skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine the first hole has been leaking for 200 years, and also getting a new hole each year. Also each hole grows every year. The boat is on track to be totally sunk in a couple decades.

You probably want to start bailing immediately, also start plugging holes immediately. Except our technologies for bailing aren't practical yet (and may never be). If we don't plug the holes, we'll sink. If we don't start bailing, we'll sink. If we do both immediately, we might still sink but we've got a better chance.
> Selling of buttons on remotes absolutely does not involve 'tracking and then selling viewing habits'.

Yes it certainly does.

1) sell button on remote

2) user presses button

3) sell information about button presses.

> The homescreen ads may or may not involve any tracking - I suspect they likely do not - they're billboards, and they involve showing ads to users but not tracking their viewing.

Oh yeah and the ads on your computer definitely are also only just like billboards.

It's certainly not profitable at all to know who's watching what when selling advertisement space. It's certainly not capable at all of determining specific names/addresses just from an advertisement load.

/s
yes, google and the like reportedly already do this, so pihole bypassing is already here.

i bought a pepwave surf soho[0] a few years back, largely because it had a few other features (multi-homing, multi-wlan, robust vlan'ing, etc.) that i wanted due to my peculiar circumstances. it has limited blocklist support however, but does allow manual blocklist curation of arbitrary length, including cidr-formatted IP ranges. the main downside of this router is that it's 100mbps (actually ~120mbps)[1], but that's a limit i come close to very rarely in my day-to-day.

as with smart tv's, it's frustrating how few good router options there are.

[0]: https://www.peplink.com/products/pepwave-surf-soho/
[1]: note that this is sustained throughput, the ports are 1gbps. most consumer routers struggle to reach even this sustained rate.
Some highly successful people have lots of children.

But Elon Musk is a little bit too rich to make his decisions on partners and kids based on whether some poorer billionaire offers a stipend. My point is upper middle classes intellectuals won't be interested trading those decisions for the money either
That is some blatant corruption.
Bernie’s Millions
2000 and XP/2003 were the last Windows versions I used and cared about. It was with 2000 that I realised working with 2 200MHz CPUs was a better experience than a single 400MHz one (at least on Windows).
Hasn't LBA been around since 1990 or so?
> What legislation can we introduce to ensure that we own a device after paying for it?

Right-to-repair legislation should be adopted to include something similar to the GDPR's anti-coupling rules so this can be verified at a deeper technical level; the TV manufacturer should be forced to make it work even if you disconnect all modems, network cards, etc.

The GDPR alone is sufficient for legal protection, the TV manufacturer can't stop you from using the TV just because you refuse consent for data processing - but not protection against bugs, bad actors, or companies operating outside Europe. Anything impacting hardware is more likely to improve conditions everywhere, even if only enforced somewhere.
And the scary part of it is that it doesn't come from some authoritarian tyrant, but rather it's supported by most, or at least a very significant part of the population...
If that were the real situation then the taliban could have taken Bin Laden into custody and hand him over for trial in a neutral country (say the Netherlands alike Lockerbie trial, or somewhere like China or India)
If you're talking about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29217720, it is clearly an ideological battle comment (almost a prototype actually) and therefore obviously against the site guidelines.

We want curious conversation here. Not only do ideological battle and curiosity not overlap, the former destroys the latter, like a tank battle in a city park. If people can't post in the intended curious spirit, they shouldn't post at all; and if they do anyway, flags are the appropriate outcome—no? I'm not sure why this would be unclear.
It wouldn't be surprising if they did that so people could download a newer browser (such as Chrome...) which would itself be signed anyway.
I’m definitely in the strategy bucket of let’s do everything and hope it’s enough
Delta lake is very much open. You can install delta lake and run it yourself. It's a transaction layer running over parquet files. You can go to the delta.io GitHub and install binaries yourself. Snowflake cannot be run independently of their cloud.

