skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the past, the courts haven't looked too fondly on that, but it hasn't been tried since the mid 90s AFAIK.
You'd have to block it at the router level. Just block the IP addresses the TV is broadcasting too and receiving ads from.

Honestly while LG makes a good TV. WebOS sucks. And their need to push ads is crazy.

That's why I like Sony TV's, Google TV is a better interface. And The homescreen has no ads.

I would just use a fire tv stick, roku, or even better yet a Nvidia shield and not deal with WebOS at all. The Worst thing about LG and Samsung TV's have always been the Interface, but I'd take Samsung's over LG any day of the week.
> You should. If the status page is also down, you know it's going to take a while ;-)

Maybe. I've been shocked by some big companies co-hosting their status pages.
Tin foil hat stuff, to be honest. Prove it or stop promulgating it.
It's likely that a member of their SRE or DevOps team has to confirm the outage and "deploy" updates to that status page, yes.
Yeah, I mean that worked out well in the Jim Crow era didn’t it?

And yes I know it was for a different group, what you are proposing is creating the same situation but in reverse, over time.

Two wrongs make a right?
At the same time Europe is decarbonizing. From 2025 on most countries won't allow the installation of new gas heatings. H2 production will start in (somewhat) serious quantities in 2025. Electric cars will start to reduce oil consumption in a meaningful way (Norway is already decreasing motor gasoline consumption by 5-6% year on year).

So the dependency will be reduced on both sides.
>Whatever the Russian plans for a gas supplier to Germany were, they are limited to what the existing pipelines can deliver.

They existing pipelines can deliver more easily. It's not like they've been running anywhere close to full capacity.
Nordstream is more about taking leverage away from countries like Ukraine.
The duration of constant freezes Teams has on every run outlast the total outage time Slack has per month.
Github is also unreachable for quite a few people. But works through a VPN to another geography. Wonder if there is any connection.
> In a recent study, the relationship between income and happiness was over four times greater for people who reported that money was important to them compared with those who cared much less about money.

In other words believe money can bring you happiness for money to bring you happiness.
Agree the jammer is a bad idea, but it is sad that most mobile providers do not provide parents with this kind of blocking downtime feature.
Even if his numbers are wrong, I'll never believe you that IRC was more used than say, AIM or ICQ, let alone any of the popular modern instant messenger and chat apps.
Ask HN: Am I the only one baffled by the long term usage of Twitter?
I am on and off Twitter for years now. I tried to build a following, went until around 2k followers, but than got sick of constantly thinking if "thing x" in daily live is worth tweeting.

I deleted my account, but then created a new one because some tweets and threads were more easily viewable with an account. This lead to build a more serious Twitter profile again.

However, I realised the actual ROI of using Twitter is so negative, it's shocking. Even interesting threads turn out to be half-wrong. I see takes from 10k+ follower accounts who are not well researched, one sided and all. Tech twitter things just because they are good at programming, they have a valid view on topic Y.

Now this is all common knowledge I believe. But Jesus, I stumbled across accounts which I used to follow, and these people post still every few hours or days the same take on public outcry and nothing changed. They do this for 8+ years now, you can scroll back by years and it's the same over and over again.

I wonder if someone has a take which changes my mind or what makes them do this stupid things? Imagine looking back on your life when you are 60 and seeing that you tweeted stuff with no effect WHAT SO EVER and you did this for 30 years of your life. Isn't this so depressing?
You don't even need to take away their phones; in iOS there's this function called "Screen Time" where you can declare limits on kids' phones, like "no more than two hours per day, and nothing at all after 21:00, except for Music.app". There's also analytics (how much time was spent over past week, with what apps) and a way for the kid to ask for more time. I'm sure Android provides similar functionality too.
> Anyone who's not "secure for life" and has to keep the salaries coming in will have to deal with bad people, bad decisions, bad culture, etc. and become unhappy.

This is the myth that keeps people trapped in bad jobs, but it’s not true.

