone can make an absolute killing by creating an entire brand of “dumb” appliances that Just Work. Make them sensible quality, modern, entirely offline.
> Money is nothing but a sophisticated barter system.

Money is the core of a distributed optimisation system. How does society decide whether to fix a pothole, eat some oranges, advertise a game? The hugely complex chain of suppliers is balanced via money - every actor in the chain is optimising locally using profit as the objective function. Legal agreements are the mechanism to ensure the money flows for the correct goods/services, and society sets constraints (laws/regulations) to enforce goals that are not monetary.

The economics 101 narrative for how money was created is an extremely limited view.
EAPs that are like this are like this because they want to control costs via rate limiting. Therapists have a hard time joining them too because they will only hire a set amount.

The shortage is more in mental health professionals who take insurance. If your willing to pay full fee and then submit a super bill to your provider to get part of the cost back, you'll find therapists fairly quickly.
Even building boring old nuclear fission plants is far too slow! We need big changes now, not in 5-10 years, and definitely not in (really optimistically for fusion) 25+ years.
Americans are hated? I think you hang out in a fairly small social circle if that is the norm. Or are you just one of those self-hating Americans who thinks everyone else is just like you? Guessing that's the case from the use of "y'all"
Same experience on iPad Safari here.
It's not impossible, you are thinking from the wrong paradigm. The industry is already shifting if you pay attention to the proper news sources. The chemical agriculture war on pests and nature is coming to an end. These chemicals are making us sick, these monoculture are collapsing the ecosystem globally.

The good news is nature abhors a vacuum and will heal if we let it. The wu Wei. Small farms will rise, food is just too important for the economy and with rapid inflation there is no way around it. We are all going to have to become farmers or know our farmers.

Ref: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC1eySW_9TiI5wnvTnIIw2Nw
> Digital morphing was introduced to the public in that film.

As someone who grew up watching Willow (1988), I beg to differ... Note the box office was about 1/4 that of Terminator 2, so you could say it reached the public pretty well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKzbsDG58pc
Card counting 101: unlike dice or roulette where every outcome is entirely independent, blackjack has "memory"... all the cards that have previously been discarded are unavailable in future hands. Blackjack starts out with a casino advantage of only about 0.3 to 0.7%. When a lot of 5s (and to a lesser extent, 6s and 4s) have been used already, that can move the advantage up to about 2 percentage points into the players favor, therefore, going from -0.5% to as high as +1.5%. The idea is to bet as little as possible under normal circumstances, and then for the hands where the advantage has shifted to the player, increase the bet as much as the casino will allow. So for example in theory, 40 hands x $10 x -0.5% + 3 hands x $500 x +1.0% is net positive. But not a lot, and good luck getting a 50x bet spread past a halfway decent pit boss.
It's a slightly different case, but look at what happened last time Russia shot down an airliner (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_17): the perpetrators weren't exactly judged, but they got "disappeared", which is a form of punishment. For comparison, when the US shot down an airliner (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655), the perpetrators... got decorated.
Whats nice in it? you should visit other https://extremewriter.in/
I don't own a "smart TV." If I did, I would have two options to secure it.

I could keep it disconnected from my home network, except perhaps occasionally to update the firmware. Otherwise, all network content would come from a device in which I could place some level of trust.

Alternately, I could put it behind a Gargoyle router set to push all content through Tor. That would render some network content inaccessible, and Vizio itself might block Tor exit nodes.

Each of these choices introduces inconvenience and reduces function, but right now I would not trust my activity to Vizio, after seeing this financial reporting.
I've always thought this line of thinking, while reasonable, was kind of admittedly strange. Just because someone is angry, and perhaps irritating, does not mean they aren't correct. In some ways, you'd expect them someone conveying wide scale injustices to be angry. It's almost counter intuitive to only trust those who can calm themselves. I mean in practical life, I still am a bit leary of overly angry rants-- but this thought occurs to me often.
Most of the current PV generation in the 100 miles around where I live (near Santa Fe, NM) looks exactly like this (but without the agriculture).
> Just imagine what would happen if Russian or Chinese military lawyers or journalists tried to do something similar.

