skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same. I'm someone that built a cellphone from parts and programmed my own phone OS, so I get the tinkering for the sake of tinkering aspect, but I can't connect with the need to automate all these workflows in my house. Whenever someone describes how much convenience these workflows provide, all I can think of is how big and complicated their homes must be.

I'd rather have a 2-way light switch at either end of the hallway and hit a switch when I walk down it, rather than program in every exception like "turn on the hall light when it detects motion unless it's 3 am and I'm walking to the bathroom to pee, or if it's 3pm and my girlfriend is napping on the sofa next to the hall and I don't want to turn on a light and wake her, also ignore cats triggering the motion detectors." My small apartment with regular old deterministic switches is fine. I had a Nest once and hated it. At least for me, the ideal temperature for a room must be a very subjective and non-rational desire. Sometimes I want to blast the heat, sometimes I want to feel cold, it's probably emotional/psychological on a level that Nest can't model.

I know someone will point out that 100 years ago I would think washing machines sounded ridiculous because I could scrub my clothes by hand easily enough. That might be true, but I would counter that there are diminishing returns on home automation. Indoor lighting was a massive improvement over living by daylight hours. Electricity over gas was a big improvement, but not as big as going from dark to light. Turning lights on with Alexa, to me, sounds like the benefit/cost curve has plateaued.
I think there could be a bit of a market in installations / events.

Often smaller installs / live events people want simple non-smart screens for all kinds of things (on stage, in waiting areas, musician cues, info to crew, signage, etc), and although it's possible to buy expensive "monitors" that do it - being able to use cheap and large domestic kit with much faster startup and no extra crap, and no logos being displayed while booting or if it loses signal or whatever would be very desirable.
In reality climate change is a problem caused by the rich, not the poor. Poor people can't afford to consume much, it's the rich who can afford big cars, large houses and flights to Bali.
I bring it up here because they’re reversing the LG firmware and modifying it. I would love a fork of this work that does nothing.

While a developer, this kind of work is outside my current wheelhouse and I just don’t have the time to learn and fork it myself. So throwing out my desire. Half hoping someone out there wants it more than I do.. and half just expressing my frustration with modern TVs.
I think it's the other way around - we comparatively hear a lot more about the successes than the failures. For every unicorn that made 400 people millionaires there are probably >1000 startups that either went out of business, never had a liquidation event, or never at the scale that rank and file employers got anything significant.

Obviously not literally "nobody", someone at some point joins google/microsoft/facebook/amazon/etc at an early stage and exists a millionaire many times over. Just like every week somebody wins the lottery. It's just not as likely to happen to you personally as the people selling you on joining their early startup would like you to believe.
I read this book as an introduction to cryptography. Very well written. More understandable and easier to follow than any other texts I've read on cryptography.
You have to

1. uncheck "segmentation"

2. check "text"

https://i.imgur.com/n9P8N3c.png
I hope this eventually leads to the ability to remove ads. It's unbelievable to me that you can pay top dollar for a high end OLED tv and it will still drown you in ads and notifications. I ended up just disconnecting my tv from the internet entirely and using a dedicated Roku Ultra for streaming.
Disney World halts vaccine mandate after DeSantis restricts requirements
I mean with a "lolicon"-sounding name like "smoldesu" let's all hope hating on Apple as a substitute for his father is the worst thing about him...
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This is a terrible headline. This sort of nonsense is promoted in India for last many decades. Pizza hut was not allowed in India using similar grounds. Big Bazar, D Mart and many others have succeeded well in the country without ruining smaller stores. And even if they get ruined it is not much of problem as these smaller stores are often dishonest, exploit their own labour and poor illiterate customers, employ child labor and so on.
Thank for GraphQL api. i write a javascript library for view HN comments in static web pages. Official HN Api create really big problem for me. i written my library with recursive request logic but i'll update it now.

i think you need provide use case examples like in Offical HN Api Repository.