Yes, most of us have to continue working. But no, that doesn’t mean your job must be miserable and you must be surrounded by miserable people. Look around. Try something different. There are a lot of good jobs and teams out there.

Too many people in tech approach their careers as a simple compensation maximization problem and disregard everything else. They end up in companies that are happy to pay them 10-100% more but then demand they work 20-200% harder and deal with bad behavior and unrealistic expectations because the company knows they’re not going to leave behind that sweet total compensation to go somewhere less stressful.

You can have good pay and good working conditions, but you have to work to find it and keep it. The big company recruiters desperate to give you high total comp just to get you in the door (often to replace employees who turned over) aren’t necessarily the path to finding that optimal point, though.

I’ve taken a few salary down-steps in my career that felt scary at the time but ended up being well worth it for the increased quality of life.
I never mentioned money / wealth.

Think about good health, no depression, loving parents and/or partners, no previous crippling / traumatic experience, absence of all these things that drain energy from a human being.
> Jammers like this in the US (and apparently from this article, other jurisdictions) are illegal if their effect reaches beyond your property since it can block access to emergency services, etc. I think RF containment is a legally-safer strategy.

Without commenting on the legality of your RF containment idea, it's worth noting that jamming is also illegal in the U.S. even if confined to your own property. The Communications Act, 47 U,S,C, 333, prohibits causing "willful or malicious interference" to a radio licensee categorically, regardless of where it occurs. That is why the FCC fined Marriott Hotels $600,000 for operating a jammer[1] at their own resort property. https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-14-1444A1.pdf

[1] The FCC treated it as a jammer, so the example applies for illustrating the scope of 333. But it's worth noting out of interest that, in this case, Marriot was transmitting Wi-Fi deauthentication packets to keep people off of private AP--presumably in an attempt to force conference attendees to pay for the resort's Wi-Fi service. Regardless, the FCC concluded that this constituted willful interference.

Edit: It would be more accurate to have said that the FCC treated Marriott's behavior in that case as causing "willful interference." The actual feature of the equipment that they used (which I think was a standard enterprise Wi-Fi AP) has other legitimate uses. She FCC did not say that the equipment itself was a jammer across the board.
Yup - look for a "commercial monitor" or "digital signage", not a TV these days.
My former firm put a lot of effort into Flutter as a preferred alternative to RN or native app dev -- including standing up a lot of onshore/nearshore/offshore experience -- but we never were able to to make it a viable alternative on anything other than small or trivial apps, due generally to performance problems, weird iOS corner cases, hard-to-debug crashes arising from deep within the framework, and sharp edges on their emulated components. From a governance perspective, we ran into difficulty rapidly spinning up new dev capacity relative to RN (where you can have a web developer productive within a few days, as long as they've got a mobile dev running their pod to oversee integration and build). I'd love to see Flutter become a strong alternative, but I'm not sure Google is willing to drop enough of its NIH syndrome to meet developers where they are, rather than where they want devs to be; until then, it's a tech to push further out on the radar until it's more battle-tested, especially on iOS.
The article has some interesting ideas but misses a huge piece of low hanging fruit: font size and accessibility/legibility more generally. So many console games have text that render in tiny fonts with no apparent way to make the text larger. This is made even worse if text is rendered over a complex and moving background.

If you want people to read your text, make sure it is legible, beautiful, and allow your players to size it to thier preferences.
> it would be closed 10 years from now

