skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Praise be the folks that curate these lists. Even without a pi-hole you can plug these into any firewall for your brand(s).

More annoying is the 15 second "home menu" that pops up on my OLED every time it is turned on. I almost always forget to manually dismiss it before I set the remote down and there's no option I can find to disable it.

I would pay a premium for a TV with no internet connection.
One thing I’ve found effective—related to where I thought this post was going before it veered off my predicted path—is instead of adding delay, changing the state of the UI element that’s being interacted with immediately. This still shows work is being done, without adding any more delay than the time it takes to change state.

My expectation was that this was going to be a case where users were trained to double click, and they were triggering multiple requests that way. Of course the solution to that is to prevent the second click before it happens, and visually indicate that the button was clicked. The same approach applies here. Users expect to see state change when they perform actions.
1.1.1.1 is good but it has a bit of an annoying issue where it won't resolve archive.is/archive.today names.

It's been discussed before

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317

I use that site quite often so it makes it a bit of a no-go.
THANK YOU.

I know some people like the “low distraction” of something like CNN’s lite mode but I hate it. Since there are no pictures I can’t see what they’re talking about, and that’s often important for the story (like here).

An ad blocker serves me just fine. Or I could turn on reader mode in my browser. Either way I still get the pictures. And they’re important to me.
That is the goal of the Russians, and their argument. It's OK for Russia! Not so much for Ukrainians.
He's one of the richest people on the planet, well trained, and paranoid as hell. He's logistically one of the hardest people to kill, and he also has (rumored but probable) crazy layers of leverage, along with punitive killings arranged in the event of his murder or suspicious death.
Companies That Have Pledged to Stop Business in Russia
I just manually unchecked the cookie permissions for a couple of hundred different ad companies on my Samsung TV. Using my remote. Of course there was a button to accept all of them, but not reject them. How one of the worlds largest companies sells stuff that so blatantly violates the GDPR while web developers at tiny companies sweat over whether we can save an IP for five minutes is beyond me.
Now that pot is legal in many places a story like this has lost some of it's allure. I'm less likely to read it. Interesting how things work
Is the Taiping Civil War part of common Chinese awareness and discussion?

Curious how relatively recent regionalism plays in modern Chinese thought.
Of course, if you're an adult of average intelligence, then 50% of parents will be dumber than you. Parents who are dumber than you are would not be rare at all.

But I'm not comparing adults with other adults. I'm comparing adults with children. I would be surprised to find a child that was smarter than their parents; it happens, but it's rare.
Go and .Net languages aren't in the same space unless you can build native static binaries with .Net tools.

Unless and until the "installation strategy" for a .Net program is "copy the binary to the target system" they aren't going for the same kinds of people. That's OK, diversity is good, but don't pretend the differences don't matter.
> If it really wasn't slow, why would they have to defend it? We don't see "C is not slow" articles.

Because there’s a justifiable concern from some about a bytecode system being slower than raw machine code. After all, bytecode requires, at a minimum, interpretation to run. And with JIT systems, there’s still a cost associated with it.

You don’t see “C is not slow” because no one is arguing that it is.[a] There’s nothing faster than machine code[b].

[a]: Maybe back in the day when assembly was still king? If the internet was as prevalent 20 years ago as it is now, I’m sure you’d’ve seen articles arguing “C is not slow” compared to assembly.

[b]: Ignoring optimizations. Machine code is as close to the processor you can get.
Or, more skeptically, they make the ads too hard to read.
"#secure.netflix.com"
"#api-global.netflix.com"
"#appboot.netflix.com"

These are commented out, but did someone really think the app would still work after blocking these? I get blocking ads, but I don't understand the mindset of someone who wants "smart" features but still wants to block everything.
What exactly am I making up?

Timberland owners (at least in my experience owning a lot of timberland) need to time market conditions quite a bit to make a profit. If someone is lucky, an offer for the land CAN coincide with good market conditions for the specific timber they have at the state they have it, but that is far from guaranteed.

All the species I happen to have a good stock of went crazy high earlier last year, then crashed hard due to burn damage to forests in other parts of the state (from over 100% increase in margin, to negative margin) in less time than it would have taken for me to get the paperwork through the state to harvest them.

Depending on market conditions, it could be very expensive to clear, to wildly profitable to clear, but no one is going to sell it to them for less than the profit they’d make in a case like that.
Ballistic missiles hit Iraq's Kurdish capital, no casualties – officials
At least yours appears to be trying to do something. The Walgreens that have them around here just have the screen on a static display of drinks (about half of which are actually there when you open it.)
> we already had “do not track”. if they enforced it, the dialogs would not have been necessary

There's more to data harvesting than "do not track".

And yes, DNT header was used... for browser fingerprinting.

