skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, so 5-10 years ago, seeing the writing on the wall, one of these companies should have bought/merged with another to pool more resources so as to remain a big enough bidder in the face of an entrant who would soon be massive. If the goal is to get a 5nm chip out the door today, maybe it seems hopeless, but if the goal is to compete with Apple, there are so, so many things to be done. It's a fair fight, they're just losing. I don't really have anything more to contribute, but this has been a good talk.
We love our 2 year old Tern GSD. It is such an amazing cargo bike. Carries both our kids, then sub out the seats for a crate and it’ll do a Costco trip with ease.

I see a ton of them in Chicago, and everybody is usually smiling as they pedal.
Given it's timing out for me, I'm not sure I'd agree it's holding up quite well :P
The 1st goal of such software should be to neutralize and possibly remove all built-in malware/spyware, then disable any means that would allow the manufacturers to reinstall it or control the device in any way. A so called SmartTV must be able to 100% function without any Internet connection, and if having one it should benefit from it only in ways that are completely under the user control. Right now, there's a lot more junk that has to be removed rather than new functions to be added.
A technology that is especially easy to use very negatively and relies on a constant maintenence of good moral virtue in government or law enforcement is a dangerously unstable risk. Its like how actively cooled nuclear reactors are just a technology, but its a far better idea to build them such that if power is lost even for a moment you don't experience a dangerous meltdown.
I've been happy with Fish shell for years!

Yes, I could fiddle and twiddle with settings and configure a nicer shell, but Fish on its default settings on any OS just makes things smooth and easy!
I have several of these and can confirm they're awesome and very satisfying to use (when they're working correctly).
same here. Been using Laravel has my framework of choice of my freelance work and I'm able to accomplish things fast. I just love to use it everyday!
So you prefer owning people? Or you just object to work? It's not clear what you are advocating for. We live in a world where people need three square meals a day, they want heating and transportation and energy, and other people have to work every day to provide those services.

It seems a bit entitled to be moaning about the fact that one must work to survive in life -- that's kind of how this whole life thing works.
The site in question is charts.dft.gov.uk (VERY NSFW). It resolves to the CNAME charts.dft.gov.uk.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com, which is quite clearly hosting a porn site of some kind.

I suppose there's a few possible explanations here: (1) the original site was hosted on S3, and at some point the bucket was dropped and someone else picked it up, (2) it was originally hosted on S3 and the bucket got hacked, (3) someone with access to the DNS has decided to go rogue and point it at a somewhat-legit-looking but fake domain. If there are historical DNS records floating around it might help to narrow down what happened here.
Welp. I finally got to disposing of mine, which had become first a hand-me-down to the parents, then a decade long fixture on the parents porch.
zsh has a POSIX compatibility mode, but it is not enabled by default. (You can see some details in the release notes: https://zsh.sourceforge.io/releases.html)
Unfortunately this looks like a mistake for this context given it isn’t loading now.

Otherwise, for a well-known average traffic load suitable to a Pi, a Pi is a great idea.
There is no other place like this on the internet.

I would like to thank everyone who visits this site and participates in these excellent conversation threads.

Extra special thanks to dang for keeping all of these cats in 1 bag.
> Sunbeam should literally do a Kickstarter to get the marketing going.

Sunbeam products are now Chinesium trash, the brand was sold off long ago.

At my last startup we learned this the hard way after buying a Sunbeam set of knives in a butcher block for the office kitchen. Every single knife was dull and serrated identically, despite presenting in the Amazon ad as a comprehensive set of knives.
There is a bigger problem than Apple first that the article does not mention. It is Mediatek second (i.e., after apple). Mediatek used to be a strictly second tier mobile processor maker, with Qualcomm and Apple's internal team occupying the first tier. Now Mediatek has overtaken qualcomm in market share. The main reason is that TSMC is making more chips for Mediatek than Qualcomm.

One can explain TSMCs preferential treatment for Apple based on purely commercial terms. Apple is after all the biggest foundry services consumer and they usually demand the advanced nodes which tend to be more expensive.

But there is no such explanation for TSMCs preference for Mediatek over Qualcomm. Qualcomm is generally as large as Mediatek, in fact they used to be significantly larger before TSMC hobbled them.

Well the first explanation that leaps to mind is patriotism (mediatek is a taiwanese company like TSMC, Qualcomm is American). But if that plays a significant factor then perhaps the chipmakers of the world should not so eagerly trust TSMC to make their chips.
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Carefully or not at all. I was involved in one that failed. The reason was probably trying to sell a new product to new customers rather than make a product that could be used by existing clients. These days it would be a smoother transition to sell hosted services that can blend the consulting and product rather than it being either/or.
Yes.

php > echo strcmp(md5('240610708'), md5('QNKCDZO'));
-4
HN traffic isn't that large, maybe a few requests per second.
Or people in the US could be allowed to work the same amount as people in other Western democracies. The work cultures in Japan and South Korea seem even more toxic and unpleasant in their embrace of overwork.