Is that confirmed? I was holding off on doing my backdoor Roth because it seemed like no one was really sure what was going to happen if BBB passes. Most people figure that it would at least take effect in 2023 instead of the original intent of 2022, but as far as I know, it wasn't actually changed.
If it's technically possible, it will happen, I believe. Even if it's not the case yet. This is the curse of non-free software, as predicted by Stallman.
This article is about Australian magpies, which aren't related to European Magpies and other corvids. They're known more for their extreme territoriality than for their intelligence, but OP's article clearly shows they're no dummies either.
You’re not alone, “good enough” always bums me out too. It’s why I’m a big fan of sites/services that open up their APIs or use open protocols/standards — even if the service provider has decided to settle on their client app, I personally don’t have to. I can seek out alternative client apps where workmanship is a focus or if so inclined build my own.
Show HN: Mighty Inference Server
Is it not your own responsibility to retain professional assistance to manage any transactions you may wish to perform?
Did you ever notice that in Chess (a game of kings) you never actually capture the opposing king, you just back him into a corner and call the game over. All other pieces on the board are actually captured and removed.
6502 and Z80 had not existed yet when C was begot for the PDP-11 architecture.

Yes – historically – C has never been a perfect fit for 8-bit architectures as it had been conceived for a 16-bit architecture. So what? There are C compilers for 68HC08 68HC11 MCU's as well.

Yet, C has outlived «many languages offering the same "low level" capabilities of C».
Yakutia is relatively close to China, but most Russian gas exported to Europe comes from Western Siberia, which is farther away from China.
Because they’d rather depend on an ally than an openly hostile state. Because the US would massively subsidize LNG exports to EU in order to support their allies?
I use to have a very boring job of compareing 2 forms and check for discrepancy.
Quite a meaning less job nowday
We just use tools like

https://www.freetextcompare.com/
Which of these guarantee that data is committed to storage?

flush()
fsync()
close()

What about if the storage is on NFS?

The reality is that, unless you're heavily reliant on platform-specific behaviour and are certain you're not, for example, dealing with files over NFS, or hardware which happens to relax any guarantees you thought you had, nothing is really guaranteed.

The best defense I've seen against the uncertainty of whether files are written is to use the strategy required when writing to a Maildir-format mailbox. This employs a directory used for temporary writes to unique filenames, followed by a move into place in a 'real' directory, where files should be accessible once write is deemed to be complete.

Those who've been around for some time may have experienced corrupt mailboxes where the storage format was something mbox-alike - with all messages held in one file (and there's no fancy database-style transaction handling to deal with integrity).

Any kind of cross-platform development where files are written to is made more difficult and less performant, thanks to this problem. In many cases, I'm afraid this is poorly understood, or ignored. I don't think there's even a way to measure how often data corruption occurs due to this not being accounted for.
Harms and Possibilities of Schooling
TVs have: WiFi chip (software controlled), Ethernet port (physical cable required), HDMI (also used for displaying). It's more complicated than it sounds. Not connecting as in the web browser and crappy app store don't work - sure. Not connecting as in not calling home? hmmm. TVs have become self-perpetuating ad machines.
I am interested to see how this compares to https://highlightsapp.net/ but it looks neat, especially if it starts at a place of integration with other platforms.
I'm also used to having workloads that consume entire CPU cores, and as such I'd like the number of CPU cores dedicated to log aggregation, system monitoring, metrics etc to be as reduced as possible. I'd also like to not spin up a bunch of new VMs to do a rollout, and I'd also like to run all those small satellite workloads that always appear on the same platform. Oh, and I'd not like to have to run something that needs 3gb of memory and 3 cores on a machine with 4gb of memory and 4 cores because I'm constrained by AWS instance sizes.

Mixed workloads on smaller, larger machines are great for this.

With VMs you do need to configure everything, compared to a baseline stripped down AMI/image that runs nothing but docker and a Kubernetes daemon.

Yes, you can enumate Kubernetes with a bunch of custom tooling. No, it's not better. Yes, it is harder.
Given it's being printed with the other build info text, I wonder if this is just for Insiders. It would make sense when triaging bug reports to close ones where a screenshot says "System requirements not met", but right now you'd have to get their system specs and look them up.

It's also possible that a plurality of Windows 11 users have upgraded bypassing the requirements check, but given there hasn't been a huge incentive to upgrade at all yet (well, maybe WSLg) I don't think that is it either.
Personally I use the Microsoft Sculpt keyboard [0], and holding Ctrl down is as easy or easier than caps lock, particularly for Emacs C-x or C-c, where I can use my right pinky on C-. Also true for Ctrl+z, a pretty common combination in most modern UIs.