> dialogs we’re kept to draw attention to the law

No. Dialogs are there to skirt the law (and the absolute vast majority of them are illegal), and to paint the law as this bad thing by clueless politicians that force the poor-poor websites to implement them. No, it doesn't, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30656321
Improvised random computer music that doesn't sound random with Saxophone
How do people know so many seemingly random things on HN is beyond me
Energy plants are only going to get greener from now on, and are pretty green depending on the location ( GP mentioned California).
Early ASP.net was a fairly awful experience for the web stuff I did.
ASP.net 1 and it was missing a lot of basic functionality that came in .net 2 and was not compatible with the stuff we had created in .net 1 to fill the gaps.
Visual Studio was fragile, it would work great one day/week, then one system update or one change to a project setting would be enough to make it crawl or crash. And to top it off we had the burden is having to use visual source safe as well. Then add the need to have a local IIS and SQL Server, required a seriously beefy spec desktop to run.
The ASP.net viewstate was geared up for single page CRUD applications and trying to do any kind of multiple website required serious abuse of session storage (DB backed and hideously slow to serialise and unserialise each time) to maintain state across pages. We created a handful of helpers to utilise querystrings efficiently.
ASP form validators often suffered edge case bugs, the javascript validations often fail and hard to debug, server side validation added an extra layer of slowness and trying to juggle everything to load, save, validate, update the html between the layers of state management (application, session, view etc) lead to some horribly complex code to work around the opaque-ness of asp.net state management.
Entity framework was welcomed, but it was almost unusable to start with it as suffered critical inconstancies between 32bit and 64bit machines in the way it handled the length of integers and stored them in the EF defined databases.

But it was not all terrible, C# was a pleasant language, polymorphism useful, unit testing (nunit) worked well, Team Foundation Server is worth a mention for being a zillion times better than Source Safe. Linq was a sane abstraction. By 2007/2008 MVC looked promising and Visual Studio Pro ran quite reasonable on current spec machines and the things around .net such as SQL Server and IIS were far more pleasant to install and work with on desktop machines.

PS, Let's not forget the MSDN library, documentation and software on CD/DVD and having to strategize what you can fit on your HDD and what you will load from disk.
If someone goes a sufficiently long time without using the app they'll get better offers to entice them to return. So if anything the reverse is true.
It literally is, civilians left in huge numbers from all eastern cities except Mariupol where Azov is stationed. They’re using civilians as shields.
Computer monitors are overwhelmingly "dumb", as well as having far lower latency and far higher refresh rates.

And also more expensive :) I wish I knew if that was because the crapware and ads on smart TVs are actually reducing the cost, or if it's just that smart TVs use crap hardware and software by comparison. Given how laggy they can be, that wouldn't surprise me.
Or every place connected by air to ~~thorium ash~~ coal power plants.
One of the most effective exam techniques I have seen, which is uncommon in my country but maybe common elsewhere, is oral exams. I TA’d for a German professor who did them for his stat/ML course, and so got to sit in on all of them (I also took the course myself in an earlier year so had the experience as a student as well). The process was:

1. Give students a list of about 100 questions in advance, more than you could memorise. Some were simple like “write down the formula for X”, some were more complex like “derive the backprop update algorithm”.

2. Pick the first question difficulty based on the student’s assignment grades

3. If they go to it right, pick a harder question, otherwise an easier one. If you aren’t sure whether they really understand, interrogate them about the answer, ask follow up questions etc.

4. Choose a grade based on which questions they got right.

Firstly this was highly effective at making students actually learn the material because most were worried enough about embarrassing themselves in front of the professor that they prepared well. But also, it was extremely fair because it’s essentially impossible to cheat and fake what you know.

I suspect many professors would avoid this because it’s harder to justify the grades at the end to a third party. But if you record the exams, and the student is clearly failing to answer simple questions, it’s quite hard for them to argue they were treated unfairly.

Of all the written exams I’ve seen and taken, I’ve never seen a process as fair or effective as these oral exams.
There does seem to be some cultural inertia from the gap between when people made all the new frameworks and extensions to make JavaScript keep up with the advance of the web and when JavaScript got most of that functionality built in. CSS has the same issue where people don't realize it does most of what frameworks were made for originally like grids and changes based on medium/resolution/etc.
I'd run this on AWS: https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand
> Problem is most of the good induction units in the US are built in cooktops. Good ranges (combined cooktop+oven) are $$$$.