<https://hackernews-graphql-api.herokuapp.com/graphql?query={...>
No cryptography engineer seriously believes the NIST P-curves are backdoored, and they are in widespread use. Ed25519 is a signing scheme; it isn't a replacement for the RSA in classic TLS --- you'd be thinking of Curve25519, its sibling. The benefit of the 25519s isn't "no magic numbers", it's a structure that makes it easy to implement relatively safely. And all these curves work over prime subfields.

This is all 100% pedantry. But the belief that RSA is risky because "prime numbers" is false, and worth pushing back on. There are reasons not to use RSA, but they're not as simple as "we don't trust prime field cryptography".
So I may be wrong here but my understanding is that you can’t go directly from fiat to L2 transacting. My goal is to minimize the loss from patron’s bank account to creator’s bank account, and every extra step along the way is a couple percent out of the creator’s bank account and into exchanges/miners’.

Edit: put more simply, a hundred people each want to give $5 to a single person. What path do they follow to ensure that the person can get as close to $500 in their bank account as soon as possible. Bonus question: what is the relation between how much they can get into their bank account and how long they wait?
By cryptography being deployed today I meant new protocols. Like if the people who are actually in the position of picking cryptographic primitives, virtually no one reaches for RSA. Sorry if that wasn’t clear.
Malthus didn't count on people just not wanting to have kids.
These are horrendous.
This is the only platform I frequent where I read more than I comment and I learn a lot from people, too. I always come here to find interesting takes on things and I'm very rarely disappointed. A lot of times I delete my comments instead of posting because I worry ot might not be a good enough contribution and that I might sound dumb. That's very humbling.

Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy thanksgiving. This is such a wonderful community that I am so pleased to be part of.
> "Just plant trees" would be ridiculously expensive and is totally impractical, the politicians would say.

There is a 1 billion trees initiative currently in progress in Australia. I'm not sure of the details but I have talked to some of the people involved.

https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/australia-will-plan...
My Thanksgiving Bullet Enumerated List:

1) I'm thankful my elderly parents and in-laws are healthy and survived the worst of the pandemic.

2) I'm thankful new relatives are healthy and thriving (who doesn't adore babies?)

3) I'm thankful my immediate family is OK. Zoom-schooling and masking is not ideal but we adjusted and adapted.

4) I'm in awe of the medical professionals who withstood the brunt of the pandemic and continue to provide for our well-being.

5) And the technologists that support the medical professionals -- the those who build the tools, design the scientific instruments, operate the equipment, push the tech to incrementally do more -- all this seems like magic but is comprised of late night debugging, inspired insight, that blood-sweat-beers workpersonship that keeps society chugging along.
yes, i often think about what really drives this constant cycle of change.
Sure, but still I can transact using currency in the real world without (directly) involving a central authority, announcing my transaction to the whole world, or paying any fees. I cannot do that in the digital world.
so not 7 years bad luck then - whew!
Which is trivial. For all versions of Visual Studio it's has always been in the same location. They changed the directory structure somewhat around 2017 but it was a minor change.

Also, if you want to run that command you need to run it from the developer command prompt. Otherwise it's location isn't in your path but like I said this script is always in the same location and what it does is that it sets up the environment for you and it's configurable via parameters.
It pretty much always is, but people are very wary of doing anything directly in the database these days, even stuff that's security critical and should apply to every query.
I understand the people were not exterminated. Genocide does not require extermination, a partial extermination still counts as genocide.

"Genocide is the intentional action to destroy a people—usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group—in whole or in part." - Wikipeda

In my comment I mentioned that I am concerned about how widespread willful ignorance of these matters allows our nation to continue harming first nations peoples today. So certainly I am not spreading some extermination rhetoric.

And I agree with you that my comment was not the best approach for getting people to understand. But I was responding to someone who already understood, and commiserating with them. Unfortunately my comment was flagged and killed, so others could not see how I feel.