It's true that Esc is nowhere near as easy to reach, so if I used vim I'm sure I'd like to switch them (alt/meta is also easy to reach for me, so I never felt the need to use Esc for Meta in Emacs; and having two Alt keys anyway makes it better).

[0] https://img-prod-cms-rt-microsoft-com.akamaized.net/cms/api/... (using just this picture of the layout so this doesn't come off as some advertisement)
'Burning' hydrogen plasma in the largest laser sets fusion records
The idea that a democracy can't get anything done is pretty silly. The problem with the Indian system isn't really to do with democracy, rather the structure of the Indian political system that can be fixed. The CCP took decades in order to settle upon a structure that worked for them, before Deng it was endless chaos and internal strife.
Does HN has OpenID Connect support to integrate from another website ?
> A curated list of insanely awesome libraries

Not sure this list brings much added value. It's definitely not "curated" but rather an aggregate of the top 20 Google result for "python finance <theme>"
Sound waves convert stem cells into bone in regenerative breakthrough
I would not trust them for any protected content. I have had good luck with going from a camcorder's HDMI out (using it as a fancy webcam) and output from a Raspberry Pi. Both are unencrypted signals. An AppleTV or likely even a PC's output will likely enforce encryption and I highly doubt HDMI capture will work then. But at ~$20 it's not an expensive experiment.
I wonder if there is a market for a libre tv?
Something akin to framework but more open
Germany politicians desperately don't want to be the leaders of anything.

Given the country's GDP, tech prowess and population, they could be a military and espionage powerhouse far exceeding the UK or France, even rivaling Russia; but historical and political reasons make them tread softly and prefer throwing money at problems (e.g. paying off other countries to join the EU through the CAP, or sending FDI or aid to emerging Europe and Africa) rather than to bully countries using cyber attack or spec ops or even more hardline trade/sanction policies...
>part of a write cache's job is reordering writes to be more efficient which means ordering is not generally preserved.

you can use some sort of WAL mechanism to ensure that the the parallel writes appear as if ordering was preserved. that will allow you to lie and ignore fsyncs, but still ensure consistency in case of a crash.

>But then again, if they're willing to accept and confirm flush commands without flushing, I wouldn't expect them to actually follow ordering constraints.

it depends on which type of liar they think you are. if they're the "don't care, disable all safeguards type", then yes they're probably ignoring ordering as well. However, it's also possible they're the methodical liar, figuring out what they can get away with. As I mentioned in another comment in this thread, as long as ordering is preserved the lie wouldn't be noticed in typical use cases (ie. not using it for some sort of prod db, and not using it as part of a multi-drive array). power losses are relatively common, and a drive that totally corrupts the filesystem on it will get noticed much more quickly than a drive that merely loses the last few seconds of writes.
> Don’t be snarky.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> but I figure there must be thousand of these hidden spaces scattered in every big buildings, and we will never hear about them.

Most likely. This story reminds me that as a kid in the 90's we figured out that the walls under the bottom floor of every building in the neighborhood led to a hollow space big enough to be called a small room.

It didn't take long for most blocks to have a hole in them with a sheet of plywood to hide the easy access.

I was lucky that the one in my friend's block was mostly occupied by other kids and had pastel drawings on all the walls. Rumor had it that some of the other blocks were used for less reputable reasons.

I always wondered what happened to those spaces. I tried to go there once, but the buildings now have locked doors.

Had we been adults, it would have been very easy to add furniture and perhaps even electricity.
Honor, heir, honest. Together with herb and hour, those are the only ones I can think of.
I’ve thought about setting something like this up for the major clouds & SaaS.

