skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was asking myself the same question seeing all the recent TV deals. I came to the conclusion it was best to ignore the deals and look at TVs when I can afford to do some in depth research as to which ones have the least intrusive "smart" functionality (eg quick startup to same hdmi input source, rarely needing to interact with the useless menus, and behaves when given a zero-access wifi network or even better with the wifi module removed).

If you're looking for something smaller I'm using a 43 inch 4K monitor, LG 43UD79 / 43MU79, that was around $450. I'm using it as a monitor, but my backup plan was to use it as a TV if I didn't like it as a monitor. It even comes with a simple remote that is better than common TV remotes because it leaves out all the superfluous buttons (its primary up/downs are volume/brightness). They've since discontinued it and the new model is up at $700 though.
Dependency Injection in React
This feels like the Gates/Ballmer transition, and I think it will have the same effect on the world/IT: massive increase of integrations, profit, and assimilation, at the expense of end-user satisfaction.
If anyone has a few free cycles & wants to help, the project is on Github & there are plenty of open tickets.

https://github.com/LibriVox
Only that I think the 80s were a little past the sweet-spot of network television; cable was starting to become widespread.
It's their tool, so they get to build it to their liking, until law is created requiring them to do otherwise. The question in the meantime is, "what is moral?" and "do we as an entity (twitter) enforce our morality at all, and to what extent?"

For example, millions of people believe the lie, the fabrication that the 2020 presidential election result was fraudulent. If there are organizations on your platform amplifying messages that are fraudulent or intentionally misleading in nature, should Twitter take action?

The new CEO seems to think the answer is "yes".

IMO people should be able to curate their own feeds, but Twitter has the full right (and perhaps the moral obligation) to flag content that is bullshit as bullshit. The danger, of course, is that the kinds of people who fall for conspiracy propaganda from fascists on the right will then think, if their leaders' lies are called out, that the calling out is itself a conspiracy, and further entrench themselves rather than heed warnings.

"How to keep a social media platform from enabling anti-democratic demagogues" is an unsolved problem.
I'm talking about the good people not even knowing what's happening, until they engage in data analysis.
It depends on what you're building. Keep in mind that one way for politicians in office to control the number of jobs and money flowing through the economy is doing road work and other public projects.
Unless you are and out and out masochist, your presence here indicates the contrary.
How do we know the DMCA takedown even came from the rightsholder? It's trivial to pretend to own something, and companies aren't really obligated to verify the authenticity of takedown requests.
Lies and bad faith should not be tolerated in the public square.
That's a really interesting point :)

I guess the biggest distinction between Sherlock Holmes and Mickey Mouse (aside the estates that own them) is that Mickey is a design as much as a character. The 3 circled motif is iconic enough that there is an ongoing spat between Disney and Deadmau5 -- though I do side with Deadmau5 on that, if just as a middle finger to Disney :D

I'm not suggesting law should stipulate that fictional characters need a design before they can be trademarked nor that Mickey Mouse shouldn't be trademarkable. Just that there is definitely an unclear grey area and I don't really know the answer to your question. But it is a very good question that gave me pause for thought.
You can have simultaneous copyrights and trademarks, they protect different aspects.
Great information to know. Thank you for the summary.

Are there any good information sources where we could get up to speed on the problems you mentioned above and similar issues?

The usual news sources are not very informative.
Not arguing either which way, but was curious and did a few names off the top of my head:

yes: Cloudflare

no: easyDNS, Google, Apple, Facebook, Wikipedia/media, Twitter, Reddit

I knew DNSSEC wasn't well-deployed, but I didn't realize how little.
The track record with these centralisation trends is that standalone tools get less and less features and attention then die out, leaving little choice.

I'd hate to see the existing IDEs like pycharm die
Was this an internet age thing? I mean 24hour news networks found out long before social media took off that they can eat a bigger piece of the pie and not spend money working on news by running opinion hacks. Just decide which echo chamber you want to pander to and then fill up your schedule with pundits. Their market share went up, their costs went down and no matter what happens or doesn't happen each day, they have a group of people that want to tune in. People like to hear their world view reaffirmed.