The rest of this is some vague claims of Databricks being unreliable techbros blah blah which is just emotionally charged hot air rather than being based on anything.

RE who to pick. Run them side by side. Use snowflake for non technical staff/BI load in prepared cuts of data. it's batteries included and less knobs to twiddle for optimisation. Databricks/spark has a learning code and isn't suitable for non-technical staff. But it gives a lot more options for processing for all the stuff that doesn't fit neatly into data clustering.
PCIe bifurcation works fine on AMD consumer platforms. I've used a passive quad-M.2 riser card on an AMD B550 motherboard with no trouble other than changing a firmware setting to turn on bifurcation. It's only Intel that is strict about this aspect of product segmentation.
I really wish docker (not specifically but containers frameworks) had support for graphical output. Be really cool to containerise visual apps.
Obligatory reminder that there are only three hard disk vendors and all of them have made bad drives at one time.
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Sweden basically did soft lockdowns: capacity limits, mandated social distancing, masking, and closures of schools and universities.
> How does one disable/block something like this?

Watch this video: https://youtu.be/urglg3WimHA
I’d go even further: XP was 2000 with some UI elements and ideas that came from Windows Me. That grouping in the control panel only made it harder to find what you needed.
You don't have to subsidize against the alternative of a 10+ year old car from the US or Europe if you stop selling ICE cars in the US and Europe, because in ten years the ten year old cars will all be electric too.

So the subsidy is only the amount required to make a new electric car cheaper than a new gasoline car, for the people breaking into the middle class who can now afford that. That's the same as it is in the US, isn't very much, and is declining as batteries get cheaper. It may be soon that it won't even be necessary.
Not really, it's more the bad execution that killed the goose. Only misers would object to a small fee for parking. It's the hassle of paying that keeps people away.

Where I live all shopping centers in the town have the same fees for parking, CHF 1 for the first hour then CHF ½ for every half hour. You can pay with an app, for example https://easypark.ch, or by cash at a central parking meter by the entrance which accepts credit cards, too, and even returns change.

It's not really a joy but acceptable.
CodeBuild runs and dies.
AppRunner is an HTTP server with autoscale based on concurrent requests.
What to do when Amazon.com won't accept “Continue”
I am at the "Select Shipping Options" but no matter what I click, it just repaints the page.

The options are: "We're giving you a free 6-month trial of Prime Student",
and the usual "free shipping", or "next friday", or "next tuesday" for various prices.

I tried relogging in. I tried returning to the home page. Still can't get to the "place order" page.

Suggestions?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/12/magazine/real-estate-pand...

The publication year is 2021, which is the typical way a story is tagged. I have to wonder why 2007 and not 1913 or 1929? Throwing out a date does not imply a specific context or add to the discussion.
"As Richard Lawler writes for The Verge, the division that handles ads and surveillance booked $57.3 million in profits, while the hardware division's profits were $25.6 million."

I am curious how the accounting works on this, they could not make any profit on the surveillance without selling the TV's, but none of the TV cost is recorded as an expense for the surveillance numbers.
I can't tell if you're the Marvin bot or not.
TAOCP is probably the best book if you approach it as infotainment/puzzles casual reading on the weekend reading about the history of trees and their mathematical properties kind of reading not anxiety filled interview passing cramming. Even autodiff online algorithms is in there something heavily used right now.
it's not just the angry part. if you say "vizio model xyz phones home such and such information, and here are the logs to prove it", I'll believe you unless I have a specific reason not to trust you as an individual. if you say "the entire TV industry spies on its customers", that's not implausible to me, but I'm going to assume you're just repeating something you've read elsewhere (and I'd rather just read that). it doesn't add any concrete information to my mental model.

I do find that the angry part does correlate pretty strongly with people who can't really back up their sweeping claims or are simply exaggerating.
Sweden has already had more cases and more deaths than Austria, both in absolute and per capita numbers, and has a larger vaccination rate than Austria.
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> they have nothing to do with it

Of course they do. They have a contract with the landlord. They rent the space and pay for parking. If you are a customer of a retailer, why would you go complain to their landlord?