There doesn't seem to be English language publication to establish if similar internal criticism occurs in other countries or not. For all we know Daesh PR did a through analysis of burning Jordanian pilots alive in cages [0] and found it unhelpful to their cause. Given that any large enough human organization has internal conflict it would stand to reason that similar internal criticism occurs.

It's not as if US whistleblowers live carefree lives. The NYT associates Mr. Tate's job loss with criticism of the US' internal response to the bombing.

Mr. Tate, a former Navy officer who had worked for years as a civilian analyst with the Defense Intelligence Agency and the National Counterterrorism Center before moving to the inspector general’s office, said he criticized the lack of action and was eventually forced out of his job.

0. https://www.albawaba.com/development-iraq/breaking-daesh-bur...
It is intentional - the legal system defaults to absolute freedom in absense of laws. Besides have you seen how goddamn inept just rulemaking is when done based upon the old standards which have nothing to do with the advantages and limitations of the new medium?

Look at attempts to prelegislate things which do not really exist yet and you get utter embarrassments of law at best and at worst hamstring your nation by laws which assume that a TI graphing calculator has the potential to go rogue and start deliberately killing people.
Not cost-effective to carry the heavy energy storage on the trains, reducing money-making cargo capacity. Better to grab that energy from the trackside.
Thanks! Yeah, it's been hard to decide what to do about mobile. The experience is not great with the high piece counts. I might consider offering puzzles with smaller piece counts if they are started on a mobile device, vs desktop. But this may affect my plans for adding (optional) leaderboards and making things a little more competitive.
It's known to be safe when taken once or twice a year, not daily. The dosage matters, both for safety and effectiveness.

Ivermectin taken more frequently than approved for has side effects including your intestinal lining falling off and looking like worms in your poo.
Passive Mode + You can just jump into another server. Heck on PC I know there were ways you can modify your network settings to ensure you're always dropped in an empty room. Great for CEO work.
CDC Admits No Record of Naturally Immune Transmitting Covid-19
Great point! This has been something I've been meaning to do and forgot about. Thanks for the reminder.
Not if it doesn't add another 30% of customers.

Not even taking in account the rise of advertising for the app creators self, the loses you have from not being able to redirect to your own website, giving specific incentives that Apple doesn't allow etc etc etc.

So no, it's not just bashing, and that's the reason Apple does it secretly
War is hell. Tell ISIS to stand further away from civilians.
>Storage will be a solved problem once everyone has an electric vehicle with a 65kWh battery sitting in their garage. Power your home overnight from your car, then recharge during the day when the sun comes out.

Too bad you'll be driving to the office on business days.
There is a certain amount of cognitive dissonance experienced when you read that the companies you frequently patronize (Microsoft, Facebook, and Apple for the majority of the tech world) are doing nefarious things. We would just rather not hear them than deal with that guilt.
Dumb ass animals. They should've followed best practices by the experts and gotten fully vaccinated.
Easiest way to automate processing incoming emails
Hello HN,

I was wondering what is the simpler way to go about building a tool to process incoming emails. I would like to build a tool that processes the content and trigger some automation.

AFAIK, the most raw way of doing that would be to run a server that polls an email server (SMTP or Pop3) for new messages.

I was wondering if there is a cloud offering that allows for minimizing the infra footprint and allows for focusing on the business logic (parsing out the email contents ... etc). For example, what if we had app engine but only for email. Is there any such thing?
yeah, I think this is supported by a large number of people not understanding this.

like, a lot of support comes from evaluating each event in isolation from more neutral people, but I think even more hawkish as well as bigoted people would say "hm this is not okay for domestic or foreign policy"
I love how this describes my life:

>>> you feel like the smartest human on the planet; even though it can be mere minutes later when you find something so mind-bogglingly stupid that make you marvel that you don’t forget to breathe from time to time.
Or setup something like a pihole. My pihole has blocked my Roku from calling home over 20,000 times in the past 24 hours.
Gambling has a similar distribution to most markets. 20% of the gamblers generate 80% of the gambling revenue. Most people that gamble don’t ruin their life. Most people that drink don’t ruin their life/health.

There’s some ethical concerns where the gaming industry (and liquor industry) will market more towards problem users or in ways to generate more problem users, but buying $20/lotto tickets a month isn’t a guaranteed start of a problem, nor is having wine alone sometimes.
That isn't consistent with 10% of the farms taking 90% of the subsidy.

