skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had the "pleasure" of trying to transmit data / timecodes through active speakers with a lot of signal processing.

I don't imagine any QAM-like stuff working. FSK does, but the transitions get a little wonky, and the different frequencies will often have different phase shifts.
ASK modulation should work, but haven't gone there yet.

But its interesting. I know a thing or two (literary) about encoding in the radio spectrum, but none of the encodings I've found deals with systems that are so un-lineary.
"Jump Ads represent yet another step in VIZIO’s ongoing mission to unify the smart TV experience with features that benefit viewers, content providers and advertisers," said Adam Bergman, VP of sales, Vizio Ads."

Wow at that.

For one thing, getting prime time coverage of ads, w/o having to pay networks is pretty amazing but how it's done (Just the spin of it all) is just pure evil and that spin - I don't think any ads benefit viewers though.
I think I'd love for where I live to outlaw ownership of small-unit-count buildings by someone who doesn't live in the building.

Where is the social justice in letting investors outbid people who want to own their own bit of shelter?

(Existing homeowners might appreciate the gains to property values from investor bidding up, but I'd say the needs of another person to also become a homeowner trumps the needs of an existing homeowner to make greater profit on the investment aspect.)
I have a feeling that interview processes have become like dating apps - all these leetcode tests and 7+ interviews, however they're justified, are just filtering systems to deal with the sheer number of candidates. Just like dating apps, I think the overall process is more time consuming and less productive for both sides as the signal to noise ratio of the input has decreased tremendously but not too sure what better way there is if we start with the assumption that we can't completely trust the hiring managers.
The weird special primitives definitely makes sense. Not much you can do when you've got a legacy system.

Still, as much as I think C/C++ are garbage languages, I'd rather have OpenSSL than any alternative that didn't have review by security specialists.

Some fraction of general programmers may also have that kind of experience, but it's like handymen doing plumbing. Some unlicensed people have the skills, but if you yourself don't know the subtle pitfalls of plumbing, how can you evaluate their work?

I don't know what side channel attacks are possible and what ones aren't. I don't know what instructions have hidden power analysis attack implications.

I could study for months, and try to learn those things, but I could also just use OpenSSL, since it's free. Less effort AND probably safer.

The specialists will get to the Rust redo eventually, I'd rather let them handle it, just like they'd probably rather let me fuss with boring web UI framework version upgrade issues.
Peter Samson ran the Spacewar demo today on CHM's PDP-1.
Time to bring out a commercial pi-hole product .....
Cars have been at the center of western urban planning for many decades. This crisis is a recent development. And it happened in partbecause we’ve STOPPED building freeways, suburbs, and in general neighborhoods people want. Instead we build giant fortress style apartments and crowded “condos” that no one wants to live on if they can avoid it, driving the existing single family home prices through the roof. It’s not car culture that’s killing is, it’s mythical thinking about what actual influence climate doomerism and squealing about NIMBYs has on the electorate.
> mountains upon mountains of Perl I would rather not depend upon

how bad was the perl?
Notable for the exception to their otherwise symmetrical bodies, no?
That isn't so bad per se. It's pretty common at MSFT from experience, sometimes it helps. But if you are connected in the Seattle area/have a mortgage and such it can def see annoying then to leave.
Plus, he's in Garbage, a great band in its own right, with an amazing sound. Vig defines the post-grunge sound that took over rock in the 90s: powerful choruses, vocals up front, tight production. Very different from the garage sound of proper grunge.
"perl has common-lisp levels of stability"
I heard Microsoft did this for a long time as we. It’s my under it changed though since Nadella
I've lived in the East Bay for years (this is _the_ worst housing market period) and being evicted is hardly the worst outcome:

Apartment which we applied to but didn't rent:

- owner insisted that we follow her rules about living habits (e.g. get up/sleep times) or we wouldn't be allowed to rent (this was a large building of 20+ apartments)

- subtle hints during our tour that she profiled everyone and only rented to those people she considered to be "responsible" people

- threw a tantrum at us and returned our rental application when we asked for a few days to sort out the contract signing and then proceeded to lecture us on responsibility

- heating was controlled by her for the entire building (imagine what it would be like to live there)

Apartment 1:

- mouse/rat infestation which the landlord addressed by saying they put up traps instead of calling an exterminator

- rampant spider infestation which landlord refused to do anything about (seriously, I've never seen so many different colored spiders)

- landlord started arguing with us at our door when we threatened to report them to the city for above

- our downstairs neighbor's shower stopped working and still wasn't fixed by the time we moved out

Apartment 2:

- mold growing in the bathroom and sharp splinters coming out of what must have been 50 year old hardwood floors, no fix from landlord so we taped the floor where there were nails/splinters

- only 1 burner worked on the stove (no fix from landlord)

- power to the entire building would flip on and off at least once a month

You couldn't get out without paying for the rest of the lease. That's what made it so much worse than what you're describing. I would have gladly been evicted from these hellholes.