Silicon valley just optimized it and turned it in to a science.

I'm sure various social scientists and historians could link it other issues. Advertising and selling goods in and of itself doesn't really explain how people just fall in to utter bullshit beliefs, does it?
Not that I know of, there are however 4K 'digital signage' displays which are an industrial product. They are the monitors you see in kiosks etc. Be prepared to pay a pretty penny for them however. The last time I checked a 65" digital signage display was roughly 5x the cost of a similarly sized television.

Also note they may have an HDMI implementation that is 'cheap' and doesn't implement the CLEC protocols or HDCP so you may have to jump through hoops to drive them from a PC with commercial content.
No, gullible people, misinformation, polarisation has been there before social media. But in the old days, classic media used to keep a lid on it by mediating which positions could be heard publicly. We haven't learned yet as a society to ignore the unimportant noise.

I believe that free publishing, or many-to-many media, is crucial for the future of our society. If anything, it is still not easy enought to get ideas out there and discussed (unless you have enough reach).

To phrase it a bit provocatively, I believe radical democracy is a good thing, even if many of the plebs are stupid.
Haha yeah. What an asshole move.
You can use Atomics.wait() to block a non-main thread.
>Sometimes it's very difficult to know if a reason is good, wrong or evil. Driving children to school? Not sure about the USA, but when I used to drive in Madrid, school holidays were patently obvious.

Apologies for the delay in responding.

As the old saying goes, "actions speak louder than words."

I'd say that also applied to the reasons people do things.

While there certainly is merit in consciously choosing to do the right thing (whatever that might be, in context), even if one doesn't have a conscious or stated reason for doing something, the action taken is what will impact the world around us, not the thought (or lack of) process behind that action.

And while acting selfishly may have negative consequences (as you point out WRT driving in Madrid on school holidays), understanding the dynamics of self interest can prompt societally positive behaviors for selfish reasons.

Examples and counterexamples of this are numerous, and we've covered a bunch of them.

I think we're mostly in agreement about the principle behind this, if not always specific examples.
Yes, but that cannot be called a consensus. I’d claim that just means there is too much uncertainty to make a determination. (And less anyone misunderstands, consensus is not synonymous with unanimous)
It is extraordinary how public health officials in the US were able to just add Fluoride to water and iodine to salt. If that were being proposed today, people would throw such a huge fit. We can't even build bike lanes on roads today without having meetings about it for a decade
Well said.

But as CTO, the new CEO seems to have focused on increasing engagement and growing audiences. Unless that changes, expect the problem you describe to get bigger.
There's also the Oppo/Oneplus way of doing things and pairing high quality cells to a better charge standard (SuperVOOC/WARP) that can throw 65W (or more) at the phone and minimize time spent charging. I can't overstate how much this changes my use pattern when I know I can throw phone on charger, take a shower, and by the time I'm out it's full.
"edit: getting downvoted but no explanation why people disagree. I'd love to hear why"

Here's one reason:

"I look at like how a song might be in public domain but that doesn't mean the singers voice is. Likewise for actors vs TV shows."

Singers voices aren't copyrightable. They could be trademarked. You simply just mistake trademarks for copyrights.
What is today’s date?
I really like the audio rooms, and use it pretty frequently. I want the decentralized Twitter option they're exploring with "project bluesky".
Smart. Leading Twitter was like riding a tiger; he got off before it ate him.

Notably, he left well before the 2024 election season.

He'll face a lot less political pressure now.
> But we’re talking about young kids here. Pre-school (age 2 - 4) is an especially critical time and early elementary is important too. This time is a short window in brain development when the brain is super elastic and learns many things. Much of language development isn’t just hearing and speaking, it’s also seeing the mouth movements. And this is the age when the brain learns how to recognize and display facial emotions. Is it possible by masking so much these young kids, we’re doing major damage to this learning process?