It is very unlikely that people moving to a four day work week would be less productive. The current number of people working 50 and 60 hours a week while millions are homeless is a scathing critique on how much we have failed to use work for productivity and as a tool to benefit society as a whole.
Intentional effect.

The fact that it's one of severel effects and one of several motivations does not make it unintentional, or even necessarily just a side effect.

It could just as well be simply one of multiple fully considered effects, and surely was.
Why would it need to carry a network connection (apart from CEC), when the point is that the display itself shouldn't be connecting to the network? Standardize on a certain barrel connector a certain distance away from the HDMI port, with the ethernet/wifi on the other side of the module.

It'd be great if say Google pushed TVs in this direction ("Google Display with smart cube. Never have an outdated TV again" or something), but I bet the decommodified dumpster fire of baked in software benefits them too much. After all, the last thing any of those companies in the business of selling "content" wants people to do is to end up plugging in a Kodi box. It's like banks with overdraft fees - by abusing your customers, you make them worry that switching will result in even more abuse, thus encouraging them stick with the abuse they already know.
"Still, the company hung on in the China market until now. While Yahoo didn’t go into details about its reasons for leaving China, its announcement occurred as the new data protection law came into effect Nov. 1..."

So, it would be nice to think that American companies were leaving China due to outrage about human rights issues, but that is totally not the case. They are leaving because China won't give them free rein to surveil and manipulate Chinese citizens the way they do American ones.
Is open source better or worse off because of corporate money?
That image would be better by having an year tag.

Since then the ratios increased (L1 to RAM by quite a bit), SSD became common, and networks got intermingled with everything.
Which comes back to #19:

> That even if, as most scientific-minded people seem to assume, there is no afterlife, that’s not ideal, but is much better than other possibilities like, say, being tortured for eternity.

Like, we could all be a bunch of Boltzmann brains[1] popping into existence in an empty universe, writhing with unimaginable pain in every pseudo-neuron of our temporary brains. But it's not like that, at least yet. Which is pretty cool.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain
My wife has one of these and she's crazy about it. I'm less enthusiastic, especially since it has no protection against the outside getting hot enough to melt or burn anything carelessly put next to it. Maybe an update addressing that and some of the other issues mentioned in OP would yield a toaster that would make both of us happy.
Lots of different interests hashing it out in an at least somewhat functioning democracy are going to experience somewhat schizophrenic behavior.
Ask HN: What’s the best TV to buy?
I’m in the market for a new TV. I’d like it to be as dumb as possible. I don’t subscribe to any streaming services and download everything through torrents. I don’t want a TV that requires an internet connection and I really don’t want it to do anything other than display what I send to it. What’s the best TV for someone like me?

It doesn’t have to be totally dumb; I know these are expensive and I’m ok with a few features. But I need to be able to ignore them and I don’t want it to stop working when the manufacturer rolls out an “update”.
> Unless I'm mistaken the UK hasn't drifted off and become and independent island chain separate from Europe

Some would argue that's exactly what happened but your point is valid, EU != 'Europe the continent'. The problem is that such imprecise usage is rampant.
I seriously hope you have automation to pull these in! Thanks!
I'm grateful to have been born in the good part of the world which allows me to be grateful that we're allowed to sustain our lifestyles thanks to the exploitation of others, and I'm not the exploited one
Nothing will change with biometric and other mass surveillance either - the temporary feeling of security will always put these things first.
For anyone who hasn't seen it before, here's a song by an Italian composer made to sound like American English, but since it only uses nonsense even English speakers can get a bit of a feel for what we sound like to others: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8
That has nothing to do with quality of work. Ok their financials are going up. Maybe they’re charging more, maybe they’ve reorg’d, maybe they laid off a ton of people, maybe they made good investments and sold. I’m not taking “they’re making more money” to mean anything other than the sole fact that a number on the balance sheet went up.
What’s wrong with the biometric data as long as it’s only inside the card and not stored elsewhere ?

The only thing you can do is to be able to prove (or not) that it’s your ID.

Or am I missing something ?
it's not such a trivial thing even if you manage dotfiles because a lot of things still break between different environments, different operating systems, don't work with new releases, rely on some folder structure that changes, etc, it still requires fiddling.