The biggest problem is that I’d have to run some dummy loads on all their services in all regions - even at the lowest tiers I’d probably be looking at a few thousand a month just to keep the service up.
I'm not sure if it's possible to downgrade the OS, but I have an older LG model with WebOS 5 and I don't get any ads. So it might be something worth investigating.
Will the United States Military Fail in Peer-Competitor Combat?
Sure, but it's definitely harder than using CapsLock.
Interesting, the UI on my TV I bought in 2017 has gotten dog slow. I distinctly recall it being very snappy when I first used it.
DNS level filtering at the router has been my approach on my samsung tv from 2016.
I can block using a service called NetDNS.

https://perflyst.github.io/PiHoleBlocklist/SmartTV.txt
A decade of management under a system where people have to work whatever job is available to them just to survive. That's a huge, screaming confounding variable. If the people you've managed have a meaningful choice in where to work, then they aren't the primary target of UBI.
> I think you are discounting the fact that in the second scenario you don't have to work

*for a while. Only very few people are able to save enough to never have to work again, even with a low standard of living.
Is there a phone case that blocks the phone from receiving any signal. Since my government in Canada has given itself dictatorial powers. Many Canadians might be now traced for peaceful protesting.
IRC usage stats are freely available. It was never popular.

https://netsplit.de/networks/top10.php?year=2006
IMO, Google has continually trashed products that could have provided fantastic, human-curated signals for site quality. Reader, Bookmarks, several SERP experiments, and even FeedBurner could have given insight into sites that have high quality content.
Fastly Stock Plunges
Where is C++ being Used?
Oh, so if a chicken doesn't hatch from the egg then it's not a chicken egg?
Mobile providers are providing connectivity. The parents need to provide parenting - like controlling access to the phone in the first place.
That's pretty much where I'm at, this guy basically deserves the adult equivalent of writing "I'm sorry for taking down my city's cell service" 1000 times on a blackboard.
I've been using Flutter recently to build a cross-platform Notes app. I initially bemoaned that I'd have to learn Dart for it. And while I don't have a particularly high opinion of the language, it was pretty easy to pick up. It helps to just treat it like a DSL for GUI apps, and move core logic to something like Rust.

That being said, the Flutter widget model is remarkably simple to understand. And rules like "Constraints go down. Sizes go up. Parent sets position." make it pretty easy to reason about the UI. State management is a bit of a hurdle, since there are so many options, each with its own advantages and disadvantages.

All in all, this was a great choice for building something that works on both mobile and desktop, and has a fast startup time.
It is nonsense... unless there's a greater endgame Russia is playing towards that we're about to find out.
Survey of Big Data sizes in 2021
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2202.07659.pdf
Why I Quit as FDIC Innovation Chief: Technophobia
Wait what, a drawback is you have to learn Dart?! No - you don't have to use freakin' lame-ass javascript. That's like a giant plus.
I just got the LG A1, and I am also disappointed with how many ads they serve. I'm probably going to get an Apple TV to replace the shitty LG UI.

There is a setting hidden deep in a menu that will turn off ads. I was able to find it, and it no longer serves me ads, but it continues to show recommendations, so I'm not sure if that will help your issue.
> Like a shopify for SaaS businesses?

This is Paddle. As a one-person startup, there's no way I could go with Stripe. The tax implications alone are too much.
Are you familiar with the concept of parental controls?
This still assumes that countries naturally will evolve banks and populations inevitably become well fed through some nebulous process. It's really not possible to appeal to something like darwinian evolution, as it really only cares about memetic propagation and fitness to the current environment.

I'm not saying that these things aren't good, I'm questioning how it's possible to motivate the notion that it is inevitable for civilizations to converge to have these things.

If it isn't, then I think we should come to terms with the fact that we think other countries are backwards because they are different from us, and we think the reason they are different is that they haven't thought things through yet. This is perhaps not a fashionable line of reasoning, but my point is that just ignoring what hides behind the notion of progress doesn't make it go away.
Can't you sue them? Isn't adult content regulated when displayed on television.