> Why highlight that one specifically?

Why not? Journalists can either cover something in breadth, or in depth, and in this case the journalist decided to go in depth on a specific location.
My A520 mini-itx board supports it; can't get anymore desktop than that. Although, that has limited options, I think I can do either 2 x8 or one x8 and two x4. For this, it looks like each drive is expected to be x1, so you'd want one x16 to 16 x1s. It's doable, but not without mucking about in the firmware (either by the OEM, or dedicated enthusiasts), so a PCIe switch is probably advisable.
What are the prerequisites prior to taking this course? TIA!
A device you have already purchased acquiring new “features” is entirely the responsibility of the manufacturer. We’re going to need regulation on this behavior, it’s not solvable through technology.
So it's low in terms of "amount of energy in relation to amount of hydrogen in the star"? But wouldn't much of the un-fused hydrogen be eligible to fuse at some later time, if for instance convection streams pull it down into the deeper (=higher-pressure) zones of the star?

So it seems to me the relevant measurement ought to be the ratio of energy per hydrogen atoms fused, not hydrogen atoms total. (Certainly in a reactor, where presumably all or most of them should be.)
You need to build a product for it…

PS: I have the same problem like you. I’m looking for an idea. There is a book by Artiom Dershenksy about finding ideas. Maybe it’s helpful
I'm looking forward to the day where I can get a 80 inch smart-tv for free because it's financed with ads and in app purchases. Then I will disable the ads and use it as a dumb-tv behind my receiver.
This breaks O(1) access by index, because the objects in the list may have different sizes.
> How come they break Javascript semantics and execution flow?

wait what?
since when do they break execution flow and javascript semantics?!

useEffect(function () { }); when exactly do you think the function will be called? - correct only the "framework" defines that, but that's completly normal javascript execution and semantic.
Apparently being sued years ago didn't teach them anything.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/06/vizio-settles-for-2-2-mill...

They also violated the GPL in their products.

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html
this is of course an uneducated guest

please, anyone in the industry, let me know if I'm off base
According to this source [0], it looks like something like 80% of the population is vaccinated. If they are still implementing lockdowns with an 80% vaccination rate, maybe it's time to acknowledge that the efficacy numbers we've been fed are a little optimistic?

This is hardly unique to australia. UK, Ireland, Israel, and other highly vaccinated nations are experiencing record case numbers. Where is the skepticism? I feel like 80% of the population has gone totally crazy, completely unwilling to question the safety or efficacy of the vaccines, as though they were sacrosanct.

0. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/datablog/ng-inter...

Edit: article is about austria. Still, the accusations of being "antivaxx" are dishonest. Not all vaccines are created equal. And in any case a ≈65% vaccination rate failing to contain the virus still does not bode well for estimates of effectiveness. Something's not right and the discussion needs to be had.
Yes!

Parser combinators extended to typed trees, with an efficient syntax, would be a great basis for a programming language. Macros would be a primary application rather than strapped-on as they are now in every language.

Another clue that we're watching a planet form, a fundamental idea is about to coalesce: Combinators for applying tactics in a theorem proving language such as Lean bear an uncanny resemblance to parser combinators.

Today, most programmers view verified code as impractical. Huh? Is getting hacked, or the wrong answer, practical? In the future we'll be able to use the same code to write efficient programs, efficient randomized tests, and for program verification. It will feel like targeting different architectures.

The key idea in type-based theorem proving is "propositions as types": One defines a type to state a proposition, then demonstrates an instance of that type to prove the proposition. Existence is boolean (true or false) which is also the coefficient semiring for automata theory in computer science. There, one generalizes to arbitrary coefficient rings, and gets probability models such as hidden Markov chains as part of the same theory. How does one generalize "propositions as types" to arbitrary coefficients? Does this subsume random testing? The parallel here is that one wants a valid instance of a type to prove a theorem, and a probability distribution on valid instances of a (far simpler) type for random testing.