That knee jerk desire to bury discussion of the truth is what concerns me. That same reaction allowed police to mass arrest protesters fighting Enbridge's Line 3 oil pipeline.

It seems clear to me the culture in the USA is one that wants to ignore what really happened. I think it is good that you post positive articles about Native culture and history, but I know too there must be a time to look at the facts head on, without blinders, and acknowledge what happened. I say this not to look back, but to look at those today who hold our founders in reverence every holiday season as bastions of freedom, even when their crimes are well known. The people must hear stories of George Washington and think "Town Destroyer"[1], not "cherry tree".

My aim is not to convince, but to show the strength of our cognitive dissonance by telling the truth. And this thread today has done a lot to illustrate how strong that dissonance is.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_Destroyer
At a high level maybe, but basic coding is succesfully taught in middle schools. If you needed to be "10%" for that, those classes would fail horribly.

> will not be realized.

Not quickly, but give it a few decades. In particular, you will probably have to wait for another generation of teachers.
I hope the Software Freedom Conservancy lawsuit against Visio results in an open source distribution for TVs like there is OpenWRT for routers after their last lawsuit. Perhaps the OpenLGTV/SamyGO projects and other folks will join forces on a common distro for smart TVs.

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html
https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/firmware-liber...
https://www.samygo.tv/
This is not a proof, just statistical evidence for the Riemann Hypothesis. If you are looking for statistical evidence for RH, the evidence collected by mathematicians already is significantly stronger than what they have...
I am also a CEO and while my work EA duties are covered I ocassionaly need some help with personal stuff. I decided it is not enough to hire a proper EA, and for several years now using Magic ( https://app.getmagic.com/s/MkD2hLR ) for occassional tasks like rebooking airplaine tickets, finding last minute appointement slot, etc. I am very happy with the experience.
Writing nop for xchg %ax,%ax loses information. The xchg %ax,%ax is two bytes. If you write "nop", I'd assume that it's the one-byte version.

Typically, you use xchg %ax,%ax because you can replace it with a jump if you want.
How many much such low hanging fruits are present in the Go compiler?
Trying to do everything that the tutorial and other commenters have suggested, but when I click the arrow button it just waits for a few moments and nothing is generated. Am I missing something?
Aren't styrofoam fumes toxic? What happens when this dome is on fire?!
“The whole economical landscape is bubbles everywhere.”

This is why measuring CPI doesn’t work anymore to track inflation and why the quoted rates are nonsense.

When people had less income you could measure their spending at the till to see how much it’s increasing. In 2021, people aren’t spending more at the till because they largely don’t need to right now so these asset bubbles are serving as many people’s emergency fund. If/when things start to turn the rush of forced selling could be unprecedented.
Most x86 calling conventions used the stack. That's why you'd have "fastcall".
17776 – What football will look like in the future (2017)
I've been using an E-bike for the last year and a half in my small town. It basically removes all the tediousness of bad weather from biking and ascending.

I don't need to cover great distances everyday for work, groceries or kindergarten runs but it's been breeze on the bike. Yesterday I rode through 5-10 cm of fresh snow, with a child in a bike trailer.

I got a model with large tires and a bit of a front suspension, so it's an all-round bike. I can easily explore trails and nature, most of the time with a child mounted on the bike, while it's still very nice to ride around town.

High quality studded tires make it safer and easier to bike than walk during icy conditions.

Give it a shot, it's really nice.
The very Web 1.0 style is indeed very refreshing
The point being exactly that since we're now entering a time where open source TV firmware is a thing, profit motives don't necessarily trump everything else anymore.