It ended up being the case that the corporate landlords in the area were actually much better behaved than the local ones.
I refuse to replace my dumb TV until it dies.
Excited for 5G to become commonplace so behavior like this can never be disabled.
I used to like Visio as they were a pretty straightforward company selling TVs at better prices than Samsung and Sony. They were simple and cheap and disrupted established players.

This is ridiculous and is so anti-user. I hope a new upstart company comes along to just sell simple TVs.
What stops someone from identifying as African American? If you go back long enough, all our ancestors came from Africa.
The whole anti-tank missile thing is far from new, the Israeli army used US dragons to fend off invading tank battalions during one of the $day wars. The only real difference is the dragon was wire guided while the newer ones are fire and forget (presumably).

And the type of small unit tactics the Ukrainians are using is pretty much all we trained on when I was in the 82nd Airborne at the tail end of the Cold War. Platoon/company level harassing actions was our bread and butter, light infantry isn’t well equipped to slug it out in open battle with armored units so hit and run is the name of the game.

Once the first gulf war rolled around they decided we needed to adapt our tactics and, as they say, you always train for the last war…

On a weird side note on my last trip over to Iraq as a civilian contractor we rolled through a sizable ambush and I couldn’t help but think my old platoon from the 82nd would have utterly destroyed our convoy but the attackers only managed to disable one vehicle with an RPG and got a couple minor hits on two others and there were a lot of tracers and RPGs flying around.

I mean, how hard is it to actually aim after spending all the time to set up a pair of sequential ambushes?

Which is probably the difference in the Ukrainians are actually using the gunsights they helpfully provide on all modern weapons.
And for many of us who work with people in different buildings, locations, and even countries all the time that was pretty much the norm pre-pandemic.
If some parent get hired for a really good job and has to leave for 2 years, you'd require that family to sell their house?
I went back and reread your original comment, and I may be a bit confused.

You state that issues are cognitive but then go on to discuss how psychedelics break down barriers. Psychedelics are drugs, one of the best ways of showing that out cognitive processes are determined by our neuronal chemistry.

Considering a traditional psychedelic like 4-HO-DMT or LSD, these compounds have activity at a few different serotonin receptors (and some other side interactions). This pharmacological activity (interaction of an external compound with our internal biomolecules) is how psychedelics alter our cognitive processes.

From my perspective, this shows how our cognitive processes are biochemical and using a drug can change it easily whereas other means are more difficult such as external sensory inputs (therapy, talking to people, reading, aromatherapy, massage?)

I entirely agree with the usefulness of psychedelics, they are massively powerful tools. They're great at helping catalyze significantly alterations in our thought processes, but these changes that they help induces are chemical and structural (structural such as changes in synaptic connectivity)

Structural changes between neurons are directed by chemical signaling as well.

If the changes that fix the problem are biochemical, the problem was biochemical. We alter the biochemistry and they induce changes in the emergent properties of the overall system: behavior and thought processes

Our thought processes and behaviors are the product of our brains (and some signaling from other organs, mostly the brain though) and even minor changes in certain areas or with certain regulatory mechanisms can have profound impacts on mental health.
Saaaame. And when/if I do, it’ll be with something else with zero network connectivity.
Renters are, as a class, poorer than homeowners. Where’s the social justice in requiring one to be a homeowner to live in a single family home?
I would have found it pretty annoying to travel thousands of miles only to work with a team that is 8 miles from my previous office.
No they are not, there’s all the signage, barriers, and drainage. Roads wear out very quickly, they are the fastest degrading forum of infrastructure.
Does this mean it can identify the content being delivered over HDMI ? Not sure if the live TV example here is through their own internal tuner or using a cable box
Maybe you missed it, but that's exactly my point. With the exception being that a dedicated bad actor won't have a real problem getting through (e.g. breaking the door, lock, or another window, or by picking it; it's really not difficult).
Not surprised. Construction projects, especially large scale, requires friends in government.
Easy fix: turn your TV rooms into Faraday cages.
> with RL learning where the AI is free to explore new actions to collect data about how well they work

Self driving cars aren’t free to explore new actions. That would be frightening. Self driving cars use a limited form of AI to recognise the world around them, but the rules that decide what they do with that information are simple algorithms.
As somebody that owns a Roku TV, I’m hoping that somebody releases some software to disable this sort of stuff altogether. This is absolutely fucking bullshit.
Those are for the cases where you're creating or transforming an error. In those scenarios, Go's handling isn't that bad.

The issue is having to write `if err != nil { return nil, err }` versus `func()?`. The former gets old really fast.