Maybe. But, on the flipside:

* We spend a lot of time outside and unmasked

* Many teachers use clear masks during phonics instruction and other critical times

* Wearing masks makes parents more comfortable with sending their kids to school, and so is enabling more social contact.

There are also some ancillary / random benefits, too. A big fraction of kids spend a big fraction of time up to age 7 fairly hearing impaired from low grade ear infections and congestion, and we're finally getting classroom audio amplification out at scale, adding a few decibels to teacher voices that will be helpful in the long term.

Also one more random note: emphasizing looking at the mouth so much for emotional reading is a mostly Western thing and not universal in human cultures. I'm guessing we end up with a generation of kids that read the eyes much more.
My sibling hasn't served on a warship and still developed several allergies after age 35.
I seem to remember that one drawback of trying for a monitor plus soundbar setup (which has tempted me from time to time) was splitting modern HDMI inputs. Can anyone speak to these issues as they stand today (to the extent that I’ve not misremembered)?
I would say stream-oriented devices, like the VT-52 or the ASR-33 would be Web -1. Block-oriented devices have a lot in common with the way HTML specifies forms and requests.

BTW, I love the way the ASR-33 sounds.
I think the difference is that cable news is hard to access for a lot of people. For example, you don’t have ML algorithms on cable boxes trying to suggest a show which will result in high engagement. It’s fairly siloed, in that you have to deliberately choose to watch cable news. (Though they definitely keep you hooked!) Social media really allows it to be much more pervasive.
I’m in the same boat but, tbf, as a developer, what are the alternatives ?

Multiplatform GUI toolkits are abandoned or still heavily tied to C++ or Java
I think it'll be by just sitting back and waiting a few decades :)

The sci-fi tinfoil hat interpretation of this: It's already here, or at least its cronies and enablers, and the plan has already been put into effect.
Don't forget that we are not just talking about the IDE, but increasingly being integrated with cloud-first tools like Space ...
You know that some devices essentially "require" network connectivity for initial setup? E.g.
https://eu.community.samsung.com/t5/tv/smart-tv-set-up-witho...
while I appreciate the offer; there is nothing to dig into here. jetbrains just doesn't bring anything to the table compared to other options. and it lost my trust on reliability in a massive way due to android studio and never really performing well at its core function, writing software, compared to things like sublime, vscode, even vim/emacs; once configured.

and if I'm going to pay for something like an IDE it needs to be rock solid when the free competition is competent.
I expect it's quite easy; you believe that you're connecting people and that this is a good thing, and then you ignore the undesirable second-order effects of how you're doing it.
Wouldn't e.g. landing and starting from an airport near the sea with constant saltwater droplets in the air also damage the paint?
>If time was provable, the double-spending problem would not happen.

Can't you sign two transactions at the same time? If yes then you could double-spend even without faking timestamps.
You do realize that there is a pandemic ongoing, right? While not good the moral panic about social media is downright absurd and lacks any sense of proportion.
It's on the list, but when I was deciding which to listen to next I was interacting with some eugenicists online and felt like it would be interesting to hear Chesterton's point of view.
How do gigantic globe-spanning ad machines "respect human agency"?
Its a very old technique from the 90s actually!
#1 is certainly not a first amendment violation. In fact, the supreme court still holds that certain restrictions on billboards are allowed even for the purpose of preserving beauty. Safety is a much more compelling interest than beauty, so I don't expect states and cities will lose their ability to regulate road signage.

See Metromedia, Inc. v. San Diego for example.

#2 is expensive and difficult, but that's what we do for explosives, poisons, drugs, etc.
It’s not - a plain text site example, does all of these automatically
Heh, funny you say that. Schemaverse was built for my masters thesis which explored if the application layer and data layer could be successfully merged in a way that improved data consistency and integrity, and thus arguably improved security. I'll save you the 90 page read but short answer yes, but scaling becomes an absolute nightmare.
Take Reddit for instance. They have started hiding "controversial" comments by default (it's a setting now).