Making a firmware that does "nothing" is probably less work than making one that does a lot of things. So even in the new currency (developer time) it might be cheap and make some people happy.
Same difference. Rent prices and house prices are tied. If houses are unaffordable, so is rent.
Hackernews has never gone soft on anything. Quite the opposite.
Show HN: Libre.study
OneSignal (YC S11) Is Hiring Engineers in California, Texas, New York, & London
From my outsider’s perspective as an American, Germany has always looked like a well functioning, stable nation. I see here a transition from slight right of center to slight left of center, and a corresponding policy shift that will place you at the vanguard of progressivism on drug policy. Nothing about this seems “fucked,” it seems very good and even impressive.
Bike thieves are often specialized an a particular kind of lock, so that it helps if you have two locks, e.g. a chain and a U-lock, from different makers. You can also buy GPS trackers for bikes that don't have them. I don't know any good solutions for preventing theft of parts.
I'm assuming you meant the smart part, and not the image processing part. And all other kinds of audio/video processing. If yes, even I'd love to have that!
> Age old Rokus still tend to have fantastic app support and run modern versions of their OS.

Yes, because Roku's business model is getting into your living room to spy on you. Of course they'd like to do that for as long as possible!
Building Software That Processes Billions of Payments (2011)
Except SpaceX's Starship design does include moveable wings/flaps.
I'm asking a genuine question, out of ignorance, but - aren't the tech behind Theranos and Magic Leap the kind of thing you can easily patent and protect - whereas if someone discovers how to make practical fusion, they get a nobel prize and now the world knows how to do it?

Fusion is undoubtedly critical to our future, but I think I can see why the investors don't think it's a profit machine in the same way as a new commercial gadget.
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Another potential solution I haven’t seen discussed much is limiting/eliminating the deductibility of interest.

Assets tend to become inflated when interest rates are low or lots of financial leverage is used to acquire them.

To counteract this, one solution might be to eliminate the deductibility of interest for tax purposes, which for mortgages in particular, is a regressive tax subsidy that benefits higher earners.

It could be implemented gradually (e.g., reduce the deductibility by 1-2% per year until it reaches zero) to avoid immediate shocks to the system and provide investors with the ability to plan.

It could also be implemented to apply only to non-primary residences if we want to keep a popular middle class tax subsidy. This would target 2nd, 3rd, etc. homes and property and assets owned by corporations.
I think some modern bike locks do have alarms, I'm not sure it would help though. Perhaps manufactures should start adding an unlock code to e-bikes. It would help if law enforcement took bike theft a bit more seriously as well.
> Then PRISM ingests that data into NSA databases.

And if I'm not mistaken it's illegal for an US business entity to directly say that they are co-operating with the NSA or other such US institutions, so Apple actually sending messages to their users warning them about such co-operation might be also illegal (I also feel that the canary tests have failed their intended mission, nobody has time to decipher those messages in the minutest of details).
That’s a fantastic idea!! Thank you!
This is cool, but I’d love to see a comparison of ebikes against good old dinosaur-juice (or even electric) motorcycles.

Much more difficult to steal, and for gasoline motorcycles, much better mileage per charge, charging to 100% takes 30 seconds, can go as fast as you have the guts for, much more stable at speed, almost as easy parking, can go on highways. Almost as cheap fuel as electricity with the smaller end of motorcycles doing 90+mpg. In California, you can also lane split, which makes motorcycles effectively transparent to traffic.

On the minus side, you do need a license and insurance for it, and the bar for hand-eye coordination is higher — there are more people on the planet that should not touch a motorcycle than those that shouldn’t do bikes.
What really gets me is how inconvenient most interfaces are.

I don't own a TV, but every time I interact with one, be it apple TV, firestick, or some custom on-TV firmware thing, I find the UI reasonably beautiful but an absolute nightmare to use.

This might be because I don't use the TVs the way they are intended to be used. I typically know exactly what I want to watch before even switching it on. Their UIs however are built around aimlessly browsing and picking something off the top of the recommendations.

I always end up wishing I just had a keyboard and a mouse attached.
anything that doesn't have (preferably zsh) shell completions.