The subsidy argument is a scam anyway. It's a commodity market. The margins will be razor thin, the end. If you subsidize production, prices go down. It will eat the whole subsidy and leave the margins razor thin.

The only way the subsidy helps you is if you get more of it than your competitors. Now who do you think that applies to, the family farm or the huge corporation with lots of lobbyists?
Is it vaporized cannabis?
Ya I was reading this thinking none of this is telling me how CPython implements it. It’s just a poor-man’s version.
In Germany you can rent equipment and operators for this equipment. A lot of farmers do it for crops they don't usually harvest but are required to to keep the land fertile or to collect subsidies.

The problem with this model is that, as the sibling comment already pointed out, harvest is done typically within one or two weeks or even in two days, depending on the weather. Harvesting too late can make the crop go bad. So renting the equipment and getting it to the field can be a hassle. It's still being done a lot but it's not risk free.
I feel an aircraft-on-a-conveyor-belt moment coming on.

So first of all, GE in a rotorcraft is different from GE on a fixed-wing aircraft. The fundamentals are the same, of course, but in a rotorcraft the relative velocity of the blade/wing isn't connected to the velocity of the airframe the way it is in a fixed-wing aircraft. In a fixed-wing aircraft the velocity of the wing and the velocity of the airframe are the same, of course. But in a rotorcraft things get very complicated. The upshot of all this complication is that the GE effect is reduced as the rotorcraft's airframe starts to move. The faster it goes, the less GE you have. So you might notice some differences while hovering under an overpass, but shooting through at 60 MPH the GE is effectively a no-op.

If you really want to know the gory details you'll have to read up on helicopter theory. It's way too complicated for an HN comment.
I live on my family farm. We have a 50yr old tractor and your basic premise seems correct. All of my neighbors follow the same route.

I would add that small farmers are typically not mono culture. We used to have various fruit varieties. One neighbor is mixed veggies, another cattle and flowers.

Our farm has been forced out of fruit because of corporate mono farms who inevitably cause gluts in the market due to over supply. In my local experience, corporate farms are typically 5-10 bigger as a minimum than their surrounding neighbors.

When a small farmer loses any percentage income, he must quickly change income stream. Hence, our fruit trees are gone, and we're now raising sheep, and are forced to be double income. Our tractor & other super reliable (but very clunky) machines remain.
Most farm equipment will be driven on roads, so yes, it will have to comply with emission regulations.
Your point is generally valid, in that the price of selling advertisements and data is factored into the cost of TVs. But, in case you or anyone else despairs of buying a reasonably priced "dumb tv": you can still buy a 55" 4K TV with no spyware and no apps for $450 or less. For example, the Sceptre U558CV-UMC is $400 at that large online retailer from Seattle. I own the 65" version, and it's fantastic.
I hate tech like this. It ostensibly offers some minor convenience for the end-user, but it's really just a big data grab for whatever company implemented it.

A few years ago, I went to a local Shake Shack and found they replaced their cashiers with kiosks. But placing an order requires me to give them my phone number, supposedly so they can text me when my order was ready. This should have been a very simple transaction: I give them money, and they give me burger. That's it. No need to get tech BS involved in things.
I've had my Vizio TV (P55-F1, 2019 model; a mid range model) for about 2.5 years now. Image/sound quality is great. But the annoyances and overall mediocrity of the OS and its updates [0] made me just disconnect the TV from the internet and fully switch over to using an Apple TV for all consumption rather than using the native Vizio OS.

[0]: The OS is terrible and the remote randomly stops working sometimes. Sometimes the TV would take tens of seconds to turn on, but then other times it was near instant.

Every single update since I've gotten the TV seems to make the TV even slower/more laggy. There was even an update about two years back where the Youtube app's volume was inexplicably an order of magnitude lower than every other input's volume (e.g. a volume of 100/100 on the Youtube app ended up being equivalent to a volume of 10/100 for all other apps/inputs). It took Vizio 1-3 months to fix it.