It's pretty well known that Reddit is Liberal-dominated, hence Conservative opinions are far more likely to be downvoted. And now, hidden by default.

It's easy to see how systems like this just serve to amplify the echo chamber.
They are not without their drawbacks but you can get an excellent picture quality 4K home theater projector that has none of the ‘smart’ tv features.
Isn't it how media in general work? Only difference is that almost anyone can publish and you don't have to wait for it to print and reach stores, subscribers...
E.g. when the press publish something false you may get correction few issues later somewhere in small print, whereas on Twitter you actually can get a chance of seeing rebuttal in the thread. Most people only read headlines regardless of the medium.
>My view is now more popular. It is the prevailing dogma.

I think you are misinterpreting the word “dogma”. It does not mean “consensus understanding” but rather “incontrovertibly true”. The former can change, the latter cannot; wordsmithing a false equivalence doesn’t turn real science into dogma.
"Because Mickey Mouse is an icon, a mascot, a trademark, and one that is in active use in new media. So there is some sense in companies protecting that asset. Which is what is happening if these types of characters are covered under trademark law (I wasn't sure if that was the case when I made my earlier post)."

So they can still protect it under Trademark... what does that have to do with their copyrights?
Trust the past implies trusting those you know and grew up with and thus those most like you, as in your in-group. It also means you may overlook their mistakes and crimes because you may trust they're doing the right thing.

Moving forward with caution doesn't mean you absolutely don't trust others but they are the out-group, if we assume there are two groups here. Those others won't get the same benefit of the doubt as your in-group and thus any mistake they make will be magnified (in relative terms).
This is what I did for my TCL Roku TV: just taped over the annoying blinking light.

If enough people do this, I anticipate that in the next model, they'll replace that blinking light with an forced on-screen overlay.
I'm not discounting the side effects, I'm saying they're very rare and don't personally impact me so I don't spend a lot of time harping on research.
It's hilarious to me that people actually put up with a social network like this. Everyone in this thread is talking about how all you need to do is unfollow half of people you see tweets from, never read comments, put in a ton of work to get your feed exactly how you want it, etc.. and only then does Twitter become bearable. Yet people still defend it, even after admitting to all that.

It's like getting a 5 course meal of poison food, and defending the meal because the dessert was delicious, and "all you have to do" is not eat the rest of the meal.
What's the Halting problem?
DNN ‘ExoMiner’ trained on Kepler data used to validate 301 exoplanets
From the article:

In a paper accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal, the team at Ames shows how ExoMiner discovered the 301 planets using data from the remaining set of possible planets – or candidates – in the Kepler Archive. All 301 machine-validated planets were originally detected by the Kepler Science Operations Center pipeline and promoted to planet candidate status by the Kepler Science Office. But until ExoMiner, no one was able to validate them as planets.

The paper also demonstrates how ExoMiner is more precise and consistent in ruling out false positives and better able to reveal the genuine signatures of planets orbiting their parent stars – all while giving scientists the ability to see in detail what led ExoMiner to its conclusion.

"When ExoMiner says something is a planet, you can be sure it's a planet," added Hamed Valizadegan, ExoMiner project lead and machine learning manager with the Universities Space Research Association at Ames. "ExoMiner is highly accurate and in some ways more reliable than both existing machine classifiers and the human experts it's meant to emulate because of the biases that come with human labeling."
The Paperlike screen protector isn't terrible for the iPad screen quality. It mutes the detail slightly, but it isn't very noticeable. I think it turns the screen from a glossy surface to a more matte surface, if that helps to describe the effect.

I keep my Paperlike cover on all the time and it doesn't really bother me when watching videos/movies on my iPad at all.
3D-printed 'living ink' could lead to self-repairing buildings
> People will not rush into a road full of cars going on the other way, it doesn't matter what the signs say.