Of course you can get even more involved and manage your dotfiles with ansible or something but the advantage of a tool like fish is that it's almost perfectly usable out of the box. More config files will always increase the chance for things breaking.
Nothing by Alastair Reynolds?
Doing business with people who live in the same area, speak the same language and have the same culture is a lot easier and less risky.
> The solution to software in TVs is to have no software in TVs. A TV is just a big monitor you plug into your PC

I disagree - I don't think there's anything wrong with having a computer built-in to a TV, as long as the user has control over it (Granted, they obviously don't right now). For the average user, it's going to be far more convenient to be able to stream or play offline media without having to connect an external device. I'm hopeful we'll reach a point where we can install an openwrt equivalent for easy, dark pattern free operation.
Buy used and it won’t be expensive. Check your local craigslist for available options, and verify the model number matches with a dumb model.
Every time I read one of these abstracted Ask HN's I always think to myself "If that's your objective, then state and restate it in whatever contexts you can for discovery." Which is to say that there may well be many people reading about this cofounder discovery problem, but if what you really want is to find a cofounder rather than solve the general problem of finding cofounders perhaps including what you're founding and what aspects you want to find in a cofounder could make some connections.
I tried YouTube now, and I got this message in the bottom left corner [in Spanish]:

> YouTube Premium // Obtén YouTube sin anuncios

Translation> YouTube Premium // Get YouTube without adds

So I understand why the OP may be unhappy. Anyway, I expect the TOS written carefully to allow whatever they are doing. (Perhaps it's no adds the first month. Perhaps there are some different categories of adds, and they are removing all the adds of one categories (but not the others). Perhaps...)
So you only need a very rigorous training that requires many years of practice to be able to do it?
Who cares about new qr code when you scan and receive the same PI every time? You can scan a new code but keep recording.
A physical logbook isn't just for sysadmins, by the way; I kept another one for development work, so that at the morning SCRUM I knew what I had been doing the previous day. That started when I got dinged once, for not being able to tell the SCRUM what I had done yesterday. The benefit is the same; it doesn't compete with your work for access to the screen and keyboard, and you can have it open all day.

Also, opening a big notebook before describing your activities confers an aura of reliability on you; there's a reason why policemen whip out notebooks when testifying in court.
I watched a few videos from his channel and always amazed/wondered how can he has so many vintage items and deep knowledge of/around them. I really enjoy his presentation skill and sense of humour.
> is more accurately something like:

> In the course of several centuries over a vast territory comprising almost all inhabited mediterranean countries some 10-15 people excelled in their fields and many of them happened to live in the main city (and cultural capital) of the area.

Your restatement excluded what I think is the most interesting part:

>> and that it might be possible to intentionally recreate such conditions today around the world and spur incredible human flourishing, and why aren’t we working on this?

"Why aren't we working on this" seems like a very good question, one that you don't hear very often - "Why don't we even encounter these sorts of questions more often?" might be an interesting sibling question.
I've thought about this for a while. Imagine a line of "dumb" dishwashers, toasters, ovens, stoves, microwaves, etc., all well-designed and made with sturdy materials.

Unfortunately, I think they'd cost 6-10x going rate as modern "smart" appliances, and also the market for them would be restricted to HN commenters.
The author explained his problem and asked for resource recommendations.

Your response is to scold him for having the problem he already said he had and instead of recommending resources you told him to go look on the internet.

And you implied he doesn't have motivation.
It is decidedly not trivial because people can and do choose to install Visual Studio to any random path they want. You can't assume that it is in C:\Program Files (x86) or %ProgramFiles(x86)% or anything like that, if you care about making reliable software. And there is no guarantee that future versions won't change the directory structure again. In fact there's practically a guarantee that they will someday.

I am well aware that you can use the developer command prompt (in which case you don't need to run that command at all, it would be redundant). But it's a ridiculous and extremely annoying requirement to impose on your users.
The core product is decentralized, but not blockchain. They integrated blockchain to use for payments with crypto tokens.

So it’s not really a lie, but it is funny how the product went from very little demand to a lot of attention after adding a traceable token. Most of the token owners aren’t actually using the service, just speculating with the tokens though.
> I would strongly not advise to make it the default shell though as this can lead to issues.

I've heard this a lot, but I've been using Fish as my login shell for many years, and it's really not a problem

I think maybe some vim plugins call out to your $SHELL or something, but assume that it's bash-like? but I've never run into a serious issue with just using Fish as my login shell
Replicating Milgram – Would People Still Obey Today? [pdf]
The biggest discrepancy is not lack of randomness, but complete omission of the fact that it's people who make or break systems which are in the game. The reality of being a leader of anything is that your biggest headache is finding capable people under you and keeping them motivated and aligned with your goals. Whereas in the game everything just works like a clockwork. BTW, Crusader Kings II is closer to reality in this regard.
You're a decade behind the times. HN can be formidable in the amount of traffic it generates, it all depends on the content and the time of day though.
Please stop throwing around that 62W wall power measurement when discussing package power software estimates. You aren't taking enough caution to interpret or present disparate measurements in a valid context.