I mostly discover flags with tab completions and the attached help to it (maybe that's only a zsh feature not sure if other shell have help on flags on completion)

bonus point to very smart completion, i.e: on kubectl if i do kubectl -n foo get pods [TAB] it will get the tab from the namespace foo on completion not from the default/current namespace.
I wonder how many people in that majority category you’ve described are likely to want to install custom firmware though.

I’m a “hacker” with multiple LG TVs around the house (in fact I exclusively buy LG TVs) and I have no interest in putting custom firmware on those TV sets. So I can’t imagine there’s many inside the Venn bubble that are both laymen enough to want Netflix, technical enough to know about custom firmware but also motivated enough to want to install it.

So the number of people who want dumb firmware might not be disproportionately less than those who want custom smart firmware.
Since anyone who graduated 2nd grade must purposefully go out of their way to type in all lowercase, I always associate it with people who want to portray the sense that what they're telling you is really important, but they're so used to knowing and telling people really important stuff, they don't really care, and it's like nothing to them.

If you look like you care, that's not really cool of course. Passion is bad. If you look like you really don't care, that pretty much makes you extremely cool.

yeah i smoke cigarettes during recess and am speaking in a monotonous tone, so what
I also live in Germany and pay low rent, but keep in mind this is because the contract isn't new and rent/tenants rights are highly regulated in Germany. If you tried to rent a new apartment in Berlin/Hamburg/Munich/any of the attractive cities with jobs today you'd pay a lot more in rent than you do on an old contract.
>But of spiritual anguish he knows not.

Thank you, Count Tolstoy, for that insight.
Is this using a LateX template of some sort?

Or more specifically how could I create a book with formatting that looks as nice as this.
> "As Reckitt's distributor, I used to be like a prince in the market," said Shah. "Now the buyer tells me, 'See how much you've been ripping us off!'"

> "We will employ guerrilla tactics," said Dhairyashil Patil, president of the All India Consumer Products Distributors Federation, which represents 400,000 agents of local and foreign consumer firms. "We will continue to agitate," he told Reuters, "we want (consumer goods) companies to realise our value."

> Back in Sangli, traditional distributors said they have at times chased down Reliance vehicles and confronted drivers, alleging unauthorised deliveries.

It's difficult to have sympathy for the middle-men skimming 5-10% in this story, especially with excerpts like these.
This looks excellent. I tried to go through the Introduction to Cryptography by Christof Paar [1] and that material was not really suitable for me, personally. I found it too dense, and written in not very interesting manner.

Thank you for posting this book, I'll give it a go! Crypto is one of those things I have on my shameful "how-come-you-don't-know-it-yet" to-learn list :).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1usFRN4LCMcfIV7UjHNuQg
> just because that group being hurt isn't "your" group of people, it doesn't mean they deserve it.

When the group is "the most successful in the current system", it's not exclusionary / discriminatory or exploitable. Whether their success is due to luck or smarts or inheritance, they succeeded in the current system by definition, because there is only one system. Therefore, they can be asked to pay proportionally more to maintain it. Furthermore, the bargain "to pay less tax, be less successful" is not one that any rational actor would make. It's inherently fair.

The only part you could reasonably quibble with imo is using wealth as a measure of success, but since it is the currency that taxes deal in -- one alternative: government takes some of your children -- it's the one that makes the most ssense. Still, those in society that find some way to life satisfaction without accumulating wealth do have an advantage in the proposed system. Maybe that's something we should encourage?
Removing Elm’s F-functions, a failed experiment
It seems like a solid plan but what's missing is no matter if you're doing 3-2-1 or using simpler solutions, you should test if the backup works periodically. Or else over the years, the backups would die one by one and nobody noticed, it defeats the point of so many redundancies. Also there's a chance the backup data is corrupted or incomplete (especially due to the design) so it's not possible to restore the system. Just test it periodically.

If there's a backup process you should also test it too. Scenarios like backup job workers are stuck and the system is not actually backing up is not uncommon.