And people would not drive into a river passing through multiple barriers, just because their GPS says so.

https://theweek.com/articles/464674/8-drivers-who-blindly-fo...

https://indianexpress.com/article/trending/bizarre/driver-in...
The Poverty of Compromise
i agree with this, and it's not a hot take. It just describes what twitter does to people.
So give it a network connection for initial setup then take it away?
You may have to consider a projector.
It's not Firefox's default settings, It's a technical challenge that they haven't solved. But that I would argue shouldn't really be solved. _YOU_ chose to update your browser while it was running, you're on a non-mainstream platform (Linux Desktop) and you're unable to grasp that pulling binaries and replacing them with others could cause issues.

Reddit will have you back now.
I seem to recall hearing that certain Google TV’s could be set to dumb mode?

Ah, here it is: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/the-best-feature-of-...

> The new Google TV is a fine smart TV interface, but when it gets integrated into some TV sets later this year, its best feature might be that you can turn it off. A report from 9to5Google details an upcoming "Basic TV" mode that will be built into Google TV, which turns off just about all the smart TV features. Right now, Google TV is only available in the new Chromecast, but Google TV will be built into upcoming TVs from Sony and TCL. Basic mode means we'll get smart TVs with a "dumb TV" mode.

> ...

> When the new feature rolls out, you'll be asked to choose between "Basic TV" or "Google TV" at setup. 9to5Google says that with basic mode, "almost everything is stripped, leaving users with just HDMI inputs and Live TV if they have an antenna plugged directly into the TV. Casting support, too, is dropped." The UI notes that you'll be turning off all apps, the Google Assistant, and personalized recommendations.
For those who don't require 4K, I was able to find a 1080p "dumb" TV from the Insignia brand at Best Buy. All their 4K models are smart though, unfortunately.
HDMI cables now come with 10/100 Ethernet built in. So it could connect via your devices connection.

So pay attention to the hdmi cable you use.
Depends a lot on country. I think the US has more options than EU (but I might be wrong...). Framework had a blog post (https://frame.work/blog/in-defense-of-dumb-tvs) about this exact thing and NEC digital signage displays are an option or Iiyama (https://iiyama.com/) makes 55,60 inch 4K displays that are non smart.

I was looking for something similar and it's frustrating to see you can pick up a 65inch Samsung Q90A for about $2500-$3000 but a similarly sized comercial display will cost significantly more and use significantly more power (at least as far as I've seen, I might be wrong on this one). Comercial displays are rated for 16/24 or 24/24 usage, so they should, in theory, last significantly longer.

As far as my search went, I ended up going with a Dell U4320Q (43inch monitor) instead. It cost a bit more than the equivalent Samsung Q90A display, but it does have a USB C port with power delivery support, I can keep my desktop and laptop plugged in and it works/looks great. It also doesn't have Smart features, it's just a display. Depending on country you might be able to get some cashback on it and make it even more competitive price wise and the stand + warranty are pretty solid.

Hope this helps!
Isn't any money flowing from a valuable IP already taxed? Also, your system is absurd if a copyright owner is forced to sell to the highest bidder when they didn't put anything up for sale.
Once the floodgates have opened to allow social media statements to permeate mainstream news, there's no limiting which social media is acceptable and which isn't. Eventually, social media itself becomes the news. That feels like a natural progression to me, personally, despite how much I hate it.
One thing people haven't mentioned is that there are some non-smart televisions available that are marketed as extra large gaming monitors.

For example, there's the Alienware 55" OLED Gaming Monitor and the ASUS ROG Swift PG65UQ that's 65".
There is room for two with that title
Ah fair - so my comment is a little off the mark then. I was thinking of the CM module thing.
>Lack of modern feature support?

Can't harass users with notifications.

Safari can open a pdf up like a native webpage in a tab. Until one of the Android browsers can do this out of the box (without having to use a ridiculous fork of Firefox so I can install extensions Mozilla doesn't want me to and installing pdf.js extension to use their own project), it will always be the superior browser.