Unblockable ads on the home screen and genuinely multi-hundred millisecond response times on the app launcher infuriated me.
Strong Eventual Consistency and Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (2016)
This is worse than I could possibly imagine. Did your studio at least get credited for the work on timeline tools?
Sorry for the mildly off-topic comment, but does anyone else find the writing horrible, almost impenetrable? The first sentence alone seems to have four or five bizarre syntactic and semantic ambiguities. I really have no idea what it's supposed to mean.
> We went in with a pretty good justification (Taliban refusal to hand over Osama bin Laden for his central role in 9/11 terrorism)

That would _not_ be a good justification to wage a war, but I think the actual casus belli was Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction – later found to be non-existent. 215 Republicans and 82 Democrats voted for this. They paved the way for a war of aggression… and I seem to remember that Americans have previously hanged foreign politicians for precisely that.

Edit: Misread above comment and thought he was talking about Iraq. Point still stands, though.
It's something the government is already doing, in part: there's a DOE DAC RFP on the street now: https://seliger.com/2021/11/04/grant-writers-and-climate-cha...
> you would have to convince your taxpayers to pay to offset emissions in some other country

I strangely think the rich world would be more comfortable building carbon capture infrastructure at home than clean energy offshore. The jobs are domestic. And you aren’t handing a productive asset to another country.

Hell, find it with an import tax on polluting countries and we don’t even have to pay for most of it.
From my (limited) experience watching folks at the roulette table, I think there are two kinds of players.

There's the players making small bets, they win a bit, lose a bit, and at the end of the day they may go home with a bit more or a bit less money than they came with. The casino wins on average because of the 0.

Then there are the gamblers. They come to the table, make a few large bets, and within a few minutes they lost their monthly salary (or whatever was the limit on the ATM). They lost because the player will continue playing until they can't.

I'm pretty sure that you could make a completely fair roulette, and the house would still win big every day. I'm not sure why there aren't any fair roulettes, though.
Isn't that the whole appeal of our economic system? To root out these inefficiencies?

If it is not economically feasible to run a coal plant if they do not externalize the pollution cost, how is that my problem? And if the demand justifies it, the cost for coal-generated electricity will go up.

It's a matter of priorities and resource allocation.

Why do we allow coal operators to enrich themselves at the cost of everyone else?
> Despite being way ahead of any other game company in terms of R&D and innovation, they sadly decided to outsource these "definitive"versions and pay little attention to QA.

One thing I really wonder if what codebase they worked off of. Seems like they worked off the mobile port codebase a few years ago, I've seen a few people mention that many of the bugs they saw in the Definitive Edition was also present in the mobile ports.

To it seems like their big mistake wasn't necessarily the fact they outsourced everything, is they started in the wrong place.

Codebase evolution seems to be: Original -> Mobile Port(s) -> Definitive Edition.

They should have scrapped any changes made in the mobile ports and worked straight off the original versions.
I think it's different because a store is competing with other stores, not with tv manufacturer.
I'm not entirely sure what you're referring to. I'm looking at the still frames in 1080p.

I see the bullet holes absolutely don't match up. At 3:38 they are not as deep and wide as in 3:44. But also the actors position is different especially the mouth (closed in the first, open in the other). Continuity errors.

The morph effect is somewhat cringy but to be fair, they always were. At least in DS9 and Terminator 2 there were in-universe explanations why they existed.

There's also something weird going on with the eyes to the T-1000 after the morph effect has finished. Not sure if that was intentional.
Source? I couldn't find information on any mainstream TV brands using ethernet over HDMI. Not configuring wifi and using an external device seems like it would do the trick.
This is definitely not the first consumer humanoid robot even if you constrain it to robots that can actually walk on two legs. It's important to mention because if you think it is, you might have missed all the things you might learn studying successes and failures.
The only intention of our many stupid wars is to further enrich armaments manufactures. It has nothing to do with security; Americans are vulnerable mostly to violence from ourselves. Killing civilians enriches armaments manufacturers just fine, and it plants the seeds for future wars, so it certainly is intended. Probably not by the rank and file (cf. Daniel Hale), but certainly by everyone in the Pentagon.

Claiming otherwise is the best example of "noise".
It's not ISIS that's droning those civilians.
Better to split off YouTube so it has to compete with search for ads.
If the animals had any respect for life they would've kept six feet apart from each other.

Looks like Ranney, Everest, and Makalu were all GOP Trumpers. Here in America we call those people "domestic terrorists".

Fact checkers claim that had they stuck to their curfew and wore a mask lives could have been saved.