Some of the conclusions you're presenting in this thread are correct. But you're doing a terrible job of justifying them despite the available data, and making unnecessary exaggerations. This discussion deserves a bit more rigor.
> This is the failure of having a choke point in semiconductor manufacturing and centralisation of all manufacturing infrastructure.

Arguably, bleeding edge silicon fabs are natural monopolies. Pushing transistor sizes down to atomic scales entails non-linear increases in costs to get decent yields. That's why there are very few fabs at the bleeding edge any more.
As someone also hosting my own fdroid repo for my own apps, no, it wouldn't.

You don't need most of that, and what you do need can be had extremely cheaply at 10-50€/mo + 0.2%
The majority are unvaccinated people. It's really their own god damn fault for not getting vaccinated. At the most there should be a lockdown for unvaccinated people.
Mumble was a bit slower for us than TS3 actually. Around 40ms avg where TS3 is 15-30ms.
I don't have details about that software, but there was something which I remember from the early 90's or so: software our church had for clerks -- "MIS" for membership info, and "FIS" for finance. A clerk would use one or both of those weekly or more, and they fit the above description perfectly. I missed them when they moved to a graphical UI.

Similarly, I always thought the UI of "git commit --interactive" was at a sweet spot of being both helpful and efficient, once I got used to it.

(All the above inspired the UI of the knowledge manager I wrote/provide at http://onemodel.org -- AGPL, I use daily and rely on it for many things, currently requires user to perform postgresql installation & upgrades; hoping to move to sqlite someday, when health allows. But most people, especially non-keyboard-oriented people, probably wouln't like its UI. It is perfect for me: very efficient/effective and everything you need to know is on-screen.)

And vim & tmux are things of beauty, after the initial investment (ongoing, for vim).
I don't think it was #3: Amazon owns and resolves it for amazonaws.com. If you could hack that, you could do much more serious damage. I'm assuming it's #1. Bucket names are global.
> I got a generic picture of the milky way for any prompt I tried
You need to uncheck "segmentation" and check "text"
In fact, it's a t.co link that redirects to a bit.ly link that redirects to the actual site!
Love his channel! My favourite videos are the ones about dishwashers.
The biometric data (fingerprints and facial images) are stored on a chip in the card. This is a pragmatic way of increasing security without enabling mass surveillance.
Maintaining sleep hygiene takes precedence to me over essentially anything else and coming up with four things before sounds anxiety-inducing. We do this type of thing before our evening meal, instead. For me, anyway, this is much lower stakes and so there is less anxiety. Which results in it just sort of flowing out—especially after doing it for awhile—but not in an 'autopilot' sort of way.
Just because you can't expect privacy doesn't mean you can exploit it and record everything.
It seems to have been taken offline now. Here's the archive[1] link for uh.. research. Obviously, NSFW.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20211125154944/http://charts.dft...
Plus, Archimedes not only was from Syracuse (Italy) but flourished under a complete (even if benevolent) monarch.
I think I’m terms of pure features that most people care about, other manufacturers are on par.

But Apple products tend to have some really interesting manufacturing or technology. Machining steel for the iPhone 4, FSW, putting an Xbox Kinect into the notch, LiDAR, making edge to edge screens without a chin, custom silicon.

Most of this is easily replaced or omitted because it doesn’t really matter much to the end user.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24666968

https://pointerclicker.com/best-dumb-tv/
Getting an advantage by having more money than everybody else isn't a monopoly. That's just the garden-variety unfairness of capitalism.
As far as I know, the popular service Hulu makes some distinction, you can pay for an ad-supported experience, or a more expensive ad-free experience
I would add

Permutation City by Greg Egan

Glasshouse by Charles Stross
Pretty much, yea. And because they are literally a 100× programmer, they also extended Scheme to support stuff you usually use a computer algebra system for at the same time. After all, if your CAS can take the derivative of a function, why can’t your programming language?
Imagine if it actually was! That'd be pretty funny I think.
Thank you for sharing the tip ! This is exactly what I was looking for.
I think being willing to work hard when it is necessary is a virtue. But most of the time working smart is more effective and efficient than working hard. And using working hard as one's primary method for productivity ceases to be virtuous or effective. Forcing workers to work hard and long is a control mechanism far more often than it is a tool for productivity.
I wish I could still get a toaster that let me toast one slice at a time. If making toast, I usually just want one slice. It is wasteful to have to heat up both sides for one slice of toast.

I remember one model from a few decades ago where you could just put one slice in and push down one button to toast that. If you put in 2 slices, the other button would push both sides down to toast. I haven’t seen that feature in a long time.
Humm. Thanks. This is a new perspective to look at the blockchain ecosystem.
As someone who has been rapped across the proverbial knuckles by dang for making unnecessarily combative or snarky comments, I too want to thank him for making this a great place.