Anyone designing a language in this decade should look to program verification and theorem proving for the deepest influences.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Logical Verification
https://github.com/blanchette/logical_verification_2020/raw/...

Benjamin Pierce: Backtracking Generators for Random Testing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfZ94N0hS4I&t=489s

Homotopy Type Theory
https://homotopytypetheory.org/book/
This. If you have Roku device, you must use something like PiHole. It is the noisiest device on my network, constantly phoning home, down to each interaction with the physical remote.

Amazon Firestick is the same, although there's potential for more control since it's running Android.

Amazon's Ad business is one of its fastest growing segments.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/29/amazons-ads-business-nears-7...
This. Also, I try to:

- use only those regex features that are cross-platform (cross-engine?)

- avoid `\w` and similar (what is word?) and instead use explicit rules (`[a-zA-Z]+`)

- use [] instead of backslashes when escaping (`[(]` instead of `\(`) - especially useful with double/triple escaping

- never use long regexes (there is always a better way)

I never understood why people are afraid of regular expressions.

That said, there are some performance/security implications wrt. backtracking that one should be aware of [0].

[0] https://javascript.info/regexp-catastrophic-backtracking
I'm not sure if it's the answer but you may be slightly misunderstanding it - you are describing a system without the crucial "Data Access Layer" which sits in front of the database. This layer is what mitigates part of the problem you are describing because it puts a layer of abstraction b/w raw data access and the services using the data. For example it could be a REST API, or using a message queuing backbone or both.
Your argument is essentially asks why have laws at all. The Polish government has made it clear they don’t want immigrants in this fashion by passing immigration laws. Sometimes enforcing the law costs money.
mem::forget() is not crashy like free(). It merely prevents destructors from being run (e.g. you could do the same by storing the value in a global variable). It's a safe method, subject to usual safety checks.

You can use an `unsafe {}` block to call literally libc::free(), or dereference a random raw C pointer, or do something else crashy. However, when talking about Rust's safety rules it's usually assumed we're not talking about code bypassing these rules on purpose.
Cygwin was a wonderful thing. It wasn’t fast, but integrated the Linux side with the Windows side much better than WSL2 does (at the expense of binary compatibility). It allowed me to develop server apps for Linux on a corporate sanctioned Windows box and deploy them to the real servers (mostly Linux with some Solaris).
In this hypothetical, they are still using the Grid to power their homes at night
Which source? The Austrian announcement stated that roughly 65% of the population is fully vaccinated against Covid-19, one of the lowest rates in western Europe.

[edit] aahh, you linked Australia instead of Austria - that's pretty much exactly on the opposite side of the globe.
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Please do not use HN for personal attack. Even if you assume that you don't owe a person better, you owe this community better if you're posting here. The damage caused by this route greatly exceeds any benefits. It's not what we want to become.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

In general, we're trying to avoid the online callout/shaming culture here. Again, the negatives exceed the positives.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&type=comment&dateRange=a...
hah, he is a microsoft employee, and one who posts MS press releases to HN apparently. Not the hugest fan of submission snooping but that adds some context, doesn't it?
You can of course set this up manually outside Docker, I provide this image so that you can easily have a preconfigured installation with VNC, RDP, bind shell and a Samba server.
what data makes you think vaccine prevents spreading ? I haven't found any compelling case that would go in that direction. Number of cases seem totally unrelated to vaccination coverage..
Sample of early 2020 social media, which inspired Western lockdowns, https://twitter.com/michaelpsenger/status/145487513119339725...

> In one notorious clip, the spontaneously dying man throws his arms out to catch himself
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Even if I do get a good targeted ad, I’m usually like “oh yeah, I bought that months ago” or “this would have been a good ad for me three years ago at ${PREVIOUS_JOB} where we actually used this service.”