Build one yourself, that's what I did when I bought my house in the Netherlands somewhere in the 90's. I wanted induction and a hot-air oven but did not want to pay for the privilege. I built a heavy wooden frame sized to fit the oven and the induction cooker, made a drawer for oven utensils in the bottom and a hard-wood ring around the hole for the induction cooker. Wooded sides make of glued floor boards. Once the hardware arrived I could simply drop and slide it in place, wire it up to the connection box I made on the back and plug it in - voila, an induction range with hot-air oven on the somewhat-less-expensive. I sold the house 5 years later and moved to Sweden where I now cook on a wood-burning stove, from the future to the past. I like the past better, it also fits my rather dynamic cooking style - sliding and banging heavy cast-iron pans around is far less precarious on a cast-iron stove.
Now we just need commentary from a user named himem.sys and we’ll be all set.
That’s why I’ve said “patriot”. Someone who would do this knowing the (probably deadly) consequences.
Communication Augmentation
Have you done that math? The "even if 100% efficient" doesn't sound right to me. Wouldn't that imply gas cooking is 25% efficient?

Admittedly, induction isn't 100% efficient, but it's very efficient! A gas flame heats up everything around it, whereas induction only heats up your cookware. The surface of an induction stove without any cookware is cool to the touch; in other cases, it's warm only due to the heat radiated back from your cookware.
Go without a TV. It's a double win then.
Maybe someone trying to finger blast again,

https://twitter.com/kalopseeia/status/1502795084214902784
System.Text.Json is a handy improvement over the Newtonsoft stuff. Faster and has great support for annotating your classes to do things like remove properties that aren't required when you send them externally. A bit painful to move across but well worth it.
Do you have a source for the standby power consumption of US devices being 3x the Bitcoin network's consumption?

Edit: Found one myself: https://ccaf.io/cbeci/index/comparisons

Interestingly gold mining also uses more electricity than Bitcoin mining and that doesn't even include the associated costs of pollution, cleanups etc. Gold also isn't a network that can transfer value. On the other hand some of it is used in industrial applications.
Russia itself and military experts around the world expected a Russian victory within a few days. Ukraine of course isn't doing well in absolute terms - they'd be much better off if like the rest of the world they weren't being attacked!

But in relative and military terms, they are doing extraordinarily well and have a very good chance to win, maybe without even having to fight a long insurgency. That's incredible given the odds.

Not every war is the same; the comparison with Iraq is meaningless.

> The americans didn't even reach Baghdad 3 weeks into their invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Is that really true?
Assembly line SMRs maybe
For what it's worth, I can confirm that on an older version of Safari the page is completely broken, and upon opening a debugger the page is utterly infested with analytics/trackers anyway.

If a page can't even display an error message when it fails, it's broken, full-stop. The browser is just the messenger.
Maybe there's room for a top tier education and/or certification environment. Some place where the assignment instructions are the simple version and the people who try to play the unreasonable "but what about this?" game just get failed out. It would be a feature of the credential in question.

And right along with that, small enough class environments that the grade for the course is pass or fail, and the exam is oral. You either know the material or you don't.

Maybe we could do this in software and try to cut back on the need for leetcode interviews. Ha!
This view has started to change in the past decade. Iron is mentioned several times in Anatolia during the Old Assyrian Period c. 1850 BC. And this is several centuries before the time of King Tut. But iron of good quality was certainly rare and expensive, especially in places outside Anatolia.
It's not "advertisers". It's the actual product brands.

I agree the freezer thing sounds awful and hopefully is just a failed experiment. But products and layout are optimized by the brand. Just take a look at the packaging. Pretty standard comparable size, dimensions that fit in the place they're meant to be stored, meaningful information up front, clear well printed packaging, a million other things. I don't think you're giving enough credit to how incredibly convenient and curated a trip to a modern grocery store in an economically developed country is.

The goal is to sell you more stuff obviously but 95% of the time my interests are aligned with the brand. I don't want to waste time figuring stuff out. They just make it easy for me.
Kyshtym was actually the worst nuclear disaster in history, not the second or third.
Kyshtym was not actually caused by nuclear waste. In reality, the Russians were keeping hot fuel underground, and cooling it with water, a bizarre and wildly inappropriate design.

A pump failed, and one of the water circuits stayed for more than a year.

Eventually there was a steam blast.

It had nothing to do with nuclear waste. It was a cooling system failure. The blast was 100% non-nuclear.

As the worst disaster in nuclear history, the UN estimated death count is still below 80, and the actual known death count is 31.

Trying to hold this up as some kind of serious risk, and playing the "technically correct, the best kind of correct" card, and using extremely heated language like "blatantly false," is just flat out destructive.

Not only is your story incorrect, but even if it was correct, this kind of "disaster" is so small as to be irrelevant. Any major city on Earth has ten death counts like that a year and you can't name a single one in your city.

This is how we stop climate change.

Stop playing technicality fodder. You aren't as correct as you think you are, and even if you were correct, you'd be making the wrong call in the long run.