Not to mention the other benefits of monadic error handling when compared to glorified error codes.
Yeah, but we pay you a lot of money, and it does actually work for us

I just want to highlight that this works specifically because there are a very finite number of these we pay you a lot of money companies competing for talent and that's the primary reason candidates put up with this [expletive deleted] treatment. And the result are beneficial for these companies, yes.
Once you know, you never stop knowing.

I can't explain it to you.

But yes. There is a profound difference between people who know and people who don't, and it's only people who don't who think the difference might be missable.

I can't say what someone has felt, but I can be absolutely certain what someone hasn't.
Calls for regulation by regulators.
IMO automatic content recognition, and indeed any attempt by a TV to recognize or react to content or anything a user says or does, without GDPR-style genuine consent, should be outright illegal. Possibly even a felony. (Wiretapping, anyone?)

Fine print should not be able to excuse this.
I LOL’d, but I think it’s a bit unfair. You can also have all three without generics.
Faraday cage
The best way to avoid this:

Nvidia Shield + "Console Gaming Monitor" (from e.g. Gigabyte, LG, etc)

Yes it's more expensive, but that's how much they'd make from you with ads.
Haven’t there been banner ads at the bottom of shows for over a decade now or more?

Usually not from the tv maker, but still a big banner at the bottom with a cheesy animation of the sitcom star or whatever?
The AWS thing is wild to me. It's been this way for years. Please please add this, benevolent Amazon devs.
Dude, with construction far below what was needed since 2008 and now with the supply chain troubles this won't happen. Concrete gold mustn't lose its value, Blackstone won't permit it.
Transfer Your PC Clipboard to a Nearby Mobile Device
Companies go where the money is, this is unfortunately where the money is.

Samsung sells "commercial signage displays" which are kind of dumb TVs. The BE55T-H for example is 55in 4k for $600, stripped down OS / basically just HDMI in. BE65T-H is 65in for $800.

They're also intended for always-on semi-static content from what I understand, which is nice.
I cannot fathom who would be an early adopter of this Vizio TV, but I sure hope it will be someone willing to get a dump of the network traffic to see what might be done to blockade it.
Reduced prices are always either paid for with cheaper components or backend revenue.
0BSD has the slight advantage of Google placing it on their pre-approved licenses list, which means Google can use a 0BSD project but not an MIT-0 project: https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/thirdparty...
looked into dumb tvs last year. wanted to get one, but the specs are nowhere near the smart tvs. what we need is replaceable firmware.
I'm gonna name my band an 18 TB string of random characters, interspersed with an "idea" that you can't even put into text! Take THAT, Unicode!
How about both? They are not in tension with each other.
Ads benefit the customer by reducing the price of a 55" 4K TV down to 300 bucks, which is absolutely below the true cost of the device (parts, R&D, support etc).

They are selling you a below-cost TV and making it up in ads, same as Microsoft selling you a below-cost Xbox and making it up in accessory sales.

I don't think it's correct to say there's not benefit. The benefit of YouTube ads is that you have unlimited 4K content available for free (below cost of bandwidth).

While you may say you'll pay 600 bucks for that 55" TV with no ads, most consumers will disagree with you and they show it through behavior.
>Then after that is simple. I would hire you to do 5-30 hours of contract work where we pair program on real life things.

So they have to be unemployed while interviewing with you? Companies these day seem to be completely oblivious to the candidate already having a job but it's usually the case.

Other than that it doesn't sound bad, but it's kind of a big problem.
How do you watch live TV with that setup?
"it seems to take a company about 1-1.5 years to fire someone"

Well maybe thats the actual problem the company should be fixing?
Yes. There's also evidence that longer-lived people tend to have higher cholesterol levels.
I agree with you, but I'm also a die hard fan of Pixies. First time I heard Smells Like Teen Spirit my first impression was "wow... that sounds like Nirvana trying to sound like Pixies", which later on Kurt Kobain also said[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smells_Like_Teen_Spirit#Writin...
> They're also a bit better displays given they're intended for always-on semi-static content from what I understand.

While perhaps true, the extra price you’re paying is all in how they need to reach the same margins without that TV showing ads or otherwise having smart features they can sell.
All those alternatives you mentioned are nowhere close to being on the level of Spanner in reliability or performance, particularly in a high contention scenario.
They gave up after 8 offers? It took me 9 and more than 6 months. A lot of it is calibration to the market in order to estimate the winning bid and the rest is waiting for the chance. Eventually there is a house for sale that fits your needs more than most others.
The price of houses would come down real quick if landlordism was made illegal.
At my institution (regional college in Western MA) we are having trouble hiring, except locally. People won't come, they cannot afford the cost of housing. It's that bad. Let them sell up. Homeowners have had it good the last 40 years, a policy change is needed because things that can't go on won't.
Well, good thing my Vizio is firewalled off from anything and everything. So it shall remain. It won't get any firmware updates.