The targeting works, but the timing is abysmal and fails to introduce new products into my thought space at the time I’m making those decisions. In other words, they fail at their raison d'être
Could you make this a template we can duplicate? :)
LOL, grandparent actually mixed Austria and Australia up... well done!
I'm glad to see people experimenting with alternative document/object representations, but this one might be a hard sell: based on the README[1], it only has Python, Zig and Janet implementations so far. One of the nice things about YAML (and JSON, TOML, etc.) is that they have decently mature C, C++, or Rust libraries that other languages bind to.

[1]: https://github.com/KenKundert/nestedtext
> I get the general point you're making, but in a progressive tax regime like the US, the poor (who benefit most from lower food prices) are paying proportionately less of their income as tax than the rich, so this is helping them.

That's assuming that you would lower taxes uniformly instead of e.g. lowering them for the lowest tax bracket, which is in no way required.
I see it too. We lost many freedoms after 9/11 and it's certainly happening again with covid.
What is the obsession with removing braces? I will never find the lack of clear demarcations (relying on indent) easier than braces.
I've bought them and looked through it but if someone asks how they should go about learning algorithms for leetcode there are so many better options thank Knuth. That is years of effort to get through.
Yes, green tea has helped a lot compared to coffee! It’s not completely gone though.
Well, article won't load without js, but I've always boggled at the "problems" people come up with trying to separate the think from the meat. These are obviously the same thing, but mystical concepts of "minds" and "souls" have warped and corrupted the terminology and thinking around themselves.
It was pretty clearly signaled that the masks are not to protect the wearer, but everyone else, in case the wearer is infected.

This hypothesis is why medical staff has been wearing masks for the past 100 years or so.

The author doesn't discuss this side at all; when he says "transmission", he doesn't specify who would be wearing a mask.

The only usable data in that article is that outdoors, the chances of transmissions are so low that masks aren't needed anyway. Which is something that was known early on.

The article says nothing about the most important question: if I'm sick and I cough/sneeze, does wearing a mask make it safer for people to be near me?

Well, for one, they won't be covered in my snot. Which makes me thankful for mask culture to begin with.

The masks might well be useless for COVID, but we can't conclude it from the article.

As a side note: for some reason, I haven't heard the anti-maskers complain much about the TSA (or even having to take the shoes off). Or arcane password guidelines (”6-8 characters, one capital, one number, one emoji, no three consecutive lowercase, no substring spelling out "bob", etc).

The point being, we are performing many rituals for the sake of "security"; masks, if proven useless, wouldn't be unlike many others.

So I feel like it's never been about the efficiency of masks, but about giving a visible indication to others that you're either on board with current virus prevention efforts, or on board with the "COVID is fake conspiracy causee by 5G to instill new world order" crowd.
That's GP's point. Facebook is so full of shit that most people will go elsewhere for discussions.
I wonder how much demand there would be for a service that "dumbs" a smart TV by replacing its main board with a "universal" one that still has media capabilities, but no other intrusiveness:

http://web.archive.org/web/20190511065920/http://redlightgre...
The "long-standing optical challenge" is chromatic dispersion[1], which causes the chromatic aberration[2] familiar to anyone that has a strong eyeglasses prescription.

[1] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispersion_(optics)
[2] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatic_aberration
Ordinary Americans are quite nationalistic and rarely leave their country. World knowledge is very poor amongst the mid and low class American citizens.
Raku (formerly Perl 6) is built on top of a metaobject protocol:

> Raku is built on a metaobject layer. That means that there are objects (the metaobjects) that control how various object-oriented constructs (such as classes, roles, methods, attributes or enums) behave.

https://docs.raku.org/language/mop
It is amazing to see the anti-vaxers here on HN, especially with a comment this high up.

The people filling the hospitals are unvaccinated.

The vaccine doesn't prevent new cases. It isn't a super man cape. It lessens the effects, if you do get infected.