If the worst disaster the industry has had in history doesn't add up to a bus accident, and it's already 20% of the way done stopping climate change?

Then it's time to stop getting your rocks off to being able to say "but this one time it killed a couple dozen people 75 years ago."

Especially because it absolute did not, and your claim of "blatant falsehood" is just you mis-learning history from HBO.

Be clear: the maple syrup industry has two disasters with a higher death count in the same time frame.

If you aren't calling for a global moratorium on delicious breakfast syrup, which cannot stop climate change, ask yourself why you need to drag out your knowledge of a trivial event 75 years ago, here.

By the numbers, nuclear power is the safest technology of any kind in history.

If you have to go back 75 years to find 50 dead folks, and you don't understand what a magically high quality safety record that is, please let other people handle this discussion.
That sounds about right. Similar time to when I was seeing TV shows talk about to to reach them on CompuServe, AOL, then just straight up WWW websites. I especially remember my dad saying, "Well, it's definitely happening now if we're getting .com domains on regular TV ads." (He was using ARPANET as a teenager before going on to Stanford for EE and Physics, so he'd been following it for a while, haha.)
You seem to have a frustration with people around you.

I don’t think the problem is with what people should know, but don’t.
This isn't about "other peopke" though, recognising that your own parents are bad parents is very important, not sure why you try to dismiss that. People telling you that you are wrong, your parents actually did good, is just gaslighting and damaging.
> Why 15 years?

2007 MSC
Is it an LG? ( Mine is under Settings > General > Home Settings > Home Auto Launch )
Geothermal boreholes are suddenly much more practical than anybody had guessed, with laser drilling.

Its operating cost will necessarily be quite a bit more than solar, but it works in the Arctic winter, 24x7, and provides cogen heat.
You can do that with fusor. It does direct acceleration without laser generation losses.
You're right. The real constraint is the miner reward priced in the various currencies electricity producers want, which has gone up tremendously even with inflation rate halvings.

But bitcoin is currently about a $1 trillion asset class, and growth of it's price has been slowly logarithmically for years. Most bullish cases suggest an eventual value of $10 trillion (in line with gold) to $100 trillion (in line with global bond market). But it's likely going to take decades (with several halving cycles) to get there.

Unless you're suggesting that it's likely to balloon in value even more and/or fast than that, I don't see mining ever becoming the biggest problem we have to deal with. Especially since bitcoin holders don't see PoW mining as a liability, but as a mission critical feature of the system.
When I was a college student, I wasn't diligent enough to always do ungraded assignments. I'd do reading, but for actual questions I'd only do them maybe 50% of the time when preparing for a test on the material. And out of my peers I felt like even doing assigned reading and trying to do ungraded homework put me well ahead of the pack.

I think it's a maturity thing. Probably until I was ~24 I just didn't have the executive function to be able to do things like that. It seems beneficial to have graded assignments as a forcing function especially given some college students are literally teenagers.

Also, I took an accelerated math curriculum as a freshman where I went from never having written a proof/knowing how to prove something rigorously, to pretty good at it. The feedback from the assigned homework was absolutely crucial in helping me learn these skills. It's easy to follow a proof from the answer section, but since there are usually several ways to prove something, it doesn't always help just to see an answer, plus you don't know what kind of divergences/hand waves are acceptable or not without feedback.
1. It's actually very difficult to buy a non-smart TV. They usually cost more.

2. The comments also serve as a "no really, don't block these" reminder to enthusiastic contributors.
I wonder if folks will start stickering these cameras in protest
You're not seeing the bigger picture...

Once most of the retailers have installed the product obscuring screens, another startup can produce an Augmented Reality 'x-ray' app that lets you see what's behind the screen by using your smartphone/smart glasses/whatever. They'll make money by selling ads, of course. Another ad-tech company will help a competing retailer place an ad in the AR app telling you about their store down the street that has installed these miraculous glass doors that let you just see their products. The store you're in will pay an analytics company big bucks to determine (in part, from a data feed from the AR app) their customer abandonment rate due to the screens. This data, combined with their competitor down the street taking customers, will allow a consultant to make bank recommending the original retailer install transparent doors. Ah, the virtuous cycle of tech.
> Soviet doctrine talks about requiring 3:1 or even 5:1 advantage against entrenched adversaries

I've read 5:1 or 10:1 as general military theory.
Cool story.

Did you have an actual explained mechanism by which this is going to happen?

Because if you're saying "exactly zero and close to it," we've never actually had a single atom at exactly zero, let alone a macroscopic object
No, but surely he has some say in foreign relations, aka how Canada responded to China.
> Maybe it's not that obvious to someone who doesn't do UX?

It's obvious to anyone who routinely submits forms online...