Funny how Vizio already got fined for almost exactly this. But now it's back as a ""feature"" for advertising.
Is this something that could be defeated with PiHole?
I'm confused, what was the point of making you (or your coworker) live on the other side of the globe then? Were they running an "let's see what happens if we expel someone out of the US just for kicks" experiment? The way you described it it sounds like they deliberately did something completely pointless, which seems... unlikely?
I have been without a tv for a year because I cannot find a not smart display and I refuse to invite this sort of shenanigans into my home.

No thanks not for me. Maybe I'll get a projector.
I would return my TV immediately...
The timezone difference would be murder, I imagine.
or less profit
Yes, as you can observe, most of Europe less affordable to locals than US is, some places quite a bit more so. But I specifically said metros, where the situation is much worse. Rural housing, and housing in third or fourth tier cities in Europe can be indeed quite cheap. However, housing in second and first tier European cities is insanely expensive.

Here's an example: one of the countries that looks more affordable to US is Italy. Let's take a look at the the top metro in Italy, Milan.

Milan is now at around 4800 EUR/square meter. Average individual income is around 32k EUR/year, so average household income will be probably under 60k EUR/year, i.e. 5k EUR/mo. That means that a 100 square meter (~1100 square feet) dwelling will cost you just under half a million euros, your monthly mortgage will be something like 2k EUR, so your mortgage will be 40% of your before-tax household income. If you're unmarried, and making average wage, your chances of affording anything bigger than a one-bedroom are extremely slim, and even that will stretch your finances a lot.

The above is by no means extraordinary. Try doing the same for Rome or Florence, they are just as unaffordable as Milan. Bologna is slightly more affordable than that, but still less than NYC. And Italy is relatively affordable as far as Europe goes! Do the same for Netherlands, or UK metros, or France, or Germany. Truly, urban housing in US is very affordable all across the board.
How would you enforce this? By having a list of all homeowners and checking that they live in the property they own? If they do not, then what? What if they own two homes?

Now there would be no middle-ground. Either you own 1 (one) building under four units, in one of which you live. If you want to move, you must find another individual who would take your place. They'd also have to give up their single building and move into yours, for which they must find another individual... Either that, or you're a multi-millionaire investor owning condominiums and living in a private mansion, banned from ever owning small-unit-count buildings.

I'd say, this would lead to the owner of the building on paper still owning a unit there, but putting their least socially protected tenants in it. Tell them that either they have an arrangement where they are not legally renting, but they still pay you money – and if law enforcement asks then tell that you're landlord's friends who are staying over long-term. Or they can go live in a cardboard box.
I wonder how many buyers will regret that purchase…

It’s amazing to me that anyone would knowingly be ok with their tv spying on what content is being showed to serve ads, somethings that literally no-one except advertisers asked for.

The privacy implication of these systems is huge. Profiles about viewing habits can tell a lot about someone’s political and religious affiliations.

Having nebulous third parties manage these databases, probably badly, risking leaks, providing ad and government agencies yet another intimate way to monitor and profile citizens…

I hope some government body like maybe some EU body is going to highlight the risks these technologies pose to all of us.

Samsung does the same, and it seems the race is on for manufacturers to provide these ‘features’ as a way to remain competitive and get additional revenue streams.
"Cheaper" if you ignore the down payments that are approaching 30% of the house's total value.
To be clear, I'm not talking about an VPC-edge WAF; I'm talking about a service that sits in front of — and encapsulates — only the specific microservices that require it. An internal ingress controller, in k8s terms.

And also, to be clear, the services would still do domain-object policy-based authorization themselves. The point of such a multi-microservice API gateway is to optimize universal, pre-authentication, static-credential-based denials (e.g. blocking specific API keys, rather than blocking specific users) out of the critical path, such that users can't DoS your backend with 403-generating requests.
I meant it in the non family, adventure in China way and work maybe late evening hours to 1:1 w/ the redmond team.

I had something similar happen to me when I was also at msft, I volunteered to go to Manila and Tokyo (since no one else wanted to go) and it was the same exact situation except to interface with same redmond team and barely any with the international office.

My lease was expiring, I didn't feel like renewing, I was home searching (wish I just bought something instead, this was 2015, so imagine the prices) and well I spent over 18 months living abroad with more than quarterly tickets home and I was not even mid 20's.

I loved it, but I 100% get it. If I had a family and truly deep network of friends and long term connections there, I would've probably said no, but I wanted to travel. Only downside was, it was Japan in Winter when I arrived. :)
I think it depends on which community you are in. Certainly I don’t feel that my community hides death, but it does seem that way amongst strangers…
Look up Azerbaijan vs Armenia a couple years ago. Most of Armenian armor was destroyed by drones.
Yeah, the fact that I can write a production capable JSON API server in about 5 lines of code with no external dependencies is golden. Compile and start times are tiny. Native executables are brilliant. The ergonomics of Go go well beyond just LOC.